Create your own villains

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Name: Cyborg
Origin: Sender by Jinfengopteryx (incomplete)
Age: 294 years
Gender: The Sappus have no binary gender, hence, I’ll just call it „it“.
Species: Sappus, cyborg
Height: 1,10 m
Weight: 50 kg (on its home moon, at least. On Earth, it’d weigh a few kg less)
Home: Shadowmoon, a moon 3,600 lightyears away from Earth orbiting a gas giant.
Appearance: The standard Sappus look is a black, upright body with three segments, The lowest is supported by six pillar-like legs and sports six tentacles that end in two „fingers“ for grasping like the lips of an elephant trunk. The middle segment sports four compound eyes which can be red or rose (red in Cyborg’s case). A hat-like top segment rests on the other two and a spiky maw is between the legs.
Basically, mix a Megasquid with an arthropod and you get a Sappus.
Cyborg in particular has two of its limbs replaces by machines and several bionic organs.
Occupation: Formerly a soldier, now a law enforcer and terrorist.
Goals: Enforcing the ideology of the Order of a Burning Pyramid.
The Order is essentially a terrorist organization devoted to anarcho-primitivism. Much like the Unabomber Ted Kaczinsky, they find modern technology and especially the rule by the AIs to be totalitarian. Moreover, they see a correlation between advanced technology and how interested other aliens become into the Sappus (the Sappus are incredibly xenophobic). Their goal is to spread fear, gain followers and coerce governments to abandon AIs and return to traditional styles of living.
The Order's ideology is also inherently accelerationist. Through their terror, people will be either forced to be 100% against modern technology or 100% for it. There will be no peaceful discourse or protest anymore, only violence and modern day society will collapse.
Backstory: Cyborg used to fight for the technology supporters in the Great War against their opponents, but lost two limbs which had to be replaced.
It then spent a lot of time around members of the Order and internalized their prejudice against people like it. When Sender arrived, Cyborg panicked. Alien contact was becoming more and more common place and Cyborg became convinced that modern technology is to blame. After all, technology has made the Sappus a competitor to other alien races, so it makes sense that they would take interest.
Actions over the books:
Cyborg is the closest thing the first book has to a Big Bad, being the most visible member of the Order.
Near the middle of the book, the Order attacks robots trying to take Lukas and convinced him that their goal is to bring him back home. Later, Cyborg gains the right to guard Lukas’ cell. Its status as a cyborg is the reason it makes such a good mole: Cyborg is the first of its kind to work for them precisely for being so unpredictable.
While guarding Lukas’ cell, Cyborg manipulates him into distracting the Sappus through a suicide attempt so that members of the Order can hack into a nanofactory tasked with building carbon-nanotube walls. The AI in it self-improves until it attains a little technological singularity and produces near-magical nanotech. The Order uses this as a propaganda tactic to scare people into fearing Artificial Intelligence.
Unfortunately for the Order, Lukas decides to betray them and as a result, Cyborg and many other high-ranking members receive a sentence of a 100 years in prison.
In the second book, Cyborg comes free due to revolts caused by a transmission from Mustafa Ay (he’s trying to radicalize technology opponents in order to get the technocratic government to support him, with success!).
In the third book after Ay’s defeat, Cyborg is locked up again and never heard of since.
Personality: Loyal towards the order, yet also self-loathing due to internalized discrimination.
Crimes: It manipulates Lukas into joining its cause and sets up a terrorist attack jeopardizing millions of lives.
Threat level: Directly only threatens one arcology (pyramid-like city), but the Order’s plans threaten all of Shadowmoon (the Sappus’ home moon) and perhaps even all of their civilization (which spans over multiple planets and moons).
So, city to planet, perhaps solar system level.
Combat capacity: High human (smaller than the average Joe, but has cybernetic reinforcements, weapons and military training)
Vileness: Cyborg is a well-meaning individual and genuinely willing to fly Lukas back to Earth out of gratitude for how he helped to prepare a terror attack (even if he was manipulated into doing so). Despite this, it is still a terrorist who is willing to risk millions of lives out of ideological conviction.
So, mid to high, probably.
Competence: Mid (It is an absolute joke compared to the bigger villains, but good enough for the first book.). Arguably even Low, since the government would have arrested it even without Lukas' help, just later.
Abilities:
-Immortality/No aging (comes with the reinforcements)
-Intelligence (comes with the training)
-Skilled liar
-Expert marksman
Standard equipment: A gun and occasionally an EMP grenade
Weaknesses: The Order has very little power and is generally no match for the Sappus government

[creature386]

Here’s a villain I’m planning for the first book of a book series I want to write after The Senders. It’s a vampire named Jonathan (the irony is of course that that’s the name of Dracula’s famous enemy Jonathan Harker, even though this guy is heavily based on Dracula, being a rich guy with a secret identity and all).
The series is called Primordial and is set in a contemporary fantasy setting inhabited by superheroes, vampires and the titular Primordials (enigmatic monsters). The series is not even remotely well-planned. Maybe it’s too early to share one of the villains yet. Maybe not. He seems quite powerful and we all love matchup threads, don’t we?


Name: Jonathan Welzer
Origin: The Primordial series
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Species: Human (originally), Vampire
Height: 2.10 m
Weight: 150 kg
Appearance: Essentially, he looks like over 90% of the guys on Match.com with no picture available. „Over six feet tall, broad shouldered, thick chested, trim, athletic, tanned and blond“ (description mercilessly plagiarized from Left Behind, joke plagiarized from here).
As stats show how beefy he is. And handsome. His vampiric traits allow him to be so despite being rather old. He resembles a younger version of Kent Hovind.
Occupation: Businessman and leader of a software giant
Backstory: When he was young, he worried his parents because he frequently went missing, took drugs, was a jerk for no reason, always messed with the law and even tortured cute animals (he mutilated and killed his pet bunny with a pencil). When they sent him to the doctor, the diagnosis was clear: He was a psychopath, but a low-functioning one who just could not blend in with the rest.
Psychopathy is incurable, but when he was 17, the doctors had a new medicament which was supposedly able to help him. At first, it seemed like he was getting better. While he still did not care for other people, he was much better at controlling his urges. He completed school and even made it to college where he studied economics. However, some things were odd. His skin paled and he became more sensible to bright lights and skin cancer. Moreover, he grew fangs. At first, he only told his girlfriend about this and she agreed to let him bite her. As he drank her blood, his suspicions had turned correct. Jonathan was a vampire!
As if that wasn’t weird enough, he was one night visited by a bat-like monster only he could see. It explained him that vampires were indeed real. They were an ancient fossil human subspecies (like the Neanderthal) which science had not discovered yet. The reason he turned in one was because some vampires interbred with humans (like Neanderthals) and hence preserved their genes in the human genome to this day. The medicament that was supposed to cure his psychopathy turned him into a vampire. When Jonathan asked if this affected anyone else, the bat replied that he was the only vampire so far on Earth.
When he asked the bat who it was, it introduced itself as a „Primordial“ and offered Jonathan fantastic abilities should he accept it in his heart. This Primordial told him of a lost era where vampires used to rule the world, but went extinct, as they discovered the Primordials without knowing how to use their powers. Jonathan, however, could use the Primordial’s power to destroy human civilization and bring back the era of the vampires. Jonathan agreed. The first ability he acquired was to form blood bonds with the people he bit if they gave him his consent. Like that, they would become his brainwashed slaves. He first did so with his girlfriend (whom he did not inform what a „blood bond“ entailed before asking for her consent), so that she would not tell anyone that he kept sucking her dry of blood against her will. Eventually, his girlfriend died (supposedly from an illness), but as Jonathan grew older, he became hungrier.
After graduating from college, he started his own IT company and acquired a lot of fame and money. However, his hunger for blood grew, too. He got some of his employees to form a blood bond with him so that they could secretly supply him with fresh victims and give him more blood. His preferred victims were the homeless and poor, those considered the „losers“ of society whom no-one would miss once they were gone. It’s only near the beginning of the first Primordial novel that anyone notices anything is wrong.
Eventually, Jonathan learned more and more about Primordials and his own powers and even got one Primordial to turn a woman into his personal necromancer.
With his blood bond, he even infiltrated the research company that turned him into a vampire in the first place. His necromancer used her Primordial powers to create a virus that turns people into zombies. Jonathan then ordered the chef of the research company (with whom he forged a blood bond) to mix the virus into syringes, claiming it was a vaccine.
With this virus, he is planning to start a global zombie apocalypse and bring mankind back to the dark ages.
Personality: Superficially, he likes to play the cool guy. He acts much younger than he actually is and plays two images (they are related, he doesn’t switch between them). One is the image of a „bad boy“ who always enjoys competition (keep this in mind when writing battle royale fight scenes with him) and the other is being „one of the fans“ (his software company is known for many games) who uses gamerslang and has an easy outlook on life.
Beyond that „coolness“ mask, however, he’s a bloodthirsty monster who plans to turn all of Earth into a wasteland and commits gruesome murders as long as he is absolutely sure that there will be no evidence.
Goals: Essentially, his goal is to destroy humanity’s social order and bring us back into the Stone Age where vampires were still dominant. The main reason humans, rather than vampires took over their world was their ability to form functional societies (vampires in Primordial are like big cats; solitary animals that don’t form societies). Jonathan, however, believes it was an accident that vampires became extinct and claims his species has the „birthright“ to rule the planet, so humanity must be exterminated.
Crimes: Cannibalism, murder, trying to turn all of Earth into a wasteland, you get the picture.
Threat level: Global
Combat capacity: Mid superhuman.
Vileness: Probably a Complete Monster, going by the TVTropes definition.
Competence: High
To give you just one example from the story I’m planning: When the heroes follow a trail of evidence that leads to him as the culprit behind the disappearances of homeless people, he pretends to be investigating the case, too, then fakes his own death, inherits his company to his brainwashed slaves and from now on operates from a forest base. That’s just one of the gambits he’s willing to pull in order to cover up his crimes.
More simply, he has infiltrated just about every intelligence agency that investigates his evil schemes with his brainwashed mooks.
Abilities:
-Superhuman speed strength and durability: Vampirism plus his Primordial increase normal human strength and durability by a factor of 200 and speed by a factor of 14. He can move faster than the eye can see and use school buses as baseball bats. Moreover, he could easily jump to the top of a skyscraper from the street and fall back to the ground without a scratch. Sucking blood from particularly powerful enemies only makes him stronger.
-Forming blood bonds: When he drinks the blood of people who trust him, he can insert his vampiric essence and turn them into his loyal slaves, as discussed above.
-Regeneration: Basically, as long as his head is preserved, he can regrow anything else, sometimes within the time frame of minutes (even faster when he drinks enough blood).
-Acid blood: Did I mention he has xenomorph-like blood? Good luck forcing him to regenerate.
-Super senses: Being a creature of the night, the darkness does not hinder him in the slightest, so these are mandatory.
-Super intelligence: Kinda. He’s a good planner and vampires are generally depicted as being smarter than humans, but only slightly.
-Empowering: He can give some of his super strength and healing factor to his mooks (albeit they are only slightly above peak human).
Standard equipment: None notable (not that he needs any).
Weaknesses: Like any vampire worth his money, the Sun is a problem for him. It does not disintegrate him, but he cannot heal while in the Sun and UV light destroys the protection his skin and his organs have against his own blood.
Wooden stakes or holy water won’t help at all, by the way. Only wounding him in the Sun will do the job. That, or destroying the head (if you have the misfortune of encountering him at night).

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I created another villain who lives on the same planet as the one I created on page 2 (who I've done quite a bit of editing on and decided to call him Renaissance Man). His profile certainly isn't complete, but here's what I've got so far.

Name: Tooth n’ Claw (alt. Toothenclaw)

Age: Over 300 years old

Gender: Male

Species: Squamaplumafurotherium malum (“evil scale feather fur beast”)

Size: 7 meters long, 1.7 meters tall at hips and shoulders (when slung horizontally)

Weight: 1,000 kilograms

Appearance: Facultative biped and quadruped; can be in either stance indefinitely. Body plan of a theropod with forelimb proportions the same as in Smilodon. Robust, relatively wide, abbreviated ribcage that is covered in fur and feathers (both plumulaceous and pennaceous) existing in between scales. Muscular, longish, scaly prehensile tail. The Utahraptor-esque skull-> (with enhanced protection and robustness) is connected to a very thick neck powered by rather tall neural spines located in shoulder region. The disproportionately thick cranium is adorned with keratinous bosses above the eye, and the face is covered by tough armor-like osteoderms and scales; even the rhinarium is covered by small osteoderms. Has cat-like external ears. Two long, serrated canines protruding from upper jaw; anterior teeth are serrated and D-shaped in cross section, with the following posterior teeth simply being much smaller ziphodont teeth. Felid-like carnassial teeth are in the back of the jaw. Very muscular, theropod-like hindlimbs. Each of the three weight-bearing toes has a retractable, hypertrophied talon akin to that of a dromaeosaurid; the hallux is large and robust with a hypertrophied dew claw for grasping, but it does not touch the ground. Forelimbs covered in plumulaceus feathers and fur between scales with exception of palms; five functional digits with massive, retractable hooked claws.

Best described as a chimera between a Utahraptor and a Smilodon.

Backstory: For over three centuries, Tooth n’ Claw has kept an eye on Ealvdiem, a medieval/Renaissance planet, keeping a massive spaceship hovering outside of its atmosphere as his base of operations. Historically, he has been known as a benevolent figure who guards Ealvdiem’s inhabitants with great physical power and astounding magic and/or science. But arguably his most notable ability of all was his ability to permanently destroy anything from existence (think Omega Beams or the Hakai) with the so-called “Devil’s Manifestation”, dark shadowy energy he could fire from every part of his body and his scythe with the head of a crow’s head. In secret, however, Tooth n’ Claw despises the planet and its inhabitants, believing them to largely be primitive savages; their tendency to not engage in interstellar travel, their unexceptional nature, deplorable health conditions, and barbaric morality has led him to this conclusion. Some of Ealvdiem’s most catastrophic and tragic events over the last three centuries have been covertly driven by Tooth n’ Claw.

One day, an alien space pod arrived on Ealvdiem, containing an infant boy from from an unknown planet with the letters E-rt- in its name. This boy was christened Flint Walter Manny, who would later become Renaissance Man. Tooth n’ Claw would become something of a mentor to this boy, teaching him better control over and mastery of his (unusually different) energy blasts, honing strength and hand-to-hand combat skills, and just being a benevolent, fatherly figure to him. But while he has the trust of the Kryptonian-Saiyan hybrid, the boy very quickly became a source of anxiety and disdain for the mammalian/reptilian creature. Unbeknownst to everyone else, the future Renaissance Man possessed extraordinary potential in power (even if he had not physically shown it yet), something analysis of his DNA had shown. The more he had seen of Flint’s growing power and violent behavior, the more concerned Tooth n’ Claw became about his control over Ealvdiem, and the more he came to despise the alien. While it’s debatable as to whether or not Renaissance Man can defeat Tooth n’ Claw even now, the latter went ahead and devised a few plans to have the young man killed over the years, but they have failed. His most recent venture, however, may have given Tooth n’ Claw just what he needed to kill off the alien hybrid for good. Analysis of his DNA subtly reveals a weakness he has to a specific substance. With his absolutely extraordinary scientific prowess and ability to invent, Tooth n’ Claw has successfully synthesized a substance that could be particularly lethal to Renaissance Man. It comes in the form of a green glowing rock.

Personality:
- Seems very polite outwardly. Convinced of his civility and appears to pride himself on that.

• Is really a savage being willing to be as ferocious as possible to achieve his goals.

Powers:
- Superhuman strength, speed, durability/invulnerability: Even now Renaissance Man struggles to match Tooth n' Claw in these regards.
- "Devil's Manifestation": Manipulates dark shadowy energy that can erase anything from existence. Can fire it from any part of his body, but mostly does so through his hands and eyes.
- Flight
- Energy nullification: Offensive energy projections targeted towards him can be nullified and used against those who originally fired them.
- Pennaceous feathers harden and become blade-like weapons. Tooth n’ Claw can launch them at an opponent and instantly replace them.
- Plumulaceous feathers are venomous stingers akin to the stingers of jellyfish.

[creature386]

I wonder if a species profile for Squamaplumafurotherium malum would be in order for the "Create your own creature" thread, but it would probably only repeat what is written here.

Anyway, nice to see that this setting gets fleshed out.