YMMV / Chung Kuo

• Complete Monster:
  • Howard DeVore is at first the security chief of the T'ang, which stands in opposition to the Chung Kuo civilization. DeVore manipulates the two civilizations into war with the aim of wiping out as many humans as possible and eventually replacing them with his own chosen artificial race, "The Inheritors." Though thwarted, DeVore returns again and again to craft new wars, using people as pawns all the while. Eventually, DeVore is revealed as an inhuman being whose only desire is to utterly exterminate humanity and enjoys nothing as much as the suffering of others.
  • Wang Yu-Lai is a member of the Chinese version of the KGB/Gestapo, which uses Cold-Blooded Torture without any hesitation. Wang is very sad that he doesn't get to commit wholesale genocide against the population of the conquered territories (basically kill anyone, who isn't Chinese) and likes to rape prisoners and forces their husbands or lovers to watch. He also enjoys executing prisoners.
• Moral Event Horizon: Howard De Vore not only crosses the horizon, he vaporizes it.
• Nausea Fuel:
  • The infamous rape scene in the first novel.
  • The eyeball incident, also from the first novel.