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• Muzan Kibutsuji is the first and mightiest demon. Obsessed with his own perfection, Muzan corrupts others into demons by preying on their weakness at their lowest and develops the system where demons feed on humans en masse for power, leading to countless innocent deaths, including personally killing the family of the young hero Tanjiro Kamado, as well as the demonic transformation of his younger sister Nezuko. When encountered, Muzan escapes notice by turning an innocent man into a demon and siccing him on his wife before killing several other humans in a fit of pique when they trouble him. Muzan orders countless humans slaughtered, and when his subordinates, the Lower Kizuki, disappoint him, Muzan massacres the survivors, deciding they are too weak to survive. Growing more powerful, Muzan attempts to massacre all of the Demon Slayers, and when he knows death is inevitable, he intends to turn Tanjiro into a demon to kill the Demon Slayers in his stead. Throughout the dark world of Kimetsu no Yaiba, Muzan repeatedly shows the monstrosity of demonkind.
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Kazundo Gōda, 2nd Gig's Big Bad, is the scarred, pitiless and self-embiggening director of the Cabinet Intelligence Service who callously exposes workers to an irradiated environment and covers up his crimes with strings of murder. Infecting Japan's postwar refugees with the cyberbrain "Individual Eleven" virus, Gōda raises tensions as the infected are willed to carry out terrorist attacks, believing they are acting of their own volition. As tensions rise, and Gōda's actions lead to the emergence of a "hero" who goes rogue and seeks to arm the embattled refugees with plutonium, Gōda manipulates events such that the hero's attempts to empower the refugees will fail, leaving them powerless in the face of a potential genocide. Ultimately seeking to restructure society to his own liking regardless of how many deaths are caused, Gōda's reprehensible nature is sealed by his only motivation being to take credit for the atrocity to allow himself a sense of importance.
• Hydra leads a brutal mercenary gang and intends to spread his reputation across the world. His method to do so entails selecting whatever village or caravan he can find and massacring all but one survivor, who he burns his symbol into a body part of choice. His infamy reaches the point he's enlisted by Mayor Browman of Hemden to slaughter Ronel's family, branding and letting his men rape her. When a demonically transformed Ronel rampages, Hydra flees by taking the most congested route, letting innocents and his own men be caught in the crossfire, intent on escaping to become his own king.
• Hellmaster Phibrizzo, from Next and Vol. 8, is the oldest of the Mazoku who wants to destroy the world and return it to the Sea of Chaos. A sadistic demon who views death and the suffering of others as nothing but a game, Phibrizzo in the past had staged several massive wars between humans, dragons, and demons that led to countless deaths, all to awaken his master's spirit. Using Garv as his pawn in the future, Phibrizzo easily kills him once he's through with him and snatches Gourry away, brainwashing him to become a loyal servant out of sheer boredom while keeping him inside a crystal that drains him of his life-force. Once Lina and the gang encounter him, Phibrizzo proceeds to murder them all by crushing a death orb tied to their life supports, gaining an immense amount of pleasure the more lives he literally shatters one by one. After Lina finally casts the Giga Slave and is possessed by the Mother of All Things, Phibrizzo attempts to kill Lina and set Mother free, preparing to die as long as rest of the world goes out with him.
• Does anyone remember Channel 42?: The One Who Walks In The Void is a horrific otherworldly being that attaches itself to an earnest TV station producer, Jonathan Torrence. Convincing Torrence that it is God, and making him his servant, it has Torrence kill numerous people, especially children, as human sacrifices. After Torrence commits ritual suicide, the being takes the form and personality of Stitches the Clown, creating a twisted broadcast of shows where he tortures, mutilates numerous people and creatures on his shows. As Stitches, he uses his show to try to teach kids how to kill, commit cannibalism, and even prepare to surgically remove the brain of a captive child. It is implied that the people appearing on his shows are souls it collected from sacrifices. Seeking a greater audience, Stitches and his slaves would stalk and terrorize people who view the show to get them to spread the word, before cowardly begging Agent Helsing to spare his life when the latter realizes his weakness.
• A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods:
  • "Away Game", by Seanan McGuire: Coach Harrison is a vile servant of Shub-Niggurath. Harrison worms her way into being the coach for the cheerleader and football teams, tricking them into going to her cult which is disguised as a school where they're consumed by her master. Trying to warp the minds of the heroines, Harrison intends to use them to fuel her master's endless appetite.
  • "Visions of the Dream Witch", by Lucy A. Snyder: The titular Dream Witch Yidhra stalks the main character Penny as she tries to save his cousin from an agonizing expiration from the venom of Yidhra's enslaved shoggoths. With a fancy for Mind Rape, Yidhra puts Penny through monstrous mental torment, forcing her to see her loved ones murdered while promising to make them reality. Yidhra attempts to possess Penny in the end to use her body to slaughter all her loved ones, intending to condemn Penny to languish for the rest of her life in a mental asylum.
• Green Lantern: The Animated Series, by first appearance:
  • Myglom, from "Razer's Edge", is a seemingly moral warden of a Green Lantern prison, but is in actuality a sadist who masks his villainy as a "rehabilitation program". Myglom subjects dozens of prisoners to a machine that makes them relive their worst memories over and over again before webbing them up to be devoured at his leisure. When Hal Jordan and Kilowog deliver the Red Lantern Razer to Myglom's prison, Myglom subjects Razer to the same torments of his other prisoners, and when Hal and Kilowog realize Myglom's villainy, he captures them and plans to eat them alive after using his nightmarish machine on them.
  • Prince Ragnar, brother of Queen Iolande, is an unfathomably petty, spiteful narcissist. Craving the power of a Lantern so as to rule his world, he poisoned his life-long mentor Dulok to get his Lantern ring and later tried to do the same to Kilowog, believing himself the only one worthy of its power, before attempting to slit his own sister's throat to ensure if he couldn't rule, neither could she. In his second appearance, Ragnar's rage earns him a place in the Red Lanterns ranks, taking over his world with them and waging war on any resistance. He would then have the Red Lantern Corps plant a "Liberator" on his world, intending to exterminate his own people of 2 billion lives, simply to spite them all for not wanting him as a ruler.
  • The Anti-Monitor, the Big Bad of the second arc until Aya takes over, is an omnicidal machine obsessed with nothing less than the obliteration of everything in the universe that isn't himself. Built to be a knowledge-gathering robot, the Anti-Monitor quickly realized his superiority to all life in the cosmos, and was banished to another dimension soon after his proclamation to destroy everything in his path. The Anti-Monitor proceeded to turn trillions of planets in this alternate dimension into Anti Matter which he then consumed to make himself stronger, and, though making a deal with the last remaining planet's population to not consume them should they build him a portal back to his own dimension, the Anti-Monitor drained their sun of nearly all its life before he left, ensuring that the planet would still die soon after he was gone. Once back in his home dimension, the Anti-Monitor reactivates the Manhunter robots across the universe and orders them to kill everything they see, and, when confronted by Hal Jordan, the Anti-Monitor tries to force him to watch as first his friends, then entire worlds, are consumed before him. Even when beaten, the Anti-Monitor desperately tries to strike a deal with Aya to assist her in her plans to destroy reality itself to save his own hide. A megalomaniac who couldn't stand anything living except himself, the Anti-Monitor's narcissism was only matched by his petty sadism.
• Rahgot is a Dragon Priest who, in life, managed to survive centuries after the end of the Dragon War and hid with his servants in the remote temple of Forelhost. When High King Harald's forces discovered their hideout and began to siege the temple, Rahgot came up with a plan to save himself by forcing most of his followers to commit mass suicide, including having them kill their own children and poisoning their water supply for good measure, murdering his head alchemist when she objected. Once the legion succeeded in breaking through the entrance of Forelhost only to find so many dead, followed by half their forces succumbing to the poisoned well, they retreated, allowing Rahgot to live out the rest of his life in the deepest halls of his temple.
• All Superheroes Must Die (aka Vs.): The villain Rickshaw forces four heroes into a sadistic game wherein he will kill hostages for each of his challenges they fail, murdering one just to prove the severity of his threat. Throughout the challenges, Rickshaw murders hostages anyways against his word; tries to make the heroes commit suicide; attempts to force one to kill the others lest Rickshaw kill his sister; and at the end tries coercing the two surviving heroes to fight to the death. When mortally wounded, Rickshaw activates a detonator to spitefully take the city with him.
• Braven (2018): Kassen is a violent drug lord who first establishes himself by beating one of his own men to death in a public diner upon hearing the loss of his drugs. Attempting to retrieve his drugs from a cabin that Weston and Hallett stashed it in, Kassen kills Weston for interrupting him before ordering the rest of his men to kill the Braves family in the cabin, child included. Kassen would then take Linden Braven hostage where he murders him in front of his son Joe and shoots the sheriff dead, before trying to kill Joe, while telling his intent to gut Joe's wife and daughter like he did his father.
• The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981): Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish, known as "Butch The Butcher", leads his men to kill and rob in 1800s Texas. Massacring the village of the hero John at the film's start, Butch is shown to execute his own men for petty reasons, killing those who speak out against him and organizing a near complete massacre of the Texas Rangers, all to help his true plan of kidnapping President Grant to take over the US.
• School Mystery (aka Toire no Hanako-san or Phantom of the Toilet) (1995): The unnamed child murderer is a deranged predator terrorizing the neighborhood. It is his murders that are blamed on the titular Hanako-san spirit. At one point, the killer encounters Mizuno, who manages to escape, but is left so traumatized that she loses her voice. The killer then kills the school's pet goat, leaving its severed head to be found outside the school. When rumors spread that Mizuno herself is Hanako-san, the killer overhears a plan between two students to lock her in the school bathroom overnight. The killer shows up at the school, relentlessly trying to chase Mizuno and Takuya down, and throws Takuya's father down a flight of stairs for getting in his way, seemingly killing him.
• Streets of Rage (1994): Lunar is a slimy pimp who gets young women addicted to heroin, forcing them to become his prostitutes to feed their drug addiction. Lustfully obsessed with his prostitutes, to the point where he kills one of his own via an overdose once he grew tired of her, Lunar desires Melody Sails all for himself, disguising himself as rich Southern entrepreneur Scott to get closer to her. After attempting to rape Melody while she's hungover, Lunar later kidnaps Candy, Steven, and Max to hold them hostage, ordering Melody to choose whether Steven or Max dies.
• Truth or Dare (2018): Calux is a gleefully sadistic trickster demon who is released and targets Olivia Barron and her friends when they are brought into a Two Truths and a Dare version of the game. Years earlier, Calux wiped out numerous girls at a mission when they first freed him and then the friends of Sam Meehan—aka Carter—and Gisele Hammond while then forcing Giselle to burn a girl alive and forcing Sam to pass the game on. Olivia and her friends are all psychologically tortured by Calux through confessing uncomfortable truths—as well as a dare that almost kills one anyway—and two of them end up dead in very cruel and brutal manners. Through Calux, another is then killed by a reluctant Giselle trying to kill Olivia and Giselle is forced to kill herself too. Olivia and Markie Cameron's Love Interest Lucas Moreno ends up forced to kill Sam and then himself right after. Once the game is released to the world, Calux is all too happy to continue.
• Untamed Youth: Russ Tropp is a greedy, conscienceless cotton baron in the Southwestern US. Rapidly losing money due to a labor shortage, Russ seduces Judge Cecilia Steele and persuades her to send juvenile offenders to work for him as a "humane" alternative to prison. In reality, he pays them in pennies, works them until they drop—to the point that in one case, a pregnant girl suffers a miscarriage and bleeds to death—feeds them dog food disguised as meat, and sexually exploits the girls, a fate which the heroine Penny Lowe barely escapes; others aren't so lucky. He attempts to conceal his crimes from his new wife and his stepson Bob, who ultimately discovers that Russ is plotting with a Mexican Human Trafficking ring to sell some of the kids into slavery across the border.
• Final Fantasy VII Remake: President Shinra is the leader of Midgar and the President of Shinra Electric Power Company, which powers Midgar with the Mako Energy from the planet's Lifestream, with Shinra uncaring of what will happen to the planet if the energy runs out. When AVALANCHE fights back against Shinra, he has his men destroy Mako Reactors 1 and 5, endangering many lives while framing AVALANCHE for the crimes. In order to get rid of AVALANCHE for good, Shinra orders Sector 7 to be destroyed, resulting in the deaths of many innocent lives, while framing AVALANCHE and accusing them of being allies for Wutai in order to have a excuse to go to war with them. After Aerith is captured by the Turks, Shinra plans on using her to lead him to the "Promised Land," while also allowing Hojo's plan on having Aerith raped by SOLDIERS in order for her to reproduce to "mitigate the risks". Afterwards, he plans on abandoning Midgar and its people and then building a new Midgar in the "Promised Land" with unlimited Mako Energy for him to rule. A cruel and vile businessman who believes that truth, justice, honor, and freedom are vain indulgences, President Shinra will gladly kill anyone in order to achieve his own personal desires.
• Banished Lands setting, by John Gwynne:
  • Asroth, the Demon King and lord of the Kadoshim, was once Elyon's most beloved creation before he fell from Grace. A sadistic monster of a demon, Asroth is the force behind Calidus who seeks to annihilate all that lives in the Banished Lands. Returning in A Time for Courage, the final book in Of Blood and Bone, Asroth orders the genocide of the Sirak tribe for their king's opposition to him and has his forces run rampant over the Banished Lands, butchering all they find and turning others into undead abominations to serve his legions. Chasing the Ben-Elim and Order of the Bright Star to their last stronghold, Asroth orders both annihilated with any civilians so he may spit on the grave of the long-dead Corban and spite Elyon as well, killing many heroes personally in the process in his quest to reign as the most powerful being in creation.
  • The Faithful and the Fallen series:
    • Calidus is the high captain of the Kadoshim, fallen angels who serve the aforementioned dark lord Asroth. The first of the Kadoshim to assume human flesh, Calidus takes the form of a wise old man who secretly manipulates events in the human world to remain chaotic and brutal while also manipulating a young man named Nathair to become Asroth's champion, "The Black Sun." Continuously pushing Nathair to worse deeds, including murdering his own father, Calidus intends to pave the way for the other Kadoshim and Asroth to annihilate all of humanity. Forcibly installing a multitude of Kadoshim into human hosts while they're alive and tormented, Calidus directs them to massacre human settlements and villages while also encouraging cannibalism as fuel for their new bodies. Calidus murders the mother of the hero Corban and later desecrates her grave just for kicks. While he hides his true nature behind a mask of civility and wisdom, Calidus is a ruthless, savage being utterly dedicated to the annihilation of humanity and his own advancement alongside Asroth.
    • Lykos, Calidus's closest human servant, serves Asroth's plans despite being one of the few to know what Asroth truly is. With Calidus's help, Lykos rose to become king of the brutal Vin-Thalun pirate culture, his people. Promoting violent raids and a dog-eat-dog society, Lykos makes advancements into Nathair's own kingdom when he is away and sets up illegal fighting pits where people are forced to fight to the death for Lykos's amusement, with one of the few survivors being the warrior Maquin. Lykos then magically enslaves Nathair's mother Queen Fidele and rapes her while also using her as a puppet to set up legal fighting pits and ruling through her as a tyrant while she is aware of everything. After Maquin rescues Fidele, Lykos develops a disturbing fixation on her and continuously tries to recover her, resulting in her death when she kills herself to save Maquin from suicide at Lykos's order when he holds her hostage. Lykos shows no compunction cheating at his fights if he's actually in danger, and when he finally faces Maquin in a duel to the death, continuously mocks him about Fidele's death, standing apart as the vilest human being in the series, considered barbaric even among his own allies.
  • Of Blood and Bone series: Kol is a Ben-Elim who gave in to material lusts and hubris. Promoting the seduction of mortals as a living god to them, Kol hid his transgressions by forcing the mothers to murder any half-breed offspring that resulted, the results of which are seen in a mass grave and the trauma of the women forced to endure it. Upon learning of a surviving half-breed, Kol attempts to kill her, and kills those in his path before launching a coup that kills many Ben-Elim, including their leader Israphil. Hiding his crimes, Kol even murders the young hero Bleda when he threatens to expose him, sneering only how humans refuse to learn their place.
• The Silver Chair: The Lady of the Green Kirtle, or Green Lady, is a powerful witch with a specialty in brainwashing, a desire to rule over Narnia and not even an ounce of morality. After arriving in the country, she murders the beloved queen, and when her son, Prince Rillian, comes to avenge her, she kidnaps him and subjects him to Cold-Blooded Torture for 10 years until he is nothing more than a brain-dead servant of hers. In addition, she performs the same dark magic on the Dwarfs of Narnia, forcing thousands of otherwise good people into being her slaves who are allowed to do nothing but build her underground castle for many years. When the heroes arrive in Narnia to try to rescue the Prince, she misdirects them into a pack of man-eating giants, fully intending for the 3 heroes, two of which are teenagers, to be brutally murdered and eaten. When the heroes manage to escape and confront her in her lair, she attempts to brainwash them into becoming her slaves, only to go ballistic when the hypnosis fails, at which point she tries to kill them and thousands of Dwarfs and other innocent creatures living underground.
• King Leopold's Soliloquy, by Mark Twain: King Leopold presents himself as a vicious hypocrite and sanctimonious tyrant who subjects the Free State of the Congo to horrific depravity. Having countless people killed and entire regions depopulated, Leopold demands high taxes and production rates from his supposed subjects, cutting off limbs or even castrating others who cannot meet them. Having people tortured and murdered in huge numbers, Leopold notes one of his mistakes was to have sixty innocents crucified and remarks fewer people would care if he'd them skinned. Uncaring of anything but lining his pockets, Leopold shows his only sympathy is to himself, indifferent to the half-million corpses he has left in his rush for money.
• "Redemption at Knife's End", by Tim Marquitz, from Neverland's Library: Korbitt is a depraved ex-soldier turned bandit who runs the illegal slavery ring of the town he's stationed in, spreading horror to the citizens. Kidnapping a young girl named Vai from a peaceful endangered species, Korbitt has her turned into his Sex Slave and rapes her repeatedly. When Gryl comes to rescue Vai, Korbitt threatens to slit her throat.
• Babylon Berlin:
  • Trochin is a Soviet ambassador who is tasked with finding the train carrying gold and hunting down the Trotskyists. To this end, Trochin has his men massacre a printing shop, killing 15 people, while tracking down the sole survivor and torturing him until he gives up information about the train, at which point Trochin then kills him. When the train he locates is rigged with nerve gas, he leaves his men to die, while trying to save himself. Trochin has also collaborated with the Black Reichwehr to overthrow the current government of Germany, only to sell them out to avoid jail time for the atrocities he committed.
  • Dr. Leopold Ullrich is a police analyst who turns on the force to achieve fame and glory for himself. After finding the identities of the individuals who murdered the first actress in a film lot, Ullrich blackmails them into committing more murders, before framing Walter Weintraub, 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 while framing Gereon for Gennat's death.
• Resident Evil 0: Dr. James Marcus was one of three co-founders of Umbrella Corporation and a Mad Scientist without regard for anyone or anything unlucky enough to get in his way. Running the Umbrella training facility in the Arklay Mountains, Marcus subjected at least 20 people to experimentation with the T-Virus, resulting in their deaths. After being assassinated by Umbrella CEO Ozwell Spencer, he was resurrected when his memories and consciousness were absorbed by his most recent creation, the Queen Leech. Desiring revenge against Umbrella, he leaked the T-Virus under the Spencer Mansion and on the Ecliptic Express, killing dozens of people and partly precipitating the crisis that led to the contamination of Raccoon City itself. He had every intention of causing large-scale destruction—when Rebecca and Billy finally encounter him, he gleefully expresses his desire to destroy the entire world. Callous and amoral, Dr. Marcus's complete lack of humanity predates his transmutation into a literal monster, which merely gave him the means to demonstrate the true and terrifying extent of his depravity.
• Sherlock Holmes and the Chilford Ripper, by Roger Jaynes: The Chilford Ripper, aka Stephen Langley, was a former British soldier who along with his friends robbed a shipment of money in Bombay, killing the guards, intending to make themselves rich. When Langley starts to rack up debts, he starts to pick off his friends, knocking them out and then mutilating them in order to disguise the motive for murder, even later killing an innocent bystander to cover it up. When his pregnant mistress asks for him to marry her, Langley butchers her as well out of greed and malice.
• Deep Space Nine (Malibu Comics): The unnamed Bajoran cult leader, from the "Dax's Comet" arc, heads a religious order that hides away from other Bajorans underground. When a couple of Bajorans stumble upon the cult's lair, the cult leader orders them to be tortured. The cult leader believes the Prophets will destroy the Bajorans aboveground, leaving Bajor to be ruled by him and his followers. Learning of a comet that will soon hit Bajor, the cult leader believes that is the instrument of the apocalypse he has been waiting for and does everything in his power to make sure the comet hits Bajor. The cult leader and his followers travel to Deep Space 9 to prevent Sisko and his crew from stopping the comet. The cult leader has his followers crash a transport ship into Deep Space 9 and violently try to take over the station.
• Dark Conspiracy (Game Designers Workshop game): Koshchey the Undying, from Among The Dead, better known by his mortal name Lavrentiy Beria, is a ruthless Dark Minion who helped to manipulate World War II to enjoy the suffering of mankind. The power behind Josef Stalin, Koshchey ran the Secret Police and had millions die in the Gulags, savoring the terror that reigned over Russia at the time. In more modern times, Koshchey harvests the suffering of victims for his Dark Tek, taking children to use as "parts" for his computer all so he can recreate the days when he was able to bask in the agony of others.
• Lamentations of the Flame Princess:
  • The Pale Lady is a ruthless Fay who has children kidnapped to use as slave labor until death or she finds no use for them, with the boys turned into eunuchs to better serve. Many of the firstborn children taken by the Pale Lady are sacrificed so she may obtain her powers, her supply of rabbit-men soldiers propagated by her raping human men she finds appealing before using the offspring as disposable Cannon Fodder.
  • Blood in the Chocolate: Lucia de Castillo enslaves a tribe of pygmies for their Cocoa tree with the belief she is a god so that she may create a delicious, addictive chocolate to control the trade across Europe. Allowing her pygmies to torture and sacrifice many people, Lucia uses others for her sick experiments, including children, who she infects with plagues and with her candy so that deadly and agonizing side effects can be observed. Others are kept as sex slaves during the experiments so that Lucia can use their bodies for her own pleasure.
• Masque of the Red Death:
  • Dracula is one of the eldest and mightiest of the Red Death's servants. As Vlad the Impaler, Dracula subjected 100,000 Turkish soldiers to the stake, and his appetite for suffering was so great that he put entire villages to the sword, with men, women and children impaled and left to suffer for hours in agony. As a vampire, Dracula, who has killed so many in Transylvania that the region suffers from a population problem, later emerges to do the same to other regions. Happily turning the loved ones of his enemies, Dracula savors watching them trying to kill one another after, and is a vicious predator as either man or undead.
  • Delphine LaLaurie is initially presented as a charming socialite in New Orleans's French Quarter. In truth, Delphine was a Serial Killer who focused on her slaves, having countless innocents tortured and murdered with the "lucky" ones having eyes or tongues removed. After being driven from Louisiana by a mob, Delphine moves from region to region, mentally dominating her own family into participating in her actions and always aiming for areas where she has fresh access to servants who can never please her, long before she proceeds to torture and slaughter them as well.
• Punkapocalyptic: Cunnilingus Igni is the wicked leader of the Children of Black Blood. After the death of the original leader, Igni usurped that once-peaceful religion, which worships Tex'co and views oil as a gift from their god. Converting the rest to violent fanatics, Igni launches raids to burn countless people alive and wipe out anyone else in preemptive strikes". Leading many such raids himself to demonstrate his fanaticism, Igni savors the death and immolation of others, described contemptuously as just a scumbag seeking to impose his cruelty on the world.
• Shadow of the Demon Lord: Xerras the Night Drinker, from Tales of the Desolation, is a vampire sealed away by his master. Upon being awoken by Father Mayhew's entourage, Xerras slaughtered all but Mayhew, who he used to spread his plague, the Dry Death, which painfully drains the moisture from victims and leaves them as Desiccated Ones, broken, dried out zombies for him to control. Attempting to massacre the town of Esker and make the people there his undead slaves, Xerras tortures Mayhew and turns him into an agonized mummy, intending to spread the Dry Death over the lands to dominate all he can.
• The Elder God is an ancient parasite upon the Wheel of Fate. Playing at being god to the ancient vampires, the Elder God orchestrated a catastrophic war between vampire and Hylden that saw innumerable members of both killed, as well as countless humans. Upon the vampiric curse of immortality, the Elder God callously abandoned the vampires, leading to the suicide of most of the race. Later swaying Moebius to his side and inspiring him to his vampire purges, the Elder God manipulates almost every conflict in Nosgoth's history to kill countless people in order to satisfy its gluttony and desire for control. Hijacking Raziel's resurrection and manipulating the former vampire as its champion, the Elder God sends him to satisfy its plots and kill Kain with no concern for the slaughter left in the process so it may continue playing god and feasting upon the Wheel of Fate.
• Blood Omen: The fair boy-king William the Just, through the wicked influence of the time-traveling Moebius, came to embrace evil and became a sadistic despot known only as the Nemesis. The Nemesis has his legions sweep across the land to torture, rape and murder all they find, leaving entire cities such as the once-academic Stahlberg a complete ruin with its population put up on stakes. The Nemesis intends to come down upon all Nosgoth and turn the world into blood, ashes and chains before him, and even curbstomps the King Ottmar and his noble army, forcing Kain to turn back time forty years to undo William's carnage upon the earth.
• Super Robot Wars X: Ende The Devourer is a Divine Beast and the creator of Al-Warth, populating it with survivors of the war against the Anti-Spiral to feed on their emotions—developing a taste for negative emotions while seeing positive emotions as mere condiments—while also taking advantage of the ignorance of the AI Black Noir to have it manipulate events for him. Ende also uses his worshippers, the Keepers of Order to manipulate events inside Al-Warth while also training sorcerers in hopes to find someone who could become part of Ende's future body. When the Keepers start to summon people from other worlds to bring war to Al-Warth and the creature meant to become his new self escapes, Ende summons more otherworlders to cause more conflict and corrupts the sorcerer Celric Obsidian into a unhinged berserker who murders his superior to become The Founder and uses the Keepers of Order to attack people. When X-Cross, a group with many otherworlders, defeats the Anti-Spiral and Black Noir, Ende appears in front of them to tell them that now, he plans to invade their homeworlds to feast on the emotions of its people before devouring Al-Warth in front of the X-Cross.
• Syndicate (2012):
  • Jack Denham, the CEO of EuroCorp, gained immense power with his DART chips—which work like computers inserted into the brain—and will do anything to maintain his dominance. Forcefully drafting agents by finding babies with good combat genes and killing their parents, Jack uses his agents to terminate any opposition to EuroCorp, uncaring if civilians get involved. When a section of Manhattan rioted due to food shortages, Jack responded by sealing off the poverty-stricken area and leaving them to starve.
  • Agent Jules Merit is Jack's head enforcer and a callous killer. Encouraging his protégé, Miles Kilo, to not worry about killing civilians, Merit goes on to shoot an unarmed man just moments into their first mission. While the duo escape by train, Merit makes a point of shooting each and every passenger he comes across in a car, before tricking the conductor into opening the locomotive room and killing him too. When a EuroCorp scientist turns against the company out of disgust with the company's practices, Merit happily tortures her to mentally break her so her DART chip can be extracted.
• Gnostic mythology: The Demiurge or Yaldabaoth is a take on the Old Testament God, used to explain the Problem of Evil. A malevolent false god, Yaldabaoth is the source of humanity's sinful nature and all the misery, who takes joy in human evil, so long as he's worshiped as the Top God. Yaldabaoth created the physical realm, and humanity, as debaucherous and mindless creatures, before the higher gods took pity on them and granted them knowledge and souls, thus giving access to the true spiritual world. The materialistic Yaldabaoth would prefer to manipulate the world in wickedness, keeping humanity in the dark of the spiritual world. This puts him in direct conflict with his mother Sophia, who in some versions was destroyed by her son, with her remnants becoming humanity's souls.
• Kiss the Devil in the Dark: Dagon is the evil demon lord which The Protagonist Marcus strikes a deal with in desperation to save his dying wife. Dagon demands the sacrifice of four souls in exchange for his wife's life, dragging his wife off to burn in Hell until Marcus fulfills his end of the bargain. When Marcus gives him the tribute of four sacrifices, Dagon gleefully and brutally murders them one after another, and when Dagon is stopped from devouring the fourth and most innocent soul by a repentant Marcus, Dagon drags him off instead-—but not before gleefully taunting him on his wife's infidelity, a fact that cursed her to Hell from the start.

Edited by ACW on Apr 28th 2020 at 4:48:43 AM

I'm pretty sure The Good King is an inappropriate pothole for William considering that means something totally different from pure evil.

Maybe change it to Fallen Hero

~ACW I’m hoping to get another in the batch today. Will that be possible?

Also, how many for Blumhouse now? Seven?

Also, again should I include more details in the writeup about how Penelope is tortured by Calux and how Ronnie and Tyson are killed by Calux too? I didn’t want to make it too long.

In the EP itself, I left out Olivia being forced to make Markie break her hand (the dare Markie got from Calux was to do so), but that’s one of the less awful things he does though.

Edited by futuremoviewriter on Apr 26th 2020 at 8:36:06 AM

If the character page is accurate, he WAS The Good King before becoming evil.

Future: I may be able to get another one in.

Around 13 with this one.

Theirs also Michelle Crane, Wheezing demon, Grandma Lois, Charon IV, STEM, Rose Armitage, Michael Myers (2018), Professor Gelson, John Tombs, Dr Greg Butler , Athena Stone and adriann Griffin

Edited by miraculous on Apr 26th 2020 at 8:47:56 AM

to Butch and Callux

Switching to abstain on Atomic Skull

Edited by NattesNovgrel on Apr 26th 2020 at 11:49:10 AM

OK, so my next EP is on Shane the Sly, the eventual Big Bad for a D&D campaign loosely known as the Shoggy Chronicles (so named after the Cool Pet who randomly Polymorphed every few hours). You can see the video here

Who is Shane the Sly / Shy?

Shane initially makes his presence known to the party as a middle man who hires the party of adventurers to retrieve some documents for a quest. Once that's done and they do a few more quests, he leaves town. He later reappears down the line as another Quest Giver for another faction, this time hiring them to retrieve some agricultural tools used for farming. Both times, however, it turns out his being a middle man leads to chaos, which he's deliberately engineered. He only gets worse from there.

What does Shane Do?

As said before, Shane initially presents himself as a middle man to have the adventurers clear out an overrun garrison post for some historical documents. They manage to go through this, clearing out the monsters that overran / occupied the place, retrieving the documents. They then check they’re not secretly a Tome of Eldritch Lore, which they are not, and return them to Shane who pays them well for this.

The party does a couple of other quests for Shane in between pursuing the main plot, as it's a good way to make money / level up and Shane seems a Nice Guy. He eventually declares he's got no more work and has to move on somewhere else, bidding the party farewell. As it turns out, he's pre-emptively fleeing from the conflict that arises from the documents being retrieved; they were not eldritch or inherently destructive in nature, but they do cast a Game of Thrones style revelation about the legitimacy about the line of succession to the throne, causing an outright Civil War in the country the party is in. The party briefly fights, but then decides to flee as they come to the conclusion both sides in the war are arseholes and more likely to make them dead than rich.

Fleeing to a different area, the party meet with Shane again, mentioning that the documents they retrieved for him caused the civil war. Shane reminds them he was a middle man and just getting decent work, claiming ignorance on what the documents really were. The party are inclined to believe him, especially as Shane never screwed them over on a job before, plus the party that started the war were pricks, and continue investigating the main story there. While they do this, they take another quest from Shane, this time to retrieve some enchanted agricultural tools. They clear out the den, checking the tools are not evil; once again, they are not. Handing the tools in and getting paid, the same thing happens again where they do a few more quests, and Shane once again bids them farewell. Fast-forward a day or two, and it turns out that the tools were not inherently evil, but did allow some nutty druids to grow some invasive fauna to induce a famine where the party were. After tidying that mess up, the party come to the conclusion that once was plausible deniability, but twice? They reason that Shane is either an Obliviously Evil middle man for bad people and allows them to get more business, or outright doing this on purpose, and that either way his living is detrimental to society at large, so they go to kill him. After they move somewhere else, the party initially feigns ignorance to Shane being Evil All Along, pretending to go along with another scheme; however, when they get a bit too aggressive, Shane clocks on and hits a button before jumping out a window. The party pursues him to a mansion where they find nasty Elite Mooks, managing to beat them and fighting to where they expect Shane to be with an evil monologue. Instead, what they find is a room with an open escape passage that leads to the now-empty stables.

The party have some more urgent stuff on their to-kill list they have to prioritise and deal with that first, but Shane remains on the list. Once they have dealt with that, they try to track him down but this takes effort because he is not doing anything overly nefarious like heading a warband of Orcs or summoning demons in the open. They eventually operate on the policy of any magical disaster, famine or kingdom being his doing, but the problem is that he is often gone by the time chaos ensues, and any time they come close, Shane drops whatever evil scheme he had in place and runs like hell, doing something like hiring some nasty mooks to kill the party or framing them for a crime of some sort while he changes identity and holes up elsewhere. Despite the party's best efforts to track him, he manages to avoid suspicion by virtue of sounding so absurd that the authorities think he can't be a real thing, as nobody could possibly be that much of a mastermind behind so much death and destruction. Also helping him stay ahead is that very little he does seems that inherently evil; after all, a prospecting firm causing a gold rush may seem innocuous, but once the Red Dragon decides to Smaug the whole, newly rich kingdom? By the time the Dragon is dealt with, Shane is long gone.

The party continue to try and track him down while also saving the world and having other adventures (the details not in the text post and video), eventually making deals with practically everyone, including a Thieves' Guild, the wizards, and even one of the doom cults that they had feuded with to stop him allying with them. They are just that desperate to end him, eventually amassing a large war-chest purely to deal with him which includes the spell Time Stop. Taking meticulous care to block off every secret escape passage, hiring middle men to hire other middle men, hiring casters to disable magic defences, and looking for people hiring low-level adventurers, the party sneak in via one escape passage, corner him and use Time Stop just in time to stop him reading a scroll for the same spell. Here they interrogate him, making sure to cut him open for magic items to stop him running or escaping, healing him and then continuing the interrogation elsewhere outside the city while the party allies strip the place bare, kill Shane's underlings and level what they cant take away. Using divine magic, they get a list of contacts, associates and atrocities, and above all his motivation: Turns out he wasn't doing this because he was blackmailed into it by an Evil Overlord, or given a geas by an evil god. He had a lot of money, woke up one day and decided to be an evil The Man Behind the Man For the Evulz. Finally happy to have caught him, and eager to stop him ever doing any more harm, they make a pact with a devil to send him to the nastiest hell they can where he'll be eternally tortured, and kill him.

The epilogue, I guess you could call it, has the party set about going through the list of names they have and trying to undo as many of his atrocities as possible while also destroying any record of his existence and destroying his body to stop any evil cult trying to resurrect him, worship him or save him with time travel. After they eventually take out the last of his contacts, one of many Evil Overlord wannabes Shane propped up, the adventurers - now not entirely believed about this alleged evil mastermind and somewhat unpopular in having dismantled his operations, retire and hand control of the party over to their apprentices who helped. The story ends noting that the world didn't become a utopia overnight, but things became a bit less shitty in the world without Shane in it.

Heinous Standard

Soars over it. He may never have drawn a weapon himself or killed anyone directly, but the actions of his, propping up every minor warlord and result in a high body count and put the lives of further thousands at risk. This is especially true as Shane is a mere - for a measure of mere - mortal who works in creative ways to cause suffering without being noticed.

Not too many other antagonists are mentioned beyond the ones Shane propped up, and he eventually became the Big Bad and resident Hate Sink.

Mitigating Factors

None. The party interrogate him when they finally capture him, and check he's not been bewitched, put under an evil geas from a bad god etc. Nope! He's just a rich sociopath who woke up one day and realised that, rather than being a dark lord, he'd have more fun and commit more evil by causing seemingly innocuous events to occur with dark twists, or being the benefactor for an evil doom cult / aspiring dark lord / angry band or warlords. He doesn't show any guilt whatsoever when finally confronted.

Conclusion

I was initially doubtful about campaigns when you only read the write-up, as opposed to Critical Role or The Oxventure when you see the villain do the evil shit on-video, but I came to the conclusion he was uniquely resourceful and cunning, and generally got enough people killed to count as .

EDIT: Punctuation (I keep doing these in Word to save my progress and then paste them in, so it keeps bollocking up the symbols etc)

EDIT: To clarify in response to ACW, the story is one of a few tales of a campaign that got posted to 4-chan or something in their tabletop games stories section. The writer would go on to make The All Guardsman Party

Edited by captainmarkle on Apr 26th 2020 at 9:45:06 AM

Shane.

Also, it appears that a character page has been created for Judge Claude Frollo.

Here.

Yes to Shane and Frollo? Great... does everybody need one now? Looking through some of these tropes (Vague Age basically pointing out the movie just doesn't say exactly how old he is—just as it doesn't with anyone else; Ugly Hero, Good-Looking Villain amending itself to say Frollo isn't handsome per se, just not deformed; make me wonder if people just do backflips to bulk up tropes for the sake of it). Oh well, that's neither here nor there, may as well add him.

Honestly, didn't think there was enough of a plethora of tropes to make a page on Frollo. He is from one film, after all. But that's beside the point.

Edited by AustinDR on Apr 26th 2020 at 9:24:03 AM

Shane

to Shane

43: At least Kilgrave appeared in 2 seasons of a show, one of which was plenty of time to use notable narrative devices. It is worth noting that I only created Kilgrave's character page because the folder he used to occupy was not enough space for how many valid contextual examples there were, as far as I could tell.

Oh, and Shane.

Edited by SkyCat32 on Apr 26th 2020 at 12:34:08 PM

Yes to Shane. And Future, you've been told before about writeups not requiring extraneous details. Leave it.

Quickly:

• The Legend of the Lone Ranger: Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish, known as "Butch the Butcher" leads his men to kill and rob in 1800s Texas. Massacring the village of the hero John at the film's start, Butch is shown to execute his own men for petty reasons, killing those who speak out against him and organizing a near complete massacre of the Texas Rangers, all to help his true plan of kidnapping President Grant to take over the US.
• VTM: Weissrarech is the equally vile childe of Doktor Totentanz. One of the first Tzimisce glatzen, or skinheads, Weissrarch leads her pack to target non-whites throughout Europe, slaughtering laborers and refuges, even attacking Bosnian refugee war camps. Gleefully turning the Sabbat ideology into her own race war, Weissrarech plans to cleanse as much of Europe as she can while also striking at the Camarilla to kill whoever she can.
• Princess: the Hopeful: The Boogyman is the most terrible of the Cataphractoi. A being who only cares about making children suffer, the Boogyman once ran a kingdom where countless children were taken to be tortured, tormented and devoured by his monstrous subjects. Upon the kingdom's fall, the Boogyman focuses on children personally, luring them in to be caught in his domains so he can torment them mentally before killing them.

Edited by Lightysnake on Apr 26th 2020 at 9:33:40 AM

Yes to Shane.

I took care of Frollo.

Yes to Shane. Is this an actual adventure? A fan work? Something like Critical Role?

Yes to Shane.

@Lighty Exactly why I didn’t do it. I just needed the extra clarification is all.

Yeah I’m pretty confident in keeping it as is.

Edited by futuremoviewriter on Apr 26th 2020 at 9:38:58 AM

Have a New 52/Rebirth DC villain to propose there...kind of a duo: Nebiros and Tobias Whale, from DC Universe Presents:

Who are they?

Nebiros is a demon out for revenge against Blue Devil, who stole his powers some time ago. Tobias Whale is, because of retcons, the nephew of the actual Tobias Whale, using the name Tobias Whale, which was revealed after this arc...a huge, obese, albino crime lord no way inspired by the Kingpin. Now, Tobias Whale has a plot to get more powerful and establish control of the streets. Having an artifact stolen with which to contact Nebiros, Whale proceeds to sacrifice the minion who brought it to feed his soul to Nebiros.

Promptly allying, the duo come up with a scheme to distribute drugs to grow stronger. Nebiros wants to get his power back from Blue Devil, Whale wants to eliminate Black Lightning...they begin distributing drugs across the streets, which poison and eventually kill them, reaping their souls to send them to Nebiros. And Whale? Promises an unlimited supply, targeting the poor and desperate, addicts, etc. After loads of deaths and Nebiros reaping the souls, this draws the attention of Blue Devil and Black Lightning who begin dismantling the operation...to lure them in, Whale takes Black Lightning' father hostage to torture and kill if Jeff doesn't arrive...when they do, Nebiros reveals himself to rip his power out of Blue Devil. Whale tries to gun down Jeff's father, but Jeff takes the bullet..Blue Devil overcomes Nebiros who promises to bargain for his life by bringing Jeff back...except he plans to turn Jeff into a fiendish killer.

Jeff, however, overcomes this and they manage to take down Whale...to stop Nebiros, they seal him in Tobias Whale, freeing the souls and leaving Nebiros stuck in a comatose, frozen Tobias, his own personal cage...it's later mentioned that the true Tobias Whale returns and out of disgust for his nephew's failure, kills him personally. What this means for Nebiros is unknown.

Heinousness?

For the prime/rebirth/whatever DCU? A horrific niche. The 'unlimied souls via drugs' to the most vulnerable of society with theother evil touches being nice window dressing? Pass.

Mitigating Qualities?

Nothing. They have a business arrangement, nothing else, and no care for anyone or anything on panel. Whale's mother cares about him, as revealed after his death, but he's never shown interacting with her, or given a chance to show it's mutual.He just cares about power and money. Nebiros only cares about souls and power. Pass.

Conclusion?

Keepers.

Added to the batch:

• The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981): Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish, known as "Butch The Butcher", leads his men to kill and rob in 1800s Texas. Massacring the village of the hero John at the film's start, Butch is shown to execute his own men for petty reasons, killing those who speak out against him and organizing a near complete massacre of the Texas Rangers, all to help his true plan of kidnapping President Grant to take over the US.
• Princess: The Hopeful: The Boogeyman is the most terrible of the Cataphractoi. A being who only cares about making children suffer, the Boogeyman once ran a kingdom where countless children were taken to be tortured, tormented and devoured by his monstrous subjects. Upon the kingdom's fall, the Boogeyman focuses on children personally, luring them in to be caught in his domains so he can torment them mentally before killing them.

Lighty, should I do the WOD reformat today or tomorrow, or are you gonna do the other stuff soon?

Neibros and whale.

Huh weird to think dc is rebooting again from what I've heard with 5G after new 52 and dc rebirth finished only a few years ago

Likely. I did say I'd hold off on Tabletop for like a day or two before I wrap up Werewolf.

Wait, I thought Rebirth WAS the reboot of New 52. They ended that already? Goddamn DC continuity

Sure to those 2 (looks like they're JUST New 52).

Edited by ACW on Apr 26th 2020 at 12:54:12 PM

Yes to Neibros and Whale.