Bad
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- Ajax, the Big Bad of Deadpool, is a cruel and sadistic Mad Scientist who performs torturous experiments on people to turn them into super-powered slaves.
Source: Beauty Is Bad -
During the Egypt adventure, Penny learning about her incoming and inescapable demise was bad enough to lead her to decide to return home with Peabody and Sherman, not minutes after cheerfully chatting about them suffering torturous deaths with King Tut.
- In Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, the (male) Big Bad is such because he enslaves people with torturous killswitches, and the (female) protagonist...does the same thing to a total stranger.
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