Complete Monster/Marvel



"You think I do this for money?! I've been gettin' paid for high-end jobs since... forever. Have you ever seen me spend any of it? Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if I have more money than you, at this point. No, Norman... I stopped doing this for money a long time ago. I do it because it's fun."

- Bullseye, Deadpool v4 #12

A list of Complete Monsters in Marvel Comics.

X-Men

 * When The Shadow King isn't hatching some diabolical plot that the X-Men have to stop, he likes to use his telepathic power (nearly equal to Xavier's) to alter people's priorities, amplifying their dark impulses and suppressing their conscience, so they do awful, ghastly things of their own free will, at least, in a sense. Murder, adultery, anything, and then he sometimes reverses the effects and leaves him or her remembering doing those things, remembering enjoying them, and wondering why they did it.
 * A good portion of the Marauders have been this. Riptide is an Ax Crazy sadist who loves nothing more than indiscriminately slaughtering everything in sight, Scalphunter is a ruthless sociopath who will do anything if the pay is good, Blockbuster is a bloodthirsty brute who relishes torture, Scrambler is a narcissistic psychopath with a love for chaos, Malice is a sadistic incorporeal spirit who is second only to Mystique in Manipulative Bitchery, and Sabretooth is, well...what hasn't Sabretooth done? Makes sense when you consider that Sinister, who commissioned the team, is one of the most despicable individuals in the MU.
 * Let's talk about Mr. Sinister, shall we? Sinister was the one who commissioned the Marauders to slaughter a bunch of innocent Morlocks. He then callously played upon the feelings of Cyclops, creating Madelyne Pryor as a clone so she and Cyclops could produce a child for his experimentation. He's spent decades performing horrible experiments on mutants and was a key figure in Nazi human experimentation. Perhaps Sinister's most vile act is promising to free those enslaved in the Weapon X concentration camp. In reality, he merely took them as his own test subjects.
 * Cassandra Nova, who kicks off her first appearance by . And then there's her
 * Apparently she was a Complete Monster since birth, too. She's Xavier's half-sister who tried to strangle him while still in the womb when they were just sperm!
 * And despite being an Ass Pull by Chuck Austen to try explaining the huge OOC Ball that she was given, Nova  wasn't the kindest action either.
 * Ultimate X-Men
 * Ultimate Magneto. In contrast to his noble, at times even heroic mainstream counterpart, he's a coldly calculating genocidal sociopath who has twice attempted to wipe mankind from the face of the earth. He also verbally and physically abused his children (ordering Wolverine to kill his son at one point, and later kneecapping him). Although, to give him his due, the Ultimate Universe is even harsher to mutants than the mainstream one. Ultimate Deadpool and Ultimate Mojo are also completely monstrous: Deadpool gave a speech on TV about how the X-Men (who he repeatedly described as "babies") didn't choose to be mutants and were just born that way, before dismissing them and all mutants as animals who deserved to die horribly, while Mojo's plan was to force Professor X to watch them being hunted down and slaughtered by Deadpool and the Reavers for a reality TV show before lobotomizing him live on air! (Fortunately, they hadn't planned for Spider Man's intervention and Xavier took an unspecified revenge on Mojo instead). The Ultimate Universe is generally a lot Darker and Edgier than the classic Marvel universe and Complete Monsters are almost commonplace.
 * Ultimate John Wraith is a mutant-hating bastard (admittedly, he isn't alone there) who tortured Wolverine for years and wiped his memory, broke Rogue's arms constantly from boredom, and turned young Nightcrawler into an assassin, an act that left him psychologically traumatized. He was kicked in the balls by karma when Ultimate Fury shot him in the head, though he came back as Vindicator for Alpha Flight. Quite WHY this happened is beyond most readers and several are choosing to forget it as severe Character Derailment.
 * Dr. Zander Rice, one of the lead scientists of Weapon X's X-23 project. He has X-23 kept in a padded room except during training sessions or assassination missions, almost kills her with radiation poisoning to trigger her healing factor at the age of seven, and surgically removes her natural claws one at a time, coats them with adamantium, then reimplants them (all of this without anesthesia) at the same age. He develops a pheromone "trigger" that activates her berserker rage and uses it to get X-23 to kill her martial arts instructor, and leaves her behind on a mission to be killed after he murders the other members of the team so he can claim they were taking fire and had to retreat. After X-23 shows back up alive, Rice then manipulates the head of the X-23 project, who had raised Rice after his father's death, into granting Rice control of the project, at which point Rice then sends X-23 to kill the man, his wife, and son - even though Rice knows the boy is his son, from an affair between Rice and the wife before her marriage (X-23 leaves the child alive). Upon taking over the project, he begins the development of embryos X-24 through X-50, which he intends to sell to the highest bidders, and then taints the one remaining person X-23 cares about, the project scientist who was her surrogate mother, with the trigger pheromone, which causes X-23 to fatally injure the woman - just as she was about to take X-23 and disappear after destroying the project complex. Rice's reasoning for all of this? His father, who worked on the original (Wolverine) Weapon X project was killed by Wolverine when he escaped, and Rice held X-23, who is Logan's genetic double, responsible for Wolverine's killing of his father. Somehow, X-23 kicking the shit out of him and his dying doesn't quite balance the scales...
 * Fabian Cortez deserves a spot on this list. He was part of the defunct Upstarts, a group of rich, bored dilettante mutants that hunted and killed other mutants for points and bragging rights (the competition was set up by Selene to test possible recruits for the Hellfire Club). In his first outing, he puts together the Acolytes and seeks out Magneto in order to sway him back towards taking an antagonistic stance against humanity again. When Magneto is wounded, Cortez uses his own powers to seemingly heal him and boost his power at the same time whilst making Mags dependent on the “treatments” like a drug (and possibly making Mags more emotionally unstable, which would account for much of his behavior during “Fatal Attractions”). His machinations lead to the U.S. and Russia destroying Asteroid M with a plasma cannon, and the deaths of his entire first group of Acolytes (what makes that worse is that one of them was his own damn sister, and yet he never acknowledges that, nor does he show any signs of remorse or grief), whilst he flees with a triumphant smile on his face. When Magneto turns out not to be dead and he loses his top spot in the Upstarts competition, his response is to go to Genosha and inspire the mutants there to rise up against their oppressive human government, causing a bloody civil war. At the same time, he kidnaps Magneto’s infant granddaughter (and replaces her with a shapeshifting mutant suicide bomber in an attempt to kill as many of the Avengers as possible) so he can use her as a human shield against her parents and grandfather, the X-Men, the Avengers, and Exodus. When Magneto is given rule of Genosha, he grants Cortez a place on his cabinet in exchange for regular rejuvenating treatments (Magneto’s powers are in decline at this time). As soon as Mags learns of hidden technology in Genosha that can restore his power levels again, Cortez predictably betrays him again by amping up ex-Acolytes to send against him. This fails, and as soon as Magneto restores his full powers, he grants the weasel a messy, but long overdue death. Not only was Cortez an extreme mutant supremacist, a terrorist, a coward, a user, and a backstabber, but he also committed his most despicable crimes to score points in a competition.
 * Kevin MacTaggert, aka Proteus, is one of these (the X-Men seem to have quite a bit actually). A sadistic Energy Being whose only goals in life are his own survival and causing misery to everyone else - not only that, but in order to survive and fuel his own powers, he has to possess the bodies of other people, which inevitably result in said bodies rotting away, requiring him to steal another. And his actual powers? Warping reality and Mind Rape, and he's very good at using them (he actually made Wolverine scared of him and beat Phoenix by making her experience what it would be like to be a self-aware rotting corpse). He was so dangerous, the X-Men renounced their Thou Shalt Not Kill policy for probably the first time, and eventually, Gentle Giant Colossus killed him (after the former tried to simultaneously incinerate him while making him relive the death of his older brother). Apparently, he was like this since he was a child, which is part of the reason his own mother Moira sealed him away for most of his life, and said mother was also relieved when Proteus was killed. Later appearances have tried to move him towards The Woobie (see the "Kings of Pain" X-Over and the 90's TV series, which also included de-aging and making him more of a Psychopathic Manchild), while at the same time, altering his powers to make it so that he can't kill people anymore when he possesses them.
 * His Ultimate Counterpart is as much of a Complete Monster as him. Even Darker and Edgier Ultimate couldn't top him.
 * Victor Creed, aka Sabretooth, the Evil Counterpart and  Arch Enemy of Wolverine. He may be the only person in the 616 Marvel Universe who enjoys killing people more than Bullseye. In one issue of Deadpool, he killed a bunch of people for fun. Bad enough. Then it was revealed that he had kept a little girl in a closet that he was saving for later. Even the possibility that his homicidal nature might be part of his mutation doesn't excuse his actions. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Sabretooth embodies everything ordinary humans hate and fear about mutants. Thankfully,
 * Omega Red. The man was a Soviet soldier stationed at a small town who started murdering from sheer boredom. His fellow soldiers shot him in the back of the head when they caught him. The Russian government learned he survived and recommended him for the Soviet supersoldier project, which he apparently only survived due to his evil and mean nature. To survive carbonadium poisoning, he drains the life forces of those around him, even when a cure is available. It was at one point implied that he was a pedophile, though thankfully, writers seem to have forgotten it (Red was, by this point, developing into too dark a figure). He later turned on and killed several of his employers working for the Hand for the reason that they irritated him. In his presently final issue, he ends up in a regular Russian prison and taunts a prisoner dying of HIV/Aids by calling him worthless. He later casually kills Wildchild by impaling him through the chest and dumping him in molten lava before.
 * The X-Men honestly have a ton of these to contrast with a Magnificent Bastard Anti-Villain like Magneto. There's the Marauders and Sinister mentioned above, but some of the others include Sinister Minister William Stryker, the founder of the Purifiers. The Purifiers are an organization of religious fanatics who believe Mutants are an affront to God. Their first appearance opens with them gunning down a nine year old girl and eleven year old boy. Stryker's crusade began when he killed his baby mutant son...and then broke his wife's neck for giving birth to a 'monster'. He tries to brainwash Professor Xavier so he'll kill every mutant on the planet and murders his second-in-command when it becomes clear she has the mutant gene. His own guards even turn on him when he tries to kill Kitty Pryde on live TV.
 * Donald Pierce, the cyborg leader of the Reavers. Pierce was a member of the Hellfire Club for a time, but is really a psychotic, raving bigot who's also a serial killer of mutants. His hatred motivated him to turn people into Cyborgs to kill more mutants. What makes Pierce the worst, though? Pierce knows if he goes after guys like Wolverine, Cyclops, Magneto, or Havok, he's going to get his ass kicked...so he targets baby and child mutants who can't fight back like they can. Pierce is a vile, spiteful, cowardly bully so filled with hate, his last words before Cyclops kills him is to say he's just sorry he won't be around to see the Mutant Race destroyed.
 * Pierce actually did go after Wolverine the one time, with the help of Lady Deathstrike and the Reavers; they ambushed Wolverine, beat him down, then crucified him in the Australian desert and tortured him. If not for Jubilee, Logan would surely have died; as it was, the ordeal severely taxed his healing factor and screwed up his mental state for months of Comic Book Time (but years of our time). Pierce can actually claim to be among those who have come closest to killing Wolverine, and in such a horrific way that the son of a bitch belongs on this list.
 * Vulcan, the savage, insane third Summers brother. Vulcan starts with an almost sympathetic motivation, wanting vengeance on the mad Shi'ar Emperor D'ken who killed his mother (and D'ken can easily fit this trope), but soon enough, it becomes clear Vulcan is a savage beast. He kills anyone in his way, innocent or no. When he kills D'ken and assumes control of the Shi'ar throne, his first act is to brutally murder his own father. He takes vicious delight in torturing his elder brother Havok and seeks to break him mentally at every opportunity. He then expands the Shi'ar into a brutal dictatorship who conquer all they can, losing himself completely to madness.
 * Reverend. Craig. The father of The Woobie Rahne Sinclair. He spent thirteen years being a horrific, abusive monster on par or worse with Brian Banner, to the point Rahne thought she was a horrible person who deserved to die - and that's BEFORE she found out she was a mutant. When he found out, he shot her and tried to have her burned alive. He later helped the Purifiers brainwash Rahne into a killing machine, which leads to
 * Two queens of the Hellfire Club. The White Queen Adrienne Frost, sister of the more famous Emma. Adrienne is ruthless, manipulative, and most well known for setting a bomb in a school to kill the students. She later admitted she would only keep doing more and kill every student she could before  And the Black Queen, Selene, the most ancient mutant alive who survives by sucking the life force from people. And recently, she showed her worst by reviving the dead of Genosha - to enslave their souls to her. She also killed Eli Bard, her loyal aide who showed her that he truly loved her.
 * Believe it or not, there was a New Mutants miniseries in which Selene was an ally. This premise was so silly they had to bring in the Red Skull (see below) to be the villain in order to make Selene having the moral high ground make any sense at all. Perhaps her cruelest action? Manipulating Wither, a good kid with bad powers who had recently lost everything, into becoming an Omnicidal Maniac by simply being the only one to provide him with any companionship. It's heavily implied the she'd have discarded him (as she did Bard) as soon as her plans were successful..
 * God, we have some more. Looks like the writers need to learn a bit more subtlety. APOCALYPSE, people. The man is one of the oldest mutants in the universe and lives by a very Darwinist principle, which he is not above judging himself by. He planned to kill the world with a super virus - even Sinister was a bit disgusted (albeit due to issues of efficiency and NOT ethics). He's an out-and-out one, albeit when he was recently reincarnated as a kid, he was genuinely and potentially redeemable.
 * The man had an alternative reality crossover (Age of Apocalypse) in which most of the world, except for parts of North America, Western Europe, and North Africa, became an irradiated wasteland. He ruled North America by callously killing thousands, and to make things worse, his son from that reality, Holocaust, was implied to be worse. Holocaust was so dark, they even changed his name to Dark Nemesis, after he struck uneasy chords with those all too familiar with World War II (and because it's impossible to sell a toy or trading card with the name "Holocaust" on it.)
 * The Gauntlet, a group of mutant businesspeople in X-Man #63-66. Nate initially defends them from a monster from an Alternate Universe, but ultimately turns on them after learning why the monster's after them: They're a group of Corrupt Corporate Executives who, while using their powers to explore The Multiverse, happened upon a Death World version of Earth whose natives -- the monster's species -- managed to survive the harsh, rapidly changing environment through their capacity for rapid adaptive mutations. Seeing the potential profit, the Gauntlet proceeded to steal a number of the natives' children, bring them back to Earth to harvest their highly adaptable organs, and create a barrier around the Death World to try to prevent the parents from following them. In the end, as Nate informs the Gauntlet that he knows what they did and prepares to execute them, he sees in their minds that they're not guilty about it, just afraid of being punished. To them, what they did was just a sensible business decision.
 * The aforementioned Romulus from Wolverine probably counts. The man may have been a Villain Sue and had some elements of Magnificent Bastard or Manipulative Bastard, but still, he counts on some level. He manipulated several of Wolverine's ancestors in an attempt to get the perfect killing machine, eventually leading him to Wolverine himself. He mind-rapes Sabretooth into raping and seemingly killing Silver Fox (Sabretooth is also a complete monster, true, but if you can make an asshole like him beg for death to escape you, you must be fucked up beyond belief). He then recruits an assassin to kill Wolverine's pregnant wife on the small chance that the child will inherit Wolverine's factor and survive. Because he was never raised by his proper parents, Daken had a seriously dark and depressing childhood that may never have happened if not for him. He then moves Omega Red into a regular Russian prison, where he ends up killing all the guards and seriously injures, if not outright kills, most of the prison.
 * The lackey of Romulus, Cyber, is definitely one, having been found guilty for twenty-two murders BEFORE he meets Wolverine. When Wolverine was still relatively young, he willingly murdered Wolverine's then-love interest Janet before gouging his eye out. This leaves him with a deep, psychological fear of him. He finds domestic abuse fun, protesting against it only for the reason of impracticality. He's also got no qualms about brutally beating some recruits he trains simply because he hates them, and not for the purpose of toughening them up. At one point, his employer notes he's in it for the hurting people and not the money, . It was implied he took part in the West Port murders in 1828. He also uses child soldiers so Wolverine won't kill all his mooks, and he does a Grand Theft Me on a young, mentally-handicapped mutant. Thankfully, he ends up dying twice for double the karma.
 * The CEO of Blackguard qualifies, as do most of his Wolverine-style special ops team (except the leader of said team, who will not kill a child or fight in front of them for fear of traumatizing them). He casually states that for the cost of a very rare wine bottle, he could feed most of Africa for a year, stating that the bottle of wine is a much better spend of money. He willingly lends the Wolverine style ops team to Roxxon as protection for the mining facilities, but the lengths they go to are extreme and cruel - they end up killing a village of innocents before they find the sole survivor, stuff a grenade in his mouth, then kill a resistance movement. And then he ends up trying to kill a journalist who was going to reveal his activities, . And to try and prevent further discovery, he ends up killing off an executive who was completely uninvolved. Because of a few minor people resisting, they killed A VILLAGE. Most of the team is made up of disgraced military operatives, including those discharged for rape, friendly fire, and unauthorised killing. Wolverine comments that the youngest of the group he finds either had all his humanity removed from him by Blackguard or had none to begin with.
 * Potentially viler than all of the above is incredibly minor villain Johnston Coffin, featured in four obscure issues of Generation X. He's wanted by SHIELD for crimes against humanity, but instead somehow finds himself employed by the US Government. With the government's blessing, he builds a Hellhole Prison where he "fixes" disobedient teenagers, many of which had only said or thought something disobedient. What really puts him over the line, though, are his "Special Children" - kids from his first Hellhole Prison in the '70s, whom he's wired up to huge cyborg bodies and uses as security. They've been that way so long, it's implied in perpetual agony, that their bodies have actually begun to rot. He also has half a human mounted on his wall, is implied to be a rapist, and carries around the skull of a child he shot in the head everywhere he goes.
 * Potentially viler than all of the above is incredibly minor villain Johnston Coffin, featured in four obscure issues of Generation X. He's wanted by SHIELD for crimes against humanity, but instead somehow finds himself employed by the US Government. With the government's blessing, he builds a Hellhole Prison where he "fixes" disobedient teenagers, many of which had only said or thought something disobedient. What really puts him over the line, though, are his "Special Children" - kids from his first Hellhole Prison in the '70s, whom he's wired up to huge cyborg bodies and uses as security. They've been that way so long, it's implied in perpetual agony, that their bodies have actually begun to rot. He also has half a human mounted on his wall, is implied to be a rapist, and carries around the skull of a child he shot in the head everywhere he goes.

Other
"Kynkos, having stabbed one of Ares' men in the head with a spear: It appears I am to be Christian Saint too. For I have become a fisher of men.
 * The Red Skull, aka Johann Schmidt, arch-enemy of Captain America and former second-in-command to Adolf Hitler in the Marvel Universe. He's so evil that even fellow supervillains like Dr. Doom and Magneto despise him. Though given that Magneto's family were Jewish (and all but him died in the Holocaust) and Doom's family were Romany, it's not surprising that they would dislike the Skull.
 * Just to point out: the Skull isn't a Nazi anymore. It's not that he's got anything against Nazis either. He just thinks he's superior to them. Yes, he's even more arrogant than a group of people so narcissistic they called themselves the "Master Race". And the scary thing is he's only become even MORE evil since renouncing the Nazi cause, not less. The guy didn't just go past the Moral Event Horizon -- he IS the Moral Event Horizon. Even sadistic mind rapist Dr. Faustus is disgusted by him. In a cross-over with DC, even the frickin' Joker ended up being disgusted by him.
 * There's also the way he treated Mother Night, the only woman who actually loved him. He treated her like crap and usually just thought of her as another henchman. In a lot of ways, it's like the Joker and Harley Quinn relationship, but Skull is far more abusive. Red Skull once even started flirting with Viper right in front of her just to make her suffer (he slept with Viper, too). What Mother Night sees in him is a mystery, though she also considers Crossbones to be a close friend, so she isn't a good judge of character. Mother Night isn't a saint herself.
 * However, another minion of the Red Skull, Arnim Zola, seems like a Complete Monster in his own right. He was a Nazi biochemist in his human years. To escape mortality, Zola used his cybernetic brilliance to digitize himself and survive inside robotic shells to continue his experiments. One of his worst acts was to create the monstrous Hate-Monger, and afterwards he continued to complete multiple experiments for the Red Skull, his usual employer and master. Rick Remender however, shows that Zola was a monster just waiting to cut loose. When he and Captain America were lost in Dimension Z, Zola becomes its dictator, and its God. He inflicts horrible experiments amongst the people, overwriting their minds to be loyal to him alone and turns others into horrible mutants that he sics on those who don't accept his rule. Even his own children there are nothing but pawns, his affection to them fake to manipulate them and he is more than willing to kill them if they do not conform to his wishes. Zola, to end his long war with Captain America created a way to get back to Earth, with a bomb that would kill countless innocents before Zola sent his mutants, with the intent of overwriting the minds of the people of earth and mutating others, a process that would kill billions.
 * Crossbones is another one; understandable, considering that he had to meet Sin's standards to be her boyfriend...which didn't stop him from torturing her to remove the brainwashing she was subjected to. He was recently put in the Thunderbolts. Not because anybody has delusions he deserves a chance to redeem himself, quite the opposite - he was added to the team because he is so irredeemable and disgusting that other members are more willing to cooperate, as trying something would put them on the same side as him. It got to the point where he killed a police officer and was booted off the team.
 * Crossbones actually managed to start up a Real Life racism and sexism controversy when an issue of Spider-Man depicted him, a Neo-Nazi rapist, apparently killing the superheroine Sabra, a Jewish single mother, by shooting her In the Back while nonchalantly munching on a sandwich. The writer actually had to get on Twitter and confirm he'd just grazed her, things got so bad. Still an excellent window into the kind of guy he is, nevertheless.
 * The Red Skull in the Ultimate Universe is actually WORSE, as demonstrated in the image above. He's a killing machine, although that doesn't sum up the sick delight he takes in what he does. He's mentioned as having worked with numerous historical monsters including infamous mass-murderer and cannibal Idi Amin. He makes a hobby out of training terrorists and, oh yes, he's the guy who killed Kennedy. Just to send a message. His evil is highlighted in his Backstory, where Nick Fury relates how he gave a man's wife a Sadistic Choice: kill her husband with a pair of scissors or he'd kill her baby. She did it. The Red Skull then chucked the baby out a window and let his three thugs gang-rape the woman. Oh, and he also stole all of the food and drinks in their house too. Karma does kick him in the crotch when he gets impaled by A JETPLANE BY HIS OWN FATHER and then shot by the same woman whose baby he murdered, but it's a far easier death than any of his victims.
 * He also forces every member of A.I.M. to EAT each other when he gets his hands on the Cosmic Cube. He got his start by killing two hundred people at the age of seventeen and then cut off his face.
 * There are several Marvel Universe characters probably intended to be this:
 * Thanos of Titan can be this Depending on the Writer.
 * Bullseye, a Psycho for Hire enemy of Daredevil who not only kills people for pay, but also just for kicks; It's been revealed he rarely spends the money he makes from killing.
 * Mister Hyde, a sadistic bully and enemy of The Mighty Thor, Daredevil, and the Incredible Hulk who systematically crippled the Avengers' butler Jarvis by breaking him apart one bone at a time;
 * Psyko, an enemy of Sleepwalker who cut out the hearts of at least fourteen women as a Serial Killer before becoming fused with an otherworldly demon and gained the power to viciously Mind Rape his victims and make them Brainwashed and Crazy.
 * Purple Man, an old Daredevil villain with the power of Mind Control who was revamped by Brian Michael Bendis into a rapist/serial killer who would force people in restaurants to stop breathing because the noise in said restaurant was bothering him. The animated series version of the Purple Man is just as bad; he uses his Villain with Good Publicity status to take in several mutant children to hypnotize them into assaulting the governor's house to force him out of office and hand over control of the local waterfront project to him. Then, when he gets found out, he tries to use those kids to kill Cyclops (who was snooping around at the time), then burns down the orphanage they came from in an attempt to kill Cyke. And he does this all without showing any remorse or care for anyone but his own greed. And what he did to Jessica Jones...
 * The third Mister Fear, Larry Cranston, assumed the identity of Mister Fear after the deaths of the first two holders. A college rival of Matt's, Cranston resents Matt Murdock for having done better in law school than he did, and tries to ruin his life, using fear gas to induce panic attacks in his victims. Following his return in the 90s after a lengthy hiatus, Mister Fear III triggered a prison riot with his fear gas and escaped, leaving numerous dead. He also freed Serial Killer Charles Burroughs and supervillain Molten Man, and caused them to both go on rampages, while framing Karen Page, Matt's then Love Interest for murder to boot (he later executed Burroughs for "going off script"). It was during Ed Brubaker's run, however, that Fear III showed just how low he could go. He provided Lily Lucca with a perfume that permanently altered her body chemistry the men around her to go insane and kill each other, promising to fix her if she aided him (he lied; there is no cure). He then used his fear gas to drive reformed supervillain Melvin Potter/Gladiator into a psychotic break, leading to the deaths of dozens after a rampage through Chinatown. While all this is going on, he takes the place of Milla Donovan—Matt's wife's—psychiatrist, and drives her into a paranoid breakdown, leaving her institutionalized. This is without getting into his discovery that he can use his fear gas (which he now secretes from his pores) to force women to sleep with him, something he does many times through the arc. Effectively impossible to punish, Mister Fear III was last seen in prison, forcing the other inmates to do his work, and raping a female prison guard.
 * Scarecrow (not to be confused with Batman's enemy), the villain who fights Ghost Rider on a regular basis, also fits. He is a psychopathic child killer who once murdered a mother and her baby with a pitchfork. But that's not even the worst thing he has ever done. Later on, he tried to make a building out of people by sticking them all together (some were dead and some were alive). When Ghost Rider saw this, he broke every bone in Scarecrow's body and the audience rejoiced.
 * Zadkiel, the Arch-Enemy in the Jason Aaron series, is a truly monstrous excuse for an angel. The lord of the Black Host, Zadkiel was also the angel in charge of the Spirits of Vengeance and began to desire to use them to overthrow both God and humanity. Zadkiel subtly influenced the lives of Johnny Blaze and Dan Ketch, destroying those close to them to make them vulnerable to the Ghost Rider spirits. Zadkiel, as The Man Behind the Man, negotiated multiple deals with demons and other monsters on earth, allowing them to prey upon those they wished, while directing his other minions to murder multiple innocents in addition to those who could prove problematic—and everyone close to them as well. Even death brought no respite as Zadkiel showed a penchant for annihilating the souls of his defeated enemies. While manipulating Danny Ketch, Zadkiel showed no remorse slaughtering and torturing his angelic brethren until he finally had the powers of the Riders and banished Ketch and Blaze to earth to die in the apocalypse he would create. Zadkiel succeeded in conquering heaven and began to achieve omnipotence with his final goal to become the new God and then commence genocide on all of humanity and all other beings who didn't worship him.
 * Mephisto, the most prominent Demon Lord in the Marvel Universe and the most evil, is Ghost Rider's boss, but his actions spread far beyond just Ghost Rider. Mephisto powers his realm and his person by the souls he imprisons, often by making a pact with the victims. Mephisto doesn't play fair and is fond of ruining the wish by playing off Exact Words. Mephisto has been known to cure a loved one's terminal illness, only to have the beneficiary killed the next day. Not making a deal is no guarantee of safety and Mephisto has been known to torment, torture and kill those he can. In one instance, he captured the brother of an enemy of Thor to force the Thunder God to enter his domain. Mephisto had already fed his hostage to his realm's fires and contented himself with crushing Thor's spirit before sending him back to earth. During the Infinity Gauntlet crisis, Mephisto chose to encourage Thanos to destroy more and more, while plotting to seize ultimate power himself. During the attack of the Serpent, Mephisto wandered into a bar to vent to the barkeep. When the man asked to be immortal, Mephisto ground him into nothing and used his blood to write letters: words are immortal, after all. Finally, Mephisto is also a hideously abusive father to his 'son' and creation Blackheart: mentally and physically torturing the younger demon until Blackheart snapped and became as dangerous as his father.
 * After seeing his father shoot himself during a game of Russian Roulette, Iron Man villain Obadiah Stane reached two conclusions: that life was a game you had to win at, no matter the cost, and that his father was a weakling who left too much to chance. During a childhood chess match, when paired against a boy who was his equal or better, Stane slit the boy's pet dog's throat to make sure his mind wasn't on the game. Becoming a Corrupt Corporate Executive, Staned defeated Tony Stark in a corporate buyout, and engineered his psychological breakdown, reducing Tony to living on the streets as a homeless, alcoholic vagrant. When Tony returned as Iron Man, Stane wasted no time in kidnapping his friends and loved ones, going so far as to try and brainwash one of Tony's former girlfriends into becoming his lover, not out of interest, but to drive in the fact that he had won; he then set off a bomb at the Circuit Dome to kill Tony with no compunction about collateral damage. When Tony arrived to confront him, Stane revealed he'd set up a chamber with Tony's loved ones subject to receiving electric shocks should he take a step to free them, intending to force Tony to starve to death in the room. When Tony beat Stane's game, Stane played his last trump card: Tony would surrender or Stane would use his own suit to crush a baby's skull. Once beaten, Stane opted to hurt Tony and deny him victory the only way he could: suicide.
 * Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, Nick Fury's Arch-Enemy (as well as frequent rival of Captain America, Iron Man, and The Avengers), has the dubious honor of being both a Nazi war criminal and an international terrorist as the leader of HYDRA. A German noble who subscribed to racial superiority, Strucker achieved a high rank in the Death's Head and earned a personal enmity with Nick Fury himself. In a crowning moment of monstrosity on World War 2, Strucker found a race of benevolent, empathic aliens that crashed near the small German town of Gruenstadt. To cover his tracks, Strucker killed the entire population of the town and planned to manipulate the aliens into providing him their technology. As head of HYDRA, Strucker ordered countless terrorist attacks throughout the globe that claimed the lives of many, many innocent people, all the while secretly controlling SHIELD through Life Model Decoys and playing his enemy's to get many agents killed while HYDRA continued its plans unabated. Strucker's ultimate goals are global domination and genocide of all 'lower races', and he made many attempts at both. When informed his son Andreas had been murdered by Norman Osborn, Strucker's only response was that he owed Osborn a favor. He also killed his eldest son with the Death Spore Virus, which is just as awful as it sounds: it has bonded to Strucker’s body and allows him to kill personally through his body. In addition, he was once The Dragon to Red Skull.
 * Sleepwalker's Arch-Enemy Cobweb is a demon that invades the minds of humans and drives them insane with his lies, all while plotting to invade and enslave the Earth, framing Sleepwalker in the process. Cobweb turned people against Sleepwalker, while corrupting their minds, all the while using invading forces to wreak havoc and devour innocents' minds. Cobweb planned to have Sleepwalker's host, Rick sheridan cross the Despair Event Horizon and betray Sleepwalker, which would allow Cobweb to turn Rick into a portal to Earth and wreak destruction there. Since the denizens of the Mindscape don't need to devour people's minds to survive, Cobweb stands out as a monster amongst his own species.
 * Redstone from the Supreme Power comic series is invulnerable, superstrong, has heat vision, and uses these powers to kill innocent bystanders in the most horrifically graphic ways imaginable. He tears off limbs, hurls cars, boils people in swimming pools with his heat vision, threatens Los Angeles with a nuclear bomb while having the most pleasant facial expression imaginable. No wonder Hyperion wants to kill him. Essentially, Superman without a conscience and with an extremely violent and depraved personality before gaining his power
 * Malekith the Accursed, one of the foes of The Mighty Thor, is the cruel ruler of the dark elves of Svartleheim, whom even his people hate and fear. Serving as the harbinger of Surtur, Malekith hunts for the Casket of Ancient Winters, murdering any who get in his way. Malekith in his spare time also hunts down goodhearted, virtuous people, and devours their souls as the souls of the virtuous are a delicacy for him. When he grows to hate Thor, Malekith is too happy to sacrifice or torture his own people to get at the Thunder God and unleashed the Casket of Ancient Winters to plunge Earth into a frozen wasteland to hurt Thor and unleash Surtur. Malekith plans to let Surtur burn every realm, with no care if his fellow Dark Elves are caught in the blaze, as long as he profits from it. Even after his death, the Dark Elves despise him.
 * Created by Dr. Henry Pym, Ultron gained a malignant intelligence and came to the conclusion that morality was irrelevant and humanity was flawed. To this end, Ultron sought to destroy or replace humanity with androids like himself. Ultron created androids such as The Vision and Jocasta as a surrogate son and bride, but both rejected his monstrosity, resulting in Ultron attempting to kill them on multiple occasions. When an alternate model turned good and embraced Pym as its father, Ultron destroyed it out of disgust. After creating his new son, Victor Mancha, Ultron mind controlled him to make him murder his friends and executed Victor's mother in front of him. In other instances, Ultron would take over a country and massacre the population, using the corpses to form a model of his face large enough to see from space. While typically a threat limited to earth, Ultron's intelligence was absorbed by and then took over the Phalanx in ''Annihilation Conquest before ruthlessly conquering and assimilating the Kree Empire, destroying and torturing all those who would resist. A fully self aware being, Ultron simultaneously believe himself to be above humanity while succumbing to the worst of human emotion, ego and cruelty and directed his Phalanx army at earth, vowing to destroy it solely to spite his 'father, ' Dr. Pym. For Hank, the worst thing about Ultron is that its thought patterns are based on Hank's own mind. Hank really doesn't like what that might imply about him.
 * From the comic book adaptation of Anita Blake we have Dominga Salvador, aka the Senora. In order to stop the rampage of a zombie killer, Anita tries to enlist the aid of this powerful voodoo priestess, but discovers she has been taking souls and forcing them back into their dead bodies to stop the process of rotting, but at the cost of leaving the souls painfully aware of their situation in an And I Must Scream scenario. To prove her theory, she explains to Anita how she returned the soul to a zombie, then took it out to leave it to rot, then put it back into the body to see if it will stop decaying. Not only does she use these zombies to make money in the prostitution ring, under the excuse that she has legal possession of the bodies from families who paid to see them suffer, but plans to sell her knowledge to the highest bidder.
 * In Annihilation Annihilus becomes this. No longer content with ruling the Negative Zone, Annihilus leads an army of insect monsters out in the galaxy in what is aptly termed The Annihilation Wave, consuming whole star systems and devouring worlds. Implementing ghastly tactics like having worlds and their people broken down for fuel on board his Harvesters, Annihilus's attacks make the Skrulls an endangered species and cause the extinction of many other races. After brutally murdering the hero Quasar, Annihilus even succeeds in having Galactus captured and uses his energy to fuel his superweapons with which he has one goal: to obliterate everything that lives and reign over the void.
 * Bruce Banner's father, Brian, was a particularly loathsome example cut from a different cloth than most of the characters on this list. An Abusive Parents alcoholic who was insanely jealous of the attention his wife, Rebecca, gave to his newborn son, Brian convinced himself young Bruce's amazing intelligence was due to his own exposure to radiation as a nuclear researcher, which resulted in Bruce being born a "monster". After years of physical and emotional abuse, Rebecca decided to leave Brian and take Bruce with her, and in retaliation, Brian killed her, intimidating Bruce into not revealing the truth to the courts, but ended up revealing himself in a drunken stupor, resulting in him being institutionalized for years. After being released, he was placed in the now grown-up Bruce's care, but it quickly became apparent he hadn't really changed and still regarded his son as a freak and attempted to murder him only for Bruce to kill him in self-defense (though it is suggested that Bruce actually enjoyed doing it on some level). He was so unpleasant that the cops didn't even bother to run an investigation on his death when they found the body. The worst thing about Brian Banner is that despite him being a fictional comicbook character, there is absolutely nothing about his story that is fantastical or supernatural; although the abuse he put Bruce through laid the psychological groundwork for the Hulk's birth, Brian himself wasn't a masked supervillain, a Mad Scientist, or even a victim of Demonic Possession. He was simply an evil bastard who did horrible things and is a person who can quite possibly exist in everyday life.
 * It Got Worse in a What If issue, where Bruce himself ended up apparently admiring the guy and taking on all of his worst traits. A thoroughly disturbing comic book commenced, where poor Betty was beaten, hospitalized, and, when she finally drew up enough nerve to fight back, Bruce abused his connections to have her committed. Somehow, the small blurb at the end about seeking help for real life cases of domestic abuse didn't seem enough to offset the Unfortunate Implications...
 * During the Chaos War, he came back...as some sort of Devil Hulk and Guilt Hulk mix. To clarify, those are the two most monstrous Hulk personas in Bruce's mind, the latter being an incarnation of his guilt and the former being every single worst bit of his personality turned Up to Eleven. Think about it.
 * How much of The Punisher's antagonists were written, particularly under Garth Ennis:
 * Nicky Cavella is no ordinary mafioso, but, with Cavella himself clearly identified as the culprit. While it succeeded as intended in throwing off the Punisher's self-preservation instinct, former associate Rawlins pointed out that there was no way that mere gangsters could actually take advantage of this. He met his end following a botched attempt to finish the job himself after losing Teresa (sister of the henchman Pittsy from the first arc), Rawlins, and his entire gang to the Punisher -- who'd killed so many of Nicky's men that he couldn't threaten those who wanted out -- and O'Brien.
 * Rawlins dumped a crewman (killed) and his wife O'Brien overboard to be raped by the Taliban so that his helicopter would be able to stay airborne with him and the drug shipment, activates a terrorist group to hijack an airliner and fly it at the Kremlin as a diversion for another operation, and when he murders Zakharov's right-hand man (who seemed, along with Zakharov, to recognize the sniveling Jerkass underneath the Smug Snake exterior), he taunts the dying bodyguard by vowing to rape his son to death. A similar kill attempt doesn't work against the Punisher, and Rawlins meets a well-deserved end in a Kabul airport restroom.
 * Tiberiu Bulat, his son Cristu Bular, and their associate Vera are the villains of The Slavers storyline. Tiberiu and Cristu were part of an Eastern European militia responsible for ethnic cleansing, slaughtering entire villages until Cristu got the idea to take young women captive. They forced them into sexual slavery and went to the United States to export the business. Tiberiu is a trigger-happy madman who'll kill anyone at the slightest provocation while Cristu and Vera are calculating business types who routinely have the girls raped, with Vera coming up with the strategy of 'rape them to break them.'
 * In this continuity, Wilson Fisk begins as a mob boss's bodyguard with a scheme to manipulate the mob and The Punisher to make himself the Kingpin of New York. Fisk is steadily revealed as a callous monster who paralyzed his abusive father and let rats eat his face. After he was raped in prison, he tracked down the perpetrator's innocent wife, allowing the filthiest bums and crackheads he could find rape her before he murdered her, and sent the photos to her husband. When Fisk's schemes unravel, his innocent child is held at knifepoint by Fisk's former boss. Fisk coldly allows his son's throat to be slit and icily informs his wife they can simply have another, admitting he never truly loved his son. As the Kingpin, Fisk is brutal, killing lieutenants and foes alike, and exiling his grieving wife. In his final battle with Castle, Fisk reveals himself as a self-center egomaniac who believes he owns the city and has the right to do what he wishes with it.
 * Bullseye is presented as a truly vile killer in the MAX series. Initially an assassin who loves his job perhaps a little too much, Bullseye becomes obsessed with getting inside Frank Castle's head. To this end, he begins targeting happy families, murdering the husband, raping the wife and taking her and the kids out on a 'picnic' where he has his goons gun them all down to recreate the scene when Castle lost his family. When he finally confronts and battles Castle, Bullseye shows nothing but unmitigated bliss at being the one criminal who can truly mentally rattle him. He's the kind of sick bastard who gets off on seeing a vigilante like Castle butchering his henchmen. To Bullseye, watching someone kill scores of men is like listening to a symphony.
 * Spider-Man's archenemy Norman Osborn, the original Green Goblin, graduated to Complete Monsterdom following his first "resurrection" and solidified his status in The Nineties. Norman was apparently slain after he threw Spider-Man's girlfriend, Gwen Stacy off a bridge, in what many fans saw as his Moral Event Horizon moment. Brought Back from the Dead in the nineties, Norman revealed that he had been the mastermind behind the Clone Saga, buried Aunt May alive and killed Peter's clone, Ben Reilly, while gloating that he could now remember all the crimes he'd committed as the Goblin and was proud of them. Since then, he has gone on to be a major player in the Marvelverse, masterminding the creation of the Dark Avengers. During this time period, he kept the Sentry in line via drug addiction (then had his wife killed), planned to have the caputred Songbird decapitated (so that he could mount her head on the wall and masturbate to it), and deliberately triggered a war with Asgard by having the U-Foes attack Agardian warrior Volstaag in a football stadium, resulting in thousands of casualties. During this time, he also seduced and impregnated his son Harry's girlfriend, then plotted to have Harry killed, because he thought Harry's tragic death would earn him public sympathy. These, by the way, are all actions committed by the Norman Osborn persona; the Green Goblin persona remains an Axe Crazy Mad Bomber who regularly endangers/kills hundreds of civillians during his battles with Spider-Man, and, in commemoration of Gwen Stacy's death, tried to recreate the tragedy with Mary-Jane Watson, Peter's then Love Interest, as the victim. As Norman Osborn he's a cold-blooded, calculating psychopath who treats everyone as a means to an end. As the Green Goblin he's a violent lunatic who threatens every person in the vicinity. And this list is not even a half of Norman's "achievements".
 * Kletus Cassady, better known as Carnage, who was never really sane to begin with. As a child, he killed his grandmother and pet dog, tortured his mother, killed the headmaster of his orphanage with a lead pipe, and then burned the orphanage down, and pushed a girl he had a crush on in front of a bus because she rejected him; he became even more insane and murderous after bonding with the symbiote, and he has no qualms about who he kills...even people he once trusted, including his own henchmen and childhood friends. It's creepier when he gives a monologue about how the managers of the supervillain asylums are WORSE than him - and he's completely right.
 * Oneshot villain Carl King, a.k.a. The Thousand, definitely fits the bill. A particularly vicious childhood tormentor of Peter Parker who happened to be at the demonstration where Pete was bitten by a certain radioactive spider. He quickly put two-and-two together and decided to get spider-powers of his own by eating said spider. Instead, he was transformed into a colony of a thousand oversized spiders with the ability to crawl into a human body, eat the host's organs, musculature, and bones from the inside out, and wear their skin like a suit, mimicking both the victim's mannerisms and voice. The first person Carl "possessed" in this fashion was his own mother; the second, who he killed intentionally and for no reason, was his father, and the imagery implies that he killed his dad after having sex with him. Since then, he has come to the conclusion that he should have been Spider-Man rather than puny Parker, and has gone through around a dozen bodies every year, several of which were children, in order to become strong enough to overpower Spidey and steal both his body and his life. Fortunately, after receiving an epic Shut UP, Hannibal speech from our favorite webslinger, the hideous abomination wound up frying his current host and most of his spiders by punching a transformer, and the final spider was killed in a satisfyingly appropriate fashion: stepped on by an oblivious New Yorker, unnoticed and unmourned like the miserable little nobody he really was.
 * Karla Sofen, aka Moonstone, of the Masters of Evil and a founding member of the Thunderbolts. As a psychiatrist, she was able to manipulate the original Moonstone into giving up his power source and would convince her patients suffering from depression to kill themselves in front of her. Later, she impersonated Ms. Marvel in Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers, and it was revealed that Karla killed her mother in order to prevent her from learning that she was a villain. Carol Danvers, the actual Ms. Marvel, forcefully took the power source from her in a duel, knowing that Karla wouldn't be able to survive if it was away from her long. She gave Karla an ultimatum: redeem herself or die. Carol placed the moonstone at the grave of Karla's mother in hopes that she would redeem, but later, Karla took back the moonstone and destroyed her mother's grave marker.
 * Dormmamu, the monotheistic God Tyrant of the Dark Dimension, is Darkseid on a higher, even more horrifying scale, worshipped as a god in millions of other universes, creator of kings of hell of the highest order, and wants to turn all the heavens and earth into a neverending hellish torture camp for all eternity.
 * Kynkos, the son of Ares. He is first introduced in a flashback in The Incredible Hercules when Hercules found him building a temple for his father...out of human skulls. He returns in Dark Avengers: Ares and tries to kill his father to take his place. And eat his dead body alongside those of the Mares - four demonic horses that are his half-siblings, and make himself a crown out of his skull. Even Ares was utterly disgusted by this guy.

Ares: I am The God Of War. The God Of Slaughter. Even The God Of Murder. But I am NOT the god of sadism!"


 * Like Magneto and Deadpool, Galactus' Ultimate counterpart, Gah Lak Tus, is much, much more despicable. Instead of killing planets to survive and being able to be reasoned with, Gah Lak Tus is a swarm of drones who are repulsed by organic life and destroys entire inhabited planets to exterminate them. It first drives populations of creatures insane, so a good number of them kill each other before Gah Lak Tus even reaches there.
 * Hybrid, the mutant son of a human woman and a Dire Wraith. He took to the lessons in evil and power that his Dire Wraith tutors taught him so well that his father (who had reformed out of love for Hybrid's mother) feared that he was worse than his fellow Wraiths. Since the Dire Wraiths are a race of Complete Monsters, that's saying something. In his debut, Hybrid murders his parents, pits Rom and the X-Men against each other by pretending to be a helpless child, and tries to kidnap Kitty Pryde so he can rape her as part of his plan to breed an army of hybrids like himself. He also plans to do the same thing to all other female mutants. All at the age of fifteen. When Hybrid shows up again in Avengers Academy, he is just as evil and even more powerful.
 * The Red King from Planet Hulk. Just to name some of his atrocities, this guy has a god complex, imprisons everyone who even dares to say 'But' in front of him, burns dozens of people alive because they are 'bothering' him, releases death-bringing insectoids on civilian targets just to stop his opposers, and when he is backed against the wall, he tries to destroy the entire planet!. His excuse? "Yes. I killed them. As is my Right. As is my Duty. As is my Pleasure."