"Your own death will be slow and terrible. When my men bring your aunt back, I'm going to show her the price of her rejection...and kill you oh-so-slowly right before her eyes."
Grimm Fairy Tales is a Darker and Edgier retooling of many classic stories, and it shows in some of its villains.
Characters are listed by where they most appear, and entries in each group are by order of appearance.
- Grimm Tales of Terror, also by Zenescope, can be found here (also includes Grimm Fairy Tales 2018 Holiday Special).
- Van Helsing (2016) can be found here.
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- The Piper is one of the Dark One's servants, a being who murdered his lover to surrender to pure hatred. After being cheated by the village of Hamelin, the Piper murdered all their children, later becoming a vengeful spirit who is summoned by the vengeful. The Piper promptly slaughters all who have wronged them, even if it is not what the summoner wants, with collateral damage in the works, with hideously gruesome fates for his victims. The Piper then reaps the soul of the summoner, the fate that befalls countless people who cross his path. Upon his return, the Piper is even seen gathering children for slavery or sacrifice, all for money, with no care for anything but his own satisfaction and profit.
- Lucinda, the Dark Queen, is the ultimate villain of the Age of Darkness storyline, and one of the biggest threats in the entire comic. Once a bored sociopath of a princess who killed others for fun and allowed herself to be corrupted by the dark arts, Lucinda formed a partnership with the Dark One, Malec, and went on a killing spree with him to annihilate anything that didn't submit to her. When Malec had a child with another princess, Lucinda murdered the woman and commanded Malec to kill the infant who he named Lucifer, later murdering the surviving girl in her adulthood to twist the knife to Malec. Finally trying to kill Malec due to his "weakness", the Dark Queen takes over the realms with people being slaughtered by the thousands so Lucinda can bask in the agony of their fate. Intending to subjugate or murder everything she can, Lucinda only justifies herself by claiming that "bad girls have all the fun".
- Grimm Fairy Tales Vol. 2 & Robyn Hood: Goldilocks: Goldilocks is a Repulsive Ringmaster from the dimension of Myst whose circus's main attraction is human death. Goldilocks regularly enslaves innocent people from Earth so she can have them hunted down and eventually slaughtered by monsters for the entertainment of her audience, introducing herself by making a captured family watch as she has a man ripped to shreds by a bear. Countless people have lost their lives to Goldilocks's twisted circus, and she never fails to remind the people she preys upon exactly how much contempt she holds them in.
- Hellfire trilogy,note written by Joe Brusha: "The Prince of Flesh" is the leader of the current incarnation of the Hellfire Club. An ambitious sadist with a predilection for Human Sacrifice and flaying the faces off of his victims, the Prince, in his introductory issue, manipulates a group of teenagers into coming to an abandoned manor, convinces one of them to commit murder, then slaughters him and the rest to offer their souls up to his hellish masters. The Prince seeks to bring Hell on Earth by summoning the Twelve Kings of Hell to lay waste to the planet. Along the way, the Prince cheerfully slaughters innocents, cops, and even his own cultists—in one case, he punishes a cultist for his failure by having him eaten by one of the Twelve Kings.
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- 2012 miniseries, written by Patrick Shand: Cal King was once a bored, spoiled and sociopathic teen who was already a monster before leaving Earth. A bigot who regularly tormented innocents, Cal boasted about stabbing a gay boy for fun and led the gang-rape of the heroine Robyn, carving out her eye for spite. After nearly being burned to death by Robyn in retribution, Cal returned with dark powers and an even greater drive for evil. Becoming the Sheriff of Nottingham, Cal glories in tormenting all under him and wishes to hunt down Robyn to torture her to death. Cal proceeds to try to murder all of her friends that he can get his hands on, and murders the child son of Prince John to take power for himself. While many others have been corrupted by the Dark One, Cal stands alone as a human who gleefully leaped into evil of his own accord.
- I Love NY, written by Lou Iovino: The Vapor Lord is a vicious vampire who took over a children's hospital, feeding on the young patients for over a decade and killing many of them. Seemingly stopped by Robyn and her ally, the Vapor Lord arises in the body of one of his victims, slaughtering a mortician and attacking the sister of the possessed. Targeting a populated area, the Vapor Lord goes on to gorge himself on the blood of countless more innocents.
- The Curse, written by Chuck Dixon:
- The eldritch parasite, later known as the Queen, is a monstrous being that possesses Marian Quinn's wife Sam, intending to use her to destroy the world and torturing Sam within her own body. Banished to the furthest reaches of the galaxy, the Queen takes over a new world and subjugates it, killing most inhabitants and forcing Sam to watch. Later spawning numerous new monsters and murdering her children for not living up to her standards, the Queen plans to return to Earth and subject it to the same horrors when she has destroyed the remnants of her current kingdom.
- German Villaraigosa is a cult leader intending on bringing about The End of the World as We Know It. Posing as a kind businessman, German secretly conducts multiple nightmarish murders by skinning the victims and then having the skins worn like clothes to murder other innocent victims to harness their energy. He proceeds to have cops killed when they get to close, and when opening his new "building", he sacrifices a woman to summon his god Quetzalcoatl to wipe out everyone present and end the world.
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- The Black Knight, written by Terry Kavanagh: Grigori Rasputin himself is the hidden chessmaster behind his descendant Nadia Vasilev's crime syndicate, as well as the brutal gang war that engulfs Lower Manhattan. Sealed away in the Shadowlands after the assassination attempt failed to truly kill him, Rasputin guides Nadia into systematically killing off every single one of his male descendants in the present day, even the children, so he can use their blood to free himself. By the time Rasputin frees himself, almost all of his family is dead and dozens of innocents have been consumed with them, and Rasputin decides to reward Nadia's loyalty by trying to have her killed by Peyton Parks.
- Gretel, written by Ben Meares: The Wicked Witch Tituba is the progenitor of the monstrous witches, having been a survivor of Salem who schemed of world domination. Tituba had her witches spread over the world, devouring the hearts of butchered children to increase their powers. When she captured Gretel, Tituba starved her and fed her the heart of her own brother, plotting on her to escape while she sent her lover Samuel to become Gretel's mentor. Tituba planned on Gretel killing countless witches and devouring their hearts for power in hopes she would one day take Gretel's own heart. Tituba happily murders her own subordinates, even killing Samuel himself when his usefulness is over and he has come to truly love Gretel as a daughter, intending on filling Gretel with despair before eating her heart and obtaining ultimate power.
- Grimm Fairy Tales Vol. 2 issue #6—"The Piper": An unnamed child trafficker employs the Piper to fetch several dozen wayward children to him, all for the purpose of handing them off to unspeakable fates of torture and death for the pleasure of his clients. A grinning, remorseless shell of a human being, the trafficker has no remorse about what he does and goads Robyn Hood into killing him with the taunt that there will always be people like him to feed on the misery of children.
- Hellchild: Blood Money, written by Ralph Tedesco, has a pair of Human Traffickers:
- Tor is a brutal pimp who trafficks women to become prostitutes, refusing to let them leave his service under pain of death. When he learns one of his girls was murdered, Tor hunts down two of the men involved and brutally tortures them, murdering them to find out who was trying to take his property. Discovering one of his girls is fleeing the life with her lover Jake, Tor has Jake's parents killed as a message, before revealing one of his nastiest activities: Tor also finds innocents to give to a supernatural auction, where they are sold off to monsters who will kill and eat them, gloating that one is a cannibal who likes to torture his victims for weeks. Later resurfacing in Grimm Spotlight: Hellchild, Tor enslaves Angela Blackstone, the Hellchild, to be his personal assassin, threatening he will leave her imprisoned in a box in eternal agony should she defy him.
- Joan is the head of the auction house. A seemingly sweet woman, Joan has one innocent man garroted as a message before having the other prisoners delivered to the auction, where she happily offers them for top dollar to the monstrous audience. Joan happily permits one to drain the blood of a terrified Jake once she has bought him, selling countless individuals over the years to the monsters, to be tortured, murdered and devoured as long as she profits.
- Myths & Legends issues #1-5: The Wolf is a sadistic assassin sent to murder Britney Waters. Murdering the guards of the facility she works at, he begins taking several new forms to steal into it whereupon he begins murdering patient and doctor alike, basking in their fear as sadistically as possible. The Wolf gleefully hunts down Britney, eating those in the way and savors drawing out their pain and fear before attempting to leave absolutely no survivors.
- Neverland: Pan was once a human boy named Jacob Wiles, who, when he found the magic paradise of Neverland, decided he simply never wanted to leave. Manipulating the exiled fairy Belle, Pan would wipe out her entire race and take over Neverland as a brutal tyrant, regularly torturing and killing the remaining denizens. To keep his immortality and powers, Pan would regularly abduct young boys from Earth, draining them of life and keeping their corpses enslaved as his undead army, or his twisted "Lost Boys". Upon confronting Nathan Cross, the only survivor of his cruelty, Pan mocks him for having failed to save his brother Tim so long ago and gleefully states that from this point on, there will be no future survivors. Utterly consumed with a lust for power and a desire to hurt others, Pan remains one of the most chilling, monstrous villains in the entire Grimm universe.
- Van Helsing: Black Annis, written by Brian Hawkins: Black Annis is a predator masquerading as the vice-principal at a middle school. Annis uses her job to select her victims, then hunts them in the dead of night, dragging them back to the school where she slowly and horribly leeches the life out of them. Even when she's found out, Annis simply decides to start again at a new school.
- Wonderland:
- The Jabberwocky is the ruler of Wonderland. A monstrous being who gleefully serves The Dark One, the Jabberwocky transformed Wonderland into a place of madness and chaos, enslaving and twisting all who are caught there until they are insane, monstrous parodies of themselves who exist only to inflict more madness and suffering on the world. Attempting to gain access to Earth to both destroy it and spread the madness to all its denizens, the Jabberwocky gains a growing enmity with the Liddle family for Alice Liddle once foiling his plans. To this end, the Jabberwocky corrupts her son Johnny into the new Mad Hatter to set him against his sister Callie, having Callie's daughter kidnapped to use to invade Earth. A being of boundless cruelty and sadism, the Jabberwocky exists only to spread the madness that is the core of Wonderland.
- Drake Liddle was seen as a heroic firefighter in life. In truth, a sadistic pedophile who frequently raped his young nephew Johnny on "fishing trips", Drake's father Charles furiously gave him to Wonderland when he discovered this. Surrendering to Wonderland's madness, Drake became the Mad Hatter and a vicious Serial Killer who kept the skins of his victims, even trying to rape his own niece Calie when she fell into his clutches. Drake proceeds to set up a trapped Johnny killing his own mother to corrupt him into a servant of the Jabberwocky.
