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1. Jonas Venture (The Venture Bros)

In a world of super-scientists and supervillains, there is nobody more respected than Jonas Venture. Jonas was an adventurer and a pioneer in super science (experimental science that represents the potential of the future). With the help of his associates on Team Venture and his 8 year-old son Rusty, Jonas would scour the world in the 60’s, defeating bad guys, finding artifacts, and looking dashing all the while.

Of course, that’s all for the cameras. In reality, Jonas Venture was a gallivanting jackass who only viewed people as means of entertaining him. He got his kicks off of putting villains, friends, and his own son in humiliating or dangerous situations, and regularly abandoned his own super science projects when he lost interest in them, leaving many of the half-baked inventions and projects for the modern Team Venture to deal with. Even the current hero/villain system is a result of Jonas deciding that it was more fun to watch broken adults mask up and fight rather than actually work out their own issues.

In the present day, Jonas Venture is viewed with reverence, but as the show goes on, we see the deeper and deeper depths he sunk to. Rusty, now a broken husk of a man who's been so thoroughly traumatized that he's functionally immortal to psychological breaking, outwardly refers to Jonas as a shitty parent, and consistently has to clean up Jonas's messes. If there's something that's going wrong in the Venture Bros, it's no stretch to say that somewhere, somehow, Jonas is the cause of it.

2. The Ancestor (Darkest Dungeon)

In Darkest Dungeon, you play as a nobleman who answers a letter from their now-deceased ancestor, who recently called you to action. He states that after base pleasures started getting boring for him, he started experimenting with more occultist passions out of simple boredom, leading him to discover some truly Eldritch horrors. His spirit narrates the events of the story, and spoonfeeds you information about his "passions".

As it turns out, the forces of Evil and Darkness wouldn't have gotten nearly as far without the ancestor's help. The ancestor seemed to abdicate his morality altogether in his search for new and exciting pleasures, and he couldn't help but resist fucking over anyone who he deemed as lesser than himself. Nearly every enemy is a result of the Ancestor personally screwing over their team. The undead corpses stem from his necromancer associates, who he killed after stealing their ideas. The brigands harassing the woods were employed by him to keep order over the villagers when they realized their liege was a psychopath. The miners he hired to excavate his estate were abandoned to forestall his own inevitable demise. He couldn't even help but fucking over an innocent miller for the crime of asking him for help with a poor harvest, resulting in the Miller and his people becoming mindless and suffering horrors.

While the Darkest Dungeon is all about exploring and defeating the primeval horrors within, the Ancestor is proof that such horrors pale in the comparison of the horrific potential of one selfish man.

3. Jimmy (Mouthwashing)

TW: Rape

Jimmy is a copilot for the company Pony Express*,* and acting captain after his friend and pilot Curly crashed the Tulpar into an asteroid, rendering him a horrifically-burnt invalid. Jimmy is struggling as the captain, and often castigates or pulls rank over the remaining crew members (Swansea the mechanic, Daisuke the Intern, and Anya the Doctor). Their situation is desperate, as their engines have been disabled and they are running on limited rations.

As the game goes on, we get flashbacks that lead into the main story, and the main story turns progressively worst. We find out that Pony Express was going bankrupt, leading Jimmy to fall into despair as he knew his future prospects were limited. He attacked and raped Anya weeks into the voyage, causing her to become pregnant. Knowing that he would be fired and arrested once the mission finally landed, Jimmy waited for the crew to go to sleep, and then took control of the ship and set it on a suicide collision against an asteroid. Curly attempted to right the ship's course, but this resulted in a partial collision and his devastating state at the beginning of the game.

Jimmy claims he can "fix his mistakes", but never truly acknowledges his fuckups, least of all his rape of Anya. His terrible leadership and continued abuse of the crew results in Daisuke's death after he makes a misinformed decision and manipulates Daisuke into going through with it. Anya ends up killing herself rather than spend more time on the ship with her abuser, and Swansea (justifiably) attempts to kill Jimmy when Jimmy grabs the Captain's emergency pistol. Stuck by himself and with Curly, Jimmy deludedly thinks he can fix his mistakes by force-feeding Curly chunks of his own flesh to prevent him from starving, and then puts Curly in a cryogenic chamber to "save" him (likely condeming him to starvation when the cyrogenics wears off, as nobody knows the current state of the Tulpar) before using the gun to kill himself.

Jimmy is a despised character, but one of the most horrifying aspects of him is his delusion in thinking he is still the good guy the whole time through. The plot happens and worsens because he selfishly cannot let go of the idea that he can "fix his mistakes", and he consistently refuses to see reality and retreats further into comforting lies that he's the hero.

1. Jacoby (Pirates of the Carribean)

Jacoby is one of the cursed crewmen under Barbossa on the Black Pearl, and repeatedly harasses the heroes throughout the film. Like all of the Black Pearl's cursed, Jacoby is unable to feel any sensation, and is able to shrug off any blow and reconstitute from any injury. The cursed also turn into rotting skeletons in the moonlight, and assume human forms outside of it.

Throughout the film, Jacoby uses his curse to great effect, and backs up Barbossa in the final fight. Him and his fellow crewmates attack Will and Elizabeth, and they won't stay down due to their curse.

Will and Elizabeth find out how to deal with the cursed once and for good; they impale the three crewmen together with a scepter while they're in their skeletal form, and stick one of Jacoby's own bombs in his exposed ribcage. They then push him out of the moonlight, reverting him to human form... with the bomb still inside him and no way to get it out. Shortly before blowing up, Jacoby pouts "No fair".

2. The Invisible Man (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)

TW: Sexual Violence

The Invisible Man (real name Hawley Griffin) is a member of the League of Extraordinary Gentleman, a team of Victorian literature characters who use their various skills to combat otherworldly threats to the British Empire. Despite this, he's pointedly not a good man, and is encountered using his invisibility to rape girls. The League decides his powers are effective enough to justify keeping him in the League, and offer to cure his invisibility and give him amnesty for his crimes.

This bites them in the ass when the Martians attack. Hawley, seeing what he perceives as the writing on the wall, sells out the League, assaults Mina Harker, and feeds the Martians information on their plans.

When Mr. Hyde confronts Hawley over his betrayal (being more pissed off about him attacking Mina), Hawley taunts him and lords his invisibility protecting him. That's when Hyde lets Hawley know that due to his transformation, he has special vision and has ALWAYS been able to see Hawley, right before grabbing him. Hawley's tune changes immediately, and begins feebly protesting and begging for mercy.

Hyde... isn't merciful with him.

3. Tychus Findlay (Starcraft II)

Tychus Findlay is one of Jim Raynor's old friend from his outlaw days, and took the fall when one of their heists went bad. Jim became a Marshall, while Tychus spent the last few decades locked up in a supermax prison planet. At the beginning of Starcraft II, Tychus agrees to act as a mole for Emperor Mengsk, the main antagonist. In exchange for his freedom, Tychus is expected to keep an eye on Raynor, and kill Kerrigan, Raynor's former love and the leader of the Zerg, when the opportunity presents itself. To ensure his loyalty, Mengsk forces Tychus to wear a set of Marine power armor at all times, which is also rigged up to an execution device if Tychus disobeys him.

Tychus ends up growing uneasy as the story goes on, and realizes that sooner or later, he will be forced to kill Kerrigan, who Raynor is set on saving. This would ensure his own death at Raynor's hands. Tychus takes to drinking to cope with this no-win scenario, and ends up shittalking Jimmy in the cantina. This turns into a full barfight between him and Raynor. Obviously, since Tychus has power armor while everybody else is unarmed, he has the advantage.

Raynor's able to turn the tides by using an exposed electrical cable to short-circuit Tychus's suit, painfully shocking him and trapping him in his disabled armor. Tychus can only comment the titular phrase in between pained gasps.