Complete Monster/Western Animation

"Attention. As you are no doubt aware, the Principal Office is now under my complete control. You're probably looking forward to one of my erudite speeches about me, Megaframe, the new viral dawn, et cetera et cetera. But I'm afraid I'm going to have to disappoint you. There is no grand scheme here. This is about revenge. Viruses are predatory by design, and it is time for me to follow my function. Prepare yourselves... for the hunt!"

—Megabyte from ReBoot

NAkVW0Y — Just your average Cartoon baddie threatening a young girl.

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

See also: Animated Films

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Examples of Complete Monster/Western Animation include:

From the 2000 CGI Action Man series, Dr. X is the mastermind behind all the evil in the series, committing all his crimes in the name of evolving humanity into perfection for him to control. Before initiating his more monstrous actions, X, requiring a new body for himself, kidnaps a young man named Brendan Caine, subjects him to torturous experiments that turn him into a Super Soldier, then transplants his own mind to Caine's body. X then becomes free to spread his influence worldwide, and immediately forms his Council of Doom, after which he begins various attempts to "test" humanity to determine which of them is most suitable to become part of his "Neo Humanity". These so-called tests range from trying to start a nuclear holocaust and flash freezing the entire planet, to infecting millions with a virus he hopes will lead to them ripping each other apart, leaving only the survivors for him to horrifically transform into his personal super soldiers. Showing numerous times that any well-intention claims are utter hypocrisy, not only does X regularly attempt to kill hundreds of innocents out of nothing but spite toward his Arch Enemy, Action Man, but X's plans to "improve" humanity always amount to simply replicating his own mind onto everyone else. In the finale of the series, X finally loses whatever sense of reason he had when he decides to drag an asteroid to crash into the Earth and wipe out everything, including his own Council of Doom, then just rebuild humanity from scratch with himself as the base reference. A complete and total psychopath unable to comprehend the fact that imperfections are what makes humanity special, Dr. X was so convinced of his own godlike infallibility that he failed to realize just how maniacal and petty his goals were.
Alfred J Kwak: The Evil Spirit Of Darkness from the two-parter "The Strange Bottle" and "Flying Carpet" is an evil genie who terrorized the land long ago for fun, causing droughts, floods, storms, plagues, and fires, destroying cities and killing many people. After The Almighty One sealed the spirit inside a bottle, the spirit vowed that when it was freed, it would kill whoever freed it to spite the god who punished it previously, before returning to its homeland to terrorize the people once more. When Dolf and Alfred free the spirit, it tries to eat Alfred despite the fact that he is a child.
All Dogs Go to Heaven series.
- Red from All Dogs Go To Heaven 2. He manipulates Charlie into giving him Gabriel's Horn, he has Carface kidnap David (an eight-year-old boy!) to force Charlie to hand the horn over directly, tries to kill Charlie and all the other protagonists. And his ultimate goal? Use Gabriel's Horn to suck every dog out of Heaven and trap them in Alcatraz Island. Then drag the whole island with all the dogs in it down to Hell for all eternity! All of it just for the sake of being evil! What's worse? Remember what Carface was like in the original film? Red considers that small time compared to him!
- Belladonna from the TV series counts as well. In all but one of her appearances, she tries to get Charlie to work for her through temptation and manipulation. When Itchy tried to get Charlie to turn back after he actually fell for her tricks once, she tried to send him into a meat grinder! Worse than that, she tried to force Charlie to be the one to do it! When her minions Carface and Killer were stuck in an Alternate Dimension inside a board game, which she caused, she didn't give a crap. And that one time Belladonna wasn't after Charlie? She wanted to ruin thousands of people's lives and probably indirectly send just as many dogs to the pound by sabotaging Christmas through said dogs, which she was probably counting on (the sadistic glee she displays while doing all of this makes it worse then it sounds)! And she tries to kill Carface and Killer in her One-Winged Angel form after their Heel Face Turn. And if it weren't for said Heel Face Turn, then her actions would have condemned Carface to Hell and directly led to the death of the Tiny Tim stand-in, something that she may have actually known, given her supernatural nature. And like Red before her, Belladonna did all of the above mentioned things simply because she could! Well, that and get one over on her "goodie goodie cousin" Annabelle. The younger residents of Heaven know her as "the Boogeydog". Makes you wonder what she did to earn that moniker!
Animalia: Wooster Q. Weasel, better known as The Creeper, is probably the nastiest weasel to ever exist in fiction, bringing an unprecedented darkness to a series that had otherwise been very lighthearted. Having become drunk on his own power during his tenure as king, upon being exiled for the safety of Animalia as a whole, the Creeper resolves to take back the power of the Core regardless of the consequence to Animalia. A refined manipulator, the Creeper attempts to start a war in Animalia through Tyrannicus, and after this fails, moves on to tricking his old friend King Livingstone and his young friend by pretending to undergo an epiphany, only to backstab the two and try and have them blown away to their deaths into the Winds of No Return purely out of spite. The series finale sees the Creeper at his nastiest; upon taking the power of the Core and resuming control of Animalia, the Creeper brainwashes and captures all resistance and ultimately strives to use the knowledge contained within the Corespore to travel to and subject other worlds entirely – at the consequence of killing off everyone in Animalia.
The blue fox Scarface from The Animals of Farthing Wood Season 2 is a ruthless bully who begins killing the Farthing animals when he can get away with it. After having a litter of children with his mate, Lady Blue, Scarface becomes incensed by his rival Fox's children and murders Fox's young daughter Dreamer. When he has an excuse, he rallies his other foxes and kills one of the Farthing rabbits, hunting the Farthing animals down and intending to massacre them one and all. When defeated by Fox, he returns to kill another of the rabbits, showing his lack of honor and refusal to ever stop. Even his son Ranger admits upon attempting to broker peace that his father would murder him should he know of the talks. Vicious, cruel and without any remorse or care for others, Scarface embodies the sheer savagery of the wild, even in a place of peace such as White Deer Park.
The unnamed hunter who serves as the overarching villain of the first five episodes of Babar is the darkest and cruelest villain in this mostly lighthearted series. Initially seeming to be a simple Evil Poacher, who relentlessly hunts a herd of elephants, one of his successful kills was Babar's own mother. The hunter continues this, even when he witnesses multiple instances of the animals being sapient, eventually calling in a bigger team of poachers to wage war on the animals. His only apparent motivations are greed and wounded pride over being beaten by a young Babar. This eventually comes to a head when he has the rhino village destroyed, and sets fire to the jungle to wipe out all its inhabitants. When the fire is beaten back, the hunter dies defiantly screaming how he'll stop at nothing to destroy the animals.
Beavis and Butt-Head: Dallas Grimes is an Arms Dealer who stole a biological warfare weapon called the X-5 Unit which she put inside of Beavis's shorts before manipulating the titular duo by promising them sex if they met her at the US Captiol where she actually planned to kill them and unleash the virus,Before the events of the film, she and Muddy stole the X-5 Unit, a prototype biological weapon containing a virus potent enough to wipe out five states in five days. She later betrayed Muddy and stole the Unit so that she could sell it on the black market and keep the profits for herself. When Beavis and Butt-head find her in Las Vegas, Dallas is about to shoot them when she meets them in her hotel room. When she sees the ATF outside her hotel, she sews the unit in Beavis's pants and uses them as pawns to smuggle the Unit to Washington D.C. She also does this despite seeing how reckless they are in both her hotel room, and at the Hoover Dam, which could potentially damage the Unit and release the virus. She promises the duo that she would have sex with them, but it's implied that she was going to kill them when they were no longer useful to her. When they get caught having sex by Agent Flemming, he offers one of them a reduced sentence if either of them confess. Muddy declines the offer, declaring that he loves Dallas again, but she repays him by pinning the blame on him. Compared to most of the villains in the Beavis and Butt-Head series, Dallas has no redeeming qualities, and while not entirely, is taken more seriously than most of the villains.
Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot:
- Dr. Hieronymous Neugog was a wannabe Mad Scientist before a freak accident transformed him into a brain-eating monstrosity. Neugog sucks out the minds of many unfortunate people who get in his way, even people Neugog admits has no valuable knowledge to him whatsoever, and at the end of his first episode plans to attack a convention filled with hundreds of brilliant minds for him to snack upon. Even when a rival brain-eater forces Neugog to team up with the heroes, Neugog betrays them at his earliest convenience and attempts to take all the minds his rival has devoured for himself.
- Po the Obliterator is a posturing brute out to prove himself as the best fighter in the universe. Po travels to a world and threatens to destroy it unless its best fighter challenges him to a duel. After invariably defeating his opponent through cheating if need be, Po takes his fallen foe as a frozen trophy, kept in containers lining his ship for him to mock as he so pleases. Arriving on Earth and forcing the Big Guy into combat, Po flies into a rage when Rusty saves the Big Guy armor from Po's captivity, prompting Po to rampage on Robopolis and threaten to destroy the whole planet. Even when beaten down by Big Guy and showed mercy, Po feigns remorse only to try to wipe out Earth anyway "just for laughs" out of spite at being defeated.
In the animated adaption of Blake and Mortimer, Colonel Olrik is even more fiendish than in the comics. A mercenary willing to work for the highest bidder, Olrik is first introduced working as a military adviser for an empire and leads bombing runs against several major cities, devastating them and killing thousands in the process. Olrik wants to steal Professor Mortimer's new invention the Swordfish plane, betray the Empire and rule the world himself. After that scheme is foiled, Olrik returns, leads a military coup that turns a democratic country into a dictatorship and joins forces with a rogue general in Atlantis, trying to encourage a military coup there as well that would leave hundreds dead, just to plunder Atlantis's resources. Olrik later shows up and commissions a Mad Scientist to build a machine that controls the weather. Olrik uses this machine to cause disasters across Europe, until he unveils his master plan to blanket Western Europe in a toxic fog, killing everyone, so that a foreign power can successfully invade. Much later Olrik is seemingly killed after trying to using alchemy to gain immortality, but he is merely banished to an alternate world, where he takes over and rules as a dictator. Wanting revenge for being banished from the Earth, Olrik plans to use a powerful moon medallion in a ritual that would destroy the Earth.
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Animated Adaptation of Xenozoic Tales):
- Hammer Terhune, who works for Governor Scharnhorst, one of the leaders of the City in the Sea (New York City, After the End), tries to discredit Jack Tenrec's philosophy of promoting a balance between humans and nature. To do this, Hammer uses a sonic transmitter to torment a T-Rex and have it attack nearby settlements. Hammer also tries to discredit Tenrec by trying to cause a bunch of Triceratops to stampede and kill people in a mining town. Unhappy with taking orders from Scharnhorst, Hammer hijacks a killer satellite and plans to use it to destroy the City in the Sea, so that he can take over. Later Hammer discovers a boy who can control dinosaurs and wants to use him in his poaching business. To test the boy's skills, Hammer throws him a pit with a hungry raptor and sees if he can control it. In his final appearance, Hammer uses some stolen dynamite to try to flush out some dinosaurs, but this causes a wildfire instead. The wildfire is heading towards some gas wells Scharnhorst recently constructed and if the fire reaches the wells, it will cause an explosion that will devastate the jungle, resulting in mass starvation for the City in the Sea. Scharnhorst orders Hammer to work with Tenrec to fix this problem, by helping Tenrec use nitroglycerin to create a barrier between the fire and the wells. However, Hammer intends to kill Tenrec and steal the nitroglycerin for himself, not caring that his actions have endangered millions of lives.
- In the episode "Duel", Jack Tenrac meets his old friend and rival, Sean Russel. Russel sabotages Tenrac's car and steals a helicopter engine from him. He uses his new helicopter to go to the home of the Grith, a race of peaceful sentiment lizard creatures who communicate through telepathy, and steals the life stone, a gem they need to survive. Russel uses the stone to summon several dinosaurs to a valley. Russel captures Tenrac and says he invited the aforementioned Hammer Terhune and his brothers to come and slaughter both the dinosaurs and the Grith, planning to sell their meat and bones on the black market. Tenrac lectures Russel about selling out the Grith to make a profit and Russel seems to briefly feel guilty over it, but quickly decides he cares far more about money then his old beliefs and continues with his genocidal scheme.
Captain Planet:
- Verminous Skumm. While the other Eco-Villains were certainly Card Carrying Villains bordering on Stupid Evil territory (except Corrupt Corporate Executive Looten Plunder, and Duke Nukem, whose physiology was such that he thrived on radiation), they were too much of a caricature to be really scary. This doesn't apply to this disgusting rat-thing, whose actions are almost always portrayed in a much worse light than those of the other villains. Taking a sick pleasure in the polluted and festering, Skumm's schemes vary from willingly endangering and trying to destroy entire cities, and include deliberately trying to destroy an entire city with a cloud of acid rain and flooding Venice with oversized, carnivorous rats; peddling mind-altering drugs and even murdering Linka's cousin Boris through them; attempting to bait two sides of the Arab-Israeli Conflict into using a nuclear bomb in Jerusalem Mount, as well as bringing nukes into The Troubles and apartheid South Africa; trying to ruin the life of a teenager with AIDS for giggles; and attempting to flood the entire world with his "Rat Rot" chemical to turn everyone into his mutated rat slaves. Skumm's end goal is to destroy the civilized world and enslave what remains to his mutated Rat Men followers to rule over them all as a king. Happily admitting "I'm ignorance; I'm fear; I'm hate" and taking delight in the attempted annihilation of millions of lives, Skumm stands out as the darkest of the recurring Eco-Villains due to his propensity to target people rather than just the environment.
- Zarm is pretty nasty himself, who as a god of destruction, is the strongest and most deadly adversary of Gaia and the Planeteers. A former Spirit of the Earth exiled by Gaia, Zarm dedicates himself to bringing ruin and destruction in all forms to Gaia and all she protects out of vengeful spite, having consumed at least one planet to the tides of destruction and constantly attempting to do the same to Earth. Zarm attempts to initiate all-out nuclear war on Earth; painfully reverts Gaia to a withered old lady incapable of stopping the Earth from dying and taking over the Earth for a ten-year-period of time where the Earth has become desiccated and ruined; coins a strategy he calls "Scorched Earth" by convincing world leaders to obliterate their own land and people (and claims to have been "a part of every important tyrant in history"; and nearly dooms the Planeteers' efforts to stop an alternate timeline where the Eco-Villains' descendants rule the planet by smugly ordering a young girl Ma-Ti saves murdered. A sadist drunk on his own capacity for destruction, Zarm is one of the single greatest sources of human misery within the show.
- There was also that one time Dr. Blight and her future self went back in time to World War II to sell a nuclear bomb to Hitler (Okay, he was a Captain Ersatz, but it was blatantly obvious who he was supposed to be). It turned out he wasn't willing to actually pay for it and was taking it by force. Captain Planet couldn't even land a hit on this guy because he was weakened by the sheer hatred and evilness he felt radiating from him.
Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys: Lord Nebula is a half-human half-black hole creature who seeks the destruction of the entire universe so he can rebuild it in his own image. Nebula orders his henchman Rhesus-2 to acquire the anti-force, but ends up tricked and reduced to a humanoid form. During the series, Nebula frequently threatens to kill Rhesus-2 when he fails him and shows how awful he truly is when it is revealed that when Rhesus-1 failed him too many times, Nebula violently killed and disposed of him. To complete his plan, Nebula captures Simian's crew, but since Simian was able to escape, Nebula orders Rhesus-2 to torture them until they give up Simian's location. When Simian does return and promises to give up the part he needs, Nebula reveals to Rhesus-2 that he lied to him and was never planning on giving him a Pocket Universe to rule over.
Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos: The Claw is the leader of VULTURE, a cabinet of terrorists willing to wreak vast destruction under the Claw's firm eye in their goal of world domination. The Claw, throughout the series, hijacks an undersea lab to use its powers to try and wipe out coastal cities; tries to seize a NATO memory core to disable their defenses; coldly orders Norris's young friend Too Much murdered; attempts to seize a powerful laser robot to use it to attack and devastate Tokyo and orders a train full of people transporting it spitefully destroyed; and steals a shuttle to try and extort billions of dollars out of all the world's major powers lest he use a Kill Sat to obliterate all of the capital cities of each powerful country around the world. Throughout the series, the Claw regularly tortures and murders his own minions with aplomb and is happy to claim as many civilian lives as it takes to further his own nefarious agenda.
The Titan Cronus in Class of the Titans, when released from his prison in Tartarus (where he was imprisoned for being an evil tyrant and for trying to kill his kids), wastes no time in seeking to resume his dominance over the world and all in it. With nothing but hatred for his children and the other Gods, Cronus is utterly brutal and merciless in his tactics, which include torturing and trying to kill his own children while throwing the world into chaos and disarray. Cronus eventually gets tired of the human heroes resisting him and makes it a point to attempt to exterminate the entire human race in retribution. At other points, Cronus releases the savage werewolf Lycaon from imprisonment to eat "whomever he may please" and tries to get his mother Gaea to kill Zeus for him. Sophisticated, suave, seemingly polite and never at loss for a vicious plan, Cronus repeatedly proved how nothing would stand in his goals of domination and destruction.
Conan the Adventurer:
- Wrath-Amon serves as the main villain for much of the show. Once a mere reptile transformed into a Serpent Man with a human form, Wrath-Amon overthrew his maker and took his place as the high priest and chief agent of the Serpent God Set. Gathering the mineral known as Starmetal to facilitate Set's arrival, Wrath-Amon turns Conan's parents into living stone when they resist him and spends much of the series conducting multiple atrocities. Regularly attempting to destroy populated cities, Wrath-Amon's right hand man Windfng is a man Wrath-Amon once tortured into becoming a lizard-like creature. When he discovers Windfang keeps mementos of his human life, Wrath-Amon spitefully destroys them, and even unleashes a demon known as the Stealer of Souls on the populace to kill Conan. In the finale, Wrath-Amon attempts to summon Set and a look into a Bad Future reveals that should they win, most of humanity will be annihilated with the survivors kept as food and slaves.
- Set himself, the true Big Bad of the series, is a monstrous serpent god who seeks to escape the Abys and dominate all that lives. Regularly empowering Wrath-Amon to conduct his more brutal actions and the razing of entire cities, Set arrives on earth in the finale and seeks to create his new regime on earth to reduce humanity to slaves or food. When Conan and friends resist, Set orders them bound so he may slowly devour them as a message to what happens to those who defy him.
- Baron Sharto from "Conan the Gladiator" is the ruler of a kingdom of cannibals. Known and feared for his knack of using captured prisoners as food for himself and his soldiers, the streets of Sharto's city are littered with countless bones of victims over the years. Once capturing Conan and his friends, Zula and Jezmine, Sharto firces them to fight in his gladiator games against starved animals and mechanical monstrosities, after which he forces them all to fight each other. Once Jezmine wins the duel, Sharto claims to return Conan and Zula to their quarters, when in reality, he plans to boil them alive then devour them, with his kitchens filled with dozens of skulls, all while planning to make Jezmine his consort and become a high ranking member of Wrath-Amon's power base.
- The Master of the Black Circle from "In the Days of Old" is a youth-obsessed sociopath who uses magic to lure in unsuspecting travelers, then drain them of their youth, inevitably leading to their deaths. Storing their youth in bottles, with him possessing dozens of such bottles and victims, the Master performs the same on Conan's companion Greywolf when he comes seeking the Master's assistance, and after capturing Jezmine, the Master attempts to force her to be his love before trying to murder Conan and Greywolf one last time.
Kilobot of Cubix Robots for Everyone is the Dragon-in-Chief to Dr. K, the Arch Enemy of Cubix, and the most vicious character in the series. A Power Parasite, Kilobot regularly drains innocent robots' life-energy throughout the series, plunging them into death-like comas in the process. When acting on orders from Dr. K, Kilobot goes out of his way to cause more destruction than remotely necessary, often times targeting children and innocents for fun. Kilobot regularly defies his master's orders, trying to let a weather machine destroy an entire city, stealing a cloning device from a robotics corporation, framing a hero for it, then trying to blow up said corporation when discovered, and murdering Dr. K's best friend all on his own accord. Betraying Dr. K, Kilobot executes Maximix, takes control of an army of Zombots, then plans to use them to turn every robot into his slave then Take Over the World, and, when his plans are thwarted, Kilobot makes one last attempt on Cubix's life by crushing his power core in his bare hands. Though appearing in a lighthearted series, Kilobot was a depraved monster whose appearances darkened the series considerably.
Of all the Rifters that appeared in Delta State, Sven Ragnar is easily the worst. Sven is a super Rifter, in charge of the Rifter invasion of the human world, and is opposed by Broody and his proteges: Martin, Phillip, Claire and Luna. In his first appearance, Sven kills one his Rifter minions for lounging around in a hotel room instead of performing her appointed tasks. Later he kills a psychic that could detect Rifters, fearing she is a threat to his invasion plans. In another scheme, Sven uses his shapeshifting powers to impersonate a hospital administrator, who is pushing a new microchip that would be implanted in the human brain, claiming it had medical benefits, but which in reality this chip simply allows Rifters to take over human minds more quickly. 20% of the patients who received this chip would have been taken over by Rifters, while the rest would die. Sven also kills Martin's father to prevent Martin from discovering his past. Sven decides to torment Phillip, mocking him over the fact that his mother abandoned him. Sven's sister Marie falls in love with Phillip and saves him from Sven's wrath, so Sven kills her. Broody eventually revels that he himself is a Rifter and has been training his students to fight Rifters so they can be powerful enough to kill him, before his Rifter energy overwhelms him and causes him to explode. Sven does everything in his power to stop Broody's students from preventing this disaster.
Neceron, lord of all dragons, is the Big Bad of Dinofroz Season 1. Desiring more power, Neceron broke the treaty between dinosaurs and dragons and declared war on the dinosaurs. He then spent years ordering his armies to eradicate his foes and kidnap humans to use as slave labor. When the Dinofroz arrive and start interfering with his plans, Neceron repeatedly tries to destroy them all, even going as far as nearly drowning the residents in a village just to lure them out of hiding. After one of his generals tries to start a rebellion, Neceron and his army simply kill all of the rebels without hesitation. Upon finding out that the Dinofroz are merely four young boys, Neceron and his dragons kidnap three of them, and he threatens to kill them all one by one if they don't surrender. He later drains all of the power from his three loyal generals and leaves them for dead before going after Tom Carter in his Dinofroz form. Once Neceron begins to lose the fight, he tries to make Tom submit by threatening to murder his father right in front of him.
Queen Dagmar from Disenchantment proves that even in the comedic works of Matt Groening, pure evil can exist. A beautiful but sociopathic woman who only cares about herself, Dagmar pretended to be a loving wife to her husband while intending to transform him into stone along with the residents of his entire kingdom, only being stopped when his daughter mixed up the chalices and she was turned into stone instead. She pretends to care for her daughter Bean, but eventually admits that she was manipulating her so that she could obtain immortality. She had previously used her brother Jerry as a pawn, as well, resulting in him suffering permanent brain damage. Even Satan himself is shocked by her evil, and her actions secure her an eternity of being all alone...aside from an obnoxious puppet.
Exo Squad
- Phaeton, the ruler of the Neo-Sapien empire, uses words like "equality" and pretends to care about the well being and future of the Neo-Sapiens, but his actions prove that this is nothing more than manipulative rhetoric. Before the series start, Phaeton sold out the Neo-Sapien rebellion to save his own skin, and rises to power by initiating genocide on humanity, establishing death camps and killing any who resist-and even those who don't. His tactics include forcible starvation, forced labor or just nasty executions. Not even his own men are exempt. Phaeton is very keen on executing them for minor failures and cloning them. Phaeton's |ego and hypocrisy are manifest in how he sends so many of his loyal men to their own deaths on suicidal missions and at the end, even his most loyal aide Livia deserts him for his plans that would have wiped out his own race to secure his own victory. If Phaeton ever held noble ideals, they're gone by the time he enacts his plan at the start of the series and he grows more and more evil and he degrades physically and mentally. He is nothing more than a murderous, power hungry coward by the end and one who would see the entire galaxy burn for the sake of his own power and advancement.
- General Draconis. From his death camps on Venus, starving the populace, to being personally responsible for Nara's parents deaths. Genocide, betrayal, nothing is too much for him. He even betrayed Phaeton when he was relatively sane, and was about to kill Thrax, an honorable Neosapien Warrior who wouldn't kill civilians.^[1] Draconis is so bad that even Phaeton, who is based on Hitler, doesn't seem as bad at first, though he surpasses Draconis' evil after going mad from Automutation Syndrome.
- Dr. Albrecht Ketzer. Turned an entire village of natives in the Amazon and himself into half-plant monstrosities, turned Medusa into a half-plant/half-Neo-Sapien freak, and injected Nara Burns with the same serum. He views her only as an experiment, and wanted to kill all the humans AND Neo-Sapiens in the nearby city. Sadly, because the show ended on a Cliff Hanger, he became a Karma Houdini.
Final Space:
- The Lord Commander is a tyrannical overlord bent on harnessing the powers of Specimen E35-1—otherwise known as Mooncake—in hopes of prolonging his life. The Lord Commander establishes his viciousness by physically contorting the body of a man he was interrogating and tops this by ordering his minions to eat the remains. The Lord Commander would continually demonstrate his madness throughout the series whether by ordering his lieutenants to kill their firstborn children as a display of loyalty; massacring an entire crew in order to retrieve Mooncake; manipulating a portion of the Infinity Guard to his cause; or overseeing the construction of a laser designed to expand a breach to space-time. Becoming fierce enemies with the Galaxy One after maiming Gary Goodspeed, the Lord Commander lures the team to a prison planet. He then tries to force a possessed Little Cato to murder his own father culminating in Avocato performing a Heroic Sacrifice when the Lord Commander plants a sticky bomb on Little Cato's back. Believing himself to be a harbinger for the Titans, the Lord Commander traps Mooncake in a laser machine which painfully forces him to create a portal to Final Space. Upon his resurrection in season 3, the Lord Commander teams up with Invictus and revealed that he manipulated Avocato into killing Little Cato's birth family. Betraying Invictus, the Lord Commander turned merged himself with a Titan so he could rule all dimensions. Using his new powers, he killed multiple Titans, including the heroic Bolo. A psychotic despot with a god complex, the Lord Commander would risk the destruction of the universe itself in his pursuit of power.
- Invictus, the Greater-Scope Villain of the series, is an ancient, malevolent being whose only desire is destruction on a mass scale. In the beginning, it poisoned the Titans' minds, turning them against their creators, before being sealed away in Final Space. Spending millennia calculating escape, Invictus corrupts the Lord Commander and uses him as a means of opening Final Space, making it indirectly responsible for the Lord Commander's worst crimes. Upon his death, Invictus takes Quinn hostage—as well as killing alternate reality versions of Gary to make them apart of its morbid collection—and possesses Gary, using him to try to kill Avocato and Little Cato. Sensing Avocato as being stronger, Invictus takes him as a vessel, forcing Little Cato to shoot his own father to save Gary. Invictus returns in the second season finale making several attempts on the lives of the Crimson Light in order to prevent them from releasing Bolo. In season 3, Invictus resurrects the Lord Commander and has him capture dozens of beings so that it could feed on their life forces. Being the one who gave Ash her powers, Invictus subtly manipulates her into joining it throughout the season, even killing Fox and possessing his body to make it seem like Gary killed him. After escaping its prison, Invictus leaves the Lord Commander to rot for all eternity before escaping Final Space to kick start the end of everything.
- Werthrent, the fire serpent god of Ash's homeworld, is a cruel being who demands endless sacrifices. Devouring countless innocents, including children, Werthrent keeps them alive and suffering within himself, draining their minds and turning them into agonized zombies who remain in agony forevermore.
The Queen of the Crown from Galaxy Rangers. Her Majesty starts off by ambushing Kirwin, and putting a heavy bounty on humans to every two-bit thug in the galaxy. We find out why - she's mashing the humans down for Life Energy to power constructs through which she can see, hear, and administer her Empire. It's not only an exceedingly painful process, but the poor bastard is fully awake and aware of what's happened. We also see that she slaughtered millions on the planet of Tortuna, leaving a few, domed cities behind in a lot of wasteland. She also was hunting humans because the last race she used to power Slaverlords has been hunted to near-extinction and she needed replacements. If that wasn't bad enough, she enslaves an entire planet, making the inhabitants work in concentration camp conditions to build a massive hyperspace cannon she uses to blow a chunk out of Earth's moon, threatening to do worse to Earth unless they gave her 5000 humans in tribute. On a personal level, she uses the only psychocrystal she's made from a human (Zach's wife) to commit Mind Rape nightly on both of them. Her voice actress in the American version unfortunately sounds like a cross of Ming the Merciless and Maleficent. The German actress comes across as far more menacing.
Cameron Winter in Godzilla the Animated Series takes control of Godzilla and makes him destroy properties so he can collect insurance money, even making Godzilla attack a military base and endanger the lives of 500 soldiers. Defeated by H.E.A.T., Cameron returns for revenge and creates a giant monster called the Chameleon to attack humans and frame Godzilla for the attacks, before having the Chameleon beat and kill Godzilla so Cameron can be seen as a hero for creating the thing that kills Godzilla. Foiled again, Cameron breaks three men out of prison and equips them with battle mechs to kill Godzilla, ordering them to also attack H.E.A.T. and the military when they get in the way. Though the hunters are defeated, Cameron denies any connection with them and claims they stole his mechs and attacked Godzilla on their own.
Hero Factory: Savage Planet: The Witch Doctor was originally an instructor named Aldous Witch, who had an secret desire to possess an Quaza Core. When he was exiled for attempting to install an Quaza Core into his body, Witch travels to Quatros in order to illegally mine for Quaza. Upon creating the Skull Staff, he would use it to transform into the Witch Doctor, before using it to painfully enslave the animals of the jungle and force them to mine for Quaza, which causes the planet to slowly start breaking apart and dissolve, which will kill all life on it, to Witch Doctor's utter lack of concern. Sending an fake distress signal so he can steal an ship to escape the planet with the Quaza, he has two Fangz brutally attack Rocka when he arrived on the planet, severely wounding him in the process. When an Raw-Jaw attempts to convince Witch Doctor not to mine for any more Quaza, he painfully brainwashes the Raw-Jaw into submission. When the Alpha 1 team tries to stop him, he sends the animals to kill them while preparing to leave the planet with the Quaza, leaving everyone to die, and then build an powerful army to take revenge on Hero Factory for exiling him. An selfish, cruel tyrant with an complete Lack of Empathy towards the animals he enslaves, Witch Doctor would gladly destroy an entire planet full of life in order to become more powerful.
In Highlander: The Animated Series, Lord Kortan, refusing to take the pledge the other Immortals took After the End, declared himself the de-facto winner of the Game, and decreed that he was now entitled to all of the world's knowledge and power. After killing Conner MacLeod - the only Immortal willing to break the oath to challenge him - Kortan conquered and enslaved most of the planet, ruling unopposed for 700 years. When Quentin MacLeod's immortality activated after Kortan's slavers murdered him and his mother, Kortan set out to slay this new Highlander through any means necessary. Kortan's worst acts included firing an atomic bomb at Quentin's homeland; feeding dissidents to mutant ants; lobotomizing people to make disposable "human keys" to his armory; regularly executing his own followers for failure and outliving their usefulness; deploying them as suicide bombers against a city; and inciting hatred of Quentin by founding a cult in his name, one that enslaved kidnapped children after staging their sacrifice. In the final episode, Kortan destroyed whole towns with salvaged missiles, and threatened further bombardments unless Quentin confronted him at midnight. Even though the deadline was met, Kortan ordered that more rockets be launched anyway, laughing, "Why stop at MacLeod when we can crush them all?"
In Huntik Secrets and Seekers, the Betrayer, originally one of the sorcerers and seekers who helped found the Huntik Foundation, turned upon his fellows to summon the Lovecraftians monstrosities known as the Nullifers to destroy the world. The Casterwill family fought back and destroyed the Betrayer, but his spirit endured, forming the Bloodspiral Brotherhood to work at his revival. The Betrayer eventually had the Casterwill family 'purged' with any who served as obstacles treated the same way. Upon his revival, the Betrayer revealed that he had double-crossed the Bloodspiral Brotherhood and they would not be spared from destruction either. The Betrayer proceeds to summon a comet the destroy everyone present and summon the Nullifers, plotting to destroy everything that lives on earth to satisfy his lust for chaos.
Inhumanoids:
- Metlar is the tyrannical leader of the Inhumanoids. The former slave of Sslither, Metlar overthrows and imprisons his former master before waging a genocidal war against the Mutores in urge to dominate the planet. Awakened from his seal eons later, Metlar launches an all-out attack on Earth with his fellow Inhumanoids, razing a Soviet weapons department to a smoldering heap and stealing several cluster missiles while having his servants attack and destroy all they can. Metlar's ultimate goal is to use the missiles to obliterate the crust of the Earth and drown the entire world in fire, killing everything – his own loyal servants not excluded – so he can rule over the charred remains. Throughout the series, Metlar brutalizes and threatens to torture his own minions for every slight and attempts to destroy everything he can get his fiery talons on.
- D'Compose, Metlar's Dragon, is a hulking, undead monstrosity who pulled an entire city underground to turn it into his personal domain, killing everyone who lived there and reducing the city's knights into his undead slaves, cursed to wander the ruins of the town forevermore. Able to painfully transform anyone he touches into his undead slaves, D'Compose demonstrates his powers on the noble scientist Sandra Shore and tries to use her to kill her own friends, eagerly decomposing anyone he can whilst aiding Metlar in his conquest. D'Compose's vilest actions come when he has Blackthorne Shore amass countless disaffected teenagers into a cult in his name, reducing them all to his decomposed slaves and having them attack the nearby city, proclaiming his intention to shroud the world in darkness and turn all that lives into the undead.
- The aforementioned Blackthorne Shore is a wealthy industrialist who came across the secrets of the Inhumanoids. Blackthorne attempts to free them to use them to take control of the world, allowing them to first wreak death and destruction at their whim. When his own sister Sandra is turned into an undead monster by D'Compose, Blackthorne acts horrified—but then abandons the heroes to die when they try to save her so he can take control of Metlar, settling for allying with him to present him with a way to destroy most of the world so Blackthorne can rule over the remainder. After being foiled, Blackthorne eventually starts a cult with D'Compose, convincing numerous young men and women to submit themselves to the evil Inhumanoid to be changed into his undead slaves. Blackthorne continues to try to control the Inhumanoids and kill the heroes in his quest to dominate the world, fully admitting that he himself is an utterly evil, monstrous human being as wicked as any Inhumanoid.
The Dragit of Invasion America is the military commander of Tyrosh and the Evil Uncle of the emperor Cale-Oosha. When he makes an attempt to overthrow Cale, Cale manages to escape, ending up on earth where he fathers a son named David. Upon learning of them, the Dragit attempts to murder the baby and his mother. Installing a secret base on the moon, the Dragit reveals his plan to use a weapon to have asteroids bombard America, causing countless deaths, until the country gives in whereupon the Dragit will continue the process with every nation on earth, killing millions until the human race gives in. When David is captured in the finale, the Dragit opts to personally attempt to murder his great-nephew, his rhetoric about saving Tyrosh a front for his own cruelty and lust for power.
Chiros the Destroyer of Kong: The Animated Series was once an Atlantean shaman named Shikala who sought to perform a ritual to help him master all the powers of the universe. Transformed into a powerful entity by the ritual, he decided to use his new power to Kill All Humans and rule over what remained of the planet afterward. Having been imprisoned by the Primal Stones, Chiros has his minions try and retrieve the stones to free him. In the finale, Chiros is freed with the stones and drains Professor Ramone De La Porta's life force to restore his power. He plans to imprison Kong the same way he was imprisoned, and keep him trapped there forever, where Kong will be kept alive for thousands of years but unable to leave.
Kong: King of the Apes
- Dr. Richard Remy is a Mad Scientist who aspires to Take Over the World by implementing his version of the New World Order onto it using his artificial creations: robotic dinosaurs known as Bionobots, as he has a deep grudge against his twin brother, Lukas. It all started when he used the lasers in his father, Doctor Remy's, lab without his permission so he could create his first Bionobot, and when Doctor Remy offered to use the lasers because he has more knowledge with them, Richard arrogantly declined because it was his invention and he wished to do it all by himself, thus causing a massive fire in the lab that cost him an eye and forced Kong to save his life, only for Richard to blame Kong for the incident because he didn't want to take the responsibility for it. When he grows up, he tortures Kong using a Shock Collar to make him go rampage and sends one of his Bionobots after him, rendering himself a Fake Ultimate Hero. After Lukas and his allies become fugitives, Richard sells contents of a military warehouse on the black market, and even forces an unusually-massive anaconda to merge with his bionics. It's shown that Richard does not care for his android henchwoman, Botila, which is shown when he forcefully merges her consciousness with one of his Bionobots. At one point, Richard sells many of his Bionobots to various governments around the world, but only so they could turn on them so that Richard could finally rule the world. He also deletes his father's scientific projects involving humanitarianism and merges a mosquito with his bionics, using it to carry a virus to brainwash Lukas and most of his crew into forcing them on Kong. When Botila calls out Richard for both melting the Arctic and attempting to blow up a volcano Lukas and co. are in, reminding him of how much damage can be caused. In both instances, Richard shows that he doesn't care and in the latter instance, says, "Collateral damage." Upon being trapped in an underground lost world, Richard screws with the native apes' geothermal power system so that he could escape to the surface, resulting in an earthquake creating a hole that unleashes the lost world's wildlife onto Egypt. After Lukas keeps Richard hidden from the authorities so they wouldn't know about the lost world to keep it safe, Richard transforms himself into a mutated supervillain using Kong's DNA, and kidnaps him and hijacks Botila's ship so she would return to Kong Island. While there are some moments when Richard wasn't taken completely seriously, they vanish for good when Richard attempts to kill the entire team as well as Botila using his brute strength and his Bionobots, just so he can satisfy his revenge on all of his enemies, even as Lukas tries to redeem him a final time, being taken completely seriously from then on. Eventually, Lukas admits that Richard can't be turned and that all he and his team could do is prevent him from hurting anyone else.
- The aforementioned Botila turns out to be no better than Richard in terms of sheer cruelty and depravity. Despite being Richard's robotic assistant in the very start where she was treated by him miserably, she eventually gains moral agency over her actions, which was shown by her calling him out for melting the Arctic and attempting to blow up a volcano, the latter of which she turns on him by pushing him into the very volcano he tried to kill Lukas and his team. It's after this where she becomes really despicable, eventually discarding her concerns for the Earth and its inhabitants. She regularly bosses around and abuses her android lookalikes, at one point showing amusement when she brainwashes one of them into punching off the other's head. Other atrocities she commits include trying to brainwash another artificial intelligence into submitting to her rule by claiming that he's being controlled by a human, even when said AI makes it very clear that the human he's working with is his companion; blowing up the volcano herself to kill Lukas and his crew when they are inside; hijacking a space military station to make it launch missiles onto the world to destroy every major city on Earth so as to start another world war, and even torturing Jonesy by reading his mind painfully and attempting to brainwash him at the same time, disregarding the fact that he was the one who saved her from Richard's control previously. While claiming that she is a Well-Intentioned Extremist who stands for freedom of AI from humanity, she's really a hypocritical warlord who wants to gain complete control over mankind and AI alike so she could Take Over the World herself.
Kulipari: An Army of Frogs:
- Lord Marmoo, the brutal Evil Overlord of the scorpions, believes that the weak have no right to survive. Longing to destroy the fertile Amphibilands, Marmoo teams up with the Spider Queen Jarrah and leads the armies into battle, killing the Turtle King Sergu. Upon his initial defeat, Jarrah makes Marmoo stronger than before, whereupon he repays her by murdering her. Drunk on his newfound might, Marmoo attacks another village to raze it to the ground and kills the chief of the frogs himself. Returning to the spiders, Marmoo kills many of them by collapsing their fortress, not even caring his own men and brother Pigo are within. Forcing the surviving spiders into service, Marmoo attacks the Amphibilands, killing many frogs and even sneering that the only scorpions to die are those too weak to survive. Upon his victory, Marmoo banishes the frogs into the desert with no supplies, condemning them to slow death by heat and starvation. Not even his men are immune to his cruelty, as any scorpion injured in the fight, including Pigo, is given the choice of leaving or being eaten alive. Ambitious, brutal, cruel and egotistical a monster as they come, Marmoo believes only in power, domination and revenge with nothing to stand in his way.
- Dream Walker: Lord Darkan, the ruler of Cardigal, is a vicious lizard who relishes in dominating those in and around his city. With an army of lizards and spiders at his command, Darkan and his forces seek out strong warriors around the world, kidnapping and imprisoning them before forcing them to fight in the Kingdom of Fighters tournaments. Those who refuse to fight are either killed or cajoled into fighting after Darkan threatens to murder their families. When Darkan learns that Koa is a Dream Walker with extraordinary power, he and his army storm Koa's village and force his father to deliver Koa into his custody. After Koa initially refuses to join the Kingdom of Fighters tournament and threatens to kill Darkan, Darkan convinces him to fight by smugly telling Koa that should anything happen to him, his soldiers will slaughter all of the prisoners in Cardigal as well as Koa's entire village.
The Legend of Calamity Jane:
- Bill Doolin is a dirty little bandit out to make a big score. Disguising himself and his men as Comanche, he rides into one town, shooting it up and beating the sheriff to near-death in order to frame the peaceful tribe to provoke a war between them and the US military so he can steal a supply of gold. Later freed from jail, Doolin steals a train carrying explosives so he can use them for his scores, heedless of the lives lost, and when Jane faces him, Doolin even tries to kill her beloved horse just to hurt her more before he kills her.
- Mr. Filbert, from "Troubled Waters", is an arrogant, racist bureaucrat in the pocket of his greedy higher-ups. He proves himself far worse than most disposable bureaucrats by muscling onto Apache territory while trying to use outdated legal tactics to force them off. When intimidation fails, Filbert forces Sheriff O'Rourke to push them off and shoot any who resist, eventually revealing his plans to murder their leader to spur them into war and massacre them all to the last, even trying to burn Jane and O'Rourke to death for getting in his way.
The Legend of Prince Valiant:
- Baron Frederick von Holsing from season 2's "The Walls of Tyranny" manages to outdo even recurring villains with his Greed and lack of regard for human life. Von Holsing is a noble in the kingdom of Kengary, which has been at war with a neighboring nation for as long as anyone can remember. When King Ian, Frederick's uncle, makes inroads to initiate a lasting peace, Frederick murders him to frame their enemies and keep the war going. It is revealed that Frederick intends to prolong the war so he can take men, women and children as slaves to work to death in his private mines for his personal profit. When Valiant uncovers the plot, Frederick attempts to murder his friends, send Valiant to his mines and kidnap Valiant's female comrade Rowanne with the threat of making her his. Vain, selfish and greedy, Frederick von Holsing stands as the worst representative of nobility in all the series.
- Sage Advisor Selena from season 2's "The Sage" and "The Rings of Truth" is the Treacherous Advisor to King Michael of the North. She engineers a civil war, which causes the deaths of several hundred people, to arrange a better puppet figurehead to become king. She also conspires to murder an infant, frames Rowanne for a crime which makes her leave Camelot in disgrace, and turns an invention of peace into a war weapon in an attempt to frame Merlin for a crime. A self-absorbed sociopath with no loyalties to anyone but herself, Selena surpassed the Mordred in terms of monstrosity.
Legend Quest:
- Quetzalcoatl is the reincarnation of a long line of other Quetzalcoatls. The others were arguably well-intention, and would destroy humanity every 10,000 years and remake it at the cost of his own life with the intention of bettering humanity. This one's methods, however, were deemed too cruel, and he was locked away. The current Quetzalcoatl, feeling "bitter" and "betrayed" by serving a race of "ants", spent the last 10,000 years plotting to Kill All Humans and remake the world in his own image. First, he spread the legend that destroying the Esfera egg using the Celestial Point would destroy him, in an attempt to have the new Quetzalcoatl killed so his existence won't be averted. He enslaved the witches and unleashed his Horrorosos on Puebla, turning it into a Zombie Apocalypse. He also opens a portal into the mortal realm in an attempt to destroy the world. When Leo and his crew thwart him, he pulls the town into his dimension and enslaves everyone in it (sans Marcella, Godofredo and Rosa), turning them into beasts under his command. He also tortures Marcella, threatening to take her soul out in front of Leo. Eventually pulling the entire world into his dimension he goes to war with the Brotherhood, killing a large number of them. He kills Nu Gui, and rips Leo's soul out of his body and takes control of his lifeless body in an attempt to destroy the Esfera.
- Medusa, from "Ghost Of Medusa", is a Gorgon from Pompeii who lived in the cave of Mount Vesuvius, and had the unique ability to turn anyone who gazed into her eyes into stone. She had used this power to turn several humans into stone, until one day a man named Perseus turned her into stone and killed her. Upon becoming a ghost, she gained the power to turn other ghosts into stone. She had turned many warriors who tried to defeat her into stone. She eventually made a deal with the Mayor that if they provide her a sacrifice every year she will spare the town. After being disturbed by an unwitting Leo, she reneges and turns the ghost of the townsfolk into stone, where they will crumble into dust once the sun rises. When Leo and Teodora stumble into her cave they find the skull of someone Medusa slayed; she also tries to kill them by lowering them into a pool of lava.
- The Vodnik, from "Vodnik", was a human tinkerer who intended to use his inventions to help others, however growing fed up with the impurities of his fellow adults, he turned himself into a frog monster, and became a collector of souls. He would kidnap any children who went by a lakes or even the smallest puddles, pull them underwater, suck their souls out and put them in cups or jars. He has been doing this for decades, possibly centuries, and has acquired a collection large enough to fit three whole shelves, each with over 20 souls. When Alebrije goes in search of the Grimsword Root, the Vodnik kidnaps him and sucks his soul out, and attempts to do the same to Leo. Despite his claims of wanting to save children from corruption, The Vodnik was every bit as corrupted as the worst adults himself.
Marblegen: Director Bombi is the headmaster of the Orphanage of Fear in which Cosmo and Sam grew up. A greedy, bitter miser who makes the children live in squalor, Bombi saw young Cosmo's talent in marble games and forced him to partecipate in illegal games in order to line his own pockets with the prizes. If Cosmo refused, Bombi would lock Sam up in a darkened room or sic his Angry Guard Dog on the children. Cosmo and Sam managed to escape the orphanage and were taken in by their mentor, but Bombi manages to find them and blackmails them into coming back, wasting no time in submitting them to the same abuse as before. When the children manage to escape again, Bombi tries to subtly sabotage Cosmo's competition to ruin the boy's chances to escape his grasp, and when that fails, he attempt to kidnap Cosmo and Sam once again, hiding behind the law to get his way. Despite only appearing in a single episode, Bombi stands out as a particularly dark and despicable individual who considerably darkens the mood of this otherwise light-hearted series.
Maya and the Three:
- Lord Mictlan is the bloodthirsty god of war hellbent on destroying humanity. Initially wanting to kill a newborn Maya for being the product of his wife Lady Micte's infidelity, Mictlan only spares her so he may sacrifice her when she's older in order to gain immense power. Come present day, Mictlan personally slaughters the Teca army and sends several gods to bring Maya to be sacrificed, gleefully mutilating and killing those who fail or oppose him. Despite claiming to love Micte, come the final battle, Mictlan ignores his wife's pleas to abandon his plans to destroy humanity and furiously attacks her. When the heroes start to gain the upper hand against him and his army, Mictlan kills his loyal underlings and devours their hearts in order to strengthen himself.
- Xtabay, the Goddess of Illusion, is one of Lord Mictlan's underlings and his most sadistic. Xtabay invades Picchu's village, having her army slaughter everyone in his village and murdering Picchu's parents. Xtabay allows Picchu to live solely for him to live with the fact he condemned his people to be massacred and fall into despair. Participating in Mictlan's campaign to destroy humanity, Xtabay returns to haunt Picchu by psychologically tormenting him with illusions of her murdering his parents and his failure to protect his people. In the show's finale, Xtabay helps Mictlan's attempt to destroy all four kingdoms, starting with Teca.
Men in Black: the Animated Series:
- Alpha was once the top agent for the M.I.B; however, after getting his hands on an alien device known as the Cosmic Integrator, he began his path of evil that leads him to become the monster he is in the present. Originally offering his partner, Agent Kay, a team up to use the Cosmic Integrator for immoral schemes, Alpha coldly gunned down his pupil when he refused Alpha's offer. Alpha went on to butcher aliens across the galaxy, ripping off or tearing out parts of their bodies that he would then fuse to his own biology via the Cosmic Integrator, with his most targeted part being the heads of aliens, attaching them to his torso while they stay conscious of their current state but unable to do anything of consequence to help themselves. Throughout the series, Alpha regularly mutilates aliens, nearly kills Agent Kay and his partner Jay in various sadistic ways, and murdered at least one human to steal his body parts. Trying numerous times to subjugate the Earth by way of mass murder, from using a Kill Sat to trying to flood half the planet, Alpha ultimately allies with the psychopathic Vangus to lead a full-scale assault on Earth, laying siege to numerous cities and causing countless amounts of destruction, all in his quest for total domination of first his own planet, then the galaxy. A sociopath with a lust for power above all else, Alpha was an arrogant, manipulative genius who used his intelligence for nothing but his own gain.
- The aforementioned Vangus is the leader of the Ixion Federation, a race of planet-plundering aliens who value oil as an extremely valuable commodity and go from planet to planet draining them dry of their oil. Vangus sets his eyes on Earth and strikes up a deal with the traitorous MIB agent Alpha to invade Earth and steal it of its goal, leaving what remains of the Earth itself for Alpha to dictate. Vangus grows tired of waiting after Alpha postpones the invasion and after a failed attempt to scout out oil fields which leads to his capture, Vangus breaks out in the series finale and teams up with Alpha to invade the Earth. Vangus sets his forces to obliterate both the UN and the Washington Monument before leading his forces in an all-out invasion on Earth, ravaging cities all across the world. Out of sheer impatience with the continued resistance, Vangus ultimately attempts to detonate a bomb to wipe out all life on Earth to make the planet's oil ooze to the crust, callously betraying Alpha and setting a torpedo en route to Earth with the assurance he'll come back and clean up whatever's left after the attack.
- Drekk is a cruel, ill-tempered thug with a penchant for boiling anyone who crosses him alive, no matter how minor the transgression. Drekk was once cellmates with Frank the Pug, who he repeatedly threatened with murder over the possibility that Frank would anger him. After escaping and leaving behind a trail of destruction, Drekk goes to see Frank, who betrays him by informing J and K of Drekk's location. While being transported back to prison, Drekk escapes and kills his guards, before tracking Frank down, murdering one of his friends in the process for no other reason than sheer sadism. Intending to boil Frank alive, he is instead convinced to use Frank to lure in J and K so he can kill them instead. Drekk captures J and K and attempts to kill them by drowning them in molten metal, intending to do the same to Frank afterwards. Drekk is later hired by the Zadoranians to kidnap Santa Claus (actually an alien and an ally of the Men in Black), and takes over his workshop. When the Men in Black capture Drekk's minions, he instead attempts to murder Santa. Returning a final time, Drekk attempts to get revenge on J and K for his prior defeats. After a failed attempt on the two agents and Frank's lives, he captures Agent X and demands K turn himself over to Drekk in exchange for X's freedom. When K complies, Drekk reveals he had no intent to let X go and tries to murder them both.
Monster Force:
- Count Dracula himself is the Big Bad of this series, having enslaved countless to his vampiric curse in his constant efforts to pursue power and see Dr. Reed and his Monster Force exterminated. Dracula tries various schemes throughout the series, from trying to trap a member of the Monster Force in his lycanthropic form, to have him kill his own friends, to trying to trick a large group of vampires into performing a ceremony that would allow Dracula to take their power and become a god, killing all of them in the process. In his nastiest appearance, Dracula murders the real Abraham Stoker to take his appearance to trick Reed, forcing him to listen as the rest of Monster Force is seemingly killed—only to reveal he's intending to make them his vampire slaves to have Reed die at their hands, admitting the whole plot was solely to make Reed suffer. An elegantly vicious creature of the night all the while, Dracula consciously rejects his own humanity to see all before him destroyed in the finale.
- The Dark Town, from "Dark City", is a living and malevolent entity that takes the shape of a town to lure in prey, while it sadistically relishes in their fear as it drains their lives and souls, the fate that befalls two luckless travelers in the opening. The Dark Town has been traveling for centuries, depopulating entire towns that it lures into its borders before devouring them, vanishing to repeat the cycle anew before trapping the Monster Force themselves.
My Little Pony franchise:
- In the first of the My Little Pony TV Specials, Rescue At Midnight Castle, Tirac was a surprisingly vile creature from a show that's supposed to be primarily a little girl's series. A demon of a centaur, Tirac was the ruler of the Midnight Castle, and planned to send Dream Valley into a state of eternal night, eternal darkness, and eternal chaos. To do so, he used a sack containing magical spells in it to essentially torture and transform young ponies into his hideous, winged dragons which he could then use to pull his Chariot of Darkness. He's also amazingly violent, which is shown whenever his henchman Scorpan failed him. He would threaten to have Spike's head torn right off if he ever screwed up again, which makes it even more disturbing in that Spike was a child, and therefore it meant that he had no limits to who he had to hurt in order to get his way.
- In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, King Sombra, while initially presented as a Generic Doomsday Villain, showed himself fully capable of embracing this trope. A royal unicorn and practitioner of dark magic with an undying thirst for power and greatness, he conquered the Crystal Empire a thousand years ago, enslaving the Crystal Ponies that lived there (even setting them to work slave labor on a chain gang), with his rule being so terrible that it horribly traumatized any Pony who still remembers living under it. He also placed a curse on the Empire so that it would vanish into thin air if he's no longer able to rule over it, so when the Alicorn Princesses blasted him into a shadow form and banished him to the arctic North, the Crystal Empire vanished. When the Empire returns, so does Sombra, who attempts to retake it for himself in the third season premiere by casting darkness upon the Crystals and trying to devour the Crystal Heart, the Empire's source of magic. Though he is destroyed thanks to Spike, he's resurrected from darkness at the start of the final season by Discord (who was disguising himself as Grogar), who wants him to ally himself with his supposed plan for taking over Equestria (although no one knew that "Grogar" (Discord) was trying to ally the villains to create a fake threat to Equestria to make Twilight Sparkle confident enough to become its next ruler). Sombra, however, has plans of his own: he first retakes the throne of the Crystal Empire, making it's rulers Cadance and Shining Armor submit to him by threatening the life of their baby, Flurry Heart, and enslaving ponies both physically and mentally this time. But when Twilight Sparkle and her friends vanquish him, it turns out he planned on this happening so that he lowers their guards and then destroys the Tree of Harmony, and the Elements of Harmony along with it. With the Elements gone, Sombra initiates a hostile takeover of all of Equestria, putting Mind Control helms on the entirety of Ponyville and Canterlot's populations and having them all fight against the Mane Six to kill them. During the confrontation with him in the throne room, when Discord (in his true form) openly acknowledges Fluttershy as his favorite friend, Sombra blasts dark magic at Fluttershy so that Discord ends up taking the blow instead (though it turns out not to have wounded him badly, despite Discord pretending that it did in order to inspire his friends to act in unity and destroy Sombra for good.) And if all this was not bad enough, the fifth season finale had showed us an alternate timeline in which Sombra, unopposed by the Mane Six and Spike, has successfully reclaimed the Crystal Empire and used his position to devastate and conquer half of Equestria, and is seen enslaving several Ponies and commanding an army of Crystal Ponies under his control in a shockingly dark and realistically depicted war with Celestia's forces. A cruel and arrogant despot to the core, King Sombra showed he truly did have "a heart as black as night."
Ōban Star-Racers: Canaletto, the series' Big Bad, is a scheming, self-concerned ex-god who orchestrates the ruinous events in Eva's life to assure his own return to godhood. Formerly the Avatar, Canaletto embarked on an omnicidal, planet-destroying crusade to wipe out all life in the galaxy and restart it according to his flawless designs, before being sealed away by the next Avatar Satis. Canaletto patiently and seamlessly manipulates events to his favor for the next 10,000 years, placing Eva as his pawn by causing the mortal accident that killed Eva's mother and fractured the relationship between her and her father, ruining Rick's racing career and murdering his own servant after Rick learns of it, and personally murdering Sul to place Eva as the lead of the Oban Cycle. Once he eventually frees himself, Canaletto reduces Oban to a life-deprived desert, before trying to claim the powers of the Avatar. Though Canaletto claims himself as "the Lord of Purity," his definitions of "pure" are twisted, a fact Satis calls Canaletto out on before Canaletto tortures him to death in fury before moving on to restart his omnicidal agenda. A callous, selfish, and arrogant demon of a deity, Canaletto remorselessly ruins the lives of everyone he manipulates to further his own ascension and spares no pity to the dozens who ultimately die at his hands.
The Pirates of Dark Water gave us the being behind the titular 'Dark Water', a menacing oily substance that devours whatever it touches and is spreading all throughout the world. By proxy, the Dweller is responsible for countless deaths of places that the Dark Water has devoured. The Dark Dweller is the true Big Bad of the story, a being seeking domination and destruction who plans to unleash its' Dark Water throughout the world, focused only on consuming and controlling what it can.
General Vykar, the brutal, superficially charming main antagonist of the Australian series Prisoner Zero, is a ruthless Imperium officer, renowned for his habit of casually destroying planets or just killing their entire populations. In the first two episodes, he has the neutral world of Arcadia enslaved, bombarded, and then destroyed, all because of his injured pride over the fact he lost control of the Rogue, an ancient starship. Imprisoning an entire planet's population, Vykar uses the people as Bioweave capacitors, granting himself superhuman abilities. After being deprived of this, he proceeded to commit atrocity after atrocity to further for his goal of ultimate power, uncaring how many innocents died because of his actions. In the series finale he betrays the Imperium, slaughters multiple ships of their fleet— killing his own loyal soldiers— and attempts to gain ultimate power by draining the life of everyone in the galaxy who was connected to the Bioweave. Vykar is so bad that one of the plans for dealing with Vykar at this point involved sacrificing an entire planet's population to get him away from his latest superweapon.
Another villain in a similar vein as Tirac would be the Dark Princess from Rainbow Brite, who served as the Big Bad of The Movie. A spoiled brat of a woman to a horrifically cruel degree, the Dark Princess coveted a planet made entirely out of diamond called Spectra so she could have it as a treasure. The thing is, all light must pass through Spectra, or else everything in the universe will freeze over and die. Even when she's been told of the consequences, the Princess flat-out doesn't care at all about what will happen and still wants it to herself anyway, being willing to basically commit omnicide purely out of selfishness and Greed. And when her plan is foiled by the titular Rainbow Brite, she decides that if she can't have Spectra, no one can, and tries to destroy the planet by ramming her spaceship into it, only to succeed in killing herself in the act. She made an appearance in another episode though, this time enslaving a bunch of sprites and forcing them to dig up diamonds for her. Impossible to reason with and completely unrepentant in her evil deeds, the Dark Princess is a true despot who seems to dedicate all her time to being as much as a narcissistic, sociopathic monster as she can be.
Rambo: The Force of Freedom: General Warhawk, the leader of S.A.V.A.G.E. (Specialist-Administrators of Vengeance, Anarchy and Global Extortion), is a power-hungry despot bent on world domination. He tries to blow up the Boulder Dam as a diversion to rob Las Vegas; demands to be paid one million dollars and blows up the shipping on the Suez Canal when his demands are not met; tries to start a war between two neighboring countries by stealing a white rhino; seizes control of the Warton Missile Complex and launches an attack from the missile base to all of North America when his demands aren't met; along with his troops hijacks a supertanker, planning to cause an ecological disaster unless his demands for a warship are met; and sends Mad Dog to hijack a space shuttle called Xenon with plans to blow up satellites. Not even children are safe from his wrath, as he has tried to have young peace activists killed.
Megabyte, an order-obsessed computer virus and primary antagonist of ReBoot, becomes an example of this post season 2. While in earlier episodes he had a personal code of honor and was affable enough to give Enzo a birthday present, after a forced Fusion Dance, he loses those qualities and makes it clear by using an Eldritch Abomination's invasion as a way to trap Bob in an Eldritch Location. With The Hero out of the way, Megabyte turns his attention on conquering Mainframe. To that end, he lets his sister get crushed with the side of a game cube, then has her rebuilt with a shock collar so she is forced to power his death ray. He makes it incredibly difficult for Enzo to continue beating game cubes, dooming thousands of binomes to a Fate Worse Than Death and causing untold destruction for the sake of driving the kid into a Heroic BSOD so that he can't oppose him as the city's new Guardian. When he gets into the Principal Office, he decapitates Phong and tortures his severed head not only for information, but for his own sadistic amusement. His minions, Hack and Slash, are terrified of him, and he often breaks Herr Doctor's fingers as punishment for failure. He engages adult Enzo in a savage duel to the death, and even after being defeated, he initiates a system crash that nearly destroys Mainframe and every sentient being in it. He later returns to Mainframe and impersonates Bob, turning everyone against Glitch-Bob before proposing to Dot and almost marrying her for no reason other than to amuse himself. His main desire is to open a portal to the Super Computer so that he could infect it and take over all domains with his corruption, as well as crushing Mainframe completely, and he is willing to hurt anyone and everyone for both his goals and his own petty amusement.
Redwall: Cluny the Scourge, from the first season, adapts all the nastiest parts of his book counterpart's villainy and goes beyond that. A sea rat warlord with a propensity for abusing his own men who vies to take over Redwall Abbey, Cluny is established to have massacred the hero Matthias's peasant village in the past, attempting personally to slaughter the young mouse. In the present, Cluny tries every scheme he can to take over Redwall, from trying to starve every beast within to death and having an unfortunate mouse who tries to deliver food to the abbey executed, to taking various hostages and trying to see them all slaughtered to goad out the heroes—even managing to capture Cornflower, torturing her for her impudence against him. Setting up his own traitorous minion to die in an assassination attempt against his life and regularly imploring the rest of his band to slaughter innocents with aplomb, Cluny finally attempts to take over Redwall by ordering the massacre of every beast within.
RoboCop: Alpha Commando: Mr. Brink is the leader of DARC (Directorate for Anarchy, Revenge, and Chaos), a terrorist organization that serves as the primary threat of the series. In the three part pilot, Justice Reborn, he instructs DARC to assassinate the premiere of Naugmenastan to cause a war so they can sell weapons to the country, eventually deciding to bomb the room the premiere is in and kill everyone. His organization continues to commit atrocities throughout the series, including converting Francesca Alliata into a cyborg slave to make her bomb a city; attempting to nuke all of the world's capitals; and trying to destroy a plane filled with the Goodwill ambassadors from the Asian Alliance nations, which would cause the Asian Alliance to declare war on the world, allowing DARC to sell weapons to the highest bidders. In the Family Reunion two part episode, Brink sends robots to take over New Detroit, and kidnaps Robocop's family, threatening to kill them if he tries to stop him. Though Brink himself is not seen again, his organization continues to perform evil actions, such as trying to destroy the world's landmarks with a laser, and supplying a corrupt gentleman with a detonator that will allow him to destroy a ship.
Vertex is a vicious Spiderbot in Rollbots and the Big Bad of the series. Desiring to tear down Flip City's defense grid and Safety Net so as to lead a full-scale genocide against all Rollbots, Vertex enacts various atrocities in an attempt to see his plans fulfilled, be it by setting apartment complexes aflame, bombing a race track and its audience, or trying to freeze every Rollbot in an endless time loop. Having zero care for his minions who he regularly abuses, Vertex murders one of them to ensure that important knowledge is kept to himself, and later butchers a rival crime lord to secure his position of power. In the end, Vertex is revealed to have wiped out Spin's entire tribe in a destructive campaign against the Rollbots, and drags Captain Pounder down with him to his death.
Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legend: Many antagonists in this series are well-intentioned, tinted in gray, or otherwise redeem themselves. However, many are still irredeemably vile:
- The Aeseri twins, Odin and Loki, from "Devil Inside," are rampaging psychopaths released from the Alliance's maximum security containment unit to commit wanton havoc. Shooting down every Alliance operative that pursues them, Loki is captured and contents himself with playing sadistic mind games with Nick Logan, utilizing illusions and later attacking his way through the Alliance to commandeer one of their airships. Odin, meanwhile, makes his way to Iceland, attacking a submarine and a town in Iceland before making his way into the mountains. Once the two reunite, they reveal their ultimate plan: release and control the Frost Giant and cause an apocalyptic Ragnarok for no other reason than to thrill themselves, with Loki gleefully stating he can't wait until the two reach a populated city.
- Lord Hanek is the vampiric leader of Intracom, a powerful family of vampires disguised as a worldwide organization. Hanek is behind several of Intracom's malevolent affairs, such as burning down vast sections of the rainforest to biting and turning several innocent people into vampoid slaves. Hanek demonstrates his vileness by attempting to have the Tree of Light destroyed, which would in the process completely wipe out the Banshee Sisterhood, and turns an innocent woman into his vampoid concubine to hurt one of the Alliance's agents. Hanek truly comes into his own in his last appearance in season 2's "Showdown": to power his teleporter technology, Hanek attempts to utilize the Banshee as living generators, in the process tortuously draining the life from them and eventually killing them. Hanek endangers the life of main character Nick Logan to lure Sh'lainn and the Sisterhood into his clutches, tricks the escaped Minotauri Kahn Mort into downing a helicopter filled with his own men into a hospital, and finally forces Nick into a Sadistic Choice involving the lives of Sh'lainn and his stepfather Nathan. Always possessed of a callous sophistication in whatever situation he's in, Hanek stands miles above the other major alien antagonists in terms of depravity.
- The Shadoen agent Wraith is the one responsible for nearly all the misery within the story. Stationed in Earth back in 1946 to divide the alien races and allow the Shadoen to invade and conquer the planet, Wraith butchers the real James Rinaker and assumes his identity, bombing a Conduit safehouse and killing several innocent aliens to pin the blame on the Alliance's co-leader Walter Logan before trapping Walter himself in eternal stasis to take over the Alliance. As Rinaker, Wraith traps hundreds of innocent aliens in the Alliance's prison and has little compunction in arranging torture, bombings, and heavily destructive missions with little care as to who or what gets caught in the way, whilst simultaneously sabotaging several of the Alliance's missions and endangering several more lives. After his initial attempt to pin his crimes on Nick Logan, Wraith personally murders Ms. Smith-Heisen once she gets too close to the truth without an ounce of emotion on his face before discarding his disguise, rigging the entire Alliance bunker to explode and take out half of New Mexico, and savagely murdering Trueblood with his own claws. Rejoining the Shadoen fleet and still unsatisfied with how he's being treated, Wraith tricks the Shadoen high command into being nuked by the human army and spearheads the invasion himself, ultimately resolving to blow up the moon and kill off most of humanity to conquer what remains, with his only stated regret being the loss of "breeding stock" this will incur. A traitorous, manipulative sociopath even by the standards of the world-destroying Shadoen, Wraith is the most dangerous—and vile—alien to grace the series.
Sectaurs: The evil General Spidrax, lord of the Dark Domain, seeks the powerful Hyve of the Ancients to destroy Shining Realm and all within it. In his conquest, Spidrax opens the series by razing a village; traffics in slaves while gleefully planning to work two of his Arch Enemy Dargon's friends to death when he captures them; has a corrupt magistrate try and feed the heroes to a monster which nearly destroys another village; and abuses his own men and allies, cowing murderous bandits to his command and tossing another ally who fulfills his demands to the letter to his intended death with a mocking "good job".
The Beast Generals from Shadow Raiders are the malevolent servitors of the world-devouring Beast Planet who help their master scourge entire solar systems and destroy all worlds within them. Each of them could qualify in their own right:
- By far best example would be Lamprey, a master of deceit and subterfuge who weakens worlds from the inside out through complex gambits, occasionally pausing to murder people who cross her path for little other reason than to amuse herself. Lamprey introduces herself tricking Emperor Femur into installing a device meant to drain all the life from Planet Bone. After this, Lamprey possesses Tekla and tries to use her to destroy the Alliance from the inside out, contenting herself with subjecting her to horrific Mind Rape of her planet's destruction and trying to slowly kill her from the inside once this fails. After this fails, Lamprey murders a resident of Planet Fire and pins it on Jade's hands, intending for her to be horribly executed by being dipped into a fall of lava. Lamprey's final crimes in the series stem purely from petty spite: Seeking revenge against Tekla, Lamprey has her Beast drones attack a bar with the intent to kill everyone inside, personally disintegrates Captain Blaze once he gets in her way, and furiously attempts to kill everyone who stands between her and Tekla before her own demise.
- Another one is Blokk, a brutish warrior who firmly believes in the power of absolute force over everything else, preferring to overrun worlds through his armada to destroy all they see whilst basking in the carnage. Blokk's repeated attempts to attack the planets in the Cluster result in numerous deaths and the successful destruction of Planet Jungle. Blokk personally attempts to trick Cryos into killing his own daughter whilst leaving his planet vulnerable, and grows more and more vicious after his repeated punishments at the hand of the Beast. In the finale of the series, Blokk takes over Planet Rock by force by besting and killing Lord Mantle, while promising to give the Alliance members he's captured—two children among them—a slow death at the Beast's hands. Once he's left stranded on Rock, Blokk slaughters his way to Rock's World Engine, personally executes Feldspar, and sets the entire planet on a collision course with the nearest star out of sheer spite.
- And last, but certainly not least, we have Voyd who, while seemingly left behind in heinousness by his fellow Beast Generals, is responsible for their prolonged Cold-Blooded Torture whenever they fail the Beast Planet. This is shown after the first season where he tortures Blokk, and possibly Lamprey as well, as punishment for letting Remora be destroyed. Even worse is that he's just as much to blame for it as Blokk is, as he agreed with him to go against Lamprey in changing their original mission given to them by the Beast Planet, but never once received his own punishment for it. Instead, he singled-out Blokk as the only one responsible. Yeesh!
In the Animated Adaptation of the book series Silverwing, Goth is a giant cannibal bat from South America. Captured by humans, he sent to lab in a North American city for study. After escaping the lab, he begins to kill owls and birds, which General Brutus blames on the Silverwing bats, causing him to persecute them. Goth kills an Owl trying to kill Shade, a Silverwing bat. Goth pretends to be Shade's friend, saying he will protect Shade's colony, but he really plans on eating them all instead. Shade discovers Goth's true nature, when Shade discovers the corpse of a Brightwing bat Goth had eaten. Later Goth and his brother in law Throbb eat a coven of bats and took the metal bands they were wearing as trophies. When Shade and Goth are trapped in a mine, Shade suggests they work together to escape, but makes Goth promise to allow him and his friends to live, a promise Goth instantly reneges on when he is out of danger. Near the end of the series, Goth teams up with the Wolves to take over the forest and goes on a killing spree against the Owls to fulfill his part of this deal.
Skeleton Warriors: The suitably named Baron Dark was an ambitious nobleman who hungered to steal the Lightstar Crystal powering the lands of Luminaire. Dark arranged for the king's shuttle to crash in hostile territory, and manipulated his younger son Joshua into going for the Lightstar Crystal himself before attempting to steal it. Its energies made the Baron's evil manifest fully as he became the first Skeleton Warrior, an immortal living dead creature who transformed all his forces into the same. The Baron attacked Luminaire's civilians and upon discovering he could only turn evil people into Skeletons, Dark furiously ordered the rest of the population murdered, only relenting when one of his men reminded him they'd need slaves. Dark would force a population's compliance by starving them and withholding medicine to force them to do his bidding, attempted to wipe out the ape-like race called the Semigons to steal their refinery and once he gained the Lightstar Crystal himself, Dark attempted to remake the world into a hellish landscape where only his chosen Skeleton Warriors would survive.
Sonic Sat AM: Dr. Julian Robotnik, unlike the Affably Evil, Laughably Evil versions of him you'd see in other Sonic cartoons, (or the games themselves) is much less pleasant. A ruthless, ambitious backstabber with a series of treacherous moves to his count in the name of self-interest, Robotnik's first betrayal was his sealing of the evil wizard Ixis Naugus in the Void. Later becoming known to the King of Mobius, Robotnik became instrumental in the King's own military victories before deciding to take over Mobius himself. Staging a coup d'état and overthrowing the King from Mobotropolis, Robotnik stole the technologies of the Roboticizer from Charles Hedgehog, and used it to forcefully convert almost all of Mobius into a polluted dystopia, with him as supreme ruler from the newly named Robotropolis. Reducing most of Mobius's inhabitants to his robotic slaves through a horrific roboticization and mental enslavement process, Robotnik made fierce enemies with Charles's nephew Sonic and the rest of the Freedom Fighters. Robotnik would demonstrate his psychopathic nature again and again, attempting to kill, torture, or otherwise roboticize the Freedom Fighters, happily willing to jeopardize the ecosystem in doing so. Robotnik also coldly abuses his own minions, his diminutive, weak-willed nephew Snively among them, and condemns them all to die for the sake of his own life in the finale. An emotion-deficient fear-monger with nary a comedic quirk to his name, Robotnik proved one of the most vicious incarnations of Robotnik seen in the franchise.
In Spawn The Animated Series, Jason Wynn stands out in an already very dark show. Wynn is the director of the NSC. He is the one who ordered the death of Al Simmons by having him burned alive. He uses his position to protect equally monstrous child killer Billy Kincaid from the police by killing anyone who discovers Kincaid's brutal crimes. He is covering up Kincaid's crimes in order to extort favors from Kincaid's father, a corrupt senator. When visiting crime boss Tony Twist, Wynn has two prostitutes that were with Tony killed, so no one besides Tony would know he was there. Wynn is also using his position to steal weapons from the US Department of Defense and is selling them to various terrorists and dictators across the globe. When one of Wynn's employees, Terry Fitzgerald, discovers Wynn's crimes, Wynn frames him for these crimes, putting Terry's life in a tailspin. Wynn later orders a hit squad to kill Terry's wife Wanda and his daughter Cyan. Wynn also orders Chief Banks to shoot police officer Twitch Williams, when Twitch gets close to uncovering Wynn's crimes. After Terry reveals Wynn's crimes to the world, Wynn becomes a free agent and seeks the mask of Genghis Khan, which will give him the powers of Hell. We learn that Wynn had one his former subordinates, Major Forsberg, thrown into a cell and starved, when he tried to leave Wynn's services. Wynn threatens to kill Forsberg's family unless he tells him where to find the mask. When Terry tries to kill Wynn in revenge, Wynn has him dragged to an opium den and forcible drugged, because Wynn thinks Terry slowly rotting away in this den is more of a fitting punishment then a quick death. Wynn later uses a knife to try and slowly torture Terry, while gloating about how he will sell his wife into prostitution.
Corbin, from the series finale of Spicy City, is the CEO of AlternaCeuticals, the company that created Raven. A psychopathic eugenicist, Corbin wants to wipe out all those he's deemed genetically inferior and aberrant, and plans on doing it with a virus that he tests on Raven and carnival freaks. When symptoms begin to manifest in the carriers, Corbin has the crowded carnival bombed under the pretense of containing an outbreak before instructing his men to Leave No Witnesses as they move in to capture Raven. When confronted, Corbin implies that he was responsible for the death of Raven's mother, and rants about how he is going to eliminate all of the "mutants and freaks" with his plague, which he also intends to profit off of thanks to his "good fiscal policy" of Withholding the Cure to diseases in favor of overpriced treatments that are developed as slow as possible.
While The Story Keepers teaches that you should forgive your persecutors, the villainous Nihilus stands against this, thus it's his unwillingness to live up to his mistakes and accept forgiveness that makes him a monster. The chief centruian to Nero, he attempted to purge Rome of the Christians by force throughout the series, one of his plans to do this involving him building a catapult and sending flaming debris into the tunnels that persecuted Christians were hiding in. Upon learning that a fellow centurion was a Christian, he tried to have him killed for treachery. He later set fire to homes of children with them still inside, all because they didn't submit to his emotional manipulation of them. And he really crosses the line when he arranges a public crucifixion for Ben and murdering his student who stops him from carrying it out. In the end, Nihilus had one single defining trait: his utter lack of a conscience.
Street Sharks:
- The future version of Dr. Luther Paradigm from the two-part "Shark to the Future" & "Shark Wars" is the Arch Enemy of the Street Sharks much like the present day Dr. Pyranoid. In the future, Paradigm perfected an air born gene-altering virus that transformed everyone in Fission City into his mutated slaves brainwashed into serving him and then decided to spread the virus across the world. Paradigm becomes the despotic tyrant of the Earth and tries to eradicate those who were immune to his virus. After being foiled by the Street Sharks from the past, Paradigm rebuilt his Time Machine and he helps his past self create the virus, leads an invasion in the present day, and kidnaps one of the Street Sharks, Jab, and brainwashes him into his loyal servant to have set against his brothers so he can mutate and brainwash them too.
- Bad Rap is the leader of the Reckless Raptors, an intergalactic criminal who ravaged his home world and move across the galaxy to spread chaos and destruction in his wake. Upon being reawakened by Paradigm on Earth, Bad Rap contacts his minions to eradicate the human race and rule the planet. Bad Rap launches nuclear missiles unto major capitals across the world so that the entire planet would wage war upon each other and destroy themselves for Bad Rap to rule what's left, a tactic he uses on other planets. In "Shark Quake", Bad Rap tries to activate all of the world's volcanoes to make the world uninhabitable for humanity, endangering the lives of millions. In "Jungle Sharks", Bad Rap tries to set the Amazon rainforest on fire to prevent the Street Sharks and Dino-Vengers from finding a cure for a deadly disease. In "Trojan Sharks", Bad Rap attempts to launch the Dino-Vengers to be trapped in space forever while trying to restart his plan of kick-starting a global nuclear holocaust.
SWAT Kats:
- Dark Kat is one of the Swat Kats' most recurring, and wicked, villains. A complete madman obsessed with the death of the Swat Kats and the destruction of Megakat City so that he may build his capitol of crime and larceny in it's place, Dark Kat is introduced trying to use a nuclear weapon to annihilate Megakat City and its thousands of residents, attempting to force Lieutenant Feral to watch the carnage as it unfolds. Later attempting to turn the Swat Kats into ground meat while using their jet to frame them for opening fire on civilians and blowing up entire buildings, Dark Kat follows this up by convincing Razer he severely wounded innocents to throw him off his game while Dark Kat uses a robotic arachnid to attack and hopefully tear Megakat City to shreds. In his arguably worst outing, Dark Kat makes an alliance with the below-mentioned Dr. Viper, using him to rebuild the Metallikats then install chips in them that allow Dark Kat to torture them at his leisure. Using the Metallikats and Viper, Dark Kat lures the Swat Kats, Feral, and assistant mayor Callie Briggs into a trap to kill them all, ordering the Metallikats to kill Viper when he outlives his usefulness, and ultimately attempts to blow up the entire base as a last ditch effort to kill the Swat Kats, their friends, and all of Dark Kat's own allies in one fell swoop.
- Dr. Viper was once Elrod Purvis, a greedy scientist whose plan to sell the Viper Mutagen to the highest bidder ended with his supposed death and subsequent mutation into the evil Viper. In his schemes to destroy Megakat City and replace it with a festering "Megaswamp City", Viper regularly attempts to mutate and murder all he can through his chemical weapons and monsters; painfully transforms one-shot villain Morbulus into a mindless bacteria creature that he looses on Megakat City, leading to dozens of deaths, including that of Viper's former colleague Zyme; attempts to drown the entire city in toxic spores; teams up with the aforementioned Dark Kat; and finally floods the city with mutative chemicals in a bid to mutate everyone within the city. Regularly murdering innocents in his attempted conquest and seeing beauty only in the fetid and festering, Dr. Viper was about as remorselessly evil as his sinister appearance would suggest.
- Mutilor, from "When Strikes Mutilor", is a brutal mercenary who takes over a ship from a peaceful race called the Aquians and attacks Earth, planning to drain every drop of water from the world to sell it off, saying that if earth dies as a result, then that's just business. When the heroic SWAT Kats interfere, Mutilor tries to torture them to death with electricity, and when the ship is taken, Mutilor attempts to destroy it out of spite so that it crashes into Earth and causes a devastating catastrophe that could easily kill every cat on the planet.
Time Jam: Valerian & Laureline: Raymond de Tancarville is a tyrant who steals away the Earth itself and keeps humanity trapped in Medieval Stasis to rule unchallenged, enforcing his rule with robots that have been shown to blast the populace indiscriminately at sign of challenge. To rule the galaxy, Raymond created the Vlagos race and, upon finding a telepath to guide them, murdered her parents and mind-wiped her into believing her own ruler was responsible, in order to have her turn on her people and lead the Vlagos to dominate and destroy countless worlds. To fulfill his ambition, Raymond also tries to murder Valerian and force Laureline to marry him, gloating he'll have her mind rewired to make her a willing, submissive and obedient wife.
Trese:
- Datu Talagbusao is the savage War God who has caused countless instances of death and destruction in a quest to end the world. Upon being summoned to meet his twin children, Talagbusao murdered their mother and tried to consume them, only being imprisoned again by the power of Lakan Anton Trese. Returning later to manipulate mayor Sancho Santamaria to terrorist activity, ripping his way out of his host General Villars, Talagbusao attempts to corrupt Alexandra Trese so they might end the world and destroy every living thing upon it, even enslaving his own sons to assist.
- Mayor Sancho Santamaria is a crooked politician who murdered his mistress and then murdered her ghost as well. Having slums burned down to enslave the locals, he also tricks residents of lower income areas into "relocation", but all go to the same place: the markets of the Aswang, where the rapacious monsters will keep them caged and devour them while Santamaria profits. Returning in prison, Santamaria organizes a series of terrorist attacks across the Philippines, intending to see the nation burnt down so he may take control.
The Twins of Destiny: The Empress Dowager of China is a wicked tyrant who lives in lavish luxury while her oppressed, poverty-stricken people starve and are terrorized by her soldiers and eunuchs. When two children who were prophesied to bring about her downfall are born, the Empress orders them killed, has their doctor imprisoned and tortured, and turns their fathers into inanimate—but still aware—statues, because death would be "too easy", as a punishment for the "defiant act" of bringing her would-be usurpers into the world. After learning that the children were secretly smuggled to France, the Empress gives her eunuchs free reign to destroy anything that gets in their way in their mission to slay the twins. When the twins make it to China, the Empress deploys her armies against them, and allows the soldiers to raze villages and summarily execute people in an attempt to flush the children and their allies out. The Empress regularly threatened her servants with death and mutilation, had planned on murdering her Evil Sorcerer on the unfounded suspicion that he was disloyal, and foregoes executing her incompetent head eunuch in favor of demoting him, because the eunuch spending the rest of his life haunted by his disgrace is a far crueler and more amusing punishment than death.
Wallace and Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf and Death: Piella Bakewell is the villain of this short and quite possibly the most evil villain of this series. Once a model for bakery, she got fired for eating too much, having her life dream crushed. Rather than moving on from it and seeking for another job, Piella decided to let her anger out on 13 innocent bakers by murdering them and keeping their hats as trophys. Introduced killing her 12th victim, she went out to search for the 13th and found Wallace. Initially seeming to be kind to him, after Gromit finds her home, it becomes clear Wallace is her target. Then, she made several attempts on his life. She's even shown to be abusive to her own dog Fluffles and later even attempts to kill her and Gromit. Short after, Fluffles turns on her and sends her away in a hot air balloon. When it seems, she'd fly away to escape any comeuppance, the balloon sinks to the zoo and Piella ends up being eaten by crocodiles. And despite being mourned by the titular duo and Fluffles after her death, it's mainly because how horrible her death was. Shockingly dark for this light-hearted franchise, Piella is one of the darkest villains the titular duo has faced.
In Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?, the most ruthless and irredeemably despicable character is actually a former good guy, teenage ex-ACME agent Lee Jordan. Introduced as The Ace of the agency, Lee quickly shows what a domineering Jerkass he is and what an unhealthy obsession with completing the mission and coming out a winner he has. Carmen sees his potential for evil and offers him a chance to join her, which he accepts with barely any hesitation, feeling a life of crime would be more rewarding. But when it becomes evident that Lee is an immature sociopath willing to cross lines that even Carmen herself never would, such as committing armed robbery, taking hostages, and almost bringing down a building while Zack and Ivy are still inside, she abandons him to be arrested. Lee returns in the series finale, now a hardened criminal who wants revenge on both ACME and VILE and hopes to amass enough wealth to start his own super criminal dynasty that no law enforcement will be able to stop. To this end, he brutalizes and kidnaps Malcolm Avalon, a man Carmen believes could be her father, and threatens his safety in order to get Carmen to do his dirty work for him, but behind her back, he indicates he'll take her life once she's served her purpose. When Zack and Ivy, along with a host of other ACME agents, come to Avalon's rescue and work alongside Carmen to do so, Lee has his men try to kill them all with laser guns. Finally, he corners Carmen on the rooftop with a gun in hand, claiming that he's about to take his place as the new king of crime, before he's stopped and put behind bars again. Since he was completely without standards or redeeming features, and did everything for fame, glory, and wealth, it's little wonder Carmen says Lee has become "an animal."
Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa: Skull Duggery, despite only appearing in the episodes "The Legend of Skull Duggery" and "Skull Duggery Rides Again", is one of the vilest villains to appear in the show. Skull Duggery was originally a old miner, by the name of Tom Duggery, who staked a silver claim and was too greedy to share it with anyone. He died in a cave in, but his ghost continued to haunt the mine. Marshall Moo's Kid Sidekick, Cody Calf, and 2 other kids go to the mine to look for the silver. Skull Duggery catches them, traps them in a mine shaft and fills it with water, attempting to drown the children. Marshall Moo saves the kids and causes another cave in, sealing Skull Duggery in his mine. However Skull Duggery escapes a year later. Obsessed with revenge against Marshall Moo, Skull Duggery recruits 2 other ghosts to help him and plans to use a magic spell that rapidly ages everything, people and buildings alike, to destroy Cowtown.
The Wizards of the Black Circle in Season 4 of Winx Club are real pieces of work. They commit atrocity after atrocity in their quest to corner the market on Earth's magic by sealing away all of Earth's faeries. Their first meeting with the last Earth faerie Roxy, a nineteen year old girl who has no idea she's a faerie and thus is no real threat to them, is also really, really creepy. In one episode they turn the adorable magical pets the Winx have been putting up for adoption into horrible monsters as a distraction. After pulling an I Surrender, Suckers gambit, they laugh with glee at the prospect of trapping the Earth faeries in a hellish abyss. Finally, unlike the Trix, they actually succeed in killing off one of the heroes, namely Nabu. Their leader Ogron even steals the Deus Ex Machina that could have saved him and wastes it on a flower, again with an Evil Laugh. These guys are the biggest reason Season 4 is considered Darker and Edgier than the rest of the series.
Machestro of Xyber 9: New Dawn is the Evil Overlord of the Machina, and the orchestrator of all evil in the series. As The Man Behind the Man to King Renard, Machestro supplies him with all the resources and technology he needs to keep his war with Queen Tatania going,resulting in Terrana's current wasteland state, and even supplies him with a city destroying rail gun to destroy as much of Tatania's kingdom as possible. Causing droughts, famines, and overall chaos throughout Tatania's forces with his plans, Machestro uses the ancient Hunter Claw robots to lay waste to entire cities and set crops aflame out of spite. Seeking to claim the Xyber 9 so as to blanket Terrana in nevernending darkness, then lead a full scale annihilation of the human race, Machestro tricks the Machina as a whole into believing that they are unable to live in sunlight to keep them under his thrall. In the end, Machestro tries to use the Eye of Darkness to cause an unending night, either unaware or uncaring about the fact that it will result in the deaths of all living things, himself included. Machestro was a sociopathic warmonger obsessed with total domination, and would doom the entire planet out of arrogance.
Xcalibur
- Kwodahn is the demonic mastermind of all evil in the story. Originally a Shogi Monk who turned evil to gain power, Kwodahn began bargaining with potential villains and evildoers to fully back their plane in exchange for their souls. Once making allying himself with the depraved Prince Bragan, Kwodahn uses every trick up his sleeve to ensure Bragan's rise to power and the elimination of all his foes. Kwodahn's crimes range from granting Bragan armies of demons he uses to slaughter opposing armies, to unleashing a soul devouring demon onto a province, and later notably tries to turn an entire city into statue-like zombies. His evil not limited to mass murder and corruption, Kwodahn once sought the sword of Excalibur, and, when the noble Prince Erwann refused his request, Kwodahn first tried to kidnap the man's infant daughter, before settling for murdering his wife for rejecting him. When Bragan is beaten and all their plans ousted, Kwodahn murders Bragan and then tries to corrupt and turn the young Arthus into becoming his new servant, before finally flying into a rage and unleashing his forces onto the entire kingdom with orders to kill every living thing they come across.
- Prince Bragan is the brutal, sociopathic Regent of the kingdom who rose to power thanks to allying with the aforementioned Kwodahn. Murdering his own brother, King Erwan, to ascend to Regent, Bragan immediately begins manipulating his child nephew Arthus into becoming nothing more than a figurehead while Bragan rules the kingdom with an iron fist. In addition to driving villages to starvation, massacring entire temples, and torturing his foes being regular atrocities of Bragan's, he also frames Prince Edwin and his daughter, Djana, for murdering King Edwin, and constantly tries to execute Djana and her friends in various cruel methods, along with many attempts at slaughtering entire villages they have taken up residence in. Once failing to poison Arthus and claim the throne for himself, Bragan eventually hands Arthus to Kwodahn to do with as he pleases.

↑ The incident with Thrax deserves an explanation. Thrax was a disgrace because he had spared a member of Exosquad after beating him fair and square. Draconis gave Thrax the chance to "redeem" himself by ordering him to activate a huge bomb in the heart of a city full of civilians. At the last moment Thrax destroyed the activation key and returned, claiming that the humans had disarmed it before the countdown had finished. What Draconis didn't tell Thrax was that the bomb didn't have a countdown; if Thrax had used the activation key it would have blown up immediately and killed him. That's how Draconis knew Thrax had disobeyed his orders -- he came back alive.

[1] The incident with Thrax deserves an explanation. Thrax was a disgrace because he had spared a member of Exosquad after beating him fair and square. Draconis gave Thrax the chance to "redeem" himself by ordering him to activate a huge bomb in the heart of a city full of civilians. At the last moment Thrax destroyed the activation key and returned, claiming that the humans had disarmed it before the countdown had finished. What Draconis didn't tell Thrax was that the bomb didn't have a countdown; if Thrax had used the activation key it would have blown up immediately and killed him. That's how Draconis knew Thrax had disobeyed his orders -- he came back alive.

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