Evilest Game Villain EVAR!

[Pyrrian]

Okay Pyrrian, you've made me honestly curious. I never played Doom 2. How do you find out that the Cyberdemon killed good ol' Commander Keen? Is it revealed to you somehow in the game?

Spoilers, I guess...

One of the secret levels (level 32) in Doom 2 is a Wolfenstein 3D omage. Instead of typical hellspawn, you fight Nazis. The "boss" of the level is a cyberdemon, which guards a room where four Commander Keens are hanging from the ceiling (because Commander Keen has multiple lives, of course!). In order to finish the level, you have to shoot down the hanging Commander Keen bodies.

 

[Mr. Bubbles]

I'm going to have to go with what's-his-face from Zero Wing. I'll never forget when all our bases were now belong to him. Now that was evil!

Honorable Mention: Anyone ever play Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga? Remember Fawful? Yeah. If you haven't, here's a little quote to make you understand my reasoning:

Princess Peach's sweet voice shall soon be the bread that makes the sandwitch of Cackletta's desires!And this battle shall be the delicious mustard of that bread! The mustard of your DOOM!

What could be more evil than that!?

 

[Deadwings]

Suchong isn't evil, he just isn't constrained by the same moralistic thinking that is taken as "normal" in this Judeo-Christian society. Genetic experimentation is all fine and dandy, and who better to do it on than the homeless?

So the stripping of a human being's most basic natural right:- the right to life and self ownership, simply to further the purposes of a commercial busines(the one in question being the plasmid business) is not evil.

Rightttttttt.

Humans don't actually have any rights. Our concept of "rights" are a legal structure dictating consequence for a breach of a perceived freedom to do something or to not have something done to you. Laws can be changed and/or thrown out, and your "rights" can be revoked, suspended, or simply infringed upon at any time.

/facepalm
Yay, subjective circular logic! More amateur debate tactics! Yay!
Let me lay this out and be perfectly clear, because nothing gets under my skin faster then the points you just made.

1. Let me define evil.
e·vil (ē'vəl) pronunciation
n.
1. The quality of being morally bad or wrong; wickedness.
2. That which causes harm, misfortune, or destruction: a leader's power to do both good and evil.
3. An evil force, power, or personification.
4. Something that is a cause or source of suffering, injury, or destruction: the social evils of poverty and injustice.

2. Now, morals to be sure.
mor·als (môr'əls, mŏr'-) pronunciation
n.
Rules or habits of conduct, especially of sexual conduct, with reference to standards of right and wrong: a person of loose morals; a decline in the public morals.

Therefore, evil is something that you get to choose, and those around you get to choose. So, Suchong fits the bill for the dictionary definition of evil. The thing that grinds my gears the most about the posts though, is that even though you claim Suchong isn't evil for those nonsensical reasons, you go on to say someone else is evil because they kill people, after saying Suchong isn't evil for killing people.

 

[Ixus Illwrath]

Everyone knows it's Big Boss from metal gear solid. Fucking TERRIFYING

Wait a minute... wasn't he the good guy in MGS3?

 

[L4Y Duke]

I think Sparkly-elf means The Boss. I'd disagree, seeing as how she's not evil, just working for the bad guys. Believe it or not, I understood that final cutscene in MGS3.

I'm going with Kane. Mainly as he's a religious nut in charge of the biggest army seen in years. That's freaking scary.

 

[Hezzara]

I'd agree with Kefka and Jon Irenicus.

Kefka was an insane psychopath. Constantly getting in your way, then blowing up the world. Not to mention his laugh, a laugh that was very evil sounding even with the SNES's basic sound system. "Whoop whoop whoop whoop". It's on youtube, look it up. "Kefka laugh"

Jon Irenicus was an enigma at first. He seemed to torture you and Imoen just for the hell of it. He obviously knew you were children of Bhaal, but at first it seemed as though he was only interested in how your powers worked, and maybe how he could get them himself. It's not till later that you find out his real motives. You can say people are pretty evil, but it's not often that you can truly say that those evil people have no souls...



Also, an honourable mention to whats-his-face in CoD 4, the Russian guy. The fact that I can't remember his name makes him not that great of a villain to me, but he still made me want to kill him when he launched those nukes. And the end of the last level... they pulled that off extremely well. I've never been gladder to be able to pull the trigger on an evil villain... multiple times.

 

[Sparkly-elf]

I think Sparkly-elf means The Boss. I'd disagree, seeing as how she's not evil, just working for the bad guys. Believe it or not, I understood that final cutscene in MGS3.

I'm going with Kane. Mainly as he's a religious nut in charge of the biggest army seen in years. That's freaking scary.

Yes, sorry, force of habit calling her Big Boss, whoopsie.

EVIL

 

[nokori3byo]

Though I never played the game, I recall reading somewhere that the main bad guy in Wing Commander III disembowells the player character's love interest in a cutscene towards the end of the game. That's strong stuff, even by villain standards.

Still, my vote would have to go to any Project Gotham Racing 4 driver encountered after the player has entered the "master" phase of his/her career. Seriously, what a bunch of sadistic pr*cks. They'll knock you off your bike, *then* run over you.

 

[FujinAkari]

While both Kefka and Jon Irenicus are certainly evil, I'd have to say that Luca Blight of Suikoden II fame beats them both out.

Kefka poisoned his enemies and randomly blasted towns with magic, but Luca massacred Boy Scouts (while mascarading as enemy soldiers) just to get more people to volenteer for the war effort. While both Kefka and Luca murdered their way into power, Luca gets special recognition for having killed his own father to do it. As for his enemies? While both Kefka and Luca killed en masse, Luca had the habit of walking into towns and butchering them personally, while his future victims watched. Thats the sort of personal touch that simply outclasses random magical blasts from some distant tower.

Hell, Luca actually promised his sister to one of his generals, provided the General could triumph in a difficult battle.

That is Evil, with a capitol E.

 

[Jessiah]

I have to toss my vote for two in the aforementioned post.

Kefka is by far one of my favorite villains. And Kefka did kind of kill his "father" by incinerating Geshtal at the precise moment the old man had attained his dream: Unimaginable amounts of magical power which he would have used to rule the world with an iron fist. Not to mention "Run Run or you'll be well done!" was one of the most entertaining lines in the game.

And Luca Blight. I think his dying quote says it the best: "It took a hundred men to kill me, but I killed men by the thousands! I am Sublime! I am the TRUE FACE OF EVIL!" - Yeah, pretty effin' epic.

 

[Bamcrash]

i have to say Solus from Breackdown. he was powerful enough that he mocked you when you had a kickass power arm thing, by grabbing it in the middle of your punch. also, he survived a nuke two feet away, even though he was just an "avatar" as he said himself. other than that tough to say. probably any character that is completly and utterly selfish.

 

[Tanthalos]

Kefka from Final Fantasy VI.

Scariest, meaniest, eviliest villian ever.

General Leon: "My emperor...why?"
Kefka rips off the costume: "Cause I hate you Leo! And said I would kill you!"

 

[VikingRhetoric]

I'm going to go with Albedo in Xenosaga.

I'm gonna have to second Albedo. The guy is freaking insane. Honestly the guy really freaks me out, constantly refering to the little girl secondary/main character as his little "Peche"(french for peach).

being crazy =/= evil.

 

[darkdox]

In any open ended rpg i would be of course.

But if i had to pick it would be the

!!DEMON KING!! from Fire Emblem

 

[Lucane]

A destoryer of worlds ... Mother of "Wild Arms" (PS1) her "Children" work to revive her after sometime spent on Falgaia so that they can make a new home on this planet an be the new ruling class. Although Mother after being reawoken has had different plans from the start of not ruling the world but destorying all life & the planet and devour her own children (like she did thier homeworld...) and move to a new planet an repeat.

(Overall) Destoryed home planet, ate her own off-spring to have them serve her on the next planet, betrays the plans of her children's plot to rule the world and says so to there face and they follow anyway (mostly), and when she is nearly killed she oozes into a new body like a parasite to rebuild her str. to then burst from his body to attempt devouring the world again.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Someone mentioned Silent Hill the town (good call), however I'd say Samael, the god of Silent Hill. Even in it's half-born form it uses the nightmares of a young girl to alter everyones' perception of reality and brings them into a nightmare state. It also amplifies peoples' own feelings of guilty, shame and rage and causes them to turn on each other. It's motive? It's just plain evil.

 

[R.Nevermore]

Dr. Steinman, Dr. Suchong, and Fontaine from Bioshock all get some serious props, they are all twisted and messed up. Fontaine gets my top though for the Bioshock trio... i hate getting used, and i started yelling and shouting angrilly at my monitor when he revealed himself.

Most evil enemy in my opinion...I would go with the Overmind from Starcraft, but i know better. His methods were evil, but his goals were so honorable. He wanted to lead his race to perfection. Zerg were naturally pure of essence, while the protoss were pure of form. Assimilate that and the zerg become pure. Kerrigan also goes very high on the most evil list at this point, her infested mind appears to be killing millions for little more than domination and sick thrills.

Dr. Breen gets some very high marks.... but his charisma makes me think twice about considering him MOST evil.

I think I'm going to have to go with Kerrigan. Her motivation for butchering millions was for nothing more noble than domination. Her spiritual and emotional torture of Zeratul, Raynor and Arcturas make her an amazing villian. Twisted, manipulative, sociopathic and evil to the core. The more I think about it, the more and more i believe she belongs in that place.

 

[Ego247]

I have to give it to liquid Snake, you kick him of the metal gear you think he's dead but oh no he's just decided to get a jeep and chase you with a very shiny heavy machine gun because he loves you so much then he dies of fox die, i mean come on then the guy came back from the dead to take over an old man's body just for the sake of taking over the world, he didn't think oh cool i'm alive again, hey i now what i'm going to just relax take things easy don't want to die anytime soon no he came back and started causing trouble again and all he cares about is control and power the stereotypical traits of any villain and he's so good at it. Although you could say that's not being evil just a pain in the arse which i can't argue with got to give liquid credit for perservering though. He killed the original Gray Fox though, that's just mean!

Big fan of Sephy though he got to be up there or Revan from KOTOR, from the history before they wiped his mind he was one bad ass he owned everyone until he became the puppet for the jedi, Dance Puppet Man, Dance!

 

[Neflame]

I have two I think definately qualify here.

One: Tycho. You just can't beat a psychotic AI bent solely on killing you and your AI ally. Plus, he can take over armadas of ships in a heartbeat. To make matters worse, you have to work for this freak a few times.

Two: The Leveler. Completely bent on destroying all life and enslaving what's left into a land ruled by him and his undead minions.