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 * Fire Lord Ozai - Most would unanimously agree he's an example, but some have thought that his relationships with Ursa, Azula, and even Zuko to an extent (like having once saved him during an Ember Island vacation when he was a child as mentioned in "The Promise") was an example of Even Evil Has Loved Ones. Even before the comics came out, this was not the case. Ozai has unconditional love for no one and will only show his family affection if they prove to be of any value to him and can service his wants or needs. He saw his wife as his possession that he saw fit to emotionally abuse and discard when he saw fit, shaped his daughter into his obedient minion and his influence led to her biggest issues, and he could only ever love Zuko, whom he regularly abused, when he acted like a perfect prince rather than like himself. In "The Search", he even threatens he'd kill Ursa and their two children if Ursa was to try to flee and take them with her, so there's clearly no love here. This man has no truly redeeming qualities to mitigate his character and his heinous deeds, making him a definitive qualifier based on the criteria.


 * Unalaq - The spiritual beliefs he held and valid points he made were not entirely his own, but ideologies he adopted from the Red Lotus, of which he was a chief member. He doesn't truly value the spirits in any way other than as a way to make him seem holy and prestigious and for the power he can get from their world. His hypocrisy was shown clearly when his plan to get his brother banished from the tribe and claim power as chief hinged on the desecration of spirit wilds that he allowed to happen. And by the end it's shown that he's more interested in becoming the divine ruler of the physical and spiritual realms than truly making things better in either world since he plans to merge with the embodiment of evil and ravage the entire world as he sends it into an age of darkness, thus an age of suffering by default. He's given no Freudian Excuse for this, earns the revulsion of other characters (his own kids included), and shows no remorse for throwing away his humanity in order to claim power through deeds that are especially heinous by the standards of the setting and narrative. Beneath everything, he's just a power-hungry, deplorable man.


 * Yakone - While he's a plot device character, he manages to hit off the criteria for qualification. In a city-wide scale with the resources at his disposal, including bloodbending, a form of bending considered truly heinous in-universe, he managed to commit sufficiently heinous crimes, and he continued such atrocities when he moved to the North Pole, married, and had kids. His child abuse and domination based goals make him like a smaller scale version of Ozai. He's not given a Freudian Excuse, is a figure of dread and hatred to other characters who is not ever depicted in a positive way, and died without being redeemed. The big argument for excluding him is that he might have loved his family and might have had remorse for what he did to Noatak, a remorse that led to his depression and losing the will to live. But this is false speculation because a man who tells his kids straight up that he sees them as his tools of revenge and thus extensions of himself that belong to him does not have true love for his family, and the cause of his depression was specifically stated by Tarrlok to be the realization that his desires for revenge would go unfulfilled, NOT a My God What Have I Done? Heel Realization. Mike and Bryan even describe Yakone as being "simply pure evil" without any humanizing features, which says something about his qualification right there.


 * Meldar Prime - The show is comedic and the character is Laughably Evil, but his actions are the most heinous in the show, consisting of genocide, enslavement, torture, and attempted murder of children all in a game show setting. He lacks redeeming qualities that mitigate him, has no excuse other than greed and sadism, is taken seriously by the characters and the narrative, and is given a particularly torturous punishment for his deeds in the end. He's basically what Frieza would be like as a game show host.


 * Tong Fo - He's an apathetic and sadistic psychopath who is Faux Affably Evil but still very cruel and deranged. Of all the villains on the show, his actions are the vilest and most heinous in whatever scale he decides to operate in, and he commits them for no good reason other than it amuses him. He has no mitigating factors, no remorse for his crimes, and his villainy is taken seriously by others. The one point of contention is that he might have loved his felon grandfather and that could be part of a Freudian Excuse, but the scene where this comes up shows Tong Fo viewing his grandfather as a pedestal or gold standard he feels he has to live up to based purely on rap sheets of crimes. If this doesn't take him towards any redemptive measures and instead makes him a worse criminal, than it's not truly a redeeming feature.


 * Victor Falco/The Rat King - Within the scale he occupies, he manages to cause as much devastation, damage, and life endangerment with his resources as Shredder and the Krang do, and he also goes the extra mile of adding in mental torture as well. His vile Mad Scientist experiments and attempts to break Shifu and the Turtles' family in any possible way makes him truly heinous by the standards of the work. And he doesn't actually love his rats - he views them as his subjects that he can endanger and dispose of if he sees fit. There's nothing redeeming in his character and he has no remorse for his crimes against other living creatures.


 * The Wizards Of The Black Circle - They're not a large group, but just four people. Four people who showcase no redeeming qualities and whose actions are the darkest and most heinous by the standards of the setting and narrative. As such, they hit off the criteria and qualify for the trope.