Most Evil Video Game Character [Archive]

Lace Neil Singer

09-16-2009, 11:22 PM

I'm sure everyone is expecting me to come up with something else than this... but to my mind, the most twisted, malevolent, evil character ever to exist in a video game is... that blasted dog in the Duck Hunt game. If you hit the ducks, it steals your kill and probably eats it; if you fail, it jumps up and laughs at you. No wonder there are flashes people made where the dog gets shot. Gah.

BroomJockey

09-16-2009, 11:45 PM

Since the dog's taken, I'll come up with something new.

Are we talking most effect on the game world? Kefka from FF VI. Destroyed the entire world and ruled over it. Or maybe the Umbrella Corporation.

Effect on a small number of people? How about the town of Silent Hill. Concentrated evil that sucks in people by preying upon their weaknesses.

Most persistent? How about Bowser. Guy's been playing kidnapper for over a decade in literally dozens of games.

gremcint

09-17-2009, 08:34 AM

Taxi drivers in Burnout 3

don't ask.

Lace Neil Singer

09-17-2009, 11:29 AM

The twins in Streets Of Rage. Those bosses drove me mental for ages when I first played the game and it took me a while to finally beat the bitches. -.- They just flip and jump all the time, and unless you're playing as Blaze it's almost impossible to hit them.

Edit: I found that flash I talked about in my first post where you can shoot that damn dog and here it is.

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/duckhunt/

Enjoy. XD

DesignFox

09-17-2009, 04:23 PM

Ha! Gotta agree with you Lace, whenever I played Duckhunt, all I ever wanted to do was shoot that damn laughing dog! *laugh*

I can still hear his mocking laughter in my head!

I dunno, Dr. Robotnik from the Sonic series was pretty evil..picking on the innocent bunnies and forest creatures...

I always got a kick out of releasing them from those egg things and having the critters bounce away in a thousand directions! (Sonic decided me in the Genesis vs. SNES war back in the day) XD

Lace Neil Singer

09-17-2009, 06:25 PM

XD Same here; well, it's pretty easy to tell. XD I thought that some of the later games fell down, plotwise and game wise, but never come accross one that was completely unplayable. I thought that Mephiles was a very evil villain; only let down by his incredibly cheesey evil laughter. :D

As for Robotnik; a guy who picks on innocent little forest creatures and seals then in robots is obviously a monster. O_o Tho in the Sky Chase zone in Sonic 2; if you free the turtles and chickens there by bouncing on the robots, they then fall to their deaths. XD

DesignFox

09-17-2009, 08:18 PM

<snip> Tho in the Sky Chase zone in Sonic 2; if you free the turtles and chickens there by bouncing on the robots, they then fall to their deaths. XD

LOL I almost forgot about that! I might have to dig out my Genesis. I haven't played that game in ages!

Lace Neil Singer

09-18-2009, 11:38 AM

Wish I could; my Megadrive died years ago and I haven't yet found a replacement for it. At the moment, I have no console but instead play on other people's as much as is humanly possible. XD

Let's see, other evil characters; M Bison in Streetfighter was pretty evil. And annoying as a final boss; it took me ages to finally beat the bastard, especially since I couldn't use the 2p cheat to get past him the way I did for Saget. *whistles innocently*

I'm mostly inclined to use examples from old skool computer games; I have played a lot of modern ones, but some of them fall way down in playability when compared to the old ones.

Arcade Man D

09-18-2009, 01:10 PM

Are we talking most effect on the game world? Kefka from FF VI. Destroyed the entire world and ruled over it.

Not to mention that he did it because he could.

Also, Emperor Gestahl wasn't exactly a shining knight. After all, his original plan was to force Kefka and Celes to have children to create an army of magic users.

Talon

09-18-2009, 02:31 PM

Damn Broomjockey, you nominated all the good ones :D

How about Lavos, the planet-eater from Chrono Trigger?
On second thought, no. Lavos wasn't consuming worlds from the inside-out just for the fun of it, that's just what it does. Can't blame a lion for tearing apart and chowing down on a gazelle can we?

There's Necrosaro/Psaro the Manslayer from Dragon Warrior/Quest 4.
If memory serves me correctly, he and his henchmen were willing to kill children to ensure the Chosen One would not oppose him.

lordlundar

09-18-2009, 07:19 PM

How about Lavos, the planet-eater from Chrono Trigger?
On second thought, no. Lavos wasn't consuming worlds from the inside-out just for the fun of it, that's just what it does. Can't blame a lion for tearing apart and chowing down on a gazelle can we?

Guess you missed the part of him doing it for genetic purity.:D

Gravekeeper

09-19-2009, 09:42 AM

There are but two:

Irenicus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk0sOGVSAP4) from Baldur's Gate 2. Evil bastard. Voiced by fabulously evil David Warner. One of the few video game villains that actually inspired anger and vengeance in me as I played.

and

Shodan. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS2_hdaBzWg) God damn Shodan. <shudder>.

Lace Neil Singer

09-19-2009, 11:43 AM

Mr Slugger

09-19-2009, 04:00 PM

MadMike

09-19-2009, 05:18 PM

How about the mysterious guy in the suit in the Half-Life games? Every so often you're in the middle of getting shot at or trying to find your way thru a maze of rooms and locked doors, and there he is standing in the background somewhere. Does he help you? Hell no, he stands there and watches for a bit and then walks away. At the end of the first one, you finally meet him face to face, and he takes all your weapons away, and gets you killed if you don't agree to work for him.

Every time I see him I try to shoot him from a distance, but of course, nothing happens. One time, thru an extremely rare glitch that I've only seen once, I found myself standing face to face with him in the transporter room. I started beating the hell out him with the crowbar, but it just clanged like he was made of metal.

lordlundar

09-19-2009, 07:19 PM

See I'm partial to Darkforce from Phantasy Star. He could haunt you in your dreams, took over control of people, destroyed a planet made life a living hell for the people of that solar system, as well as survivors of the destroyed planet. And every time you killed him he'd return a thousand years later when no one remember who he was from the destruction he caused :)

Well if we're going to go into that route, then I vote for the Reapers from Mass effect. As it stands, the first sentient life, who (according to them) created the systems that younger races build and advance around so they would evolve in a particular manner, and did so for the explicit purpose of wiping them out entirely for no discernible reason when they reach a particular advancement point.

Arcade Man D

09-19-2009, 11:17 PM

MaggieTheCat

09-20-2009, 01:04 AM

There's Necrosaro/Psaro the Manslayer from Dragon Warrior/Quest 4.
If memory serves me correctly, he and his henchmen were willing to kill children to ensure the Chosen One would not oppose him.

Actually, I didn't think Psaro was that bad. Yeah, he and his henchmen were kidnapping/killing children to try and get rid of the Chosen One, but he was doing it because humans tortured his lover, an elf named Rose, and later killed her. And it was actually Aamon, one of Psaro's henchmen, who ordered Rose's death because he knew it would drive Psaro mad and cause him to take the next step of monster evolution and try to destroy mankind.

My husband nominates Luca Blight from Suikoden 2. I've never played the game myself, but my husband assures me that he is very evil.

I was going to say Kefka from FF6, too, but since he's been mentioned, I started thinking. I thought about Dr. Wily from the original Mega Man series, but as my husband pointed out, he's more comical than evil. Zemus from FF4 wanted to raze all life on Earth just because he deemed it inferior to his people, the Lunarians.

And, just because David Warner was mentioned, and even though this isn't from a video game, I'm going to throw out the Archmage from the Gargoyles animated series. He might not be the MOST evil villain I've ever seen, but he can hold one hell of a grudge!

I8DaCookie

09-20-2009, 04:54 AM

The Yeti from Ski Free. Darn Yeti, always eating me after I've finished my race.

Gravekeeper

09-20-2009, 06:47 AM

Ah yes, the G-Man. If you play Half-Life 2 and its follow up episodes, he gets more...hands on. However, I wouldn't classify him as a villain persay. He's sort of a...broker...for Gordon's services. Though who or what he works for or who his clients are is a mystery.

For consoles....Kefka aside, I'm going for the Bishop of the orphanage that Billy worked at in Xenogears. Just for the part where he reveals to Billy that all the kids Billy has cared for and helped raised over the years have basically been sold off into child prostitution rings, lab experiments etc.

I don't even remember the guy's name, but I remember that "you BASTARD" moment. ;p

lordlundar

09-20-2009, 04:48 PM

I don't even remember the guy's name, but I remember that "you BASTARD" moment. ;p

Bishop Stein, one of Solaris's thugs who actually knew a good part of their plan and wanted to play both sides from the middle. Not only an evil sociopathic bastard, but not having the most foresight. (let's see, destroyer of god on one side, manipulative nation on the other, and you're trying to screw over both?)

ArenaBoy

09-27-2009, 05:22 PM

Serious lack of Sephiroth in here. For shame.

Are we talking most effect on the game world? Kefka from FF VI. Destroyed the entire world and ruled over it.

Don't forget Kefka poisoned a town's water supply and called it music to his ears.

BroomJockey

09-27-2009, 07:54 PM

Serious lack of Sephiroth in here. For shame.

I'm gonna take an unpopular stand here, and say Sephiroth sucked. He didn't do shit. He killed Aeris (oh, spoiler warning) and that's about it. Everything else was someone else's idea, plan, or action. Shinra did more damage than him. And as for killing Aeris, what the fuck, I had TWENTY pheonix downs. It's just a damned sword wound, I coulda brought her back.

MaggieTheCat

09-27-2009, 09:17 PM

I'm gonna take an unpopular stand here, and say Sephiroth sucked.

I love you.

I just didn't mention Sephiroth because he's got so many fanboys it makes me gag.

lordlundar

09-27-2009, 09:23 PM

I'm gonna take an unpopular stand here, and say Sephiroth sucked. He didn't do shit. He killed Aeris (oh, spoiler warning) and that's about it. Everything else was someone else's idea, plan, or action. Shinra did more damage than him. And as for killing Aeris, what the fuck, I had TWENTY pheonix downs. It's just a damned sword wound, I coulda brought her back.

THANK YOU!

And yes, I fully agree. On another site I mention that I've seen heroes do more villainous things than Sephiroth did.

Lady_Foxfire

09-27-2009, 10:35 PM

My nominations are:
Kratos, from God of War: He slaughters everyone and everything in his path, including his own wife and daughter (accidentally, but still). Eventually becomes a god, and slaughters even more people.

The Vizier, from Prince of Persia: Sands of Time: He gets the Persian army to invade India (resulting in many deaths) and tricks the main character into releasing the sands of time (resulting in even more deaths), just so that he can become immortal.

Draak, from Darkstone: Evil shapeshifting wizard who frequently burns villages to the ground, slaughters monastaries full of monks, and terrorizes the countryside, seemingly just for the fun of it. (Has anyone else even heard of this game? It's one of my favorite PC games ever.)

Dracula, from the Castlevania series: Do I need to explain this one? He's Dracula!

Bloodsoul

09-28-2009, 04:36 AM

Regarding M. Bison:
Chun-Li - "Monster! You killed my--"
Bison - "Yes, yes, I killed your father. What is it with you women anyway? I killed my father, too, and you don't here me whining about it!"

Actually looking back through the numerous fighting games that I've played the first big super villain that comes to mind is Mortal Kombat's Shao Kahn. He causes his shadow priests to resurrect his dead queen, Sindel, on Earth and thus is allowed to open a gateway to reclaim her; this breaches the rules centered around the "Shaolin Tournament for Martial Arts", so instead of winning so many tournaments to win Earth the honest way, he cheats instead, using his queen (who was a stolen wife to begin with) just to make ends meet.

And what does he do afterwards? Steal all the souls of Earth, sending extermination squads against those protected by divine decree (the photo of common city folk getting their souls practically ripped from their bodies was rather unnerving to a wee lad back in '95). He even adopted Sindel's daughter, Kitana, just to lay claim to the Outworld/Edenian throne (only to have mutant clone of her created to, I believe, someday suplant her without anyone else knowing).

I know he's done other nasty things, like commited genocide and kicked puppies, but it's late and I can't remember much else (oh, there was the sacking of the Shaolin Temples as revenge for Shang Tsung's loss in the first Mortal Kombat game).

Gravekeeper

09-28-2009, 01:45 PM

I'm gonna take an unpopular stand here, and say Sephiroth sucked. He didn't do shit. He killed Aeris (oh, spoiler warning) and that's about it. Everything else was someone else's idea, plan, or action. Shinra did more damage than him. And as for killing Aeris, what the fuck, I had TWENTY pheonix downs. It's just a damned sword wound, I coulda brought her back.

Amen. I never understood the fanboi/grrl fascination with Sephiroth beyond using him as a blatantly obvious yaoi slash fic character.

If you want an actual Villain(tm) from the FF series, you look no further than Kefka. ;p

Lace Neil Singer

09-28-2009, 01:46 PM

Yeah; can't believe I forgot that dude. XD Plus all those four armed baddies he had on his side; the female one was a real pain in the butt to defeat.

Fire_on_High

09-28-2009, 02:13 PM

Odd as this one will sound, Varian Wrynn in WoW. Yes, I play Alliance, but I've never seen why the senseless war. Thrall and Cairne are honorable, sensible folks and if Varian wasn't a hotheaded idiot, there's a very real chance there could have been peace.

See the Wrathgate for what I mean. No spoilers, I'm talking about the final bit in Undercity where Jaina intervenes finally.

MaggieTheCat

09-28-2009, 08:28 PM

Speaking of WoW, Arthas wasn't exactly a peach, either.

Fire_on_High

09-28-2009, 10:23 PM

Nope, once Invincible died he lost it, well and truly.

gunsage

09-29-2009, 01:09 AM

While I don't necessarily agree with Sephiroth being a bad villain (though he didn't do much, admittedly), I'll throw my hat in here with a few I didn't see.

Monkey Island series - LeChuck. I really shouldn't have to say much, but for those unfamiliar he's an undead ghost/zombie pirate that constantly pursues Elaine, the governer of Melee Island, who obviously isn't into him. As Guybrush Threepwood, her new fling, you're constantly in the middle of meddle.

Manhunt - The Director. What can I say? He's a sadistic bastard you love to hate. You put up with his shit enough and eventually, of course, he turns on you. It's an obvious twist, but his dialogue is great and it feels great when you finally catch up to him.

Xenosaga series - Albedo. Okay, so mostly he's a villain in the first Xenosaga episode, but this guy's freakin' crazy. Sure, Kefka's crazy too, but I guess if anything, I see this guy as a more modern Kefka.

Assassin's Creed...well...

Your master. Think about it...this guy orders you around, killing off various co-conspirator's, all just to harness the power himself. I know that makes him typical, but until the next to the last chapter, I honestly had not expected him to be the main villain.

Bully - Gary Smith. Albedo's crazy. THIS guy's MENTAL. The best part is he controls people through the power of suggestion...a true social engineer. I love it. And kicking his ass is fun, too. ;)

BroomJockey

09-29-2009, 01:38 AM

Monkey Island series - LeChuck.

LeChuck was a 3rd rate pirate and a 5th rate villain. He's somewhere below puppy-kickers on the list of badasses.

Gary's hardly evil. He's a spoiled, selfish brat. In the realm of movies, we have people like Darth Vader and the Emperor, and to compare, you wanna put Gary on a list of "Evil Video Game Characters." The guy couldn't evil his way out of a paper bag.

Manhunt I'll give you, and Xenosaga, mostly because I've not played those. Assassin's Creed? Again, this isn't a list of villains. This is a list of Most Evil Villains. People who either have a profound effect on the entire world, or just totally dominate the lives of a few poor souls. Just being a little power crazy? Eh, your standard of evil's a lot lower than mine.

Depot Denizen

09-29-2009, 09:05 AM

I'll toss my vote in for Kefka as well. Sephiroth was a lunatic, and a powerful one, but all in all ineffectual. Kefka delighted in poisoning an entire town, and killed anyone in his path for world domination, then proceeded to set the world on fire for the lulz.

However, I am a fan of GlaDos from Portal, as well as Shodan from System Shock 2. GlaDos was malicious, cruel, and insidious. In addition to forcing you to do things for her amusement (for science!) she had you murder your friend and then belittles you for it. She also killed the entire staff of the facility, and tried to kill you several times.

Talon

09-30-2009, 05:40 PM

From Silent Hill 2.

No, not Pyramid Head. Not Maria either.

It's the Dog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUDcSeUvkOw) of course! It was him all along! :D

MystyGlyttyr

09-30-2009, 06:26 PM

Rugal from King of Fighters. Hosted entire fighting tournaments just so he could take the winners and dip them in molten metal and have statues of them. WTF?

Also, after having watched the entirety of the Chrono Trigger: Crimson Echoes playthrough on Youtube (I really, really, really suggest any Chrono Trigger fans watch it), I have a VERY difficult time with playing Chrono Trigger anymore without wincing every time I change a timeline. The Darkness Beyond Time is the most pure nightmare fuel ever and the HEROES are responsible for it? Guh.

So long as we're talking about Chrono Trigger, Dalton. A sort of harmless villain who later MASSACRES AN ENTIRE KINGDOM just because some teenagers from there kicked his ass one time too many? Shit, man.

Lace Neil Singer

09-30-2009, 08:35 PM

Princess Elise. X_x Seriously, what with the necrophilia and beastility; ugh.

That was one of the things that ruined that game for me; overpowered and annoying at times Silver may be, but he's nowhere near as bad as Elise, who was basically a Mary Sue. In fact, due to expressing my hatred for Elise, I'm actually liking Silver a lot more, despite the lack of brain stem. XD

Boozy

09-30-2009, 09:13 PM

GlaDos was malicious, cruel, and insidious. In addition to forcing you to do things for her amusement (for science!) she had you murder your friend and then belittles you for it. She also killed the entire staff of the facility, and tried to kill you several times.

I don't play many games, and I haven't recognized any of the names mentioned so far. But I'm pretty sure I'm familiar with this one.

There's a song in "Rock Band" (one of the few games I play) called "Still Alive". I love singing it because the lyrics are so hilariously psychopathic. I'm pretty sure my husband said it was from Portal.

DesignFox

09-30-2009, 10:33 PM

I don't play many games, and I haven't recognized any of the names mentioned so far. But I'm pretty sure I'm familiar with this one.

There's a song in "Rock Band" (one of the few games I play) called "Still Alive". I love singing it because the lyrics are so hilariously psychopathic. I'm pretty sure my husband said it was from Portal.

Yep. That's the one!

I wish 3D games didn't make me so ill. I loved listening while my Ex played Portal. I couldn't play myself, but I could at least hear the hilarity and enjoy the funnier scenes.

Daskinor

10-20-2009, 03:11 PM

Before I clicked this thread, I was thinking no one would pick Kefka.

But alas I am late to the game. But for the title of the most evil villain you can not look further then Kefka!

First of what separates Kefka from most villains is that he is not all powerful at the onset of the game. He has power from position, but in terms of character strength he is not more powerful then the main characters.

Then you have the list of Evil things he has done.

-]Rob Terra of her free will and use her as a weapon.
-Have her kill 50 loyal solders of the empire to prove a point.
-Attempt to burn down a castle and everyone inside to retrieve Terra after she regains her free will
-Poison the Doma river to end a siege.
-Attempt to invade Narshe to steal an esper.
-Torments nearly dead espers by taunting them and then throwing them down a trash chute.
-Plays mind games with the Heroes to make them doubt the loyalty of one of their allies.
-Killed another loyal imperial solder and Honorable man, General Leo
-Committed mass murder of espers to increase his power
-Killed the emperor of the empire to take over.
-disturbed the gods of magic so he could steal their power. Knowing the result would devastate the world.
-Took over the world, and ruled over it as a god.
-Demanded obedience by using a beam of magic to devastate entire towns and villages.

And what makes it all the more evil. All this stuff happens before your eyes by the man himself. He is not some main goal or destination like other villains who you don't even see till the very end of the game. He was always around, and you got to see how evil he was first hand. Even then I bet no one was sure he was even the main villain till the end of the first half of the game.

And what is his overall goal and motivation, to destroy life. Not simply to kill everyone but to rob everyone of what good there is in living.

So Kefka hands down, most evil villain.

Fryk

10-20-2009, 04:37 PM

[This post is a spoiler]

How about the first Knights of the Old Republic game? The main villain was...

You! You dirty rotten rat-bastard!

When the Sith were under your control before the start of the game, the Republic was shitting its collective pants. Revan was cold, charismatic and very very effective. Then your apprentice helps to push you under a bus and takes over. He gets defeated by you and maybe 8 other people. What a bitch!

Also, anyone who can get HK-47 to basically worship them is an awesome villain in my book.

tropicsgoddess

10-24-2009, 02:13 PM

What about Shao Khan from Mortal Kombat. I mean the dude murdered Sindel's husband, then married her and made an evil clone of Kitana (Sindel's daughter) that was her "sister" Mileena. Besides that, M.Bison (from Street Fighter) was pretty evil too, killing, kidnapping people and doing expiriments on them. Both him and Shao Khan were tough to beat since they were big, powerful and agile for their size.

lordlundar

10-24-2009, 03:18 PM

Kirby! I mean think about it. He eats literaly EVERYTHING that isn't nailed down, then spits it out if he can't digest it (which is very little) What's there for anyone else to eat (assuming they survive, that is)?

(Obviously a joke post. I couldn't help myself.:D)

gremcint

10-24-2009, 09:21 PM

The joker?
Darkseid?
SATAN?

Mytical

10-25-2009, 04:59 AM

Most here probably don't play it, but ... The Soverign (spelling) from Heroes of Might and Magic 5 (and add ons hammer of fate/Tribes of the east). Well I guess it depends on if you consider the mastermind more evil then the person who executes his orders or not. If not then Biara. Basically he has a queen kidnapped, forces her to bear his child. Not only that, he tries his best to incenerate the entire world. Since he is a demon (or at least considered that) that is a good indication that he is pure evil. Terrorizes an entire planet, kidnaps/rapes the queen of the place, has somebody impersonate her while he does so (to weaken/split the opposition), and all because he feels like it.

Nyoibo

10-25-2009, 05:10 AM

How about Soverign and be extent The Reapers from Mass Effect? They manipulate whole galaxies development then when they get to a certain point they come and wipe out just about every living thing.

BroomJockey

10-25-2009, 05:18 AM

Evil Otto.

The first video game villain to kill a player. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berzerk#Berzerk_in_popular_culture)

lordlundar

10-25-2009, 03:16 PM

How about Soverign and be extent The Reapers from Mass Effect? They manipulate whole galaxies development then when they get to a certain point they come and wipe out just about every living thing.

beat you to it. (http://www.fratching.com/showpost.php?p=32219&postcount=16):D

gremcint

10-25-2009, 09:55 PM

I'm replaying FF3, Kefka was experimented on as a child and the Emperor tried to kill him after they got the power. He did it all but The emperor was the cause and did nothing to stop him.

You know the whole quote about all it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing, well quite frankly good men don't do nothing.

Nyoibo

10-25-2009, 11:31 PM

beat you to it. (http://www.fratching.com/showpost.php?p=32219&postcount=16):D

Damn, how'd I miss that?

Lace Neil Singer

10-26-2009, 11:38 AM

Eh, Duck Hunt Dog is far eviller. XD

I'll also include Mr X from the Streets of Rage trilogy, if only cuz he won't bloody well die, but keeps ressurecting himself.

lordlundar

10-26-2009, 03:42 PM

Eh, Duck Hunt Dog is far eviller. XD

Well yeah, but he's Satan in a video game form, so it goes without saying.:p

(Maybe I should track down the rom of the arcade version that lets me shoot the damn dog.)

Fryk

10-26-2009, 04:36 PM

(Maybe I should track down the rom of the arcade version that lets me shoot the damn dog.)

Oh my GOD, they have that? I need it! Can you imagine how cales would have skyrocketed if they had made a 'special collector's edition' and let you shoot that accursed mutt?

DesignFox

10-26-2009, 05:06 PM

<snip>
(Maybe I should track down the rom of the arcade version that lets me shoot the damn dog.)

Lace posted a link to the "shoot the dog" game somewhere here or on CS....

lordlundar

10-26-2009, 06:00 PM

Lace posted a link to the "shoot the dog" game somewhere here or on CS....

Yeah, but the one I'm talking about is in the standard game. If you miss both ducks and still have a round left, when the dog pops up, you can shoot him and his head goes black. No points for it, but the satisfaction is better than any score.:D

Lace Neil Singer

10-27-2009, 11:01 PM

I posted the flash on page two here I think, and on CS, too.

Yeah, I've heard of that; ahh... so sweet. ^^ They should never have left that out of the NES version.

KabeRinnaul

12-16-2009, 08:28 AM

My vote is for Kefka, too, but I think a lot of the others who said it have missed something very important to why he's the most evil - how viciously psychotic and unhinged he was.

Sure, killing Leo was evil. But just listing the incident doesn't really do it justice. You need to include the part where he jumped onto Leo and repeatedly stabbed him while screaming "HATE! HATE! HATE!"

And yeah, he tore the world apart. But not for some grand master scheme. Just because he was throwing a fit. He originally claimed his goal was just to revive the goddesses and use their power. But when the heroes interrupt that and one of them draws blood, he throws the whole idea out the window, destroys the balance of power between them and sends the forces of magic into chaos. Again while screaming about hate.

...I've played this game far too much.

So to suggest something that hasn't already been covered a dozen times... and someone already did GlaDOS... There's Nohman from Zone of the Enders. Or Vayne from FF12. Can't really think of any others at the moment.

Bloodsoul

12-17-2009, 06:45 AM

Everytime I see Vayne I keep thinking of 80's New Wave-type of music. Like The Cure, Depeche Mode, or Dead or Alive.

Fire_on_High

12-17-2009, 11:07 AM

Sure, killing Leo was evil. But just listing the incident doesn't really do it justice. You need to include the part where he jumped onto Leo and repeatedly stabbed him while screaming "HATE! HATE! HATE!"

Leo was the absolute antithesis of everything Kefka was, as well. I've always been convinced he was a genuinely decent person, and even his participation in some of the previous events had more to do with feeling bound, trapped even, by his sworn loyalty. Kefka could at least understand the will to power, but decency drove him into a frenzy of rage.

elsporko

12-17-2009, 11:06 PM

Giygas (or Gigu if you're playing Mother) is by far the most evil character

spoilers

To start off he killed his adopted mother because his father stole the alien technology to defend earth from the same aliens that kidnapped them and forced them to raise Gygas.

Then after realizing his emotions could be used against him Giygas somehow destroyed all emotions he had except for evil, essentially becoming a cloud of formless evil that could only contain it's sanity through a device known as the Devil's Machine.

Throughout the game Giygas uses his powers to take over people, animals, and inanimate objects forcing them to fight you, so essentially, most of your enemies are actually innocent people being controlled and there's nothing you can do to stop it.

Then just to top things off Giygas actually wins. I'm not talking some temperary victory like Kefka either. Despite traveling back in time and defeating him when he is at his weakest its predicted at the end of the game that he stil has a 99% chance of succeeding. All you did was take it down from 100% essentially making your whole journey worthless.

Thats one evil bastard.

mikoyan29

12-18-2009, 03:53 AM

The Virtual Jim Tressel in the NCAA games.....Because he's based on the real one.

Android Kaeli

12-19-2009, 02:26 AM

How about the first Knights of the Old Republic game?

This. When I played through it the first time, I was shocked to learn of it. Should have seen it coming a mile away from the beginning.

What about Ganon/Ganondorf from the Legend of Zelda series? Haven't seen any mention him yet.

jackfaire

12-19-2009, 03:12 AM

This. When I played through it the first time, I was shocked to learn of it. Should have seen it coming a mile away from the beginning.

What about Ganon/Ganondorf from the Legend of Zelda series? Haven't seen any mention him yet.

Except he never really did anything all that evil. He wanted power in a medeival world and he went for it the only way you can in a world like that you take it at the tip of a sword.

I didn't see him killing babies or even innocents worst he did was drive people from their homes.

If he had won he would have been considered the good guy.

gremcint

12-19-2009, 04:17 AM

Except he never really did anything all that evil. He wanted power in a medeival world and he went for it the only way you can in a world like that you take it at the tip of a sword.

I didn't see him killing babies or even innocents worst he did was drive people from their homes.

If he had won he would have been considered the good guy.

he does win, in ocarina of time and destroys hyrule, then you do some time travel stuff to fix it.

he kidnaps tons of people as well.

Fire_on_High

12-19-2009, 10:17 AM

Ganon was a piker compared to some of the others on this thread. As someone else pointed out, merely a warlord doing things in the ways he had open to him.

jackfaire

12-19-2009, 12:09 PM

he does win, in ocarina of time and destroys hyrule, then you do some time travel stuff to fix it.

he kidnaps tons of people as well.

Played it. Other than the princess (who was an enemy combatant to him not a civilian) who did he kidnap? He bewitched Iago and the female head of thieves was kidnapped but again she was an enemy combatant.

elsporko

12-21-2009, 12:34 PM

Gannon did twist the Golden Land into the Dark World because of how evil he is.

Bright Star

12-26-2009, 12:35 AM

The Nemesis in Resident Evil 3. He was that creature that followed you relentlously throughout the game & never knew when he would pop up. That bastard was a bitch to put down!

protege

12-26-2009, 03:22 PM

This. When I played through it the first time, I was shocked to learn of it. Should have seen it coming a mile away from the beginning.

LOL I didn't see the Revan thing coming either :p But, if you've played the second one...does anyone get tired of Kreia's constant bitching? Not going to ruin the ending for anyone who hasn't played it, but seriously. You can kinda see where it's going, and it is a bit disappointing.

Fryk

12-27-2009, 05:10 AM

Oh Christ, did Kreia ever piss me off. Play through once, and take option A in a given Scenario. Kreia bitches at you. Play through again and choose option B. Kreia bitches at you. It never ends!

lordlundar

12-27-2009, 03:50 PM

Oh Christ, did Kreia ever piss me off. Play through once, and take option A in a given Scenario. Kreia bitches at you. Play through again and choose option B. Kreia bitches at you. It never ends!

That's the point. Option A is light side, Option B is Dark side. Either way, It's not what she wants.

(Which is why I never take her in my main party or develop her in the slightest. She's just like Walter's wife "nagd'nagd'nagd'nagd'nagd'nagd'nagd'nagd'nagd'nagd' nagd'nagd' BitchBiiiiiiiiitchBitchBiiiiitch:D)

protege

12-28-2009, 12:10 PM

(Which is why I never take her in my main party or develop her in the slightest.

That's why I consider her as expendable. She's perfect for 'defusing' land mines, or drawing fire away from the rest of the main party ;)

draggar

12-28-2009, 02:57 PM

Evil Otto.

I hated Evil Otto!

Oh good, I'm done the level, now to just walk out. Oh, wait, what's the smiley face?

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As for LeChuck - yeah, it's not an really good bad guy but his insults are hilarious and make the game enjoyable. :)

Fryk

12-28-2009, 05:11 PM

That's the point. Option A is light side, Option B is Dark side. Either way, It's not what she wants.

(Which is why I never take her in my main party or develop her in the slightest. She's just like Walter's wife "nagd'nagd'nagd'nagd'nagd'nagd'nagd'nagd'nagd'nagd' nagd'nagd' BitchBiiiiiiiiitchBitchBiiiiitch:D)

Well then, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT, KREIA? HUH?! HUH??!!

You and I both forgot that in a lot of scenes, there's also a neutral option, too. And guess what happens if you choose that one?

Go on, guess.

"Argle blargle biiiiitchity bitch mcbitch naggity nag!"

Kreia needed Jolee Bindo to give her some, maybe then she wouldn't be so uptight.

Greenday

12-28-2009, 05:18 PM

Actually, if you REALLY pay attention, you notice when you pick the neutral option, she doesn't berate you, she just gives you very critical advice.

Personally, I think dysentery from the Oregon Trail is the worst evil of all games.

Bloodsoul

12-29-2009, 05:41 AM

I'm beginning to grow spiteful towards Diao Chan in Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires. Now historically (well, romantically as she may very well be fictional) all she appeared to do was get inbetween Dong Zhuo and Lü Bu so that Lü Bu could kill Zhuo, at the behest of her father, Wang Yun. Wang Yun is murdered shortly thereafter.

So what does she do in the game? Gather a group of officers under her command to exact her revenge against the "traitors of the Han." It's not just any group of officers, though. It's your officers. If she joins your group it'll only be a matter of time before she leaves with nearly half your army in two; and it's not like she goes off to claim her own territory, either. She just takes the officers and dissapears into oblivion, never reappearing except perhaps as a random officer in an enemy army or showing up to join you all over again.

And if that wasn't bad enough, in one recent game one of the officers she coercerd into joining her was my character's husband!

(Granted, if Diao Chan is made into your character's wife/sworn-sister, she behaves normally like any other character; still better to just kick her out the moment she joins, I figure)