YMMV / X-Men: Chaos Engine Trilogy

• Complete Monster:
  • Red Skull, real name Johann Schmidt, is the Big Bad of the third book. Schmidt spent his childhood as a violent thug who spent his free time assaulting and mugging people, culminating in him beating a girl to death after failing to force himself on her. Signing up with the Nazis for the chance to be someone "great", Red Skull spent decades attempting to restart the Nazi regime after they were defeated by the Allies. Once obtaining the reality-warping Cosmic Cube, Skull uses it to turn his entire universe into one where he won World War II by wiping out Washington, D.C., and now rules over hundreds of alien worlds as Emperor. Having instituted death camps across the cosmos and wiped out thousands of civilizations in his quest for ultimate purity and power, Red Skull also employs the monstrous Arnim Zola, giving him free rein to perform horrifying experiments on millions of innocent people. Upon learning that there are countless more dimensions in existence, Red Skull ditches his current universe to collapse in on itself, instead hoping to travel the multiverse until all of reality and its trillions of inhabitants and terrorized by Red Skull and his Nazi ideology. A pure-blooded sadist who seeks to hurt others and make something great out of his life after his harsh childhood, Red Skull is once again a pure evil madman.
  • Arnim Zola spent the first part of his adulthood luring in refugees from World War II to his castle, where he performed vile experiments on them that left them in constant agony. Once allying with Nazis and serving under Josef Mengele in his horrific labs, Zola invented the nuclear bomb for Red Skull to use to wipe out Washington, D.C., and, having transplanted his mind into a robot body, now serves as the undying Minister of Health for the Nazi Empire. Having control of the entire country of Genosha, Zola spends his days performing awful experiments on mutants and humans alike, almost always resulting in death or endless agony, and turns Genosha into a graveyard where hundreds are flung into his furnaces per day. In his quest to find more mutants to experiment on, Zola has neighborhoods burned to the ground, threatens entire villages, and even giddily sends his own mutant servants to be butchered, proclaiming that mutants have no rights and are just raw materials for him to take apart. A lunatic who has the deaths of millions on his hands, Arnim Zola took full advantage of the world Red Skull created and turned it into his own personal playground of pain and death.