Sandbox / Monster: Comic Books (A to C)

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• 100 Bullets: Augustus Medici is the most powerful member of the Trust and the one pulling the strings of every other character. The Trust is a coalition of thirteen families that secretly founded the United States, but this is not enough for Augustus, who puts into motion a grand and intricate plan to take the other members' holdings for himself. Augustus proposes that the Trust and their enforcers, the Minutemen, take over another country, to which the Minutemen refuse and are marked for death by the Trust. The Minutemen's leader, Agent Philip Graves, secretly working for Augustus, would then lead the Minutemen on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge and kill the Trust members Augustus wanted dead. After Augustus's son Benito is almost killed, Augustus enlists the sociopathic Minuteman Lono to torture and kill another trust head who had a hand in the hit and his heirs, and also orchestrate a false flag assassination of female Trust head Megan Dietrich, whom Augustus then seduces despite a very large age difference. When a rival Trust head has two of Augustus's key allies killed, Augustus resigns his seat in favor of Benito, knowing that this will lead to Benito's murder at Megan's hands and a power vacuum that ultimately kills all the other Trust members and most of the Minutemen. When confronted by a disgusted Graves over killing his own child, Augustus justifies himself by saying that he didn't technically make Megan do anything.
• The 13th Artifact, by Amit Chauhan et al.: The Master of the Thirteenth, in the guise of a monk, tricks the planet's leaders into sending hundreds of their greatest soldiers into his demonic realm, leading to the majority of the planet's heroes to be killed by the demons within. A year later, the Master takes advantage of the planet's vulnerability to poison the atmosphere with sulfur dioxide and reduce the planet's populace to his brutally oppressed slaves. First seen himself in the attendance of an insane man he's locked in a cage and a Sex Slave tied to his throne, the Master brutally crushes the old priest's skull and torturously probes the mind of a woman who crash lands on the planet, who simply lets herself give out and die with the realization the Master will subject Earth to the exact same fate if he's ever allowed to find it.
• 1903: Manhunt, by Federico Galeotti & Francesco Mazzoli: Gavin Miller is a bloodthirsty outlaw who seeks revenge on the members of his gang who sold him out years prior. Tracking one member down and gruesomely torturing him to death, Miller happily tortures and murders innocents who stand in his way, even luring a squad of deputies after him into a trap that sees them all getting blown up. After killing the final member, Miller attempts to murder said member's innocent daughter for no reason.
• 30 Days of Night:
  • Bloodsucker Tales' "Juarez or Lex Nova and the Case of the 400 Dead Mexican Girls": Eduardo Reyes is a powerful businessman, running the city of Juarez, Mexico. Purely out of boredom with his riches, Reyes starts an operation that involves the rape, murder and mutilation of numerous women, using a factory as a front; his body count has reached 400 by the time the story starts, with his work being mistaken for that of a vampire, drawing quite a bit of attention. Looking to find someone to use as a scapegoat, Reyes, confronted by vampire clan leader Bingo Zero, make an arrangement to feed Zero and his clan some of his victims. Reyes learns of a young prostitute Lex rescued, who happens to be the sister of one of his victims, and picks her up to be murdered. Claiming to have caught the real killer, Reyes leads a mob to his home to burn it down, with Lex and Bingo fighting within. Afterwards, Reyes covers up his murders by stating his plans to renovate the city for its losses, promising the women are "always safe" in his hands, as he suggestively places his hand on a young girl's shoulder.
  • Spreading the Disease: Reverend Gant, a vampire who has grown to believe that vampires are the true Master Race, has an astronaut infected with vampirism to slaughter his crew in space, experimenting with tainted blood to turn others, causing massacres in a hospital and night club while having huge amounts of innocent people slaughtered as food for his followers or as failed subjects. Gant then attempts to send tainted beer to a football stadium with 70,000 people in it, resulting in dozens of thousands of innocents turning while Gant gloats to those still human that "God just doesn't love you" as he orders a mass slaughter.
• Abbadon, by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, Spencer Marstiller, et al.: Bloody Bill, real name Wesley Garrett, is a monstrous Serial Killer who terrorizes the old west in this Western thriller graphic novel. Years ago the leader of a vicious gang of rapists and murderers who would lay waste to entire towns, butchering his way through countless innocents before raping and torturing the young women and girls residing there, Bill earned the ire of nearly every other criminal around him for his propensity for overkill, cannibalism, and murdering his own gangs out of boredom. After striking out alone and becoming a killer who would keep his victims' eyeballs and organs in jars as trophies, Bill resurfaces after years of inactivity to resume his spree in the town of Abbadon, murdering numerous innocents in his trademark way of torturing, stringing up, then gutting them, a method that began when he did it to a man's teen daughter after butchering said man's entire lynch mob that came for Bill. In his public identity of Garrett, Bill executes anyone, kids included, who could reveal him as Bill, and ultimately frames innocent men for his crimes, leading to their deaths. A despicable sadist with a goal of nothing more than his own lusts and fame abroad, Bloody Bill cared only for how something could make him ever more famous, treating all else as disposable.
• Abbott, written by Saladin Ahmed: In her years fighting against the Umbra and its followers, Elena Abbott fought some truly vile enemies that lived up to their role as enemies of life itself.
  • Original comic: Professor P.H. Bellcamp is a sorcerer from the Umbra, a malignant force in opposition to life itself. An elitist White supremacist intellectual from Detroit, Bellcamp considers a more egalitarian society as a degradation of society and carries out the murder and mutilation of many Black Americans and Mexican immigrants to turn them into chimeras—whose existence is so horrifying that they welcome their own deaths—to serve as his slaves. When the heroic journalist Elena Abbott investigates the murders and confronts Bellcamp, he tells her that he considers that the Illuminator being a working Black woman is an insult from the Light itself before trying to kill her and then targeting Elena's friends, killing Sebastian and turning Wardell into a satyr to capture Elena. Bellcamp tells her about his plan to turn her into a Harpy and corrupt her powers to create a "New Bloody Age of Heroes".
  • Abbott: 1973: John Smith is a misogynistic murderer who uses his influences and supernatural powers to kill countless woman since "before this continent had a name", while taunting cops and journalists by leaving a pin with his initials near the corpses of his victims. In 1973, John works alongside Hunter and Madame DeCadillac to break the spirit of Elena Abbott, killing Mafiosi to kidnap Elena's girlfriend Amelia and trying to turn Elena into another of his "toys".
• Absolution: Even in this dark world of supervillains and criminals, a select few stand out:
  • Rubicon:
    • The Polymath, real name Arthur Blankenship, is a creatively psychopathic supervillain with a love for mass slaughter. After being locked up for going on a rampage through a city, the Polymath is given a deal to kill John Dusk in exchange for his freedom, but immediately breaks the deal after being released, proceeding instead to go on another killing spree. During this spree, the Polymath rips people in half, strings them up by their insides, uses buses and cars as swinging or throwing objects, and brutalizes before attempting to rape a heroine who shows up to stop him. Claiming well above 800 lives in this massacre, the Polymath later brutally murders a small family, before viciously butchering an entire apartment building, with more bisections, decapitations, and skinnings being just some of the kills he gets up to. When confronted by Dusk, the Polymath boasts about all the men, women, children, and pets he's killed, and, even when seemingly beaten, the Polymath decides to take the entire city of millions down with him. Serving as the prime example of villainy that Dusk has decided to show no mercy to any longer, the Polymath made his mark as the most depraved murderer in the comic.
    • The Mayor of New York City, annoyed by Enhancile John Dusk going rogue and disobeying orders, seeks to kill Dusk and suppress potential Enhancile individuality through the most ruthless means possible. The Mayor unleashes the monstrous Polymath onto New York, promising to serve up whatever populated city or country the supervillain wishes to slaughter his way through in exchange for Dusk's death. When the Polymath instead reneges on the deal and begins massacring New York civilians, the Mayor smugly shrugs the mass of deaths off, immediately blackmailing and assassinating his own allies to cover up his hand in Polymath's release. The Mayor plans to frame his loyal right-hand Gordon for everything, utterly remorseless about the thousands the Polymath killed thanks to the Mayor's own blind, arrogant desire for control.
  • Happy Kitty: Mr. Tanaka stands out as a particularly wicked crime lord. Running drug and human trafficking as common practice, keeping his own band of prostitutes who are forced to make money for him lest they be killed, Tanaka is introduced butchering a young couple for stealing drugs from him then ordering their little daughter be trained as a Sex Slave. When the girl showcases amazing abilities, Tanaka takes her under his wing, turning her into a homicidal assassin while using dozens of his own men as training targets for her, leading to their brutal deaths. Once fully training the girl, dubbed Happy Kitty, Tanaka orders her to slaughter an entire mansion of people, notably a man who crossed him and said man's entire family. When Happy Kitty lets the man and his family go, Tanaka brings out Happy Kitty's beloved pet tiger, ordering the girl to cut off one of its paws to make it hate her forever lest Tanaka kill both of them on the spot. Though only a regular human, Tanaka displays a dark rap sheet of human suffering and mass murder.
• Ace Powers: Heat Devron is a gangster who's masterminded a payroll robbery, personally killing the men guarding it. After he has his gang split up to make them harder to catch, he guns down the one goon who went with him after revealing his plan to take all the money for himself. This murder attracts the attention of Detective Ace Powers, whom Devron knocks out, ties to a rigged boiler and leaves to die as he steals his badge and gun to make his escape easier. After stumbling upon the rest of his gang in a shootout with some cops, he uses his police masquerade to order all of them killed before he's captured.
• Adventures into the Unknown:
  • Issue #8's "The Evil Ones!": The titular Evil Ones are spirits from the Fifth Dimension who every night go to the Human World and wreak chaos for their amusement. The Evil Ones bring wars, famines, and other evils both big and small upon humanity. When test pilot George Bailey gets lost in the Spirit World, the Evil Ones send him visions of their evil, including those closest to him dying at their hands, because it is more amusing than immediately killing him. They possess his best friend and wife, driving both to their deaths, before blowing up the airfield Bailey works at and finishing him off.
  • Issue #10's "The Boy Who Cried Wolf": Josiah Pendle was the founder of Pendleton before he burned alive in his mansion. Stuck as a ghost, Josiah spends 100 years haunting his mansion before luring Jimmy Rogers into it. Josiah uses his Compelling Voice to try and influence Jimmy into opening the dam and wiping out the entire town of Pendleton as revenge for people who laughed at Josiah. After Jimmy snaps out of his control, Josiah tries to kill him in anger.
  • Issue #13's "Menace from Mars": The King of Zils is the greedy ruler of the planet Mars. After a lack of Ionide on Mars threatens to drive the population of Zils into extinction, the King sends thousands of agents to Earth to give humanity weapons of mass destruction and provoke a nuclear war. In truth caring only about getting another planet to rule over, the King plans to take the surviving Zils to Earth after humanity drives itself to extinction. When Garner offers the king a formula for synthetic Ionide in exchange for him ending his colonisation plan, the King pretends to to agree out of fear of provoking a rebellion, before trying to kill Garner, his fiancée, and the prince of Zils so there would be nobody to stop the Zils agents.
  • Issue #21's "The Zombies Prowl": High Priest Imhotep was a powerful Egyptian priest who started to worship the evil god Setesh for power and immortality. Exiled from Egypt, Imhotep finds the Valley of the Toltecs and enslaves its people. Imhotep eventually exterminates the Toltec race and plans to raise them as his zombie army to wipe out humanity. Going into hibernation until a time where he could perform the spell comes, when the death of an archeologist wakes him and the Toltecs early, Imhotep plans to sacrifice them in order to renew his powers and gain control of his army.
  • Issue #40's "Heart of the Snow Maiden": The Ice King is an evil spirit of cold who grows obsessed with the beautiful Snow Maiden. When she falls in love with the man from the village, the Ice King sends an avalanche to destroy the village and kill the lovers in revenge. Feeling that the Snow Maiden has been revived, the Ice King travels the world to claim her for himself, destroying everything in his path.
• Adventure Time: The Lich, as vile as in the cartoon, continues his crusade to destroy all life after his defeat in Princess Bubblegum's body, taking physical form again to use a Bag of Holding to suck up thousands across Ooo, with the ultimate intent to suck up the entire planet and throw it all into the sun. Even destroyed, the remnants of the Lich's power continue to horrify and torment Finn, with an echo of the Lich's power creating a dungeon to Mind Rape the heroes—taunting the Ice King/Simon Petrikov with an image of his old love Betty and forcing him to watch as she fell apart—and twisted a sapient tree into a horrible monster, both in preparation to eventually recuperate and destroy life again.
• Aladdin: Legacy of the Lost, by Ian Edginton: Qassim is an Evil Sorcerer who seeks to use the Dreaming Jewel to undo all of creation and reshape it in his own image. Having imprisoned djinn lovers Xavier and Alexandria within a lamp and a ring respectively to use to strike the chord of the Dreaming Jewel, Qassim betrayed his fellow Aramaspi sorcerers, including his wife Sorcha, and took the ring for himself. Qassim bribes two men to find him a member of the Aramaspi bloodline before promptly killing them, then tricks Aladdin into retrieving the lamp for him before trying to murder him as well. He later murders the king of Shambhalla to steal the lamp and abducts Princess Soraya, and makes numerous attempts to kill Aladdin's entire crew during their journey. In addition, he treats Xavier as his slave, forcing him to do battle with his own lover Alexandria against his will.
• Alix: Arbaces is by far Alix's cruelest adversary. Introduced as a scheming Greek merchant who attempted to have Alix publicly executed his companion Toraya murdered, Arbaces always returns for more wicked plans. Enslaving travelers for his mines in Efaoud, Arbaces weaponizes gunpowder and compels Alix into working for him by threatening to toss his friend Enak to hungry rats. Joining Sardon in his crusade of extermination against an Egyptian colony, Arbaces tortures two men to death for interrogation and suggests the sacrifice of Alix and his companions before leaving Sardon to die. After usurping Oribal's throne, Arbaces tries to throw Enak off the wall of Zur-Bakal and destroys a dam to flood the entire city. Leading a fleet of pirates, Arbaces pillages and sacks Icarios, planning to sell the survivors into slavery after killing the elders. Rebuilding Khorsabad, Arbaces forces slaves to work in his mines, not caring that they regularly die. After attempting to put out Alix and Enak's eyes, Arbaces set fire to the city. Leading the cult of Moloch Baal, Arbaces slaughters farms in the country of Rome and abducts children that he sacrifices to the fire. Joining King Pharnaces, Arbaces and his army utterly massacre Samsat.
• Alters: Matter Man is a vicious domestic terrorist with dangerous quantum abilities who seeks to control all the "Alters" scattered throughout the East Coast. In his attempts to force Chalice out of hiding and into his clutches, Matter Man has several areas in Dallas and New York City bombed, eats a baby, and destroys a baseball stadium. Prior to his capture, his underlings revealed that Matter Man was attempting to create an EMP weapon capable of bringing down every electronic device in the East Coast, which would likely wipe out the entire continent.
• Amazing-Man: The Great Question is the wicked Arch-Enemy of John Aman as well as his former mentor. The Great Question would commit countless crimes, including killing a multitude of people trying to warn others of his plans; trying to blow up San Francisco and have America go to war with Europe; having his goons steal weapons for him to sell to warring countries or start wars of his own; creating his own race of monsters only to have all of them drown to death; kidnapping Native Americans to strap them in rockets, killing many of them as an experiment; and having slaves work in factories where they get mercilessly beaten. The Great Question helps the Nazis in their plan to Take Over the World, developing the Purple Flame to assassinate numerous government officials and scientists to cripple the US. The Great Question later starts kidnapping draftees to dig tunnels just to lead the Nazis to raze New York to the ground, leaving bomb to kill all of them. The Great Question would lead an assault destroying Hawaii, and later attempts to destroy all of San Francisco with his army.
• American Vampire:
  • Chase Hamilton, a famous Hollywood actor in the silent movie era, came to fame by striking a deal with B.D. Bloch, repaying the Vampire Hunter who initially saved Chase's life by murdering him before he could slay Bloch, feeding said hunter to Bloch himself. In exchange for wealth, prestige and power, Chase has used his charm to lead countless aspiring young starlets, vagrants and other easily-missed nobodies to Bloch, carting their mangled bodies by the literal truckload each night into a ravine full of the bodies of those Chase has led to their doom. One of the final victims of this operation is Pearl Jones, who is made a vampire by Skinner Sweet and offered Chase as her first victim; Chase doesn't even recognize her.
  • Bernard D. "BD" Bloch is the most loathsome of the twisted Carpathian vampires. The true ruler of Hollywood, Bloch makes a deal with Chase Hamilton to elevate the latter to Hollywood stardom in exchange for a near-nightly sacrifice of aspiring starlets who are given to Bloch to be torn apart and drained by him and his coven with the corpses stacked high in the desert. Others are kept in Bloch's chambers, hung on meathooks in agony to be drained at the leisure of the coven, while Block intends to torture the new American vampire Pearl Jones to discover her weaknesses.
  • Lord of Nightmares: Dracula, the Big Bad of this miniseries, is depicted as an feared, ancient monster of pure evil and a Multiple-Choice Past. Dracula was the first Carpathian vampire; as the Carpathian strain wasn't powerful or virulent, it went ignored, allowing the species to become immensely populous, at which point near the end of the 1700s he launched genocidal warfare on all previous vampire strains, exterminating many. After being bound and imprisoned by the vampire-hunting organization Vassals of the Morningstar, Dracula was still occasionally able to reach out, twisting the minds of mortals—including Prince Albert Victor, who thus became Jack the Ripper — into homicidal insanity, often forcing them to murder their loved ones. When he encounters the leader of the Vassals, Linden Hobbes, who was one such victim, Dracula brutally attempts to dismember him, mocking him all the while with a vision of Hobbes's dead son attacking him.
  • The Gray Trader, or the Great Traitor, was once Hurin, humanity's greatest hero. Joining the eldritch Beast, the original source of all monsters, Hurin became its now-monstrous protector and greatest servant. Attempting to revive the Beast to bring about Hell on Earth, the Trader tortures and kills countless innocents, often using the voices of their loved ones to torture them or convince them to allow him to devour them and convert them into soulless demon servants of the Beast. The Trader converts an entire mining community into soulless husks of themselves while "seeding" a woman with the Beast, forcing her to give birth to it in an agonizing process that lasts weeks. Torturing his victims for information, the Trader locates multiple vampire children and feeds them to his master as well before unleashing his monsters on America, resulting in mass slaughter. In a final attempt to unleash its master upon the earth, the Trader contaminates the world's water supply with the Beast's "milk", transforming many into its demonic servants, torturing the Council of Firsts, and forcing Jim Book to become the new vessel for the Beast before laying waste to Las Vegas. Devoted only to the Beast and bringing about the end of days for humanity, Hurin demonstrates how far even humanity's greatest hero can fall.
• The American Way: This duo shows that even in a world with staged heroes, real villains exist:
  • Hellbent was a Serial Killer and cultist leader used for the American government as an assassin. Freed to kill Cuban ambassadors, Hellbent escapes from American control and murders an entire bus of anti-racist activists except the brother of Jason Fisher — the Afro-American Superhero New American — whom he left paralyzed. Confronted by the Civil Defense Corps, Hellbent manages to take the axe of superheroine Freya and uses it to kill her and injure her companion Pharos before running away. Having murdered at least one child in the meantime, Hellbent taunts Jason by giving clues about his location and trying to burn him alive when Jason finds him. A murderer driven for a love of death, Hellbent successfully taunts Jason to kill him by confessing to having raped his paralyzed brother.
  • Chet Sloan was the field director of the Civil Defense Control and a follower of the religion of Hellbent. Taking advantage of the apparition of Jason Fisher, Chet gives superpowers to a fake supervillain, driving him to madness and causing him to kill his family before attacking Jason and revealing his identity as a black person in order to cause racial tensions between the members of the CDC. Freeing Hellbent by using the excuse of killing Cuban ambassadors, Chet allows him to escape and start a killing spree, leading to him being killed for Jason to add more fuel to the racial tensions in the team. When the members of the CDC start fighting amongst themselves and the government decides to nuke them, Chet causes most of the missiles to go to the cities of Washington, New York and Atlanta, before trying to kill himself while talking about the paradise that awaits him in the afterlife. An egomaniac obsessed with himself, Chet denies having any altruist reasons by confessing that — in his own words — "I just get a jazz for killing."
• Animal Castle: The vicious Azov is the cruel enforcer of President Silvio. Leading a pack of dogs to uphold Silvio's tyrannical rules, Azov is introduced ripping an innocent hen to pieces—a regular occurrence. When rebellion simmers, Azov increases the violence, having a shelter burned down to leave numerous animals to freeze in the winter while threatening to murder a litter of kittens to force compliance.
• Animosity: The Headmistress is the ruler of the Walled City and a human supremacist who tortures and lobotomizes sapient animals while taking young girls and women to brainwash them into her ideology, even having them select newly born piglets that are butchered and served. The girls are beaten if they refused, while the Headmistress intends on using their wombs as weapons, having them artificially impregnated with the threat of what awaits those who rebel: They are placed in medically induced comas and made into living wombs, forced to bear child after child to be of use to the Headmistress's personal paradise.
• "Apocalyptic Trilogy"
  • Memetic: "The Maker" is a famous artist who believes that all humans share a single consciousness. When "the angels" contact the Maker to start their Assimilation Plot, the Maker eagerly helps them to infect humanity with a mental virus in the form of "Good Times Sloth", a picture meme that would drive every person that saw the pic to share it, become violently insane after 12 hours, and then become part of monstrous flesh pillars. During the apocalypse, the Maker kills his employees and isolates in his mansion to wait for the authorities. When Marcus Shaw's team manages to find him, the Maker admits not caring about the real intentions of his benefactors and brags about destroying his PC drives to erase any possibility to stop the apocalypse that he started to prove his pet theory.
  • Cognetic: The entity known as Blue is a sadistic, condescending Hive Mind. Once a caveman who ate the flesh of a strange alien, Blue used his newly gained body-snatching powers to try to conquer the world, forcing his "siblings" to reduce him to a single body to protect emergent civilization. Re-emerging in the modern day, Blue possesses the bodies of multiple tourists to get to the observation deck of the Empire State Building, possessing everyone on it and having the bodies throw themselves off. When confronted by his surviving sibling Red, Blue mocks her for trying to live like a human. Expressing delight at Red being forced to fight him using her possession abilities, Blue eventually pressures her into nuking New York to stop him, only to reveal he had been building hive minds in cities across the world, and he is ready to possess the rest of humanity and call the aliens back.
• Arawn: Engus, only blood brother of Arawn, eventually proves himself to be the worst of the four brothers. Already a conniving sadist who mocks his half-brother Math over his heritage and takes over the kingdom of the East by dishonorably assassinating its king and its consorts, Engus becomes a pedophilic despot and hedonist who leads non-stop orgies in his castle and brutalizes his subordinates. Engus is eventually tricked into seemingly dying at the hands of his other half-brother Kern upon being plunged into the Cauldron — but upon absorbing the Cauldron's power, Engus becomes a living god who murders his brother and has his entire kingdom massacred. Drunk on power, Engus leads his armies to devastate all in their wake and sacrifice thousands of innocents to the Cauldron of Blood — regardless of age — even murdering his own blood brother and parading his body around as a depraved trophy.
• Area 10, written by Christos Gage: Jacob Palmer and Dr. Peter Handel are a pair of serial killers who sought to uncover the secrets of trepanation and how it can allow people to predict the future. Under Palmer's instruction, Handel would coerce or kidnap people into performing the torturous process, either driving them mad or decapitating them to study its effect on the brain. Believing that Adam would be a suitable candidate, Palmer manipulates one of Handel's victims to massacre his own family to lure Adam and get him trepanned. When their scheme is uncovered, Handel attempts to murder Adam himself, while Palmer kidnaps and trepans his girlfriend to frame Adam for the murder.
• Arhian: Head Huntress, by Arahom Radjah, Yannis Roumboulias, et al.: Grannark, the Dark Lord, is the ruler of Thaldoom, the "City of Horrors". A death-worshipping despot, Grannark dedicates a month of carnage to his god, regularly slaughtering civilians and displaying their corpses at the kingdom's entrance. He has multiple virgins abducted with the intentions of sacrificing them, particularly Gina, a rumored sorceress, with Grannark hoping to steal her powers for himself. When Arhian frees his prisoners from his clutches, an incensed Grannark ruthlessly pursues her to enact vengeance for his humiliation. Along the way, he captures the surviving members of Arhian's pirate crew following a failed mutiny and has them killed once they give him the information he desires, and brutally kills a lowly cabin boy for accidentally spilling a drink on him. Once he finally tracks Arhian to Mazkaran, home of the Amazons, Grannark initiates a bloodbath between his men and the Amazons, all to sate his wounded pride.
• The Army Of Dr Moreau, by David F. Walker, Carl Sciacchitano, & Sara Machajewski: Commandant Metzger is the cruel Nazi dispatched to create an army for the Third Reich via experimenting on the sapient human-animals on an unmarked island to turn them into killers. Metzger has the homo-animalia tear innocents apart and fight to the death to demonstrate their savage prowess, executing them on a moment's notice and only refraining from killing one near the end as their ranks have been whittled from his horrible abuse. Metzger eventually attempts to take every homo-animalia on the island through force, having an encampment of theirs utterly massacred down to the elderly and the children, dismissing them as merely "ungodly abominations" he seeks to control no matter what he has to put them through.
• Astro City:
  • Deke "the Deacon" M(a)cManus has no superpowers or doomsday plans, but more than makes up for it in sheer ambitious depravity. After serving as the top lieutenant for mob boss Joey "thr Platypus" Platapopoulous for many years, the Deacon made his move for power by igniting the most awful gang war Astro City has ever seen, bombing gangs turfs and killing the bosses' loved ones, then framing other crime lords for the acts to instigate bloody battles throughout the city. As hundreds of people are caught up in the bloodshed, the Deacon murders Joey, unleashes the psychopathic Jitterjack onto the city, and manipulates Black Velvet into murdering the criminals who once brutally tortured and experimented on her, something the Deacon himself had a hand in. Upon assuming control of the annihilated gangs, the Deacon cornered the market on drug running, arms trades, and human trafficking throughout Astro City, and continues to be a plague upon its civilians and heroes alike to this day.
  • The Dark Age: Aubrey Jason, later known as Lord Sovereign, was a PYRAMID operative who killed a random couple to escape superhero pursuers, resulting in the couple's children growing up with a burning hatred towards him. Later pursuing him, the brothers force Jason to leave PYRAMID and go on the run. Attempting to escape them, Jason causes a massive amount of terrorist attacks that claim multiple innocent lives to throw them off his trail until he harnesses mystical energies to make himself into a superpowered being. Christening himself "Lord Sovereign", Jason threatens to force the brothers to relive their parents' murder for eternity and intends on draining the minds of everyone in Astro City to make them his slaves while repeating this process across the world.
  • Vol. 3:
    • Issues #5 ("Thumbtacks & Yarn") & #38: Dr. Aegyptus is an Egyptian-themed supervillain from the early 1900s in Astro City. First introduced having stolen a mystical time-traveling artifact, Aegyptus uses it to kidnap black men, women and children, taking them back to the 1700s and selling them into slavery to use the proceeds to buy magical artifacts in the past before anyone is aware of their true value. Later resurfacing with a new plan, Aegyptus plans to sacrifice a crowded theater full of innocent people in 1917 to summon an Eldritch Abomination to hand the very world over to it, resulting in everything that lives being devoured in return for Aegyptus gaining ultimate power.
    • Issue #17—"Sorrowsday": Krigari Ironhand started out as an entity native to the Unterverse who slaughtered his way to a position of power and strength, becoming a galactic tyrant with a perpetual lust for war and blood. Decimating entire worlds and races with the few survivors forced to toil at his armies with slaves and destroying billions of innocents, Krigari's psychotic crusade takes him to Earth once the disguised Quiqui-a, Eth, tells him he is destined to be defeated at the hands of Astro City's Honor Guard. Repeatedly attempting to destroy Earth, Krigari ultimately binds his soul to an artifact called the Dark Opal to make himself invincible and crush all his enemies, with only the Heroic Sacrifice of the noble Stormhawk putting an end to Krigari's universe-destroying crusade.
• Atari Force: The Dark Destroyer, once a mighty Eldritch Abomination, annihilated world after world by sending its forces to wipe out the native races. Upon its defeat, the Dark Destroyer stole the life of Michael Champion's wife to later reconstruct itself as his double. Forging a mighty empire, the Destroyer plots revenge against the heroes. Showing itself to be a sadistic killer who melts one failed minion in acid, the Dark Destroyer intends to activate an anti-reality bomb to wipe out the Champions' home universe before taking to the Multiverse to destroy or force the submission of all that lives.

B

• Back to Brooklyn: Even though Brooklyn crime boss Paul "The Wall" Saetta is, among other things, a serial pedophile and murderer, he apparently loves his mother. The following duo, however, have no such redeeming qualities:
  • Churchill, Paul's "pet psychopath," is a dapper and eloquent gentleman who nevertheless seems to have no feeling towards anyone. When he tracks Bob to an old store Bob used to frequent, he tortures the elderly owner with a straight razor. After carving him to bits, Churchill has the place set on fire, informing the old man he can carry his bedridden wife out to save her after Churchill has left him in no shape to even walk. Churchill later captures Bob's best friend Vinnie and tortures him, only cutting it short with a bullet to the head when he realizes Vinnie will never betray Bob. It is also revealed Churchill is the one who set a deal with Russian mobsters to always provide Paul with immigrant boys.
  • Penny Saetta, Bob's wife, is revealed in the final issue to match her brother-in-law for evil when she reveals to Bob she participated in and did the filming for Paul's activities. Having only married Bob to be a gangster's wife and a self-described "dangerous bitch", she happily joined in with Paul on his snuff films. When Bob begs her to tell him she didn't involve their son, Penny comments she absolutely made the attempt — Paul just wasn’t interested — before mocking Bob for his morals.
• Baltimore:
  • The Red King is the Big Bad of the series as a whole, empowering supernatural beings to run rampant in the world and bringing about the plague to devastate all of humanity. When he is summoned into the world in the form of Henry Baltimore's best friend Thomas Childress, the Red King is revolted by the very notion of feeling human and sends his armies to slaughter humans in massive numbers while conducting massacres himself to contact the gods who used to serve him. Deciding to "crown" himself to regain his own powers, the Red King attempts a ritual fueled by the deaths of countless innocent people, intending to rule the Earth as a realm of suffering and chaos forevermore.
  • Haigus is the object of Baltimore's pursuit. When inadvertently awoken from his slumber by Baltimore, Haigus spends time tormenting Baltimore turning his family into vampires and saving Baltimore's beloved wife for last. He leaves his wife for Baltimore to find, which forces him to destroy his family when they rise. Haigus spreads his plague throughout all of Europe, occasionally massacring entire villages and leaving the bodies strewn all over for Baltimore to find. He resumes his worship of the monstrous Red King and begins preparing the way for the Red King to return and obliterate the world of men. Haigus eventually tires from the endless pursuits and opts to die at Baltimore's hands, but takes delight knowing he's taken everything from him, and tries to murder Baltimore's only remaining friends before taunting Baltimore how he will never, ever know peace.
  • Judge Andre Duvic is a vicious judge in the service of The Spanish Inquisition who stops at nothing when pursuing Baltimore. Torturing and killing those he comes into contact with to "purify" them, Duvic later kills a young woman who curses him before dying. Returning from death as a savage werewolf, Duvic embraces his new form, rewriting his religion around his own savagery while roaming across the countryside, butchering all he comes across while sadistically torturing those of the clergy he finds wanting. Upon the Inquisitors tracking him, Duvic toys with them, slaughtering them as well while savoring their fear.
  • The Curse Bells storyline: The nameless warlock — actually Adolf Hitler — is a greedy, ambitious man who keeps a large amount of vampiric nuns enslaved to him with the lie he will heal them of vampirism. The warlock uses a dark ritual to resurrect a long-dead witch by feeding her ashes and blood to a pregnant woman so the witch rips its way out of her. The warlock has her curse the bells of the cathedral he uses as a base which will Mind Rape anyone who hears the bells into his slaves with whom he will enslave the world and purge any in the way. The warlock also reveals that he gained his mystic knowledge by entrapping a supernatural beast, by leaving a baby for it to eat and catching it while it bathed after the meal.
  • The Infernal Train: Signora Lucrezia Fulcanelli is a normal human woman and a steadfast servant of the Red King who matches the soulless undead of the comic in pure evil. Driving the train of the title from city to city, Fulcanelli advertises her ghoul-burning furnace as a "cure" to The Plague, withholding the fact she's intentionally spreading these plagues to begin with to transform innocents into ghouls. Fulcanelli has these ghouls slaughter as many people as they can before luring them all into the furnace to burn them alive, proceeding onto the next town afterward and repeating the process all over again. Fulcanelli intends on orchestrating such death the Red King will have no choice but to wake up and devastate the world, whereupon Fulcanelli intends to displace even Haigus as the Red King's most favored servant.
• Battleaxes, by Terry LaBan, Alex Horley, et al.: Nolo Goth is a ravenous, slug-like entity sealed away in the heart of the Birzenian Empire for its vast power and insatiable hunger. A supposed god who cultivates an entire religion around itself, Nolo Goth regularly demands ritual sacrifice of young women whom it devours alive and screaming, having devoured hundreds of thousands of victims through its lifespan and always craving more. To attain its freedom, Nolo Goth subtly manipulates the young apprentice healer and mage Skold and goads her into initiating a series of events that ultimately ends with the Emperor of Birzenia and Nolo Goth's most devout priest devoured by it. Eating the rest of its priests out of annoyance for their chanting, Nolo Goth's response to Skold summoning the spirits of its restless victims is to simply devour them all over again and proclaim nothing will stop it in its quest to eat and slaughter as much as it can forevermore.
• Battlecats:
  • Myrthalen is a devout follower of the Lizard God who secretly manipulated all of the events in the series. Disgusted with the Ermand Dynasty and Valderia's way of living, Myrthalen decided to plunge the world into a perpetual state of Rorinclaw. After she unintentionally convinces King Ermand II to go into exile where he later turns into the Dire Beast, Myrthalen drugs Valadar and watches as he murders Ryah and his Battlecats team. Manipulating Valadar into believing King Ermand III was responsible, Myrthalen assisted Valadar in amassing a colossal army of Umbra Raiders, whereupon they lay siege upon various Greenspyre cities, killing anyone who resisted or didn't join them. After Valadar successfully kills King Ermand III, captures Fanghelm, and starts Rorinclaw by creating the Blood Moon, Myrthalen pushes Valadar to seek out and kill Queen Adastril and the Battlecats to complete his vengeance and conquer all of Valderia.
  • Eltoreq is one of Valadar's closest followers. Bitter over not becoming a Battlecat due to his spiteful attitude, Eltoreq instead chose to lead an army of Umbra Raiders. He led several attacks on his own country that got hundreds killed, even going as far as murdering his own parents just because he felt like it. After joining Valadar in his crusade, Eltoreq assisted the latter in gathering more soldiers; attacking Greenspyre cities; attacking the arena in Fanghelm during Rorinhal; and helping Myrthalen's blood priests create the Blood Moon. Despite appearing to be one of Valadar's most trustworthy allies, he later reveals he's only helping Valadar because they both want Valderia subjected to Rorinclaw.
• Battlefields: Night Witches, by Garth Ennis et al.: Feldwebel Scholz is a stone cold, ruthless Nazi and the superior officer of main character Graf. Seemingly content with sadistically wiping out "Ivans", smugly dismissing as "subhuman" the life of a Witch who kills her injured friend and then herself to evade his capture, the true depths of Scholz's awfulness comes to demonstration when he captures a Witch on his own. Scholz has his entire unit gang-rape the woman, attempting to strong-arm Graf at gunpoint into doing so as well before executing the woman and forcing the broken Graf to stay in the cellar all night with her body lest he be killed as well for his weakness.
• Battle Girlz, by Rod Espinosa: Geneszorr is a galactic terrorist and the sworn enemy of the goddess Sasa Rai and the Battle Girlz. The last of the supertyrants, whom were imprisoned by Sasa Rai centuries ago, Geneszorr orchestrates multiple terrorist attacks on Arlan while amassing an army comprised of mercenaries and other supervillains. Launching an invasion on Arlan's neighboring planet Gallia, Geneszorr and his forces slaughter everything in sight, razing an entire continent to the ground with a doomsday weapon, which results in hundreds of casualties. He callously throws away the lives of his entire army to distract the Battle Girlz, sneering that they were all expendable. Geneszorr's ultimate goal is to open up the gates of the Last Bastion, where the most dangerous threats in the galaxy are imprisoned, and unleash all of them onto the universe.
• Beasts of Burden:
  • "What the Cat Dragged In": The Harrow is a sadistic demon summoned by the former witch's familiar cat, Dymphna. Upon being bound, the Harrow traps Dymphna's kittens and their caretaker, forcing the latter to try to kill the former two and leading to her death in self-defense. Reviving her, the Harrow forces this to repeat constantly, torturing all of them so horribly the kittens scratch their eyes out to escape, even trying to kill themselves only to be revived and tortured all the more by the demon. Upon defeat, the Harrow attempts to drag Dymphna and her allies back to hell for eternal torture at the hands of its brethren.
  • Occupied Territory: The jorōgumo sisters are a trio of Yōkai who relish in the curse of the ancient Tsuchigumo. Taking the chance to slaughter and devour numerous humans for sheer gluttony, they attempt to kill the investigating dogs so as not to be stopped. Allying with the tsuchigumo's misplaced grudge, they intend to help overrun the world and wipe out all humanity.
• Bedlam:
  • Madder Red, before being brutally tortured and lobotomized into becoming a pacifist known as "Filmore Press", was a sickeningly sadistic psychopath. Madder Red spent three years torturing and killing thousands across the city of Bedlam, with standout atrocities including massacring innocents at a religious gathering after decapitating two of the church leaders and massacring a restaurant filled with dozens. In his so-called "greatest achievement", Madder Red slaughtered an entire opera house, including a class of children, and when his Arch-Enemy, The First, arrived, Madder Red slit the one surviving child's throat in front of him just to anger him. Madder Red also revealed, after being captured, that if he was not dead within one hour, his associates would detonate bombs located in six schools across the city and kill hundreds of children and adults alike.
  • Archbishop Warton, the first Arc Villain, is a self-righteous religious zealot who hopes to punish and cleanse the entire city of Bedlam for locking him away after he was ousted as a Serial Rapist and abuser of young boys. By brainwashing some of his abuse victims, Warton makes them genitally mutilate themselves and become killers in his name, horribly murdering innocents across Bedlam, including other survivors of Warton's abuse. Eventually having his most loyal "angel of death" Eric go on a shooting spree in a hospital, Warton callously orders the loyal man to kill himself just so Warton can get a better deal to satisfy his sadistic god complex.
  • Mr. Pixel, the second and final Arc Villain, is a fanatic obsessed with freeing humans from the constraints of morality. Mr. Pixel began his crusade by using Mind Control techniques to organize the bombing of four highly populated areas, before following it up by controlling dozens upon dozens of office workers to jump to their deaths from rooftops. As an insane admirer of Madder Red, Mr. Pixel, after forcing an entire squad of S.W.A.T. team members to slaughter one another, tries to force Fillmore Press, the man created when Madder Red was lobotomized, into shooting and killing him, hoping it will destroy Fillmore and once more bring out Madder Red. As incentive to coerce Fillmore to kill him, Mr. Pixel reveals that he has mind controlled pawns stationed throughout the city of Bedlam, ready to cause planes to crash, burn their own children alive, and slaughter operation patients unless Fillmore murders him, and, even after Mr. Pixel is killed, it is revealed that he had the atrocities carried out anyway, leading to the deaths of thousands across Bedlam.
• The Beyond:
  • Issue 10's "Release from Satan's Scourge": Satan himself is a wicked master of evil who plans on bringing Hell on Earth and eternally torturing humanity. He was defeated and sealed in a book by Duke Black when his demons terrorised the Duke's land, before being freed by the skeptical Gil Jenkins. Satan sends his demons to kill Duke's numerous descendants and destroy his grave, letting Gil live so he could see Satan spreading his evil across the world.
  • Issue 23's "Minion of the Bloody Horsemen":
    • Hans Richter is a bloodthirsty and ambitious S.S. colonel whose service earned him the moniker "Butcher of Rome". After being saved from execution and brought to Ancient Rome by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Hans willingly becomes their servant in return for power. Organising a slave rebellion and blackmailing the Emperor into giving him a Legion for the conquest of Africa, Hans plots to take the hand of the Emperor's daughter in marriage and take control of the Roman Empire. He leads his army to plunder and raze Africa's cities while spreading the Horsemen's evil, at one point ordering a crowd of starving people who asked him for bread killed. Returning to Rome after a plague kills half of his Legion, Hans kills the Emperor after learning his daughter has been struck by plague, declaring he doesn't need the Horsemen anymore and that he alone will conquer Rome.
    • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse themselves are evil fiends who brought Hans to ancient Rome. Promising to make him the most powerful man in The Roman Empire if he serves them, the Horsemen assist him with organising a slave rebellion. The Horsemen join Hans in his conquest of Africa, assisting him while spreading their evil, leading to lots of death, starvation, and plague. Not even people at their side are safe, as a plague kills half of Hans's legion and their evil spreads to Rome as well, bringing the Empire to the brink of collapse.
• The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot: "The Monster", called "Taoking" in merchandise, is an ancient, dinosaur-like entity that once ruled the world as a cruel Hive Mind before being forced into a deep slumber. Emerging after scientists create a vessel capable of containing its great power, the Monster immediately begins slaughtering all of Tokyo, sadistically taunting its citizens of their inferiority while digesting them alive before turning countless more into monstrous extensions of its will, a Fate Worse than Death for them all. When the Big Guy and Rusty arrive to try to cease the destruction, the Monster gleefully tries to kill them both while boasting of its plans to turn the world into an unending nightmare of death and pain for all of humanity.
• Birthright: God-King Lore was once The Chosen One who saved the world of Terrenos. Succumbing to lust for power and his own sadism, Lore enacted a nightmarish dictatorship where countless innocents were murdered, tortured, and subjected to further atrocities. Seeking to bring his rule to Earth, Lore seemingly seduces the young hero Mikey to his cause, binding him to a Nevermind spirit that tortures him should he think of betraying Lore while having Mikey hunt down and kill the Mages — including Lore's own daughter Mastema — keeping Terrenos apart from Earth. Keeping Mikey's mentor Rook as a tortured slave for years, Lore gleefully launches an invasion of Earth to massacre most of its population, showing how far a hero can fall.
• Black & White (Image Comics): Jake Chang, the head of Phoenix World Enterprises, is a former criminal who faked his death to become a respected and powerful figure, and intends to pursue global domination using heavy weaponry. Introduced raiding the Kamasaya brewery to access the weapons stashed underground, Chang has the factory workers — armed and unarmed alike — slaughtered, abducting the factory manager. Having the manager's niece, Whitney Samsung, committed to a psychiatric ward, Chang forces his workers to dig for the weaponry at the risk of their own safety, killing any who refused. After a confrontation with Whitney and her ally Reed Blackett, and a subsequent confrontation with a reporter, Chang has the reporter targeted in retaliation for mentioning his alleged illegal activities. Later torturing Whitney's uncle with an electric prod, Chang tries to have Whitney's inheritance signed over to him. Subsequently rigging his warehouse to explode, when Whitney and Blackett subdue his men, Chang abandons any survivors to their fates before detonating the warehouse.
• The Black Bat, by Brian Buccellato et al.:
  • Oliver "Olly" Snate is a cheerfully wicked crime lord who runs the city through a mix of bribery, intimidation and violence. Murdering other criminals and bystanders alike, Snate grew enraged when Tony Quinn, the future Black Bat, refused to give up a witness for him to execute and personally carved Quinn's eyes out. On the run later and enraged at the DA going after him, Snate conspires with Professor Cameron Tell to kidnap multiple police officers, having one murdered to force another to set off a bomb in the courthouse to kill hundreds if not thousands of innocents. When escaping from jail later, Snate even pointlessly murders one officer just because, in his words, "I hate cops", treating all the lives he destroys as little more than business and pleasure.
  • Behind even Oliver Snate is Professor Cameron Tell, an anarchist who seeks to tear down all authority and establish chaos in the streets. Cameron controls Snate and his organization's affairs from the shadows while ruthlessly routing out any loose ends, masterminding the entire conflict including the courtroom bombing that kills and injures hundreds of innocent people, while throwing blame on the judicial department for their inability to handle the situation. Cameron horribly wounds Quinn's girlfriend, murders the doctor providing for him when he balks at the innocent blood Cameron has and will spill, and tricked his assistant into working for him after murdering her husband while framing Quinn for it and trying to provoke her into shooting him.
• Black Hood, by Duane Swierczynski et al.: The Nobody is a sadistic, psychopathic assassin who, after spending years murdering people for cash, gained a new outlook on life when confronted by the vigilante known as the Black Hood. Believing that the Black Hood is an anomaly in the programming of life, the Nobody becomes determined to "undo" all the good the Black Hood has done. Kicking this off by slaughtering 9 people in a gun shop the Black Hood saved from gunmen, the Nobody next travels to a huge restaurant where the Black Hood stopped an armed robbery. Slaughtering the kitchen staff, the Nobody serves poison-laced food to the dozens upon dozens of patrons, men, women, children, and infants alike, and can only smile as they all drop dead from the poisoning. After failing to massacre an entire family when the Black Hood intervenes, the Nobody prompts to erase the Black Hood's physical past itself, as he next blows up the entire hospital the Black Hood was born at after kidnapping his girlfriend, Jessie. Later bombing the Black Hood's only apartment building, setting fire to much of the entire block in the process, the Nobody finally hopes to blow up the Black Hood's old school, then force him to watch as Jessie is brutally murdered at the Nobody's hands. A psychotic believer that free will doesn't exist and that he's just a weapon of the universe, the Nobody was easily the worst villain the Black Hood ever faced.
• Black Moon Chronicles:
  • Haazheel Thorn, the leader of the Black Moon that worships him as a demigod, sends his armies out on crusades of death against the Empire of Lynn. He orchestrates the apparent murder of Wismerhill's father and blames it on the empire in order to bring him over to his side. Haazheel sacrifices thousands of his troops in a futile battle so he can fake his own demise and rebuild his forces at his leisure. Haazheel, who is actually the offspring of Lucifer, plans to bring about Hell on Earth while sending as many souls as possible to hell to have their souls devoured. After obliterating the Empire of Lynn, killing Emperor Haaghendorf, and forcing the faithful few to ascend to another dimension, Lucifer's demons rampage around the world and Haazheel's priests forcibly convert as many people as possible to increase his power, with anyone who refuses being put to the sword and having their souls ripped out. When Wismerhill turns on Haazheel and closes the Hellgate, Haazheel and his forces attack the imperial palace, causing his right-hand-man Lord Greldinard to walk away in disgust from the ensuing slaughter. He personally battles Wismerhill after first killing off all his friends, and even after having been mortally wounded, Haazheel uses the last of his dark magic to curse the entire world by ensuring that the moon will leave its orbit.
  • Lucifer himself is the father and master of Haazheel Thorn, having fathered the evil Archmage for one purpose. Sick of always winning at chess with his demonic minions, who know far better than to trust his promises to spare them should they win, Lucifer decides to make the world a grand game instead. He has Haazheel and the Black Moon run rampant, killing countless beings to receive their souls in Hell for eternal torture or to be devoured. Upon the downfall of Emperor Haghendorf, Lucifer has the gates of Hell opened to emerge, running rampant with his demons to reap the souls of all they encounter with intentions of annihilating everything until no humans remain before he moves on to other worlds. After the gates of Hell are shut and Haazheel is defeated, Lucifer promptly demonstrates his displeasure by devouring his son's screaming soul, later tracking down the refugees of the destroyed world and leading his armies to make sure none survive.
• Black Sable, written by Joe Brusha:
  • Major Karr is a high-ranking figure in the Corporation and an ice-cold, unfeeling traitor who chases profit and prestige at cost of lives. First introduced having a creature known as an Eater tear through a man's guts to interrogate his fellows, Karr has them fed to it as well once she is done. Running slavery operations where she has people killed even for tripping, Karr is also a traitor who is selling out to the barbaric Mar race, blowing up the Corporation's headquarters to kill not only her own comrades but thousands of innocents, to unleash the Mar upon the galaxy.
  • King Kar of the Mar runs a brutal society that sanctions savage raids, killing countless innocent people so he may take their bones as trophies. Upon receiving Major Karr's intel, the King unleashes the Mar on the galaxy so that the "stars may run red with the blood of men" and kill billions so he may rule the galaxy and establish his own legacy.
• Blacksad:
  • Somewhere Within the Shadows: Ivo Statoc is a powerful businessman who serves as the primary villain of this first album. Most of the other villains in the series get tragic backstories or redeeming traits, but Statoc is evil and depraved to the core. He made film star Natalia Wilford his mistress, but when he found out she cheated on him, he personally tortured her lover to death, killed Natalia in cold blood, had his way with her corpse afterwards, and threw money at it to make it go away. When one of his associates has had enough and tries to blackmail him with his crimes, Statoc arranges the man's death. Later, he taunts Blacksad by boasting that unlike his foe, he isn't limited by such silly things like ethics and moral scruples, and is so successful because of his cold-bloodedness. The only thing that really interests him is pure, unadulterated power.
  • Arctic Nation: Huk is The Starscream to Hans Karup, the leader of the racist Arctic Nation, of which Huk is the spokesman. Huk also inspires lynchings against "black" animals and praises the lynchings in public as a defense of the noble "white race." While seemingly loyal to Hans Karup, Huk schemes to overthrow him and steal his wife in the bargain. During his affair with Karup's wife Jezabel, Huk has the daughter of Karup's black maid kidnapped to frame Karup — who is suspected to be a pedophile — but murders her mother when he decides she might talk. He then tricks Karup's followers into lynching him, taunting Karup he'll see to Karup's wife and then tries to hang Blacksad's friend, a journalist who'd been spying on Huk. Manipulating a harmless old crow into helping him, Huk decides to murder the little girl as well and shoots his unwilling accomplice when he demands Huk save the girl from a burning building before leaving her to burn.
• Black Sun, by Marc Andreyko, Trevor Scott, et al.: Azuras is an ancient demon lord who conspired with the CEO of Yama Inc., Zhao Sun, in order to make toys known as Wrist Dragons and is also responsible for the demon attack that happened in the Yama Warehouse. Introduced by twisting a woman's neck, Azuras then shoots Zhao's police brother, Hsu Sun, while possessing Zhao, telling him that he shot his own brother after Azuras refused to confess. Testing his powers by letting the demons possessing innocent people and seemingly stopped by the heroine Margaret Sun, Azuras taunts Margaret that he is her real father before throwing her from the skyscraper. The Wrist Dragons that he and Zhao made were contaminated by Azuras's powers as the latter intends to control all the children to cause mass chaos across Hong Kong. After he kidnaps Margaret, he attempts to convince his daughter to join his side, and when she refuses, he sexually abuses her and gleefully proclaims that he will make his daughter suffer.
• Black Tape, written by Dan Panosian: Lucas Fortune is a seemingly benevolent music agent, but is actually the wicked leader of a satanic cult bent on mass suffering. Lucas kidnapped and horribly tortured half a dozen women to death in ritual sacrifices to Lucifer and his "son" Jack King. Trying to turn Jack's widow Cindy into the final sacrifice, Lucas reveals his desire to bring Hell on Earth and stand above the rest of humanity at Lucifer's right hand. Even when the demonic Jack reveals that he himself is disgusted with Lucas's villainy, Lucas still tries to weasel his way into seeing his plan to fruition without Jack.
• Blake and Mortimer: Over the years, Blake and Mortimer faced various enemies, but a few managed to stand out from the crowd through their sheer evil:
  • The Secret Of The Swordfish: Emperor Basam-Damdu is the head of the Yellow Empire. After claiming that he wanted peace, he attacked the free world, bombing several capitals in order to break the free world's minds, successfully taking over the world. When La Résistance starts fighting back, Basam-Damdu and his Great Council put the blame on Colonel Olrik, subtly threatening him and telling him to force Mortimer to reveal the Swordfish's plans in two days, or he will send someone to torture Mortimer. When the resistance is slowly winning, Basam-Damdu launches his empire's nuclear arsenal, attempting to destroy the world out of spite. A selfish, uncaring man who didn't care even for his own empire, Basam-Damdu was among the first, and among the worst, of the comic's villains.
  • The Time Trap: The Sublime Guide is the descendant of Asian people who wanted to recreate civilization in an "ant colony way". Inheriting its ancestors' depravity, the Sublime Guide reigned upon the Subdued, the remnants of human civilization, with an iron first, "mercilessly" crushing the Subdued's first revolt in the 31th Century. In the 51th Century, upon learning that some its underlings plotted against its rule, the Sublime Guide asked Dr. Focas to permanently brainwash the entire world. When Focas secretly helped Mortimer and the Subdued's revolt, the Sublime Guide had Focas's traitorous second-in-command Krishma hid transmitter relays close to Mortimer and Focas to attract the police robots. Summoning Focas, the Sublime Guide viciously mind raped him into obeying it, before having Focas and Krishma lead the rebels outside, where the Sublime Guide can easily exterminate all of them with superior weaponry before proceeding similarly with the rest of the world's rebels. When Mortimer manages to defeat the police robots, the Sublime Guide sends the Thing in a last-ditch effort to slaughter the Resistance. Despite being minor, the Sublime Guide remains one of the comic's cruelest villains.
  • The Voronov Plot: Dr. Voronov, thinking that the current Soviet leaders fail to follow Josef Stalin's ideas, plans to take over the USSR and kill its current leaders. Discovering the bacteria Z, which can kill adults in a day while children are immune to it, Voronov, against the government's orders, decides to use it against the West and the United States, having his agents send children bearing the bacteria to kiss celebrities, thus infecting and killing them. When Colonel Olrik fails to prevent Blake and Mortimer from foiling Voronov's plan, Voronov sends Olrik to London to retrieve or destroy the sample of the bacteria stolen by Blake and his allies. He also wants Olrik to frame the Kremlin, which, combined with their assassination attempt against Elizabeth II, would lead to a nuclear war, killing millions, something Voronov is fully aware of. When General Oufa tries to stop him, Voronov kills him with a drill. When learning that Grace, the infected girl who kissed the queen, had sickle-cell anemia, thus destroying the bacteria, Voronov sent Olrik to kidnap her. Loyal to none but his fanatic Stalinist ideals, Voronov is one of the comic's most depraved non-Jacobs villains.
• Blitzkrieg's first two issues' additional story "The Huns": Attila the Hun is a bloodthirsty conqueror who is introduced savagely laying siege to many towns and cities, burning them and slaughtering everyone within. Attacking one city, Attila orders it slaughtered, including the elderly, the women and the children before inspiring his sword-bearer to go murder someone to become a "real Hun", not caring when the boy is missing later. Arriving at a peaceful village, Attila ties its leader to his horse and drags the man to death to create a circle of blood around the village with a promise any who leaves it shall die. Taking some of the women to serve his pleasure, Attila sends his Huns to collect tribute with the promise that failure shall result in the village's extermination.
• Blood Feud, by Cullen Bunn et al.: The Master Vampire is the spawn of the devil. Summoned by the Whately Clan, The Master wipes them out or turns them all into mindless vampire spawn, sending them to exterminate their old enemies, the Stubbs Family. Unsatisfied with this, the Master moves out into the ton of Spider Creek, slaughtering or turning most of the town with the intention to expand into the rest of the world.
• Blueberry:
  • Issues #3-5:
    • Pedro Luis Armendariz is the corrupt governor of Sonora, Mexico. Plotting to seize control of the entire nation, Armendariz is the secret supplier of Lone Eagle. Stockpiling weapons and giving them to the Natives to foster a bloody and genocidal war, Armendariz opts to keep his hands clean and direct Lone Eagle to wipe out all the Americans he can, including slaughtering them out of Texas while helping Armendariz launch a coup and take over Mexico.
    • Lone Eagle is an Apache war chief who loves nothing as much as war for its own sake. In cooperation with the wicked Pedro Armendariz, Lone Eagle repeatedly sabotages peace efforts from both sides in a war between the Whites and the Natives, hiding among the US Cavalry as a scout named Quanah One-Eye. "Quanah" tortures and kills anyone who finds out his real plans, nearly having Blueberry's entire caravan slaughtered by an Apache ambush. When a lieutenant carrying a message for the President that will guarantee an end to the war tells Lone Eagle he could save hundreds of Native lives, Lone Eagle destroys his message and laughs that he's in no rush to end the bloodshed. Lone Eagle later spitefully scalps one of Blueberry's closest allies, Crowe, earning him a hatred rarely evoked from any other foe Blueberry fought then or since.
  • Issues #7-9: Jethro "Steelfingers" Diamond is a corrupt agent working for railroad barons to sabotage their rivals. In truth out for himself, Steelfingers orchestrates an attack on the local Sioux to frame Blueberry while leaving men behind to be framed and scalped. Rallying the Sioux, Steelfingers plots to use them to kill everyone aboard a train so he can rob it while ensuring only the Sioux are blamed and a war begins between them and the local Whites. Murdering his entire gang as not to share any profit, Steelfingers attempts to flee and leave Chief Sitting Bull and his men to be wiped out.
  • Issues #9-10 & 22: General "Golden Mane" Allister starts out as an insufferably smug General Failure who wages a war of extermination against the Native population for the sake of his own glory. A living cocktail of idiocy, racism, and sheer unchecked ego, Allister throws his own men against hordes of Native warriors in battles that kill his own as much as the enemy, all while he hounds at them to target women, children, and the elderly. Even after Blueberry saves his life, Allister repays him by setting him up to die with a regiment full of men that Allister has deemed expendable. Allister pops up years later no better than he was before, now the mastermind behind a scheme to assassinate President Ulysses S. Grant—as well as a train full of dozens of other people as collateral—as part of an insane plan to dupe the American people into making him President Evil in the subsequent chaos.
• Bone:
  • The Lord of the Locusts was an ancient spirit of the Dreaming who desired physical form and the waking world for himself. Possessing the queen of dragons, Mim, the Locust almost destroyed the world before being sealed away. Remaining dormant and hidden, the Locust steadily converted others to its cause, including the corruption of the evil Briar Harvestar, with whom the Locust attempted to annihilate the ancient orders and royal lines of the valley. Failing to sway Rose Harvestar to its side, the Locust spitefully aged Briar into a withered crone for her failure, later participating in inspiring the uprising of Rat Creatures to massacre the Royal Family, save for Rose and her granddaughter Thorn. Pushing for Briar to liberate it and all the deaths it causes, the Locust is willing to destroy the world and condemn everything that lives there to a nightmarish, tormented existence upon its freedom so it may rule the world with a physical form.
  • The Hooded One, really Briar Harvestar, is the Lord of the Locusts's chief servant who intends to free him, uncaring that he intends to end the world. As a young woman, Briar first attempted to free her master by using a river dragon as a distraction to slaughter a small town, all while she enacted her plot to overthrow her loving parents and kill her younger sister Rose. When spared despite her crime, Briar works as her master's spy, leading her niece and nephew to their deaths in an attempt to abduct her own grandniece, dying and being resurrected to take on the identity of the Hooded One in the process. Using her powers to force the Rat Creatures of the Valley into all-out war, Briar terrifies a General allied with her with the revelation she seeks to use him to wipe out all that lives in the area, before killing him for learning the truth.
  • Rose prequel: Balsaad is a sadistic river dragon who serves the Lord of the Locusts, working with Briar Harvestar to free it and bring humanity to destruction at its hand. Balsaad tricks Rose into helping him before revealing his true allegiances, trying to kill her as soon as his ruse is up. Balsaad later descends upon a small town and starts razing it for fun, and he's visibly annoyed at having to curtail his random slaughter on Briar's order.
• The Boys: Even in the twisted word of The Boys, these two distinguish themselves as the vilest:
  • Black Noir, clone of the Homelander, was made to destroy the original, but chafes under never getting the order. Deciding to drive the Homelander insane, Black Noir goes on murderous rampages, killing sprees and rapes where he impersonates the Homelander, even killing and eating babies to take photos and send them to the Homelander to drive him insane and make him become a monster so Noir can receive the kill order. Billy Butcher's wife Becky was also raped by Black Noir, leading to her death. Noir later helps manipulate Homelander into starting a superpowered rebellion to get countless innocents killed, having embraced his own sadism and madness long ago.
  • John Godolkin is a twisted expy of Charles Xavier. The leader of the G-Men, Godolkin kidnaps children from their parents and turns them into superpowered Child Soldiers that he raises to be loyal to him. Any children who prove troublesome are summarily murdered and stricken from the rosters. Worse, Godolkin is a pedophile who rapes the children after he has abducted them, slowly brainwashing them into helping him rape the younger children later, building an army of fanatical soldiers ready to die for him.
• Bram Stoker's Death Ship: The Last Voyage of the Demeter, by Gary Gerani, Stuart Sayger, et al.: Even condensed to a retelling of the original novel's opening, Dracula — known entirely as the "Upyr" — is as vile as ever. The Upyr boards the Demeter to cross over from Transylvania to England while preying on the crew physically and mentally. The Upyr shows a penchant for Mind Rape, using detailed illusions to lure its victims to their deaths and condemning one man as a waste of life in the form of his abusive father before killing him. The Upyr ends having killed all but the captain of the Demeter, who himself is reduced to broken catatonia after what the Upyr has put him through as the Upyr itself moves onto England to begin its feast.
• Breed, by Jim Starlin: The demon lord known as the "All Father" is the monstrous father of hero Ray Stoner, a powerful "Breed" or half demon. Desiring to consume all humanity as he has done other alien worlds, the All Father upon his first summoning wipes out a small town in Texas save for a young woman whom he rapes, driving her insane and catatonic while fathering Ray. Instituting this process on countless innocents to create Breeds while personally fathering another boy named Patrick, the All Father prepares the way for the demons to invade Earth so they may consume all of humanity, ending by trying to kill Ray and Patrick himself.
• Briar issues #2-4: Deadcrawl is Grendrid's servant tasked with retrieving Princess Briar. In his search, Deadcrawl kills the tavern keeper who spotted Briar before massacring the village of Bog Witches and burning down their swamp. Finding Briar in the gnome village, Deadcrawl and his men butcher the gnomes before setting the forest on fire and almost killing Briar's companions.
• Brigada, by Enrique Fernandez: Yaibed is the leader of the dark elves who ostensibly acts as an intermediary for the divine Primordial Ones. In actuality Yaibed hasn't heard a clear message from the Primordials in years, driving him ever more furious as he's denied what he feels is his right. When he goes off the deep end, Yaibed begins massacring entire towns full of people, down to the kids, to provoke a response from the Primordials. When his pregnant ally Belzair rallies the other elves against him in horror, Yaibed sacrifices both her and her unborn child, stating he'll burn down the entire world if it means regaining communion with the gods. Reviled by the dwarves and the other dark elves alike, even Yaibed's gods are implied to be disgusted with him and his cruelty.
• Broken Moon series:
  • Broken Moon, by Steve Niles, Nat Jones, et al.: Nosferatu, the lord of the vampires that have dominated most of the Earth after the apocalypse resulted in monsters overrunning the world, sets up a cruel, dystopian city where humans have been forced into slavery by his kind, either into forced breeding to produce food for the vampires or into hellish factories with giant death tolls that do nothing but blot out the sun. Unsatisfied with oppressing humanity, and executing even his own vampire minions if they question him, Nosferatu opts to have a pipe built into the ocean so he can poison it and subsequently destroy the atmosphere, turning the entire planet into a polluted hellscape to wipe out every other species from the planet.
  • Legends of the Deep, by Philip Kim, Nat Jones, Ben Meares, et al.: Lorren is a vicious cannibal who takes advantage of the apocalyptic state of mankind to engage in whatever fantasies he wants, having been mad from the start. Lorren squeezes out victims from a desperate fishing village Korbin works for, protecting them in exchange for men, women, and children to devour. Once Korbin turns on him to try and help stop Cthulhu, Lorren viciously tries to murder both him, his son, and the mermen he's allied with, exploiting cheap and dangerous labor from the other villagers to bury them in a landslide and maiming his own minions when they contest his ideas. Lorren ultimately ends up into a monstrous, mutated servant of Cthulhu, as much an abomination on the outside now as he was on the inside.
• Buckskin: America's Defender of Liberty:
  • Mr. Brockman is a Nazi spy masquerading as a schoolteacher. Manipulating a group of children into spreading his propaganda, he then kidnaps them and forces their munitions factory worker fathers to bomb their workplaces under pain of their kids' deaths. Brockman keeps the boys in poor conditions, regularly whipping them for talking too loud. He has no intention of keeping his deal, either, planning to frame the fathers as the masterminds and kill the children as a loose end.
  • The Black Buzzard is a fanatical Nazi who aims to destroy the largest arsenal in the United States. To test his plan, he has a bunch of guards dosed with a horrific poison that makes them melt to the bone before shooting down a transport plane. His scheme proven sound, the Buzzard proceeds to have every guard between him and his target poisoned. He then goes on a kamikaze run, intending to crash a plane full of explosives into the arsenal in broad daylight, risking the lives of thousands.
• Burning Fields, by Michael Moreci, Tim Daniel, et al.: Commander Decker Marce is the head of Verge and a sociopathic militant brought in to investigate a series of murders around a Verge-owned oilfield. Already an extremist before getting roped in with the murders — all done under the command of the demon Asag — Decker previously had an entire family, the children not spared, executed on the vague potential of them being terrorists, and shows open willingness to employ lethal violence against the Iraqi population. After an ill-fated attempt to investigate underground tunnels leads to Asag taking Decker into its service, Decker becomes significantly worse, slaughtering an innocent man, massacring several Carapace soldiers, and brutally murdering his own men for little reason at all. Decker ultimately proves himself to have full agency when serving Asag when he deliberately threatens to keep Asag unsealed if he's not provided with a position of comfortable power, and ultimately devolves from a man with some semblance of standard into a fanatical zealot seeking to unleash Asag upon the world and bask in the flames that consume all humanity in the process.
• Bushido: The Way of the Warrior, by Rob Levin, Jessada Sutthi, et al.: The unnamed vampire lord is the leader of a clan of ravenous vampires who attack Japan. Initiating bloody massacres all over the island and ordering the attempted assassination of the Shogun through his right-hand Raven, the vampire lord attacks the wedding between the Shogun's daughter Mitsuko and Orochi, aiming to slaughter everyone there. After turning Orochi into a vampire, the vampire lord seduces Orochi into embracing his hunger and bringing Mitsuko to him to barter with her life in exchange for Japan. The vampire lord's ultimate goal, after reducing the population of Japan into cattle for him and his clan to hunt to their heart's content, is to sail out and devour all humanity, establishing an immortal vampiric empire with himself as its epicenter.
• The Butcher of Paris, written by Stephanie Phillips: Marcel Petiot is a seemingly respectable doctor eager to assist Jews and resistance members escape Nazi-occupied Paris for a fee. In truth a sadistic monster, Petiot uses the desperation of others to lure them in, rob them and murder them via cyanide or carving them apart in his basement. Escaping justice for months, Petiot is caught when he murders a taxidermist to take his business and then a woman who comes looking for the man, with dozens of bodies confirmed and many dozens more suspected to be attributed to "The Butcher of Paris".

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• Caged Heat 3000 comic: Velana is a Gynostic who murdered one of her fellow sisters to drain her power, being exiled and dubbed "the Apostate" thanks to this heinous act. Killing hundreds more Gynostics over the years for her own greed, Velana travels to the prison colony A-4 and subjects the population to Mind Rape and other mental violations so as to twist many into her personal slaves. Velana plans to subject thousands of women to her telepathic tortures until she has a whole army with which to wipe out the Gynostics for banishing her before subjugating the whole universe under her heel.
• Caliban: The body-snatching alien, known as Karien after its human host, is a sadistic being of electrical impulses that possesses sapients. It is made clear the alien is a thinking, sapient being who simply doesn't care at all about the lives of others. When the Caliban stumbles on a derelict alien spacecraft, it is revealed that the alien Karien massacred the prior crew. Upon possessing its host, Karien brutally tortures and kills crew members, partially to figure the limits of human physiology, and partly for fun. When it understands human limits enough, Karien proceeds to enhance the body with alien technology before slaughtering the remaining crew save two. Karien intends to force them to take it back to Earth so it may proceed to enslave it and rule over it by using humans as tools or bodies to possess.
• Caligula: The demon who possesses Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus and rechristens himself "Caligula" is a psychopathic trickster who uses his new status as Emperor of Rome to fully indulge in his penchant for sadism. Caligula establishes himself as a heartless sadist when, on a whim, he leads a gang rape and massacre of an entire family of farmers, including the 4 year-old son; he regularly commits similar atrocities. Taking great joy in forcing people to act out "plays" he himself has written, Caligula often uses said plays to force the partakers to cannibalize, rape, and murder each other, often taking part himself. Along with regularly raping and torturing his flesh-and-blood sister, then promising to corrupt her newborn, a product of his raping her, into evil, Caligula also personally butchers people by the dozen, arranges their bodies in "artistic" manners, then rips out their very souls, devouring them and trapping the souls in constant agony. Even when seemingly beaten, Caligula Body Surfs into anyone he can, continuing to murder innocents and devour their souls in a ritual he attempts to use to drive Rome to tear itself apart, and eventually settles in the body of the young Nero, fully planning to obtain the throne once more and destroy Rome for good. Psychopathic, egomaniacal, and with his own twisted sense of "art", Caligula was as wicked as a demon could be, and took great joy in being as evil as possible.
• Camelot 3000: Morgan Le Fay is the wicked half-sister of King Arthur. Having manipulated the fall of Camelot, Morgan was banished through space and time, killing her way through multiple aliens to take control of their race and forcing their children to be her soldiers and Cannon Fodder. Raining death and destruction on Earth and attempting to torture and kill the reincarnated Knights of the Round Table, Morgan begins assassinating world leaders to establish her dominion before attempting to wipe out the Knights and kill whoever she needs to in order to rule the world.
• The Cape miniseries, based on the original by Joe Hill: Eric Chase is a lazy and selfish sociopath who discovers that his childhood cape grants him the ability of flight, and chooses to use this power to stroke his own ego. First brutally murdering his girlfriend after he becomes paranoid she is cheating on him, Eric, as detailed in the interquel Fallen, is struck by a crisis of conscience that he ultimately ignores, embracing his inner vileness as he massacres an entire group of LARPers he was hanging out with. Later using his own mother as a hostage in an attempt to burn his hated brother alive, Eric murders several police officers investigating him — a pair of them by dropping a live bear on top of their car — before downing an entire airplane his mother is on, killing her and hundreds of people at once. Though once a sweet child desperate for his father's approval, Eric knowingly and willingly becomes a monster in adulthood, refusing to take guilt or responsibility for his life and instead blaming everyone around him for his faults, and deciding that the punishment for them all should be death.
• De Cape et de Crocs: Mendoza is the cruel captain of a galley who mistreats the rowers and has them executed for the slightest reason. When he learns of the existence of the treasure of the Tangerine Islands, Mendoza shoots the man who gave him the map and decides to find the treasure in order to build an army to conquer the world. After meeting Séléné, Mendoza becomes determined to force her to marry him, intending to make her a battered wife. On the Moon, Mendoza joins the service of Prince Jean and leads his armies to attack the capital, killing the three Cadets who were protecting it, all the while plotting to assassinate the Prince and steal the throne from him. In his last appearance, Mendoza manages to capture the protagonists and prepares to throw them into space, and also tries to have Hermine gang-raped while forcing her lover Lope to watch.
• Captain Action (Moonstone Comics's 2008-2009 run): Fantômas, from issue #1's short story written by Paul Kupperberg, seeks an "elemental farewell" to Paris. To this end, he concocts his schemes to rig fireworks during a Parisian celebration to rain death upon the revelers; sets off bombs in the metro to bury scores alive and burns many others to death in the Parisian gardens. Plotting to overflow the Parisian sewers to bury huge sections of the city underwater, Fantômas happily gloats over his lack of conscience and enjoyment of mass murder.
• Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers:
  • Original comic:
    • Great Blackmass of Hellikost is Captain Victory's grandfather and most terrifying enemy. He is an evil conqueror who lost his physical form in a war that devastated both his planet and a nameless planet that stood in the way of his conquest. Blackmass has killed his son who rebelled against his evil and raised his grandson to be as evil as the rest of his family. He has his army raze planets and kill entire races in their conquests. When Victory rebels against his grandfather's evil, Blackmass tries to have him killed. Blackmass lures four criminals into Eldrich Quadrant X and has them destroy countless ships in order to lure Victory into a trap. When his grandson and his ship enter Quadrant X, Blackmass tries to have him killed, throwing the criminals' lives away.
    • Lightning Lady is the queen of an Insecton colony who broke a quarantine the Rangers placed her species in. She leads her colony into conquering worlds, turning them into hives and eating each planet's population. Chased to Earth by Captain Victory and his crew, she hypnotises the population of a human town to be her slaves, planning to enslave even more humans into helping her terraform Earth before eating them. She sends an Insecton Super Soldier to destroy Captain Victory, and when that fails, uses dozens of children as hostages.
  • Kirby: Genesis—Captain Victory:
    • Blackmass is Captain Victory's evil grandfather and the cruel ruler of the Shadow Empire. 1,000 years ago, he waged bloody wars of conquest across the universe, killing billions and using Shadow to turn populations of entire planets into his soldiers. After being sealed in Quadrant-X, Blackmass continues to lead his empire from his prison. In a bid to turn his grandson into the ultimate weapon, Blackmass has the boy put under the care of the evilest beings in his empire. After Victory kills Batteron, Blackmass breaks the barrier of his prison, intent on killing his rebellious grandson and all of the people on Victory’s flagship.
    • Issue #1—"Victory is Sacrifice": Batteron is a military commander in Blackmass's Shadow Empire and one of Captain Victory's most personal foes. Batteron is a sadist in charge of spreading Blackmass's Shadow across the galaxy and turning the populations of whole planets into unthinking slaves. When he was given his master's grandson to train, Batteron abused the boy and tried to make him into a killer, ordering him to kill a captured rebel before executing the man himself. Batteron leads the conquest of the planet Kloon, where he faces Victory before gloating that Shadow has already taken over the whole planet. Left to die on Kloon as Victory prepares to destroy it, Batteron laughs that his former student has finally learned to be ruthless.
• Cat & Mouse (Roland Mann) Vol. 2—2019-2023: Lorinda Johnson, otherwise known as the "Widowmaker" is the misandrist head of an assassination and forced child prostitution racket who regularly takes in runaway girls, manipulates them, and trains them as underage assassins, aka "Widows", one of whom was Bobbi Vasquez herself. Additionally, the Widowmaker regularly threatens the families of her Widows who refuse to comply. Once she has ordered Bobbi to kill the New Orleans Police Officer Brett Huffman—Bobbi's would-be brother-in-law—after the latter attempts to expose her, when Bobbi doesn't follow through, the Widowmaker eventually makes Bobbi accompany her during one of her Human Trafficking shipments, attempting to deflect Bobbi's subsequent confrontation. When Bobbi subsequently refuses to comply with the Widowmaker's order that she kill Brett, the Widowmaker threatens Jennifer—Bobbi's sister—if Bobbi doesn't comply. Upon finally encountering Keith "Demon" Greyson, Brett himself, Bobbi, and the warrior Kunoichi in a showdown, the Widowmaker detonates her base of operations before escaping.
• Chamber of Chills (Harvey Comics) issue #14's "The Spider-Man": Doctor Charles Frage is an immoral university professor who created a serum from arachnid DNA, earning him the titular nickname. Fired for his dangerous experiments, Frage seeks revenge by testing the serum on both animals and humans, the subjects mutating into grotesque spider-like monstrosities. Frage soon unleashes his creations on the university that scorned him, relishing the carnage as the monsters slaughter and feed on everyone in their path.
• Channel Evil, by Alan Grant, Shane Oakley, et al.: Ba'al. once a god of the Middle East, always possessed a viciously egotistical streak. When Jehovah became the new faith, Ba'al decided to embrace evil, killing countless people and instituting child sacrifice. Defeated and banished, Ba'al returns in the modern day by possessing a human body, beginning to murder people for sport. Giving an interview of his history, Ba'al incinerates the entire audience, later trying to massacre everyone in another building, intending to completely eradicate humanity.
• Chaos! Comics:
  • Lucifer, Arch-Enemy of Lady Death, is the one who manipulates the latter's father Matthias into massacres and atrocities to eventually result in the corruption of Hope and her damnation to hell. Manipulating her from the start, Lucifer is also the one who keeps hell running as a place of damnation and agony, having countless souls tortured for fun and his own power. A Serial Rapist, Lucifer frequently marries women for a short time and disposes of them when he is done, later setting up a casino in Las Vegas to trick mortals into selling their souls, intending on making Earth into a new Hell with everything dead or tormented in his fires forever. Lucifer later steals souls bound for heaven, tricking them into blasphemy to damn them, before trying to claim God's throne and rape Lady Death to seal his victory.
  • Genocide is a conqueror who traverses the cosmos, massacring entire lands or worlds with his followers. A brutal nightmare of a Chaos Lord, Genocide cares nothing for the tenets of chaos beyond his own interpretations, gleefully assaulting Asgard and killing Odin while attempting to massacre the rest. When his own daughter Vex fails her mission, Genocide has her enslaved with no compunction in murdering her, later killing her mother Antigone for opposing him. From his fortress, Wrathworld, Genocide reveals his true plan: the Deathflash. Intending on blasting the Nexus of all things, and with his blasts consuming entire worlds, Genocide plans on triggering a horrific apocalypse throughout the universe, allowing everything to die in an instant that will last an agonizing eternity, with everything becoming as his name: Genocide.
  • Armageddon, one of the first Chaos Lords and the most powerful, is a being of such arrogance and power-thirst that even some of his fellow Chaos Lords are disgusted. Wishing to reduce reality to formless entropy with himself as its center, Armageddon waged the Chaos War against his fellow Chaos Lords, slaughtering many of them and many of their creations himself before being sealed in the Forever War. Once he's accidentally freed thirteen billion years later, Armageddon wastes no time in resuming his conquest, crash landing on Earth and swallowing all in his path. From there, Armageddon kills everything within 100 miles of himself before resurrecting them as tortured monsters, sending them to massacre hundreds of millions of people across the globe as he wreaks global destruction, regularly destroying the populace of massive cities — Los Angeles being simply one example. Armageddon spitefully exterminates thirty percent of the world's population after an ineffectual retaliation against him, tries to tempt Evil Ernie into unleashing a global nuclear holocaust, tortures and kills any and all resistance against him, and vows that all that shall not serve him will be exterminated, ultimately killing off all of Earth's population and resolving to obliterate all of reality to rule the ashes — and damning the universe to follow him into oblivion upon his death.
  • Lady Death/Medieval Witchblade, written by Brian Augustyn & Brian Pulido: Queen Morrigan is a powerful dark sorceress who took over the lands in the past. Turning her newfound kingdom into the dead wasteland, Queen terrorizes the population, and when she hears of the prophecy that the "Son of Light", the one who could end her reign, was about to be born, she rounded up hundreds of pregnant women and women with infants and tried to have them thrown into a fiery pit. After Lady Death stopped that, Morrigan orders her knights to kill her, while she finds out the town where the supposed "Child of Light" would be born and burns it to the ground, along with all men, women and children inside. When she finds out that the true "Child of Light" is her stepdaughter, she immediately tries to kill her, while attempting to spread her darkness across the world.
• Chew: The Vampire, also known as The Collector, is a Serbian killer and Cibopath who harnesses the legends of vampires to become feared. In truth, The Vampire uses his Cibopath powers to absorb the powers of others, killing, butchering and eating them to gain their abilities, even relatively useless abilities; at least several dozen, and possibly more, are killed in this way. The Vampire kidnaps hero Anthony "Tony" Chu's twin sister, Antonelle "Toni" Chu, and attempts to gain her abilities through eating her limbs. When this fails, he furiously snaps Toni's neck. When Tony's friends attack his hideout, The Vampire attempts to slaughter them, taking great pleasure in trying himself to devour Tony's teenage daughter Olive. When he and Tony finally face off, The Vampire mocks him by saying how he will hunt down Olive and devour her.
• Child of the Storm, by Manuel Bichebois, Didier Poliartist, & Giulio Zeloni: Minister of War Alghard is a high-ranking figure of the nation of Fratt who leads a force to slaughter villages full of civilians in his hunt for the empowered child Laith. Rising to the Presidency by murdering his cousin, Alghard continues a brutal war, killing soldiers who object, and razing civilian areas to finish his conquest while plotting to continue even more brutal conquests until he has controlled the entire world.
• Child's Play franchise:
  • Innovation series: Chucky is just as vile as ever. In the first issue, he kills three people, and gets another man arrested by making it seem like he committed the murders. In the second issue, Chucky tries to ruin Karen and Mike's lives even more while also managing to kill one of Karen's doctors and one of her orderlies while trying to kill Karen and Mike, succeeding in killing the latter. In the fourth issue, it's revealed that Chucky indirectly killed several innocent sapient toys by using them as Human Shields. In the fifth issue, Chucky kills an employee in an amusement park; murders a guest visiting the park; tries to kill dozens of other theme park guests by trying to have them violently thrown out of a ride; and tries to kill an innocent family, including two children.
  • Chucky, by Brian Pulido: Chucky, full name Charles Lee Ray, is the same sadistic Killer Doll as always, here seeking revenge for his defeat in Bride of Chucky. Chucky hunts down Detective Preston and uses power tools to kill the man, his lover, and their dog, then kidnaps his enemy Jade's fiancé Jessie. Chucky begins murdering all of Jade's friends—including a small child she babysits—in grotesque ways and framing Jessie for it, planning to let Jessie take the fall for the killing spree and leave Jade with a broken, miserable life of suffering. Along the way, Chucky routinely, creatively slaughters entire groups of people, from camping teens to armed police, before trying to cap off his ruination of Jade's life by torturing and murdering Jessie.
• The Chill, written by Jason Starr: Cormac Flaherty married his wife for the potential of her commanding "The Chill", a power of women to freeze her lover during sex and draw out their soul. Cormac abused his wife and murdered her when their daughter Arlana was born. Using Arlana for decades to seduce men, then murdering them and eating their souls for immortality, Cormac continues this way for decades. Brutally murdering multiple innocents and anyone who might know of the Chill, Cormac also violently abuses Arlana, even contemplating killing her should she ever demonstrate too much independence.
• Choker, by Ben McCool & Ben Templesmith: Hunt Cassidy is a sadistic drug baron put away behind bars by cop Johnny Jackson for his illegal trafficking, which includes utilizing children as test subjects for his horrifying drugs. Freed by the treacherous Royce Davies and with a hunger for revenge after being brutalized in prison, Cassidy resumes his spree to get revenge on Jackson. Keeping a young girl in his basement and reducing her to a feral, naked vampire through his repeated testing, Cassidy starts peddling mutative drugs that turn several people into ravenous vampires and cannibalistic mutants, having his junkies commit a series of gruesome massacres around Shotgun City to lure Jackson into his clutches. Slaughtering a squad sent to stop him and eventually backstabbing and killing Royce himself, Cassidy hypes himself up on his own drugs for the purpose of killing Jackson, massacring his way through the police department and personally murdering Chief Ellis in his psychotic crusade to kill Jackson.
• Cinder and Ashe, by Gerry Conway & Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez: The despicable Lacey is a rogue CIA agent and a boorish, racist psychopath with no feeling towards anyone or anything sans contempt. Operating as The Fagin during his time as Saigon, Lacey takes in a young Cinder DuBois as his personal thief and raises her under cruel abuse, eventually driving his own girlfriend to suicide and raping a thirteen-year-old Cinder himself in a bout of drunken fury. Ten years later, Lacey pursues a job to ruin the life of a farmer named Wilson connected to the life of his client, Harrison Wayne, an opportunity he uses to get at the now-grown Cinder. Poisoning Wilson's wife and livestock before kidnapping his daughter Jennifer, Lacey wreaks vast swaths of murder and racks up well over a dozen bodies, connected to his target or not, murdering Jennifer himself alongside an entire gang of people and shooting Wilson himself at Jennifer's funeral. Lacey murders Wayne himself in his attempt to kill Cinder, living and dying an unrepentant, sneering scumbag with not one remotely humane attribute about him.
• Ciudad, by The Russo Brothers, Ande Parks, & Fernando León González: Lieutenant Mora is the chief of police in the Wretched Hive of the title, and a figure so abhorrently corrupt he exceeds the actual drug kingpin Gabriel Roche in awfulness. Lieutenant Mora kidnaps Gabriel's daughter Eva to hold her for ransom in his plan to corner the drug trade in Ciudad and bump Gabriel off as a rival, willingly throwing the streets of the city into chaos in his pursuit of Eva when mercenary Tyler Rake rescues her. A gloating Serial Rapist on his off time, Mora introduces himself throwing one of his child drug runners off a building and nearly tossing another after him when he figures out they've been nicking money, before forcing the survivor to hack off two of his own fingers to pay for the other's crime.
• Clean Room:
  • Derica Mueller, aka the Exalted One, is a powerful, demonic goddess of the void. The daughter of Robert Mueller, Derica has implanted visions of demons and deceased loved ones in the minds of multiple humans, bragging about how many she's Driven to Madness. She forces one of Astrid's guards to commit Psychic-Assisted Suicide in front of Astrid and Chloe, revealing afterwards to be the one sending Chloe visions of her dead husband. Derica ultimately plans to cause immeasurable havoc—-including plane crashes and having the president shoot his wife on live television-—in order to drive humans into chaos so that she and her fellow demons will create a bridge of humans and rule over mankind.
  • Artus Greenhand is a depraved Serial Killer who disdainfully refers to women as "critters" for him to take apart. Obsessed with Clean Room administrator Astrid Mueller, Artus perfects the art of wig making by abducting innocent women and torturing them to death, until one got free and fatally wounded him before dying of her own wounds. Revived by the sinister entities, Artus attempts to seize the Clean Room from Astrid to leave humanity to the hungry entities to devour while he has full power over the room itself, even attempting to leave heroines Chloe and Killian with his past self so he may torture them to death as well.
• Clive Barker's Next Testament: Wick, "The Father of Colors", is a psychotic, hedonistic entity who inspired both God and the Devil from the Bible. Having caused all manner of chaos in the past, including flooding the Earth just to see how it would look, he was locked away for 2,000 years by his brothers, Unan and Filt, before being awakened by a rich old man named Julian Edmond. After taking Julian's lover as a sacrifice and brutally killing everyone at Julian's encampment, along with almost everyone at a dinner party back at Julian's mansion, Wick announces his second coming to the world by causing every single aircraft on Earth to plummet to the ground at once, killing hundreds of thousands. After traveling with Julian to Hollywood, Wick, bored with what humanity has become and deciding that he preferred the Earth with a smaller population, starts randomly wreaking havoc through the world, killing millions and wiping out the entirety of the Midwestern United States. Wick blots out the sun and has a swarm of locusts assault the world after he is dissatisfied with a pyramid built in his honor, and later murders both a young lady who he supposedly liked as well as Julian, both merely for questioning him. Wick, after failing to see anything worth saving, finally announces his intent to obliterate everything and start over, and even upon his defeat Wick gloats that he'll one day be back. A self-absorbed being with near-limitless power, Wick proves himself to be a far cry from the benevolent depictions of God.
• Clive Barker's Night Breed/Clive Barker's Nightbreed:
  • Epic Comics:
    • Captain Eigerman survives the events of Midian's destruction and becomes even worse. His first attempt to destroy Midian and the Night Breed going up in flames, Eigerman teams up with the insane Reverend Ashberry for a second chance at genocide. Along the way, Eigerman kills another cop for his car; shoots a man at a diner in the mouth for trying to talk about the Night Breed to the press; and kills an EMS officer for vaguely disagreeing with Eigerman's supremacist rhetoric.
    • Rawhead Rex himself is resurrected years after the events of his original story, powered by a screaming infant he keeps stewing alive within his gut. Rawhead gets up to old habits not long after being resurrected, turning his appetites toward a diner full of innocent people and the Nightbreed. Flashbacks establish that Rawhead used to gang-rape human women alongside his monstrous brethren and then leave them back in civilization, where he made a game of watching the resultant spawn tear out of the women and subsequently be butchered by horrified onlookers seconds after their birth.
    • Ozymandias, one of the first Nightbreed, was the emissary of the pagan god Baphomet who came to uplift the persecuted Nightbreed 6,000 years ago. Ozymandias became disillusioned with Baphomet's apathy toward his people, and slowly began to steer the Nightbreed toward corruption and decadence for the sake of his own egotism instead. Under Ozymandias's rule, the Nightbreed's civilization degenerated into a human-sacrificing Wretched Hive so horrifying Baphomet finally stepped in to personally wipe everyone out. Ozymandias refused to even save his own mother from being flung to her death in the catastrophe. In the modern day, Ozymandias possesses Baphomet in a moment of weakness and tries to resurrect the old days of slaughter and sacrifice, gleefully raping one of the Nightbreed the moment he has Baphomet's body under his control and later rallying a mob of Nightbreed to slaughter the nearest human town to the last person.
  • Boom! Studios: Reverend Ashberry turns out to be far darker than his portrayal in the film, even in light of his abrupt turn to evil. While initially sympathetic to the Nightbreed and their persecution, he develops a genocidal hatred for them when their god Baphomet scars him when he tried to reach out to the latter. In his secret past, Ashberry first murdered a hippie girl during a sexual encounter. Coming to the conclusion that it was God's will for him to cast sinners into Hell, Ashberry started a decades-long career in killing perceived sinners, mostly male and female prostitutes and the like. Arrested as a despondent drunk shortly before the film, after his scarring Ashberry started his new crusade by rounding up Berserkers to carry out his vengeance, disemboweling Boone and attempting to kill his pregnant girlfriend Lori. Failing to kill either of them, Ashberry returns in an attempt to wipe out the breed and their new home via suicide bombing them, with children in the vicinity.
• Coffin Hill, by Caitlin Kittredge et al.: Emma Coffin, founder of the titular town, escaped the Salem Witch Trials and left the innocent to die in her stead. Not content to rest in peace, Emma's evil spirit tormented the families of those who eventually hanged her for her crimes of sacrificing others for her magic, while also tormenting her own descendants. Emma threatened her descendant Eve into helping her return to life by threatening to kill everyone Eve loved and the entire town as well. It is further revealed Emma's source of power are the souls of her victims, imprisoned in the Coffin manor and kept trapped in their worst nightmares as Emma feeds off them.
• Colder, by Paul Tobin & Juan Ferreyra: Nimble Jack is a cruel being who feeds on human minds and savors the flavors of madness most of all. Introducing himself by having the hero Declan Thomas grow "colder", lowering his temperature whenever he uses his own powers to cure madness, Nimble Jack regularly goes on to drive victims insane before devouring their minds and killing them. Centering in on Declan and his love interest, nurse Reece Talbot, Nimble Jack demonstrates his cruelty with massacres that increase in scope, constantly driving his victims insane. In one case, he throws a woman in front of a bus and then devours the minds of those on the bus, before kidnapping children and driving one insane, before trying to kill the other in the end. A sadistic, remorseless predator, Nimble Jack stops at nothing to cultivate those with a "special" madness like a fine wine, all for a better meal.
• Comico (by publication date):
  • Justice Machine: Chief Prosecutor Zarren is the Mouth of Sauron for the sinister ruling council of Georwell, and is personally responsible for almost the oppression and hardship the people face. Formerly the handler of the titular team, Zarren frames them as traitors and orders them killed after they humiliate him. With the genocide of entire populated planets already on his hands, Zarren intends to add Earth next to the list of planets that he's conquered for Georwell. Along the way, Zarren annihilates one of his own cities to provoke war between Earth and Georwell; forces two of the heroes to fight their own brainwashed children; and even murders a ship full of peaceful astronauts for no reason. Zarren's final plan in Object of Power involves destroying all of Earth and rewriting its reality into an unending Orwellian nightmare, all for the sake of his endless pursuit for power.
  • Elementals:
    • Lord Saker was the first man resurrected by Christ, and having had to endure the drudgery of his subsequent immortality, turned to wicked sorcery. Saker conned otherworldly demons for dark power while participating in all of humanity's worst excesses, from the Aztec massacres to the witch trials to the Third Reich. Saker also murders countless people throughout the ages to see if trace amounts of magical energy will resurrect them and turn them into beings like himself; many of them he leaves in states of unending horror and living death. Saker ultimately attempts to use a horrible conglomeration of dark energy called the Shadowspear to kill off all but a handful of humanity, and even after his (supposed) defeat, the consequences of Saker's scheme would continue to threaten and ruin thousands.
    • Shapeshifter is an ancient being who fancies itself the supreme predator, mimicking countless species through the start of life on Earth until taking the form of humankind. Hunting down and slaughtering countless victims for her amusement, Shapeshifter causes wars by holding the strings of power brokers and kings, including the Nazis, where she meets Lord Saker and assists him in his goals of destroying most of all life on Earth to create a perfect hunting ground for herself. Striking off on her own and posing as an angel to Reverend Skagg, she convinces him to torture 1,200 innocents to death to see whose powers awaken and cause enough negative energy to wield the Shadowspear to devastate the world. In her revenge on the Elementals, she takes the form of a handsome man named Eric to seduce Morningstar, marrying her and living with her as man and wife for years before revealing the deception to an emotionally violated and shattered Morningstar, leaving a gun for her to kill herself with or to live on with the knowledge of what Shapeshifter has done to her.
    • Stanley Swartzberg was a lonely accountant in life who, after dying and resurrecting after being bitten by a superpowered bat, decided to act on all his darkest impulses and dubbed himself "Captain Cadaver". Cadaver begins his tenure by killing nearly a dozen women at his accounting firm to pleasure himself to their bodies, then after being resurrected from his first death promptly went on another massacre, in one case taking a huge bite out of a pregnant woman's belly. Cadaver's second rampage left 250 souls turned into vampires, with no reprieve to their condition aside from death.
    • Issue #27: Ferret and Tom are a pair of sleazy, pedophile Human Traffickers operating out of Seattle. Luring in young ladies in their teens who have fled home, Ferret brings them to Tom where they are entrapped, imprisoned, starved, and locked away until they agree to prostitute themselves or make pornographic films for this sickening business.
• Commando Comics:
  • "Island of Terror!": SS Captain Hans Wegener wants to punish the world for the fall of the Third Reich. Knowing that Dutch scientist Ernst Dortmunn's process to generate geothermal energy — by sinking a shaft in the Earth's mantle — causes earthquakes, he tricked Major Shiro Eiko into seizing Dortmunn's Pacific island with the promise that it would help scuttle the Allies' invasion plans. Wegener plans to detonate modified torpedoes at the bottom of the shaft to cause much more powerful earthquakes, with the aim of creating a tsunami that would scour the Pacific; this would doom any Allied invasion plans, but would also doom Japan, to Wegener's apathy.
  • "Nazi Nightmare": Nazis Bernhard Gruber and SS Colonel Hartmann are the masterminds of "Plan Cuckoo", with the aim of plunging America and Russia into a nuclear war. Tiring of his prisoners, Gruber callously tries to execute them all as they leave to begin their plot, while those who survive are destined to die from radiation poisoning. Hartmann disguises himself and flees to Argentina, where he has neighboring ranches burnt down before reuniting with Gruber. Bringing former Major Ken Horton to his and Gruber's underground bunker, the duo reveal a score of atomic bombs they intend to use for their diabolical designs. The next morning, Hartmann uses Ken for a sadistic hunt.
  • "Fight — Or Die!": Obergruppenfuhrer Manfred Lutz is the commandant of Dunsberg Castle. He desires mankind to bow before him; to this end he gives prisoners to Doctor Anton Steffanberg to perfect his influenza virus, which he plans to release and kill millions. In the meantime, he forces prisoners to fight his champion to the death for his entertainment.
  • "Convict Commandos — Rain of Terror": Nazis von Erlich and Gruppenführer Horst Nagel are the masterminds behind the plot to use acid rain against the Allies in North Africa and Russia. It's first used against a group of Maquis, causing Indian Professor Chandrapalli Ram to investigate; it is a ploy to get the anti-British Ram to defect, and apparently succeeds. Von Erlich decides to kill Ram when he's served his purpose; when Ram turns the tables and kills von Erlich instead, Nagel tries to kill Ram with the acid rain.
  • "Ramsey's Raiders — Race Against Time": Colonel Strucker and Professor Faas are the Nazi masterminds behind the plot to use nerve agents against the Allies, including one called Raxin. When they realize that Faas won't be able to finish before Germany falls, they make plans to flee to Chile — eliminating the other scientists in the process because they knew too much — so that Faas can continue his work there. While he's doing so, they'd content themselves with releasing Raxin on New York City.
• Control, by Andy Diggle, Angela Cruickshank, et al.: Randolph Wolfe is the CEO of Wolfe Media, a media conglomerate that Wolfe personally uses to gain information on powerful people around the globe, blackmailing these people to bend to his will and make himself more powerful. When one of Wolfe's hackers plans to turn him over to the authorities, Wolfe hires a sociopathic hitman to kill him and anyone else who may threaten his empire, leading to the deaths of more than half-a-dozen people over the course of just a few days; eliminating loose ends or those who outlive their usefulness in this manner is noted to be a regular occurence for Wolfe. Though at first seemingly just a corrupt man taking advantage of other rich inndividuals, Wolfe's true monstrosity comes into play near the end of the story, where it is revealed that he regular hosts "rape parties", events where he lures unsuspecting women, or simply rents them from trafficking organizations, to parties where he has his wealthy guests gang rape them to their hearts' content, secretly filming the entire ordeals to use as blackmail material. A corrupt sociopath whose greed dragged dozens of innocents into living nightmares and even death, Randolph Wolfe disgusted and repulsed everyone whom he interacted with, having no concern for anyone but himself and his personal power.
• Corto Maltese: Beyond the Windy Isles' "A Tale of Two Grandfathers": Mendoza is a slave trader who buys children from the indigenous tribes of Peru and sells them to the rubber workers. When Nathan Stone stood up to him, Mendoza ambushed and murdered the man and his wife. When Corto Maltese beats him up for cheating at games, Mendoza tries to stab him in retaliation. Afterward, Mendoza and his men attack a Jivaro village, kill the adults, and abduct the children, including Nathan's 7 years old son.
• Cowboys & Aliens: Rado Dar is a vicious official of the alien empire called the Caste. Crashing on Earth, Dar promptly slaughters a group of Natives, exterminating a cavalry fort and then killing the one officer who objects. Plotting to construct a beacon to call the Caste to Earth to colonize it by killing the vast majority of humans, Dar is only too gleeful to try to butcher anyone in his path no matter what side they are on.
• Crashing, written by Matthew Klein:
  • Gordian is a supervillain and businessman whose façade as a polite patient of Dr. Rose Osler hides a ruthless mastermind. Personally funding Don's crusade on inhibiting the rights of powered people, Gordian engages in a brutal battle with Rex Glassman, killing dozens in the Senate house to ensure the bill gets passed so he can set up a Black Market for the desperate powered people]], including dangerous experimental vitamins and a task force to kill any of his enemies. When Rose attempts to refuse to help Gordian more than their deal required, Gordian sends Herakles to kidnap her, resulting in the deaths of several innocents and causing Rose to fall Off the Wagon, and claiming the life of the teenage Piper. In order to have her back as his doctor, Gordian kidnaps Rose's husband Don to make him his business partner when he runs for office, and when the final battle against Rex gets him and the others trapped under rubble, Gordian attempts to manipulate Rose into taking the dangerous vitamins to save his life, disregarding her addiction.
  • Herakles is Gordian's suave yet brutal right hand who serves as the pure muscle for his boss's heinous crimes. Introduced subtly threatening to murder Rose, her husband, and her assistants if she doesn't save Gordian's life through her surgery. Coming to kidnap Rose to make her stay as Gordian's personal physician, Herakles enjoys taunting Rose and Don as he plans to murder Don to cover his tracks, before blowing up the apartment complex when Piper rescues Rose, killing several innocents in collateral and causing Piper's death due to her exhaustion and Rose's addiction resurfacing during an operation. Kidnapping Don for Gordian, Herakles causes the base to collapse during the battle and proceeds to leave everyone, including his own boss, to die under the rubble, escaping any justice for his crimes.
• Crawl to Me, by Alan Robert: "Uncle" Edgar Driscoll is a despicable child molester who kicks the entire tale off by kidnapping three children. Edgar then spends weeks torturing and raping the children, notably using scissors to cut into them and snip off the lone female's hair, calling her a "whore." When he fails to kidnap a fourth child to subject her to the same fate, Edgar proceeds to gun down several police officers who approach him. Edgar's torment of the children was so traumatizing for them that they hid themselves away in a crawl space for weeks, slowly starving and going insane, until finally one of them was killed in a psychotic frenzy by the other kids.
• Criminal (2006):
  • Vol. 1 issues #1-5—"Coward": Delron Krumsky is the psychopathic lieutenant for a drug kingpin. After getting freed from prison in order to track down a load of heroin that the protagonists, Leo Patterson and Greta Watson, had inadvertently stolen from an evidence van, Delron murdered the latter's elderly mother and took her daughter as leverage. After tracking Greta down, Delron tortured her for the location of the heroin by driving nails into her palms, and eventually killed her in spite of his partner's attempts to stop him. When Leo finds him at a motel with Greta's daughter, we learn that Delron was planning to sell the little girl to Russian slavers. Upon discovering Leo, Delron naturally tries to beat him to death before getting killed himself.
  • Vol. 2 issue #1—"Second Chance in Hell": Walter Hyde is the abusive father of Sebastian, who paved the way for the ruthless Hyde crime empire of the modern day. Walter swayed fellow enforcer Clevon Brown into helping him launch a bloody coup against their mob superiors, leading to multiple deaths across the city. Then establishing his own cruel, domineering control over the city with routine beating, extortion, and murder of innocent people, Walter mistreats and moulds his son Sebastian into a brutal mobster just like his dad. In the culmination of his abuse, Walter responds to the news that Sebastian has fallen in love with and impregnated the Black woman Danica Briggs by ordering her kidnapped, her baby forcefully aborted, and her womb rendered bloody and barren, out of nothing but racism and a desire to harden Sebastian.
• Crimson: Lisseth, the Queen of All Vampires, is the originator of all evil in the world and the progenitor of every living vampire. After being spurned from God's sight due to her imperfections and further turned down a place at Lucifer's side, Lisseth drank the blood of her former lover and fellow outcast Ekimus, stealing his immortality and becoming the first vampire. Still craving revenge for her exile, Lisseth enacts a plan to eliminate the Chosen One, Alex Elder, and teams up with fellow vampire lord Victor Van Fleet. Lisseth greets Alex on a pile of Templars she's massacred, and later tricks her former lover into releasing the ancient Chalkydri lord Sopha, who begins an assault meant to wipe out all mankind. This is all the first part of Lisseth's ultimate plan, which aims for nothing more than the complete destruction of all creation — Heaven, Hell, and Earth and their rulers — and then to remake creation in her own image. In the final battle, Lisseth delves low enough to murder a child and her father after they refuse to pay tribute to her and kills the fallen angel Zophiel in a failed attempt to kill Alex, and ultimately dies raving on how she seeks to destroy everything and everyone. Always a selfish, envious monster at heart, Lisseth's own evil was reflected in the very breed of monsters she birthed.
• Crone, by Dennis Culver et al.: Vor the Lion, once a companion of "Bloody" Bliss, deeply lusted after the warrior woman long after they defeated the warlord D'Kayde. Murdering Bliss's former lover when she left Bliss, Vor began to murder ally and innocent alike until he took D'Kayde's helmet and identity to become a ferocious warlord. Ravaging the kingdom, Vor puts villages to the sword and torch, burning and crucifying his victims while dreaming of forcing Bliss to be his queen. Not even his old comrades are safe, as he tortures his old friend Gaspar Rogue's son to death before him, resuming his savage conquest and attempting to kill Bliss when she rejects him.
• Crossed: +100 & Mimic: Beauregard Leander Salt is the progenitor of the Salt Clan, who's responsible for all the misery the heroes currently face, despite being dead over a century. Once known as "The Phonebook Killer", Salt was so sadistically sociopathic that he was unaffected by the Crossed Virus. Realizing the self-destructing nature of the Crossed and wishing to keep his heaven of violence and chaos going indefinitely, Salt orchestrated a ploy to prevent the extinction of the Crossed and draw out the suffering of humanity for as long as possible. Salt would spread his messages and philosophy across the country, making him a prophet figure towards the other Crossed, while experimenting on his numerous members, weeding out hostile ones as he tortures and teaches The Crossed to become intelligent and able to bide their time. Creating The Salt Clan, promoting several of his most obedient Crossed to leadership roles across the country, Salt orders all of them to build their strength in numbers and bide their time and, within the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak, commit their horrid acts, before going back to wait more decades to repeat the cycle. Even elderly and bedridden, Salt is proud over his actions recreating The Crossed and dies content the world will forever be a hellish nightmare. Even within the dark setting of Crossed, Salt is easily the worst of them all.
• Crossing Midnight: Lord Aratsu, the God of Swords, is one of the most powerful Kami alive. He is also a vicious, usurping, tyrannical megalomaniac who considers it his right to steal a girl named Toshi from her parents and twin brother because their father prayed at his shrine before her birth. When she refuses to become his slave after Aratsu brutally murdered the family dog he dismembers her mother to use her life to force Toshi's hand. Once Toshi agrees to serve him, Aratsu repairs her mother, but doesn't even bother to mend her soul, leaving her an empty shell and fully susceptible to hungry, soul eating imps. Once Toshi is his slave, Aratsu uses his swords to cut away her past and future, leaving her to exist in only a moment in time. Should she ever displease him, he would allow time to lapse and her to vanish. Aratsu's cruelty is revealed as the story goes on: he gained his power by treachery and murder, having severed his predecessor's memory and condemned him to exile on Earth. A violent egomaniac, he also kills any who do not give him the blind worship he feels he's entitled to. While many Kami are alien creatures, Aratsu is an all too familiar and understandable being, and eclipses any human, dragon, demon or Kami in the story with his evil. By the time the rebellion against his rule rolls around, he has no compunction sending the amnesiac Toshi to kill her own brother.
• Cursed, by Fiona Avery et al.: Victor Hahn is a director of museum of antiquities in Germany and a former worshipper of Osiris. After Osiris didn't choose him as "chosen protector", he swears to enslave Osiris as revenge. He decided to start by murdering dozens of people at night, trapping them in the status between life and death and making them his slaves through an ancient Egyptian ritual. When he discovered Shan Beaumont, a reporter who was chosen by gods instead of him, he decided to kill her through Egyptian ritual, thus making her "the Door" to Afterlife, so that he could summon and enslave Osiris. Right before the ritual, he killed whole group of tourists in his museum.
• Curse of the Wendigo, by Mathieu Missoffe, Charlie Adlard, et al.: Vivien was a French trader who learned of the legend of the Wendigo. Murdering his own wife to eat her flesh and become a monster, Vivien fled the Cree people and began to target men, women and children. Killing hundreds, Vivien comes to the trenches of France during the first World War, killing his victims horribly and leaving mutilated corpses strung up as a larder. Swaying a whole town to cannibalism and the murder of all who happen by, Vivien reveals his intent to plunge the whole war into his bloody image, where men eat the flesh of men and Vivien reigns.

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