Complete Monster/Western Animation

""This one's mine. Cook her while I have the little one for an appetizer. You know, because I'm a meaner!""

- Dag threatening to eat Maddy, Barnyard 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.


 * Cartoon Network
 * DC Animation
 * Disney Animation
 * Dreamworks Animation
 * G.I. Joe Cartoons
 * Marvel Animation
 * Nickelodeon
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 * Transformers

Animated Shows

 * 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.
 * 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.
 * In Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, the 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.
 * Verminous Skumm from Captain Planet. 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 ; 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.
 * 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.
 * In 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.
 * 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. 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.
 * In 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. A psychotic despot with a god complex, the Lord Commander would risk the destruction of the universe itself in his pursuit of power.
 * 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.
 * Metlar is the tyrannical leader of the Inhumanoids in 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.
 * Max Steel:
 * John Dread is the leader of DREAD, a terrorist cell that deals in mass death and destruction in the name of world domination. Dread runs his organization with icy ruthlessness, and regularly places thousands of innocents in harm's way, with notable instances involving trying to flash freeze an entire city, hoping to blackout Paris and all of its life support systems, attempting to destroy the United Nations Headquarters, and disabling a satellite and leaving it to crash into an entire city, all in order to further his plans. Though at first seeming rather professional about his crimes, Dread decides It's Personal with Max Steel when, after failing to dissect the boy alive, his own face is scarred by Max, leading Dread to kidnap the boy's best friend while promising to exchange him for a vial of powerful nanoprobes, at which point he tries to kill the boy anyway just to torture Max. As a final attempted atrocity, Dread tries to obliterate the Switzerland city of Geneva, killing its entire population plus the gathered world leaders, then blame the death toll on N-Tek, the spy organization made to thwart Dread's crimes. With no empathy, remorse, or limitations to his ambition and greed, John Dread personified the very worst acts and features of the various terrorists Max Steel encountered throughout his missions.
 * Psycho is an ever-grinning lunatic who is Max's most personal and hated enemy. Psycho first met his nemesis when he splashed deadly nanoprobes all over the boy, hoping for them to excruciatingly kill him, unknowing that it would create his worst enemy, whom he would later go on to attempt to dissect, freeze to death, and drop a satellite onto the hometown of. Serving as John Dread's right-hand man for most of the series, Psycho gleefully commits any and all orders given him, the higher the bodycount the better, and often goes beyond what his orders entail so as to inflict as much pain and death as possible, such as trying to murder two innocent teens for merely stumbling nearby his base, or by trying to annihilate a small village with an erupting volcano he is only supposed to be mining. His loyalty to Dread being simply a pragmatic partnership, Psycho often enacts his own schemes, normally involving acquiring plagues or nuclear missiles in order to destroy any city he wants then hold others for ransom while attempting to kill anyone in his way, an entire cruise ship of innocents being just one instance of this. His own accomplices fare no better than his enemies, as Psycho tries to silence a captured compatriot, abuses his minions, and brutally murders his partner, Bio-Constrictor, even after the latter assists Psycho in attempting to transform all of humanity into monstrous creatures under his control. Nigh-invulnerable and always seeking to one-up Max Steel, Psycho lives up to his namesake as a truly psychopathic madman who proudly embraces his atrocities as if they were ends unto themselves.
 * Max Steel (2013 series)
 * Miles Dredd is Max Steel's Arch Enemy, and one of the most monstrous villains in the series. Having assisted scientist Jim McGrath in harnessing the power of TURBO Energy, Dredd betrayed and seemingly murdered his partner, though at a price: Dredd now craved TURBO Energy as a power source for himself. Creating the corporation THI, which specialized in black market arms dealings and chemical weapons, Dredd began relentlessly pursuing any form of TURBO he could find, and, when he learns Max Steel produces an unlimited supply of it, Dredd becomes obsessed with the boy, regularly trying to painfully drain him of his life energy. Believing Max to be a high school student, Dredd has an occupied high school set aflame to test his theory, and, when Max confronts him later, Dredd targets a school bus full of young teens during the battle. Dredd tries numerous methods throughout the series to destroy the highly-populated city of Copper Canyon, from draining the life force of the citizens, to launching a nuke at the city. Revealed to have made a deal with Makino to assist him in annihilating the human race, Dredd plans to betray his master, take over his armada, and conquer everything in his path once the Earth is destroyed. Even after this master plan fails, Dredd continues to stoop to new levels of depravity when he creates an abominable creature named Morphos, emotionally abuses him into attacking his enemies, then kills him when he becomes too independent, ruthlessly blowing him up and referring to him as a "nothing". Caring only for himself, and willing to sacrifice even the entire planet in his schemes, Dredd was Max's most personal foe.
 * The aforementioned Makino is the most powerful and deadliest villain Max Steel has ever faced and The Man Behind the Man to Dredd. Creating the Ultra-Link species, Makino began absorbing entire worlds into himself, destroying the planets and all their inhabitants in the process. Makino uses Jim McGrath as a living battery to power his super weapon, the Alpha-Link. Having made a deal with Dredd, which involves Dredd assisting him in destroying the Earth, Makino immediately betrays his partner at his earliest convenience and tries to murder him. Capturing Steel, a former Ultra-Link, Makino tortures Steel to learn why he rebelled against him. While fighting Max Steel, Makino takes sick pleasure in beating him down and taunting him about the Earth's imminent destruction, and, when his plans are foiled, Makino makes one last attempt to murder Max and his long-lost father once his Alphalink is destroyed. Makino returns in the film Wrath of Makino, where he possesses Max Steel, uses his insecurities and inner thoughts to torment his friends and family, and reveals he plans to destroy the entire Earth, not to absorb it, but simply out of spite for being humiliated. Though at first seeming to perhaps only be taking his programming to the extreme, Makino displays the most needlessly sadistic personality in the series, and shows in the end that he is fully capable of ignoring his programming when, rather than attempt to absorb the Earth as usual, he tries to wipe it out in a petulant rage.
 * Professor Mortum, the main villain of the films Team Turbo and Team Turbo: Fusion-Tek, sticks out among Max Steel's villains as a truly horrifying monster. Originally a genius scientist with a great fear of death, Mortum became obsessed with immortality, and to this end, sought to obtain the Connect-Tek, a powerful N-Tek device that would grant Mortum godlike powers. Capturing hundreds of N-Tek agents, Mortum tortures them all with electricity for information on the Connect-Tek, after which he sics many of Max Steel's other enemies onto his hometown of Copper Canyon, ordering them to destroy everything in sight in their quest to locate him the Connect-Tek. After failing to properly handle the Connect-Tek once getting his hands on it, Mortum is killed, at which point the Connect-Tek replaces his mind, turning Mortum into a whole new brand of monster. Now a techno zombie due to the Connect-Tek, Mortum still retains his original personality, and quickly begins draining the minds of dozens of his own lackeys, transforming them into mindless techno zombies that he uses to infect an entire city, draining all of their minds, after which he tries to inflict the same fate on his own nephew. After numerous soldiers are killed in their attempts to stop him, Mortum captures, tortures, and dissects Max's best friend, Steel, before using his powers to infect all of humanity with his techno virus, transforming the Earth into a barren wasteland, after which he reveals his plans to absorb all of humanity's minds into himself, becoming a god and eliminating the "disorder" of human empathy. Quickly graduating from a particularly wicked villain to a full-blown genocidal lunatic between his appearances in the films, Professor Mortum is easily Max Steel's most nightmarish and terrifying villain, despite his sometimes amusing personality.
 * Dr. Prometheus Halifax, known almost solely as Terrorax, is a high-ranking member of the cult known as Nexus, whose goal is ultimate dominion over the world. After stealing the powers of Max Steel and transforming it into "Terror Energy," Terrorax reveals to the Nexus High Command his plan to wipe out all technology across the globe except that of Nexus, plunging humankind into an extinction-level event where only those who swear fealty to Nexus will survive. Though thwarted for a time, Terrorax devises a new plan to use Terror Energy as a Weapon of Mass Destruction, travelling to cities and destroying them one by one until the world surrenders to his demands, and, when in his final fuel with Max Steel, Terrorax reveals his dream of bringing mass death and chaos to the entire planet before betraying his Nexus masters, wanting nothing more than to rule over the ashes of humanity as a god.
 * In the Men in Black 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.
 * Mighty Max had some surprisingly dark storylines for a kids' series and some terrifying villains:
 * Skullmaster, the Evil Overlord Big Bad was always a terrifying villain whenever he appeared. Skullmaster overthrew his previous master and took control of his subterranean kingdom from where he plots world domination. Skullmaster is a sadist, reveling in physical and psychological torture, and engages in both short-term brutality and long term gambits. One of his most vile acts was vowing to save an ancient civilization from sinking beneath the sea, lying about it and trapping their souls as his slaves before in present day, sending them after Max's head "attached to the body or not." Responsible for the deaths of multiple heroes throughout the story, Skullmaster even attempted to blackmail Max for his mentor and friend Vergil's life by surrendering his magical cap. When Max turned it over, Skullmaster brutally killed Vergil anyways.
 * Spike was a psychotic Blood Knight who definitely Would Hurt a Child. Ten Thousand years in the past, Spike led a pack of barbarians to attack a peaceful village when the heroic Norman was just a boy. Refusing offers of peace, Spike brutally attacked and killed Norman's unarmed father before attempting to kill Norman himself. Things went wrong and Spike was buried under the snow for the next 10,000 years, but not before gleefully saying he'd find the boy, kill him and eat his heart. In the present, Spike is no less savage and continues his battle with the now adult Norman until he is defeated. Spike is so evil that Norman feels fine killing him after Spike has already been defeated, and nobody bothers to complain.
 * Dr. MacDougal is the only fully human villain to qualify. A Mad Scientist who discovered the existence of werewolves, along with the fact they were peaceful guardians of Scotland. She captured the pack and hooked them up in a rather unpleasant situation where their blood was painfully extracted into a formula for her. After drinking it, Macdougal would achieve the ability to transform herself and used it solely to kill innocent people, becoming the scourge of the highlands. When Max, a ten year old, stumbled upon her lair, Macdougal locks him inside and takes her formula so she can kill him, gleefully referring to him as 'Breakfast'.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * My Little Pony and Friends also had King Lavan, who like Tirac, is another surprisingly monstrous villain to come out of a little girl's show. The tyrannical Evil Overlord of the Lava Demons, Lavan regularly physically abuses his subjects for little reason other than spite and his own amusement, especially his second in command Sludge. Coveting power for its own sake, Lavan seeks to absorb the power of the Princess Ponies' wands to become an all powerful crystal being, completely uncaring doing so would trigger a magical cataclysm resulting in The End of the World as We Know It so long as his selfish ambitions are fulfilled. When the Princess Ponies refuse to help him, Lavan attempts to have them executed in a lava pool out of spite, and repeatedly tries to kill their group, including Spike. Greedy and power-hungry beyond measure, Lavan showed he would stop at nothing and destroy anything to claim the power he craves.
 * 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.
 * The Grundel from The Real Ghostbusters is a loathsome, vile and creepy creature who goes around ruining the lives of children (by turning them into Grundels by encouraging them to commit bad acts and become corrupted) for no reason besides the amusement. Considering the Grundel was supposed to be An Aesop subtly warning children about pedophiles, its not a surprise that the Grundel is so loathsome. Seriously, mash together Satan and a pedophile and you'd get the Grundel.
 * He's even creepier in Extreme Ghostbusters where his behavior towards Kylie is somewhere between Hannibal Lecter and a sex offender.
 * There was also the being known as Piper, a one-shot villain from "The Pied Piper of Manhattan,". He's responsible for a sudden plague of ghosts in New York that he unleashes in order to play the hero when he repels them with his flute. When the Mayor attempts to pay him according to contract, Piper reveals he wants more. After his requests for a statue of himself down 5th Avenue and an office in city hall are denied, Piper uses his flute to hypnotize the children of the city and tries to force them to drown themselves, gloating the mayor will "rue the day he refused to pay the Piper." What seals the deal is that when the Ghostbusters intervene, Piper has no compunction using the kids as human shields in their fight.
 * Surt, from "Slimer's Sacrifice", is a godlike ghost who seeks to bring about the apocalypse. His minion Fenris prepares his coming by turning three humans into his vanguards. When Slimer ends up in the containment unit, Surt demands to know how Slimer got in there and hints that he is going to torture the information out of him. When Surt senses Eduardo's presence, he allows him to rescue Slimer and waits for him to open the exit to the containment unit so he can follow them. When Eduardo realizes Surt's plan and destroys the remote that will open the exit, Surt activates a spell he placed on Slimer to make him cut Eduardo's oxygen tank, before releasing Slimer from his control so he can realize that he just doomed his friend and be left to watch him suffocate and die, with Surt promising to return and torture Slimer after Eduardo dies.
 * 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, but the 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.
 * 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.
 * In Thundercats 2011, Mumm-Ra once commanded a number of races he kept enslaved using explosive collars that he placed around their necks. In his quest to rule the universe, Mumm-Ra, as we see in flashbacks, ordered the destruction of a star system in a highly-inhabited solar system, killing billions in the process simply so he could use the remains of the star to forge the Sword of Plun-Darr. Defeated and sealed inside a coffin, Mumm-Ra is freed by Grune and soon attacks Thundera with his army, killing Lion-O's father Claudus and enslaving most of the Thundercats. After taking over Thundera, Mumm-Ra proceeds to torture Jaga for information. In "Between Brothers," Mumm-Ra tries to trick Lion-O and Panthro into killing each other. In the two-part series finale, "What Lies Above," Mumm-Ra threatens to destroy the Thunderkits when they interfere with his plans, and then tries to collapse an entire city to kill his enemies. There was no line he'd not cross in his quest to become Dark Messiah of all races.
 * Grune was once a highly respected general of Thundera and a friend to King Claudus and Panthro who had ambitions to one day be king. When he learned neither he nor Panthro were promoted to General of the Army he was furious, despite being given a task to find the Book of Omens with Panthro. During their quest, Grune fell under the impression Claudus knew of his desire to rule Thundera and sent him on a pointless quest to get rid of him, turning his ambitions into bitter obsession. This led him to hearing Mumm-Ra call out to him, offering him power in exchange for his loyalty. When Panthro tried to talk him out of it, Grune attacked him and sent him plummeting to his supposed death. Returning to Thundera, seemingly with a group of lizard slaves, Grune later revealed his new allegiance and overthrew the kingdom with Mumm-Ra’s army, which resulted in the death of Claudus and having the citizens he once wanted to rule over either murdered or sold off as slaves. When reuniting with a vengeful Panthro, he shows no regret for any of the crimes he’s committed against his people, only that he's not the king yet. In his final appearance, Grune shows that even his loyalty to Mumm-Ra is a lie, as he convinced Slithe to leave Mumm-Ra trapped in the astral plane, leaving him in command of his army. His motto is “any sacrifice is worth the defeat of your enemy”, and it fits how easily Grune will stab anyone in the back to destroy his enemies and claim power.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Kwodahn of Xcalibur 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.

Animated Films

 * Wugreb from 10000 Years Later (2015), was once a simple tribe leader who sought to understand the secrets of the ancient gods and their magic, technology. However, discovering that all gods were mere humans, Wugreb decided to make himself the most glorious being to have ever lived. Declaring himself the Devil of the new world, Wu transformed his entire tribe into his own army of demonic monsters, and sent them out into the land to pillage, destroy, and slaughter all they came across, turning the current world into a Hell of his own making. After being locked away for a millennium for his crimes, Wu rises once more and continues his nightmarish conquest, massacring entire tribes and, in one case, cursing their souls to never leave their now-dead bodies. Lusting to return to the ancient "Techcity" so as to use it in his domination, Wu assaults and strangles the friends and dog of a young girl, Joma, to force her to give him the means to bring Techcity to him, and, after succeeding in this, forces her to watch as he crucifies and kills one of her friends in front of her. Wu later declares his goal to erase all former gods from the history books and become the one, true power in the world, and brutally murders the few heroes who stand up to him, before attempting the same to Joma. Wu believed any shred of humanity to be a weakness and saw himself as the ultimate being who deserved to be god, and as such, lived up to his self-given name of "Devil Wu", terrorizing and killing all who stood in his way simply to feed his superiority complex.
 * Mani from Allahyar and the Legend of Markhor  (2018), is an Evil Poacher who hunts endangered, sapient animals out of greed and pleasure, seeking to find Sia Koh and slaughter the tribe of markhor residing there. Admitting to seeing no difference between human and animal lives, Mani is only too willing to kidnap and murder the young Allahyar for getting in his way after nearly killing his father. Even when surrounded by the very animals he intended to kill, he still attempts to murder Allahyar out of spite after feigning surrender.
 * Adventures in Zambezia: Budzo is a ravenous monitor lizard with a taste for bird eggs and the main antagonist. In the past, he tore off Chief Sekhuru's wing and killed Amaya, Tendai's wife and Kai's mother, while trying to devour an egg, causing Tendai to abandon Zambezia in grief. After losing one claw in the battle, he vows revenge upon Zambezia. Aligning with the Marabos, he convinces them to capture the Weavers before he captures Tendai, using him as a hostage to force the Weavers to build him a bridge. Once it is completed, he turns on the Marabos and leaves them to be devoured by his lizard army while he storms Zambezia, intent on taking over as a tyrant and devouring their eggs. An arrogant and malicious creature, Budzo displays nothing but sadistic glee at his crimes, causally dismissing them without a second thought, and is treated with fear and contempt by every other character.
 * The Amazing Adventures of the Living Corpse: Dr. Brainchild is a Mad Scientist seeking to resurrect the dead. To test out his serum, he drops it in random cemeteries. When the ensuing zombies kill people, Brainchild takes any kids who survive to a secret boarding school until they're ready to be trained in the Creature-Hunter Organization he made to gather info, not caring how many of them get killed in the process. Brainchild eventually realizes that his zombies aren't as intelligent because they aren't fresh enough, so he kills his top assistant to test his theory, eventually having all of his soldiers purged to make an army of the dead.
 * In An American Tail, Warren T. Cat is the greedy leader of the Mott Street Maulers, holds the downtrodden mice of New York in a chokehold, forcing them to pay him off under the guise of "Warren T. Rat" while secretly having his cats pick off a mouse every once and a while to keep them terrified and under control. When Warren stumbles upon the innocent orphan Fievel Mousekewitz in his introductory scene, Warren pretends to be nice and manipulates him into his clutches and then tosses him to the hold of a cruel sweatshop for a quick fifty cents, sneering "you don't need a family anymore—you got a job!" When the mice finally stand up to Warren's manipulations, Warren decides to cut his losses and tries to burn them all alive with a sick laugh.
 * The second sequel to the above film An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island gives us both the Big Bad Mr. Grasping and his Dirty Cop henchman Chief McBrusque. Grasping, along with his associates Mr. Toplofty and Mr. O'Bloat, controls the largest cheese factory in NYC, where most of the mice of the city work. Grasping is a horrible boss who mistreats his workers every chance that he gets, forcing them to work long hours with little pay and threatening to fire them if they are slightly late. Grasping bribes McBrusque to enforce his will, with his police force acting like Grasping's private security force, with McBrusque being a sadist who loves to inflict beatings on almost everyone he meets. When the workers complain after Grasping orders them to triple production for no extra pay, Grasping has McBrusque beat up one of the workers who complained. When Grasping learns of a native tribe living beneath NYC, he tries to distract the workers from their plight by saying he is protecting them from the natives, with Grasping claiming the natives want to attack them. Grasping orders the workers to bring him Cholena, a young native mouse visiting the surface. When McBrusque and his goons fail to capture Cholena, they instead arrest her friend Dr. Dithering. Grasping puts Dithering on trial and orders him to be killed by being put into a meat grinder. After being foiled and having his workers turn against him, Grasping orders McBrusque to kill the entire native tribe, which McBrusque happily agrees to. During the final battle McBrusque loses it and tries to brutally murder the young Feivel, by burning him alive during their final confrontation.
 * Astro Boy: President Stone, at first seeming to be nothing more than an impulsive and childish leader, is slowly revealed to be far more wicked than at first glance. Stone commissions Doctors Tenma and Elefun to build him a super robot, known as The Peacekeeper, and plans to use it to wage war with the harmless Surface-Dwellers. Despite the scientists' pleas, Stone uploads a highly dangerous power source into The Peacekeeper, resulting in the death of Tenma's son, an accident Stone barely acknowledges. Learning Tenma rebuilt his son as a robot and used another highly effective power source to give him life, Stone tries to capture or kill the boy to extract the power source, causing copious amounts of destruction to the city in the process. After detaining the child, now known as "Astro," Stone strong arms Tenma into removing his power core, which would kill the boy. When Tenma refuses, leading to Astro escaping, Stone orders both Tenma and Elefun arrested and plans to have them executed. Stone then reactivates and takes control of The Peacekeeper, starts destroying the city looking for Astro, and prepares to crush several of Astro's friends, all children, trying to draw him out. doing anything in the hopes that he would be re-elected, Stone was power-hungry, delusional, and sociopathic for an ultimately petty reason.
 * Steele from Balto seems to be your average animated movie Jerkass at first - making fun of Balto, flirting with Jenna even though she's not interested, etc etc. All par for the course. But when he crosses the Moral Event Horizon and refuses to let Balto help them take the crate of medicine to Nome, thus almost condeming the children who desperately need it to certain death from diptheria, just because Balto would prove better than him...well, I'd just like to see anyone try to Draco in Leather Pants him after that. Balto was forced to beat him in combat and take the medicine just to save some children. And, once he was defeated, he deliberately tried to ensure that Balto and the whole team of dogs got lost and died, while he could return home and pretend to be a heroic survivor. Good lord, he got off WAY too easy in the end. In short, a true douchebag who was willing to let many people die (dogs and humans) just because his ego was damaged a little bit. No wonder he lost all his fans at the end.
 * Dag, the leader of the pack of coyotes in Barnyard. Unlike the other coyotes who kill for food, Dag seems to get more out of killing than he probably should. This is shown when he shows a group of chickens his chain which has severed chicken legs on it. When faced with Otis's father Ben, he murders him and then shames Otis by telling him that his father would've survived had he been there for him. He then makes a compromise with Otis that stated that he and his pack of coyotes could get a couple of animals every night, and if Otis didn't comply, Dag and his coyotes would personally slaughter everything in the farm that Otis held dear, including possibly the farmer. He then tries to spitefully eat the young chick Maddy just because she called him a "meaner." Murderous and needlessly cruel, Dag is seemingly out of place in an otherwise lighthearted film.
 * Archibald Snatcher of The Boxtrolls is a self-styled Boxtroll exterminator, driven by a mixture of xenophobia and powerlust. Snatcher seeks to win the favor of the White Hats, and to do this he has his cronies capture every Boxtroll they see, with the intent to kill them all. Snatcher paints them out as baby-eating monsters to the public, but he knows the truth that they are from from it. He came to Egg's father, an inventor who saw the Boxtrolls for who they really were ten years before, demanding he invent something for him. As motivation, Snatcher threatened the life of Eggs if the man didn't comply. When the inventor refused, Snatcher seemingly killed him with a wrench while Eggs was taken to safety. It turns out he actually kept the father alive and locked up for ten years until he was reduced to an insane vegetable. In the film's second half, Snatcher destroys the Boxtroll's home, kidnaps Eggs and the Boxtrolls, and forces the boy to watch as he apparently kills all the trolls off, gloating about it all the while. He then dresses up Eggs as a Boxtroll and tries to burn him alive in front of the entire town. Once foiled, he snaps and rampages through the square in his death machine, endangering everyone present and abducting Lord Portley-Rind's daughter as a final action. As megalomaniacal and greedy as it gets, Snatcher stood out as a particularly vile Knight of Cerebus in such a lighthearted movie.
 * The Evil King and and his wife, the fox spirit Da Ji from Bruce Lee and Chinese Gods  (1976), are a pair of horrific tyrants who starve, torture and kill their population. When anyone opposes them, the two have them tortured and executed, multiple people burnt alive at one point. At another, a kind adviser is forced to carve out his own heart. When the gods intervene to save the people, the pair start a war to slaughter the neighboring nation and even call demons down upon the world to do more damage.
 * The Beldam, or the "Other Mother" from Coraline, is a sinister temptress who lures children to her otherworldly lair under the promise of a better life. Spoiling them to keep them with her before convincing them to sew buttons on their eyes to stay in her realm forever and then murdering them or locking away their souls to replenish her own energy, the Beldam attempts to do the same to the title character. Forcing Coraline into a horrifying game of finding the dead children's eyes in order to save her parents, the Beldam also abominates her own servants for their failures.
 * In The Condor, Nigel Harrington is a partner in a company that develops nanotech implants. while Taipan is a costumed mercenary he keeps in his employ. Harrington decides to use the company's implants to make profits illegally and has Taipan kidnap homeless people. Harrington and Taipan use the nanotech to mentally enslave the homeless people (as well as giving them enhanced speed and strength), and plan to test this tech by having them commit crimes. All of the homeless people die while committing these crimes, their hearts unable to take the stress this tech puts on them. Both Harrington and Taipan decide to kidnap younger, stronger, more athletic people instead, so Taipan begins to kidnap skateboard enthusiasts and mentally enslaves them. After the other partners in the company, George and Maria Valdez, discover Harrington's scheme, Harrington orders Taipan to murder them, using some of their mind controlled pawns to kill them and make it look an accident. Taipan then lures their son Tony to the scene and has two of the mind-controlled pawns to viciously beat him, crippling him. Taipan later tries to lure Tony to his death again (after he recovered some of his mobility due to a nanotech implant) and tries to have her mind-controlled pawns finish him off. Later, Taipan, in her civilian identity, Valeria, invites Tony to her beach house, where she plans to kill him after seducing him. Tony escapes, but Valeria comes on to Tony's estranged cousin and convinces him to set Tony's house on fire, attempting to kill Tony's friends at the house. Later, Harrington sets up a meeting with some terrorists, attempting to sell the tech and the mind-controlled pawns to them. Things seem to be going well for him, until Taipan kills him and takes over the operation herself.
 * Lord Barkis Bittern in Corpse Bride is easily a worse monster than Oogie Boogie. At first, he is respected by everyone and only comes off as a stuck-up jerk, until the end has revealed his true personality: . If that wasn't enough, . This causes the living and the dead to "have shock on their faces". While Oogie has death as his ending, Barkis has a Fate Worse Than Death, And given his creepy insistence that  On the top of all that, he is responsible for The Woobie-ness that all three lead characters have.
 * Lucifer from Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic : is a Fallen Angel who rebelled against God and introduced sin to the world, leading to the creation of Hell, where millions of souls of sinners were tortured forever. Desiring to escape his prison in the Ninth Circle of Hell, Lucifer makes a bet with Beatrice about whether or not Dante will remain faithful in his crusade. Lucifer wins and kidnaps Beatrice right under Dante's eyes to lure him to Hell. As Dante ventures through all the circles of Hell to save Beatrice, Lucifer tortures her, burning her and tearing her apart for fun, before deciding to marry her and force her to give birth to his children forever. When Dante frees Beatrice and gets to the deepest circle of Hell, Lucifer manipulates Dante into freeing him and then announces his intention of escaping into Purgatory and Heaven, where he can torture all souls there and then plunging the entire universe into chaos, solely so he can force God to watch how he perverts his creations.
 * Antonia Chillingsworth from Dark Fury is the Bounty Hunter in charge of the mercenary vessel that Riddick, Jack, and Imam run into. She's obsessed with the art of killing and death, while her primary hobby is to collect criminals and notorious fighters to place them in her collection of living statues. There they are frozen so that it takes them a whole day to so much as blink an eye, and they're conscious the whole time, trapped in a nightmare world for hundreds of years to come. She considers this her "artwork", and intends it purely for her own enjoyment. She cares exactly nothing about all the members of her crew she sends against Riddick and die as a result, just that she apparently paid them too much. She wants to make Riddick the latest addition to her collection, and before adding him to the exhibition, she throws him and his friends in a pit with people-eating monsters to see him kill something up close. Riddick himself calls her an irredeemable psychopath. The fact that Riddick is himself a sociopathic Noble Demon says it all, really.
 * Empress Sedessa of Delgo is the genocidal monarch of the Ando wastelands, and a vengeful exile of the Nohrin royal family. During her time among the Nohrin, Sedessa conceived a brutal war among the Lockni people after the Nohrin were denied land, ordering massacres of entire villages with orders to "leave no survivors." After King Zahn strips Sedessa of her royal rank, Sedessa gets revenge by attempting to poison him and the Queen in their sleep, succeeding in murdering the Queen. Fifteen years later, Sedessa moves to restart the war between the Lockni and the Nohrin, seeking to wipe out the Lockni in totality and seize the Nohrin kingdom herself. Throughout the plot, Sedessa shows gratification in harming whomever she can, taking pleasure in attempting to sever the wings of Zahn's young daughter Kyla and cruelly mocking her about her dead mother. She shows no compunction in disposing of those who have no use to her, like the ruling members of the Ando (whom she kills even in spite of the fact they saved her upon her exile) and attempts to backstab Delgo the moment he turns his back after saving her life. Even her own loyal commander Raius is implied to be disposable to her, and Sedessa ultimately dies a vain, selfish outcast whose brutal campaign cost countless lives.
 * Lord Desecrator from Dominator (2003) is a treacherous usurper in Hell pursuing his former subordinate Dominator for a key that will allow him access to other worlds to conquer. Inspiring a cult to commit mass sacrifice in his name, Desecrator is also the sire of the half-demon Hellkatt, who he wastes no time in trying to murder for being "useless" to him. When summoned to Earth, Desecrator goes on a killing spree across the world, burning entire cities and attempting to devour Earth itself, hoping to spread the pain of Hell all throughout the cosmos.
 * Takhisis of Dragonlance: Dragons Of Autumn Twilight is the Goddess of Darkness and Queen of Dragons, who battled the Gods of Light from the beginning of time. In the first age, Takhisis waged a war across the entire world of Krynn, slaughtering and burning everything in her path, until she was banished by the Gods of Light. In the present, trying to free herself and prevent the return of the Gods of Light, Takhisis leads her followers to conquer the world, land after land, leaving death and destruction behind, while ordering her minions to hunt down the heroes.
 * Takhisis' right hand man Verminaard is no less evil and vile than his mistress. Verminaard is the chief priest who organizes the conquering of Krynn for his queen out of his own free will, and prepares everything for her return. Burning down lands, murdering and torturing hundreds and enslaving masses of people to work in his mines, Verminaard threatens to kill their children if they disobey his commands. Tracking down Blue Crystal Staff, which capable of bringing back Gods of Light, Verminaard annihilates village after village, enslaving more people and planning to wipe out the Elves in their homeland. When the heroes managed to free his slaves, Verminaard orders his dragon and minions to kill them all, children included.
 * In Dragons Fire and Ice, the immortal wizard Xenoz was once the ambassador between the peaceful Dragons, and the war-mongering human kingdoms of Draigar and Norvagen, however, his lust for power drove him to murder the Dragon Queen and steal her Ice Crystal. When the Dragon King Thoron attempted to murder him for this betrayal, Xenoz was scarred by Thoron's fire, and as such, developed a seething hatred for all of Dragon kind, and sought to annihilate the entire species through any means possible. Using his position, Xenoz ensures the war between Draigar and Norvagen continues for centuries to follow, framing each kingdom for the deaths of the other's Dragons, when in reality, Xenoz himself was hunting down and murdering them one by one, then feeding their remains to his army of monstrous Vorgans. After painfully tearing the power of an amazing Dragon crystal out of Prince Dev and Princess Kyra, Xenoz kicks his own second-in-command to his death, before opening a portal to Dragon World, where he plans to unleash the power of all his magic at once in hopes of wiping out all Dragons from existance. Defined by his disproportionate hatred and lust for power, Xenoz cared for nothing and no one but himself and his own pride, and would kill anyone who jeopardized either of them.
 * Nekron from the film Fire and Ice is an Evil Sorcerer who rules over the lands of ice. He begins the film by magically expanding the glaciers of his realm to literally crush those who stand in his way while slaughtering their villages with the glaciers and the spears of his sub-human followers. Seeking to force the King of the only resisting kingdom Jarol to submit, Nekron's mother Julianna kidnaps Jarol's daughter Teegra and has her brought to Nekron. Nekron angrily informs Julianna, who had expected Nekron to breed with her, that if his mother brings him any more "little sluts," he'll kill her himself. When Teegra's brother tries to rescue her, Nekron, while sneering "pigs you are, and like pigs you shall die," uses his magic to force the prince to kill his comrades, before making the prince commit suicide. When Larn infiltrates his sanctum, Nekron gets utter delight from beating the warrior down himself and even has him taken away to be healed and rested so Nekron can enjoy crushing him again.
 * Black Wolf is the Big Bad of the Christmas-themed film The Flight Before Christmas and an alarmingly intense one. Black Wolf was a bloodthirsty alpha wolf who wanted to satisfy his and his pack's hunger and came up with the idea to kill and eat Santa Claus and his flying reindeer, hoping that devouring them would give them their magic and ability to fly. When thinking about the possibility of the food running out, he decided he'd then masquerade as Saint Nick himself so that he and his packs of wolves could get into peoples' homes. The plan was to slaughter and eat every child in the world to curb his hunger. In the trek up north, Black Wolf uses the poodle Essie as his pack's "good luck charm", with her purpose ultimately being to be put at the head of the pack when walking into potentially dangerous territory so that she might die first and he could avoid the dangers. When the wolf Specs volunteers to do this in her place, having become friends with the poodle, Black Wolf's response is a sarcastic "I'm gonna miss you, Specs!" At the climax of the film, Black Wolf attacks Santa's village, declaring himself the new Santa Claus, and attempts to murder the child reindeer Niko while his wolves do away with Santa's flying forces, going as far to pursue him on top of a giant tree and onto a flying sleigh miles in the air. Even when he's later sent falling to his Karmic Disney Villain Death, Black Wolf was overjoyed because at least he could die without an empty stomach, preparing to swallow Niko's best friend and surrogate father, Julius.
 * Ommadon the Red Wizard is the Big Bad in The Flight of Dragons. A power hungry sorcerer who wants to eradicate all life and magic in the world, Ommadon became furious with his three brothers decision to create the Last Realm of Magic. And decided that they must die as his dark magic reigns. Onmadon eloquently describes his plan to destroy humanity, to infest them with greed and spite and make them turn against each other, driving humanity lower into their worst excesses until they all perish in nuclear war. Ommadon sends monsters and spells to destroy Carolinus's chosen heroes through madness, despair, and even the slaughter of the innocent, eventually opting to simply have his devil dragon Bryagh massacre them all with no relent. Omnadon gleefully makes himself the host to the sum total of the world's evil to finally cow and destroy the scientist Peter Dickinson after all else who can stand against him have been slaughtered, believing that he himself is nothing less than the world.
 * The aforementioned Bryagh is the dark sorcerer Ommadon's Blood Knight and literal Dragon who comes off just as brutal as the film's main antagonist. Seven years prior to the plot, Sir Orrin Neville-Smythe came across Bryagh devouring an entire nest of Dragon eggs, and was only stopped from eating the last one by Orrin confronting him. Orrin gravely injures Bryagh, leaving the dragon to wallow in his own hate for seven years before returning to aid his master in his ultimate goal of destroying humanity. Throughout the plot, Bryagh is shown to be an exceptionally sadistic dragon, described as having blood on his mind and relishing the prospect of having his legions "attack, demolish, devour, burn, and grind his enemies" - he happily serves Ommadon as long as it gives him a good chance to kill people. He's initially tasked with capturing Peter and bringing him to Ommadon. However, upon being pursued by Gorbash he tries to drop Peter to his death for no reason other than to spite the heroes. In the films climax Bryagh ambushes the Five Man Band of heroes and proceeds to kill Giles and Aragh, he then kills the archer Danielle by crushing her to death with his claws all while sadistically laughing at Sir Orrin over the loss of his Love Interest. Bryagh fatally burns Orrin as both off themselves in a mutual kill.
 * Gen 13: Ivana Baiul is [the headmaster of an academy that invites what it considers the best and brightest into its ranks. However Baiul knocks out the students and performs dangerous experiennts on them every night, hoping to give them super powers and create an army of super soldiers, that she will use to overthrow the US government. When one of them, Caitlin Fairchild, develops super powers, Baiul wants her taken, either dead or alive so she can run more experiments to create more super powered beings. Baiul captures Fairchild's friends and has them tortured. When military aircraft arrive to investigate her base, Baiul orders them to shot down. After the military forces get through her defenses, Baiul orders one of her troops to blow up the base, when he refuses, noting it would kill several of their own men in the process, Baiul kills him and activates the bombs after she escapes. Baiul's main henchman, Matthew Callaghan, believes the government killed his parents, but at the end of the film it is revealed Baiul herself experimented on and killed his parents.
 * Gorkan of Gisakuis the demonic mastermind of all the evil in the story. A devil who rules over his dimension of demons with an iron fist, Gorkan arrives on Earth and immediately massacres several samurai who try to stop him, before attempting to unleash his armies of demons onto the planet to plunge the world into a living Hell. Though thwarted in this, Gorkan escaped and spent centuries building himself a criminal empire that he used to hide his evil activities, notably mutating a lynx into a half-human hybrid after making a deal with him to save his race, leaving him an outcast by both humans and his fellow lynxes. In the present, Gorkan is an absolutely dreadful excuse for an employer, brutally melting, crushing, and snapping in two his own minions for the smallest slights, from failure to simply stating the fact of a temporary setback. In the end, Gorkan tries once more to unleash his demonic forces onto Earth, and takes the time to viciously twist one of his soldiers into a ball when the man slightly annoys him.
 * In the film based on the video game Heavenly Sword, the Raven Lord, or the Raven King, is revealed to be the true Big Bad, and is the Ancient Evil responsible for literally all the misery in the setting. He was a sadistic warlord rumored to be a demon from Hell who led a vicious conquest in an attempt to dominate the world, slaughtering countless innocents to the point humanity's numbers vanished "like smoke" before seemingly being put down by the Heavenly Sword. Living on in the form of a demonic raven, the Raven Lord facilitates Bohan's fall into evil and the subsequent massacre of countless clans and endless murder, angrily pecking out Bohan's eyes when his pawn fails in defeating Nariko herself. Leagues worse than Bohan himself, the extension of the Raven Lord's brutal sadism and bloodlust is shown fully onscreen despite his limited screentime, and thousands of lives are destroyed in testament to the Raven Lord's endless lust for cruelty and conquest.
 * Flying Fox, is just as vile as he is in the game, is responsible for the massacre of Kai's entire clan, described as having made them "bleed" before killing Kai's mother. An unhinged sadist distinguished from even the rest of Bohan's armies, Kai giddily forefronts the genocide and subjugation of entire clans, including Nariko's own, and decapitates Nariko's long-lost brother Loki, intending to betray Bohan himself, and gutting Kai in front of Nariko simply to torture her.
 * Erzsebet Ondrushko from Hellboy Animated Blood and Iron is an evil countess based on the infamous Elizabeth Bathory. Consumed by her desire to stay young and beautiful forever, Ondrushko sold her soul to Hecate, the Greek Goddess of Witches. In exchange for her soul, Hecate transforms Ondrushko into a vampire and gave her the power to rejuvenate her body if she bathes in the blood of young women. Ondrushko is said to have murdered over a thousand people in her quest to remain young. Through a series of flashbacks, we see Ondrushko take over a dress shop (by murdering the shop owner and her infant child) to lure in and kidnap a young girl named Anna. Anna's fiance gathers a rescue party, including a young Professor Broom, to rescue her. They go to Ondrushko's castle, which is filled with torture devices and the bodies of young women and find Anna drained of blood, and so they kill her to prevent her from becoming a vampire as well. Ondrushko kills most of the rescue party, but Bloom manages to kill her. Though her body died, her evil spirit remained. Sixty years later, the BPRD is sent to investigate a supposed haunted mansion, which is in fact haunted by the souls of Ondrushko's many victims. Ondrushko's minions resurrect her and she bathes in the blood in the mansion's owner to rejuvenate herself once more.
 * Kong: The Animated Series films:
 * Queen Reptilla from King of Atlantis: is the tyrannical and power-hungry ruler of Atlantis. Formerly an Alchemist, Reptilla found a way to brainwash a large part of Atlantis's population into becoming her obedient slaves. After seizing the throne, she prepared an invasion of the whole planet, only to be stopped when the first Kong sunk Atlantis. During the following centuries, Reptilla ruled over her kingdom as a cruel and oppressive queen, and had most of her subjects forced into slavery. In the present day, Reptilla tries to take advantage of the Eclipse to make Atlantis rise from the ocean, which would ravage the entire world and make it easier for her army to conquer what's left. To prevent the new Kong from stopping her plan, she manipulates him into joining her as Atlantis's king, while secretly planning to brainwash him as well and make him her personal slave. When Kong eventually realizes the truth and turns against her, Reptilla sends her most powerful warriors to massacre him along with all those who rebel against her.
 * Hunter Stag III from Return to the Jungle is a famous billionaire adventurer whose specialty is hunting animals of all kinds. Ever since he heard the story of his grandfather capturing the first Kong, Stag has become obsessed with the idea of surpassing him by capturing every creature of Kong's Island. Allying himself with the notorious criminal Professor Ramon(e) De La Porta, Hunter Stag finds the island and sends his army of Cyber-Hunters to brutally captures all the animals before bringing them to New York City. Once there, Stag deliberately lets the prehistoric creatures escape and attack the city, endangering countless civilians in the process, as he wants to capture them again before witnesses and be seen as the city's savior. Stag also cruelly betrays his partner De La Porta, putting the blame on him for the animals' rampage. When Kong, Jason, Tann and Lua attempt to oppose him, Stag uses a soundwave device to drive the Tyrannosaurus rex crazy, and sends it after Kong while he tries to kill the others himself. Devoid of any compassion for animals and humans alike, Hunter Stag proves to be so ruthless that even De La Porta himself is horrified by his actions.
 * Krishna Aur Kans
 * King Kans is a brutal tyrant and warlord who starkly believes it is his right to take whatever he pleases, at the expense of the kingdom. While prince, Kans devastated villages, brutally killing its inhabitants and forcing others into slavery. When Kans hears of a prophecy that the eighth son of his beloved cousin Devaki will put an end to his reign, he makes it his foremost mission to kill him to end the threat to his rule. He is offered the chance to repent of his evil, but refuses. He revokes his former love for Devaki and imprisons both her and her husband Vasudev on the day of their wedding, and murders their newborn children so that they won't grow up to oppose him, also executing anyone who sympathizes with the two. When Devaki gives birth to Krishna and he is hidden away in a village, Kans summons demons to kill him, even allowing the witch Putna to slaughter infant children by the hundreds just to ensure Krishna's death. After a decade passes, Kans finally summons Krishna to a gladiatorial battle to finish him once and for all. Believing himself superior to all beings, Kans was a monstrous ruler who caused the deaths and suffering of thousands of people.
 * Putna is the first demon summoned by Kans, and one of the most vile. Dealing in the black arts, Putna takes pride in her evil and cruelty. She torments the other demons in the underworld, burning and melting them on a whim, all the while gloating of how she has killed many humans. When summoned by Kans to kill Krishna, Putna is piqued, desiring the deaths of thousands of children. She only agrees to the deal when Kans appeals to her by demanding that every infant boy born in the last ten days be killed. Putna then terrorizes the kingdom, gleefully murdering every infant she sees. When she finds Krishna, she transforms into a beautiful woman and tries to feed him poisoned breast milk. Among a colony of demons, Putna surpasses the others in sheer cruelty, and the other demons are both mesmerized by and terrified of her.
 * In the animated movie based on the comic Lady Death, Lucifer comes to Earth in human form under the name Mathias. Mathias establishes himself as a feudal lord in 15th century Sweden. Mathias in the present is forcing villagers regardless of age to join his army (including a young boy), saying he needs souls to fight for God. Mathias sees his daughter Hope meeting her boyfriend Niccolo and impresses Niccolo into his army and confines his daughter to his castle. Hope soon discovers her father has murdered those he impressed into his service. Mathias opening a portal to Hell and pours several innocent souls (including Niccolo) into Hell to be tormented. As Mathias reveals his true form to his daughter, an angry mob bursts in, angry over Mathias treatment of the people. Lucifer kills everyone present except for his daughter and a priest who was leading the mob. The priest condemns Hope to death and plans to burn her at the stake. Lucifer sends a minion to taunt Hope, saying she can be with Niccolo, if she offers a prayer to Lucifer. Hope refuses at first, but relents and says the prayer as she is being burnt to death. Her soul descends to Hell and demons begin to torture her. The demons eventually take Hope to her father, where Lucifer wants Hope to become his minion and plans to torture the souls of Niccolo and her mother if she refuses. Hope refuses and Lucifer kicks her out a window. Hope meets Cremator in Hell, Lucifer's former blacksmith who was killed by Lucifer in life and was dragged to Hell by Lucifer. Through her training Hope becomes Lady Death and leads several lost souls in a rebellion against Lucifer.
 * The Land Before Time: In the film novelization, Sharptooth is given the personality of a Serial Killer in a Tyrannosaurus Rex's skin. Preying on the herds that try to make it to the Great Valley, Sharptooth is known for killing more for pleasure than for food and kills the young Longneck Littlefoot's mother when she tries to save her son from him. After Littlefoot accidentally damages Sharptooth's eye and the young Threehorn Cera headbutts him when he is unconscious, Sharptooth's ego is so bruised that he ends up relentlessly stalking them and their friends despite their lack of value as food to him just to murder the children out of spite. When he realizes he has found the entry to the Great Valley, Sharptooth plans on going on a killing spree to satisfy his bloodlust as soon as he has finished with the children, the book describing him "sniffing the air with an evil joy" as he nears the Great Valley entry.
 * Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
 * Metal Beak (real name Surtr as revealed in the video game adaption) is the despotic leader of the Pure Ones who wishes to conquer and rule all of the owl kingdoms, as he sees them as weak and broken compared to the Tyto class. After losing his beak to Lize of Kiel (Ezylryb) during a realistically-depicted battle known as the Battle of the Ice Claws, he forged himself a metal mask as "a symbol of the Pure Ones's strength and resolve", willing to set all of the owl kingdoms on fire and rule them all. To start, he had his Pure Ones kidnap hundreds of owlets from their homes and force them into slavery. The conditions they are put into are horrible, as they are moonblinked by the Pure Ones, a process where the young owlets get exhausted under the moon and fall asleep, and when they wake up, they weren't the same as if they forgot who they were. However, this is ultimately part of a much bigger plan: the young owlets are forced to pick up magical blue flecks that severely wound their gizzards by making them fragile and weak, so the bats can put the flecks in a trap for the Guardians, so when the latter try to stop the Pure Ones, they'd get their gizzards weakened enough so the bats can kill them by sucking their blood, just so Metal Beak can have an easier advantage in conquering all owl kingdoms. Then after kidnapping Grimble's family, Metal Beak promised the latter that his family would be safe if he did whatever he wanted, causing him to work for the Pure Ones. Soon after his trap is destroyed, he severely wounds Ezylryb before trying to force Soren to watch as Nyra kills his teacher. An evil owl who is motivated by a lust for power and a darwinistic point of view, Metal Beak will stop at nothing to achieve his notorious goals.
 * Also, going back to the flashback where Metal Beak promised Grimble that he will release his family if the latter does his dirty work, let's not forget that he also promised Allomere that if he betrays the Guardians and leads them into the trap caused by the flecks, then Metal Beak would grant him the right to become the new King of Ga'Hoole. However, since Metal Beak betrayed Allomere by revealing that he was never going to keep his promise and had him dragged away by bats, it implies that he may have even broken his promise about releasing Grimble's family and harmed them anyway.
 * is Soren's violent brother who delves his way into this trope in the very end. Having hated Soren and his dreams since they were young, attacks Soren just for trying to help him fly by imagining being with the Guardians, causing the two to fall out of their nest and get attacked by a Tasmanian devil. When Soren calls for help and is nearly killed by the animal,  just stands back and watches, not willing to risk his own life and save his brother. After they are kidnapped by the Pure Ones, when Nyra politely asks  if he would like to stay with his brother, he just looks away in hatred for Soren, eventually training to become a Pure One soldier with him and his colleagues chasing after a blue bird. After  catches the bird and wins the contest, he violently throws the bird into the air even though it is able to fly away, and eventually forms an obsession with Nyra because of the racism and fanaticism she represents to the point he refuses to help save Grimble's life. Soon after that, after Nrya asks him what he can offer her,  reveals he has a younger sister named Eglantine, and the two kidnap her from her hollow and moonblink her. After that,  gives Eglantine and another moonblinked owlet to the traitorous Allomere as part of a plan for the latter to lead the Guardians right into Metal Beak's trap. Upon meeting Soren again, he tries to murder him even though the latter tries to redeem him, and in his final appearance in the movie,  gazes at Metal Beak's mask with red Pure One eyes. Despite the offer of turning away from the Pure Ones and joining the Guardians,  has proven again and again that he chooses not to be redeemed.
 * Hun Dun (or Hundun) the demon king from Monkey King: Hero Is Back, is the leader of the mountain trolls—is an alchemist practitioner searching for eternal life. Tasking his minions with invading villages to capture children, Hun Dun aims to sacrifice them on the Day of the Total Solar Eclipse by burning them to death in a large alchemy furnace and converting their life essences into an elixir, thereby prolonging his own life. His search for immortality throws him into conflict with the group when Jiang Liuer saves a young girl from getting taken. After succeeding at capturing the young girl through an elaborate trap, Hun Dun, angered by Liuer's intrusion with his plans, seizes the young boy and strangles him to the point of unconsciousness, which advances to him trying to violently dispose of the boy by firing several blasts at him. Upon acquiring energy from the solar eclipse, Hun Dun transforms into a nightmarish monster and begins to destroy everything in his path. Hun Dun also throws a boulder at Liuer when the titular Monkey King, Sun Wukong, was desperately trying to save him.
 * Quan Chi from Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge is a powerful sorcerer and the highest-ranking servant of the mad god Shinnok. Taking over the Netherrealm after Shinnok was imprisoned by the Elder Gods, Quan Chi keeps the realm as a hellish nightmare, where countless people get tortured for eternity. Hatching a plan to free Shinnok, Quan Chi impersonated Sub-Zero and led Lin Kuei to slaughter the whole clan of Shirai Ryu, personally killing Hanzo Hasashi's, aka Scorpion's, wife and child. Promising to resurrect Hanzo's family in exchange for the key to release Shinnok, Quan Chi sent him undercover to the Mortal Kombat tournament to act as his champion, and when Scorpion failed him by choosing to kill Sub-Zero instead, Quan Chi taunted him by revealing that he was the one who destroyed his family and clan.
 * Next Gen: Ares, initially Justin Pin's hulking robot bodyguard, is revealed to be far more evil than he lets on. Having been created by Justin Pin to be the perfect machine, Ares deduced that humans are flawed, and that they should be destroyed, killing Justin in response. Building a robot Justin to serve as his puppet, he creates the Gen 6 Q-Bots for everyone to own, planning on having them detonate and wipe out all of humanity. Seeing 7723 destroying his machines, he kidnaps Mai's mother Molly, then tries to kill the two before leading them to a trap once they manage to escape. Revealing his plans to Mai and 7723, he casually disintegrates Dr. Tanner Rice and orders the Q-Bots to detonate a full soccer stadium once his plans are leaked to the public, before trying to disintegrate Mai for foiling his plans. A sadistic killing machine, Ares, despite his funny personality and claims of creating a better world, is nothing more than an egotistical monster willing to kill both human and robot alike to suit his needs.
 * The evil Dr. Mindskull from Nova Seed (2016), having been responsible for a series of monster attacks and disasters upon humanity, pledges to annihilate all that is left of the post-apocalyptic world using the powers of an alien child capable of creating plant life. Going to every length to kill his genetic "NAC" brother who seeks to stop him, Mindskull reveals the "new world" he raves about is himself, using the alien child to turn himself into a Botanical Abomination to crush waves of soldiers and march toward the nearest city to destroy everything in sight.
 * Thrax from Osmosis Jones is a disturbing personification of a human virus, considering the fact he really wants to kill Frank so that he'll be known to the medical books. He sets about gruesomely murdering whoever crosses his path, while making Frank sicker and sicker. This has the benefit of killing not only Frank, but every sentient being living within him. Thrax introduces himself by burning a cell unfortunate to cross him, while humming, and cuts clean through a local crime boss to cow his flunkies into servitude. When his remaining henchmen suggest that they incubate, Thrax brutally kills them and sets off to kill Frank on his own. Thrax even threatens the titular protagonist, Osmosis Jones, that after Frank is dead, Thrax will gladly go and break his new record on Frank's young daughter. Perpetually Suave while killing others. and caring only about himself, Thrax darkened the mood of a rather lighthearted film
 * The conquistador chief from Panchamama (2018), is possibly based off a depiction of a real life Francisco Pizarro. The Conquistador Chief barges into the movie with his men assaulting the city of Cuzco, savagely stripping the Inca of their gold clothes and literally shooting everything in sight. A few scenes later, the once-vibrant city is completely silent and drenched in a reddish light, heavily implying that the conquistadors killed everyone. He spends the remainder of the movie shooting at the child protagonists, clearly attempting to kill them. He does manage to shoot the condor—later revealed to be the village shaman in animal form—carrying them, resulting in them nearly plummeting to their deaths. Upon reaching the village, he follows Tepulpai into the ancestral cave, slaughtering the snake guardians for their gems. He assaults the kid, breaking the Huaca and dismissing the treasure as worthless, for which he attempts to kill Tepulpai.
 * In Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, the titular Emperor of the Night is the cruel ruler of a nightmarish dimension, who gains power by trapping souls in his domain, while weakening the Blue Fairy enough so that he can destroy her. Working through his vile human henchman, Puppetino, they lure and tempt numerous victims into signing away their freedoms, and turn them into lifeless puppets for all eternity. One of the countless puppets trapped in the empire of the night includes a woman holding her baby. The Emperor soon targets Pinocchio as his next victim, and has Puppetino lure Pinocchio with a little girl named Twinkle that they captured and turned into a puppet. Using magic from his master, Puppetino then transforms Pinocchio into a lifeless puppet, but not before torturing Pinocchio for his amusement. When Pinocchio is freed by the Blue Fairy, the Emperor manipulates Pinocchio and his friends into entering his domain. He uses Gepetto as his hostage, in order to coerce Pinocchio into signing away his freedom willingly, so that the Blue Fairy cannot save him. Pinocchio submits as long as his friends and father go free, until the Emperor orders Puppetino to take them all into the dungeon anyway. Once Pinocchio fights back, the Emperor turns Puppetino into a puppet for his cowardice, and threatens to harm Gepetto if Pinocchio does not obey. Manipulative, Callous, Sadistic, and Treacherous, The Emperor of The Night Set a whole new level of Darkness and monstrosity, in an otherwise Lighthearted Setting.
 * Krivzha from Prince Vladimir is a High Priest of Perun who uses his pagan religion to obtain absolute power. In the beginning, he murders his teacher to gain authority. Many years later, he collaborates with the Pechenegs and has them slaughter and burn villages. He also suggests that the village's sole survivor, a young boy, be sacrificed to his god. The boy later escapes and when Krivzha finds him with the Greeks, the boy escapes again while Krivzha has all the others killed and their ship burned. To obtain control over Russia, Krivzha frames Vladimir's older brother, Yaropolk, for the murder of the middle brother, Oleg, and give Vladimir a forged letter, causing Vladimir to invade his brother's land which ultimately results in the latter's death. After being exposed with his lies, Krivzha returns with the Pechenegs and attempts to kill a sympathetic pagan priest.
 * Dark Princess from Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer is easily the most petty and vile enemy that Rainbow Brite have ever encountered. Motivated solely by greed, the Dark Princess  to tow the diamond planet Spectra out of its foundation to her castle. Despite having been informed that this may cause entire universe to be starved of light and freeze, ensuring trillions of deaths, Dark Princess decides to continue with her plans, in a clear disregard for lives throughout the galaxy. When she was foiled, she attempts to ram her ship into Spectra and shatter it out of spite. A truly, evil, self absorbed and unfeeling monarch with an insatiable lust for greed and power. The Dark Princess was a Shockingly Dark Villain, for an very lighthearted setting.
 * Ratchet & Clank (2016): Dr. Nefarious is a darker character than in the original series. Starting off as Chairman Drek's engineer, Nefarious built the Deplanetizer that allowed Drek to destroy planets and use their land masses to build his new world]. After the pair destroy Novalis and five other planets, Nefarious betrays Drek and takes over his operation, intending to destroy Umbris, a volatile planet which could set off a chain reaction and destroy the entire solar system. When he hears that Ratchet and Clank are thwarting the attempt to destroy Umbris, Nefarious goes to stop them himself and ensure Umbris's destruction, despite knowing he'd die too.
 * In Rock and Rule, the aging, utterly self-absorbed rock singer Mok Swagger intends to use the powers of an otherworldly demon to destroy his loyal fans for the crime of not loving him enough (as his last concert was not entirely sold out). Mok forces the female lead Angel to sing the song through which he intends to summon the demon by torturing her bandmates, threatening to kill them before her and smirking when he sees the torture of them leaves them as airheaded idiots. His first attempt to summon the demon in Nuke York failed but with disastrous consequences for the city and it's inhabitants, Mok finally uses Angel's voice to summon the horrible demon onto a packed crowd in at his concert in Ohmtown gleefully watching it devour his fans and completely apathetic even when the demon kills one of his loyal minions.
 * Volcazar from Ronal the Barbarian is an Evil Overlord obsessed with raising the dark god Zaal from his exile. Leading an assault on the Barbarian village, he personally murders Gundar and shows an awful treatment of his own troops, even throttling his Dragon for a minor failure. As he uses the blood of the Barbarians to resurrect Zaal, he forces Zandra to fight for him, abusing her the entire time, before taking on the powers of Zaal and killing many defenseless Barbarians. [He plans to wipe out the entire Barbarian clan, then move onto spread darkness and terror throughout the lands, promising that all life will submit to him or die by his hand.
 * The Secret of NIMH brings us Jenner, a power-hungry rat who would rather stay in the rosebush than move on to better life in Thorn Valley with the other rats of NIMH. Not only does he kill Nicodemus by cutting the ropes and seeing to it that he is crushed under the weight of a pulley and make it look like an accident just to steal the leadership of the rats away from him, he even threatens to kill Mrs. Brisby to take the amulet originally owned by Nicodemus himself from her for himself, not even caring about the children trapped in the Brisby families cinder block. Some cruel rat, huh? What makes it even worse is Jenner, like all the rats, owes his very life to Mrs. Brisby's deceased husband and the father of her kids and displays zero remorse or gratitude to Jonathan's memory. After his henchman Sullivan finally has enough with Jenner's lunacy, Jenner slashes Sullivan's throat and tries to kill his rival Justin, declaring his only philosophy in life: take what you can when you can.
 * Raegar from Sheep & Wolves is a vicious and feared member of Grey's pack who detests the ancient laws that prevent him from killing as much as he wants for fun regularly flaunting these rules to hunt prey for the thrill of it. Angered by his leader Magda's refusal to step down as leader, Ragear murders him and takes over by force, directing the pack to slaughter the nearby settlement of sheep to the last while knowing his rival Grey is among them. Even after his life is saved by Grey and the sheep's efforts, Ragear doubles around and tries to have his pack kill all the sheep anyways, threatening to kill the youngest of them if they stop him from doing so.
 * Commander Locke from Sky Blue  is the ruthless head of security of Ecoban, introduced  working the Marrians to death in terrible conditions. When a disaster occurs, Locke disengages a part of the rig, killing a large amount of innocent workers. When a foreman tries to stop Locke, Locke executes him on the spot and tells his subordinates that it's fine because the man drew a knife on him first. Locke begins ramping up the oppression, taking his men to kill protesting Marrians and finally initiates Operation Marr to exterminate most of them except those he'll spare to be enslaved to work for Ecoban. When he returns to find the heroine Jay trying to sabotage the city's unfair system, Locke gleefully attempts to shoot through his own second-in-command  Cade to kill her, grinning all the while.
 * One-Eye from the Korean animated film Speckles the Tarbosaurus is a Serial Killer and engine of hate and rage in a Tyrannosaurus Rex's skin. One Eye demonstrates he's a calculating, rational monster by initiating a disaster to kill the young Speckles' family and murders his siblings for fun rather than food. He proceeds to haunt Speckles throughout his entire life, trying to kill him or those the Tarbosaurus cares for. At the film's end, he even murders one of Speckles' children and tries to murder the other by hurling the hatchling into the ocean.
 * Zygon of Starchaser: The Legend of Orin is a smug, domineering Galactic Conqueror with a God complex who seeks to Take Over the World and and wipe out humanity. Formerly a rogue android known as Nexus, his first attempt to take over humanity was stopped by guardians known as the Ka-Khan. Forced into hiding, Zygon bides his time and establishes a slave mine on the planet Zinia, forcing human slaves, regardless of age or physical condition, into working in such harsh conditions they often die. The blade the Ka-Khan used to defeat him is found by an old slave, who's killed to keep it a secret. Once Orin finds out about the blade and decides to escape, Zygon fatally strangles his girlfriend Elan. After Orin escapes, Zygon places a massive bounty on his head and has his Mecha Mooks attack him at every turn. He captures Dagg and has him painfully tortured by shooting a laser into his forehead, overseeing it with a sadistic grin. After he has the heroes within his grasp, Zygon leads his ships to obliterate the human's opposing fleet and take over the planet by force. Once he's been revealed as Nexus, Zygon takes Aviana (the new love interest) hostage, threatening her life. Once Orin surrenders, Zygon attempts to strike him down with his own blade. Cocky, arrogant, and lacking in empathy to the very end, Zygon was as remorselessly cruel as an Evil Overlord could be.
 * Sky Marshall Amy Snapp from Starship Troopers: Traitor Of Mars is a vindictive, ambitious politician who seeks to rise to further heights, allowing the bugs to attack and slaughter wantonly on Mars while she captures a rival general to frame him for the attack. Snapp proceeds to paint Mars as lost, intending to destroy the entire planet and everyone there to show herself as a decisive leader and rise even higher in the eyes of the Federation.
 * In The film version of The Tale Of Despereaux, Boticelli Remorso is the cruel leader of the lower rat world and the films Big Bad. Believing the only true meaning of life is other people's suffering, he forces innocent mice, such as the protagonist, Despereaux, into incredibly one-sided gladiator-like games in a Colosseum, pitting them against a gigantic (to them) cat where the only outcome is being eaten and dying in front of a crowd of bloodthirsty rats. He despises Princess Pea for no apparent reason, and as such orders his hundreds of rats to eat her, trample her and cause her great pain. A detail throughout the movie that adds to Boticelli's status as a monster is the skulls and bones littered throughout Ratworld; it is made clear this is his and his subordinate's doing. Throughout all of these events, Boticelli is happy with it, because, as mentioned, he loves other people's suffering as long as he is not the victim in the end.
 * Mighty King One Eye, from the original workprint and Recobbled Cut of The Thief and the Cobbler, is a brutal warlord who introduces himself in the aftermath of a complete massacre of an army he and his army have defeated, forming a mountain of hundreds of corpses upon which One Eye announces his intent to bring the Golden City and all citizens within to destruction. Regularly making a habit of abusing his personal harem and using them as living furniture, One Eye spitefully orders the treacherous wizard Zigzag thrown to his pet alligators even after Zigzag provides him with the means to invade the Golden City. One Eye is implied to make a regular habit out of mass slaughter and seeks to annihilate the Golden City purely as a show of his bloodthirsty might.
 * King Tor of Raphicca from Thru the Moebius Strip (2005) was once a general of the Raphiccan army, but he became jealous of the current ruler of Raphicca, his own brother, and murdered him to take his position as king. Ruling his planet with an iron fist, Tor's selfishness drove numerous Raphiccans to rebel against him, leading to an ongoing war between the rebels and Tor. When the high priestess of the Raphiccans tries to hide a powerful crystal from Tor, he casually murders her, proclaiming her a traitor, then tortures one of her disciples to force another to harness the power of the crystal for him. After trying to kill the young Prince Ragis to secure his position as king, Tor leads a full-on assault on Ragis and the rebel army, wantonly firing his powerful cannons at enemies and his own soldiers alike, killing dozens of people. Flying into a rage after his soldiers turn against him due to his cruelty, Tor plans to open a dimensional rift and unleash nightmarish entities onto Raphicca to crush all in their path just to spite his enemies, and is beaten while trying to kill a defenseless human boy who was trying to close the rift.
 * Titan A.E. (film novelization): Preed, a slimy Akrennian barely tolerated even by the others on-board the Valkyrie, makes a name for himself as a backstabbing snake as his true colors unfold throughout the novel. Contacted by Susquehana with the promise of monetary reward for finding the Titan, Preed and his compatriot Joseph Korso betray the other members of the Valkyrie to the Drej. Preed quickly establishes himself as the viler of the two between him and Korso, nearly shooting his way through an entire crowd of innocent colonists to get to Cale and Akima and displaying open, sadistic relish at the prospect of doing so. Once at the Titan itself, Preed turns his gun against Korso and reveals his intention to simply murder all of his former allies and sell out the Titan to the Drej, dooming any chance humanity has to repopulate — and then kicking back and watching as the Drej massacre everything in their path, comfortable with the death of almost all sapient life in the galaxy so long as he gets to stay alive.
 * Injurin' Joe is the 2000 animated musical adaptation of Tom Sawyer 's version of Injun Joe, portrayed here as a Grizzly Bear, and he manages to be even more vicious than his novel counterpart. Joe is a dangerous criminal who regularly robs the local church and its patrons, with the Town Sheriff too scared of Joe to stop him. Joe forces the innocent and dimwitted Mutt Potter to dig for treasure, then brutally murders Deputy Bean for trying to confiscate the treasure that Potter unearths by throwing him against a rock and breaking his body. Joe then frames Potter for this crime, for no discernible reason, and takes sadistic glee in watching him prepare to be executed. Throughout the film, Joe tries to murder Tom Sawyer and whichever of his friends happens to be with him at the time, for nothing more than revenge for saving Mutt Potter, and petty sadism. Due to his savage brutality and the extent of his cruelty and greed, Injurin' Joe stood out as a shockingly dark villain for such a lighthearted film.
 * General Von Talon from Valiant is a hammy, but brutal, German falcon tasked with preventing Allied pigeons from delivering messages during World War II. Character Moment Introduced by viciously murdering two Allied pigeons and kidnapping the third, Von Talon subjects the latter to truth serum before locking him away and planning to eat him later. Von Talon has made a habit of eating some of the pigeons he catches and leaving their bones scattered around his lair, while others are killed and have their corpses stuffed and displayed by Von Talon as macabre trophies. After capturing Bugsy and the message he has for the Allies, Von Talon plans to kill and eat him as well before trying the same on the heroic Valiant, sending his minions to attack Valiant's friends at the same time.
 * Fagin, the Big Bad of the 1990 Danish animated film War of the Birds, is a murderous vulture responsible for terrorizing the residents of a forest he frequents. Fagin opens the film attacking and killing, for kicks, the parents of Oliver as they defend their nest, swiftly obliterating their nest in the process and destroying all but one of their seven eggs. Fagin's periodic assaults on the forest have claimed numerous lives, among them the parents of Oliver's eventual companion Olivia and the mother of the mice Frederick and Inglof. Fagin spends the rest of the movie attempting to brutally kill Oliver and his companions first for fun and later out of spite, coldly dismissing Oliver's anger at him over the murder of his parents and wrathfully killing Oliver's adoptive mother Betty after she rips out his eye. In addition to his thrill-killing, Fagin keeps a nameless dove as his personal slave, physically abusing her and traumatizing her into a stuttering wreck of a bird. A savage, sadistic, and brutal avian, with no qualms who he kills. Fagin stood out big time in a rather lighthearted setting
 * HIM from We Are the Strange. In his very first scene, he physically assaults his girlfriend and throws her against a wall. In the same scene, he shoos her away, ordering her not to come back until she looks as beautiful as the models on his "girly posters" and tells her how ugly she looks wherever she smiles or talks. Then, later in the film, when he reappears and faces off against one of the heroes The fact that he might have a Freudian Excuse does nothing to diminish his CM status and the fact that some of his behavior is based off of a real person that the director had the misfortune of knowing makes his CM status that much more disturbing.
 * Blackwolf of Wizards is an Evil Sorcerer who fancies himself to be the next Adolf Hitler. Millions of years after the world is devastated by a nuclear war, Black Wolf and his brother Avatar are born in the kingdom of Montagar. After their mother dies, Blackwolf is overjoyed, seeing this as his chance to seize power. Avatar defeats Blackwolf in battle and banishes him. Blackwolf moves to the kingdom of Scortch, a radioactive waste land filled with mutants and takes over. Blackwolf sends out assassins to search the land and kill anyone who practices magic. Blackwolf also assassinates all the leaders of the free states so he can be a better position to strike. Blackwolf's mutant army is at first undisciplined and unmotivated and does not win battles. However Blackwolf eventually finds the tool he needs to create a better army, propaganda. Blackwolf finds a projector and some old Nazi propaganda films. Blackwolf uses this projector to inspire his troops and bring fear and confusion to his enemies. Under the influence of propaganda, Blackwolf's troops often slaughter the opposing side. Blackwolf's troops seize a village and end up killing all the prisoners they captured, as well as blowing up a church. Blackwolf claims mutants are a Master Race and wants to fight for their interests, but when he discovers his son will be a mutant, he plans to kill him.