Sandbox / Monster: Comic Books (S to Z)

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• Sachs & Violens:
  • "The Big O" is the most powerful, most wicked crime lord in New Orleans. The Big O has his fingers dipped in every perversion known to man so he can make industries of them, from snuff films to child trafficking to cold-blooded murder. When one of his minions complains about what a "pain in the ass" Sachs and Violens are, the Big O literally shoots the guy in the rear to make a point about his annoyance.
  • Moloch is the Big O's brother and the one in charge of the child slavery and trafficking. A grotesque Fat Bastard with a well-used personal torture dungeon, Moloch has dozens of kids peddled into slavery by a sadistic Barney pastiche to become sex toys for his perverted clients. When Sachs stops his operation but lands in the hospital as a result, Moloch attempts to murder Sachs in the hospital, claiming a police officer and nearly killing an innocent nurse along the way.
• Saga Valta:
  • Book 1: Sorr the Gashed, lord of Bergthorshvall, keeps an army of man-eating creatures known as "devourers" and regularly feeds them prisoners. Invading the land of his neighbour Skarpedinn, Sorr slaughters the family who guarded the northern border and unleashes his devourers on a village, hoping to kill them all and seize Skarpedinn's wife Hildegirrd for himself.
  • Book 2: Freya is a demon with the appearance of a beautiful woman who leads numerous victims, including a little girl, to be devoured by the snake Jonnung. Posing as a victim, Freya lures Njall the Burnt into a trap and when he's timely rescued by Valgar, Freya follows them to their camp, seducing Njall, grievously injuring him with her claws, and attempting to murder Valgar.
• Samurai: Heaven and Earth, by Ron Marz, Luke Ross, et al.: Warlord Hsiao is the Arch-Enemy of Lord Tokudaiji. Starting the comic by attacking Tokudaiji's lands, Hsiao slaughters Tokudaiji's armies, save for the hero Shiro, and attacks Tokudaiji's castle. Hsiao has everyone in the walls butchered, leaving Tokudaiji's headless corpse to mock his enemy, and taking Shiro's lover Yoshiko to be a Sex Slave before selling her to slave traders for being too willful. A Serial Rapist who keeps a harem of women he's taken, Hsiao also removes the tongues of his women should they displease him.
• "Santa's Claws": Nomadic vampire "Count" Alfonse arrives in a little Rumanian village before preying on its inhabitants. After murdering multitudes of innocents, Alfonse is revealed to have hypnotized the innkeeper to lure in more victims until the authorities become too suspicious for this to be viable. On Christmas, Alfonse decides to prey upon the children by disguising himself as Santa, attempting to sneak down chimneys to kill every child he can.
• Satan's Hollow: Burdaine and Jacob are a pair of Satan-worshipping cultists who engage in Human Sacrifice to gain power from their infernal benefactors. Burdaine, when he was still human, orchestrated the kidnapping and sacrificial murder of numerous people, including the massacre of Sandra's whole family, personally stabbing her baby brother through the chest with a ceremonial dagger. After botching the ritual due to Sandra's father sacrificing his own life to allow her to escape, he is transformed into a Living Shadow known as the "Shadow Man" by the Devil as punishment. Together with his new partner-in-crime in the present, the Shadow Man sacrifices more people as part of the new ritual in order to satisfy all the members of Satan's court and open the portal to Hell, including a young boy who was already traumatized from a previous encounter at the Hollow. He possesses Sandra's husband John in the process and frames him for the kidnappings immediately after sending his soul to Hell to be tortured by demons. Along with the promise of having Sandra herself become their personal Sex Slave, Burdaine and Jacob were fully prepared to plunge the whole world into Hell for their own gain.
• Savage Dragon:
  • Emperor Kurr, Dragon's former identity, was the "Chosen One" of the Krylans. As their brutal ruler, Kurr maintained control by violence and savagery, raping his consorts and tearing apart any he slept with. Upon locating Earth as a new home, Kurr attempted to exterminate all mankind before being betrayed and overthrown. Kurr later resurfaces and exterminates all humanity, gleefully attempting to murder his own children.
  • Johnny Lee Raeburn started as a janitor in an unassuming town who violently tortured 28 children to death, before being sent into space for NASA's Seeker program where he assimilates an alien probe and gains its powers. Giving himself the moniker of "Deathwatch", Raeburn returns to Earth as a cybernetic supervillain able to feast on the minds of his victims and make them experience the terror of those he's killed, making them die in absolute fear. Deathwatch slaughters several people connected to the trial that convicted him as a child killer before single-handedly massacring his entire hometown and killing his mother, even mentally torturing Donatello into brain death before he's foiled. Hitting his stride upon his return in Savage Dragon, Deathwatch convinces the Servant Race of the Kalyptan people into ultimately kickstarting a war that devastated Kalyptus and almost completely eradicated the Kalyptans, the Krylans, and the Tyruss in one fell swoop. Nothing less than gleeful at what his manipulations have wrought, Deathwatch intends to butcher all life on Earth next out of nothing more than petty spite. From a simple hick serial killer to one of the greatest mass murderers in the universe, Raeburn is one of the most evil beings to have ever fought the Dragon and his allies.
• Scalped: Mr. Brass of the Hmong gangsters is a short, mild-mannered man with one arm who's also a terrifying sadist. When introduced, Mr. Brass informs a prisoner he never asks a question twice and has him "pick a number", one through ten. The man selects a number which turns out to be the body part Brass removes. Brass proceeds to remove his eye before even asking a question. Brass spends his time torturing his way through the residents of the reservation, largely for his own pleasure. How Brass satisfies his "peculiarities"—he has a penchant for raping and murdering teen prostitutes, male and female—disgusts even the ruthless mob boss Lincoln Red Crow. In the gritty, dark Black-and-Gray Morality world that is Scalped's Rez, Brass is the worst the world has to offer.
• Scars, by Warren Ellis & Jacen Burrows: John Wakefield is a seemingly-unassuming schoolteacher who turns out to be a petty psychopath who enacts a disturbingly out-of-proportion revenge against the teenage girl who spurned him. After he's humiliated, Wakefield abducts an 11-year-old student who bears a coincidental resemblance to said teenage girl and proceeds to torture, mutilate, and savagely rape her daily for three months on end, finally cutting apart the girl while she's still alive and mailing her dismembered remains to a children's charity. This horrifies even hardened homicide cop John Cain, who decides to execute Wakefield himself after Wakefield defiantly screams Cain can't legally touch him.
• Scary Godmother: The Master is shockingly vile for such a lighthearted series. The Master is a vampire who runs a "Summer Ghoul" camp which he advertises as a place to teach young vampires to hunt. But in actuality, it is a place for him to get slaves where he forces the children to hunt for him while he continues to be lazy. The Master also hypnotizes the carrier animals used to deliver messages from the families of the students, making the carriers lie that everything is going fine. A student caught him doing this, so the Master tossed him outside to slowly burn to death in the sunlight. When his sister begged the Taster to save her, he mutilated her by pushing her face into the sunlight. When a new student arrives at the camp named Orson, the Master plans to eat his human friend Hanna and Orson himself.
• Scream!:
  • "The Dracula File": Dracula himself comes to England after killing sprees in Eastern Europe, murdering countless innocents in Britain. After sweeping the streets and killing those he encounters, Dracula also turns several victims into his slaves, even turning one into a vampire to sacrifice to cover his escape against the vampire hunter Stakis. In the past, Dracula was hunted by a vampire killer named Quinn whose wife Dracula had taken, whereupon Dracula attempted to elude his pursuers and murder the innocent women of the village. A savage beast with a thin veneer of charm, Dracula repeatedly shows why he is the lord of darkness.
  • "Spiders Can't Scream": Cordwell is a greedy mercenary who murders the kindly professor in charge of the expedition by shoving him into a poisonous spider's web. Stumbling upon the old civilization of spider worshipers, Cordwell has them massacred by killing his own partners and attempting to enslave the surviving natives to transport his ill-gotten loot for him.
• Sea of Red, by Rick Remender et al.: The evil vampire Jameson intends to use the blood of Judas to create new vampires and the blood of Jesus Christ to Take Over the World. Jameson once betrayed Lesser Blackthroat, the vampire pirate, to kill many people, while also sending assassins after the captain. In modern day, Jameson has Blackthroat's wife Adora murdered and turns many people into vampires, setting them on human cities to create a massive, worldwide panic with a multitude of horrible vampire massacres. Jameson then has his former killer Marco assassinate Blackthroat so he can gain access to the Grail and dominate the world himself.
• Serenity:
  • "The Train Job", "Ariel", & Serenity: Those Left Behind comic: The Blue Gloves/"Hands of Blue" are a duo of independent contractors hired by the Alliance to capture the Tam siblings. The Blue Gloves hunt the Serenity across the 'Verse, killing anyone in their way as they go, and employ a variety of schemes to capture the two, notably allying with Dobson in an attempt to kill the entire crew. The most evil aspect of them, however, is their use of a sonic device that painfully kills their targets by rupturing their insides until they melt, which they use to kill an entire Alliance building, systematically checking all of the bodies and murdering any who still cling to life to ensure none survive the massacre, just because a couple of the guards had interacted with the Tams, and the Blue Gloves seek to keep all information possible to themselves.
  • Jubal Early debuts in "Objects in Space" as an aloof yet sadistic Bounty Hunter seeking to turn in the Tam siblings for the reward on their heads. Incapacitating the crew of the Serenity and threatening to rape and torture Kaylee to keep some in line, Early is seemingly beaten after he is revealed to be a Psycho for Hire who only has his job because he enjoys hurting others. Returning in the comic book Serenity: Leaves on the Wind, Early kills an entire staff of security guards just for prohibiting him entry to a meeting, and later bombs a smuggler ship in another attempt to capture the crew of the Serenity, killing a dozen innocent people in the process. Despite his claims that he follows a code and is only doing his job for the money, Early is actually nothing but a cruel bully who views killing people as a "passion".
• Severed: The nameless Salesman who often goes by Mr. Fisher and who has been on the road for countless centuries hunting down children in order to devour them and their dreams. Posing as a kindly salesman to take them under his wing, he lures them into traps where he reveals his sharp teeth and devours them alive. When he encounters the young hero Jack, the Salesman murders the real Mr. Fisher to steal his identity and takes Jack on a game of cat and mouse, murdering and eating his friend Samantha. When he catches Jack at the end, the Salesman gloats over all the evil he's done over the years and how many dreams he's devoured before chopping off Jack's arm, planning to eat him and force Jack's mother to partake.
• The Shadow (Dynamite Comics revival):
  • The Fire of Creation arc, by Garth Ennis, Aaron Campbell, et al.: Taro Kondo, a war criminal who took part in atrocities at the Rape of Nanking, develops a niche for himself as a spymaster and criminal overseas while his brother is dispatched by the Shadow in the US. Dismissing his brother without a thought, Kondo leads an expedition to secure uranium for the Japanese empire while providing young girls to his superior to rape at his leisure and leading his men to massacre an entire village as a diversion. When he has the ship the Shadow and his allies are on sunk, Kondo promptly orders any survivors to be gunned down and later betrays and murders his own allies. Faking the uranium's potency to force his superior to commit seppuku in failure, Kondo briefly taunts him with the truth before beheading him and promises to pay a "visit" to the man's daughters himself before he sells the uranium to the highest bidder.
  • The Shadow/Batman, by Steve Orlando, Giovanni Timpano, et al.: Shiwan Khan, the Shadow's Arch-Enemy, is a descendant of Genghis Khan and a cunning psychic who is the most evil student to emerge from Shamba-La. One of the leaders of the Silent Seven alongside Ra's al Ghul, Shiwan Khan assists in "culling" the human population and keeping a control over the numbers to dominate the world. Lacking his partner's well-intentioned goals, Shiwan resurrects others as slaves, mentally torturing Batman and the Shadow, physically torturing the latter as well before even reviving one of his friends and killing him in front of the Shadow. Happily destroying all in his path, Shiwan Khan is a man who sees the evil lurking in the hearts of men, only to enjoy it in his quest to rule it.
• The Shadow of a Terrible Thing, by Eduardo Mello, Massimo Rosi, et al.: Dr. Evans starts off as a particular ambitious human scientist who is obsessed with studying the alien Keplerian's biology. However, after gaining a direct link to the Keplerian's Hive Mind leadership, Evans strikes a deal with the genocidal race and betrays humanity in exchange for ultimate power and knowledge. Orchestrating a massacre of the HRD, the last line of defense again the Keplerians, Evans giddily takes part in the slaughter himself before rounding up hundreds of survivors. When later beaten, Evans smugly reveals that he handed over hundreds of innocents to the Keplerians to be used as living breeding stock for their monstrous forces, and gloats that the Keplerians will soon wipe out a of humanity, something Evans is all too happy to take part in as long as he comes out on top.
• Shadow Quest, by Clayton "Clay" Lam: Lord Zerz and his Advisor, appearing as benevolent rulers of the City of Dreams, are evil cultists intending to awaken the Devil King in order to harness the Devil King's powers to Take Over the World. Holding tournaments once every decade, luring warriors into boarding their flying ship to enter the City of Dreams, they have participants put through Gladiator Games, resulting in hundreds of deaths which they don't even bat an eye towards. They then make the survivors fight in tournaments, while they take the losers to their dungeons and forcefully transformed into werebeast minions, while the Grand Champion of the Tournament will be instead used as the Devil King's vassal and end up dying horribly due to being overloaded with dark energy. When Zeo, a warrior who discovered the conspiracy, attempts to escape, the Advisor has him turned into a monster and hunted down, and later tortures Zeo's son, Zion, who had recently reunited with his father, by shoving his fingers into Zion's shoulder wound as Zeo gets held down by werebeast minions. Later, as Zion and the heroes launches a final assault on Lord Zerz's castle, Zerz instead summons the Guardian, ordering it to destroy the entire city in a last-ditch attempt.
• Shaft: Imitation of Life, by David F. Walker, Dietrich Smith, et al.: Lou Peraino, or "Lollipop Lou", is a vile mobster running a pornography operation, happily dealing in the most extreme territories people can think of—even snuff—so long as he's paid. Lou has no issue addicting young men and women to drugs to force them to become "stars" for his films, and when he's tracked down by Shaft, Lou is about to use a Blaxploitation actor gang-raped by a bunch of men dressed in Klansmen suits.
• Shazam! (Fawcett Comics): Captain Nazi, real name Albrecht Krieger, embodies all the villainy the Nazis had to offer the superheroes of America. Tasked by Adolf Hitler himself to sow chaos in America, Nazi introduced himself to his archenemies by derailing trains and tipping over Ferris wheels, then using a little boy as a hostage before trying to kill him anyway. So full of gleeful sadism as to murder an elderly man and cripple his grandson—who would later become Captain Marvel Jr.—after the duo had rescued him from drowning, Nazi would bomb air raid shelters, poison thousands of American troops, and even kill his fellow Nazis in his goals to wipe out entire American cities and kill millions. Nazi would even attempt to drown a group of children to prevent them from buying War Stamps, then try to burn other kids alive so they couldn't do volunteer work for the military. A ravenously cruel and vicious brute, Captain Nazi was perhaps Captain Marvel Jr.'s most personal enemy, and one of Marvel himself's most hated.
• Sheena, Queen of the Jungle: Dark Rising, by Steven E. de Souza, Todd Livingston, et al.: Nazi Captain Heinrich Bronner is a cybernetic leftover from World War II who went into hiding for centuries to prepare his new assault on the world, having Lieutenant Ostheim act as a proxy in the real world and enslaving a nearby tribe for the purpose of forcibly breeding cannibalistic warriors out of them. Bronner viciously attempts to torture Sheena and her friends when they discover his operation, and Bronner eventually reveals his admit to destroy all the world's most major cities and establish a Fourth Reich over the ashes that remain, even coldly executing Ostheim for his weakness when he tries to propose extorting money from the cities instead.
• Shinku, by Ron Marz and Lee Moder: Asano is the vampire leader of the Yagyu clan. Slaughtering the Tadataka clan in a battle, Asano beheaded their leader Shigen and spent the next centuries killing the clan's descendants. Ruling modern day Tokyo from the shadows, Asano allows vampires to run around killing people, has women brought to him to feast on, and couldn't care less if his own vampires bite the dust. When his hitman Sakura fails to kill Shinku, Asano decides to do it himself, kidnapping Shinku's partner Quinn in order to lure her to her death. Feeling like the Yagyu clan has grown soft, Asano plans to kill Shinku in front of his vampire brethren in order to rid them of their main problem and rise as vicious warriors once again.
• Silverwing: The Graphic Novel: Goth is the prince of the Vampyrum Spectrum—carnivorous giant bats from South America—and a devout worshipper of the dark god Cama Zotz. Captured by humans, brought to North America, and marked with a metal band alongside his servant Throbb, Goth forces Throbb to help him escape and find a way south before winter; their predation on sapient birds and beasts leads to war being declared on the already-persecuted northern bats. Saving Shade Silverwing and Marina Brightwing from an owl, Goth pretends to befriend Shade while scheming to enslave the Silverwing colony as a limitless supply of meat and sacrifices. Exposed through Throbb's incompetence, Goth relentlessly pursues Shade and Marina, slaughtering a cult of human-worshipping bats and claiming their bands as trophies. Deciding to overwinter at the Silverwing hibernaculum while feasting on the sleeping bats, Goth sadistically mocks Shade and Marina's revulsion towards his and Throbb's cannibalism. Struck by lightning while torturing Shade, Goth swears revenge with the intent of committing genocide on the northern bats.
• Sin City:
  • The Colonel, also known as The Salesman, is one of the top enforcers in Herr Wallenquist's Basin City Mob. He runs and partakes in a clandestine division of contract killers, also recruiting and corrupting new trainees into killing machines, inducing one of them to murder the only man she ever loved before assigning her the codename "Blue Eyes". The Colonel's largest operation is the "Human Resources" division, a massive kidnapping, brainwashing, organ harvesting and sexual slavery operation. He brutally kills off one of his henchmen and murders his male lover on the off chance that the hero Wallace might track the minion down. When the loyalty of Lt. Leibowitz might falter, the Colonel threatens to have his entire family killed and orders his teenage son's arm to be broken as a warning. The Colonel is a sociopath who displays no character traits other than hinting at a wish to direct the bodies of the people around him, to see their "full potential" realized.
  • "That Yellow Bastard": Ethan Roark Jr. is the son of a crooked Senator with the appearance of a handsome, young playboy. Really a sadistic pedophile, Jr. moonlights as a rapist and killer of preteen girls, particularly enjoying their screams as he attacks them. His crimes covered up by Roark Sr., he is eventually caught by heroic cop John Hartigan as he abducts the young Nancy Callahan, Hartigan crippling and castrating him before he can attack the girl. His father having Hartigan imprisoned for revenge, Jr. kidnaps the adult Nancy and prepares to torture, rape, and kill her, boasting to Hartigan of the many—possibly dozens—of victims he took while the latter was incarcerated.
• The Sixth Gun: Griselda the Grey Witch is a powerful and ancient sorceress who serves the Great Wyrms. After dedicating herself to their service, Griselda began to search for the Six weapons to remake reality, razing entire cities and slaughtering countless people in the process. In the latest rebirth of the world, Griselda raped multiple slaves in an attempt to produce a son to serve as her antichrist, later unleashing her forces on a town, transforming many people into her monstrous servants and having dozens killed as a sacrifice to the seal of reality, intending on wiping out the world to rebuild it in tribute to the Great Wyrms.
• Society: Party Animal, by Colin Barr et al.: Dr. Carroon is Society's "sexual disease expert", a grinning member of the incestuous mutant upper-class who uses his trade to pass along countless horrible sexual diseases to the lower-class through his clinic to keep Society "clean" after their constant shunts. Introduced ordering some "vintage syphilis" passed along to clients, Carroon gleefully probes Billy Whitney, while mockingly remarking "you have been faithful to Clarissa", before doubling around to Billy's friend who sold Billy out in the hopes of a compromise and horribly killing him in front of Billy's eyes.
• Son of Merlin, by Robert Place Napton, Zid, et al.: Morgana le/la Fay, Merlin's evil cousin, is a cruel sorceress turned CEO of La Fey Industries. Seeking to claim Merlin's diary and the Stone of Giramphiel, Morgana plans to use their powers to awaken the Keres, demons that, once unleashed, will devour all of humanity and plunge the world into an eternal darkness. Murdering Merlin for his diary, Morgana sends her Black Knights to slay Merlin's son Simon for the diary, snapping one's neck for failing to kill him. Using Simon to help her unleash the Keres upon the Earth in return for his safety, Morgana still kills him anyway, knowing that he'll just betray her.
• Space Ghost (2005 miniseries, by Joe Kelly & Ariel Olivetti):
  • Quartermaster Temple, the man responsible for ruining the life of Thaddeus Bach—aka Space Ghost—is a corrupt space cop with a streak of viciousness that matches the literal alien horrors. Temple introduces his corruption murdering an amiable weapons dealer and passing it off as justice, and when Bach tries to expose him, Temple has Bach's pregnant wife brutally murdered, recording the whole process of tearing the unborn baby from her womb and leaving Bach for dead after rubbing his face in this atrocity. When the Zorathians attack the colony planet Meridian, Temple first tries to escape while shooting innocent civilians who get in his way, then elects to sell out the entire planet to the Zorathians. To cover up his crimes, Temple is ultimately willing to plunge the Zorathians' mothership into Meridian to kill not only the Zorathians, but every innocent life on the planet.
  • Zorak is portrayed here as far worse than his other incarnations. A monstrous conqueror terrorizing the galaxy, Zorak sends his scouts out to prowl for populated planets and murder entire cities to test their defenses, after which Zorak sics his entire army onto his selected planet to enslave, torture, and devour the entire populace, with even children not exempt from these horrors. Keeping himself alive over the years by bodyjacking his own soldiers when his current vessel expires, Zorak uses the corpses of entire planets to breed new generations of Zorathians to repeat his slaughter campaign unendingly, hoping to leave nothing alive in the universe but himself and his race. A sadist who takes deep joy from his atrocities, Zorak goes so far as to betray and try to murder Temple after an alliance with him, then mock Space Ghost over the death of his family at Temple's hands.
• Specter Inspectors, by Bowen McCurdy & Kaitlyn Musto: Virgil Von Brandt, mayor of Cape Grace from a century ago, is the true mastermind behind the town's haunted happenings. Seeking to win reelection after a disastrous term in office, Von Brandt captured a demon and stole its name to use its infernal power to twist the people into loving him, eventually conducting a ritual to absorb the demon into himself. Though foiled by the local bookkeeper, Von Brandt turned himself into an inhuman, undead monster and killed him in revenge, proceeding to haunt the town for decades as his spirit possessed and rapidly decayed the bodies of dozens of innocents—among them his own great-nephew. Gleefully upfront that human lives mean nothing to him, even murdering a young boy who saw him hiding a journal boasting of his misdeeds, Von Brandt assembles a cult to complete the ritual and absorb the demon so he can wield the full powers of Hell itself.
• The Spider: Although many of Richard Wentworth's adversaries in the Dynamite Comics revival written by David Liss lack anything resembling redeeming characteristics, many of them go above and beyond:
  • Anput is an Egyptian terrorist who attacks New York City to strike terror among the populace. Stealing a toxin from Wentworth Industries and reformatting it into a gas capable of turning people into zombies, Anput starts indiscriminately bombing populated areas with the gas, converting many people—children included—into mindless, shambling zombies that tear apart anything they come across. Anput tops herself by gassing Citi Field and reducing tens of thousands to the undead, and later attacks Richard's friend and love interest Nita for the sole purpose of hurting him. Although Anput espouses that she's out to purify the city of wrongdoers like the Spider himself, any and all pretense of good intentions quickly evaporates when Anput's true goal is revealed to be to gas Wall Street and make a solid profit out of the fallout, uncaring about the thousands she's poisoned as a mere distraction and the gigantic blow to the economy she plans on causing so long as she can get rich from it.
  • Lazarus is a particularly depraved small-time criminal and one-shot rogue of the Spider with an especially disturbed MO. An unassuming, chubby man who lives in a small, underground apartment by day, Lazarus indulges in his compulsions by regularly purchasing tetrodotoxin and using it to poison the elderly multiple times a week, resulting in them being paralyzed and Buried Alive—whereupon Lazarus masturbates to their screams to be let out. Once he's cut off from his selection of usual victims, Lazarus poisons the police commissioner in vengeful frustration and decides to start targeting younger women to bury alive in his own apartment, noting with a special glee that his first victim has a husband and family and treating the whole affair as nothing more than a casual hobby of his.
  • The Lawgiver, real name Joe Hilt, is a self-righteous Knight Templar and a disillusioned former cop who decides to start murdering New York's law enforcement for a chance to spite the Spider. Teaming up with the Fly, a villainous anarchist, the Lawgiver slaughters many of the city's cops before eventually resorting to collapsing a six-story building to murder a bar full of officers--and over 100 innocent civilians with him. The Lawgiver's master stroke is to kidnap the police commissioner, Kirkpatrick, before bombing the ensuing meet held by the city's police department and government to take out both the law enforcement and governance in one fell swing, planning to hand off New York to the Fly to turn it into a cesspool of chaos and rampant crime. The Lawgiver is a narcissist driven by spite, anger, and a craving to hurt Richard Wentworth, and proves to be little more than a pathetic, groveling snake once the cards are turned against him. Even in a world of terrorists, murderers, and more, the contemptuous nobody of a detective still manages to become one of the evilest people to ever combat the Spider.
• The Spirit: The Corpse Makers: Mark Hooper, head of Central City's Energy Department, seeks to mine the unsafe Crimson Coal mineral for a massive profit. Injecting chemicals into the homeless and derelicts to fake their deaths, Hooper has them turned into brainwashed slaves so they may work for free, with the deadly gasses placing them at risk of death, which Hooper disregards callously. Consumed by Greed and targeting the most vulnerable, Hooper is one of the Spirit's most vile enemies.
• Spirou & Fantasio: Zantafio, Fantasio's greedy cousin, is considered to be the true Big Bad of the series despite his rare appearances. Losing all his redeeming qualities in his second appearance, he became the dictator of Palombia and planned to start a War for Fun and Profit with another country. After being foiled by Spirou and Fantasio, he later commits robberies and frames Fantasio for it out of spite, and later attempted to kill Spirou and Fantasio multiple times. With no loyalty to anyone, he betrayed his partner-in-crime during the operation; later betrayed Zorglub when working for him; disowned and attempted to kill his own uncle after learning that he knew about the existence of a Fountain of Youth; and manipulated villagers into leading him to said fountain, planning to get rid of them once they're no longer useful. Not above hurting animals, he sold the Marsupilami when he was broke, and attempted to kill Spip when he took his uncle's diary.
• The Squidder, by Ben Templesmith:
  • The Dark Father is a ravenous Eldritch Abomination who for eons has infested entire universes and cleaned them dry of all life to satiate himself. The Dark Father initiates the wholesale genocide of mankind in the backstory, whittling humanity into a few starving populations he mutates and harvests at his whim. The Dark Father bides his time by playing with humans like toys, molding their flesh and fusing their living bodies together into abominated structures comprised of dozens of conscious humans.
  • The Queen Unit 59B, or the "Squid Queen", was part of the Squid Hive Mind before gaining independent agency and, with it, ambition. Having already been at the forefront of humanity's genocide while boasting to the protagonist how good their fellow Squidders were at dying, the Queen eventually betrays the Dark Father and leaves him to die, usurping his power and more. With his power and her newfound agency, the Squid Queen intends on devouring every possible universe, starting with Earth, until all that is left is a reality with herself as its supreme nexus.
• Stained, by David Baron, Yusuf Idris, & Simon Bowland: Berkshire is a despicable, warthog-masked trafficker who was initiated into the "family business" by raping a young woman, which kickstarted his sadistic nature. Now one of the most feared crime bosses in the world, Berkshire regularly buys kidnapped girls from slave auctions, spends time torturing and raping them all into obedient slaves, then sells them himself at a marked-up price. When his latest batch of trafficked girls—mostly teenagers—is tampered with by Emma London, Berkshire murders one of his own employees for breaking the bad news, and orders Emma murdered and his "property" retrieved. After lopping the hand off of one of the girls to keep the others in line, Berkshire mocks Emma that he's going to keep one of them as his personal slave and put her through the pain the rest of her life, before promising that even if all the girls escape him, he'll hunt down and kill them all.
• Stardust the Super Wizard: Several villains go the extra mile to truly earn Stardust's creative brand of justice:
  • "The Mad Giant Experimenter": The Mad Giant of the Gobi Desert is an evil experimenter seeking to destroy the world out of revenge for abolishing slavery. The Giant digs a hole to the center of the Earth where he pumps powerful chemicals in it so he could cause a volcanic eruption around the world. The Giant attempts to destroy Chicago as his first target before moving on to other locations.
  • "The Anti-Solar Ray": "Gyp" Clipp, leader of the Gyp Clipp Gang, devises a scheme to chain himself and his cohorts to the surface of the Earth while using an Anti-Gravity device to cause the rest of Earth's population to float away into space, nearly having half-a-million people suffocate in the vacuum. Unsatisfied, Gyp murders his own minions to have all of Earth's wealth for himself.
  • "Moloka's War on the Universe": Moloka, leader of a band of Space Pirates, attempts to seize control of the sun to dominate the solar system. Using his arsenal to utterly annihilate entire planets, Moloka tests out one of his superweapons by annihilating a planetoid and attempting to continue on to Neptune, only Stardust saving the populations of the planets he targets. Moloka even attempts to annihilate Earth when Stardust pretends to be his ally, gleefully taking Stardust's "advice" while monologuing he'll betray Stardust the first chance he gets.
  • "The Super Fiend of the Lost Planet": The Super Fiend of the Lost Planet, proclaiming his intentions to destroy all civilization in the solar system, uses his weaponry to set the entire planet of Mars ablaze, horribly killing its entire populace. From there, the Fiend attempts to swing the remains of Mars into Earth to annihilate it as well, necessitating Stardust marooning him on the remains of Mars surrounded by the millions he's killed.
• Steampunk, by Joe Kelly et al.: Lord Mortimer Absinthe is the tyrannical ruler of the Absinthian Empire in an alternate 1800s Europe. Once a disturbed Mad Scientist infamous for conducting grotesque experiments on animals-—one of which, his pet dog, he mutilated and experimented when he was only 5 years old—-the fisherman Cole Blaquesmith turned to Absinthe in a moment of desperation to cure his beloved Fiona. After Cole had retrieved knowledge from the future for Absinthe in return for curing Fiona, Absinthe spitefully lets Fiona die and tears out Cole's heart. Over a period of years with the knowledge he's cultivated, Absinthe orchestrates a murderous takeover of Europe and sets up a despotic regime where the lower-class are forced underground into incredible squalor and the tiniest hint of rebellion is killed. Absinthe perpetrates a bloody, genocidal war against France leading to colossal loss of life, sets up free slave labor in the Chasm Community—with promises to kill any slave that stops providing him labor—and in his crowning moment of evil murders a prisoner in front of one of the Vatican's agents and prepares to hand off millions of London's own populace to be killed in the Consecration Engine via having radium injected into their brains. When Cole returns from slumber in Absinthe's reign, Absinthe takes a perverse glee in mocking him about Fiona's death and hands him to his agent Nixon to be tortured, ordering Nixon to be killed when Nixon betrays him. Regularly perpetrating murder, torture, massacres, and cruel experiments in his free time, Absinthe's sardonic sense of humor and tendency for flamboyancy is only outweighed by his limitless capacity for sadism and cruelty towards everyone who does—and doesn't—oppose him.
• The Steel Fist: Heydrich is a Nazi spy tasked with destroying American munitions plants. To do so, he sets up shop as a clock-maker and gets a contract to fix the city's punch-clocks. He then rigs the clocks to explode when a time-card is punched in, blowing up the factory and killing everybody inside. After having taken out four plants this way, the Steel Fist shows up to stop him. Heydrich locks the Steel Fist in a room to wallow in his failure to stop the explosions until he's killed.
• Stitched: Emad Homayoun, the first Arc Villain, is a human trafficker who deals with the cult creating the titular Stitched. Homayoun is more than compliant with the process for creating the Stitched— pouring a black liquid into a man's orifices and then sewing all of them closed, in the process trapping the man's conscious soul in a state of undeath while the body becomes a mindless shell— and uses the Stitched as shock soldiers to regularly massacre entire villages. The survivors are kept captive by Homayoun's traffickers, the women and children sold to become sex slaves and the men to be converted into more Stitched. Any who Homayoun has no use for or are perceived as obstacles—such as a lame child and members of the Taliban—are brutally killed. Homayoun personally disembowels one of the heroes, Twiggy, casually noting that he'd rape her as well if he weren't in such a hurry. Ultimately, it is made plainly clear that Homayoun is just as much a monster as the undead Stitched he utilizes.
• Stranger Things:
  • Kamchatka, written by Michael Moreci: Dr. Karine is a sadistic scientist researching the Demogorgon for the Soviet government. Feeding it prisoners, Karine seeks a psychic device invented by Dr. Boris Orlov to strengthen the dying monster's connection to the Upside Down. Letting the Demogorgon devour Orlov's pupil to punish his betrayal, Karine eventually retrieves his device, boasting of the prestige she will gain before attempting to kill Orlov and his son.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles X Stranger Things:
    • The Mind Flayer is the abominable overseer of the Upside-Down, seeking to invade Earth and subsume its populace. Taking advantage of the Utrom dimensional experiments, the Mind Flayer enslaves the Utroms and forces them to begin opening portals throughout New York, allowing the Mind Flayer's "demogorgon" monsters to invade and kill civilians. After dozens have died, the Mind Flayer uses its forces to wrangle thousands of people into the middle of Times Square, plotting to open a massive portal directly beneath them and drag half of New York into the Upside-Down to be butchered.
    • Dr. Baxter Stockman is a fiendish scientist planning to create perfect predators from the realm of the Upside-Down. Stockman fuses his robotic Mousers with the Upside-Down demodogs and unleashes them on the city, regardless of who gets hurt. Capturing Eleven, Stockman experiments on her, planning to have her open portals to the Upside-Down for his scientific studies regardless of the collateral damage. When facing off against Raphael and Eleven, Stockman tries to psychologically break them both, trying to win by mentally breaking them to think they're nothing but lab experiments.
• Stray Dogs: The Master killed every one of the dogs' owners to get possession of them, often killing said owners by strangulation. Taking advantage of the dogs' memories, the Master keeps them in a house where he buries their previous owners; when the dogs attempt to call for help, the Master responds by taking one of them and skinning them alive. In a flashback, it's revealed that the Master had another pack of dogs in his house that he decapitated to keep as trophies on his wall. When the dogs attempt to escape, the Master pulls out a shotgun in order to kill them all.
• Streets of Glory, by Garth Ennis, Mike Wolfer, & Greg Waller : Red Crow is an Apache warrior, well known for his love of, and talent for, torture. The hero, Colonel Joe Dunn, recalls Red Crow's vicious rampages in flashbacks that reveal the man carving the guts out of his victims with a huge Slasher Smile. When he resurfaces at the end of the 19th century, Red Crow announces himself by abducting a man, chopping off his fingers, cutting off his manhood and stuffing it in his mouth before sewing his lips shut and letting him wander back into town. when Dunn and his team set off after Red Crow, Red Crow gleefully scalps a member of their party before slaughtering every other man besides Dunn and his young protege, avoiding killing them immediately so he can torture them to death later. When mortally wounded, Red Crow refuses to subject himself to any human laws and opts to hurl himself off a cliff, laughing the whole way down.
• Streets of Rage comic's "Skate's Story" & "The Only Game in Town!" arcs: Mr. X is a power-hungry crime lord who's taken control over a majority of the city, responsible for all the crime and corruption within the city and its police force. To further extend his control, Mr. X attempts to have an entire cruise ship of hundreds attending a charity ball blown up in order to kill a few politicians onboard, hoping to replace them with his men. After his activities are leaked to the public, Mr. X later creates a massive betting pool where people can bet on the possibility of Axel and his crew making it through to the other side of the city, sending an army of gangsters to try and kill them.
• String Divers: Calor Mortem is an egotistical entity who resides at the heart of creation and disdains all other beings as inferior to himself. Cutting the strings that hold the physical world together, Calor has destroyed multiple universes and the countless lives that reside in them, before turning his attention to the String Divers' universe. Calor's actions open dimensional rifts on Earth that kill the thousands who come into contact with them and even destroy the moon, raining debris that obliterates entire cities. Taking a corporeal form, Calor boasts that the only greater joy from destroying universes is killing the String Divers with his own hands.
• Subspecies 1991 prequel comic: Radu is a demonic vampire who allies with the enemies of the Vladislas family, happily killing his own peasants and having them torn apart by his demonic subspecies For the Evulz. Murdering an innocent Romani man and seeking to rape his daughter before she is rescued by Radu's good-hearted younger half-brother Stefan, Radu launches an attack on Kronescu, intending on massacring everyone in the area and the castle before draining his loyal commander of blood just to have the strength to fight Stefan at an advantage. Radu later has the woman Stefan loves, Mariah, savaged fatally by his Subspecies, relishing in his vampiric nature and mocking Stefan for thinking he can be a moral figure.
• Super-American:
  • Tyrannus is an agent of an unnamed European dictatorship sent to destroy America from within. He raises an army to kidnap the President and force Congress to vote him in as absolute dictator on pain of death. As Super-American puts a stop to these plans, Tyrannus orders a Maryland town flooded. In order to pull off a successful escape, Tyrannus orders New York City destroyed by his army. Later, he's seen assisting his boss, Vultro, in ensuring his country can successfully invade the US. To prevent Super-American from interfering, Tyrannus orders a bombing raid on a munitions factory his nemesis is in, not caring that many of his men are in the same place. After that fails, Tyrannus tries to escape, killing a scientist he was working with in the process.
  • Herr Largo is a Nazi agent in America tasked with stopping Super-American's meddling. Capturing one of his allies, Largo tortures him into giving up Super-American's home base, leaving the young man begging for death in his cell. He then invades the base, killing several soldiers and Super-American's scientist ally in the process. Knocking Super-American out with a special gas, Largo contacts the German army and orders a land invasion of New York City, massacring soldier and civilian alike. Donning Super-American's power suit, Largo flies into the fray, personally downing 23 airplanes.
• Survivors' Club, written by Lauren Beukes & Dale Halvorsen:
  • Mr. Empty is a mysterious being who attaches himself to young Harvey Lisker. Taking the form of the father Harvey craves, Mr. Empty murders his mother's boyfriend and then anyone else who troubles Harvey. As he grows stronger, Mr. Empty's murders need less and less justification, butchering anyone around for the sheer fun of it while feeding on Harvey and even massacring a park full of innocents for kicks. Directing Harvey to murder others and attempting to target the "Survivors' Club" of those who have outlived supernatural threats, Mr. Empty stands as one of the most vicious monsters in the comic.
  • "Lady Bone" is a monster who lays her eggs inside men, who are painfully killed when her larvae hatch and burst out of their chests. When Teo found her nest as a child, he saw dozens of men that she had laid her eggs in, and Lady Bone proceeded to lay her eggs inside him as well. In the present day, she attempts to forcibly mate with Teo before being fatally poisoned.
• Sweet Tooth: Haggarty is a lone survivor of the plague who showed up at a dam where the self-sustaining community Project Evergreen was located. At first seeming kind and helpful, he waited until a large group left to scavenge and killed almost everyone who stayed behind. After killing the community's leader, he took the man's wife and daughter for his own and locked everyone else out to fend for themselves. When Jeppard's group arrives at the dam, Haggarty had taken on the identity of the friendly, handicapped Walter Fish. He convinces them that the remaining members of Project Evergreen are violent scavengers, leading to Jeppard's group killing some of them. When most of the men leave, Haggarty ties up everyone but the teenager Becky, telling her that whenever she disobeys him, he'll kill one of her friends. When the others manage to escape, Haggarty tries to kill them all.

T - U

• Tarzan:
  • 1996-1998 Dark Horse Comics:
    • Issues #1-6—"Tarzan’s Jungle Fury": Princess Regina is the heir to the throne of Arthan, one of two lost civilizations brought back to life by the extraterrestrial plant Tara. Regina is fully on board with the genocide of both the Kavell, the other civilization brought back by Tara, and humanity itself. Regina ventures into the world to seduce Tarzan, intending to mate with him. Choosing Paul D'arthon instead, Regina has him infected by Tara and manipulates him into hating Tarzan. Leading her forces to completely exterminate the Kavell, Regina seemingly reforms and creates a cure for Tara after Paul almost dies. Revealing her duplicity, Regina tries to seduce the Kavell King Johran, tossing Paul aside, revealing she killed her father and that the cure her people took is fake. Overlooking her troops slaughtering the Kavall, Regina tries to poison Johran before spreading Tara across the planet.
    • Issues #7-10—"Legion of Hatred": Otto Mann started as just a disrespected Nazi private. Stumbling upon the lost city of Kali, Otto finds the mind-bending Zuli emerald. In order to buy time to master the emerald, Otto manipulates Kali women into helping him enslave Bandago tribe, using the emerald to take control of them, Kali, and his fellow Nazis. Otto uses the emerald to rape Queen Zunnesa, causes Allied planes to crash into one another, and forces his men to commit suicide, almost doing the same to Tarzan's friend Mugambi. Threatening to use the emerald to kill the entire Kali tribe, Otto forces Tarzan into slavery, planning to use the emerald to conquer the world and rape different women every day.
    • Issues #17-20—"Tarzan vs the Moon Men": Jamagar Cha-Ron is the leader of the carnivorous Va Gas. Allying himself with Jamagar Or-tis of Kalkan, Cha-Ron has his troops help the Kalkans enslave African people in order to build a landing area for his fleet. Coming to Earth, Cha-Ron brings weapons with to conquer Earth and plans to betray the Kalkans and eat their hearts. He watches as Tarzan is forced to fight an animal mutated into a monstrous slave. Leaving Or-tis to be killed and eaten by his guard, Cha-Ron brings his army to Earth, intent on enslaving humanity.
  • Batman/Tarzan: Claws of the Cat-Woman, written by Ron Marz: Finnegan Dent is a would-be Adventurer Archaeologist who plundered the hidden African city of Memnom of its sacred artifacts, all for the purpose of entertaining his own greed. Dent returns to the city this time with the hope of stripping it bare, and when a chance encounter with a lion leaves him with half of a face, Dent forsakes returning to civilization in favor of conquering Memnon. In short order, Dent murders the city's pharaoh and then tries to extort the city's princess into a forced marriage under the alternative of having his mercenaries slaughter as many of her people as they can. Dent is willing to defile graves, destroy culture, and shoot innocent people merely on the basis of their superstition, and lacks even the Two-Headed Coin principle and tragic backstory of his mainstream counterpart.
  • Red Sonja/Tarzan, written by Gail Simone: Eson Duul is a former Cimmerian who stole a sword of Sorrow after massacring its keeper's household. Obsessed with his own glory, Duul uses it to hunt heroes and legends across multitudes of worlds and times, slaughtering them and all they care about on grand scales. Not content with this, Duul hunts entire species to extinction, obsessed with never being outdone. Targeting Tarzan, Duul hunts down Tarzan's young grandson to murder him and slaughters all in his path, intending to enslave Tarzan's daughter-in-law. When Sonja and Tarzan hunt him to a lost world, Duul seeks to rally the primordial beings there to flood the surface and slaughter everything in their path so that Duul may reign supreme.
• Ten Grand, by J. Michael Straczynski, Ben Templesmith, et al.: Brother James Samaritan, the man responsible for the death of Joe Fitzgerald and his beloved Laura, was a former Templar in life who lived life with a legacy of torture and execution behind him. Left for dead by the God whose name he had used to justify his atrocities, James pledged himself to Hell upon death's door and spent the rest of his immortal existence reaping souls for Hell. James plans nothing less than a total invasion of Heaven, holding Laura's soul in thrall in exchange for Joe's loyalty, with the threat of having Laura's soul consumed by demons—a process, James notes, which can take hundreds of years.
• Terraria comic, published by DC Comics: The Eater of Worlds is an abominable, worm-like creature responsible for the spreading corruption that threatens all life. The Eater of Worlds uses its power to poison entire landscapes of life and reduce them to barren wastelands where anything that survives is transformed into a mutated, rampaging beast. The Eater of Worlds' actions wiped out the Dryad race, and it seeks to continue spreading until all life is infected by its taint. When the heroic Alastair tries to stop it, the Eater of Worlds attempts to draw out his defeat and corrupt him into another puppet while sadistically taunting him.
• Testament, written by Douglas Rushkoff: Pierre Fallow is a cryptocurrency tycoon and the de facto ruler of the dystopian setting, achieving this status by deliberately engineering World War III. Stealing his employees Drs. Alan and Greta Stern's research on nanotechnology, Fallow programmed the nanobots to launch an unprovoked nuclear strike on Iran and frame the United States. Fallow's ultimate aim is to collapse the world economy with war debt, leaving it entirely dependent on his virtual currencies to stay afloat. When his former protege and closest friend Alec attempts to reason with him toward the end of the series, Fallow instead attempts to brainwash him by injecting him with an overdose of nanobots.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2007):
  • Hoyt, By Himself: Sergeant Chow is the massive, sadistic head of a Communist POW Camp. Chow horribly abuses and tortures the prisoners of his camp on a daily basis, being introduced after having beaten and pissed on one for laughs. Forcing the men in his prison to work themselves into exhaustion, Chow executes any who give out from weakness and for a bevy of other petty reasons. When the camp is cut off from supplies, Chow wastes little time before butchering and cannibalizing the prisoners in his care, forcing other prisoners to consume the meat of their fellow man lest they starve.
  • Cut!: The Cook is a gluttonous cannibal who uses the annual "Meat Fests" in his home state to lure victims to his home to be murdered and eaten by his family. In the Cook's latest batch of four victims, he plays twisted games with the Sole Survivor Mike before making sure Mike is alive and conscious as he begins carving into him. Afterwards, the Cook prepares for more victims at next year's Meat Fest, ready to claim more lives for his cooking that he feeds to unsuspecting innocents.
• Texas Jack, by Pierre Dubois & Dimitri Armand: Henry Saul, better known as "Ironsmoke", is hired by the corrupt businessman Archie Passendale to clear out settlers from Wyoming. Ironsmoke does this by massacring numerous settlements to the last individual, including personally killing a baby to present its arm as a trophy to Passendale, horrifying even him. Ironsmoke then kills all of Passendale's fellow businessmen and shoots his arm to make it believable. Later capturing Texas Jack to create his own legend, Ironsmoke threatens to have Jack's lover Amy gang-raped should Jack refuse a duel.
• The Third Testament, by Alex Alice & Xavier Dorison: Uther the Purple, Bishop of Stornswall, matches his liege Duke Sayn in evil and faithfully serves him on his mission to bring about the end times. Uther personally massacres a monastery of nuns and slaughters Élisabeth's father, while furiously pursuing Conrad and butchering everyone who gets in his way. Even on his own time, Uther is vile, coldly torturing and murdering numerous people who get in the way of Sayn or himself with a specialty for drawing out their agony, and mutilates his own servants in Stornswall to permanently deny them any sort of a life outside of his walls.
• Thorgal:
  • Nidhogg, the divine snake with twelve tails, is the ill-chosen guardian of the Yggdrasil tree. Having won a round of checkers with Ivaldir, the king of dwarves, Nidhogg claims the latter's name and kingdom should the king fail within 1,000 years to bring a "metal that doesn't exist", enjoying his desperation. When the child Thorgal tries to reach the dwarves, the snake fights him and eventually impales him on a blade. Years later, Nidhogg plots his revenge by sending Volsung to seduce the Guardian of the Keys and steal her magical belt. With it, Nidhogg intends to open the gates of all dimensions and cast all of them in an everlasting war that will cause the end of all creation. After Volsung betrays him, Nidhogg abducts the Guardian and threatens to crush her should he not get the belt. Exiled to the In-Between World, Nidhogg takes Volsung with him and curses him with immortality and a grotesque form. When the dwarf Thjazi and Wolfcub, the teenage daughter of Thorgal, request his help to defeat the dark elves who threatens the worlds in exchange with freedom, Nidhogg scoffs and immediately tries to devour them both and prevent them from saving the realms.
  • The Three Elders of Aran: The Benevolent Ones are the greedy and immortal trio who took over the land of Aran and turned the population into zombies, forcing them to extract the gold deposits in the surrounding mountains for generations. Every hundred years, the old men abduct and brainwash an innocent woman, then organize a perilous tournament where the survivor would be promised the hand of the lady and the throne of the land. In actuality, it's a scheme to send the winner back in time and retrieve from their younger selves a flask of the Water of the Night of Time that prolongs their life for another century. Once the winner returns to the present, he's promptly eliminated. Having pulled the plan for thousand years by the time they abduct Aaricia, the Benevolent Ones scoff at Thorgal's morals when he finds out the truth.
  • Volsung of Nichor, in contrast to the many complex and sympathetic villains, is a thuggish coward and all-around scumbag. After participating in the tournament of Aran during which he killed a man by shooting an arrow in the back, Volsung is released from his prison by the evil deity Nidhogg. Given Thorgal's form, Volsung seduces a deity in love with Thorgal, in order to sleep with her and steal her magic belt. Granted immortality and invulnerability, Volsung murders Thorgal and takes over his life while trying to eventually rape Thorgal's wife Aaricia and threatening to murder Thorgal's baby daughter Wolfcub. Volsung then gleefully murders the Viking chief, rapes his wife and usurps power by threatening the great council, with the goal of conquering the whole world. Defeated, Volsung uses Thorgal's young son Jolan as a hostage. Years later, when a teenage Wolfcub and the dwarf Thjazi break into his and Nidhogg's prison, Volsung suggests his cellmate torture them both to pass the time.
  • The Kingdom Beneath the Sand: Contarch Sargon is an Atlantean supremacist who want to conquer the world and subdue humanity. Sargon usurped and murdered Alcyor, the previous leader of his colony, by casting him in a perilous labyrinth because Alcyor wanted to live in peace with the Earthlings. Sargon also condemns his opponents and Alcyor's teenage son Tiago to the same fate. Holding Thorgal's wife and their young children hostage, Sargon attempts to coerce the hero into helping him to pose his men as gods so they can manipulate the Vikings into fighting for them. Eventually, Sargon sentences Thorgal, his family and the rebel Chrysios to die in the maze, only sparing the young Ileniya because he wants her to bear him children.
• ThunderCats franchise:
  • Dogs of War, by John Layman et al.: Doberlord is the evil leader of the Dogs of War and makes it his mission to rule the entire universe. Going from planet to planet, Doberlord makes a judgment about whether the planet's population is strong enough to become his slaves, or weak and should be destroyed. Doberlord repeated this process and enslaved several planets, and destroyed and committed genocide on others. Coming to New Thundera, Doberlord decides that the ThunderCats are worthy to become his slaves and, after razing the kingdom, threatens that if they don't surrender he will destroy their world. The incident causes Lion-O to form an uneasy alliance with his archenemy Mumm-Ra. Doberlord later defeats the ThunderCats and the Mutants and imprisons them in his dungeons and orders Lion-O tortured. When the Berbils, a race of small cyborg bears, surrender to him, Doberlord declares them worthless and sics his lizard men slaves to slaughter them all, knowing that the lizard men will be forever tormented by this action.
  • He-Man/ThunderCats:
    • Mumm-Ra is an evil servant of the Ancient Spirits of Evil who aided their attack on Eternia, leading many monsters to attack the great city of Eternos and personally impaling Prince Adam, sadistically mocking him. Joining forces with Skeletor, Mumm-Ra helped him enslave his former masters, making them spread death and destruction around the planet, openly sharing Skeletor's plan to conquer the world and transform it into a horrific place, where the opposition will be brutally executed and the rest of the population enslaved. Transforming with Skeletor into the powerful Mumm-Ator and trying to take over the multiverse, Mumm-Ra wanted to help Skeletor to create this future for the whole multiverse.
    • Skeletor is a vile warlock and the most relentless enemy of He-Man. Discovering the existence of another universe, Skeletor has made a contact with the Ancient Spirits of Evil, having them bring their world closer to Eternia, causing a cataclysm that destroyed part of the great city of Eternos, before he captured their agent Mumm-Ra and transformed him into a liquid, which he drank, despite Mumm-Ra still being alive and sapient. Later bringing Mumm-Ra back to his original form, Skeletor joined forces with him, enslaving the Ancient Spirits of Evil and having them spread chaos and destruction all over Eternia, killing thousands. Desiring to transform Eternia into a horrific place, where all those who oppose him will die and the rest of the population will be enslaved, Skeletor transformed himself and Mumm-Ra into Mumm-Ator, before he tried to take over the multiverse. Failing at that and being banished, Skeletor starts pretending to serve Darkseid and the brutal version of Superman, using them to get his way into Castle Grayskull again, while assisting Superman in upholding his tyrannical regime and revealing to Darkseid that the answer to Anti-Life Equation was always in Castle Grayskull, leading to Darkseid attacking Eternia, slaughtering thousands and brainwashing thousands more.
• Time Bomb, by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, Paul Gulacy, et al.: Gerhard Metzger is a Nazi scientist who seeks to avert Nazi Germany's defeat in World War II by any means necessary. Changing his name to David Page after Nazi Germany's fall, Metzger constructed the Time Bomb for the purpose of returning to the past during the final months of the war, hoping to ensure Nazi Germany's victory by deploying their ultimate superweapon, the Omega Bomb. When released, the bomb will wipe out all of humanity in a matter of days, leaving only the Nazis safely hidden underground to survive to reclaim the Earth. Metzger coldly uses prisoners as test subjects for the bomb's effects, and disregards even his own allies who won't make it to the underground shelter in time, dismissing them as merely a small price to pay for "the greater good".
• Tintin:
  • Roberto Rastapopoulos is Tintin's Arch-Enemy. Debuting as a seemingly benign film producer, Rastapopoulos is in reality the ringleader of an international drug cartel that utilizes a poison to drive his enemies, interlopers, and any disloyal minions insane. When his operations in Cairo and India crumble, Rastapopoulos kidnaps the Maharajah's son and attempts to crush the boy and Tintin with a boulder, only to apparently fall to his death. Revealing to have survived in China, Rastapopoulos orders the execution of Tintin and Mr. Wang's family, to be beheaded by Mr. Wang's own drugged son. He later returns as the ringleader of a slave trafficking ring, abducting Muslims under the pretense of granting them safe passage, only to later sell them off. Discovering Tintin's interference, Rastapopoulos shows no regard for the lives of innocents in his attempts on Tintin's life; he arranges for a bomb to be planted in Tintin's passenger plane, and later orders a submarine to torpedo the slave ship Tintin had commandeered. In his final appearance, Rastapopoulos attempts to rebuild his fortune by stealing Lazlo Carreidas's own using a truth serum. But when accidentally injected with said serum, he gleefully reveals his plan to have most of his minions killed off once he claims Carreidas's fortune. Driven by Greed, Rastapopoulos truly lives up to his self-proclaimed moniker as "the devil incarnate".
  • Dr. J. W. Müller is a doctor posing as a respected man to hide his counterfeiting operation. In "The Black Island", when Müller catches Tintin inside his house, he captures him and plans to send him to an asylum to drive him insane. Tintin escapes and gets into a fight with Müller; during the fight the house is set on fire, so Müller traps Tintin inside the house to let him slowly burn to death, even purposefully sabotaging the operation of the firefighters to make sure this happens. In "Land of Black Gold", Müller has been sabotaging oil pipelines to create tension between the Middle East and the rest of the world to start a war to profit from. Müller also has been playing both Bab El Ehr and the Emir of Khemed against each other to start a Civil War and further increase tension. After Tintin shows up, Müller thinks his plans might be in jeopardy and kidnaps Abdullah and frames Bab El Ehr to expel the Arabex oil company out of Khemed.
• Titanic Creations presents Soul War:
  • Erwin Rommel is depicted as a power-hungry and bloodthirsty enforcer of the Nazi operations in Egypt and Libya. Seeking out the ancient monster Skureaus to empower the German army, the first thing Rommel has the monster do upon awakening is slaughter the workers at the excavation site. Rommel then sends Skureaus to siege Cairo, leaving it in burning ruins, until becoming bored of its rampage. Using Skureaus to fight and seemingly kill the ancient monster Titanicus, Rommel begins mutating with more of his cruelty. Rommel cuts ties with Hitler, creating a cult to his own name, regularly devouring his followers and prisoners, and running a slave camp where defiance is met with immediate execution. While batting the young hero, Wolfgang, Rommel prepares to devour the boy alive while mocking him for "failing" his parents.
  • Griffixis is an alien monstrosity and the Hive King of an all-consuming pathogen. Previously infecting a far-off world, Griffixis wiped out all life on their planet, but not before the alien race created Nosferadon to stand against it. Eventually reaching Earth, Nosferadon infects two teenagers as its abducted victims, soon attacking a town as it grows big enough. Throughout, Griffixis, through its infected proxies, displays a childish glee at its mayhem. Facing Nosferadon, Griffixis lures the latter into getting gunned down by Nazi missiles, before soon assimilating Skureaus, gaining a superior body and preparing to continue its rampage. When Tom Benson enters the soul realm to sever Griffixis's link to Skureaus, Griffixis attempts to break Tom down with hellish visions. When seemingly destroyed, its two infected proxies escape and sneak into a crowd of refugees.
• Top 10:
  • Craig Wallace, aka Atoman, is the seemingly heroic leader of the Seven Sentinels. In truth, all their heroic exploits are faked. Atoman uses this as a cover for the Sentinels' true purposes: child molestation. Sexually abusing their sidekicks, Atoman has children groomed or raped to become sex slaves to the Seven, indulging in his taste for superpowered children and teens himself on a frequent basis.
  • M'rggla Qualtz is the so-called "Vigilante from Venus" who in actuality is a monstrous alien horror who partakes in the usual proclivities of the Sentinels with horrible aplomb. Qualtz is also the elusive "Libra Killer", responsible for the gruesome deaths of ten prostitutes in Neonopolis, devouring their pineal glands and keeping their heads as trophies. When captured, Qualtz uses her Psychic Powers to literally Mind Rape one of the officers to goad her into violence, clearly relishing her victim's violation.
• Total Recall (1990): In the DC Comics adaptation of this classic action flick, by Elliot S! Maggin & Tom Lyle, Chief Administrator Vilos Cohaagen lacks his film counterpart's Villainous Friendship with Carl Hauser, while still retaining all the evil. As leader of the Mars colonization efforts, Cohaagen brutally overprices the sell of oxygen to the citizens of the colonies, uncaring that many of them are slowly dying from being unable to pay Cohaagen's prices, and, upon discovering a likely way to provide infinite oxygen across the planet, Cohaagen covers it up to retain his power over the inhabitants. When rebel forces continuously try to oust his treachery, Cohaagen devises a plan with his partner Carl Hauser to mind-wipe the latter, turning him into an ideal rebel fighter, then using this new personality, Douglas Quaid, to lead Cohaagen to the rebels. Once succeeding in this, slaughtering the entire rebel group, Cohaagen attempts to revert Quaid back to Hauser, laughing all the way about asphyxiating the entirety of Venusville for fun. Cohaagen ultimately showed his lack of care for Hauser when, after Quaid escapes the attempted reversion of his mind, Cohaagen callously orders him be killed, and spends his last moments using Melina as a hostage in an attempt to murder Quaid, securing his rule over Mars once and for all.
• Tracker, by Jonathan Lincoln, et al.: "Herod" is a sadistic werewolf Serial Killer with a sick love for murdering large crowds of people, leaving behind bible pages on the corpses. Having killed for 60 years and amassed a body count in the triple digits, Herod prefers traveling around the world and having others blamed for his murders, while also killing other werewolves and drinking their blood to continue living every 2-3 years. Seeking Charles Langdon, he kills his mother and decapitates him, sending the head to Special Agent Alex when he's on his tail after getting bitten by Herod. After Alex prevented him from killing the child werewolf Jack, Herod kills some police officers protecting his girlfriend Tory and kidnaps her, threatening her life should Alex not hand Jack over.
• Transmetropolitan: Senator Gary "The Smiler" Callahan is a sadistic politician who desires ultimate power for no reason other than to hurt others. On his campaign trail for President, Callahan first shows his cruelty when he has his political advisor shot dead to gain sympathy for his cause. Once elected President, Callahan begins running The City into the ground even more than it already was, orchestrating the release of vicious criminals so as to gun down the ensuing protesters, having all the prostitutes he ever slept with and those who associated with them hunted down and executed to cover up his illicit acts, and ordering several people sniped to lower the City's awareness of an incoming storm, hoping it would wipe out more evidence of his crimes. As Spider Jerusalem begins taking apart his cabinet and ruining his reputation, Callahan slowly becomes more unhinged and desperate for ratings, having his wife and kids killed in an accident to gain sympathy and instituting Martial Law across the City, setting an entire complex aflame and endangering dozens in the process. In perhaps his most despicable act, Callahan gives his troops the order to use lethal force on a group of young college protesters, leading to dozens of protesters being mowed down. Described by Spider as a man who believes in nothing but his own power, Gary Callahan was a self-described "James Bond villain" who simply hated every last person on the planet that wasn't himself, and stood out even in this Crapsack World as an absolute evil.
• Trese: Talagbusao is a sadistic War God out to cause as much chaos and murder as possible. After fathering twin boys, Basilio and Crispin, with a human woman before being sealed away, Talagbusao anticipates the bloodshed they will cause to free him, whereupon he murders his former lover and tries to eat the hearts of his children to become stronger and bring new nightmares to the world. Defeated, he later returns to attack the now-adult twins, Alexandra Trese's bodyguards, by causing a string of suicide bombings to lure in his prey.
• Trick 'r Treat: Days of the Dead's "Corn Maiden": Alvin Bledsoe is a railroad executive seeking to expand his way west. Traveling with his daughter Sarah and subordinates, Bledsoe is frustrated by a group of Natives who refuse to move their village for his railroad. When negotiations fail, Bledsoe simply poisons the whole village to exterminate the lot of them, using Sarah to do so and remarking that if she eats the poison candy he sends, then "great progress requires great sacrifice."
• The Trigan Empire:
  • King Zorth of the Lokans is a wicked tyrant who seeks to conquer and annihilate all across the world. Attacking the Vorg people, Zorth has civilians slaughtered before moving to wipe out the entire country of Cato. His forces repulsed, a furious Zorth orders one-tenth of the survivors executed before renewing his attacks to kill until the rest submit. Upon the founding of the Trigan empire, Zorth learns a moon will crash into Loka. Executing the astronomers for the bad news, Zorth sends "refugees" to Emperor Trigo, only to launch an attack from within to slaughter numerous Trigan soldiers and civilians. One of the Trigan Empire's most depraved foes, Zorth routinely has innocents and even his own massacred to satisfy his cruelty and need for dominance.
  • Klud is one of Trigo's two brothers and utterly nothing like either of them. A conniving snake envious of Trigo, Klud demonstrates his initial nastiness by refusing to give aide to hundreds of people left homeless by Zorth with full knowledge they will die otherwise, attempting to personally execute the one man who stands up. When Trigo stops this, Klud promptly tries to murder Trigo with a poisoned knife in revenge. Even after Trigo spares Klud's life for his treachery, Klud still sells out his own people to Zorth and personally leads a fleet to rain down hellfire upon his own people until they submit as broken slaves of the Lokan Empire, and dies shortly after having ordered his other brother Brag burned alive in response to Brag's trickery.
• Turok (Dynamite Comics):
  • 2014 run: Lord Fitzwalter is a crusader in the new world, attacking the Manhattan village and slaughtering or enslaving those he finds. Resorting to torture to find non-existent gold, Fitzwalter executes the chief to make a point by throwing him off the top of the fort, and unleashed a T. rex on the woods to kill the others, without care if it eats his captive daughter. Later, to ward off the beast, he intends to throw a native child to it.
  • 2017 run: Imperator Licendor Vex is the cruel ruler of the Varanid Empire that rules the Lost Valley, having set himself up as a god by having every single believer of the Seventy-Seven gods massacred. With torture and murder rampant in his regime, Vex intends to produce an heir through the use of thirteen breeding slaves, intending to regain his libido by butchering and eating several young children to use their flesh to replenish himself.
• Typhon: Menar is a career criminal. After inventing the Tidal Annihilator, a machine that can generate destructive tidal waves, Menar moves to a Supervillain Lair under the sea, forcing his daughter to come with him. He then proceeds to destroy multiple ships, killing everybody aboard and stealing the cargo. After wiping one boat out for a $100,000,000 shipment of gold, Typhon and his lieutenant go to investigate. After Menar captures our heroes, he leaves them in a Death Trap to suffocate.
• Über is a dark Alternate History Deconstruction of Stupid Jetpack Hitler where the Nazis have used alien technology to create super soldiers (the titular Übers). While no side is truly good, the following characters manage to stand out:
  • Adolf Hitler himself shows his true colors by murdering the officer behind the Über project by letting Markus melt him, all because the man didn't tell Hitler until the project was ready. Besides ordering horrible, inhumane experiments, death camps and war crimes, Hitler prolongs World War II by trying to make sure "everyone else loses," having his forces intentionally target civilians as he endlessly sends his own troops into the meat grinders, believing that he alone is Germany.
  • Joseph Goebbels shows that far from being a mere Propaganda Machine, he possesses a greater capacity for evil than anyone thought. After the death of Hitler, Goebbels has an empowered human modify his face via plastic surgery to resemble the Führer, first having dozens, if not hundreds, of luckless souls serve as the guinea pigs so she can reluctantly "hone" her sculpting ability. Upon his ascension, Goebbels announces the war effort will be ramped up and the only option the enemies of the Reich face are capitulation or immolation. This culminated in Goebbels invading the United States, unleashing two battleship-class Übers upon East Coast, leading to catastrophic deaths and the complete annihilation of Washington, D.C.
  • Among the Nazi Übers themselves, Markus "Siegfried" Jung is the worst—and one of the most powerful. A sadistic psychopath fully devoted to the Nazi regime, Markus, while a child, once murdered a Jewish man for fun, growing up into a savage war criminal who targets civilians in his attacks. When the Red Army is defeated at Berlin, Markus executes thousands upon thousands of prisoners before resuming his place on the front lines where he leads his men to more war crimes. Markus initially spearheads the invasion into America, attacking Washington, D.C. by annihilating the White House and recrafting it into a gigantic swastika. Markus proceeds to lay waste to all in his path in America, killing soldiers and civilians alike. Vile enough that even when dying agonizingly, his fellow Über Siegmund coldly leaves him to his fate, Markus misses no chance to show why he is Hitler's favorite soldier.
• The Umbrella Academy:
  • Dr. Terminal, debuting in Apocalypse Suite, is a cannibalistic scientist out to satiate his massive appetite. Having been diagnosed with Einstein Syndrome, Terminal made a device that would help prevent the disease from spreading. Terminal, wanting to keep the disease happy, became a cannibal who ate the doctors who diagnosed him, and even ate a young Rumor's arm, claiming that little girls taste better. Defeated by the Academy, Terminal programmed his robots to destroy a crowded carnival should the Academy reform, an act that ends up killing countless people, including children. Sent to Sir Reginald's Hotel Oblivion, following a containment breach, Terminal eats a scientist and tries to devour the entire city, bragging about how his hunger is never-ending.
  • Apocalypse Suite: The Conductor is the leader of the Orchestra Verdammten, a cult set out to destroy the world. Having written a song that would make a comet crash into the Earth, the Conductor has his followers attempt to perform the song themselves, murdering those who fail to do so. Manipulating Vanya into joining his cult, he painfully brainwashes and transforms her into the deadly White Violin, a weapon who's unleashed and ends up killing Dr. Phineas Pogo while trying to continue the Conductor's plans of annihilating Earth.
• Undertaker, by Ralph Meyer, Xavier Dorison, et al. (The Ogre of Camp Sutter & The Shadow of Hippocrates arcs): Jeronimus Quint, aka the Ogre, is a brilliant surgeon who takes pleasure in torturing patients. Gaining infamy during the Civil War, Quint tormented wounded soldiers, and at one point needlessly amputated Colonel Warwick's arm just to experiment a transplant. Resurfacing years later, Quint goes back to his old ways killing some of his clients. When Warwick sends his son to stop him, the Ogre tortures him to death and later exposes his dismembered corpse to the grieving father. Quint takes Rose hostage after breaking her arm, condemning the young women to die from infection should he not heal her, and later stabs a man in the belly to compel his wife into killing Jonas Crow. Framing Jonas for theft, Quint gleefully announces his intention of torturing Rose to death and amputating Jonas's arm and leg before ripping out his tongue. For all his public persona of a humanitarian, Quint proudly abides by the belief that "when people take you for a monster, there's only one thing left for you to do...exceed their expectation!"
• Undertaker, written by Beau Smith, by Chaos! Comics: The Embalmer, also known by his human identity Augustus Slayer, is a powerful druid who, in order to rule over all planes of existence, seeks to bring down "Armageddon" upon the universe using the Books of Death, and enslave everyone in all realms for eternity. After coming into conflict with The Undertaker, the Embalmer would banish him to Earth, and, after his rebirth, would enslave him from childhood to adulthood. Throughout the series, the Embalmer regularly burns people to death, his own henchmen included; melts a guard's face off; sics a monster named Soulvex on an entire city, resulting in half of it being wiped out; and desires to have one of his henchmen and his entire tribe killed, all the while plotting to subject his enemies to eternal death. Setting his sights on Jezebelle, the Embalmer seeks to forcefully marry her, and, during the final battle, declares his intentions of raping and then killing her.
• The Unfunnies:
  • Troy Hicks is a comic book artist who gets arrested for raping and killing eight children. Using an occult ritual to contact the world he created, Hicks proceeds to introduce his creations to sex and violence, eventually filling the world's prison with murderers and rapists. Troy eventually convinces local mailman Frosty Pete to switch places with him and leaves him to fry in the electric chair before sexually blackmailing Birdseed Betty, a desperate woman whose husband he corrupted with child porn. He then restarts his child murders until the police catch up to him. Hicks then uses his occult powers to massacre the entire police department, cementing himself as the god of this world. His first act is to give Betty's family a chance at a happy life before crushing them with an anvil, ending the comic completely successful.
  • Dr. Despicable introduces himself talking a woman into letting him have her problematic child killed, a service he implies he regularly provides. Later tricking a rundown actor into thinking he's got testicular cancer so Despicable can castrate him to win a bet with another depraved practitioner, when disqualified for cheating, he suggests a new competition: stealing kidneys.
• Unholy Grail: The demon who takes the true Merlin's name and skin intends to amuse himself by driving England into ruins. Locating the infant future King Arthur, Merlin massacres those who know of him and slowly corrupts the boy into a supposedly-noble king who brutally unites the land via bloody conquest and massive bloodshed. Upon his marriage to Guinevere, Merlin engineers her kidnapping, murdering his pawn there, and tricks Guinevere into adultery with the heroic and noble Lancelot, creating a homunculus known as Morgana from Guinevere's lusts. Merlin then attempts to have Guinevere burned alive—not telling Morgana this will kill her as well after she'd seduced King Arthur. When Guinevere is pregnant, Merlin uses his magic to murder her child to give Morgana's, Mordred, life, and later manipulates Mordred into taking over as a tyrant for the sheer amusement of watching Arthur's civil war against his own son, mocking Guinevere for his actions even as he kills her and Morgana. A depraved creature seeking only to alleviate boredom, Merlin endlessly seeks to corrupt those around him to entertain himself with the ensuing chaos.
• Unknown Worlds issue #33's "Don't Judge Until You Hear My Story!": Edward Jennings is an ambitious missile scientist from the 20th century who leads an expedition on Marlo IV in search of riches. He finds a civilisation which used nerve gas to enslave a race of giants. Edward pretends to be their friend before using atmosphere-burning bombs to wipe out all life on the planet and steal the gas in order to reduce Earth's people to his unthinking slaves. When a time anomaly takes him 60 years into the past, Edward doesn't miss the opportunity to gloat about his crimes to what he believes to be an alien, actually his granduncle Harry.
• Unnatural: The Albino is an ancient wolf spirit. Once a remorseless and sadistic killer who slaughtered countless innocents, the Albino was placated with bridal sacrifices whom it would murder on their wedding night. Becoming obsessed with a new bride, the pig Bes, the Albino's life ended up manifested within Bes's reincarnation Leslie. Returning to drive her to madness and resume its killing rampages, the Albino gleefully describes itself in the worst terms and completely refuses to change its ways.
• The Unwritten: Pullman, the most visible member of the Ancient Conspiracy, is a sadistic murderer who kills multiple people with relish; this includes a little girl he smothered to death with a pillow. At times he goes out of his way to kill when he has absolutely no reason to execute the victims. Pullman admits his hatred for storytellers and goes out of his way to make such targets deaths as painful as possible. Seven thousand years old, Pullman has had time to wrack up an impressive count of misdeeds, including when he was travelling with Gilgamesh himself, and raped or killed a woman that he sneered he "used as cattle ought to be" when confronted. Pullman is ultimately revealed as attempting to slay the Leviathan, the creature behind all stories, in order to achieve his own death, as his own story as Cain, the first murderer, will not allow him to die. however, he has no intention of dying alone, and when he's dealt with deathblow by the heroes, he gloats to hero Tom at "dragging his bitch" with him, having murdered Tom's girlfriend before receiving the final blow.
• Usagi Yojimbo:
  • Lord Hikiji, the ultimate Big Bad of the series, schemes to be Shogun. Having murdered Usagi's father, and his master Lord Mifune, Hikiji launches brutal attacks on his enemies to kill and conquer all they possess. Preferring to operate from the shadows, Hikiji often resorts to dark schemes to foment chaos and murder in order to give himself an edge. He frequently disposes of his operatives while treating them as disposable pawns. Hikiji shows how truly monstrous he is in the coda to the saga Senso when a group of aliens crash on the world. Initially thought to have been killed, Hikiji later reveals that he has joined the aliens as an ally and is leading an attack on his own province to slaughter his own people in order to demonstrate his power to the entire planet. No longer content with just Japan, Hikiji believes he is destined to rule the entire planet, no matter who he has to slaughter.
  • Issues #9-12—"Slavers" & "Daisho" arcs: General Fujii was the head of a gang that took over a village. They reduced the workers to slaves, and ordered them to farm and cultivate for long hours. They would continue to do this until the tax collector came, at which point they would just kill all the villagers and go to another town. When Usagi infiltrates them, he's discovered and tortured, with Fujii taking his swords. When the peasants revolt, they slaughter their way through them, and Fujii abandons most of his men to die or face the police. He and his loyal Dragon take over another gang and launch raids on a village, where he almost murders the elderly headsman for refusing them. When the heroes attack the gang to take him down, he abandons his Dragon to run.
  • Issues #66-68—"Sumi-e" arc: Katsushige no Kyogoku was a vain and petty artist who, bitter over his inability to achieve anything but mediocrity, sold his soul to the kami for the power to best his rivals. Granted demonic strength but cursed into the form of a paint set, Katsushige's soul possesses whomever is unfortunate enough to take the set, wearing them until their deaths. Katsushige can only produce ink for his set through an especially vile process: the murder of children to use their blood to produce paint, leading to droves of children vanishing throughout the region, all so Katsushige can slake his narcissistic desire to be recognized.
  • Issues #83-89—"The Treasure of the Mother of Mountains" arc: Noriko, known as the Blood Princess, has had homicidal tendencies since childhood, where she would always beat her cousin Tomoe in spars to inflict as much pain as she could. In the present day, Noriko runs a mine, using slaves that have been press-ganged into service and worked to the point of death. Should any slave falter, Noriko promptly beheads the nearest one to serve as a morale-booster for the others. When she captures Tomoe, Noriko delights in treating her as a slave and when Tomoe refuses to perform the labor, Noriko furiously cuts down a random slave woman. When Tomoe immediately obeys to stop more death, Noriko sneers at her for caring about those of low birth. To conceal the mines, Noriko plans to blow it up, with every slave inside after all its resources are gone. She also reveals that she and Tomoe are actually ''sisters'' and when their father refused to acknowledge Noriko as his daughter, she murdered him, just as she had the man who raised her for for being weak. She reveals this while savagely beating Tomoe, taunting her that it's Tomoe's fault that he died.
  • Space Usagi: Lord Akira, Usagi's respected sensei, is revealed to be manipulating an entire conflict to obtain power and riches for himself. Having founded the Neko Stealth-Walkers, Akira discreetly aided the Kajitori Empire in invading the Shirahoshi Clan's system and claiming multiple lives, including his brother, Hideaki. Later impersonating Usagi's friend, Rhogen, and kidnapping his nephew, Kiyoshi, Akira has the youthful lord tortured in hopes of recovering the clan treasury, with which he intends to finance a path of interstellar conquest, purposefully angering Usagi when telling the latter his deceased Love Interest's clan would be his first target. Vicious and greedy, Akira was happy to kill those who cared for him, even in his final moments, if it meant getting his "honor in victory".

V - Z

• Vagrant Queen, by Magdelene Visaggio et al.: Lazaro Ori is a high-ranking member of the Republic who sold out the nobility and monarchy to the revolution, resulting in their slaughter and Lazaro personally murdering his own father. A brutal thug of a commander, Lazaro happily kills those in his way in hunting the renegade queen. In truth, Lazaro is a power-hungry monster who wants the magic stone of the royal family, the Bezoar, which allows for Mind Control. Upon finding the Bezoar, Lazaro tries to take control, having one officer torn apart by his mind-controlled slaves as he seeks to make himself into the undisputed ruler and tyrant.
• Vampirella:
  • Baron Gustav Von Kreist, fascinated by the carnage he saw during World War I, made a Deal with the Devil in return for immortality, though he found his body began to decay as time went on. Giving his services to any vampire clan that would provide him with a fresh supply of victims, Von Kreist aided the vampires' efforts to reduce mankind to cattle. Taking the daughters of a Mafia boss hostage, Von Kreist forces him to choose which will live, only to shoot the one he chose; before ordering the survivor to kill her father, turning the dead sister into a vampire and killing said girl again when she shows hesitance to do harm to her living sister. Also a horrific Serial Killer and rapist, a victim of Von Kreist is found with her eyes and mouth stitched shut and her arms and legs stitched together. His long list of victims includes children, as he crashed a damaged plane into a playground and casually threw a little girl off a bridge. Believed to be destroyed, Von Kreist is later resurrected into the body of one of Vampirella's close friends by his own descendant, which he uses to attempt to kill his grandson and then offer the life of his new body to forge an alliance with Dracula. A normal human aside from his immortality, Von Kreist was a monster who walked the Earth in the skin of a man, spreading suffering wherever he went.
  • Vampirella/Witchblade: The Feast, written by Justin Gray: Rod Sterling is the unofficial head of the J. Holmes Modeling Agency, who discovered a Magical Camera which allowed him to steal the souls of innocent women to keep himself immortal and young. Having J. Holmes himself find and prepare the women for him by promising them a model career, Rod hires some people to track down the vampire for him and cut them apart, so he could make the "Eternal Slender" product from their meat and feed it to unsuspecting women, before he steals their souls and turn them into his undead slaves. Making a deal with other vampires, Rod feeds them his zombified models, so he could have them hunt down and harvested as well.
  • Dark Shadows/Vampirella, by Marc Andreyko et al.:
    • Elizabeth Báthory, when human, killed countless girls to bathe in their blood. After rising as a vampire, Báthory slaughters numerous innocents as "festivities", and when she meets Jack the Ripper, she kills his latest victim and makes him her pet. In modern day, Báthory allows Jack to function as a serial killer while bringing her young women. Turning others into vampires, Báthory kills her victims, attempting to force Vampirella and Barnabas Collins to kill one another before celebrating by trying to have her hostages torn apart for fun.
    • Jack the Ripper himself is a misogynist psychopath who slaughtered women in Whitechapel. Now serving Báthory, Jack brings her victims while operating as a Serial Killer through the ages. Garnering the name "The Big Apple Butcher" for his latest, Jack targets multiple innocents and relishes in their suffering, even trying to murder Vampirella and her friends to satisfy his lust for murder.
• Vampire State Building, by Ange, Patrick Renault, Charlie Adlard, et al.: U'tlun'ta, the vampire god, awakens in the Empire State Building, calling his followers to it. Everyone in the building is gruesomely massacred for food or to raise as an undead slave, with survivors being herded in to be killed or fed to U'tlun'ta himself as he builds a literal throne of the dead. Having a SWAT team slaughtered when they try to break in, the vampire god opts to send his followers out with instructions to "drown the world in blood", meaning to wipe out or convert humanity entirely.
• Van Helsing: From Beneath the Rue Morgue: Dr. Moreau himself establishes a zoo of tortured chimeras under the streets of Paris, half-man and half-animal who suffer as Moreau experiments on them. One of his beasts breaks out, murdering two women to Moreau's utter apathy—only for it to be revealed the monster bears the heart of a man Moreau personally murdered, trapping his humanity in a broken, bestial shell who ended up lashing against his own family in his agonized existence. Moreau eventually drowns his entire laboratory to fend off Gabriel van Helsing, musing he'll simply start again in the South Seas away from civilization.
• V for Vendetta:
  • Lewis Prothero, the Voice of Fate, is the chief propagandist for Adam Susan's fascist regime, selling hatred and bigotry as part of his job. In his earlier role, Prothero was the head officer of the Larkhill concentration camp, where he had prisoners starved, abused, beaten, tortured, and killed, while personally operating the ovens for "disposal". Prothero would oversee four dozen souls administered experimental drugs which caused madness and agony, with only the mysterious "V" surviving in what Prothero disparagingly termed "The Funny Farm".
  • Bishop Anthony Lilliman spends his days preaching hateful rhetoric and promoting "one race", masking an even darker past and secret life. Years ago having taken part in the Larkhill concentration camp and its rampant abuse and murder of minorities and others Lilliman considered inferior, Lilliman now indulges his pedophilic tendencies to rape and molest underage girls once a week in what he calls "children's hour". Having illicit pictures and magazines of children littering his abode, Lilliman's only concern when his latest victim, a supposed 15-year-old girl, shows up late is that she's "too old" for him, before nonetheless trying to rape and kill her when she resists him.
• Vitriol the Hunter, by Billy Martin & Brent Allen: Lord Barthus is the vampire overlord from Basilika City and an ambitious fiend who plots world domination. Regularly killing and draining humans, Barthus had the family of Nimiru Vitriol slaughtered and his elder brother turned into a vampire who remains Barthus's right hand in the present day. Hunting down victims in his own labyrinth to give them a ray of hope before slaughtering them, Barthus intends to dominate the world with most humans killed and the rest kept as cattle.
• Voyagis: Primoris was originally a space parasite which seeded planets with life before eating them and moving on. After being granted sapience by Modia's atmosphere, Primoris takes control of the planet's technology and wipes out most of its inhabitants before slowly draining the planet of resources. Primoris learns about Earth and plans to conquer it, abandoning the dying Modia to its fate. After young Sen absorbs Earth's message, Primoris has her tribe captured and questioned, ultimately forcing them all to sacrifice themselves to protect Sen. Learning that Sen was raised by Zai, Primoris has her captured and brought in for questioning, with most of the rescue party being eaten by his brethren. After his seeming defeat, Primoris follows the Modian refugees to Earth and tries to kill them one last time.
• A Walk Through Hell: Paul Carnahan is a demon aiming to open a portal to Hell on Earth. After slaughtering his own family as a child, only sparing his sister so she could tell the authorities, Carnahan is sent to juvenile hall, where he makes connections and grows in power. Upon his release, Carnahan recruits twelve child molesters to kidnap children, who he then kills by showing them a vision of Hell, causing them to commit suicide. Carnahan later does the same to his accomplices, and later his own lawyer. This leads to one of the accomplices committing a massacre at a shopping mall, killing a mother and her baby. Carnahan then lures the FBI to the warehouse in which he opens a portal to Hell, tormenting the agents with visions of their greatest fears and trauma, only allowing Shaw to leave alive so that she'd attempt to assassinate the governer, leading her right back to hell with the knowledge that she helped him make the world worse.
• Wayward: Nurarihyon, lord of the Yokai, seeks to blend the future and the past to create a world where he and the Yokai rule. Keeping the mystical Weavers as slaves while having any inconveniences in the past exterminated by the Yokai, Nurarihyon becomes aware of the new "breed" of empowered beings in the present before torturing and murdering heroine Rori Lane's mother. Eventually torturing a murderer to turn him into an Oni, Nurarihyon unleashes him upon his enemies with no need for thousands of casualties as Tokyo itself risks being bulldozed. Believing the "future starts with fire", Nurarihyon is willing to destroy anyone and anything to secure his position as the master of the future.
• Weapon of God, by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, & Giancarlo Caracuzzo: Apollyon is a Fallen Angel and the chief agent of Lucifer, embarking on a crusade to wipe out the whole of humanity to supposedly bring about Earth's renewal. To accomplish this, Apollyon sets about committing horrific massacres and wreaking giant swaths of destruction with the purpose of murdering as many people as possible through them, killing 100,000 people in Las Vegas alone and later causing a catastrophic explosion in Manhattan to kill even more people. Manipulating those who are weak at heart to carry out his bidding and wreak further havoc, Apollyon responds to the notice that a flight he's on is slightly delayed by crashing the plane into a children's amusement park, leaving no survivors. Apollyon's final plan is the planned bombing of another amusement park filled with hundreds of children and adults alike, shooting three of his minions dead after they object to this and gleefully ranting to protagonist Mr. Weapon about how he considers humans to be less than ants. Any benevolent intentions Apollyon could use to justify himself are thoroughly undermined by Apollyon's clear sadism and unbelievable pettiness, and it is nakedly clear Apollyon is nothing more than a proud, mass-murdering monster at heart.
• Web of Evil:
  • Issue #1's "Ghosts of Doom": Mr. Harraby is the ancestor of the wealthy Harraby family, setting the standard for his evil descendants. A Southern slaver who cared nothing for human life, Mr. Harraby drove his slaves to death, "retiring" them when they couldn't slave for him anymore by feeding them to the crocodiles of the Everglades. His cruelest action, however, is when he is transporting a shipment of slaves across the ocean and gets pursued by a British ship-of-war. Not wanting to be caught with the slave cargo, Mr. Harraby brought the slaves onto deck and clamped the anchor chain on the nearest slave before dropping the anchor while the slaves were all chained together, causing them one-by-one to be jerked overboard and drowned. Despite not being the main antagonist of the story, his family's evil legacy can all be traced back to him.
  • Issue #7:
    • "The Ship of Lost Souls": Harry Cain, a wealthy gambler and the owner of a gambling ship, hides his true nature behind an affable front he puts on for his passengers, while behind closed doors he beats anyone who owes him money and tells his goons to kill them if they can't pay up. Because Cain refused to spend extra money to pay for a ballast on the ship's keel, a tidal wave tips over the ship and drown the nearly two hundred people who were caught under deck while Cain leaves everyone, including his own men, to die as he escapes in a speedboat alone. Completely remorseless about the deaths of his passengers and his employees, Cain is tricked into confessing by two reporters who survived the capsizing and when he realizes the truth, he attempts to gun them down as well.
    • "The Strangling Hands": Jean D'arst, aka Jean the Strangler, is introduced as a petty coach robber in 18th century France, using his bare hands to murder the coach's two drivers and then its defenseless passenger. Having an epiphany, Jean sated his mad bloodlust across the country in the weeks that followed, killing for sport as readily as for loot and claiming more than two dozen victims before he gets caught. After a judge sentences him to have both his hands and his head removed, Jean places a curse on his hands so that they will go on strangling and killing forever. Over the years, the hands would reappear and then disappear, always accompanied by death, including five individuals whose death were made to look like suicide when really they were just the latest victims of a murderer's Dying Curse.
  • Issue #8's "Flaming Vengeance": Cal Arnum is a miserly landlord introduced as someone "too mean to shelter even a disease germ unless it pays rent". When collecting every penny from a mother and her son, the mother tells him she doesn't know how they will eat because of her husband's illness, but Arnum just callously tells her it's her problem. After he is given a week to fix the wiring of his property before the city condemns the whole plot, Arnum decides to just burn it down and collect the insurance money, his fire claiming 30 lives. When the arson does get traced back to him, Arnum attempts to escape justice with his money so that he can start over with a new name.
  • Issue #12's "The Shrunken Heads of Dr. Death": The titular Dr. Death is a researcher living in a compound with his pet ape in the jungles of Brazil and a collector of shrunken heads. When a plane crashes near his compound, Dr. Death kills the sole survivor and takes the bodies to add their heads to his collection, this not being the first time he has done this. Keeping the ring of one of his victims as a trophy, Dr. Death's collection gets discovered by that victim's sister and her fiancé, causing Dr. Death to order his pet ape to strangle the fiancé to death and then do the same to the sister so he can add both of their heads to his collection. Dr. Death even betrays his own pet ape, having killed his mate and shrunken her head while using her disappearance to manipulate the ape into doing his dirty work.
• Weird War Tales: In the December 1977 issue, Adolf Hitler, with his Third Reich crumbling, designs a plan to jump into the future to set up his bloodthirsty reign anew. Introduced gunning down a supposed spy on his grounds, Hitler furthermore tricks his wife Eva Braun into biting a cyanide capsule after lying that they'll die together, and has all of his own loyal scientists massacred to ensure his cryogenic pod is never discovered. Finally waking up over a thousand years in the future, Hitler ends up executed by his own future self in the same manner he had executed the "spy"-—forever trapped to jump forward in time to escape justice only to die, over and over and over.
• Welcome to Hoxford:
  • Gordon Baker is the warden of the titular asylum, and is in actuality the leader of a savage pack of werewolves. Deposing his own father as alpha and keeping him locked in a dark room while keeping up the appearance he's still subordinate, every month Baker and his pack slaughter and consume all the patients at Hoxford at their own merriment, repeating the process with every batch that comes in. Baker spitefully locks an otherwise innocent psychiatrist named Jessica Ainley within Hoxford during the night of the hunt after she refuses to leave and soon after sets about gruesomely slaughtering everyone he can find. Baker personally captures a cannibal named Gravy and psychotic protagonist Ray, delightfully noting the irony of a cannibal being consumed and instructing Ray himself to devour a still-living Gravy once he expresses kinship with the werewolves with an air of amusement.
  • The Old Man was the alpha of the werewolf pack who savagely hunted humans in Russia. Upon the near-eradication of their race, the Old Man formed a corporation and facilitated the transfer to America, building Hoxford so he and his brethren could hunt in peace. With the necessary bribes to have criminals transferred, the Old Man would then have his pack hunt them for sport every full moon. Upon being overthrown by his son Gordon Baker, the Old Man later tricks Dr. Jessica Ainley into helping him escape, promising to kill her last as a "gift". Upon gaining his freedom, he kills his son himself, before taking his place again at the head of the pack and vowing to continue the hunts.
• White Claw, by Serge Le Tendre & Olivier TaDuc: Suo-The-Red is a warmonger from the nation of the Wolf. Seeking to expand his territory, Suo assassinates his own father and frames the Monkey nation, which he proceeds to invade and massacre. Suo begins a gruesome conquest all over the land, massacring the towns he encounters to forge his own empire. When the heroine White Claw is captured, Suo even tries to force her to fight her own brother for fun and kills him when he cannot kill his sister, snarling only that White Claw now "owes him a lieutenant".
• The Wicked + The Divine: Ananke and her younger half, Minerva, murdered the original "gods", including her sister Persephone, while plotting the Recurrence, where 12 young men and women become new deities, all to use a ritual to harvest their strength and keep herself immortal. Using murder to trick the others and keep them in line, Ananke frequently kills the incarnation of her sister, Persephone, and shows no hesitation in murdering the deities to harvest their lifeforce. Using the myth of "The Great Darkness", she has Baal Hammon sacrifice children, only for it to be revealed the Great Darkness is a hoax she made up to control him. Plotting to have Baal sacrifice 20,000 innocents at a concert for the energy, Ananke intends to keep her life going forever no matter the cost.
• Wild West, by Thierry Gloris & Jacques Lamontagne:
  • Calamity Jane (Vol. 1): Buck Callahan is the second-in-command of the Red Fox Saloon in Omaha. An enforcer who happily assists in the torture and murder of numerous victims who cross his boss Solomon Hicks, Buck is seemingly the protector of future Calamity Jane, Martha Cannary. Buck pays a man to rape her so he might save her after, then uses her healing to seduce her and her doctor's debts to manipulate her into prostitution, where he abuses her repeatedly. When Jane finds out the truth and confronts Buck, he reveals how weak he believes her to be and states that his greatest strength is his belief in nothing.
  • Calamity Jane & Wild Bill (Vol. 2; primary appearance): Moses Brown participated in the slaughter of an entire family back in the day, which earns him a bounty on his head placed by the surviving little girl of the family. In the present day, Moses Brown has taken to exploiting both sides of a war between soldiers and Indigenous peoples, regardless of how much worse he makes it. He tips off the Comanche to caravans and soldiers, leading to dozens of people being massacred, while simultaneously attempting to sell the Comanche weapons which he neglects to tell them have been aged to the point of uselessness. With nobody he won't sell out for a buck, Moses Brown is a bottom feeder, universally despised even in a setting of Black-and-Gray Morality.
• Wolf Moon, by Cullen Bunn et al.:
  • The Wolf itself is a Skin Walker; the spirit of an Evil Sorcerer who hijacks the bodies of innocents, and on the full moon changes into a savage bipedal wolf so it may go on killing sprees and kill for pleasure. The Wolf slaughters multiple innocents, leaving a bloody trail that goes back centuries, and those who it takes over are left shattered and traumatized with many of them having killed their families or loved ones during the change. During the course of the comic, the Wolf causes a massacre in Kentucky, escaping attempts to kill it while wracking up a greater body count along the way.
  • Farris is a former host of the Wolf. Seeking to recapture the power it gave him in addition to curing his disease, Farris hunts down other former hosts, torturing and murdering them to harvest their organs. Killing a hunter who attempts to destroy the Wolf, Farris later kidnaps its current host, a teenage girl, and kills her father when he comes to rescue her. Performing a ritual to take the Wolf back and heal himself, Farris intends on unleashing the beast within to kill for sport, savoring the idea of becoming a predator again.
• Wonder Man (Fox): General Attilla is the dictator of Tatonia. When a rebellion crops up, he redirects the majority of his nation's food supply to the military and orders refugees massacred to put it down. Bombing a Red Cross hospital, Attilla's goons hold a couple wealthy socialites volunteering there for ransom, despite never intending to release them. After Wonder Man thwarts the general's plans, he plots to start another war to regain control.
• Wrong Earth: Number One from Earth-Omega is a Serial Killer that is feared even by the cynical antihero Dragonfly. Introduced draining the blood of a young man that he manipulated after murdering his coworkers, Number One mocks Dragonfly for being unable to save the young man before escaping to the more peaceful Earth-Alpha, where he stabs Dragonflyman's sidekick Stinger after stating he wanted him dead in both worlds. Escaping for a while, Number One murders an entire Church Congregation for fun before attempting to murder Deuce, the leading henchwoman of the Number One of Earth-Alpha, in an attempt to take over her gang and continue his killing spree.
• Yellowjacket: R. Krause is a Mad Scientist working to create limb regeneration to make lots of money. To do this, he experimented on his patients with crab DNA, killing all of them. His medical license stripped away, Krause fled before he could be arrested. Years later, the good doctor paid off the head of a veterans' hospital to let him experiment on a few patients, killing five before Yellowjacket stops him in the middle of an experiment on a fisherman he kidnapped.
• Yoko Tsuno: Karpan is a member of a Vinean colony on Earth. Driven by his hatred of Earthlings, he attempts several times to kill Yoko, Vic, and Pol, from the second they met (The Curious Trio). Seemingly redeemed at the end of the book, he became worse in his next appearance, deliberately making sure an accident linked to the colony's activities would happen, which would lead to Martinique being wiped out and killing thousands, so that he could set up a base of operations before taking over the world. When Yoko and her friends attempt to stop him, Karpan cut off the air from a chamber and vented toxic gas to kill Yoko and her friends, even if it means killing his own workers who are in the same room (Vulcan's Forge). A threat even after his death, Karpan turned a young half-Vinean half-human hybrid into a Tyke Bomb with a pre-programmed mission to activate a program to end all life on Earth, allowing the Vineans to take over (Khany's Secret). Selfish, power-hungry and willing to harm both Earthlings and Vineans, Karpan proved to be one of Yoko's nastiest foes.
• Youngblood (Image Comics):
  • Darkthorn(n) is the alien lord of planet D'khay, as well as of Earth in the future of 2043. Reducing both planets to dead wastelands, Darkthorn decided to conquer the Earth in the past, so that he could use its resources to return D'khay to its former glory and continue conquering the universe. To strengthen his rule on both planets, Darkthorn created an army of androids called the Disciples and used them to create religion in their name, killing millions and brainwashing many people through propaganda and false teaching to believe the Disciples to be Holy Creatures, with Darkthorn himself as God. Finding out about the ancient weapon called the Tear of God, Darkthorn tried to capture it by invading a haven of fallen angels, slaughtering countless numbers of them before he was forced to flee. Later Darkthorn used his cults on Earth, as well as his own minions, to power up his portal device the Crush Tunnel through the death and suffering of thousands. To speed up the process, Darkthorn sacrificed countless numbers of his own minions to the machine.
  • Lord Chapel is an extremely powerful demonic entity, created from fragments of Bruce "Chapel" Stinson's soul. After hearing a prophecy of him conquering the universe and causing chaos and destruction until the chosen hero the Newborn defeated him, Lord Chapel decided to prevent this by sending his minion Crypt to Earth to kill all heroes who might pose a danger to him, as well as the mother of Newborn, who was pregnant with him at the time. Meanwhile, he started a war in Hell to overthrow Lucifer himself, causing the deaths of millions of demons and forcing the terrified Lucifer to flee to Earth. After Crypt seemingly accomplished his goal, Lord Chapel arrived on Earth, intending to merge it with Hell, only to be defeated by Lucifer and the resurrected Newborn, who sacrificed himself to banish Lord Chapel. Although trapped, Lord Chapel started to communicate with Bruce Stinson through visions and nightmares, manipulating him to release Lord Chapel from Limbo, upon which he started causing catastrophic events all throughout the Earth, like derailing a train and setting a whole city on fire, killing hundreds. Even though he was defeated once again, Lord Chapel managed to take control of Bruce Stinson's son, so that he could enter Earth through Bruce Stinson's dead body. Upon arriving, Lord Chapel unleashes horrors of Hell upon the Earth and started Armageddon.
  • Chapel (1995 miniseries): Colonel Black is a former ally of United States, who helped them with their operations in Nicaragua in exchange for weapons and equipment. Eventually, he developed an interest in Voodoo magic and started acting on his own accord. Deciding to make a nearby village the start of his own experiments with Voodoo magic, Black organized the brutal murder and mass torture of hundreds of people, with even children not being spared. As Chapel and his team were send by the US government to eliminate Black, the latter taunts them along the way, completely indifferent to them slaughtering his own soldiers. When they arrived at his hideout, Black raised his undead zombies, created from his experiments, and orders them to attack Chapel's team, resulting in nearly all of them being brutally killed.
• Zendra, by Stuart Moore, Luis Royo, et al.: Abathor is a military commander of the Jakkarans. A hulking brute, Abathor willingly spearheads multiple genocides, including butchering most of humanity while keeping any survivors locked in prison ships to abuse or kill when it suits him. Hunting for a secret he desires to reign over his own people, Abathor encounters one of the last humans Hallie, slaughtering his own crew to keep the secret. Hunting Hallie down to her world of Zendra, Abathor violates every taboo the Jakkarans have to slaughter his own people, and even in defeat plots to give his life to kill every living thing in Zendra and make the planet uninhabitable for ages.
• ZombieWorld (Champion of the Worms & Tree of Death):
  • Azzul Gotha is a monstrous necromancer who was imprisoned for worshipping evil worm gods. Released thousands of years later, Azzul sets out to end all human life, capturing heroine Rebecca Dean to make her his bride and rule over an empire of death. To distract Major Damson, he turns Rebecca's father into a giant monster and escapes to the cemetery, where he manipulates two cops to murder him and kickstart the Zombie Apocalypse, which proceeds to decimate much of the Earth's population. Summoned by Alice to London, Azzul creates the Tree of Death, a series of underground tunnels that would summon the demonic Qlipoth to Earth, sacrificing several humans to summon some Qlipoth. Kidnapping Rebecca, he creates an apparition of her to have her spy on Damson, and tries to use her to unlock the Tree's power.
  • Tree of Death: Alice is a gothic Satan worshipper who views Azzul as the messiah of death. Sent to a mental institute for sacrificing humans to the Dark Lord, Alice escapes the hospital with the criminal Paul, sacrificing him to zombies in order to summon Azzul and cast aside her humanity. Serving as Azzul's second-in-command, Alice assists her master in his plan to summon the Qlipoth to dominate the world. Jealous of Azzul's affection for Rebecca, Alice tries to slowly kill Rebecca so that she can become Azzul's bride and rule over the zombie world.

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