Most Cruel Fate for a Villain (OBVIOUSLY SPOILERS)

[General Mostly Electrified Steel]

I'd have to nominate Pokey's being locked inside the Absolutely safe capsule. You're locked inside a capsule that cannot ever be opened by anyone inside or outside. It's like a purely psychological hell (if you exclude the obvious fact that you'd probably drown in your own excretions pretty quickly).

So my question I pose to you all, is "What is the most cruel fate for a villain in any videogame, in your opinion?"

 

[Copter400]

I'd have to go with Andrew Ryan's fate. His utopia turned into a splicer warzone hell. He then has all of his finest defenses broken, and then is murdered with a golf club simply to prove a point. A cruel, unnatural fate, that he created for himself. Further proving his statement, "A Man chooses." He chose his fate.

I'd rather have that than being stabbed to death by thousands of needles after splicing myself into a demonic monster after being chased to the ends of a ruined underwater city by a deranged wacko who I forced to kill his own father and whose sole purpose in life is now to kill me.

 

[Knight Templar]

Irenicus. Ripped apart. By demons. In lava. Forever.

 

[Nerdfury]

Irenicus. Ripped apart. By demons. In lava. Forever.

Irenicus has always been my favourite villain. I just wish I could find some wav of mp3 files of his quotes somewhere!

"I cannot be caged! I cannot be controlled! Understand this as you die, ever pathethic, ever fools!"

 

[bmchugh89]

The way Gordan Freeman defeats G-man in Half Life ep3, oh wait this hasnt happened yet, nevermind.

=/

 

[PurpleRain]

Goon number 43 in Stranglehold: Shot in the balls, left to bleed out and die.

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

Isn't this kind of problematic, since the villain is going to have to be someone I sympathized with in order for me to feel bad about their fate?

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance would kinda qualify to me, but there really wasn't a villain. I never could understand why your character was so dead set on destroying the giant magic fantasy world where he was a mercenary badass, his little brother could walk, his albino friend was cool, and the "villain" just wanted to keep the fantasy real so his alcoholic dad and dead mom would keep him company.

His fate being...ha ha now you're just normal again.

 

[Saskwach]

Too bad you said videogames because otherwise I would have voted that yellow bastard (I think that's what they called him but it's obviously not his name) from Sin City. I don't feel like this site should be tainted with the details of his fate but to those who know, wasn't it just ewww?
As for videogames, probably Andrew Ryan. There were more physically painful ways to go, but as Necroswanson says, to lose your utopia and then be beaten to death because your ideology failed you...emotional ouch.

 

[clericalerror]

Pokemon (probably all of them but it's Red/Blue I've played through).

You start off the game with a rival. He is your enemy for the whole game. There are just so many things that have pained him in his existance.

Starting off, he becomes the world champion only to be defeated minutes later by the guy who got the pokemon he's supposed to be good at killing.
Next; he seems unable to collect more than 6 pokemon in his entire adventure (and only JUST before getting to the Elite Four) in a world based on collecting these damned things
Related to the previous one... he is STILL USING A PIGEY!!! I mean sure the thing evolved into a bigger and stronger version of a pigeon... but dude, you're world champion. Get a dragon, legendary bird, hell a freaking Butterfry would've been a better tactical choice. But I digress.

This guy made it to world champion only to be told he didn't care about his pokemon and that's why he lost. If holding on to a pigey since level 3 isn't caring I don't know what is. I locked my pidgey up in the computer storage device, locked my starting pokemon up in there with him and fielded a balanced team of legends, dragons and bulked up invincible things... And HE get's chewed out.

I've played through so many games and that's about the only one I could think of where I pitied my villian. Even that guy that dies at the start of God of War didn't get that much from me.

 

[Easykill]

Pokemon

Funny, and so very true.

 

[Chilango2]

He's not the final villain, but I always felt that Emperor Ghestalt's fate in FF3, wherein he is killed by that clown Kefka, was particularly undeserved.

 

[Mr Wednesday]

Solidus in Metal Gear Solid 2.

The guy is trying to free America from the grip of a Illuminati like group, bent on controlling the nation and flow of information, and he gets a high frequency blade through the spine.

 

[Surggical_Scar]

Although not really nasty, still one of those that I just think: 'Oh, that had had to suck.'

Tanya buying it in Saint's Row - screws and shoots her way to the top, only to have her gang slaghtered, get riddled with bullets, fall out a window, grab onto broken glass, get her fingers broken, then plummet over 30 floors into the roof of an SUV.

...ouch.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Saren. Forced to admit he's a puppet, fail to fight out his implants, and has to blow his brains out. That was a tragic end.

 

[portuga-man]

I donm't think this is as dramatic as any of the fates you put there, but this is definetly my top choice in my "finishing a guy FOR GOOD" section.

wind waker: you pierce ganondorf through the head with the master sword, yet he lives (well, he talks...). as this happens, he gets turned into stone. But just to be sure, hyrule is put underwater again.


So, in the end, the guy got a sword through the head, turned into stone, and stuck in the bottom of an ocean.

 

[propertyofcobra]

The pokemon thing is COMPLETELY true, and I agree entirely.
What? I "care" about my pokemon? News to me! In Diamond/Pearl, me and my wife breed and dispose of thousands of them just for slightly better IVs. There's no personal love for the things, they're tools, nothing else. While my Rival sticks with his beloved pokemon time and time again. Yet HE "doesn't care". And I do. Riiiiiight...

And of course, the topic creator is correct. Locked in a glorified coffin forever, forever awake and alive, hungering, thirsting, wishing for company for thousands upon thousands of years. Terrible fate.

As for an example from me...ehhh...okay, let's think...

I can't really think of anything new, most videogame villains are just killed or locked up somewhere until the sequel rolls around. There's very little eternal torture or complete shattering of dreams, it's just "Hiya, bad guy. Let's do this", followed by the enemy making a big home-spun philosophy speech and dying.

 

[fnph]

He's not the final villain, but I always felt that Emperor Ghestalt's fate in FF3, wherein he is killed by that clown Kefka, was particularly undeserved.

Agreed. Taken down by your most trusted underling in your moment of victory, nasty.
Although Bowser usually gets off lightly he has a pretty rough time of it in NSMB. Being killed by the same fat Italian guy three times in a row has got to put a serious dent in your ego.