Scariest movie/game villain.

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Vrex360

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As some of you are doubtlessly already aware, this thread has been done before by the infamous r3lix. However I couldn't help but notice that
a. the thread was more or less based on others insulting him and indeed him insulting himself
b. the man got suspended again for the thread.
So the way I see it, the thread would still be largely fresh. So anyway.

This is not a thread based around which villian is the 'coolest' or even the 'best' rather, this is a thread based around the villains that most scared you when playing video games. Maybe this villain took the form of a particularly nasty boss fight that made you dread every encounter. Maybe this villain looked hideous and that alone was enough to intimidate you.
Or maybe their sheer unbounded evil alone, was enough to seal the deal.

Also while I'm on the topic this list can also apply to villains you've seen in movies too ( I must apologise for the title, I made an error forgot to put some words in and the edit doesn't seem to want to respond), as you probably guessed from the title of the thread. So if you can't think of a particular game villain or really want to talk about a particular big screen baddy feel free. Personally my vote goes to Kevin from Sin City.

Whatever, what do you at the escapist personally think is the scariest villian?
 

The Youth Counselor

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I actually wet myself a little back in 1997 when I opened a door in Diablo and encountered it's first boss The Butcher. Those primitive and pixelated images of flayed and mutilated bodyparts hanging on meat hooks and running with blood scared my eight year old self quite a bit.

Likewise having Shodan haunt me in System Shock sent quite a shock to my system. That ***** just wouldn't die.

Though he isn't a true villain, I shook myself a little too much trying to catch up the G-Man in Half-Life. Those first times running to where he was only to have him dissapear or face a monster scared me.

But believe it or not the villain that scared me more than any game villain was an assassin droid from an obscure educational Star Wars game called Droidworks. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Droidworks] In it, you were a droidmaker sent by the Rebel Alliance to Tattooine to build machines to infiltrate the Empire's new plans to create an army of Assassin Droids. The forementioned Assassin Droids were slow moving, things that looked like they were assembled from tin buckets and who didn't even have a blaster. They sounded like a cheesy PBS children's show character and had to touch your droids to harm them (The scariest game enemies fought melee.) and yet they made me huddle and shiver in fear, not knowing how to evade them with the knowledge my droids battery drains as I wait. The absence of save points in long levels made this feeling worse.

Man it sure was easy to give myself a good fright when I was eight.
 

Falien

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I remember being scared out of my wits by the original Alien - H.R. Giger really is a genius at this sort of thing.

For games: both The Queen in Ico and Homunculus in Shadow of Memories - while not exactly scary, they were creepy!
 

Barky13

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I remember being extremely scared of Ridley (from the Metroid games) when I was younger.
 

theSchlub

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SKX in the first condemned kept me up at nights shivering in far, I'm ashamed to say. But then again, the level you face him in is like a worst nightmare for anyone whose ever watched the evening news.
 

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Falien said:
I remember being scared out of my wits by the original Alien - H.R. Giger really is a genius at this sort of thing.
Definitely gets my vote for movie villian. I still occasionally have dreams of it snacking on my innards.

Game villian would probably go to Pyramidhead in Silent Hill 2. Every time I saw him I knew something bad was about to happen. And he never let me down.
 

Cpt_Oblivious

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I saw bits of Silence of the Lambs (or one of the other Hannibal films) at about age 6 (Or similar - I was young)
Hannibal = scary.
'Nuff said.


I have seen all of the Hannibal films nowadays though.
 

sharks9

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when I was about 5 years old I was scared of one of the bosses in TMNT, I think he was a big floating body or something controled by an evil brain
 

Chonodhoch

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The regenerating fecker in dead space... sometimes I didn't even look back I just ran... I ran as far and as fast as I could.
 

fenrizz

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Nemesis from RE3. It just kept coming around every corner, never went away...
Kept me on my toes from the first encounter 'till finish.
 

Cheesebob

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That first boss from Clockwork Knight...It gave me knightmares (SEE WHAT I DID THERE)

Other than that...erm...Cloudsman from Killer7 scared me, if only because of the noice those tendrils made your character make