History Monster / WebSerialNovels

* ''Literature/FromHellIWrite'' trilogy: [[BigBad Eileen Hoffmister]] is a WickedWitch in [[PsychoSupporter direct service]] to {{Satan}} himself. She abducts people—-usually [[WouldHurtAChild children]]--and offers them to Satan to transform into zombie slaves [[AndIMustScream damned to Hell]] upon death. In the prequel, Eileen and her husband, Leo, capture Stella, a young girl who stumbled across their cottage in the woods. They throw her in a basement with their zombie servant, Lester, and attempt to offer her to Satan. When he rejects her, Eileen plans to [[ManOnFire burn her]]. In the original story, she and Leo force their adopted son, David, to participate in Satanic rituals and [[AbusiveParents abuse him]]. Eileen stalks Patrick Williams and his family; abducted his older brothers (and is implied to have castrated one of them); allows herself to be possessed; and chases Patrick and his 5-year-old sister Nancy and eviscerates their babysitter, Betty, when she tries to protect the children. The two are then brought back to the house, where Eileen kills Leo for disobeying her (he attempted to rape Nancy despite her not being ready), and is revealed to have zombified Patrick's family, along with missing children and finally Patrick himself. Twenty years later, in the sequel, Nancy finds a still-possessed Eileen in the home of her boyfriend Jackson, with Elieen making a final attempt to kill Nancy before going to Hell for good.

** "[[EvilIsPetty D]]" is a powerful goddess charged with managing the Underworld, but is [[TheGodsMustBeLazy lazy]] and [[JerkassGods sadistic]]. Following a war with the dragons that left the Other World depleted of its magical energy and on the brink of collapse, D--who could have simply replenished it by herself--implemented the System, a JRPG-style cycle of reincarnation that only prolonged the Other World's degradation at the cost of millions of souls. Growing bored, D snuck off to Earth and masqueraded as a Japanese high-school student named Wakaba Hiiro until a Hero and Demon Lord destroyed the classroom in an attempt to assassinate her. [[YourSoulIsMine Collecting the souls]] of her classmates, teacher, and a spider, D inserted them into the System while altering their reincarnations to play cruel pranks on them. When the spider--[[Characters/SoImASpiderSoWhatKumoko Kumoko]]--apotheosized into a goddess intent on avenging the suffering D had inflicted on everyone, D named her Shiraori to prevent her from doing so while sabotaging her plans to save the Other World. In the light novel, D further brainwashed Shiraori into slavishly falling in love with her to ensure her loyalty. When Shiraori is left in a severely-weakened state after dismantling the System, D captures her intending to keep her as a slave for further amusement.

* ''Literature/NineteenNinetyNine'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Mr. Bear]], the owner of Caledon Local 21, was a SerialKiller who targeted [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. He [[DepravedKidsShowHost created several shows geared towards children]], and he would frequently invite his viewers to become guest stars on the show. He would then hold the children who came to his house hostage, and [[SnuffFilm filmed]] himself interacting with them, occasionally abusing them if they acted against his rules. After acquiring enough victims, Mr. Bear eventually drugged sixteen children before burning all of them alive and fleeing from the police, never to be seen again.

** [[TheFundamentalist Douglas Coe]], known among his followers as "The Great Teacher", is a fundamentalist preacher who seeks to spread his particular brand of Evangelical Christianity across the United States at all costs. Coe first works closely with President Rumsfeld, helping the President turn the country into a kleptocracy and remove political dissident. When Coe feels that Rumsfeld is no longer politically useful to him, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Coe arranges for the latter's impeachment and arrest]]. When Congress refuses to cooperate with him, Coe launches a coup that leads to destruction of the Capitol and numerous deaths of Washington's political leadership. Under his rule, Coe turns the US into the "Christian States of America", where dissent is outlawed, and non-Evangelical Christians and "degenerates" such as homosexuals or drug addicts are designated for death. In his campaign to bring the rest of the country to heel, Coe [[NukeEm has at least a dozen American cities destroyed with nuclear weapons]]. In order to stop a Cuban invasion of Florida, Coe uses several more nuclear weapons, indifferent to the millions of innocent people killed due to his actions. When the nuclear stockpiles begin to run low, Coe authorizes the use of chemical and biological weapons in his war against the resisting American populace. Believing himself to be [[KnightTemplar the messenger of God]], Douglas Coe created one of the most oppressive and violent regimes in American history.

* ''Literature/FaceTheStorm'': "[[DarkMessiah Q]]" is the leader of a [[ConspiracyTheorist conspiracy group]] whose ambitions are the catalyst for much death and destruction. Trying to be elected President, Q uses his cronies to commit terror attacks to spread fear within the public, also spreading his corruption to the police and FBI. Losing the election, Q retaliates by leading various attacks throughout America, culminating in him overriding the government and nuking various cities. By 2040, America is a dystopian dictatorship, with Q's megalomania inspiring other like-minded psychopaths to rile up conflicts within their own countries.

** [[CardCarryingVillain Heinrich Strauss]], the BigBad of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15213782/chapters/35285258 73 Years Later]]'', when sent by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to find the key to immortality, occupied a village in Norway, where he released captured Jewish families out in a field to be used as target practice; forced Harold to watch as his dogs killed his soldiers; and shot Harold in front of his boyfriend Alfred. Slipping into a coma, he killed the witch Alitha and decided to become immortal. In present day, he made himself look like Harold and killed Alfred himself, visiting his funeral just to spit on his grave. Desiring to kill Alfred's grandson Michael, he has Danielle lure them to his hideout, where he kills her and Michael's boyfriend Lucas. Resurrected in ''Electrocution'', Heinrich [[UngratefulBastard kills the scientists who brought him back to life]] and escapes with Vincent North. Establishing an underground concentration camp, Heinrich has Vincent torture a captured Michael for years while he gleefully executes captured survivors of all ages. Once Natalie Walker's men storm his base, Heinrich murders Vincent for failing him, leaves his men to die, and orders every one of his injured soldiers killed.
** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Vincent North]], debuting in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15659709 Cold Winter Nights]]'', is a SerialKiller who murders women of all ages by freezing them to death overnight, taking photos of their corpses and selling them on [[MurderDotCom the Dark Web]]. As a child, he let his injured mother die in the freezing cold, disappointed when her screams and suffering proved too quick. Resurrected alongside Heinrich in ''Electrocution'', Vincent killed the scientists there and escaped with Heinrich. Working with Heinrich in his underground concentration camp as his TortureTechnician, Vincent tortures Michael for three years, while also taking random women from the camp and freezing them to death, storing the frozen corpses in his room as trophies.
** ''Literature/{{Electrocution}}'': [[BigBad Natalie Walker]] is a selfish [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businesswoman]] who seeks to become [[AGodAmI the Earth's goddess]]. Finding a staff that resulted in a huge meteorite crashing into the Empire State Building, Natalie [[LackOfEmpathy cared nothing for the thousands of deaths]], and killed her girlfriend for witnessing the event. Cutting the breaks in her parents' car, she took over her father's company and began researching the meteorite's substances on animals. Using the serum on Heinrich and Vincent, she left her scientists to die by their hands, then decided to have people kidnapped, killed, and experimented on once she found that she could control the resurrected mutants. Unleashing these mutants onto New York, she establishes an underground base where its citizens view her as a goddess and the women are kept as {{sex slave}}s. Sending Maggie to kill Heinrich, she turns her men into mutants against her wishes, kills Michael, and tries to use Maggie and her soldiers as a way to spread her virus across the world.

** [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Paula]] is one of the doctors working in New Hope. Under her control, the girls are viciously abused physically and mentally, either by the aides working in the academy or by Dr. Paula herself, whose 3-hour long daily "sessions" with the girls are daily, personal humiliations of each girl by bringing up their past, with NoSympathy whatsoever for anything they went through--notably [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming blaming Anah]], who was raped by her stepfather, for causing her own rape. Mental abuse also includes being isolated in a straitjacket. Physical abuse includes stripping and beatdowns for the pettiest of reasons, such as putting duct tape over Athena's mouth and hands, [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment starving her for the entire day]], before removing the duct tape the next day, in full awareness that when ripped off the next day, the duct tape would remove skin. When Ursula refuses to break under her abuse, Dr. Paula has no problem abusing even more the other girls until she breaks. Despite claiming to have good intentions, Dr. Paula proves to be a delusional, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist, homophobic and bigoted]] monster.

* ''Literature/FourKingdoms'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2634424 link]]) & ''[[Literature/FourKingdomsContinued Continued]]'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2670280 link]]): [[BigBad Karju]], the Head Boar of the Scrofa tribe, is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] torturing an adulterous woman by [[GroinAttack shoving a hot rod into her womb]] before throwing her into the wilderness, where she dies. When Jabali, his then-fiancée, calls him out on this, he intimidates her before eventually [[DomesticAbuse beating her]] to force her to submit to his will until she runs away, with him giving chase. He proceeds to kill anyone who gets in his way and even stages an invasion of the Aves' city, killing even more people. He eventually has Jabali captured and brought to him, at which point he beats and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes her]]. He does this again the next two days; on the third day, he grows tired of her continued "disobedience", and takes a branding iron and brands her like a wild pig. When Jabali's husband, Cal, tries to rescue her, Karju fights him, taunting and toying with him all the while, nearly killing him before Cal's horse, Xanthus, steps in trying to protect Cal only to get himself killed by Karju.

** [[ItsAllAboutMe Potimas Harrifenas]]'s [[MadScientist unethical experiments]] with [[TheLifestream MA energy]] in [[ImmortalityImmorality pursuit of immortality]] led to the creation of supernatural demihumans and predatory monsters; turned his daughter Ariel into a human-spider hybrid; and sparked a war between humans and dragons that led to most of the world's MA energy being siphoned--leaving it on the brink of implosion. Evolving himself into an elf, Potimas grew fearful of divine retribution and hid himself away, using clones and cyborg doppelgängers to continue his experiments in secret. Millennia later, Potimas discovered his second daughter Filimøs was the reincarnation of a human from another world and tricked her into helping him capture the other reincarnates, killing those he deemed a potential threat to his plans and intending to sacrifice the rest [[GodhoodSeeker to attain godhood]]. When one of the reincarnates, Kumoko, allied with Ariel to oppose him, Potimas attempted to manipulate them into helping him seize control of a planet-destroying superweapon--callously sending thousands of elves to their deaths in the process--while repeatedly attempting to kill them out of spite. Continuing his MA energy experiments and superweapon development, Potimas manipulated the reincarnates he'd gathered into fighting to protect him when Kumoko--apotheosized into the goddess Shiraori--and Ariel led an army to stop his plans, intending to have his daughters fight to the death while he attempted to escape the planet.

* ''[[Literature/LesTracesDuPasse Les traces du passé]]'' (''Traces of the Past'') ([[https://m.fictionpress.com/s/3331032 link]]): [[WouldHurtAChild Sister Jeanne Belanger]], while claiming to be a woman of God, was far worse. While she founded her {{orphanage|Of Fear}} with genuinely good intentions, she started torturing the children all day, starving, dehydrating them or even whipping them into unconsciousness. She'd also bring the children to {{pedophile priest}}s, who would promptly rape and enslave them. When a group of orphans led by Sophie attempted to escape the orphanage, Belanger captured them at the last second and locked them in a cave, watching as they starved to death. Appropriately described by Luc De la Courbillère as the devil incarnate, Belanger, [[SmallRoleBigImpact despite her short-lived influence]], gave the children's ghosts a more than understandable FreudianExcuse for their actions.

** [[PredecessorVillain Dread Empress Triumphant]][[note]]May She Never Return[[/note]], the evilest Tyrant to ever emerge from the Wasteland, was a prodigy Diabolist who climbed the Tower and cowed the High Lords into subservience through overwhelming might, with her [[TheLegionsOfHell hordes of devils and demons]] rechristening the Praesi Legions into the Legions of Terror. Within ten years Triumphant was able to conquer all of Calernia through dint of bloody massacre, with notable crimes including the release of a Demon of Madness on Laure; the slaughter of a fifth of the Gigantes in a battle that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives as collateral damage; the slaying of a Seraphim summoned to stop her, after which she butchered a hundred different tribes for their defiance; and the extermination of two random cities in her fury at being denied the Golden Bloom. Triumphant's [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen reign]] was no better than her conquest, as she regularly forced children to show obeisance by crucifying their own parents, and her final act upon inevitably being overthrown was to bring down the Tower in an effort to [[TakingYouWithMe take her killers with her]]. Having entertained wide-scale torture and murder with an eye towards expanding her rule across all of Creation, [[TheDreaded Triumphant]] inspired such fear and terror that countless future generations of Praesi [[HorrifyingTheHorror pray for her to never somehow find a way to return from death]].
** Mighty [[GodhoodSeeker Kurosiv]] was once a jaklavar noble of the Empire Ever Dark before allowing Rumena and Sve Noc to kill the Twilight Sages in hopes of taking over in the wars that would follow. Having learned how to come BackFromTheDead and usurp portions of Night from its followers when they are slain, the "Leech" clashed with Rumena seven times over the centuries, intentionally [[WeHaveReserves sacrificing thousands of warriors]] in every encounter to overwhelm Rumena's sigils and gorge itself on stolen Night. Continuing to use these horrid tactics when brought into the War on Keter, Kurosiv takes advantage of Sve Noc's weakness in the wake of Night being ruined to poach two shards of the Gloom, [[AGodAmI declaring itself the divine Loc Ynan]] and making an alliance with the Dead King. While telling its followers that they will be left in peace for nine years so long as the drow stay out of the war and allow the dead to scour Calernia of all other life, Kurosiv truthfully intends to ascend to godhood by [[FinalSolution sacrificing its entire race]].
** Book 6: [[SerialRapist The Wicked Enchanter]] used his expertise in [[BrainwashedAndCrazy domination magics]] to [[RapePillageAndBurn murder, rob, and rape]] his way across the outskirts of the Brocelian Forest, with the tortures and rape he inflicted on one girl [[CreateYourOwnHero turning her into the Red Axe]]. At the advice of the Wandering Bard, the Enchanter joined the Truce and Terms for amnesty from his crimes, but not before taking his "court" to terrorize three more villages.

** [[ItsAllAboutMe Potimas Harrifenas]]'s [[MadScientist unethical experiments]] with [[TheLifestream MA energy]] in [[ImmortalityImmorality pursuit of immortality]] led to the creation of supernatural demihumans and predatory monsters; turned his daughter Ariel into a human-spider hybrid; and sparked a war between humans and dragons that led to most of the world's MA energy being siphoned--leaving it on the brink of implosion. Evolving himself into an elf, Potimas grew fearful of divine retribution and hid himself away, using clones and cyborg doppelgängers to continue his experiments in secret. Millennia later, Potimas discovered his second daughter Filimøs was the reincarnation of a human from another world and tricked her into helping him capture the other reincarnates, intending to sacrifice them all [[GodhoodSeeker to attain godhood]]. When one of the reincarnates, Kumoko, allied with Ariel to oppose him, Potimas activated an anti-dragon superweapon and attempted to self-destruct its core, which Kumoko consumed to apotheosize into the goddess Shiraori.

* ''Literature/{{The day I was forced to become a hitman}}'' ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/2kojy1/the_day_i_was_forced_to_become_a_hitman_kill_1/ link]]): "[[MorallyBankruptBanker Ralph]]" is a SerialRapist who [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections uses his connections to get away with his crimes]]. He harasses at least one of his female employees and on one occasion rapes her. After this, he kidnaps her young daughter and another girl, keeps them caged in his mansion, and regularly [[WouldHurtAChild rapes them]] for a long period of time. When the protagonist breaks into his mansion, he finds evidence which heavily implies that "Ralph" has done the same thing to many other girls over the years and has later [[SerialKiller disposed of them]].

* ''Literature/PenPal'': In the original Creepypasta, the protagonist's (nicknamed "Dathan") nondescript, unnamed {{stalker|With A Crush}} manages to establish himself as an irredeemable monster despite never even appearing in the story proper. A [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] who happens to receive a letter from the protagonist as a kindergartner as part of a school project, this man spends the next ten years obsessively following him; [[CrazyJealousGuy jealously]] murders anyone whom the protagonist is close to, even his [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals cat]]; tricks the protagonist's senile old neighbor into letting him into her house, then cuts her apart because she was kind to the protagonist; runs over and steals the phone from a girl the protagonist had a crush on, pretending to be her while texting him, as she dies in the hospital; and finally kidnaps the protagonist's best friend Josh and holds him captive for two years, forcing him to change his appearance to look like the protagonist and doing other things to him that are not elaborated upon. Finally, he tricks Josh's father into [[BuriedAlive burying him and Josh alive]]. When his crimes are discovered after his death, they scar the protagonist and those around him for life.

* ''Literature/TheAngloAmericanNaziWar'': [[DragonAscendant Heinrich Himmler]], head of the [[StateSec SS]] and UsefulNotes/TheGestapo, succeeds UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler as Germany's leader following the latter suffering a debilitating stroke. Overseeing UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, Himmler also executes political dissidents and kills tens of millions as he conquers much of Europe, going on to oppress the conquered Soviet Union with demands for slave labor and natural resources. Enacting a strict scorched earth policy to avoid the Allies being able to use resources of cities, Himmler causes millions to die and cares nothing for the countless European cultural and artistic works destroyed by his barbaric order. Using chemical warfare, Himmler devastates the UK and Italy, even as the latter surrenders. Facing revolt from both France and the Soviet Union, Himmler immediately responds by attacking both with nerve gas, killing hundreds of thousands and plunging the latter into a civil war. When the Allies move to conquer Germany, Himmler, unwilling to relinquish power, orders the bombing of any town planning to surrender.