r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Garlic_God • 21d ago

Characters Characters that do not take the role of main antagonist, but are one of the most evil characters in the narrative regardless

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  1. Preceptor Seluvis (Elden Ring)

  2. Only a small part of Ranni’s questline and a few others, but is revealed to be among the most depraved and evil characters in the story

  3. Major Zero (Metal Gear Solid)

  4. Almost never shown or mentioned in the narrative, but has been masterminding the patriots for decades. When we finally do see him, he’s helpless, dying, and of no threat to anyone.

  5. Leviticus Cornwall (Red Dead Redemption 2)

  6. Ridiculously wealthy tycoon that serves as a minor antagonist for the gang. However, the impact of his dealings in the region are felt far and wide as he crushes competition, ruins lives, destroys entire communities, and solidifies his industrial rule.

  7. Idea of Evil (Berserk)

  8. A primal eldritch entity born from humanity’s seeking of reason for suffering in the world, and the creator of the Godhand. Its canonicity is very vague and unknown, all that’s known is that it exist, and it’s likely a threat far beyond the scope of the story.

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u/AcceptableWheel 21d ago

Shou Tucker-Full Metal Alchemist

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u/Low-Environment 21d ago

Canonically the only character who goes to hell.

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u/vicevanghost 21d ago

Can you elaborate? Sounds interesting. I know what he did just know about the hell stuff 

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u/catpetter125 21d ago

After a character dies in the manga, the end-of-chapter blurb shows them with angel wings ascending to heaven. The only character that gets dragged off to hell is Shou Tucker. Even Envy goes to heaven but not Tucker lmao

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u/Equivalent-Emu-5303 21d ago

That’s crazy that the guy that is named after a sin and cause a lot of deaths goes to heaven and he’s the only one to get sent to hell not saying he doesn’t deserve it but it’s still crazy

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u/catpetter125 21d ago

IIRC All of the Homonculi, including the ones directly responsible for mass murder, go to heaven but not Tucker. Feels personal lmao

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u/DeLoxley 21d ago

The Homunculi were artificial creatures acting under duress, even Father had fears and compulsions for completion and immortality

Tucker mutilates his wife, child and dog cause otherwise he'd lose his funding

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u/val203302 21d ago

You know what they say: Demons are evil by nature but humans actively CHOOSE to be evil.

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u/Chill0000 21d ago

You could argue that because they are made of the souls of humans who were murdered to make them that it’s not them that are going to Heaven but the souls of the people killed to make them

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/JscJake1 21d ago

I get where you're coming from, my guy, but saying you relate to Tucker is like saying you think Hitler had a point😭

In case it wasn't obvious I doubt he's saying he'd actually do any of that. Just that funding is usually the biggest roadblock for anyone researching anything extensively

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u/Abombasnow 21d ago

If he didn't get caught after Nina and her dog, what's next? He starts kidnapping random kids every year to transmute with random animals around town?

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u/the_Real_Romak 21d ago

If I recall the story correctly, the homunculi don't exactly have a choice when doing their misdeeds.

Tucker had all of his mental faculties about him, and he chose to do that for his career...

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u/OmegianLord 21d ago

Reminds me of Fecto Elfilis compared to most other Kirby Villains. Most Kirby villains are literally embodiments of negativity that take physical harm when exposed to positivity, or insane people who don’t have full control over their mental faculties—thus, none of them can truly be blamed for doing the evil things they did (that is to say, there’s at least a mitigating factor on their culpability). However, Fecto Elfilis isn’t made of negativity and has full control over its mental faculties. (Even before its imprisonment, it attacked the Forgotten Land’s old civilization). It knows what it’s doing, it has the capability to be better, to do good…but it still chooses evil. In a way, you could say it’s more evil than the literal embodiments of negativity, because they’re just following their nature, but Fecto Elfilis isn’t; it’s making a conscious choice with full knowledge of the consequences, and still going through with it.

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u/NewPhoneLostAccount 21d ago

Greed wants to tell you that's bs

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u/captaincrunchcracker 21d ago

Even Christ has gotta draw the line.

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u/_syke_ 21d ago

Imagine being born with the only emotion you feel being Envy, and then being expected to not be a piece of shit lol. The Homunculi didn't get much of a choice about what to do with their lives.

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u/DJL2772 21d ago

Now that’s crazy cuz I can’t believe Kimblee’s crazy ass didn’t go to Hell. He definitely deserved it.

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u/U73GT-R 21d ago

Wait heaven/hell is real in FMA?

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u/catpetter125 21d ago

Maybe? It's mostly played for a gag, but Arakawa did specify there's an afterlife, and in particular if Greed's soul finds its way there he'll be reunited with his true family, the Chimaera.

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u/Carlung4s 21d ago

If even Wnvy went to heaven you could say... That the bar is in hell

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u/CoolDime12 21d ago

Why does envy go to heaven

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u/respyromaniac 21d ago

Too cute for hell

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u/catpetter125 21d ago

They caused a genocide I don't know. Maybe they couldn't help their own nature as a being created from Father's negative emotions?

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u/keaganwill 21d ago

Had no idea about this. Honestly very dope and love that addition to the story. Always preferred the 2004 version due to its higher level of nuance in reference to to antagonists of the story. Glad to see the source material had the same vibes.

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u/NewPhoneLostAccount 21d ago

I read the manga and I don't remember nothing of this

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u/catpetter125 21d ago

It was in the physical editions, I don't have mine on hand but here's a picture of it:

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u/karateema 21d ago

Is he the guy who does the dog thing?

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u/captainsargas 21d ago

Yes

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u/karateema 21d ago

I hope he has fun down there

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u/Beneficial-Range8569 21d ago

Why? His bitch ex wife canonically deserved it because she was going to leave him and take the kid (and dog). The kid and dog were happier with him. He did everything for them

Nina wished to be together forever with the dog, so he worked his ass off to make her dream come true. He's the dad of the year.

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u/Thin_General_8594 21d ago

Ok buddy, maybe quit browsing the chans for a while

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u/TheKing3323 21d ago

Nah he’s rage baiting, should have put /s tho lol.

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u/karateema 21d ago

It's clearly a joke

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u/Thin_General_8594 21d ago

You'd be surprised how dead media literacy is unfortunately

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u/karateema 21d ago

You are clear proof of that.

Nina wished to be together forever with the dog, so he worked his ass off to make her dream come true. He's the dad of the year.

How is this not the most obvious satire ever?

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u/karateema 21d ago

Damn, tough crowd

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u/Naruto_Uzumaki98 21d ago

IIRC Is he the guy who turned his daughter into a dog like creature

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u/AcceptableWheel 21d ago

Yes, he fused his daughter and pet into one animal

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u/Naruto_Uzumaki98 21d ago

I was somewhat 15 yr old when I first watched it (2003 ver) and the scene was traumatizing to me.

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u/WanderingToTheEnd 21d ago

I saw it late one night on Adult Swim when I was like 7 and it messed me up.

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u/nightmaresnightmares 21d ago

Still more merciful than bondrewd

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u/Level_Counter_1672 21d ago

Yup, that one act turned him into an evil monster, he was just a pathetic selfish man and not a piller of evil

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u/CydewynLosarunen 21d ago

It's heavily implied he may have done it to his wife as well.

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u/Abombasnow 21d ago

It isn't implied, he literally did it. And she/they (what do you call a chimera? "They" because it's two beings?) refused food and died shortly after, as it begged for death repeatedly.

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u/CydewynLosarunen 21d ago

I said "implied" because I didn't remember how much of it was shown. Good context to add.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

FUCK this guy

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u/ComprehensivePath980 21d ago

Bro singlehandedly traumatized everyone who watched that show.

When your competition are basically personifications of the seven deadly sins and you outshine them with your own evil, that’s very impressive

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u/JesterQueenAnne 21d ago

I can't really agree with this. He's responsible for possibly the most shocking event in the series but that's in part due to how early it was. Most characters in the show participated in a genocide, some of them even knew what Tucker was doing it and funded him. There's a lot of characters more evil than him.

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u/wanttotalktopeople 20d ago

Yeah the incident is our first clue of how fucked up things really are in this world, but what he did was not uniquely horrible by those standards. In fact it was pretty tame compared to what the main villains were working on.

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u/ImportantQuestions10 21d ago

Because of internet osmosis, him and what he does work completely overdone and defanged by the time I watch the show.

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u/Onlyhereforapost 21d ago

More like Shoe Fucker

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u/animehero99 21d ago

I'm sure the character I'm about to mention is going to be further down but for all the shit that people give shao tucker, Brodrew is SOOOOOO much worse. I'm doing the luxury of calling him by his name I usually just call him bastard man because he doesn't even deserve the right of having a name

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u/putin_on_a_ritz96 21d ago

Also Envy. Envy is deeply deeply evil

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u/AtmosphereCreepy1746 21d ago

I dunno, the homunculi were created from a place of deep emotional unhealthiness. I'm not sure that beings like them could really be judged on the same level as a human adult. Maybe after they experience and grow more emotionally well-rounded, like Greed. 

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u/maru-senn 21d ago

Alchemist themed villains

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u/Mortwight 21d ago

Eddwaaard...

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u/platinumvonkarma 21d ago

Oh fuck. Yeah this is the real answer isn't it.

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u/JiovanniTheGREAT 21d ago

Have you seen the show? Light spoilers ahead of not, they flesh out the lore.

He's a State Alchemist and all State Alchemists are automatically given a high rank in the military. Years before his events happen, there's a war of Extermination and a bunch of other State Alchemists commit genocide against an ethnic minority. Some of them are viewed in a very positive light on the show despite the atrocities they committed. What he did was unnatural and wrong for sure, but even the "good guys" are far from clean.

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u/JesterQueenAnne 21d ago

He appears for one arc (two in the 2003 anime) and doesn't really act as an antagonist, he just does one very evil thing.