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For me, it would be GLaDOS.
Portal 2 spoiler
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?
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Frank Horrigan, that's who. U.S. Secret Service.
Look the number of times I've heard his voice lines has resulted in them being burned into my mind.
Michael Dorn did a bang up job voicing super mutants. Really glad they brought him back for Fallout: New Vegas. Too bad Marcus wasn't playable in NV.
Forest Whitaker as Jon Kavanaugh in "The Shield"
He made me so viscerally upset. I saw it almost two decades ago but I still remember how strongly I felt
Long John Silver from Treasure Island. The OG and best anti-hero and heel turn of any character.
Miss Havisham from Great Expectations . An textbook example of how to do capricious rot.
Baby Jane played by Bette Davis from 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?'. God I love Bette Davis.
Traitor General from the comic Rogue Trooper. Traitor General has been a wonderful bastard over the years.
Arthur 'Cody' Jarrett played by James Cagney from 'White Heat'.
Clarence Bodicker played by Kurtwood Smith from 'Robocop'. "Can you fly, Bobby?" 'Nuff said.
Daimyo Matsudaira Naritsugu played by Goro Inagaki in Takashi Miike's '13 Assassins'. Perfect psychotic aristo upheld by corrupt flunkeys who has no real conception of the effects of his actions.
Prince Nuada played by one of the Bros twins from 'Hellboy II'. So sympathetic. Team Prince Nuada all the way.
Syd played by Peter Mullan from 'Children of Men'. Syd refers to himself in the third person (An actual sign of psychopathy) and does not care about anyone else, not even the first pregnant woman in a decade..
Begbie played by Robert Carlyle from 'Trainspotting'. "Nae cunt leaves here til we find oot what cunt glassed yon lassie." Never mind that he threw the glass.
The Borg. I was terrified of them as a little kid.
Hex and Daemon from Reboot are both underrated. Hex has genius visual design for the limitations of the technology. And for a kids show, Daemon is very likable, which always makes a villain more compelling.
Warhammer 40k has too many good options to list. The entire ork faction is great, although one of my personal favorites is Grizgutz, an ork who accidentally travelled back in time, and decided to kill himself to steal an extra copy of his favorite gun. The Necrons are also fun, for their unlimited capacity for arrogance and pettiness.
Desty Nova from alita (Not the generic villain Norton played in the movie, the one from the comic).
What's so great about him is that he doesn't have any interest to rule or destroy, but he loves to set the stage for interesting happenings and watch them unravel. But he loves flan more.
ODETTE!
He ate my lunch, definitely not a nice guy, no sirree
Shepard Lambert in Would You Rather?, played by Jeffrey Combs.
Picking a Jeffrey Combs role is cheating though.
Okay, fine. Monster (2004)'s Johan Liebert.
hard not to love DIO. He's evil and he loves it
Tied between Handsome Jack and Javert. Both misunderstood in their own ways.
Premier Cherdenko. That studio knew what they needed, and got exactly the right man for the job.
The Nameless One. From PS:T.
A very practical person!
Wakfu Spoilers Ahead! Click At Your Own Risk!
I really like the season 4 villain Toross Mordal, probably more than most any other villain in media in general. Mostly for how badass he is despite how decrepit he looks. Also for how he rules over his people with basically an eternal regret that he can never fully feed them due to their infinite hunger.
I known the trope of the villain having power that is basically the opposite type as the heroes is probably overdone, but I really like how he has mastered stasis, the opposite force to the life force of wakfu. It makes for an interesting enough villain since this is a villain that actually cannot die, unlike every other villain we've seen up until season 4. He's had the time to master his skills since he never has death to worry about.
I also like how he kinda ends up making the main character Yugo temporarily skirt the idea of using stasis alongside with his wakfu in a final showdown. It makes me hope we get some more cool stasis stuff in season 5, but more of an exploratory "this is why you don't use stasis" kinda way. We'd have Toross to thank and blame for Yugo having to learn the consequences of Stasis and I would love to see that.
probably Junko Enoshima because she's so unmatchedly fucking bonkers batshit kookoo bananas unhinged insane but keeps it together just well enough to cause an apocalypse by shitposting really hard
