The most evil acts in animation

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A lot villains in animation say they are evil, but they don't things that are really evil. But once and a while you have villains who do evil things.

What would you say is the most evil thing an animated villain has done? How many villains have done something so vile that villain became monstrously evil?
 
I think Dark Danny from Danny Phantom kinda takes the cake on this one.

Let's see... it's pretty much implied that he has destroyed nearly every civilization in the world. Then he destroys Amity Park, kills a crapload of people including his parents and his own human half. Yeah.
 
Ergh, that reminds me of one. (Referring to Alph's post)

In Elfen Lied (Graphic/Spoilers)
Lucy finds a puppy and they become close, then some school bullies find it. One of them kicks it against a wall, then proceeds to smash it with a vase, ultimately killing it. Lucy becomes enraged and decapitates/murders all the bullies and her friend that told the bullies about the puppy

They're not really a typical villain, since they have a short appearance, but they still did a very bad thing. >.>
 
How about that moment in Return of the Joker when

During the flashback, Bruce reveals that Joker and Harley kidnapped Tim Drake and tortured him for weeks, culminating in the boy becoming his "son".

Easily one of the most disturbing and vilest acts I've seen in animation, and it made the Joker's end feel far more satisfying.
 
Batman Beyond

When the Joker had captured Robin (Tim Drake) in this alternate future version of the DC Universe. He basically carved Tim into a likeness of himself. The way the Joker describes it and the implements laying around that he used to do it, looked pretty vile... The way he taunted Bruce Wayne about what he did was pure evil. Let alone what he (Joker) had done to Tim.
 
I'm trying to think of something TRULY diabolic and evil someone did in a series and I just can't come up with anything REALLY, REALLY bad.

When I think of something truly evil, it has to be something done intentionally harm and destroy with extreme malice.

Most series these days has a character doing something because he truly believes he is making a better world for everyone (or at least his people) by committing said act. People like Light Yagami, Zechs Marquis, Luleoch vi Britania, Aizen (probably) and even Pain all fit this picture.

Then you have the other types of characters that will do something caliously because it's "Fun", not because they TRULY want to harm someone (although there have been situations where millions died to something like that). Buu is a good example of a bad guy like this.

Darkseid brainwashing Superman and unleashing him on the world and Joker brainwashing Tim Drake are both truly despicable deeds, but I know there's gotta be something worse.

/edit DRRR I know a good one.

Griffith in Berserk. You wanna talk about someone who is truly sadist, Griffith probably fits the bullpen.

Guts, a member of Griffith's army, decides he wants to leave the Hawks (An elite military group set in the middle ages) after the end of a long war. Griffith wont stand for this and demands he stay. Griffith claims Guts as his property and he must earn his freedom by slaying him. Griffith would rather kill Guts then let him go. In a very quick, very decisive duel, it is clear Griffith is no longer strong enough to force Guts to stay. Guts then departed after saying farwell to friends (including Griffith as one of them).

In a fit of depression, he "imposes" himself onto the princess of the kingdom. When the King finds out, he sentences Griffith to 5 years of torture and Hawks to their deaths. The Hawks LARGELY survive, but are chased endlessly as enemies of the crown.

Later, Guts returns to the Hawks to find that they have gone from nobility to constantly being on the run. With Guts help, they rescue Griffith only to find that all his tenants have been severed, his tongue removed and his body so battered from starvation and lack of nutrition, he can't walk and breaks bones simply by putting pressure on them.

After his rescue, during a full moon, a cursed necklace he has had since a child grants him the ability to sacrifice all the Hawks so that he may be elevated to a Demon as part of the demonic group "God's Hand". He does so almost without hestitation believing that everyone in the Hawks have betrayed him for letting him get captured and tortured as he has. All the Hawks are torn limb from limb by demons except the two current leaders of the Hawks, Guts and Casska (a girl).

Griffith knew Casska and Guts were becoming very intimate. After his transformation, he saved Casska so that he may "have his way with her" while forcing Guts to watch. Said act literally drove Casska insane. He allowed Guys to live just so he had to "deal with" watching all his friends and loved ones die in front of his eyes.

You want to talk about someone who is truly evil, yea, Griffith takes the cake!
 
Most of the crimes committed by Johan Liebert in "Monster" definitely qualifies for this thread. These crimes include, but are not limited too (spoilered, just in case):

*Manipulating the children and caretakers at the orphanage he grew up in to kill each other.
*Murdering all of his adoptive parents/guardians.
*Making a child walk through Prague's Red Light District in order to find his mother. The things he witness there turns the kid into a suicidal wreck.

And many other heinous deeds. No wonder this guy is the poster-boy for the "Complete Monster" page at TvTropes.
 
I think that Scar murdering his brother and then trying to murder his nephew Simba immediately afterward was pretty evil. Not to mention that he made Simba think his father's death was all his fault. Of all the Disney villains, Scar is the most evil.
 
This isn't quite as serious as some of the examples put forth so far, but Cartman can be downright evil on "South Park" when he puts his mind to it. Everyone brings up "Scott Tenorman Must Die", but let's not forget "The Passion of the Jew", wherein he dresses up as Adolf Hitler and brainwashes a large group of people into nearly exterminating every Jewish person in South Park. Fortunately, he doesn't actually kill anyone, but the idea that he was seriously going to go through with it is sinister enough.
 
You know that scene in the first Star Wars movie where the bad guys destroy an entire planet full of sentinent life? Well, Freeza from Dragon Ball Z does this on a regular basis. So yeah, i'd say hes pretty much as evil as they could possibly come.
 
From the Superman: The Animated Series episode "Apokolips...Now!":
After defeating Darkseid's invasion of Metropolis and with the help of Superman, Dan Turpin, and New Genesis warriors, the city watches as Darkseid is forced to leave to his homeworld. Before leaving, though, he casually shoots an omega beam, killing Turpin.

It's not even the fact that he kills a supporting character that was very developed during this two-parter. It's the fact that he merely does it to tick off Superman. No evil plan, no ulterior motive. Just a whim.

And for The Spectacular Spider-Man and its series finale "Final Curtain":
After umasking the maniacal villain Green Goblin, Spider-Man discovers that he is Norman Osborn, ruthless businessman and his best friend's father. Osborn reveals how he hid his identity, which includes framing his drug-addicted son and breaking his knee in order to cover his crimes. Norman even justifies it, saying that if he went to jail, he couldn't make his wimp son into a man.

Damn. Just damn.
 
All of them I see are awesome examples which I've seen a few villains that can be downright evil & despicable of their nasty acts which shocked me which these guys SO fit the bill like:

The masked mouse(Porky & Sylvester), Lyle Lanley/Judge Harm/Royce Lumpkin, the evil kitten(Taz-Mania), Angelica Pickles, Freako the Clown/Spike/Venom(Mighty Max), Lady Termain/Drizella & Anastasia, Lex Luthor/Darkseid, Gaston, Scar, Eric Cartman, Derek Powers/Blight, Mandy(Billy & Mandy), Firelord Ozai/Princess Azula, The High Breed/Ragnorak/Will Harangue, Suzy(Phineas & Ferb), Heather, Vincent Vladislav Argost, Ricardio the Heart Guy, Van Kleiss/White Knight/Hunter Cain, & the Chaos Twins:Alpha & Omega.

Lets see, torturing/tormenting people, manipulating others, killing off peoples' parents, making cities deceive the heroes, & being so nasty/sadistic about it totally suits their evilness.

Mercenary Tao/King Piccolo, Frieza, Damien/Paul/Hunter J./Cyrus, Checkmate/Hanzo/Bone Cold, Millions Knives/Legato, Arlong/Spandam/Admiral Akainu/The Celestial Dragons, Envy/Pride, Zofis/Zeno & Dufort/Grisor & Dr.Hakase, Orochimaru/Danzou/Hidan/Pain, The Grand Fisher/Sousuke Aizen/Mayuri, Light Yagami, Nene/Delphinium/Rudolph, Prince Ali/Ribbons/The Trinity Siblings:Johann,Michael, & Nena and Johan Liebert.

Some of the anime villains like to kill off important awesome characters which makes them really EVIL, but their defeats were very satisfying as well, hehehe:D.
 
Demona from Gargoyles:
She casts a spell on the airwave to turn the residents of Manhattan into stone. All so she can hold her own version of the Wyvern Massacre (smashing the statues). And yes she does succeed in killing some of the humans (and makes some jokes at their expense).
 
There's a few that come to my mind:

"Same As It Never Was" episode from the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. In an alternate future, the Shredder has made life pretty bad for the people of earth. Very dark episode, and probably my personal favorite from the show.

"Secret Of The Sword" He-Man/She-Ra movie. Before He-Man and She-Ra were able to release Etheria from the stranglehold that Hordak had on the planet, the people of Etheria were literally slaves of the Evil Horde.

"Megatron's Master Plan" from the original Transformers cartoon. With the Autobots banished to outerspace, the Decepticons made slaves out of the humans of Earth.

I can as you can tell, I find slavery to be pretty evil.
 
Majin Buu basically does the same thing, first starting out with annihilating 99.99% of the world's population in a single "Extermination" attack, then picking off those he spared one by one at his own amusement, finally culminating in launching a GIGANTIC energy ball that ends up destroying Earth, leaving only four survivors (three if you count the fact that Vegeta was already technically dead at that point). Before that point, his actions were semi-redeemable, as his main personality was that of an innocent child throwing a tantrum, but the second that evil inside of him took over, everyone was screwed.

Whereas Freeza was basically an intergalactic Hitler, Majin Buu was nothing short of a merciless force of nature.
 
While not as grandiose as all the other ones, Clay from Moral Orel.

It takes a bad father to shoot his own son. It takes a complete monster to shoot his own son just because he accidentally broke a bottle of liquor, drink the rubbing alcohol (the only thing in the first aid kit he didn't throw away) in front of him, going to bed while his son is forced to make a tourniquet out of his favorite shirt without medical help (the infection gets so severe that Orel has a permanent limp), tell his own son that he shot himself, cover it up in front of the rest of his family, and then later brag about how he was glad to shoot his own son.

Yikes.
 
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