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"It doesn't matter where you stand, I'll still destroy you, just like I'll destroy them and the ENTIRE WORLD!" - Acnologia

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Jackal claims another victim.

Much like Rave Master, Fairy Tail tends to avoid this trope, giving most villains some Pet the Dog moments or a reasonable Freudian Excuse. But these don't have either.


Series-wide[]

  • Acnologia "The Black Dragon of the Apocalypse" was once a dragon slayer who was supposed to be a savior of humanity and a bridge between them and dragonkind. Instead, he became a scourge upon both, slaughtering countless dragons, even the ones friendly to humans, for fun. Becoming a dragon did nothing to improve his demeanor. Everywhere he goes, he spreads death and destruction. He doesn't even speak most of the time because he thinks humans are vermin that are beneath him, despite the fact that he used to be one. When he finally speaks, it's mostly rants about how he desires nothing but destruction. Then he brutally murders Igneel right in front of Natsu. When he decides to take center stage in Alvarez's Invasion, Acnologia targets the other dragon slayers to wipe them out and reveals his intention to simply annihilate everything that lives, while keeping all immortal wizards as playthings to torture forever. Caring for nothing but to satiate his bloodlust, Acnologia is a scourge for anyone who meets him.

Individual arcs[]

  • Phantom Lord arc: Master Jose Porla of Phantom Lord, motivated by ceaseless but unfounded envy towards the Fairy Tail Guild, orders Gajeel to destroy their home base in Magnolia Town and hang up the violently beaten Team Shadow Gear as an example. After incapacitating Makarov, who he holds a special enmity towards for a mere drunken outburst, Porla kidnaps Lucy and holds her for ransom to acquire the entire Heartfilia family fortune. Going to extreme lengths to satisfy his hateful jealousy, Porla orders the activation of "Abyss Break" to annihilate all of Fairy Tail as well as the innocent civilians of Magnolia Town.
  • Tower of Heaven arc and Grand Magic Games arc: The Fat and Skinny leaders of the Cult of Zeref only appear in a few flashbacks, yet remain two of the most monstrous villains in the entire series. Having their soldiers attack villages and deliberately kill all the adults and kidnap the children, they then force the captured children to construct the Tower of Heaven, which they hope will revive the dark wizard Zeref so that he may grant them "paradise". Any insubordinate child slave is whipped and beaten. When a few children try escaping, the Skinny Cult Leader exposes Erza as the mastermind, and they torture her so badly that she loses her right eye, while punishing the other slaves by starving them. Later, as they're whipping the boy Jellal, the two leaders gleefully reminisce on how Erza "cried and cried" during her torture, with the Fat Cultist calling it a "masterpiece". Greedy, cruel, and cowardly, the Cultist Leaders' vile actions inflicted severe trauma that haunted their victims long after the duo's deaths.
  • Edolas arc (Manga-only): Faust, the King of Edolas, supposedly desires eternal magic for his kingdom, but in the end only wants it for himself. He conducted a plan called "Anima" to absorb all of Earth Land into Edolas as Lacrima for fuel, but his son Mystogan eliminated most of the portals save for one in Magnolia City. Consumed by greed, he eventually orders the genocide of all Exceeds and uses his army's desperation for Magic to rile them. During "Code ETD", he siphons the Dragon Slayers of their magic to create a chain to throw the giant Lacrima containing Magnolia City residents and facilitate in Extalia's destruction. When Mystogan thwarts it, Faust personally leads a final assault in the Dorm Anima, callously shooting down his son and promising to turn Natsu, Wendy, and Gajeel into living batteries to fund future Anima plan attempts. His burning of Coco's legs and disregard for Pantherlily's life in a crossfire outs Faust as a power-hungry and avaricious king.
  • Tartaros arc: Being the last of the top Dark Guilds, Tartaros is filled with vile villains. A few of them, however, are especially wicked:
    • From the moment we meet Jackal, one of Zeref's demons and a member of Tartaros' Nine Demon Gates, he is established as a psychopath who gleefully assassinated the Magic Council in front of Doranbalt so viscerally that at least one of his kills required a Gory Discretion Shot. He then goes on to force not one, but two Sadistic Choices on a former Magic Council member and Lucy, forcing them to choose between their own life and their granddaughter's life, and the life of the Magic Councilor and a pregnant woman respectively, and says that his only real motivation for doing so is that he see humans as playthings. He then later kills one of his own guildmates right in front of Lucy for the crime of annoying him. Out of all of the Etherious, he could very well be the one most deserving of being called a demon.
    • Ezel, also known as "Child Slicer" is another one of the Nine Demon Gates, and is also one of its worst. Reveling in massacring humans, Ezel slaughtered an entire town just to kill one former member of the Magic Council, leaving no survivors in his wake. Desiring to activate the Face Bomb (which will depower and kill millions of magic-using people), Ezel goes out of his way to activate it when the other Demon Gates are stopped, and brutally beats Wendy to a pulp when she tries to stop it. While crushing her under his tentacles, he boasts about how he and other Curse users will be free to oppress humans once Face removes all magic, before trying to eat her best friend Carla right in front of her.
  • Fairy Tail Zero (Manga only): Geoffrey is the leader of the Dark Guild known as Blue Skull, and is the Arc Villain of the prequel. Seven years before the main story, he has his guild attack the only village on Tenrou Island to both seize the Sirius Orb and to wipe out the Red Lizard Guild, with everyone in the town other than Mavis being slaughtered. Seven years later, it's revealed that Geoffrey has taken over the town of Magnolia, having his guild brutally oppress the people there and leave them with little to eat. His men are also gleeful after killing an old man who got in the way of their actual target (Mavis), showing that he and his regime have no issue with civilians being killed, and it is implied that he's oppressed and/or killed other towns in the past.

Movies[]

  • Zash Caine from Dragon Cry was once a wizard of Fiore who fled to Stella after a failed coup. He went into the service of King Animus and then proceeded to kill his own allies to prove himself. In the present day, Zash uses mind control to force the White Tiger squadron to kill each other in order to steal the Dragon Cry. Zash shows no hesitation in trying to kill the Fairy Tail wizards, and is even willing to mind control others to do so. It is revealed that Zash keeps female prisoners to draw blood from to power his own magic, and takes Lucy captive in an attempt to draw blood from her. Towards the end, Zash betrays Animus and takes the Dragon Cry for himself. He proceeds to force Animus to go on a rampage and unseals the Quartum Army to eliminate the Fairy Tail wizards. He then activates the Dragon Cry in an attempt to destroy all of Fiore out of revenge for his exile, only failing when the power proves too much and incinerates him.

100 Years Quest[]

  • Aldoron is one of the Five Dragon Gods, and initially comes off as a sleeping protector of the people living on him. However, immediately upon waking up from his 400-year coma, Aldoron absorbs and kills all of the 300,000 people on him, before sending his five "God Seeds" after Fairy Tail. After Natsu outsmarts and defeats one of the God Seeds, Aldoron takes Natsu to his interior, where "God Seed Aldoron", the incarnation of Aldoron's mind, tortures him. During this torture, Aldoron reveals how he plans to destroy the continent of Guiltina and then the rest of the world. When Natsu asks him how many humans he killed when he awoke, Aldoron says that the number was around 300,000 people, taking clear joy in recalling how the humans mistakenly viewed him as a protector. A power-hungry narcissist, Aldoron would stop at nothing to become stronger and rule the world, with even the other Dragon Gods just being future targets for him to devour, and stands out as one of the only villains whom Natsu had no issue killing.

Spinoffs[]

  • Fairy Girls: The unnamed leader of Rose Marionette is the one behind Sumire's manipulation of Fairy Tail, as well as the earlier usage of a draining machine by an evil couple to absorb the energy of 100 wizards while putting them in an eternal sleep. After Wendy's capture, it's revealed that he sold similar energy-draining machines to many other dark guilds, and plans to use one to painfully drain Wendy's Dragon Slayer Magic until she dies. After the machine painfully drains a portion of her magic to create a bomb, he demonstrates its deadly potential before stating his plan to sell them to all the other dark guilds for a profit, saying that it'll "lead Dark Guilds into a new era". He then drains Wendy for 17 hours, with it being stated that he's used this to kill other wizards. When Sumire reveals that she'll eventually leave Rose Marionette, he impales her, stating that he'd have killed her anyways since she wasn't useful anymore. When Sumire has a Heel-Face Turn and defends Wendy, he brutally beats her, before smugly watching as his second-in-command prepares to permanently cripple Wendy.
  • Happy's Heroic Adventure: General Star is the leader of ScienCity, in a parallel universe 1000 years in the past. Initially appearing as a friendly man who wants to take the animal people to "paradise", it's soon revealed that he's actually using the animals as cannon fodder by torturing them before turning the mammals into cybernetic soldiers (with many animal people being shown dead from combat). When Happy and his friends try to free Marice and the animals, Star stops them and tortures Dr. Magicana in front of them for attempting to defect. He then painfully overloads Marice, forcing her to painfully "evolve" many of the animals into monsters against their will. After Happy and the others escape (with Happy and Marice returning to the present time in their own universe), Star reappears, having turned himself into a cyborg to live for 1000 years before tracking down Happy's universe. Ordering his robots to capture every animal person all across the world, he tries to emotionally break Marice in order to unleash her power by making her believe the ongoing destruction is her fault. When his army is beaten, he fuses with them and Marice to become the Star Dragon, before brutally beating Happy to a pulp. When Marice is freed with the help of the sentient Mother Computer, he immediately kills the latter. He then begins draining the whole world of magic energy, and gleefully says that he'll destroy the world and then do the same to other planets. When the 3 Sacred Treasures sacrifice their own lives to save Happy, Star cackles at their deaths and mocks them in front of a grieving Happy. An incredibly dark villain in a very lighthearted spinoff, General Star's lust for power and needless cruelty show that any good intentions of helping humanity that he once had are gone, leaving him as nothing more than a vile monster.
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