Who are the most evil fictional villains you can think of?

[boltons are sick]

In this topic you can create a list of the most evil fictional villains you have ever encountered. You can list as many characters as you want and they can come from books, tv shows, cartoons, movies, video games, comic books, tabletop games, anime and manga, etc.

 The most evil and depraved fictional characters I can think of in no particular order are Sir Isaac Ray Pelham Westcott from Date a Live, Baron Karza from Micronauts and Fabius Bile from Warhammer 40000.

 Let`s start with Sir Isaac Ray Pelham Westcott. He has commited every single crime you can think of - mass genocide, rape, cold-blooded torture, murder of children and women, waging wars, mutilations, destroying an universe, dragging entire towns into destructive battles, executing civilians, experiments in children and infants, destroying whole countries, killing millions on screen, attempting the death of billions, later attempting trillions. For more info just read the text that I copied and pasted from Villains Wiki below:

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Forming his own group of magicians composed of his childhood friends, Westcott was sent to an orphanage and was adopted by a wealthy British couple... whom were later murdered in a fatal "accident" planned by Westcott so he could take over their heritage for himself. After years of work, Westcott was finally able to summon the First Spirit in China, killing 150,000,000, destroying half of Asian's country, and later kidnapping the newborn Spirit to use her in fatal human experiments for study and research, the suffering of the First Spirit in his hands was so intense that the Spirit lost her persona and had the personality of a baby. And... he fell in love with her. Wait... love a woman with a baby's mind? That fucking creepy.

 

Using her mana, Westcott created a technology called Realizer and founded his own corporation to lead mankind to a new stage of evolution, selling weapons of mass-destruction, financing terrorist organizations to overthrow enemy organizations, causing countless civil wars to gain territory, using slave labor, helping totalitarian countries for profit, helping criminal organizations to gain a place in the political world, overthrowing politicians and the military, financing mass genocides and even using thousand orphans (children and infants) from the wars he created as guinea pigs in his new project to create Realizers, and of course, hundreds and hundreds died on the process. When the First Spirit escaped from his hands, the Spirit caused numerous other spacequakes around the globe, killing millions more but Westcott used this chance to incriminate the existence of Spirits as the responsible for his "evil deeds", including the First Spacequake that later took the lives of millions with natural disasters (which helped him to expand his influence to other countries).

 

When the Spirit was saved by a young Japanese boy named Shinji Takamiya, a boy who taught her the beauty of the world, Westcott tracked down their location, kidnapped Shinji's 7-year old sister and threatened to slice her throat off in exchange of giving him the First Spirit, now known as Mio Takamiya. Believing Westcott was lying, Shinji escaped with Mio but was coldly shot down by Westcott who sadistically felt joy from seeing Mio, his love interest, suffering because his love rival, Shinji Takamiya, was now dead. When Mio escaped with Shinji's body, Westcott returned to his HQ and brainwashed Shinji's sister to become his new servant, did horrible human experiments on her body, lied to her about her family and shortened her lifespan to 10 years, meaning the kid will die when she reaches the age of 10 years old. Months later, he kidnaps a peaceful and easy-going Spirit known as Nia Honjou who was just a normal mangaka and tortured her 24/7 for 5 years in the most brutal and inhuman ways possible that would make even the most brutal psychopaths look like saints in comparison (remember Spirits are immortal, and his tortures goes beyond simple electric shocks and physical beating... (Spirits are basically immortals, so his tortures were cutting her head off while she is conscious, gangbang rapes, cutting her limbs off, etc).

 

From there on, he continued his hunt for Mio but soon changed his target to other Spirits, Spirits that were later kidnapped by his DEM where they were tortured, raped and abused for decades only to study the effects of pain and suffering on their Sephira Crystals. Creating a new project called Ashcroft Project, Westcott convinced the heroic Wizard Artemishia Bell Ashcroft into joining DEM to turn her into a dead puppet by destroying her mind and leaving her in comatose for almost 5 years. Using her memories, Westcott created a new super-weapon he could use to fight Spirits and kidnap more to use them in his Nazi-like experiments. When he discovered one of his officers was trying to use his weapon to take over the company, he immediately cut his head off and executed all scientists working in his project to erase their existence from society.

 

Creating new CR-Units like the White Licorice, Westcott tested his new weapons using his own subordinates knowing they would fail and caused the death of dozens of his minions just to discover the effects of the magical power in their bodies. When he sent the White Licorice to Japan, he was informed about the existence of a Wizard that could control such weapon and immediately went to Tenguu City to save the young Wizard from being arrested by threatening the career of generals of Japan Ground Self Defense and quickly manipulated the Wizard into becoming his new disposable servant. When he set his eyes upon Tohka he dispatched his forces to a Japanese island where he ordered his forces to capture the Spirits under the threat of ending their lives if they failed while using the excuse their mission are for the humanity's greater good. When his forces failed, he let his men to die and be captured by Ratatoskr so they could use one of them a messenger. In the Ratatoskr's prison, Westcott used one of the captured officers of his army as a speaker to have a normal conversation with his friend Elliot Woodman and later blows up the internal organs of his "speaker".

 

With other plans, Westcott sent Jessica Bailey and her squad to capture Tohka once again and ordered his forces to invade a student festival and allowed them to slaughter as many civilians as possible (a crowd full of teenagers and children) just to make them an example of what happens when someone dares to stand in his way. Now that he had Tohka in his grasp, Westcott considered many physical, psychological and sexual tortures he could use to break her sanity but choose to kill her most beloved person right in front of her to push her to insanity. When his enemies found his location, Westcott dispatched thousands of his soldiers to deal with Ratatoskr and Kurumi Tokisaki and even sending an altered-Jessica Baily who was forced to use the Scarlet Licorice, something that shortened her lifespan to a day.

 

After impaling Shido (the revived persona of Shinji he murdered 30 years ago) right in front of Tohka and making her go in Inverse Form, Westcott watches his subordinate, Ellen Mira Mathers, fight the Demon King while knowing she would not win and holding the secret of the Demon King to himself so he could see the power of his enemy and later leaves the battlefield, leaving his troops behind to let them die by the hands of the Demon King. Returning to his HQ in London, Westcott mutilates the arms of all DEM directors who tried to remove him from DEM for turning Tenguu City in a warzone and returns to Japan to continue his hunt for the Spirits. After cutting off the arms of all his directors, the DEM board of directors tried to launch three satellites at the town of Tenguuu City where Westcott to kill him... he knew he could easily destroy the satellites and save the lives of 4 million people... but left the satellites intact so he could test the powers of his new subordinates, risking the safety of the town. Lying and manipulating Origami to become the new Adeptus 2, Westcott dispatches Origami to the battlefield and orders her to kill all Spirits she befriended to bring them their crystals.

 

When Origami became a Spirit, Westcott immediately betrayed her and sent Ellen to capture so he could do all kind of atrocities to her body. When he failed to capture her, Westcott ordered his scientists from DEM island to deliver him Nia Honjou, the Spirit he tortured for 5 years, and erased her memories from all pain and suffering she had to endure just so he could unleash her on Japan again to let her regain hope and love for humankind again. While he let the Spirit escape from his hands, Westcott ignored the fact that hundreds of his soldiers died fighting Kurumi to protect his Spirit and erased their names from DEM's data files. After waiting for Nia to regain her love and hope again, Westcott forces all the pain and torture she suffered for 5 long years to return to her body and mind at once and breaks her sanity to steal her Sephira Crystal and finally becomes an Inverse Spirit himself.

 

Days later, he creates an AI called Maruna Arusu as his daughter and sends her to Fraxinus' system to destroy Ratatoskr's ship under the promise he would love her as his daughter if she succeeded. Inside of Fraxinus, Westcott had Maruna killing injured patients and patients with electric shocks, hacking Fraxinus' satellites to cause nuclear explosions all over Japan and attempts to bring down Fraxinus to destroy the town below just so he could blame Asgard Electronics for his evil deeds. When Maruna failed, Westcott discarded her and let her to die inside of Fraxinus' system. Discovering the location of a new Spirit in space, Westcott sends his fleet to deal with the Spirit, expecting them to die and laughs when his army is slaughtered by the Spirit's "beautiful power" and even stated he wasn't expecting them to win. While Ratatoskr was busy fighting Westcott personally invades Fraxinus and slaughters all officers and defenseless members of their staff to cause Elliot regret for betraying his vow. When he encountered the heroes, he sent them to a fantasy world where they would face their greatest fears and nightmares (some brutal enough to shatter their sanity) while he went to fight Elliot only to be defeated.

 

Injured from his last battle, Westcott created a new Spirit called Nibelcol and had her working with the brainwashed-Artemisia and his right-hand Ellen Mira Mathers. When the trio went to Tenguu City, Westcott had Nibelcol murdering Shido right in front of all Spirits, forcing them to go Inverse at the same time and destroying the whole city with millions of innocent lives and then entire world was engulfed in darkness, entire continents destroyed and billions killed in an instant. To prevent such future where Westcott starts a cataclysmatic event, Kurumi returns to the past and stop Westcott from doing the same thing in the future. When the information of Kurumi's time travel became evident, Westcott declares the final war and dispatches his entire army to Tenguu City. Many days after Westcott declared war, the heroes spent days working in a plan to counter-attack Westcott and his armada that were regrouping from all over the world in United Kingdom to launch a full-assault to Tenguu City to put an end to Shido and Kurumi's lives.

 

When the day had arrived, Westcott then ordered his forces to charge at the enemy with full-force and leave no survivors. If someone of Ratatoskr's ranks survive, execute them or torture them to death and if a civilian witness his armada, shoot them down, no matter if they are women or children. When DEM fleet was near the town, Ratatoskr immediately rang the spacequake alarm to make all population of the city enter in the Anti-Spacequake shelter to reduce the number of civilian victims, however, Westcott was not amused and considered in sending troops to shoot all population of the town in the shelter to find Shido if he refuses to show up. He then summoned the Wizards of AST, the pathetic and incompetent first antagonists of the series, and used them as meat-shields for his troops to shoot down the enemy's forces.

 

While looking over the battle, the ship of Westcott is shot down by Mio Takamiya and he laughs insanely as he watches his minions trying to run away. When he ships crashes, he could only say he was amused to see the power of the First Spirit and enjoyed the rush from almost dying alongside his pathetic minions. On the ground, Westcott fights Shido Itsuka in a tough battle but loses and is later killed by Mio Takamiya herself. After Kurumi returned to the past once again and rewrote the future, Westcott decides to invade Tenguu City again but now kidnaps Shido's friends and classmates, executes dozens of children and pre-teens to show the heroes he was not messing around and later ordered the execution of every single of them. Using their execution as a distraction, Westcott invades Fraxinus and brutally kills their security guards before trying to rip off Shido's heart but is defeated by Kurumi Tokisaki who rips of his Sephira Crystal.

 

Defeated again, Westcott uses GOETIA to steal the power of Mio Takamiya and becomes a Spirit of Origin himself. Amused with his new powers, Westcott slaughters all of his minions and the rest of his army, deeming them as useless now that he got the power of the Gods. Without wasting time, Westcott tries to use Belial to destroy all of the universe he could create a dystopia future where magicians would rule over a tortured mankind with him as the supreme being of all existence who would enjoy the suffering and pain of all living being for all eternity. After a long battle, Westcott loses his power and attempts to create a spacequake large enough to drag the entire world to death with him. However, with the sacrifice of Mio Takamiya, his last act of cruelty was stopped and he met his ultimate demise, his long-waited death.

 

He would later return in a fragment of himself combined with Mio's defensive system that tried to destroy Tohka's reality, attempting to destroy the multiverse with trillions within it.

 

 

Then there is Baron Karza who is on the same level of depravity as Westcott. Below I have copied and pasted his crimes from a user on TV Tropes:

 

 

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Baron Karza (Pronounced "Kartha") is the Big Bad of the story, and the aforementioned dictator.

Originally just a lowly scientist of the royal family of Homeworld, Karza became power hungry, and, after failing to assassinate the royal family in a a coup, was forced into exile.

On the verge of death, Karza was nursed back to health by a monastery of monks known as the Sun Cult, and he quickly learned their secrets of power and even (gasp) immortality!

Karza, being the grateful man he is, proceeded to wipe out the entire Sun Cult before traveling back to Homeworld, where he quickly became universe renowned for discovering the secret to immortality itself.

Rather quickly, Karza gained a rabid fanbase, and, using his newfound power, overthrew the royal family, killing all but a couple of escaping survivors, and quickly establishes his rule over Homeworld, proclaiming that all who obey his rule will be granted eternal life through his secret.

Karza's "secret" to immortality? A fancy way of harvesting body parts and organs. Karza takes any who defy his rule, performs horrifying genetic experiments on them, then uses their body parts to repair worn down parts of his loyal (WEALTHY) subjects.

If any of his subjects or himself, for one reason or another, need an entirely new body, Karza simply rips out a young, fresh person's brain, then replaces it with his subject's brain. BOOM. New body. This....lovely process is carried out in a huge pit of nightmarish content dubbed the "Body Banks".

Now, Karza immediately begins weeding out any and all resistance fighters against his rule, ruthlessly murdering any with weapons before capturing any that surrender or are defenseless, then later using them as either guinea pigs for his various biological experiments, or as harvesting sources. Oh, and any dissenters who are too old are quickly executed on the spot, with Karza stating that there is no need for their old, useless bodies. This entire process is eerily reminiscent of Nazi Germany and their death camps, in case it wasn't obvious.

By the present of the story, Karza has conquered Homeworld completely, and has ruled for 1,000 years, keeping himself and his (WEALTHY) followers alive with his harvesting projects. So, yeah, bodycount + harvesting count already in the millions here.

In case you didn't get the memo, Karza's harvesting process is only available to those able to pay, with the poor and downtrodden left to fight each other or gamble away their life savings for the chance to gain a longer lease on life. If they lose more than they gain in these gamblings, they are forced to give up their limbs or organs in order to "pay up". If they aren't able to pay up a regular "fee", they are taken to the Body Bank to be harvested.

Oh, and Karza has also begun assaulting various alien worlds as well, razing entire cities, capturing the inhabitants, using them and their "special" physiology for more of his experiments, etc. Said experiments involve transforming innocents into monstrous warriors he uses for combat.

Karza also regularly tears babies away from their mothers, subjecting the former to vicious brainwashing that turns them into his sociopathically fanatic soldiers, with the former being used for....mass breeding. No, seriously, Karza hooks hundreds of women up to a machine that forcibly impregnantes them over and over again, driving them insane, to force them to give birth to thousands upon thousands of babies that he raises as sociopathic fanatics loyal to him.

And who can pass over his gladiator games, where, when he has plenty of prisoners who he can harvest, he throws any extras into colosseums where they are summarily ripped apart by his death tank robots and/or forced to fight to the death, then killed off anyway if Karza grows bored of them.

In the present, Karza captures one of the leaders of the resistance, Prince Argon, rightful heir to Homeworld's throne, and proceeds to perform torturous experiments on him before....fusing his upper body with a horse's body, turning him into a centaur as a mockery to the rebellion.

Karza's crimes not limited to wide-scale, he also notably ruins the life of a young prince by framing him for attempted murder of his love, then by tricking his best friend into sacrificing her own legs to save the prince's love, all for his own amusement.

Later, learning that a band of resistance fighters led by Ramm (Remember him?) has managed to escape the microverse and enter the human world (Where everyone are giants to the Micronauts), Karza first exiles his most loyal henchman for failing him, leaving him to die, then steals the body of a human, and uses it to go on a rampage on Earth, killing dozens of army soldiers and police officers in his way.

Rather quickly jumping back into the Microverse, Karza discovers that Ramm and his group have taken up shelter on the planet Spartax. Karza proceeds to order the entire planet firebombed, killing thousands almost immediately, and orders the planet's destruction to continue even after Ramm has fled the place.

Karza ends up back on Homeworld in a seemingly-final showdown with Ramm, where, when he realizes he is losing due a major power upgrade on Ramm's part, Karza  tries to blow up the entire Homeworld, hoping to kill himself, Ramm, and all of Homeworld in one fell swoop, before he is thwarted, seemingly killing him and ending his reign of terror.

Of course, this doesn't last long, as Karza returns as an energy spirit, quickly possesses Prince Argon, gains access to Earth once more, then proceeds to take over the Nazi splinter cell HYDRA, using them to lay siege to a Disney World rip-off (I'm not even kidding about this).

Trapping numerous time travelers (Long story) in a torturous state in a machine to siphon off their power, Karza duels his old foes the Micronauts once more, hoping to simultaneously conquer Earth with HYDRA while his other forces raze various planets in the Microverse into submission, however Karza is once again killed, this time for good.

.....BUT WAIT, HE ISN'T DEAD! KARZA SURPRISE!

Karza's energy form continues to live on deep inside Prince Argon's mind, slowly corrupting the man into becoming a carbon copy of himself, with it eventually leading to Argon conquering Homeworld just as Karza did, then reopening those lovely Body Banks that had been closed for a grand total of a few months.

Eventually, with Homeworld once more subjugated, Karza bursts from Argon's body, killing him and stunning Homeworld.

Karza immediately begins killing off people left and right, notably snapping the neck of one of his formerly most loyal followers, an elderly woman who has since turned against Karza's evil.

Noticing that thousands of resistance fighters are in the area, Karza effortlessly obliterates them all, leading the Micronauts to flee the scene.

Assaulting Homeworld now that he is revived, Karza immediately begins wiping out thousands of innocents, and dumping them into quickly filling-up mass graves, and he also continues his penchant for kidnapping babies and using their mothers for....breeding.

Karza continues to merrily hop, skip, and jump his way over every line a villain can cross, as he travels to an ocean planet filled with mermaid people, he proceeds to use a solar concentration cannon to heat the oceans of the planet up so hot that the water dissolves and the entire race of mer-people is boiled alive. Karza then cracks a much-needed fried fish pun.

Herding millions of innocents into his Body Banks, Karza begins tearing them apart, then putting them back together as grotesque, blank slates that only do as he tells them, and uses them to continue to wage war on basically everything that isn't already under his thrall.

Deciding it's time to show off his solar cannon to a more....populated audience, Karza sets his cannon to set aflame the surface of an icy planet, fully populated, mind, and watch as everything and everyone boils alive, a process he plans to transmit over the entire Microverse as a demonstration of his power. As he is starting up the cannon, an entire army of Karza's forces are vaporized due to faulty aiming. Karza doesn't even notice or acknowledge that it just happened.

Luckily, this plan is thwarted (barely), and Karza flees. There's then this really weird crossover with the X-Men where Karza ends up switching bodies with Kitty Pryde of the X-Men.....nothing substantial happens here, either in his crimes or redeeming features. He just uses his new form to try and kill the other X-Men while possibly perving out over Kitty's body.

Aaaaaanywho, getting back to the main story, during said crossover, Karza's entire army was annihilated by the villain of said arc, so he's on the run.

Karza then, as if it wasn't already done, CEMENTS himself as the most wicked, mass-affecting Monster I've ever witnessed, by traveling back to Homeworld and using a heavily-upgraded Body Bank system to butcher the entire population, then reconstruct them as horrific abominations in constant agony. He did this both to create himself a new army, and just to spite the heroes...

Karza giddily watches as the Micronauts are forced to cut down the poor souls he has monster-ized, and, when his new army is deplenished after possibly days of fighting, he happily reveals he'll just "make more" after killing the Micronauts by just traveling to other worlds and starting all over again.

This tears it, and the Micronauts gang up on him, and, after much dueling, Karza is finally impaled by our heroes' sword, before plunging into the fiery pits of the Body Banks (NO SYMBOLISM HERE), ending his nightmarish terror over the Microverse....

BUT WAIT, HE ISN'T DEA-No, wait, he actually is.

Well, mostly. A very little part of Karza's energy form survived, and, when the Micronauts try to sacrifice themselves in an extremely risky plan that, if done correctly, will return all the lives on Homeworld that Karza destroyed, but, if screwed up, will end most of the life in the entire Microverse, Karza's spirit latches onto The Hero, Rann, and subtly tries to trick him into screwing up the sacrifice so darn-near everything except himself and Rann's girlfriend will perish, at which point he probably plans to ASSUME DIRECT CONTROL of Rann and conquer once more.

Luckily, Rann's girlfriend notices this trickery, and forcibly sacrifices herself and Rann, as the real Rann would have wanted, thus reviving Homeworld and saving the Microverse and its billions of inhabitants. 

 

 

And then there is Fabius Bile. He has genocided entire sectors (in Warhammer 40000 one sectore consists of multiple solar systems), has conducted horrible experiments which have left entire sectors longing for death. He has also flayed alive billions of people and after that he has forced them to carry a cloak of their own skin and the skins of the other people he has flayed. This is worse than it sounds because after the flaying is done he imprisons the souls of his victim in their own skins so that they could find peace. Fabius also changed the composition of the climate of an entire planet and then gave a "choice" to the population to either suffocate or take his serum which would transform them into hideous mutants but would allow them to survive and has poisoned entire sectors with his chemicals. He squashed down over a million prisoners to turn them into amplifying drugs for his followers. He also conducts horrible torturous experiments on prisoners and on his own followers, sometimes keeping his test subjects in agony for weeks. However, his most heinous crime are possibly "the New Men". The populations of possibly hundreds of planets are transformed into empowered, brainwashed, murderous psychopaths that feel constant agony (much to Fabius` amusement). These "New Men" serve only Fabius Bile because they are brainwashed and they slaughter their way through the galaxy, massacring the populations of entire planets under Fabius`s orders.

 

So, who do you think the most evil fictional characters are? Are they more evil than Sir Isaac Ray Pelham Westcott, Baron Karza and Fabius Bile. Write your opinions down below.

[Spockydog]

um, Satan...?

[Jaxom 1974]

Possibly anyone using that much quoted text block...

[Veltigar]

Behold, I give you @Tywin et al.

[DMC]

1 hour ago, Jaxom 1974 said:

Possibly anyone using that much quoted text block...

Bah beat me to it!

[Jaxom 1974]

1 hour ago, Veltigar said:

Behold, I give you @Tywin et al.

A bit of a right bastard, 'tis true...

[Deadlines? What Deadlines?]

Breaking Bad had a few. Though it's a bit of train wreck of a film, Cameron Diaz in The Counsellor was pretty gosh darn evil. 

The Judge in Blood Meridian, if we're allowed to count written works.

[RumHam]

48 minutes ago, Deadlines? What Deadlines? said:

The Judge in Blood Meridian, if we're allowed to count written works.

Such a great character. I need to go re-read the part where the priest tells the story of how they found him now and how everyone in the group claimed to have met him once before then. Creeps me the fuck out. 

[Deadlines? What Deadlines?]

29 minutes ago, RumHam said:

Such a great character. I need to go re-read the part where the priest tells the story of how they found him now and how everyone in the group claimed to have met him once before then. Creeps me the fuck out. 

Holden is such a weird character. He's based on a historical person who shares some of the same attributes, but there's clearly something more about him. So-and-so's more clever and better read than me have tried to crack it and nothing is especially satisfying.

 

[Annara Snow]

8 hours ago, Spockydog said:

um, Satan...?

Which one? You have to specify which fictional work you mean, not all Satans are the same!

[A Horse Named Stranger]

COVID/Corona. No, hoax has ever killed more.

 

Shout out to ty tho, you came close.

[mnedel]

9 hours ago, Spockydog said:

um, Satan...?

Yes, as Annara Snow said, there are many versions of Satan. I have watched movies where he is your typical, source of all evil, malevolent monster. But I have also read books/comics where he is a misunderstood antihero or even a full-on hero trying to save us from the evil, tyrannical God and just a victim of propaganda lol.  

Anyway, reading the original post, I don’t think even the evil version of Satan tops those guys. Warhammer universe has some very over the top villains. But they have like 2 million human worlds and quadrillions of people so death and destruction can reach some really bonkers numbers without being much on the grand scale. 

[boltons are sick]

6 hours ago, mnedel said:

 Anyway, reading the original post, I don’t think even the evil version of Satan tops those guys. Warhammer universe has some very over the top villains. But they have like 2 million human worlds and quadrillions of people so death and destruction can reach some really bonkers numbers without being much on the grand scale. 

Yea, those are some of the vilest villains in fiction even though they are not as iconic as some of the other characters. Even I was surprised when I read their complete list of crimes.