I’m not just talking cruelty in terms of their goals, but also how they went about achieving their goals
God.
Give it a rest, kiddo.
First thought is that its almost certainly something from Warhammer 40k. Probably one of the Dark Eldar (or just their civilization as a whole). They’re a super-advanced, post-scarcity civilization that basically worships torture and uses their technology to “perfect” it.
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Or Erebus, because fuck him.
Ford Prefect?
Na, the C’Tan is the cruelest. You Necrons want to be free of cancer riddles bodies we caused by consuming your sun and become immortality? Sure, here is a metal container for your brain while we consume your essence because it taste better than solar winds.
Got what they deserved though.
There was an old Captain America comic where the Red Skull had a glass floor in his dining room so he could look down on the torture chamber underneath.
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Having played the evil path in Star Wars KOTOR… I’d have to say it’s me.
The reverse flash . Goes back in time to kill the flashs mom just because he hates the flash and to inflict as much emotional damage as possible.
Ramsay Bolton did a lot of skinning. So much skinning.
Wiggles sausage suggestively
Anubis from SG1. Dude was banished by the other goa’uld for doing unspeakable things.
I disagree… but you’re close… the ancients.
Not only do they see all the horror and suffering that Anubis and the goa’uld inflicted on the universe; the could have done anything… not even helping; rather they never even hindered Anubis
They didnt do shit until he halfway ascended and became a threat to them. And how did he halfway ascend? Oma fucking Desala meddled with the mortals, again. And when a mortal gave up everlasting life and power to un-fuck their mistake, they un-ascended him!
They really took a nosedive in the public relations there.
The Crippled God from Mazalan Book of the Fallen. I should probably spoiler this. And trigger warning.
spoiler
The High King Kallor once ruled an empire. And he did so with a cold hard iron fist. Some Elder Gods decided that he was to be dethroned, and set off to confront the High King. Kallor had gotten wind of this before the confrontation and so had all his mages begin a ritual. One that would summon an alien force from beyond the known universe. They were successful and pulled an entity of such power that it destroyed Kallor’s entire empire. As the Gods approached the High Kings throne they found him there, emporer of only ash.
The power Kallor summoned was so alien and anthemic to the universe it needed to be destroyed. But they found it couldn’t be done. So instead they crippled and chained the power. This power came to be know as the Crippled God.
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly the cruelty that the Crippled God did himself. See, the crippled god worked in the shadows from his tent on the beach. He lifted others up to enact his broken visions. Granted them slivers of his alien power, and whispered promises of power or revenge into their ears. One such figure was the Pannion Seer.
The Seer was a holy figure who led an massive army, the Pannion Domin, on a crusade against the world. This was a holy war and such his followers where blindly devoted. His most devoted where called Tenescowri. The Tenescowri where purposely starved. Given no rations, no water, no food. They had to subsist on what they were able to find. And what is the most common thing found after a battle? Dead bodies. The Tenescowri was an army of forced cannibalism.
It gets a bit darker. The most powerful of the Tenescowri where the Children of the Dead Seed. During battle the fervent women would take dying men, and force them to copulate. Filling their wombs with the seed of a dead man. These children would grow up to be unholy warriors.
I think it was said the Tenescowri were 100,000 strong led by Anaster the Fist Born of the Dead Seed.
Glad to read about Malazan 😊 here
The Shapeshifters from Deep Space 9. They put a pox on an entire race for being disobedient.
I was gonna say that alien from TNG who wiped out an entire civilization because they killed his wife.
This is a very interesting thought: the Dowdy alien you mention has wiped out an entire race of 50 billion beings, but is aware of his crime and lives in self exile. He’s committed an atrocious crime in a rage fit.
On the other hand, the changelings committed a planned crime with intent to cause suffering.
I’m not sure who’s worse: the Dowd by magnitude of the crime, but the Changelings ruthlessly command their Dominion.
Which aliens got the po?
I dont remember the name of the episode, but Bashir took a leave of absence and hung out on this planet for, I’d guess, a year to work on a cure. He didn’t find a cure but managed (by accident) to make a vaccine that saved new-borns from getting infected.
Kefka from Final Fantasy VI, Majora’s Mask from Majora’s Mask, or AM from I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream are all pretty evil.
C’Tan from 40K
Causes the Necrons to be a short lived race because the C’Tan living in their sun. A series of wars happen and the C’Tan is like “oh hi, we can make you ‘immortal’”
Turns the civilisation of Necrons into the slave machine race we know in 40K
The worst part was, the C’tan which ended up being known as The Deceiver convinced them that they could make the Necrontyr immortal, fixing their cancer ridden short lives, and aid them in their war against the Old ones. This was accomplished by a process called bio-transference using the bio furnaces. As the Necrontyr either willingly or unwillingly lined up to burn up their bodes in the furnaces, the C’tan could be seen above the bio furnaces gorging on the souls of the Necrontyr burning.
Yeah, fuck those things.
Naraku from Inuyasha.
Oh wait no.
God from The Bible.
I don’t remember all that much about Inuyasha but I remember while watching it thinking I had never hated a villain so much in any other thing I’d seen
The Fleshmancer in Sea of Stars is pretty terrible. He creates giant, potentially world destroying, monsters that feed on different types of despair, and so seek to create those emotions in as many people as possible. He committed one genocide against an entire race, and then trapped them in living death, unable to be seen, or leave his lab. He seems to have committed another genocide, just to make a birthday present for his friend. And this is all on just two planets, when he is acting in the same way across the entire multiverse
Big Brother.
The paranoia of everyone being on the watch for everything forcing everyone to be even more paranoid
Delores Umbridge.
