Evilest Game Villain EVAR!

[NickCaligo42]

I have much respect for the Sephy, but you know, I have to go with Kefka on the "evil meter." Nobody's really and truly more selfishly evil than he is. Even Ganondorf has begun to take complex motives, what with Wind Waker and all. It's the villains WITHOUT the complex motives that're really scary. It's much worse than someone who's doing things for reasons that you UNDERSTAND, isn't it? You can't really reason with them. They just ARE evil and enjoy it.

That said...

The G-Man. Misunderstood servant of the people my eye. He's even WORSE than Kefka! He's as evil as they get! Though Luca Blight does sound like a good entry, too, but having never played Suikoden I can't relate.

 

[Mnemophage]

Time to get esoteric: Lord Yuna from Breath of Fire 4. He's not the primary evil, but he's such a weaselly little bastard all throughout the game. Evil, to me, is less about grandiose plans and girlfriend-stabbing - it's about plain old mindless cruelty and self-interest. Lord Yuna did not quantitatively kill zillions of people - in fact, he didn't really directly kill a single one, given that he hid behind his pacifism to avoid taking responsibility for his actions. What he did was manipulate his homeland into a regressive puppet state in order to more easily do the crap he wanted to, send oodles of people to their deaths trying to keep his shadowy power intact, and that's not even mentioning the Carronade and the fact that it literally runs on torture. And that he purposely crafted an immortal being so that he could torture them continuously without all that bothersome dying getting in the way. And you never get to bloody well kill the guy - he stands free and alone at the end of things, barely scratched in influence or power, and you never do find out just what happens to him.

Honorable mention goes to Mannannan the Wizard from King's Quest 3, just because he used to scare the jesus fuck out of me when I was six.

 

[DeGoon]

Saladin
Civilization 4
Can never make this man happy, or from fighting.

 

[[HD]Rob Inglis]

Pyramid Head???

 

[Susky]

Another person registering to respond to this topic. I do prefer Kefka's evil villain shtick, mostly because Final Fantasy VI is the first JRPG I ever played, and got me to enjoy RPGs as a whole.

However, if I had to go for actual "most evil villain ever", I'm all for Giygas. Since a lot of people might not have played Earthbound/the Mother series, I'll spoiler tag all the important bits. A lot of the things in there are relevant to making my case, and as such, spoil huge parts of the game, so if you don't want all kinds of spoiled information, don't read inside the spoiler box. If you don't care about JRPGs at all, or don't really care about having the ending spoiled, then feel free to read it.

Spoiler

Giygas is actually Giegue. In the first Mother game, aka Earthbound Zero, Giegue is an alien sent to take over the earth (I think, it might've been 'destroy the earth', I forget). If I get any of this wrong, anyone can feel free to correct me, just spoiler-tag it for anyone else.

Giegue was raised by an abducted couple named George and Maria. Maria raised Giegue like a child, and sang it a song every day. George, on the other hand, researched the aliens' secret abilities, and stole those secrets, escaping back to Earth. Maria ended up in another bizarre locale, losing her memory, but having bizarre nightmares where she tries to sing, and can't remember the song.

Giegue was ordered to take over the Earth, to find anyone that might've learned what George knew. It came down to George's great-grand son Ninten and his friends. They ended up finding and learning Maria's song, and assaulted Giegue with it during the final battle, reminding him of the strong emotional connections he had with Maria. His inner conflict makes him leave, and he swears revenge.

Some time later, Giegue somehow became an incredible force of evil, so strong that his power initiates the apocalypse. (Also, since these events take place in Mother 2/Earthbound, I'll use the Earthbound name, Giygas.) But this power tears his body and mind apart, leaving him insane, and in a transmutable, pseudo-solid form. He looks like a specter during the final battle, but the fact that Ness and the party can still land physical blows means he must have some solid shape.

His form ends up being locked inside the Devil's Machine, until the other antagonist from Earthbound, Ness's next-door neighbor Pokey, frees him to destroy the party. This may make it sound like Pokey's the true antagonist, but he was under the influence of Giygas' evil the entire time. It was said in a previous post, but Giygas was also able to manipulate the evil in the hearts of any living creature during any moment in space-time. His power extended throughout history, and to all reaches of the universe.

As for Giygas' defeat, it was again the power of emotions that ruined him. All the people of the earth began to pray for the safety of Ness and his friends, and that burden (as well as, presumably, the burdens laid on him by his life as Giegue) crushed him, totally obliterating his evil power.

All my other mentions will be characters that have not been mentioned yet.
- Nyarlathotep (Persona 2: Eternal Punishment)
- Odio in his many forms (Live-A-Live, Japan Only unless you find the translation patch for the ROM, which is illegal, and you shouldn't do that)
- I'm fairly sure neither Lavos nor Queen Zeal (Chrono Trigger) were mentioned.
- Red, Green, and Blue Diety (I forget their real names) (Eternal Darkness)
- The King of All Cosmos (Katamari Damacy) isn't exactly evil, but he's sort of a huge prick.

 

[Joeshie]

Kefka is probably one of the most evil villains.

Of course, he was still a terrible character and villain. Being just evil, does not a good villain make.

 

[Mstrswrd]

People are going to crucify me for this (Specifically, Hideo Kojima fans), but I can't remember then name of that guy in MGS3 who has powers of Electricity. Yeah, he was pretty evil, and I also have to say Ganon for the same reason people say Bowser. He's persistant. Only with Ganon(dorf) he's fought a bunch of different generations of Links, and he continues to lose. This takes place over hundreds of years, if Nintendo is to be believed. You'd think he'd change his plans or something.

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

People are going to crucify me for this (Specifically, Hideo Kojima fans), but I can't remember then name of that guy in MGS3 who has powers of Electricity.

Quite frankly, I can't remember either, but anyways, I'll just make a list:
Albert Wesker:What can I say,he's a total prick,killing everyone, then getting ressurrected somehow.
EDIT:The guy is Volgin
Al Mualim:Lovecraft would be proud, a total plot twist(er).
Mehrunes Dagon:If you played Oblivion, you will agree, but if not,he tries to kill all life in the contienient and/or the world.
The guy who killed Commander Keen:Kinda obvious!
Outside of videogames:
Galbatorix from Eragon:Spoilers!He makes Eragon's brother attack Eragon,honestly, then Murtaugh takes Eragon's Sword!Spoilers end.
Jack Thompson:If you play ANY rated-M games, this is really obvious!
Meh, thats it for now.

 

[combat90]

I have to agree with qbert4ever. Sephiroth is definitly the most evil badass ever.

I mean, when you slaughter and set a town on fire using only a 6 foot long sword and an evil glare, then youre evil!
When you raze a tower, slaughtering every scientist and elite soldier in sight, just to get the rotting corpse of your mother, and then drag her across the floor to the roof, then youre evil!!
When you call forth a meteor and have it ram ito the earth, so that you can use the lifeless lump of rock and a vessel to travel across the universe, THEN... youre just stupid. But still, Sephiroth is a pretty mean bastard.

Many villains have minions and henchmen to do the dirty work, but thats just a normal thing. People have started to take the henchmen for granded. For how do you get about 800 henchmen to help you destroy the world? Sephiroth makes up to this by using the main character, also known as the good guy, to get the job done. I mean, I find it much more respectfull to twist the mind of the hero, to make him do your bidding, without him knowing. For example, in a scene in the game, the good guy goes on a quest to gain a powerfull artifact called the Black Materia, so that Sephiroth cant use it to summon the meteor. But as soon as he gets his hands on it, Sephiroth shows up, do some voodoo thing and make him hand over the materia, like an obidiant puppy.

 

[Seldon2639]

I'd really like to agree with Sephiroth, but I keep coming back to the question of what makes a villain "evil". Saren, from Mass Effect, probably wasn't abjectly "evil", and was sincerely trying to stave off disaster. While Kefka was legitimately just a mean SOB. I dunno how to decide that, but I think it's an interesting question. So, would the characters from MGS be "evil" since they did bad things, or not evil, because they had a purpose aside from malevolence?

If we're talking sheer malevolence, Kefka is up there, along with any of the villains from Fire Emblem, or Advanced Wars.

 

[Mr.Expendable]

The big Crow and the Giant Ugly Space Slug from Earth Worm Jim...

 

[Kasz2004]

Mr. Perfect from nes punch out.

pisses me off.

 

[fix-the-spade]

The Duck Hunt Dog...

 

[Takhisis]

I'd have to say the most merciless is ME!!!! HAHAHAAHH Considering how I brutally rape and destroy every game I own by beating it to death with a concrete dildo and unlocking all the features if applicable

 

[Anarchemitis]

Unicron from transformers. What villain do you know of ther than him, who can eat a planet whole?
Oh, and I suspect that if Agrajag from the Hithiker's Guide books had'nt created a time paradox, I suspect he would've made an inmpressive villain too.

 

[AngryMan]

Bob Page, Deus Ex. No shame for this man, he wanted to rule the world, and was not averse to creating a horrific nanomechanical plague virus as a tool to get the job done.

On a related note, I accidentally typed "BoB" when I started writing this. Anyone who plays EVE will get the joke.

 

[Melaisis]

On a related note, I accidentally typed "BoB" when I started writing this. Anyone who plays EVE will get the joke.

Ironically, they could fit quite well in a thread about videogame villains. I mean, one man's leader is another man's tyrant, right?

 

[Sentient Muffin]

I'd personally go with Saren from Mass Effect, since he (a) thought he was doing something good for the universe, and (b) killed a whole mess of people. He wasn't pure evil, but that made it more of a complicated question when it came to fighting against him.

Sorry to be an arse but, Saren's a good guy that got his mind washed by the Reaper. He's pretty much just a pawn in the works of things. The Reapers needed to get someone to open the mass relay because the protheans stopped the keepers from doing their jobs to open it. If you tell Saren this he turns all good, see's that he was a pawn and kills himself. Don't hate the pawn, hate the playa! Word up. Oh yeah, Spoiler. A bit late but whatevr, everyones played this game by now.

Anyway, evilist guy. I still hold a long fear of Sander Cohen. Myself being an arty movie buff sorta guy, this guy strikes personaly close to home. He wanted beautiful art, different from all else, but that guy is an insane psyochopath!!

EDIT

Fleeches!! Who doesn't hate and fear the little worms with two mouths and tongues! Poor old Abe had to run and sneak through these things. One mistake and bamn! You're worm food.

Saren wasn't a good guy who was brainwashed, nor was he a villain that was brainwashed. He was a GIGANTIC ASSHOLE who was brainwashed. Though he ended up killing himself in a pretty noble way.

My vote is going to have to go to Kefka. There was nary a non-evil bone in that clown prince's body. Plus, he wasn't some 'up in the clouds' kind of bad guy, he was in your face, nipping at your proverbial heels throughout most of your encounters with him, then he became quite god-like and decided destroying the world for his own personal amusement would be a good weekend adventure.

Plus, he's the only villain on record that ACTUALLY destroyed the world.

I've yet to finish FF6 but I've heard he was quite a piece a work.



Anyway...evilist villian. I dunno. Any villain that has no moral reasoning behind their actions would work I suppose.

Wesker, that guy from Alone in the Dark, Joker...Sephiroth pulled some pretty shitty stuff, but he had a reason for it.

 

[Werewolflord]

Whats the bloody deal with choosing Kefka as being the most evil...he's not evil..(just misunderstood) XD,lol but seriously,all he does is laugh fiendishly and insults,then hightails it at the first sign of defeat. He was evil in the 1980s...probably >.<

As for me - Sephiroth, cuz hes a badarse manipulator and carries a really long sword <.<

 

[fnph]

Whats the bloody deal with choosing Kefka as being the most evil...he's not evil..(just misunderstood) XD,lol but seriously,all he does is laugh fiendishly and insults,then hightails it at the first sign of defeat. He was evil in the 1980s...probably >.<

As for me - Sephiroth, cuz hes a badarse manipulator and carries a really long sword <.<

Then he destroys the world as it is known. Then, he randomly destroys towns just for fun and leaves the entire population living in constant fear. Yeah, Kefka's not evil.