In life, Al Simmons killed a number of people in the line of duty. He always told himself he was just following orders, but secretly he relished the murders.

After their deaths, the innocents Al murdered had their souls bound to his Symbiote by Malebolgia. One of those souls was that of a Bosnian named Bajramovic.

Al falsely made it seem as though Bajramovic was implicated in a human trafficing ring in order to cover his own lack of progress on the case. Bajramovic was tortured until he died of a heart attack while being waterboarded.

A serial killer who took great pride and enjoyment in skinning his victims. He was once picked up by the police in a stolen car, but they were unaware of his other crimes. While in jail, the killer bragged about his deeds to Al Simmons, who had just been locked up after being returned to Earth by Cain.

Later, when Al was being interviewed by his public defender, his shadow-Spawn came and brought justice to the Baltimore Razor. Sam and Twitch came running when they heard him scream, but when they got to him they found him alone and missing his skin.

Barney Saunders was seeing a woman named Wilma Barbera just before Armageddon. Wilma was married, but she hated her husband and had been cheating on him for quite some time. One day when her husband Fred came home early, Barney was forced to hide in the garbage chute. Soon after, Armageddon came and Barney was left alone, trapped in the chute.

After the White Light, however, Wilma heard a voice coming from the chute telling her to kill Fred - so she did by filling his peanut-butter sandwich with broken glass. As it turned out, the voice from the chute was the Violator - he had possessed the body of Barney.

Later, when Sam, Twitch and Spawn confronted the Violator, they brought Wilma with them. She was able to 'bring Barney to the surface' long enough for Spawn to force Violator through a portal to Hell and then seal it closed. Unfortunately for Wilma, Barney pulled her with them into Hell, angry that she had abandoned him.

The brother-in-law of Lord Iain Covenant, the Baron was left to rule over Rhyll and its surrounding countryside in the stead of Covenant as he went off to fight in the crusades.

Rivalen was a despotic ruler, cruel and oppressive. His cruelty only worsened when his wife fell ill of a mysterious illness. Desperate to save her, Rivalen made a pact with the evil Sisters of the Morrigan but it was all for not. Covenant returned from the grave as a hellspawn and led a crushing revolt against Rivalen.

Alias: Don Bartino, Luciano Bartino

The mafia don that controlled Overtkill. Bartino allowed Twistelli to borrow Overtkill to eliminate Spawn, but was furious when Twistelli allowed him to be destroyed.

A ghost who came to reside within the House on Marston Street. In life, Baz was an up-and-coming jazz musician who traveled throughout the East coast. On his 23rd birthday, he overdosed on heroin, and after a time, he came to reside in the House.

He and 5 other ghosts were held captive by a demon living in the cellar and unable to leave. After Spawn came to rescue Twitch's son Max, however, the house and all the ghosts within were sucked into a vortex and then disappeared.

Alias: Beast of the Black Wood

A mysterious evil that terrorized the woods around the city of Rhyll. People passing through the woods were often found dead and dismembered. The Beast destroyed the city of Rhyll in one particularly gruesome attack, but the massacre was mistakenly blamed on Lord Covenant. As time passed the legend of the Beast grew, and several people were accused of being the culprit - including the giant Dumas.

The Beast finally revealed itself to Covenant after it destroyed Rhyll for a second time. It was not one creature after all, but instead the five demonic brothers known as the Phlebiac Brothers. After revealing themselves, the demons killed Covenant for his betrayal of Hell.

Alias: Badrock

A young member of Youngblood who witnessed Spawn kidnapping Chapel. Later, Badrock and other members of Youngblood arrived at the scene of the battle between the Phlebiac Brothers and the Admonisher. Due to the Hemisphere of Nacreous Containment they were unable to intervene, however.

Belial was one of God's chosen angels, and is the father of Fury, Faith and Fantasy. His peers believed that he would be a leader one day, but his hubris and self-absorption led to his actions requiring punishment.

Belial did not take punishment well, and he joined Hell to take vengeance upon Heaven. There he became the Dark Angel of Fear.

Belial ascended the ranks of Hell, and whereas he sees Satan as the chairman so to speak, he thinks of himself as the president. He took it upon himself to fill mankind with fear.

Al Simmons once tried to stop Belial from instilling fear in mankind, but Belial explained that he does so out of love, that fear gives us purpose and prepares us for eternity.

Later, Belial became more intimately involved with Simmons when he orchestrated Wanda's murder and attempted to kidnap Al's father's soul.