Complete Monster/Gundam

The various Gundam series have a habit of trying to show war in various shades of gray, and as a result, most villains (if they can even be called that) are tempered with sympathetic human qualities. However, there are still exceptions to the rule...

"Carris: "My heart...is disappearing...help me...help me...""
 * In the first Mobile Suit Gundam series, there's Prince Gihren Zabi, eldest son of the Zabi family and the franchise's original CM. A cold, Machiavellian personality, Gihren doesn't care about anyone's lives, including those of his own family members. He takes being compared to Adolf Hitler as a compliment, turns his little brother's funeral into a political rally, uses chemical weapons to exterminate vast swathes of earth's population, and later . When his sister Kycilia (no angel herself) confronts him about what he's done, Gihren's sneeringly offhanded disregard for her anger cements his status as an utter hollow psychopath.
 * Mobile Suit Gundam 0080 War in The Pocket stands out among Gundam series as the one with the most Grey and Gray Morality, and yet it does have one Complete Monster, Colonel Killing, the high-ranking Gihren loyalist who took part in Operation Rubicon. The name itself should be a dead giveaway, but just for the lowdown: this bastard deliberately sabotaged Operation Rubicon, causing the death of the whole Cyclops Team (only Ensign Newbie Bernard Wiseman survived, and only because he got lucky). And he did that just to give his superiors an excuse to destroy the colony with nuclear weapons. He's also a firm believer in We Have Reserves and Klingon Promotion, and when his commander overrides the order of destroying Side 6, he shoots him dead and usurps control of the operation from him..
 * Yazan Gable from Zeta Gundam is a thuggish Psycho for Hire whose whole reason for joining the Titans is so he can satisfy his bloodlust by killing members of the AEUG and their supporters. He has no interest in the rules of warfare, murders solely because he is good at it, and has the disturbing warcry of "I'M GONNA VIOLATE YOU!!" Worse yet, he's, despite having killed three main characters, arranged the death of his superior officer (for the heinous crime of not letting him fight a pointless battle), and earned the enmity of every named character in the show. It's worth noting that he was likely the inspiration for Ali Al-Saachez and Decil Galette, two of the worst characters on this list, and does all of this while being a Badass Normal in a show full of Newtypes.
 * For that matter, Titan's second-in-command, Bask Ohm, is just as horrible. He beat the shit out of Captain Bright for opposing to his orders, had Kamille Vidan's mother, Hilda, put in a capsule in outer space without a spacesuit just to retrieve the Gundams stolen by the AEUG (this leading to her horrendous and heart-wrenching death), ordered at least two massive colony gassings, etc. . He's got a Freudian Excuse of the Being Tortured Makes You Evil type, but it obviously doesn't come close to justifying his brutality.
 * While Gundam ZZ's Glemmy Toto was never a nice person, at least in the anime, he gets enough characterization and is funny and quirky enough to neatly avoid this trope. In the manga's Alternate Continuity, though, his evilness is cranked Up to Eleven. He doesn't even start out sympathetic and is immediately shown to be coldly manipulating Puru and treating her as nothing more than a weapon to be used against his enemies (complete with a Nightmare Fuel worthy description of the poor girl's brainwashing). When Puru does her Heel Face Turn, Glemmy tries to kill her himself. And during the desert arc, Glemmy orders his men to destroy a defenceless village just to draw out Judau and his friends . It is immensely satisfying when, during the final battle, He's eventually revealed to be a clone of.
 * The original show, in the meantime, has Axis-Zeon Ace Pilot Rakan Dahkaran. An Expy of Zeta's Yazan Gable, Rakan is, like his inspiration, a brutal, nigh-unkillable Blood Knight with a tenuous grasp of personal loyalty, albeit with some actual command talent thrown in. Cold-blooded and willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done, Rakan is not above harming civilians. This is best demonstrated in Episode 35, where he impassively guns down hospital ships and evacuation craft fleeing the Dublin Colony Drop, in order to make sure that nobody escapes the blast radius. He kills longtime Gundam veteran Hayato Kobayashi when the latter tries to stop him, and following his defection from Haman's forces willingly kills many of his old comrades, including Mashmyre Cello, before being stopped by Judau.
 * Carozzo "Iron Mask" Ronah from Mobile Suit Gundam F91, who wanted to eradicate most of humanity using his dreadful Bugs, all according to his twisted concept of aristocracy. The manga shows in sickening detail how brutally and efficiently his creations did their work.
 * Mobile Suit Victory Gundam has Fonse Kagatie. The Prime Minister of the Zanscare Empire, he cynically exploited the messianic Newtype Maria Armonia's harmless pacifist cult to create a brutal military dictatorship, with Maria as his powerless figurehead. Whilst, as the de facto ruler of Zanscare, he was responsible for green-lighting all of its atrocities (which included the mass execution of dissidents by guillotine, burning entire towns to flush out the League Militaire, and genocide by giant motorbike, his worst act by far was creating and deploying the Angel Halo. The Final Solution to Zanscare's war with the Earth Federation, the Halo was a psychic Doomsday Device designed to wipe out all intelligent life on Earth via Mind Rape, allowing Kagatie's empire to move in and take the planet unopposed. For extra evil points, its power source was Maria (later replaced by her eleven-year-old daughter) and thousands of her followers, who he tricked into believing that they were broadcasting messages of peace and goodwill rather than orchestrating a total planetary genocide. This also meant that they served as human shields for the Halo, ensuring that every bit of damage it took was measured in innocent lives.
 * Gym Ghingnham of Turn A Gundam is many things, none of them pleasant. He's a cunning and ruthless manipulator with an intuitive grasp of Obfuscating Stupidity, a brutal warlord whose spurious 'warrior philosophy' is chiefly an excuse for hurting people and can be dropped at a moment's notice if it gets him into trouble, and an entitled Psychopathic Manchild who sees war as a game and human lives as points on the scoreboard. He threatens to rape his guest/prisoner Kihel Heim, casually murders his subordinates on the slightest pretext (up to and including an impromptu weapons test for his new suit), and attempts to restart the Dark History, the centuries of apocalyptic warfare that nearly brought about the extinction of humanity, because he thinks it'd be fun. His crowning moment of evil likely comes when he kills his own Dragon for offering him assistance in a battle...only to then turn around and beg for help from another subordinate the moment the fight is going against him.
 * Muruta Azrael from Gundam Seed, leader of the terrorist organization Blue Cosmos, who wanted to kill all Coordinators by any means necessary and took unholy delight in their wholesale slaughter. He's also misogynistic, childish, smug, arrogant, condescending, and enthusiastically psychotic. He believes entirely that his subordinates are expendable and would willingly sacrifice thousands and even millions of them just to see all the Coordinators burn. He's also a Sore Loser and a raging Hypocrite who uses drugs and brainwashing to turn children into Tyke Bomb Super Soldiers, while claiming that genegeneering is a sin (it's heavily implied that this is a case of Driven by Envy). The sheer hatefulness of his plan is only reinforced by the Freudian Excuse he uses to justify himself (he was bullied by Coordinators when he was a kid. Yeah, that's about it), and his eventual Villainous Breakdown is a source of Nightmare Fuel. He manages to make the series' actual Big Bad (a ranting Omnicidal Maniac) look downright sympathetic in comparison, and he's so utterly vile that he causes hardline Sergeant Rock Natarle Badgerrule to pull a Heel Face Turn.
 * Lord Djibril from Gundam Seed Destiny, Azrael's successor, with none of his intelligence or charisma, who had his minions perform horrible experiments on children, personally killed thousands of innocents with a Wave Motion Gun and was responsible for . Essentially what happens when you give someone with the personality of a low-functioning sociopath and jumped-up school bully access to unlimited resources and technology. He's a combination of impotent rage and cowardice, but with the money and influence to make him horrifying instead of merely pathetic.
 * And perhaps the reigning champion in Gundam villainy (despite his fanbase), Ali Al-Saachez from Mobile Suit Gundam 00, a self-admitted Psycho for Hire and Blood Knight who loves war and wants it to never end,, and generally only exists to make the world a much, much worse place. Burning down an entire country is all in a day's work for this beast. It also says a lot about his character that he actually finds empathy disgusting.
 * Ali Al-Saachez's boss and the show's Big Bad, Ribbons Almark. In the first season, he didn't seem so bad, particularly in comparasion to Ali. Then came the second season...To sum up his character:
 * That's putting it mildly. Here's a list of his atrocities.  Perhaps the only good thing he does in the entire series is   And that was only due to   Only Ali is more of a monster than Ribbons is.
 * And the only reason Ali comes off as more evil, despite Ribbons' actions throughout the series being far more heinous in comparison, is because Ribbons appears to be trying to be something of a benevolent person, whereas Ali is For the Evulz in human form.
 * Right. Put the worst aspects of Ribbons Almark, Colonel Killing, Ali Al-Saachez, Yazan Gable, and Muruta Azrael in a blender. Then add in Ginias Sahalin's insanity and stuff all of that into a seven year old boy. That is Desil Galette from Gundam AGE in a nutshell.
 * Here are the specifics of his atrocities:  Katejina Loos might be Gundam's queen of evil, but Desil is indisputably Gundam's king of all things horrifying.
 * What makes him really stand out is that he manages to surpass all the other villains in this entire page even after his series is close to its halfway point. Managing to do that when your series isn't even over yet is pretty jarring.
 * Major Nomoa Long from Gundam X. A former scientist for the Space Revolutionary Army, he was dumped on Earth by his superiors following the devastating aftermath of the war and began plotting revenge against them. While this is at least understandable, the extremes he goes to in his pursuit of vengeance are downright depraved - his plan was to use the Fort Severn laboratories to create a strong enough Artificial Newtype (and we know how those unfortunate people are created and how unstable they usually end up becoming) in order to power up the Patulia, a nightmarish Mobile Armor that is literally Powered by a Forsaken Child: this horror needed a Newtype (who ended up being Artificial Newtype Carris Nautilus) to be used as its power source, and it would slowly and painfully erase the victim's mind, turning him or her into nothing more than one of the Patulia's own components. Does Nomoa care about any of this? No, he just wants the Patulia to destroy all those who have wronged him somehow, and he will sacrifice anyone to achieve that.


 * Gundam Wing doesn't really have any of these, although Chief Engineer Tsubarov really pushes the envelope. The Spin-Off novel Gundam Wing G-Unit, on the other hand, adds three more to the mix:
 * Dr. Berg, a Mad Scientist suffering from a terminal case of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder who is willing to betray and murder in order to complete his research and create the most powerful Gundams ever, as he takes pride and joy in inventing newer and newer ways for humans to kill each other. He has no regard at all for human lives and only considers people as guinea pigs for him to toy with.
 * Krats Silvy is at first just a member of the Quirky Miniboss Squad OZ Prize and doesn't seem to have much going for him. However, he reveals his true colors when Valdor Farkill (see below) takes over the organization: he's an opportunistic bastard who fights for the strongest side and readily betrays his friends as soon as something better comes along, even going as far as to try to kill his former friend, Hot-Blooded Noble Demon Roche Nattono (who survives the attempt and has an Heel Face Turn out of sheer disgust)..
 * Finally, Big Bad Valdor Farkill, the Black General of Death, so nicknamed for his skill in battle and for the enthusiasm he puts forth in slaughtering entire companies of enemy soldiers. He estabilishes himself soon after his introduction by coldly disposing of Broom Brooks - the third member of the Quirky Miniboss Squad - just because he had outlived his usefulness, and then by blowing up several shuttles filled with civilian refugees just because. And he gets progressively worse, to the point that, by the time he, he has already estabilished himself as the most despicable villain in the After Colony era. He's also an extreme megalomaniac who believes it is his destiny to fight and kill Well-Intentioned Extremist Anti-Villain Treize Kushrenada, for no better reason than a desire to be forever remembered in history books..