Complete Monster/Western Animation

Cartoons have always been home to supervillains whose whole lives seemed to be dedicated to committing evil acts, without any redeeming qualities to speak of other than humor. And then there are some who took it even further. Much further.

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 * Cartoon Network
 * DCAU
 * Transformers


 * Sonic Sat AM: Dr. Ivo Robotnik, unlike the Affably Evil version of him you'd see in other Sonic cartoons, (or the games themselves) is much less pleasant. He is willing to deprive innocent creatures of their free will to get them to work for him, he is willing to turn formerly beautiful communities into severely polluted wastelands, and he doesn't show any remorse for any of this. He doesn't just turn people into his robotic slaves if they don't obey him, he even turns the ones who DO obey him into robotic slaves.
 * Note also that the implications of said robotic slavery are much more serious in SatAM than they are in other Sonic cartoons and in the games Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic X portray Robotnik's henchrobots as feeling either genuinely loyal to him or at least inclined to try to help, while the games leave it a bit more ambiguous, but seem to treat it lightly, and almost all of the Undergroud ones are nonsentient; in this version, at least some of Robotnik's henchrobots are quite aware of what's happening to them, and morally objecting to that which their robot bodies are forcing them to do. There are episodes in which some robots are carrying on secret conversations with their loved ones, from before roboticization, only to double over in apparent pain before proceeding to attack said loved ones because of the control Robotnik has over them through said robotic slavery.
 * For comparison purposes, the worst thing the Robotnik from Sonic Underground did was tricking Manic with a robot made like a baby hedgehog in the hopes that he'd get attached to it -- and reveal where Sanctuary, a place of refuge for children and infants was. So he could destroy it and roboticize the inhabitants. Despicable, to be sure, but just not on the level of the SatAM version.
 * Avatar: The Last Airbender: Fire Lord Ozai, a genocidal, child-abusing fascist dictator who seeks to Take Over the World and has dedicated weeks at a time and large portions of his national army to hunting down and killing a twelve-year-old and his friends. Perhaps best exemplified in the first episode of the four-part finale, where his reaction to news of rebellions in the Earth Kingdom is to . While the aforementioned heinous act is his crowning achievement of irredeemable abomination, he's also physically abused his son Zuko, by burning his face for speaking out of turn, and  Furthermore, he
 * The graphic novel miniseries, The Search, makes him even worse, if that was possible. It's revealed he never had any true love for his wife Ursa, seeing her as a possession to covet rather than a romantic partner. The reason why he treats Zuko so horribly?
 * The sequel series, The Legend of Korra gives us a similar character in Unalaq, the holier-than-thou chief of the Northern Water Tribe and Korra's Evil Uncle. Beneath his self-righteous preaching, Unalaq craved nothing but power, and would do anything, no mater how deplorable, to get it. He had more resentment towards his older brother than Ozai did for his, and less concern for his two children than Ozai did for his, too.
 * In the previous season of the same show, we had Yakone, an evil bloodbender from the Water Tribe. The backstory shows him as a feared crime boss of Republic City in it's early days, one who used illegal bloodbending to control and harm others. His bending was so strong, he could bloodbend without need of the full moon. He'd planned to use this power to Take Over the City until Avatar Aang had him brought to justice. But he simply bloodbended the entire coutroom in order to make his escape, and when Aang tried to stop him, he bloodbended his body with the intent of snapping his neck. Fortunately, Aang overcame him and took his bending away. The worst part about all this?
 * The Spectacular Spider-Man offers us Norman Osborn, a.k.a. the Green Goblin. For his inclusion in this trope to be justified, you need know this:
 * Wait, there's more! In Season 2 he pit the city's gangs against each other all so he could emerge as the new Big Man of crime, ruined Mark Allan's life just to make him a pawn in eliminating Spider-Man, nearly released several dangerous criminals both to torment Spidey and For the Evulz, and he turned an entire city block into one huge death trap that endangered countless innocents, all so he can kill Spidey - ONE PERSON. Oh, and did we mention that unlike many versions of Osborn, the Super Serum he took didn't drive him insane? Everything he did, he did with a clear head and full comprehension of his actions. He's not crazy, just evil.
 * Well, the only guy who says it didn't drive him insane is Osborn himself. It's perfectly reasonable to assume that it did drive him crazy, but he's just too crazy to realize that. The only way to know for sure would be to compare him with his pre-Serum self, which we can't since it's been canceled, if it would ever show us that anyway. Those many versions of Osborn have denied being crazy as well, you know, and the mainstream one once admitted that while he might have been crazy once, he was now perfectly sane....whilst he was about to blow up a building filled with Peter Parker's friends. Lampshaded by Spidey saying that's the scariest thing he'd said all night.
 * Word of God is that it was intended to be ambigious whether Osborn was insane or not (and if so, what caused it), but he's definitely evil.
 * The 90s Spider-Man: The Animated Series gave us these two, who surpassed all other villains in pure evil on this show:
 * Cletus Kasady, aka Carnage, is introduced as an Ax Crazy lunatic willing to use a bomb to kill himself and everyone within a 200 meter radius just for giggles. After entering into the service of the Dimension Lord Dormammu and bonding with the offspring of Eddie Brock's symbiote, Kasady uses his newfound power and connections to become an even worse menace. Unlike Eddie who, when bonded with his symbiote, creates a combined persona called Venom, Cletus is so psychotic that he still remains completely aware and in control after bonding with his symbiote. First helping Venom steal an interdimensional probe, Kasady quickly displays contempt towards his "dad's" softness and proves himself willing to kill Venom on the flimsiest of pretexts. Kasady would later go on to steal the souls of numerous innocent people in order to summon Dormammu and herald The End of the World as We Know It. Once Spider-Man defeats him by letting him be sucked into Dormammu's home dimension, Kasady attempts to grab Eddie Brock's Love Interest, Dr. Ashley Kafka, to take her with him. He's only thwarted by Eddie sacrificing himself instead. Rampantly homicidal and needlessly sadistic, Kasady was a far cry from the usual Spider-Man villain, doing evil solely for the carnage it unleashed on the world. And while he alone is bad enough, the Carnage symbiote itself might also qualify as a Complete Monster given
 * Herbert Landon is a Mad Scientist, the Evil Former Friend of Hank McCoy, and a racist, genocidal Smug Snake driven solely by hatred and bigotry. A rabid anti-mutant extremist, Landon created a formula that destroyed mutant cells and killed any mutant exposed to it. His endgame was to market this formula to the public as a cure for mutants only to instead use it to wipe them all out. The first person Landon attempted to test out this formula on is his "old friend," Hank. Thwarted in this endeavor, Landon would go on to become The Dragon to the Kingpin, and performed various unsavory deeds such as forcibly converting Alistair Smythe into a cyborg slave and testing out a Super Soldier Super Serum by using Felicia Hardy as a guinea pig.
 * Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes brings us the Red Skull, who as usual, embraces this trope. The leader of HYDRA in World War 2, the Skull kidnapped mystical creatures to use them to kill the Allies. When the Nazis lost, the Skull opted to kidnap Captain America's teen sidekick Bucky Barnes and torture and brainwash him into the amnesiac assassin the Winter Soldier. In modern times, the Skull continues his dreams of conquest and hatred of Captain America by unleashing a chemical compound to kill the heroes and civilians. The chemical has been engineered to cause slow and painful death by making the victim's face turn into a grotesque parody of the Skull's own.
 * The Shadow King from Wolverine and the X-Men is a cruel and merciless telepathic mutant who forced a child Storm to be a thief and would berate and threaten her if she did not bring back enough stolen goods. Xavier befriended Storm and defeated the Shadow King. Though his body was destroyed fighting Xavier, his evil spirit lived on and he gained the ability to possess others and force them to do things against their will. When we first see Shadow King in the present, he has possessed a starving man in a desert. When another man comes to help this starving man, The Shadow King possesses the good Samaritan and leaves his original victim to die in the desert. Shadow King later possess Storm herself and forces her to use her Weather Manipulation powers to destroy all Africa, simply to spite her.
 * Apocalypse from the 90's X-Men series is a would-be mutant conqueror who despises everything that isn't him and fancies himself a God. In his first appearance he builds a machine designed to take away people's free will and make them his slaves. He tricks four self loathing mutants, including Warren "Angel" Worthington, into believing this machine will cure them of being mutants, preying on their feelings of inadequacy to subject to them to a painful process of transformation them into his Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Apocalypse then orders his Horsemen to go on a rampage across the globe. Rogue was able to free Ange; from Apocalypse's control with her Power Absorption abilities, but Angel was a mentally unstable wreck after that experience. In his next appearance, Apocalypse creates a plague designed to wipe out most humans and mutants, this plague furthers tensions between humans and mutants, with some humans blaming mutants for it and creates a Bad Future, where several mutants are dying from this plague. Later Apocalypse manages to get hold of some time travel technology and uses it to travel to the Axis of Time, a interdenominational area that controls time itself and plans on destroying the time stream and reality itself, so he can recreate it in his image.
 * Graydon Creed is the leader of the anti-Mutant group, the Friends of Humanity. Under Creed's orders, the Friends of Humanity attack half-way houses and other businesses and non profit organizations that are sympathetic to mutants. Creed even organizes an attack on a hospital for the blind, because the gentle, intelligent mutant Hank "Beast" McCoy works there to treat to blind patients. Creed Later admits he plans to commit genocide against mutants amongst his most loyal followers. It is revealed Creed is actually the son of Mystique and Sabretooth, two prominent mutants. After the Friends of Humanity find out that Creed has mutant parents and siblings, he is kicked out of the group, breaking down at an image of Sabretooth and screaming I'm not one of you! I'm normal! You are not my father! In order to get back into the Friends of Humanity's good graces, Creed devises a plan to murder his mother and his mutant siblings, viciously rejecting he has any connection to them while trying to murder them.
 * Meanwhile his father, Victor "Sabretooth" Creed, is a cruel Psycho for Hire and Blood Knight with a obsessive hatred of Wolverine. Magneto uses Sabretooth to infiltrate Xavier's school where Sabretooth is injured after a confrontation with the police while he is pretending to be protesting at Beast's trial. The X-Men rescue Sabretooth and nurse him back to health and Xavier even attempts to help Sabretooth deal with his inner demons. Sabretooth repays this kindness with spite and cruelty as soon as he is able, tricking the young mutant Jubilee into loosening his restraints and then attempting to murder her. After being driven away by the X-Men, Sabretooth later returns when Wolverine is in Northern Canada, having left the X-Men due to his conflicted feelings over Jean Grey. Wolverine later befriends the population of a small Inuit Village, who help him discover feelings of inner peace. Sabretooth kidnaps several members of Inuit Village while Wolverine is out fishing and straps bombs to them in order to draw Wolverine out and force him to fight. It is later shown in flashbacks that Wolverine and Sabretooth were partners in special forces. Sabretooth abandoned their entire unit to die against the monstrous cyborg Omega Red and scoffs "so what?" when Wolverine confronts him over this. After Graydon Creed uses up his final chance with the Friends of Humanity, they parachute him out of a plane to Sabretooth's cabin. The last we ever see of Graydon Creed is him screaming in terror, lifted up by his father with Sabretooth looking murderously thrilled at getting his claws on his son at last.
 * Despite appearing in only one episode of Iron Man, Dark Aegis outstripped any other villain in sheer monstrosity. A foe of Tony Stark who'd been hurled out into space, Dark Aegis later wiped out an entire planet and showed no remorse for it whatsoever. Dark Aegis later attempts to use a superweapon to destroy a moon, and then attempts to destroy a sun as well. His attitude towards what this will do to an inhabited solar system amounts to: "So what?"
 * Justin Hammer from Iron Man: Armored Adventures is a young weapons manufacturer whose company Hammer Multinational is the main competitor to Stark International. Hammer hires the super villain known as Mr. Fix to work for him and later injects Fix with a nano virus that will kill him if he disobeys Hammer. After Iron Man defeats Hammer's Titanium Man armor, Hammer blames Fix for the armor's failure and uses the nano virus to kill Fix's body, but uploads his mind into Hammer's computer systems, much to Fix's dismay. After Stark International lands a big military contract, Hammer decides to get revenge by placing a control device on Stane's Iron Monger armor and sends Iron Monger on a rampage. After receiving blackmail messages from an unknown party (actually sent by Mr. Fix.), Hammer becomes increasing paranoid and Ax-Crazy. Hammer starts attacking anyone who he thinks may be responsible, including his own men. Hammer uses a new chemical weapon called Z Gas to turn crime boss Count Nefaria into a zombie and then kidnaps and tortures Killer Shrike, one of his former henchmen. Hammer then turns Shrike into a zombie. After Iron Man broadcasts evidence of Hammer's crimes across the globe, Hammer starts to lose it and plans to release the Z Gas on New York City.
 * The Grundel from The Real Ghostbusters is a loathsome, vile and creepy creature who goes around ruining the lives of children (by turning them into Grundels by encouraging them to commit bad acts and become corrupted) for no reason besides the amusement. Considering the Grundel was supposed to be An Aesop subtly warning children about pedophiles, its not a surprise that the Grundel is so loathsome. Seriously, mash together Satan and a pedophile and you would get the Grundel.
 * He's even creepier in Extreme Ghostbusters where his behaviour towards Kylie is somewhere between Hannibal Lecter and a sex offender.
 * Dark Danny/Dan Phantom, from Danny Phantom. He is the only villain in the show who has actually been implied to kill anyone, which is saying a lot for a Nickelodeon show. His origin (and for some, his entire episode) is considered to be Nightmare Fuel. Singlehandedly handicapped multiple ghosts and ruined what is implied to be a very large portion of the Earth. The guy is so bad, that this is the only time that the Master of Time has had to interfere to keep it from happening.
 * The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron has several silly villains, but one who really stands out as completely vile is Meldar Prime, who ran an intergalactic game show where he forces different alien races to compete against each other and he blows up the losers' home planet. Not even Tim Allen's funny delivery in voicing the character could change the fact of how evil he was and that Jimmy and the others treated him as a very serious threat to the galaxy.
 * Verminous Skumm from Captain Planet. While the other eco-villains were certainly Card Carrying Villains bordering on Stupid Evil territory (except Corrupt Corporate Executive Looten Plunder, and Duke Nukem, whose physiology was such that he thrived on radiation), they were too much of a caricature to be really scary. This doesn't apply to this disgusting rat-thing, whose actions are almost always portrayed in a much worse light than those of the other villains. Just an example? Peddling mind-affecting drugs to teenagers just for the joy of ruining their lives and those of their friends and families. Harrassing a kid who's HIV positive and spread lies about AIDS just because the kid's an easy target. Or trying to force toxic food down the captured Planeteers' mouths to kill them in a needlessly and horrifically painful way. Or provide a Nuclear Bomb to an Irish Protesant/Catholic feud. Or... well, the point has been made.
 * Zarm is pretty nasty himself, who as a god of destruction, likes to create wars for FUN
 * There was also that one time Dr. Blight and her future self went back in time to World War II and were perfectly willing to sell a nuclear bomb to Hitler (Okay, he was a Captain Ersatz, but it was blatantly obvious who he was supposed to be). They were only reluctant in the end because he wasn't willing to actually pay and was taking it by force. It's also implied that the blueprints for the bomb left behind at the end of the episode are responsible for the bombing of Hiroshima.
 * Cobra Commander from G.I. Joe: Resolute is the ruthless leader of Cobra, an international terrorist group. He appears before the United Nations using a hologram generator and demands all the nations of the world surrender their authority to him. To prove he is serious Cobra Commander uses a giant laser weapon to destroy Moscow and kill 10 million people. He will destroy other cities if his demands are not met within 24 hours. When the GI Joes discover his base, Cobra Commander freaks out and begins to slaughter his own men. Cobra Commander then targets his laser weapon at Washington D.C, before the GI Joe thwart him.
 * Mega Man: Wily would qualify, having attempted to send the moon out of its orbit to kill off most of humanity, forcing the survivors (if there were any) to consider him king, so he could prove he was better than Dr. Light. This alone doesn't qualify him, he's also tried to use earthquakes to destroy cities, threatening to destroy them if they don't obey, and he's tortured Mega Man mentally twice in the show, first by making him wonder if he's just a mistake created by Dr. Light, the second time making Proto Man be a Heel Face Mole, even Proto Man considered this act wrong during the plan. And ordered him to kill Mega Man after this.
 * The Queen of the Crown from Galaxy Rangers. Her Majesty starts off by ambushing Kirwin, and putting a heavy bounty on humans to every two-bit thug in the galaxy. We find out why - she's mashing the humans down for Life Energy to power constructs through which she can see, hear, and administer her Empire. It's not only an exceedingly painful process, but the poor bastard is fully awake and aware of what's happened. We also see that she slaughtered millions on the planet of Tortuna, leaving a few, domed cities behind in a lot of wasteland. She also was hunting humans because the last race she used to power Slaverlords has been hunted to near-extinction and she needed replacements. If that wasn't bad enough, she enslaves an entire planet, making the inhabitants work in concentration camp conditions to build a massive hyperspace cannon she uses to blow a chunk out of Earth's moon, threatening to do worse to Earth unless they gave her 5000 humans in tribute. On a personal level, she uses the only psychocrystal she's made from a human (Zach's wife) to commit Mind Rape nightly on both of them. Her voice actress in the American version unfortunately sounds like a cross of Ming the Merciless and Maleficent. The German actress comes across as far more menacing.
 * The Wizards of the Black Circle in Season 4 are real pieces of work. They commit atrocity after atrocity in their quest to corner the market on Earth's magic by sealing away all of Earth's faeries. Their first meeting with the last Earth faerie Roxy, a nineteen year old girl who has no idea she's a faerie and thus is no real threat to them, is also really, really creepy. In one episode they turn the adorable magical pets the Winx have been putting up for adoption into horrible monsters as a distraction. After pulling an I Surrender, Suckers gambit, they laugh with glee at the prospect of trapping the Earth faeries in a hellish abyss. Finally, unlike the Trix,  These guys are the biggest reason Season 4 is considered Darker and Edgier than the rest of the series.
 * The Joker from The Batman. Once a man who wanted to make people laugh, he fell into a vat of chemicals and became an insane, murderous Monster Clown and Batman's Arch Enemy. Devoid of any empathy, Joker commits crimes he views as "jokes" at the expense of Gotham. Terrible things he's done include poisoning people with his deadly laughing gas; putting people in various death traps; torturing Detective Ethan Bennett for hours and causing Bennett's mutation into Clayface; impersonating Batman and gassing people for minor crimes; using Bane's venom to go on a rampage; attempting to drop a teenage boy into a vat of chemicals; frequently mistreating his henchmen and his girlfriend Harley Quinn, as well as abandoning them to be arrested or even to die; and filling the abandoned tunnels and mine shafts beneath Gotham with miles of dynamite to collapse the city to oblivion. That he manages to qualify despite being toned down to all get-out is a testament to how twisted a character Joker is.
 * Batman the Brave And The Bold: Starro's faceless henchman definitely counts. At first we think he was forced into working with Starro because he threatened to destroy him and his entire race. But actually, he willingly joined Starro because he was a warmonger who hated the peacefulness of his home planet, even helping to finish the job. himself. And that's not just going into
 * He hasn't got a patch on the Psycho Pirate, whose plot involves the Mind Rape of three innocent (if superpowered) teenagers.
 * Don't forget General Zahl, the sadistic Nazi who
 * Steele from Balto seems to be your average animated movie Jerkass at first - making fun of Balto, flirting with Jenna even though she's not interested, etc etc. All par for the course. But when he crosses the Moral Event Horizon and refuses to let Balto help them take the crate of medicine to Nome, thus almost condeming the children who desperately need it to certain death from diptheria, just because Balto would prove better than him...well, I'd just like to see anyone try to Draco in Leather Pants him after that. Balto was forced to beat him in combat and take the medicine just to save some children. And, once he was defeated, he deliberately tried to ensure that Balto and the whole team of dogs got lost and died, while he could return home and pretend to be a heroic survivor. Good lord, he got off WAY too easy in the end. In short, a true douchebag who was willing to let many people die (dogs and humans) just because his ego was damaged a little bit. No wonder he lost all his fans at the end.
 * Exo Squad
 * Phaeton, the ruler of Neo-Sapien empire, uses words like "equality" and pretends to care about the well being and future of the Neo-Sapiens, but his actions prove he is nothing more than a murderous, power hungry coward by the end and one who would see the galaxy burn for the sake of his own power and advancement.
 * General Draconis. From his death camps on Venus, starving the populace, to being personally responsible for Nara's parents deaths. Genocide, betrayal, nothing is too much for him. He even betrayed Phaeton when he was relatively sane, and was about to kill Thrax, an honorable Neosapien Warrior who wouldn't kill civilians. Draconis is so bad that even Phaeton, who is based on Hitler, doesn't seem as bad at first. Of course, Phaeton surpasses Draconis' evil after going insane from Automutation Syndrome.
 * Dr. Albrecht Ketzer. Turned an entire village of natives in the Amazon and himself into half-plant monstrosities, turned Medusa into a half-plant/half-Neo-Sapien freak, and injected Nara Burns with the same serum. He views her only as an experiment, and wanted to kill all the humans AND Neo-Sapiens in the nearby city. Sadly, because the show ended on a Cliff Hanger, he became a Karma Houdini.
 * Mighty Max had some surprisingly dark storylines for a kids' series and some terrifying villains:
 * Skullmaster, the Evil Overlord Big Bad was always a terrifying villain whenever he appeared. Skullmaster overthrew his previous master and took control of his subterranean kingdom from where he plots world domination. Skullmaster is a sadist, reveling in physical and psychological torture, and engages in both short-term brutality and long term gambits. One of his most vile acts was vowing to save an ancient civilization from sinking beneath the sea, lying about it and trapping their souls as his slaves before in present day, sending them after Max's head "attached to the body or not." Responsible for the deaths of multiple heroes throughout the story, Skullmaster even attempted to blackmail Max for his mentor and friend Vergil's life by surrendering his magical cap. When Max turned it over, Skullmaster brutally killed Vergil anyways.
 * Spike was a psychotic Blood Knight who definitely Would Hurt a Child. Ten Thousand years in the past, Spike led a pack of barbarians to attack a peaceful village when the heroic Norman was just a boy. Refusing offers of peace, Spike brutally attacked and killed Norman's unarmed father before attempting to kill Norman himself. Things went wrong and Spike was buried under the snow for the next 10,000 years, but not before gleefully saying he'd find the boy, kill him and eat his heart. In the present, Spike is no less savage and continues his battle with the now adult Norman until he is defeated. Spike is so evil that Norman feels fine killing him after Spike has already been defeated, and nobody bothers to complain.
 * Dr. MacDougal is the only fully human villain to qualify. A Mad Scientist who discovered the existence of werewolves, along with the fact they were peaceful guardians of Scotland. She captured the pack and hooked them up in a rather unpleasant situation where their blood was painfully extracted into a formula for her. After drinking it, Macdougal would achieve the ability to transform herself and used it solely to kill innocent people, becoming the scourge of the highlands. When Max, a ten year old, stumbled upon her lair, Macdougal locks him inside and takes her formula so she can kill him, gleefully referring to him as 'Breakfast.'
 * Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness has Tong Fo. While all the villains of the franchise have at least one sympathetic or redeeming trait, the character most likely to be called a Complete Monster is Tong Fo, being Faux Affably Evil and seriously depraved. He makes his debut trying to destroy the Valley of Peace with a powerful hammer, seemingly for no reason other than because he can, as he never gives any reason for wanting to destroy the Valley. In "Father Crimes" when he manages to capture Shifu, he heavily implies that he's going to torture him, physically and mentally. In "Kung Fu Club", he blackmails Peng into fighting Po to the death by threatening to order Peng's girlfriend to be killed if he doesn't cooperate. On top are his repeated attempts to kill Po in nasty ways, in particular in "Mind Over Manners", where he pretends to want to help Po, then almost immediately reveals that the "help" in question will kill Po by making his head explode. And his reasoning for his life of crime is that he wants to live up to the legacy of his felon grandfather - by going even further than he ever could! His Christopher Walken impression voice can't even disguise what a total psychopath he is.
 * General Mandible from Antz is a ruthless ant soldier that tried to drown his colony Queen and hoards of her loyal subjects in his attempts at seizing power for himself. Seems to be standard villainy at first, until you learn of the reason why he planned to eradicate his own colony. His goal is not so much "ambition" as it is "purification"; he considers the worker ants weak-willed, undisiplined and uncomitted vermin, so he plans to build a new colony filled with (what he views as) the ideal ant. Does he reminds you someone by any chance...?
 * Going a bit further, when he told Cutter that a termite colony, one that was at peace with the ants for years, supposedly mobilized against their ant colony, Mandible immediately recommends sending troops, loyal to the queen, to attack the termite colony head-on; Cutter called it suicide, Mandible replied with "Exactly". Furthermore, Mandible seemed quite irritated when it turned out that there was one surviving soldier from the battle. When the Queen considered sending in an ambassador to renegotiate another treaty, Mandible claimed that "Every ant in this colony is precious to me", reminding her that they needed to attack while they still had the element of surprise, otherwise they'd face genocide by termite shock troops. When this persuaded the Queen to reluctantly approve of sending soldiers to attack, Mandible ominously replies with "You've ensured the future of this colony". Based on that whole exchange, it's implied that Mandible intended to kill off every part of the ant army that wasn't loyal to him in a suicide run, and may have even lied about the termites mobilizing against the ants to avoid suspicion.
 * Rumpelstiltskin from Shrek Forever After is at least a borderline case of this trope. Unlike the other villains, he is a stop-at-nothing psychopath who deceives Shrek into making a deal with him in which he magically takes away one day of Shrek's live in order to give him one day as a lone, fearsome ogre again - and the day he takes is the day Shrek was born! In the alternate reality, Rumpel managed to trick Fiona's parents into making a deal that ended up wiping them from existence so that he took over Far Far Away, instilling a tyrannical dictatorship rather than a fair monarchy. He never treats anyone who cannot benefit him with fairness, and he kills one of his mooks for no reason after she had given him an idea he ended up using! Additionally, there is his Ogre Genocide scheme: it's indicated that Fiona's ogre resistance group are the only living ogres left after Rumpel had all the others "put away." Towards the end, Rumpel lets the captive ogre rebels go in exchange for Shrek, only to reveal that he's already captured Fiona and, since she's not "all ogre" in this reality, both she and Shrek are to be publicly executed before he takes care of the rest of the ogres anyway! And he does this all with sadistic glee and relish.
 * Gallaxhar, the alien villain in Monsters vs. Aliens. Humourous sarcasm and hamminess aside, this guy lets his obsession with obtaining Quantonium drive him to unleash a huge robot on San Francisco, which probably would have endangered everyone there had they not already been evacuated. Upon learning that the Quantonium is within Susan, he has no qualms about almost killing Insectosaurus}} to get her and forcibly drain it out. All this to fuel a machine that creates an army of clones of himself in order to wipe out most of humanity and enslave those left as lab rats. His motive? To rebuild himself a new homeworld, because he himself destroyed his original one and everyone on it. His barely-revealed backstory hints that he has a Freudian Excuse or two, but it's strongly indicated that they are too poor to excuse his actions in any way. By the end, you can be sure he thoroughly deserves getting blown up with the rest of his ship.
 * Drago Bludvist of How to Train Your Dragon 2 is an unfeeling madman who seeks to take over Berk. Having lost his village and family to dragons when he was younger, Drago subverts a Freudian Excuse by becoming exactly like the ones on whom he sought revenge against and using fear to dominate anyone in his path. Prior to the plot, Drago came to a chieftain's meeting and offered to drive away the dragons if they would kneel to him. When they declined, Drago responded by burning them alive and leaving no survivors but Stoick, Hiccup's father. In the current, Drago raises a dragon army, led by a Bewilderbeast he abused into loyalty, and attempts to execute his right hand man for failing him, as well as the other dragon riders he brought with him. Drago enslaves the dragons living under Valka's care and kills their Alpha to assert his power. He even hypnotizes the loyal Toothless to fire on his own master, Hiccup, and simply scoffs when Stoick takes the blast instead. He then proceeds to destroy Berk with his new-found army, wishing to take no prisoners. Power hungry beyond salvation, Drago ended up putting even the first movie's Big Bad to shame.
 * Hexxus, the Eldritch Abomination from Fern Gully. Most villains in kids' movies want to take over a kingdom, avenge an old slight, steal the girl, or simply enrich themselves. Hexxus wants to wipe out everything green on Earth. Just for Fun. He thrives off of the destruction of life with no remorse at all. Even the fact that he's voiced by Tim Curry doesn't stop him from being an utterly loathsome character - in fact, it probably helps, as Curry is at his evil best. Not to mention that Hexxus is quite possibly one of the biggest doses of horror ever delivered by a cartoon villain.
 * Animalia: The Creeper is probably the nastiest weasel to ever exist in fiction. Trying to start a war in Animalia, attempting to kidnap Echo, tricking Alex, Zoe, Livingston and Fuschia into almost being blown away to their deaths by the wind of no return are but a few of the things he's done.
 * Lord Barkis Bittern in Corpse Bride. He appears to be a worse monster than Oogie Boogie. At first, he is respected by everyone, until the end has revealed his true personality: . If that wasn't enough, . This causes the living and the dead to "have shock on their faces". While Oogie has death as his ending, Barkis has a Fate Worse Than Death,
 * On the top of that, he is responsible for the Woobieness the three lead characters have.
 * Thrax from Osmosis Jones, considering the fact he really wants to kill Frank so that he'll be known to the medical books. Oh, and did I forgot to mention that he really did other kills before getting to him? That is one irredeemable virus. If that's not enough, at the very end, he brags to Osmosis that he's going to beat his record by killing Frank's daughter Shanie even faster.
 * Dag, the leader of the pack of coyotes, in Barnyard. Unlike the other coyotes who kill for food, Dag seems to get more out of killing than he probably should. This is shown when he shows a group of chickens his chain which has severed chicken legs on it. When faced with Otis's father Ben, he murders him and then shames Otis by telling him that his father would've survived had he been there for him. He then makes a compromise with Otis that stated that he and his pack of coyotes could get a couple of animals every night, and if Otis didn't comply, Dag and his coyotes would personally slaughter everything in the farm that Otis held dear, including possibly the farmer. He then tries to spitefully eat the young chick Maddy just because she called him a "meaner."
 * Antonia Chillingsworth from Dark Fury is the bounty hunter in charge of the mercenary vessel that Riddick, Jack, and Imam run into. She's obsessed with the art of killing and death, while her primary hobby is to collect criminals and notorious fighters to place them in her collection of living statues. There they are frozen so that it takes them a whole day to so much as blink an eye, and they're conscious the whole time, trapped in a nightmare world for hundreds of years to come. She considers this her "artwork", and intends it purely for her own enjoyment. She cares exactly nothing about all the members of her crew she sends against Riddick and die as a result, just that she apparently paid them too much. She wants to make Riddick the latest addition to her collection, and before adding him to the exhibition, she throws him and his friends in a pit with people-eating monsters to see him kill something up close. Riddick himself calls her an irredeemable psychopath. The fact that the person saying this is himself a sociopathic Noble Demon says it all, really.
 * Black Wolf is the Big Bad of the Christmas-themed film The Flight Before Christmas. Black Wolf was a bloodthirsty alpha wolf who wanted to satisfy his pack's hunger and came up with the idea to kill and eat Santa Claus and his reindeer to provide for his pack. When thinking about the possibility of the food running out, he decided to masquerade as Saint Nick himself so that he and his packs of wolves could get into peoples' homes. The plan was to slaughter every child in the world to curb his hunger. Even though he was later falling to his Karmic Disney Villain Death, Black Wolf was overjoyed because atleast he could die without an empty stomach. His main prey also included the main protagonist's best friend.
 * Messina the cobra witch from Freddie As FR07 may be the queen of Evilmainya, but she also pulled being a monster off by killing Freddie's parents to become a ruler using her evil magic. She gets worse as Freddie was turned into a frog, nearly trapping Nessie with a boulder, teaming up with El Supremo, killing her own henchmen, and transforming herself into deadly creatures such as a snake, hyena, etc.
 * HIM from We Are the Strange. In his very first scene, he physically assaults his girlfriend and throws her against a wall. In the same scene, he shoos her away, ordering her not to come back until she looks as beautiful as the models on his "girly posters" and tells her how ugly she looks wherever she smiles or talks. Then, later in the film, when he reappears and faces off against one of the heroes The fact that he might have a Freudian Excuse does nothing to diminish his CM status and the fact that some of his behavior is based off of a real person that the director had the misfortune of knowing makes his CM status that much more disturbing.
 * The 1971 Soviet film Pioneer's Violin features a Nazi soldier who chases and shoots at a small child around a bombed-out city in a tank while joyfully playing a German folk-song on his harmonica. Propaganda, but still quite chilling.
 * One-Eye from the Korean animated film Speckles the Tarbosaurus is a Serial Killer and engine of hate and rage in a Tyrannosaurus Rex's skin. One Eye demonstrates he's a calculating, rational monster by initiating a disaster to kill the young Speckles' family and murders his siblings for fun rather than food. He proceeds to haunt Speckles throughout his entire life, trying to kill him or those the Tarbosaurus cares for. At the film's end, he even murders one of Speckles' children and tries to murder the other by hurling the hatchling into the ocean.
 * The Secret of NIMH brings us Jenner, a power-hungry rat who would rather stay in the rosebush than move on to better life in Thorn Valley with the other rats of NIMH. Not only does he just to steal the leadership of the rats away from him, he even threatens to kill Mrs. Brisby to take the amulet originally owned by Nicodemus himself from her for himself. Some cruel rat, huh?
 * What makes it even worse is Jenner, like all the rats, owes his very life to Mrs. Brisby's deceased husband and the father of her kids and displays zero remorse or gratitude to Jonathan's memory. After his henchman Sullivan finally has enough with Jenner's lunacy, Jenner slashes his throat and tries to kill his rival Justin, declaring his only philosophy in life: take what you can when you can.
 * The spider from Cobweb Hotel. His introduction says all -- he runs an Hell Hotel for flies where he traps his guests for consumption. Althought seems like he does that for hunger, it's quite obvious they also does it for the fun to see their bug victims suffer (it's also implied he's tortured'em first). For more evil extra, during his opening Villain Song, where he gives a good pubblicity to his Hotel, we get an image of the poor buggies victims tied on the hotel bed made up of the spider's webbing who frantically struggle to free themselves and squeal desperatly. For the newwed Mr Fly, probably the only one who dares to fight him, the spider has a special treatment: he uses a paper clip to tie his wings and then proceed to unceasingly beat him with his other hands and feet..
 * Lawyer Goodwill from Warner Bros short "The Case of the Stuttering Pig. He at first presents himself gentle and kindly towards Porky Pig and his brothers. But then he reveals his true colors when he intends to kill them all in order to obtain their rich uncle's fortune. So he transforms himself with a formula into a psychotic, hideous Mr Hyde - like monster and tries to get'em all. In his monster form he evolves from a Smug Snake into a terrifying Large Ham who wants to kill all the pigs basically For the Evulz. He also frequently warns the audience in a creepy and harsh manner they can't help his victims. When he kidnaps some of Porky's bros he also sadistically explains how he intends to kill'em doing the throat-slitting gesture.
 * All Dogs Go to Heaven series.
 * Red from All Dogs Go To Heaven 2. He manipulates Charlie into giving him Gabriel's Horn, he has Carface kidnap David (an eight-year-old boy!) to force Charlie to hand the horn over directly, tries to kill Charlie and all the other protagonists. And his ultimate goal? Use Gabriel's Horn to suck every dog out of Heaven and trap them in Alcatraz Island. Then drag the whole island with all the dogs in it down to Hell for all eternity! All of it just for the sake of being evil! What's worse? Remember what Carface was like in the original film? Red considers that small time compared to him!
 * Belladonna from the TV series counts as well. In all but one of her appearances, she tries to get Charlie to work for her through temptation and manipulation. When Itchy tried to get Charlie to turn back after he actually fell for her tricks once, she tried to send him into a meat grinder! Worse than that, she tried to force Charlie to be the one to do it! When her minions Carface and Killer were stuck in an Alternate Dimension inside a board game, which she caused, she didn't give a crap. And that one time Belladonna wasn't after Charlie? She wanted to ruin thousands of people's lives and probably indirectly send just as many dogs to the pound by sabotaging Christmas through said dogs, which she was probably counting on (the sadistic glee she displays while doing all of this makes it worse then it sounds)! And she tries to kill Carface and Killer in her One-Winged Angel form after their Heel Face Turn. And if it weren't for said Heel Face Turn, then her actions would have condeemed Carface to Hell. And like Red before her, Belladonna did all of the above mentioned things simply because she could! Well, that and get one over on her "goodie goodie cousin" Annabelle. Belladonna's actions in the last example would have directly lead to the death of the Tiny Tim stand-in, something that she may have actually known, given her supernatural nature. The younger residents of Heaven know her as "the Boogeydog". Makes you wonder what she did to earn that moniker!
 * The Pirates of Dark Water gave us the being behind the titular 'Dark Water', a menacing oily substance that devours whatever it touches and is spreading all throughout the world. By proxy, the Dweller is responsible for countless deaths of places that the Dark Water has devoured. The Dark Dweller is the true Big Bad of the story, a being focused on domination and destruction who plans to unleash its Dark Water throughout the world, focused only on consuming and controlling what it can.
 * In the first of the My Little Pony TV Specials, Rescue At Midnight Castle, Tirek was a surprisingly vile creature from a show that's supposed to be primarily a little girl's series. A demon of a centaur, Tirek was the ruler of the Midnight Castle, and planned to send Dream Valley into a state of eternal night, eternal darkness, and eternal chaos. To do so, he used a sack containing magical spells in it to essentially torture and transform young ponies into his hideous, winged dragons which he could then use to pull his Chariot of Darkness. He's also amazingly violent. This is shown whenever his henchman Scorpan failed him. He would threaten to have Spike's head torn right off if he ever screwed up again, which makes it even more disturbing in that Spike was a child, and therefore it meant that he had no limits to who he had to hurt in order to get his way.
 * Recently they made another incarnation of Tirek for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and though considerably toned down from the previous version, he still fits the bill. While previous major villains were bad but had some negating factors that prevented them from belonging to this trope (Nightmare Moon was Brainwashed and Crazy and able to reform, Discord was chaos incarnate but able to reform, Queen Chrysallis wanted to provide nourishment for her people, King Sombra was like a dark force of nature, and even Sunlight Shimmer was redeemable in the end), Tirek blows them all out of the water. In this continuity, Scorpan was his brother and the two of them had set out to conquer Equestria together. Scorpan befriended the ponies who lived there and decided to give up his evil ways, but Tirek would not relent, refusing to embrace friendship as a concept. His destructive actions led to him being imprisoned in Tartarus by the Alicorn rulers of Equestria. In the fourth season finale, Tirek has escaped from Tartarus but as a weak, fragile shell of his former self. Once enough power comes back to him, he uses it to attack the ponies in Ponyville and suck the magic right out of them, reducing them to empty shells. He planned to repeat this process on all ponies in order to drain Equestria of all it's magic, not only so that he could become the all-powerful ruler of the land, but also for the sheer pleasure of seeing the ponies' world fall apart around them. (Without magic, no more rain could be made for crops to grow and land could not be tended, creating drought, famine, and eventual ruination of Equestria's ecosystem.) When Discord is sent to stop him, Tirek persuades Discord into assisting him by making him believe that his newfound "friendship" with the ponies was merely an imprisonment. He even implies to Discord that he was his friend now by giving him a cherished relic that had belonged to his brother, Scorpan. However, once he'd absorbed enough magic to regain full strength, Tirek turns on Discord and sucks his magic out too, mocking him about how weak he was for trusting anyone and revealing that he held the value of his brother's relic in the same regard as his brother: worthless. He proceeds to lay waste to Ponyville's library and would have destroyed the entire town had Twilight Sparkle not moved their magic fight elsewhere. When he and Twilight Sparkle appeared evenly matched, Tirek offered a Sadistic Choice: willingly give up all her magic (she held the magic of all the Alicorn rulers at the moment) in exchange for the safe release of her friends. Thankfully, friendship proved strong enough to overcome Tirek even with all that magic at his disposal and he was blasted back to Tartarus with a combined rainbow attack. As atrocious and heinous as he was set up to be, this Tirek stood firmly against the show's main message of friendship entirely by his own choice, and unlike the other villains on the show he had no Affably Evil, Laughably Evil, or redeemable features at all.
 * In Spawn The Animated Series, Jason Wynn stands out in an already very dark show. Wynn is the director of the NSC. He is the one who ordered the death of Al Simmons by having him burned alive. He uses his position to protect child killer Billy Kincaid from the police by killing anyone who discovers Kincaid's brutal crimes. He is covering up Kincaid's crimes in order to extort favors from Kincaid's father, a corrupt senator. When visiting crime boss Tony Twist, Wynn has two prostitutes that were with Tony killed, so no one besides Tony would know he was there. Wynn is also using his position to steal weapons from the US Department of Defense and is selling them to various terrorists and dictators across the globe. When one of Wynn's employees, Terry Fitzgerald, discovers Wynn's crimes, Wynn frames him these crimes, putting Terry's life in a tailspin. Wynn later orders a hit squad to kill Terry's wife Wanda and his daughter Cyan. Wynn also orders Chief Banks to shoot police officer Twitch Williams, when Twitch gets close to uncovering Wynn's crimes. After Terry reveals Wynn's crimes to the world, Wynn becomes a free agent and seeks the mask of Genghis Khan, which will give him the powers of Hell. We learn that Wynn had one his former subordinates, Major Forsberg, thrown into a cell and starved, when he tried to leave Wynn's services. Wynn threatens to kill Forsberg's family unless he tells him where to find the mask. When Terry tries to kill Wynn in revenge, Wynn has him dragged to an opium den and forcible drugged, because Wynn thinks Terry slowly rotting away in this den is more of a fitting punishment then a quick death. Wynn later uses a knife to try and slowly torture Terry, while gloating about how he will sell his wife into forced prostitution
 * Ch'rell from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was an Utrom criminal who was imprisoned by his people for his various crimes. Ch'rell managed to force the transport ship he was being carried on to crash on Earth. Ch'rell escaped and took the guise of an Japanese crime boss named Oroku Saki, better known as the Shredder. Shredder wanted revenge on his people and went to great lengths to find the Utroms still on marooned Earth.
 * In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) Shredder attacked Splinter's master, Hamato Yoshi, believing he worked for the Utroms. After having his minions work over Yoshi with torture, Shredder personally killed Yoshi, an act that would lead to Shredder becoming the Turtles Arch-Enemy. Shredder's Foot Ninja also kidnapped innocent people and mutated them into monsters to use as slave labor to try a locate a possible Utrom base underground. Shredder has shown to be a very cruel boss. He murders one of his men who failed to deliver some stolen goods for him, due to the Turtles involvement. Shredder also would punish Baxter Stockman for his failures, by grievously injuring him, until eventually Stockman was nothing more then a Brain in a Jar. Shredder also displayed a complete disregard for human life, after an Triceraton Invasion resulted in Beijing becoming a city floating in the sky, Shredder decides to steal the anti gravity generator that is keeping the city in the air. When Karai objects noting that stealing the generator will result in the city crashing into the ground and killing millions in the process, Shredder overrules her and tells her to do it anyway. Some of Shredder's worst crime happen when Donatello visits a Bad Future where Shredder is a dictator who controls the world. Shredder has Secret Police on the streets to round up any dissenters and is using both Utrom and human slave labor (with humans having to work 18 hours a day) to build a giant teleportation device, so Shredder can conquer other planets. In this future, Shredder executes his former servant Hun, while Hun is begging to be let back into the Shredder's service.
 * Ch'rell returns in the movie Turtles Forever. After being rescued from imprisonment by 1987 Shredder and Krang, Utrom Shredder takes over their Technodrome and uses its technology to try and conquer The Multiverse. When Shredder discovered that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are in every alternative reality, he starts to lose it. Shredder decides to find the Prime Universe and kill the Turtles in that reality, which he believes will destroy the rest the multiverse. When Shredder discovers that he too will be destroyed along with the rest of the multiverse, Shredder still doesn't care, putting his hatred of the Turtles and desire for revenge above everything.