This ought to be fun and seperate the men from the boys in regards to the last option.
A fun game for Sunday after this weird week, inspired by a crazy ski masked rapper and a livestream I watched yesterday
I'll put 3 categories of villain for you to choose from, and also note I said favourite not greatest so you can't hide behind killcount, effectiveness or effect they still had on society now. In rising spiciness, the choices are:
Favourite gaming villain
Favourite media villain so can be anime or western media
Favourite historical villain
And since I suggested it I'll go first:
Gaming villain: Kane from C&C franchise, he was a mastermind with style and in the 3rd game played EVERYONE to win in the end
Media Villain: Demiurge from Overlord series, despite putting himself as number 2 behind the MC, the actual mastermind of the series, from 'happy farms' to his 'majestic weapon', you want evil look this guy up
Historical villain: I could be a wuss and say Vlad the Impaler or someone similar but let's go with someone very spicy, Shiro Ishii. Why him? Because after ALL the atrocities he committed for his 'scientific experiments' in Unit 731, he not only got away with it after the war but got military medals for it, pardoned and paid $200k by the Americans in exchange for his research and is responsible for a lot of the true vaccines we use today.
So anyone want to play?
Irenicus from Baldur's Gate 2 (2000), voiced by David Warner who died earlier this year in July.
David Xanatos from Gargoyles (1994), voiced by Jonathan Frakes. Origin of the 'Xanatos Gambit' trope.
Favourite historical villain
Not that I think he is one, he's just that ingrained in so many people's heads it's all they can think about and it's not even limited to Americans. I've known people in the UK who cannot go a single day without bringing him up in some way or another. He hasn't been POTUS for almost 3 years and he's still the first thing many think about when they wake up, the last thing they think of before sleeping, and likely what they dream about. Rent. Fucking. Free.
I chose Shiro Ishii than someone like Trump as Trump is more a 'perspective villain' in that in terms of actions, Obama is a bigger villain and it's only because he's 'on the other side' they even consider him a villain living in their heads.
It has less basis than calling Emperor Hadrian a villain for giving us Syria/Palestine...
Though you make a good point, I chose Shiro Ishii as with them pushing 'vaccines' so hard, I love reminding people where the most effective ones came from.
This was my second choice for gaming villain. David Warner's performance really sells the character in a way that the script alone would never pull off. A fantastic showing in an absolute masterpiece of a game. A+, 10/10.
I tune out the story by the time I get to the normal Elf village and am superpowered, but it seemed like those Elves were kind of real dicks.
Main character is the spawn of a demon, goes around slaughtering whole races (like that lizard tribe after the mage prison), is mercenary, and Machiavellian like when you set up the Drow leader for eternal damnation just for fun instead of just stealing the dragon egg back.
I'm not sure Irenicus is the bad guy. Isn't he just doing what it takes to stop those horrible Elves that screwed him over?
Holy shit, no.
First off the main character is the spawn of an actual god, specifically Bhaal, Lord of Murder. Demons would be a massive downgrade here.
The Drow are 99.999% an evil race. We're talking full on moustache twirling sadists here. Betraying the Matriarch in that moment is not only the best thing you can do to remove a threat to the silver dragon whose eggs the Drow had stolen, but also to cripple that city for however long by causing so much chaos they won't be going on any raids for the foreseeable future while they all try to kill each other. There is a single Drow in the entire city who isn't evil and you get told to go kill him by his ex because she's bored of him.
He's that power hungry he literally tries to become a god. Twice.
The reason the elves "screwed him over" is because after being coerced by his sister Bodhi for so long Irenicus tried to tap into the Divine power of the Tree of Life and supplant the existing Elvish pantheon of gods. The first time he was stopped and this is what gets him stripped of his immortality and renamed "Irenicus, the Shattered One". The punishment was expected to eventually be fatal however he steals the main character's Divine soul which stabilises the condition. Bodhi was similarly punished but turned to vampirism as a means of avoiding her death. She gets the Divine soul of another Bhaalspawn however is slain prior to the showdown with Irenicus and because of her vampiric nature didn't "connect" with her stolen soul in the same way as her brother manages. When Bodhi dies the stolen soul simply returns, however after defeating Irenicus at the Tree of Life both he and the main character die and end up in Hell for a final confrontation over who gets the soul.
Irenicus is completely unrepentant about his first attempt to become a god that he spends his intended final years trying to extend his own life so he can get revenge on the elves who punished him then try again.
Dragons will kill you for just looking at them wrong. Better to set a bunch of spike traps to kill the dragon and hatch its egg as your battle pet.
But regardless, the 'best' thing you can do is go in and slaughter all the Drow. I mean they're evil right? Except that's some Anakin Skywalker shit and even he knew it wasn't right to fight evil with evil.
He just wants to level up, same as main character. Wanting to improve yourself isn't evil.
Wow, it's like you literally never played the game.