bonus points for rare/unusual ones
I love just how simple yet captivating the Grim/Black Dog is. It isn’t even necessarily aggressive, but just the mere sighting of it elicits dread and heralds doom.
Clytemnestra. Agamemnon sacrificed their daughter, disappeared to war for 10 years, shows back up with a sex slave and is just revered as a hero. Fuck that guy. I’m glad she killed him. He deserved it.
I’m fairly partial to Baba Yaga in all her forms/myths.
Mordred, from Arthurian legend. If Arthur had embraced him as a son, been a real father to him, would Camelot have fallen? The whole thing is very “for want of a nail” and that’s part of what makes it so tragic.
I love Mordred. In fact, I have an whole folder filled with “fanart” of Mordred
Also politically it feels like a really powerful example that repeats itself over and over of how good, idealistic governments in principle decay and fall from the inside from their own contradictions, but ultimately the killing blow comes at the hands of their own cynical and rejected offspring.
Balor from Irish legend - who doesn’t love a giant with a frickin laser beam for an eye
