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?
Gaming villain: Infel of AT2. Because she's overtly a genocidal maniac villain, but the game makes sure you're clearly aware that she believes everything she is doing is right and proper, and not only that, the game makes sure you're aware that... She's right. Her plan would indeed work. And she's been helping you throughout the entire game, even right up until entering that final boss room, knowing you're against her, she'll still help you, because she acknowledges that our method would ALSO work, but just be much less effective long-term, it's a stopgap measure, but that you as a party are not evil, you're just opposed to her for professional differences.
Media Villain: His Noble Majesty Lelouch vi Brittannia. No one in media is quite as far gone as he is. He kills hundreds millions, and they make sure you KNOW it, that the weight of those weigh on both the audience, and on himself. None of this delusional Thanos "I did a great job, time to farm" stuff, he HATES what he is, but does it out of what he believes to be evil by necessity. And he succeeds, which to me is an important element of villainy. Ineffectual villainy is just comic relief.
Historical Villain: Yakub Shabazz. "Historical" is a tricky category, but I believe he qualifies, as at least a few million people believe he really exists and did the things he did. As to what he did... Why, he made us. The historical records of the Nation Of Islam highlight the tale of Yukub of the tribe Shabazz as a mad scientist who through using grafting, selective breeding, and magnets, created "white people" as the ultimate weapons of destruction and hatred to curse the world. White People were so evil, so purpose-built to lie and deceive and destroy, that Moses had to blast most of them away with dynamite, but a few survived, and spread, and took over much of the world with their "tricknology" powers. A historical mad scientist, who is just absolutely nutty in his tale's recounting. I have to laugh every time his historical record and the origin of the caucasian human sub-species is brought up. Since he brings so much joy, he has to be my favorite.
The Nation of Islam thinks whites are so superior that they had to come up with a story about whites being genetically engineered to be superior just to explain it.
Excellent pick for your media villain, I do prefer the manipulator characters, both hero and villain in these kinds of stories