Moments when you stop taking the villian seriously.

[evilartist]

Zant in LoZ: Twilight Princess. He was a cool, badass villain up until you encounter him in the Twilit Palace, when he starts flailing around and whining like a baby.

I know exactly what you mean!! He started out looking so menacing, always masked, but still revealing his intimidating sneer. Then what the hell does he do? First, he takes off his helmet and reveals himself to have one silly looking face. Next, he (as you said) starts flailing and shrieking. And as one final kick in my balls after expecting a more epic, difficult battle, all he does is mimic past bosses. What a cop-out!

Needless to say, I lost all respect for him during that battle.

I'll explain one villain who I stopped taking seriously with the latest installment of the series, Albert Wesker.
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The 5 came out and they ruined his character. They changed him from manipulating the events from the shadows, to a power hungry super villain bent on destroying the world, and even made that one plot about how he was made by Umbrella or something. They took a cool, mysterious character, who used other people to get what he needs and would probably kill you when you were of no use, to a silly cartoon villain obsessed with power and his plan to destroy the world.

To make things even more pathetic, Chris called him out on getting his cliched ideas from comic book villains.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

When the never succeed at all.

the best villians succeed in one plan or another (freeza kills billions of people, etc)

 

[Worgen]

3: Light Yagami.
LET ME EXPLAIN! This moment happened right around the end, when he did the evil laugh in front of everyone. I knew this meant one thing: he'd fall into the basic evil monologue, get stopped, and flouder about in failures and then die. A few minutes later, he's on his back in a pool of his own blood with a guy pointing a gun at his face. Maybe it was the fact that I knew he was going to lose, and that it was the final episode, but let's face it, when you know defeat is imminent, you stop taking the villian seriously.

Ill bet that he did that really to just show how far he had come from when he was first up against L and to show that in his seeming invincibility had finally cost him his once brilliant mind and he was now a parody of himself, thinking he was invincible still and he was quickly cured of such delusions, I guess, I never read the series past the point they kill L since L was the only char I gave a damn about in it, well that and some of the mook type guys

 

[Phoenix09215]

When the villain becomes a complete laughable tool!

Spoiler

I'm talking about Albert Wesker... So he wants to take down Umbrella, fair enough. He then takes down Umbrella but instead of calling it a day, he decides he wants to be in rez 5. So he tries to "take over the world" using Uroboros (or something like that) which fails, so he goes ahead and turns himself in to a tyrant for a pathetic final boos fight! Little bit of a rant there but oohhhh well )

 

[The Fork of Truth]

When

Spoiler: Assassin's Creed 2 spoiler

Rodrigo Borgia was fighting me and 4 clones of myself with a magic stick, shortly before being curb-stomped in his Pope gear.

 

[Half-BloodPrince]

Viktor Zakhaev from CoD 4. That Mofo took a 50. Cal sniper round, and lived. Then he gets pistoled, and dies! I mean, I thought I'd have to nuke that S.o.B!

 

[Dfskelleton]

Ninja'd, but when one of their minions is cooler than them, they stop being cool.For example, the Cyberdemon from Doom. He's way cooler than the mastermind. Another example is when the villain isn't evil enough to be threatening, like pretty much any of the prophets from Halo. A good villain is evil in every way, like M. Bison or maybe The final boss of Bioshock (won't use his name for spoiler). They both only want power, and wouldn't even think about it if power was offered for curb stomping hundreds of innocent people in front of their children.
The perfect villains in my oppinion, are Pyramid Head, GLaDOS, The Cyberdemon, and M. Bison, and they're all villainous for different reasons. Pyramid Head wants to show James his sins through violence, GLaDOS will do anything in the name of science, The Cyberdemon just wants to kill everything, and M. Bison is pretty much evil with a form.
Bad Villains include The Firstborn from Jericho, he's a floating baby, how can you be afraid of him? Actually, I can't think of any that suck as much as him, so I leave with this:
"Don't play Jericho."

 

[Nanaki316]

Sorry if it's been mentioned, Sephiroth. Even though it was my favourite game you had to question this whole "Mother" fetish Oo

 

[Sebenko]

The entire EDF in RFG.

Yes, I know you had to make them seem more evil than the civillian-murdering, infrastructure and economy ruining "heroes", the Red Faction, but making them cartoonishly evil villains was not the way to do it. Even SR2, which I hear is set in the same universe, somehow, had more believable villains, mainly because their goals seemed to amount to more than "lulz, oppression!".

 

[RandomWords]

I know you already said it, but Bowser...I lost all respect for him the third time he stole the princess. By this time I would just have armed guards at her bedroom.

 

[blackflare]

Basically every final fantasy boss in every game ever made

 

[standokan]

There is no villian which i will take seriously the whole time, team Rocket, dragon ball villians in common, villians in movies like james bond, etc etc, the only villains i respect are the ones who are cold blooded and don't ever go mad, villains who control everything.

 

[Theninja'skatana]

When all he wants to do is blow up the world or kill everyone. I really like when villains have more motivation then just genocide or power. They're fine as concepts for villainous usage, but unless there is more motivation behind them when applied to a villains main focus then ''just because'', then it usually kills it for me.

this to 100xitself. i lose interest when i vilian stops being relatable ie goes crazy or has no motivation. I wanna see a villian who kills to save a loved one or something already!!

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

Some villains are truly badass and do things with an air of evil that isn't over the top and elegant in a sense. True motivation is good too instead of simply 'taking over/blowing up the world' for shits and giggles (Or some bizarre reason like being God to a dead planet full of mutants after completely destroying it). Oh and actually killing your enemies and not leaving them to their death works well too, cause that's just going to bite them in the ass later yet they believe not actually taking the time to put a bullet in the brain of the man/woman trying to stop them will make them seem more evil.

Then there's Alfred Ashford.
The second scene that he appears in and by then most of the people playing are laughing their asses off. It's damn near impossible to take the guy seriously. But God, don't you love him?

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

When they're revealed to be a balding man and say "Grrrrr... I'll get you, you meddling kids!"

 

[zehydra]

Lol @ Dr. Wily. He was never meant to be taken seriously, lol. The story for the original megaman series was always an afterthought.

 

[MetalPhoenix]

When I saw "Batman and Robin" I didn't even see the villain to stop taking him serious. When Commissioner Gordon told Batman "There is a new villain in town" I not only lost respect for the villain, but for the entire movie. This is a quote for a novel or a 50's movie.
I understand that Batman was taken from a comic and that this was probably a tribute or something, but the way he said it was -to me at least- a giant FAIL

 

[PissOffRoth]

I stop taking any villain(ess) seriously when he/she does not take the most direct and simple route to achieving his/her goal.
i.e. When the protagonist is lowered slowly into lava or a pool of sharks in order to be disposed of, instead of just shooting them in the head. This is especially stupid when the villain leaves the protagonist to their fate, assuming all will go as planned. Any smart villain knows that fucking around just ends badly for you. Get shit done. Use a gun.

 

[PissOffRoth]

Viktor Zakhaev from CoD 4. That Mofo took a 50. Cal sniper round, and lived. Then he gets pistoled, and dies! I mean, I thought I'd have to nuke that S.o.B!

I think you are thinking of Imran Zakhaev, not his son. And you're probably not understanding human anatomy very well if you don't know why he can survive losing an arm but not taking a pistol mag to the head (or chest, nuts, etc., depending on how leet you wanted to be and how much you hated this Russian fucker for executing Gaz in front of you).