Most Despicable Villains in Video Gaming

[J.F.C]

This fucker. No explanation needed, if you played Yakuza 4 you'll know what i mean.

 

[Ian Naxieas]

Absolute dickhead this one.

Ooh, very good choice. LaCroix is such a sleazeball.

 

[HITMAN_99]

Porky Minch fron Earthbound, the guy is a absolute fucking douche and a slezeball, and i love to hate him, this motherfucker allied himself with the blue klan, and a lovecraftian monster just to get more power

 

[Egg (McMuffin) Man]

Goombas. I refuse to elaborate.

 

[Pi-Man]

This cheeky blighter right here. Kefka is a wimp compared to this evil.

I almost throw the zapper.

 

[CG4R12I4N]

Do I need to say more?

 

[trickybus]

The Elyrian Army from Pandora's Tower.

Spoiler

The Elyrian kingdom rolled up into a continent they felt entitled to, so they triggered a war that wiped out the native populace's home and forced everyone else to bend knee. During this Unification War, they experimented with magic and human sacrifice to create living vessels for their gods in the hopes of nuking anyone that opposed them; that failed and they ended up making 13 god-like monsters instead.

Hundreds of years later, the kingdoms that Elyria conquered are sick of their shit and want to leave, so the Elyrian army starts up the same experiments so they can once again use powerful monsters to genocide countries that refuse to submit.

Bonus Round: the first round of experiments created a massive, gaping chasm in the earth that requires chains to hold together, because the chasm—called 'The Scar'— is constantly growing wider. It threatens to literally tear the region apart and if that wasn't bad enough, it's heavily implied to be a portal to the underworld.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

The police in GTA games are the worst of all villains.

If you get caught your weapons get taken away.

If you die well you die (lose money)


They don't stop coming and never stop coming after you endless hordes of policemen , SWATs , FBI , and soldiers.

Exists only to make your life hard.

 

[SolemnlyDoc]

My favorite villain, Liquid Ocelot

 

[SLEDGE_DOG]

1. Backstabber
2. Mop flipper
3. Cockroach

Actually love how small scale of a villain Eric Sparrow is. Not trying to destroy the world, just an asshole who plagiarized a trick.

 

[Ian Naxieas]

My favorite villain, Liquid Ocelot

 

[HextarVigar]

This fucker. No explanation needed, if you played Yakuza 4 you'll know what i mean.View attachment 24793

...which is kind of ironic since you're playing a criminal - glass houses and all that.

 

[GardeniaSky]

Kefka from FFVI was pretty freaking bad.

 

[HextarVigar]

Kefka from FFVI was pretty freaking bad.

Kefka was insane, I'm not sure how much it counts.

 

[CG4R12I4N]

Emperor Mateus from Final Fantasy II is so despicable that it is honestly hilarious.

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During the course of the game, he tries to conquer the world but mostly just destroys every city he comes across, he builds a super weapon called The Dreadnought which he continues to destroy cities with, kidnaps the princess leading the resistance and makes her the prize of a battle tournament simply because he could, and he finally summons a large cyclone to continue to destroy the world until he finally dies.

He is also implied to have killed a ton of wyverns, his mother, and thousands of his own people. He also brainwashes people into his servitude.

But that's not all for the world's most despicable man. Apparently when his soul went to Hell, he managed to beat Satan in a fight because his heart was just that evil. He then returns to the world to, you guessed it, destroy everything.

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Even more absurd, the added content in the GBA release reveals that another half of his soul was sent to Heaven. Even though this part of him was good he still conquered Heaven and killed God.

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No matter what, he is just evil. Despicable at every turn. His goals are only destruction and conquest. 10/10, all those other Final Fantasy villains like Sephiroth or Ardyn Izunia wish they had as good of writing as The Emperor.

This guy is the peak FF villain of all time and singlehandedly contributed greatly to why FFII is considered the worst mainline FF and probably one of the worst JRPGs. The amount of bad writing to justify giving this guy the plot is honestly hilarious beyond belief. Nobody could ever come close.

 

[HextarVigar]

Seymour Guado. Effectively genocides the Ronso for getting in his way and because he didn't like them, killed most of the Al Bhed for close to the same reason, hypocritically allows machina to be used in a battle against Sin, knowing it wouldn't work and basically turning his mother into a demon he has on a leash.

 

[Tezca]

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Seymour Guado. Effectively genocides the Ronso for getting in his way and because he didn't like them, killed most of the Al Bhed for close to the same reason, hypocritically allows machina to be used in a battle against Sin, knowing it wouldn't work and basically turning his mother into a demon he has on a leash.

His biggest crime: That hair. He's the reason women across Spira can't buy hair gel.

 

[miguk]

The Xenoblade series has some real jerks for villains, to put it lightly (spoilers ahead):

• Spoiler: spoiler for Xenoblade Chronicles

  Zanza (Xenoblade Chronicles) ① cannibalized dead humanoids to make himself immortal, ② tried to keep humanoid advancement down to prevent them from trying space travel, ③ performed countless genocides at no more than the mere mention of space travel, ④ declared war on a whole non-humanoid people because they considered helping the humanoids with space travel, ⑤ killed Shulk's parents while Shulk was a child just to give himself an easy way of getting out of prison, ⑥ had his right-hand man raise Shulk as a son while preparing to literally shoot him in the back at the right opportunity, ⑦ genocided Melia's people just to make a bigger genocide easier, ⑧ and left Melia traumatized (though she recovers in The Definitive Edition). Oh, and did I mention this guy really hates space travel?
• Spoiler: spoiler for Xenoblade X

  The Ganglion (Xenoblade X) blew up the Earth and killed off the vast majority of humanity on the off-chance that they might be a threat to them. Keep in mind that humanity had no clue these guys existed, as they were living somewhere off on the other side of the universe where humankind had no technological way of ever finding them. Likewise, not only did the humans have no clue what their weakness was, but once they didn't have that on-hand, the Ganglion still tried to wipe them out again on the off-chance that they might regain the ability to potentially threaten them. Oh, and they in-canon wiped out the last remaining recordings of The Simpsons (as well as a large portion of the rest of humanity's intellectual property).
• Spoiler: spoiler for Xenoblade 2

  Amalthus (Xenoblade 2) ① hates humanity because his life sucked, ② goes crazy because Space God didn't show up when he wanted to talk to him, ③ kidnaps Space Jesus and turns him insane just to make him match up with his views, ④ declares war on humanity, ⑤ kills the Sky Pope so he can replace him and ban anyone from having the power to fight back, ⑥ kills all of the people of Torna in an attempt to just kill Mythra, ⑦ and hates the power of friendship. (Note that the heroes of Xenoblade 2 are pretty bad too, and in some ways worse than the villains, but that's probably not in the spirit of this thread to go over.)

 

[Ian Naxieas]

The Xenoblade series has some real jerks for villains, to put it lightly (spoilers ahead):

• Spoiler: spoiler for Xenoblade Chronicles

  Zanza (Xenoblade Chronicles) ① cannibalized dead humanoids to make himself immortal, ② tried to keep humanoid advancement down to prevent them from trying space travel, ③ performed countless genocides at no more than the mere mention of space travel, ④ declared war on a whole non-humanoid people because they considered helping the humanoids with space travel, ⑤ killed Shulk's parents while Shulk was a child just to give himself an easy way of getting out of prison, ⑥ had his right-hand man raise Shulk as a son while preparing to literally shoot him in the back at the right opportunity, ⑦ genocided Melia's people just to make a bigger genocide easier, ⑧ and left Melia traumatized (though she recovers in The Definitive Edition). Oh, and did I mention this guy really hates space travel?

That is a very good choice.

Spoiler: Xenoblade Chronicles

Mumkhar/Metal Face pissed me off more though. His actual accomplishments were very little, he was just a gross coward who died like a bitch. Nowhere near as bad as your example, but still a giant piece of shit.

 

[Jeff]

Malos from Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I just want to punch this jerk so much for what he did to Pyra/Mythra, Nia and Rex.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

Obligatory low-hanging fruit:

Also, those goddamn Ninja Gaiden NES birds:

 

[fudanshiki]

I have a massive hate boner for I-No from Guilty Gear series.
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I don't know if i would try to save the world and defeat her or become her personal slave. She certainly did so many messed up disturbing stuff, i can understand people who despise her.

Also, "You have outlived your usefulness" Colonel himself:
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He almost never appears, but always manages to make me hate him so goddamn much, even more because how similar to so many real life people he acts, i hate manipulative all-powerful jerks in media

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Never got really angry at it. It's not like it has any real understanding of what it does, just tries to simulate it, it's just a broken bugged machine that is too absurdly powerful. I think it's existence is more humanity fault than anything. The whole story feels more like mankind playing "fuck around and find out" and finally finding out very hard(we might be next beware!!!!)

Yeah, I-no's a real biznatch.

Which is why I make it my life goal to ruin every I-No's game whenever we match.

...and I also have a confirmed RQ record of 7 vs. Bridget players, 4 vs. Slayer players, 8 vs. Elphelt players...

...can I add myself as a villain?

 

[goregoregoregoregoregore]

Yeah, I-no's a real biznatch.

Which is why I make it my life goal to ruin every I-No's game whenever we match.

...and I also have a confirmed RQ record of 7 vs. Bridget players, 4 vs. Slayer players, 8 vs. Elphelt players...

...can I add myself as a villain?

Bridget? Absolute villain, if it's +R Bridget i will report you to FGC authorities right now
If it's Strive Slayer i can't judge you
If it's Xrd Elphelt i can see why too

 

[thanonyx]

Kefka Palazzo

He's basically The Joker with magic.

 

[Ian Naxieas]

Which is why I make it my life goal to ruin every I-No's game whenever we match.

...and I also have a confirmed RQ record of 7 vs. Bridget players, 4 vs. Slayer players, 8 vs. Elphelt players...

...can I add myself as a villain?

Hmm. I'm not too familiar with Guilty Gear, but if this I-No is a baddie and you ruin their day whenever possible, it sounds heroic to me. You'll have to send a resume detailing your villainous actions for further review.

Kefka Palazzo

He's a classic. I think he's my favorite villain in the Final Fantasy series too. Well, hmm, there are others I like a lot as well, but they don't belong in this topic.