Johan Liebert

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## Guile Villain

### Alias

Johan Liebert
Anna Liebert
The Nameless Monster
The Next Hitler
The Devil
Franz Heinau
Michael Reichmann
Erich Springer
Otro
Hanz
Thomas
J (by the media)

### Allies

Roberto
Christof Sievernich

### Powers/Skills

Genius-level intellect
Charisma
Inhuman prowess for manipulation
Extraordinary knowledge in the fields of psychology, economics and law
Multilingualism (fluency in German, Czech, French, English and Latin)
Mastery of disguise
Murder methodology
Torture methodology

### Goals

Kill the caretakers and orphans in 511 Kinderheim (succeeded)
Commit the "perfect suicide" (i.e to leave no trace of his existence)
Cause the collapse of human society and be the last man standing (formerly)
Ruin the lives of Kenzo Tenma and Anna Liebert
Drive Anna to insanity (all failed)

### "Evil is Cool" Zone

Causing the 511 Kinderheim massacre by encouraging the orphans and poor children to kill each other, which means he essentially attempted omnicide.
Using his intimidation to murder his caretakers even though he was homeless.

### MEH or Most Evil Actions

Murdering hundreds of innocent people in Germany remorselessly, directly or otherwise.
Psychologically torturing Detective Richard before pushing him to suicide and murdering him directly.
Nearly driving an orphaned child to suicide by sending him through a red-light district and indoctrinating him with nihilism.
Threatening to shoot Wim, a child, in the head and kill him unless Tenma kills him.

### Kill Count

Hundreds (at least)
Billions (attempted)

### Crimes

Mass murder (including child murder)
Mass corruption
Defamation
Attempted omnicide
Psychological torture
Instigating mass suicide
Madness inducement
Human trafficking (heavily implied)
Arson
Conspiracy
Incrimination
Attempted world domination
Stalking
Impersonation
Terrorism
Vandalism
Child abuse (including child endangerment and child abandonment)
Sabotage
Assault
Identity theft
Money laundering

### Type of Villain

Nihilistic Serial Killer

**Johan Liebert** is the titular main antagonist of the 2004 anime series *Monster*.

He is a sadistic and nihilistic criminal who has committed many crimes, killed hundreds of German people, and is infamous for nearly having all the humans on Earth killed in a massacre. He is the twin brother of Anna Liebert and the arch-nemesis of Kenzo Tenma, the main protagonist.

He was voiced by Nozomu Sasaki and Keith Silverstein in the English dubbed version.

## His Cool and Evil Rankings

### What Makes Him a Guile Villain?

* He had a tragic past due to Bonaparta's actions, but his sister Anna suffered the same trauma and walked out a good person, which mitigates it as an excuse, while Johan became more monstrous than Bonaparta, who had good intentions and standards even as a villain.
* He has alarming premeditation and calculation for his age, and he used it murder his caretakers despite being homeless, rewarding their kindness towards him and Anna with cruelty.
* He infamously caused the 511 Kinderheim massacre and attempted omnicide like a charismatic mastermind, once more as a child, by insidiously manipulating and provoking the orphans and instructors into inciting chaos—which culminated in the orphanage burning down and Johan tossing an oil rag into its fires, ominously watching as dozens of other children die by either killing each other or burning alive.
* When asked by Hartmann why he did this, Johan states his goal of causing the collapse of human civilization and to be the last man alive amidst a wasteland of death. There is no apparent motive for this beyond nihilism and, possibly, misanthropy.

### What Makes Him Evil?

* He murders Tenma's boss and coworkers Director Heinemann, Dr. Oppenheim, and Dr. Boyer with poisoned candy, ostensibly as a "favor" to Tenma for saving his life, simply because Tenma had unwittingly told Johan that Heinemann would be better off dead—despite this declaration stemming from anger and resentment rather than genuine malice.
* He encourages Rheinhard Dinger and other serial killers to commit murderous acts with little to no effort, seemingly bearing a corrupting influence on a nearly supernatural level.
* He organizes a successful money laundering business only to abandon it, which in turn instigates another massacre.
* He hires serial killers from all around Germany, including Adolf Junkers and his two partners, to dispose of all of his former foster parents—only to backstab the trio by disposing of them once they've outlived their utility.
* He cares about nobody but himself, he treats all of his allies like pawns and takes his habitat on backstabbing his own subordinates or neglects their potential deaths; even his most loyal henchman, Roberto, is not exempt from this callousness when he dies before an indifferent Johan's eyes without having his end of the bargain fulfilled, as he is ultimately nothing more to Johan than a pawn.
* He hires Detective Messener and Michael Müller to murder the Fortners, Anna's (now Nina's) new family, upon luring her out of their domicile.
* He corrupts children with his worldviews and convinces them to jump from rooftops as a game, which they're told to try again should they survive. It's highly likely that many of them either become critically wounded or do not survive.
* He initially plans to have Schuwald assassinated by his hitman Roberto so that he may seize control of Germany's economy, manipulating murderers to target those close to Schuwald in order to get closer to him by taking their place and earning his trust, in addition to driving Edmund Fahren to suicide for no apparent reason. His reason for nearly subjugating the economy is to set his aforementioned apocalyptic initial plan in motion.

## Trivia

* Due to attempting a cataclysm and driving children into suicide, Johan Liebert is not only regarded as one of the most acclaimed anime villains of all time, but he is possibly the darkest and evilest anime villain in the history of anime, since it is implied that he commits human trafficking and he convinces children to commit suicide.
* As already mentioned above, Johan is implied to trade humans for sexual slavery, forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker of others. If this is confirmed to be true, it would make Johan much worse.

## External Links

* Johan Liebert on the Villains Wiki
* Johan Liebert on the Monster Wiki
* Johan Liebert on the Pure Evil Wiki