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== Anime and Manga ==
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** Majin Buu in all his forms is this trope [[Up to Eleven]]. He ''killed off the entire main cast except Goku, all of humanity, and [[Earthshattering Kaboom|blew up Earth]]''! And before he was even introduced, he already killed or ate several ''GODS''. It took a [[Combined Energy Attack|Spirit Bomb made from the power of everyone on a newly restored Earth]] to finally kill him, and if it wasn't for a third wish from Namek's Dragon Balls, he would have survived it.
* Barthomelew Kuma from [[One Piece]]. The first time he meets the Strawhats, he nearly kills one of them. Their next encounter initiated a [[Wham Episode]]. ''That's'' how dangerous he is.
** Chief Warden Magellan of [[The Alcatraz|Impel Down]] fits better. [[No Holds Barred Beatdown|He easily defeats Luffy, making clear the latter's pre-emptive strike was no more than a "lucky shot"]], causing Luffy to pay ten years of his life just to go through the treatment to keep him alive. (This makes Magellan a somewhat ''literal'' version of this trope.) He also [[One
** The Three Admirals also play this role, especially to the Straw Hats. They are regarded as the Marines's "Greatest Force", and [[Nigh Invulnerable|for]] [[One
* Dio Brando from ''[[Jo
** In part 3, {{spoiler|[[The Dragon|Vanilla Ice,]] who makes his introduction by killing off Abdul [[Killed Off for Real|(for real this time)]], and proceeding to kill the team's mascot, the loveable stand-weilding dog Iggy of all things.}}
** Neart the end of Jojo part 7, Steel Ball Run, we have {{spoiler|president Funny Valentine. So far he's killed Wekapipo, Diego Brando AND Hot Pants, the latter two of whom were thought to be characters with at least a certain degree of plot armor.}}
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** {{spoiler|Even worse, when they finally manage to kill him, it results there are more of him around}}
** {{spoiler|The [[Kill Sat]] [[Robot Girl|Chachamaru]] used on him that supposedly killed him? He was barely singed by it, but luckily for the heroes he appears to be helping them for now}}
** Also [[Duel Boss|Tsukiyomi]] for Setsuna who beat her only because she knocked [[Blind Without
* The [[Mage Killer|Huckebein]] [[Badass Family|family]] from ''[[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'' starts this way, first by trashing the new main character(despite the fact that his [[Heroic Resolve]] allows him to properly use his newfound powers) and let him live only because his attacker "runs out of ammo". They then send one of their craziest members to {{spoiler|slay one of the main characters who is previously stated as being one of the most powerful mages of the cast capable to go toe to toe with the freakin title protagonist and only barely fails}}. Also, before and after both mentioned events they're named and referred to by a lot of characters as very dangerous and threatening people. They cemented their status as this when their apparent leader {{spoiler|[[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice|impaled Hayate through the chest]] [[In the Back]] and [[Curb Stomp Battle|Curb Stomps]] [[Glacier Waif|Vita]] and [[Fragile Speedster|Erio]] without even [[Super Mode|Reacting]]}}.
* Asura from [[Soul Eater]] is his first appearance [[Curb Stomp Battle|curbstomps]] Black Star and Death the Kid with a couple of flicks.
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* A much more deadly example is Impmon of [[Digimon Tamers]], who is so far the only one [[Digimon|in the franchise]] to have ever [[All Deaths Final|killed permanently]] a partnered digimon {{spoiler|Leomon, Jeri/Juri's partner, as Beelzemon/Beelzebumon}}. Bonus points for carrying out a [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]] beforehand on the heroes, {{spoiler|and very nearly executed (through the ''eyes'') the main character if an [[Ascended Extra]] had not intervened}}.
* The [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] in ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' often embody this. The first, Queen Metelia, killed all the Sailor Senshi in her attack on the Silver Millennium and was only stopped by the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by Queen Serenity. Death Phantom, in the future, when he recruited the Black Moon clan, launched an attack that the future Sailor Senshi weren't able to stop. By the end of the series, we have Sailor Galaxia {{spoiler|in both versions, she kills everyone except Sailor Moon (Chichi surviving in the manga, the Sailor Starlights surviving in the anime). Sailor Cosmos' statements about the future say that Sailor Chaos becomes this}}.
* Trude from [[Otogi Juushi Akazukin]]. Her first appearance consisted of her [[Curb Stomp Battle|Curb Stomping]] all three Musketeers and turning almost everyone in the group into dolls. When they finally break free of the curse, they go for a rematch, where she still [[No Sell|No Sells]] everything they throw at her, prompting the group to teleport away in desperation. The next time they fight her, it's with the help of an [[Obi Wan]] who is sufficiently skilled to...bypass the block on said teleportation spell so they can run away again, and it's only with the help of a [[Mid
* In ''[[Eyeshield Twenty One]]'', Hakushuu Dinosaurs centre Rikiya Gaou gains this reputation over the course of the Kantou Tournament, crippling quarterbacks and linemen alike. Forget beating the Dinosaurs--most of the cast spend that arc trying to figure out how to beat Gaou. During the Youth World Cup, the [[
* The titular ''[[Zeiram]]'' in Iria: Zeiram The Animation. While Iria spends all of the movies hunting it down to destroy them, the animated prequel shows how it killed and absorbed her older brother and mentor, Glen, who had a been a great bounty hunter of his own right.
* A rare example on the side of the ''hero''; Alucard from [[Hellsing]]. He is more or less this trope to a T, complete with literally everyone in the series of being terrified of him (with very few exceptions), and he wipes out almost every villain with no effort. And he is possibly the definition of the [[Horrifying Hero]]; try ''not'' to crap your pants when he mercilessly rips apart the innocent police team in OVA III ([[Well
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* [[Evil Overlord|The Lord Ruler]] from [[Mistborn]], figuratively and literally, as he takes down {{spoiler|Kelsier}} effortlessly immediately after the latter has his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] by killing an [[The Dragon|Inquisitor]]. {{spoiler|[[The Man Behind the Man|Ruin]] is this trope even moreso.}}
* In ''[[New Jedi Order]]'', The Yuuzhan Vong basically have this (with a healthy dose of [[Combat Sadomasochist]] on the side) as their [[Planet of Hats|hat]].
** Even among the Yuuzhan Vong, the voxyn are notorious for this. They're introduced [[The Worf Effect|casually hunting down several Jedi]] and only go up from there. The mission to [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup|kill the voxyn queen]] has the single largest [[Mauve Shirt]] casualty count in the series and kills no less a hero than {{spoiler|Anakin Solo}}.
* Nicodemus from ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. He has killed at least a hundred Knights of the Cross and only two have ever gotten away with their lives, and of those, one was permanently crippled.
** The one who escaped without being permanently crippled so angered Nicodemus that even after Nicodemus {{spoiler|had him tortured to death}} Nicodemus was willing to give the good guys a chance to stop his plan to {{spoiler|turn the Archive (a repository of all humanities knowledge, and thus possessor of the launch codes to every nuke on earth among other things) into a Denarian}} just to get the guy's sword, Fidellachius.
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* [[Demon Lords and Archdevils|Findo Gask]] of ''[[The Word and The Void]]'' who specialises in killing Knights of the Word.
* In the [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories; Moriarty, and Holmes isn't the only one he seriously threatened.
* Whatever enemy that [[Inheritance Cycle|Eragon]] fights in the climax of each book tends to turn into this. In two instances, he's needed help {{spoiler|in Brisingr, the Shade he fights in the climax not only overpowers him at first, but also Saphira and Arya}}, {{spoiler|the other case, enemy in question used to his friend and let him live}}. In universe, the Ra'Zak and Shades as a whole are built as this, with the Ra'Zak acting as [[Big Bad|Galbatorix]]'s personal assassins, and Shades, [[The Obi
** And the Ra'zac, who are [[The Empire|the Empire's]] Rider-killers. It turns out that their primary prey is humans, and they have a number of abilities to that effect. Pretty much the perfect weapon for sending after young Riders, or anyone else who Galbatorix doesn't like.
** Murtagh starts entering this role in the second book, especially at the climax, where he {{spoiler|slaughters the dwarf king and his magician bodyguards with a single spell before soundly trashing Eragon and Saphira, but letting them go in a moment of mercy.}}
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** The Blood Angels's Sanguinor has the ability to choose one enemy Independent Character and re-roll To Hit and To Wound dice in close combat against said character for the game's duration.
*** Also from the Blood Angels is Mephiston, who has an ability that forces an enemy character in contact with him to take a leadership test with a minus 4 modifier, and he gets to re-roll any failed To Hot and To Wound rolls for the round of combat if they fail, which coupled with the fact that he has Force Sword, means whatever he's fighting is likely to die in that unless it's not immune to instant death. Of course, Mephiston is strong that enemy characters will generally die against him regardless.
** The 5th Edition Tyranid codex brings us the Swarmlord, a unique Hive Tyrant that the [[Hive Mind]] reincarnates when a hive fleet can't beat its prey through normal means. Not only is the thing a [[The Chessmaster|cunning strategist]], it [[Multi
*** In game, the Swarmlord follows this in that is swords force an enemy to re-roll successful invulnerable saves and inflict instant death, though the Swarmlord is so expansive it's probably only worth using in an Apocalypse game.
** The 7th edition Warriors of Chaos rulebook tends to somewhat encourage keeping hero killing in mind when building an exalted hero or chaos lord since they can roll on the eye of the gods table and, likely, get stronger from it. [[Fridge Logic|Oddly a Chaos Lord getting rolls on this makes him stronger than a Daemon Prince]].
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* This trope is often invoked in the [[Hopeless Boss Fight]] of any game.
* The Black Knight from ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Path of Radiance''. You ''could'' choose to fight him in the earlier levels where he shows up, but it suggests that you flee, and for a very good reason. Every single character you throw at him will be unable to dent him and will soon find themselves dead in one blow. Only towards the end of the game does it let you know that you are ready to face him, but even then it's [[Luck Based Mission|one hell of a challenge.]]
* Orbital Frame Anubis is introduced at the end of ''[[Zone of the Enders]]'': despite having just taken out [[The Dragon]], it's made abundantly clear that Jehuty facing off against this thing would be suicide. You don't get a chance until the sequel, and the bulk of that game is spent finding a way to even the odds--the first few times you run into each other, your only real option is to avoid dying until you can escape. By the time you're ready to face it, it and its pilot have gone into [[One
* ''[[Metroid]] Fusion'' adds a [[Survival Horror]] bent to the game by setting up fixed encounters with the SA-X, a malevolent Samus clone created from her parasite-possessed power suit. Most of these encounters can be avoided with stealth and caution, but if you attract the SA-X's attention - and unavoidably in one case - then your only option is to run for your life. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that Samus' Fusion Suit uses cold-vulnerable Metroid DNA, and the SA-X happens to have Samus' Ice Beam equipped. {{spoiler|Eventually, Samus is able to go toe-to-toe with the SA-X, defeating both it and its [[Clipped
** Dark Samus, especially ''[[Metroid Prime]] 3''. The game introduces three other bounty hunters. {{spoiler|By the end of the game, Dark Samus has killed and absorbed all three of them.}}
* Barbatos Goetia from ''[[Tales of Destiny (Video Game)|Tales of Destiny]] 2''. The first and foremost thing he's known for is killing the prequel's hero Stahn and he's off to claim the heads of other heroes, namely Philia and Garr. His legend as a [[Hero Killer]] has even stretched to ''[[Tales of Vesperia (Video Game)|Tales of Vesperia]]'', where he reappears as a bonus opponent in the battle arena and his name is ''Killer of Heroes''. Indeed, it turns out that {{spoiler|his ''entire purpose'' in life is to kill the heroes of the first game under the orders of the [[Big Bad]] to remake the timeline}}. Nothing less can be expected of one voiced by [[Norio Wakamoto]].
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*** In the Sanctuary mission, he will kill {{spoiler|former party member Miranda, the "perfect human," if you don't warn her he's alive and active.}}
*** Finally, you get to have a boss fight with him when you {{spoiler|assault Cerberus HQ}}. When you finally beat him, {{spoiler|he's not quite dead and [[Determinator|uses the last of his strength to come up behind you to try to stab you with his sword]]. Whether or not you use the Renegade interrupt, Shepard avoids the stab and gives Kai Leng a very satisfying comeuppance, although the interrupt gives Shepard a chance to show Kai Leng who's the ''real'' badass here as s/he first shatters his sword.}}
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' has Shu Shirakawa's Granzon, although it tends to play the role of ''villain'' killer more often. It appears several times early in each continuity as a (mostly) [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]. Fortunately for the heroes, Shu has [[Enigmatic Minion|a vaguely-defined interest in keeping them alive]], so he tends to hold back while testing their abilities. However, his [[Curb Stomp Battle|Curb Stomp Battles]] with villains ''much'' later in the [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]] prove the heroes' suspicions about how screwed they'd be if he wanted them dead. By the time the [[Lensman Arms Race]] finally catches up to him, he joins as a temporary party member, {{spoiler|then immediately goes [[One
* ''[[Resident Evil|Resident Evil 3]]'' has [[Clipped
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'': Sephiroth. While {{spoiler|he gets his actual significant kill}} in the game, it's really in the movie ''[[Advent Children]]'' that he shows the power backing up his claim for the title. As soon as he appears, he forces Cloud to stretch himself to twice as superhuman feats as he has so far (and that's saying something), while he himself doesn't even get out of breath. Especially in the extended version, where he beats Cloud within an inch of his life before the inevitable [[Heroic Second Wind]] kicks in. Cloud has already defeated opponents like the ridiculously powerful Remnants of Sephiroth and a gigantic dragon god, but his reaction upon first seeing Sephiroth can be described as "[[Oh Crap|Eep!]]"
* Lavos from [[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|''Chrono Trigger'']] {{spoiler|kills the main character, Crono, at least until you find the "Chrono Trigger" to bring him back}}
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* ''[[Starcraft]]'': Kerrigan.
* Arthas Menethil, The Lich King, from ''[[War Craft]]'' and ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. He killed many named characters and many of them are badass in their own right.
** Although it comes back to haunt him in a big (not to mention literal) way. His runeblade Frostmourne steals and entraps the souls of everyone it kills (oh, and his, too). At the climax of his encounter in ''Wrath of the Lich King'' {{spoiler|Frostmourne is shattered by an attack and all the souls in question are freed -- ''[[My God, What Have I Done?|including his own]]''.}}
* Mephiles the Dark from the infamous ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]''. In the Last Story, {{spoiler|he actually kills ''Sonic'' to get [[MacGuffin Girl|Princess Elise]] to cry, setting the chain of events that ''nearly destroyed time itself''.}}
* LeChuck from the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' series. Though he plunders, tortures and even kills hundreds upon hundreds of people (and even forms his own skeletal army from these corpses), his plans to rule the entire Caribbean keep getting thwarted upon many defeats (and deaths) at the hands of the main protagonist Guybrush Threepwood. It is not until ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'' that, {{spoiler|1=after spreading his own Pox on the entire Gulf of Melange (while becoming human himself), LeChuck proceeds to kill bounty huntress Morgan LeFlay by stabbing her with her own blade in Chapter 4, and then saves Guybrush's life from the gallows... only to kill him with the Cutlass of Kaflu later on in the chapter when all the Pox is absorbed from the entire Gulf of Melange into the legendary Esponja Grande, which LeChuck then uses to reabsorb the Voodoo powers back into himself and then, while using the power of his hypnotized monkeys, to gain his powers from the Crossroads and become the Pirate God capable of unleashing destruction upon the entire Carribean.}}
* In ''[[Mortal Kombat 9 (Video Game)|Mortal Kombat 9]]'', {{spoiler|a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Sindel}} becomes one for all of thirty seconds.
** Earlier on in ''9'', {{spoiler|Shao Kahn delivers a [[Neck Snap]] to an unsuspecting Kung Lao. [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|Liu Kang paid him back in full.]]}}
** And then, back in ''[[Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance (Video Game)|Deadly Alliance]]'' Shang Tsung (with the help of Quan Chi) [[Our Hero Is Dead|killed Liu Kang]], starting a multi-arc [[Wham Episode]] spanning ''DA'', ''Deception'', and ''Armageddon''. {{spoiler|If ''9'' [[Kill
* ZODIAC Virgo from [[Refle X]] {{spoiler|killed the pilot of the Pheonix in an absolutly brutal beatdown}}.
* Everytime [[Modern Warfare|Vladimir Makarov]] appears in the flesh, without exception, a [[Player Character]] either dies or gets critically wounded, usually along with other important characters as well. He {{spoiler|exceutes Allen at the end of "No Russian"}}, he {{spoiler|guns down Harkov when hijacking the President's plane}}, he {{spoiler|sets up the ambush that kills Kamarov and eventually kills Soap}}, he {{spoiler|shot Yuri in the gut during the flashback}} and {{spoiler|he finished Yuri off}} at the end of the third ''[[Modern Warfare]]'' game. Basically, anytime Makarov appears, it is ''bad news''.
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* General RAAM from [[Gears of War]]. He kills Minh Young Kim in his very first cutscene, and then, in the RAAM's Shadow DLC, he {{spoiler|offs Alicia Valera, and almost kills Jace Stratton, not to mention the countless Gears and Onyx Guards he murders.}}
* Thanks to ''Hyrule Historia'', [[The Legend of Zelda|Ganondorf]] has ascended to one of these in an alternate timeline spawning from {{spoiler|[[The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]].}} Notably, while his [[Hero Killer]] status is often challenged, he's offed more than his fair share of highly significant characters, including the sages from ''Wind Waker'' (forcing Link to seek out replacements) and {{spoiler|Midna}} from ''Twilight Princess.'' Subverted in ''Wind Waker'', where he soundly thrashes Link and Zelda in their first fight, only to spare their lives in a rare [[Pet the Dog]] moment.
* The Dahaka in ''[[Prince of Persia]]: Warrior Within'' is a being whose only point in existence is to be this. When a being somehow avoids their own fate, in and of itself a rather admirable fate, a Dahaka is created to destroy them. The Prince can only defeat it with the [[Infinity
** The Dahaka is so well known for this, a lesser-known band called Merkabah actually has a song about it, appropriately named: "Dahaka". A transcript of the Metal Growled opening (lyrics are difficult to retrieve on the internet, and no easier to understand): "Sometimes it was whispered; sometimes it was read: the secret incantation that filled with the enemy with dread. If you knew it, if you used it, you could reach back to [unsure]. But stop and [think?; if one can see it]: Sole Master Of Your Destiny You Would Be. Dahaka is released. Dahaka: the Guardian of the Timeline. [A sentence; possibly "Eternal pursuer for fiddling with time."] NO ONE ESCAPES THE DAHAKA."
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* Kore from ''[[Goblins (Webcomic)|Goblins]]'' was [[The Dreaded|feared]] by the main cast of goblin adventurers even before they had met him. In their first encounter with the dwarven paladin, they were barely able to wound him. Notably, that fight ended with the death of {{spoiler|Chief}}.
* [[Big Bad|Xykon]] from ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'' {{spoiler|kills [[The Hero|Roy]] (who had killed him earlier, though Xykon regenerated since he's a [[Soul Jar|lich]]), curb-stomps ''[[Deal With the Devil|soul-spliced]] Vaarsuvius '''and''' O-Chul'' (who are saved by [[Deus Ex Machina]]), and prevents Roy's father from entering the afterlife just by existing. He might not fit the trope perfectly, though, since the heroes' usual reaction to his appearance is not fear, but rage.}}
** It ought to be noted that {{spoiler|1=he won against soul-spliced Vaarsuvius because he fought smarter, not harder; he recognises that, in terms of sheer magical arsenal, Vaarsuvius under those conditions had him outclassed. Of course, as he notes in a brilliant [[Hannibal Lecture]]/[["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] afterwards, Vaarsuvius' huge range of epic level spells meant nothing to their battle precisely ''because'' s/he didn't know how to use them properly, so in a way it's still a [[Curb Stomp Battle]]. Though, on a related note, whilst throwing O-Chul's name on there may sound impressive to the uninitiated, it doesn't really mean much; whilst undoubtedly [[Badass]], O-Chul simply isn't on the level (quite literally) of sorcerers like Xykon and soul-spliced V. Even if he does manage a very impressive [[Spanner in The Works]] moment.}}
** {{spoiler|Roy's dad isn't such a good example, though, because that whole thing is his fault, not Xykon's. Hell, Xykon [[But for Me It Was Tuesday|has no clue]] who ''Roy'' is, nevermind his old man, after Roy has made significantly more trouble for Xykon than his father ever did.}}
* Lord Dragos from ''[[The Beast Legion]]'' falls invokes fear in everyone he comes across.
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== Web Original ==
* Deathlist of the [[Whateley Universe]]. He's got the name because of the huge list of superheroes he has already killed, including ''Champion''. The only person we know of who has survived this killer cyborg is Lady Astarte in the Halloween story, and she had help from {{spoiler|a [[Reality Warper]], a precognitive, and a really huge blaster}}. She still couldn't polish him off.
* [[Big Bad|Mecha Sonic]] of ''[[Super Mario Bros Z]]''. Every single fight he's picked with the heroes has been a [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]], starting from his first appearance where he very nearly ''killed'' Yoshi. Then later on with two chaos emeralds, he utterly annihilated the [[Paper Mario (Video Game)|Koopa Bros.]] and the [[Super Mario RPG (Video Game)|Axem Rangers]] within about two minutes of each other before completely wiping Yoshi's Island off the face of the Mushroom Kingdom. The heroes only narrowly managed to escape the same fate through a [[Deus Ex Machina|conveniently-placed]] [[Invincibility Power
* The Meta from the ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' ''Recollection'' trilogy, especially in the first part of the trilogy (''Reconstruction'') and the final episodes.
* Lilith from [[Shadowhunter Peril]]. Her wrath is inescapable, and every single character knows that when she appears, it is time to run. Even [[Big Bad|Valentine]] knows that he shouldn't mess with her. She is one of the few characters in the entire story that can fight on equal terms with an angel (and possibly win). She is completely ruthless and has absolutely no qualms about killing any of her own family: [[Complete Monster|she shoved her hand through her son Umbra's chest, and squeezed his heart till it exploded,]] then dropped him unceremoniously onto the ground and laughed, all just so she could psychologically disturb the watching Resistance.
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