Evilest Game Villain EVAR!
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Dr. Breen from Half Life 2. He is just so creepy and evil you feel good when he plummets to his doom at the end of the game. And raising the question.......di he die when he fell? Or did the Combine save him at the last second.
I think that the evilest villain ever will be jack of blades fable
sure everbody tries to conquer the world at one piont (i cant because im at school)
but he does it whith stile
sure everbody tries to conquer the world at one piont (i cant because im at school)
but he does it whith stile
Wanting to be a god is pretty much the defining motivation for any Final Fantasy villain. It's all any of them want, with very little idea what they're going to do next. (Kefka, basically, spends the rest of his short life burning ants with a magnifying glass like a bored yet sociopathic child, Seymour and Kuja want to become a god so they can kill everyone because they think the world sucks, Chaos, Sephiroth and Exdeath just wanted to be a god, and killing everyone was an unfortunate side effect). The only real differences are Emperor Palamecia (actually wanted to rule the world, rather than destroy it), and Zemus and Garland (FFIX) because they were basically racial supremacists who wanted to kill the people on the world to replace them with their own.WhiteFangofWar said:
I would say, though, that the truly "most" evil requires some kind of grand scale evil. And for that you have to go for Darth Malak in Knights of the Old Republic. By ordering the destruction of Taris, a city-planet with a population which a conservative estimate must put in the hundreds of billions, if not trillions, population wise, he commits an atrocity many orders of magnitude worse than almost any other villain in fiction even gets the opportunity to contemplate, and why does he do it? To kill one person. Kills hundreds of billions to get one. That's real evil. (Of course, this is in the finest traditions of Star Wars villainry, where it is considered appropriate to blow up an inhabited planet just to make a point).
Kefka. He had the rare Final Fantasy villain quality of being the actual villain, instead of just being a puppet for some darker, more insidious force that reveals itself mere minutes before the game's finale. Kefka was just a genuinely awful human being that liked f*cking things up for the fun of it. There was no rhyme or reason to anything he did; he just enjoyed making life miserable for everyone.
I've always been partial to Albert Wesker from the Resident Evil series. Here's a guy who sold out his entire crew, men and women who trusted him with their lives, all for the sake of Umbrella's experiments. And then you come to find out that his back-room contract with Umbrella was just an angle as well, and that the only person Wesker's out for is Wesker himself. It takes a special kind of assh*le to double-cross people that consider him family, only to double-cross the people that payed him to do a double-cross in the first place. And the guy just won't die. I wouldn't be surprised to see him play pivotal roles in the next several Resident Evils, and I'd be shocked, SHOCKED I say!, if he didn't have some role in RE5.
I've always been partial to Albert Wesker from the Resident Evil series. Here's a guy who sold out his entire crew, men and women who trusted him with their lives, all for the sake of Umbrella's experiments. And then you come to find out that his back-room contract with Umbrella was just an angle as well, and that the only person Wesker's out for is Wesker himself. It takes a special kind of assh*le to double-cross people that consider him family, only to double-cross the people that payed him to do a double-cross in the first place. And the guy just won't die. I wouldn't be surprised to see him play pivotal roles in the next several Resident Evils, and I'd be shocked, SHOCKED I say!, if he didn't have some role in RE5.
The entire cast of the True Demon ending in SMT: Nocturne would be my choice. Let's not only stop this existance, but go to others and stop them too. Sounds like a plan to me!
I wonder if Gravemind (Halo 2 and 3) qualifies for wanting to consume all life the galaxy.
Dr. Suchong is right up there on the sociopathy scale, but he was working on the level of a craftsman working his evils one-off*... it's the industrial-scale villains that scare me more.
-- Steve
* this metaphor is stolen; biscuit to the first who identifies from where/whom.
Dr. Suchong is right up there on the sociopathy scale, but he was working on the level of a craftsman working his evils one-off*... it's the industrial-scale villains that scare me more.
-- Steve
* this metaphor is stolen; biscuit to the first who identifies from where/whom.
Well, I got a 3 way tie myself:
LeChuck (Monkey Island) - Constantly attacking people al just so he can marry Elaine. Not some "I will destroy the world" villain, just doesn't care about anyone else so long as he gets what he wants.
Dr. Entropy (Superhero League of Hoboken) - Standard villain plot, take over the world, but really, I have to respect a villain who's "take over the world" plot involve making pidgins with perfect aim, and bringing George Steinbrenner back to life.
Karras (Thief 2) - A sociopath with a simple desire, replace all life with his mechanical creations. Got to love a villain with goals that involve both creation and destruction.
LeChuck (Monkey Island) - Constantly attacking people al just so he can marry Elaine. Not some "I will destroy the world" villain, just doesn't care about anyone else so long as he gets what he wants.
Dr. Entropy (Superhero League of Hoboken) - Standard villain plot, take over the world, but really, I have to respect a villain who's "take over the world" plot involve making pidgins with perfect aim, and bringing George Steinbrenner back to life.
Karras (Thief 2) - A sociopath with a simple desire, replace all life with his mechanical creations. Got to love a villain with goals that involve both creation and destruction.
Oh, I'm not saying that every villain should be like Kefka - Kefka is good because in the middle of a franchise where the villains are expected to be deep, complex, and even occasionally emotionally sympathetic, Kefka is a slap to the face - he's flat, but that's just the point. If every villain was like this, games would be boring. Kefka is great because he's pure crazy evil for no reason at all. We don't know what his childhood was like, we don't know his past, and Terra didn't secretly kill his father by accident - he just wants to destroy everything and make a monument to non-existance. And he does have a motive: he hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATES you!Seldon2639 said:
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I sense by your grammar that you are a Firefly fan? And your screen name that you have read Foundation? (unless that's just your name. That's cool too.)
I thought we were talking about evil? So, what better choice than a lawful evil alignment on
your character?
Exactly, Irenicus from Baldur's Gate 2 ,Shadows of Amn. That guy is pure evil: using other
peoples power to get power for yourself. Selfish and egocentric (and a murderous streak) = evil.
your character?
Exactly, Irenicus from Baldur's Gate 2 ,Shadows of Amn. That guy is pure evil: using other
peoples power to get power for yourself. Selfish and egocentric (and a murderous streak) = evil.