Most Evil Video Game Character

[I8DaCookie]

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

[MaggieTheCat]

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!

[Arcade Man D]

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.

Ah, you mean the G-Man.

[lordlundar]

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.

[MadMike]

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.

[Mr Slugger]

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

[Lace Neil Singer]

There are but two:

Irenicus 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.

Much like the Duck Hunt dog, then. XD

[Gravekeeper]

There are but two:

Irenicus 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. God damn Shodan. <shudder>.

[lordlundar]

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.

[Talon]

Damn Broomjockey, you nominated all the good ones

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.

[Arcade Man D]

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.

[Lace Neil Singer]

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.

[DesignFox]

<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]

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.

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]

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