YMMV / Phantom Legacy

• Complete Monster: This duo, one of the two Big Bads and his main helper, are as vile as the Gods were despite being mere mortals:
  • Malakai is a human Mad Scientist who desires to become a god. Having aided Deimos and Apollo in their evil acts in the past, he creates the soulless Black Guards to serve as the world's armies, and creates Nero and Tobias, whom he keeps trapped in mental realms while using them to power the world. Sending Gerent to capture an escaped Nero, Malakai teams up with Haizum and Janus, manipulating the latter by convincing him that his friends are corrupting the world. Imprisoning Corvus in a suit of armor which he controls, he forces Corvus to kill his family and later fight his friends. Malakai, with Haizum, Janus, and the unwilling Corvus, leads the Black Guards in slaughtering the people of Ragan castle, later raiding the castle in Arcadia and doing the same with the people there. Entering the Ether Vein, he sends Janus, Haizum, and Corvus against the heroes, uncaring if they die, before fighting Nero himself, only helping him against Shadar afterwards for fun. Desiring to turn the world into his own personal experiment, Malakai proves that humans can be just as wicked as the gods.
  • Haizum is a bipedal unicorn monster and the worst of Malakai's Co-Dragons. As the guardian of the Tower of Babylon, Haizum gleefully kills adventurers who come inside, simply because he loves to fight and kill, and uses their bones to decorate his lair. He is first seen killing a warrior who came to avenge a loved one, and when he loses to the heroes, he swears revenge. Betraying the Alia, the people of the Tower, and joining Malakai, he gladly aids in the massacres at Ragan castle and Arcadia, only objecting when he feels that Malakai is wasting time. Finally, in the Ether Vein, when Lamia, his friend and one of the heroes, tries to appeal to the good inside him and help him, he tosses her off the platform and onto the sky, knowing that this would condemn her to fall forever, while mocking the heroes for thinking he would redeem himself and trying to kill them one last time. When Lamia manages to return and finish him off, she laments but accepts that the friendship they once had is gone forever.
• Magnificent Bastard: Shadar and Proteus- see that page for details.