YMMV / World Without End

• Complete Monster: For the TV adaptation:
  • Ralph Fitzgerald, the sadistic would-be Earl of Kingsbridge, shows how cruel he is when he kills a man simply for challenging his authority in public. When a woman insults Ralph and wounds his pride, he responds by raping her and is condemned for it in court, only to escape by taking the King's pardon to fight a war in France. Ralph returns even crueler than before, taxing and working the townspeople brutally and confiscating their lands. He blackmails a woman into sleeping with him in exchange for her husband's lands, but reneges on the deal anyways. He then petitions the queen when he is ousted so he may attack Kingsbridge himself, and then blackmails a woman into marrying him. Ralph leads the attack on Kingsbridge, intending to kill everyone there, and tries to kill his own brother, who is defending the city.
  • Brother Godwyn is a Holier Than Thou hypocrite who seeks to rise to control of the Kingsbridge priory no matter what. Godwyn blackmails his way into his position, and has his mother murder her brother so he is unopposed. He sabotages any attempt to help victims of the plague and tries to have his own cousin Caris hanged as a witch. When this fails, he later attempts to rape her and begins hanging women in the town who he views as "whores." When he learns that Ralph Fitzgerald is his half-brother, he turns on his mother as "just a whore," and during the sack on Kingsbridge, attempts to murder Caris with his bare hands.
• Moment of Awesome: From the TV adaptation: As much of a bastard as he was, Ralph leading Edward III's forces in a Curbstomp Battle against the vastly superior French army was epic and cemented him as an absolute badass.

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