The 10 Most Evil Villains In Video Games
created by Mr_Vorhias
A brief explanation before we begin. There have already been countless lists of the best villains in video games in the past, and chances are there are no two that are alike, but I like to think that my list is different in some aspects because I haven't let things like popularity of the character or the game it's in influence my decisions.
Here are some stipulations I set:
- The character cannot be evil by any sort of outside forces influencing him. If they had a rough childhood, if they're out for revenge, if they're being forced by a more powerful villain, he's disqualified from being on the list.
- The character cannot at some point have assisted the protagonist.
- The character cannot show any sort of remorse, guilt, shame, or otherwise any sort of human traits towards their misdeeds.
- If the character believes they are doing good, they are off the list. I offer some compromise to that rule with any robotic, or computerized characters, who generally don't believe in good or evil, but "necessity."
So as you can see from these guidelines, I wasn't just looking for evil.
I was looking for EVIL.
Originally this was meant to be a top 20, but since I can't post anymore than 10, here're the runners up:
Chances are you aren't gonna agree with EVERYTHING on the list, but isn't that what makes lists like these great anyway?
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“Pure Evil! It will stop at nothing to crush you!”
“its more evil that Judge Judy... ok mabye not that evil.”
“Why god? WHY?!?”
2)
Jacqueline Natla (Tomb Raider)
“great villain, determined and willing to go over her family gods or even the whole humanity solely to fulfil her will... love her anniversary version... so evil... :D”
“He truly is evil just like joker in the dark knight”
“Are you confused about just how evil a villain could be considered? Look no further than Kefka, because he is one of the pinnacles, one of the standards to which truly evil villains should be measured by. Among other terrible acts, he poisoned the waters of Doma castle and killed everyone inside of it... for FUN.
He doesn’t have a backstory, he isn’t out for revenge, he hasn’t experienced any childhood trauma. He’s just one evil goddamn bastard.”
4)
Gannondorf (Legend of Zelda)
“this guy is a bad-ass and”
“Yes, yes, it’s oh-so-obvious to put Sephiroth on this list isn’t it? After all he tops just about every damn evil villain list you can find. Well beans to that, I say. Sephiroth’s not on this list, instead we’ve got the evil scientist responsible for putting that god complex into Sephy’s mind in the first place.
And that’s just the icing on the cake for this guy, not to mention his contempt for his fellow man, (Shrugging off countless Sephiroth clones that killed themselves to make it to the Northern Crater) lack of scientific ethics, (Mercilessly experimenting on Red XIII, attempting at Aeris, and near the end of the game even himself. ) and that creepy slumping forehead of his that makes him look like Mr. Burns.”
“You know you’ve got cred when Jonathan Coulton writes a song about you.
If I had to guess just what the scientists were thinking when they programmed her, they were thinking of a sort of calm and matronly personae to put the Aperture guinea pigs at ease, and more calm towards their inevitable doom. Instead she is a cold and heartless abberation who casually muses about deadly neurotoxins and nearly tosses you in a furnace. (And we love her for it. )
Her worst crime by far, though? Reneging on a pledge to give the protagonist cake.
Which is BEYOND unacceptable.”
“It should be enough that the Overmind was once the helm of a race so powerful and bloodthirsty that it took two other races to squash it (And the dramatic death of a beloved character. ) in the first game.
And we shouldn’t even have to mention the evilness in and of itself of a Phalanx-like race that scours the galaxy for species it particularly likes, and assimilates them into themselves, effectively owning them forever, but... well... we just did.”
“It’s one thing to do a lot of deplorable stuff in life, but apparently that wasn’t enough for Grim Fangando’s antagonist, who was based off of Sydney Greenstreet’s character in Casablanca. During one of the final confrontations with Manny, Hector admits that when he was alive he’d been a "Very bad boy. " Which we can only assume means he killed a crapload of people.
It’s later heard that in the afterlife he’s already managed to "sprout" (The equivalent of shooting someone in Grim Fandango, which causes the already dead residents of the Underworld to literally push up daisies. ) over 500 people. As if it wasn’t enough that his master plan was to steal tickets to heaven from otherwise deserving people and sell them to rich people. (Which he still did, even after learning that the tickets wouldn’t work for the rich people. )
Even after death Hector kept on being an evil evil guy... Geez. Isn’t time for a break or something?”
“The blueprint of what future villains like GLaDOS would become, SHODAN would torture you before you even get to face her in combat. Taunting you over PA systems, cutting off friendly radio transmissions, and watching you from the computer monitors with a cold, and unfeeling stare.
Oh, yeah... And she hates humans... well not necessarily, being a computer program she’s incapable of real emotion, so she doesn’t necessarily HATE humans... it’s just that her infallible internal can’t comprehend how something so pathetic and worthless can exist.
”
10)
The Elder God (Legacy of Kain)
“A nightmarish Cthulhu-like creature, it’s debatable whether the Elder God is in fact a god, but he’s managed to convince a whole lot of people that he is. Whatever the case, he whets his appetite for evil throughout the series by driving the humans and vampires of Nosgoth to war against each other, parasitically feeding off of Nosgoth’s Wheel of Fate, (A supernatural lifecycle) leads the naive protagonist Raziel on every which way, basically sending him after anything that could possibly be forseen as a threat to him...
Pretty much every event that led up to Nosgoth’s downfall into an apocalyptic wasteland can be traced back to the Elder God.
It’s at this point now that I’d like to submit forth my theory that any villain that’s voiced by Tony Jay is a complete badass.”
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