An antagonist that you absolutely loathe

[Candidus]

I hate Branka from Dragon Age the most, because she's such an unnecessary caricature.

She's off-with-his-head-and-cancel-christmas evil. Silly, pantomime evil. It seems that Bioware simply can't stand to make a decision truly grey. They couldn't bear to leave you in any doubt as to whether you deserve a pat on the head or a slap on the wrist. As a result, that decision- like all the rest in the Dragon Age RPG series- completely fails to be compelling, and is only memorable for the wasted potential.

 

[renegade7]

Durandal would be mine. Kefka, GlaDOS, and Ganon would also be contenders, but they were all dealt with. See, Durandal ended up being right. Granted he wasn't really the primary antagonist of the series, he was still kind of a dick.

 

[RatRace123]

I don't really have a hatred for any villain. Mostly because a lot of them just leave so little an impact, and the ones that do usually leave an impact are the intriguing characters with well developed personalities and backstories, and even then I don't hate them so much as I find them interesting.

Sophia Lamb from Bioshock 2 easily the most annoying antagonist in any video game ever she taunts you through out the WHOLE GAME and never SHUTS UP.

Actually nevermind, I forgot about her. Yeah, screw Sophia Lamb. She's the one villain I feel hatred for, and for the same reason.

 

[Spy_Guy]

Emperor Charles from Code Geass...

...can't tell why. There's just something that really irks me about him.

 

[kortin]

Saint Dane from the Pendragon book series. Absolutely hate that guy.

Also Shou Tucker and Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist.

 

[FarleShadow]

Ok, so alot of people hate the people they're supposed to hate in a game, aka the fucking villians. Duh people, duh.

I, for one, hate the main character from L.A. Noire, Phelps or something, yes, he's supposed to be the good guy, yes, he's a hero who saved us from the Japs and some other bullshit, but seriously, he's the Keanu Reeves of gaming characters who's gunfights, car chases and general CSI shit is boring boring boring. Also boring.

I can sum my experiences with Neo Phelps when he picked up a Knife covered in blood, to 'examine' it.

Since the game decided it was important, Phelps didn't helpfully TELL me this shit was boring, with his usual 'IT WOULD TAKE A GENIUS TO CONNECT THIS TO THE CASE!' repeated dialog, I decided to use my WASD keys (Helpfully repeated everytime I picked up an object, like I'd forgotten the other 50 times) to examine the object.

"THIS KNIFE IS COVERED IN BLOOD" said Phelps, as he found the one pixel that the game decided was the logical point to continue the game. At which point, I threw my keyboard aside.

Fuck L.A. Noire and fuck the reviewers who suggested it was worth more than a single, glorious, English Pound.

 

[tippy2k2]

Ok, so alot of people hate the people they're supposed to hate in a game, aka the fucking villians. Duh people, duh.

I, for one, hate the main character from L.A. Noire, Phelps or something, yes, he's supposed to be the good guy, yes, he's a hero who saved us from the Japs and some other bullshit, but seriously, he's the Keanu Reeves of gaming characters who's gunfights, car chases and general CSI shit is boring boring boring. Also boring.

I can sum my experiences with Neo Phelps when he picked up a Knife covered in blood, to 'examine' it.

Since the game decided it was important, Phelps didn't helpfully TELL me this shit was boring, with his usual 'IT WOULD TAKE A GENIUS TO CONNECT THIS TO THE CASE!' repeated dialog, I decided to use my WASD keys (Helpfully repeated everytime I picked up an object, like I'd forgotten the other 50 times) to examine the object.

"THIS KNIFE IS COVERED IN BLOOD" said Phelps, as he found the one pixel that the game decided was the logical point to continue the game. At which point, I threw my keyboard aside.

Fuck L.A. Noire and fuck the reviewers who suggested it was worth more than a single, glorious, English Pound.

Well to be fair, the thread is "antagonists that you hated with a passion" and I was going for bad guys whose actions were so horrible that you wished to choke them to death with your bare hands. It's cool if you put in other things but I would imagine that's why most responses are for bad guys (besides the few joke responses at least).

Quick note too, I 100% agreed. I was so very disappointed with LA Noire...

 

[DarkSeraphim02]

Luca Blight from Suikoden II.

This psychotic bastard murders men, women and children by his own hand and burns down villages of zero strategic value simply for the sake of entertaining himself and his men.
The part that really solidified it for me though was when he made a woman crawl on her hands and knees in the dirt, oinking like a pig, and then killed her anyway despite saying he'd let her live if she acted like a pig.

Albedo from Xenosaga.

Rather then describe why I hate this guy, I'll just show you.

Spoiler

this is some pretty disturbing stuff, consider yourself warned

[link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_oHxm8TYu0[/link] the link in case my embed attempt failed.[youtube]e_oHxm8TYu0[/youtube]

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Comics: Ozymandias, from Watchmen. [Spoiler alert, noob.] Some people have a hard time hating him because he was trying to build a utopia, but---he took it upon himself to decide what was best for humanity, then killed millions for the purpose of furthering his own vision. No one has the right to be that sure of themselves.

I think you might be missing the point there. What Ozy did actually worked. He killed millions to save the human race.

 

[Monkeybald]

Knight Lautrec in Dark Souls. He's a sneaky bastard, killing the fire keeper and running off to Anor Londo.

 

[Freaky Lou]

Comics: Ozymandias, from Watchmen. [Spoiler alert, noob.] Some people have a hard time hating him because he was trying to build a utopia, but---he took it upon himself to decide what was best for humanity, then killed millions for the purpose of furthering his own vision. No one has the right to be that sure of themselves.

I think you might be missing the point there. What Ozy did actually worked. He killed millions to save the human race.

Whether it worked or not is irrelevant because he took it upon himself to decide if those people's lives were worth it. That's not a decision he's entitled to make.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Comics: Ozymandias, from Watchmen. [Spoiler alert, noob.] Some people have a hard time hating him because he was trying to build a utopia, but---he took it upon himself to decide what was best for humanity, then killed millions for the purpose of furthering his own vision. No one has the right to be that sure of themselves.

I think you might be missing the point there. What Ozy did actually worked. He killed millions to save the human race.

Whether it worked or not is irrelevant because he took it upon himself to decide if those people's lives were worth it. That's not a decision he's entitled to make.

He is the smartest man in the world. If anyone was entitled to make that decision, he was. Also, of course those people's lives were worth it! A few million people dying is far less important than the continued survival of humanity.

 

[DarkSeraphim02]

Comics: Ozymandias, from Watchmen. [Spoiler alert, noob.] Some people have a hard time hating him because he was trying to build a utopia, but---he took it upon himself to decide what was best for humanity, then killed millions for the purpose of furthering his own vision. No one has the right to be that sure of themselves.

I think you might be missing the point there. What Ozy did actually worked. He killed millions to save the human race.

Whether it worked or not is irrelevant because he took it upon himself to decide if those people's lives were worth it. That's not a decision he's entitled to make.

He is the smartest man in the world. If anyone was entitled to make that decision, he was. Also, of course those people's lives were worth it! A few million people dying is far less important than the continued survival of humanity.

Forgive my jumping in but isn't what he did essentially just "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" taken to an extreme?

 

[Freaky Lou]

Comics: Ozymandias, from Watchmen. [Spoiler alert, noob.] Some people have a hard time hating him because he was trying to build a utopia, but---he took it upon himself to decide what was best for humanity, then killed millions for the purpose of furthering his own vision. No one has the right to be that sure of themselves.

I think you might be missing the point there. What Ozy did actually worked. He killed millions to save the human race.

Whether it worked or not is irrelevant because he took it upon himself to decide if those people's lives were worth it. That's not a decision he's entitled to make.

He is the smartest man in the world. If anyone was entitled to make that decision, he was. Also, of course those people's lives were worth it! A few million people dying is far less important than the continued survival of humanity.

That's every bit as much a moral decision as a tactical one, so intellect alone does not qualify one to make it.

On top of that, he sacrificed OTHER people's lives. None of them agreed to this, and it's taking a lot more from them than it was from Ozy. And it could be argued, from the ending, that his plan didn't even work, for all the bloodshed it wrought.

But anyway we could back and forth all night about this and all it ultimately proves is that Watchmen has some well-constructed moral dilemmas that people are going to be divided about. Personally I consider Ozy's actions reprehensible; you may think otherwise, and as I said this just demonstrates why he's such a good villain.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

I don't think there are too many video game villains that ever truly earned my loathing. I've hated quite a few in books though. Video game villains just never seem to get under my skin enough.

 

[Peteron]

From the anime One Piece, I hate Spandam for ruining Franky family and what he did to Nico Robin during the CP9 arc.
There also Nena Trinity from Gundam 00. She ruining Louise life which she did it out of whim. After that I have no sympathy to what happen to her next and her brothers (I see it more as an eye for an eye during that event).

Agree with the first one. Not to mention the Celestial Dragons, Akainu, and the officials in Marejoa. Blackbeard's pretty high up there too.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Comics: Ozymandias, from Watchmen. [Spoiler alert, noob.] Some people have a hard time hating him because he was trying to build a utopia, but---he took it upon himself to decide what was best for humanity, then killed millions for the purpose of furthering his own vision. No one has the right to be that sure of themselves.

I think you might be missing the point there. What Ozy did actually worked. He killed millions to save the human race.

Whether it worked or not is irrelevant because he took it upon himself to decide if those people's lives were worth it. That's not a decision he's entitled to make.

He is the smartest man in the world. If anyone was entitled to make that decision, he was. Also, of course those people's lives were worth it! A few million people dying is far less important than the continued survival of humanity.

Forgive my jumping in but isn't what he did essentially just "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" taken to an extreme?

It was an extreme situation. When "the needs of the many" means all of humanity, I'd say what he did was fair.

Comics: Ozymandias, from Watchmen. [Spoiler alert, noob.] Some people have a hard time hating him because he was trying to build a utopia, but---he took it upon himself to decide what was best for humanity, then killed millions for the purpose of furthering his own vision. No one has the right to be that sure of themselves.

I think you might be missing the point there. What Ozy did actually worked. He killed millions to save the human race.

Whether it worked or not is irrelevant because he took it upon himself to decide if those people's lives were worth it. That's not a decision he's entitled to make.

He is the smartest man in the world. If anyone was entitled to make that decision, he was. Also, of course those people's lives were worth it! A few million people dying is far less important than the continued survival of humanity.

That's every bit as much a moral decision as a tactical one, so intellect alone does not qualify one to make it.

On top of that, he sacrificed OTHER people's lives. None of them agreed to this, and it's taking a lot more from them than it was from Ozy. And it could be argued, from the ending, that his plan didn't even work, for all the bloodshed it wrought.

But anyway we could back and forth all night about this and all it ultimately proves is that Watchmen has some well-constructed moral dilemmas that people are going to be divided about. Personally I consider Ozy's actions reprehensible; you may think otherwise, and as I said this just demonstrates why he's such a good villain.

Fair enough, nice talking with you.

 

[scorptatious]

Queen Brahne from Final Fantasy 9.

Spoiler

With the power of the eidolons, she has destroyed entire cities and was going to execute her own daughter to get more power. That and she made Black Mages hated among the people, which made me feel really bad for Vivi.

It's strange though, after learning about how she ended up like that and seeing Dagger trying to save her from Bahamut, I was actually saddened to see her die. I guess it's mostly because despite what Brahne has done,Dagger still saw her as her mother. I found it to be incredibly touching too be honest.

 

[Freaky Lou]

Fair enough, nice talking with you.

Thanks, you too!

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Aizen from Bleach. Aside from him being unbelievably powerful with strong and manipulative powers, the way this guy operates is what really gets to me.

While under the guise of a Captian in the Gotei 13, he turned many of his subordinates against each other, nearly killed many loose ends who had discovered his true intentions, and was willing to allow innocent bystanders to die so that he can move forward with his plan.

Afterwards, he would continually use any ally that he came across and treat them like a tool to move his plans forward and even kill those who he no longer found useful. Once he attained almost god-like strength, he continued to kill innocent bystanders that posed no threat to him and even planned to use the friends of the main protagonists to further get their blood boiling.

I'm glad this sucker is rotting away in prison for 20,000 years.