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?
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
SHODAN introduced my prepubescent brain to the concept of being “scaroused”.
Similarly, the cybermen just want to upgrade everyone.
David Robert Jones.
There’s just something so classy about this guy, and he does the coolest stuff.
yessssss
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.
absolutely!
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…
Kilgrave in Jessica Jones
Jesicaaaaaaaaaaa
if for no other reason than to have a bit of a different answer:
Raboniel from Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
Her interaction with Navani made for some VERY good chapters
Incredible character, always had me guessing at her true motives and alignments. RoW was just an amazing installment in the series
“What a fool you are. I’m a god. How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence. How could you be so naive? There is no escape. No Recall or Intervention can work in this place. Come. Lay down your weapons. It is not too late for my mercy.” - Dagoth Ur in Morrowind
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.
The Borg. I was terrified of them as a little kid.
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
Naraku, hes basically a troll that is also malevolent, oddly although he despises humans most of his goals dont harm them directly through out the series until the very end when hes get desperate, as he never targets humans directly unlike most other demons, or his own incarnation which he ends up killing to prevent them from interfering. or if you want to dig a little deeper, the shikon jewel is an amoral villian, sacrifices any user who made wishes to keep itself alive. hes a complex characther, he has much more contempt for demons than humans, eventhough he hates humans, but has not alright vindictiveness like he has against inuyash and his gang going on unless they gets in his way.
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.
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.
Me reading these comments:
Sorry I had to
His superiority complex is tangible
