What is the Most Twisted Character You Have Made for Your Series?

[madis_art]

Funny enough, the main character of my new comic is the most sweetest/humblest person every with the most messed up background, lol. She's really a great person but her powers used for evil can probably kill a man in seconds :> Don't be fooled by her pretty flowers

((Comic for this character is here!))

[Vanesalisa]

Lana has a crazy darker side that never shown to anyone

[kyupol]

AP LEGION... (AP stands for "armor piercing"... in reference to Eph 6 Armor of God in the Bible...) from MAG-ISA

I'd say he's twisted because its one thing to be motivated by greed and ego and selfish intent... but its a whole new level to be ideologically focused on wickedness and attempting to rebuild the world in your ideology. And would stop at nothing to achieve that. Has a "God-complex"... thinks that God's creation is flawed and thinks he can do a better job.

He is the Transhumanist dream come true -- the idea of having your consciousness uploaded into the internet (a.k.a. "eternal life" / "god-hood"). And with it comes the ability to download yourself into multiple locations just like a file that gets uploaded on the internet.

If he needs a physical body, he gets "downloaded" into nano-machines (some kind of big brother surveillance network... that exists in nano-machines that float in the air... called the SIN network). Then the nano-machines construct a body for him -- a physical body that is strong enough to house a legion of demons... without causing the host to go insane as described in Mark Chapter 5.

The reason that demon-possessed man went insane is because the human body is too weak to house a legion of demons. And during the time of Jesus, they didnt have advanced nanotechnology.

And if the physical body gets destroyed in combat, it still wont kill his consciousness which is uploaded into the internet.

[azureXtwilight]

Dio from Re:Set, he kills and tortures whatever and whoever he wants to for the heck of it and is not afraid to eat women and children while they are still alive.

Here's a concept art of him by Gaia

[Mari]

I guess it would be 'The Evil Mom' from NSE, but she's twisted in another way I guess. When she was going through her post-birth depression after her daughter was born she was preyed upon by a christian cultist (based loosely on my IRL grandmother) and it all was a downhill from there. Though I definitely like writing her, since it's interesting to see how much I can villanise her before showing the humanity behind her situation, and if I'll be able to shine her in a sympathetic light.

[indagold]

Jacob from Welcome Back is kinda a messed up character? Not slash kill destroy but just with an obsessive need to control, manipulate, and conquer. He's a dream construct so he represents the regrets, fears and anger his real life version has. Despite his creepy and vile nature he's easily tricked by others, lonely, no self confidence and no understanding of how to interact with others. He pushes away others he deems mad or unfit for society when he himself is a depressed and neurotic mess he hides behind a smile. His influence is so powerful he was able to create a whole cult and dystopian totalitarian world around him and his need to not feel worthless.

[shiftingverses]

In Templars, I sometimes drop in the bandaged man into the background of my panels. He's made a few appearances so far but none of the characters ever acknowledge him and sometimes it's so tiny or small in the background I doubt it's visible in the web version.

The above image is a test page I did last year for chapter 3. I didn't use it because he felt too central.

It's not exactly twisted, more like a spooky Easter egg that will make sense much later on. I remembered a TV show called Ghost Watch back in the 90's. It was a drama filmed like a documentary (with real T.V personalities acting in it to make it feel genuine). In it, the TV crew are visiting a family haunted by a ghost called Mr Pipes - because of the metallic banging noises he makes in the walls. The show was spooky as hell, and kept having Mr Pipes appear in the background of a seemingly normal shot (an interview, camera pan or in the reflection of a window. It was spooky as hell, and that's how I want to do horror.

[spadesart]

there's a whole species of creatures in SPIRE that thrived by possessing other living things' bodies for hundreds of years at a time and then leaving them clueless and lost when they move onto someone else. before they were wiped out they were the dominant species that was basically in control of their whole world and did as they pleased with "lesser" species. they kind of look down at unbonded (i.e. ones who arent possessed) like dogs or toys to be played around with.

they'll be introduced near the halfway point of season 1 but there's already been foreshadowing and evidence of them in the current log of pages.

[rmdooley]

Right now, the main antagonist Eve holds top twisted slot for Legio Arcana

There will be competition in the future but she's got a good lead at this point in the story

[MidZM]

From what I've seen I'm pretty sure my guy is holding top slot for most twisted in this thread (What does that mean for my psyche?), though this isn't a contest I just find it disturbing how bad I made him looking at how twisted your guys most twisted characters are compared to this guy :S. I mean seriously one of the parts he's seen in the story he's talking to his partner he's walking and singing the jingle that Jan Valentine is singing in Hellsing Ultimate Abridged (Before his men get sliced to pieces), and then he starts talking about one of his possessions where he made a guy murder his to be wed in a week fiance before killing himself (Things happen in this scene other then this that are worse), and he just calls it an amazing experience and laughs it off... I mean Marked has a decently dark tone but this character forces the tone to shift from dark to black. Wondering whether I should lighten him up or just leave him be o.o

[wander_creature]

Well, I've got some pretty twisted characters in the works, but probably the worst we've seen in the Outer Spaces so far is Doctor Tsar during the Prognosis story arc.

When the universe was first created by the Primaries, it was wild and untamed. A group of doctors and scientists formed the legendary Council of Space in order to document, explore and control the endless expanse and make it livable. In their wake, star empires formed, and in time, the Doctors were forgotten - a footnote in the opening chapter of a history textbook. As their strength wavered, they were corrupted by their own anxieties and fears - most notably, Doctor Tsar. Originally ordained as the Doctor of Control, his mission to bring order to the world was pushed too far - and internally infested by a Creeping Paranoia, he made extensive plans to bring an end to the massive Viridescent Star Empire, seeing their xenophobic ways as reason to obliterate them from existence. Fortunately for a universe of green, nondescript fellows, he realized that the only way to change hatred in the universe is to demonstrate better, and backed down from his machinations. For now.

[Nebulous]

I don't know if I would call them completely twisted, but I got this character. Their name is Zho and they thrive on manipulating the emotions and sometimes bodies of those they betray. Honestly they kinda ARE twisted- you wouldn't believe their kill count just by looking at them (it's quite A LOT):

They are pretty cyoot. But still a sociopathic, charismatic asshole

[mariusthered]

the original bad guy for Swipe city is featured on today's page. and he is the most twisted of twisted.

imagine taking a small happy boy and have him suffer the loss of his dad (who he loved lots).
then he has to suffer the hands of an abusive step dad and mean new step sister.
age 10 the boy beats his step sister to death with a spanking paddle and is locked up in a mental home.
not speaking for two years the boy is finally encouraged to talk by a doctor who gives him comics when he does... Joker Comics.
In his crazed mind the boy starts to think of the joker as his new dad.
20 years later having never been brought to trial Clarence Potts (aka The Paddler) is released on the streets of Swipe city soon to begin his killing spree . if that has wet your whistle for the character my back seasons await you and all the twisted tales.

[wander_creature]

They look so uncertain, though. You'd expect a hug, not a murder. (But then again, I guess that's to their advantage.)

[shazzbaa]

though this isn't a contest I just find it disturbing how bad I made him looking at how twisted your guys most twisted characters are compared to this guy :S. [...] I mean Marked has a decently dark tone but this character forces the tone to shift from dark to black. Wondering whether I should lighten him up or just leave him be o.o

I'm going to be honest, I don't think this is a matter of like... the scale of the bad things they've done, but of whether or not the character rings true. The character that feels "the most twisted" to a reader isn't going to be the one that does the worst stuff, but the one that's the most believable while doing horrible things. Like, a character who berates and manipulates a friend into self-loathing but thinks they're doing it for the friend's best is going to feel more messed up to me than the girl who can't stop giggling while she cuts out people's eyes, just because the first one feels real, and the second one feels like a cartoon.

"He brutally murdered his own family and laughed!!" is so, so easy to say, and would certainly be chilling in real life, but it's incredibly hard to sell. If it's done very well, we're horrified; but there's nothing more to it than shocking brutality, there's a real danger we'll just roll our eyes and think "oh gee wow, how edgy."

If there's any reason to adjust that kind of character, I would think it's that: not because "oh wow they're TOO dark!!!" but because you want to make sure the character rings true and isn't just over-the-top for the sake of being over-the-top. Making sure you're not using shocking behaviour to make a character WOW!!! SO TWISTED!!!! but that you're building a real person whose horrorific actions reflect something about them that feels genuine.

[MidZM]

If I do make him as twisted and crazy as I originally planned to make him (gonna have to cut a few things out of his dialog because it's just hard to write and not feel horrible), I plan on showing just how mad and messed up he truly is. But yeah I get what you mean about writing a character and making them feel crazy and twisted to the read as opposed to just writing how insane they are, it's all about their expressions, actions, and what's going on in that little mind of theirs as they're doing it that will show readers the horrors of the character. As for that summary sentence, it's only a portion of what happened, the half portion I'd rather not get into until it's told in the story :P. Thanks for the input there :).

[timinabox]

depends on your definition of twsted, but it's between that one guy or that one other guy I guess :'D

[Wumbl]

I've got a character in my comic flirting with death named Double Neptune...
Every character in this story is at least somewhat screwed up, living in a criminal world with their various insecurities... But Neptune is something else. She's a serial killer, but also an artist posing as a fanatic - she commits gruesome acts of violence and then paints the crime scenes. Her art is incredibly popular, as people just think she's an edgy painter who loves killers. In reality she is the one doing it all.

[garrenn]

I don't think I have any in my current comic that actually count, but there's a comic I'm working on with Tyler Kinney of Greengarten and there's quite a few villainous characters that do some pretty sick things. Such as a commander grabbing his lieutenants hand and slicing off two of his fingers and feeding one to his bird. Can't wait to work on that one!

[Nebulous]

Exactly! That's their appeal. I wanted a character that was approachable, but had a feature about them (the eyes?) that shows they've seen and done horrific things