Much like Cartoon Network, some Nickelodeon shows have their own monsters as well. The following works have their own pages;
He's going to have chicken to eat. Because he's a "meaner."
Shows And Tie-In Material[]
- From the Danny Phantom special episode "The Ultimate Enemy" comes Dark Danny/Dan Phantom, a malevolent and sadistic specter born of a freak accidental fusion between the ghost halves of Danny Fenton and his Arch Enemy, Vlad Masters. He is the only villain in the show who has actually been implied to kill anyone, which is saying a lot for a Nickelodeon show - the first thing Dark Danny does upon his conception is brutally murder his human half, maim Vlad, and reduce his mansion to flaming rubble before embarking on a campaign of random destruction across Earth and the Ghost Zone for his own amusement. In the Bad Future, Dan has conquered the world, singlehandedly handicapped multiple ghosts, and ruined what is implied to be a very large portion of the Earth, turning his old hometown of Amity Park into an apocalyptic wasteland. Realizing that other parties have been meddling in the time stream, Dan decides to personally ensure his birth by making sure the catalyst that caused his transformation happens - the deaths of Danny's parents, sister, two best friends, and teacher in an accidental boiler explosion. When Jazz, Sam, and Tucker catch onto his intentions and try to stop him, Dan cruelly torments them with energy binding and taunts about how they cannot delay the inevitable, clearly relishing the chance to draw things out before he kills them. Dark Danny stood out as being one of the darkest and most chilling villains in the series, even turning the Bad Future version of Vlad into The Atoner for his role in Dark Danny's creation. The guy is so bad that this is the only time that the Master of Time has had to interfere to keep his birth from happening.
- Iron Man: Armored Adventures: The Makluan Overlord is the supreme ruler of the Makluan race. For thousands of years, he used the powers of the Ten Rings to conquer countless worlds and enslave entire civilizations, in some instances destroying them. After his son stole the Rings, the Overlord started chasing him all across the universe, determined to kill him for his betrayal. Once he discovers the Rings are hidden on Earth, he comes there with his army and quickly retrieves them before sending drones and giant robots to cause havoc in the nearest city, much to his sadistic entertainment. Amused by the efforts of Iron Man and his friends to defend their planet, the Makluan Overlord offers them to spare Earth if they manage to defeat his best warriors in his Arena of Carnage. However, he refuses to keep his promise when they win his challenge and prepares to destroy the whole planet instead, gleefully electrocuting all the humans who try to oppose him beforehand. Despite his claims that he's fulfilling the great Makluan prophecy and bringing order in the cosmos, it is obvious to everyone that the Makluan Overlord is nothing more than a power-hungry tyrant who merely wants to enslave the entire universe.
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius has several silly villains, but one who really stands out as completely vile is Meldar Prime, who ran an intergalactic game show where he forces different alien races to compete against each other and he blows up the losers' home planet. The losers, being the only survivors of their kind now, are enslaved by Meldar, who also makes a profit off of their planets' destruction and the ratings it brings, which allows his twisted show to get more success and continue. When the humans and their opponents, the Gorlocks, refused to play by his rules and joined together to stand against him, Meldar tried to have them all killed. He even made particularly vicious attempts on their lives himself using power granted to him by time-space bending energy generators. Not even Tim Allen's funny delivery in voicing the character could change the fact of how evil he was and that Jimmy and the others treated him as a very serious threat to the entire galaxy.
- The Mysterious Cities of Gold:
- Conquistador Francisco Pizarro is the conqueror of the Incan Empire and a cruel, greedy man out for his own enrichment. Seeking the Cities of Gold, Pizarro tries to have entire villages razed and to kill or enslave young Esteban and his friends. Taking over the Incas, Pizarro forces them into slavery and massacres a great deal of them, wiping out their empire to establish control. Ostensibly loyal to the Spanish crown, Pizarro's only true loyalty is to himself and his insatiable greed.
- King Menator is the cruel ruler of the Olmecs, an underground race seeking immortality. Tyrannizing many of the local tribes, Menator kills and harvests countless innocents for their skin cells to rejuvenate himself and the Olmecs, trying to have Esteban and his friends subject to the same fate and ordering an entire village massacred when they escape into its borders. Menator seeks the Cities of Gold for its priceless technology, using his flying weapon to vaporize many of the Mayans—-whom he regards as utterly inferior-—when they rise up against him, and even horribly beating the young Tao against a cliff side with the threat of killing him if he's not allowed access to the Cities of Gold. Though preaching everything he does is for the benefit of his race, Menator only intends to preserve those "worthy" while dismissing the lives of the rest and even his own loyal soldiers, intent only on taking what he can and killing everyone else in his way.
- In the SpongeBob Comics comic series gave us the Big Bad of the two issue Untidaled arc, an unnamed Kraken who is by far the darkest villain in the franchise. Why? It turns out that not only is the Kraken responsible for the draining of Bikini Bottoms' water (endangering most of its residents who all need water to breathe) that kickstarted the arc in the first place, but he's in fact a Serial Killer who eats the sentient fish of Bikini Bottom. While he began eating the fish so that he could have others "with him" rather than remain lonely, he found he had a taste for sea life that hadn't ceased. Initially hired by Plankton to steal Krabby Patties in order to get the Krabby Patty secret formula from Eugene Krabs, the Kraken instead tries to force Mr. Krabs to make him a giant Krabby Patty that will attract MANY unfortunate citizens into his jaws, taking Krabs' whale daughter Pearl as a hostage and threatening to eat her if Krabs doesn't comply with his demands. He also turns on Plankton and causes Sandy to almost drown. When SpongeBob and the rest try to save Pearl and escape, the Kraken has a group of Devil Jellies out to kill them all via electrocution before he then attempts to devour them all himself - the only thing that saves them is the Kraken allowing Krabs to hear one last song from Pearl purely because he found the idea amusing. With no redeeming features to be seen and very few comedic moments, the Kraken was almost out of place for a SpongeBob story.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 series)
- Dr. Victor Falco, AKA the Rat King. The Turtles meet him while investigating a scientist's mysterious disappearance, and while Falco at first seems like a decent guy, it's soon revealed that he kidnapped his colleague in order to mercilessly perform torturous experiments on him that mutate him into an ape-like creature so that he can use the mutated DNA to create a serum to gives himself Psychic Powers. While moderately successful at this, Falco ends up losing his job and having to continue his experiments on rats in private. A freak accident leaves him blind and disfigured, but also grants him the psychic ability to control rats. Claiming to be in touch with the rats' views, Falco turns against humanity for being "filthy vermin", adopts the name Rat King, and seeks to have his rats take over the city by driving the humans away. He also ruthlessly Mind Rapes Splinter several times to break his spirit and turn him into his slave. He goes as far as to manipulate Splinter with memories of his dead wife and daughter, and then uses him as a weapon to destroy his own sons! He later returns again, kidnaps several civilians, including teenagers, and plans to experiment on them to turn them into hybrid "rat people". While his first attempt results in a deformed creature that is immobile and in constant pain,it does nothing to deter him from his experiments. He unleashes a hoard of rat monsters onto the city to attack and kill several innocents, taking sadistic glee in it the whole while. And then he assaults Splinter's mind to get him to destroy his sons again. And despite his supposed kinship with his rats, he has no problem using them as test subjects and disposable sacrifices. With that said, not even the Shredder is as vile and monstrous as the Rat King in this series.
- The primary villain of the first three seasons of the 2012 series, Kraang Prime, is a grotesquely large, demented Utrom warlord who fancies himself a god. Developing psychic powers from mutagen, he brainwashed millions of innocent Utroms, crafting an army of servile "Kraang" to invade and destroy planets, ultimately setting his sights on Earth as his petri dish. Spending millennia killing and torturing humans to create a new Dimension X, he then decides to turn the massive metropolis of New York into a mutant colony, succeeding and transporting millions of victims to Dimension X as slaves. After that, his scope expanded to the entire planet, with him loading a missile with mutagen as a last resort. Relentless, cruel, and deceitful, Kraang Prime was a massive threat to the Turtles and all Mutantkind.
- Overmind is a malicious AI convinced of his own superiority, who overthrew and killed off most of his factory's crew upon gaining sapience. When reactivated by the Bounty Hunter Armaggon, Overmind immediately overrides Professor Honeycutt's mind to assume control of his body and attempts to forcibly roboticize the Turtles and their friends. Eventually, Overmind betrays even Armaggon, revealing his plan to use an army of Warbots to wipe out all organic life across the galaxy and pave the way for Overmind's own technological rule, trying to simply kill Honeycutt and the Turtles when they stand in his way.
- Kavaxas in Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the draconic ruler of the Netherworld who desires to bring about the apocalypse. After he's summoned by Tiger Claw, Kavaxas is forced to work alongside him and the Foot clan so they can resurrect the Shredder and defeat the Turtles and their friends. After Kavaxas brings Rahzar back to life as one of his minions, he goes after Hattori Tatsu and kills him before stealing Shredder's helmet. He later attacks Don Vizioso's gang and kills some of his mobsters before stealing the Shredder's heart, all while repeatedly trying to kill the Turtles. With both items in his possession, Kavaxas successfully resurrects the Shredder before betraying Tiger Claw and the Foot clan; Kavaxas proceeds to unleash thousands of spirits onto New York as he attempts to cause The End of the World as We Know It.
- Count Dracula is a homage to the classic pure evil horror icon and is as vile as ever. An evil vampire that killed thousands, if not millions, of people to the point where his basement is cluttered with skeletons. In order to gain minions, he has his werewolves attack and bite people, one of them being Raph, whom he attempts to use to lure his brothers to his castle to kill them. During a battle with the turtles, he attempts to bite the neck of the werewolf's daughter, Esmeralda, to which Leo saves her by shooting a stake at his heart only for Raph, now fully Dracula's vampirized minion, saves him. Dracula then joins Savanti Romero out of fear for his life. He manipulates Igor into serving them and help them to create the Frankenstein monster. After it succeeds, he manipulates them into joining forces with them. Dracula then causes mass chaos in New York, having his werewolves bite and brainwash many people into being under his control. He eventually tries to betray Romero, brutally murdering the Mummy in the process, so he can rule all the 10 dimensions for himself and turn everyone into vampires and get rid of humanity.
- Voltron Force:
- Dr. Maahox, King Lotor's second-in-command is a cyborg occultist and Mad Scientist who was exiled from his home planet of Calum for Playing with Syringes. After he and his partner Kala resurrect Lotor using Haggarium, Maahox betrays Kala by transforming her into a Robeast. While Maahox ostensibly serves Lotor, he is the one pulling the strings in their partnership and is the brains behind operations like draining the minds of the Baltons, nearly eradicating all life on Arus, and attempting to ignite a massive amount of volatile Haggarium just to see what would happen. When Sven gives him the Blue Lion in exchange for a cure for his and his infant son's Haggarium poisoning, Maahox reveals that there is no cure and that he intends to raise Sven's son as a test subject and Tyke Bomb. Eventually growing weary of Lotor, Maahox murders him and turns his castle into a massive Robeast whose power he tests by having it blow up Planet Doom. Declaring his intent to spread chaos and death throughout the universe simply for the sake of it, Maahox begins his rampage on Earth, leveling an entire city just to draw out the Voltron Force.
- Sky Marshal Herbert Wade wanted nothing more than to be a member of the Voltron Force, but when the Lions rejected him due to sensing evil in his heart, Wade snapped and developed a pathological hatred of Voltron. After the Voltron Force toppled the Drule Empire, Wade forced the Lions to go berserk during a victory celebration, which turned everyone against them and caused them to be sealed away on the planet Arus. When the Voltron Force reassembles to combat the resurrected King Lotor, Wade usurps control of the Galaxy Alliance; while Wade publicly claims to have the Galaxy Alliance's best interests at heart, he privately confesses that he really only cares about money, power, and eliminating Voltron. Anyone who opposes Wade is condemned to the Void, a gulag whose inmates are routinely jettisoned into space for Wade's amusement. Along with enslaving, plundering, and razing worlds, Wade at one point hijacks Voltron, using it to try and destroy one of Earth's metropolises while ranting that its citizens all deserve to die for their veneration of Voltron. After being arrested, Wade is sprung from custody by the Kala Robeast, with which he willingly merges to create a monstrosity that poisons Daniel with Haggarium before nearly assimilating Voltron.
- Winx Club has some of those guys as well:
- The Ancestral Witches, real names Belladonna, Liliss, and Tharma, are the first witches in existence and some of the first evil beings in the Magical Dimension. Under the orders of their master Lord Darkar, the Witches launched an attack across the Magical Dimension which reduced heroine Bloom's home planet Domino to a frozen wasteland, with its petrified inhabitants dragged into the Obsidian Dimension where the Witches torture them. The Witches are also responsible for wiping out the city of Havram to force its king, Erendor, to avoid conflict with them and condemned the souls of the deceased to constantly wander the ruins. The Witches attempt to capture the reincarnation of the Flame Dragon, Bloom, who was just a baby, forcing her elder sister to sacrifice her life to save her. The Witches are also terrible parents, viewing their son Valtor as useless and eventually transforming him into a mindless monster to use as a tool to destroy the Magical Dimension. Ultimately, the Witches plan to wipe out positive magic to rule supreme.
- Season 2: Lord Darkar himself, the Shadow Phoenix, is the Greater-Scope Villain of the series. Born from the void as the Flame Dragon's opposite, Darkar launched an attack on the Magical Dimension with the goal of destroying it, including ordering the the Ancestral Witches to attack and devastate Domino. Defeated and sealed, Darkar plots to steal the Relix Codex to gain ultimate power. He captures Pixies to learn the location of the Codex, torturing them and their friend Aisha by draining their magical powers. After learning that the Codex has been split into four pieces, he frees Trix from their imprisonment to serve him and captures and tortures Altea's new professor Avalon for months while placing his spy in his place. Darkar successfully obtains all the pieces of the Codex and brainwashes Bloom into being his minion while banishing Trix to the void since he doesn't need them anymore. When her friends come to rescue her and stop Darkar, he almost kills them all before condemning Bloom to die with her friends after she breaks free of his control.
- The Wizards of the Black Circle in Season 4 are real pieces of work. They commit atrocity after atrocity in their quest to corner the market on Earth's magic by sealing away all of Earth's faeries. Their first meeting with the last Earth faerie Roxy, a nineteen year old girl who has no idea she's a faerie and thus is no real threat to them, is also really, really creepy. In one episode they turn the adorable magical pets the Winx have been putting up for adoption into horrible monsters as a distraction. After pulling an I Surrender, Suckers gambit, they laugh with glee at the prospect of trapping the Earth faeries in a hellish abyss. Finally, unlike the Trix, they actually succeed in killing off one of the heroes, namely Nabu. Their leader Ogron even steals the Deus Ex Machina that could have saved him and wastes it on a flower, again with an Evil Laugh. These guys are the biggest reason Season 4 is considered Darker and Edgier than the rest of the series.
Movies[]
- Dag, the leader of the pack of coyotes in Barnyard. Unlike the other coyotes who kill for food, Dag seems to get more out of killing than he probably should. This is shown when he shows a group of chickens his chain which has severed chicken legs on it. When faced with Otis's father Ben, he murders him and then shames Otis by telling him that his father would've survived had he been there for him. He then makes a compromise with Otis that stated that he and his pack of coyotes could get a couple of animals every night, and if Otis didn't comply, Dag and his coyotes would personally slaughter everything in the farm that Otis held dear, including possibly the farmer. He then tries to spitefully eat the young chick Maddy just because she called him a "meaner." Murderous and needlessly cruel, Dag is seemingly out of place in an otherwise lighthearted film.
- In Rango, Mayor Tortoise John is the corrupt mastermind behind Dirt's water troubles, forcing his town into drought and poverty so he can buy the land dirt-cheap. John strong-arms Dirt's citizens into signing off their land to him lest they die of thirst, and has no problem having people who probe into his business murdered, such as the innocent banker Mr. Merrimack; a trio of bandits he has framed and set for execution; or—as confirmed in the novelization—a slew of previous sheriffs who met their ends at the coils of the Mayor's muscle, Rattlesnake Jake. Loyal to nobody and nothing but his visionary ideals, the Mayor tries to have Rango and Beans drowned as he did Merrimack, and tries to execute even Jake for having no place in his ideal city, telling him "pretty soon, no one will believe you even existed!"
Video Games[]
- Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island: The Mawgu is an evil entity who once ago spread terror throughout Volcano Island. At the start of the game, he has awakened from his slumber to once again try to corrupt the island so he can reshape it to his liking, brainwashing the inhabitants to make them his slaves. The hermit crabs who live on the island summon the Nicktoons to help, and when they arrive they discover that the Mawgu is also draining energy from all of their worlds to increase his own power. It's also revealed that by sucking up all the energy from the Nicktoon worlds, the Mawgu will destroy them all just so he could be all powerful and reign over the devastated remains of the island.