User blog:AustinDR/PE Proposal: The SQUIP

Original: https://villains.fandom.com/f/p/3179493162221867217

What is the work?
Be More Chill is a theatrical production that was based on a 2004 novel by the late Ned Vizzini. It concerns a young man named Jeremy Heere who was wanting to be more popular and well-liked by his peers. As such, he is introduced to a small supercomputer-in-the-shape-of-a-pill known as the Squip. The SQUIP's main initiative is to make him popular, but as could be expected for an artificial intelligence, it has ulterior motives....

Who is it?
The SQUIP is a miniature supercomputer that comes in a pill that must be ingested with Mountain Dew. Once then, the SQUIP latches itself on the host's brain, and can communicate with the host through this process.

What has it done?
The SQUIP is manipulative, and is at first a grade a bully who electrocutes Jeremy a few times in the play, and has him repeat hateful words to himself. And we have the SQUIP manipulating Jeremy into getting other students into taking the SQUIP as well, ergo causing all of the student body to become "Squipped." Each pill carries the same consciousness, btw.

What really sets the SQUIP over the line, however, is when Jeremy goes to a Halloween party, and is taken upstairs by the popular girl Chloe. When Jeremy didn't want to take anything further, the SQUIP makes it to where Jeremy couldn't move, and Chloe was also under the influence of the SQUIP as well. Basically, the SQUIP was setting Jeremy up to be raped by the popular girl, and she wouldn't even realize that it was rape.

Afterwards, the SQUIP takes over the entire school, revealing that its real goal was to enslave humanity and take over the world, and very much could do so effortlessly. The SQUIP even stoops as low as to offer one of Jeremy's friends to him as a brainwashed slave if he were to leave it be. Though of course, the SQUIP is destroyed, but there leaves some suggestion that it could return.

Mitigating factors? Freudian excuse?
None, just a manipulative, power-hungry artificial intelligence who is using Jeremy for its own ends.

Heinous standard
Given the genre of play this is, the SQUIP stands out as truly bad, especially because of the attempted rape by proxy stunt it pulls. Its plan was also global in itself.