I think Nekros Skullcrusher is very underrated because nobody lists him in any lists featuring book villains and he is not even that famous among the Warcraft fandom.
For those of you who don’t know, Nekros Skullcrusher is an Orc warlock who uses an ancient artifact called the Demon Soul to subject the Red Dragon Queen, Alexstrasza as well as her dragon husbands to his will. He enslaves them in his fortress keeping them under horrible conditions where all but one of Alexstrasza’s husbands die during the captivity with his intention being to turn Alexstrasza into a breeding slave.
Keep in mind that dragons in the Warcraft universe are capable of speech and are much more intelligent and wise than humans, so they are sentient beings and most dragons in Warcraft are benevolent and Nekros knows those things. Nekros constantly uses the Demon Soul to torture Alexstrasza or some of the other dragons under his care when he is displeased with them. He forces Alexstrasza and her husbands to constantly mate with each other under threat of torture. This does constitute rape considering that Nekros is forcing sentient beings to constantly breed with each other under threat of torture even though they don’t want to. Nekros’ goal is to make Alextrasza breed countless eggs from which new dragons would come out. Nekros then takes the newborn baby dragons and uses his powers to artificially increase their age, so they can be used as mounts by his Orcs, so they can fight against the Humans. The artificiallly aged up baby dragons are then sent into battles with their riders. Many of the dragons die in battles and if they are injured even slightly, Nekros kills the dragons because he doesn’t want to waste resources with their recovery and he knows he has endless supply of future dragon eggs through Alexstrasza. On some occasions, when Alexstrasza wants to kill herself by starving to death or causes other problems, Nekros takes her eggs and starts breaking them in front of her to force her to comply with his demands because she loves her children and doesn’t want any harm to come to them.
When they have to leave the fortress because they think they are going to be attacked by Human soldiers, Nekros orders his orcs to kill any dragon who is disobedient, so that their evacuation is not slowed down which results in a mass purge of dragons who are deemed to be too disobedient.
Eventually, Alexstrasza gets freed and the first thing she does is to swallow Nekros whole who no longer has control over her because he has lost the Demon Soul.
Despite, how depraved his actions are, Nekros is not a very famous character for some reason, so I wanted to give him more popularity through this post.
by AmphibianJolly8699