Are there any video game with a female as the MAIN villain ?
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here's one i haven't seen yet:
Dead Rising 2: Case West. and you know, on a much larger, meta kinda way, the entire Dead Rising series' main villian is a female, even though you never meet her until Case West.
Dead Rising 2: Case West. and you know, on a much larger, meta kinda way, the entire Dead Rising series' main villian is a female, even though you never meet her until Case West.
Dark Queen from Battletoads. I haven't really scrolled through the entire forum to check if I've been ninja'd or not, but it was the obvious choice.
Battletoads comes to mind, off the top of my head. And, that one's even better for this example, because, in universe, the Battletoads were game programmers who were warped into a video game of their own creation, which had a female main villian. So, we have a video game that takes place IN a video game, both of which having the same female main villian.
Dr. wonderful said:
I don't know, Meredith doesn't escape responsibility for what happened. The lyrium idol may have pushed her, but she was a fanatical tyrant way before she ever got her hands on it. Besides, being warped by evil magic doesn't stop her from being female...
Not sure if anyone's said this already, but Uncharted 3 has a Helen Mirren lookalike as the main antagonist.
Don't be ridiculous, of course not. 
Jokes. I can't think of any games not mentioned here, so I won't try. However, I'll make an observation about something I've noticed. While there is a far greater preponderance of male villains, there is one upside for female antagonists; they're all generally pretty unique and reasonably well defined, as opposed to the swarm of generic male bad guys.
So while they're fewer, they're also mostly unique, which is rather a good thing.
Jokes. I can't think of any games not mentioned here, so I won't try. However, I'll make an observation about something I've noticed. While there is a far greater preponderance of male villains, there is one upside for female antagonists; they're all generally pretty unique and reasonably well defined, as opposed to the swarm of generic male bad guys.
So while they're fewer, they're also mostly unique, which is rather a good thing.
For those that say GLaDOS from the Portal games isn't female, you are right...technically. However, it could be argued that since she has the mind of a female within her and is self aware, she is female. But then you'd have to get into the whole 'what is a human/person/female' thing. I think it would just be easier to call her female and just not think too much about it and not get all philosophical. Even though she is a robot/computer, which is genderless.
As for my contribution to the thread, God of War: Chains of Olympus (it's been mentioned before, just not very well). In it you have to fight Persephone (Greek goddess and queen of the Underworld), and stop her from destroying the world/Mount Olympus... At least I think she's the main villain, it's been a while since I've played it.
As for my contribution to the thread, God of War: Chains of Olympus (it's been mentioned before, just not very well). In it you have to fight Persephone (Greek goddess and queen of the Underworld), and stop her from destroying the world/Mount Olympus... At least I think she's the main villain, it's been a while since I've played it.
