Top Ten Worst Video Game Villains

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Fun fact - in Pokemon's manga, the energy crisis IS actually imminent, and though he pulls the whole '1000 years from now' line there too, it's revealed that it was him playing the villain because he wanted to solve it as soon as possible. He knows damn well it's a horrible plan, but he's more than willing to take the fall for pulling it off because in a few more years, there wouldn't be any more power - and society would be ripping itself apart. Yeah, it's stupid how he did it - but at least the manga pulls it off better than the games ever did.

For every Heath Ledger’s Joker, we get a Jared Leto, Villains in stories always leave an impression on the characters and viewers, some good, some terrible, these represent the latter.

I will always maintain that there’s nothing wrong with making a villain evil for the sake of it. But good writers know to make up for the lack of depth with entertainment. These villains must bring a certain degree of energy and personality to their actions. Great writers give both depth and entertainment factor to their villains, and that’s what makes them great. That’s why one of my top 3 is Handsome Jack

Swordward and Shielbert are still the absolute worst excuses for Pokemon villains ever and nothing can convince me otherwise.

To be a little fair to Xehanort, from what I've read, part of his motivation issue was the result of a mistranslation between Japanese and English. His goal in the English version where he wants to bring "balance" to Light and Dark? In the original Japanese version of 3, his goal was ACTUALLY to restart the whole world from scratch to end the war of Light and Dark entirely. I'm guessing something got lost in translation, hence the goal we got in the English version.

38:06 No, our player character wasn't Xehanort. We were led to believe that initially, but the end of Dark Road shows that our player character reincarnated into the elder who RAISED Xehanort on Destiny Islands

Villains tend to be fascinating with a good backstory, motivation, or just being a very good at being bad job mentality. Not to mention they have to be memorable for the right reasons. When they're not however it ruins the emersion whether they too cliche or just boring overall.

You know Sly 4 screwed up when a fanfic author pulled off it better than a whole team of writers! Paradox has a time machine; so therefor he can blackmail all his employees into submission by threatening to go back in time and murder someone they love. Therefor make Penelope a tragic villain forced to fight the love of her life to keep him from dying on the operating table.

Josh, the ending of Dark Road clarifies that Xehanort isn't us but the person who took him from his mother and looked after him on Destiny Islands until dying rather unceremoniously. Because Xehanort says he has dreams of our character and then makes the comment that the person in the robe looks like them.

To be fair to Rose, he is FAR better in the manga. He loves galar to the point that even if it's 1000 years in the future he still wants to help the future generations in the problem. Hell, he even confronted and fought Eternatus HIMSELF after the first plan with those two noble jerks failed. Even after he turned himself in he had Oleana and his people support the heroes with the problem. EDIT: Read more of the Manga and apparently it wasn't that it would collapse in 1000 in years, it would already be over by then because Galarian society would collapse in 20-30 YEARS! In 1000 ALL of humans and pokemon would be destroyed. Since they beat Eternatus and are now able to get more energy, HE WAS ACTUALLY F**KING RIGHT! HIS PLAN TO SAVE GALAR WORKED!

Back during the build-up to Sword and Shield’s release, I had my own predictions for how the Rose villain twist could’ve happened. It revolves around the whole Pokémon League was corrupted by money. All they care about isn’t the battles themselves, but more so the profits they own from the publicity and sponsorships. Leon is mentioned everywhere that he’s “The Undefeatable Champion”. That’s his brand, the identity that has earned him many sponsorships and money for the league, as shown by his cape literally coated in sponsors. And as a result Rose may have paid off previous challengers to intentionally lose and allow Leon to keep his title. Leon wouldn’t have been aware of this however, inflating his ego and giving Hop a fake hero to look up to. Spikemuth would’ve had a reason as to why it’s so run down and poor. Its lack of a Dynamax spot makes its battles uninteresting to the league. I mean, how can they bring in a crowd compared to the other cities? So all the league’s funding and publicity goes elsewhere, and the lack of tourism for Spikemuth caused it to crumble and do what it could to get by. With just a motivational change, not only could Rose improve as a villain significantly, but everyone else gets more interesting arcs as a result. Hop has to deal with his perfect brother being a fraud. Leon feels guilty for being used and goes to prove that he can be a real champion without Rose. Marnie has a sympathetic and rootable reason to go against Rose and resent him. And maybe the game can have an ending where someone (I’m not sure who) works to take over the league from scratch and work to fix Rose’s greedy mistakes and run true honest Pokémon battles. Heck it even works with the sports theme because corruption in important soccer matches where people are paid off DOES happen! Why didn’t this happen again??

What makes Heldalf hilarious is that Berseria takes Zesteria's story, turns it on it's head, and makes the "shepherd" a way better villain.

"Lorithia, what are your thoughts on universal healthcare?" "You will pay for your insulin."

One thing I want to say is that Tsumugi's actions in the last trial in V3 were not the reason the outside world chose to end the killing games it was Shuichi's rebellion against the killing game and convincing the others not to vote and him directly countering the outside world controlling Kibo that made them change

Ever notice how often there’s an obvious fix to make a villain good?

Tsumugi could’ve been much better if she was like Kaede— genuinely helpful and supporting, only to pull the rug at the last minute to reveal it was all an act. The idea that one of the survivors is the mastermind had SO MUCH potential.

My money is on The Calypso Twins from Borderlands 3. With so much potential of not only being Sirens, but being the twin children of the first vault hunter, their personalities came off as cringy, annoying, and overall unlikable as opposed to the charismatic, manipulative genius that was Handsome Jack.

Kingdom Hearts is why writing on improve is not a good idea if you plan to stretch out the series, on the same villain. If they wanted to make Xehanort sympathetic, they could have used the remakes to change the story of birth by sleep so that it actually shows the Darkness in a sympathetic light. Simply use Maleficent to goad Xehanort and Vantus into being as bad as they were by playing on their fears, with Xehanort seeing too much of himself to realize that she isn't just an outcast who has dark powers. It lets Malificent be the villain she was meant to be, while showing how Xehanort blinds himself to the flaws of people who use the power of Darkness in the same manner he claims Eraqus does with light.

38:09 no he wasn't. Most people of the fandom (including me) was assuming this. He is a descendant of Ephemer. The reincarnation of the player character was the guy in the blue robe, who raised Xehanort. This was explained at the ending in Dark Road.