Are there any video game with a female as the MAIN villain ?

[Realitycrash]

Battletoad-franchise?

 

[thehorror2]

Knights of the Old Republic 2 had Darth Traya, although she admits she was only trying to teach you... And then there's Atris, who's just a prick.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Jedi Knight: Jedi Accademy had a female antagonist. I can't remember her name though. Talon something... Of course, she did get possessed by Markos Ragnos, so, who knows.

Tavion Axmis. You're thinking of Darth Talon from Star Wars Legacy, who I'm guessing you mixed up with the red twilek Alora from Jedi Academy.

 

[ctrl]

deus ex human revolution

 

[trooper6]

The Goddess from Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
And in Indigo Prophesy one of the big bads is in a female form.

I think one of hte reasons there may not be a whole bunch of female big bads is becuase gamers expect to have a big boss battle. And protagonists are often big burly dudes...them beating up on the sort of non burly women they tend to have video games probably wouldn't seem all that heroic.

Very often, I've noticed, if the antagonist is a woman, she transforms into some huge demon, or she's an alien, or some other sort of monstrous form...or if she isn't monstrous, then the protagonist is female as well...I suppose to make it easier for the male player to beat up on her.

 

[DonMartin]

The new Uncharted, right? Marlowe?

 

[Magicmad5511]

Portal. Glados is at least based off a woman.
You could also count Vanquish

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with the female president being behind it all

Yeh that's all I got.

 

[RobCoxxy]

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter.

Komari Vosa.

 

[Yopaz]

Star Fox Assault had Aparoid Queen.
Banjo Kazooie had Gruntilda, so far there are 3 games in the series (some say there was also a GBA game, but that's a lie).
Mario & Luigi Super Star Saga.
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.

 

[efeat]

Jedi Knight: Jedi Accademy had a female antagonist. I can't remember her name though. Talon something... Of course, she did get possessed by Markos Ragnos, so, who knows.

Tavion. Or at least, that's how it's phonetically sounded.

Anyway, Shadow Hearts 3: From the New World has a female as the final boss.

Edit: Ninja'd on the Tavion.

 

[TheOneMavado]

Dragon Age Origins archdemon is the old god Urthemiel, goddess of beauty, so you could consider the archdemon a "she". Also, in Dragon Age 2 if you side with the Mage circle, the boss is female. To round it out, there's the Broodmother in Awakening. Sorry, didn't mean to cover just DA, was only going to mention part 2, but got thinking.

While the final boss of Dragon Age II is always the same female warrior regardless of your choices, the game as a whole has no main villian.

Fatal Frame 1-3 Are all centered around a few female ghosts (although you could argue that it wasn't really their fault).

 

[thethain]

Star craft: brood war

 

[KingofallCosmos]

Big Boss in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Though she was more of an Anti-Villain in the end.

I think she's one of the most interesting antagonists out there because of that. Best example in this thread imo.

 

[astrav1]

Final Fantasy VIII had one.

Can't think of any others.

Primary antagonist of FFVII wasn't really Jenova...


OT: Portal.



As for why the bad guy is usually male, I think in a lot of cases they could be female and have zero effect on the plot.

He said FF VIII, not FF VII. Just so you know. He's talking about Ultimicia.

Anyways, I can think of a few:

BlazBlue
Bayonetta
No More Heroes

Persona spoilers:

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Persona 4

Blazeblue? Do you mean one of the robots? Anyway for me it was SiN:episodes.

 

[Duck Sandwich]

The Goddess from Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
And in Indigo Prophesy one of the big bads is in a female form.

I think one of hte reasons there may not be a whole bunch of female big bads is becuase gamers expect to have a big boss battle. And protagonists are often big burly dudes...them beating up on the sort of non burly women they tend to have video games probably wouldn't seem all that heroic.

Very often, I've noticed, if the antagonist is a woman, she transforms into some huge demon, or she's an alien, or some other sort of monstrous form...or if she isn't monstrous, then the protagonist is female as well...I suppose to make it easier for the male player to beat up on her.

That's a good point. Shadow Over Mystara is a good example of this. The main villain is a skimpily-dressed sorceress... who is actually a giant dragon.

Mega Man X8's main antagonist seems like an exception to this. She sounds and looks like a non-burly (robot) woman, except in spite of that, she's actually a man (robot). Crazy Japanese games and their androgynous characters.

 

[Wayneguard]

FFVIII. Both the villains were female.

 

[Chrono212]

Portal and Portal 2 are the only ones that come to mind.

And in regards to OP; I would only want a villian, male or female, that was a genuinely good character to be the antagonist.

 

[eggy32]

Final Fantasy X-2 has a female antagonist called LeBlanc.

 

[NickCaligo42]

Phantasy Star 2 (Mother Brain), Lands of Lore (the sorceress Scotia), Duke Nukem 3D: Plutonium Pack (Alien Queen), plus a number of games already mentioned.

Quite a lot of really prominent games, actually.

 

[hagar2]

for a while final fantasy IX.