History YMMV / Deathstalker

** [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Empress Lionstone XIV]], aka the Iron Bitch, is known for her wicked, capricious, and lethal sense of humor. She won't just kill someone ForTheEvulz, but if she has a reason to see them dead, she'll think up an entertaining -- to her -- way to go about it. She is attended by handmaiden bodyguards culled from the ranks of rebels and malcontents because she finds it amusing to turn those into her loyal servants, has their tongues cut out, replaces their eyes and ears with more controllable cybernetics, and has them mindwiped and reconditioned into absolutely loyal attendants and bodyguards. Projects under her reign range from trying to yoke the ridiculously lethal Grendels into shock troops, to Wormboy Hell, an oubliette with a side order of MindRape. Lionstone is the quintessence of every EvilOverlord of every EvilEmpire rolled into one beautiful, soulless package.

* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: Valentine Wolfe. He gets better, though.]]

** Haceldama again. Picture a planet-wide Disneyworld, where you can pay good money to just go and play and be a kid again amongst all your fictional childhood heroes and friends. Now picture Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Optimus Prime, and Winnie the Pooh popping out vicious steel claws and coming at you like Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers, and you can see why just about anyone who actually went to the planet and survived went insane.

** [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Empress Lionstone XIV]], aka the Iron Bitch, is known for her wicked, capricious, and lethal sense of humor. She won't just kill someone ForTheEvulz, but if she has a reason to see them dead, she'll think up an entertaining--to her--way to go about it. She is attended by handmaiden bodyguards culled from the ranks of rebels and malcontents because she finds it amusing to turn those into her loyal servants, has their tongues cut out, replaces their eyes and ears with more controllable cybernetics, and has them mindwiped and reconditioned into absolutely loyal attendants and bodyguards. Projects under her reign range from trying to yoke the ridiculously lethal Grendels into shock troops, to Wormboy Hell, an oubliette with a side order of MindRape. Lionstone is the quintessence of every EvilOverlord of every EvilEmpire rolled into one beautiful, soulless package.

* {{Narm}}: Pick a story--it's in there somewhere.

** Haceldama again. Picture a planet-wide Disneyworld, where you can pay good money to just go and play and be a kid again amongst all your fictional childhood heroes and friends. Now picture Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Optimus Prime, and Winnie the Pooh popping out vicious steel claws and coming at you like Freddy Krueger, Jason Vorhees, and Michael Myers, and you can see why just about anyone who actually went to the planet and survived went insane.

** [[CardCarryingVillain Valentine Wolfe]] is a [[FunctionalAddict drug-taking psychopath]] who rises to lead Clan Wolfe by [[{{Patricide}} murdering his own father]] before blaming their rivals, the Clan Campbell, and wiping them out. Valentine leads the barbaric sack of Virimonde and distributes an Esper drug with a huge fatality rate, [[HumanResources using the corpses]] of those he's killed to enhance the drug before serving them to unwitting guests. Allying with Shub to annihilate humanity, Valentine intends to become emperor before he razes the empire to nothing and dances in the ashes, killing anyone who ever spited or annoyed him while [[TheHedonist violating every taboo known to mankind and others not yet discovered]].
** [[FallenHero Finn Durandal]] was the finest of Paragons upstaged by Lewis Deathstalker and decided to [[DisproportionateRetribution burn the empire down out of sheer spite]]. Organizing the Church Militant with himself at its head, Finn arranges for a riot and massacre with his "Esper Liberation Force", also imprisoning the [[YourSoulIsMine souls]] and minds of other Paragons, [[AndIMustScream trapping them in their minds]] as he uses their bodies before he begins massacring the entire Deathstalker clan. [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Succumbing to hedonism and barbarity]], Finn kills and eats an alien ambassador, destroys a planet for boredom and spite, slaughtering his own men and massacring Parliament. Once a hero, Finn shows how far one can fall for spite and gleefully admits things such as love and friendship do not exist for him.

** [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Empress Lionstone XIV]], aka the Iron Bitch, is known for her wicked, capricious, and lethal sense of humor. She won't just kill someone ForTheEvulz, but if she has a reason to see them dead, she'll think up an entertaining--to her--way to go about it. She is attended by handmaiden bodyguards culled from the ranks of rebels and malcontents because she finds it amusing to turn those into her loyal servants, has their tongues cut out, replaces their eyes and ears with more controllable cybernetics, and has them mindwiped and reconditioned into absolutely loyal attendants and bodyguards. Projects under her reign range from trying to yoke the ridiculously-lethal Grendels into shock troops, to Wormboy Hell, an oubliette with a side order of MindRape. Lionstone is the quintessence of every EvilOverlord of every EvilEmpire rolled into one beautiful, soulless package.

** [[CardCarryingVillain Valentine Wolfe]] is a drug-addled [[TheHedonist hedonist]] who rises to lead Clan Wolfe by [[{{Patricide}} murdering his own father]] before blaming their rivals, the Clan Campbell, and wiping them out. Valentine leads the barbaric sack of Virimonde and distributes an Esper drug with a huge fatality rate, [[HumanResources using the corpses]] of those he's killed to enhance the drug before serving them to unwitting guests. Allying with Shub to [[KillAllHumans annihilate humanity]], Valentine intends to become emperor before he razes the empire to nothing and dances in the ashes, killing anyone who ever spited or annoyed him while violating every taboo known to mankind and others not yet discovered.

** [[FallenHero Finn Durandal]] was the finest of Paragons upstaged by Lewis Deathstalker and decided to [[DisproportionateRetribution burn the empire down out of sheer spite]]. Organizing the Church Militant with himself at its head, Finn arranges for a riot and massacre with his "Esper Liberation Force", also imprisoning the [[YourSoulIsMine souls]] and minds of other Paragons, [[AndIMustScream trapping them in their minds]] as he uses their bodies before he begins massacring the entire Deathstalker clan. [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Succumbing to hedonism and barbarity]], Finn kills and eats an alien ambassador, destroys a planet for boredom and spite, slaughtering his own men and massacring Parliament. Once a hero, Finn shows how far one can fall for spite and gleefully admits things such as love and friendship do not exist for him

* DesignatedHero: Deathstalker is clearly supposed to be the hero of the movie, but he is just as prone to raping like all the other warriors. Hell, he even tries to rape the girl he’s supposed to rescue in the first place [[spoiler:until he finds out that she’s one of Munkar’s minions in disguise.]]

* CompleteMonster: The woman from whom the Uber-Espers derived. She was such a CompleteMonster that, broken into four parts, her spirit manifested as four different {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that proceeded to wreak unspeakable horrors on humanity. Their most horrible crimes are, in fact, those they commit through their possessed thralls, everything from turning the noble Paragons in sadistic, cannibalistic, and wantonly murderous puppets to causing a ''stadium of people'' to rape, brutalize, and mutilate one another, including the ''children''. This was all while she had four minds directing her power in different directions.

* HilariousInHindsight: When going back to confront her father, Evangeline Shreck thinks of her father as an [[{{Film/Shrek}} ogre.]]

* NightmareFuel: Wormboy Hell, Legion, the fate of the people of Virimonde.