Top VdeoGame Villians

[Griveton]

Who are, in your opinion, the coolest, darkest, or most hated villians in video games, according to the genre, and why?

First Person shooter - SHODAN AI (System Shock series) For me, a no-brainer. SHODAN is, unlike any other antagonist, always with you, giving you a good reason to kill her. She is manipulating you, hating you, attacking you... and loving you, and fearing you. She wants you, dead or alive. I remember when I was about to blow a computer... she asked me not to. Se told me she didn't want me to do that, that if i did that, she would kill me. I did it. She was sad. And she sent a couple 'droids to do what she said...

RPG - SHODAN AI/XERXES (System Shock 2) Reasons stated above.

Adventure - LeChuck (Monkey Island) Just because Guybrush and the fat-intake-watching cannibals say so.

Strategy - The beast (homeworld cataclysm) A spacial race that thrives on eating the other races, her womanlike talks and droney voice are... just from another world...

Side Scroller - Bowser (Mario Bros) I have to say this guy. I grew up with him...

[Naota]

SEPHIROTH!!

This guy was evil, he had presence, and you just loved to hate him. Plus he had a cool sword and that trenchcoat cossie. He was a complete nut and had all the moves :D

SEPHI ALL THE WAY!!

[Alucard]

hmm... trying to think trying to think, my favorite villan was the char u played in jk2, ( u fite him in jk2 exp)

[yotakafish]

i dont know. i really liked Kuja. he has alot of depth, you can sympathize with him. Sephiroth had the "im crazy, im powerful, fear me." thing going but i liked Kuja better. But kuja's outfit was so....wrong...no man should wear leather undies out in public.

[Rence]

My favorite videogame villian is Magus. Hes just so cool. Super strong and cool looking magic, a scary smile (from the PS version cut-scenes), and a scythe. how much cooler can you get?

[Pedro The Hutt]

I agree with Griveton on the adventure villain part, Lechuck is great :D Who else would use a flaming voodoo cannonball to show someone how much he truly cares ^_^"

[Roark]

By Genre:

FPS: Trevylan from Goldeneye, just for the line "Why won't you be a good boy and die James".

RPG: Magus. Just so slick looking.

Adventure (all): game designers of the Zork series... curse them all, so diffulcult to bear

Adventure (beatable ones): LeChuck the walking Villain Parody

Strategy: the Tarrasque in Star Craft. that was one buff MF.

Side Scroller: hmm... the guy from sonic whose name escapes me at the minute. he had such cool robots.

[Griveton]

Originally posted by Pedro The Hutt
I agree with Griveton on the adventure villain part, Lechuck is great :D Who else would use a flaming voodoo cannonball to show someone how much he truly cares ^_^"

Or have his weak point on root beer?

LONG DIE LECHUCK!!!!!


he's alerady dead, so screaming "long live LeChuck" would be a moot point....

[Roark]

Originally posted by Griveton


he's alerady dead, so screaming "long live LeChuck" would be a moot point....

thrice dead at that >_<

[Pedro The Hutt]

To quote him " 't is a good day to be dead"

[Azazis]

FPS: G-man(HL...duh :rolleyes: ) He is immortal damn it :angry
RTS: Overmind ( starcraft...love the voice)
RPG: Red.. ehm neh, that guy from ff2
Fighting: Kintaro (MK2)
platform: 2 thiefs ( home alone :D )

[Naota]

Originally posted by yotakafish
i dont know. i really liked Kuja. he has alot of depth, you can sympathize with him. Sephiroth had the "im crazy, im powerful, fear me." thing going but i liked Kuja better.

going on when i first played the games i seem to like sephiroth better, dunn get me wrong kuja rocked, but sephiroth was just plain cool he, had sword, he had the outfit, he had his reasons and he had the mental deficiency in his brain :D

Originally posted by yotakafish
But kuja's outfit was so....wrong...no man should wear leather undies out in public.

lol, amen to that, that was plain wrong... :eek: one of the things i didnt like about kuja was.. well... he looked wierd. But dont get me wrong he was still cool and still was a great villian.

[Subzero]

RPG: Diablo

Platformer: Bowser

FPS: Cyber Deamon from Doom.

Fighting: Mecha Akuma.

[Fash]

the most evil villian ever must be.... Gargamel!

http://web.inter.nl.net/users/H.M.F.J.de.Wijs/gargame3.jpg


j/k

[Isengarde]

im suprised, noone has said Kefka yet...

[Neith]

My all-time great game villains would be...

Viola
Dr. Robotnik (lol)
Liquid Snake
Kuja (he's pretty cool - after a while...)
Heihachi Mishima ----\
---------------------[Could be classed in that sort of way; but they have good fighting skills]
Kazuya Mishima ----/
Mr. X (Streets of Rage, love to beat the crap outta him, and he had a good boss theme too)

[Jagan eye]

ExDeath from FFV.


though, i do like Seifer from FFVIII.

[Gekiganger3]

Ganondorf
Sephroth
Shao Kahn
Bowser
Robotnik
Cortex
Mike Tyson (Mike tysons punchout NES)
Dr.Wily and robots (Megaman)

thats about it i cant tink of much

[Fash]

I WOULD have to say kefka, very evil.

[Maryoku Kemono]

I really can't choose. All I play is RPG's.
Lessee,
Kefka
Ulticeima (FF8)
Odin(also FF8)
Magus
Mother Brain (Super Metroid)
Sephiroth

[Otacon]

Liquid Snake from Metal Gear Solid

[Radical Edward]

Edward HATED Liquid snake it was like GOD DAMN WHY WONT YOU DIE!!!!! I SAW YOU DIE LIKE 5 FRIIKING TIMES!!!! QUITE COMING BACK YOU KNOW YOUR JUST GONNA DIE AGAIN DAMNIT!

[Dtortot]

Nawww metal gear was a tougher enemy than liquid snake...
But the top mother f***ker enemy I have faced has to be either the weapons or Jenova from FF7 sephiroth was a piece of cake...

[Otacon]

i also say the WEAPONS where pretty taugh to. I was going to go after the Ruby and Emerald WEAPON but my brother deleted my game.

[Griveton]

Originally posted by Otacon
Liquid Snake from Metal Gear Solid

Nah, he was just stock psycho-terrorist-related-to-the-hero guy. Kinda saw most revelations regarding him coming... except the one of Snake's master...

[Dtortot]

yes and no yes because when I first got there I was level 40-something and she beat the crap out of me adnd no because there are many jenovas in the game the thougher one for me was the one of the boat....

[Radical Edward]

w00t Kefka was cool Solidus was odd ummmm Sephiroth Ed felt kinda sad for cause he wasn't evil just Hojo mad him go crazy

[Dtortot]

Hojo was an easy one... he was just damn persistant and refused to die... pretty much like liquid snake....

[Astribulus]

Curses! Beaten to the good ones again. I have to agree with Sephiroth and Kefka as my favorite FF villains and I'll put in my vote for best recurring villain for the ghost-zombie-demon pirate LeChuck.

Hey, LOOK! A Three-Headed MONKEY!

[vashthestampede]

Easy. All time best villain was Sephiroth. He had no emotions but hate. He was the most unstable enemy of them all, and when you think about it, his ideas make sense in a strange sort of way... Or i'm evil, you take your pick!

[Fash]

damnm, seph is so cliche!

Oh, pure hate, woe is me woe is me!

Damn, thats so passe. Its all about Kefka's complete maniacy at the least.

Or even seifer was better, seph is just so damn boring, predictible.

[Astribulus]

Sephiroth's personality may be cliche, but I really like the look and the sword. Kefka's maniacy is a much better motivation.

[Griveton]

Originally posted by vashthestampede
Easy. All time best villain was Sephiroth. He had no emotions but hate. He was the most unstable enemy of them all, and when you think about it, his ideas make sense in a strange sort of way... Or i'm evil, you take your pick!

Never seen sephiroth, but from your description... that's a pretty crappy cliché character.

I like antagonists rather than enemies, since an enemy does not impulse your feelings, except hate.

a good antagonist, on the other hand, can draw your interest, and sometimes even your simpathy or love.

LeChuck made you laugh, and sometimes understand his desperation (Who hasn't been trying to do everything in this world and the afterworld to try to gain the love of another person?) SHODAN could be understood, and since it was a computer AI, had an empathical connection to your computer... while still fearing her, and hating her...

An enemy that only provokes you hate is, in my opinion, a run-of-the-mill one, since hate is really easy to provoke. The rest of the emotions are, however, harder, and making someone feel for the enemy is even harder than hard.

[Fash]

harle was kawaii.

[Pedro The Hutt]

Originally posted by Griveton

LeChuck made you laugh, and sometimes understand his desperation (Who hasn't been trying to do everything in this world and the afterworld to try to gain the love of another person?)



True that.. or use a flaming Voodoo cannonball to show how much he truely cares.
And you also almost felt sorry for him when you made him sniffle during all that talking towards the end of MI3 (where Guybrush's a bit locked up ^.^)

[Hyoung]

My favorite villians would have to be Kefka (from FF6) and the Twin Nova sisters from Zelda 64. Kefka was just cool (distroying the world, becoming a demi-god), and the Twin Nova were funny.

[Astribulus]

I almost forgot Murray, the Skull of EVIL. All mortals tremble before his power..... once he gets done advertising Planet Threepwood, for family oriented piratety fun and EVIL.

[Le Bread]

Ur? Let's see.....u.u

Fighting Game:4 WAY TIE!
1.Krizalid from King of Fighters '99 ((Loved the outfit))/
2.Jedah from Darkstalkers 3. This guy was just awesome! XD He'd mutilate himself just to massacre you then proceed to give you some melodramatic quote/
3.Dio Brando ((My favorite! =B)) from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ((Who wouldn't have wanted to crush this guy...he killed half of the main characters off. x.x; "That's right...my power is to freeze time! My World rules the world if you get my drift!))....Then he would just drop a steam roller on you and proceed to punch his way through it...just so he could smack you around some more. x.x;
4.Hyo from Rival Schools. He was so kewl! =B

RPG:Luca Blight from Suikoden 2. You know your a bad man when you can shake off the six arrows sticking out of your back...crush your way through three parties of six characters a piece...and then fight the main character in a one on one sword duel.
Yamaneko takes second place with the Elements from Xenogears just slightly behind.

Finally...Just about all the villains in the Super Robot Wars series! XD I grew up watching these guys get wasted in the mech shows...now I get my turn to do much of the same!

[Griveton]

Originally posted by Le Bread

1.Krizalid from King of Fighters '99 ((Loved the outfit))/

god. I hated the guy.... REALLY cheesy. Possibly the cheesiest boss I've ever played against.

However, he was really cool.

[Von]

Sephiroth from FF7... i just loved him...he was so cool with his big sword and stuff.

[Le Bread]

Originally posted by Griveton


god. I hated the guy.... REALLY cheesy. Possibly the cheesiest boss I've ever played against.

However, he was really cool.

As I said...he had a cool look...but I just hated fighting him. He always overused the technique where he caught you with his foot...held you in the air...and slammed you back down again. He did that to me everytime I tried to attack him. x.x;

[Griveton]

Originally posted by Le Bread


As I said...he had a cool look...but I just hated fighting him. He always overused the technique where he caught you with his foot...held you in the air...and slammed you back down again. He did that to me everytime I tried to attack him. x.x;

That was what made me hate him.

On higher diff. levels, the guy just kept doing that, and it was only raw trial and error to time your attack right... and then, I only found an attack that could get him with K' and Terry....

[Le Bread]

I managed to pummel him with Joe and Kyo. Terry works quite well in that battle though. It was one of the only fights where a striker actually came in handy. o.o

[Griveton]

Originally posted by Le Bread
I managed to pummel him with Joe and Kyo. Terry works quite well in that battle though. It was one of the only fights where a striker actually came in handy. o.o

In standard diff, I also pummeled the idiot with King and the kid in blue... the one whoe ate rice... i forgot the name...

And strikers... I used them a lot. Especially mary, just to disbalance the enemy and/or lower the guard or buy me time to make the ultra-almighty-continuous-superpower-machinegun crap of K'.


BTW- My usual team was:
K'
King
The kid in blue

Striker : Mary

[Le Bread]

My usual team was:

1)Kyo:I loved his special attacks...but for some reason or another I would switch him on and off the team to use Shingo! XD
2)Terry:He was just a good all around fighter. o.o
3)Joe:Had some rather fluid moves. Came in handy when I needed a character with quick movements that could do moderate damage.
Striker:One of the Kyo clones, King, or Iori. Not sure why. o.o;

The kid in blue was Kensou. ^^ King of the Slackers.

[Pedro The Hutt]

My usual KOF97 team is : King: double venom strike, trap shot, surprise vault, hahaha.. all handy if you know how and when to use them :D ; Terry: like Bread-san said, handy allround character. (and Lightning tackle those jumping freaks out of the sky) ; Yuri: fast, quite powerful, uber kawaiiness.. what more does one want in a character ^.^

[Le Bread]

What more could one want in a character? I could make a whole list of unreasonable demands, if you would like!:D

[Griveton]

Originally posted by Pedro The Hutt
what more does one want in a character ^.^

It's easy to want something else of any character in any game...

I would want her to get out of the game and...

*ahem*

serve me a coffe.... yeah. that's what I meant. yeah. yeah yeah.. :D


j/k

[Pedro The Hutt]

Noooo..Yuri's too kawaii for such things.... ahem ^^" sorry ..

[Le Bread]

Originally posted by Pedro The Hutt
Noooo..Yuri's too kawaii for such things.... ahem ^^" sorry ..
She's too kawaii to serve coffee you say? On the contrary...I think she's perfect for that task. =D

[Pedro The Hutt]

But why would you let poor Yuri get coffee for you.. surely you're still young enough to be able to get it yourself ^.^

[Le Bread]

Originally posted by Pedro The Hutt
But why would you let poor Yuri get coffee for you.. surely you're still young enough to be able to get it yourself ^.^

Your right...;.;...fine...she can bring me tea then! =D

Some more characters to add on my favorites list:

Starman-Since I loved Earthbound that much! ^^

Star Wolf Team-I played Star Fox 64 until my fingers were blistered, then I played some more. The Wolf Team was amazing in the fact that they could be either:
A)Stupidly Easy
B)Ridiculously Difficult
C)Unshakingly annoying
Besides...Pigma Dengar was just so cool. =B Loved the Wolfen ships

and finally...the most kawaii baddies ever
THE SHY GUYS! ^^
Anyone see General Shy in Paper Mario...now that was just precious. ^^

[LordKrelian]

Kefka!!!

The single most insane, sadistic, and downright rottenest villain of all time. He has no need for clever plans and slick entrances, he just comes and controls!!! I don't remember any other villain who ever was such an insane baby, swore off the hook, killed all his "allies", destroyed the world, laughed about it, and was still able to be beaten ;)

Sephiroth was cool too. FF7's cloud vs Seph duel at the end was the perfect closure ending :GD

[Le Bread]

Amen to that Krelian. XD That sums up Kefka perfectly.

[Xeno-sama]

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Kefka, if only for that laugh he had... I can still hear it.

[Xeno-sama]

Apparently embeding sound doesn't work too well on these boards. I can't even edit that post.

[Le Bread]

XD! I was wondering why the sound of Kefka's laughter was sounding out through my speakers...it was starting to freak me out!

[LordKrelian]

Another kickin' villain is my man Krelian. He wanted to be god :GD He was like 1000 years old and knew everything and controlled everything and killed everyone. He was your classic mad scientist

[Fash]

damn i couldnt see the stuff after that untill i clicked reply

[Pedro The Hutt]

Same here.. bah ^.^

[Dain Kinkaide]

My favorite villain?

If Kula Diamond counts, then she's my favorite villain.

Although, poor misguided Krizalid was pretty cool as well. He thought K' was the clone, when in fact he was the clone.

But if Kula doesn't count, then I'd have to say either Goenitz, Geese or the entire Orochi New Face Team. Chris, Shermie and Yashiro = kickass.

[HappyDonut]

Most Hated: Those blobs in Pac-Man, couldn't get past them on the 5th level.

Most Funniest: Kefka of FF6, "I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate....you!" He's just damn hillarious...period.

Most Coolest: Reno of the Turks in FF7, gotta love the intro music and the spikey hair doo.

[Dtortot]

In Driver 1 and two its where the best villian is. YOU for you are the villian to the eyes of the cops.... But this is so lame so I will say that the best villian in the history of the games I played and passed has to be either Mother Brain from Metroid, or in Silent Hill, Samael which turns out to be your own child .....

[MILLIONS KNIVES]

:moron: :smile-mad :smiletode ALTHOGH SHE IS NOT HATED. IN MY OPINION TIRA FROM SOUL CALIBUR3 IS THE BEST VEDIO GAME VILLAN EVER!

[jetfire]

:moron: :smile-mad :smiletode ALTHOGH SHE IS NOT HATED. IN MY OPINION TIRA FROM SOUL CALIBUR3 IS THE BEST VEDIO GAME VILLAN EVER!

You're replying to a four year old thread to say that?? I don't think whoever you're replying to is even going to care after four years.

Can someone please close this thread or at least warn this person to not revive so many threads that are years old?

[Risen Hell Fire]

You're replying to a four year old thread to say that?? I don't think whoever you're replying to is even going to care after four years.

Can someone please close this thread or at least warn this person to not revive so many threads that are years old?
ROFL perhaps Knives didn't see this thread http://www.animeacademy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21649 or did but didn't care. Like the mods would say, the search button is your friend. EDIT: Though I will agree that Knives here needs to slow down and stop reviveing dead threads, or else I see a banning coming.

[Pachinko]

Top? Ganon/Ganondorf.

[swankygoose]

umm the monkeys from ape escape.

[RuKiAsShAdOw]

Top? Ganon/Ganondorf.

A very good choice. he is a classic evil

[darylcrowe]

Let's see

Ganon (Zelda)
Bowser (Bless him, he keeps trying)
Mithos, Tales of Symphonia (Only villian I ever felt sorry for)
Ridley, Metroid Series (He/she/it is more of an emboidement of the series than Mother Brain was)

[Sakito]

Here are some of the top villans that I have faced or heard of
Majorly Family{Rhapsody}
Ganon{Zelda}
Bowser{you better know}
Eggman{Sonic}
Sepheroth{FF7}
Seifer{FF8}
Kuja{FF9}

There are more but those are the main ones.



~Sakito~

[Ghostmaster]

Yeah gonna have to go with Pachinko and everyone else on this one. Ganondorf/Ganon was a great video game villian, definately bad ass.

[RuKiAsShAdOw]

Ridley, Metroid Series (He/she/it is more of an emboidement of the series than Mother Brain was)

well, since Mother Brain was only in 2 of the Metroid games, obviously she isnt the main baddie in all of them. Ridley, on the other hand, appeared in 4(i believe) Metroid games and is more of a symbol of the series than MB, though you gotta admit, her final form in Super Metroid was pretty bad@$$.

[darylcrowe]

Ugh nasty boss. It wasn't bad enough that the corrider to her was annoying, she has to have that laser beam attack (which takes out nearly your entire health bar)

[RuKiAsShAdOw]

Ugh nasty boss. It wasn't bad enough that the corrider to her was annoying, she has to have that laser beam attack (which takes out nearly your entire health bar)

hmm, im guessing youre refering to the Hyper Beam attack MB uses when you fight her... well, thats supposed to happen. youre supposed to get hit with that and have like 40 energy left. energy is never a problem in Super Metroid cuz i always get all energy and reserve tanks.

[Devotion]

Albert Wesker. It's so rare that games feature a villain that is collected, ruthless, selfish, capable, and stylish, and who is evil because of lack of social morals. There have been too many attempts to create villains who are evil for some past trauma, misguided ideology, or are evil as a result of insanity. The truly evil villains--not as in a villain that is, for lack of a better word, The Force of Evil--, despite the constant denouncement of gaming communities as cliche, are actually a rare breed.

[Sakito]

There are a few top villians that I just remembered,
Jack of Blades{Fable}
Seymour{FF10}
Warrio
Oh and the best of all Ghost{Pac-Man}


~Sakito~

[RuKiAsShAdOw]

Albert Wesker. It's so rare that games feature a villain that is collected, ruthless, selfish, capable, and stylish, and who is evil because of lack of social morals. There have been too many attempts to create villains who are evil for some past trauma, misguided ideology, or are evil as a result of insanity. The truly evil villains--not as in a villain that is, for lack of a better word, The Force of Evil--, despite the constant denouncement of gaming communities as cliche, are actually a rare breed.

I have to agree with you on this. Seriously now that I look at it, most of the villains that come to be these days are only ruthless because of some past trauma and aren't very collected like Wesker. Though there are some exceptions(Sephi from FF7 and I believe Kuja from FF9) many fall into this category.

[Sasuke311]

Well Kefka was good, but not good enough (and FF6 is my favorite of the series) but the guy that has been mentioned to death already really deserves the title of best video game villain: the one and only Sephiroth! Visually a stunning presence and with such a complex personality, there were many that were more into FF7 because of him and not because of Cloud and the gang! Sephiroth is so huge, that a friend from Ecuador in South America knew a lot about him without having to play the game!


Oh...and I'd also like to mention Donkey Kong! He even ended up being being a violent old ape. He'll die as a monument, and I'm sure Mario still must have some of his barrel marks scared on to his paisano skin :P

[LakiDash]

Wesker(Resident Evil) as aforementioned on this page is quite the bad ass villain. Very cool, collected and most of all, has everything thought out much longer than you'd think.

Also, Darth Revan(Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic). I cannot say why, but those who've beaten the game know why. Oh yes.

[Milkymagic]

Dr. Wily from the classic Mega Man games, that guy trys so hard to defeat Mega Man. I mean, look at how many robots he's built to keep the Blue Bomber busy!

And let's not forget all those castles he's built too! :D (all of them destroyed lovingly)

[Carlito]

I'm gonna go with the Queen of Blade Sarah Kerrigan from Star Craft: Brood Wars. She was just something else. Completely different from anything I'd seen before. Although for a classic villain, you just can't beat Bowser, he's the man! (or lizard or dragon if you want to get technical on me)

[Sasuke311]

Oh... I just remembered who Albert Wesker is! He's an awsome and complex villain and very original yet believable by today's standards (if you get passed the coming back to life thing)!

And if I said DK, I can't believe I didn't mention BOWSER!!! He's the real reason why Super Mario Bros. 2 flopped!

[Natsuke Takeda]

Rugal from KOF. But then again, all bosses suffer from that damn SNK Boss Syndrome >.>

Also Morganna from the .hack series. Though it started out with the /SIGN anime, her villaness doesn't get any complicated than any other villan in that series.... and if anyone says Tri Edge.. I'll /kill/ you.

[Chr0nic_STDs]

i would have to agree with Wesker being a complete badass.....especially when he appeared in Code Veronica........but my favorite villain was definitely Vergil from Dmc just because...well he's Vergil what more can i say really?

[serilia]

Oh god... don't make me pick!! (cause, clearly, someone is holding a gun to my head and forcing me to procratinate in forums rather than get my paper done).

Okay, here goes:
The clear top three choices are:

Sephiroth from FF7 (because, oedipus complex and destroy world tendencies aside, we can't help but want to be him)

Kefka from FF6 (because they finally understood that clown are scary and make cool villains, especially when they can laugh while poisoning entire towns)

Graph from Xenogears (questionably a villain, but still, if only because he had the coolest recurring speeches and a very awesome theme song)

Honorable mentions go to:
Iori from King of Fighters (questionably a villain, though he was in the first games), Bowser from Mario (obviously), and Dr. Robotnik from Sonic (probably misspelled but meh!)

EDIT: Has no one else really mentioned anyone from Xenogears?!?! *shock* (if you did and I missed it, sorry!)