Monster / Comic Books: J to R

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J – L

• Jack the Ripper, by Francois Debois & Jean-Charles Poupard: Jean-Martin Charcot is the ultimate Man Behind the Man to Jack the Ripper himself, alongside all his other crimes in the story. As a famous neuroscientist and master of hypnotism, Charcot's evil started when a group of his students accidentally hypnotized a woman into killing her own sister. Taking advantage of the hypnotic trance they used, Charcot and his students begin hypnotizing their various patients into bringing out their psychopathic killer sides, leading to some becoming Serial Killers while others massacre their entire families, children included, before killing themselves. When Inspector Abberline begins investigating him, Charcot hypnotizes the man into killing his own girlfriend before going on to become a Serial Killer, and Charcot shows absolutely no concern over one of his former students becoming Jack the Ripper while the others die one by one. Though using scientific discovery as an excuse for his truly wicked actions, Charcot was ultimately an attention-seeking lunatic willing to kill all in his way in his path to fame.
• Jeremiah Harm, by Keith Giffen, Alan Grant, et al.: Dak Moira, an educated, vicious Mad Artist, is the Arch-Enemy of Jeremiah Harm and the most dangerous criminal in the universe. Staging a breakout of the penal colony he's imprisoned in alongside his cohorts Ayamo Skyver and Brune S'maze, Dak destroys the prison, killing thousands, before making his way to the Bronx. Seeking the Basal Shard underneath the city, Dak has Brune enshroud half of the Bronx in a noxious cloud meant to slowly suffocate everyone to death to clear the way, and sends Ayamo to start cannibalizing random people in the street to deter Harm once he learns he's in pursuit. Casually murdering people on his own and ordering dozens of innocent people horribly dissolved alive by Brune once a cashier misinterprets his orders, Dak eventually reveals his goal to simply obliterate the entire universe as an act of cosmic murder-suicide, simply to create what he feels is the perfect artistic masterpiece of murder. Decapitating Ayamo to use her blood to gain entrance to the Basal Chamber, Dak happily announces his intention to torture Harm's human friends to death before killing everything else. A self-styled artisan with thousands of bodies to his name and desiring countless trillions more to follow suit, Dak's posh facade merely guises a blood-hungry sociopath who commits murder simply for fun.
• Jimmy's Bastards, by Garth Ennis, Russ Braun, et al.: The leader of the titular 200 bastards, known as "Junior", devises a scheme to get back at their super secret agent father James "Jimmy" Regent. Junior has his sisters secretly seduce Jimmy, who is unaware of their true identities, and later reveals to him he's slept with dozens of his own daughters. To lure Jimmy closer, Junior also has many of his own brothers killed in suicide attacks, and when Jimmy returns to save his heroic child Nancy, Junior reveals he's implanted bombs in the chests of all his siblings, detonating several to prove a point and forcing them to either die or sacrifice themselves against Jimmy himself, intending on killing them regardless for a crack at Jimmy himself, before sadistically beating Jimmy down, driven only by his utter hatred of having to be connected to him.
• Jindai, written by Joe Brushi: The evil Oni Taku, conjured by the feudal warlord Lord Shinzen to avenge a military defeat at the hands of rival samurai, quickly becomes far too much for Shinzen to handle. Taku drives Shinzen to guilt and eventual insanity by forcing Shinzen to sacrifice his own daughter's soul for Taku's aid, before possessing Shinzen himself and rising up an army of the dead. Taku has his black army sweep over Japan, slaughtering villages full of innocent people and outposts full of soldiers who can scarcely even fight back against the hordes. Taku intends to have Yamamoto's largest city razed to the ground and every soul within massacred except for Yamamoto's young heir, who Taku intends to possess next to solidify his conquest of humanity and reduce Japan to a hellscape of demon carnage.
• Jinnrise, by Sohaib Awan, Tom Taylor, et al.: The Kibr is the tyrannical overlord of the Kibrani, an alien race currently invading the Earth. A stout believer in Might Makes Right, the Kibr is convinced of the idea that he deserves to lord over all beings that he deems worthy of living, and to this end, uses the Kibrani empire to enslave and wipe out entire species across the universe, claiming billions of lives throughout the cosmos, regardless how defenseless or pacifistic the race may be. Once arriving on Earth, the Kibr orders entire cities obliterated, all while manipulating his top agent Lahasad Brim into serving him by proclaiming his son died on the battlefield to motivate him. In reality, the Kibr himself murdered Lahasad Brim's son with his bare hands just to keep Brim under his thumb, alongside promising a man the release of his family should he assist the Kibrani, despite the fact that the Kibr has already killed said family. His master plan being to use the powers of the ancient magical race of Jinn to destroy or subjugate everything that isn't the Kibrani, the Kibr tries to murder Yunus's aunt and uncle just to torture the boy, and gleefully reveals to Lahasad Brim his hand in the murder of his son while mocking his compassion for said son. His goals being nothing but a lust for battle and conquest, the Kibr would have encompassed the entire universe in death as long as it meant establishing himself as the most powerful being to ever live.
• John Flood, by Justin Jordan, Jorge Coelho, & Tamra Bonvillain: Randall Tate is a sociopath sponsored by the government to commit any and all crimes he wishes, something he takes full advantage of every chance he gets. Opening the comic up by slaughtering a camping party before snapping a young man's neck to steal his home, Tate is sent after the titular John Flood when Flood makes connections to Tate's murders, which amount in the thousands and include men, women, children, and even babies. While hunting down Flood, Tate butchers a man and keeps his remains in his freezer, before shooting up several restaurants and lighting numerous buildings on fire to distract the police from his coming massacre of the local police station. When finally confronting Flood, Tate gleefully reveals he has no loves ones, no home, and no motive for his crimes. He just likes killing and has made his entire way of life revolve around how many innocents he can kill at any given time.
• John Wick: "Calamity" is a half-feral assassin who, in stark contrast to other assassins employed by the Continental, relishes in deliberately targeting innocent lives for pleasure. Calamity blew up an entire village and slaughtered dozens for the sake of attempting to kill a young John Wick, and is freed from custody years later where she proceeds to murder the people who break her out and escapes to old habits. Calamity fires upon populated buildings to lure John out while cackling, taking innocents hostage and only hesitating on murdering her own gang members for fun simply because "it would be over too soon" that way.
• John Woo's Seven Brothers, by John Woo, Garth Ennis, & Jeevan Kang: The Son of Hell is a malevolent sorcerer who attempts to Take Over the World through the enslavement of the Dragon Lines, uncaring of the havoc this could wreak upon the world. The Son of Hell establishes his cruelty by condemning the souls of the tens of thousands men making up China's fleet to never-ending torment and nearly obliterates the world in his mad bid to enslave the Dragon Lines, only stopped by his abused apprentice Fong. Awakening centuries later, the Son of Hell brutally slaughters an expedition team and eats the brain of a billionaire CEO, walking into his skin to assume his identity and using the man's resources to resume his conquest. When he's confronted by Fong's descendants, the Son of Hell orders them all murdered in public and, upon being confronted by their coordinator Rachel, the Son of Hell callously states he seeks to abolish mankind of all choice—and clean up as much of humanity itself he deems necessary in this process.
• Jurassic Park: Redemption, written by Bob Schreck, gives two characters Adaptational Villainy:
  • Peter Ludlow, surviving his encounter with a baby T. rex, becomes maniacally obsessed with spiting the entire Hammond family, specifically his nephew-in-law Tim Murphy. Secretly endorsing Tim's efforts to construct a new Jurassic Park in the middle of Texas, Ludlow works with Lewis Dodgson in ensuring carnivores populate the park before having Dodgson murder Dr. Henry Wu to silence him. Eventually revealing himself to Tim, Ludlow gleefully reveals his intent to unleash the entire populace of the new Jurassic Park onto Texas to slaughter as many innocents in their path as possible, uncaring of the immense body count that will result so long as Tim is framed for the crime. So deep is Ludlow's hate for the Hammond lineage that Ludlow hopes for Tim to stay alive for years just so he'll suffer guilt for his hand in the coming massacre, and Ludlow even goes so low as to inform Tim that his sister Lex will be one of the victims of Ludlow's scheme.
  • Lewis Dodgson himself, who previously caused the first Jurassic Park incident by paying Nedry to steal dinosaur embryos, returns as a game warden at Tim's new Jurassic Park, but is secretly working for Ludlow. Torturing the dinosaurs under his care, Dodgson gleefully participates in the murder of Dr. Wu by allowing a predator to rip him apart and helps release the dinosaurs to kill countless innocents in Texas.
• Jurassic Strike Force 5: Master Zalex is an evil alien overlord who desires to rule the entire galaxy. After landing on planet Earth, Zalex captures several dinosaurs and forces the Nodes aliens to turn them into super soldiers, threatening to destroy their planet if they don't help him. Millions of years later, after Zalex and his Reptilian dinosaurs are awakened, Zalex kills all the scientists who mistakenly wake him up, shortly before he and the Reptilians invade a submarine base and slaughter most of the soldiers in the vicinity. He later forces the survivors to assist him in his schemes, and nearly kills the Strike Force dinosaurs when they confront him. Zalex gets the dinosaurs to surrender by kidnapping Saral and threatening to kill her in front of them. Once captured, Zalex tries to convert the Strike Force into mindless slaves with a serum, and even sends his Reptilians to try and kill Tyler. When the serum is destroyed, Zalex tries to kill the Strike Force again by blowing up the submarine base, and he later invades Washington, D.C., where he and his Reptilians start destroying the city and killing anyone who opposes him. After the President refuses to submit to Zalex's demands, Zalex tries to blow up the city with a nuclear warhead. A violent warlord who craves absolute domination, Zalex cares about nothing but ruling over species lesser than him, and will kill anyone who opposes him or is deemed useless.
• Just a Pilgrim: Castenado is the brutal and sadistic leader of the buckers, who sends his men to slaughter any group of survivors they see. Decorating his base with the heads of his victims, Castenado also forces other bandits to join his gang, forcing them to endure "initiation", which consists of eating the lips of the dead; wearing "the necklace o' dongs"; putting steel nails through their own skin; killing infants; and raping a goat. Bandits who refuse to go through "initiation" are brutally killed. Castenado has a habit of killing his men for the slightest provocation, at one point ordering them to jump from a helicopter to their deaths and slaughtering them when they refused. Constantly trying to massacre the group of survivors who were guided by the Pilgrim, Castenado managed to burn some of them alive, before he captured a few other survivors and attached them to his helicopters to serve as human shields. As his forces slaughter almost all the survivors, Castenado gleefully tries to kill a 10-year-old Billy, causing Billy to detonate the bomb that kills them both.
• Justice, Inc.: The Avenger, by Christopher Sequeira, Mark Waid, et al.: Travis Engel is a wealthy industrialist who owns a chemical company, but happily betrays America for Nazi Germany solely for the money. Inventing a gas that causes invisibility, Engel tries to perfect it when it renders the subject partially invisible, drives them insane and kills them in hours. Engel proceeds to use it on multiple innocent people before capturing the hero Richard Benson's friends and using it on one named Nellie solely so her Love Interest can watch her die. Engel then proceeds to attempt to drop the gas on American soldiers to kill them and allow German boats to raze the US coast, allowing for a brutal German invasion as long as Engel himself profits.
• Keen Detective Funnies:
  • Dean Denton: Bolton Gates, aka the Conqueror, is a wealthy yet power-hungry megalomaniac hell-bent on world domination and the sworn foe of Dean Denton. Leading a cult of red robed men, the Conqueror commits several evil deeds throughout the series such as murdering a federal agent and one of his followers during his counterfeit money scheme; trying to use a beam to slowly and torturously kill Dean and Carol; attempting to use Carol as a Human Sacrifice; murdering an actress with an poison blow dart; and manipulating a man to take the death sentence for him under a false pretense that he'll cure his dying wife, letting her die anyway when he does comply. The Conqueror ultimately tries to have the two warring countries of Sirape and Kambeg surrender to him by using Greenite gas to kill countless soldiers of theirs, threatening to kill every last one of them if they don't comply to his demands.
  • Issue #18's The Eye Sees story: Ganza is a mercenary hired to make a small nation's civil war worse. Deciding the best way to do so is to get the United States involved, Ganza masterminds a plot to blow up the American consulate with the ambassador, his daughter and anybody else who happens to be inside, and make it look like an air raid did it. While setting up the bombs, Ganza kills a henchman for seeing something nobody else does, and later executes his other employees so he doesn't have to share the payout.
• Key of Z, written by Claudio Sanchez & Chondra Echert: Yankee Lavoe is the selfish ruler of the Bronx after the Zombie Apocalypse. Seeking to become ruler of New York, Lavoe murders the leader of New York, Atwater, and blows up his apartment, which also kills hero Nick Ewing's wife and son. Finding a map to an armory after torturing Nick, Lavoe imprisons Nick and sets out to wage war against the entire city. Caught in a gang war with Jackson Met, Lavoe shoots one of his men to bait some zombies and tries to kill Nick and Eddie for making a getaway.
• KGB, by Valérie Mangin & Malo Kerfriden: Von Ausch is a German scientist who participated in The Holocaust, experimenting on multiple woman from concentration camps and their children, whom he imbued with demonic power. After being captured by the USSR, Von Ausch easily changes sides and trains his children as Soviet spies, abandoning them to work in The Space Race. Actually the demon Beelzebub, and previously Grigori Rasputin, he plans to kill the Soviet leadership by causing an explosion during the launch of the first space rocket but is stopped by Ava Kirova, secretly Lucifer herself, and Dimitri, his own creation. When Lucifer forces him to return to Hell, it is revealed that Beelzebub killed Lucifer's lieutenant and took control of Hell. When the Soviets invade Hell to search for him, Beelzebub sends his servants to kill Soviet soldiers in extremely painful ways before being defeated. A sadistic, manipulative demon whose pride for his children is merely his own ego, Beelzebub returns to confront Lucifer another time and ultimately ends up allying with his former enemy, ready to cause even more destruction and pain for his own entertainment.
• Killing Pickman, by Jason Becker, Jon Rea, & Matt Talbot: "Richard Pickman" is a strange, sadistic man who has warped himself into a Humanoid Abomination through his service to the demonic "Mother". Empty of anything but a wicked desire to kill, Richard Pickman has murdered countless children, raping them and crucifying them before torturing them to death, all to feed their souls to Mother. Even imprisoned, Pickman wastes no time in using his influence to drive dozens of people to suicide and murderous violence, even making an officer murder his pregnant wife before killing himself. Pickman later uses these powers to compel five prisoners sent to kill him to rip each other apart before biting out the throat of the last, and twists the minds of five more officers before sending them upon the nearby precinct to massacre everyone they come across. Pickman, at the end of the story, homes in on the infant child of one of the detectives that has been periodically interrogated him, intent on fulfilling a promise to tear the baby's heart out as an offering for his goddess.
• Kill Shakespeare: King Richard III is the psychopathic main antagonist of the comic, behind much of the evil. Once gaining sapience after being created by Shakespeare, Richard slaughtered his entire royal family and took the throne for himself, and uses his position to brutally tax and starve his subjects while allowing his soldiers free rein to rape and murder as they please. With no tolerance for failure or resistance, Richard carves the eyes out of one of his troops for failing guard duty, has an entire village of a group of rebels burned and every male child executed, and buries one of his foes alive. In the end, Richard leads a final assault against the rebel forces known as the Prodigals, ordering Lady Macbeth to annihilate the enemy forces, uncaring that his own troops will be caught in the blast, and plans to murder Shakespeare and take his magic quill for himself, using it to rewrite reality and make himself a god.
• Kill the Minotaur, by Chris Pasetto, Christian Cantamessa, et al.: The fanatical King Minos, viewing the Minotaur as an object of worship and his new son, wages war on Athena to force a tribute every year to feed young men and women to the beast, named Asterion, in preparation for the day when Asterion emerges from his labyrinth to wreak havoc on the world. Minos tortures his daughter Ariadne in preparation to one day be raped by Asterion and bear "godly" children. Murdering his adviser Daedalus for plotting to stop him, Minos also murders a boy he deems too sickly for sacrifice before sending Theseus and his friends to the Labyrinth. Upon Ariadne stealing into the Labyrinth to help Theseus, Minos simply decides to allow Asterion to violate his wife Pasiphae instead.
• Kill Your Darlings, written by Ethan S. Parker & Griffin Sheridan: The Great and Terrible Evil is an abomination summoned by Eleanor to get revenge for the death of her grandson. It possesses infant Rose and finds its way to her imaginary world, where it razes the kingdom of Rosewood, possessing Rose and using her to burn her mother alive. The Evil continues to terrorise Rose's world, killing its inhabitants and filling its cave with corpses while slowly killing the world by draining its life force. When now teenage Rose and her friend Elliott are brought to Rosewood to fight it, The Evil takes control of Elliott's body, keeping him aware of everything while resurrecting its victims as zombies to attack Rose and and taunting her with visions of her mother. It uses Rose to find a portal to Earth and massacre the people inside the video store, initially planning to make that world its new playground until Eleanor appears and has it bring her to Rosewood. The Evil assists Eleanor to take control of Rosewood and lays waste to the village where the survivors of its rampage were hiding. Hunting Rose and her friends for years, The Evil is eventually empowered by Eleanor to completely destroy Rosewood. When Eleanor sees the error of her ways and stops its rampage, The Evil mocks her, saying that others of its kind will come for her and hopes to be the one to kill her.
• Kismet: Man of Fate: Herr Schering is a Gestapo agent sent to retaliate against the assassination of Colonel Freydrich. He goes about this retaliation by ordering a massacre of the surrounding area, planning to take out over 7,000 innocents by the time he finished. He gets to 700 in one day before being captured by Kismet. He is then taken to the headquarters of La Résistance, which he tries to escape by threatening to blow up the base with his men still inside.
• Kivu, by Jean Van Hamme & Christophe Simon: Colonel Ernest Malumba, the Director of Production of the firm Metallurco, enslaves civilians for the coltan mines. Before one of his raids, Malumba specifically orders his troops to rape and mutilate women and girls in front of their families, imprison men above the age of 12, cut the hands off anyone who resist, and burn old people and babies in their huts; he also threatens to chop the noses and ears of anyone who would disobey those orders. When a little girl falls into his clutches, Malumba announces his plan to sell her as a Sex Slave, and then attempts to rape her himself.
• Klaus (Grant Morrison):
  • Krampus, freed from his entrapment within Grimsvig's mines by Lord Magnus, quickly proves a far greater threat than the wicked Baron. Seeking to consume "wicked children", Krampus incinerates everyone in sight as he relentlessly searches for the village's youth. Even after Jonas selflessly offers himself in exchange for Krampus sparing the others, the demon continues to hound the other children, and blasts Lord Magnus into a charred skeleton when he gets in his way. Krampus's ultimate ambition is to scour the world, hunting all children he has deemed greedy and self-centered. Though claiming to be punishing the wicked, Krampus's wanton sadism and indiscriminate targeting reveals him for the self-righteous bully he truly is.
  • Crisis in Xmasville: Klaus's Evil Doppelgänger hails from another place in the multiverse. A sadistic monster who powers his machines with the dreams and imaginations of children, the wicked Klaus kidnaps numerous children to turn them into shells of themselves in collaboration with the Pola Cola corporation. The doppelgänger bargains with the captive children, planning for more to be taken while their families are brainwashed into being soldiers for Pola Cola to start a massacre worldwide to stain the name of Klaus forever.
• KRISHNA: A Journey Within, by Abhishek Singh: King Kamsa, upon learning his sister Devaki's eighth child may destroy him, abandons all pretense of love or goodness and sets about tyrannizing, murdering and torturing his people. Locking Devaki and her husband in his dungeons, Kamsa returns to murder their babies in front of them, with only Krishna as their eighth child surviving. Enjoying the murder of innocent life, Kamsa savors hunting and plots to kill Krishna himself to keep control of his empire.
• Lady Death (Avatar Press):
  • Sagos is the strongest warlock in existence, and an ambitious sadist who murdered and possessed the father of Hope, the future Lady Death, for his own nefarious purposes. Sagos uses his host to gather dozens of peasants and sacrifice their souls to the Necro-Wraiths, eventually escaping to the Blacklands while taking Hope's mother and leaving Hope herself to burn at the stake. Sagos wages cruel war on the Blacklands, slaughtering entire cities and raising millions of dead as zombie warriors, intent on exterminating all life in the Blacklands in tribute to the Necro-Wraiths for his own sub-realm to rule. Sagos massacres the city of Aberffraw and gloats to its princess Satasha that he's butchered her entire family, attempts to destroy the city of Perinthia to complete his genocide of the Blacklands, and tortures Hope's mother, gloating how he's gotten used to her body's "pleasure" through the body of her husband while smugly mocking the transformed Hope herself about what he's done.
  • Apocalypse: Satyricon is an all-powerful demon who serves as Queen Tormina's senior advisor. Having almost destroyed the entire Underrealm in the past, he was defeated by Wargoth and banished from the land. Seeking to rule the Underrealm, he manipulates Tormina to enact complete genocide against demon-kind so that no one can stop him, having multiple demons and babies sacrificed to grant him power. He also decides to unleash the direknights, who proceed to turn multiple humans into zombies, sending them off to kill every human within Tormina's kingdom. Arriving at Tormina’s throne room, he kills Valora in front of Tormina, and later kills Tormina while fighting Lady Death.
• Lady Killer, by Joelle Jones et al.: Irving is an elderly assassin who assists heroine Josie Schuller in defeating and escaping from the brutal assassin leader Stenholm. Upon confronting Stenholm himself, Irving tortures him to death before fleeing. Later teaming up with Josie to go into the assassination business as partners, Irving is revealed to an escaped criminal from Nazi Germany whose real name is Dr. Reinhardt. In Germany, Reinhardt would take payment from men, women and children seeking to flee the country before murdering them by injecting them with what he said was vaccines, but was actually cyanide. He would store the corpses in his basement while he robbed their belongings. A revolted Josie attempts to break their partnership, only for Irving to murder her husband's boss to show he's not playing around. When Josie reiterates her desire for him to leave, Irving attempts to attack her home to kill her and her husband and children if they get caught in his path.
• Lady Rawhide/Lady Zorro: Outlaw Blood, written by Shannon Eric Denton: The head slaver is a repugnant piece of work who goes from town to town capturing droves of women to sell as enslaved prostitutes in brothels, letting his men have a go at them to "keep warm" in the winter conditions, not even sparing children from the business. Cages full of women are seen ready for transport when Lady Rawhide and Lady Zorro come to bust his operation, and upon capturing the two of them, the head slaver threatens to have Lady Zorro "broken in" by him and his men.
• Lament of the Lost Moors:
  • First Cycle: Mage Bedlam is The Usurper king of Eruin Duela. After breaking a pact of peace, he warred with and killed his half-Brother Wulf the White Wolf and cursed the battlefield. His secret alter ego Lord Blackmore marries Wulf's widow with the promise of keeping her and Wulf's daughter Sioban safe. He repeatedly wounds and rapes his wife, and attempts to kill her by setting fire to the bedroom. He also had an entire clan decimated out of rivalry and keeps their skulls in a chest. Realizing that the young Sioban is the one destined to dethrone him, he tries several times to kill her. When one of his men dares to criticizes him, he forces him to eat a magical bud that sprouts in him. Finally, he launches his army on his castle with the intentions of massacring the inhabitants, and when his niece Sioban rejects his offer to marry him, he once again tries to dispose of her.
  • Second Cycle:
    • Moriganes: Aube is the Wicked Witch who terrorizes the population of the moors of Glen Sarrick. She first set up a trap for the Warriors of Mercy by placing a giant snake around the body of a knight she just killed. The knights also find out that she killed a couple and their child in their home. She is next seen throwing a large amount of human bones off a cliff. She later enters a church, burns the hand of a priest and collapses the building on the bystanders. When the witch hunter Monk tries to bait her, she sends another snake to kill him. Seeing the knights coming to the Dylfel castle, she gleefully plans to make chalk out of their bones. It is soon revealed that she was assisting her mistress the Morigane Diane de Hartwick in the murder of Eryk of Dylfel.
    • Sill Valt: The Lady with the stoat fur coat disappointed with her crippled daughter Guinea pledged allegiance to the Moriganes in exchange for a magical armor that would give her strength and endurance so she can pretend Guinea is a strong man then forced her to serve the Moriganes. Luring men by the dozen to her castle, she picks one and leaves the others at the door where they cry and are tormented by the demonic guard Perrock nights and days until they starve. She then spends several nights with her lovers until she kills them. When the knight Sill Valt comes to her castle to confront the Guinea Lord, she uses her charms on him and requests her daughter to prepare a coffin for him. She forces herself on him for two nights then gives him a poisonous bite for defying her order not to look at her. When Guinea stands against her mother to save Sill Valt, she furiously attacks her and mortally wounds her.
• Lanfeust de Troy and related series:
  • Lanfeust of Troy; Lanfeust of the Stars; Cixi of Troy: Thanos, once the most brilliant student of Eckmul city, succumbed to a hunger for power and cruelty. Becoming a pirate, Thanos and his men would attack ships, slaughter and rob those aboard, and rape the women. When he captured Lanfeust himself, Thanos tortured him by slicing him open and cutting his eyes out. Under the guise of Baron Averroes, Thanos intends to sack the city of Or-Azur, with no virgins left. Conquering Eckmul, Thanos kills those who he thinks can oppose him, and forces Cixi to kill Thanos's own brother by using her magic to boil his blood in his body. Forcing the sages to serve him, Thanos threatens their families, and when hunting a vigilante, Thanos allows his pet monsters to eat a random bystander to prove a point. During his tyranny, Thanos has a pirate crew thrown be fed to a Hydra, allows Duke Kraniol to experiment on captives, and plans to kill all the sages to become even more powerful. Thanos also repeatedly abuses Cixi, and when she gets pregnant with his child, he accelerates the gestation, not caring that Cixi would die in the process. After joining Prince Delhu in his conspiracy, Thanos coldly murders his partner Glace who loved him, abducts Lanfeust and Cixi's son Glin, and drugs Glin with a substance that causes murderous urges before killing Prince Delhu to become the sole ruler of the Galaxy.
  • Odyssey: Lylth the Eternal is an alien who travels from world to world devouring souls and leaving dead planets behind her. Upon her arrival on Troy, she brainwashes the population of Eckmul under her control. Feeding of the energy of youth to get stronger, Lylth murders countless of children in her temple and coldly kills a father trying to save his child. Attempting to open the Stargate, she sacrifices two sages and seriously considers killing hundreds more when it fails. At one point, she compels one of her minions to strangle another for their late arrival. She then commissions the sages with the creation of a spell that would multiply and accelerate the gestation of children, hoping to get hundred per day. Lylth also attempts to drains the powers of, thus killing, the Magohamoth—the source of all magic—and uses Lanfeust as a Human Shield when cornered. Even defeated and rejuvenated to a child, Lylth merges with the Banshees and sends them all over Troy to annihilate all life.
• Largo Winch (Golden Gate & Shadow):
  • Don Candido Panatella, the head of Candid films, secretly runs the largest prostitution ring in Nevada. Forcing young women into prostitution and hardcore pornography while threatening their lives, he physically punishes them should they fail to make enough money. He sequesters Winch employee Sarah Washington in his basement, intending her to be sold to his network, and has her tortured by hungry rats. He arranges the fall of Largo Winch by having the billionaire framed for the abduction and rape of a minor. Panatella later has his accomplices Earl and Grace Quinn assassinated before ordering the death of Simon Ovronaz and the runaway Juliet.
  • Flor de la Cruz is Panatella's depraved assistant in charge of directing the snuff films in which the girls who snitch or try to escape are tortured to death. She intends to have Juliet executed in her next movie should their plan fail and after ambushing Largo Winch, she buries the man to his neck in the desert, condemning him to slowly die from the heat and being devoured by red ants. Finally, Flor de la Cruz prepares to murder Sarah Washington on camera gleefully announcing her intention of gang-raping her before branding and mutilating her.
• The Last Siege, by Landry Q. Walker, Justin Greenwood, et al.: The evil king Istvan betrays and murders the family that took him in, having the old duke killed before his children, before killing them and their mother. Going on to raise an army, Istvan rampages across Europe, killing all who stand against him, often by having unscrupulous traitors open paths for his army, whereupon Istvan slaughters the nobility to add the armies to his own. Coming upon the heir to Lord Aedon, whom he had assassinated, the 11 year old Lady Cathryn, Istvan attempts to kill her along with her protector, his old friend Tomislav. Even threatening to have young Cathryn flayed before Tomislav's eyes, Istvan sacrifices countless soldiers of his own army for victory, caring for nothing save his victory and power.
• The Last Temptation: The mysterious Showman, who may or may not be a fallen angel or the Devil himself, is the master of the Theater of the Real who comes through town every five years. Seducing children with the threat of reality, the Showman bids them to sign away their future to him and join the circus, where they are twisted into monstrous shells of themselves to become "the thing that scares" forever. Upon the young Steven resisting him, the Showman reveals Steven's Love Interest Mercy was just his creation, and allows her to fade from existence, before vowing he will one day return and menace Steven again, as "the show never truly ends".
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:
  • Hawley Griffin, aka The Invisible Man, is a cowardly and even more depraved incarnation of the literary character. Recruited by England, Griffin has been using his powers to sexually assault the students at an all-girls boarding school, having impregnated three and caught in the midst of trying to force himself on a fourth. Joining the team out of a promise for payment and pardon for his crimes, Griffin continues to prove his despicableness by beating an innocent constable to death at one point to steal his clothes and abandoning his team to die at another. When the Martians arrive to destroy the Earth, Griffin happily sells out his race so he can rule alongside the invaders, giving away the locations of human artillery positions and the hiding places of his own teammates
  • "Jimmy" Bond is a ruthless thug and Serial Rapist who refuses to take no for an answer, introduced trying to seduce and then rape a disguised Mina Murray. Jimmy is revealed to be a traitor who murdered industrialist Knight and later kills Knight's best friend, Bulldog Drummond, before making it clear he plans to seduce Knight's daughter Emma in her grief. Later becoming "M" in his old age, Jimmy has friends of Mina's tortured and killed to obtain access to the pool of Ker and immortality, murdering his handler as a young man and murdering and torturing his way to get to his foes. Jimmy even fires nukes at micro-nations, trying to obliterate the Blazing World and the mystical races there before trying to sneak aboard the League's ship to murder Emma one final time.
• Les Légendaires: Anathos is an Omnicidal Maniac with absolutely no code of honor. Imprisoned in the Bearer by his kind for destroying the original planet of Alysia, Anathos seeks to free himself by manipulating the elf Shimy into receiving his mark so that he could use her as his host. When the Legendaries prevent him from using Shimy, he takes possession of Danael before crushing and savagely crippling the protagonists and mocking Jadina about her relationship with the now-"deceased" Danael. After killing Elysio, Darkhell and the Guardian who tried to stop him, he leads a rampage with his Hellions across the world to annihilate humanity by wiping out the major cities, sicking the Vulturs on the survivors and creating a plague to exterminate people he wouldn't bother killing himself. He orders his Hellions to physically and mentally torture Tenebris for information, and when his Dark Mistress Dark Jadina begs him forgiveness for failing to kill the original Jadina, he blows her head off just after pretending to forgive her. Humiliated by the Legendaries, he attempts one last time to destroy Alysia before Kalandre stops him.
• The Legend of Luther Strode: Jack the Ripper himself is a superpowered Serial Killer who was released from the box in which he was bound in order to fight Luther. After being freed, he quickly disembowels a young crime boss and takes the first opportunity to kill the man who unbound him. Traveling to a crowded mall, Jack then utterly butchers hundreds of the innocent civilians shopping there. When Luther and his girlfriend Petra find the grisly scene, they discover that Jack hadn't actually killed anyone, but mutilated them and made sculptures from their bodies while leaving them alive with their pain. When Petra leads the survivors out of the mall after he tries to get her to inadvertently shoot them, Jack becomes enraged, wanting have more "fun" with them. Believing Luther to be at his mercy, Jack then taunts him with how he plans to kill Petra in front of him. Desiring nothing but to see the world "drown in blood", Jack stands out even in a comic filled with crazed blood knights.
• Legend of Oz: Wicked West, written by Tom Hutchinson:
  • The Wicked Witch of the West is an utterly cruel woman who wants nothing more than to dominate all of Oz. In her quest for an army, West murdered the creators of the Golden Cap and used it to control the entire "People" race. To illustrate her control, West forced the People to slaughter an entire village of their friends, and threatened to make them turn on the rest of Oz and then one another if they didn't follow West's orders. Terrorizing Oz for years to come, West learns of the arrival of Dorothy Gale and immediately tries to murder the girl and her friends to steal her power. West then proclaims her intention to burn down Dorothy's homeworld and bring devastation to Oz and a dozen more innocent realms.
  • Mombi, the Wicked Witch of the North, is a vile pusher and mover of power in Oz. Mombi backs the schemes of countless villains, including West herself, all in exchange for one particular currency: children. Mombi deals exclusively in kids, whether to use them as cheap, abused labor, or to slaughter them to use them as raw ingredients in potions. She even eats the occasional child. Mombi transformed Ozma, ruler of Oz, into Tip to begin with, and made Tip a slave on her ranch, where Tip sees things like Mombi transforming kids into a non-sapient frog merely for running his mouth.
• The Lion of Rora, by Christos Gage, Ruth Fletcher Gage, & Jackie Lewis: The Marquis who governs Joshua Janavel's village is a corrupt, greedy man who leads a slaughter of the Waldensians for gathering in secret before robbing the villagers for years with threat of slaughter should they not bribe him. When hostilities break out, the Marquis leads forces to sack multiple villagers, killing a young boy who tries to protect Janavel's wife and child before taking them hostage and intending to take the rest for slaves or simply murder them. Torturing and murdering multiple prisoners, the Marquis later tries to kill Janavel as he tries to save his family.
• Locke & Key: The demon possessing Lucas "Dodge" Caravaggio is the mastermind behind all the suffering in the story. Developing human-like emotions after taking over Dodge's body, the demon positively revels in its wickedness: turning an emotionally unstable teenager into a killer; mentally tormenting and then killing a woman; and causing a recovering alcoholic to relapse to strain the man's relationship with his daughter. Silencing any who become aware of its existence, including children, the demon switches to the body of a young boy, leaving his soul trapped and alone. Having humans captured with its minions by the hundreds and killing any who resist, the demon intends to bring more of its race to Earth and completely enslave humanity.
• The Lone Ranger (Dynamite Comics): Butch Cavendish is a Corrupt Politician and businessman who masterminds the deaths of the Texas Ranger group that includes the brother and father of John Reid. Later having the families of the victims eliminated to cover his tracks, Cavendish ends up ruined by the Ranger and builds himself back up to seek revenge, killing tons of innocent people along the way, and framing the Lone Ranger himself. Upon finding John's sister in law Linda and nephew Dan Jr., Cavendish orders Linda raped and killed in front of Dan, and later tortures one of John's good friends by pouring a pot of boiling stew over him before trying to kill John and his best friend Tonto.
• The Lone Warrior: The Dictator's Shadow, the head Nazi spymaster in the United States, is introduced ordering Herr Kampf to infiltrate a mock battle exercise as one side to massacre the other. Escaping capture when this operation is busted by the Lone Warrior, the Shadow later tries to acquire a machine that can permanently shut down any motor, torturing its inventor to get it. After testing the machine on a fleet of airplanes, killing almost everybody aboard, the Shadow has his Torture Technician burn his captive's skin off before he leads a land invasion of Washington, D.C., crashing many more planes in the process. After the Warrior stops that, the Shadow purchases a race of giants from The Gestapo to use as Slave Mooks in an assassination campaign against the American military high command. When the Lone Warrior tries to stop the murders, the Shadow has the giants drive the generals out of a meeting so he can gun them down himself before leaving the giants to be slaughtered while he tries to escape.
• The Losers: Captain William Roque is the second-in-command of the titular unit of CIA commandos. Jaded and selfish, Roque eagerly accepts a $250,000 bribe from the shadowy power-broker Max to betray his comrades and become his right-hand man in his plot to create his own nuclear rogue state to destroy the Middle East. Roque reveals his true colors when he frames the other members of the team for a drug-smuggling scheme actually perpetrated by Max, even shooting the agent he called to arrest them to ensure they will be killed in retaliation. He then methodically kills every witness to Max's scheme and hijacks weapons-grade plutonium from French transport ships, again making sure to Leave No Witnesses. Using the plutonium to manufacture over fifty nuclear bombs for Max's plot in the Ghost Town of Pripyat, Ukraine, Roque captures the Losers' pilot Pooch and attempts to dismember him with a pair of pliers before the hacker Jensen manages to turn the tables on him.
• The Lost Boys: The Lost Girl, by Tim Seeley et al.: Taking place shortly after the first film, Agnes Underwood poses as a sweet old woman while secretly the head vampire of the Blood Belles, preying on the needs of lost and lonely girls before turning them into vampires. She masterminds the murder hunters of Santa Carla, including Grandpa Emerson, abductions of multiple children, and plot to awaken Tlahuelpuchi—Mother Vampires—to bring about the age of vampires. Agnes also had Star infiltrate the Lost Boys to make a power play in Santa Carla. It's revealed that all this was that Agnes sought the blood of the mother vampires to restore her youth. Agnes also takes Lucy Emerson and Laddie hostage, and also kills and turns the residents and orderlies as a local retirement home. Besides having no loyalty to anyone, Agnes dismisses the deaths of her girls, simply saying she can make more, and tries to force Star to test the Tlahuelpuchi blood to see if it will kill her or make her lose her humanity, calling it a win-win.
• Lumberjanes: "The Grey" or "The Voice" is an enigmatic Ancient Evil sealed within the forest. First properly introduced tricking Molly into slowing down time around the camp, awakening the Sentry to its prison and sending it on a rampage in the process, the Grey manages to escape from its prison in the final arc to unleash horrors the likes of which have never before been experienced by the campers. Spreading itself throughout the forest, the Grey begins assimilating everyone and everything it can find—from campers, to the magical creatures of the woods, to even babies—so that all in its wake will be reduced to pale sludge; the Grey does this all out of a self-proclaimed duty to bring order and "neatness" to the chaos of the world, a flimsy pretense for its desire to reshape existence to resemble itself.

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• Madame Mirage: Abraham Coyle is the leader of the corrupt company Aggressive Solutions Int., or ASI. Finding out about the Ellison Project, a cloaking device which was developed by the sisters Angela and Harper Temple, he decided to order their deaths and take their technology away from them. As the mysterious Madame Mirage started hunting him down, he repeatedly tried to have her killed, while also testing his new technology, developed from the Ellison Project, by ordering his henchman to sneak a bomb into populated place and blow it up, resulting in at least 15 deaths. During the final battle with Madame Mirage—revealed to be the Harper Temple, who survived the murder attempt—Coyle reveals that he plans to use his new technology to murder the leadership of all major governments around the world and take control himself.
• The Mad Hatter: Frank Faro is a criminal resurrected in a gorilla's body after his execution. Commemorating his awakening by killing the scientist who did the procedure, Faro then kills a guy for his suit and fashions a disguise, taking on the alias "the Gargoyle." He then gets his old gang back together and goes on a robbery and murder spree against the judge and jury who put him away. When the gang get sick of his murders due to the increased police presence they cause, the Gargoyle kills them all and burns their headquarters down. He then tries to kill another juror and her son.
• Magnus Robot Fighter (2010 Dark Horse Comics Reboot): Timur is the head of the Metal Mob, a criminal empire, and has bribed the entire police department to let him commit his myriad crimes. Among these crimes is Human Trafficking; when foiled, Timur orders his partners to destroy all evidence. Timur also runs a gladiator show, where humans are brutally slaughtered on live television. Yet another operation of his involves rich people paying to hunt down frightened Q-bots for fun. Caring only about lining his pockets with cash, Timur is willing to have both humans and the sapient Q-robs slaughtered for profit, even though he's a Q-rob himself.
• Malignant Man, by James Wan,‎ Michael Alan Nelson, & Piotr Kowalski: The enigmatic Mr. Cancio, better known under the apt moniker of "Mr. Cancer", is a powerful CEO who desires nothing but power through the alien parasites known as the Malignants. Feeding off the potential power of Malignant host Alan during the initial experiments set up to infuse sick orphan children with the Malignants, Cancer drives a young Alan into using his powers to accidentally massacre a number of other orphans in a panic to break him in order use him as a pawn when he grows up. When Alan is grown, Cancer sends his men to massacre their way through a hospital and later a military base to intercept Alan's progress, and later spitefully murders the kindly Dr. Ezra and all the orphans he's gathered in an attempt to revive the early projects to dissuade Alan. Cancer's ultimate goal is to breed an army of Malignant super humans to Take Over the World and crush any resistance, laughing that Alan lacks the "vision" he has when beating him down. A cold, cruel man, Mr. Cancer is appropriately cancerous in personality and goals, with no illusions about all the horrific acts he orchestrates in the pursuit of advancement.
• Mars Attacks! Red Sonja, written by John Layman: Xi'Zeer, a Martian scientist opposed to his people's peaceful ways, fakes an attack on his people and leads an expedition to the Hyborean Age, where he begins to slaughter humans en masse, deposing the royals of one nation after massacring their people. Subjecting others to ghastly experiments, even his own people for opposing his insane ambitions, Xi'Zeer creates Green Sonja, a Martian version of the heroine to serve as his queen, and intends to graft Sonja herself to numerous other bodies to fight and die in pain forever as punishment for defying him.
• The Mask:
  • The Hunt for Green October: Axel is a Neo-Nazi gang leader who hunts for the Mask to have the world ruled by the "Master Race", slaughtering an Amazonian tribe in an attempt to retrieve it. Tipped off that the Mask is in America, Axel retrieves weapons from an Arms Dealer only to have the man brutally killed, and later tortures two men and threatens the 10-year-old daughter of one to force them to give him the Mask. When the daughter turns out to be the Mask holder, Axel has no compunction trying to kill her, and when beaten, blows himself up to take everyone with him, including his own men.
  • Southern Discomfort: Former Haitian general and war criminal, Papa Croc, and the Voodoo-practitioner hitman Ogoun, are the joint rulers of a brutal criminal empire, using their magic to violently keep their underlings in check. Kidnapping young women to steal their souls with Voodoo, the duo use the women as slaves before having them killed off in Snuff Films to finance their operation, and magically kill a detective hired to trail them painfully. When the woman's brother confronts them, Ogoun uses Voodoo to sadistically torture him with fatal injuries, enjoying it as the Mask keeps him alive through the torment.
  • Official Movie Adaptation: Dorian Tyrell is a ruthless gangster who's planning to betray his boss "the Swede" and Take Over the City in his place. After the Mask foiled his bank heist, Dorian becomes determined to take revenge on him and steal his Mask for himself. When the reporter Peggy Brandt helps him obtain the Mask, Dorian repays her by brutally hurling her into a printing press, while cracking jokes about her death. With the powers of the Mask in his possession, Dorian attempts to blow up his boss's club with many hostages in it, including his kidnapped girlfriend Tina Carlyle. Lacking the few redeeming qualities of his movie counterpart, Dorian stands out as a surprisingly threatening villain in an otherwise comedic story.
• The Masked Marvel: An unnamed thug is hired by crime boss Blackjack Grady to don a costume identical to that of the the Masked Marvel and frame the latter for whatever crime the former chooses. The criminal proceeds to go on a spree of violent robberies, killing six men in three months. When Grady sends the thug to rob a train, he decides to stop it by blowing up a bridge with populated cars on it. He then blasts his way through the remaining cars to get to his prize. After successfully pulling that off, the thug gets more daring, culminating in daily robberies and murders before the Marvel stops him.
• Mass Effect: Invasion: Colonel Raymond Ashe is a Cerberus agent who proves to be far worse than his superior General Petrovsky. Tasked by the Illusive Man to take over Omega, Ashe lets himself be captured just so he can more easily kill Aria's loyalists and stage an invasion, slaughtering swathes of Omega's people while deriding them as "filthy aliens". Preferring to solve any of his problems by killing people and sending his soldiers to die in droves, Ashe reveals his ultimate plan to conquer Omega is by unleashing a Reaper Adjutant outbreak. When a horrified Petrovsky points out this endangers the millions of people aboard Omega, including Cerberus's own soldiers, Ashe brushes it off as "acceptable losses" before trying to kill Petrovksy for his "weakness".
• The Melting Pot, by Kevin Eastman et al. (original 1990s version): The brutish Lord Tyler is an alien warlord trapped on the miserable world where he has grown intensely bored. Filling his days with slaughter, Tyler murders emissaries from the city of Shanntar before having the city massacred in horrific detail, commenting only how aroused the death makes him. Tyler sleeps with a prostitute named Sade, unknowingly infecting himself with a plague, before ordering Sade gang-raped. Later returning, still infected, Tyler brings his armies to try to destroy even the gods and even begins violating women to see them rot from the plague for the sheer, twisted fun he finds it.
• Mercy Thompson: Hopcross Jilly: The Fae known as Hopcross Jilly is a Serial Killer who preys on children. As Fae are not allowed to touch the "good" children on pain of death, Jilly abuses the loophole to the point of sheer irrelevance: Targeting children on the basis of any moral transgression, Jilly kills a pair of boys who were skipping school and later murders two girl scouts who simply didn't ask for permission before going to her house to offer her cookies. Upon eating the fingers and toes of her victims, Jilly buries them alive. After seemingly befriending Mercy's stepdaughter Jessie, Jilly later attempts to murder her when her behavior makes Jessie uncomfortable after murdering several other kids as well.
• The Mice Templar: Even for a series that thrives off Grey-and-Gray Morality, there are still a few villains who stand out for being incredibly vicious:
  • Captain Tosk is the leader of King Icarus's Rat Guard army. With thousands of rats at his disposal, Tosk leads his army from village to village, where he and his rats slaughter anyone in sight and round up all the survivors so they can be used for slaves in Icarus's palace. During Tosk's raid at Cricket's Glen, he fights and kills exiled Templar Master Deishun and personally cuts off Leito's arm before transporting the survivors to Icarus's palace. After the slaves are freed by Karic and Cassius, and Tosk is reassigned to Dealrach Ard-Vale, Tosk goes against his superiors' orders and leaves the city, longing to raze more villages. When he captures another group of slaves, Tosk has some of the mice run through a nursery of baby rats, both so he can watch as they're Devoured by the Horde, and also so he can indoctrinate a new generation of rats into hating mice. Upon discovering that one of his lieutenants betrayed him and tried to free a group of mice, Tosk orders the mice to club the lieutenant to death instead of giving the lieutenant a merciful execution. Even after the mice comply with Tosk's demands, he forces the mice to run through the nursery, telling them that they can now "run free." A vicious Blood Knight who craves violence, Tosk cares about nothing but killing as many mice as possible, even if it means defying orders or murdering his fellow soldiers.
  • Boris the Torturer, the Torture Technician of King Icarus's empire, thrives off experimenting in his "craft." When first introduced, he's interrogating a prisoner by burning her with heated tongs while he's nonchalantly talking to Captain Tosk. When Boris isn't torturing or experimenting on prisoners, he's choosing them to be sacrificed for the Druid priests, where the victims are impaled very slowly with a Templar blade. When Leito and the other mice from Cricket's Glen try to escape their dungeon, Boris orders his guards to recapture them and spare as many as possible so they can be used for future sacrifices or torture. Boris tries to find the ringleader behind their attempted escape so he can punish him accordingly, but ends up choosing Harad instead of Leito; Boris punishes Harad by gouging out his only eye. During the Samhain festival, Boris picks twelve prisoners to be Eaten Alive by a Serpent God—including Karic's entire family—but spares Leito for the sake of his own amusement.
  • Pilot the Tall is a fallen Templar who betrayed his Templar brethren and pledged allegiance to King Icarus. Working under Tosk's command, Pilot spent twelve seasons finding exiled Templars so Tosk and Icarus's army could hunt them down and kill them. He's also responsible for the destruction of Cricket's Glen and Master Deishun's demise. After being rescued by Karic and learning about his encounter with the Fish Gods, he agrees to take him to the Great Ash Tree—not for the sake of helping him fulfill his prophecy, but to use Karic as a trump card to prolong his life. When his plans fail, he goes back to King Icarus to try and get back in his inner circle, only to be denied and thrown into his dungeon. He later escapes Icarus's palace with Leito and Harad, where he brainwashes Leito into hating Karic and murders Harad once he grows suspicious of him. At the final battle, he and Leito meet with a small group of mice and sneak back into Icarus's palace through a secret tunnel. When bats storm the tunnel, he convinces Leito to leave the other mice to die, and later orders Leito to attack Karic once they finally confront each other. When Leito discovers that he was deceived, he tries to flee, only to run into Cassius. Even after he is beaten by Cassius and is on the floor pleading for mercy, he waits until Cassius turns his back before he stabs and nearly kills him. Manipulative, cowardly, and only concerned about his own survival, he stands out as a creature with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
• Micronauts: Karza miniseries & The Time Traveler Trilogy: Book 3 novel by Steve Lyons: The Emperor was the previous ruler of the Microverse and the catalyst for Baron Karza's evil. Ruling the Microverse with a brutal church state that oppressed and controlled billions through religion and fear, the Emperor hoarded all technology to himself and left the rest of the population in suffering squalor to benefit his elites. Regularly having vast swathes of potential threats to his rule eliminated, the Emperor carries out a genocide against the Pharoid people, murdering Karza's father in front of him before enslaving Karza as his own "son". The Emperor subjected Karza to indoctrination and corruption to make him a suitable heir, even ordering him to pretend to be a rebel just so he can slaughter allies, before betraying and imprisoning Karza for growing too ambitious. In truth having planned for Karza to betray and succeed him, the Emperor sets Karza up to be the monstrous conqueror he becomes simply so the Emperor's legacy will never die.
• Middlewest: Nicolas Raider is a seemingly polite man who has countless runaway children across the Middlewest captured and enslaved to work on his farms. Raider is introduced fatally electrocuting a boy who attempted to escape. Nicolas puts the children to work on fields of highly flammable Ethol. Nicolas takes an interest in Abel, trying to manipulate the boy into becoming his employee. When Abel uses his new position to plan an escape with his friends, Nicolas lets it happen to test Abel, planning to beat him when the boy stands up to him. After an army comprised of people who came to save the children attacks his farm, Nicolas orders them and the rebellious children killed, and tries to force Abel to watch the massacre before killing him.
• The Mighty: Alpha One is a seemingly benevolent superhero who is actually far worse. An alien banished from his home world due to his desire to wipe out 10% of the population who were, in his mind, "vagrants", Alpha landed on Earth where he massacred hundreds of soldiers to test his new powers. Becoming a superhero to gain the trust of humanity, Alpha arranges accidents that kill innocents by the hundreds, notably sinking the Titanic, then kidnapping innocent survivors of said accidents and performing lethal experiments on them. Having thousands of victims over the centuries, Alpha allies with his new partner, Gabriel Cole, and continues his plans while making Cole his "friend" as they stop terrorists from detonating a nuke that Alpha himself had them construct. When Cole finds out the truth, Alpha reveals that he seeks to create humans with superpowers like himself, and that after failing to impregnate dozens of unwilling women, Alpha decided to perform experiments on people. Once perfecting the experiments, Alpha plans to make the powered individuals his "Master Race", then use them to purge humanity of its free will while keeping his master race under his thumb with threats of death to any who oppose him.
• Mighty Samson (Dark Horse Comics, by Jim Shooter et al.): Sunder is the consort of Queen Terra and commander of the Jerz army, ascending to his position by murdering his superior officer. Regularly taking masses of the N'Yark tribe as slave labor, Sunder was maimed by an infant Samson while trying to kill the newborn, to which he took revenge years later by killing his mother. Following his defeat by Samson and subsequent exile by Terra, Sunder acquires a Dreadnought that he uses to conquer the N'Yark and force them into slavery before marching to storm Terra's kingdom as well.
• Millarworld:
  • Empress: King Morax is the psychopathic ruler of much of the galaxy. Prone to killing his subjects for the most petty offenses, Morax's cruelty drives his wife, Emporia, to flee from him, taking her children with her. Incensed at his wife's "disobedience", Morax commands a manhunt to hunt her down at any cost. He kills his commanders for failing to apprehend Emporia and their children and orders an entire city torched as a warning to those who might harbor them. Personally leading the manhunt, Morax slaughters anyone who had previously encountered the runaways as punishment for letting them get away. When he finally tracks down Emporia, he orders both her and their children sentenced to death in the arena, with his reasoning being that he cannot tolerate his children's presence due to them being a constant reminder of his wife's insubordination.
  • Nemesis ^note Original Nemesis is possibly a different continuity: The title character is a wealthy sociopath who paid to become a supervillain. Nemesis travels around the world, slaughtering innocents and targeting honest police chiefs for fun. Choosing inspector Blake Morrow as his next target, Nemesis terrorizes the United States: crashing a plane into Washington; gassing the Pentagon to kidnap the President; and blowing up a prison that detains him after letting himself get caught. To further torment Blake, Nemesis outs the former's son as gay, inseminates his daughter with his son's sperm and triggers her womb to collapse if an abortion is attempted. Confronted by Blake, Nemesis reveals he's strapped bombs to both the President and Blake's wife and ecstatically tries to force the inspector to choose who will die.
  • Night Club: Gunner John is a centuries-old vampire drifter who puts together a brutal crew that commit murder after murder wherever they appear. Introduced massacring an entire family and feeding a little girl to "Bloody" Mary, it is revealed this is an entirely normal occurrence for Gunner John, who relishes in slaughter. Having forced a cop to join the crew and prove himself by taking a life, Gunner John kills him after he turns traitor and promises the young Night Crew painful deaths if they do not kill their families for him, threatening a little girl to lure them out when they opt to take the fight to him and his.
  • Reborn: Lord Golgotha is the evil, despotic ruler of the Dark Lands, and a steadfast opponent to the pure denizens of Adystria and all that is good. Having his forces scourge Adystria to kidnap their denizens, Golgotha horribly bleeds them out by the thousands to power a machine through which he intends to launch an attack on Earth to engage in a campaign of wholesale slaughter with his army of the worst of humanity reincarnated, reveling in the potential horrors that he and his forces will inflict on the world. When Bonnie Black comes to fight him, Golgotha has her ex-husband kidnapped and his village decimated, and reveals that he was the sniper who murdered him and 27 others originally for fun, his only regret from his old life being that he didn't kill enough people.
  • Supercrooks: The Bastard, real name Christopher Matts, was, before his retirement, the world's most feared supervillain with the power to psychically blow up a person's head. The Bastard took revenge on a con artist named Danny Dubrovny for scamming him by murdering everyone he cares for or matters to him with his psychic abilities. Having massacred over 241 people, he finally murders Danny's girlfriend and sparing him solely to suffer from living. The Bastard captures Kasey to interrogate her, and attempts to kill her to spite her boyfriend and to demonstrate his power and reputation. After being outwitted by the titular gang, The Bastard would go back to his old business to kill off his former right-hand man and his goons thinking they're the ones who robbed him.
  • Superior:
    • Ormon is a monkey demon obsessed with moving his way up in the ranks of Hell, and seeks to accomplish this by stealing a human's soul. Targeting Simon, a boy with multiple sclerosis, Ormon grants him the incredible powers of his favorite superhero, Superior, then snatches them away from him after one week, knowing that he will despair over his weak body. Promising to return the powers to Simon if he will sell his soul to him, Ormon grants the psychopathic bully Sharpie superpowers and leads him on a rampage through a highly-populated city, leading to the slaughter of hundreds of innocents. When Simon exchanges his soul for his powers, Ormon uses said soul to power himself up, at which point he first plans to set off a nuclear reaction to wipe out millions of people, then march on the Earth along with Sharpie and turn the world into a graveyard. During his duel with Simon, Ormon deliberately incinerates dozens of innocents during their fight just to torment the boy. Even when beaten, Ormon happily taunts Simon about how he sold his soul to him. Though first wanting to avoid the lower realms of Hell, Ormon slowly devolved into an genocidal lunatic who sought the complete destruction of all human life for his own amusement.
    • Sharpie was once a particularly vicious bully who brutalized younger children and taunted Simon about his condition. However, once granted the powers of Abraxas, the fictional superhero Superior's archnemesis, Sharpie becomes a truly depraved monster. First using his powers to brutally torture and murder his own parents, Sharpie next flings a yacht into a skyscraper, killing hundreds of people, then begins wantonly massacring innocents by the dozen while cackling like a madman in order to draw Simon out on Ormon's behest. When Simon shows up with his powers returned, Sharpie sadistically beats him while threatening to hunt down and kill the boy's mother. Along with Ormon, Sharpie plans to personally murder every human being on the planet, and happily tries to murder numerous people, including a baby, to act as a distraction while Ormon sets off a nuclear explosion to kill the surrounding millions of innocents. A psychopath who committed his crimes for absolutely no reason other than to indulge his own sadistic lusts, Sharpie greatly contrasted Ormon's manipulative, cunning personality with his own childish and petty one.
  • Wanted: Mr. Rictus was a devout Christian until an accident causing medical death led him to believe there is no afterlife. Deciding there was no reason for morality, Rictus becomes a sadistic supervillain, founding the Fraternity to wipe out all superheroes alongside his co-leaders. With a history of vicious raids to steal, torture, rape, and kill countless people at leisure, Rictus bores of his limited territory while the rest of the world is ruled by the other leaders of the Fraternity. Conspiring with the Nazi supervillain the Future, Rictus organizes a coup, personally torturing and raping the children of a rival villain to spite the man before killing him as well. After taking power, Rictus takes the Fraternity out of the shadows while allowing the Future free reign in his own plot to restart The Holocaust.
• Miracleman: Kid Miracleman (Jonathan Bates), as re-envisioned by Alan Moore and John Totleben, is both so powerful and so psychotic that his alter ego, the young and innocent Johnny Bates, resists uttering his transformation word. When Johnny finally does so to stop the boys in his group home from raping him, Kid Miracleman tears apart his assailants and momentarily considers sparing the one nurse who'd been kind to him. Then he reconsiders, lest people say he's "going soft", and punches the top half of her head into a fine red mist. He then rampages through London, massacring tens of thousands and desecrating their corpses by draping their flayed skins from clothes lines, creating a chessboard with breasts as pieces, and making a rain of severed hands and feet. During his destructive rampage, he prefers to mutilate the children in his path rather than kill them outright.
• Miss Don't Touch Me, by Hubert Boulard: Judith is a brutish mistress of the Pompadour call girl club, who saw a bigger profit was to be made in appealing to the cruelest and most deviant of clients. Judith masterminds a snuff trafficking ring, having women from all walks of life kidnapped to be raped and tortured to death by anyone who will pay before having the women's bodies mutilated and dismembered, deliberately masking their deaths as the work of the "Butcher of the Dances" to throw off suspicion. Anytime her ring is discovered, Judith has the witnesses ruthlessly killed, forcing her abused sidekick Annette to be an accomplice and beating her if she disobeys. When Blanche investigates the slayings after Judith's men murder Blanche's sister, Judith tries to make Blanche her latest trafficking victim and takes her own client as a hostage when caught to try to avoid justice.
• Misty:
  • The Cult of the Cat: The evil Cobra King is a serpent cultist who leads a brutal purge of the followers of Bast, deciding to completely wipe out the latter's benevolent cult. With his cruelty, the Cobra King slaughters all he finds in Egypt while releasing others to be hunted down for sport by his followers. Sending an assassin after Nicola Scott, a destined priestess to the Cult of the Cat, the Cobra King intends to spread his evil all through the world.
  • End of the Line: Lord Roland Sefton Vicary is a wicked Victorian aristocrat who faked his death with an explosion that killed many others. Mining below London for the day he takes over the world, Vicary has countless innocents kidnapped to be enslaved forever, tortured, starved and beaten, or killed by any sign of defiance.
  • Nightmare Academy: Miss Nocturne runs the Knightsair academy for girls, with many strange rules. In truth a murderous vampire, Miss Nocturne has the girls brought there so she might prey upon them, turning them into the undead or disposing of them with a few kept as slaves. This is a fate continued for a long time, with the heroine discovering the girls of the school kept unconscious in sacs, resting in a larder for the vampires to drain at will.
  • "Art of Death": Mr. Holland, the new art teacher for the elementary school of Queen's Lynn, is the source of a series of unexpected death-like trances that the children of his school keep falling into. Likens himself to a "modern day vampire", Mr. Holland takes a fiendish delight in his young victims being Buried Alive by their own grieving parents, fully knowing that he could restore the children any time he wishes—"but I don't wish!"
• Modesty Blaise:
  • "Milord" arc:
    • Milord himself is a misogynistic snuff filmmaker. Luring young Indian women to his movie studio, Milord holds them captive and forces them to act in his movies, having them either raped, tortured, or murdered on camera. Raping some of the women himself, when he grows tired of them, Milord either has them sold to a faraway brothel, or has them gruesomely murdered. Hoping to kill Willie Garvin in one of his films despite growing fond of him, Milord proves himself so awful, that Modesty allows him to be killed instead of having him arrested.
    • Kane is a murder-happy thug who proves himself the worst of Milord's crew. In charge of luring the Indian girls to Milord's studio alongside Lamont, Kane also acts in Milord's snuff movies, happily raping, torturing, and murdering numerous women on film to satiate his love of violence.
  • "The Aristo" arc: The Aristo is an aristocratic pirate infamous for stealing cargo from ships; should someone try to intervene, he has the entire crew slaughtered, save for the women, who are captured, raped, and sold to brothels. After getting tricked by Modesty in order to save the life of the pregnant Jo, the Aristo leads a manhunt, hoping to kill Modesty and company to restore his ego.
  • "Black Queen's Pawn" arc: Queen Ranavalona was the sadistic ruler of Madagascar who "makes Hitler look like Mary Poppins". Ranavalona had slaughtered tens of thousands of her subjects and rival tribes using a variety of cruel methods, from making them walk off a cliff to their deaths, to torturous executions such as crucifixion and mutilation, while enslaving others. Having an egg she worshiped hidden to achieve immortality, Ranavalona had her 520 slaves who buried the egg killed, afterwards having her trustworthy commanders murdered to keep the egg's location a secret.
  • "The Special Orders" arc: Rosie Ling and James Nagle-Green are a pair of Human Traffickers who supposedly run a charity organization called "The Saviours". Kidnapping underaged women that fit their clients' fetishes, Rosie and James have sold tons of women as sex slaves over the years. Rosie kills anybody who fails her, while James handles the business side of the operation, choosing which women to kidnap to ensure his clients' satisfaction.
  • "Death Symbol" arc: Yen Kang is a former commanding officer who, after faking his death, took over a hidden Tibet village with his army of renegade soldiers. Forcing the village's 200 inhabitants into slave labor by threatening their children, Kang also converted a Buddhist monastery into his own brothel, the Pleasure House, where young women are purchased as sex slaves for him and his men to rape and abuse to their liking.
• M.O.M.: Mother of Madness, by Emilia Clarke, Marguerite Bennett, et al.: Lucille Caldwell is the tech supergenius billionaire CEO of a pharmaceutical company who secretly runs the Blurred Lines human trafficking ring. Responsible for the Mushroom Risotto Massacre, where Caldwell poisoned her entire family with a deadly mushroom soup in order to become famous as the lone survivor, Caldwell has non-white, poor women kidnapped to either be sold off or used as guinea pigs for her deadly products. Caldwell desires the perfect woman and perfect family to satisfy her ego, hoping to achieve those dreams by harvesting Maya Kuyper's powers. Having Maya's son Billy kidnapped and threatened with murder should Maya not come to her, Caldwell eventually tries to steal Billy and make him her "perfect son".
• Monster & Madman, by Steve Niles, Damien Worm, et al.: Dr. John Moore, a seemingly friendly scientist who takes Frankenstein's Monster in to study, is actually Jack the Ripper. Moore gruesomely murders eleven prostitutes across Whitechapel to use their dismembered bodies in his experiments while pretending to be the Monster's friend. Moore creates a "bride" for the Monster after figuring out the secret to undeath by sewing all the butchered women together, and the resulting abomination is forced to constantly relive the last moments of every single woman Moore slew to create her. When the Monster finally turns against him to protect the "bride", Moore decides to dissect them both with a sick smile on his face, even justifying himself by saying the women were whores he was in his right to purge.
• Monster War:
  • Edward Hyde, upon being separated from Jekyll, becomes his own being. Falling in to worship the Old Ones, Hyde helps to feed Magdalena and others to Dracula, experimenting on others to craft new monstrosities from them. Letting his vampires prey on other victims, Hyde intends on twisting humanity into monstrous shells while unleashing the Old Ones to consume the world in a symphony of bloodshed and madness.
  • Dracula is an equally willing partner in Edward Hyde's plot to make all of humanity consume itself. Dracula spreads his vampiric curse to others in the hopes of furthering Hyde's plagues, trying to excruciatingly enslave Magdalena to his curse. At one point, Dracula slaughters over two dozen people in a brothel, all for thrills.
• Monster World, by Philip Kim, Steve Niles, et al.: "John Price" is the enigmatic leader of the Order of Zevetine, a secretive cult that has used its powers to enslave monsters for their own purposes. Having wandered the Earth for centuries bringing mayhem and ruin to whatever is in his way, Price is given the sinister epitaph "Böser Geist"—"ghoul" or "fiend" in German—by soldiers in World War I for slaughtering soldiers on both sides with his monsters, in one case massacring a field of 1,000 soldiers for seemingly no other reason than his own amusement. In the 1930s, Price gives his aid to a floundering movie company by lending them his monsters to use in their films—but transforms the head of the company into a werewolf to force him to slaughter innocent people in tribute to the wicked cult, with any other loose ends disposed of through his monsters.
• Moonshine, written by Brian Azzarello: Stannis is a mob enforcer in service of Joe Masseria. When Masseria is outraged at the fall of Al Capone and seeks to make Eliot Ness look incompetent, Stannis is hired. Stannis becomes a brutal Serial Killer, killing the homeless and prostitutes to create a scandal for the law enforcement who cannot stop it, killing numerous innocent people and stating his only interest is being paid.
• Morning Glories: In a story full of twists and revelations, the following duo are the worse that the Morning Glories Academy has seen:
  • Reginald Gribbs is Georgina Daramount's right hand and the muscle of the school. Loyal to the Morning Glories Academy, Gribbs works with Daramount to bring children to the school, being willing to use physical threats to force their families to comply. When a woman refused to separate from her children, Gribbs violently beat her before Daramount burned her house with the woman inside. In the present, Gribbs is introduced allowing a rebellious student to be gruesomely killed by a mysterious being, seeing this as a good signal. Later, when Daramount subjects the teenage protagonists to a potentially fatal Secret Test of Character, Gribbs opposes this, due to his desire to simply kill them. Realizing that Casey believes that the Academy wouldn't physically hurt her, Gribbs proves her wrong by calling his favorite student and personally strangling him in front of her. Keeping his former friend Abraham captive, Gribbs regularly beats him and tries to force his biological son Ike to kill him by strangling a girl that he believed was Ike's girlfriend in front of him. A man that enjoys using violence, Mr. Gribbs is an Evil Teacher even by the standards of the Morning Glories Academy.
  • Ian Simon, while initially introduced as merely an arrogant nerd with an inferiority complex, ultimately ends up being far worse. Furious at his lack of success and that his crush Ikiko loved their classmate Fortunato, Ian helps in acts that would endanger reality while intending to use a machine to rewrite reality, ultimately causing a situation that endangers at least hundreds of students. Jealous of an injured Fortunato, Ian sends one of his clones to brutally beat him to death, insulting his faith and promising to erase him from existence. When Ikiko is shocked for his actions, Ian tries to calm her before another of his clones strangles her. Apathetic at having killed his supposed love, Ian continues his experiment, uncaring of anything but his own wishes.
• Murena:
  • Massam is a cruel gladiator who shows what kind of person he is when he rapes and kills one of his fellow gladiators, then threatens Numidian Balba that he will eat him. Seeing the latter as a Worthy Opponent, Massam deliberately provokes him by killing a man Balba decided to spare, fighting his young and inexperienced friend Proyas and killing him against the will of the host of the game. As a henchman for Emperor Nero, Massam orders a fat histrion to be fed to his panthera; throws a young male prostitute into a fireplace; smothers a man in his own feces after telling the information he wanted; murders the old pontiff; and with the Emperor rapes the Vestal Virgin Rubria. After the burning of Rome, Massam plans to sell Lucius Murena who caused the fire and takes satisfaction in building his fortune on ruins. In his final confrontation with Balba, upon being defeated he unleashes his panthera, who mortally wounds the Numidian fighter. Without limit to his gratuitous cruelty, Massam stands out in a morally grey setting with many unsympathetic characters.
  • Sofonius Tigellinus is the scheming and ambitious advisor of Emperor Nero. Upon his introduction, Tigellinus helps Nero get revenge on a chariot racer who beat him at a race and later spreads lies about Vestale Rubria which eventually results in her death. When thousands of refugees from The Great Fire of Rome break into the field of Mars, Tigellinus advocates to push them back by force. Partnering with a hunchback called "The Needy" who scams poor hungry survivors into underselling their properties, Tigellinus comes up with a plan to get even richer: framing the Christian community for the fire so that the duo can seize their properties. Tigellinus pressures Nero into outlawing Christianity and kick-starting the persecutions by having dozens of Christians publicly crucified and burned alive. Tigellinus personally condemns the apostle Peter to be crucified far from his people and crowned with thorns out of pettiness. He then ensures that no one learns the truth about the fire by arranging Massam's death and attempting to murder Lucius Murena.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) ("Cosmos" arc): Cosmos is an alien invader and the Spirit of Malice. Upon her arrival, she was the true entity that threw Equestria into chaos and disharmony rather than Discord. This included turning an orphanage full of children into a literal towering inferno and nearly killing them all among other horrible things. When her boyfriend, Discord, objected to this, she would begin abusing him out of spite and ultimately goes on a rampage that threatens to destroy the fabric of reality and the planet along with it. In the present, she possesses several innocent ponies to use as her hosts and as weapons against their loved ones before finally merging them into her new body. All the while, she set about turning Equestria into a nightmarish hellscape and its inhabitants into things all sorts of random creatures, some of which could be fatal, all the while they are completely aware. When finally confronted by Discord, Cosmos reveals she never loved him at all, seeing him more as a possession she's entitled to than a person.
• Mysterius the Unfathomable, by Jeff Parker & Tom Fowler: Vinton Dulac is a nebulous cult leader who has gone under the names "Arian Rhode" and, more infamously, "James Jones". A Godhood Seeker with a chip on his shoulder ever since the legendary magician Mysterius laughed him and his grandiose ambitions off, Dulac spent decades building up an underground following while killing anyone in his way. Dulac reduces dozens of people in his way into undead draugr, who shred their way through a community of hippies gathered through a wicker man Dulac intends to use as the centerpiece of his final scheme. Having gathered every sorcerer in the world in the wicker man—even the petty magicians—Dulac intends to burn them all alive in a ritual meant to fuel his ascension to godhood, all so he can rewrite reality to his whims.
• Nailbiter: Garth "Morty" Diggins, better known as The Master, is the secret mastermind of the evil behind the town of Buckaroo, Oregon. Having come to Buckaroo decades ago, The Master experimented with killers to discover what turns a person into one. Having discovered a "Serial Killer gene", the Master took those who tested positive and mentally tortured them to activate the latent gene within them, resulting in over a dozen becoming serial killers known collectively as the Buckaroo Butchers. When Agent Finch and Sheriff Sharon Crane begin investigating the disappearance of an FBI agent who got too close to the truth, the Master reveals he tortured and mutilated said agent before turning an FBI agent into a killer to have her finish the job. Murdering many others who get too close to the truth, even creating a new serial killer to murder anyone who flees Buckaroo, the Master finally decides to start over elsewhere by trying to burn the entire town of Buckaroo to ash with its inhabitants, being more vile than any serial killer himself.
• Nameless (2015): The Entity is an ancient being from a group of celestials known as the Outsiders, who, after a war with the heroic Titans, was locked away inside an asteroid called Marduk. Stuck in Its prison, the Entity reached out with Its mind and influenced all of humanity with evil thoughts over the millions of years it has existed, and as such, is the root of nearly all evil throughout the course of human history. When the Entity gains a foothold onto the Earth by invading the mind of a man called "Nameless", the Entity forces him to massacre over a dozen people, then uses him to pull Itself closer to Earth over many years, slowly increasing Its influence over humanity and forcing them to commit more and more atrocities. When Nameless attempts to have the Entity purged from his mind, the Entity subjects both him and the exorcist to absolutely horrifying amounts of mental torture while turning most of humanity into ravenous killers who rape and kill anyone they come across. The Entity's master plan is to crash Marduk into the Earth, then open a dimensional gateway to allow the rest of Its species to enter this galaxy, at which point they will plunge what's left of humanity into a living Hell. Loving Its position as "God" of the galaxy, the Entity was described as a psychopathic and sadistic monster, and made no attempts to disprove those claims.
• Nazi Werewolves from Outer Space, by Simon Sanchez, Dean Juliette, et al.:
  • Adolf Hitler, having survived his suicide attempt, reestablishes himself as a cybernetic primate dictator and planetary conqueror. Landing on a planet after his resurrection, after the aliens offered him peace, Hitler convinced several of them that some of their own were inferior and needed to be killed, which led to a massive war. Turning the aliens loyal to him into werewolf soldiers, once Hitler found that his war had resulted in nothing left to rule over, he set his sights on Earth, hoping to turn the entire planet into his Fourth Reich. Landing in America and beginning a nationwide invasion, Hitler has people either killed or rounded up to be used for experiments, which include transforming people into zombified slaves, or making them animal/human hybrids to serve in his army. Having a grudge against Jack, Hitler gleefully forces him to watch as his mom undergoes experimentation.
  • The Nazi scientist who serves as Hitler's right-hand man is a fanatical monster to match his boss. Having spent World War II performing all sorts of horrific experiments on man and animal alike, the scientist reacts to the Third Reich's loss by reviving Hitler and fleeing to a distant world, where he turns countless alien beings into werewolves to assist Hitler in a genocidal "cleansing" of the race. Continuing to conduct his mutating experiments to create Hitler's army, the scientist infiltrates Earth's military as a mole, using his position to slaughter the leadership of America.
• Nazi Zombies, by Joe Wight & Ben Dunn: General Hans Richter, head of the Totenkorps division in World War II, is a cold psychopath reviled even by his fellow Nazis. Richter's undead forces slaughter hundreds of Allied forces while he works on plans to unleash the virus all over the world and turn the entire world into a graveyard over which he will rule. Along the way, Richter murders the doctor who devised the virus in the first place, and forces hundreds of prisoners to toil away at his base before murdering and zombifying all of them, and even plans to destroy Germany's own capital to assure his rise to ultimate power.
• Neil Gaiman's Teknophage: Mr. Henry Phage is a sophisticated, sadistic, and megalomaniacal dinosaur with a sweet tooth for souls. Having been born an evolution called a "Teknophage" to his Tyrannosaurus Rex parents, Phage soon gained sapience and the ability to not only devour the souls of his kills, but also travel through time and space with his telekinetic abilities. Using these and his godlike intelligence, Phage began cultivating civilization on various worlds, bringing their native species to great achievements through his influence, only to tear it all down and turn the worlds into hellholes of tyranny. Under Phage's rule, innocents are tortured and taken apart both physically and psychologically, turned into food for unsuspecting citizens, worked to death as slaves, and chemically dissolved, with their souls being turned into Phage's obedient soldiers. Phage himself indulges in eating people then leaving them alive to be slowly digested inside him, slaughtering his own henchmen for the pettiest of slights, and ultimately plans to traverse the universe and turn it all into his own buffet of meat and souls. The devourer of thousands of worlds, the slayer of billions of innocents, and a master of manipulation and charm, Henry Phage was truly a monster both inside and out.
• Netherworld, written by Bryan Edward Hill & Rob Levin:
  • Cyrus Kane is a powerful demon who took control over Purgatory, transforming it into a corrupt city where crime is common and many people live in poverty. Cutting off the access to Heaven and Hell, Kane left many souls trapped there, unable to redeem themselves and forced to suffer his eternal rule. Learning about the key to Heaven and Earth in the form of the teenage girl Madeline, Kane has his men hunt her down, while ordering the destruction of the Men in White, leading to the death of at least a dozen people. Getting his hands on Madeline, Kane proudly announces his intention on razing both Heaven and Hell with his armies and transforming all realms into his kingdom, with all the souls damned by his will.
  • Seth is the vilest servant of Kane and his second-in-command. In life committing a robbery and a shootout, leading to the death of the teenage Madeline and the suicide of Ray Parker, after his death he became a main enforcer of Kane's rule and advocate for his plans to take over all the realms. Organizing the destruction of the Men In White by having one demon blow himself up in their base, Seth immediately killed the leader of his henchmen for not capturing the girl first. Capturing Madeline, before he sadistically impaled her arms and killed Ray with his knives, Seth delivered the girl to Kane, leading to his near-victory. Completely apathetic to the deaths of his men, when the resurrected Ray attacked Kane's base, Seth doesn't lose his chance to mock Ray by reminding him of their encounter when they were alive.
• Nevsky: Hero of the People, by Ben McCool, Mario Guevara, et al.: Hermann von Bolk, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, is a savage fanatic who ravages Russia, killing many civilians, including the infamous Massacre of Pskov where he has his men slaughter hundreds of men, women and children. Von Bolk even has infants taken from their mothers and burned alive before crucifying many of his victims as the punishment for being "unbelievers" in his eyes. Intending on ravaging Novgorod, von Bolk leads his men to the Battle of the Ice, not content to stop until all of Russia burns before him.
• Nightmare World, by Dirk Manning:
  • Lucifer himself is the architect of the misery in the Myth Arc spreading through every story in the anthology. Lucifer has long sewn corruption among men, trafficking souls and turning good men to sin; at one point, Lucifer appeared before a priest desperate to remove the criminals terrorizing in town, and tricked the priest into making a deal with him to remove them–-which Lucifer accomplished by having the entire town desecrated, criminals and all. Lucifer eventually kickstarts Armageddon itself, having countless millions around the world slaughtered by demons in his attempt to take over all creation, and in the aftermath, seduces the survivors into pledging themselves to him, murdering those who fail to serve him and at one point killing a room full of people simply to illustrate a point to a pawn of his. Charismatic but utterly wicked, Lucifer's evil is a shadow cast upon the entire comic, his influence spreading from story to story and his presence always felt lurking in the background.
  • Tales of Mr. Rhee: Jack Faust is a jumped-up Satanist who, in the aftermath of Armageddon, decides to dabble in demon-summoning to control the creatures he summoned. Faust used the bodies of innocents as hosts for his experiments, and when they left his victims with their minds destroyed, turned to using pregnant women, leading to the agonizing death of both woman and fetus in the ensuing attempts. Faust becomes viciously intent on killing Mr. Rhee when he almost kills Faust, to the point of making a deal with the demon Radobus and using his power to burn an apartment complex full of screaming people to gain Rhee's attention. Faust's evil even extends to murdering the parents of his old assistant and sending him, in excruciating pain from a curse slowly burning him away, to send Rhee a message–-without even properly telling what the message was.
• Night Moves (IDW):
  • Ashmedai is a demon who consumes souls to make himself more powerful. Previously, Ashmedai had abducted several people and left them catatonic, subsequently having decapitated several "Anti-Davidians" and piled their heads in a heap, leaving them for Chris Dundee and Detective Alexis Rohm to discover. Possessing a local businessman who had captured Dundee, Rohm, and Rohm's partner, Lucretius Jackson, Ashmedai switches to Jackson's body when his host is killed. As "Jackson", Ashmedai builds the Babylon Casino in order to continue consuming souls. When Dundee, Rohm, and a surviving priest venture out to find a dagger that will defeat him, Ashmedai kills the military personnel holding them at gunpoint before interrogating the party about the whereabouts of an artifact, attempting to kill them when the artifact is revealed to be destroyed. Forty years later, using his surviving abductees as disposable manpower, Ashmedai attempts to possess Dundee, but is thwarted due to Dundee poisoning himself.
  • Tom "Tomcat" O'Reily is a Loan Shark who will do anything for his own personal gain. Initially killing an acquaintance of Dundee, Tomcat captures Dundee, Rohm, and Jackson on behalf of a local businessman. Scarred by Dundee in the ensuing altercation, Tomcat disappears, eventually resurfacing as Jackson's security chief. When confronted by Dundee, Tomcat taunts Dundee about his inability to do anything to him, exploiting his new position as a police officer. In the aftermath of Dundee's confrontation with Ashmedai, Tomcat has a lackey kill and replace Ashmedai's previous host, puts Ashmedai's subsequent host into a coma, and begins his takeover of the Vegas mob. To this end, Tomcat has the Babylon Casino incinerated, having any escapees shot, while also attempting to massacre any of Ashmedai's followers. In the final confrontation with Dundee and Rohm, Tomcat tries to have Dundee's face disfigured.
• Night of the Ghoul, written by Scott Snyder: The monstrous Ghoul is an ages-old creature that feasts on the dead. Possessing human bodies, the Ghoul consumes them from the inside out and uses them as hosts, preparing its strength to unleash a nightmarish plague that can wipe out civilizations. Taking over a soldier, the Ghoul survives in the present day, secretly in the body of horror director T.F. Merrit, and lures hero Forest Inman into releasing it, before emerging and slaughtering its heroic captors, plotting to show the world what a "true monster" is.
• Night Trap, by Cullen Bunn et al.: James "Jimmy" Auger, aka the Trapper, is the leader of the Auger Clan, a band of murderous psychopaths. Wanted by the authorities for committing over a dozen grisly murders, Jimmy and his family lure in a group of college students to his cabin in the woods before subjecting them to a series of death traps that leave all but two of them dead. Set ablaze by one of his would-be victims, Jimmy nonetheless near-fatally skewers her companion, a survivor of one of his previous massacres, and spends his final moments swearing to continue his killings.
• Nocturnals: Black Planet, by Dan Brereton: The sinister Mr. Fane was once a resident of the same blackened planet as Doc Horror before betraying his own planet to instead side with the parasitic Crim who take it over, attempting to seize Horror's teleporter technology for their uses. When Horror flees to Earth, Fane pursues and takes up a position at Nark K's Monster Shop, performing grotesque experimentation on the hybrids within and mutilating any who rise up. Enslaving people to the Crim's influence at his own whim, the "traitor-bureaucrat" stops at nothing in his rigorous attempt to torturously slaughter Horror and everyone around him, including his young daughter, to prepare the way for Crim to invade and devour Earth.
• Noir Burlesque, by Enrico Marini:
  • Rex McKinty is the boss of an Irish Mafia responsible for many thefts and murders. Five years ago, Rex coerced Caprice into a relationship in exchange for covering the murder of a man who tried to rape her. When Terry Slick fails to repay his debt within 24 hours, Rex sends assassins to kill him, also murdering a police officer who was investigating him. Rex then forces Slick to assist him in the theft of a valuable painting of his rival Don Zizzi as well as the abduction of the latter's teenage daughter as a hostage while threatening Slick's sister and young nephew should he refuse to cooperate. After the painting gets partially destroyed, Rex has a counterfeiter restored it before ordering both Slick and the artist's death and senselessly sends the psychopathic Crazy Horse after Slick's family. When Caprice attempts to leave him, he beats her up and snarls that she's his forever.
  • Crazy Horse is a brutal Hungarian mobster feared by his fellow gangsters and also has the reputation of "taking his time with women". Dressing up as an Apache, Crazy Horse murders people with a tomahawk and collects the scalps of his victims. Ordered by Rex McKinty to abduct Don Zizzi’s teenage daughter, Crazy Horse kills three men and a housemaid who just walked in on him. Sent to kill Slick's sister Rose and nephew Matt, Crazy Horse first targets the sleeping boy with the intention of scalping him alive.
• North 40: Dyan abominates her home county with a magical tome out of spite. Mutating many of the townsfolk into horrific monstrosities, Dyan laughs as they tear each other apart. When her actions end up summoning a destructive god, Dyan delights as it slaughters all in its path. Enraged by Robert enacting a barrier, restricting her powers to the county, Dyan tries to get him to dismantle it and when he refuses, sends a girl through it, cursing her to die unless she brings back more victims.
• Nosferatu, by Olivier Peru & Stefano Martino:
  • Emperor Caligula is a twisted tyrant and the former employer of Nosferatu. Running a debauched empire, Caligula brutally represses all point of rebellion and forces the wives of the nobles to participate as "entertainment" for himself or his men, raping them at will. Taking the wife of Lucius Vladicus who Nosferatu loves, Caligula rapes her and brags about giving her to the "the filthiest" of Rome as he has done to many others.
  • The nameless vampire pack leader in the modern day is a savage predator who targets families. Ripping the women and children apart, he takes a single child as a hostage with a promise to turn them when they are of age unless the fathers offer themselves as the true killer and takes the fall. It turns out this is a lie and the pack leader has the children tortured slowly for weeks before being consumed as well.
• NVRLND, by Stephanie Salyers, Dylan Mulick, Leila Leiz, et al.: "Captain" James Hook is a tattoo artist who uses his parlor to lure underage girls into getting high on his black magic drug called "Pixie Dust," which he uses to get them in bed with him before sending them off with more of the stuff, with its hallucinatory properties eventually coercing the girls into leaping to their deaths. Killing many teenage girls with his drug, Hook, scheming to steal Peter Pan's powerful shadow and use its power for himself, leads an assault on Peter's nightclub Neverland, brutalizing many of the patrons before flinging Wendy Darling off a roof in an attempt to kill both her and Peter. After being humiliated by Police Chief Lily, Hook attacks the woman's daughter, Tiger Lily, at her birthday party, kidnapping the young girl to use as a hostage against the Police Chief.
• Nyarlathotep, by Hernán Rodríguez: Nyarlathotep is shown in flashbacks meeting with men who didn't believe in his abilities, and were subjected to a Fate Worse than Death. In the present day, he is arriving at the protagonist's city, where the citizens wish to meet with him. In the end, they are all corrupted, and those afflicted by Nyarlathotep are compelled to travel to their deaths—and beyond—with the last page showing the city a desolate ruin.
• Nyarlathotep, by Rotomago & Julien Noirel: An adaptation of the short prose story "Nyarlathotep" by Lovecraft himself, Nyarlathotep arrives in one ordinary city to bring it to ruin. Infesting it with eldritch nightmares, Nyarlathotep leeches from the brains of all around, bringing them to insanity and madness before enslaving more and sending many of them to be destroyed by his own creatures. Driving the rest into the wastes after seeing what he has made of their world, Nyarlathotep seemingly brings about the end of the world and goes about to torment as he sees fit.

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• Oink Heavens Butcher, by John Mueller: Cardinal Bacaar is the man responsible for the existence of the swine-men and the wretched conditions of the city of Heaven. Bacaar runs Heaven as a hellish dystopia overshadowed by religious rhetoric, raising the swine-men to embrace their existence as slaves living squalid lives of misery in slaughterhouses, while having any who so much as talk up tortured or hunted down by his Angels and executed. Bacaar is also responsible for the Birthing Factory, a grotesque place where women are captured and turned into breeding stock, hooked up to machines that constantly inseminate them to give birth to the pig-men, fully aware of everything until they wear out and die. Even when the Birthing Factory's destruction brings the flames upon the rest of Heaven, Bacaar holds himself above his own guilt and dismisses the destruction of his city as an act of divine "providence" upon them.
• Onyx, by Chris Ryall, Gabriel Rodriguez, et al.: The alien spore is a being of malicious intelligence that wiped out Onyx's race, the Pelmosians, including Onyx's husbands and wife, boasting about murdering her mate before her later. Leaving multiple worlds devoid of life, the spore, freely embracing the mantle of death incarnate, arrives on Earth and sets about assimilating life there, bragging how it will lure Onyx there, force her to see another world die and then kill her itself.
• Out, by Rob Williams, Will Conrad, & Marco Lesko:
  • Kommandant Ludin is an icy Nazi who first shows off his cruelty by massacring the prisoners he's forced to dig up an ancient vampire, after promising to free them. Intending to use the vampire to slaughter the Allies, Ludin promptly begins feeding everyone he has no use for to the monster to strengthen it, from a priest to a fellow Nazi trying to make him see reason.
  • The nameless vampire is an ancient king who was sealed away and, when awakened, feasts upon the blood of anything in proximity. The vampire kills anyone it can, sneaking out of its pit to tear apart guards or prisoners alike. When making a pact with the prisoner Nocona, who understands its mother tongue, the vampire gleefully butchers all of Ludin's men and Ludin himself before turning Nocona out of sheer spite.
• Out of the Night issue #9's "In the Wake of the Bomb": King Mulhammin The Magnificent was the cruel and greedy ruler of the ancient kingdom of Karona. Under his reign, people outside of his palace are condemned to starvation, misery and death. Mulhammin responds to a peasant begging for food by having him thrown to the dogs and, when astronomers notice a mysterious black object hurtling towards Earth, he orders 1,000 maidens sacrificed to appease the gods.
• Over the Garden Wall: Soulful Symphonies: Mezz and Altimira are a pair of evil spirits summoned by the young woman Sophie to bestow talents upon herself, and though Mezz and Altimira at first seem to benevolently comply, their true monstrous nature soon becomes apparent. To fulfill their end of the pact with Sophie, Mezz and Altimira trick citizens of the surrounding town into performing on a grand haunted stage that Mezz and Altimira use to drain their life and curse their victims' souls to be trapped inside the spirits' theater for eternity, then grant the talents of their victims to Sophie while using their life forces to empower themselves. Wiping out the entire population of the town and piling the dozens of corpses underneath their stage, Mezz and Altimira force a horrified Sophie to lure more victims to them, planning to eventually gain so much power that they are able to spread their powers across the Unknown and devour the life of all they see fit, and the two spirits try to kill Sophie as well as her new friends Wirt and Greg to accomplish this depraved goal.
• Oxymoron, created by Tyler James & Cesar Feliciano: The titular Oxymoron is a supervillain who is obsessed with correcting people he sees as contradictory. These include Asshole Victims such as corrupt politicians, but are more often than not innocent civilians, including children. In "The Loveliest Nightmare", Oxy starts his reign of terror by forcing the mayor of the city of Swanstown to commit suicide under threat of his family being killed, after which he blows up a whole squadron of police officers who attempt to investigate the mayor's house. He then manipulates a movie theater full of civilians to shoot each other in order to kill a senator, sends explosives to the loved ones of a crime boss and straps said crime boss to a wrecking ball before ramming it into the police commissioner's office. When Detective Clarke refuses to kill the man responsible for her partner’s death, the Oxymoron murders her boyfriend and kidnaps her boyfriend's son Kyle, who he later kills in front of her. After months of spreading fear and chaos throughout Swanstown with his crimes, which include setting off a landmine in a diner, Oxy tries to force Clarke’s new partner to kill herself, and later attempts to kill Clarke in the same spot where he buried Kyle's body.
• Painkiller Jane vs. The Darkness: Stripper, by Garth Ennis et al.: "The Stripper" is a sadistic Serial Killer who loves to kill her victims by removing their skin while they are still alive. Having already managed to kill this way around a dozen of people, including her parents, the Stripper finds herself a new victim in lowly conman Terrence J. Flannery. Initially saving him from a mob of angry ninjas, she drives him to her house. As Jackie Estacado and Jane managed to track down Terrence in her house, they find him alive with most of his skin removed. The Stripper attacks them, intending to skin them alive as well.
• Pandemica, written by Jonathan Maberry: Karl Galton is the leader of Ark. Believing that other races are slowing the advancement of the Aryans, Karl hires teams of scientists to develop bioweapons that can specifically target those groups. Karl has subjects, even babies, experimented on to develop these weapons and occasionally sells them to other terrorist organizations, inflaming numerous race wars around the globe. He eventually unleashes these diseases throughout the United States to kill or mutate thousands, even Caucasian citizens that he supposedly wants to help. After his organization develops a new bioweapon called Bloodhound, Galton has it released as well to speed up his ethnic cleansing campaign, decimating much of the United States and throwing it into anarchy.
• Paradise Court, written by Joe Brusha: Marshall is the architect and founder of the wealthy, exclusive gated community of Paradise Court. Behind the gates, Marshall is the leader of an evil cult which has sacrificed dozens of people in order to rejuvenate themselves and stay immortal through blood sacrifice. When one of his own members attempts to warn the protagonists away, Marshall cuts his face off and kills him. Marshall is a vile sadist whose only professed motive is that he believes himself superior to humanity, ending the comic having slaughtered the heroes and adding the security footage of their murders to a collection bloated with similar such recordings.
• Pat Patriot: America's Joan of Arc: Fritz Haubner is a Nazi saboteur tasked with blowing up the set of an American war film. To do so, he enlists film star Walter Mills to get him on set. On the night of the bombing, Mills learns that Pat Patriot is taking some Boy Scouts on a tour of the set. Haubner, not caring who dies so long as he becomes a national hero, orders the attack carried out anyways. Mills tries to stop the bombing, and Haubner shoots him near-fatally for his trouble.
• Penny Dreadful (includes the TV series): Satan himself, after his failed rebellion against God, seeks to destroy humanity, dethrone God, and rule over his new creation. Satan enlists Evelyn Poole and scars every Nightcomer with his claws. Fighting against his brother Dracula over the Mother of Evil, Satan corrupted and possessed Vanessa Ives and tortured her into submission, eventually leading her to be sent in an asylum. He also granted Dorian Gray immortality in exchange for his service and has him kill people to prolong his life. In the continuation comics, Satan, possessing Vanessa's body, takes over the British government and compels them to war against other nations. He allows his followers to kill and rape anyone they want; pollutes the air of London; leads his army of demons to slaughter their way in a coven and the White Tower; and coldly disposes both of his underlings, Belial and the Duke of Kent, when they fail him. Satan tricks Ethan into sleeping with him to conceive The Antichrist and then tries to murder the man upon his refusal to follow him. Later Satan brainwashes Ethan and forces him to kill his lover Lily. After giving birth to twin daughters destined to rule over his creation, Satan sets Heaven on fire, raining down destruction on Earth and then announces that anyone who won't worship him will die. During the final battle, Satan rejects Dracula's offer for peace and reconciliation before attacking him.
• Pestilence & Pestilence: A Story of Satan, written by Frank Tieri:
  • Satan is the mastermind behind The Black Death zombie plague that ravages Europe and kills millions, wishing to turn Earth into a hellscape for him to conquer. When his initial wave of the disease is quelled, Satan himself arrives on Earth to restart the pandemic and specifically targets Roderick Helm's family as revenge for stopping his first invasion. Raping and possessing the body of the Pope, Satan interrogates those within the Church that secretly support Roderick and the Fiat Lux, torturing and executing them in the process. Hiring a mercenary group to kidnap Roderick's son, Satan prepares to have him publicly executed in a last bid to spite the Fiat Lux.
  • Pestilence only: Sir Archibald is a hedonistic knight who takes advantage of The Crusades to Rape, Pillage, and Burn. Invading a castle and slaughtering all of its defenders, Archibald and his men torture or rape the remaining citizens, with children not even spared in the massacre. When the Fiat Lux arrive to arrest him, Archibald tries to kill them, refusing to answer for any of his depraved crimes.
• The Phantom: In the short-lived DC Comics series from 1989-1990, by Mark Verheiden & Luke McDonnell, this darker take on the Phantom had quite few nasty villains:
  • Issue #3 ("Pirates"): Adix is a modern day pirate who uses an armed ship to board civilian boats off the coast of Bangalla. Adix would kidnap the rich male and female passengers aboard these ships and would order his crew to kill everyone else on board. Adix would then take his hostages to his ship and keep them in his hold, where he would torture the male hostages for information and would rape the female hostages. In contrast with romanticized pirates, Adix is a repulsive psychopath with no code of honor.
  • Issue #10 ("Blind"): Ansah is an enterprising criminal who learns of an African village struck by a disease that causes blindness. Ansah bribes a doctor who was taking care of this village to give him information on them and then he and his gang kidnap everyone in the village, including the women and the children. Ansah then enslaves the villagers, forcing them to work in a giant rice field. After the villagers gather enough rice for him to bring to market, Ansah plans to kill the villagers. After the Phantom thwarts that scheme, Ansah takes a villager hostage. After this cowardly act, Phantom asks Ansah what kind of man he is, Ansah justifies himself by saying the strong have the right to victimize the weak.
  • Issue #11 ("Famine"): Black marketeer Lancombe is a wealthy, corrupt resident of Khagana who helps to fund a civil war in the country. Making his money by stealing food supplies and international aid, Lancombe sells them to the highest bidder at the rebels, while knowing the country is undergoing a horrific famine that hits children the hardest and condemns thousands to a slow, wasting and agonizing death. Lancombe is shown to care not one bit about the suffering he inflicts, gleefully prolonging the famine to feed his own insatiable greed.
• Pitt, by Dale Keown: Urgral Thul, despite appearing in one single issue, establishes himself as the most evil villain in the story by far. A demonic necromancer motivated by killing everything he can, Thul is first seen having slaughtered an entire planet, something he boasts to have done many times before, and murdering the lone survivor after forcing him to write about his planet's destruction. Once arriving on Earth, Thul gleefully tries to murder the Pitt while revealing that he devours the souls of all his victims and leaves them in constant agony because he enjoys the sounds of their screams, and proclaims his plans to move on after wiping out the Earth to continue his Universe-wide genocide spree.
• The Precinct, by Frank J. Barbiere, Cristhian Zamora, et al.: The Arch Duke of the Alchemy Academy intends to bring back alchemy as an everyday part of the Big City's steampunk-based life, all for the sake of his own pursuit to power. The Arch Duke commissions horrific mechanical monstrosities that rampage on the streets killing whoever they find in order to place pressure on the Big City's senate to use alchemy as a state solution, and when they refuse to cow the Arch Duke has the entire senate killed by his machines. The Arch Duke betrays and murders his own ally the Magistrate; comforts the Magistrate's disciple Josephine Winters before cruelly mind-controlling her; makes his mechanical insects to horribly burrow through the throat of a police constable; and ultimately unleashes his swarms on the entire city, trying to annihilate anyone who refuses to bow to him.
• Pride & Joy, by Garth Ennis & John Higgins: Stein is a nihilistic Psycho for Hire infamous for his brutality. Employed in the past as a hitman for crime boss Daddy Delaney, Stein establishes his brutality by forcing protagonist Jimmy Kalvangh to watch as he tortures a man to death with a knife, later striking a deal with Jimmy and his associates to overthrow Delaney himself. After he's double-crossed, Stein breaks out two decades later to pursue revenge against Jimmy and his entire family, tormenting him by leaving the corpse of an eviscerated man in his daughter's bedroom and mowing down a cop with Jimmy's own guns. Castrating Jimmy's friend Lenny and later killing both Lenny and his brother, Stein badly wounds Jimmy and leaves him to bleed out with the promise he'll be killing Jimmy's teenage son Michael next.
• Prince of Persia: The Graphic Novel: The Governor of Marv is the corrupt leader of the city of Marv in 13th Century AD, who does everything he can to stay in power. Hearing about the prophecy of a child who will one day overthrow him, the Governor ordered his guards to collect every infant born on that fateful day, after which he had them all killed and buried in a pit. When the rebellion started to rise up against him, the Governor orders them all captured and mutilated in public, solely to instill fear in the populace.
• Purple Heart, by Warnauts & Raives:
  • Tome 2—Project Bluebird: Professor Green is the head of the medical institute at the military base of Aloha Bay who secretly conducts torturous experiments in order to program peoples' thoughts and make them act on command. Green regularly subject people to repeated electroshocks and drug injections, driving them to insanity. When his partner Paul Innerney plans to expose him, Green has Paul and his girlfriend Alana murdered, making it look like a murder-suicide. Hunting for Alana's brother Kanu who keeps a compromising file, Green abducts Joshua and his partner Haunani, with the intention of killing the former and experimenting on the latter.
  • Tome 4—Jambalaya Blues: Deputy Sheriff Marty Gordon is an openly racist officer who's also implied to abuse his own wife. With his three accomplices, Gordon abducts black women and sequesters them in a cabin in the swamp, where they would gang-rape them multiple times before killing them. Having over a dozen victims, including a 15-year-old girl, by the time he abducted, beat up, and raped Amber, Marty snarls that he should have let his men ravish her as well when she confronts him.
• Puppet Master (Action Labs):
  • Anapa is the son of the demon god Sutekh whose ambitions reach past those of his father. He manipulates the puppets into murdering the descendants of the psychics locking him out of the human world, promising to return them to human form, only to go back on his deal and return to the world through the body of one of these descendants. After a failed attempt at world domination and attempting to murder the young Anthony Gallagher, he unites the previous arc villains and goes on a killing spree, later acquiring the puppets and ordering Neil Gallagher to once again establish himself as their master. At the end, Anapa possesses Anthony and uses his magic to spread his influence across the world through bloodshed in his name, destroying several of the puppets as they try to stop him.
  • Neil Gallagher is shown to be far worse than he was in the first film. He begins his quest for immortality by ordering the puppets under his control to massacre a sorority house so he can use their bodies as test subjects. Unsatisfied with the carnage they left in their wake, he heads to the Bodega Bay Inn to acquire more test subjects, killing the hotel owner's parents and at some point raping a woman in the elevator. During his stay at the hotel, he later sends visions to his psychic colleagues of them being killed, then lures them there and fakes his death before having them murdered. Much later, he seeks out his son Anthony, shooting himself and murdering the coroner when he wakes up, then reunites with Anapa and his servants, briefly killing one of them with an axe. When he finally meets up with Anthony, he reveals that he intended him to be the vessel for Anapa before handing him over to be possessed, stabbing Andre Toulon and threatening to kill Anthony's Love Interest.
• Rachel Rising: Malus, the demon and Fallen Angel who evil itself was named for, has haunted humanity for centuries, driving them to evil and murder. Possessing the young girl Zoe, Malus has her murder those around her before Lilith comes to contact him and Malus decides to craft The Antichrist to destroy humanity. Threatening to beget the antichrist by raping Zoe, Malus takes new bodies, frequently slaughtering those around him to corrupt Zoe into murder. Finally siring multiple children with other bodies and presiding over a series of nightmarish murders, Malus attempts to initiate Armageddon and drown the world in blood.
• Random Acts of Violence, by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, & Giancarlo Caracuzzo: The unnamed Serial Killer is a deranged fan of the Slasherman comic book who decides to take the eponymous character's preaching to heart and engage in a killing spree of his own. Initially started by mutilating and dismembering eight woman around the country side while the comic's creators, Todd and Ezra, go on a nationwide tour, the killer then goes off to brutally murder several more people—including children—leaving their body parts and smoking cars behind him, as well as three more people he deposits in a comic book shop. The killer eventually decides to hurt the artists themselves by attacking and brutally killing Todd's girlfriend, then kidnapping Todd himself and forcing him to witness footage of the killer dismembering the girlfriend. The killer then instructs Todd to illustrate what he's seen and publish it, with the threat of skinning him alive and chopping him into pieces. A psychotic madman who considers death and violence to be unironic forms of art, the killer manages to stand out as truly depraved despite the lack of information about him.
• Raptors: Don Miguel y Certa is the ruler of the new vampires. Bringing his allies from the shadows, y Certa proposed a new pact to dominate the world and evolve the vampire race. When a vampire nobleman named Don Molina objected, y Certa had him and his entire household annihilated, save his twin children who escaped. Centuries later, y Certa presides in New York where vampires dominate the world, reducing the human species and murder is regularly conducted to keep control. Y Certa is also a vicious predator himself, known as "The Devourer" for his predilection of feeding on children, who he hunts relentlessly. Y Certa has preyed on them so much that the numbers of children in New York have sharply dropped, and many refuse to go out alone for fear of being caught and brought to him. Even when the vampire kingdom is collapsing, y Certa attempts to hunt down and eat two children, with numerous bones of his past victims shown. Even in the dark world of Raptors, Miguel y Certa stands apart as the most depraved creature in any bloodline.
• RASL: Salvador "Sal" Crow, aka "The Lizard-Faced Man", is an agent for The Compound, a government research facility. Upon learning of the existence of countless parallel universes, Sal became convinced that they were abominations, and their inhabitants sub-human. Seeking Nikola Tesla's journals in order to complete the production of a missile defense grid that would have the unintended effect of draining the alternate universes of their lifeblood and eventually lead to their destruction, he targeted the scientist-turned-interdimensional art thief RASL. Sal murdered RASL's lover and threatened to travel from universe-to-universe, killing everyone he cared about again and again. When the Compound ran a test of the array, it resulted in the brutal deaths of everything in a four-mile radius, something that Sal kept secret to avoid halting the testing. When his boss attempted to have him arrested, he killed her along with her security. Finally, he opened fire in a bar in an attempt to kill RASL, killed a sheriff to take his car, and repeatedly shot the Creepy Child that had been following RASL throughout the story.
• Rat Queens: Voon is the brother of Braga. Before Braga's transition, Voon attempted to murder her and killed Braga's lover. Later becoming a "flesher" orc who can reshape the bodies of others, Voon forms an orc warband and leads them to massacre innocents all throughout the forests, while having innocents abducted to horrifically experiment on them, killing most and breaking the minds of others with torture, even children. Attempting to hunt down Braga, Voon attempts to torture and murder the Rat Queens, torturously reshaping their flesh while intending on sparking a war to salve his wounded ego.
• Realm of the Damned: Tenebris Deos ("Dark Gods"), by Alec Worley & Pye Parr: Balaur Petrova, otherwise known as The Dragon for his unique ability to breathe fire, was the most bloodthirsty vampire who ever lived. Sired somewhere in the Carpathians in the 15th century, Balaur was renowned for his constant warfare and orgies of murder across Europe nothing giving him more joy than the weight of his sword, blood flowing through his hands, and women screaming as he burned their children before them. Whenever he got bored from the lulls between fighting, he massacred his allies instead. His vampire brethren eventually turned on him for his slaying of other vampires by sending his sister Athena to destroy him. A part of Balaur survived, however, and was used to revive him by a group of cultists centuries later, most of whom he immediately slaughters before making the last one his slave. Desiring revenge on his sister and determining that the world must burn, he proceeds to track down all the other alpha monsters to take from them their powers by ripping out their hearts and eating them. After gathering all of them, he initiates the apocalypse by turning huge numbers of humans and vampires alike into mindless werewolves so they will slaughter everyone around them. Finally confronting Athena, he promises to rip off her skin so he can clothe himself in it, even letting her use her Healing Factor so he can kill her as many times as possible.
• Red Border, written by Jason Starr: Tito is a young man who seemingly assists Mexican refugees into crossing the border from Juarez into the US. In league with the Benson family, Tito instead lures them to the psychotic clan to be tortured, cannibalized, or used as mounted trophies. Luring in heroes Eduardo and Karina, Tito plays at being their friend, only to betray them to the Bensons when they flee before attempting to murder them himself.
• Red Team: Sgt. Paul O'Dwyer is a corrupt officer who contrasts Red Team's good intentions with his pursuit of profit. O'Dwyer and his team make a habit of intercepting minor drug rings to brutally massacre everyone on the premises—both criminals and bystanders—before taking everything they find on the premises. Busting Red Team's failed attempt to thwart their murderous operations, O'Dwyer guns down two members of Red Team into bloody mush and smugly glories over his superior position whilst standing over their bodies. Standing as a perfect representation of what would happen if Red Team's morals were to ever degrade, O'Dwyer is one of the most unabashedly vile examples of a Dirty Cop put to the page.
• The Red Ten: Magnitude, despite his harmless appearance, is a twisted Serial Killer with a sexual fetish for crushing people to death. Luring numerous women into his laboratory, Magnitude uses his superpower to shrink them down to an ant-like size. Placing them underneath a microscope, Magnitude torments them with live insects before sadistically crushing them to death between viewing slides and collecting them as trophies. Uncaring when numerous members of his team are killed, Magnitude eventually turns on the survivors and tries to eat Bellona alive after turning himself into a giant, promising her that he would enjoy every moment of her suffering.
• Revenger, by Charles Forsman:
  • Mr. Groan, the head of Hotel Neptune, uses his business as a front for an underage prostitution ring. Abducting children from all over the city, Groan has the children repeatedly raped by his perverted clients, raping some of the children himself on occasion before tossing them out onto the streets once he's done with them. Brutally murdering the father of one of the abducted children once he tries to attack Groan, Groan is ultimately revealed as a Russian robot—which spurs him to spitefully self-destruct and obliterate the entire town in the process.
  • Revenger is Trapped: KJ is the leader of a group of backwoods hillbillies who tortured his own mother into insanity when her fortune-telling predicted his freestyle way of life would eventually be collapsed. KJ spends his time trapping stragglers in the woods and dumping them into a pit, where he and his family hunt, murder, and eat them, keeping a mound of hundreds of skulls as perverse trophies. When Revenger finds his operation, KJ attempts to brutally murder her too, realizing she was the one his mother foretold.
• Reyn: Brother M'Thall is a prominent figure of the Venn race who holds a grudge against humanity. After M'Thall and the Venn invade Fate with the intent of stealing from the humans, M'Thall is blindsided by the humans' resistance when they start fighting off the Venn. Desperate, he set off a bomb that triggered the Great Cataclysm and nearly wiped out all of humanity. When M'Thall and the Venn wake up after hibernating for hundreds of years, M'Thall uses his forces to enslave most of the humans or convince them to work alongside him. When Reyn appears and causes trouble for the Venn right when M'Thall is nearly finished building a weapon that will destroy all of Fate for good, he sends his forces after him and sorceress Seph, hell-bent on killing both of them and anyone who gets in his way. He later kidnaps Seph and holds her hostage as bait, where he spends his time explaining how he wiped out almost all of humanity and rules over the humans now. Even after Reyn willingly gives M'Thall a component that will help him finish the weapon, M'Thall refuses to give up Seph, and instead tries to kill Reyn.
• Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons, by Patrick Rothfuss, Jim Zub, et al.: Sebastian and Lucy are a duo of sorcerers who have been kidnapping babies and stealing shards to start a ritual to "cleanse" the world. Posing as innocent farmers whose child was kidnapped, they trick the Smiths into attacking a village of innocent ogres. They then use the chaos as a distraction to kidnap an ogre baby and steal a shard to complete the ritual. The duo then attempts to sacrifice six babies of various races to bring down the sun in an attempt to end all life in the world.
• Rise of the Magi, by Marc Silvestri et al.: Commander Gore is a high-ranking guard of the orb that contains all magic in the universe. Desiring more than being just a guard, Gore sells out the magical essence of that orb to the Trolls. As guards caught him at the scene of the crime, Gore orders his monster minions to massacre them. When Asa Stonethrow came in possession of stolen magical essence and fled to Earth, Gore orders his minions to chase him there, where his monsters end up killing police officers who tried to arrest them. Gore's crimes resulted in a flying castle, where the orb was guarded, to start falling apart, killing dozens of people. Later on, Gore started selling weapons from Earth, like guns, to the Trolls, as they prepare to wage war on his people.
• Rivers of London: Action at a Distance: Professor Uwe Fischer is a former Luftwaffe pilot with the ability to move objects with his mind. Recruited by the British nuclear program due to his abilities, Fischer sets out to make his dream a reality: to kill a woman of every type for his collection. Fischer begins to stalk and violently murder women of different races and hair colors, to indulge his sexually violent nature. Upon being stopped by Thomas Nightingale, Fischer, out of spite, decides to cause the Windscale fire at the nuclear plant he works at, causing the worst nuclear disaster in British history, and planning to irradiate the entire country.
• Road to Perdition: Connor Looney is well known as a bloodthirsty paranoiac who serves as a hitman for his father. After initiating an unnecessary bloodbath, Connor becomes obsessed with Michael O'Sullivan's young son having been a witness, and later heads to the O'Sullivan home after setting Michael himself up for death, murdering Michael's wife and younger son. Connor is later revealed as a pedophile who frequents and beats child prostitutes, showing a disdain for any moral standard. Upon growing sick of his protection, Connor murders an ally of Michael's and kidnaps the man's wife, intending to murder her when Michael is lured out.
• Robotech/Voltron, by Tommy Yune, Bill Spangler, & Elmer Damaso: King Zarkon is the despotic ruler of Planet Doom who believes that it is his "holy destiny" to conquer or destroy all those who would oppose the Drule Empire. Zarkon sends his unknowing consort, an Arusian named Lora, and their son, Prince Lotor, on a diplomatic mission to Arus that turns out to be a cover for assassins to murder King Alfor and raze the Castle of Lions. Zarkon proceeds to take over Arus, and in his first public address to its people, he declares that they are now all his slaves and that he will kill ten of them a day until they find the missing Princess Allura. When Lora opposes this course of action, calling it needlessly cruel and liable to accomplish nothing other than making the Arusians hate him even more, Zarkon casually snaps her neck in front of Lotor, who is coldly ordered to dispose of his mother's body by Zarkon. After the Voltron Force disappears into the Robotech Universe, Zarkon lays siege to the now-defenseless Arus, reducing it to smoldering ruins to be annexed by the Drule Empire.
• Rose, by Meredith Finch & Ig Guara: Queen Drucilla, having buried any spark of goodness or heart within herself, takes over the kingdom of Ttereve by killing her father and keeping her brother imprisoned. Drucilla criminalizes magic for all but herself, having entire villages massacred if someone within shows talent. Drucilla even enslaves soldiers by holding their families hostage, killing a man with his daughter just to prove the price of failure, and ordering the men killed when the children are rescued. Corrupting and enslaving the Khat guardians, Drucilla attempts to find the last of them, Thorne, so she may make herself the bride of the demon lord Balor, allowing Balor to devastate the world so she can rule what is left.
• Rover Red Charlie: The brutish Hermann is a former fighting dog who amassed a brutal kill streak by biting the throats out of his opponents. In the wake of humanity's extinction, Hermann kidnaps a human child before physically and mentally breaking him into submission during a long time span. Dubbing the child "shit-boy" once he fully succumbs to Hermann's abuse, the bulldog keeps the boy enslaved and further tortured for sheer pleasure, even having him lick Hermann's rear end clean among other things. Said abuse results in the child unwittingly killing himself when Rover, Red and Charlie try to save him. Surviving his own apparent death, the vengeful Hermann tracks the trio for days before kidnapping Charlie and using him as a bait to lure his companions into a trap. With full intentions of making Rover and Charlie his new abused slaves, Hermann nearly kills Red by viciously biting off one of his legs. Despite his abusive past, Hermann admits that he liked being a fighting dog and had no qualms with doing what his owners wanted, seeking thrill in emulating the very worst of human atrocities of his own volition.
• The Rush, written by Si Spurrier: George LaPointe is the self-styled ruler of Brokenhoof. A former lawman who chances upon his quarry involved with a nonhuman spirit, LaPointe murdered those about him to claim the energies of the area and established his settlement. Luring in travelers to kill and rob them, LaPointe tricked a teenage boy into becoming a monster whom he also feeds people to, while trying to also send heroine Nettie to this fate, knowing she is the monster's mother.

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