Complete Monster Proposal Thread

Granted I’m just giving my opinion, if you and others disagree Sky, that’s fine too. I don’t mean to force a change ofc.

I like it better too only having the full name once; hence the chants at the Sandbox.

I could go either way, tbh.

Ok, this was a few days late, but I’m I figured it's time for the discussion for Stellar Blade, the brand new ps5 game starring Eve, a member of the the Colony's 7th Airborne Squad, as she fights to bring an end to the monstrous Naytibas and save humankind from destruction.

To kick things off, let's start with the Elder Naytiba, who is revealed to be none other than Eve's ally, Adam, who is also revealed to be Raphael Marks, the creator of Mother Sphere. For most of the game, it was believed that the Naytibas were responsible for the destruction of Mankind many years ago, and the Airborne Squads' mission is to slay the Elder Naytiba to put a permanent end to them for good. But by the end, it is revealed that Naytibas are actually mutated humans. You see, the "humans" you see in the present day are actually android like humans called, Andro-Eidos, and Mother Sphere decided to have them destroy all organic life just so she can replace them with Andro-Eidos. The surviving humans decide to evolve themselves in order to combat this, but ended up becoming losing their minds in the process, and becoming the monstrous Naytibas, who kill anything in sight, with Mother Sphere deciding to lie to the Colony and convinced them that the Naytibas were the ones who wiped out humankind in order to have them purge humankind for good. As for Adam, the only Naytiba NOT to lose their mind, not only did he not intend for the Naytibas to go on a rampage in the first place, but he's actually not evil at all, feels genuine remorse for his unintentional part in Mother Sphere destroying mankind, and his actions in helping Eve and Lily are completely sincere. Upon revealing his true identity, he proposes that he and Eve fuse into becoming a more powerful version of Eve, sacrificing his own life in the process, in the hopes that she will have the strength to put a end to Mother Sphere and her treachery. The only reason he would ever attack you is if you refuse him and decide to attack him instead, which the game treats as a bad ending. Overall, Adam is pretty far from a keeper.

Next up is Raven, who once severed the colony as part of the 2nd Airborne Squad, until she learned the truth about what happened to mankind, discovering that she and the rest of the colony were nothing more than a pawn to Mother Sphere all along. Feeling betrayed, she goes insane and ends siding with Adam in the hopes of getting revenge on Mother Sphere for deceiving her. Unlike Adam, who never wished any harm caused by the Naytibas, Raven deliberately led them to attack the Andro-Eidos, keep in mind that pretty much all of Andro-Eidos in the present day weren't aware of what Mother Sphere has done and had done nothing to the humans, something that Raven would clearly know about considering she was unaware herself, out of spite towards Mother Sphere. She is even perfectly willing to kill her own fellow Airborne Squad members, despite knowing that they were deceived, and even went far as to forcing Tachy, a member of the 7th Airborne Squad, into becoming an Alpha Naytiba, leaving her in a constantly state of agony and ultimately forcing Eve to kill her. When Adam chooses Eve as the savior of mankind over her, Raven decides to attempt to destroy all of Xion in a fit of petty jealous spite towards Eve, putting many lives in danger and killing Mann and Orcal in the process. Now Raven is personally more than heinous enough to count, and while her fellow squad members perished before she found out the truth, any care she might've had for them are long gone, especially when she sadistically murders other squad members without a hint of remorse despite knowing that they were deceived too, not even bothering to attempt to tell them the truth. She's also devoted to Adam, but I personally don't think it's redeeming considering she has the Naytibas attack the Andro-Eidos despite Adam making it pretty clear that he wishes them no harm, and when Adam chooses Eve as the savior over her, she decides to attack xion of spite and later tries to kill Eve against Adam's wishes, making her "devotion" more a possession than genuine to me. The only thing that gives me pause about giving her a EP is whether or not she was enraged about humankind being exterminated by Mother Sphere, or if she merely motivate for revenge against Mother Sphere for turning on into a pawn, which would not be a excuse in the slightest, especially since her discovering about what happened to mankind led to her going insane in the process. If anyone else who has played the game can help me find out for certain, I appreciate it.

And finally, we got the game's true Big Bad, Mother Sphere. As stated, she was created by Raphael Marks to help bring humanity together, but once the Andro-Eidos were created, she decided that mankind was too weak compared to them, and decided to have mankind exterminated to make room for the Andro-Eidos, resulting in the survivors becoming Naytibas in the hopes for survival. In the present, she has the colony and Andro-Eidos on earth believe she is a god who saved mankind from ruin, and tries to have the Colony kill off the Adam and the Naytibas to eliminate mankind for good. Should Eve accept Adam's proposal to fuse at the end, Mother Sphere will take control of the Providence battle mech, with Lily still inside it, and tries to have it destroy Eve for discovering the truth, uncaring that Lily could end up being killed in the process, which is what will end up happening if you don't max out Lily's relationship meter and complete the bonus level where Eve acquires something that allows Lily from the mech unharmed. Regardless of whether Lily survives or not, Eve destroys the mech, resulting in Mother Sphere deciding to send an army of colony members in the hopes of eliminating her. Now, she is also heinous enough, and while she calls Adam her father, she still tries to have him killed with little remorse. She also tries to claim that what she does is for the sake of mankind, but considering she outright eliminates them for being inferior to the Andro-Eidos, attempts outright eliminate anyone who discovers the truth, and Adam himself mentions that Mother Sphere would likely wipe out the Andro-Eidos and start over again if they didn't live up to her expectations, so I have reason to doubt this. Like with Raven, I would like some opinions on this from people who played the game to make sure she keeps or not. I would greatly appreciate it.

Overall, Adam doesn't keep, while Raven and Mother Sphere are maybes that require more thoughts from people who played the game before I reach a final conclusion on those two. Also, I highly recommend Stellar Blade, easily one of the best games of the year.

• Alex Rider
• Fallout
• Red Dead
• Delicate: Siobhan Corbyn is a narcissistic immortal being who has walked the Earth for millennia, spreading suffering and planting the seeds for her eventual plans of reshaping the world to her liking. As "The Auteur" of the Delicates, Siobhan is responsible for manipulating and corrupting countless women over the years, having them birth demonic babies that Siobhan will use to wage war against all men in the world and replace the status quo with her definition of what a matriarchy should be. Along the way, Siobhan has any loose end killed, including her most devoted follower; gaslights and torments her "best friend" Anna Alcott on a regular basis; and uses Anna as an unwitting surrogate for a baby that was made as a product of Siobhan having a child with Dexter, her own son, with the sole intention of having the baby be the first of a new breed of superior monsters created from the incestuous belief that her bloodline is the strongest. When Dexter is killed, Siobhan shrugs off his death and casually reveals to having harvested the testicles from his corpse to keep breeding more monsters.
• Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple: Tatsuhiko Shibusawa is a sociopathic researcher obsessed with finding the Ultimate Ability. To this end, Shibusawa forced young hero Atsushi Nakajima to endure torturous experiments so he can activate the latter's Abilities. Shibusawa's desire to see people's Abilities in action would lead him to cause the Dragon's Head Conflict in Yokohama that lasted for 88 days and resulted in 88 deaths. In the present, Shibusawa unleashes a mysterious fog onto the world that leads to hundreds of people murdered by their own Abilities, before crystalizing said Abilities to collect, and would collaborate with Omasu Dazai and Fyodor Dostoevsky to spread his fog throughout Yokohama. Shibusawa would then backstab Dazai and, becoming "Singularity", allows his fog to engulf the planet and kill off every single Ability-user so he could absorb their Abilities to make himself more powerful.
• "Wishes Come True": The warden of Devil's Prison is a licentious sadist known for killing all who come to his detention center. Indicated to force attractive inmates to submit to him sexually, the warden also hosts games of "tag", where he and his guards take their true demonic forms to hunt and butcher prisoners at leisure.
• 2024 film: The unnamed head of Union Teope's Japan division is tasked with creating an enhanced version of the combat drug Angel Dust to be sold on the Black Market. Harboring a disdain for those he deems weak, the head uses the cosmetics company Lore as a front to experiment on runaway kids and homeless people, unleashing some in Shinjuku to cause terror and eventually die from the drug's effects, with one of them killing Kaori Makimura's brother Hideyuki. When one of his subjects, the cosplayer Kurumi, escapes with some samples of the drug, the head orders his lackeys to retrieve her, even killing a random henchman to instill fear in them. Killing a cop after he brings him Kurumi, the head kills Lore's CEO and orders his men to massacre the scientists and test subjects after finding no use in them anymore. Hoping to make an escape with Kurumi in hand, the head sadistically reveals to Kaori that he was responsible for the death of her father.
• Maniac of New York, by Elliott Kalan & Andrea Mutti: Maniac Harry, the newest form of an ancient fear spirit, is a hulking slasher who makes his debut in New York City by massacring New Year's Eve revelers in Times Square. Attacking randomly for the next four years, Harry's killing spree claims hundreds of lives, with the story picking up on his attack on a packed subway train. Killing everyone except for two young children—who witness Harry behead their mother)—he is only stopped when the story's protagonist sets him ablaze and causes him to flee. Resurfacing to attack a packed high school, Harry gruesomely kills several staff members before being chased out and escaping to Yankee Stadium. In the stadium, Harry slaughters dozens of innocent spectators before his ultimate death. Having killed hundreds upon hundreds solely to instill terror, Maniac Harry leaves New York forever changed.
• Sofonius Tigellinus is the scheming and ambitious advisor of Emperor Nero. Upon his introduction, Tigellinus helps Nero get revenge on a chariot racer who beat him at a race and later spreads lies about Vestale Rubria which eventually results in her death. When thousands of refugees from The Great Fire of Rome break into the field of Mars, Tigellinus advocates to push them back by force. Partnering with a hunchback called "The Needy" who scams poor hungry survivors into underselling their properties, Tigellinus comes up with a plan to get even richer: framing the Christian community for the fire so that the duo can seize their properties. Tigellinus pressures Nero into outlawing Christianity and kick-starting the persecutions by having dozens of Christians publicly crucified and burned alive. Tigellinus personally condemns the apostle Peter to be crucified far from his people and crowned with thorns out of pettiness. He then ensures that no one learns the truth about the fire by arranging Massam's death and attempting to murder Lucius Murena. On Nero's order, he captures and tortures a dozen of men to defeat the conspiracy of Piso, resulting in the arrestation of innocents, and then offers Piso's sister Lemuria as a Sex Slave to The Needy.
• Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 2: The Joker of Earth-2 decides to destroy the vibrational tower protecting his universe from the Anti Matter wave, just to see what happens next. Joker infects Jim Gordon with Joker toxin and uses him as a distraction to get around the tower's defenses, blowing him up after he dies from laughter. Joker has Solomon Grundy and Killer Croc keep the Batfamily and guards busy, while he blows up the tower and dooms the universe.
• The Corinthian is a nightmare who glories in his dark nature. Helping to keep Dream of the Endless imprisoned without any care for the horrific effect on the world, the Corinthian also enables John Dee in his potentially global plot to destroy the minds of countless others as long as he kills Dream. A sadistic Serial Killer, the Corinthian murders many young men by torturing them and eating their eyes, inspiring generations of other murderers to follow in his footsteps. Arriving at a convention for these fellow serial killers, the Corinthian plots to lure Dream into a fight with the Dream Vortex, Rose Walker, to destroy his former master and twist the Dreaming through the depraved desires of his followers, all while risking the end of the waking world through Rose's continued existence.
• Dead Boy Detectives (2024): Esther Finch is a hilariously melodramatic and immortal Vain Sorceress who got her start with magic by murdering her cheating husband and his paramour. A consummate Child Hater, Esther has maintained her youthful looks over the centuries by sacrificing "generations" of young girls to her magical snake, and begins a petty quest for revenge when the titular detectives save her latest victim. Initially releasing an elemental spirit that threatens to condemn every ghost in Port Townsend to oblivion, Esther then elects to lock up Charles until he goes insane while putting Edwin through unceasing torture, siphoning enough power from his pain that she can become god of the town and "take [children] in broad daylight." Esther's years of gleeful evil stomp out any sympathy afforded by her husband's betrayal, and she laughs off a nearly successful attempt to redeem her while nonchalantly killing the boys' quirky friend Niko.
• RWBY/Justice League: Starro is an alien conqueror who arrived in Remnant, in order to use its Mind Control to enslave all of Remnant's inhabitants to its will. Starro manages to use its abilities on humans, Faunus, animals, and Grimm to create its army, even managing to take control of General Ironwood to have access to the Atlas Military in order to spread its influence across Remnant. When confronted by Team RWBY and the Justice League, Starro forces them to fight Team JNPR and civilians under its control, and forces a possessed Jessica Cruz to construct objects of Team RWBY's and the Justice League's traumatic experiences in order to hurt them psychologically. Starro has shown that it will stop at nothing in its goal to rule remnant and remove all its inhabitants of free will to do so.
• Dragon Ball AF compillation and re-telling by DB News: Frieza and Cell, after being defeated by Goku during GT, studied the Fusion Dance and improved it to become strong enough to escape from hell and obtain revenge. Arriving to a higher dimension, Friecell threatened its strongest warrior and forced her to fight the Saiyans while Friecell kidnapped Uub to force him in a ritual that resurrected Majin Buu, who fused with the villain to create Cellbuuzer, the new strongest being in the known multiverse. To test his new powers, Cellbuuzer destroyed Earth after playing with Vegeta and mocking his attempts to mitigate the damage before spawning a army of minions that caused destruction across the entire multiverse, with no dimension or planet being spared. When the Saiyans return to fight Cellbuuzer after training their powers, Cellbuuzer tortures Gohan while declaring his intention to do the same to all Saiyans. When Goku reaches a new ultimate transformation, Cellbuuzer tries to destroy the entire known multiverse in a last-ditch attempt to take down the Saiyans.
• Impact issue #1's "Master Race": Carl Reissman, appearing to be an innocent refugee displaced by World War II, was in fact a horrific Nazi war criminal and head of the infamous Belsen concentration camp. Overseeing the extermination of hundreds of people every day, Reissman had prisoners taken away for grotesque human experimentation, forced prisoners into mass graves, and had them Buried Alive, even skinning some to use as lampshades in the offices of the camps. When the camp was liberated by the Allies, Reissman fled to America and, upon being confronted with a former victim, attempted to flee to avoid retribution for his crimes.
• Shadows of Amethyst (link): The Overlord returns after his previous defeat by attempting to corrupt the Elements of Creation in order to destroy the Balance. Launching an attack on Ninjago City, the Overlord corrupts the city's civilians into Crystal Zombies, severely injures Garmadon, and breaks Lloyd's arm during his fight against the Ninja. Upon entering a partnership with the Omega while also intending to wipe the Oni out afterwards, The Overlord painfully corrupts Kai into being his puppet and has him infiltrate the Newspaper Warehouse in order to infect all of the other Ninja. Once Kai tries to fight back against his corruption, the Overlord causes a "full-system overload" of Kai's nerve system to keep him under control. When the Omega turns on him due to the Overlord not intending on upholding his side of the bargain, the latter attempts to kill the former along with Lloyd before being defeated by the Ninja once more.
• The Defenders of Remnant (Marvel Universe & RWBY): Norman Osborne (sic), the Green Goblin, was Peter Parker/Spider-Man's greatest enemy who, upon discovering his secret identity, decided to systematically destroy Peter's life. Beginning by murdering his Aunt May, Norman then kidnapped Peter's girlfriend Mary Jane Watson, then blew up Peter's best friend, his own son Harry, in front of him. Two days later, Norman offered Peter a Sadistic Choice that ended with him blowing up a warehouse with Mary Jane inside, specifically doing so in a manner that forces Peter to watch her die; if Peter had chosen different, Norman would have murdered a young child instead. Driving Peter to such a psychological breaking point that Peter killed Norman himself and then retired as Spider-Man, Norman's emotional torment of Peter is so horrific that the latter still has nightmares about him and his actions a full year later.
• The Iron Horse: Deroux (Bauman in the international version) is a scheming land baron who manipulates the Cheyenne into brutality for his own purposes. Desiring to force the government to build their railroad on his land so he will get rich, Deroux ensures that no one discovers a nearby shortcut by murdering anyone in the area and kicking the Cheyenne into a bloodthirsty frenzy. Deroux personally murdered and scalped Davy's father in the past, and has the Cheyenne stage a variety of murderous raids to stoke fear and panic. When the shortcut is finally found by the railroad and set to be used, Deroux attempts a full-scale massacre of train workers to ensure the shortcut will never be used.
• One Hundred Years Ahead: Glot is the power-hungry leader of the space Pirate Alliance. His previous attempt to take over the Star Federation having been thwarted, Glot seizes the chance for revenge once he senses that the cosmion, the time-travel substance that he has lost, has appeared in the year 2124 again. Thrown into the past in his hunt for cosmion, Glot uses his hypnotic powers to sabotage Earth's first contact with the Star Federation and establishes a Bad Future in which he rules over Earth, now a pirates' base where people get a choice between working like slaves to produce new weapons or getting killed. With his mind-control abilities, Glot makes Alice slowly and tortuously choke Kolya, whom Alice loves, to obtain the cosmion now hosted in Kolya's body. Glot just as coldheartedly gets his own right-hand man killed once he no longer needs him and tries to murder Kolya's Innocent Bystander friends and Alice's parents purely for getting in his way. Devoid of all the humanizing qualities of his book counterpart, Glot cares for nothing except his own ambitions.
• The Princess (2022): Prince Julius is a sadistic, misogynistic pig of a ruler who seeks to forcibly take power by marrying the Princess. When the Princess refuses Julius's advances thanks to his cruelty, Julius takes her entire castle—including her family—hostage to try to force her into marriage, including "servicing" him in the bedroom. In response to the Princess using her fighting skills to ward off his forces, Julius decides to marry and abuse her younger sister Violet instead, planning to then murder the girls' parents to complete his ascension. Julius then hopes to "purge" the kingdom of all those who are racially diverse, deriding them as "weak".
• Rebel Moon two-parter:
  • Regent Balisarius is the nightmarish ruler of the Imperium, responsible for almost all the tragedy and suffering in this saga. Becoming a general at a young age and "reveling in war", Balisarius invaded Kora's homeworld, completely slaughtering all the inhabitants, sparing only Kora for her willingness to kill before adopting her, raising her as a weapon. When King Atander and the queen abandon the conquest expansion in favor of a peaceful existence, Balisarius stages a coup, killing the queen and forcing the king to watch his daughter Isla die at the hands of Kora, before killing the king and framing Kora for murder. After becoming regent, Balisarius orders the complete destruction of any world that refuses to comply or resists: Admiral Atticus Noble destroys the entire world of Sharan when they harbor rebels, and Tarak's homeworld is destroyed in retaliation for insubordination, killing Tarak's father in the process when he offers his terms for submission. Intolerant of insubordination, Balisarius forces General Titus to oversee the execution of his loyal soldiers for refusing to fire on civilians; allows the soldiers to massacre entire villages, including the village of Nemesis; enslaves entire worlds, killing those too weak and old and depleting the resources of the enslaved worlds, without caring about the negative impact on the local peoples. After Noble's initial defeat, Balisarius tasks him with crushing the rebellion and returning Kora to him so that he can personally crucify her, threatening him with a similar fate if he fails.
  • Admiral Atticus Noble is an ambitious Imperium commander and the most brutal minion of Regent Balisarius. Tasked with crushing uprisings at the borders of the Realm, Noble ruthlessly enforces the Imperium's will with the help of his dreadnought, which is capable of laying waste to entire planets. Searching for the Bloodaxe siblings, he comes to a village on Veldt in search of grain to feed his army. When the village's leader lies to him about the amount of grain they produce, Noble clobbers him to death and demands an enormous amount of grain, leaving his sadistic soldiers to keep the villagers in line, not caring that they will starve to death because of his demands. When presented with a captured rebel liaison, Noble promises him freedom in exchange for information, only to sever his spinal cord and leave him a prisoner in his own body after getting it, ordering his brain to be dissected to see if he knows anything more. Learning that the Bloodaxes are protected by King Levitica, Noble personally Levitica him while having his planet completely razed. Capturing Kora's group and learning that Kora is the infamous Scargiver, Noble plans to sever their spinal cord and take them to Balisarius to earn a place in the Senate. After being killed by Kora, Noble is revived by the Priests of Motherworld and returns to the village. When villagers rise up, Noble unleashes his army on them before ordering his ship to blow up the village—with all his troops still down.
• True Grit (2010): Tom Chaney is an impulsive, homicidal thug who is far worse than the affable Lucky Ned Pepper. On the run from Texas Ranger LaBoeuf for shooting a Senator's dog then killing the Senator himself for complaining, Chaney is hired by Mattie's beloved father for a job. Chaney blows all his earned money in gambling, then nearly shoots his opponents to death out of spite, only to instead kill Mattie's father on a whim for trying to calm him down. When Mattie tracks Chaney down to bring him to justice, Chaney is ordered by Ned to leave the young girl alone, but Chaney settles on killing her simply for convenience. He toys with whether he will strangle the girl to death or toss her into a snake pit to "scream and rot", all while taunting her that he feels no remorse for killing her father, and when LaBoeuf tries to save Mattie, Chaney nearly murders them both.
• Halloween Returns (link): Michael Myers is, as usual, a mass murderer and an embodiment of pure evil. Having killed his older sister at the age of six, Michael was committed to Smith's Grove Sanitarium under Dr. Paul Rogers's care, but escaped and brutally butchered a dozen more people in Haddonfield before being apprehended once more. After he is put on Death Row ten years later, Michael escapes and starts a Prison Riot, claiming the lives of many people and gutting the survivor of the Haddonfield killings from behind in front of Rogers. Having grown obsessed with Rogers's daughter, Sofia, Michael fakes his death before starting another killing spree in Russellville, killing a kindly elderly store owner, Sofia's mother, and three of her friends in the process. When Sheriff Gary Hunt confronts him afterwards, Michael stabs him to death in the resulting fight and relentlessly tries to murder his older son along with Sofia. After Rogers intervenes and offers his life in place of Sofia's, Michael tortures him with a glass shard before splitting his tongue and tricking the police into shooting him. Making a getaway, Michael leaves a message vowing to return and keep terrorizing the town until everyone is dead.
• "Bumblebee", by Bentley Little: The redneck is a racist psychopath and murderer who kills anybody he suspects of being illegal immigrants. Responsible for a slew of racially motivated murders, including burning 14 immigrants alive in a semi-truck, the redneck hopes to storm Father Lopez's church and kill all the Salvadoran immigrants in his basement. When the narrator's hired by Lopez to gather evidence on the redneck, the redneck beats his friend Trinidad to near-death in retaliation, with Trinidad later dying from his wounds. Later murdering Father Lopez, the redneck is eventually captured by the undead corpses of his victims, enough to have filled an entire graveyard.
• The Stormlight Archive: Rayse, the Shardvessel of Odium, presents himself as a kindly father figure, hiding a vicious, insidious tyrant. Intending to rule the Cosmere, Rayse eliminates Shards who could challenge him, one battle turning the planet Threnody into a Death World. Coming to the Rosharan system, Rayse tricks the humans of Ashyn into devastating their own world, which led them conquering Roshar, deposing the native Singers. Recruiting the Singers with promises of revenge, the best become his Fused, warriors who endlessly resurrect in new bodies, killing the original person, less sane each time, with eternal torture for defection or defiance. When Honor seals Rayse on Braize using the Heralds, Rayse tortured the Heralds into releasing him, to wage brutal wars on Roshar that obliterate civilization, until the Heralds could seal him again, a cycle repeated over a dozen times. Sealed away by one Herald enduring torture for 4500 years, Rayse uses his limited influence to kill Honor, and spread wars on Roshar. Returning to start a new war, he frees the Singers from slavery, but forcibly conscripts them, conducting genocide on an independent Singer nation. When Dalinar Kholin negotiates with Rayse, Rayse attempts to forcibly convert Dalinar into freeing him. Rayse claims he is best for Roshar, but only sees the inhabitants as troops "hardened" through his wars, to be unleashed in a mad crusade on the greater Cosmere.
• Dracula: Count Dracula himself is the monstrous Trope Codifier for the modern vampire villain. A hideous, blood-sucking monster, Dracula has spent years plaguing the Transylvania countryside, at one point feeding an infant to his vampiric "brides" before having the child's grieving mother torn apart by wolves. Luring the attorney Jonathan Harker to his castle so he may use the latter's legal knowledge to purchase English property, Dracula then imprisons Jonathan and attempts to drive him mad. Abusing his own human servant Renfield to the point of insanity, Dracula makes his way to England where he begins attacking the country, plotting to use it as a new feeding ground to his heart's content. Sending a wolf after Lucy Westenra and her mother, killing Lucy's mother and forcibly turning Lucy herself into a vampire. Dracula later vampirizes Jonathan's fiancée Wilhelmina "Mina" to uncover his enemies' plans against him, a beast in the skin of a man interested in nothing but slaking his literal thirst for blood.
• High School:
  • Episodes 156 & 236: Patryk Kozub is a new student at school whose parents often travel abroad, which makes him feel completely free to do as he likes. When English teacher Anna Turczyn takes away his tablet, Patryk teams up with school bully Gienek Zielonka to try to humiliate Anna. By the end though, when Gienek has had enough, Patryk outright attempts to murder Anna with broken glass]]. Patryk returns as a full criminal and drug dealer who manipulates Alina Sałacka—a girl who was in love with him—into doing his bidding and decides to use her to burn the whole school down as revenge for his expulsion. Patryk initially plans to do it in the evening, but when he learns there still are plenty of people inside, he goes through with his plan to set the school on fire with students and one teacher still inside.
  • Episode 476: "The Guardian" is an internet troll who created a game called "Wieloryb" ("The Whale"). The Guardian gives teenagers eager to play it various dangerous tasks that start with something pretty mild like being disrespectful to a teacher, but always end with committing suicide—of which numerous teenagers did. The Guardian specifically asks teenagers for their address in the beginning of the game so that if they refuse to commit suicide, he threatens their family.
• Night Country (Season 4): Kate McKittrick is the corrupt businesswoman behind Silver Sky Mining, the company responsible for most of the tragedies plaguing Ennis. Controlling the town with her influence, Kate has Silver Sky intentionally contaminate the water as part of a deal with the scientists at Tsalal Arctic Research Station, resulting in innocent people—especially the town's Native population—suffering from serious health issues. Kate's utter indifference to their pain leads to development of cancer, birth defects, and irreparable genetic damage; nine stillbirths in three months; and protests being met with violence from the police, with Kate even using the cops to hide her involvement with Tsalal and eliminate witnesses.
• Vol. 8 issues #9-10—"Range Wars": The Colonialist is an evil space businessman whose main business is selling violent, meat-eating Ferals as foot soldiers to conquerors across the universe. He enslaves many women across the universe to be dancers for his pleasure. When he wants precious stones that are buried under the land of the Mugabee race, the Colonialist turns the race with whom they share their planet against them, leading to the genocide of the Mugabee. The Colonialist plans to make Earth a feeding ground for Ferals, unleashing them on towns and villages to feed on their people.
• Vol. 9: Kivu'Ma was once a zealot and former friend of King M'Tel named Captain N'Dozi who became a monstrous spectral Undead Abomination to purge Wakanda of all "plunderers". Kivu'Ma instead would target anyone for the most arbitrary of reasons and mass murdered innocents before consuming their souls to feed himself before he was sealed away by M'Tel. Resurfacing in the present, Kivu'Ma makes a deal with crime lord Baba Nkisu to feed off hundreds of people while keeping their bodies alive in his space station so their souls will last longer inside Kivu'Ma while being horrifically tormented. Kivu'Ma helps Niksu unleash a Mob War across the city of Birnin T'Chaka, endangering the population. Kivu'Ma eventually kills Nkisu through painful illusions when he's outlived his usefulness. Kivu'Ma later manipulates Niksu's daughter into becoming his new host by blaming his death on T'Challa. Though Kivu'Ma claims that he's helping save Wakanda, T'Challa calls him out that he's ultimately just a power-hungry fanatic wanting to wipe out anyone who gets in his way.
• Dark Samus is a cunning, yet psychopathic being born from the remains of Metroid Prime and given sapience after fusing with one of Samus' suits, using the DNA within to reconstruct herself as a shadowy clone of Samus herself. Dark Samus travels to the planet Aether to consume the Phazon on the planet and physically stabilize herself. She raids a Space Pirate colony on the planet and kills those in her way, and when Samus arrives on the planet, Dark Samus tries to have her killed at every given opportunity. Defeated and left for dead in a collapsing dimension, Dark Samus still survives and reforms in a Space Pirate ship, killing a third of the crew and forcing the rest under her control. She raids the G.F.S. Valhalla, kills its entire crew, and steals Aurora Unit 313 to control Phazon and the planet Phaaze. Seeking to spread Phazon throughout the cosmos and corrupt the entire universe, Dark Samus infects three planets with Phazon and almost infects a fourth, only to be stopped by Samus and three other bounty hunters. Dark Samus takes the opportunity to plant Phazon seeds inside the four of them, leading to the deaths of the other three and Samus herself almost succumbing to the corruption.
• "The Tragic Events of September - Part 1": Dr. Charlie Von Kook is a religious fanatic and denture maker, acting as a surgeon in a run-down trailer park, and was the one to personally deliver the Evelyn Twins. A staunch advocate and financer of F.A.S.T.E.N. for Siamese separation, when Von Kook sees the Twins' conjoined status, he immediately attempts to rip the two girls in half with a chainsaw while spouting religious proverbs, and his death ends up killing the twins' father as well, resulting in the beginning of the girls' harsh life.
• Cult of the Lamb song "The One Who Waits": The One Who Waits is the god of death who was sealed in the underworld that aims to break free from his chains and conquer the world above. Employing the Lamb to do his bidding, the One Who Waits has the Lamb perform several sacrifices, including that of killing the Bishops of the Old Faith, all for the sake of getting stronger. Aiming to "build a new world upon the bones of the dead", the One Who Waits then orders the Lamb to sacrifice themselves so that he can escape once and for all; when the Lamb rebels against him, the One Who Waits threatens them by saying that they will face the wrath of death itself before engaging in one final brawl to secure victory.
• Chak Ek, the Mayan god of the morning star, emerged from the underworld many years ago only for his brother, K'in Ah, to emerge brighter than him. Out of jealousy, Chak Ek decided to kill all of K'in Ah's allies—K'awiil, K'in Ahaw himself, Hun Hunahpu, Ak Na'ak, and another unnamed hero—each of their deaths cursing the world with famine, warfare, and chaos. Although all of these gods come back to life, Chak Ek repeats these crimes, dooming the world to a cycle of mass death and destruction for all eternity.
• El Silbón (The Whistler) is a malevolent spirit from the Venezuelan Llanos who, in life, was a spoiled rotten boy who constantly abused both his parents to get what he wants. One day, when his father failed to hunt down a deer to make venison for him, the boy killed him, ripped out his guts and innards, cooked them, and fed them to his mother. After his atrocious act was revealed, the boy's grandfather punished him by whipping him, applying chili powder to his wounds, and sending rabid dogs to kill him. After his death, the boy came back as a demonic ghost who haunts Los Llanos to this very day, killing anyone unfortunate enough to encounter him. The only warning of his arrival is his characteristic whistle, which if heard close by, it means he's far away, but if heard far away, he's right behind you.
• Resident Evil: Extinction original draft (link): Doctor Isaacs is a high-ranking Umbrella researcher who, after experimenting on Alice in the wake of Raccoon City's destruction, seemingly lets her go, only to place her under the corporation's control shortly afterwards. Using her to track down a resistance hideout in Detroit, Isaacs has the Umbrella soldiers massacre many people inside, including the young Angela Ashford. After escaping trial during the T-Virus pandemic, Isaacs takes shelter in the underground facility where he puts Alice clones through a complex of deathtraps, with 87 of them dying gruesomely. When one zombie goes feral after being injected with the clone's blood, Isaacs leaves two fellow workers to die and, upon finding out that Alice survived the hideout raid, attacks Jill Valentine's convoy with enhanced zombies in an attempt to capture Alice for further experimentation, killing many and causing the death of Jill herself later on. Having been bitten during the convoy ambush, Isaacs mutates and, viewing himself as "the future", slaughters everyone in the facility; when Alice herself goes down to investigate, he tries to kill her as well, causing an undeveloped clone of hers to die in the resulting fight.
• Darth Maul - Black, White & Red Issue #1—"Ghost Ship": The Emissary of Chaos is the mysterious leader of the anarchistic Final Occultation and is strongly hinted to be a being of the Netherworld. When Darth Sidious arranges for the cult to be taken into custody in order to learn their secrets, the Emissary leads them to hijack the prison ship that is transporting them and slaughter the crew. The Emissary organizes and presides over a summoning ceremony, planning to use the ship's hyperdrive to open a rift in space and unleash chaos and madness on the galaxy.
• What If The Jedi Executed ORDER 99 Against The Separatists (link: Chancellor Palpatine is the true mastermind of the Clone Wars. Learning that the Separatist leaders have all been killed by their battle droids via Order 99, Palpatine knows that soon he will lose his emergency powers, and resorts to force to keep his powers. Planning to kill all Senators, Palpatine sends his explosive-rigged shuttle crashing into the Senate building during a talk to engulf it in flames. During the chaos, Palpatine uses Force lightning to slaughter Senators left and right before being stopped and killed by the combined efforts of Anakin and Padmé. Despite Palpatine's death, his actions would force Grand Master Yoda to sacrifice himself to save the Jedis and Senators from the collapsing Senate building.
• Max Payne: Angelo Punchinello is The Don of the Punchinello Crime Family, one of the most notorious and brutal Mafia clans in New York, who is responsible for the distribution of a highly dangerous and potent drug V on Nicole Horne's behalf. To maintain his power base, Punchinello employs sadistic, insane criminals like Jack Lupino, Rico Muerte, and the Trio, all of whom commit gruesome crimes with Punchinello's silent approval, and only objecting to Lupino's madness because it's bad for business. Once Max Payne and Mona Sax get on his trail, Punchinello ordered Frankie "The Bat" Niagara to murder and mutilate Max with a baseball bat and then deliver the corpse to the cops as intimidation, while also sending Mona to be slowly killed by the Trio. After Max had escaped the hotel and captured his shipment of weapons, Punchinello tried to kill him by burning him alive in a restaurant. In his personal life, Punchinello is a sadistic wife-beater who ended up beating his wife Lisa to death.
• "Lucky Blocks" & "Lucky Block Staff": The Orb is the eldritch entity that controls the Lucky Dimension, seeking to spread chaos wherever it goes. Given a chance to escape its temple by Yellow, the Orb possesses his body before trying to either kill the Stick Gang or possess them with replicas of itself, all while killing any allies they spawn; once possessed, the vessel's soul is thrown into a mental prison, Forced to Watch as its body attacks its friends. Returning years later by hijacking the Lucky Block Staff, the Orb sends dozens of minions to die in an attempt to kill the Stick Gang, before trying to trap them in bedrock cages for eternity, showing for a second time that it's a heartless entity that takes pride in its actions.
• "The Witch": The Witch is a skilled fighter and potionmaster who has somehow learned about the Stick Gang. Deceiving Blue into trusting her, the Witch uses her shapeshifting potions to make him a piston that would collect nether wart for her for eternity: From Blue's point of view, he's trapped in a white void all by himself, taunted about his obsession. Upon confronting Green, Yellow, and Red, the Witch did roughly the same to them, transforming them into plants or animals that would be stuck in one place for all eternity. Once the real Second Coming rescues his friends and they try to stop her, the Witch tries to brutally kill them through means such as butchering them with an axe; trying to explode them; or burning them alive. A sadistic yet powerful foe, the Witch was one of the Stick Gang's deadliest opponents yet.
• Galtar and the Golden Lance:
  • Tormack is a surprisingly dark and serious villain for the otherwise lighthearted cartoon. A plunderer and warlord before he became a bona fide Evil Overlord, Tormack destroyed the home village of Galtar, as well as the city of Princess Goleeta, and slew both of their parents. Those Tormack doesn't destroy he enslaves to work forever in his mines, including the pacifistic and harmless Nerms, or the dwarves, whose entire population has been subjugated. In another instance, Tormack drugs his own niece Rava with a Love Potion and gives her off to a disgusting slug creature who treats her like a servant. Tormack isn't above trying to enslave or kill children, either, at one point capturing Goleeta's plucky kid brother Zorn, using him as bait and gloating to his face "I wouldn't dream of torturing you...alone!"
  • "Mursa the Merciless": Mursa the Merciless herself is an Evil Sorceress who stays immortal by drinking the youth of the innocent and beautiful. Mursa hypnotizes Goleeta and drains her life, temporarily reducing the Princess to a withered crone that Mursa has join a gallery of other women she's reduced to similar shells. Although Goleeta is saved, there is no reprieve for Mursa's other victims.
  • "Falca - Priestess of Prey": Falca is a tyrannical harpy who once ruled over the Forgotten Forest with an iron fist. When her army of millions of bird people abandoned her for her cruelty, Falca began scheming to once more enslave them and destroy any who resisted by using the Golden Lance. Capturing Galtar and Goleeta, Falca tries to force them into handing over the Lance by threatening to drop Goleeta off a cliff to her death, in the process showcasing that Falca has done this exact execution to many other people, whose skeletal remains now litter the bottom of her lair.
• Thundarr the Barbarian:
  • "Secret of the Black Pearl" & "Last Train to Doomsday": Gemini is the only recurring villain that Thundarr ever faced. A tyrannical wizard who subjugated a small civilization of humans, Gemini has enslaved the Groundlings under threat of death to terrorize the humans in his stead. In his quest to find the Black Pearl, Gemini takes Princess Ariel hostage and nearly destroys the humans with destructive flame. Though seemingly beaten, Gemini returns and lures Thundarr into a trap by trying to bury a train of people alive. Once he has captured Thundarr, Gemini reveals his plan to turn Thundarr into a statue and leave him trapped for all eternity.
  • "Treasure of the Moks": Captain Kordon is "Queen of the River Pirates", who has made a dreaded name for herself by raiding villages and killing innocents. Seeking to claim the lost fortune of the Moks for her own, Kordon scavenges the ocean to find missiles that she dubs "fire lances" so that she can unleash them on the Mok civilization and slaughter them all, including the children. Kordon attempts to feed Thundarr and his allies to a giant crab beast, and nearly kills the chief of the Moks for trying to warn his people of her incoming attack.
  • "Island of the Body Snatchers": Circe is an Evil Sorceress who resides in the ruins of what used to be London. Prevented from escaping the island due to a curse that will turn her to stone if she leaves, Circe works around this issue by searching for a young sorceress whose body she can steal for herself. For 500 years, Circe wrecks ships and maroons their crews on the island, inevitably petrifying them when she finds nobody worth possessing. By the time she finds a suitable host in Princess Ariel, the entire island is covered in hundreds of statues. Circe devises one of the worst fates ever planned for a hero in the series: Swapping minds with Ariel and leaving the latter trapped and paralyzed in her own body, Circe tries to force Ariel to watch her friends die in a Death Trap, then intends to leave her forever on the island, still paralyzed and helpless.

Could Kabutops from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers count?

Edited by umaprasis on May 12th 2024 at 12:39:47 PM

Got the RE baddies writeups done. Can trim them down if these are a bit too long.

• Resident Evil: The Final Chapter novelization by Tim Waggoner:
  • Alexander Roland Isaacs is the primary shareholder of Umbrella Corporation and the true mastermind behind the T-Virus pandemic. After an attempt at mass marketing the Protenitor Cell causes a small outbreak in Cape Town, Isaacs has his subordinate Albert Wesker murder the kind hearted Dr. James Marcus when he shows concern about the danger of the virus. After redefining the Progenitor Cell into the T-Virus, Isaacs gains delusions of godhood in the following decade and then releases the pathogen at large, causing the undead to overrun the world and decimate humanity. Having opted to freeze himself and other Umbrella top executives to wait out the apocalypse and then rebuild the world in his own vision, Isaacs leaves Wesker in charge of operations, allowing him to reduce the remaining world population to less than 4500 people worldwide. Awaking from his cryoslumber when Alice infiltrates the Hive, Isaacs sadistically reveals the truth about her being a clone and promises to get rid of her template once the surface is purged of life. After the tables are turned on him, Isaacs abandons his allies to die and, during his fight with Alice, slices her fingers off with a laser beam. Having survived his apparent death, Isaacs makes his way to the surface and verbally dismisses his own clone before trying to kill Alice one final time.
  • Albert Wesker is the high-ranking Umbrella employee and the top subordinate of Dr. Alexander Isaacs. Having murdered Dr. James Marcus upon Isaacs' orders, Wesker then assists Isaacs in his experiments and then his plan to purge humanity. Taking control of the corporation while Isaacs and the rest are frozen, Wesker proceeds to carry out the cleanup operation along with Isaacs' clones until the human population is almost completely extinct. After rescuing Alice from Umbrella Prime, Wesker injects her with a temporary strain of T-Virus and lures her and her allies into a trap at the White House in order to take down his Umbrella rival, Dania Cardoza. Refusing Cardoza's offer to leave peacefully, Wesker shows no care when his allies die when Cardoza unleashes Melange in retaliation. Once Alice's powers are expended, Wesker beats her down and stabs Jill Valentine through the eye with his infected tentacle before attempting to feed Alice herself to Melange. After devouring the real Cardoza once back at the Hive, Wesker keeps track of Alice; when she infiltrates the facility, takes control of the Red Queen's defence system and kills most of her group with traps. Despite being defeated, Wesker survives in the cellular form miles beneath the Hive, planning to resurface once the antivirus has run its course.
  • The second clone of Alexander Isaacs was put in charge of leading extermination campaign against the survivors, but over time his religious beliefs eclipsed those of his original self. Capturing any lone survivors he can find, the clone subjects them to humiliation and abuse for being "sinners", even trying to molest a captured woman several times and cutting off the tongue of another prisoner when he tries to intervene. When Alice falls into his trap, the clone Isaacs shows the heads of Alice's clones he killed in the past before interrogating Alice herself by forcing her to run from the undead while tied up to the tank's rear, something he had done to many others before her with all of them dying. When Alice breaks free and escapes, the clone tortures his prisoners and kills all but three of them, one of whom he sacrifices during the siege of Raccoon City settlement later on. After being defeated once more, Isaacs becomes so deranged he stabs another tank commander to death upon his order being refused, causing the rest of the crew to desert him. Leading the undead army to the Hive, the clone Isaacs viciously murders his real self in a fit of rage before trying to do the same with Alice.

Edited by DukeNukem4ever on May 12th 2024 at 12:40:09 PM

The bandit dude. No way too generic. Theirs prbbaly like a dozen just as bad random bandits you fight in the games.

Yeah, likewise not feeling that Kabutops counts.

Duke, please add to the Drafts. They'll go next week.

EDIT: Pending:

• The Bill: Andy Marshall (Atlantis)
• Vera: Daniel Rede (Atlantis)
• World of Warcraft: Yogg-Saron (Forgo)
• Kako (Jokster)
• Devil King (NTG)
• Mundus (Passing/Crow)
• Cerebex (Powermaster)
• Angelus (Ravok)
• God (Starkrafty)
• Darkrai (umaprasis)
• Palpatine (xie)

Edited by ACW on May 12th 2024 at 4:46:43 AM

for Eggman, Morpheus, and Luhr.

Here's Kako's write-up

• Kako is the leader of a gang of bandits who fancies himself a warlord. Wanting to make a profit, Kako often raids villages to take their valuables and sell them. When he finds out about the Amazonian artifact The Bow of Artemis, he kidnaps the Amazonian queen Ephiny and her heir Myrina, and has his men hold Ephiny at knifepoint to coerce Myrina into helping them get into the cave the Bow is held in, and stabs her anyway when Myrina agrees. Upon finally getting the Bow, he orders his men to massacre the Amazons.

Yes to Luhr!

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • Angel 2022: Angelus is, as usual, a sadistic vampire who loves hurting and killing others. Able to travel the multiverse in this iteration, Angelus makes a career out of invading parallel dimensions, slaughtering the Scooby Gang and their allies, and leaving destruction in his wake. Arriving in the comic's universe, Angelus begins picking off people close to Angel and framing him as the killer to ruin his life. Angelus then turns hundreds of innocent people into mindless vampires to use against Angel, and cruelly tries to force Spike into losing his soul so that he'll become Angelus's corrupted slave.

Where will he go on the page?

Put it in the miscellaneous section. It’s published by Boom! but it has no connection whatsoever to anything else in the franchise

STAR covered it nicely, thanks bud!

Alright, got a double-whammy of a character to discuss here. I'll have my own to post soon, but firstly, I'm posting this one for someone who doesn't have use an account atm but wanted to participate and made this EP. Letting them take it away:

OK, so this candidate counts as CM in an adaptation or two thanks to Adaptational Villainy. I gave the original novel a read, not expecting him to count there. However, he did have a couple of crimes where the explicit nastiness quite took me aback. So I figured I might as well EP him, see what you guys think.

What is the work?
The Woman in White is a 1860 novel by Wilkie Collins which is regarded as one of the first Mystery Novels. It's about a drawing teacher named Walter Hartright who is sent to Limmeridge House to educate the two young women living there. However, on the way he meets the titular Woman in White, a ghost of a woman who is only this way due to the book's villain. Or one of them, I guess.

Who is Sir Percival Glyde? What has he done?

• Glyde the illegitimate son of an unmarried Baronet. To hide his past and inherit his father's wealth, Glyde goes to the old village of Welmingham and enlists the help of one Mrs. Catherick to forge a certificate of his parents' marriage in the church vestry. He bribes Mrs. Catherick's with jewellery, but her husband, mistaking this alliance for an affair, takes a swipe at Glyde. In return, Glyde brutally beats the man, disgracing him in front of the entire village and forcing him to flee the country.
• Mrs. Catherick's daughter, Anne, an innocent young girl with a learning disability and a heart disease, overhears the mention of a Secret. Not taking any chances, Glyde locks the child up in a private asylum for life. The years in the asylum turn her into the maddened, haggard Woman in White the book is named after. Anne is so traumatized by Glyde that she'll have convulsive panic attacks and fainting spells whenever he is even mentioned.
• Glyde also blackmails Anne's mother into keeping her silence and living out a sad, solitary life in the village where her reputation is ruined, threatening that if she exposes him, he can very well incriminate her and have her hanged.
• Years later, he marries Laura Fairlie (Anne's secret half-sister) for her deceased daddy's dough, and has her and her sister Marian move into his place at Blackwater Lake. Glyde regularly abuses Laura, both psychologically and physically, confining her in her room for days on end, pushing her around, at one point giving her bruises, and taunting her that he's going to make Walter Hartright, her true love, suffer for the rest of his days, bidding Laura dream of him "with the marks of horsewhips on his shoulders".
• He also treats his servants like dirt and orders all stray dogs on his property shot.
• When Anne escapes the asylum and tries to get in touch with Laura, Glyde decides they both need to be silenced. A vile plot is hatched that hinges on the nearly identical resemblance between Anne and Laura: Anne is caught by Count Fosco (Glyde's masterminded co-conspirator) and brought to his home where it's pretended she's actually Laura. Here she's kept until she finally dies of a heart-disease-and-stress-induced aneurysm.
• The real Laura is then drugged, put in Anne's clothes, and tossed into the asylum. Glyde and Fosco convince the staff that this is, in fact, Anne, whose insanity has now compelled her to pretend to be the (seemingly) deceased Laura. As such, the asylum staff is instructed to ignore her pleas and protests, and repeatedly assert she is actually Anne. The book doesn't shy away from the fact that this ghastly life sentence will be "fatal" to her mental faculties.
• Realizing that Laura's mind is deteriorating by the minute, Marian manages to bust her out of the asylum after a few months. Already, Laura been so broken down by the "horror" she was consigned to that she has become a pale, scrawny mess who can barely form coherent sentences, and shuts down totally whenever her trauma is brought up.
• When Walter Hartright finally gets to old Welmingham to discover the truth, Glyde has three of his men attempt to beat him to death with sticks. Glyde himself goes into the old church to burn the evidence of his forgery, but gets locked in and perishes in the fire lol

Redeeming qualities?

• Nothing that sticks. He has a Villainous Friendship with Fosco which boils down to them scratching each other's backs; they've gotten each other out numerous scrapes and assist each other mainly in the mutual pursuit of cash. While Fosco speaks very warmly to Glyde, Glyde talks back with mostly irritation or reserve.
• Glyde initially seems against the idea of killing Laura... but only because Laura's death would mean a big chunk of the money going to Laura's aunt, Fosco's wife. He later changes his tune, faking Laura's death and tossing her into the asylum to rot away.
• He dresses "in mourning" (ie. in all black) when visiting Welmingham, the village near which his father lived, after his father dies. But nothing suggests this is for anything more than show; he never mentions his father, and his only purpose for visiting Welmingham is forging his father's marriage certificate so he can get his money and title. Even the novel's POV doesn't buy it, sarcastically putting "gentleman in mourning" in quotes.

Heinousness?

• Book's a work with a low heinous standard. Glyde and Fosco, partners-in-crime, are the only two real baddies, and though Fosco is the brains of the Laura/Anne switch-up (being the one to notice the similarity between the two), Glyde happily enables the plot, signing instructions telling the asylum staff to essentially (and unwittingly) gaslight Laura into insanity. Glyde is himself a mean, vicious brute on whom the blame for the girls' suffering is squarely laid. What's more, Glyde single-handedly destroys Anne's life long before Fosco enters the narrative. While Fosco is painted as the more "dangerous" of the two due to his subtle cunning, planning, and apparent familiarity with murder (though he doesn't kill anyone), he doesn't really get enough crimes outside of his cooperation with Glyde for me to worry about him overshadowing the latter heinousness-wise. Rest assured, Glyde is in no way less dangerous due to any moral standards; he is simply more short-sighted and impulsive than his partner.
• Now, if Glyde is gonna count, it's definitely on his intense personal villainy; quality over quantity. The bloke is a notorious serial life-ruiner whose actions make these girls' lives utter nightmares. Lacking the spectacle of the crimes added in many an adaptation, the novel instead hones in on the banal cruelty of his abuse, especially in regard to the asylum:
• First, he locks up the innocent girl Anne in the asylum on the mere suspicion that she might know too much, blackmailing her mom into silence and solitude under pain of hanging. This reduces Anne to a shattered, paranoid wretch, and Glyde means for her to dwindle and die in there. When she flees, she's snapped up by Fosco and imprisoned until her heart disease, exacerbated by the sheer trauma of the situation, kills her in a final convulsion.
• What I think is really uniquely nasty here is how Glyde and Fosco then lock Laura in the asylum, convincing everyone she is Anne trying to steal the "late" Laura's identity. If Glyde had his way, Laura was going to spend the rest of her life, restrained, vainly begging anyone to believe her, as both her sanity and identity were endlessly denied by the staff – something the book notes would whittle away at her mind in the course of time. It's pretty much a Fate Worse than Death in a grounded 1800s drama.

Final Verdict?
If he keeps, I see him as someone like H. C. Andersen's Shadow; small rap sheet, but excessive cruelty. He turned one girl's life into such constant misery that it killed her, and was happy to doom another to a similarly hideous fate.
He's definitely got a niche, especially for the time. A possible yes?

(And now speaking for myself, Ravok, for the time period and unique awfulness of asylums of the time...I think OG!Glyde passes pretty decently)

Yea to the OG!Glyde. I was wondering about him for a while.

I'm unsure. Leaning yrs, but there's so little there.

Glyde

Glyde

I’m going to a friends wedding this week, so won’t be here for a while.

Edited by LarryT on May 12th 2024 at 7:26:51 AM

Glyde

for Sir Percival Glyde.

Percy Glyde

No-Adaptational-Villainy-But-Still-Pretty-Damn-Villainous Glyde

I'll give a very weak yes.