Favorite video game villains?

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I'm curious. Does anyone besides me like some of the villains from video games? If so, tell me who they are, and why you like them!

Here are some of my favorites:

*Garland (Dissidia Final Fantasy) - I read the Cosmos reports, and from those, I found out how sad his past was... Plus, he's REALLY strong. And that voice is epic!

*Golbez (Final Fantasy IV) - Not such a bad guy once freed from what bound him to evil. Dissidia and the sequel to FFIV show that he truly cares about Cecil.

*Bosch 1/64 (Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter) - I found his story (and his death) sad. He let jealousy consume him. Plus, I liked how you could play as him at the beginning of the game.

Baby Bowser from Mario Party 2. That stupid dance he does always cracks me up for some reason.

Dark Link from The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time.

King K. Rool from Donkey Kong 64. What a doofus. But that laugh scared the crap out of me as a kid, like made me pee myself. The Wallmaster from Ocarina of Time was a little scarier though.

Star Wolf. Can't let you do that, Star Fox!

Demon Lord Ghirahim(The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword) - For once, it's not Ganon as the main villain in a Zelda game. A very mysterious and sadist villain that i was not expecting for a Zelda game.

The shake king(Wario Land: Shake it) - A fat greedy viking that in the end has dragon ball Z like powers, awesome!

Yuri(Red Alert 2) - A creepy looking guy that can mind control anyone he wants. He still creeps me out.

Doom Cyberdemon. Not sure what his story was, but he was scary at the time

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I don't think he really had a story. Just a mindless killer
The Cyberdemon is the most powerful enemy in doom 1 but oddly enough he is not the boss of the final episode (3). I guess it's because the Spiderdemon Mastermind looked more impressive. The Spiderdemon is such a wimp that you can actually take him down in 1 BFG shot.

How could I ever forget Baby Bowser's stupid dance? That dance is hilarious!

Senator Steven Armstrong (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (a word in my dictionary)).

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Why? All I need to say is his battle theme and his funding for harvesting kid brains to make cyborg warriors. It's horrifying, and shocking. Plus "Nanomachines, son" and his view of America, and his epic battle with or without a Metal Gear. (Yes, you fight MG Ray twice and MG Excelus) before murdering him.
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Most definitely Shodan. System Shock 2. Her alternating between kind and sympathetic to jarringly psychotic set me on edge. Shodan terrified me. She contributed, largely, to the atmosphere that made System Shock 2 so damn terrifying. She's hard to describe. They kind of tried the same approach with Fontaine from Bioshock, but it wasn't the same. He just came off as a thug, albeit a smart one. Shodan was brilliant. She plays you like a fiddle. She's a true sociopath, and you're the rat in her maze, running to and fro for her amusement. However, there are times when her psychosis breaks, just a bit. And that makes her all the more terrifying. You have no way out, and your only companion in this hell is The Red Queen on Acid and Steroids.

Otherwise, let's see...

Sarah Kerrigan, of course, from Starcraft. Such an amazing and tragic character. It's hard to fight her, knowing that deep inside the Queen of Blades is a good woman, and one that you get to know throughout the first game.

From Warcraft, Arthas Menethil. They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and no one embodies this like Arthas. He's a likable young ruler who genuinely cares about his people when we meet him, and his descent into madness is even worse in that it is you carrying out his atrocities. Stratholme... damn... Runners-up include Medivh and Garona.

GLaDOS, Portal. She's great. It's like Shodan, except instead of deeply psychopathic and absolutely terrifying, she's cracked, random, and still pretty scary. She's also one of the few schizophrenic, tyrannical computers that I kinda felt sorry for as I was killing her.

The Monolith/Chernobyl N.P.P./The Zone - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. You might not agree with a geographic area being considered a villain, but personally, I have never learned to fear and respect an enemy as much as I did The Zone and it's inhabitants. The Zone wants you dead, if it wants anything. Barely perceptible anomalies, radiation, packs of monsters, crazy cultists, a bad economy, scarce ammo... Nothing has stuck with me as much as moving through an anomaly-infested and radioactive garbage heap, praying that I didn't hit a heavy rad pocket, throwing screws ahead of myself to set off anomalies, all for the sake of finding one artifact to sell to get a rad suit. The Zone isn't an enemy that you fight, in the classic sense. It's a mutually abusive relationship. You learn to work with it, to use it, to exploit it. And in return, it tries to kill you. If Shodan weren't so good, this would be at the top of my list.

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I couldn't live with myself if I didn't include Hugh Darrow from Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I find myself favoring Sarif's philosophy the most, and I'm not a fan of Taggert. However, Darrow would not just control people. His method for terrifying people into banning augmentation is to control people, literally take control of their augs through a virus. He turns them against their friends and family, causes worldwide chaos, for no reason other than the fact that he disagreed with augmentation, and that he thought he was smarter and his opinion more important than everyone else. It wasn't that he didn't trust people to see the danger of augmentation. His narcissism led him to need to be the one who showed them. And so many people had to die to sate his neurosis.

Nothing will ever, EVER top my first time seeing/hearing "The Great Mighty Poo" from Conker's Bad Fur Day.

-Vergil from DMC 3 - He's just badass.

-Kain from all the Legacy of Kain games - He doesn't think he's a villain. But he's a kick-ass, not your usual vampire armed with a kick-ass sword, the Soul Reaver. Plus he's voiced by the awesome Simon Templeman.

- Doviculus from Brütal Legend - Tim Curry voicing a bondage loving demon in a video game about metal and rock? Yes, please.

Hmm, who else...

The Illusive Man was a bit of a bastard In Mass Effect 2.

Varesh Ossa in Guild Wars: Nightfall was satisfying to bring down.

Skavak in the smuggler storyline in Star Wars: The Old Republic. I first encountered him in one of the early weekend betas and I waited months to deal with that jerk.

Freddy Beoumont in The Secret World. Also a jerk.

Despite the final boss fight being lackluster, from a story perspective BioShock was great and had a good villain.

How could I forget this one! The Great Mighty Poo is the greatest video game villain ever.

I have to do this. This is the censored version for the kiddies...
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How did i ever forget this one!?

The game itself was full of f*cked up characters.