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[The Cockatrice]

It's been a while since we had one of these threads I think, so who are your favorite villains, characters that sometimes outshine the main character or even surpass them in charisma/writing/etc.?

My top ones haven't changed much over the years:

We need to bring back great villains again!

 

[FoxMcChief]

Kefka might be the best ever written.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Irenicus from BG2
Louis from Metaphor: Refantazio
Senator Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising
Grigori from Dragon's Dogma (not a villain, but still)

 

[Kuranghi]

We share a kinship OP. I especially like the Joker in City and even more so Arkham, the amount of missable dialogue is nuts, you can wait for ages and he just keeps going.

Am I misremembering or did Handsome Jack have a diamond horse??

 

[Cakeboxer]

 

[STARSBarry]

Yes, hes literally the stereotypical Saturday morning cartoon villian, but it just works.

 

[violence]

My favorite villains.

 

[Chuck Berry]

 

[Bondo]

Solidus MGS2
The Boss MGS3
Psycho Mantis MGS1
Higgs Death Stranding 1

-Seems I'm a sucker for Kojima bad guys.

Ganondorf
Kratos/Zeus
M Bison (Always a boss to me - growing up with SSF)

 

[Shifty1897]

Phil Spencer

 

[Holammer]

We share a kinship OP. I especially like the Joker in City and even more so Arkham, the amount of missable dialogue is nuts, you can wait for ages and he just keeps going.

Am I misremembering or did Handsome Jack have a diamond horse??

Yes, Butt Stallion, it was referenced in dialogue and it was an NPC in the D&D inspired BL2 DLC. MLP was popular back then, so a product of its time.

Anyway, op nails it with Handsome Jack, Joker in the Arkham games.
I'll add GLaDOS from Portal and Kefka from FF6. Bowser is a good dependeable villain, the old reliable.

Eggman not so much in the games, but in other media he can be pretty good. It depends on the writer. The Sonic Boom Eggman is my favorite.

 

[Magic Carpet]

HADES vs Aloy
Aloy is a good villain, If not for her we could have reset the world.

 

[BennyBlanco]

 

[MrJangles]

 

[TintoConCasera]

Top 3 videogame endings.

 

[Ev1L AuRoN]

Glados & Sephiroth

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Archimonde
Arthas
Sargeras
Sylvanas
Garrosh
Kil'jaeden
Gul'Dan

The Zerg Overmind
Wesker
Goblez
Senator Armstrong
Tyrant 103
William Birkin
The Enclave
Kane
Shodan

 

[kpopSuperstar]

 

[Danjin44]

Louis from Metaphor: Refantazio

Honestly his my favourite villain for entire Atlus games.

I also really like Malos in Xenoblade 2

 

[TintoConCasera]

Honestly his my favourite villain for entire Atlus games.

Quite probably the best, yeah! They went to make "SMT Griffith" and imo succeeded with flying colors.

 

[Kuranghi]

What version of HL is this from?

 

[semiconscious]

creepy little fucker...