For me, it would be GLaDOS.
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She deleted the one remaining human part of herself because it was just too much to deal with. She releases you at the end of Portal 2 as a path of least resistance measure because “killing you is hard.”
What about you, what is your favorite media villain?
David Robert Jones.
There’s just something so classy about this guy, and he does the coolest stuff.
yessssss
Your favourite media villain
Easy answer: Rupert Murdoch
Australia’s most embarrassing export
Followed by Ken Hamm
And Nicole Kidman is awful, she’s friends with Murdoch
It’s actually why I listed the James Bond villain Elliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies because he was an analogue for Murdoch, a media magnate who wanted to control the world through disinformation. It was a prescient character, because that was still during 1997, long before FOX News had become the danger it actually is. Yet Carver is pretty on-the-nose for what actually ended up happening and we didn’t have a James Bond to save us.
I think Carver was a mixture of Murdoch and Maxwell. He certainly received Maxwells death.
absolutely!
Here are the test results: You’re a horrible person. That’s what it says. A horrible person. We weren’t even testing for that.
Blaine from iZombie. He’s 100% bastard, and the show tries to humanise him by showing us origins and “how could he be any different” and so on, but he’s always great on screen.
There’s something genuinely compelling about SHODAN.
They’re malignant, objective evil, yet when they talk about their goals and ambitions, they seem almost benevolent, which makes them even more unsettling.
It’s like something telling you to calm down while it’s sawing off your legs to replace them with mechanical versions because it’s “improving you”.
You didn’t ask to be improved.
“Look at you hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors.”
Has a similar feeling to Mark Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger
Similarly, the cybermen just want to upgrade everyone.
SHODAN introduced my prepubescent brain to the concept of being “scaroused”.
Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg. He’s a monster.
Fire one million
The only right answer.
the swarm from stanisław lems “invincible” (not the invincible show, this is a completly unrelated sci fi novel) (also the swarm is not really a villian its more like defending its territory
One of my favorites as an adult, and one that scared the living shit outta me as a kid. Jude Doom from who framed Roger Rabbit.
Me reading these comments:
Sorry I had to
His superiority complex is tangible
Sadavir Errinwright from The Expanse
Loved that its not just evil for no reason
He actually has a goal I can sympathize with
I feel like in the TV Portrayal at least, its like I can feel like he actually does kinda care about Earth…
in his own fucked up way, but still…
Honestly, he was such an amazing boss
But Homer! On your way out if you want to kill somebody, you would help me a lot.
Hammocks? My goodness, what an idea!
Ever seen a man yell at his shoes?
Heh heh, yeah once…
Silco from Arcane.
I often struggle with media villains, finding them unrealistic or unconvincing, but Silco is just so well-rounded and well-written, he elevates the quality of every other character he interacts with. In a series full of near- and actually-superpowered people, this weak, middle-aged man is the most terrifying and influential of them all.
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His absence from season two is one of the reasons why it flops compared to season one; Ambessa and Viktor are good characters, but weak villains.
I feel like everyone is a villain in that series.
And I think that’s because everyone is very well written and has a full profile rather than being one-or-two dimensional good/evil.
Gul Dukat was the better villain in my eyes. At least he was way more interesting than Kai Winn.
i like weyoun he sorta trolls siskos but is a serious vorta.
My vote as well.
He constantly finds the piece of humanity within whoever hes talking to and then tries to manipulate it.
Its hard to top Gul Dukat.
The great thing about Dukat is that he frequently finds his own humanity. You keep thinking that this time he’ll do the right thing and start his path to redemption, but he never does. He always chooses to do the wrong thing even though there’s clearly good in him and you’re always disappointed and even surprised when it happens. He’s like the anti-Zuko.
They’re both excellent at being different kinds of evil.
Winn is prideful and ambitious above all else. She sides with good and evil both at different times in service to her own goals. She deludes herself into believing anything that pursuit of personal power is also what serves Bajor.
Winn commits evil in service to her ambitions.
Dukat has the same vices, but with added elements of narcissism and wrath. He briefly tries being good, and almost reaches it when he finds genuine love for and from his daughter, but when his actions lead to her death he lashes out at the universe and becomes entirely consumed by wrath and megalomania.
Dukat’s ambition in the end is to commit evil.
I am looking for the like and subscribe buttons for this long-form video essay dissecting Star Trek antagonists, but I don’t see any. 😉
It’s been ages I saw a ytp and I never was quite the fan, but this right there is a fucking masterpiece.
I was about to just check it and ended up watching the whole thing.
“Attention bajoran workers! My wife left me” had me wheezing.
Sexcellent
The Quark “Nice Cock” poster almost made me ruin my monitor with water.
I think the counter to that is that:
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they completely dropped the ball with her toward the end of the show. She went from, I think, a great allegory for a religious radical right wing capitalizing off her people’s suffering but in a way she could genuinely warp her beliefs into thinking was for the greater good…
… to, I mean, come on… Having her go totally crazed with power and disavowing the Prophets wasn’t the problem; it’s that it was stupid, egregiously paced, totally unearned MacGuffin power without grounded stakes that only served to make an already-rushed resolution to the show feel even more rushed.
rip Nurse rachette.
The Goat. Simply evil.
No, the guy she was boning was.
