Complete Monster/G.I. Joe

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Complete Monsters from G.I. Joe:

* The original *G.I. Joe* comic, first under Marvel, now with IDW, has Doctor Venom. Where Cobra Commander at least had *one or two* humanizing moments, Venom was pure evil incarnate distilled into paint thinner. Invented a machine whose sole purpose was mind-raping prisoners, which was then adapted into brainwashing them. Had to team up with Kwinn and Snake Eyes for their mutual survival, yet never missed a chance to back-stab one or both of them and would repeatedly end up begging for his miserable life if cornered. If that's not enough, when Destro went into a Heroic BSOD at the sight of Baroness making an apparent Heroic Sacrifice to save him, Venom commented to Cobra Commander, "Doesn't he realize love is just the overestimation of one woman's value over another?" within earshot of Destro! Not only did he *never* show remorse, he never showed anything but child-like glee when inflicting suffering on others and anger if they survived.
	+ Vance Wingfield, from "Operation: Wingfield", is a military tactician obsessed with the idea of survival of the fittest, and, believing that a large portion of the human race has become weak, sets out to cull mankind. Wingfield plans to frame America for dropping a nuclear bomb onto a highly-populated Russian city] then ride out the ensuing World War III before rising up and ruling over whatever of humanity is left. To aid in his endeavors, Wingfield subjects numerous men to Training from Hell, while attempting to turn their children into Child Soldiers, and eventually tries to blow himself, his followers, and their entire families up with another nuke to ensure a nuclear holocaust starts even if he is dead. Surviving this event, though crippled, Wingfield to goes on to become an Arc Villain and create a virus that can pull satellites down from orbit, and proceeds to drop satellites onto both Chicago and Silicon Valley, killing thousands of men, women, and children, planning to do the same to Washington, D.C. and New York City as well. Even after death, Wingfield's crimes continue, as his son Tyler, whom Wingfield horribly abused and corrupted into becoming like him, tries to continue his father's legacy, threatening millions of lives, all the while unaware that his father was planning to kill him as a child because he was showing weakness. Wingfield stood out even among the terrorist organization Cobra as one of the few wholly irredeemable villains the Joes faced in their original comic run.
	+ While the original Cobra Commander had his good points, the *second* Cobra Commander (Real name Krake) is an egomaniacal psychopath of the highest order. Growing up in a war-torn country, Krake became a dangerous soldier by his teen years, and ruthlessly killed anyone who threatened his livelihood, from innocent slaves who worked too slow, to his own partners when he suspected one of them might be a mole. Joining up with Cobra, Krake became one of it's top enforcers, murdering dozens of innocents and trying to slaughter an entire village of people throughout his missions. Eventually taking over the organization as the new Commander, Krake's first order is to lead to an onslaught on the entire country of Nanzhao, massacring hundreds of innocents, nuking it's major cities, and turning it into a radioactive wasteland. Showing no loyalty or care for anyone but himself, Krake regularly attempts mass murder and bombings, from shooting up airports and bombing entire cities, to trying to drop an entire plane onto the city of Paris to kill one person. With slave camps worldwide, Krake has adults and children alike forced to work under threat of death, and, in some cases, sends the children to training camps where they are brainwashed into becoming sociopathic fanatics of Cobra's cause. A homicidal megalomaniac who killed any and all threats or annoyances to himself on a whim, Krake is one of the most wicked Cobra Commanders throughout the franchise.
	+ Chimera is a former Green Beret who got rich from manipulating stocks, however, when his crimes were discovered and his money taken from him, he murdered his entire family before going on the run. Undergoing facial reconstruction surgery, Chimera bombs the clinic where he had his operation to kill anyone who saw his face, and later murders numerous police officers who try to arrest him. Taking over a gang of thugs after executing their current leader, Chimera kidnaps a governor's daughter, claiming his plans to use her for ransom to his gang, before sadistically murdering her in front of her father to show his true goal isn't money, but destruction. Chimera reveals he has set two times, one of which will release a toxin that will kill millions of people worldwide, the other which will leak stock market strategies and maponey laundering secrets to corrupt individuals, and will lead to economic failure qwithin a few years. Though killed while trying to murder numerous Joes, Chimera's money laundering secrets are still leaked online. Demented and sadistic, Chimera may have been one of the first major villains the Joes faced, but he was easily one of the worst.
	+ Skullbuster is the recruit trainer for Cobra, and a sadistic brute to boot. To train potential recruits, Skullbuster takes them on long treks through isolated locations such as deserts or jungles, forcing them to start out naked and starved. When any of the recruits show weakness, such as decreasing mental health or revulsion at eating raw meat, Skullbuster wastes no time in ruthlessly killing them. Along their travels, Skullbuster has his troops murder any and all people they come across, be they Taliban soldiers or innocent villagers, in order to steal their supplies. Doing this routine weekly on separate groups each time, Skullbuster enjoys his job way too much, and takes sadistic pleasure in any of his trainees deaths, be they by his hand, their own weakness, or suicide. Though having limited appearances, Skullbuster made his mark as the most wicked low-level villain in the story.
* In *Action Force*, a British comic retooling of G.I. Joe, Baron Ironblood, later Cobra Commander, is a sociopathic terrorist obsessed with subjugating or destroying all he surveys. Having created the terrorist organization known as the Red Shadows in a murderous campaign, Ironblood uses them to perpetrate various atrocities throughout the comic, from attempting to wipe out entire cities to planning full-scale invasions of countries at a time, promising to paint the streets red with blood, until, finally annoyed at his constant losses, Ironblood betrays his entire organization to be wiped out by Action Force, ditching them to their fates while he restyles himself as Cobra Commander, creating a new group called Cobra in the process. With this new group, Cobra Commander's evil only increases, as he tries to kick-start wars, enslave London, and finally infect all of humanity with a plague, the cure for which he will only give to those who will bow down to him. Cobra Commander is also a horrific boss to his minions, subjecting them to training that kills dozens of them at a time, executing them for the pettiest of slights, and feeding them to ravenous beasts regularly for his own amusement. Be it as Ironblood or Cobra Commander, this power-hungry madman would let no man, woman, or child come between him and his goals, and he kills thousands of them to illustrate this point.
* *G.I. Joe Extreme* comic mini-series:
	+ Iron Klaw is the main villain the military team the G.I. Joes confront in this comic miniseries, and handily the worst. The leader of the terrorist group Soldiers of Kaos, Anarchy, and Ruin, or S.K.A.R., surpassed in rank only by the Duchess, Iron Klaw murdered his way to the top position of the group, and is a horrific boss, murdering his henchmen for everything from accidentally touching him, to simply assert his ego. After murdering the Duchess when she slowly shows disgust for his homicidal plans for world domination, Iron Klaw murders a man, taking out many of his soldiers in the same instance, to steal his political position, and proceeds to steal the powerful crop hormone known as Ferti-gel, poisons it, then plans to spread it across numerous countries to plunge them into famine and drought in order to blackmail the world with his massive supply of food. Even when forced into an Enemy Mine situation with the Joes against Red Scream, Iron Klaw takes every opportunity to betray and try to murder his "allies". Iron Klaw was a complete sociopath who was only concerned with his own personal power.
	+ Inferno is a psychopathic Mad Bomber who, though only a minor servant of Iron Klaw in the present, is revealed to be a truly wicked individual in his backstory, shown in the short arc From the Ashes. Using his pyrotechnic skills, Inferno bombed more than half a dozen military bases, killing dozens of innocent American soldiers, and follows it up by blowing up an American intelligence agency, killing more than thirty people. After bombing the recently-created G.I. Joe base, wiping out most of the starting Joes, Inferno goes on to try and kill the President of the United States with an explosive during a mass funeral for his own victims, fully aware of the dozens of military families present.
* Cobra Commander from *G.I. Joe: Resolute* is the ruthless leader of Cobra, an international terrorist group. He appears before the United Nations using a hologram generator and demands all the nations of the world surrender their authority to him. To prove he is serious, Cobra Commander uses a giant laser weapon to destroy Moscow and kill 10 million people. He will destroy other cities if his demands are not met within 24 hours. When the GI Joes discover his base, Cobra Commander freaks out and begins to slaughter his own men, and then he targets his laser weapon at Washington D.C, before the GI Joe thwart him.
* The Cobra Commander of *G.I. Joe: Renegades* is Adam DeCobray, CEO of Cobra Industries, a business organization he uses to cover up a ruthless terrorist group. Using Cobra to manufacture everything from weapons to plagues, Commander frames a group of soldiers who try to reveal Cobra Industries's true colors, sending them on the run for the rest of the series. When the soldiers, called "Joes," continuously meddle in his plans, Commander has the parents of the leader, Duke, kidnapped, offers a deal for their lives, then plans on killing them along with the Joes after the deal is through. Commander takes no slight against him lightly, shown when he tries to bomb a college to kill one blogger who slanders Cobra Industries, feeds a possible whistleblower to his pet, Serpentor, and seals a metal mask onto James McCullen (Destro) for leaking information about Cobra. Along with regularly attempting to starve, annihilate, and blackmail entire cities, Commander has a lethal virus developed that he plans on spreading across the world, then selling the cure only to those who can afford it. After his plan to Mind Control the entire planet fails, Commander plans to use the M.A.S.S. device to transport his armies across the globe and Take Over the World. When The Joes interfere once again, he flies into a rage, brutally beats them down, then tries to drag Duke down with him when he falls over an edge. Cold-blooded and power-hungry beyond salvation, Cobra Commander here is once again far worse than his original counterpart ever hoped to be.
	+ Dr. Mindbender is the young, sociopathic, top scientist of Cobra. Commisioned by Cobra Commander to build an army of Bio-Vipers, Mindbender happily tries to feed the Joes to them, and when one of his Vipers escapes and begins causing chaos, Mindbender goes to extra lengths to put civilians in danger. When the people of a town Cobra is plunging into a drought by building a dam begin fighting back against Cobra, Mindbender, along with The Baroness, pay Firefly to destroy the town and its inhabitants. Tracking down twin psychics, whom he located by torturing a fake medium, Mindbender captures and subjects the twins to horrific experiments. Later, The Joes accidentally release the powerful Electro-Viper onboard a ship, and Mindbender remotely targets it towards Destro's castle, completely aware of the destruction the creature would cause once it reaches land. After another of his Vipers escapes, Mindbender tortures a young boy for the Viper's whereabouts, and later tries to level Brooklyn, New York to act as a distraction while he flees The Joes. Helping build the M.A.S.S. device for Cobra, Mindbender nonchalantly tests it on Cobra's own soldiers, many of whom don't survive, and later tries to send Snake-Eyes through the machine in order to force his best friend to reveal the machine's secrets to him, then tries to kill them both once the device starts working. Doing everything for sick thrills or For Science!, Mindbender may not have been as powerful or influential as his cohorts, but he far surpassed them in sheer evil.
* In *Sgt Savage And His Screaming Eagles*, the one-episode Direct-to-Video Spin-Off of *G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero*, the Big Bad, Lieutenant Garrison "General Blitz" Krieger (who also goes by Dr. Garret Stromm), quickly establishes himself as one of the most evil characters in the franchise. A member of The IRON (International Robotic Operations Network) Army in World War II, Krieger infiltrated the U.S. Army and served in Sgt. Savage's unit, all of whom he led into a trap, with only Savage surviving the ensuing slaughter. Krieger then subjects Savage to horrific experiments in his attempts to create a super-soldier to help The IRON Army win the war. Having Savage cryogenically frozen after The IRON Army's defeat, Krieger turns himself into a cyborg and spends the next 50 years re-establishing The IRON Army in secret, helping to create the terrorist group Cobra in the process. When Savage's frozen body is located by the G.I. Joes, Krieger dispatches an executioner robot to kill Savage and any Joes that get in its way. Krieger then initiates his master plan: Using a satellite weapon to take control of Earth's computer systems, then leading The IRON Army in the conquest of the world. Savage, though brutally beaten and taunted by Krieger, manages to stop his plan, but not before Krieger makes his escape. A vicious would-be dictator, Krieger was willing to betray, torture, and murder anyone who got in his way to ensure domination of the world.
* *G.I. Joe: The Movie*: Golobulus, the ruler of the ancient serpent civilization Cobra-La and the Bigger Bad for both Cobra Commander and Serpentor, is the most evil villain in the original G.I. Joe animated series. Once the ruler of Earth, Golobulus and his subjects were forced underground 40,000 years ago due to the Ice Age, and when, centuries later, Golobulus planned to resurface and rule once more, he was outraged when he saw that humanity had become the dominant species. Refusing to share the Earth with anything even close in intelligence to himself, Golobulus installed one of his servants into a terrorist organization as its leader, this servant rechristening himself Cobra Commander and making countless attempts to wipe out or dominate human civilization in the name of Golobulus. Growing annoyed with Commander when he constantly fails, Golobulus painfully transforms him into an actual cobra, then reveals that he plans to drop spores onto the Earth to agonizingly turn all of mankind into monstrous beasts with animal intelligence so as to pave the way for Golobulus to rule once more. When the G.I. Joes show up to stop him, Golobulus puts his sadistic personality on full display as he proclaims his plans to bathe his hands in their blood and make sure the last noise they hear is the sound of their own vertebrae snapping one by one. Despite appearing in a series known for its rather cheesy, ineffectual villains, Golobulus was a surprisingly dark and cruel villain, with his genocidal plans surpassing anything attempted thus far in the series.
* *G.I. Joe: Rise Of Cobra*/ *G.I.Joe: Retaliation*: Cobra Commander is the power-hungry leader of the terrorist organization C.O.B.R.A., a group bent on world domination. Once a simple U.S. soldier, Cobra was declared dead after a failed mission, when in fact he was studying advanced mind-controlling technology. After testing the potentially lethal tech on his sister, Ana, Cobra teams up with corrupt weapons developer Destro and forces Ana to assist them in their crimes for the next 4 years. Helping Destro in his attempts to use nanite missiles to wipe out 4 highly-populated cities, Cobra later uses Ana as a hostage when the G.I. Joes try to stop him. Escaping prison months later, Cobra orders Zartan, disguised as the President of The United States, to wipe out the Joes, which succeeds for the most part. At a summit of world leaders, Cobra reveals Project: Zeus, a Kill Sat that he plans on holding the world hostage with. To show the power of Project: Zeus, Cobra orders Zartan to activate it, wiping out London in the process. When Joes who survived Zartan's attempt on their lives begin ruining Cobra's scheme, Cobra sets Project: Zeus to destroy each of the seven continents' most highly-populated cities to act as a distraction while he makes his escape.
	+ Zartan, Cobra Commander's right-hand man, is a Psycho for Hire who takes part in C.O.B.R.A.'s schemes out of sheer sadism. When Storm Shadow was a child, Zartan murdered his uncle, framed him for it, then corrupted him into evil, for no discernible reason other than sick amusement. Helping steal nanite missiles for C.O.B.R.A., Zartan gleefully murders any G.I. Joes who stand in his way, then does the same to an innocent traveler while fleeing the Joe base. Capturing and impersonating The President of The United States, who he regularly tortures for information, Zartan orders Storm Shadow to kill The President of Pakistan, sparking a civil war, and frames the Joes for it. On Cobra Commander's orders, he has most of the Joes wiped out for "treason," and giddily tests Project: Zeus on London, annihilating it. Finally, after Storm Shadow turns on Zartan and calls him out on the murder of his uncle, Zartan simply taunts him about it before making one last attempt to kill him.
* Cobra Commander in *G.I. Joe: Reloaded* is, much like many of his other incarnations, a pure evil lunatic in this mini-series created to make a more realistic take on the franchise. As the leader of the terrorist group Cobra, the Commander is a power-hungry madman obsessed with bringing America to its knees, and kicks the story off by blowing up the Golden Gate Bridge and the many innocents on it. Going on to try and steal the US Constitution, the Commander's ultimate plan is to drop the Omega Black virus onto a highly-populated city, which will painfully rot the bodies of the millions infected by it before melting their brains, at which point he will blackmail other cities to cow to his whims. When the Joes show up to stop him, the Commander attempts to simply launch as many nukes as possible as he makes his retreat. Despite his seemingly-benevolent attitude toward his minions, this is completely thrown out the window when he is revealed to ruthlessly execute anyone who fails him, even animals, and goes a murder spree of his own soldiers for the pettiest of reasons. Though slightly implied to have a tragic backstory and many claims of well-intentioned goals, Cobra Commander is ultimately shown to be a remorseless and deranged tyrant with nothing but greed and evil itself driving him.
* In the non-canon, Alternate Universe of *Future Noir*, Dr. Mindbender is portrayed as far worse than his mainstream counterpart. A sociopathic Mad Scientist, Mindbender performs horrifying experiments on numerous innocents, including children, who are drawn into the cult of Cobra that leave them as hideous monsters in constant agony that he uses to kill anyone who defies Cobra. With raving fanaticism for his leader, Serpentor, Mindbender plans to spread a toxin countrywide that will turn all it infects into monstrous and mangled beasts in order to leave only the "pureness" of the Cobra cult to exist in the world. Committing his crimes For Science! and misanthropy, Mindbender stood out as a wicked monster who more than made up for his crimes with the sheer monstrosity of the ones he perpetrated.