Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I felt it was, frankly, time for this. Since my story is nearing the end and the villains are, in one way or another, not threats anymore. Also it may clear up some questions you all have about them.

Sue
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Sue. Relationship Sue. Good lord, she is a sight. I will not deny she is beautiful, nor deny that she has unmistakable sex appeal. In fact...that's the point. Sue's basic existence has centered around the desire to be the love of others, usually powerful, important people who make a big impact on the world around her. She'll often settle for people who can give a good shag, as Austin Powers might put it. YEAH BABY.

Problem is...she doesn't actually GET relationships in the proper way. Ironic that her "relationships" are really more like "Master/slave" than "lover/lover".

Actually, you know what's a good comparison? "Nerd and "Inflatable Ursula". Anybody she pairs with is just gonna be a good tool for fun that she'll just grab ahold of whenever she wants to waste some time or get over an unfortunate incident in her life or when she needs to relieve tension. In short...she's consumed by lust...and in the end, she is LITERALLY consumed by lust.

Two
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Two is stupid, yes. Stupid because while not unintelligent...he IS clever...he's ignorant.

Rather than taking a stand against the person that made his parents lives living Hell...against the person who essentially did in all in his power to ensure that he wouldn't have something of a normal life...he turned into a Member of the Minor Arcana. He made a deal with the Devil and became desensitized to the idea of killing his own sister. He understands intellectually that it's a tragedy and he has the idea and faint feeling that he OUGHT to feel bad for wanting to kill Green, but...he just can't bring himself.

Mind you, his parent's are SOMEWHAT to blame for agreeing to Samael's deal in the first place and then running off and breaking the deal, but they tried to raise him right. They really did. It was his own bad choices that ended up getting him in trouble. The only difference is his concern and love for those whom he HAD spent most of his life with stayed on. He would not kill his parents and because of that...he didn't cross the line that Jack did. Sadly though, he's accidentally shot by Frequency...mistaken for a monster. Tragically ironic because though he ACTED like one sometimes in behavior...he truly wasn't one. He only LOOKED a bit like one.

Two, is, just so you know, taller than his dad. And he likes to point this out. He does so many...many...many times. His mom thought it was funny. His dad notsomuch.

Miyu
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When I said Two was stupid, I wasn't kidding. He's ignorant. But Miyu is not just ignorant, she is WILLFULLY ignorant, and that brings her into the realm of the sinister.

She is Zim and MALIK's child and she had a very pampered early life, ruling over Irken society. In her alternate reality, Zim left Kila and pursued a relationship with a dear associate and friend, MALIK, and Kila married Grey. Zim and MALIK's love eventually gave birth to a technorganic child...thank the Lord for Modern Science! She was even named for Zim's personal hero, Miyuki.

Miyu was, as a child, timid. But she quickly became used to being treated as special and LOVED it. When Nick and Kila's child, Azazel, began to court her, she felt even more happy...and that she DESERVED it. She began to see herself as superior because of her robotic blood, and that it was only FITTING that the best of Star Command court her. When she was approached by Samael with the offer of power in the Minor Arcana in exchange for some...favors...she accepted gleefully and happily killed her mother and father.

But she didn't stop there. Even when, out of pity, Snizzi granted MALIK the right to rule Android Hell, Miyu simply did not wish to be ruler of only the Irken race. She wanted all her mother had and more. And she took it. She called off her marriage to Azazel so she could plan her coronation ceremony as Queen of Android Hell and of the Irken Race.

Despite the fact that she's cold-hearted and has a superiority complex as big as her dad, she was genuinely tender with Azazel and was getting very close to him. She just could not let go of her desire to be the best and damned the consequences. Ultimately she made an overestimation in taking on Alex twice. If she'd bothered to factor in some variables, she might have lived...

Azazel

Azazel was originally a beautiful angel. A seraphim in God's Heaven, or "burning serpent", AKA, a "dragon". Problem was he made stupid mistakes and was too proudful to admit he was wrong. One: he didn't respect the first man, Adam. Two, he divulged the secrets of metalworking and the art of decorating the body before man was ready. Three, he never once said "Sorry". Dumb, dumb, dumb. He was cast out. Then he made another dumb move when reincarnated...he faced down an already-hyped-to-fight group of heroes who were trying to teach a power-obssessed vampiric gerbil a lesson...and got his ass kicked in precisely two minutes. Shoulda worn thicker armor!

Ending up in Hell, his eventual tearful praying for forgiveness made God take pity on him and he was reborn as the child of Kila and Zim in an alternate time. They taught him that he ought to strive to do as much good as possible and his Peepaw, Nick, encouraged him and taught him as much as he could. Soon Azazel was gaining mastery over all magic and his heroic deeds and great compassion caught the attention of Star Command...and eventually Samael.

Azzy represents the well-meaning, compassionate Christian, but in more extreme sense. He's like Page, taken to a different level. He follows the inner voice of God, which told Azzy to go along with Sam's plan, saying "I am in this". Ultimately though, he made mistakes because he was too caught up in doing "God's work" to realize that there is a difference between something "sacred" and something "holy", and hurting innocents was NOT holy. Feeling used, he placed his own justice above God and hung himself in Old Testament fashion, aka impaling. His death was especially tragic...it imitated Judas's. His greatest sin was that of despair: he gave up on himself ever being anything but a tool for evil.

Frequency
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I've said Azazel's power. His immense magical skill is proof of that. But Frequency is powerful too...and very...very dangerous.

Frequency is probably the only member of the Minor Arcana who dangerously borders on the level of insanity, helped along by him having to lobotomize Sari, White's daughter (though White didn't know until much, much later) despite his brotherly feelings towards her, his drug usage, and his own inner powers of "surfing"...being able to ride any sort of wave, be it a radio wave, an ocean wave or even mental wave patterns. Having these powers from the moment of waking in his mother's womb, he was soon sharing her thoughts and the thoughts of those who were touching her at the moment. Try to imagine what that must have been like for a KID to have this power, let alone a developing child in his mom's womb.

Frequency's managed his own near-psychosis pretty well with exercise and the mental development of a very, VERY keen mind. He's got immense concentration and when focused, nothing stops him. He took up archery...the marksmanship...and then got into the assassin buisiness. He doesn't take jobs that involve kids though, he really likes kids. Samael found him with relative ease but he refused to murder his mom or dad. He agreed to lobotomizing Sari solely because he had no idea she was the recently-fired Chalice of the Minor Arcana, and once he was deposited at her house, he realized he had no choice anymore. It broke his heart to do what he did, but he had not yet, sadly, inherited his grandfather's courage.

Depsite the fact that he works for Samael and the Corporation, he tries to help the good guys...especially Green and Junior, who's daughter will be his true love one day. He has the ability of "Duet"...he can use Magic Music, but it has to be with somebody else. Overall, he's KIND of a stoned-out pyscho, but really his biggest flaws lie in his inability to draw the line. He mistakes Two for a monster and shoots him in this ultimate literalization...he realizes that he has become unable to distinguish between friend and foe, and this fills him with utter guilt. Unlike Azazel though, he picks himself up and doesn't despair.

Zoburg
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Cold-hearted, calculating and manipulative. This is the sort of person who thinks the world is owed him by right of "I'm smarter than everybody else". Zoburg used to be a respectable scientist, but his ideas and experiments were sick. And so say the testimonials!

"He stuck a fork in my brain for three hours!"

"I was sick for five days afterward!"

\"Nomoreleechesnomoreleechesnomoreleeches...\"

Miyuki finally gave him the boot (Either the door actually hit his ass on the way out or she literally threw him out the door, the latter seems likely). He DID find solace in Samael's corporation where he could experiment on creating a lovely little drug called Hypercortisone X. It made you feel positively angelic AND violently insane and the more you took, the more you needed it. It only would take a few months for an average human to get fully addicted.

Zoburg wanted more though. Scientific knowledge wasn't enough. He demanded to know all about magic, despite knowing few spells and having about as much magical skill inside him as a roll of toilet paper. He believed he could make himself invincible and all-powerful with magic...knowing all, being like a god, invulnerable. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. Because he didn't bother to think about something very simple: what if his resources were to just DISSAPEAR...he lost everything. In a final bid to get revenge on the people he hated in a half-racism-fueled attack, Green essentially splattered his guts. She will keep his heart in a mason jar for bring it out and allow people to poke it. Go ahead! Poke!

Jacques
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Okay, yes, Jacques AND Rupert had a childhood crush on Jumba. And some of it lingers on today, mostly in Rupert. I admit it freely. They were as gay as those fruity Vegas magicians for Jumba for most of school. Moving along. The brothers are not...strong...not in terms of bravery. They like big friends to look after them and generated an almost totally unconditional love for them. Jumba stood up for the brothers in school and they hero-worshipped him. Nick and Grey defended Rupert and thus earned his eternal gratitude.

This is not completely a good thing. Samael agreed to give Jacques the power and resources to never be afraid of anybody else and Jacques leapt at the chance. Despite the fact that he knew how sick Sammy was, he ignored a very basic rule of Villainy: DON'T WORK FOR ANYBODY MORE PSYCHOTIC THAN YOU. At least he decided to not get into experimentation but rather built the machines and headquarters for the HQ.

Another reason Jacuqes didn't get into open experimentation on humans was because unlike the experiments, whom he and his brother share a view (though Rupert has changed mostly changed it) that the "k'torimik" as the Galactic term is, are not really "beings". He paid for them. They're things. Why feel sorry for wanting to get rid of something he bought that doesn't work? But he knows humans are sentient and Jacques also had a fondness and respect for Lilo, who advocated for mercy towards his spirit when Jacques was dead. Ultimately he was a bit of a cowardly little worm, since he didn't have the heart to say "no" sooner, but he came around bit by bit. Out of pity, he spared Lilo and allowed her to escape and destroyed himself, forever ensuring that he'd live on within his brother. There could be only one.

Eva
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Eva was a construct made of pure Dream. Born from a wish...a wish of Grey Nicholas Pelekai. I think within us there is that dream girl...and that desire that she was real. The problem is we don't bother to think about the consequences. What if all we thought was "I want a girl who's drop-dead gorgeous and crazy for me"? If that's all she's born with in her soul, she'll want ALL of us...mind...body...heart...soul...

And then...when we are gone...will she be satisfied?...maybe not. That's Eva. Eve.

She's pitiable. She is what she is because Grey wanted somebody to love and protect and care for. She was smart, she was pretty and she did not care that he was a human turned into a beast. She saw only a wonderful being and wanted all of him. The problem was...she manipulated and lied to him about where she came from and played on his memories of the ones he loved to give him all he wanted. If she had been honest and been her true self, he might have loved her and they would have ended up very happy, but ultimately, rather than take a chance and try to be her own person, she fed off Grey's memories to imitate others...and damned herself.

It broke Grey's heart to learn her true nature. He pitied her because he'd made her, but she had enough free will to choose NOT to lie and she had chosen wrong. And he knew she would do the same thing to other men once he was dead. Therefore he had to devour her to ensure nothing would remain of her. But it wasn't cold-blooded murder...a murderer wouldn't have been so heartbroken as he killed his prey.

Bartok
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Bartok is scum. Pure...and simple.

He represented the sort of everyday person in power who uses that position to not only gain more power and wealth for himself, but took a sadistic pleasure in lording his power over those weaker than him. He might be the Captain of the High School Football Team who took a nerd's hot girlfriend for himself even though he already HAD a horde of double-d-chested girls who'd hang around him regularily, or a boss who deliberately takes away the coffee in the office because he, "officially", doesn't want them "mooching off him". In reality, he wants to make his OWN brew in his OWN office. You know the type.

He uses Sari's intelligence to hack into banks and gives her little back. Furthermore, for payment, he treats her like shit. I'd go into what he did to some of the nurses who showed kindness to Sari, but you probably just ate. Bartok ultimately thought he couldn't be killed...he was shielded in his armor, within the facility where he ran things, he was safe...but this was proven to be untrue. When he died, Samael approached him to offer him power and new life and he sought to take revenge on Sari.

What he didn't bother to think about was that he'd been paired with one of the few members of the Corporation who had a conscience. He prided himself on being smart, but if he'd been smart, he would never have joined Samael. Then again, if he'd been REALLY smart, he might not have been Director Bartok and might not have harmed Sari at all...

Mehjen
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Insane, we all knew that. Also sadistic. God only knows the full extent of the things he did. He was under the belief that he had power over those he killed, that he had power over those he WAS about to kill. The biggest reason he targeted humans was because he was racist. Yes, I said the "r" word and used it describe a villain. I wouldn't have picked any other word.

Experiments do tend to think...or assume...humans are inferior to them. Not that I'm saying they ALL think that, but it's an unfortunate shared assumption. Usually it just lingers in the back of their mind and OCCASIONALLY floats to the surface at bad times. The average schmuck will feel VERY guilty and sorry for saying a remark like that afterwards...don't we all? But there are those who are just plain jerks.

Mehjen's somewhat pitiable too...he was the way he was due to a freak accident and whatever feelings of racism he had BEFORE he was insane were multiplied and mutated into a psychopathic desire to KILL-KILL-KILL. Beneath those delusions though he was focused...strong-willed...and clever. Insanely clever, pardon the term. Nick had to think fast to beat him. Ultimately his fate was unusual...he got out of it lucky...he was returned to normal even though most might say he probably didn't deserve it. He ALMOST killed himself too, much like Azazel, but luckily for him, he had people around him who tried to stop him before it was too late.

Samael
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Evil epitomized, I suppose would be the appropriate term. Really, he's the most pathetic of all of them in a way. He essentially had everything anybody could have ever wanted. He was loved, respected, admired. He had friends and family and power. The biggest problem came from when he began to resent not being in charge of the others. He wanted to be the head of all the angels and from that desire eventually was born a horrifyingly obsessive pride that he deserved the throne of God himself. He realized soon that he was doing something wrong, but rather than turn back, he kept going simply because he couldn't picture what might happen if he just admitted he was wrong.

He paid for it. OH how he paid for it. And thus, he becomes the most sickening being I've ever written for. Delighting in evil for it's own sake, happily indulging in the most horrific displays of cruelty simply because they ARE evil. Now, no PERSON would do something evil just because it's evil, there are always reasons...power, money, pleasure. Not so in his case. He usually does evil simply because he knows it is wrong, the same way Nick does something because he knows it is right. The two are opposites and yet oh-so-similar, doing things for their purest reasons. For "Sammy", it's sickening cruelty and debauchery. For Nick, it's altruism.

That he's evil is obvious. But he doesn't always just do evil solely for evil's sake. He'll do other things solely to spite others or because he gets a satisfaction out of them. It's not as common as him doing something sick BECAUSE it's sick, but it comes close. This makes him a representative of evil in all it's forms, and most of all, he represents utter selfishness, which to me has always been a terrible thing. It was because he was selfish and wanted more, more, more due to his pride that he lost everything. His entire philosophy of evil, evil itself, is centered upon selfishness...you deny the good nature within you, the innate good nature of the universe and ignore the needs of all others solely to do things YOU want, and if anybody gets hurt, f--k them!

Revenge, greed, cruelty, all of these are based upon the philosophy of selfishness. The idea that "I" is always going to be more important. The stupid, stubborn refusual to allow any other viewpoint. Some of the greatest villains known are incredibly selfish: in their desire for revenge, they transform from being good people into the most horrid, sickening beings we've ever known. Ultimately this was how Samael was defeated, he was confronted with the knowledge of all he'd done, and the person whom he'd been BEFORE he became selfish...was utterly horrified by what he had committed. Now he's beyond even MY help...

All of these villains showed varyin degrees of stupidity and paid for them. Frankly, it serves most of them right. They got what they deserved in the end.

AHHH, but what of JACK, you ask? And the other evil kids? Well...I don't want to spoil the surprise.