Favorite Game Villains - My ArchdruidContest Entry

in #archdruidcontest6 years ago (edited)
Ah~ Video games. I play them for as long as I can remember. So naturally, I have a long list of Game Villains who I found interesting through my life.

Then I saw the announcement for
Game Villains Contest by @archdruid.

At first, I asked myself what are the villains of my childhood and teenage years? What are the games I played at the time? I took a trip in my memories. TEKKEN 3's Ogre. Digimon World's Analogman, Megaman X's Sigma, the T-Rex of Dino Crisis & Resident Evil 3 Nemesis.

I decided to more than one Villain in this post.
So, here we go:


WARNING: Spoliers
I'm doing more than one game this time.
Images are not spoilers so avoid the game you don't want to read about.


DanganRonpa's [ Mastermind ]

Monokuma the new headmaster of Hope's Peak academy traps the students into a game of death. To get out one has to kill a fellow classmate and get away with it in the subsequent trial. That's the setting of the visual novel DanganRonpa.

After his defeat in DanganRonpa1,
he returns in DR2 more powerful than ever!

Monokuma check's all the right points for a villain: Evil, silly, adorable and unkillable. The one behind Monokuma in DanganRonpa 1 & 2 is a very interesting villain.

The mastermind behind Monokuma takes the crown as one of the evilest characters of all time. As you play through DanganRonpa 1 & 2 you get a glimpse of "the most tragic incident." Only in the finale anime, we found out how she single-handedly sunk the world into the depth of despair.

The mastermind's best scene, however, is the scene just before her death. You know how amazing she is after you see the gruesome way she dies and it clicks on your mind: She put her defeat into consideration. She wanted to feel the Despair she let all of the world especially hope's peak students feel.

Truely a despairful villain.


LavosFirstForm

Chrono Trigger's [ Lavos ]

Chrono Trigger is THE Favorite game for many people, but I don't think its main villain is... Lavos, in my opinion, is one of the best villains in gaming because we don't know about him from words but from his actions that span more than 65 Million years!

Lavos was the one who gave the humans the power to use Magic (even though they lost it by the main characters time,) so they could become strong enough to eat them after millions of the years, see that? Now tell me about another villain who made such long-term investment.

On the gameplay side, Lavos doesn't disappoint. His shell alone takes long to fight as after each defeat, he changes his battle style into ones similar to previous bosses of the game. Lavos boss battle is hard one like he is in the world of Chrono Trigger franchise.

a235sexydp.jpg
Lavos/Time Devourer in Chrono Cross

I also loved his appearance in Chrono Cross, angry at his defeat to Chrono Trigger's main cast he merges with Schala creating a new being. Time Devourer, the final boss of Chrono Cross won't stop until it destroys all the time-space. Luckily the main cast of that game succeeds in stopping him.


image

The Walking Dead's [ Carver ]

Carver is my favorite non-main character of The Walking Dead franchise. He's so charismatic, confident and cunning. Good at leadership and experienced tracker.

He believes that in the post-apocalyptic world of TWD, only the strong-willed deserves to live. He built a community of such people and he's ready to defend it with all his might.

Image

What makes Carver my favorite is that he stood for his belief until the end. Taunting the main character(s) and stressing that they're not so different from him. That in time they'll become like, if not worse than him because they won't survive otherwise.

Admittally, I can see that happening.
He's human. Anyone can turn into him given the right circumstances.



Final Thoughts

I could go on and on about game villains whose story, actions or personality caught my attention and made me love/hate them.

I was going to write about that one evil character of Life is Strange, but the mystery of his identity played a lot part of the game so I talked about TWD's Carver instead. I also wanted to talk about Golbez but decided that one Square-Enix villain is enough.

So, what do you think?

Did you like this post? What are your favorite villains, tell me about them and take part in #ArchdruidContest!



Cover image is made using images from here, here and here.
DanganRonpa's monokuma images are taken from the steam page of DR2. | Lavos image is taken from the wiki, as well as Time devourer image. | TWD2's Carver screenshot are from this video thumbnails.
Sort:  

Congratulations Steemian! Because you have created excellent content, you have received an upvote from us!

We represent STEEMPUNK-NET, the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game on STEEMIT. Meet other Clockwork Fighters our server!

STEEMPUNKNET Discord

If you dare, step into the Clockwork Arena and test your skills against other Steemians.

Do you want profit and still be helpful?
Delegate some SteemPower to @steempunknet :
[50] [100] [200] [500] [1000]



This post has been rated by the user-run curation platform CI! In this platform users are able to manually curate content. This is done regardless of Steem Power, for both rewards and vote size calculation.

Join in at our site here!
https://collectiveintelligence.red/

Or join us on discord to interact with the community!
https://discord.gg/sx6dYxt



This post was submitted for curation by: @theironfelix
This post was given a rating of: 0.23700185397458742
This post was voted: 0%

UwU ~ DanganRonpa. Anyways, loved the post, the descriptors, the little dividers and the effort poured into this post. Upvot'd and resteem'd.
Coolio.gif

Thanks for reading, upvoting, resteem and acknowledging the effort I made in this.

Hmmmm... I'm still trying to think of game villains... I still haven't thought of anything decent yet! But good picks from you! Carver... definitely would be on the top of the list!

Yeah, Carver is one of the best antagonists, his death made the parts of the story after him seem dull... I wish he stayed for more episodes.

I think you had a really good roundup of villains my dude! I liked you talking of Monokuma and Carver specifically because it's not like these villains have any magic powers; In terms of Monokuma, I know how evil that character can get to be, but it really drives the player and the characters to keep striving and searching for the solutions to the problems he presents the characters with. But when we're talking about someone like Carver, the discussion stops being about how evil or how powerful can someone get; He's still a human and he has traversed a path that has led him to this point and attitude... Who even knows if we could end up like him in a similar setting like that?

Thanks for reading!

In terms of Monokuma, I know how evil that character can get to be, but it really drives the player and the characters to keep striving and searching for the solutions to the problems he presents the characters with.

Yeah, Monokuma always present to the characters solvable mysteries, he gives them hope just to snatch it away later.

But when we're talking about someone like Carver, the discussion stops being about how evil or how powerful can someone get;

Carvar is really a man who just wanted his people to survive, I love that about him.

Congratulations, this post was rewarded with a SteemGC Upvote!

Want to meet fellow Steemit gamers and earn upvotes yourself? Join the SteemGC Discord channel!

Your outstanding gaming content has caught our eyes and is rewarded with an upvote. Please visit our page @steemgg to learn more about Steemgg, the first html5 gaming platform built on the Steem Blockchain.

Your post was upvoted by the @archdruid gaming curation team in partnership with @curie to support spreading the rewards to great content. Join the Archdruid Gaming Community at https://discord.gg/nAUkxws. Good Game, Well Played!

Coin Marketplace

STEEM 0.17
TRX 0.15
JST 0.027
BTC 60678.52
ETH 2339.38
USDT 1.00
SBD 2.48