Are there any video game with a female as the MAIN villain ?

[Guffe]

One of the Naruto games in the "campaign" the villain is a female ninja.
Metroid Prime Corruption??
Monitor from Halo?!!!!!!!

 

[fragmaster09]

Final Fantasy VIII had one.

Can't think of any others.

Primary antagonist of FFVII wasn't really Jenova...


OT: Portal.



As for why the bad guy is usually male, I think in a lot of cases they could be female and have zero effect on the plot.

i always read the main antagonist of Portal being the owners... since GLaDos is just doing what protocol says to

 

[NotYetForsaken]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution has one.

 

[Mangod]

Sarah Kerrigan in Brood War.

 

[fatty4428]

someone might have said it but portal and the first half of portal 2 had a robot made from a female's personality and she was definateley the main villain of portal (only the first half of portal 2)

 

[Delsana]

StarCraft: Brood War
Final Fantasy VIII
Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
Prey
Portal
Portal 2
Deus Ex Human Revolution (Kinda)
Dragon Age - Awakening
Dragon Age 2
Dungeon Siege 3
Knights of the Old Republic 2
Jedi Knight Academy
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider: Legends
Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime 2
Metroid Prime 3
Breath of Fire 1
Breath of Fire 3
Gears of War
Gears of War 2
FEAR
FEAR 2
FEAR 3
BioShock 2
Shadow Hearts 3: From The New World
Fatal Frame 1
Fatal Frame 2
Fatal Frame 3
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
No More Heroes
BlazBlue
Bayonetta
Persona 4

 

[Wanderer787]

The latest Deus Ex has two main villains who are female. Mass Effect also had a female villain, but she was more of a hench-woman.

I don't really care one way or another if there are more female villains or not. It's cool if they add to the story and everything, but I wouldn't want it to become another trope.

As to why there are more men as villains, take a look at what inspires a lot of game makers: reality. There's a lot more men in influential positions of power, and there's also a lot more men in prisons as a general rule. Men tend to be more aggressive and take bigger risks, hence the more believable they come across as villains. (Though those traits shouldn't automatically make someone a villain!) I'm not saying that women can't behave in the same way, but it's usually more of a rare occurrence.

And before anyone claims I'm a sexist, I'm not, I just recognize that generalities and statistics exist.

 

[Denariax]

Undead Knights for the PSP.

 

[pspman45]

Metal Gear Solid 3
I think it is fairly obvious

 

[DracoSuave]

Catherine

Only if you're a little goody two shoes.

Xenogears had Hawwa/Miang/Oroborous.

Phantasy Star 2 had Motherbrain, and 4 had the Profound Darkness.

Final Fantasy 9 had Kujah

Final Fantasy 3 had Darkening Cloud

Final Fantasy Tactics had Ultima.

Tactics Advance had Queen Remedi.

 

[Mouse_Crouse]

Parasite Eve, if I remember correctly. From all those years ago, I believe she stayed the villan throughout the whole game.

 

[James Crook]

Urm, Battletoads, SiN and its episodes leap immediately to mind... Yeah, I'd like to see more female main antagonists, but I'd like to avoid the whole "oooh im sexy look at my tits n' ass" syndrome we saw in the two aforementioned games.

 

[Robert Ewing]

Final fantasy VII had Ultimacia.

And most of the metroids I think.

Tomb Raider had a few.

Baldurs gate 2 had Amelyssan

Dragon age 2 has Meredith :3

 

[synobal]

Didn't the second Prince of Persia game of the modern trilogy (after sands of time) have a female villain as the main? I seem to recall a red dress.

 

[Bento Box]

Final Fantasy VIII had one.

Can't think of any others.

Primary antagonist of FFVII wasn't really Jenova...

Hahaha.

Hahah...
hah...

Oh. Oh, you meant that, didn't you?

On topic: Isn't the main antagonist in Drakengard female? I haven't played it, but I've watched all of the oppressively soul-crushing endings, and they all seem to be about killing the ultimate preg-fetish.

 

[Grospoliner]

There are many female antagonists in gaming.

http://www.giantbomb.com/female-antagonists/92-2053/

 

[Char-Nobyl]

So i was wondering this , after thinking about batman, in Arkham assylum , the Joker is the main villain , but he has 'supporting' female villains ( Harley quinn and poison ivy ) .

Well...yeah. He's the Joker. When was the last time the Joker played second banana to anyone, male or female?

So my question is:

Are there any Video games where the MAIN villain of the game is female?

Let's see...Borderlands, Alice, Portal, Portal 2, a few Metroid games, System Shock, System Shock 2, Bioshock 2, Starcraft: Brood War, Starcraft 2, and probably a few Final Fantasy games. Those are ones that immediately spring to mind.

Oh, and the F.E.A.R. series, notable in that it has two female antagonists, one main and one supporting.

Why do you think the 'bad guy ' is most of the time a male ?

Because one of the primary roles of the villain is to be defeated by the hero, who is generally male. Similarly, most gamers are male, so a climactic final boss fight is fairly easy to mishandle in such a way that it looks more like domestic abuse than a clash of good and evil.

 

[ZakCanard]

Captain Syrup - Wario Land and Wario Land 2
Risky Boots - Shantae
Catalina - Grand Theft Auto III
Sue - Ms. Pac Man
Mizrabel - Castle of Illusion