So that I could be his Evil Champion and hopefully become an Overlord over Humanity thus getting myself set for life. Like if it was Grandfather Nurgle who wanted me I would have killed Humanity twenty times over already just to get his gift of plague. Thus I could give myself a really long ass title too, His Supreme Dreadlord, Commander of the Skies, Destroyer of Oceans, Slayer of Dreams, Deflower of Virgins, Murderer of Hope, Pillager of Atlantis and Ravager of the Southern Hemisphere our Lord and Omnipotent Savior the one who resurrected our Great Lord who we lament to every hour of the day Frederic of Awesometon.NickCaligo42 said:So, we see this in games and film all the time. An evil god has been locked up for a thousand years and is just dying to be released. Why on EARTH would you want to let something like this out? This isn't a criticism, I'm honestly asking the question and hoping to get answers. So many villains seem to be doing it "just because" or for the empty promise of power. There has to be at least ONE really good reason for someone to try and release an evil god from his dimensional prison. So what's yours?
Mine: Psychosis. Only someone with a genuinely ill perception of reality operating outside normal logic would want to do something like this.
NOW PROVE ME WRONG!
Actually I haven't watched television in 8 years. Ghostbusters is the only example of this trope I can immediately recall off the top of my head in cinema. I happened to be drawing a concept for an evil god when this question came to mind.Shadow Law said:I'm just guessing here but I bet this all started because someone saw a crappy movie on the sci-fi channel.
duckfi8 said:so i can be the first person to kill it
Actually, the idea of awakening the dark god to CHALLENGE the dark god hadn't occurred to me. Very cool.ZeroFTW said:I'd do it so I could challenge them to a beer drinking contest
And I think that most of us agree that this was one of the lamest motivations ever and that the character of the new Prince is irredeemably marred.miracleofsound said:Ask the Prince of Persia.
He did it to get laid.
yep that one.... though maybe for shinnies...the captain said:Purely for shits and giggles.
I hear Yog-Sothoth has lost weight since his school photos. Shame about Shub-Niggurath, she is owed a lot of child support. (A THOUSAND young? That black goat of the woods gets around!)Wouldukindly said:Cthulhu's a close friend of mine, we went to high school together, wouldn't you help bust your best buddy out of prison?