Complete Monster-Misc.
Part VII of my greater Complete Monster list and featuring examples that don't fit into any of the other sub-categories.
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In both Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and the movie adaptation. A sociopathic teenage girl who starts a witch hysteria by pretending to be tortured by invisible witches alongside an inner circle of girls who she manipulates and threatens into following her lead. Her primary goal is to get rid of the wife of the man she lusts after, her secondary goal is fame and attention. Neither of these are sympathetic. Her actions ultimately get numerous innocent people hanged, and in the movie she takes clear sadistic pleasure in the hangings, laughing and mocking the victims alongside the other "afflicted girls". She also earlier psychologically abuses and torments Marry Warren until the other girl breaks and joins Abigail's side. When Reverend Hale objects to her and loses faith in her credibility, in the movie she tries to have his wife accused of witchcraft purely out of spite. And if anyone was wondering if she really cared about John Proctor as anything other than a toy, the answer is no, given that she runs away rather than face the music for her crimes, leaving John Proctor to be hanged.
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In the comic series Uber. I'd say real life too, but he did technically have at least one Pet the Dog moment in RL. Not so in this series.
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Sometimes this, particularly in GI Joe Resolute and GI Joe Retaliation, where in both he commits genocide just to show that he means business. And in the latter, when asked what he wants after destroying all of London, he replies coldly: "I want it all."
Also, the eerily Nazi-esque version seen in the GI Joe/Transformers crossover by John Ney Rieber, plus the version seen in the cartoon "GI Joe: Renegades".
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The original one in the Archie Comic series.
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The genocidal and sadistic leader of the Elves from a world separate from the continent. There used to be humans on that world too, before Eredin had his Elven followers kill every last one of them. Since that time, Eredin has led his Wild Hunt followers into numerous attacks on the Continent, over the course of which they've killed and abducted countless humans, in the case of the latter returning them to their homes only after they've been broken in mind and body. When he identifies Ciri as a person of interest, he and his Wild Hunt pursue her tirelessly, having no trouble slaughtering pretty much anyone who tries to help her along the way. He also kidnapped Yennefer of Vengerberg at one point and used her as a bargaining chip against Geralt, who asked that Eredin kill him and let the woman he loved go. Eredin agreed...and promptly brainwashed Geralt into a member of the Wild Hunt and having Geralt kill in his name before eventually he got his identity back and broke away.
Now, in Witcher: Wild Hunt, he's more of a "standard-fare" baddie for the most part, but even there, elements of his Complete Monster characterization in the books are present.
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Both the original comic version and the version from the dreadful second Transformers movie. Also the version from the Unicron Trilogy.
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Not only the "original" version, but also one from an alternate reality who tried to commit the same crimes as his mainstream version. Upon failing and coming over to the "main" Warcraft universe, he just committed entirely new crimes. Finally, the version seen in the 2016 movie ALSO qualifies for this.
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Essentially the exact same person as Renegade Shepard, being a psychotic, xenophobic, and sadistic hitman. I think he might also be a rapist.
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An alternate version of him that became Dark Enerjak and among other things sunk an entire continent.
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Spawn comics version
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Not all versions of the Decepticon leader are this, but some of them are (Beast Wars and Unicron Trilogy versions, plus the War for Cybertron video game version)
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And here's that Beast Wars version I just got through mentioning.
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Normally a sympathetic Anti-Villain who frequently operates as an Anti-Hero with an on-and-off relationship with Knuckles, the version in Sonic: The Comic Online lacks any such sympathetic qualities and is instead wholly evil.
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Shattered Glass version
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The Satan of the Transformers universe
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