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Done to here.

Hey, with this please:

• Use one and two to replace the current Darkside of Dimensions entry on Yu-Gi-Oh!;
• Put three on Literature;
• Four on Live-Action TV;
• Five on Video Games;
• Six on Western Animation;
• Seven-nine on the Music section for Other;
• Ten and eleven go on the same page. It was suggested to me that the new entry and the (already existing) Crusader Kings one get their own Let's Play section but I'm agnostic to that or just sticking both under the existing Fan Works part.

Thanks!

At Yu-Gi-Oh!, please add the !All spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned!, and then replace the last entry with this:

• Forbidden Memories: Heishin is an Evil Chancellor and Evil Sorcerer of Ancient Egypt. As soon as he gets the ancient power of the Millennium Items, he attacks the palace with his soldiers, killing various people, including the Pharaoh and his wife, and mortally wounding Simon Muran, the Prince's tutor. When the Prince tries to escape, he threatens to kill him if he doesn't give him the Millennium Puzzle. The Prince shatters it, and is transported inside of the puzzle to the present day. When he returns, he finds that Heishin has destroyed much of Egypt and Simon Muran has died from his injuries. After defeating Heishin's top mages, he finds Teana has been kidnapped and is having her life threatened in an attempt to lure the Prince into a trap to kill him, but this is stopped by Seto, Heishin's own henchman, who sets her free and ends up being The Starscream. Heishin obtains the Millennium Puzzle and summons the Dark God, Darknite, and commands him to destroy the world and make him a god, to which Darknite responds by killing Heishin. Petty, selfish, and so obsessed with power that he'd attempt to murder teenagers in his pursuit of it, Heishin was a monstrous individual.
• The Falsebound Kingdom: Scott Irvine traps Yugi, his friends, and the Kaiba brothers in a multiplayer RTS game in an attempt to feed their souls to DarkNite, a wicked spirit, who will then Take Over the World. When the virtual villain Emperor Haysheen is defeated, Scott deletes him from the game and assumes his position, brainwashing Yugi's friends into attacking him or attempting to kill everyone in the game; if the player fails to free Tea or Joey, everyone is destroyed or Scott forces Joey to kill himself, gloating all the while. He additionally steals Mokuba's soul to blackmail Kaiba into fighting Yugi, adding that he'd kill Mokuba if Seto doesn't do as he says. When the heroes finally reach him, Scott reveals his plan and attempts to tribute their souls, and succeeds in killing everyone should the player fail. He also deletes other sentient NPCs from the game, and a prequel campaign reveals he was toying with an NPC version of Marik by manipulating him and making false promises of power. Cruel, merciless, and arrogant, Scott does everything in his power to achieve his goals and cares nothing for anything else.

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On Monster.Video Games G To P, in the KAIMA entry, please remove the anyway between “Illy” and “at some point anyway” (ie “would have betrayed and killed Illy [remove this anyway] at some point anyway”) to avoid Department of Redundancy Department.

One of these days, all of you will accept me as your supreme overlord.

On Monster.Yu Gi Oh, change Main.Yu Gi Oh Anime S 1 E 13 Evil Spirit Of The Ring to Recap.Yu Gi Oh Anime S 1 E 13 Evil Spirit Of The Ring.

Edited by lalalei2001 on Oct 6th 2019 at 3:43:38 AM

The Protomen enhanced my life.

Done to here.

Due to the fact that RWBY now has a Franchise.RWBY page, I've moved the Manga example from the NightmareFuel.RWBY page to its relevant Manga page (YMMV.RWBY 2015). As a result, please can the Manga folder be removed from the NightmareFuel.RWBY page?

I've cross-posted this to the Nightmare Fuel clean-up thread as well (here).

Edited by Wyldchyld on Oct 6th 2019 at 3:10:01 PM

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.

Can NightmareFuel.Land Of Oz be unlocked so that I can remake the page?

Edited by Pichu-kun on Oct 6th 2019 at 7:24:52 AM

Two questions about the Administrivia page:

1: I noticed How to Write an Example is listed twice. Was that intentional, and if not, can we delete one of the duplicates?

2: Just a Face and a Caption isn't listed on the index. Should we add that?

From here:

• First entry goes to Creepypasta (fanfiction).
• Next 3 entries go to Film A To C.
• Next 2 entries go to Film D To G.
• Tully rewrite and following entry go to Film H To L.
• Last Blood goes at the end of the Rambo tree at Film M To R.
• El Chino goes to Film S To Z.
• Commander goes at the end of the Comic Books section of G.I. Joe.
• Crow duo goes to Literature: A to C.
• Following entry and Grim duo go to Literature: D to G.
• Mother goes to Literature R to Z.
• Fringe tree replaces current tree at Live Action TVA To L.
• Next 3 entries go to Music.
• Empera goes to Ultra Series, before Bogal/Bogar.
• Tyreen goes to Video Games: A to F, while the Dark Romance tree replaces that page's entry.
• Volgin rewrite goes to Video Games G To P.
• Next 3 trees replace the current trees/entry at Video Games: Q to Z.
• "All the Rest" and RPC duo go to Web Original (others).
• At Western Animation, series, Invictus goes in the middle of the Final Space tree.
• At Fan Works, for Live-Action Films, please add Ghidorah to the Godzilla group, remove Joker Blogs from Others, and add Dark Knight group before the Godzilla stuff.
• At The Crow, please pothole Comic Books to The Crow, and then add the final thing to the end of the page.

Thanks

Edited by ACW on Oct 7th 2019 at 3:41:38 PM

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On Anime & Manga: A to F please change add "Lowell" behind "Nina" in the second sentence of the first entry on the Devil May Cry: The Animated Series tree. Thanks!

At Film M To R, please remove the following sentence from Reservoir Dogs: A flashback during the movie reveals that Vega had a history of raping "punks" in prison.

Edited by ACW on Oct 7th 2019 at 3:41:30 PM

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~MrMediaGuy2, I can see why How to Write an Example is listed twice, as a "Do" and an essential/basic.

Done to here.

Edited by nombretomado on Oct 7th 2019 at 4:54:00 AM

On Monster.Pokemon, make the caption width 302px to match the image.

Keet cleanup

I was hoping to ad an example onto Side Boob under a new Music Video folder (or at the very least the music folder:

• Miserable: Despite the slightly sports bra like nature of the bikini top, the video still features a couple shots of side boob while Pam is swaying to the band's music. Which adds to the Fanservice-y and Male Gaze-y nature of the video.

Thank you all very much and have a pleasant day.

Could use a bit of a grammar tune-up.

Done.

How's this? :

• Miserable: Despite the sports bra-like appearance of her bikini top, the video still features a couple shots of Pamela Anderson's side boob while she is swaying to the band's music. Which adds to the Fanservice and Male Gaze heavy nature of the video.

Please redirect Tabletop Strategy, Tabletop Strategy Game and War Game to War Gaming

Working on cleaning up List of Shows That Need Summary

I have an edit request for Pokémon Sword and Shield:

• Moe: Between its fluffy, pastel mane and playful behavior, many have found Galarian Ponyta to be absolutely adorable.

Please remove The Girl Next Door from Film D To G and add the following to Literature: D to G:

• The Girl Next Door: Ruth Chandler believes that all women are whores, and as such should be treated like animals. When her nieces Susan and Meg move in with her after the deaths of their parents, she subjects Meg to an escalating series of atrocities that include hanging her from the ceiling and ordering her sons and some of the neighborhood children to rape her, mutilating her with a blowtorch, and forcibly removing her clitoris, forcing Susan and neighbour boy David to watch as she does. She also punishes Susan, a disabled girl, for her sister's perceived disobedience; while also molesting her in secret.

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Slight rewrite for Web Original:

• Day of the Choosing: "All the Rest" is a glutton with a taste for mortal flesh and misery. Having already devoured countless billions of people from various worlds over the course of countless millennia, All the Rest keeps a portion of the setting's population alive as breeding stock, consuming the remainder alive with pleasure. When the unnamed protagonist attempts to escape in order to warn his young daughter, All the Rest taunts the protagonist, calling him an "insignificant amoeba". All the Rest subsequently keeps its victims, the protagonist among them, in indefinite agony as it absorbs them, savoring every moment of suffering it inflicts.

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Please add this at the end of Fire Emblem:

Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE

• Gharnef and his partner, the seemingly naive music producer Yatsufusa Hatanaka, are responsible for nearly all the bad things that happen in the game. After his master Gotoh of Khadein didn't choose Gharnef as the next sage due to the latter's lack of caring heart, Gharnef attempts to conquer the continent by reviving the Shadow Dragon Medeus by performing the "Opera of Shadow" and attempting to destroy his own world before being sealed away by the hero king Marth. Traversing to another dimension as a Mirage and meeting with Hatanaka, the duo are responsible for the event known as the "Great Disappearance", with Hatanaka letting Gharnef attack an Opera House while possessing the father of the aloof artist, Yashiro Tsurugi, in order to perform another "Opera of Shadow". Seemingly defeated at first, the duo then orchestrate several Mirage attacks across Tokyo in the present day, and it was soon revealed that both Gharnef and Hatanaka attempts to revive Medeus again by stealing Performa—a creative energy that people possess in their hearts—from innocent people while Hatanaka revels in the destruction that he will cause. Encountered by the heroes for the final time, the duo then stole the soul of the Hero King, and when the tables turn against them, Hatanaka then offers his soul to Gharnef to defeat the heroes. Despite his defeat, Gharnef then offers his own soul along with the Hero King's soul as a last resort to revive Medeus.

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And a reformat for Shin Megami Tensei:

Literature

Digital Devil Story

• Loki is the Big Bad of the first book and the catalyst for the trilogy as a whole. A demon summoned by Akemi Nakajima to get revenge on two students, Loki orders Nakajima to procure female sacrifices as compensation, including Nakajima's teacher Ohara, whom he impregnates. Initially following the terms of the deal, Loki has a teacher murdered against Nakajima's wishes. Lusting after Yumiko Shirasagi, Loki demands her as a sacrifice and betrays Nakajima when he refuses. He then manipulates the brainwashed Ohara into summoning him into the real world, and goes on a killing spree by devouring countless students and other innocent civilians. He attempts to rape Yumiko, and was only thwarted by the goddess Izanami's intervention, but nonetheless manages to fatally wound Yumiko in the process. In pursuit of the protagonists, Loki murders the loyal Cerberus and Yomotsu-Shikome, and tries to rape Izanami as well. A demon solely driven by his wanton lust for rape and blood, Loki sets the standards for future Shin Megami Tensei villains.

Video Games

Main Series

• Shin Megami Tensei II: The twisted versions of Archangels Uriel, Raphael, and Michael are overlords of the theocratic dictatorship that has overthrown Tokyo After the End. While they allegedly divided the city into five districts in accordance to the division of labor, it is clear they favor the wealthy Central District and feel free to neglect, abuse, and slaughter outright the residents of the other four. When signs of rebellion appear in the Valhalla district, they order the Demon Lord Abaddon to devour it whole, promising to restore his angelic status if he did so; when he is finished, they cast him back into the demon world. The entirety of the Arcadia district has been lobotomized and plugged into Lotus Eater Machines, causing them to believe they live in an idyllic paradise while their physical bodies waste away; Aleph is subsequently informed the the Archangels intended to do the same to the entire planet. The workers of the Factory District have been brainwashed into slavery by the song of a Siren, who is routinely tortured by the Archangels' henchmen to keep her singing. Finally, they attempt to get Aleph and his comrade Zayin to surrender to them by holding the entire Holytown district hostage, threatening to cut off their air supply and slowly suffocate them to death.
• Strange Journey: The greedy Captain Jack proves that even in the demon world, sometimes the worst monster is humanity. A Private Military Contractor loyal to nothing but his own pocketbook, Jack is hired by an unnamed client corporation to pillage the demon world of its natural resources, a job he takes a twisted pride in. Though initially appearing as an uneasy ally to the protagonists, it is eventually revealed that he plans to manufacture a demon army for his client and himself, regularly performing painful amputations on any demon unfortunate enough to fall into his clutches and fusing them together into unstable forms that leave them in constant pain. When the protagonist's ally Jimenez tries to stop the experiments, Jack sends him to be tortured and fused with his demon friend Bugaboo to use him as a slave. When finally confronted by the protagonist and Jimenez, Jack's only action is to scold them for costing him valuable men and equipment before engaging them in a final battle.
• Shin Megami Tensei IV:
  • The original game: Mr. Tayama began as a small-time Yakuza leader in Tokyo, but in the power vacuum following an apocalyptic war he seized control of the city via commandeering the Yamato Perpetual Reactor, Tokyo's main source of power. He thus established himself as the unquestioned leader of the city. While Tayama protects the citizens from the hordes of demons ravaging the city, he does so mainly for the sense of power it gives him; anyone who questions his rule is killed or worse. Tayama invented a Fantastic Drug, Red Pills, that can be used to pacify demons, but unknown to the people of Tokyo, the drug is made from human brains extracted from innocent people his Ashura-kai periodically kidnap and raise in a "human farm" until they die. Tayama is also breeding child slaves for this purpose. Though Tayama claims this is for the benefit of the greater population, he has also hypocritically cornered the market on smartphones, through which demons can also be tamed without causing harm to either them or humans, even demolishing an entire neighborhood to maintain his monopoly.
  • Apocalypse: Defense Minister Tamagami may not be a demon, but, despite him not appearing for long, his actions are responsible in a large part for the dystopian setting of the game. A deranged Japanese Ultranationalist who believed only his country was worthy of superpower status, he called upon demonic power to realize his dream. He forcibly removed the souls of prisoners and replaced them with demon souls to create the National Defense Divinities, which he intended to use to conquer Japan's rivals such as China. He overwrote his personality onto the mind of an innocent woman to allow himself to cheat death, and he created the Yamato Reactor, a perpetual energy device fueled by demonic magics, through which demons entered the human world and ignited World War III. As his last gambit, if his new body were ever killed, he performed a ritual to summon Izanami to exterminate his own people and remake Japan from scratch in his image.

Persona sub-series

• Persona 2:
  • Innocent Sin: Ginji Sasaki, AKA Prince Taurus, is a member of the Masked Circle and easily one of the most depraved. A record producer, Ginji became infamous for his sexual advances toward his female artists, especially those underage. Out of a desperate attempt to regain his fame, Ginji made a deal with Joker in exchange joining the Masked Circle and helping them absorb Ideal Energy, using inspiring artists. Working with King Leo, Ginji, using the power of the rumors, started a new music group called MUSES, forcing Lisa to join by using her friends, with the intent of trying to bring her to their side and arrange a giant concert so he could absorb the Ideal Energy of the audience and then blow up the evidence with the bombs he help set up. When his plans were thwarted by Lisa and the party, Ginji tries to kill them, and when's he defeated, he decides to absorb the life energy of Lisa's friends in front of her out of spite before retreating. Ginji would commit atrocities without remorse just so he could keep his fame.
  • Eternal Punishment: Tatsuzou Sudou is the Japanese Foreign Minister and leader of the New World Order, a cult planning to reach the world of the Gods. Tatsuzuo, however, has more selfish ambitions. Using his own group to conduct crimes, which include framing the father of two of the main characters; unethical experiments resulting in humans turning into monsters; and attempted murder to Baofu, which resulted in his assistant's death, he furthers the ambition of New World Order while hiding it from the public. To that end he also sends his insane son Tatsuya Sudou to a mental hospital in order to lock him up from the public eye, and when he finds out he escaped sends the Taiwanese Mafia to kill him. Once the New World Order succeeds in their goal in activating a spaceship to use to reach God, this also causes the world outside the spaceship, which is the city they reside in, to be in danger from a natural disaster that can wipe out humanity, something Tatsuzuo is aware of. After reaching this far, Tatsuzuo betrays his loyal companions by mutating or killing them, while sending out demons to take down the heroes.
• Persona 3:
  • Kouetsu Kirijo is the man behind the terrible events of the game. Ten years prior to the events of the game, Kirijo tried to harness the power of shadow after stumbling upon them as a source of energy. During this, he discovered the Fall, an apocalyptic event where Nyx would be summoned to bring death to humanity, and became so entranced by it that he resorted to numerous unethical actions to make this happen. These include experimenting on children; giving machines sentient life, and treating them as weapons which killed many of them. He also corrupted many of the scientists under him to embrace death, and they nearly succeeded in calling out Nyx.
  • Shuji Ikutsuki was the Chairman of the S.E.E.S., and a seemingly-kind, bumbling Pungeon Master. However, as the game approached the end, his true colors start to show. He is revealed to have partaken in Koutetsu Kirijo's experiment to revive Nyx, which caused an explosion that killed hundreds, including the Protagonist's parents and Yukari's father. This brought about the Dark Hour, which killed even more. He performed unethical experiments on children to produce artificial Personas, including the members of Strega. Persona 4: Arena Ultimax reveals that he even used Sho, his adopted son, for the experiment. When Sho's Split Personality, Minazuki, tried to kill Ikutsuki in self-defense, he put him in a coma and only bothered putting him on life support so that he might be of use to him again. When the events of Persona 3 begin, he manipulates the S.E.E.S. into killing the Twelve Shadows under the belief that it would extinguish the Dark Hour. However, in actuality, killing the Shadows was what he needed to revive Nyx. Nyx, being the Death Arcana, would wipe out humanity. When he was found out, he reprograms Aigis into helping him capture the S.E.E.S., which consist of teenagers and a ten-year-old boy. When Mitsuru's father tries to stop him, he shoots him dead before preparing to do the same to the S.E.E.S., and would have succeeded if Koromaru didn't stop him. A sociopath who would wipe out all life on Earth just to appease a God that is Made of Evil, Ikutsuki stands as one of the most vile human beings in the franchise.
• Persona 5: While Yaldabaoth may have set the plot in motion, these two villains prove that Humans Are the Real Monsters:
  • Masayoshi Shido is behind the atrocities of the game, profiting off the other villains. Using his abandoned and illegitimate son, Akechi, Shido has him assassinate both his enemies and allies who have outlived their usefulness to work his way up to becoming Prime Minister of Japan. Stealing the research of Wakaba Isshiki before having him killed, Shido also uses his influence to ruin peoples' lives, driving the aforementioned researcher's daughter into depression and getting The Protagonist on probation for trying to stop Shido from harassing a woman. Using Akechi as a mole within the Phantom Thieves, Shido plans to have them arrested for getting in his way and for the Protagonist to be tortured and murdered. After Akechi is defeated by the Thieves, Shido is revealed to be planning to dispose of his son, and pins his own crimes on him after killing the mentally unstable boy. When defeated, Shido's final action is to destroy his own Palace in an attempt to take the Thieves down with him. While Shido claims to be acting for Japan's greater interests, in reality he values only power and glory for himself.
  • PE Coach Suguru Kamoshida is a dangerous sexual predator. Protected by the school administration due to his past fame as an Olympian, Kamoshida perversely extorts sexual favors from his female students. Forcing his male students into brutal training regimes, Kamoshida often beats them, resulting in students of both genders living in constant fear of him. Seeking to shut down the track team, Kamoshida provokes their star athlete into punching him and breaks the boy's leg in "self-defense". When his "favorite" victim refuses to sleep with him, Kamoshida rapes her best friend in petty vengeance, resulting in the girl attempting suicide.

Sub Series Spinoffs

• The Devil Summoner series has two Big Bads:
  • Original Game: Sid Davis is a foreign occult specialist and a sadistic agent of the Phantom Society sent to Hirasaki City with the task of triggering the apocalypse. A human Serial Killer with an enthusiastic desire to end all of mankind, Sid manipulates the boss of the Yakuza into helping him and eventually leaves him to die, orchestrating an outbreak of demons for innocent civilians to be massacred. Searching for a book that would allow him to summon the wrathful spirit of an ancient princess to destroy Japan and then the world, Sid murders both the protagonist and demon hunter Kyouji Kuzunoha, kidnapping the former's girlfriend, Kumiko Hatano, for being a descendant of the princess. Sealing Kumiko's soul inside an astral plane and threatening to torture her if she doesn't give him information, Sid promises the protagonist that he's willing to exchange Kumiko for the book and fulfills his part of the agreement by showing the protagonist that Kumiko is under a spiritual influence and will only follow the path to the sacred tomb where the ritual would take place anyway. Preparing to use Kumiko's body as a vessel for the princess and leave her soul to be consumed, Sid spends his last moments gloating about his success and how the protagonist will inevitably be defeated.
  • Soul Hackers: Kadokura is the CEO of technology giant AlgonSoft and one of the most influential men in Japan. Though beloved by the public for his useful products and philanthropy, this masquerade hides a twisted man devoted to world domination. Prior to the start of the story, Kadokura had discovered Manitou, supreme god of the Native Americans, and decided to use his power for his own ends. Kadokura founds Amami City, a state-of-the art seaside metropolis, and Paradigm X, a totally-virtual city that can be accessed by Amami's computers, as an excuse to get millions of people into one place to sacrifice their souls to Manitou; the chips that run the virtual city are infused with demonic power, sending the souls of the players via cyberspace to feed the sleeping god. By the end of the game, most of the city's population has had their souls removed. When he meets the heroes for the first time, he falsely blames everything on his demon partners Azazel and Satanael, then after the heroes kill them he thanks them for saving him the trouble of doing it himself. When the heroes finally corner him, he swallows a number of souls himself to power himself up. Willing to exploit everyone from ordinary citizens to a creator god, Kadokura has no place in his heart for anything other than his own rise to the top.
• Devil Survivor: Belberith is a Demon Lord and the cause of almost all disasters in the game. A demon who inherited the power and memories of the original King of Bel, Belberith swore revenge against God. To do this, he waged war against other demons who inherited the power of Bel and manipulated the Founder of the Shomonkai, making him believe that he was going to protect humanity from God's Ordeal. Under his orders, the Shomonkai causes the weakening of the Barrier between worlds leading to demons to escape to Tokyo, forcing the Japanese Army to lock the city to prevent a worldwide demonic spread, something which causes the death of hundreds of civilians. When he is summoned to the Human world by the Founder sacrificing his own life, Belberith confesses his real intentions, taking revenge on God by killing "all his children" and mocking the Founder for believing in him. In Yuzu's 8th day in Overclocked. Belberith shows his sadism by killing his newest servant after he asked when Belberith would revive his family and then gloating about how he truly did " reunite him with his family".
• Digital Devil Saga duology:
  • Serph Sheffield, when placed in charge of the Karma Society's God Project, began using everyone and anything around him in his quest to attain the power of God for himself. He uses Sera's growing love for him to push her Psychic Powers into further maturation, only to express disgust at Seras creation of a virtual paradise consisting of AIs she uses to escape the pain of his experiments. When Colonel Beck proposed to change Seras paradise into a training simulation for creating stronger AIs, Serph overrides Heat O'Brien's warning against destroying Seras mental condition and tells Beck to proceed. After a desperate Heat pulls a gun and demands the project to stop, Serph tells Heat that a human's mind is no different than a machine, and that his subjects, including Sera, were expendable and could be replaced, before manipulating Argilla into killing Heat. After being turned into a demon by a heartbroken Sera, sending a massive data surge into the now black Sun, Serph goes on a killing spree starting with Beck and Argilla before being killed offscreen. Refusing to accept that he is dead, he re-appears at the EGG facility as Solar Data and tries to kill the AI Serph and Heat while proclaiming to have the power of God. A cruel and manipulative young man, his actions are largely responsible for the disasters plaguing the series.
  • In the war-torn Junkyard, the traitorous Bat stands out as one of the most despicable inhabitants. Serving as a recurring antagonist, Bat starts off as the right-hand man of Jinana, leader of the Maribel. After suffering defeat by the main characters to secure an alliance with Jinana, Bat became a traitorous schemer. He betrayed The Maribel and Embryon alliance by informing Mick of their incoming invasions and arranged the ambush against Serph's team and the annihilation of Jinana's forces, resulting in the death of most of Jinana's group and Jinana going berserk and having to be put down. He then diverts Serph's group so that Mick's forces can invade the Embryon main base to kill its members and kidnap Sera after learning of her powers. When Serph's group came to rescue Sera, Bat tried to force Heat to kill Serph by taking Sera hostage. When this failed, Bat left Mick for dead in the hands of Serph's group and defected to the Brutes, leading the invasion to get Sera from the Embryon, not realizing it was a trap to finish him off. Ambushed by Argilla, he managed to overpower her and bragged that he ate Jinana's body and that she was no different from him, before trying to eat her. Even after his death, Bat still left a dark scar on Argilla, making her believe she is a monster just like Bat.

Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE

• Gharnef and his partner, the seemingly naive music producer Yatsufusa Hatanaka, are responsible for nearly all the bad things that happen in the game. After his master Gotoh of Khadein didn't choose Gharnef as the next sage due to the latter's lack of caring heart, Gharnef attempts to conquer the continent by reviving the Shadow Dragon Medeus by performing the "Opera of Shadow" and attempting to destroy his own world before being sealed away by the hero king Marth. Traversing to another dimension as a Mirage and meeting with Hatanaka, the duo are responsible for the event known as the "Great Disappearance", with Hatanaka letting Gharnef attack an Opera House while possessing the father of the aloof artist, Yashiro Tsurugi, in order to perform another "Opera of Shadow". Seemingly defeated at first, the duo then orchestrate several Mirage attacks across Tokyo in the present day, and it was soon revealed that both Gharnef and Hatanaka attempts to revive Medeus again by stealing Performa—a creative energy that people possess in their hearts—from innocent people while Hatanaka revels in the destruction that he will cause. Encountered by the heroes for the final time, the duo then stole the soul of the Hero King, and when the tables turn against them, Hatanaka then offers his soul to Gharnef to defeat the heroes. Despite his defeat, Gharnef then offers his own soul along with the Hero King's soul as a last resort to revive Medeus.

Anime & Manga

Devil Survivor manga, by Satoru Matsuba

• Beldr proves to be far worse than his game counterpart. A Bel that feeds off grief and despair, Beldr introduces himself by draining the souls of a group of innocents that the heroes previously saved. When Atsuro finds out that Beldr is seemingly invulnerable, Beldr attempts to slowly burn him alive in response. After Kazuya buys time for the others to escape, Beldr tortures him to near death, talking about the pleasure he takes in Kazuya's hopelessness. When Kazuya escapes, Beldr goes on a killing spree for the next day before going to the cemetery. Beldr then attempts to drain the souls of over 300 innocent civilians to fully revive himself, intending to escape the Yamanote circle and turn the rest of the world into an apocalypse so that everyone will feel grief.

Persona: Be Your True Mind, by Shinshu Ueda

• Nyarlathotep, unlike in the game continuity, isn't the shadow of all humans, but rather a part of Takahisa Kandori's mind born out of his own misanthropy, influencing him into desiring the extinction of humanity without his knowledge, leading to the tragedies throughout the series. When Kandori starts to doubt his own actions and has a breakdown after being called on his flaws by Kei Nanjo, Nyarlathotep uses his rage to take control of him, forcing Kandori to stab his beloved daughter before fully possessing him and turning him into a hideous creature that tries to kill the protagonists, enjoying their fear and trying to break Nanjo's will. Despite being a shadow and his short screen time, Nyarlathotep's sadism, lack of loved ones and omnicidal ambitions make him stand out from the other shadows seen throughout the series.

Persona -trinity soul-

• Keisuke Komatsubara, studying the Persona phenomenon, used his own daughter, Ayane, for painful experiments until she committed suicide. Apathetic to her death, Keisuke intends to revive her to study the links between the Sea of Souls and the human world. After Ayane's spirit caused a disaster in Ayanagi City, Keisuke poses as an altruistic doctor, convinces Ryo Kanzato to sacrifice his injured little sister to save his brother Jun, and uses the operation to experiment on Jun, intending to use him later and to get revenge on the already-deceased Kanzato for leaving his investigation. Fusing with his own Persona and changing his name to Kujou Mareya, he creates the Marebito by inserting artificial Persona inside orphans, making them dependent on drugs to survive and limiting their lives, with the intention to sacrifice them in the future. Convincing them to steal the Persona of other teenagers, in a brutal method known as the Reverse Cases for outsiders, Keisuke also creates an android to spread the Shadow Extraction Ritual in order to keep a suitable reserve of potential Persona users to attack. Lacking empathy, Keisuke saw everyone—even his own children—as tools to be used in his quest for knowledge.

Shin Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation OVA

• Gagyson is a low-ranking demon contracted by Akito Kobayashi to assist in his mission to unleash President Ose in the human world, but shows no loyalty towards his human boss and sees him as his puppet. Establishing himself as Ose's faithful servant who wishes to annihilate the human race, Gagyson allows Akito to destroy an airplane to use the passengers as human sacrifices, sending a demon to assassinate his best friend, Kojiro Souma, when Akito's love for him begins to disturb their plan. After fatally injuring Kojiro, Gagyson assumes control over Akito's operation and orders his demons to beat him. Killing Saki Yagami by impaling her with a sword and using her massive amounts of Magnetite in a ritual, Gagyson successfully summons Ose to wreak havoc around Tokyo, and ultimately sacrifices his own body to make the damage even worse.

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On Final Fantasy VII, please:

• Pothole "On The Way To A Smile" in the description to Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile, and also correct the capitalization to "On the Way to a Smile".
• Delete the Broken Aesop entry and the first two bullets of Trauma Conga Line (all three have been moved over to Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile).

~Drakos25, due to the ongoing concerns about the context and overall quality of your examples in ATT, I'm going to decline for now. I'd recommend using that venue, or the Is this an example? thread for a spot-check.

~Storygirl000, that might be a bit early. Please swing by the unreleased work clean-up thread for a spot check as well.

Done to here otherwise.

Main.Tropes:

"{{tropes are tools}}" to "Administrivia/{{tropes are tools}}"

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