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-->-- '''[[Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon/Zoom]]''' to [[Characters/ArrowverseCaitlinSnowAndKillerFrost Caitlin Snow]], ''Series/TheFlash2014'', "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S2E19BackToNormal Back To Normal]]"

* [[Supergirl/SeasonOne Season 1]]: [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]] 8, known better as [[DarkActionGirl Indigo]], is a Coluan imprisoned on Krypton for attempting to destroy the Kryptonian people. When [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E15Solitude she introduces herself on Earth]], she turns every light in National City green, causing accidents and endangering hundreds of lives. Soon revealing her darker side, Indigo tries to launch nuclear missiles to destroy National City, planning to wipe out humanity. When defeated, she later teams up with Kara's uncle, Non, and activates [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E19Myriad Project Myriad]] to put humanity into a trance-like state. Indigo then puts her plan a step further into motion: to enhance the power to kill everyone else on Earth and then leave the planet, leaving Kara stranded as "queen of a dead world." Even in [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E20BetterAngels her last moments]], Indigo gloats that she had left Project Myriad impossible to stop, taking comfort that humanity will follow her to the grave.

* ''Series/SupermanAndLois'' Season 1 [[note]][[Characters/SupermanAndLois Unknown Earth]][[/note]]: [[TheSocialDarwinist Zeta-Rho]] is the [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] of Tal-Rho and the [[PsychoEx former husband]] of Lara Lor-Van who plots to use Lara's Eradicator to resurrect Krypton via brutal colonization, stealing her Sunstone from Kal-El's rocket in revenge for her leaving him and intent only on destroying it after she witnesses his triumph. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Zeta]], for all his rhetoric of saving his race, is nothing but an [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]] who cares for only two things: rebuilding Krypton into his supremacist vision of "proper greatness"; and punishing the House of El, viewing Lara's bloodline as treasonous for defying his will. To these ends, Zeta sent Tal-Rho to Earth and tortured him for months to burn away his "weakness", molding him into the herald for Krypton's resurrection. Tal, taking the persona of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Morgan Edge]], experimented on humans to replace their minds with those of Kryptonians on his father's behalf, even having Superman overtaken by General Zod. When Edge fails, Zeta forces him through a DeathOfPersonality to become the Eradicator and raise their army, with Zeta taking Superman's son, Jordan, as his own host. The culmination of Zeta's machinations are witnessed in John Henry Irons' universe: the near-extermination of humanity, with entire cities razed by his loyal Kryptonian "subjekts".

Of the [[Characters/{{Arrowverse}} many characters]] populating the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}, here are the [[CompleteMonster most awful and atrocious]], ranging from street-level [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer drug dealers]] to [[PhysicalGod god-level]] entities.

** [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer The Count]], real name [[AdaptationalNameChange Cecil Adams]] and also known as Count Vertigo, is a sociopathic drug peddler who seeks to push a new drug, known as [[FantasticDrug Vertigo]], onto the streets of Starling City. The Count kidnaps people to serve as test subjects as he tries to perfect Vertigo. He injects them with the drug, causing them excruciating pain, then offers them a gun with one bullet: [[SadisticChoice they can shoot the Count for revenge, or shoot themselves to end the pain]]. The suicide rate, after nearly thirty victims, is one hundred percent. He also tests the drug [[BadBoss on his own minions]], as well as using it as a weapon. The Count sees the fatalities that result from Vertigo as making the drug even better, comparing it to a wine ripened with age. [[Recap/ArrowS2E7StateVQueen After breaking out of prison]], and helping The Dollmaker escape, the Count poisons vaccines with Vertigo to spread the drug to unsuspecting people. Having accepted an offer from Brother Blood to kill the Arrow, and discovering the vigilante's true identity, the Count takes Felicity Smoak hostage to lure the Arrow, and threatens to kill her with an injection of Vertigo before being killed. A [[AxCrazy deranged sadist]] who considers killing to be "one of life's great pleasures", the Count revels in his crimes, spreading death and misery with a smile on his face.

* [[Arrow/SeasonFour Season 4]]: Lonnie "[[AnarchyIsChaos Anarky]]" Machin is [[AdaptationalVillainy far worse]] than his comic counterpart. A former mob enforcer, Anarky was fired by many organizations for being too unhinged. His attempts to join [[Characters/ArrowverseTheHIVE H.I.V.E.]] have Anarky attempting to murder mayoral candidate Jessica Danforth, and when that fails Anarky instead kidnaps Danforth's daughter, sadistically breaking her fingers. After getting his face burned by Thea Queen, Anarky develops a creepy obsession towards her. Escaping imprisonment, Anarky seeks revenge by killing his foster parents and then targeting [[Characters/ArrowverseDamienDarhk Damien Darhk]] for rejecting him from H.I.V.E.. Anarky kidnaps Darhk's wife, Ruvé, and his daughter, trying to have them tortured. Just before H.I.V.E. carries out [[NukeEm Genesis]] to bombard the world with nuclear weapons, Anarky rampages through Tevat Noah, H.I.V.E.'s sanctuary against the apocalypse, killing multiple guards and Thea's boyfriend, rigging the entire structure to explode, while taking Darhk's family hostage, successfully killing Ruvé. [[Recap/ArrowS5E1Legacy Five months later]], Anarky attempts to detonate a bomb that would destroy at least half of Star City. Motivated only by his sick satisfaction of hurting others, Anarky proves to be one of the most destructive monsters Team Arrow has ever faced.

* Season 2: [[ScaryBlackMan Benatu Eshu]] is a ruthless Zambesi warlord and the season's BigBad. Desiring the Totems of Zambesi, Eshu led a raid on [[TheHero Mari]]'s village when she was an infant, massacring scores of innocents, upon learning that the village possessed the Anansi Amulet; among those killed was [[YouKilledMyFather Mari's father]], who Eshu callously executed when he attempted to stand against the [[AxCrazy madman]]. In the present, Eshu arrives in Detroit under the guise of an ambassador and continues his quests to find the totems. To achieve his goals, Eshu bribes a thief into stealing the Fire Totem for him, then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness promptly kills the man once he's no longer of any use]]. With the Fire Totem in his possession, Eshu attempts to kill Mari to steal the Anansi Amulet. Failing in this, Eshu goes on a city-wide rampage in a fit of homicidal rage, [[PlayingWithFire burning down]] a massive portion of Detroit in an effort to draw Mari out. When Mari and her allies attempt to stop him, Eshu incinerates Mari's sister Kuasa right before her eyes before trying to kill Mari herself. Even when [[BroughtDownToBadass he is stripped of the power of the Fire Totem]], Eshu continues his attempt to murder Mari in order to steal her amulet and harness its powers for his own purposes.

* [[Supergirl/SeasonThree Season 3]]: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Morgan Edge]], the CEO of Edge Global, is introduced as a self-absorbed and sexist man, but quickly proves himself to be much worse. Having plans for the Waterfront of National City, Edge hires a terrorist for an attack on the underwater foundation of the district, endangering hundreds of people attending a public Supergirl event. After [[Characters/ArrowverseLenaLuthor Lena Luthor]] buys [=CatCo=] from under his nose, Edge shows just how low he is willing to stoop to destroy somebody for a perceived personal slight, by [[WouldHurtAChild poisoning an entire public school full of children]] and then blaming it on Lena's countermeasure against the Daxamite invasion. When Lena confronts him, he has her knocked out and strapped on a remotely controlled plane, carrying more chemicals, which he intends to crash on the city. [[BadBoss Edge]] also shows himself to be completely dismissive of his employee's lives, having two of them killed to protect his reputation after failed assassination attempts on Lena, or even using one of them as a HumanShield at one point. In a world full of superpowered menaces, Morgan Edge still manages to stand out as a despicable human being, only concerned with his own position of power.

* "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E4WhiteKnights White Knights]]" & "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E5FailSafe Fail Safe]]": [[TheSocialDarwinist Valentina Vostok]] is a Soviet physicist [[Characters/ArrowverseVandalSavageAndFollowers allied with Vandal Savage]], who leads "Operation Svarog" to create a Soviet [[Characters/ArrowverseFirestorm Firestorm]] to use against America in the Cold War. To this end, Vostok spent years experimenting on humans, resulting in countless casualties from failed experiments. After discovering Martin Stein possessed knowledge about the Firestorm project, Vostok has his friends kidnapped and thrown into a Soviet gulag. Using various methods to interrogate Stein, including a drug that causes excruciating pain, Stein finally talks upon being ForcedToWatch his teammates being tortured. Discovering Stein himself is one half of Firestorm, Vostok forcibly fuses herself with him, becoming a new Firestorm, whereupon she manically fire-balls others. In a BadFuture, she creates an army of Firestorms which wipes out nearly every country by the 21st century, content with her own country being destroyed so it can be rebuilt stronger.

* ''Series/SupermanAndLois'' Season 1 [[note]][[Characters/SupermanAndLois Unknown Earth]][[/note]]: [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Zeta-Rho]] is the [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] of Tal-Rho and the mastermind behind the Eradicator plot. The [[PsychoEx former husband]] of Lara Lor-Van, Zeta planned to use her Eradicator device to resurrect Krypton via brutal colonization, stealing her Sunstone from Kal-El's rocket in revenge for her leaving him and intent only on destroying it after she witnesses his triumph. Viewing love as a flaw compared to both his vision for Krypton and desire to defeat the House of El, Zeta sent Tal-Rho to Earth and forced him through months of pain to burn away his "weakness", molding him into the perfect herald for the resurrection. Tal, taking the persona of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Morgan Edge]], experimented on countless humans to replace their minds with those of Kryptonians on his father's behalf, even attempting to have Superman overtaken by General Zod. When Edge fails, Zeta forces him through a DeathOfPersonality to become the Eradicator and personally raise their army, with Zeta taking Superman's young son Jordan as his own host. The ultimate culmination of Zeta's machinations are witnessed in John Henry Irons' universe: the near-extermination of humanity, with entire cities razed and countless rebels incinerated by his loyal Kryptonian "subjekts."

* [[Characters/ArrowverseEobardThawne Eobard Thawne]], aka the Reverse-Flash, is the ArchEnemy of [[Characters/ArrowverseBarryAllen Barry Allen]]. Failing to kill Barry as a child, Thawne instead kills Barry's mother in order to cripple Barry's spirit to prevent him from becoming the Flash. Thawne finds himself TrappedInThePast without his SuperSpeed, leading him to KillAndReplace Harrison Wells, instigate the STAR Labs Particle Accelerator explosion to recreate the Flash, while also filling Central City with dangerous meta-humans. Prevented from returning to the future, Thawne tried to kill the heroes, but is supposedly [[RetGone erased from existence]] after his ancestor, Eddie Thawne, kills himself. Somehow surviving, Thawne resurfaces, traveling to Earth-X to join the ranks of the New Reichsmen and assist in the Nazi invasion of Earth-1, fleeing when the tides turn. Eventually, Thawne gets incarcerated in the future and scheduled for execution; he manipulated Barry's daughter, Nora West-Allen, into destroying Cicada's dagger—which kept Thawne's powers negated—in the past, knowing it would also erase Nora from existence. Post-Crisis, Thawne returns again, having lost his body, and takes over the body of Nash Wells, [[PsychologicalTormentZone trapping his mind]], while attempting to murder Team Flash. After Thawne's body is restored, Thawne creates "[[AlternateTimeline Reverse-Flashpoint]]", where he has stolen Barry's life and identity in every way, and has set to erase Barry from existence, which Barry warns him would lead to "Armageddon". Made into the Avatar of the Negative Forces, Thawne uses his newfound powers to go on a killing spree for kicks. Unable to defeat Barry after he becomes the Positive Force Avatar, Thawne decides the best way to kill his nemesis is to [[OmnicidalManiac take the entire world down with him]].

* [[TheFlash/SeasonTwo Season 2]]: [[Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon]], aka [[EvilCounterpart Zoom]], is a sociopathic speedster from [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth2 Earth-2]] who was a notorious SerialKiller with a staggering body count both before and after becoming a speedster. Dying from abusing the Velocity drug, Zoom tries to steal the speed of Jay Garrick, the Flash of Earth-3, before taking Jay's identity to [[HopeCrusher create hope so he can crush it]], while imprisoning the real Jay as a trophy. Discovering Earth-1, Zoom sends meta-humans to attack, then gains [[Characters/ArrowverseBarryAllen Barry Allen]]'s trust by pretending to be Jay. In their first confrontation, Zoom breaks Barry's spine and shows him off for the city to see. Zoom also takes Harry Wells's daughter, Jesse, hostage to force Harry into helping him steal the Flash's speed. Once cured, Zoom unleashes an army of meta-humans on Central City for the fun of it, before forcing Barry to watch as he murders Barry's father, Henry. As his endgame, Zoom makes a DoomsdayDevice to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the entire multiverse]], only sparing Earth-1 as his personal domain. A brutal, sadistic maniac devoid of remorse, Zoom remains one of the most monstrous enemies Barry has ever faced.

* Season 3: [[AncientEvil Mallus]] is a primordial demon who desired to break apart the timestream. He was opposed by the Zambesi people, who used the mystical Totems to seal him away outside time. Unable to directly influence reality while trapped inside his prison, Mallus instead recruited followers, including [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Nora Darhk as a vessel, and had his cult kill numerous London civilians to collect enough blood for a ritual to resurrect [[Characters/ArrowverseDamienDarhk Damien Darhk]]. Mallus also had his cult cause temporal anomalies throughout history to fracture time and break his prison. Becoming fascinated by [[Characters/ArrowverseSaraLance Sara Lance]] due to her tie with death, Mallus is determined to make her into a follower to wield the Death Totem, successfully possessing Sara and having her rampage across the Waverider. Taking great glee in MindRape and psychological tormenting the Legends, Mallus revealed his end goal was to subject all of reality to "unendurable pain" and [[OmnicidalManiac eradicate all of existence]], marking his return by attempting to destroy Zambesi village.

* Season 1: [[SmugSnake Martin Proctor]] is the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] in charge of the Freeland operations of the sinister ASA. Repackaging a dangerous vaccine as a [[FantasticDrug drug]] to circulate within his city to create an army of superpowered pawns, Proctor's plans lead to an epidemic of death while he takes the survivors in for [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]]. Forcing his rival Gambi into surrendering to him by holding a crowd at gunpoint, Proctor expresses sadistic disappointment at Gambi's surrender forcing him to spare their lives. Seeking to ruin hero Jefferson [[Characters/ArrowversePierceFamily Pierce]]'s reputation, Proctor, when his plans finally fall apart, aims to take the surviving teens from his experiments with him to continue his abominable operations.
* Seasons 2 & 4: [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahuman]] with the power to [[MindControl control minds]] who enslaves the white population of South Freeland as her "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves hunt down and lynch the town's black population and stops at nothing to hunt down the children of a Sange to ensnare them in her [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]], subservient cult.

* [[MultiversalConqueror Mobius]], the Anti-Monitor, is a being born of the AntiMatter universe. [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulating Dr. Harrison Nash Wells]] into freeing him, Mobius sadistically curses him to be his "herald", "Pariah", forcing him to try to warn universe after universe of Mobius's coming, to no avail, all while Mobius obliterates them, [[InTheirOwnImage feeding on the new antimatter]] he leaves in its place. After consuming countless universes, Mobius wipes out almost all existence and engineers the death of of his goodhearted counterpart Mar Novu, the Monitor. Upon his actions being reversed, Mobius simply returns to [[OmnicidalManiac obliterate existence]] again, to rule over what remains as its god king.

* ''Series/TheFlash2014'' [[TheFlash/SeasonNine Season 9]]'s "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S9E10ANewWorldPartOne A New]] [[Recap/TheFlash2014S9Ep11ANewWorldPartTwo World]]" [[Recap/TheFlash2014S9Ep12ANewWorldPartThree four]]-[[Recap/TheFlash2014S9Ep13ANewWorldPartFour parter]]: The [[SentientCosmicForce Negative Speed Force]] is the [[EvilCounterpart antithesis]] of the [[Characters/ArrowverseSpeedForceAndForcesOfNature Speed Force]] and the source of power for [[Characters/ArrowverseEobardThawne Eobard Thawne]], who the Negative Speed Force [[TheChooserOfTheOne chose as its avatar]] and enabled him to commit his countless atrocities. The Negative Speed Force sought revenge on Barry Allen [[Recap/TheFlash2014S8E20NegativePart2 for killing Thawne]], where it manifested as a crystal called Cobalt-97 that houses its sapience and [[DemonicPossession was capable of possessing people]]. Sending Barry to the past and trapping him on the day of his mother's murder, the crystal possesses Joe West and attempts to kill Barry while daring him to change the timeline. In the present day, the crystal possesses Mark Blaine and attacks and demoralizes the members of Team Flash, intending to "gut [Iris] like a fish and [her] baby too". In 2049, the Negative Speed Force resurrects Eddie Thawne and tempts him with the life he never had, so he would become the new avatar. It also possesses Barry's daughter Nora and tries to make her kill Barry who it sent there. It's revealed that due to Barry being the Speed Force's anchor, killing him would distinguish the Speed Force, which by extension would [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the entire timeline and kill everyone in it]]. It successfully corrupts Eddie into Cobalt Blue and very nearly causes the end of temporal existence.

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-->-- '''[[Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon/Zoom]]''' to [[Characters/ArrowverseCaitlinSnowAndKillerFrost Caitlin Snow]], ''Series/TheFlash2014'', "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S2E19BackToNormal Back To Normal]]"

Other universes (including ''Series/TheFlash1990'') can be found at their respective pages [[Monster/DCSeries here]] or [[Monster/DCFilms here]].

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* [[Characters/ArrowverseEobardThawne Eobard Thawne]], aka the Reverse-Flash, is the ArchEnemy of [[Characters/ArrowverseBarryAllen Barry Allen]]. Failing to kill Barry as a child, Thawne instead kills Barry's mother in order to cripple Barry's spirit to prevent him from becoming the Flash. Thawne finds himself TrappedInThePast without his SuperSpeed, leading him to KillAndReplace Harrison Wells, instigate the STAR Labs Particle Accelerator explosion to recreate the Flash, while also filling Central City with dangerous meta-humans. Prevented from returning to the future, Thawne tried to kill the heroes, but is supposedly [[RetGone erased from existence]] after his ancestor, Eddie Thawne, kills himself. Somehow surviving, Thawne resurfaces, traveling to Earth-X to join the ranks of the New Reichsmen and assist in the Nazi invasion of Earth-1, fleeing when the tides turn. Eventually, Thawne gets incarcerated in the future and scheduled for execution; he manipulated Barry's daughter, Nora West-Allen, into destroying Cicada's dagger--which kept Thawne's powers negated--in the past, knowing it would also erase Nora from existence. Post-Crisis, Thawne returns again, having lost his body, and takes over the body of Nash Wells, [[PsychologicalTormentZone trapping his mind]], while attempting to murder Team Flash. After Thawne's body is restored, Thawne creates "[[AlternateTimeline Reverse-Flashpoint]]", where he has stolen Barry's life and identity in every way, and has set to erase Barry from existence, which Barry warns him would lead to "Armageddon". Made into the Avatar of the Negative Forces, Thawne uses his newfound powers to go on a killing spree for kicks. Unable to defeat Barry after he becomes the Positive Force Avatar, Thawne decides the best way to kill his nemesis is to [[OmnicidalManiac take the entire world down with him]].
* ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'': [[MultiversalConqueror Mobius]], the Anti-Monitor, is a being born of the AntiMatter universe. [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulating Dr. Harrison Nash Wells]] into freeing him, Mobius sadistically curses him to be his "herald", "Pariah", forcing him to try to warn universe after universe of Mobius's coming, to no avail, all while Mobius obliterates them, [[InTheirOwnImage feeding on the new antimatter]] he leaves in its place. After consuming countless universes, Mobius wipes out almost all existence and engineers the death of of his goodhearted counterpart Mar Novu, the Monitor. Upon his actions being reversed, Mobius simply returns to [[OmnicidalManiac obliterate existence]] again, to rule over what remains as its god king.

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'':
** [[LegacyCharacter Both holders of the Vertigo mantle]] prove themselves to be sadistic monsters who take glee in subjecting others to their [[MindRape excruciatingly agonizing drug]]:
*** [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer The Count]], real name [[AdaptationalNameChange Cecil Adams]] and also known as Count Vertigo, is a sociopathic drug peddler who seeks to push a new drug, known as [[FantasticDrug Vertigo]], onto the streets of Starling City. The Count kidnaps people to serve as test subjects as he tries to perfect Vertigo. He injects them with the drug, causing them excruciating pain, then offers them a gun with one bullet: [[SadisticChoice they can shoot the Count for revenge, or shoot themselves to end the pain]]. The suicide rate, after nearly thirty victims, is one hundred percent. He also tests the drug [[BadBoss on his own minions]], as well as using it as a weapon. The Count sees the fatalities that result from Vertigo as making the drug even better, comparing it to a wine ripened with age. [[Recap/ArrowS2E7StateVQueen After breaking out of prison]], and helping The Dollmaker escape, the Count poisons vaccines with Vertigo to spread the drug to unsuspecting people. Having accepted an offer from Brother Blood to kill the Arrow, and discovering the vigilante's true identity, the Count takes Felicity Smoak hostage to lure the Arrow, and threatens to kill her with an injection of Vertigo before being killed. A [[AxCrazy deranged sadist]] who considers killing to be "one of life's great pleasures", the Count revels in his crimes, spreading death and misery with a smile on his face.
*** [[AdaptationalVillainy Werner Zytle]] proves to be a worthy successor following the death of the original Count Vertigo, [[Recap/ArrowS3E1TheCalm taking control]] of the drug and [[SupernaturalFearInducer modifying it]] to make the user hallucinate [[IKnowWhatYouFear their worst fears]]. He is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] forcing a fellow gang leader to take the drug before killing him and taking control of the other gangs in Starling City. He decides a reasonable way to attempt an assassination on Oliver Queen is by [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill firing a rocket launcher into a restaurant full of people]]. He later tries to kill the remaining gang leaders of Starling City by blowing up the entire stadium they were in; the stadium contained around 20,000 people. [[Recap/ArrowS3E13Canaries In his next appearance]], Zytle escapes police custody with the help of a reporter whose family he threatened. He then forces said reporter to try to kill the Arrow via suicide bomb. He then takes several hostages in a drug lab, forces them to make more of the Vertigo drug, and when Team Arrow comes to the rescue, he attempts to burn his hostages alive.
** ''[[ComicBook/ArrowSeasonTwoPointFive Season 2.5]]'': [[Characters/ShazamBlackMarvelFamily Khem-Adam]] is the leader of Onslaught, a group of fanatical, religious terrorists, who took advantage of the [[EvilPowerVacuum power vacuum]] in [[{{Qurac}} Kahndaq]] after the previous dictatorship was overthrown. His main goal is to force his country back into the old, barbaric ways, with women in particular being reduced to nothing more than serving the needs of the men. He has a group of young women forcefully abducted for nothing more than undergoing school education -- after murdering their teacher right in front of their eyes. He is later shown to orchestrate mass executions on any one who dares to oppose his godly quest, and assigning the girls to his men as personal slaves to be beaten and raped. When one of the girls kills her abuser in self-defense and manages to escape, he immediately orders the rest of the group to be executed as an example. [[HeManWomanHater Misogynistic]], cruel, and with a [[KnightTemplar delusional fantasy of carrying out the will of the Old Gods]], Khem-Adam [[EvenEvilHasStandards earns the disgust of even the hardened, criminal members]] of the ComicBook/SuicideSquad, with one member in particular being a former military leader of the overthrown dictatorship.
** [[Arrow/SeasonThree Season 3]]: [[GeneralRipper General Matthew Shrieve]] initially appears as a [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable and helpful]] military officer before being revealed as a callous extremist. Regarding China as an economic threat to the United States, Shrieve intends to use the Omega virus to destabilize the country, [[LackOfEmpathy caring nothing for the lives that would be destroyed by his actions]]. After usurping Amanda Waller as the head of [[Characters/ArrowverseARGUSAndTaskForceX A.R.G.U.S.]], Shrieve sends a squad of soldiers after Oliver and the Yamashiros, including [[WouldHurtAChild young Akio]], to eliminate [[HeKnowsTooMuch potential witnesses]] to his impending crimes. Unleashing the Omega virus on Hong Kong, causing thousands of infections and deaths, Shrieve causes the virus to spread even further by disguising injections of it as a vaccine. When Akio is infected, Oliver and Maseo confront Shrieve for a possible cure. After handing them a supposed cure, Shrieve reveals that it was only insulin for his diabetes, using this as a distraction in an attempt to kill them both. After Akio succumbs to the virus, Shrieve taunts his parents, cruelly laughing in their faces. Although the virus is ultimately prevented from spreading beyond Hong Kong, hundreds, if not thousands suffered its effects, something Shrieve shows no remorse for. Militant and xenophobic, Shrieve, despite his [[KnightTemplar delusions of righteousness]], is ultimately nothing more than a smug mass murderer devoid of conscience.
** [[Arrow/SeasonFour Season 4]]: Lonnie "[[AnarchyIsChaos Anarky]]" Machin is [[AdaptationalVillainy far worse]] than his comic counterpart. A former mob enforcer, Anarky was fired by many organizations for being too unhinged. His attempts to join [[Characters/ArrowverseTheHIVE H.I.V.E.]] have Anarky attempting to murder mayoral candidate Jessica Danforth, and when that fails Anarky instead kidnaps Danforth's daughter, sadistically breaking her fingers. After getting his face burned by Thea Queen, Anarky develops a creepy obsession towards her. Escaping imprisonment, Anarky seeks revenge by killing his foster parents and then targeting [[Characters/ArrowverseDamienDarhk Damien Darhk]] for rejecting him from H.I.V.E.. Anarky kidnaps Darhk's wife, Ruvé, and his daughter, trying to have them tortured. Just before H.I.V.E. carries out [[NukeEm Genesis]] to bombard the world with nuclear weapons, Anarky rampages through Tevat Noah, H.I.V.E.'s sanctuary against the apocalypse, killing multiple guards and Thea's boyfriend, rigging the entire structure to explode, while taking Darhk's family hostage, successfully killing Ruvé. [[Recap/ArrowS5E1Legacy Five months later]], Anarky attempts to detonate a bomb that would destroy at least half of Star City. Motivated only by his sick satisfaction of hurting others, Anarky proves to be one of the most destructive monsters Team Arrow has ever faced.
** "[[Recap/ArrowS2E3BrokenDolls Broken Dolls]]": [[SoftSpokenSadist Barton Mathis]], better known as "[[SerialKiller the Dollmaker]]", enjoys targeting young and beautiful women in order to "[[CreepyDoll preserve their beauty]]". After kidnapping his victims, Dollmaker [[CruelAndUnusualDeath brutally murders them by pouring liquid polymer down their throats]] until they drown, before dressing them up as dolls and putting the corpses on display. He had murdered at least eight women with said method before being arrested by Quentin Lance. After escaping from prison thanks to Count Vertigo, Dollmaker continues his killing spree while harboring a grudge against Lance. Planning to make him suffer, Dollmaker murders a young woman while forcing Lance to listen to her screams via a telephone. He also attempts to kidnap and murder Felicity Smoak the same way. Later, Dollmaker kidnaps both Lance and his daughter Laurel and attempts to [[ForcedToWatch force him to watch his daughter die]].
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'':
** [[TheFlash/SeasonTwo Season 2]]: [[Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon]], aka [[EvilCounterpart Zoom]], is a sociopathic speedster from [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth2 Earth-2]] who was a notorious SerialKiller with a staggering body count both before and after becoming a speedster. Dying from abusing the Velocity drug, Zoom tries to steal the speed of Jay Garrick, the Flash of Earth-3, before taking Jay's identity to [[HopeCrusher create hope so he can crush it]], while imprisoning the real Jay as a trophy. Discovering Earth-1, Zoom sends meta-humans to attack, then gains [[Characters/ArrowverseBarryAllen Barry Allen]]'s trust by pretending to be Jay. In their first confrontation, Zoom breaks Barry's spine and shows him off for the city to see. Zoom also takes Harry Wells's daughter, Jesse, hostage to force Harry into helping him steal the Flash's speed. Once cured, Zoom unleashes an army of meta-humans on Central City for the fun of it, before forcing Barry to watch as he murders Barry's father, Henry. As his endgame, Zoom makes a DoomsdayDevice to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the entire multiverse]], only sparing Earth-1 as his personal domain. A brutal, sadistic maniac devoid of remorse, Zoom remains one of the most monstrous enemies Barry has ever faced.
** "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E17Tricksters Tricksters]]" & "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S2E9RunningToStandStill Running to Stand Still]]": [[AdaptationalVillainy The Trickster]], real name James Jesse, is a bloodthirsty [[TerroristsWithoutACause terrorist]] with a flair for the dramatic and the [[PsychopathicManchild personality of a deranged child]]. After a killing spree that landed him in prison, the Trickster is introduced by breaking free from prison with the help of his son Axel, who he manipulated and groomed into becoming as dangerous a psychopath as him. With his help, the Trickster takes Henry Allen hostage and tries to have him impaled with knives while also poisoning the guests at a party so he can blackmail them into giving him money, with one guest dying as a demonstration. During his second appearance, the Trickster uncaringly abandons Axel and teams up with Mark Mardon[=/=]Weather Wizard for a chance to kill the Flash. And to do so, he disguises himself as a mall Santa and distributes over a hundred gift-disguised bombs to children, and forces the Flash to let Mardon torture him to death on threat of detonating the bombs and killing the children and their families.
* ''Series/Constantine2014'':
** "[[Recap/ConstantineS1E11AWholeWorldOutThere A Whole World Out There]]": [[SerialKiller Jacob Shaw]] evaded punishment after getting caught by transferring his mind from his body to a PocketDimension found during his occult studies, where he essentially became a god-like RealityWarper, able to live out his sick fantasies as much as he wanted. When a group of teenagers accidentally trespasses into his realm, he takes this as an opportunity to live out his sadistic pleasure even more. He starts hunting the teenagers in the real world by appearing on reflective surfaces, driving them nearly insane, and then brutally killing 3 out of 4 via impaling, dismembering with a knife, and suffocation. Afterwards, he keeps the souls of the deceased in his realm, where he keeps on torturing them and tells them that they will experience a never-ending circle of [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame getting hunted down and killed]] by him, all [[ForTheEvulz just because he enjoys it]].
** "[[Recap/ConstantineS1E13WaitingForTheMan Waiting for the Man]]": "[[{{Necromancer}} The Man]]" is introduced as a [[HollywoodSatanism Satanic]] redneck who abducted three little girls and [[WouldHurtAChild murdered them]], afterwards raising their spirits to make them his mindlessly devoted "brides". He sends them off to find another bride for him, and while waiting for them to return he brutally tortures and murders a bypassing, helpful man in a ritualistic way, for seemingly no other reason than being near him at the wrong time. It is revealed that "The Man" also murdered his real wife six years ago as a [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] for Satan. Later, John and his crew arrive in the nick of time, just before "The Man" was going to subject the fourth girl to the same horrific fate his three brides suffered. "The Man" is such a despicable individual that John Constantine and Jim Corrigan decide to outright [[PayEvilUntoEvil murder him]] instead of just having him face the law.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Vixen}}'' Season 2: [[ScaryBlackMan Benatu Eshu]] is a ruthless Zambesi warlord and the season's BigBad. Desiring the Totems of Zambesi, Eshu led a raid on [[TheHero Mari]]'s village when she was an infant, massacring scores of innocents, upon learning that the village possessed the Anansi Amulet; among those killed was [[YouKilledMyFather Mari's father]], who Eshu callously executed when he attempted to stand against the [[AxCrazy madman]]. In the present, Eshu arrives in Detroit under the guise of an ambassador and continues his quests to find the totems. To achieve his goals, Eshu bribes a thief into stealing the Fire Totem for him, then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness promptly kills the man once he's no longer of any use]]. With the Fire Totem in his possession, Eshu attempts to kill Mari to steal the Anansi Amulet. Failing in this, Eshu goes on a city-wide rampage in a fit of homicidal rage, [[PlayingWithFire burning down]] a massive portion of Detroit in an effort to draw Mari out. When Mari and her allies attempt to stop him, Eshu incinerates Mari's sister Kuasa right before her eyes before trying to kill Mari herself. Even when [[BroughtDownToBadass he is stripped of the power of the Fire Totem]], Eshu continues his attempt to murder Mari in order to steal her amulet and harness its powers for his own purposes.
* ''Series/Supergirl2015'' [[note]][[Characters/Supergirl2015 Earth-38]][[/note]]:
** [[Supergirl/SeasonOne Season 1]]: [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]] 8, known better as [[DarkActionGirl Indigo]], is a Coluan imprisoned on Krypton for attempting to destroy the Kryptonian people. When [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E15Solitude she introduces herself on Earth]], she turns every light in National City green, causing accidents and endangering hundreds of lives. Soon revealing her darker side, Indigo tries to launch nuclear missiles to destroy National City, planning to wipe out humanity. When defeated, she later teams up with Kara's uncle, Non, and activates [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E19Myriad Project Myriad]] to put humanity into a trance-like state. Indigo then puts her plan a step further into motion: to enhance the power to kill everyone else on Earth and then leave the planet, leaving Kara stranded as "queen of a dead world." Even in [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E20BetterAngels her last moments]], Indigo gloats that she had left Project Myriad impossible to stop, taking comfort that humanity will follow her to the grave.
** [[Supergirl/SeasonTwo Season 2]]: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Rhea]], the ultimate BigBad of the season, is the queen of Daxam, wife of Lar Gand and [[AbusiveParents mother of Mon-El]]. After escaping Daxam's disaster, Rhea and Lar Gand find Mon-El on Earth and try to get him to join them. When he refused, Rhea blames Kara for it and tries to get her killed by issuing a bounty against her, then tries to kill her herself. Once Lar Gand decides to let Mon-El stay on Earth, Rhea accuses him of "betraying" her and murders him. Returning to Earth, Rhea [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates]] Lena Luthor into creating a transmatter portal for her forces to come through, and starts an invasion to take over the planet and reduce humanity into slavery. To forge a connection with humans, Rhea forces Mon-El and Lena to get married by [[WouldHurtAChild threatening to destroy a hospital full of children]], stating they could rot in a cell for all she cares afterwards. Challenged by Kara in a trial of fight, Rhea [[ILied doesn't honor their agreement]] when she loses and orders her forces to destroy National City, then tells Kara that she will destroy city after city until her whole world is gone. A petty, [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] individual as well as a horrible mother, Rhea's [[NeverMyFault inability to accept any responsibility]] for her actions is what makes her a monster.
** [[Supergirl/SeasonThree Season 3]]: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Morgan Edge]], the CEO of Edge Global, is introduced as a self-absorbed and sexist man, but quickly proves himself to be much worse. Having plans for the Waterfront of National City, Edge hires a terrorist for an attack on the underwater foundation of the district, endangering hundreds of people attending a public Supergirl event. After [[Characters/ArrowverseLenaLuthor Lena Luthor]] buys [=CatCo=] from under his nose, Edge shows just how low he is willing to stoop to destroy somebody for a perceived personal slight, by [[WouldHurtAChild poisoning an entire public school full of children]] and then blaming it on Lena's countermeasure against the Daxamite invasion. When Lena confronts him, he has her knocked out and strapped on a remotely controlled plane, carrying more chemicals, which he intends to crash on the city. [[BadBoss Edge]] also shows himself to be completely dismissive of his employee's lives, having two of them killed to protect his reputation after failed assassination attempts on Lena, or even using one of them as a HumanShield at one point. In a world full of superpowered menaces, Morgan Edge still manages to stand out as a despicable human being, only concerned with his own position of power.
** "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E4Survivors Survivors]]" & "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E9SupergirlLives Supergirl Lives]]": [[DragonLady Veronica "Roulette" Sinclair]] is a ringmaster who organized an underground fight club in National City, commanding aliens to [[ForcedPrizeFight fight to the death for money]] to entertain rich people, including herself. In her first appearance, when J'onn and M'gann refuse to fight, Roulette releases Draaga to try to kill them both, but gets arrested. Upon being freed due to her connections, Roulette, with the help of an alien doctor, plans to sell humans in a slave market on Maaldoria in exchange for a large amount of diamonds. Utterly apathetic to aliens and human beings alike, Roulette is a RichBitch who has no qualms against making quick money at the expense of others.
* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'':
** Season 3: [[AncientEvil Mallus]] is a primordial demon who desired to break apart the timestream. He was opposed by the Zambesi people, who used the mystical Totems to seal him away outside time. Unable to directly influence reality while trapped inside his prison, Mallus instead recruited followers, including [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Nora Darhk as a vessel, and had his cult kill numerous London civilians to collect enough blood for a ritual to resurrect [[Characters/ArrowverseDamienDarhk Damien Darhk]]. Mallus also had his cult cause temporal anomalies throughout history to fracture time and break his prison. Becoming fascinated by [[Characters/ArrowverseSaraLance Sara Lance]] due to her tie with death, Mallus is determined to make her into a follower to wield the Death Totem, successfully possessing Sara and having her rampage across the Waverider. Taking great glee in MindRape and psychological tormenting the Legends, Mallus revealed his end goal was to subject all of reality to "unendurable pain" and [[OmnicidalManiac eradicate all of existence]], marking his return by attempting to destroy Zambesi village.
** "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E4WhiteKnights White Knights]]" & "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E5FailSafe Fail Safe]]": [[TheSocialDarwinist Valentina Vostok]] is a Soviet physicist [[Characters/ArrowverseVandalSavageAndFollowers allied with Vandal Savage]], who leads "Operation Svarog" to create a Soviet [[Characters/ArrowverseFirestorm Firestorm]] to use against America in the Cold War. To this end, Vostok spent years experimenting on humans, resulting in countless casualties from failed experiments. After discovering Martin Stein possessed knowledge about the Firestorm project, Vostok has his friends kidnapped and thrown into a Soviet gulag. Using various methods to interrogate Stein, including a drug that causes excruciating pain, Stein finally talks upon being ForcedToWatch his teammates being tortured. Discovering Stein himself is one half of Firestorm, Vostok forcibly fuses herself with him, becoming a new Firestorm, whereupon she manically fire-balls others. In a BadFuture, she creates an army of Firestorms which wipes out nearly every country by the 21st century, content with her own country being destroyed so it can be rebuilt stronger.
** "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E6OutlawCountry Outlaw Country]]": [[{{Outlaw}} Quentin Turnbull]] is the ruthless ArchEnemy of Jonah Hex. After the town of Calvert rebelled against him for extorting taxes from them, Turnbull trapped the entire town's population in a church, including women and children, and then [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E11TheMagnificentEight burned it down with everyone inside]]. Using dwarf star alloy from a time pirate he murders, Turnbull creates powerful bullets and takes over the town of Salvation, before forcing its civilians to work in the mines. He also intended to conquer enough towns to form his own country, which comes to pass in a BadFuture where he takes over the entire western half of the United States, renaming it "Turnbull Country", a [[AnarchoTyranny lawless country where the only authority is himself]].
* ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' [[note]][[Characters/BlackLightning2018 Unknown Earth]][[/note]]:
** Season 1: [[SmugSnake Martin Proctor]] is the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] in charge of the Freeland operations of the sinister ASA. Repackaging a dangerous vaccine as a [[FantasticDrug drug]] to circulate within his city to create an army of superpowered pawns, Proctor's plans lead to an epidemic of death while he takes the survivors in for [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]]. Forcing his rival Gambi into surrendering to him by holding a crowd at gunpoint, Proctor expresses sadistic disappointment at Gambi's surrender forcing him to spare their lives. Seeking to ruin hero Jefferson [[Characters/ArrowversePierceFamily Pierce]]'s reputation, Proctor, when his plans finally fall apart, aims to take the surviving teens from his experiments with him to continue his abominable operations.
** Seasons 2 & 4: [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahuman]] with the power to [[MindControl control minds]] who enslaves the white population of South Freeland as her "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves hunt down and lynch the town's black population and stops at nothing to hunt down the children of a Sange to ensnare them in her [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]], subservient cult.

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* ''Series/Batwoman2019'' Season 1: [[KillerCop Miguel Robles]], a corrupt member of the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Crows]], is also the murderer of Lucius Fox. Having accidentally shot Fox when sent to beat him for his journal, Robles attempts to cover his tracks by sending assassins after those who can expose him. When this fails, Robles [[LegacyCharacter takes on the mantle]] of the deceased [[MadBomber Detonator]], kidnapping people and tying them to explosives with [[SadisticChoice chances to save themselves]] by pressing a detonator to destroy a building that contains information that might incriminate him. His final target is Wayne Tower, uncaring if he kills dozens or hundreds of innocents to escape his punishment.
* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' Season 5: [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Atropos]] is one of the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology three Fates]], alongside her sisters Clotho and Lachesis, with Atropos cutting the threads to end people's lives, something she took pleasure in doing. Relentless in her search for the Loom of Fate after it was dismantled and scattered by Clotho/Charlie, Atropos massacres her way through everything in her path, including Charlie's old punk band; the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' crew; and [[HeroKiller most of the Legends]]. Atropos kills either by stabbing her victims, or showing her true form--which is described as excruciatingly painful--while also being willing to torture her own sister Clotho to make her submit. In order to stall the Legends stranded in London, Atropos summons a ZombieApocalypse to ravage the entirety of Great Britain. The Fates use the Loom to rewrite reality, creating "Loomworld", a world devoid of freewill and choice. Here, Atropos forces her workers to sanitize history's records, while killing people on a whim.
* ''Series/SupermanAndLois'' Season 1 [[note]][[Characters/SupermanAndLois Unknown Earth]][[/note]]: [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Zeta-Rho]] is the [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] of Tal-Rho and the mastermind behind the Eradicator plot. The [[PsychoEx former husband]] of Lara Lor-Van, Zeta planned to use her Eradicator device to resurrect Krypton via brutal colonization, stealing her Sunstone from Kal-El's rocket in revenge for her leaving him and intent only on destroying it after she witnesses his triumph. Viewing love as a flaw compared to both his vision for Krypton and desire to defeat the House of El, Zeta sent Tal-Rho to Earth and forced him through months of pain to burn away his "weakness", molding him into the perfect herald for the resurrection. Tal, taking the persona of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Morgan Edge]], experimented on countless humans to replace their minds with those of Kryptonians on his father's behalf, even attempting to have Superman overtaken by General Zod. When Edge fails, Zeta forces him through a DeathOfPersonality to become the Eradicator and personally raise their army, with Zeta taking Superman's young son Jordan as his own host. The ultimate culmination of Zeta's machinations are witnessed in John Henry Irons' universe: the near-extermination of humanity, with entire cities razed and countless rebels incinerated by his loyal Kryptonian "subjekts."
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'' [[TheFlash/SeasonNine Season 9]]'s "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S9E10ANewWorldPartOne A New]] [[Recap/TheFlash2014S9Ep11ANewWorldPartTwo World]]" [[Recap/TheFlash2014S9Ep12ANewWorldPartThree four]]-[[Recap/TheFlash2014S9Ep13ANewWorldPartFour parter]]: The [[SentientCosmicForce Negative Speed Force]] is the [[EvilCounterpart antithesis]] of the [[Characters/ArrowverseSpeedForceAndForcesOfNature Speed Force]] and the source of power for [[Characters/ArrowverseEobardThawne Eobard Thawne]], who the Negative Speed Force [[TheChooserOfTheOne chose as its avatar]] and enabled him to commit his countless atrocities. The Negative Speed Force sought revenge on Barry Allen [[Recap/TheFlash2014S8E20NegativePart2 for killing Thawne]], where it manifested as a crystal called Cobalt-97 that houses its sapience and [[DemonicPossession was capable of possessing people]]. Sending Barry to the past and trapping him on the day of his mother's murder, the crystal possesses Joe West and attempts to kill Barry while daring him to change the timeline. In the present day, the crystal possesses Mark Blaine and attacks and demoralizes the members of Team Flash, intending to "gut [Iris] like a fish and [her] baby too". In 2049, the Negative Speed Force resurrects Eddie Thawne and tempts him with the life he never had, so he would become the new avatar. It also possesses Barry's daughter Nora and tries to make her kill Barry who it sent there. It's revealed that due to Barry being the Speed Force's anchor, killing him would distinguish the Speed Force, which by extension would [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the entire timeline and kill everyone in it]]. It successfully corrupts Eddie into Cobalt Blue and very nearly causes the end of temporal existence.

Shows are listed by first airdate. Other universes (including ''Series/TheFlash1990'') can be found at their respective pages [[Monster/DCSeries here]] or [[Monster/DCFilms here]].

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* [[LegacyCharacter Both holders of the Vertigo mantle]] prove themselves to be sadistic monsters who take glee in subjecting others to their [[MindRape excruciatingly agonizing drug]]:
** [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer The Count]], real name [[AdaptationalNameChange Cecil Adams]] and also known as Count Vertigo, is a sociopathic drug peddler who seeks to push a new drug, known as [[FantasticDrug Vertigo]], onto the streets of Starling City. The Count kidnaps people to serve as test subjects as he tries to perfect Vertigo. He injects them with the drug, causing them excruciating pain, then offers them a gun with one bullet: [[SadisticChoice they can shoot the Count for revenge, or shoot themselves to end the pain]]. The suicide rate, after nearly thirty victims, is one hundred percent. He also tests the drug [[BadBoss on his own minions]], as well as using it as a weapon. The Count sees the fatalities that result from Vertigo as making the drug even better, comparing it to a wine ripened with age. [[Recap/ArrowS2E7StateVQueen After breaking out of prison]], and helping The Dollmaker escape, the Count poisons vaccines with Vertigo to spread the drug to unsuspecting people. Having accepted an offer from Brother Blood to kill the Arrow, and discovering the vigilante's true identity, the Count takes Felicity Smoak hostage to lure the Arrow, and threatens to kill her with an injection of Vertigo before being killed. A [[AxCrazy deranged sadist]] who considers killing to be "one of life's great pleasures", the Count revels in his crimes, spreading death and misery with a smile on his face.
** [[AdaptationalVillainy Werner Zytle]] proves to be a worthy successor following the death of the original Count Vertigo, [[Recap/ArrowS3E1TheCalm taking control]] of the drug and [[SupernaturalFearInducer modifying it]] to make the user hallucinate [[IKnowWhatYouFear their worst fears]]. He is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] forcing a fellow gang leader to take the drug before killing him and taking control of the other gangs in Starling City. He decides a reasonable way to attempt an assassination on Oliver Queen is by [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill firing a rocket launcher into a restaurant full of people]]. He later tries to kill the remaining gang leaders of Starling City by blowing up the entire stadium they were in; the stadium contained around 20,000 people. [[Recap/ArrowS3E13Canaries In his next appearance]], Zytle escapes police custody with the help of a reporter whose family he threatened. He then forces said reporter to try to kill the Arrow via suicide bomb. He then takes several hostages in a drug lab, forces them to make more of the Vertigo drug, and when Team Arrow comes to the rescue, he attempts to burn his hostages alive.
* ''[[ComicBook/ArrowSeasonTwoPointFive Season 2.5]]'' tie-in comic: [[Characters/ShazamBlackMarvelFamily Khem-Adam]] is the leader of Onslaught, a group of fanatical, religious terrorists, who took advantage of the [[EvilPowerVacuum power vacuum]] in [[{{Qurac}} Kahndaq]] after the previous dictatorship was overthrown. His main goal is to force his country back into the old, barbaric ways, with women in particular being reduced to nothing more than serving the needs of the men. He has a group of young women forcefully abducted for nothing more than undergoing school education -- after murdering their teacher right in front of their eyes. He is later shown to orchestrate mass executions on any one who dares to oppose his godly quest, and assigning the girls to his men as personal slaves to be beaten and raped. When one of the girls kills her abuser in self-defense and manages to escape, he immediately orders the rest of the group to be executed as an example. [[HeManWomanHater Misogynistic]], cruel, and with a [[KnightTemplar delusional fantasy of carrying out the will of the Old Gods]], Khem-Adam [[EvenEvilHasStandards earns the disgust of even the hardened, criminal members]] of the ComicBook/SuicideSquad, with one member in particular being a former military leader of the overthrown dictatorship.
* [[Arrow/SeasonThree Season 3]]: [[GeneralRipper General Matthew Shrieve]] initially appears as a [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable and helpful]] military officer before being revealed as a callous extremist. Regarding China as an economic threat to the United States, Shrieve intends to use the Omega virus to destabilize the country, [[LackOfEmpathy caring nothing for the lives that would be destroyed by his actions]]. After usurping Amanda Waller as the head of [[Characters/ArrowverseARGUSAndTaskForceX A.R.G.U.S.]], Shrieve sends a squad of soldiers after Oliver and the Yamashiros, including [[WouldHurtAChild young Akio]], to eliminate [[HeKnowsTooMuch potential witnesses]] to his impending crimes. Unleashing the Omega virus on Hong Kong, causing thousands of infections and deaths, Shrieve causes the virus to spread even further by disguising injections of it as a vaccine. When Akio is infected, Oliver and Maseo confront Shrieve for a possible cure. After handing them a supposed cure, Shrieve reveals that it was only insulin for his diabetes, using this as a distraction in an attempt to kill them both. After Akio succumbs to the virus, Shrieve taunts his parents, cruelly laughing in their faces. Although the virus is ultimately prevented from spreading beyond Hong Kong, hundreds, if not thousands suffered its effects, something Shrieve shows no remorse for. Militant and xenophobic, Shrieve, despite his [[KnightTemplar delusions of righteousness]], is ultimately nothing more than a smug mass murderer devoid of conscience.
* [[Arrow/SeasonFour Season 4]]: Lonnie "[[AnarchyIsChaos Anarky]]" Machin is [[AdaptationalVillainy far worse]] than his comic counterpart. A former mob enforcer, Anarky was fired by many organizations for being too unhinged. His attempts to join [[Characters/ArrowverseTheHIVE H.I.V.E.]] have Anarky attempting to murder mayoral candidate Jessica Danforth, and when that fails Anarky instead kidnaps Danforth's daughter, sadistically breaking her fingers. After getting his face burned by Thea Queen, Anarky develops a creepy obsession towards her. Escaping imprisonment, Anarky seeks revenge by killing his foster parents and then targeting [[Characters/ArrowverseDamienDarhk Damien Darhk]] for rejecting him from H.I.V.E.. Anarky kidnaps Darhk's wife, Ruvé, and his daughter, trying to have them tortured. Just before H.I.V.E. carries out [[NukeEm Genesis]] to bombard the world with nuclear weapons, Anarky rampages through Tevat Noah, H.I.V.E.'s sanctuary against the apocalypse, killing multiple guards and Thea's boyfriend, rigging the entire structure to explode, while taking Darhk's family hostage, successfully killing Ruvé. [[Recap/ArrowS5E1Legacy Five months later]], Anarky attempts to detonate a bomb that would destroy at least half of Star City. Motivated only by his sick satisfaction of hurting others, Anarky proves to be one of the most destructive monsters Team Arrow has ever faced.
* "[[Recap/ArrowS2E3BrokenDolls Broken Dolls]]": [[SoftSpokenSadist Barton Mathis]], better known as "[[SerialKiller the Dollmaker]]", enjoys targeting young and beautiful women in order to "[[CreepyDoll preserve their beauty]]". After kidnapping his victims, Dollmaker [[CruelAndUnusualDeath brutally murders them by pouring liquid polymer down their throats]] until they drown, before dressing them up as dolls and putting the corpses on display. He had murdered at least eight women with said method before being arrested by Quentin Lance. After escaping from prison thanks to Count Vertigo, Dollmaker continues his killing spree while harboring a grudge against Lance. Planning to make him suffer, Dollmaker murders a young woman while forcing Lance to listen to her screams via a telephone. He also attempts to kidnap and murder Felicity Smoak the same way. Later, Dollmaker kidnaps both Lance and his daughter Laurel and attempts to [[ForcedToWatch force him to watch his daughter die]].

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* [[TheFlash/SeasonTwo Season 2]]: [[Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon]], aka [[EvilCounterpart Zoom]], is a sociopathic speedster from [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth2 Earth-2]] who was a notorious SerialKiller with a staggering body count both before and after becoming a speedster. Dying from abusing the Velocity drug, Zoom tries to steal the speed of Jay Garrick, the Flash of Earth-3, before taking Jay's identity to [[HopeCrusher create hope so he can crush it]], while imprisoning the real Jay as a trophy. Discovering Earth-1, Zoom sends meta-humans to attack, then gains [[Characters/ArrowverseBarryAllen Barry Allen]]'s trust by pretending to be Jay. In their first confrontation, Zoom breaks Barry's spine and shows him off for the city to see. Zoom also takes Harry Wells's daughter, Jesse, hostage to force Harry into helping him steal the Flash's speed. Once cured, Zoom unleashes an army of meta-humans on Central City for the fun of it, before forcing Barry to watch as he murders Barry's father, Henry. As his endgame, Zoom makes a DoomsdayDevice to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the entire multiverse]], only sparing Earth-1 as his personal domain. A brutal, sadistic maniac devoid of remorse, Zoom remains one of the most monstrous enemies Barry has ever faced.
* "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E17Tricksters Tricksters]]" & "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S2E9RunningToStandStill Running to Stand Still]]": [[AdaptationalVillainy The Trickster]], real name James Jesse, is a bloodthirsty [[TerroristsWithoutACause terrorist]] with a flair for the dramatic and the [[PsychopathicManchild personality of a deranged child]]. After a killing spree that landed him in prison, the Trickster is introduced by breaking free from prison with the help of his son Axel, who he manipulated and groomed into becoming as dangerous a psychopath as him. With his help, the Trickster takes Henry Allen hostage and tries to have him impaled with knives while also poisoning the guests at a party so he can blackmail them into giving him money, with one guest dying as a demonstration. During his second appearance, the Trickster uncaringly abandons Axel and teams up with Mark Mardon[=/=]Weather Wizard for a chance to kill the Flash. And to do so, he disguises himself as a mall Santa and distributes over a hundred gift-disguised bombs to children, and forces the Flash to let Mardon torture him to death on threat of detonating the bombs and killing the children and their families.

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* Season 3: [[AncientEvil Mallus]] is a primordial demon who desired to break apart the timestream. He was opposed by the Zambesi people, who used the mystical Totems to seal him away outside time. Unable to directly influence reality while trapped inside his prison, Mallus instead recruited followers, including [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Nora Darhk as a vessel, and had his cult kill numerous London civilians to collect enough blood for a ritual to resurrect [[Characters/ArrowverseDamienDarhk Damien Darhk]]. Mallus also had his cult cause temporal anomalies throughout history to fracture time and break his prison. Becoming fascinated by [[Characters/ArrowverseSaraLance Sara Lance]] due to her tie with death, Mallus is determined to make her into a follower to wield the Death Totem, successfully possessing Sara and having her rampage across the Waverider. Taking great glee in MindRape and psychological tormenting the Legends, Mallus revealed his end goal was to subject all of reality to "unendurable pain" and [[OmnicidalManiac eradicate all of existence]], marking his return by attempting to destroy Zambesi village.
* "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E4WhiteKnights White Knights]]" & "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E5FailSafe Fail Safe]]": [[TheSocialDarwinist Valentina Vostok]] is a Soviet physicist [[Characters/ArrowverseVandalSavageAndFollowers allied with Vandal Savage]], who leads "Operation Svarog" to create a Soviet [[Characters/ArrowverseFirestorm Firestorm]] to use against America in the Cold War. To this end, Vostok spent years experimenting on humans, resulting in countless casualties from failed experiments. After discovering Martin Stein possessed knowledge about the Firestorm project, Vostok has his friends kidnapped and thrown into a Soviet gulag. Using various methods to interrogate Stein, including a drug that causes excruciating pain, Stein finally talks upon being ForcedToWatch his teammates being tortured. Discovering Stein himself is one half of Firestorm, Vostok forcibly fuses herself with him, becoming a new Firestorm, whereupon she manically fire-balls others. In a BadFuture, she creates an army of Firestorms which wipes out nearly every country by the 21st century, content with her own country being destroyed so it can be rebuilt stronger.
* "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E6OutlawCountry Outlaw Country]]": [[{{Outlaw}} Quentin Turnbull]] is the ruthless ArchEnemy of Jonah Hex. After the town of Calvert rebelled against him for extorting taxes from them, Turnbull trapped the entire town's population in a church, including women and children, and then [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E11TheMagnificentEight burned it down with everyone inside]]. Using dwarf star alloy from a time pirate he murders, Turnbull creates powerful bullets and takes over the town of Salvation, before forcing its civilians to work in the mines. He also intended to conquer enough towns to form his own country, which comes to pass in a BadFuture where he takes over the entire western half of the United States, renaming it "Turnbull Country", a [[AnarchoTyranny lawless country where the only authority is himself]].

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* "[[Recap/ConstantineS1E11AWholeWorldOutThere A Whole World Out There]]": [[SerialKiller Jacob Shaw]] evaded punishment after getting caught by transferring his mind from his body to a PocketDimension found during his occult studies, where he essentially became a god-like RealityWarper, able to live out his sick fantasies as much as he wanted. When a group of teenagers accidentally trespasses into his realm, he takes this as an opportunity to live out his sadistic pleasure even more. He starts hunting the teenagers in the real world by appearing on reflective surfaces, driving them nearly insane, and then brutally killing 3 out of 4 via impaling, dismembering with a knife, and suffocation. Afterwards, he keeps the souls of the deceased in his realm, where he keeps on torturing them and tells them that they will experience a never-ending circle of [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame getting hunted down and killed]] by him, all [[ForTheEvulz just because he enjoys it]].
* "[[Recap/ConstantineS1E13WaitingForTheMan Waiting for the Man]]": "[[{{Necromancer}} The Man]]" is introduced as a [[HollywoodSatanism Satanic]] redneck who abducted three little girls and [[WouldHurtAChild murdered them]], afterwards raising their spirits to make them his mindlessly devoted "brides". He sends them off to find another bride for him, and while waiting for them to return he brutally tortures and murders a bypassing, helpful man in a ritualistic way, for seemingly no other reason than being near him at the wrong time. It is revealed that "The Man" also murdered his real wife six years ago as a [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] for Satan. Later, John and his crew arrive in the nick of time, just before "The Man" was going to subject the fourth girl to the same horrific fate his three brides suffered. "The Man" is such a despicable individual that John Constantine and Jim Corrigan decide to outright [[PayEvilUntoEvil murder him]] instead of just having him face the law.
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[[AC:''WesternAnimation/{{Vixen}}'']]
* Season 2: [[ScaryBlackMan Benatu Eshu]] is a ruthless Zambesi warlord and the season's BigBad. Desiring the Totems of Zambesi, Eshu led a raid on [[TheHero Mari]]'s village when she was an infant, massacring scores of innocents, upon learning that the village possessed the Anansi Amulet; among those killed was [[YouKilledMyFather Mari's father]], who Eshu callously executed when he attempted to stand against the [[AxCrazy madman]]. In the present, Eshu arrives in Detroit under the guise of an ambassador and continues his quests to find the totems. To achieve his goals, Eshu bribes a thief into stealing the Fire Totem for him, then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness promptly kills the man once he's no longer of any use]]. With the Fire Totem in his possession, Eshu attempts to kill Mari to steal the Anansi Amulet. Failing in this, Eshu goes on a city-wide rampage in a fit of homicidal rage, [[PlayingWithFire burning down]] a massive portion of Detroit in an effort to draw Mari out. When Mari and her allies attempt to stop him, Eshu incinerates Mari's sister Kuasa right before her eyes before trying to kill Mari herself. Even when [[BroughtDownToBadass he is stripped of the power of the Fire Totem]], Eshu continues his attempt to murder Mari in order to steal her amulet and harness its powers for his own purposes.

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* [[Supergirl/SeasonOne Season 1]]: [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]] 8, known better as [[DarkActionGirl Indigo]], is a Coluan imprisoned on Krypton for attempting to destroy the Kryptonian people. When [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E15Solitude she introduces herself on Earth]], she turns every light in National City green, causing accidents and endangering hundreds of lives. Soon revealing her darker side, Indigo tries to launch nuclear missiles to destroy National City, planning to wipe out humanity. When defeated, she later teams up with Kara's uncle, Non, and activates [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E19Myriad Project Myriad]] to put humanity into a trance-like state. Indigo then puts her plan a step further into motion: to enhance the power to kill everyone else on Earth and then leave the planet, leaving Kara stranded as "queen of a dead world." Even in [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E20BetterAngels her last moments]], Indigo gloats that she had left Project Myriad impossible to stop, taking comfort that humanity will follow her to the grave.
* [[Supergirl/SeasonTwo Season 2]]: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Rhea]], the ultimate BigBad of the season, is the queen of Daxam, wife of Lar Gand and [[AbusiveParents mother of Mon-El]]. After escaping Daxam's disaster, Rhea and Lar Gand find Mon-El on Earth and try to get him to join them. When he refused, Rhea blames Kara for it and tries to get her killed by issuing a bounty against her, then tries to kill her herself. Once Lar Gand decides to let Mon-El stay on Earth, Rhea accuses him of "betraying" her and murders him. Returning to Earth, Rhea [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates]] Lena Luthor into creating a transmatter portal for her forces to come through, and starts an invasion to take over the planet and reduce humanity into slavery. To forge a connection with humans, Rhea forces Mon-El and Lena to get married by [[WouldHurtAChild threatening to destroy a hospital full of children]], stating they could rot in a cell for all she cares afterwards. Challenged by Kara in a trial of fight, Rhea [[ILied doesn't honor their agreement]] when she loses and orders her forces to destroy National City, then tells Kara that she will destroy city after city until her whole world is gone. A petty, [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] individual as well as a horrible mother, Rhea's [[NeverMyFault inability to accept any responsibility]] for her actions is what makes her a monster.
* [[Supergirl/SeasonThree Season 3]]: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Morgan Edge]], the CEO of Edge Global, is introduced as a self-absorbed and sexist man, but quickly proves himself to be much worse. Having plans for the Waterfront of National City, Edge hires a terrorist for an attack on the underwater foundation of the district, endangering hundreds of people attending a public Supergirl event. After [[Characters/ArrowverseLenaLuthor Lena Luthor]] buys [=CatCo=] from under his nose, Edge shows just how low he is willing to stoop to destroy somebody for a perceived personal slight, by [[WouldHurtAChild poisoning an entire public school full of children]] and then blaming it on Lena's countermeasure against the Daxamite invasion. When Lena confronts him, he has her knocked out and strapped on a remotely controlled plane, carrying more chemicals, which he intends to crash on the city. [[BadBoss Edge]] also shows himself to be completely dismissive of his employee's lives, having two of them killed to protect his reputation after failed assassination attempts on Lena, or even using one of them as a HumanShield at one point. In a world full of superpowered menaces, Morgan Edge still manages to stand out as a despicable human being, only concerned with his own position of power.
* "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E4Survivors Survivors]]" & "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E9SupergirlLives Supergirl Lives]]": [[DragonLady Veronica "Roulette" Sinclair]] is a ringmaster who organized an underground fight club in National City, commanding aliens to [[ForcedPrizeFight fight to the death for money]] to entertain rich people, including herself. In her first appearance, when J'onn and M'gann refuse to fight, Roulette releases Draaga to try to kill them both, but gets arrested. Upon being freed due to her connections, Roulette, with the help of an alien doctor, plans to sell humans in a slave market on Maaldoria in exchange for a large amount of diamonds. Utterly apathetic to aliens and human beings alike, Roulette is a RichBitch who has no qualms against making quick money at the expense of others.
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[[AC:''Series/BlackLightning2018'' ("Earth-BL")]]
[[folder:Examples]]
* Season 1: [[SmugSnake Martin Proctor]] is the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] in charge of the Freeland operations of the sinister ASA. Repackaging a dangerous vaccine as a [[FantasticDrug drug]] to circulate within his city to create an army of superpowered pawns, Proctor's plans lead to an epidemic of death while he takes the survivors in for [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]]. Forcing his rival Gambi into surrendering to him by holding a crowd at gunpoint, Proctor expresses sadistic disappointment at Gambi's surrender forcing him to spare their lives. Seeking to ruin hero Jefferson [[Characters/ArrowversePierceFamily Pierce]]'s reputation, Proctor, when his plans finally fall apart, aims to take the surviving teens from his experiments with him to continue his abominable operations.
* Seasons 2 & 4: [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahuman]] with the power to [[MindControl control minds]] who enslaves the white population of South Freeland as her "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves hunt down and lynch the town's black population and stops at nothing to hunt down the children of a Sange to ensnare them in her [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]], subservient cult.
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!!''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019''
* [[MultiversalConqueror Mobius]], the Anti-Monitor, is a being born of the AntiMatter universe. [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulating Dr. Harrison Nash Wells]] into freeing him, Mobius sadistically curses him to be his "herald", "Pariah", forcing him to try to warn universe after universe of Mobius's coming, to no avail, all while Mobius obliterates them, [[InTheirOwnImage feeding on the new antimatter]] he leaves in its place. After consuming countless universes, Mobius wipes out almost all existence and engineers the death of of his goodhearted counterpart Mar Novu, the Monitor. Upon his actions being reversed, Mobius simply returns to [[OmnicidalManiac obliterate existence]] again, to rule over what remains as its god king.

!!Post-Crisis (Earth-Prime unless noted)
[[AC:''Series/Batwoman2019'']]
* Season 1: [[KillerCop Miguel Robles]], a corrupt member of the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Crows]], is also the murderer of Lucius Fox. Having accidentally shot Fox when sent to beat him for his journal, Robles attempts to cover his tracks by sending assassins after those who can expose him. When this fails, Robles [[LegacyCharacter takes on the mantle]] of the deceased [[MadBomber Detonator]], kidnapping people and tying them to explosives with [[SadisticChoice chances to save themselves]] by pressing a detonator to destroy a building that contains information that might incriminate him. His final target is Wayne Tower, uncaring if he kills dozens or hundreds of innocents to escape his punishment.

[[AC:''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'']]
* Season 5: [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Atropos]] is one of the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology three Fates]], alongside her sisters Clotho and Lachesis, with Atropos cutting the threads to end people's lives, something she took pleasure in doing. Relentless in her search for the Loom of Fate after it was dismantled and scattered by Clotho/Charlie, Atropos massacres her way through everything in her path, including Charlie's old punk band; the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' crew; and [[HeroKiller most of the Legends]]. Atropos kills either by stabbing her victims, or showing her true form--which is described as excruciatingly painful--while also being willing to torture her own sister Clotho to make her submit. In order to stall the Legends stranded in London, Atropos summons a ZombieApocalypse to ravage the entirety of Great Britain. The Fates use the Loom to rewrite reality, creating "Loomworld", a world devoid of freewill and choice. Here, Atropos forces her workers to sanitize history's records, while killing people on a whim.

[[AC:''Series/SupermanAndLois'' ([[Characters/SupermanAndLois Unknown Earth]])]]
* Season 1: [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Zeta-Rho]] is the [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] of Tal-Rho and the mastermind behind the Eradicator plot. The [[PsychoEx former husband]] of Lara Lor-Van, Zeta planned to use her Eradicator device to resurrect Krypton via brutal colonization, stealing her Sunstone from Kal-El's rocket in revenge for her leaving him and intent only on destroying it after she witnesses his triumph. Viewing love as a flaw compared to both his vision for Krypton and desire to defeat the House of El, Zeta sent Tal-Rho to Earth and forced him through months of pain to burn away his "weakness", molding him into the perfect herald for the resurrection. Tal, taking the persona of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Morgan Edge]], experimented on countless humans to replace their minds with those of Kryptonians on his father's behalf, even attempting to have Superman overtaken by General Zod. When Edge fails, Zeta forces him through a DeathOfPersonality to become the Eradicator and personally raise their army, with Zeta taking Superman's young son Jordan as his own host. The ultimate culmination of Zeta's machinations are witnessed in John Henry Irons' universe: the near-extermination of humanity, with entire cities razed and countless rebels incinerated by his loyal Kryptonian "subjekts."

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[[caption-width-right:350:"''These girls are ruined. They are a lost cause. I will find better wives. Younger ones, uncorrupted...but first, we must make an example of them.''"]]

Shows are listed by first airdate. Other universes may be found at their respective pages [[Monster/DCSeries here]] or [[Monster/DCFilms here]].

** "[[Recap/ArrowS1E12Vertigo Vertigo]]" & "[[Recap/ArrowS2E7StateVQueen State v. Queen]]": [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer The Count]], real name [[AdaptationalNameChange Cecil Adams]] and also known as Count Vertigo, is a sociopathic drug peddler who seeks to push a new drug, known as [[FantasticDrug Vertigo]], onto the streets of Starling City. The Count kidnaps people to serve as test subjects as he tries to perfect Vertigo. He injects them with the drug, causing them excruciating pain, then offers them a gun with one bullet: [[SadisticChoice they can shoot the Count for revenge, or shoot themselves to end the pain]]. The suicide rate, after nearly thirty victims, is one hundred percent. He also tests the drug [[BadBoss on his own minions]], as well as using it as a weapon. The Count sees the fatalities that result from Vertigo as making the drug even better, comparing it to a wine ripened with age. After breaking out of prison, and helping The Dollmaker escape, the Count poisons vaccines with Vertigo to spread the drug to unsuspecting people. Having accepted an offer from Brother Blood to kill the Arrow, and discovering the vigilante's true identity, the Count takes Felicity Smoak hostage to lure the Arrow, and threatens to kill her with an injection of Vertigo before being killed. A [[AxCrazy deranged sadist]] who considers killing to be "one of life's great pleasures", the Count revels in his crimes, spreading death and misery with a smile on his face.
** "[[Recap/ArrowS3E1TheCalm The Calm]]" & "[[Recap/ArrowS3E13Canaries Canaries]]": [[AdaptationalVillainy Werner Zytle]] proves to be a worthy successor following the death of the original Count Vertigo, taking control of the drug and [[SupernaturalFearInducer modifying it]] to make the user hallucinate [[IKnowWhatYouFear their worst fears]]. He is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] forcing a fellow gang leader to take the drug before killing him and taking control of the other gangs in Starling City. He decides a reasonable way to attempt an assassination on Oliver Queen is by [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill firing a rocket launcher into a restaurant full of people]]. He later tries to kill the remaining gang leaders of Starling City by blowing up the entire stadium they were in; the stadium contained around 20,000 people. In his next appearance, Zytle escapes police custody with the help of a reporter whose family he threatened. He then forces said reporter to try to kill the Arrow via suicide bomb. He then takes several hostages in a drug lab, forces them to make more of the Vertigo drug, and when Team Arrow comes to the rescue, he attempts to burn his hostages alive.
* ''Season 2.5'' official tie-in comic book series: [[Characters/ShazamBlackMarvelFamily Khem-Adam]] is the leader of Onslaught, a group of fanatical, religious terrorists, who took advantage of the [[EvilPowerVacuum power vacuum]] in [[{{Qurac}} Kahndaq]] after the previous dictatorship was overthrown. His main goal is to force his country back into the old, barbaric ways, with women in particular being reduced to nothing more than serving the needs of the men. He has a group of young women forcefully abducted for nothing more than undergoing school education -- after murdering their teacher right in front of their eyes. He is later shown to orchestrate mass executions on any one who dares to oppose his godly quest, and assigning the girls to his men as personal slaves to be beaten and raped. When one of the girls kills her abuser in self-defense and manages to escape, he immediately orders the rest of the group to be executed as an example. [[HeManWomanHater Misogynistic]], cruel, and with a [[KnightTemplar delusional fantasy of carrying out the will of the Old Gods]], Khem-Adam [[EvenEvilHasStandards earns the disgust of even the hardened, criminal members]] of the ComicBook/SuicideSquad, with one member in particular being a former military leader of the overthrown dictatorship.
* Season 3: [[GeneralRipper General Matthew Shrieve]] initially appears as a [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable and helpful]] military officer before being revealed as a callous extremist. Regarding China as an economic threat to the United States, Shrieve intends to use the Omega virus to destabilize the country, [[LackOfEmpathy caring nothing for the lives that would be destroyed by his actions]]. After usurping Amanda Waller as the head of [[Characters/ArrowverseARGUSAndTaskForceX A.R.G.U.S.]], Shrieve sends a squad of soldiers after Oliver and the Yamashiros, including [[WouldHurtAChild young Akio]], to eliminate [[HeKnowsTooMuch potential witnesses]] to his impending crimes. Unleashing the Omega virus on Hong Kong, causing thousands of infections and deaths, Shrieve causes the virus to spread even further by disguising injections of it as a vaccine. When Akio is infected, Oliver and Maseo confront Shrieve for a possible cure. After handing them a supposed cure, Shrieve reveals that it was only insulin for his diabetes, using this as a distraction in an attempt to kill them both. After Akio succumbs to the virus, Shrieve taunts his parents, cruelly laughing in their faces. Although the virus is ultimately prevented from spreading beyond Hong Kong, hundreds, if not thousands suffered its effects, something Shrieve shows no remorse for. Militant and xenophobic, Shrieve, despite his [[KnightTemplar delusions of righteousness]], is ultimately nothing more than a smug mass murderer devoid of conscience.
* Season 4: Lonnie "[[AnarchyIsChaos Anarky]]" Machin is [[AdaptationalVillainy far worse]] than his comic counterpart. A former mob enforcer, Anarky was fired by many organizations for being too unhinged. His attempts to join [[Characters/ArrowverseTheHIVE H.I.V.E.]] have Anarky attempting to murder mayoral candidate Jessica Danforth, and when that fails Anarky instead kidnaps Danforth's daughter, sadistically breaking her fingers. After getting his face burned by Thea Queen, Anarky develops a creepy obsession towards her. Escaping imprisonment, Anarky seeks revenge by killing his foster parents and then targeting [[Characters/ArrowverseDamienDarhk Damien Darhk]] for rejecting him from H.I.V.E.. Anarky kidnaps Darhk's wife, Ruvé, and his daughter, trying to have them tortured. Just before H.I.V.E. carries out [[NukeEm Genesis]] to bombard the world with nuclear weapons, Anarky rampages through Tevat Noah, H.I.V.E.'s sanctuary against the apocalypse, killing multiple guards and Thea's boyfriend, rigging the entire structure to explode, while taking Darhk's family hostage, successfully killing Ruvé. [[Recap/ArrowS5E1Legacy Five months later]], Anarky attempts to detonate a bomb that would destroy at least half of Star City. Motivated only by his sick satisfaction of hurting others, Anarky proves to be one of the most destructive monsters Team Arrow has ever faced.

* Season 2: [[Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon]], aka [[EvilCounterpart Zoom]], is a sociopathic speedster from [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth2 Earth-2]] who was a notorious SerialKiller with a staggering body count both before and after becoming a speedster. Dying from abusing the Velocity drug, Zoom tries to steal the speed of Jay Garrick, the Flash of Earth-3, before taking Jay's identity to [[HopeCrusher create hope so he can crush it]], while imprisoning the real Jay as a trophy. Discovering Earth-1, Zoom sends meta-humans to attack, then gains [[Characters/ArrowverseBarryAllen Barry Allen]]'s trust by pretending to be Jay. In their first confrontation, Zoom breaks Barry's spine and shows him off for the city to see. Zoom also takes Harry Wells's daughter, Jesse, hostage to force Harry into helping him steal the Flash's speed. Once cured, Zoom unleashes an army of meta-humans on Central City for the fun of it, before forcing Barry to watch as he murders Barry's father, Henry. As his endgame, Zoom makes a DoomsdayDevice to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the entire multiverse]], only sparing Earth-1 as his personal domain. A brutal, sadistic maniac devoid of remorse, Zoom remains one of the most monstrous enemies Barry has ever faced.

[[AC:''Series/Supergirl2015'' ([[Characters/ArrowverseEarth38 Earth-38]])]]

* Season 1: [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]] 8, known better as [[DarkActionGirl Indigo]], is a Coluan imprisoned on Krypton for attempting to destroy the Kryptonian people. When [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E15Solitude she introduces herself on Earth]], she turns every light in National City green, causing accidents and endangering hundreds of lives. Soon revealing her darker side, Indigo tries to launch nuclear missiles to destroy National City, planning to wipe out humanity. When defeated, she later teams up with Kara's uncle, Non, and activates [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E19Myriad Project Myriad]] to put humanity into a trance-like state. Indigo then puts her plan a step further into motion: to enhance the power to kill everyone else on Earth and then leave the planet, leaving Kara stranded as "queen of a dead world." Even in [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E20BetterAngels her last moments]], Indigo gloats that she had left Project Myriad impossible to stop, taking comfort that humanity will follow her to the grave.
* Season 2: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Rhea]], the ultimate BigBad of the season, is the queen of Daxam, wife of Lar Gand and [[AbusiveParents mother of Mon-El]]. After escaping Daxam's disaster, Rhea and Lar Gand find Mon-El on Earth and try to get him to join them. When he refused, Rhea blames Kara for it and tries to get her killed by issuing a bounty against her, then tries to kill her herself. Once Lar Gand decides to let Mon-El stay on Earth, Rhea accuses him of "betraying" her and murders him. Returning to Earth, Rhea [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates]] Lena Luthor into creating a transmatter portal for her forces to come through, and starts an invasion to take over the planet and reduce humanity into slavery. To forge a connection with humans, Rhea forces Mon-El and Lena to get married by [[WouldHurtAChild threatening to destroy a hospital full of children]], stating they could rot in a cell for all she cares afterwards. Challenged by Kara in a trial of fight, Rhea [[ILied doesn't honor their agreement]] when she loses and orders her forces to destroy National City, then tells Kara that she will destroy city after city until her whole world is gone. A petty, [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] individual as well as a horrible mother, Rhea's [[NeverMyFault inability to accept any responsibility]] for her actions is what makes her a monster.
* Season 3: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Morgan Edge]], the CEO of Edge Global, is introduced as a self-absorbed and sexist man, but quickly proves himself to be much worse. Having plans for the Waterfront of National City, Edge hires a terrorist for an attack on the underwater foundation of the district, endangering hundreds of people attending a public Supergirl event. After [[Characters/ArrowverseLenaLuthor Lena Luthor]] buys [=CatCo=] from under his nose, Edge shows just how low he is willing to stoop to destroy somebody for a perceived personal slight, by [[WouldHurtAChild poisoning an entire public school full of children]] and then blaming it on Lena's countermeasure against the Daxamite invasion. When Lena confronts him, he has her knocked out and strapped on a remotely controlled plane, carrying more chemicals, which he intends to crash on the city. [[BadBoss Edge]] also shows himself to be completely dismissive of his employee's lives, having two of them killed to protect his reputation after failed assassination attempts on Lena, or even using one of them as a HumanShield at one point. In a world full of superpowered menaces, Morgan Edge still manages to stand out as a despicable human being, only concerned with his own position of power.

[[AC:''Series/TheFlash1990'' ([[Characters/TheFlash1990 Earth-90]])]]
[[folder:Examples]]
* "Pilot" & "Fast Forward": The Flash's ArchEnemy, [[FromNobodyToNightmare Nicholas Pike]], is a former police officer who was disbarred for [[DirtyCop his crooked involvement in criminal activities]], swearing vengeance against Jay Allen for bringing his corruption to light. Forming a biker gang, the "Dark Riders", Pike had his cronies terrorize Central City, torching streets and killing anyone in their way. When one member leaves out of disgust, Pike cruelly kills him by having him dragged on a motorcycle with a bomb and then detonating it. He later murders Jay for revenge. Storming the jail to free his men Barry Allen has arrested, Pike intends to use them to destroy the entire city regardless of any causalities. After being released from prison, Pike returns for vengeance on Barry, firing a heat-seeking missile at him which sends Barry ten years into the future. An utter {{dystopia}} with Pike as {{mayor|Pain}}, he forces citizens to submit to him lest he have them executed or lobotomized if they don't bow down to him. A smug and wicked man motivated only by petty revenge, Pike cements himself as one of the most evil and personal enemies that the Flash has ever faced.
* "Out of Control": [[MadScientist Dr. Carl Tanner]] is an amoral geneticist who ostensibly wants to better world. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist In truth]], to erase the "shame" of having grown up in poverty, Carl intends to perfect a mutative formula to allow him to [[KillThePoor wipe out the homeless "vermin" of the world]], testing his formula on the [[DisposableVagrant vagrants]] of Central City and killing them through agonizing mutation. Lusting after and trying to mutate his former college sweetheart Christina [=McGee=], Tanner eventually uses the formula on himself, [[OneWingedAngel rampaging across Central City in his new monstrous form]] and attempting to massacre the nearest homeless den.
* "Child's Play": [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer Bougart/Beauregarde Lesko]] creates an insidious hallucinogen called "[[FantasticDrug Blue Paradise]]", which becomes rampant in Central City. Creating a powerful physical addition, if users do not regularly take Blue Paradise, they die, much to Lesko's [[LackOfEmpathy apathy]]. When suspected in the drug's production by a reporter, Lesko kills him by blowing up his car to destroy the evidence, also [[WouldHurtAChild trying to murder a teenager who manages to get ahold of it]]. [[KickTheDog Trying to force the teen into addiction to control him]], Lesko also tries to spread his drug over the city via helicopter, not content until he can control the entire population with his drug.
* "The Trickster" & "Trial of the Trickster": [[AdaptationalVillainy James Montgomery Jesse]], better known as "The Trickster", is an [[AxCrazy insane criminal mastermind]] with a penchant for numerous murderous personalities and gimmicks leading to a string of murders over six states. Adopting the persona of the Trickster after he's smitten by private investigator Megan Lockhart -- after failing to saw her in half -- the Trickster [[CopKiller murders the cops]] who try to detain him; leaves an exploding Flash statue in a public square; takes the customers of a novelty shop hostage while murdering one of them for giggles; and attempts to drown Barry Allen in [[StalkerWithACrush his twisted crusade]] to make Megan his criminal sidekick "Prank". Busted out of prison in his second appearance by his twisted fangirl Zoey Clark, the Trickster butchers the host of a talk show and announces his new crime spree, torturing and brainwashing the Flash into his sidekick while causing wanton mayhem throughout Central City and endangering the lives of countless innocents. The Trickster finally tries to hold a "trial" for the city by killing those who prosecuted him after ruling them "guilty against crimes of good taste!" and, even after this is thwarted, [[UngratefulBastard ditches Zoey to the police even after she saves him]]. Zany, witty, and absolutely in love with his own murderous psychosis, Jesse's tricks murdered countless innocent people and cement him as one of the Scarlet Speedster's worst foes.
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!!Post-Crisis

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[[caption-width-right:350:"[[Recap/ArrowS2E3BrokenDolls Everyone loves a pretty doll]]."]]

!!Multiple

* "[[Recap/ArrowS1E12Vertigo Vertigo]]" & "[[Recap/ArrowS2E7StateVQueen State v. Queen]]": [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer The Count]], real name [[AdaptationalNameChange Cecil Adams]] and also known as Count Vertigo, is a sociopathic drug peddler who seeks to push a new drug, known as [[FantasticDrug Vertigo]], onto the streets of Starling City. The Count kidnaps people to serve as test subjects as he tries to perfect Vertigo. He injects them with the drug, causing them excruciating pain, then offers them a gun with one bullet: [[SadisticChoice they can shoot the Count for revenge, or shoot themselves to end the pain]]. The suicide rate, after nearly thirty victims, is one hundred percent. He also tests the drug [[BadBoss on his own minions]], as well as using it as a weapon. The Count sees the fatalities that result from Vertigo as making the drug even better, comparing it to a wine ripened with age. After breaking out of prison, and helping The Dollmaker escape, the Count poisons vaccines with Vertigo to spread the drug to unsuspecting people. Having accepted an offer from Brother Blood to kill the Arrow, and discovering the vigilante's true identity, the Count takes Felicity Smoak hostage to lure the Arrow, and threatens to kill her with an injection of Vertigo before being killed. A [[AxCrazy deranged sadist]] who considers killing to be "one of life's great pleasures", the Count revels in his crimes, spreading death and misery with a smile on his face.
* "[[Recap/ArrowS2E3BrokenDolls Broken Dolls]]": [[SoftSpokenSadist Barton Mathis]], better known as "[[SerialKiller the Dollmaker]]", enjoys targeting young and beautiful women in order to "[[CreepyDoll preserve their beauty]]". After kidnapping his victims, Dollmaker [[CruelAndUnusualDeath brutally murders them by pouring liquid polymer down their throats]] until they drown, before dressing them up as dolls and putting the corpses on display. He had murdered at least eight women with said method before being arrested by Quentin Lance. After escaping from prison thanks to Count Vertigo, Dollmaker continues his killing spree while harboring a grudge against Lance. Planning to make him suffer, Dollmaker murders a young woman while forcing Lance to listen to her screams via a telephone. He also attempts to kidnap and murder Felicity Smoak the same way. Later, Dollmaker kidnaps both Lance and his daughter Laurel and attempts to [[ForcedToWatch force him to watch his daughter die]].
* ''Arrow: Season 2.5'' official tie-in comic book series: [[Characters/ShazamBlackMarvelFamily Khem-Adam]] is the leader of Onslaught, a group of fanatical, religious terrorists, who took advantage of the [[EvilPowerVacuum power vacuum]] in [[{{Qurac}} Kahndaq]] after the previous dictatorship was overthrown. His main goal is to force his country back into the old, barbaric ways, with women in particular being reduced to nothing more than serving the needs of the men. He has a group of young women forcefully abducted for nothing more than undergoing school education -- after murdering their teacher right in front of their eyes. He is later shown to orchestrate mass executions on any one who dares to oppose his godly quest, and assigning the girls to his men as personal slaves to be beaten and raped. When one of the girls kills her abuser in self-defense and manages to escape, he immediately orders the rest of the group to be executed as an example. [[HeManWomanHater Misogynistic]], cruel, and with a [[KnightTemplar delusional fantasy of carrying out the will of the Old Gods]], Khem-Adam [[EvenEvilHasStandards earns the disgust of even the hardened, criminal members]] of the ComicBook/SuicideSquad, with one member in particular being a former military leader of the overthrown dictatorship.
* Season 3:

** Flashback sequences: [[GeneralRipper General Matthew Shrieve]] initially appears as a [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable and helpful]] military officer before being revealed as a callous extremist. Regarding China as an economic threat to the United States, Shrieve intends to use the Omega virus to destabilize the country, [[LackOfEmpathy caring nothing for the lives that would be destroyed by his actions]]. After usurping Amanda Waller as the head of [[Characters/ArrowverseARGUSAndTaskForceX A.R.G.U.S.]], Shrieve sends a squad of soldiers after Oliver and the Yamashiros, including [[WouldHurtAChild young Akio]], to eliminate [[HeKnowsTooMuch potential witnesses]] to his impending crimes. Unleashing the Omega virus on Hong Kong, causing thousands of infections and deaths, Shrieve causes the virus to spread even further by disguising injections of it as a vaccine. When Akio is infected, Oliver and Maseo confront Shrieve for a possible cure. After handing them a supposed cure, Shrieve reveals that it was only insulin for his diabetes, using this as a distraction in an attempt to kill them both. After Akio succumbs to the virus, Shrieve taunts his parents, cruelly laughing in their faces. Although the virus is ultimately prevented from spreading beyond Hong Kong, hundreds, if not thousands suffered its effects, something Shrieve shows no remorse for. Militant and xenophobic, Shrieve, despite his [[KnightTemplar delusions of righteousness]], is ultimately nothing more than a smug mass murderer devoid of conscience.
* Season 4: Lonnie "[[AnarchyIsChaos Anarky]]" Machin is [[AdaptationalVillainy far worse]] than his comic counterpart. A former mob enforcer, Anarky was fired by many organizations for being too unhinged. His attempts to join [[Characters/ArrowverseTheHIVE H.I.V.E.]] have Anarky attempting to murder mayoral candidate Jessica Danforth, and when that fails Anarky instead kidnaps Danforth's daughter, sadistically breaking her fingers. After getting his face burned by Thea Queen, Anarky develops a creepy obsession towards her. Escaping imprisonment, Anarky seeks revenge by killing his foster parents and then targeting [[Characters/ArrowverseDamienDarhk Damien Darhk]] for rejecting him from H.I.V.E.. Anarky kidnaps Darhk's wife, Ruvé, and his daughter, trying to have them tortured. Just before H.I.V.E. carries out [[NukeEm Genesis]] to bombard the world with nuclear weapons, Anarky rampages through Tevat Noah, H.I.V.E.'s sanctuary against the apocalypse, killing multiple guards and Thea's boyfriend, rigging the entire structure to explode, while taking Darhk's family hostage, successfully killing Ruvé. Five months later, Anarky attempts to detonate a bomb that would destroy at least half of Star City. Motivated only by his sick satisfaction of hurting others, Anarky proves to be one of the most destructive monsters Team Arrow has ever faced.

* "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E17Tricksters Tricksters]]" & "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S2E9RunningToStandStill Running to Stand Still]]": [[AdaptationalVillainy The Trickster]], real name James Jesse, is a bloodthirsty [[TerroristsWithoutACause terrorist]] with a flair for the dramatic and the [[PsychopathicManchild personality of a deranged child]]. After a killing spree that landed him in prison, the Trickster is [[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E17Tricksters introduced]] by breaking free from prison with the help of his son Axel, who he manipulated and groomed into becoming as dangerous a psychopath as him. With his help, the Trickster takes Henry Allen hostage and tries to have him impaled with knives while also poisoning the guests at a party so he can blackmail them into giving him money, with one guest dying as a demonstration. During his [[Recap/TheFlash2014S2E9RunningToStandStill second appearance]], the Trickster uncaringly abandons Axel and teams up with Mark Mardon[=/=]Weather Wizard for a chance to kill the Flash. And to do so, he disguises himself as a mall Santa and distributes over a hundred gift-disguised bombs to children, and forces the Flash to let Mardon torture him to death on threat of detonating the bombs and killing the children and their families.

* Season 3: [[AncientEvil Mallus]] is a primordial demon who desired to break apart the timestream. He was opposed by the Zambesi people, who used the mystical Totems to seal him away outside time. Unable to directly influence reality while trapped inside his prison, Mallus instead recruited followers, including [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Nora Darhk as a vessel, and had his cult kill numerous London civilians to collect enough blood for a ritual to resurrect [[Characters/ArrowverseDamienDarhk Damien Darhk]]. Mallus also had his cult cause temporal anomalies throughout history to fracture time and break his prison. Becoming fascinated by [[Characters/ArrowverseSaraLance Sara Lance]] due to her tie with death, Mallus is determined to make her into a follower to wield the Death Totem, successfully possessing Sara and having her rampage across the Waverider. Taking great glee in MindRape and psychological tormenting the Legends, Mallus revealed his end goal was to subject all of reality to "unendurable pain" and [[OmnicidalManiac eradicate all of existence]], marking his return by attempting to destroy Zambesi village.

* Season 2:
** "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E4Survivors Survivors]]" & "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E9SupergirlLives Supergirl Lives]]": [[DragonLady Veronica "Roulette" Sinclair]] is a ringmaster who organized an underground fight club in National City, commanding aliens to [[ForcedPrizeFight fight to the death for money]] to entertain rich people, including herself. In [[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E4Survivors her first appearance]], when J'onn and M'gann refuse to fight, Roulette releases Draaga to try to kill them both, but gets arrested. Upon [[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E9SupergirlLives being freed due to her connections]], Roulette, with the help of an alien doctor, plans to sell humans in a slave market on Maaldoria in exchange for a large amount of diamonds. Utterly apathetic to aliens and human beings alike, Roulette is a RichBitch who has no qualms against making quick money at the expense of others.
** [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Rhea]], the ultimate BigBad of the season, is the queen of Daxam, wife of Lar Gand and [[AbusiveParents mother of Mon-El]]. After escaping Daxam's disaster, Rhea and Lar Gand find Mon-El on Earth and try to get him to join them. When he refused, Rhea blames Kara for it and tries to get her killed by issuing a bounty against her, then tries to kill her herself. Once Lar Gand decides to let Mon-El stay on Earth, Rhea accuses him of "betraying" her and murders him. Returning to Earth, Rhea [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates]] Lena Luthor into creating a transmatter portal for her forces to come through, and starts an invasion to take over the planet and reduce humanity into slavery. To forge a connection with humans, Rhea forces Mon-El and Lena to get married by [[WouldHurtAChild threatening to destroy a hospital full of children]], stating they could rot in a cell for all she cares afterwards. Challenged by Kara in a trial of fight, Rhea [[ILied doesn't honor their agreement]] when she loses and orders her forces to destroy National City, then tells Kara that she will destroy city after city until her whole world is gone. A petty, [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] individual as well as a horrible mother, Rhea's [[NeverMyFault inability to accept any responsibility]] for her actions is what makes her a monster.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Everyone loves a pretty doll."]]

* Season 4: Lonnie "[[AnarchyIsChaos Anarky]]" Machin is [[AdaptationalVillainy far worse]] than his comic counterpart. A former mob enforcer, Anarky was fired by many organizations for being too unhinged. His attempts to join [[Characters/ArrowverseTheHIVE H.I.V.E.]] have Anarky attempting to murder mayoral candidate Jessica Danforth, and when that fails Anarky instead kidnaps Danforth's daughter, sadistically breaking her fingers. After getting his face burned by Thea Queen, Anarky develops a creepy obsession towards her. Escaping imprisonment, Anarky seeks revenge by killing his foster parents and then targeting [[Characters/ArrowverseDamienDarhk Damien Darhk]] for rejecting him from H.I.V.E.. Anarky kidnaps Darhk's wife, Ruvé, and his daughter, trying to have them tortured. Just before H.I.V.E. carries out [[NukeEm Genesis]] to bombard the world with nuclear weapons, Anarky rampages through Tevat Noah, H.I.V.E.'s sanctuary against the apocalypse, killing multiple guards and Thea's boyfriend, rigging the entire structure to explode, while taking Darhk's family hostage, successfully killing Ruvé. Five months later, Anarky attempts to detonate a bomb that would destroy at least half of Star City. Motivated only by his sick satisfaction of hurting others, Anarky proves to be one of the most destructive monsters Team Arrow has ever faced.

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* "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E4WhiteKnights White Knights]]" & "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E5FailSafe Fail Safe]]": [[TheSocialDarwinist Valentina Vostok]] is a Soviet physicist [[Characters/ArrowverseVandalSavageAndFollowers allied with Vandal Savage]], who leads "Operation Svarog" to create a Soviet [[Characters/ArrowverseFirestorm Firestorm]] to use against America in the Cold War. To do so, Vostok spent years experimenting on humans, resulting in countless casualties from failed experiments. After discovering Martin Stein possessed knowledge about the Firestorm project, Vostok has his friends kidnapped and thrown into a Soviet gulag. Using various methods to interrogate Stein, including a drug that causes excruciating pain, Stein finally talks upon being ForcedToWatch his teammates being tortured. Upon finding out Stein himself is one half of Firestorm, Vostok decides to forcibly fuse herself with him to become a new Firestorm, where she manically fire-balls others. In a BadFuture, she creates an army of Firestorms which wipes out nearly every country by the 21st century, content with her own country being destroyed so it can be rebuilt stronger.

* Season 3: [[TheDreaded Mallus]] is an [[AncientEvil ancient demon]] who attempted to break apart the timestream, at which point he was {{sealed|Evil In A Can}} by the Zambesi people to stop him. Reaching out from his prison, Mallus attempts to inspire enough fractures in time to free himself, promising to torture all humankind to death while [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Nora Dahrk. Achieving his freedom, Mallus intends to [[OmnicidalManiac eradicate all time and reality]], first trying to destroy the Zambesi and torture the Legends for his own satisfaction.

* "[[Recap/ConstantineS1E13WaitingForTheMan Waiting for the Man]]": "[[{{Necromancer}} The Man]]" is introduced as a Satanic [[CorruptHick redneck]] who abducted three little girls and [[WouldHurtAChild murdered them]], afterwards raising their spirits to make them his mindlessly devoted "brides". He sends them off to find another bride for him, and while waiting for them to return he brutally tortures and murders a bypassing, helpful man in a ritualistic way, for seemingly no other reason than being near him at the wrong time. It is revealed that "The Man" also murdered his real wife six years ago as a [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] for Satan. Later, John and his crew arrive in the nick of time, just before "The Man" was going to subject the fourth girl to the same horrific fate his three brides suffered. "The Man" is such a despicable individual that John Constantine and Jim Corrigan decide to outright [[PayEvilUntoEvil murder him]] instead of just having him face the law.

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'':
** "[[Recap/ArrowS1E12Vertigo Vertigo]]" & "[[Recap/ArrowS2E7StateVQueen State v. Queen]]": [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer The Count]], real name [[AdaptationalNameChange Cecil Adams]] and also known as Count Vertigo, is a sociopathic drug peddler who seeks to push a new drug, known as [[FantasticDrug Vertigo]], onto the streets of Starling City. The Count kidnaps people to serve as test subjects as he tries to perfect Vertigo. He injects them with the drug, causing them excruciating pain, then offers them a gun with one bullet: [[SadisticChoice they can shoot the Count for revenge, or shoot themselves to end the pain]]. The suicide rate, after nearly thirty victims, is one hundred percent. He also tests the drug [[BadBoss on his own minions]], as well as using it as a weapon. The Count sees the fatalities that result from Vertigo as making the drug even better, comparing it to a wine ripened with age. After breaking out of prison, and helping The Dollmaker escape, the Count poisons vaccines with Vertigo to spread the drug to unsuspecting people. Having accepted an offer from Brother Blood to kill the Arrow, and discovering the vigilante's true identity, the Count takes Felicity Smoak hostage to lure the Arrow, and threatens to kill her with an injection of Vertigo before being killed. A [[AxCrazy deranged sadist]] who considers killing to be "one of life's great pleasures", the Count revels in his crimes, spreading death and misery with a smile on his face.
** "[[Recap/ArrowS2E3BrokenDolls Broken Dolls]]": [[SoftSpokenSadist Barton Mathis]], better known as "[[SerialKiller the Dollmaker]]", enjoys targeting young and beautiful women in order to "[[CreepyDoll preserve their beauty]]". After kidnapping his victims, Dollmaker [[CruelAndUnusualDeath brutally murders them by pouring liquid polymer down their throats]] until they drown, before dressing them up as dolls and putting the corpses on display. He had murdered at least eight women with said method before being arrested by Quentin Lance. After escaping from prison thanks to Count Vertigo, Dollmaker continues his killing spree while harboring a grudge against Lance. Planning to make him suffer, Dollmaker murders a young woman while forcing Lance to listen to her screams via a telephone. He also attempts to kidnap and murder Felicity Smoak the same way. Later, Dollmaker kidnaps both Lance and his daughter Laurel and attempts to [[ForcedToWatch force him to watch his daughter die]].
** ''Arrow: Season 2.5'' official tie-in comic book series: [[Characters/ShazamBlackMarvelFamily Khem-Adam]] is the leader of Onslaught, a group of fanatical, religious terrorists, who took advantage of the [[EvilPowerVacuum power vacuum]] in [[{{Qurac}} Kahndaq]] after the previous dictatorship was overthrown. His main goal is to force his country back into the old, barbaric ways, with women in particular being reduced to nothing more than serving the needs of the men. He has a group of young women forcefully abducted for nothing more than undergoing school education -- after murdering their teacher right in front of their eyes. He is later shown to orchestrate mass executions on any one who dares to oppose his godly quest, and assigning the girls to his men as personal slaves to be beaten and raped. When one of the girls kills her abuser in self-defense and manages to escape, he immediately orders the rest of the group to be executed as an example. [[HeManWomanHater Misogynistic]], cruel, and with a [[KnightTemplar delusional fantasy of carrying out the will of the Old Gods]], Khem-Adam [[EvenEvilHasStandards earns the disgust of even the hardened, criminal members]] of the ComicBook/SuicideSquad, with one member in particular being a former military leader of the overthrown dictatorship.
** Season 3:
*** "[[Recap/ArrowS3E1TheCalm The Calm]]" & "[[Recap/ArrowS3E13Canaries Canaries]]": [[AdaptationalVillainy Werner Zytle]] proves to be a worthy successor following the death of the original Count Vertigo, taking control of the drug and [[SupernaturalFearInducer modifying it]] to make the user hallucinate [[IKnowWhatYouFear their worst fears]]. He is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] forcing a fellow gang leader to take the drug before killing him and taking control of the other gangs in Starling City. He decides a reasonable way to attempt an assassination on Oliver Queen is by [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill firing a rocket launcher into a restaurant full of people]]. He later tries to kill the remaining gang leaders of Starling City by blowing up the entire stadium they were in; the stadium contained around 20,000 people. In his next appearance, Zytle escapes police custody with the help of a reporter whose family he threatened. He then forces said reporter to try to kill the Arrow via suicide bomb. He then takes several hostages in a drug lab, forces them to make more of the Vertigo drug, and when Team Arrow comes to the rescue, he attempts to burn his hostages alive.
*** Flashback sequences: [[GeneralRipper General Matthew Shrieve]] initially appears as a [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable and helpful]] military officer before being revealed as a callous extremist. Regarding China as an economic threat to the United States, Shrieve intends to use the Omega virus to destabilize the country, [[LackOfEmpathy caring nothing for the lives that would be destroyed by his actions]]. After usurping Amanda Waller as the head of [[Characters/ArrowverseARGUSAndTaskForceX A.R.G.U.S.]], Shrieve sends a squad of soldiers after Oliver and the Yamashiros, including [[WouldHurtAChild young Akio]], to eliminate [[HeKnowsTooMuch potential witnesses]] to his impending crimes. Unleashing the Omega virus on Hong Kong, causing thousands of infections and deaths, Shrieve causes the virus to spread even further by disguising injections of it as a vaccine. When Akio is infected, Oliver and Maseo confront Shrieve for a possible cure. After handing them a supposed cure, Shrieve reveals that it was only insulin for his diabetes, using this as a distraction in an attempt to kill them both. After Akio succumbs to the virus, Shrieve taunts his parents, cruelly laughing in their faces. Although the virus is ultimately prevented from spreading beyond Hong Kong, hundreds, if not thousands suffered its effects, something Shrieve shows no remorse for. Militant and xenophobic, Shrieve, despite his [[KnightTemplar delusions of righteousness]], is ultimately nothing more than a smug mass murderer devoid of conscience.
** Season 4: Lonnie "[[AnarchyIsChaos Anarky]]" Machin is [[AdaptationalVillainy far worse]] than his comic counterpart. A former mob enforcer, Anarky was fired by many organizations for being too unhinged. His attempts to join [[Characters/ArrowverseTheHIVE H.I.V.E.]] have Anarky attempting to murder mayoral candidate Jessica Danforth, and when that fails Anarky instead kidnaps Danforth's daughter, sadistically breaking her fingers. After getting his face burned by Thea Queen, Anarky develops a creepy obsession towards her. Escaping imprisonment, Anarky seeks revenge by killing his foster parents and then targeting [[Characters/ArrowverseDamienDarhk Damien Darhk]] for rejecting him from H.I.V.E.. Anarky kidnaps Darhk's wife, Ruvé, and his daughter, trying to have them tortured. Just before H.I.V.E. carries out [[NukeEm Genesis]] to bombard the world with nuclear weapons, Anarky rampages through Tevat Noah, H.I.V.E.'s sanctuary against the apocalypse, killing multiple guards and Thea's boyfriend, rigging the entire structure to explode, while taking Darhk's family hostage, successfully killing Ruvé. Five months later, Anarky attempts to detonate a bomb that would destroy at least half of Star City. Motivated only by his sick satisfaction of hurting others, Anarky proves to be one of the most destructive monsters Team Arrow has ever faced.
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'':
** "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E17Tricksters Tricksters]]" & "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S2E9RunningToStandStill Running to Stand Still]]": [[AdaptationalVillainy The Trickster]], real name James Jesse, is a bloodthirsty [[TerroristsWithoutACause terrorist]] with a flair for the dramatic and the [[PsychopathicManchild personality of a deranged child]]. After a killing spree that landed him in prison, the Trickster is [[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E17Tricksters introduced]] by breaking free from prison with the help of his son Axel, who he manipulated and groomed into becoming as dangerous a psychopath as him. With his help, the Trickster takes Henry Allen hostage and tries to have him impaled with knives while also poisoning the guests at a party so he can blackmail them into giving him money, with one guest dying as a demonstration. During his [[Recap/TheFlash2014S2E9RunningToStandStill second appearance]], the Trickster uncaringly abandons Axel and teams up with Mark Mardon[=/=]Weather Wizard for a chance to kill the Flash. And to do so, he disguises himself as a mall Santa and distributes over a hundred gift-disguised bombs to children, and forces the Flash to let Mardon torture him to death on threat of detonating the bombs and killing the children and their families.
** Season 2: [[Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon]], aka [[EvilCounterpart Zoom]], is a sociopathic speedster from [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth2 Earth-2]] who was a notorious SerialKiller with a staggering body count both before and after becoming a speedster. Dying from abusing the Velocity drug, Zoom tries to steal the speed of Jay Garrick, the Flash of Earth-3, before taking Jay's identity to [[HopeCrusher create hope so he can crush it]], while imprisoning the real Jay as a trophy. Discovering Earth-1, Zoom sends meta-humans to attack, then gains [[Characters/ArrowverseBarryAllen Barry Allen]]'s trust by pretending to be Jay. In their first confrontation, Zoom breaks Barry's spine and shows him off for the city to see. Zoom also takes Harry Wells's daughter, Jesse, hostage to force Harry into helping him steal the Flash's speed. Once cured, Zoom unleashes an army of meta-humans on Central City for the fun of it, before forcing Barry to watch as he murders Barry's father, Henry. As his endgame, Zoom makes a DoomsdayDevice to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the entire multiverse]], only sparing Earth-1 as his personal domain. A brutal, sadistic maniac devoid of remorse, Zoom remains one of the most monstrous enemies Barry has ever faced.
* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'':
** "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E4WhiteKnights White Knights]]" & "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E5FailSafe Fail Safe]]": [[TheSocialDarwinist Valentina Vostok]] is a Soviet physicist [[Characters/ArrowverseVandalSavageAndFollowers allied with Vandal Savage]], who leads "Operation Svarog" to create a Soviet [[Characters/ArrowverseFirestorm Firestorm]] to use against America in the Cold War. To do so, Vostok spent years experimenting on humans, resulting in countless casualties from failed experiments. After discovering Martin Stein possessed knowledge about the Firestorm project, Vostok has his friends kidnapped and thrown into a Soviet gulag. Using various methods to interrogate Stein, including a drug that causes excruciating pain, Stein finally talks upon being ForcedToWatch his teammates being tortured. Upon finding out Stein himself is one half of Firestorm, Vostok decides to forcibly fuse herself with him to become a new Firestorm, where she manically fire-balls others. In a BadFuture, she creates an army of Firestorms which wipes out nearly every country by the 21st century, content with her own country being destroyed so it can be rebuilt stronger.
** "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E6OutlawCountry Outlaw Country]]": [[{{Outlaw}} Quentin Turnbull]] is the ruthless ArchEnemy of Jonah Hex. After the town of Calvert rebelled against him for extorting taxes from them, Turnbull trapped the entire town's population in a church, including women and children, and then [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E11TheMagnificentEight burned it down with everyone inside]]. Using dwarf star alloy from a time pirate he murders, Turnbull creates powerful bullets and takes over the town of Salvation, before forcing its civilians to work in the mines. He also intended to conquer enough towns to form his own country, which comes to pass in a BadFuture where he takes over the entire western half of the United States, renaming it "Turnbull Country", a [[AnarchoTyranny lawless country where the only authority is himself]].
** Season 3: [[TheDreaded Mallus]] is an [[AncientEvil ancient demon]] who attempted to break apart the timestream, at which point he was {{sealed|Evil In A Can}} by the Zambesi people to stop him. Reaching out from his prison, Mallus attempts to inspire enough fractures in time to free himself, promising to torture all humankind to death while [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Nora Dahrk. Achieving his freedom, Mallus intends to [[OmnicidalManiac eradicate all time and reality]], first trying to destroy the Zambesi and torture the Legends for his own satisfaction.
* ''Series/Constantine2014'':
** "[[Recap/ConstantineS1E11AWholeWorldOutThere A Whole World Out There]]": [[SerialKiller Jacob Shaw]] evaded punishment after getting caught by transferring his mind from his body to a PocketDimension found during his occult studies, where he essentially became a god-like RealityWarper, able to live out his sick fantasies as much as he wanted. When a group of teenagers accidentally trespasses into his realm, he takes this as an opportunity to live out his sadistic pleasure even more. He starts hunting the teenagers in the real world by appearing on reflective surfaces, driving them nearly insane, and then brutally killing 3 out of 4 via impaling, dismembering with a knife, and suffocation. Afterwards, he keeps the souls of the deceased in his realm, where he keeps on torturing them and tells them that they will experience a never-ending circle of [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame getting hunted down and killed]] by him, all [[ForTheEvulz just because he enjoys it]].
** "[[Recap/ConstantineS1E13WaitingForTheMan Waiting for the Man]]": "[[{{Necromancer}} The Man]]" is introduced as a Satanic [[CorruptHick redneck]] who abducted three little girls and [[WouldHurtAChild murdered them]], afterwards raising their spirits to make them his mindlessly devoted "brides". He sends them off to find another bride for him, and while waiting for them to return he brutally tortures and murders a bypassing, helpful man in a ritualistic way, for seemingly no other reason than being near him at the wrong time. It is revealed that "The Man" also murdered his real wife six years ago as a [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] for Satan. Later, John and his crew arrive in the nick of time, just before "The Man" was going to subject the fourth girl to the same horrific fate his three brides suffered. "The Man" is such a despicable individual that John Constantine and Jim Corrigan decide to outright [[PayEvilUntoEvil murder him]] instead of just having him face the law.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Vixen}}'': [[ScaryBlackMan Benatu Eshu]] is a ruthless Zambesi warlord and season 2's BigBad. Desiring the Totems of Zambesi, Eshu led a raid on [[TheHero Mari]]'s village when she was an infant, massacring scores of innocents, upon learning that the village possessed the Anansi Amulet; among those killed was [[YouKilledMyFather Mari's father]], who Eshu callously executed when he attempted to stand against the [[AxCrazy madman]]. In the present, Eshu arrives in Detroit under the guise of an ambassador and continues his quests to find the totems. To achieve his goals, Eshu bribes a thief into stealing the Fire Totem for him, then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness promptly kills the man once he's no longer of any use]]. With the Fire Totem in his possession, Eshu attempts to kill Mari to steal the Anansi Amulet. Failing in this, Eshu goes on a city-wide rampage in a fit of homicidal rage, [[PlayingWithFire burning down]] a massive portion of Detroit in an effort to draw Mari out. When Mari and her allies attempt to stop him, Eshu incinerates Mari's sister Kuasa right before her eyes before trying to kill Mari herself. Even when [[BroughtDownToBadass he is stripped of the power of the Fire Totem]], Eshu continues his attempt to murder Mari in order to steal her amulet and harness its powers for his own purposes.
* ''Series/Supergirl2015'' ([[Characters/ArrowverseEarth38 Earth-38]]):
** Season 1: [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]] 8, known better as [[DarkActionGirl Indigo]], is a Coluan imprisoned on Krypton for attempting to destroy the Kryptonian people. When [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E15Solitude she introduces herself on Earth]], she turns every light in National City green, causing accidents and endangering hundreds of lives. Soon revealing her darker side, Indigo tries to launch nuclear missiles to destroy National City, planning to wipe out humanity. When defeated, she later teams up with Kara's uncle, Non, and activates [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E19Myriad Project Myriad]] to put humanity into a trance-like state. Indigo then puts her plan a step further into motion: to enhance the power to kill everyone else on Earth and then leave the planet, leaving Kara stranded as "queen of a dead world." Even in [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E20BetterAngels her last moments]], Indigo gloats that she had left Project Myriad impossible to stop, taking comfort that humanity will follow her to the grave.
** Season 2:
*** "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E4Survivors Survivors]]" & "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E9SupergirlLives Supergirl Lives]]": [[DragonLady Veronica "Roulette" Sinclair]] is a ringmaster who organized an underground fight club in National City, commanding aliens to [[ForcedPrizeFight fight to the death for money]] to entertain rich people, including herself. In [[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E4Survivors her first appearance]], when J'onn and M'gann refuse to fight, Roulette releases Draaga to try to kill them both, but gets arrested. Upon [[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E9SupergirlLives being freed due to her connections]], Roulette, with the help of an alien doctor, plans to sell humans in a slave market on Maaldoria in exchange for a large amount of diamonds. Utterly apathetic to aliens and human beings alike, Roulette is a RichBitch who has no qualms against making quick money at the expense of others.
*** [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Rhea]], the ultimate BigBad of the season, is the queen of Daxam, wife of Lar Gand and [[AbusiveParents mother of Mon-El]]. After escaping Daxam's disaster, Rhea and Lar Gand find Mon-El on Earth and try to get him to join them. When he refused, Rhea blames Kara for it and tries to get her killed by issuing a bounty against her, then tries to kill her herself. Once Lar Gand decides to let Mon-El stay on Earth, Rhea accuses him of "betraying" her and murders him. Returning to Earth, Rhea [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates]] Lena Luthor into creating a transmatter portal for her forces to come through, and starts an invasion to take over the planet and reduce humanity into slavery. To forge a connection with humans, Rhea forces Mon-El and Lena to get married by [[WouldHurtAChild threatening to destroy a hospital full of children]], stating they could rot in a cell for all she cares afterwards. Challenged by Kara in a trial of fight, Rhea [[ILied doesn't honor their agreement]] when she loses and orders her forces to destroy National City, then tells Kara that she will destroy city after city until her whole world is gone. A petty, [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] individual as well as a horrible mother, Rhea's [[NeverMyFault inability to accept any responsibility]] for her actions is what makes her a monster.
** Season 3: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Morgan Edge]], the CEO of Edge Global, is introduced as a self-absorbed and sexist man, but quickly proves himself to be much worse. Having plans for the Waterfront of National City, Edge hires a terrorist for an attack on the underwater foundation of the district, endangering hundreds of people attending a public Supergirl event. After [[Characters/ArrowverseLenaLuthor Lena Luthor]] buys [=CatCo=] from under his nose, Edge shows just how low he is willing to stoop to destroy somebody for a perceived personal slight, by [[WouldHurtAChild poisoning an entire public school full of children]] and then blaming it on Lena's countermeasure against the Daxamite invasion. When Lena confronts him, he has her knocked out and strapped on a remotely controlled plane, carrying more chemicals, which he intends to crash on the city. [[BadBoss Edge]] also shows himself to be completely dismissive of his employee's lives, having two of them killed to protect his reputation after failed assassination attempts on Lena, or even using one of them as a HumanShield at one point. In a world full of superpowered menaces, Morgan Edge still manages to stand out as a despicable human being, only concerned with his own position of power.
* ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' ("Earth-BL"): This series is not subtle about its villains, especially these two [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain vile racists]]:
** Season 1: [[SmugSnake Martin Proctor]] is the man in charge of the Freeland operations of the sinister ASA. Repackaging a dangerous vaccine as a [[FantasticDrug drug]] to circulate within his city to create an army of superpowered pawns, Proctor's plans lead to an epidemic of death while he takes the survivors in for [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]]. Forcing his rival Gambi into surrendering to him by holding a crowd at gunpoint, Proctor expresses sadistic disappointment at Gambi's surrender forcing him to spare their lives. Seeking to ruin hero [[Characters/ArrowversePierceFamily Jefferson Pierce]]'s reputation, Proctor allows his men to kill any in their way as they please and when his plans fall apart, aims to take the surviving teens from his experiments with him to continue his abominable operations on.
** Seasons 2 & 4: [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahuman]] with the power to control minds who [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaves]] the white population of South Freeland as her "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves hunt down and lynch the town's black population and stops at nothing to hunt down the children of a Sange to ensnare them in her racist, subservient {{cult}}.
* ''Series/TheFlash1990'' ([[Characters/TheFlash1990 Earth-90]]):
** "Pilot" & "Fast Forward": The Flash's ArchEnemy, [[FromNobodyToNightmare Nicholas Pike]], is a former police officer who was disbarred for [[DirtyCop his crooked involvement in criminal activities]], swearing vengeance against Jay Allen for bringing his corruption to light. Forming a biker gang, the "Dark Riders", Pike had his cronies terrorize Central City, torching streets and killing anyone in their way. When one member leaves out of disgust, Pike cruelly kills him by having him dragged on a motorcycle with a bomb and then detonating it. He later murders Jay for revenge. Storming the jail to free his men Barry Allen has arrested, Pike intends to use them to destroy the entire city regardless of any causalities. After being released from prison, Pike returns for vengeance on Barry, firing a heat-seeking missile at him which sends Barry ten years into the future. An utter {{dystopia}} with Pike as {{mayor|Pain}}, he forces citizens to submit to him lest he have them executed or lobotomized if they don't bow down to him. A smug and wicked man motivated only by petty revenge, Pike cements himself as one of the most evil and personal enemies that the Flash has ever faced.
** "Out of Control": [[MadScientist Dr. Carl Tanner]] is an amoral geneticist who ostensibly wants to better world. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist In truth]], to erase the "shame" of having grown up in poverty, Carl intends to perfect a mutative formula to allow him to [[KillThePoor wipe out the homeless "vermin" of the world]], testing his formula on the [[DisposableVagrant vagrants]] of Central City and killing them through agonizing mutation. Lusting after and trying to mutate his former college sweetheart Christina [=McGee=], Tanner eventually uses the formula on himself, [[OneWingedAngel rampaging across Central City in his new monstrous form]] and attempting to massacre the nearest homeless den.
** "Child's Play": [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer Bougart/Beauregarde Lesko]] creates an insidious hallucinogen called "[[FantasticDrug Blue Paradise]]", which becomes rampant in Central City. Creating a powerful physical addition, if users do not regularly take Blue Paradise, they die, much to Lesko's [[LackOfEmpathy apathy]]. When suspected in the drug's production by a reporter, Lesko kills him by blowing up his car to destroy the evidence, also [[WouldHurtAChild trying to murder a teenager who manages to get ahold of it]]. [[KickTheDog Trying to force the teen into addiction to control him]], Lesko also tries to spread his drug over the city via helicopter, not content until he can control the entire population with his drug.
** "The Trickster" & "Trial of the Trickster": [[AdaptationalVillainy James Montgomery Jesse]], better known as "The Trickster", is an [[AxCrazy insane criminal mastermind]] with a penchant for numerous murderous personalities and gimmicks leading to a string of murders over six states. Adopting the persona of the Trickster after he's smitten by private investigator Megan Lockhart -- after failing to saw her in half -- the Trickster [[CopKiller murders the cops]] who try to detain him; leaves an exploding Flash statue in a public square; takes the customers of a novelty shop hostage while murdering one of them for giggles; and attempts to drown Barry Allen in [[StalkerWithACrush his twisted crusade]] to make Megan his criminal sidekick "Prank". Busted out of prison in his second appearance by his twisted fangirl Zoey Clark, the Trickster butchers the host of a talk show and announces his new crime spree, torturing and brainwashing the Flash into his sidekick while causing wanton mayhem throughout Central City and endangering the lives of countless innocents. The Trickster finally tries to hold a "trial" for the city by killing those who prosecuted him after ruling them "guilty against crimes of good taste!" and, even after this is thwarted, [[UngratefulBastard ditches Zoey to the police even after she saves him]]. Zany, witty, and absolutely in love with his own murderous psychosis, Jesse's tricks murdered countless innocent people and cement him as one of the Scarlet Speedster's worst foes.

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* ''Series/Batwoman2019'' season 1: [[KillerCop Miguel Robles]], a corrupt member of the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Crows]], is also the murderer of Lucius Fox. Having accidentally shot Fox when sent to beat him for his journal, Robles attempts to cover his tracks by sending assassins after those who can expose him. When this fails, Robles [[LegacyCharacter takes on the mantle]] of the deceased [[MadBomber Detonator]], kidnapping people and tying them to explosives with [[SadisticChoice chances to save themselves]] by pressing a detonator to destroy a building that contains information that might incriminate him. His final target is Wayne Tower, uncaring if he kills dozens or hundreds of innocents to escape his punishment.
* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' season 5: [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Atropos]] is one of the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology three Fates]], alongside her sisters Clotho and Lachesis, with Atropos cutting the threads to end people's lives, something she took pleasure in doing. Relentless in her search for the Loom of Fate after it was dismantled and scattered by Clotho/Charlie, Atropos massacres her way through everything in her path, including Charlie's old punk band; the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' crew; and [[HeroKiller most of the Legends]]. Atropos kills either by stabbing her victims, or showing her true form--which is described as excruciatingly painful--while also being willing to torture her own sister Clotho to make her submit. In order to stall the Legends stranded in London, Atropos summons a ZombieApocalypse to ravage the entirety of Great Britain. The Fates use the Loom to rewrite reality, creating "Loomworld", a world devoid of freewill and choice. Here, Atropos forces her workers to sanitize history's records, while killing people on a whim.

** "[[Recap/ArrowS3E1TheCalm The Calm]]" & "[[Recap/ArrowS3E13Canaries Canaries]]": [[AdaptationalVillainy Werner Zytle]] proves to be a worthy successor following the death of the original Count Vertigo, taking control of the drug and [[SupernaturalFearInducer modifying it]] to make the user hallucinate [[IKnowWhatYouFear their worst fears]]. He is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] forcing a fellow gang leader to take the drug before killing him and taking control of the other gangs in Starling City. He decides a reasonable way to attempt an assassination on Oliver Queen is by [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill firing a rocket launcher into a restaurant full of people]]. He later tries to kill the remaining gang leaders of Starling City by blowing up the entire stadium they were in; the stadium contained around 20,000 people. In his next appearance, Zytle escapes police custody with the help of a reporter whose family he threatened. He then forces said reporter to try to kill the Arrow via suicide bomb. He then takes several hostages in a drug lab, forces them to make more of the Vertigo drug, and when Team Arrow comes to the rescue, he attempts to burn his hostages alive.
** Season 3's flashback sequences: [[GeneralRipper General Matthew Shrieve]] initially appears as a [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable and helpful]] military officer before being revealed as a callous extremist. Regarding China as an economic threat to the United States, Shrieve intends to use the Omega virus to destabilize the country, [[LackOfEmpathy caring nothing for the lives that would be destroyed by his actions]]. After usurping Amanda Waller as the head of [[Characters/ArrowverseARGUSAndTaskForceX A.R.G.U.S.]], Shrieve sends a squad of soldiers after Oliver and the Yamashiros, including [[WouldHurtAChild young Akio]], to eliminate [[HeKnowsTooMuch potential witnesses]] to his impending crimes. Unleashing the Omega virus on Hong Kong, causing thousands of infections and deaths, Shrieve causes the virus to spread even further by disguising injections of it as a vaccine. When Akio is infected, Oliver and Maseo confront Shrieve for a possible cure. After handing them a supposed cure, Shrieve reveals that it was only insulin for his diabetes, using this as a distraction in an attempt to kill them both. After Akio succumbs to the virus, Shrieve taunts his parents, cruelly laughing in their faces. Although the virus is ultimately prevented from spreading beyond Hong Kong, hundreds, if not thousands suffered its effects, something Shrieve shows no remorse for. Militant and xenophobic, Shrieve, despite his [[KnightTemplar delusions of righteousness]], is ultimately nothing more than a smug mass murderer devoid of conscience.

** [[AdaptationalVillainy The Trickster]], real name James Jesse, is a bloodthirsty [[TerroristsWithoutACause terrorist]] with a flair for the dramatic and the [[PsychopathicManchild personality of a deranged child]]. After a killing spree that landed him in prison, the Trickster is [[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E17Tricksters introduced]] by breaking free from prison with the help of his son Axel, who he manipulated and groomed into becoming as dangerous a psychopath as him. With his help, the Trickster takes Henry Allen hostage and tries to have him impaled with knives while also poisoning the guests at a party so he can blackmail them into giving him money, with one guest dying as a demonstration. During his [[Recap/TheFlash2014S2E9RunningToStandStill second appearance]], the Trickster uncaringly abandons Axel and teams up with Mark Mardon[=/=]Weather Wizard for a chance to kill the Flash. And to do so, he disguises himself as a mall Santa and distributes over a hundred gift-disguised bombs to children, and forces the Flash to let Mardon torture him to death on threat of detonating the bombs and killing the children and their families.
** [[Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon]], aka [[EvilCounterpart Zoom]], is a sociopathic speedster from [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth2 Earth-2]] who was a notorious SerialKiller with a staggering body count both before and after becoming a speedster. Dying from abusing the Velocity drug, Zoom tries to steal the speed of Jay Garrick, the Flash of Earth-3, before taking Jay's identity to [[HopeCrusher create hope so he can crush it]], while imprisoning the real Jay as a trophy. Discovering Earth-1, Zoom sends meta-humans to attack, then gains [[Characters/ArrowverseBarryAllen Barry Allen]]'s trust by pretending to be Jay. In their first confrontation, Zoom breaks Barry's spine and shows him off for the city to see. Zoom also takes Harry Wells's daughter, Jesse, hostage to force Harry into helping him steal the Flash's speed. Once cured, Zoom unleashes an army of meta-humans on Central City for the fun of it, before forcing Barry to watch as he murders Barry's father, Henry. As his endgame, Zoom makes a DoomsdayDevice to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the entire multiverse]], only sparing Earth-1 as his personal domain. A brutal, sadistic maniac devoid of remorse, Zoom remains one of the most monstrous enemies Barry has ever faced.

** "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E6OutlawCountry Outlaw Country]]": [[{{Outlaw}} Quentin Turnbull]] is the ruthless ArchEnemy of Jonah Hex. After the town of Calvert rebelled against him for extorting taxes from them, Turnbull trapped the entire town's population in a church, including women and children, and then [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E11TheMagnificentEight burned it down with everyone inside]]. After learning about the existence of a mine containing dwarf star alloy from a time pirate he later murders, Turnbull uses the dwarf star to create powerful bullets, which Turnbull then uses to take over the town of Salvation, and forces its civilians to work in the mines. He also intended to conquer enough towns to form his own country, which comes to pass in a BadFuture where he takes over the entire western half of the United States, renaming it "Turnbull Country", a [[AnarchoTyranny lawless country where the only authority is himself]].
** Season 3: [[TheDreaded Mallus]] is an [[AncientEvil ancient demon]] who attempted to break apart the timestream, at which point he was {{sealed|Evil In A Can}} by the Zambesi people to stop him. Reaching out from his prison, Mallus attempts to inspire enough fracture in time to free himself, promising to torture all humankind to death while [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Nora Dahrk. Achieving his freedom, Mallus intends to [[OmnicidalManiac eradicate all time and reality]], first trying to destroy the Zambesi and torture the league for his own satisfaction.

** [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]] 8, known better as [[DarkActionGirl Indigo]], is a Coluan imprisoned on Krypton for attempting to destroy the Kryptonian people. When [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E15Solitude she introduces herself on Earth]], she turns every light in National City green, causing accidents and endangering hundreds of lives. Soon revealing her darker side, Indigo tries to launch nuclear missiles to destroy National City, planning to wipe out humanity. When defeated, she later teams up with Kara's uncle, Non, and activates [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E19Myriad Project Myriad]] to put humanity into a trance-like state. Indigo then puts her plan a step further into motion: to enhance the power to kill everyone else on Earth and then leave the planet, leaving Kara stranded as "queen of a dead world." Even in [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E20BetterAngels her last moments]], Indigo gloats that she had left Project Myriad impossible to stop, taking comfort that humanity will follow her to the grave.
** [[DragonLady Veronica "Roulette" Sinclair]] is a ringmaster who organized an underground fight club in National City, commanding aliens to [[ForcedPrizeFight fight to the death for money]] to entertain rich people, including herself. In [[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E4Survivors her first appearance]], when J'onn and M'gann refuse to fight, Roulette releases Draaga to try to kill them both, but gets arrested. Upon [[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E9SupergirlLives being freed due to her connections]], Roulette, with the help of an alien doctor, plans to sell humans in a slave market on Maaldoria in exchange for a large amount of diamonds. Utterly apathetic to aliens and human beings alike, Roulette is a RichBitch who has no qualms against making quick money at the expense of others.
** [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Rhea]], the ultimate BigBad of season 2, is the queen of Daxam, wife of Lar Gand and [[AbusiveParents mother of Mon-El]]. After escaping Daxam's disaster, Rhea and Lar Gand find Mon-El on Earth and try to get him to join them. When he refused, Rhea blames Kara for it and tries to get her killed by issuing a bounty against her, then tries to kill her herself. Once Lar Gand decides to let Mon-El stay on Earth, Rhea accuses him of "betraying" her and murders him. Returning to Earth, Rhea [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates]] Lena Luthor into creating a transmatter portal for her forces to come through, and starts an invasion to take over the planet and reduce humanity into slavery. To forge a connection with humans, Rhea forces Mon-El and Lena to get married by [[WouldHurtAChild threatening to destroy a hospital full of children]], stating they could rot in a cell for all she cares afterwards. Challenged by Kara in a trial of fight, Rhea [[ILied doesn't honor their agreement]] when she loses and orders her forces to destroy National City, then tells Kara that she will destroy city after city until her whole world is gone. A petty, [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] individual as well as a horrible mother, Rhea's [[NeverMyFault inability to accept any responsibility]] for her actions is what makes her a monster.

** "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E6ThePerdi The Perdi]]" & "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E7TheSange The Sange]]": [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahuman]] with the power to control minds who [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaves]] the white population of South Freeland as her "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves hunt down and lynch the town's black population and stops at nothing to hunt down the children of a Sange to ensnare them in her racist, subservient {{cult}}.

* ''Series/Batwoman2019'''s season 1: [[KillerCop Miguel Robles]], a corrupt member of the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Crows]], is also the murderer of Lucius Fox. Having accidentally shot Fox when sent to beat him for his journal, Robles attempts to cover his tracks by sending assassins after those who can expose him. When this fails, Robles [[LegacyCharacter takes on the mantle]] of the deceased [[MadBomber Detonator]], kidnapping people and tying them to explosives with [[SadisticChoice chances to save themselves]] by pressing a detonator to destroy a building that contains information that might incriminate him. His final target is Wayne Tower, uncaring if he kills dozens or hundreds of innocents to escape his punishment.

-->-- '''[[Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon/Zoom]]''' to Caitlin Snow, ''Series/TheFlash2014'', "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S2E19BackToNormal Back To Normal]]"

** [[Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon]], aka [[EvilCounterpart Zoom]], is a sociopathic speedster from Earth-2 who was a notorious serial killer with a staggering body count both before and after becoming a speedster. Dying from abusing the Velocity drug, Zoom tries to steal the speed of Jay Garrick, the Flash of Earth-3, before taking Jay's identity to [[HopeCrusher create hope so he can crush it]], while imprisoning the real Jay as a trophy. Discovering Earth-1, Zoom sends meta-humans to attack, then gains [[Characters/ArrowverseBarryAllen Barry Allen]]'s trust by pretending to be Jay. In their first confrontation, Zoom breaks Barry's spine and shows him off for the city to see. Zoom also takes Harry Wells's daughter, Jesse, hostage to force Harry into helping him steal the Flash's speed. Once cured, Zoom unleashes an army of meta-humans on Central City for the fun of it, before forcing Barry to watch as he murders Barry's father, Henry. As his endgame, Zoom makes a doomsday device to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the entire multiverse]], only sparing Earth-1 as his personal domain. A brutal, sadistic maniac devoid of remorse, Zoom remains one of the most monstrous enemies Barry has ever faced.

* ''Series/Supergirl2015'' (Earth-38):

* ''Series/TheFlash1990'' (Earth-90):

* ''Series/Batwoman2019'': [[KillerCop Miguel Robles]], a corrupt member of the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Crows]], is also the murderer of Lucius Fox. Having accidentally shot Fox when sent to beat him for his journal, Robles attempts to cover his tracks by sending assassins after those who can expose him. When this fails, Robles [[LegacyCharacter takes on the mantle]] of the deceased [[MadBomber Detonator]], kidnapping people and tying them to explosives with [[SadisticChoice chances to save themselves]] by pressing a detonator to destroy a building that contains information that might incriminate him. His final target is Wayne Tower, uncaring if he kills dozens or hundreds of innocents to escape his punishment.

Of the [[Characters/{{Arrowverse}} many characters]] populating the Series/{{Arrowverse}}, here are the [[CompleteMonster most awful and atrocious]], ranging from street-level [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer drug dealers]] to [[PhysicalGod god-level]] entities.

** ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} 8, known better as [[DarkActionGirl Indigo]], is a Coluan imprisoned on Krypton for attempting to destroy the Kryptonian people. When [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E15Solitude she introduces herself on Earth]], she turns every light in National City green, causing accidents and endangering hundreds of lives. Soon revealing her darker side, Indigo tries to launch nuclear missiles to destroy National City, planning to wipe out humanity. When defeated, she later teams up with Kara's uncle, Non, and activates [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E19Myriad Project Myriad]] to put humanity into a trance-like state. Indigo then puts her plan a step further into motion: to enhance the power to kill everyone else on Earth and then leave the planet, leaving Kara stranded as "queen of a dead world." Even in [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E20BetterAngels her last moments]], Indigo gloats that she had left Project Myriad impossible to stop, taking comfort that humanity will follow her to the grave.

** ''Arrow: Season 2.5'' official tie-in comic book series: [[ComicBook/BlackAdam Khem-Adam]] is the leader of Onslaught, a group of fanatical, religious terrorists, who took advantage of the [[EvilPowerVacuum power vacuum]] in [[{{Qurac}} Kahndaq]] after the previous dictatorship was overthrown. His main goal is to force his country back into the old, barbaric ways, with women in particular being reduced to nothing more than serving the needs of the men. He has a group of young women forcefully abducted for nothing more than undergoing school education -- after murdering their teacher right in front of their eyes. He is later shown to orchestrate mass executions on any one who dares to oppose his godly quest, and assigning the girls to his men as personal slaves to be beaten and raped. When one of the girls kills her abuser in self-defense and manages to escape, he immediately orders the rest of the group to be executed as an example. [[HeManWomanHater Misogynistic]], cruel, and with a [[KnightTemplar delusional fantasy of carrying out the will of the Old Gods]], Khem-Adam [[EvenEvilHasStandards earns the disgust of even the hardened, criminal members]] of the ComicBook/SuicideSquad, with one member in particular being a former military leader of the overthrown dictatorship.