Adam Taurus

* Masked
* Vale
* Unmasked

Planning to bomb a train full of passengers, which could have caused dozens to hundreds of deaths.
Participating in the downfall of the Beacon Academy, murdering many innocent people in the process.
Slicing off Yang's arm.

### Cool/Complex/Good Qualities

His character design looks pretty cool and he is a professional fighter due to his cool skills and abilities.
While it is not a justifiable reason for his actions, he has a tragic past since he suffered from constant racism.
He used to care for Blake prior to betraying her out of sadism.
Garrett Hunter's great performance.

### Kill Count

Thousands (at least)
2 (attempted)

### Most Evil Crimes

Terrorism
Mass murder
Psychological abuse
Torture
Vandalism
Mutilation
Mass destruction
Public endangerment
Usurpation
Stalking

### Type of CN

Vengeful Knight

**Adam Taurus** is a major antagonist in the ongoing animated web-series *RWBY*. He served as one of the main antagonists of Volume 6.

He is a bull Faunus who is known for being abused and shut out by society, and then he decided to make mankind pay for everything they have done to him, so he decided to become a dark knight and work with an organisation called the White Fang. He is also the ex-boyfriend and mentor of Blake Belladonna and he is now her arch-nemesis. On top of that, Adam is Yang Xiao Long's arch-rival and at the same time, he is also her love rival (since Adam and Yang both have a crush on Blake herself).

He is voiced by Garrett Hunter. In the Japanese dubbed version, he is voiced by Yūichi Nakamura.

## What Makes Him a Complete Nightmare?

* He murdered numerous innocent people to satisfy his bloodlust, and he committed multiple acts of terrorism by lacking consideration to his victims.
* In order to hide his true nature from the public, Adam disguises himself as a well-intentioned extremist for his own sake.
* He took pleasure in physically and mentally abusing Blake.
* He unleashed a horde of Grimm onto the city during the Vytal Festival and caused many deaths.
* Due to Blake ending her relationship with him because of his cruelty, Adam made a plan to kill Blake for fun.
* Before attempting to murder Blake in cold blood, he swore to her that he would stop at nothing to destroy everything she loves.
* When Yang tried to stop Adam from killing Blake, Adam sliced Yang's arm off.
* In order to become the High Leader of the White Fang, Adam murdered Sienna Khan and usurped her.
* He slaughters anyone who questions his actions.
* After attempting to destroy Haven, he stalks Blake and eventually attempts to murder her for vengeful reasons.
* He uses his tough life of racism as an excuse for his various murders.
* While he was given several chances to redeem himself, Adam is overall a smug, hypocritical, power-hungry, vile and petty sadist who is criticised and feared by everyone else in-universe, especially Blake and Yang themselves. Also, his sympathetic past doesn't make anything better because he claims that his tragedy is the reason for his crimes.

## Trivia

* Only the canon version of Adam Taurus is a Complete Nightmare, since the anime version of him from *RWBY: Ice Queendom* has less screentime and isn't as evil as he was in the original show. It could also be possible that Adam's crimes were offscreen in *RWBY: Ice Queendom*.
* His manga version also cannot qualify because that version of him is far less evil and lacks sufficient screentime.

## External Links

* Adam Taurus on the Villains Wiki
* Adam Taurus on the Pure Evil Wiki
* Adam Taurus on the RWBY Wiki