This Troper's [unpublished] stories have a lot of villains, but most of them are {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s (Drathilox, Green Horse & the Trophic Blenders, etc.) or {{Card Carrying Villain}}s
who nonetheless have standards (the League of Villains, Bill Stuffner,
Will Legal &
Ovar Huntin &
the Hillbilly Poachers, etc). There are a few {{Complete Monster}}s around (
Black Doom & the Black Arms, for instance), but one stands head and shoulders above the rest in terms of sheer ''evil''. This character is Donald Stuffner, the father of the aforementioned Bill Stuffner. Now, Bill Stuffner is rather obsessed with beauty and art, but his main method of making "art" is
drain the life out of beautiful maidens and "replace it with art" via a dimension of raw artistic energy dubbed the "
Art Flow". The Art Flow is basically raw artistic energy, which for some bizarre reason is highly toxic to those who are unable to tap into it. Needless to say, the heroes of my stories frequently have to remind Bill that "Murder is '''''NOT''''' art!!!!" However, when it comes to comparisons between himself and another artist, Bill's philosophy is "may the best win", and he's willing to accept losses. Furthermore, Bill Stuffner has a great deal of respect for ''all'' other artists, and not only will he refuse to kill them, he will fight to the death to protect them. This chivalrous side keeps Bill Stuffner well away from CompleteMonster status (though he's still
a bizarre dude who you do ''not'' want to meet up with. Unless you're an artist. And even then, his antics will probably disgust you... unless you have no soul.) This is ''not'' true of Donald. Donald wants himself and his kin to be the best artists in the world, and is quite willing to kill anyone who's more respected than the Stuffner family to make sure of that. He particularly hates the Round family, who have been the main rivals of the Stuffners throughout history (with the Rounds specializing in the performance arts and the Stuffners sticking to non-performance arts; the Stuffners believe that performance art is too transient to be considered "art", and that it is thusly beneath them.) Thing is, the Rounds have pretty much always been regarded as the better artists. The major reasons for this are that the Rounds are generally nice people (while the Stuffners are typically {{Jerkass}}es at best, and {{serial killer}}s at worst), and that the Stuffners seem to fail hard on the whole "creativity" thing (which wouldn't be so bad if ''
they didn't KILL people to compensate for it''.) Anyways, Donald has made numerous attempts to kill off Lucy Round
name is a pun on Lucille Ball, best known for ILoveLucy, the current "heiress" (for lack of a better term) to the Round family name, but all have failed due to Lucy's own capacity for tapping into the Art Flow, the intervention of the Heroes' League (especially her boyfriend, Marcus Belnades), or both. This is where Donald crossed the MoralEventHorizon. Basically, he decided that if he couldn't kill Lucy directly, he'd instead
drive her to suicide by '''killing all of her friends and loved ones'''. Needless to say, the Heroes' League was
flabbergasted and horrified when they found out about this, and wasted ''no'' time in thwarting the plot. Still, the fact that Donald was all too willing to follow through with his scheme (and would have pulled it off if not for those meddling heroes) single-handedly makes him a CompleteMonster, and this isn't even ''mentioning'' all of the other atrocities he's committed.
Even Bill Stuffner - Donald's own son - is regularly disgusted by Donald's antics (
and has even intervened to protect Lucy from Donald on numerous occasions), and Donald is doing all of this for Bill's sake! That should speak ''volumes'' about
how despicable Donald Stuffner really is...