Complete Monster/Comic Books



Remember when villains in Comic Books were harmless thugs and pranksters? These days, you'll find much worse. One of the marks of the Iron Age of comics is the increasing spread of cannibalism or rape as a routine feature of supervillains. And if it's a Garth Ennis book, both at the same time.

The Big Two:

 * DC and Vertigo
 * Marvel

Others:

 * Sin City's violent and hard Anti Heroes are rooted for mainly because the villains they fight tend to be Complete Monsters.
 * Kevin is a young cannibal Serial Killer who acts as a hitman for Cardinal Roark when he's not murdering and eating prostitutes -- and even worse is that he eats them piece by piece, keeping the women alive as long as possible and making them watch, as evidenced when he got his hands on, who . However, he gets one of the most gruesome, over-the-top, terribly long, and yet poetic punishments imaginable from the Sociopathic Hero Marv....
 * Roark Junior is the son of a US Senator with the appearance of a handsome young playboy (at first; see the top image for what he looks like afterwards). In reality, he is a sadistic pedophile with a penchant for raping and murdering pre-teen girls and who Loves to Hear Them Scream. These horrible crimes are covered up by his corrupt Senator father (brother of the aforementioned Cardinal, natch), which means that no one on the police force is willing to take him down until John Hartigan saves his latest victim, Nancy Callahan, and goes through eight long years of prison for it because of the vengeful Senator dad. Near the end, it's revealed that Roark Junior is impotent unless he hears little girls scream in pain and that there were hundreds of victims.
 * Seth from The Authority fits this perfectly. A sadistic (implied) child rapist, he calls himself the "six billion dollar bastard". Tired of the Authority's interference in their affairs and afraid of their influence on the world (particularly after the Doctor ruined two presidential candidates by causing them to make out in public), a coalition of interests decided to develop a living weapon capable of defeating the Authority. To this end, they either acquired or kidnapped Seth, an skinny, ignorant, and unambitious hillbilly with an apparent history of being sexually abused by his uncles, transformed him into a cybernetically-enhanced monstrosity, then set him loose inside the Carrier. Armed with over 1,000 post-human abilities, Seth very quickly neutralized all of the Authority, with the sole exception of the Midnighter and Jenny Quantum, who managed to steal a jet and crash it into the side of the Carrier. Despite this, Seth ripped the Carrier from its orbit and scuttled it in Antarctica. Convinced that Midnighter and Quantum were dead, the coalition allowed Seth to retire to a residence within the White House with a harem of prepubescent girls. The surviving Authority members, meanwhile, were all dumped into degrading new lives while the team was replaced by a new team approved by the seven richest governments on Earth. Unbeknownst to all at the time, Seth's scuttling of the Carrier tore a hole in the Bleed.
 * Kid Miracleman, as re-envisioned by Alan Moore and John Totleben, is both so powerful and so psychotic that his alter ego, the young and innocent Johnny Bates, resists uttering his transformation word. When Johnny finally does so to stop the boys in his group home from raping him, Kid Miracleman tears apart his assailants and momentarily considers sparing the one nurse who'd been kind to him. Then he reconsiders, lest people say he's "going soft", and punches the top half of her head into a fine red mist. And that's just the beginning: he then rampages through London, creating possibly the most visceral Scenery Gorn in history by massacring tens of thousands and desecrating their corpses by draping their flayed skins from clothes lines, creating a chessboard with breasts as pieces, and making a rain of severed hands and feet. During his destructive rampage, he prefers to mutilate the children in his path rather than kill them outright.
 * Tomoe Ame's cousin Noriko is known as The Blood Princess. She's had homicidal tendencies since childhood, enjoys humiliating her defeated opponents (especially if her opponent is Tomoe), and uses beheading as a morale booster. She later gets a Karmic Death.
 * General Fujii was the head of a gang that took over a village. They reduced the workers to slaves, and ordered them to farm and cultivate for long hours. They would continue to do this until the tax collector came, at which point they would just kill all the villagers and go to another town. When Usagi infiltrates them, he's discovered and tortured, with Fujii taking his swords. When the peasants revolt, the slaughter their way through them, and Fujii abandons most of his men to die or face the police. He and his loyal Dragon take over another gang and launch raids on a village, where he almost murders the elderly headsman for refusing them. When the heroes attack the gang to take him down, he abandons his dragon to run. He is such a bastard that even the aforementioned gang becomes repulsed by him. Usagi actually repeatedly calls him a "monster".
 * Willy Pete, from Empowered, was a man once and is now a fire elemental. But he still has a man's appetites and satisfies them with rape and killing, which, in his case, are one and the same, thanks to his constantly superheated body.And, as we later learn, through cannibalism. Because all normal food is incinerated on contact with him, he resorts to eating superheroes/villains. The worst part is that he doesn't even need to eat'; he just does it because he likes the taste. Oh, and he still manages to top himself at the end of volume five via instant death of ten supers, followed by throwing as much fire as he could through the portal they came through without even knowing what was on the other end, thereby forcing Emp and Mindfuck into a Sadistic Choice from Hell?
 * Now that he's actually been shown as something other than a vaguely defined "heavy hitter" of a supervillain, Deathmonger. Killing Superheroes in the world of Empowered is bad enough. But then Volume 6 tells us that the only reason he kills them is to see if they're one of the few who come back to life after getting killed. If they do, he enslaves them with his superscience and necrotech to serve him however he wants. Forever. The worst part is, he leaves most of them fully conscious of what has happened, but unable to do anything to help themselves. There's really no other category for someone who decapitates a still presumably conscious hero, turns where his head was into a mobile command center, then forces him to use his indestructible severed skull as a weapon. To top that, though, he did it again to said hero's sister who came to try and rescue him. For extra evil, it's implied that Deathmonger doesn't even need them conscious to control them. If there's enough of them left to be aware, he seems to just prefer them conscious. For such a lighthearted series, Empowered sure gets a lot of brutal villains.
 * Ninjette's father. In the span of 'Jette's lifetime, he has beat her senseless on several occasions under the pretense of training, repeatedly undermined her self esteem and made it so she was unnaturally weary of forming interpersonal relationships. When he betrothed his daughter to a Dirty Old Man of an allied clan, Ninjette tried to lose her virginity (the deal was for a virgin bride) but her clan was too frightened of her father to take her up on the offer. Instead, she slept with her childhood friend who was prince of an allied clan. Her father's reaction was to slaughter his bodyguard, castrate the prince and stuff that in his mouth before ripping his head off, fully knowing there'd be a war. He then proceeded to beat his daughter so she couldn't participate. Or piss without blood. Or eat solid food. To top it off, he's been shown as raping a genin around his daughter's age and is bent on dragging his runaway daughter back to the clan without hands or feet to serve as a broodmare.
 * Professor Victor Chambon of Dungeon The Early Years not only abandons his mentally deficient son, but is also a Diabolical Mastermind who plans on taking over the city by kidnapping the children of the city's leaders and hypnotising them into assassinating their parents. He also hypnotizes students and uses their bodies to rape women. Some of this was part of his overall scheme, but plenty of it was done solely to satisfy his own desires.
 * From the Sonic the Hedgehog comics:
 * Dr Finitevus was once a fellow scientist of a race of prosperous echidnas, until a freak accident changed his looks and intelligence. Despite his new-found genius, he was declared mentally unstable and was to be put down. He escaped and later sold out his home to Dr. Robotnik. Everyone who had once lived there died later.
 * Furthermore, this guy manipulated four whole sides in a war (Dingoes, Echidnas, and two Dark Legion factions) into providing the fuel for the fire of his master plan, which is basically him deciding the world is hopelessly corrupt and he wants to purify it...in fire. He, to this end, manipulated Dimitri, a head in a jar, into providing secrets and information, and then manipulated Knux into becoming Knuxerjak and starting a battle with his former friends after the whole corruption from power thing. Finitevus' expression at the scene where Knux becomes Enerjak shows he is not only mad, but completely delighted, even as his betrayed allies watch on and denounce him.
 * And he still has the balls to say he's a Well-Intentioned Extremist. Any other Well-Intentioned Extremist would beat him down for degrading their trope.
 * Although the Anti-Spiral would probably go out for a pub crawl with him.
 * Dr. Robotnik, also from the Archie Sonic series, delights in causing suffering, is fiercely obsessed with power, and is willing to deprive creatures of their free will to make them work in his factories. Don't mistake his occasional brief team-ups with the heroes for acts of redemption; he just cooperates with them when he thinks it will be to his own benefit. And his humor doesn't excuse his atrocities either.
 * To elaborate as to why Robotnik belongs on this list, here are a few examples of his activities. During the Great War, he intended to test weapons he'd developed for the government on his own people and fled to the Mobians side when he was to be punished for his actions. While acting as Warlord for King Acorn, he secretly captured a peaceful village of mobian monkeys and utilized them in an early attempt to create mechanical slaves by surgically implanting cybernetics, and of that entire village only one survived the process. Afterwards, he sabotaged the roboticizer developed by Charles Hedgehog just as it was to be used on his wounded brother Jules, making him think he'd turned his own brother into a mindless drone. When Jules' wife discovered the truth, Robotnik had Jules toss her into the Roboticizer and transformed into a robian as well, orphaning Sonic and crushing Charles' spirit to the point of retiring from being a Science Minister to running a chilidog stand. He then did similarly to Tails' father Amadeus on the day of his birth, making it seem as though Amadeus could care less for his newborn son and subsequently shattering his wife's heart, throughout which Robotnik maintained a straight face. Afterwards followed his betrayel of King Acorn and the takeover of mobius, during which countless families were broken and millions enslaved, and over the course of a decade, he'd wreak havoc upon planet Mobius, destroying the ecology and even pushing more than a few mobian breeds to the brink of extinction. And just prior to his death, he displayed a deeply disturbing relish at the thought of murdering one of his own kind and was positively gleeful when he got the chance to use his latest and greatest weapon on a fellow overlander.
 * And then there is his successor, Eggman, who hailed from a Mobius where he eventually conquered and destroyed everything and then decided to head to Mobius Prime to replace his deceased doppleganger and re-live the thrill of conquering Mobius out of boredom, and is still pretty much the reigning king of evil on Mobius. Though he's gone through several bouts of Villain Decay, when he comes back, he comes back BIG! His evil is, if anything, even more affable than his predecessor, which, if anything, makes him even more of a Complete Monster. One of the most unnerving of his many, many atrocious acts, is the creation of the Egg Grapes. Like his old plans of powering robots with animals, but on a bigger scale. These things sucked the life force from Mobians--sucked them completely dry, in fact--to power his city. He basically reeradicated the Echidna race with these things alone. Ten seconds in the process was enough to render Charmy Bee a semi-coherent loon. One of his (now deceased) minions actually asked Eggman if there wasn't some more efficient energy source he could use. He agreed there probably was, but "Where was the fun in that?" Really quite chilling. Before that, he pretended to be a savior to a displaced group of his race--including his own brother--when he was letting them get fatally poisoned by radiation with the intent of robotosizing them later. He was especially gleeful about doing this to his aforementioned brother. And all the stuff written about his predecessor above? He did almost all of that, too, in his home dimension.
 * Likewise, Robotnik from (British) Sonic the Comic has shades of this, and instead of teaming up with the heroes to help stop a greater threat and protect his rule, he decides to lure Chaos to them so that they can all finally die for thwarting his plans for so long, even though it also means his own death. Not to mention trying to destroy the entirety of Mobius simply because he was tired of losing to Sonic (though having his entire empire destroyed may have had something to do with it). He's not the only monster in the series, either. Dr. Zachary stole the Master Emerald from the Floating Island in order to get some form of revenge on the other Echidnas, leaving the (inhabited) island to fall out of the sky onto the mountains below, and he was hoping it would land on some where inhabited. And that's not even mentioning Super Sonic.
 * Dark Enerjak is also from the Archie Sonic series and is the tyrannical ruler of another dimension. He is actually a version of Knuckles the Echidna whose Chaos Powers went out of control, also fueled by a desire to make the world a better place. While he started out noble, he gradually went more and more insane as time went on, before he considered everyone an enemy. Among his atrocities are: the sinking of an entire continent, likely causing countless deaths; the destruction of several enemy cities, such as Station Square, as punishment for their defiance; and the capture of his strongest opponents and ripping their soul out - victims including Sonic, Shadow, Tails, Amy, Sally, and just about all the villains, including the previously-mentioned Eggman and Finitevus.
 * As if to re-affirm his evil, you get a full shot of many of his more prominent victims after he demonstrates the process on his newest captive. He turns the souls into robotic slaves known as "Prelates" with his power. His soulmate was one of his victims, and he made sure not to use her soul to form a Prelate until the final battle...he summoned her to fight their daughter, much to said daughter's disbelief. He also announced how it would be "unfortunate" to suck his daughter's soul out too, showing he's far gone.
 * Upon getting his power taken away, he pretends to be sane again, hoping his daughter will give it back. Fortunately, she's wise to his true nature and promptly shatters the very sword that makes it possible to transfer such great power between individuals.
 * Another one from the Archie Sonic series is General Kage Von Stryker, the leader of the Eggman-backed Dingo Regime. After ousting his father from power, Kage led his people in conquering Angel Island, imprisoning the Echidnas in what were clearly concentration camps, which led to countless deaths. The one good thing to come of Knuckles becoming Enerjak (not to be confused with Dark Enerjak above) was that he atomized this bastard and wiped his city off the map.
 * The Duke of Lorraine from Rex Mundi. At first, Lorraine seems a decent guy, if a bit harsh with his dead wife, his daughter hating him and trying to win the affections of heroine Genevieve. He soon reveals himself as a vicious monster who masterminds a murderous secret society for the purpose of seizing power in France and launching a bloody crusade to conquer all he can, expelling or just murdering Muslims, massacring anyone who stands in his way, and launching bloody pogroms of 'unfit' minorities. (Nazi allegories very much in effect.) Lorraine crosses the Moral Event Horizon from the massacres he orders, then by ruthlessly shooting the PREGNANT Genevieve when she reveals the child she's carrying is hero Julien Sauniere's.
 * Tujiro of the Grendel comics is a mass-murdering Japanese Vampire/Kabuki Actor involved in human trafficking and a recurring villain for the Grendels. The Grendels themselves may do terrible things, but they either have a Morality Pet (like Hunter Rose) or a very good excuse (like Orion Assante). Tujiro, on the other hand is a serial killer who specializes in young boys. First he drains them of their blood while taking one of their eyes as trophies. The other he eats. Tujiro runs a human slaving operation where people are kidnapped for forced servitude and he has easy access to any child he wants. Escaping justice at the hands of the mother of a victim, Tujiro ends up as the pope in a dystopian future where thousands are worked to death and enslaved to him. Tujiro gruesomely murders those who discover his true nature and uses his position to continue his disturbing feeding habits. His ultimate goal is to create a gun to blot out the sun and establish a reign of vampires where humans are nothing but cattle.
 * The Garth Ennis miniseries Crossed, from Avatar Press, mixes Zombie Apocalypse with this trope. A plague turns infected humans into unrestrained monsters determined to act out their darkest desires while retaining all their knowledge and intellect. In one scene, a group of infected rape half their captives before imprisoning them in a shipping crate, knowing that watching the results of the infection and the captives turning on each other will be more entertaining.
 * The daughter-raping fundamentalist cult-leading Pratt family patriarch from the second series Family Values and the titular sadistic Serial Killer Harold from the third series Psychopath definitely count, and in some ways are worse than the crossed, as, unlike the latter, they weren't made that way by the infection.
 * Steve from "Badlands" is shown to have been sadistic, ruthless and sociopathic long before the Crossed outbreak, as demonstrated by her treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and her abandonment of people who trusted her after the outbreak. While she's implied to have a Freudian Excuse and seemingly mellows out during her travels with her companions, she proves herself a monster when she shoots Greg in the kneecap to leave him for the Crossed and willingly infects herself at the end.
 * Chantique from the Crucible: she throttles a man to death, forces the protagonist to experience over 1000 years of suffering and pain, screws with his head and makes him drive his friend away too late to realize that he's been used, mocks him after his friend kills himself rather than murder Zayne (she simply says "Meaningless, Wasn't It?"), shows a disturbing lust for violence, revels in death, and it's heavily implied that every one of her atrocities are simply to get revenge on Jarael. The worst thing? She killed her fellow students by BURYING THEM ALIVE. The crucible as a whole also qualifies for turning pacifists into complete killers, and for enslaving people. From the exact same comic is Antos Wyrick, aka Demagol. He sells his own daughter into slavery simply because she is disruptive to his school (which causes his wife to kill herself). He also performs Josef Mengele style experiments on men, women, and children simply to replicate his work (which kills many), puts Rohlan Dyre into a chemical coma for most of the series and allows him to take the fall for his atrocities, commits two brutal double homicides, and is apparently so foul that even the Mandalorians, who have a rather dubious moral compass, have adopted his name as a substitute for "complete and utter Monster". The death of these two monsters was incredibly well deserved.
 * Fun fact: Demagol is Chantique's father. She's the one he sold to slavers. Talk about In the Blood.
 * Another KOTOR example is Haazen. While his skills as a manipulator are certainly impressive, he has little sympathy because of the sheer selfishness of his crimes. To make a long story short, he causes every atrocity in the first 35 issues, turns Zayne's mentor into a colossal dick, and tries to destroy the Jedi just to piss on the grave of a man he already murdered 33 years before.
 * A minor Star Wars character who only physically appears in one comic of the "Dark Times" series (which depict the aftermath of Episode 3, when Palpatine has all but total power in the galaxy) manages in his brief screentime to become a "shining" example of the trope as well: Dezono Qua. He even has a Meaningful Name tipping off readers knowledgeable in Native-American myths about his nature. (He . Literally.) Even Jedi Master Dass Jennir was so appalled at his horrific crimes and callous attitude that he decided to just shoot him dead.
 * Star Wars comics have a long history of complete monsters in their ranks. Let's also give nods to Naga Sadow, Exar Kun, and Freedon Nadd of the Old Republic era...Naga Sadow is cruel, treacherous, and monstrous by the standards of the SITH who masterminds an enormous war, manipulates a tortured boy into helping him do so, and blows up an entire sun rather than be captured. Nadd, as Naga's apprentice, is a fallen Jedi who delighted in running a genocidal dictatorship. Exar Kun, though? Well, from masterminding the Sith War to murdering his kind old master to essentially living to corrupt everything he could...
 * And Kun's idea of fun is to corrupt a too-proud aspiring Jedi and then incinerate him with his own anger or throw an ace pilot around until he looks like an amphistaff's chew toy and then Mind Rape him across the Despair Event Horizon -- and he would have succeeded were it not for a passing Sith operative-turned-smuggler-turned-Jedi.
 * In Legacy, we have Vul Isen, the guy who callously murdered 80% of all life on Mon Calamari. He enjoys every minute and is PROUD of his abilities to commit genocide. How bad is he? His cruelty causes the HUTTS to consider joining the GA and IR to take the Sith down, and Cade's agenda in the final three issues is capturing Isen and bringing him to justice. He's not even high ranking and he still owns his fellow Sith in the evil department.
 * Legacy has its share of these. Most of the One Sith are atrociously evil, but Darth Krayt takes the cake. Even if he was a good man before becoming a Sith, Krayt sabotages a mass terraforming project that leads to horrible fates for countless beings, uses the aftermath of the disaster to trigger a galaxy-wide war, then launches a coup to take over the victor and, by extension, the galaxy. When one Mon Calamari senator stands against him, Krayt, on the spot, orders the execution of every Mon Calamari with the summary execution of ten percent of the population, with the rest herded into work camps. Krayt eventually grows to believe the galaxy must suffer 'death and rebirth' as well and becomes an Omnicidal Maniac.
 * Jango Fett's archnemesis, Tor Vizsla, founder of the Death Watch extremists bent on returning the Mandalorians to their worst warmongering ways and the reason for every tragedy in his life. When Jango was a young boy, his entire family was killed by Vizsla and his men when they got caught in the crossfire of his war with Jaster Mereel and the True Mandalorian faction. Later on, when Fett had succeeded Mereel as leader of the True Mandalorians, Vizsla conspired to trick the Jedi into believing that the True Mandalorians were slaughtering political dissidents (the "dissidents" were actually armed insurgents) along with women and children. The evidence for the latter was provided by Vizsla's men. The result? A horrific battle between the Mandalorians and a task force of Jedi that left almost everyone on both sides dead.
 * There's also Imperial Major Stafuv Rahz from the obscure one-shot comic "Bring Me the Children". He's one of the Gektl people, native to a planet that boats vast ore reserves which has a planetary shield to keep greedy corporations away, and it was Rahz's job to maintain that shield. But the Empire, ever in search of worlds to exploit and aliens to be dicks to, greases his palm, so he deactivates the shield. The result? All the Gektl but him are sold into slavery. As the title of the story implies, he later goes after a bunch of kids whose teacher is a member of the Allience, threatening to film their live executions if the Rebels don't agree to a hostage trade. It's mentioned that Darth Vader hates this guy, presumably due to his own past as a slave.
 * In League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (where few characters are particularly nice), Griffin (The Invisible Man) stands out as taking nastiness to an extreme level, at one point beating up a policeman with a brick simply because he wanted his uniform. This is all before his . And he rapes teenage girls and impregnates 3 before joining the League..
 * Fantomas of Les Hommes Mysterieux is described by Mina as a more horrifying creature than Dracula himself; in her mind, at least Dracula was human at some point and had human feelings and passions. She characterizes Fantomas as "a thing" and feels he's always been one.
 * Basically all of the characters in Wanted. We're talking about people who, when they take breaks from secretly running the Ancient Conspiracy that keeps a Crapsack World in its current state, amuse themselves by going on killing sprees and raping random people and sometimes take sojourns to other dimensions, where they can also kill and rape. They all hate and fear Mister Rictus, whose fondness for occasionally eating people may be the least worrying thing about him. Not even because he's more evil than them, but because he's so unpredictable - no one can tell what he might do next and he could (and eventually does) turn on them as well. Basically the same reasons why other DCU villains hate and fear the Joker - which makes sense, since Rictus is basically a Captain Ersatz version of the Joker to begin with.
 * The Governor and in The Walking Dead. The former is an insane despotic leader of a small town of survivors, who feeds any survivors from outside the town to the zombies in order to keep them docile so he can run "fights" between people in his town with the zombies surrounding them. And this is only the start of all the sick shit he does during his run in the series, which includes raping one of the main characters repeatedly, leaving his own daughter "alive" as a zombie so he can basically keep her as a pet, and being responsible for . The latter killed two children at the prison, brutally ending what had been a decent run of Infant Immortality in the comic up until that point.
 * When the protagonists first encounter Thomas Richards, he merely comes across as a nerdy, polite and ultimately harmless inmate imprisoned for tax evasion. This makes it all the more shocking when he's revealed to be a homicidal lunatic who was really imprisoned for dismembering his wife for no reason at all besides his own enjoyment, Thomas decapitated two little girls, Hershel Greene's twin daughters, Rachel and Susie and then, taking advantage of the confusion surrounding his murders, he attempted to decapitate Andrea as well. While he failed in his attempt he ended up scarring her in the process. Eventually captured, when the community looks like they're going to execute him, Thomas is rescued by a woman he had befriended earlier named Patricia. Believing that Thomas is insane, not evil, and in need of psychological help, Patricia plans on the two of them escaping together. In thanks, Thomas immediately tries to strangle her to death. Though a minor antagonist in the grand scheme of things, Thomas acted as a dark harbinger of what was to come by showing how much worse humans could be than zombies.
 * Requiem Vampire Knight...Boy howdy. In that series, the dead are reincarnated on the Bizarro Crapsack World of Resurrection as monsters and undead depending on their sins and their justifications for them (the more horrible the better). The ruling class of Resurrection are the vampires, who are the reincarnations of the very worst of the worst among humanity, those who not only smashed across the Moral Event Horizon, but did it For the Evulz. Of course, Dracula is the ruler of the most powerful nation, with the greatest number of vampires, including a custom-made "royal family" composed of historical luminaries such as Elizabeth Bathory, Caligula, Nero, Attila, and being the biggest bastards they can be. And that's not counting all the non-vampires who also count...
 * The Unfunnies: Troy Hicks, Troy Hicks, TROY HICKS. He intentionally turns an entire cartoon world into a horrifying Crapsack World for shits and giggles. He knows they're not just drawings, since he switched places with a poor sucker from that world to escape death row, where he was on due to his being a child molester/killer. In addition, as far as we know, he gets away with EVERYTHING.
 * The best example of this from Hack Slash is probably Dr. Andrew Rodin, the scientist working with the Black Lamp Society. Most slashers at least have the "excuse" of being brain-damaged, insane, Always Chaotic Evil undead monsters. This guy was just a sadistic bastard, using his scientific genius to create women for the sole purpose of being sex slaves, which often end up abused. He creates other species for the sole purpose of killing others and brutally slaughters a co-worker when she objects.
 * For a slasher example, there's Ashley Guthrie. While admittedly amusing here and there, he's still a child sociopath who, even before he became a member of The Undead, did things like strangle a litter of kittens to death (he was annoyed his cat was spending so much time with them) before caving his baby brother's skull in (he was annoyed he was always playing with his toys). After becoming a slasher, his first acts were to cause his father to commit suicide and drive his mother insane.
 * The Big Bad is Akakios, AKA Samhain. At first he is a man with Laser-Guided Amnesia and a Dark and Troubled Past who is an ally and later lover of heroine Cassandra Hack. After a series of events, however, it is revealed that Samhain is the original 'slasher, ' Akakios, founder of the evil Black Lamp Society. Regaining his memories and true personality, Akakios is disgusted by his former self's feelings for Cassandra, reasoning he could have taken her any time 'whether she wanted it or not.' Akakios forges the undead slashers into a fighting force and systematically kidnaps or kills everyone Cassie loved, purging the upper echelons of the Black Lamp Society for being too nice despite their own atrocities. Akakios plans to spread the slasher disease, turning innocent humans all over the globe into murderous monsters.
 * Gideon Gordon Graves. When someone's profession is Asshole, you know he's not a good person, but good Christ!
 * The original G.I. Joe comic, first under Marvel, now with IDW, has Doctor Venom. Where Cobra Commander at least had one or two humanizing moments, Venom was pure evil incarnate distilled into paint thinner. Invented a machine whose sole purpose was mind-raping prisoners, which was then adapted into brainwashing them. Had to team up with Kwinn and Snake Eyes for their mutual survival, yet never missed a chance to back-stab one or both of them and would repeatedly end up begging for his miserable life if cornered. If that's not enough, when Destro went into a Heroic BSOD at the sight of Baroness making an apparent Heroic Sacrifice to save him, Venom commented to Cobra Commander, "Doesn't he realize love is just the overestimation of one woman's value over another?" within earshot of Destro! Not only did he never show remorse, he never showed anything but child-like glee when inflicting suffering on others and anger if they survived.
 * Dr. Nikken, the man responsible for the program that created Hip Flask and the other Elephantmen, shows absolutely no remorse for kidnapping and horrifically killing thousands of women or for creating a race of sentient beings whose sole intended purpose was war. In fact, he’s rather proud of his accomplishments.
 * Judge Dredd has featured several examples, among them the megalomaniac Judge Cal (who sentenced the entire population of Mega-City One to be executed in alphabetical order) and the Omnicidal Maniac Judge Death (who did the same for his entire planet). Note that, while all Dark Judges are genocidal psychopaths, Judge Death's Origins Issue revealed that he was already invoking the Complete Monster trope when he was still alive.
 * In addition, there is the leadership of East Meg One, specifically the Diktatorat (Supreme Judge Bulgarin, and Judge Snekov; not Judge Vlad though.) and Bulgarin's Dragon War Marshal Kazan. They cold-bloodedly planned the Apocalypse War for years, knowing full well that it would result in the deaths of hundreds of millions, including tens of millions from their own city, and that was the best case scenario. The only one of the group to show any concern was Judge Vlad, the main architect of the strategic attack against Mega City One, and this was because Judge Snekov revealed that, according to the estimates, they would expect to lose 12 per cent of East Meg One, or 60 million citizens, in the initial exchange. When Vlad proposed that the Diktatorat warn the public so that they would be better prepared, Supreme Judge Bulgarin sneered "The people? What have they got to do with it?" implying that the East Meg leadership only cared about their own power and glory and little for their own people.
 * Red Mist/Motherfucker from Kick-Ass. While the movie adaptation made him more sympathetic, he was just as much of a bastard as his father in the comics. For one, he expressed sadistic glee when he . But if that weren't enough, issue 4 of the sequel had him cross a bigger Moral Event Horizon: he  . Even his own lackeys thought they went too far. If he didn't lose his fans before, he definately lost them now.
 * The Plutonian in Irredeemable, after his Face Heel Turn, seems to be determined to be the biggest one of these he can be. The essential purpose of the book is to ask the question of "What would happen if Superman suddenly turned evil?' Given how the first thing we see him do is murdering a mother and her baby, and that's not even the first thing he's done to cross the Moral Event Horizon, the answer seems to be 'He'd fit in this trope pretty nicely, actually.' The aforementioned atrocity obviously being just a beginning, he also partially and painfully lobotomized his former teen sidekick, knowing full well that he is effectively immortal and will have to suffer eternal brain damage. He later allows his former compatriots to choose only ten out of millions of Singaporeans to rescue from a massive tsunami (that he triggers, natch) prior to his absolute destruction of Singapore. His reason for devastating Singapore? The UN-representative of the aforementioned country wasn't entirely honest about why his country wanted to elect him as their absolute monarch. After, he is shown to dream of reversing all the horrible things he did - implication being not because he was punished, but out of regret. Except, subsequently, when given the opportunity to redeem himself , he mercilessly refuses it. As a first thing he does upon returning to Earth, he carves his initials into the USA, uses the new paradigm as projectiles, arranges a kinky threesome with Cutter and Belle Noir, and promises rivers of blood to his followers. Not to mention, Burrows, the man who made a town commit suicide, chooses to kill himself rather than face the Plutonian's plans for earth.
 * Thorgal has it's share of these, many of which are evil aristocrats or other rulers. Shardar from  The Fall of Brek Zarith is especially nasty, deciding that rather than just surrender his rule to the rightful heir to the throne, it's better to poison his own court and destroy all his treasures, leaving the kingdom bankrupt, hoping that, to restore it, the new ruler will be forced to become as big a tyrant as him, while he escapes and plans to start new conquest, using the psychic powers of the baby he kidnapped.
 * One of the more notable is Volsung of Nichor, a Dirty Coward introduced and killed in the third album of the series. In The Guardian of the Keys, he is brought back to life by evil lesser diety, Nidhogg, who turns him into a perfect doppleganger of Thorgal. The deal is simple - he will seduce another diety who happened to have a soft spot for Thorgal, the titular Guardian, steal her magic belt, and bring it to Nidhogg, who will return him to his real form and grant him new life. What Volsung does? He steals the belt, returns to Midgard, kills Thorgal, takes his place, and, using magic powers of the belt, takes over the control of his village, murdering the current chief, rapes both his wife and Aaricia, and threatens to smash the head of the latter's baby daughter, all to destroy Thorgal's good name and avenge his own death...that he had brought upon himself - Thorgal's only crime was being there when Volsung got himself killed, he hadn't move a finger to help it and couldn't have stop it in any way.
 * Kriss of Valnor would be one of these if it wasn't for . Her own spin-off series reveals that it stands out among the numerous atrocities she had commited so much that it puzzles even the Gods, forcing her to reveal her backstory to Freya, up to the moment when she had meet Thorgal for the first time. It involves three Complete Monsters - her abusive step-father,  ; his newphew,  ; and the spoiled daughter of an aristocrat  . It's no wonder Kriss grew up to be how we all know her.
 * Blueberry has a number of nasty characters in its roster, but the worst is definitely 'Prosit' Von Luckner from the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine arc. A Dirty Coward with a sadist streak and a propensity to shoot his partners in the back, 'Prosit' has a lot of murders on his conscience, the most notable one being when he put a rattle-snake in the boot of his latest partner and then made him 'dance' so that the venom would spread faster in his system. His latest act of villainy is trapping Blueberry and two other people in a cave with no way out, leaving behind a big taunting message for his victims.
 * The Boys has a lot of characters who are assholes, but the one who best fits this is Black Noir, the clone of Homelander. There's really no other way to describe a guy who gleefully Eats Babies, commits murder-rapes, and eats hearts with a Slasher Smile. The villainy of the other two contenders for worst monster in the comic Homelander and Butcher himself was ultimately Black Noir's fault too. Black Noir drove Homelander insane by gaslighting him with the aforementioned atrocities so he would receive the sanction to kill him, which Noir thought was the only thing that gave his life meaning since he was created to kill Homelander. One of Black Noir's crimes was raping Butcher's wife Becky, which triggered Butcher's vendetta against superhumans.
 * The Vampire, later known appropriately as The Collector from Chew is a being with the ability to gain the powers of others through eating them. As someone who deeply desires to be the ultimate being, the Collector has hunted down, murdered and cannibalized many people, relishing sadistic mind games he plays with them as well. He isn't averse to a round of torture to get information, either. When he captures the hero Tony Chu's sister "Toni" Chu, he devours an arm and a leg and is furious that he can't gain her powers due to her having loaded up on beets, which blocks his powers. Toni, a psychic who can see the future of what she eats, informs the Collector her brother is going to kill him. Her lack of fear and her taunts make him snap and break her neck, even when he had no reason to kill her at that juncture. Even in such an odd and funny series, the Collector is a monster who treats the murder and cannibalism of so many people as stepping stones in his path to glory and power.
 * The Conan the Barbarian comics from Dark Horse have these examples...
 * Ra Sidh of The Midnight God commits mass murder on his own people to summon the Eldritch Abomination deity he worships: a deity so terrifying and nightmarish it frightens even hardened devotees of other dark gods. He lures Conan into confrontation by murdering his unborn child, and to summon his God, uses a boy Conan had formed a bond with solely to hurt the Cimmerian more. The world Ra Sidh intends to create is a horrible tyranny where he and his God reign supreme, which frightens even the kings of the dead empire Acheron who are only too willing to lend their aid to Conan to stop the evil sorcerer.
 * While Thoth-Amon is sometimes portrayed as a Noble Demon or given redeeming qualities, The Book of Thoth reveals him as a selfish, horrible monster. Starting as an ambitious orphan, Thoth murders his friend Amon and takes his name to steal Amon's new place in the Ibis Temple. When Thoth's mentor discovers Thoth has been worshiping the Serpent God Set, Thoth magically lobotomizes him to admit he is the 'real' heretic. Thoth has every member of the royal family in front of his chosen puppet killed to place him on the throne and magically lobotomizes him to use him as a puppet and convert all of Stygia to Set's worship, turning it into a hellhole. Thoth proceeds to have his mentor's son crucified, only rescued by the intervention of allies, and is so far gone that he considers having his friend crucified again after said friend saves his life. Thoth unleashes a plague to consolidate his power, which kills his own sister. when he discovers this, he no longer cares and sets about making new plans, any conscience he once had long gone.
 * Grimm Fairy Tales is a Darker and Edgier retooling of many classic stories and it shows in some of its villains.
 * The Jabberwock is the dark ruler of the mad realm of Wonderland. The Jabberwocky lures in innocents to Wonderland-preferably children-or has its cultists sacrifice them to the dark realm. All there are steadily drained of their sanity and find their human forms twisted until they are insane monsters and slaves to the realm's madness. The Jabberwocky spread its corruption over the once happy realm and its ultimate wish is to break free of Wonderland and spread its darkness to the 'real' world as well.
 * Cal King of the Robyn Hood story is possibly the most evil human villain in the whole mythos. An utter sociopath who bragged about stabbing a gay boy and getting away with it, Cal led the gang rape of the heroine Robin and then carved out her eye for spite. After nearly being burned to death, Cal returned with dark powers and an even greater drive for evil. He slaughters any of Robin's friends he finds, murdered the child son of King John and took nothing short of absolute glee in hurting everyone he could.
 * Pan, the dark ruler of Neverland, took control by ousting its previous ruler Barr. Pan proceed to destroy all the Fairies, except his manipulative lover Belle, and set up a dark tyranny over Neverland. To keep his powers and control, Pan used Belle's powers to abduct young boys from earth and devour them to steal their life force. After this, he resurrected them as undead slaves to his will-his 'Lost Boys.' Pan held almost total control over Neverland and when the only victim to ever escape him returned, Pan attempted to kill him with nothing short of undisguised relish and fury at anyone who challenged his selfish rule.
 * While an incredibly dark comic from The Dark Age of Comic Books, Spawn has several monsters who stand out:
 * Mammon operates as The Man Behind the Man to the devil Malebolgia. A Fallen Angel known as the Lord of The Forgotten Ones, Mammon desired to create the perfect Hellspawn to assist him in ascending to rulership of all creation. To this end, Mammon haunted the bloodlines of Al Simmons and Wanda Blake, sowing death and destruction to create more Hellspawn and always leaving corpses and ruined lives in his wake. Mammon proves himself to be Spawn's greatest, most intelligent and most dangerous enemy, condemning the souls Spawn would seek to protect to Hell to use them as leverage for their loved ones, and making deals to consolidate his power. When Satan returns and is furious at Mammon for claiming the throne, Mammon gets back in his former master's good graces by proposing to detonate the San Andreas Fault to kill and add the souls of many mortals to Hell's legions. After Satan is removed, Mammon unveils his master stroke- with Heaven and Hell sealed off from the world, Mammon sets out to conquer it from behind the scenes with Spawn's demonic daughter Morana, the product of his grand ambition.
 * In life, Billy Kincaid was a sadistic child killer. After being freed from jail, he lured a small girl into his ice cream truck and then murdered her. He then proceeded to chop off the girl's fingers and glue them onto a board as a trophy. After Spawn discovered Kincaid's brutal crimes, he killed Kincaid, sending him to hell. Dead, Kincaid became even worse than ever, given the task by Hell to gather more souls for them. Kincaid did this by possessing people and making them act out their worse impulses. This resulted in the murder of dozens of innocent people and the damnation of several more people to Hell, though Kincaid was having far too much fun to care. Kincaid also delighted in torturing the souls of children, especially one young boy part of the 'legion' inside of Spawn himself.
 * Clown/Violator was Spawn's Evil Mentor, sent by Malebolgia to train Spawn to be a solider in Hell's army. However, rather than train Spawn, Violator had a tendency to commit horrible crimes, such as ripping the hearts out of random mob bosses, just for fun. Later, Violator kidnapped Cyan, the 3 year old daughter of Spawn's widow Wanda. Violator framed Spawn for the kidnapping and then tried to kill Cyan by giving her a glass of poisoned milk. Spawn rescued Cyan and killed Violator in his clown form, sending him back to Hell. Violator later returned from Hell and possessed Jason Wynn, turning him into a Serial Killer. Wynn, under Violator's influence, would hire prostitutes that looked like Wanda and then murder them. Violator eventually gained complete control over Wynn's body and used his powers to turn random citizens into "clowns," transforming them into Brainwashed and Crazy psychopaths. Violator then ordered his clowns to go an violent rampage, resulting in massive property damage and several deaths. Violator later saved the life of a man of Barney Saunders, but this was no act of charity. Violator needed a new body to possess and chose Saunders. After possessing Saunders's body, Violator uses his powers to force the residents in Saunders's apartment complex to commit horrible crimes, including murder. Violator was able to use the violence in the apartment complex to further empower himself and then attempted to open a portal to Hell, which would allow his demon brothers to wreak havoc on Earth.