10 Most Brutal Comic Book Villains

4. That Yellow Bastard

Sin City
Dark Horse Comics

If you know the right people in the right places, you can get away with far more than the average bear can. And when it comes to the sleazy back alleys of Sin City, there's all sorts of vices that can be appeased.

Referred to through the majority of his appearances in Frank Miller's Sin City work as That Yellow Bastard, Roark Junior doesn't just have a penchant for torture and murder.

The number of people dead at his hands said to be in the hundreds - but Junior has an even more eerie, chilling edge to him for the fact that he is also a rapist and a paedophile.

Thankfully, 1996's That Yellow Bastard story saw Junior finally get his comeuppance. That comeuppance came in the form of lawman John Hartigan, who, after spending eight years behind bars thanks to being blamed for the Bastard's crimes, tracked Junior down and literally ripped his balls off before beating him to death.

The Bastard's end came amidst him torturing the nineteen-year-old Nancy Callahan - a girl he'd previously kidnapped when she was just eleven - and the brutal death of Roark Junior was only fitting for someone who had committed so many of their own horrendous acts over the years.

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