During the investigation of recent hollers in the Complete Monster thread, it's become apparent to the staff that an insular, unfriendly culture has evolved in the Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard threads that is causing problems.
Specific issues include:
- Overzealous hollers on tropers who come into the threads without being familiar with all the rules and traditions of the tropes. And when they are familiar with said rules and traditions, they get accused (with little evidence) of being ban evaders.
- A few tropers in the thread habitually engage in snotty, impolite mini-modding. There are also regular complaints about excessive, offtopic "socializing" posts.
- Many many thread regulars barely post/edit anywhere else, making the threads look like they are divorced from the rest of TV Tropes.
- Following that, there are often complaints about the threads and their regulars violating wiki rules, such as on indexing, crosswicking, example context and example categorization. Some folks are working on resolving the issues, but...
- Often moderator action against thread regulars leads to a lot of participants suddenly showing up in the moderation threads to protest and speak on their behalf, like a clique.
It is not a super high level problem, but it has been going on for years and we cannot ignore it any longer. There will be a thread in Wiki Talk
to discuss the problem; in the meantime there is a moratorium on further Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard example discussion until we have gotten this sorted out.
Update: The new threads have been made and can be found here:
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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
One I've also been meaning to propose from Captain Britain? From Alan Moore and Alan Davis's run....I give you Mad Jim Jaspers.
Who is Mad Jim Jaspers?
James Jaspers is a member of the British Conservative party...now, Jaspers existed in multiple realities including Earth-238. This past Jaspers rose to power and launched a campaign of superhuman genocide, creating a being called The Fury, designed to kill every superpowered being except Jaspers himself. The few survivors fled, since that Jaspers was also an insanely powerful mutant who could warp and deform reality...to save all of existence the universe was destroyed.
Earth 616 Jaspers? The survivor of 238, Saturnyne notes Jaspers' rise to power mirrors his counterpart, using the exact speech and rhetoric. Jaspers, in truth, cares nothing about heroes. He simply wants to ensure that there is no threat to his power. Jaspers initiates his plans, instituting concentration camps in Britain, death squads, etc. to wipe out superhumans...within a week, he promises? All superhumans will be exterminated.
We see an image of the future Jaspers will make as 'The Crooked Man.' A twisted world of corpses, mass graves and slaughter, concentration camps where everyone with even a hint of superhuman ability is rounded up and butchered or installed in concentration camps under signs of Jaspers' face. Jaspers becomes Prime Minister as even some of his conspirators try to stop him...only to find Jaspers warping reality and torturing them with that.
Jaspers begins spreading his reality cancer to warp and twist all existence, consuming it little by little....far, FAR more powerful than his 238 counterpart, as Merlyn observes: "The Omniverse shall fall to chaos and a new and hostile god shall play with the dice." London becomes a brutal hell under Jaspers' control with Jaspers torturing Captain Britain via reality warping.
Things are stopped by the arrival of the Fury, which...doesn't recognize Jaspers as the Jaspers it served and commences a battle, as the Fury gets stronger as it faces something more powerful. The Fury wins by transporting them to a complete 'unspace' where Jaspers has no reality to warp...and fries his brain until nothing's left. Now, Jaspers does return briefly later to destroy reality again, but is destroyed and...hasn't come back since.
Heinousness?
A guy like Jaspers has to go over and above. He is, bar none, of the strongest beings in all Marvel, insanely powerful as a reality warper. That said? Death camps, extermination squads, superhuman genocide, near destruction of the omniverse itself, warping and intending to torture countless beings? Oh yes, Jaspers passes it.
Mitigating Qualities?
None. Jaspers is power hungry...and also entirely insane. He's also aware of this and gleeful about it, as when Captain Britain pleads "Jaspers, if you're sane...you can't do this!" Jaspers' response? "I'm not. And I can!" So yeah, he doesn't even believe his rhetoric as he's a mutant himself. He just cares about power...and then destroying things for kicks. Yeah, he's totally freaking nuts.
Conclusion?
Hearty yes to the villain of one of the best Marvel stories ever written.
Yes to Jaspers (I'm a little confused; is it the Earth-616 version being proposed, or the Earth-238 version?).
"The Fury determined that this Jaspers was not its creator, whom it wanted to kill but its programming prevented from doing so to which it found it to be frustrating, and therefore was not exempt from its directive to kill superhumans."
BTW, unless I'm mistaken, the story has its own page.
Edited by ACW on Jul 28th 2020 at 1:41:29 PM
Also a quote I found on him
Edited by miraculous on Jul 28th 2020 at 10:48:52 AM
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."Say, DCAU!Darkseid's been cut from MB, and Scraggle mentioned this
. Do we wanna add it to his CM entry somewhere? Granted, in the scheme of things it's small, but basically freaking RAPE in the DCAU?

I had a feeling that if CM named Gaston was proposed, some people would immediately makes jokes about with Gaston from Beauty and the Beast... Not that it is a problem though.
Anyways,
Gaston. Now to prevent myself from singing the song and annoying everyone on the thread like Gas- OH GOD DAMN IT!!!!!
Edited by Michealthehero21 on Jul 28th 2020 at 9:24:59 AM