YMMV / Freedom City

• Complete Monster: This default setting of Mutants & Masterminds is home to some fairly repellent villains, but none quite as bad as this duo:
  • Wilhelm Kantor, aka Overshadow, is a Nazi war criminal and Evil Sorcerer turned international terrorist. As a member of the SS and the Thule Society, Kantor learned that he was the reincarnation of Tan-Aktor, a Treacherous Advisor to the Egyptian Pharoah Heru-Ra. Sacrificing twelve of his men, Kantor regained his past memories and powers, then went onto become the true mastermind behind the Nazi Ubersoldaten program. When Schwartzpanzer was crippled in combat, Kantor sacrificed him to increase the power of his own personal assassin, Nacht-Krieger; when the war ended Kantor would use the ritual suicides of his SS and Thule Society colleagues to further empower himself and Nacht-Krieger. Kantor went onto kill almost the entire roster of the Allies of Freedom, left Nacht-Krieger to take the fall, and set up the terrorist group SHADOW. He has since attacked world capitals with armies of clones, tried to get the USA and USSR to nuke one another, poisoned municipal water supplies, and attempted to use Omega's power to take control of space/time. In the meantime, he has kept himself alive, first by bodyjacking clones of himself, and later trying to take over the body of his own son, Ragnarok. Evil on both a grand scale and a petty one—once using a terrorist attack just to ruin an enemy's retirement party—and with a bad habit of throwing his "friends" under the bus when it suits him, Kantor is out only for himself, and is as bad as even a Nazi can get.
  • Omega, once the heroic king of the first race of mortals, realised that entropy was going to destroy the multiverse, and decided that he wanted to be on the winning side. Turning on Unus The Creator, Omega stole the Doom-Coil, the very device Unus had designed to fight against entropy, and reprogrammed it to spread entropy, feeding his own universe into it as fuel. In the process he defeated Unus, slew most of the other gods, and completely surrendered to his own hatred. Omega now travels universe to universe, corrupting and recruiting the greatest heroes of each 'verse into his army, before annihilating their home dimensions. He transformed the greatest physician of one universe into the sadistic Friendly; promised to spare another hero's people only to turn them into mindless drones; and not only destroyed The Centurion's homeworld, but then tracked him to Earth-Prime, killing him and nearly wiping out Freedom City in the process. Concerned only with expanding his own dead realm, the so-called Terminus, Omega's goal in the extinction of all life across the multiverse.
• Narm: The Crime League are this setting's answer to the Legion of Doom, and contain all the Saturday morning cartoon villains you'd expect — mad scientists, evil clowns, cackling world conquerors... and the vengeful souls of everyone killed in the Hiroshima Bombings. This would be a jarringly dark character in most horror games, never mind one based on wacky silver-age comics, and attempts to give this concept the respect it deserved next to teammates like Dr Simian, superintelligent cyber-gorilla, came off as both laughable and painfully tone-deaf. Luckily, in Third Edition, Hiroshima Shadow has seemingly been quietly dropped from the setting, with not even a mention in supplements so far.
• Squick: Amply provided by Alister Usher, a cadaverous man with necrotic skin who fed his father's corpse to his dogs and was in an incestuous relationship with all of his sisters. And oh yeah, provided most of Freedom City's child prostitutes and mind melting drugs.