Complete Monster/Anime and Manga

""Time to put my foot down, eh?""

- Frieza, Dragon Ball

Anime and manga creators have created a wide variety of villains, and some of them, like the ones on this page, are utterly horrific in their cruelty and depravity.

The following series/franchises have their own pages:


 * Berserk
 * Bleach
 * Digimon
 * Dragon Ball
 * Elfen Lied
 * Fairy Tail
 * Fist of the North Star
 * Flame of Recca
 * Fullmetal Alchemist
 * Gundam
 * Hellsing
 * Higurashi
 * Inuyasha
 * Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
 * Mazinger Z
 * Great Mazinger
 * UFO Robo Grendizer
 * Naruto
 * One Piece
 * Pokémon Anime and Manga
 * Rurouni Kenshin
 * Sailor Moon
 * Speed Grapher
 * Tenjho Tenge
 * Umineko
 * Yu Yu Hakusho

Other Examples:
""...Some of his actions were despicable... Suicide when only half way to his goal! He could not be a true dicator... At the end of the day, he's still a failure... I will not become a failure like Hitler. Nothing will stop me from becoming a true dictator. In life... And, of course, in the Liar Game...""
 * Hayao Miyazaki isn't fond of villains and when it comes to antagonists, his movies are chockful of either (initially) villainous characters who turn out to have a good side to them as well, or "good" characters who turn out to have a few nasty tricks upon their sleeve. There is one subversion in the Ghibli canon, however; Laputa: Castle in the Sky, which features Colonel Muska, a government secret agent on a mission to retrieve Laputa. Once he does, at the expense of the heroes, he reveals he is the descendant of the Laputean monarchy, forces his way to the middle of the floating island and starts utilizing its sheer force to turn on everyone. While he sheds his Affably Evil front, he gleefully kills most of his allies by throwing them off the island to their deaths and then planning to use the Castle in the Sky to wipe out everything so that he can rule the world, thus crossing the Moral Event Horizon. Basically, Miyazaki's only true villain suitably plays this trope straight.
 * Sora from Air Gear. He's an absolute bastard who emotionally abused his brother and his girlfriend, the two people who loved him and trusted him most. He even brainwashed the latter, and when they stopped being useful to him, he threw them aside like trash. While he does have a slightly sympathetic past that paints him as a failure, this justification rings hollow when it's shown that he's orders of magnitude more powerful than every single rider except Ikki. Furthermore, he remorselessly killed several friends who were once in the same situation as him and who even helped him, all in the name of gaining personal power. He is either directly or indirectly responsible for all of the deaths in the series and he doesn't even think highly enough of the lives he's taken to feel something like satisfaction, let alone remorse or regret. After he is defeated, he spits in the face of redemption and even tries to turn his girlfriend into a bomb so that he could kill everyone in the tower in which he was fighting so that even if he were to lose, his opponents wouldn't win, and he only gave up afterwards when faced with overwhelming power that convinced him he would never be able to succeed. Even his terrifyingly Ax Crazy brother looks tame and compassionate in comparison.
 * The Patchman, the Big Bad of the series AR∀GO: City of London Police's Special Crimes Investigator is a vicious Serial Killer initially dubbed "This Era's Jack The Ripper" for his depraved and random murders. The Patchman murdered The Hero Arago's parents and later his brother Ewan in the future. The Patchman is later revealed to murder people so he can take pieces of them to keep his own rotting body mobile. He is also responsible for empowering his servants, the Four Horsemen after taking advantage of their pain and despair to enlist them in ending the world and destroying humanity. He reanimates Ewan as a corpse with his consciousness trapped in his mind to mess with Arago, and at the final battle he possesses Ewan so Arago can know the despair of his own brother killing him.
 * Luuza Luft from Aura Battler Dunbine (by Yoshiyuki Tomino, again), an Evil Matriarch of the worst kind who plots against her own husband (who, despite being the Big Bad, comes across as more sympathetic than her) to have the power all to herself and her lover Bishott (and it is doubtful she has any loyalty to him as well). She will do absolutely anything to get what she wants, including . Her Karmic Death is both brutal and highly satisfying.
 * Baki the Grapplers Yujiro Hanma, definitely. He beat the everloving crap out of his own son, titular Baki Hanma, so that Baki's entire body, except his face, is covered in scars, killed Baki's mother, and then beat up Baki's friends and allies just to show he could, ALL IN LESS THAN AN HOUR'. Yujiro has enough Charles Atlas Superpower to be effectively untouchable by police and authorities (even the military) and uses his abilities to do whatever suits his fancy without repercussions to put relentless psychological pressure on his son (including, but not limited to, threatening to kill his girlfriend if Baki fails his expectations, and to subject Baki's possible children to the same abuse he had piled on Baki), just to create an opponent worthy of himself. And that's not counting the thousands of people he murdered since he was at least sixteen, or the fact that every fight we've seen him in ended in him delivering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown while grinning like a maniac, just because it's the sadistic bastard's idea of fun. Or how he treats his other son (i.e. less than dirt on his slippers). Baki puts himself through Training From Hell and a series of incredibly brutal martial arts tournaments just to become able to protect himself and his loved ones from Yujiro. The worst part is that Yujiro hasn't got his comeuppance yet after about 600+ chapters - though this is quite understandable, as his defeat would end likely the series.
 * Tenzen Yakushiji, the Number Two of the Iga Clan in the Ninja War series Basilisk absolutely leaps heads and shoulders over any of his fellow ninja for sadism, cruelty, greed and monstrosity. Secretly a centuries old former Koga himself, Tenzen has nothing but loathing for the Koga and little use for his own Clan. When Princess Oboro seals away her mystic eyes, Tenzen attempts to rape her before being stopped by a Koga attack. Engaging the Koga ninja, Gyobu Kasumi, Tenzen hears how Gyobu's father was murdered by Iga and in their duel, tricks Gyobu into striking at a child, forcing the boy's father to take a fatal blow, solely so the child's pain rattles Gyobu enough for Tenzen to win. Tenzen sadistically toys with other ninja and even abandons his loyal student Koshiro because Koshiro had objected to his actions with Oboro. When Tenzen captures the beautiful Koga shinobi, Kagero, because her powers make raping her impossible, he brutally tortures her by impaling her with needles, before attempting to rape Oboro with intent of forcing her to dispel Kagero's powers to force himself on her as well. When he faces off with the young Koga leader Gennosuke, Tenzen reveals his intent to destroy all in his path, end the war victoriously and force Oboro to be his bride while he rules Japan from the shadows through the young shogun.
 * Yonemi Kamon from Battle Royale. The administrator of the Battle Royale Program, where high school students are forced to kill one another. Hobbies: watching students kill each other, killing students, joking about said students' deaths, raping orphanage directors, etc. Consider: Kamon is one of the most evil men ever depicted in manga.
 * What makes Yonemi so noteworthy (and awesome) as a villain is that unlike the movie portrayal of the Director, he doesn't even pretend to buy into that crap about maintaining order or protecting the honor of the Empire. He enjoys raping and killing, and he's a huge fan of the Program because he gets to see teenagers deal with gut-wrenching emotions before dying horribly. He's so hardcore, even soldiers are visibly nervous around him.
 * Kazushi Niida and Toshinori Oda are two Complete Monster students who enjoy murdering their classmates, especially Niida, who gets sexually turned on by killing and tries to rape a girl after smashing her face to pulp.
 * From Bio Meat, we have . At first, he seems to be . Then, he's . Then, when everything goes FUBAR, . 'THEN, it's revealed that . His reaction when confronted with this basically boils down to "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs" - always while keeping the same trademark bemused, smiling expression.
 * Beyblade has few:
 * Doji from Metal Fight Beyblade. He is a cruel, sadistic man who doesn't care about anyone in the Dark Nebula except Ryuga and takes pleasure in feeding people to L-Drago, and he does it to Dark Nebula bladers who lose a match and fail him or when they are no longer useful. He also recruits bladers against their will into the Dark Nebula and we see that all bladers who fail him are kept as prisoners in his headquarters. He makes no effort to hide how evil he is, openly mocking and laughing at his enemies as he enjoys their suffering. Ryuga has excuse of, but Doji is pure evil all on his own. It's satisfying to see him.
 * From the same series, we also have Reiji Mizuchi. He's a cold sadist who relishes the suffering of his enemies. Aside from Ryuga and Doji, he is only person who enjoys being in Dark Nebula. He destroys his opponents' Beyblades For the Evulz, even if they've already surrendered to him. His entire fighting style revolves around striking fear into his enemies, which he loves doing. And winning isn't his goal, breaking his opponent is. Even when he's already won, he has a habit of keeping the battle going just to cause his opponents even more pain and humiliation, all the while laughing his head off at their suffering! If it's any sign of his character, he named his Beyblade's finishing move "Poison Genocide" - that should tell you something about his personality. He embodies Teens Are Monsters and is one creepy scum who deserved . He is sometimes considered to be worse than Ryuga due to his cold sadism.
 * L-Drago itself qualifies. In Metal Fight Beyblade, we find out that . Also, L-Drago feeds on energy from other Beyblades and human energy and it's power  . He is the only Beyblade who is pure evil.
 * Blade of the Immortal brings us the truly despicable Shira, who's just around the level of Yujiro Hanma in his depravity. He murders a Hooker with a Heart of Gold, because he enjoys cutting up women and making their muscles seize up during sex. After that, he . After losing both of his hands to Manji, Shira is saved by his employer, who asks if he's chosen a new set of hands yet; he raped a hooker (to death) and young boy (who provides his new pair of hands) all night long in his cell. Later on, he mutilates and brutally cuts a woman to pieces, gags her with her own dismembered hand, impales her through the breasts, and rapes her to death, while eating parts of her corpse. After finding , he strips her of everything but an open shirt, tied huge rocks to her feet and left her tied to a dock, half submerged in water during winter. Eventually, Shira gets saddled with one of the most satisfying ends ever written for a manga.
 * It's exceptional how well Shira can execute numerous Bait the Dog moments while actually appearing sincere. A heartfelt speech to Rin?  Helping Renzo seek revenge?   Truly emotional pleading of Renzo to call off his revenge?
 * Chaka from Black Lagoon is possibly the biggest Jerkass in the entire series with little to no excuse for his needlessly sadistic and often idiotic behavior. Even Sociopathic Heroes such as Revy and Ginji are disgusted by this asshole's actions, and his abuse of Yukio at the bowling alley in particular is enough to bring out Rock's absolute worst language and drive him to violence. He gets a well-deserved comeuppance at the hands of Ginji, who
 * Masaru "Kodama" Kodaka, the second child to pilot Zearth in Bokurano (also from child-friendly mangaka Mohiro Kitoh), loves the rush of fighting the enemy in an urban district, gleefully justifies the reckless killing of bystanders by claiming that "it was their fate" and that a million deaths are outweighed by saving the whole world, and wants to destroy even more to provide business opportunities for his father, a Magnificent Bastard who is the only one he looks up to.
 * Then there's Dung Beetle in the anime, the 'cute mascot' who is utterly unsympathetic toward the doomed kids and even takes a perverse joy from seeing their misery - that's not to say he's a saint in the manga, but at least there, he eventually gets some Character Development and mellows out a bit.
 * In the manga, the most evil character has got to be Morihiro Hatagai. What he does to his student and lover Chizuru "Chizu" Honda is completely and utterly horrible, so it's no wonder the girl goes Yandere once he breaks her. He's considerably toned down in the anime, though, but still above Jerkass level; in the manga, he's so sick that, was trying to stab him after one talk.
 * And the worst part is  Crapsack World, indeed.
 * Norose Genichi, the Big Bad of Chaos;Head, is a sneering, arrogant, sadistic bastard with a god complex who specializes in Mind Rape, especially of young girls. What he did to Sena's family (and most especially the amusement he felt about it) was so far over the Moral Event Horizon that it begs belief and that was one of the first things that the audience knew about him!
 * Luciano Bradley, Psycho for Hire and Knight of Ten from Code Geass. Bradley is even known to be a Complete Monster in the eyes of most of the other characters in the show. Fearless Action Girl Kallen is visibly frightened the moment she finds out she is in the same room with him; the fact that he implies that he plans on raping and torturing her does not help alleviate that fear. He also kills his own men without a care (whether needed or not) and loves to kill people slowly using his mecha's energy drill while asking them what's the most important thing for them. It's taken to the point where neither of his KOR allies, Suzaku (whom he almost killed for the hell of it, and whose girlfriend he insulted) and Gino (whom he called a rich boy whose family name is the only reason for his position), seem to care at all when  kills him in battle (whereas she and Gino even exchange some semi-friendly banter).
 * It's worth noting that Luciano does not, in fact, have a single line of dialogue in which he isn't insulting, threatening, or otherwise expressing a desire for hurting someone. and at several points comments that his only reason for being a soldier is because that way, he can kill as many people as he wants and not be punished.
 * As a case study, Luciano Bradley, for his part, does get a Freudian Excuse. He had Abusive Parents, and . However, he can't gain the audience's admiration or pity because it's largely irrelevant to the fact that he enjoys killing people. There's also, then, the fact that it isn't even talked about in the actual anime, just in supplementary materials; as well as the fact that he isn't the only character in the series to have abusive parents.
 * How about V.V.? He manipulates Suzaku to kill Zero by telling him about Geass and that . Then he kidnaps Nunnally and forces her to be part of the Britannia family again, which has quite the bad effects on the girl's psyche. . It finally gets his own twin brother, who was NOT an angel himself, to finally kill him after he has lost the battle with Lelouch. If you're making Emperor Charles look good, you're definately really bad.
 * The "blood-bending" Deadmen can be pretty sadistic (see Minatsuki: "Your despair turns me on!"), but the anti-Deadman-weapon-wielding Undertakers are worse because while some of the Deadmen are criminals, all of the undertakers are sadistic murderers (even the eight-year-old Cloudcuckoolander). The leader of the Undertakers is pretty much the poster boy for In Love with Your Carnage. He has a Freudian Excuse that fails to make up for the fact that he is absolutely insane.
 * The Director is even worse. He's a Psychopathic Manchild in charge of managing the titular prison. He uses his position to initiate mandatory Death Games (he poisons EVERYONE and then sells the antidote in exchange for death game prize money). He forces the Deadmen to take part in Blood Sport and dissects the losers. He has scores of Mad Scientists working under him and created not only the Undertakers, but also the Forgeries.
 * Several of the murder victims in Detective Conan were killed because they crapped on their killers or their friends/families in the past, BIG TIME. Listing them all is obviously a suicidal mission, but a special mention goes to Daisuke Torakura, the eccentric horror novelist who gets to marry a beautiful local girl with a particularly sadistic Scarpia Ultimatum and ruins the life of his ghost writer.
 * In an episode in the second season, Heiji/Harley tries to beat Conan at a murder mystery. The banker and victim of the case was this, and he was killed because he ruined and forced to suicide his best friend just to get his hot (and pregnant) wife. Said wife was so disgusted once she found out, that she pretended to lose the baby girl but secretly sent her to a convent to keep her away. Several years ago, the girl came back and started working as a maid for the banker, not knowing what her relationship with the family was. When the wife found out the banker was planning to do to her daughter and her boyfriend what he'd done to his old friend just to get at her...well, you see what happened. (He wasn't aware at first, but when she told him, he simply brushed it off.)
 * Yutaka Abe/Mark Newman on the episode "Flames of Confusion". Most perps on this show usually have a motive that the audience can sympathize with and show regret at the end, but not this guy. He killed his friend from college 20 years ago for the insurance money--don't ask how he had a policy. He used his company and employees to try to build the perfect alibi. Everyone thinks he's suspicious. Even Detective Mori/Moore, who usually suspects the wrong guy, is right on the mark, but no one is able to solve the case. And when Conan blows open his case anyway and confronts him in the airport parking lot, where Abe is trying to flee the country with his money, Abe attempts to murder Conan brutally, but Conan's soccer skills win the day anyway. Oh, and after he's arrested, he angrily condemns the 'brat' who caught him. Basically, when this guy is first interviewed for the case, he had a completely inappropriate tone for his long-time friend just dying, and when Conan finally catches him, his facade drops and he almost looks, sounds, and moves like a real monster.
 * If Hougen from Ginga Densetsu Weed is not the most evil and malicious dog ever, in any media, he is surely a strong contender for the place. He introduces himself to the legendary heroes of Ohu by taking a shit and telling them that if they eat it, he'll let them go. He then paralyzes the heroes by threatening to kill a young female, Reika, if they dare to fight back. He has the heroes beaten almost to death as a result. Hougen frequently laughs at pain and desperate acts of heroism and defiles the corpses of those he's defeated (in one snowy scene, he sits on a recently dead dog to keep warm and jeers at the fallen's companion that he'll sit on him next when he dies). Hougen is not above using his lackeys as expendable shields (sending dozens of them to their deaths against opponents whom he can beat himself, and so on), and when he has temper tantrums, he brutally kills whoever happens to be standing around. Even finding out that Hougen and his brother were trapped by their human owner for so long that they had to resort to cannibalizing the dogs trapped with them does nothing to evoke sympathy for his cruelty. The only smidgen of honor Hougen shows throughout the whole series involves a pact he and his brother made, that if Genba dies, he wanted it to be by Hougen's fangs. When Genba suffers a head wound that drives him psychotic, Hougen murders him. Then promptly turns on the dogs who were with his brother, tears out their throats, and hurls them from the top of Gajou.
 * He's also a serial rapist, who demands his underlings to round up females for him. He forced Nero (then-pack leader of one of the main characters, Lovable Coward GB, and a minor villain) to kill the abandoned puppies right in front of GB (GB was about to look after them but brought them at the wrong time) just to prove that the puppies weren't Nero's - and that Nero, therefore, did not hide a female from him. This, by the way, did not save Nero's hide in the end, as later (chronologically), after Nero encountered the leaders of Ohu, was swiftly cowed into submission by them and tried to justify his cowardice to Hougen by saying that they threatened to bite off his legs and piss on his face. Hougen immediately made an example out of him by doing exactly that
 * Akakabuto, from Weed's predecessor, Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin, is literally a complete monster, since he is a gigantic bear out on a rampage killing anybody that crosses his path. He enjoys killing for the sake of killing and is defined by an intense hate towards anything living.
 * Jiro and Saburo from Ichi the Killer. Oh my god. It's hard to say what's the most terrifying the personalities of these twin brothers or their sibling rivalry which makes them bring out the worst in each other. These Creepy Twins practically oozed tension whenever they appeared, and their Uncanny Valley faces with features squashed together only added to their scariness. Their actions are so violent and insane that even their fellow Yakuza gangsters are shocked and disgusted. The twins cross the Moral Event Horizon over and over and over again; by the time Saburo rapes a girl to death by shoving a sword in her vagina, you barely feel anything.
 * Kakihara from the same is only slightly less twisted. An extreme sadomasochist, he hideously tortures and kills people at the drop of a hat, whether or not it's warranted. His actions are so extreme that everyone else in the Yakuza organization, and even most of the men under his control, are revolted by them.
 * Magic Knight Rayearth is a show notorious for giving all of its characters a sympathetic, or at least understandable, motive for what they do. Nobody is a Complete Monster here. Except one: the Big Bad of the second season of the anime, Lady Debonair, an Eldritch Abomination born from the collective fears of Cephiro's people who wants (just like the above-mentioned Wiseman, and possibly Yuki and Johan) to destroy the world for no understandable reason, cannot be reasoned with, and will use any despicable trick in the book to get her way. Even reading this does not convey how horrible she is, but when she well, that's when it truly sinks what kind of monster we're dealing with.
 * Not to mention,
 * Admiral Haruki Kusakabe from Martian Successor Nadesico establishes himself as a very detestable person near the end of the TV series, by, all in order to prolong the war between Earth and Jupiter and . He is and what marks his real entrance into Complete Monster territory is the fact that, in the three years between the series and The Movie, He's also , so it's even more infuriating...and it makes it even more cathartic when you get to kill him off in some Super Robot Wars episodes. Preferably with Akito and Gai's Double Gekigan Flare...
 * His would have probably been undone in the sequels, but, since Word of God is they've all been cancelled with no chance of ever being made...
 * There is also Yoshio Yamasaki from the same movie, the Martian Successors' resident Mad Scientist who was directly responsible for . This guy is the most chilling character in the whole Nadesico series: there is something about his cheerful and friendly demeanor, even as he's committing all those atrocities, that only manages to make him more horrific. It's not that he enjoys his cruelty. He just has no feelings whatsoever about it. To him, ruining countless people's lives or mind-raping an innocent girl into becoming a mindless machine is just as mundane as brushing his teeth in the morning. Think about it - he won't even have his conscience to answer to; he has no conscience, period. He's just pure intellect unbrindled by emotion. Think an evil version of Lloyd Asplund, make him a hundred times worse, and you've got Yamasaki.
 * Apos from Mnemosyne ranks up there with Johan in sheer wickedness and depravity (being a fellow blond Bishounen doesn't help either). Listing all of his sickening acts would probably fill up the page and then some. The most memorable would be his games of "torture chess" with dismembered immortal women or when he brutally rapes Mimi purely out of boredom. It's especially horrible when you find out his motive for everything he does:.
 * As well as the cyborg Laura.
 * Sayara Yamanobe is second only to Apos. Sayara is a psychotic mad scientist who masterminded the cloning program that killed the original Koki Maeno. She keeps the failed test subjects as ravenous, flesh-eating zombies that suffer every moment they're alive. When she has Rin in her care, Sayara proceeds to molest and then torture her to death. It's hinted this is ROUTINE for her. And later, she just attempts to wipe out all human life. Sayara'd be the most monstrous character in any other series. It says a lot about Apos that he's the worst by far. Oh, and it's more than just implied that she molested and raped Koki as well.
 * Narutaru, given its overall tone, presents quite a few of its villains as this - especially the minor baddies. These include:
 * Aki Honda, the most sadistic Alpha Bitch that could only have come from Mohiro Kitoh's warped imagination: she bullies one of the protagonists by forcing her to eat worms, then rapes her with a glass test tube and threatens to kick her in the belly while it's inside her.
 * A gang of city thugs later in the manga, whose brutal rape and murder of is extremely over-the-top - they even nail the victim's head to a doll's body once they're done and leave it for   to find.
 * School Days Taisuke evolves into one come Cross Days. He already crossed the Moral Event Horizon in School Days by  However, there is no excuse for his actions in Cross Days.   And he's a full blown Karma Houdini:
 * Akai in Kite is perhaps the most horrible character to ever appear in an anime. You think I'm exaggerating? Let's see...he killed Sawa's parents, raped her many times when she was a little girl, turned her into a killing machine, and to keep her at his service, gave her earrings filled with her parents' blood. Can you think of anything SICKER THAN THIS?
 * He also put other girls through similar treatment. And the best part? This guy is a cop who thinks he's making justice by sending the girls he rapes to kill other criminals (and we stress the word "other" because there is nothing even remotely lawful about what he does). The permanent smile on this guy's face shows that he has no remorse at all.
 * His partner in business (and raping), Kanie, avoids the trope since he...seems a bit retarded, and that makes him just a shadow of Akai, who is perfectly aware and proud of the atrocities he commits.
 * Keith White in Project ARMS. He is willingly the head of a research group that uses humans (usually children) as test subjects for painful, unethical, and often deadly experiments. When Alice asks if she and the children could just see the outside world for a second, he hits her. He then has all of the children shot, which leads to, something which he shows absolutely no sorrow or regret over. When a colleague denounces the experiments as unethical, Keith laughs at him. Then, he . Even later, he shows up, , and is thrilled at the thought of . When tries to talk him out of it, he tosses her off of a building. Top that all off with him.
 * In a slightly different example, Yokoya from Liar Game definitely fits. He doesn't directly kill or hurt anyone, but while everyone else is in the Liar Game to win money to pay back their huge debts, Yokoya has plenty of money and only plays the game to manipulate people for his own amusement. He couln't care less whether or not people end up with millions of dollars in debt and will probably be traded as slaves to pay it back. He also as a teenager. As a matter of fact, this quote says it all:

" : Heart? Friendship? Pathetic!"
 * ...Although the 1941 Hitler was his role model...
 * You have a more direct example with Liar Game: Roots of A with a one-shot dealing with a treatment facility. See these pages for yourself.
 * The Big Bad of D.Gray-man, the Millennium Earl, may at first seem too cheerful and cartoony to be scary. This impression, however, is very quickly corrected as we learn more about him. Being an Omnicidal Maniac is just the beginning: as an example, his favored tools of destruction, the akuma, are created in one of the most horrific ways imaginable - he finds people grieving at the loss of a loved one and offers to bring them back; if the grieving person accepts, the Earl then rips the soul of the departed from whatever afterlife there is and imprisons it in a black skeletal frame that kills the living person by forcing its way down their mouth and throat and uses their carcass to impersonate them and infiltrate human society to better commit atrocities, feeding the vicious cycle of grieving people unknowingly giving the Earl a way to create ever more akuma...
 * And It Gets Worse when it's revealed that the more an akuma evolves, the more powerful and evil it becomes, but the soul has a separate consciousness from that of the akuma and is forced to powerlessly witness the countless horrors its host akuma perpetrates while writhing in constant agony at the accumulating corruption that eats at it, and by the time an akuma becomes level 2, the soul is so tainted and mutilated that destroying its host body in almost any way also causes it to be annihilated by the accumulated corruption. There are four akuma levels. And the Earl could restore any and all existing akuma whenever he wanted, but never has. And did we mention he gleefully genocided the whole of Japan just to use the place as a base of operations? It's becoming increasingly obvious that he's Satan and that there are very good reasons he's the only person in existence that Allen hates.
 * The Satan part becomes glaringly obvious when we finally see.
 * Episode 7 of the new season of Darker Than Black has a new Contractor character, Ilya, who is certainly an example of this. Prior to getting his powers, Ilya was a Serial Killer of women. As he himself notes, becoming a superpowered sociopath actually improved his behavior, as while before, he was Ax Crazy, now he can kill calmly and painlessly. While not stated outright, Ilya's Remuneration seems to be doodling pictures of murdered women, and he seems to do this of any female character he happens to see.
 * The Gaiden introduces Claude. While Contractors are generally just amoral, Claude is actively a malicious sadist who loves using his powers to appear as someone's loved ones in order to torment them for a kick. The depths he'll sink are revealed when Claude murders a group of Contractors who were just trying to live peacefully. Oh yeah, and he tries to release a genocidal Eldritch Abomination because it's fun.
 * The manga, Shikkoku no Hana, presents Coach Daisuke Mioka, who shows a human being can out-evil any Contractor with his dickishness. He seduces his students - including his cousin, and then posts web porn of them. Bad? when one of them finds out, he manipulates said cousin to go speak to her...and hires a gang to go rape them both under the pretense of him 'saving the day'. Oh, and he gets a teacher to sleep with him by drugging her. Did we mention that he even tries to taser someone when they're deciding NOT to kill him?
 * Szilard and Fermet of Baccano. The first will do anything to gain knowledge, and wants to give people immortality just so that he can absorb them and gain their knowledge and memories. The other, upon gaining regenerative immortality, killed a similarly immortal child repeatedly in incredibly painful ways for an unknown number of years. His excuse for doing this is that they need to learn the limits of their immortality and he's testing to see if there's a level of damage they can't recover from. That's his excuse, while the real reason is simply sadism.
 * Pretty Cure
 * While most villains are Laughably Evil, Faux Affably Evil, or simply cases of Generic Doomsday Villain who don't have much to their names, Lord Akudaikahn, the Big Bad of Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star is a Complete Monster through and through - as is perhaps fitting of the somewhat Darker and Edgier tone of the season. At first, he doesn't seem very different from his predecessor, The Dark King of Futari wa Pretty Cure...but then, when, the viewer sees that he's much worse than any previous villain. He's an Omnicidal Maniac who kills for pleasure, hates everything other than himself, and revels in destruction.
 * Why did he do that?
 * Yes! Pretty Cure 5 is Lighter and Softer than Splash Star...but the villain of its second season, the Director of the Nebulous Evil Organization Eternal, is another Complete Monster, though he still can't compare to Lord Akudaikahn and . His organization's whole point is to steal treasures and valuables from other worlds and keep everything of value for himself only. Okay, fine, that's bad, but not irredeemable. However, he also thinks that things which have no value must be destroyed - and he sees no value in humanity, friendship, love, and life itself - to the point that, come the end of the series, . And there's also . This guy is so bad that even Nozomi Yumehara, a sweet girl who tries to see good in anyone and has a story of redeeming villains such as, was convinced that he was beyond redemption and needed to die.
 * Fushigi Yuugi has two of these.
 * The first one is Miboshi, a Creepy Child warrior of Seiryu who is older than he looks and who loves possessing other people's bodies and turning them against their friends, delighting at the suffering and confusion he causes. Unfortunately for him, because Evil Cannot Comprehend Good, he failed to consider that
 * The second is the Emperor of Kutou. A vile, sleazy Smug Snake who is also a Depraved Bisexual who
 * Said boy grows up to be the Big Bad, Nakago, who also skirts dangerously close to this trope.
 * Due to its God versus Monster nature and its traditional fantastic nature, Slayers naturally has a few.
 * Copy Rezo, the Big Bad of the first anime season and the third Light Novel. He destroys an city-state, wiping out all of its citizens and leaving Sylphiel the last of its citizens, all for the sake of provoking Lina into fighting him. His motivation? He is a staggering standout among those with the clone inferiority complex by hoping to make Lina cast the same spell that calls upon the highest deity in existence and could potentially destroy the world if miscast on him in the hopes that he survives. In other words, he will murder and destroy in order to surpass the original Rezo, who made a Heroic Sacrifice in order to allow the aformentioned spell to destroy the demon he was the host for. The fact that he will do those things in order to one-up a self-sacrifice via an apocalyptic spell means that Copy Rezo is an extreme omnicidal megalomaniac.
 * Hellmaster Phibrizzo of the second season would qualify as well. As the oldest of the Mazoku, Phibrizzo's ultimate goal is the destruction of alll reality. This is pretty standard for Mazoku, but the sheer joy which Phibrizzo conducts his manipulations,and even worse, when he tortures and kills his enemies lands him here. There are few other villains in slayers who take such unmitigated delight in causing suffering,especially when Phibrizzo seems to target loved ones to give as much pain as he can to his targets.
 * Medusa from Soul Eater. Complete Monster is really the only fitting description of her. Her list of evil-doings is long and continues to grow. She's a witch who has used her own child, Crona, as a horrible science experiment, driving them to complete madness and not showing an ounce of love, much less regret. When Crona is finally shown, for the first time in their life, true kindness from  At this time, Medusa is also trying to revive the Kishin using two witches, Eruka and Mizune, that she blackmailed into helping her--she can off them with a snap of her fingers. When she's defeated by   As of recent chapters, we see Medusa has
 * To put it in further perspective: before Medusa appeared, Soul Eater was a funny, off-kilter shonen series whose main draw was watching the antics of its amusingly dysfunctional and mismatched protagonists. Afterwards, it started morphing into an almost-Cosmic Horror Story where people die or go insane by the truckload, and said protagonists aren't safe from being Driven to Madness. It still very much retains its weird sense of humour.
 * Aji Tae, the main villain of Shin Angyo Onshi, or Blade of the Phantom Master in English, absolutely embraces this trope. The man responsible for a country's destruction, he devours the king to take his form, manipulating his people and the king's good friend, Munsu. While ruling like this, he transforms the country into hell on earth, intending to Mind Rape Munsu by convincing him that his old friend has turned into a genocidal tyrant. He kills the woman Munsu loves, turns her into an undead, rapes her (yes, in that order), and promises her that she will be returned to life if she kills Munsu (he lies about that). After she opts to kill herself Deader Than Dead, instead, Aji Tae's reaction is to be so infuriated with human goodness that he slaughters everyone around him with guiltless conscience or love in their hearts. And the reason he started the entire scheme in the first place? He wanted to see loyal servants of the country in general fall into the savagery of civil war and destroy each other, and Munsu, in particular, being reduced to absolute despair, because this would have amused him and because he could. And then he sets his sights on making the entire humanity into conscience-free monsters like himself. Despite his charming demeanor and good looks, he's a monster with few equals.
 * Maestro Delphine Eraclea from Last Exile, the leader of the Guild. A decadent, heartless aristocrat and a Manipulative Bitch who makes her younger brother Dio live in fear of her and ends up . If that wasn't enough, she  She also takes delight in pointing out how the delicious meals she eats needlessly waste the resources of the world...and goes as far as to say that the fact that people have died in order for her to eat such delicacies makes her meals all the sweeter. It can safely be said that Delphine is a beautiful, soulless beast.
 * Gostello from Blue Comet SPT Layzner, a Gradosian officer who takes We Have Reserves Up to Eleven - his only real joy is killing people, the more defenseless the better, and his lust for blood is such that he often murders his own men just to get a kick out of it. Logic tells him that killing his own men might prove detrimental to him as well...but he's so Ax Crazy that he just doesn't care. To cement his Complete Monster status, in fact, he often refers to his victims as "prey" or "meat" and gets all tingly at the prospect of murdering people in the most gruesome of ways. Truly a monster, if there ever was one in such a dark Real Robot series.
 * Louis L. Bridgette from Freezing. When he was only a kid, he whipped his half-sister, Satellizer, with a riding crop and presumably regularly molested her. He justified his actions by saying that since he was a noble and she wasn't, he could do whatever he wanted to her. Sure, his mom's a bitch, but there is no indication that she ever did anything to him and his sister is a genuinely kind person. Him sneaking into her bedroom at night resulted in Satellizer beating the crap out of anyone who touched her, so she could never form any normal relationships. What's more:.
 * Many, many, MANY fans are considering dropping the manga after this arc since it sends a whole lot of bad messages...and Unfortunate Implications of how women are supposed to be around sickos like Louis.
 * Legato Bluesummers, from Trigun. Legato's only purpose is to make Vash (the protagonist, The Messiah, and a Love Freak, master gunslinger for many years and yet has never killed a single person) suffer, which he does with great ease and relish.
 * Vicious of Cowboy Bebop. The reasonable response to your best friend seeing your girlfriend is not to sadistically force her to decide between her own death and having to kill her lover herself. Vicious has loyalty to nobody and thinks nothing of betraying former comrades to death or prison...he doesn't even register when men loyal to him give their lives as they're expendable to him. He also has no qualms about betraying anyone, whether he's usurping power from his leaders or cutting the throat of the foster father who saved his life.
 * Ogre (appropriately named). The only Big Bad in Rave Master without a Freudian Excuse. He wants to blow up a small continent For the Evulz, with a stolen superweapon he finds appealing precisely because it managed to ruin lives before ever being used.
 * Also counting are the men responsible for the evil in the Raregroove family - Shakuma Raregroove and Slade the Sociopathic Soldier
 * Prince Braunschweig of Legend of Galactic Heroes certainly qualifies in a series full of Gray and Grey Morality. When protesting occurs on the colony world of Westerland, Braunschweig's response is to kill every single inhabitant in a nuclear strike...not even covering his continuance of the Goldenbaum dynasty's despicable policies.
 * There is also the first Emperor of the Galactic Empire, Rudolf von Goldenbaum, who slaughtered billions of people with his Eugenics Policies. The handicapped, gay, mentally retarded or ill, or poor were killed. Though, due to how big of a population there was in the Empire, hardly anyone noticed the billions of deaths until after the effect. Those who noticed were understandably reluctant to speak out, as all suspected political dissidents were persecuted even worse, often being summarily executed in public places in broad daylight.
 * The day karma came calling, Rudolf only cemented his status: when his only son, borne to him by his favorite mistress (and possible One True Love), was discovered to be a congenital idiot (simultaneously invalidating all his übermensch rhetoric and kicking him in the balls on a personal level), he ordered that any and all involved in the birth be executed - doctors, nurses, even the mother herself. Living to old age with no loved ones and Dying Alone hardly seems punishment enough, but like Real Life, life in Legend of the Galactic Heroes is seldom fair.
 * Two examples from the old-school Super Robot anime Daimos:
 * The Big Bad King Olban, unlike other Blamlings seen in the series (who have very sympathetic backgrounds and are Anti Villains who fight for their people), is just a cruel and power-hungry tyrant who cares for nothing but himself and openly states that the "peasants" only exist to be ruled, manipulated, and preyed upon by those in power. He's revealed in the series to . That's how bad he is -
 * As if to counterbalance this, the Earth side of the war gets an utter bastard as well: Chief General Sakimori Miwa, a frothing and rabid General Ripper who thinks the best way to settle disputes is to exterminate the opposing side. Ostensibly on the heroes' side, he actually tries to undermine Kazuya and his friends at every opportunity, even accusing them of treason, and cares nothing for the civilians caught in the crossfire, saying that it is foolish to pass up a tactical advantage out of respect for human life - he doesn't even care about the ones he's supposed to defend! Later in the series, he even goes so far as to Luckily, after this heinous act, Kazuya decides that enough is enough and gets a Crowning Moment of Awesome by  It's hard not to enjoy that particular scene. For the viewers' satisfaction further, when Kazuya's friends Kyoshiro and Nana stopped Kazuya from, they explained that even the human government also had enough of Miwa and it is implied that he'll face a trial and won't be able to get any position in the government ever again.
 * It is telling that Super Robot Wars, more often than not, delivers them an even worse fate than the series did - Olban usually makes his last stand in a powerful robot so that the player can personally kill him; and Miwa often gets killed in a particularly gruesome and humiliating way (for instance, in Alpha 3 or  in MX.)
 * The Big Bads of the other two Robot Romance Trilogy series, Empress Janera and Emperor Zu Zambojil, are just as bad as Olban is.
 * Kano from Texhnolyze is a fairly good candidate. Being a product of generations of selective inbreeding and a batshit insane soplipsist who thinks that the entire world is inside his head, it's a bit unclear how far he can be considered responsible for his actions. But driving the city of Lux insane and flooding the streets with murderous cyborg soldiers for ideals that make so little sense that it could just as well be For the Evulz, along with the more personal atrocity of, puts him deep into this category, if you choose to judge him by his deeds.
 * Keel Lorenz from Neon Genesis Evangelion counts, seeing as he not only wants to cause the full-scale of extinction of Humanity (like Gendo), but also orders in soldiers to personally murder every single member of NERV. Including Shinji, Asuka, and Rei, who are essentially children.
 * You get some of these in Franken Fran (and before anyone even considers it, Fran doesn't count; she's physically and psychologically unable to realize what she's doing may not be morally acceptable, and besides, she genuinely wants to help people even when her priorities are skewered). One of her employers, seeking eternal youth,, as well as . Then there's the "Very Lucky Man", a man born with an accelerated Healing Factor. He spent his entire life raping and killing because he knew there was no way to execute him for his crimes.
 * What, the list this long and still no reference to villains from Violinist of Hameln manga? Well, with Violinist of Hameln being a dramedy, most of the mazoku land in the Faux Affably Evil territory, as, even though they are mass-murdering literal monsters, devoid of any real redeeming qualities, their quirks and antics are regularly played for laughs. There are two exceptions, though:
 * Hell King Bass is a cold, emotionless Evil Overlord who is not only behind every atrocity that happens in the first 2/3 of the manga, but also personally takes the field to give 3/5ths of the main cast their tragic pasts. The worst thing he has done, though,
 * The Big Bad himself, Great Demon King Chestra, though, tops Bass by far. He is the only villain in the whole manga who is always presented with dead seriousness (even Bass, despite having no funny traits or sense of humor by himself, serves as the butt of a few jokes), invoking nothing but terror (in good guys) and awe (in his minions). To list his evil deeds is to list every scene where he appears and is not busy fighting the heroes, but the most salient example happens, once again, in the backstory.
 * Dr. Tomohiko Katsuragi of Sakura Gari. Not only is he a disgusting pedophile and a Domestic Abuser, he drugs, rapes, and tortures Masataka (this includes whipping him, sticking a household object up his anus right after raping him, and holding his hand in boiling hot tea because of his jealousy over Masataka being the one Souma loves, when he loves Souma to an insane degree himself). Oh, and because  When Souma confronts Katsuragi on his rape and torture of Masataka, Katsuragi denies the accusation and tries to seduce Souma. He acts uninterested and mentions Masataka's name, so Katsuragi actually grabs Souma by the throat and tries to strangle him.
 * , also lands herself a mention here, for the reasons already depicted.
 * is a brutal deconstruction of the trope.
 * Bryan Hawk from Hajime no Ippo is as close to a Complete Monster as you can be in a story about boxing. Not only does he make resident Jerkass Takamura look like an angel in comparison (and Takamura is NOT an angel), he's also batshit insane, animalistic, and only cares about fucking and hurting others. His backstory reveals that he only got into boxing because his trainer promised him he could hurt others as much as he'd liked and theoretically had a license to kill, as it would appear as an accident. And it just gets worse from there: he's actually racist against the Japanese and straightforwardly intends to kill Takamura in their match, while seemingly getting sexual pleasure out of beating him. There are some truly nasty boxers in Hajime no Ippo, but at least they have pretty well-done Freudian Excuses, and none of them comes even close to the disgusting depravity and assholish-ness of this character.
 * In Tenchi Muyo!, Mad Scientist Kagato is an intergalactic researcher who utterly lacks anything resembling conscience. Kagato turned on his mentor, Washu Hakubi, and imprisoned her for thousands of years, hijacking everything she had left behind, including Washu's created 'daughter' Ryoko. Brainwashing Ryoko, Kagato sent her to discover the truth of the 'greatest treasure in the universe,' having her hunt down traces of it...and then destroy the worlds that contained it to make certain nobody else could replicate his discoveries, whether they were inhabited or not. Over 3,000 worlds met their fate this way. After losing Ryoko, Kagato continued the process himself until he discovered her alive on earth. He wastes little time in trying to kill Tenchi and his Unwanted Harem and succeeds in blowing Tenchi apart from his ship. When Ryoko offers her life in place of Tenchi's, Kagato merely responds he'll just kill both of them. When Wahsu is freed, Kagato decides to 'reminisce' about the old days by drawing on his ship's power to destroy the earth. Kagato is defined by his drive for his 'scientific method.' Anything that gets caught in his path is simply collateral damage to that end, no matter what.
 * Sicks from Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro absolutely revels in his evil. A monster from birth who slit the other babies' throats in his nursery and later murdered both his parents, Sicks comes into conflict with the Anti-Hero demon detective Neuro. Sicks tracks down his clone, X, and murders X's love, infiltrating the police by wearing the skin of a man he killed. He punishes a subordinate who had failed to find X by making him saw himself open with a rusty saw, admitting he didn't care about a fair punishment: he just wanted to see the man die. To present a meal for Neuro, a demon who eats mysteries, Sicks forces a mansion's worth of people to commit murders in inventive ways...and then blew them up when Neuro was repulsed by the gesture. When recruiting his 'Fingers,' Sicks presented one with a cube made of the faces he had ripped from everyone close to him, and with another he forced him to murder his own father. Sicks' goal was nothing less than the absolute annihilation of humanity as well and on his orders, Japan suffered catastrophic death tolls before he and Neuro finally engaged in a Duel to the Death.
 * Some of the titular Hell Girl's targets fall in this category, with their victims damning them to Hell after getting their life ruined by them. An example? Dr. Honjou from the first volume of the manga/early anime episodes, a vet who only studied medicine because, as he put it, "if some people are stupid enough to pay hundreds of thousands of yen to save their loved ones, why shouldn't I take advantage of them?" In fact, he only treats animals belonging to people who can pay a lot of money, prolonging their stay in his clinic only to squeeze more money out of their owners. Those pets whose owners can't pay as much are neglected and often left to die. When one of his clients, a Woobie of a teenager named Junko, loses her little dog (her only remaining friend) this way, she calls out the evil doctor in distress, to which Honjou calmly threatens to kill her and bribe his way free. The Dog Bites Back, though: Junko signs a deal with Ai and Honjou gets caught while he's trying to run a cat over with his car For the Evulz. Honjou is then . Couldn't have happened to a nicer person.
 * Meiko Shimono is another. She's so greedy and selfish that  She also practically enslaves young Miki after her Corgis bit her so she can Work Off the Debt, abuses the child physically and emotionally, and finally   Miki, who had also made a deal with Enma Ai and was wondering if it was a good idea, snaps and sends her to Hell despite Hajime Shibata's pleads to not condemn herself as well...  What a nasty piece of work.
 * In Rainbow Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin, the prison doctor Sasaki is a Complete Monster that rapes his prisoners quite often and will even scheme with the warden to kill off anyone who manages to find out.
 * Ishihara is just as bad, if not worse than Sasaki. For one, he proposes murders even Sasaki is shocked about. But his worst crime is being responsible for consider that he tried to  after  erased the reason why Ishihara harassed him in the first place. That's right,  And what does Ishihara do? Stab him.
 * Captain Continental of Legend of the Blue Wolves. He tries to sexually subdue subordinates that take his fancy, and if they happen to refuse him, he whips them and beats them half to death unless they submit. And if even that doesn't work, he just rapes them and forces them to participate in various sexual activities with absolutely no remorse. In fact, he seems to get sexual pleasure (if his constant Slasher Smile is any indication) out of breaking, beating up, and raping people.
 * Cancer Deathmask in Saint Seiya. He looks Affably Evil when he appears first, but then . Later, we see more of his horrifying actions: when Shiryu and Seiya reach the Cancer Temple, they are utterly horrified as they notice that   And he cheerfully admits it when confronted. After Seiya manages to step forward and go to the next temple, he personally and gleefully takes the mission of torturing and beating Shiryu to the extreme before even thinking of finishing him...
 * Ren Sohma from Fruits Basket. Her start isn't that bad as she reaches for her Ill Boy future husband Akira and bonds with him, but things quickly go to Hell when  After , Ren constantly abuses and belittles   And later in the story, not only does she  , but she  . Later, she   Really,   is shown as a horrible person, but Ren is definitely to blame for lots of   bullshit, and it was for such a selfish reason too..
 * Bryan J. Mason, later known as Largo, from Bubblegum Crisis is the Big Bad of the first part of the series. A Corrupt Corporate Executive who manipulates the Boomers by kidnapping a child boomer so he can gain access to the technology that allows him to pinpoint a Kill Sat in space and had one of his own Boomers go berserk to force her to panic and unleash the Kill Sat in a boomer populated area. When he's first shown on screen in episode 3, he heartlessly evicts the tenants of a poor neighborhood and has his demolition crews continue their job even though a woman is still trapped inside the building-he only stops them after she is dead to rub it into the heroine Priss's face. After his supposed death, he reappears as a Boomer named Largo who manipulates a group of Sexaroids, leading to most of their deaths and tricks the final Sexaroid Anri into believing Priss had murdered her best friend Sylvie to make Anri stab Sylvia. Larog then uses his Kill Sat on multiple occupied cities to destroy the bases of his former masters without care that the blasts consume entire city blocks. For all his rhetoric on 'equality', he sneers that Sylvie was 'just a sexaroid' before killing Anri in front of Priss and declaring his intent to become a god before being defeated when he tries to take everyone with him using his Kill Sat toy to satisfy his ego.
 * Dio Brando from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, particularly in Part III. He has no compunctions forcing people to do his bidding, and even if they do that, it's no guarantee of survival (think the rich man who drives him around in Part III). His shadow also looms large over all antagonists that follow him, with all of them being connected to him in some way, and he's . Oh, and he used his stand to force someone to eat a dead cat and stab someone else in the face - and he did this just because he could.
 * Dio also makes a habit of recruiting other Complete Monsters as minions: Jack the Ripper, Gray Fly, J. Geil, Steely Dan, Alessi, Terence D'Arby (what, you thought "Bizarre" was in the title just for show?)...
 * Need we mention his manifold heinous acts in Part I? After being adopted by Jonathan's (the protagonist of Part I) father, he proceeds to make Jonathan's life a living hell for no adequate reason. He beats up Jonathan, humiliates his girlfriend, burns his dog alive, tries to poison his father, and even forfeits his humanity to become a nigh-immortal vampire. Things only get worse from here, with Dio embarking on a killing spree across London. Arguably, his single worst act in Part I is The bastard  Even though Dio had a hideously abusive father, his Freudian Excuse isn't nearly good enough to excuse his barbaric behaviour. To reiterate the above - he did this just because he could.
 * Also Cioccolata. OH DEAR GOD, CIOCCOLATA. For starters, his back story involves him torturing old people to death while maintaining a guise of being a good samaritan. When he starts fighting the heroes, he makes sure that he starts horribly killing the innocent people in the village just for fun. His Stand Green Day works when people are at a lower altitude than him, so what does he do? He gets on a helicopter and flies above Rome to kill as many people as possible. It says something when even the Big Bad, is disgusted by him. Thankfully, Giorno proceeds to give Cioccolata the biggest and longest beatdown in the entire series, which sends him flying into a Garbage Truck with "Combustable Trash" labeled on the back.
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! gives us Dark Marik, the twisted split personality who drove the real Marik off the deep end in the first place. Seizing control of Marik's body during his childhood, he killed their Abusive Dad, then tried to kill their adoptive brother, who had been keeping Dark Marik locked up. This failed, and Dark Marik bided his time, gaining strength, and driving Marik to further and further acts of cruelty in his quest to Take Over the World . Resurfacing when Marik's brother was defeated in the Battle City semifinals, Dark Marik exiled his better half from their shared body, then engaged Mai Valentine, The Spirit of the Millennium Ring (not a saint himself as you read below), and Joey Wheeler in a series of increasingly sadistic Shadow games that saw all three damned to the Shadow Realm. He also made several attempts on the lives of his sister and comatose adoptive brother. This all culminated in a final battle against Yami, during which he arranged for any damage the two of them incurred to be suffered by their better halves, Marik and Yugi, nearly killing them both. An Axe Crazy Combat Sadomasochist with omnicidal designs on the world, Dark Marik left the cast in shellshock and irrevocably altered the tone of the show.
 * The Spirit of the Millennium Ring was the show's longest running antagonist, and one of its worst, possessing Yugi's friend Bakura for almost the entire duration of the series. During the Duelist Kingdom arc he traps Yugi and his friends within the card game, resulting in their being sent the graveyard if defeated. He subsequently tries to bodyjack Mokuba Kaiba, and rips Pegasus' Millennium Eye out of his eye socket, leaving him in a coma. (In the manga, killing him). During Battle City, he infiltrates the tournament and sends Bonz, Zygor, and Sid to the Shadowrealm, then tries to do the same to Yugi and Yami. He arguably doesn't quite cross the line into this trope until he returns in Season 5 as The Big Bad. Outing himself as an agent of Zorc Necrophades, The Spirit of the Ring repossesses Bakura, and sets in motion a plot to bring about the end of the world as we know it. He kidnaps Mokuba to force Kaiba into a Shadow game, then traps the entire cast in the Memory World, where he can control their lives, possessing Tristan and his own past self, Thief King Bakura, in the process. Eventually pulling a You Have Outlived Your Usefulness on his own past self, The Spirit of the Ring unleashes Zorc in the past, while taking on Yami in his final Shadow game in the present, with the intent of making the entire world bow down to his dark god. Finally it's revealed that the Spirit's agency is not of his past self, but of Zorc himself since a fragment of the Dark One's soul resided in the Millennium Ring when the Thief King's spirit became trapped there. This explains so much.
 * Brron, Mad King of the Dark World of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, is demented and sadistic, ruling the Spirit World as it's vile dictator and being responsible for it's deplorable state and oppression of its denizens. His right-hand man, Zure, oversaw Brron's will, detaining anyone who defied him in internment camps while killing duelists who could be threats to him. The executions occurred at his fortress and involved releasing monsters at disarmed duelists while Brron himself and his minions watched the spectacle. After learning of Jaden's presence in his domain, Brron orchestrated a plot that involved turning Jaden evil by sacrificing all of his friends one by one with his set of "Wicked Doctrine" cards to create the "Super Fusion" card. After his defeat, Brron mocked Jaden by saying that he would never see his friends again before dying.
 * In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Divne/Sayer is the leader of a group of duelists training to control and harness their psychic abilities in order to turn them into soldiers of war against the rest of humanity. His earliest duelist, Toby Tredwell, was unable to withstand the procedure meant to test his abilities. Believing him to be weak and useless, Sayer ordered the intensity of the electric shocks to be amplified, which caused the young boy's death. He also does his best to keep his prized duelist Akiza secluded from anyone outside the Arcadia Movement to keep her full of hate and resentment at the world for his goals, as well as hide his own secret motives. To this end, he gasses Luna, Leo, Yanagi and Bolt Tanner when they come to him for aid against the Dark Singers. Then he threatens Leo's life in a psychic duel to test if he has powers like his twin sister Luna. Later that day he has another Psychic duel with and murders Carly Carmine by sending her through a window with a direct attack, kick-starting her rebirth into a Dark Signer. He then returns from his Disney Death at the hands of Carly, posing as a security agent to attack Yusei and Mina. Sayer states that anybody who falls prey to him will simply follow his orders and nothing more, as he takes full advantage of that individual's weakness, just like he did with Akiza.
 * Lawton, meanwhile, is a tyrant lording over a small western style town called Crash Town, who forces those he's defeated to join him or face slavery in the mines. He gets into a match with Yusei while Yusei and the gang are trying to escape the mines, but before it can be decided, he throws a stick of dynamite at Yusei, Kalin, West and Nico that results in cave-in. When it explodes, Yusei and Kalin fall off the mountain, while Nico and West are unconscious on the ground. Lawton takes them back to Crash Town, renaming it Lawton Town after Barb and him double cross his brother Malcolm. Later, not satisfied with the number of workers in the mines, he and Barb begin forcing their henchmen to Duel for their survival, which is stopped by Yusei and Kalin. Once he does start to lose his 2-on-1-handicap match against Yusei and Kalin, he quits the duel and tries to run away, but not before he abandons Barb to her fate and set off explosives in the town.
 * The Mysterious Cloaked Guy  in Nabari no Ou. To start,   Later, he reveals that
 * Black Butler had Lord Trancy from episode 8 of season 2.
 * Shirou Hisujikai of Ookami-san seems utterly delighted to recount his sins to Ryoshi, even with his victim standing right beside him to hear everything. He shows great zeal in revealing to Ryoshi how he
 * His army of high school delinquents are no better. In Ep. 2 they
 * Amon from Amon: Apocalypse of Devilman. He starts off as Akira Fudo's Super-Powered Evil Side, granted to him by, in the original Devilman manga and nothing is known of Amon's personality except that he was one of the greatest fighters in the demon ranks, and because of their fusion, Akira becomes extremely aggressive and violent towards his foes, much more so than necessary, such as ripping off the breasts of a female demon and eating them. Eventually  breaks him and Amon fully manifests in the human world...While the manga tries to potray him as a Type V Anti-Hero, who is evil but still has standards, Amon from OVA is probably the most vile, sick, and twisted being to come out from anything related to Go Nagai. He murders other demons and humans just For the Evulz and has no problem with mindraping Akira  , but perhaps his crowning achievement of Complete Monster-dom happens when he finds an unconscious human girl in the rubble during his fight with other demons. He seems hesitant at what to do with her and picks her up. As soon as the girl wakes up, she looks up at Amon in horror and before she can shout, Amon starts EATING HER ALIVE! It's so shocking that the demons watching were absolutely horrified at what Amon just did.
 * While Amon in AMON is nothing like his OVA counterpart, this series introduced a handful set of complete monsters in his place. Candy is solely responsible for convincing people there is no such thing as, yet he   and isn't to shy to admit to being a Serial Killer before his rise to power. Then there is.
 * Jinmen, the depraved turtle-like demon from the original manga who eats people alive to devour their souls and incorporates their faces into his shell - very much alive and concious. He has no problem taunting Akira with it. In fact, he . The Movie even has special scenes of him attacking little kids he wanted to eat. Jinmen targets vulnerable humans on purpose, with children being a favorite meal, including a 10 year old named Sachiko who had befriended Akira.
 * From the spinoff Violence Jack we have The Slum King, the Big Bad of the story. The most powerful warlord of the Kanto region, the Slum King maintains his power by brutally murdering any in his way and violent conquest where nobody is spared if they resist. The Slum King allows rape, murder and looting and when someone really annoys him, he'll simply subject them to Cold-Blooded Torture. Perhaps the worst thing he does is the 'Dog-People': cutting off all the limbs of a victim and making them crawl on peg-leg stubs while he keeps them as a Sex Slave.
 * While Diva from Blood Plus is a very evil bitch who, some people still find some sympathy for her due to her horrifying past. The real monster here is her caretaker, Amshel Goldsmith, since   Amshel also has no qualms about killing anyone, including Diva's own chevaliers, if he feels they are getting in the way. In fact, it's revealed in the end that
 * Dewey Novak from Eureka Seven mostly looks and acts like an Affably Evil Magnificent Bastard and noble military officer, but we later discover he put his top fighter Anemone and multiple girls like her through torturous experiments to make them Tyke Bomb soldiers. Anemone was the only survivor and it damaged her mind severely. In order to gain support for his war efforts, Dewey engineers enormous levels of civilian casualties, using the Starfish Alien Coralians as a scapegoat to convince humanity they cannot coexist and must wipe out the Coralians. His motivaton is that his world domination plans have no place for the Coralians. Most of his motivations boil down to a petty grudge with his younger brother Holland and he even made preparations to drag the entire universe to death with him should he fail.
 * Just see another of his projects, the Ageha squad, and think what was probably required to make a bunch of 10-12-year-olds into dispassionate assassins/mecha pilots who view him as a father figure anyway. And if anything, he's even worse in The Movie, where
 * Severin from Princess Resurrection. This cowardly Smug Snake is the opponent against whom Hime (normally a calm, collected Lady of War) came the closest to losing her cool, and with good reason: before the series even began, Then,  Unlike Hime, who genuinely cares about her blood warriors despite her outwardly cold demeanor, Severin abuses and humiliates his servants every chance he gets. And just to top it off, he's the reason Hime hates being called by her actual name of Lilian: that's the name.
 * The eldest son from the Gowa family in Gasaraki, Kazukiyo. He goes so far as to
 * The Omniscient Council of Vagueness in Macross Frontier, who use a fleet of millions of people as tools to take over the galaxy. It Gets Worse..
 * Ajo from Key the Metal Idol. A former Japanese Imperial Army officer turned Corrupt Corporate Executive, he forcibly extracts the object-animating gel out of humans and has no care for human lives except as resources, eliminating anyone who stands in his way regardless of them being harmless civilians, children, or elderly and condemning others to a Fate Worse than Death just to feed his monomaniacal obsession with creating working Ridiculously Human Robots; he even did a Moral Event Horizon crossing by doing a bad treatment on Miho, and especially his savage beating of her replacement.
 * Dr. Aizawa manages to effectively take a formerly fluffy shounen-ai series like Sukisho and turn it into a tragic angst-fest. He captured the two main characters when they were children and performed experiments on them that were traumatizing enough to cause them to develop split personalities. He then conducted an experiment that involved mind-controlling one of the children (Sora) into abandoning the other one (Sunao), causing Sunao to swear vengeance against his former friend. Also, despite Aizawa's defeat, he was never shown to have perished when his lab burnt down. For all we know, he could still be at large.
 * Sidou, the Sadist Teacher from Highschool of the Dead. When we first meet him, we begin to wonder why Rei says that the students are better off leaving him to die. Then he proves it when a student he's guiding twists his ankle and begs Sidou for help. Sidou's response was to kick him in the face and say that the new world had no place for people that weak. Then he uses his position as a teacher to get himself elected leader of the surviving group. At another point, a student doesn't like the action going on in the "orgybus" and asks if he can just be dropped off at his house to see if his family is OK. Sidou and his group, who are at this point a cult, decide that the best way to grant his wish is to throw him out of the bus and let him get eaten. What's strange about Sidou is that his backstory doesn't seem to justify or wouldn't seem to create somebody as evil and downright insane as he is.
 * Which only make him more frightening - he's not the first person (either in fiction or Real Life) to go From Nobody to Nightmare...
 * Tears to Tiara's High Priest Drwc. He convinces Riannon to become Arawn's sacrifice by threatening to chop off a little girl's fingers. There's also that whole "I want to summon a demon king to destroy the world so I can rule what's left" thing..
 * In Black Bird, we have Kuzonoha Shuuhei. While all the male characters are a bunch of misogynist jerks, Shuuhei stands out among the whole bunch as the most cruel and depraved. Following a failed attempt to rape Misao Harada, he severely wounds her to facilitate her abduction from Kyo's dojo. By his own admission, he has no qualms about injuring her as long as she is able to provide him with an heir that will consolidate his position as the head of his clan. Only a total bastard like this can make a Bastard Boyfriend like Kyo seem like a Knight in Shining Armor to Misao by comparison.
 * The unnamed doctor from Black Cat. A sadistic Mad Scientist with a penchant for human testing, The Doctor conducts a number of awful experiments over the course of the series, transforming a man into a werewolf, brainwashing captured bounty hunters into fighting their friends, and trapping Train in a illusory world where the very people he cares about most are trying to kill him. Fascinated by ten-year old Eve's power to shapeshift, The Doctor kidnaps her towards the end of the series, planning to vivisect her in order to discover how her abilities work. Loyal only to himself and driven by his need to know, The Doctor outshines even Big Bad Creed Diskenth when it comes to villainy.
 * Some of the evil demon children in Gash Bell. In particular, Zofis horribly Mind Raped both humans and fellow mamodo, both for practical reasons and For the Evulz, and enjoyed nothing more than the suffering of others. He also kept an army of 100 year old mamodo in line by creating the illusion of turning them back into stone tablets, thus being able to control them using fear. Most notably, he warped the heart and mind of Sherry's best friend Koko and made her do anything he wanted her to do, specifically if it hurt Sherry in any way (she nearly even jumped to a fiery, burning death because of him). His final threat was to not erase Koko's memory of her time as his partner so that she'd always suffer from the guilt and stay broken as a result, a threat that thankfully became empty when Brago forced the Dirty Coward into a Villainous Breakdown. Leo and Zeon just barely dodged this status thanks to ultimately failing at their attempts to sadistically murder the main cast and blow up Japan just to get back at Kyomaro (And their motivations were convincing, though in no way actually excuses their behavior). Finally, Clear Note was so thoroughly malevolent
 * Pandora Hearts: Isla Yura manipulated dozens of politically powerful people into believing that the Abyss was a paradise, even though he knew the Abyss for what it was: a chaotic and very literal hell that imprisons and warps anything that ends up there. Using one of these connections, he was able to gain control of an orphanage full of children who were abyss-sensitive, and he tricked them into contracting with a chain (abyssal creature), a contract that would eventually kill them. He then used these contracted children as Brainwashed and Crazy Child Soldiers to slaughter dozens, maybe even hundreds of people as preparation for plunging the world into the Abyss, and he did all this because his greatest wish was to die laughing in the face of the unknown, and the Abyss was the greatest unknown. This is fine in and of itself, but the only way he knew how to go to the Abyss was by trying to annihilate a country, so that's what he did. Needless to say, he didn't regret a thing.
 * Ichinose from Phantom Memory Kurau is unique among the series' few villains in that he has no discernable Freudian Excuse. Even The Big Bad was a Well-Intentioned Extremist. Ichinose had no motive behind his attrocities apart from research or, more likely, personal enjoyment. Said attrocites involve experimenting on a young girl who was possessed by an Energy Being, to the point where she was physically and mentally exhausted. When he tried to force her to continue, she unleashed a surge of power that would have killed him if her father hadn't saved the sonofabitch. Years later, we see he's continuing his experiments, and after learning the girl is still alive and more powerful than before, he gives an expression that can best be described as arousal. It is soon revealed that the Big Bad has hired him to create an army of Super Soldiers, and we are given no reason why Ichinose agreed to this, so we can assume that he just wants to do horrible experiments. And they are horrible. Most of his subjects have died or lost their sense of self, and he shows no remorse. At one point, he suffers Laser-Guided Karma during one of his offscreen experiments, where he repeatedly says that he was "a fool". At first this seems like a form of redemption, right? Well, the very next time we see him, he used some device created by Kurau's Father to heal himself and reveals he only called himself a fool for not realising what went wrong with his experiments, and now he has successfully created his SuperSoldiers. He overshadows the Big Bad in terms of his sheer depravity and is the one character who is treated as irredeemably evil and possible insane. The worst part? There is nothing to indicate that he has died or faced any retribution for his sins.
 * Gosick gives us the charming gentleman Marquis Albert de Blois, a shining example of humanity who
 * The Big Bads from Bakugan qualify.
 * King Zenoheld's original plan was to enslave the Bakugan to use them as entertainment against their will, passing them off as inanimate playthings. When they got free and were revealed to be sentient beings (a fact that horrified a large number of his followers), his response was to bring in the Bakugan Extermination System to perform a genocide on them simply because he lost. When that's stopped, he has a Villainous Breakdown and goes Omnicidal Maniac, trying to destroy the entire universe, all because the Bakugan got their freedom from him. He also treated his son like a disposable soldier, which came back to bite him in the end.
 * Emperor Barodius is a power-obcessed tyrant who declared war on a peaceful planet for no reason other to gain more power than he already had, showing a willingness to wipe the entire planet off the face of the universe to get what he wants. He's also a firm believer in You Have Failed Me and You Have Outlived Your Usefulness. If he doesn't kill you for either of those things, he brainwashes you into his loyal puppet. He also kidnapped a large number of kids from Bakugan Interspace to brainwash into his loyal soldiers. Once again, he did all of this for power when he already rules his own plant! If he wasn't evil enough as it was, the fact that
 * Mag Mel is possibly the worst of them all. He spent the series as a Sealed Evil in a Can in three different ways at once, showing that whoever put him there really wanted to make sure he never got out. What did he do to deserve this? He commited genocide. His current goal? Destroy the Earth. Venoheld went through a Villainous Breakdown from one too many failures to become an Omnicidal Maniac, Mag Mel already was one to begin with. What makes him even worse is his use of his Psychic Link with Dan and Drago. His primary use isn't that bad, siphoning off energy to free himself. It's his secondary use of it that makes him outright horrifying. He uses it to Mind Rape them with terrible visions of the destruction he intends to cause and to mock and taunt them. Does he need to do this for his plan to work? No, sending his henchman to battle them is enough to do that. Mag Mel is doing it just because he likes it! He performs Mind Rape on a boy and his best friend for fun.
 * And then there's
 * The Elementary School Principal, Kuonji, from Gakuen Alice. Kidnapping, extortion, blackmail, child abuse, child slavery, etc. He's not even remotely a good person.
 * To elaborate, at first, he turned  against   and made them enemies. Then, after , he forced her to  . He was also responsible for
 * The rulers of the Three Clans in Dance in the Vampire Bund, Lords Rozenmann, Li, and Ivanovic. Their backstory involves them betraying their rulers and killing their queen in a highly unpleasant manner, sparing her young daughter solely so she could bear a child to one of them in the future. They subject Mina to a highly humiliating and degrading 'chastity test' every decade to lord their power over her and play a game where they sent assassins after her beloved bodyguard to determine who gets her hand. This is the tip of the iceberg. Ivanovic was Rasputin, who drove the Russian royals to ruin. Mina barely managed to rescue Anastasia from him before he raped her. His obsession due solely to her resemblance to Mina. It's more than implied Ivanovic is a rapist with a taste for young girls.  Rozenmann is the most affable of the lot, but he's easily the worst, masterminding nearly every unfortunate event in the series.
 * Comparatively minor villain he may be, but the vampire crime boss Gabe from volume 11 uses his short screen time well. Gabe is a vampire sworn to Rozenmann living in New York where he's a vampire, pedophile and maker of child pornography who routinely taunts a stripper about paying a visit to her daughter Susy, who can't be more than six. After he learns the stripper is sheltering the runaway Mina, Gabe violently murders her friend and storms her apartment, immediately noticing how Susy is prettier than he imagined and attempting to seize her before Mina stops him. Gabe uses Susy and her mother as hostages so Mina surrenders under promises they won't be harmed. While Rozenmann's honorable werewolf retainer Gerhard is willing to give the assurance, Gabe makes it clear he has zero intention of not coming back for Susy and when Mina asks to feed, he comments he thought her child form was much hotter and if he can have Susy when Mina is done. Mina remarks he has mistaken her grievously before she rips his throat out, commenting his blood is as foul as his soul.
 * Radovan Elichenko in life was a Serbian war criminal who, during the Bosnian wars led his troupe of soldiers into a village while the men were away and slaughtered the elderly and the children. The women suffered worse. Any woman in their teens or over where taken and subjected to endless rapes and tortures. To escape justice, Elichenko became a Cudoviste or monster in the Slavic tongue- a vampire. He then joined Lord Ivanovic and carried out 'purges' of any leftover clans in Ivanovic's territory. After fleeing to the Bund and betraying Ivanovic to gain sanctuary, Elichenko was confronted by the father of one of his victims who had become a vampire to hunt Elichenko down. when presented with a picture of the girl he'd raped and tortured, Elichenko sneered he'd done 'thousands of Bosniak sluts' and only remembered them by how they looked 'down there' before mocking him about having probably slept with his daughter because 'Muslim men love to control their women.' He then proceeded to assume his true form to kill him, unaware that the rage inside a grieving father was far more powerful than Elichenko knew.
 * Lord Wolfram, the Villain Protagonist and sadistic guardian of the titular fortress in Wolfsmund. Wolfram makes psychological and physical torture a fun pastime and nobody is able to sneak past him. One of the first things we're told about Wolfram is his execution of a man who tried to sneak through his fortress, along with the man's entire family. He proceeds to string along people trying to flee the Hapsburg dynasty, letting them have as much hope as he wants before crushing it and destroying them.
 * Kogan Iwamoto, the head of the Kogan-ryuu Dojo in Shigurui, particularly for his treatment towards women. So great is his cruelty in and out of combat that even the psychotics and pedophiles among his students are taken aback. Indeed, in a series full of depravity and madness, he consistently stands on his own mountain of heartlessness. Two key examples are his treatment of his daughter, Mie. He wanted a son instead and only sees her as a vessel for carrying the dojo's heir. Thus, he's willing to watch her get raped by one of his students to make sure she got pregnant, slashed through a student's face for suggesting she should have a husband that respects her, and scoffed at her mother committing suicide when Mie finds her body. When the man first picked as Kogan's successor, Irako, is cast out, she spends years starving herself, eventually reducing herself to a semi-sane bag of bones. He only shows concern once he realizes she won't be able to give birth in such a state, and he almost rapes her himself. As for his concubine Iku? She was seen as cursed by the locals, as every man she gets involved with dies in one way or another. Thus, she is grateful to Kogan because he was kind to her despite that...until one of his top students, Irako, tells her that Kogan killed her first husband just to show off a sword technique. She and Irako become lovers behind Kogan's back; when he finds out, he slices off both her nipples, mutilates one of her breasts by burning it, and then blackmails her into burning a hole through Irako's penis. Oh, and this is AFTER Irako is tricked into getting beaten to a pulp by his fellow students, but BEFORE Kogan personally blinds him by slicing his eyes open.
 * For a rather optimistic show, Tiger and Bunny has suprising share of these.
 * The Big Bad, who is a real piece of work -
 * There is also, NEXT-hater who
 * There is also, NEXT-hater who

"From the character notes: "Nobody has any idea where or when she was born or what kind of environment she was brought up in. So no one knows why her words and actions are so violent and insane.""
 * Those two had a Villain Team-Up and managed to out-monster each other -  was clearly disgusted with  's hate for NEXT. He also has no problem with.
 * Dr. Kenmi from Sacred Seven has become one in recent episodes.
 * He was also responsible for the "random" Darkstone attacks early in the series, and thus endangered countless innocent lives.
 * Claymore finally has a Complete Monster in the form of a former Number 1, Roxanne. Despite her good looks, she's an absolute sadist, especially in regard to her former comrade Cassandra.
 * Which serves to be really ironic, considering that we have already been introduced to a plethora of villains and anti-villains who have done their share of horrific deeds. But at least this bunch either had nice-enough personalities had they not became part of the Always Chaotic Evil demographic by having a tragic Superpower Meltdown at the expense of their humanity, or they had really, really, crummy backstories that made you just want to bawl for them. But with Roxanne? Forget that.
 * Manami from Life is about as much a Complete Monster as a teenage girl in a normal high school setting can be. She's tried to get the protagonist and her best friend murdered, raped, and possibly made into a Snuff Film. She's tries her best to make Ayumu's life a living hell, forces all the other girls in her class to either bully certain individuals or face the same sort of harsh bullying, and says she aims to kill her bullying victims (be it by driving them to committing suicide or other measures).
 * Moo from Monster Rancher was originally a Super Soldier from a long dead civilization. Feeding off anger and hatred, Moo was sealed away when he attempted to destroy the world and corrupt all monsters into his minions. Freeing himself ages later by possessing an explorer. He sought to manipulate the man's daughter to fulfill his own ends and set about forcibly corrupting monsters into his minions. Moo has no compunction killing anything in his way and destroying the minds of those he can corrupt. Moo attempts to kill any minion he believes is an issue for him, and his ultimate goal is to find his old body and resume destroying the planet.
 * In Mawaru Penguindrum, up until the first half, those opposing the Takakuras were revealed to have at least a sad or sympathetic background, I.E,  However, in episode 15, we see that the latest "antagonist", , is a thoroughly broken person, and a Complete Monster was to blame. Said monster is  . And it's really not helped by   No wonder said person developed some of the biggest issues in a series that's already very complicated.
 * Fate/Zero has Caster and his master, Ryuunosuke. Before he even joins the Grail War, Ryuunosuke is a sadistic serial killer who murders children and women especially. Caster, AKA Gilles de Rais (know anything about him and you already know why he qualifies), and him get along because of their love and appreciation for one another's talent for slaughter. Caster shows his colors when he frees a child Ryuunosuke had captive...then has him horribly killed just as the poor kid begins to hope, because for this sick bastard, it's just more fun that way.
 * It also has Zouken Matou. After reading the visual novel, it's hard to imagine how he could become more hateable, and yet with his actions in Zero,
 * Herbert Muller from Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle - in his initial apperance, he tricked a kindergarten teacher to lead a bunch of little children into semmingly innocent puzzles, which he remade to be deadly, just to hope this level of fear will consume Kaito and his friends and get them killed. Yes, he has absolutely no problem with sacrificing little children to get his opponents. He is also said to be the "dark face" of P.O.G., implying that all it's members we seen until this point were the better side of the organization. One of them wanted to destroy a city if his puzzle wasn't solved. And Muller is apparently worse.
 * The Marionette King of I's (real name Samejima) is a senior in Ichitaka and Iori's high school. When Iori's photo shoot makes her well-known, he's at the forefront of the other seniors who gather in front of the window of her acting club and sexually harass her before starting to chant her to strip. From her reaction to this it is clear that this is very emotionally damaging to her. After that, he organizes a fake photo-shoot of the girl students in order to secretly film them while they're changing, with Iori being the real target. When she notices the hidden camera and tries to get out, she's almost raped by his underlings. As a result of the incident, the Marionette King and other seniors are expelled from the school. He then concocts an elaborate plan that lures Iori into a dilapidated building where she is trapped by him and his gang with the intention of raping her as revenge for getting him expelled. When this plot is foiled by Ichitaka and Jun he vanishes from the story only to reappear in the last couple of volumes where under his internet moniker "Marionette King" he sends messages declaring Iori as his "puppet" and his intention to rape and kill her and sell the snuff video of it. When Ichitaka fights him at the end the Marionette King has been driven further insane by drug use. Even when he's defeated, the Marionette King can only think about raping and killing Iori. The only reason that he stalked Iori was because he was obsessed with her and wanted revenge for his expulsion from school. He blamed everyone but himself for his self-inflicted trouble and was unrepentant to the end.
 * Silcardo Jenazad from Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple. Let's list his offences in chronological order: inciting civil war in his own country 20 years ago (which he's still actively maintaining) simply because he was a Blood Knight who couldn't stand lasting peace; causing his past students to fight and kill each other for his own research purposes; causing an avalanche to kill his own modern-day YOMI student (who, granted, wasn't a very nice guy himself to begin with); tricking fellow YAMI member Akira Hongo into ; kidnapping and brainwashing into becoming his newest cold-blooded disciple; and just recently, he's trying to kill his country's deposed princess (the sister of the aforementioned slain YOMI disciple) because she's all for restoring peace to the nation.
 * And most recently, during said ongoing civil war, Jenazad is informed by one of his servants that the men fighting on his side--men who joined him because they were devoted to his cause--will die in large numbers if they persist in the current segment of the conflict. Jenazad's response: "So?"
 * And he doesn't even stop there: adding to one of the above-mentioned points, he later supervises.
 * Izumi Ran from Durarara not only kidnaps his rival Masaomi's girlfriend and gloatingly breaks both of her legs to get revenge on him, but also delivered a truckload of abuse on his own brother, Aoba, for extremely petty and selfish reasons, namely that he couldn't stand being perceived as 'less' than him. Worse, he is also a sex offender and even threatens to rape Earthworm after already putting her through a massive beatdown. Even despite Earthworm's lack of morality, Izumi showed himself as ready to sexually assault her just to force himself on someone helpless.
 * Nebiros of Diabolo is notable in that even before his first appearance, he's described as 'the especially brutal, heinous one who bestows every imaginable pain'. And this is coming from a fellow member of the Six Great Spirits, AKA Satan's Generals. When he does finally arrive, the first thing he does is torture a church full of his worshipers to death while wearing a happy little smile. And while he doesn't perform any Necromancy within the series' run, he is also known as Hell's greatest necromancer and theoretically could resurrect the people he slaughtered, horribly murder them again, and repeat at will.
 * Pluto has Adolf's brother, who was a serial killer of robot children. Two things to put in perspective how bad he was. First, when Adolf wants to avenge him, he gets What the Hell, Hero? speech from his own wife, not because he wants revenge, but because he wants it for the sake of such a bastard. Second, Fantastic Racism in this world is so big that there exists Anti-Robot cults that is a KKK, and even they think this guy was a despicable scum.
 * Riku Ousei from Linebarrels of Iron. Most other members of the Katou Organization have at least some redeeming qualities (with Jack Smith being a full-fledged Type IV Anti-Villain), . Ousei, on the other hand, is a slimy little prick who delights in blowing people up from orbit with a Kill Sat just to make a point about his twisted concept of imagination (a bastardized take on his boss' own vision), and he is ready and willing to kill off a couple of innocent bystanders (a young man and his girlfriend who knew nothing of what was going on) just to taunt Koichi and drive him into a rage. And after doing that, he was going to repeat the atrocity, . A truly despicable snot.
 * Maranosuke has Zegenshi Doumeki, a Complete Monster that just. Doesn't. Stop. The Dragon to the Big Bad that explicitly hunts down children of both genders, rapes them into servitude, simultaneously deliberately altering them to play to various fetishes, then sells them as sex slaves to kinky nobles when he isn't vamping them for their essense to extend his immortality and youth. His explicit intentions with Pettanko Futanari Okoi made that, clear along with his joy of having sex with children. Nobody lost any sleep when that asshole died.
 * Andrea Cavalcanti, aka Bendetto, of Gankutsuou. He briefly seems to be a highly cultured fop and a decent guy and continues to put on that persona, but he's really a total psychopath who attempts to rape his half-sister Eugenie, seduces his mother, stabs his father, and laughs afterwards and attacks Haydee and looks like he was trying to rape her as well.
 * Me-Mania is an Ax Crazy Gonk who is a Loony Fan for Mima in Perfect Blue. His ugly appearance helps to show how ugly he is on the inside. He murders people connected to Mima after she quits her singing job and attempts to rape and kill her, all the while throughly enjoying himself.
 * Redda of Mon Colle Knights rarely picks fights with characters that are either weaker or stronger than he is, but that's because he doesn't need to. Instead, he prefers to stick with his mastery of manipulation, which he takes pleasure in using on others, especially to the point of driving them to suicide, and loves subjecting things to disturbing splooshy transformations. And that's not all:.
 * Kamishiro from Towa no Quon - ruthless commander in charge of hunting Attractors in Japan  - proves how bad he is in the final two episodes - , and is pretty smug.
 * Mai-Otome has Tomoe Marguerite, a Psycho Lesbian to the extreme. She's a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing that uses her charm to mask her malicious intentions, and almost everyone fell for it. Throughout the show, she tried to personally take out Arika, because she saw her as a potential threat to her affections towards her elder Shizuru Fujino. Her most despicable act involved her trying to convince a gang to rape Arika, knowing that if they went through with it, her Otome powers would be neutralized. She later went on to betray the Alliance, stating that she deserved to have anything she wanted, and that everyone's lives (except that of Shizuru's, of course) were meaningless to her. Not even her supposed love for Shizuru is a redeeming factor, since she essentially made her into her plaything, and took great pleasure in it. When Shizuru had revealed to her that she never loved her, Tomoe rants noting the similarities between her and the older Otome, and states that she was entitled to be the only person to have her. She then attempts to attack her and Natsuki.
 * While Magi Labyrinth of Magic has several unnecessarily cruel villains, most of them have some minor redeeming qualities or Freudian Excuse, with one big exception: Jamil, the ruler of Qishan. Smug Snake, Dirty Coward, you name it. He also gets quite a kick out of abusing slaves and underlings, and flashbacks show him doing this to children -- all with the cheerful, smug grin of a true sadist. Morgianna is so loyal and obedient to him that, at first, it appears to be a case of Happiness in Slavery, until her point of view shows that his physical and emotional abuse has simply broken her into unconditional obedience. He's also the only villain that the cheerful, idealistic Aladdin makes no attempt to redeem or befriend.
 * Empress Gyokuen of the Kou Empire appears to be a sweet, caring and gentle mother. The truth is far different. Gyokuen is a member of Al-Tharmen, and is one of its oldest and most powerful members. To achieve the throne, Gyokuen married the Emperor and bore him four children. She later had her husband murdered, along with two of her sons, with her youngest, Hakuryuu, barely surviving. When he asked Gyokuen if she was really behind it, Gyokuen asked him what he would do if it was and taunted him over how powerless and unable to strike back he was. She also offed her second husband in a thoroughly disgusting fashion for no reason other than that he stood between her and the throne. During the Magnostadt arc, Gyokuen takes the initiative in fighting the heroes with her forces, revealing herself as a former Magi of King Solomon, who she betrayed for Al-Tharmen. After summarily deciding the world is a 'failure', Gyokuen uses the lives of others to summon the 'Father' of Al-Tharmen to devour magic from the world and let it die in darkness.
 * Death Note: from the Yotsuba group is certainly a Complete Monster. To be precise,  abused his employees before getting the notebook. Then, when he did, he killed people with slim to no motive whatsoever. He also tried forcing Idol Singer Misa (who dislikes him not just because she loves Light, but for being a Dirty Old Man) to marry him so that he could get money from insurance for when she would die by his hand..This caused  and makes the Humiliation Conga he goes through,, even more satisfying.
 * The only ones who match him in heinousness are mafia boss Rod Ross, and by the end of the series.
 * Akio from Revolutionary Girl Utena fits despite not killing people on screen. However, he is responsible for his sister's century long torture as he manipulated each and every Rose Prince that came around. His manipulations are so petty, so mean-spirited, and so cold, it's hard to believe that he and Dios are the same person. In fact, it's more likely Dios separated himself from Akio ala Kami and Piccolo Daimoh to keep himself a hero. What he had done to Utena and Anthy is absolutely unforgivable.
 * Deep Blue of Tokyo Mew Mew. Sure, he's another alter-ego of Aoyama-kun, very much like the Blue Knight, and he looks similar to him, too. But admit it, unlike both of them, he's an absolutely terrible person..
 * Yoshiyuki Tomino gives us another despicable villain in Zambot 3, in the form of Killer The Butcher, The Dragon to Big Bad Gaizock. During the series' run, this guy commits any sort of horrible action, the mildest of which is mass murder of innocent civilians with the excuse that Humans Are Bastards. If, by the end of the series, you still don't think this guy deserves a quick, brutal death, just wait until . And all the while, he admires his work, is proud of the bloodshed, and even jokes about the horrible deaths of his victims, treating his killing sprees as a funny game.
 * Friend of Twentieth Century Boys. Both of them. The first Friend is responsible for 150,000 deaths by spreading a virus over the globe, a virus of his own creation after reading the Book of Prophecy that Kenji (one of the heroes) created, then framing Kenji's faction and calling them terrorists. He becomes the 'savior of the world' and sends people who just WRITE MANGA to high security prisons. While the Seconds Friend's actions were even more horrible than the ones of the First, at least the Second Friend is revealed to have had a truly shitty childhood to the point of contemplating suicide - it doesn't manage to serve as a Freudian Excuse. However, the First Friend (Fukubei) was really just an egocentric asshole sneering at pretty much every other person while simultaneously being a massive Attention Whore, who decides to do what he does out of some really petty grudge against Kenji.
 * Akechi Mitsuhide in the anime adaptation of Sengoku Basara. He gleefully leaps over the Moral Event Horizon in episode 5. It's not when he goads Nagamasa into fighting Masamune. It's not even when he . No, it's when he . It then becomes blatantly obvious that, and that he likely did all this for kicks.
 * Nobunaga himself is most definitely one of these, even if he's not as flamboyant as Mitsuhide. After Mitsuhide broke Oichi, he didn't bat an eyelash at it. He thinks his own wife is nothing to him and constantly puts his sister down and enslaves her to his will. He is also said to be made of pure evil from what Masamune gathers in the anime's last battle, so he certainly lives up to this trope.
 * Another historical anime, Rose of Versailles, we have Jeanne of Valois-Saint-Remy, the person who brought down Marie Antoinette and started the Revolution.  Note, in the manga she at least has the trait of loving Nicolas, her lover and later husband.
 * The Duke de Guemenee
 * The lord of the Hioki Domain in the first series of ''Kamui Den": among many other misdeeds,
 * Ragyo Kiryuin, the Big Bad of Kill la Kill. Let's put it this way: she considers being human a fault. Unlike most everything else on this show, her actions are always played 100% seriously. Her ultimate goal is the annihilation of the human race by transforming the earth into a cocoon for the parasitic alien Life Fibers, and she carries it out entirely of her own free will and with great gusto. She desires nothing less than the total physical, mental, and sexual domination of everyone she comes into contact with, up to and including her progeny, upon whom she's visited some particularly vile experiences.
 * The Director (her real name is Keiko Yamazaki, but that's never used) of hospital Center #102 from Junko Mizuno's Pure Trance. The story never presents any positive traits in her, and gives plenty of reasons to loathe her. She is shown as being directly responsible for the deaths of two of the nurses working under her (one of whom she kills by force-feeding her poison pills until she bursts), in addition to being an incredibly negligent surgeon who has killed many more women through her incompetence. Her Establishing Character Moment is stabbing and killing the mother of a woman she killed in surgery (by placing a pornographic magazine in her abdomen instead of the necessary organ). The Director is an unrepentant drug addict as well, stealing medicine needed by her patients for her own recreational use; while on drugs, she becomes even more wildly violent and unstable. In what is arguably her absolute worst moment, she attempts to freeze-dry two barely-born twin children and turn them into a pair of earrings.
 * The Director (her real name is Keiko Yamazaki, but that's never used) of hospital Center #102 from Junko Mizuno's Pure Trance. The story never presents any positive traits in her, and gives plenty of reasons to loathe her. She is shown as being directly responsible for the deaths of two of the nurses working under her (one of whom she kills by force-feeding her poison pills until she bursts), in addition to being an incredibly negligent surgeon who has killed many more women through her incompetence. Her Establishing Character Moment is stabbing and killing the mother of a woman she killed in surgery (by placing a pornographic magazine in her abdomen instead of the necessary organ). The Director is an unrepentant drug addict as well, stealing medicine needed by her patients for her own recreational use; while on drugs, she becomes even more wildly violent and unstable. In what is arguably her absolute worst moment, she attempts to freeze-dry two barely-born twin children and turn them into a pair of earrings.


 * Dodo from Mixim is a Monster Clown with only one purpose and drive in life: to devour all he can. Dodo is initially a member of the Big Bang Zero group and is one of their four elites. He is also the only one to lack any redeeming quality or Freudian Excuse for his actions. What sets Dodo apart is how he devours the populations of entire plaets, including women and children. He relishes in what he does and has no loyalty to his allies. When one of them, Heigar, was injured, Dodo took the chance to devour him. When he encountered two children on one world, he tried to eat them as well, not caring they'd be future allies. In his final battle with the heroes, he even killed the team mascot before attempting to kill and devour all the other good guys as well.
 * King Hamdo of Now and Then Here and There is a raging and unpredictable tyrant who uses Child Soldiers as cannon fodder. Hamdo evokes the smallest drop of sympathy because he is obviously insane and in great pain...and then he kills his cat in a temper tantrum and sexually assaults a little girl. His second-in-command warns him that one of his tactical moves will directly result in the bloody deaths of thousands of children, and his response is, more or less, "So?"
 * Osamu Tezuka's manga MW features the single most hateful and sociopathic character Tezuka has ever created: Michio Yuki. Blackmailer, bisexual rapist, kidnapper, and murderer. In one chapter, he  All of this is done For the Evulz. His crowning achievement would be stealing a classified military neurotoxin and slaughter as many people as he can with it in vengeance for his own mortality. And does he succeed? . To see the man who created Astro Boy come up with someone this messed-up rattles the eyeteeth more than a tad.
 * If Moon Phase's Count Kinkle hadn't already earned this title from brutally torturing and/or mind-raping nearly every named protagonist/bystander he ever met (Seigi manages to get off with just ), he would have got it from his role in Elfriede's backstory. The "hate" in I Hate You, Vampire Dad almost seems like an understatement.
 * Gyokuro Shuzen of Rosario to Vampire is the Evil Matriarch of the Shuzen family and the leader of the genocidal anti-human organization Fairy Tale. In her position, Gyokuro tasks her men with sowing the seeds of the Human World's destruction, aiming at nothing less than humanity's annihilation by awakening the ancient vampire and Eldritch Abomination Alucard. Gyokuro also brainwashed her gentle, kind daughter Kahlua into being an efficient assassin that cannot refuse her orders to kill, viewing Kahlua as a proud achievement. When she confronts the heroes, Gyokuro rips off her stepdaughter Moka's Rosary Seal, and proceeds to cheerfully laugh, enjoying the pain it causes Moka. It is then revealed that Gyokuro had implanted bits of Alucard into the other Shuzen vampires, which have devoured them from the inside out and turned them into ravenous ghouls. When Moka begs on hands and knees for Gyokuro to save her beloved Tsukune from this fate, Gyokuro agrees...and then mocks Moka's weakness before punching her in the face. She even directs Kahlua to murder her beloved little sister Kokoa with no remorse, Kokoa being Gyokuro's own daughter as well. It's revealed Gyokuro's rage stems largely petty jealousy at Moka's mother, her rival Akasha. When she fuses with Alucard, Gyokuro gloats that she will destroy everything Akasha ever loved and destroy the world she protected. Beautiful, sadistic and unforgiving, Gyokuro viewed all in her path as nothing more than stepping stones for her own power.
 * Wagnard of Record of Lodoss War is an Evil Sorcerer who was kicked out of his wizard's academy for practice of the black arts. As a result, the egotistical Wagnard has decided to awaken the destroyer Goddess Kardis and cause The End of the World as We Know It largely out of nothing more than spite and a petty grudge. Wagnard uses many as pawns, leading to large scale battles and many deaths to catch the pure-hearted priestess Neese, who is the reincarnation of Kardis. Wagnard spares no effort in trying to murder her friends, and when he has Neese captive, subjects her to Cold-Blooded Torture to awaken Kardis within her. At the end, Wagnard expresses sheer glee in awakening Kardis to kill all that lives, solely so he can reign supreme in a 'Kingdom of the Dead.'
 * Haguro Dou in Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest is one of the most horrific and despicable manga villains of recent years. He makes Femto (A GOD of EVIL) look SANE in comparison. He manipulates the younger Kuroda into going Columbine on half the student body out of vengeance against Inugami for his older brother's death, using weapons from his family gun cellar. The kicker? His brother died because HAGURO pulled his life-support. It only gets worse from there.
 * Kuroda also took a break from blowing up stuff (and students) to try to rape an innocent girl named Noriko Kimura with his gun, and when she refused to go along with this, he tried to shoot her dead. Fortunately, Inugami interrupts him.
 * Also, Haguro beat his Noble Demon subordinate Chiba within an inch of his life, biting off his tongue, and then raping him for good measure to the point that Chiba ends up dying from a combination of ruptured organs, blood loss, and broken ribs. . Why did Haguro do such a thing? Because Chiba ended up encountering Inugami out on the streets and talked to him for maybe 15 minutes when Haguro wasn't around. Haguro is Yandere for Inugami's werewolf form, you see.
 * Also, he kidnapped and brutally raped Akiko Aoshika (a teacher who ends up falling in love with Inugami, becoming his Morality Chain) while recording it so that Inugami can see, practically talking to the camera (and, therefore, to Inugami) through the entire thing in the hopes that Inugami (who left to Nara due to Haguro's actions) will come back to him.
 * He not only rapes Aoshika:
 * Post Aoshika's release from her chains, Haguro tries to kill her, telling her that Inugami is too good for her. Inugami shows up in time to beat him up, and during the Inugami vs. Haguro battle, Haguro gets to slice off two of Inugami's fingers, and he eats them in an insane attempt to confirm Haguro is a superior beast to Inugami. It gets even worse when Haguro slices off four more of Inugami's fingers - and an entire arm.
 * Haguro also fired an MGL-140, which is a semi-automatic grenade launcher, at the school, thus committing the SECOND school shooting of the series. The attack hospitalizes Aoshika, and she later identifies him as the shooter.
 * Handsome, charming Dr. Kazutaka Muraki from Yami no Matsuei. As of the start of the series, he's already spent several years systematically kidnapping, dismembering, and vivisecting small children (like, raping adolescents and infecting them with slow, agonizing fatal diseases (like  ), and seemingly murdering pretty much every grown woman he comes across, whether to use them in scientific experiments to attract the attention of the Shinigami or just for lulz. All of this murder, torture, and rape is really only the means he uses to the end of fashioning a good old Mind Rape, whether it's mentally torturing a girl madly in love with him into developing split personalities (like  ), mind-controlling suicidally depressed pop stars into becoming blood-drinking monsters (like  ), or stalking and harassing one of the Shinigami  with so much misdirected guilt that he finally manages to drive him into a catatonic state, in which state he fully intended to vivisect the guy and use his powers
 * Johan Liebert, the eponymous character of Monster, is arguably the poster boy for this trope. You may appreciate his abilities as a Manipulative Bastard and Chessmaster, and you may consider his scenes the best in the series, but the extremes that he goes to completely negate any sympathy that his Freudian Excuse could elicit in the audience.
 * Numerous Freudian Excuses are proposed for Johan's behaviour, yet each and every one is ultimately undermined, revealing that in the end, Johan simply is what he is, and what he is, is pure, unadulterated evil.
 * However, as discussed in the analysis page, he is also a thorough Deconstruction of the trope, as one of the major goals of the series is to examine whether any human at all, regardless of everything horrifying that he's ever done, is irredeemably and irrevocably evil. This is also illustrated with . The series' conclusion is that while anybody can be redeemed, it is  Johan refusal to seek redemption that truly makes him a monster.