I'd have to imagine that in 3 pages of responses that this has already been mentioned, but just in case it hasn't I'll go ahead and say it:
A lot of the characters in the Bioshock universe are specifically designed to be fucked in the head. We've got the mad artist turning people into his art, we've got that guy in the 2nd game that turned into a giant squid-whale thing and started becoming a homocidially insane CEO-type figure. And who could forget the psychotic plastic surgeon who decided the best way to prove that his surgery skills were art was to turn people into living Picasos? Not to mention all the random splicers jibbering insanely to themselves as they wander around Rapture.
Also, Kefka from FF6 is one of my favorite psychotically twisted characters of all time. :3
While it rests entirely on fan speculation, Sabitsuki from ".flow" fits this really well.
The widely accepted version (that I subscribe to) pins her as a young woman in the hospital who:
-has a deadly airborne disease, is dying
-bullied/killed other people who became sick in the past
-harbors complex feelings of hatred/fear towards her previous best friend
-has become cynical and hopeless, probably self-loathing
-is getting continually more insane
And considering the best ending involves getting her limbs cut off by a nurse with a chainsaw, we have the cherry on the messed-up personality sundae.
Shinji Ikari and Asuka Langley Soryu from Neon Genesis Evangelion. First of all they're two kids with serious mental issues, and I mean serious.
Shinji simply can't believe in himself, is afraid of relating with other people, has almost no courage in himself so every time he has to do something important or dangerous he becomes afraid of the bad things that can happen and when something bad does happen he always runs away from his responsibility and puts the blame on others. On top of all that, Shinji simply doesn't know his reason to live, he doesn't know what his purpose is or what he wants to do.
Asuka is just insane, she is extremely egocentric and proud of herself, so all the time she's trying to prove to the others how better she is than everyone, she always mocks other people, gets angry about almost anything, is always complaining, putting blame on others when something goes wrong and when someone IS better than her she gets insane, giving away all logic and reason to try to show that she is better than said person. But the most disturbing thing about her is that she can't accept her own feelings, possibly because of her pride. She denies the love she's developing for a character and acts very aggressive towards him, while also saying she has a crush for another guy, that's far "better" than the one she actually loves.
Another thing that's cool is that these two aren't fucked up simply because they are, they have pasts that justify their personalities.
Shinji's mother died when he was very young and his father, Gendo, couldn't take care of him by himself. He had no contact with his father and when he had, his father was always very harsh and cold about him.
Asuka's parents committed suicide and she lived for the rest of her life in a military base training to be an Evangelion pilot.
A) Shinji never blames anyone else for his issues. He spends the entire series blaming HIMSELF for things that aren't his fault and drives himself into self-loathing over things he has no control over. This is because he views himself as worthless due to the "death" of his mother and being abandoned by his father (which was ironically caused by Gendo feeling that he would only bring pain to Shinji by being close to him). This reinforces his inability to get close to others and makes him the AVPD wreck that he is at the start of the anime. More tragic is what happens to him during The End of Evangelion but because I've got no fucking clue how to spoiler shit I'll just let that lie.
B) Asuka is NOT insane and her mother, Kyoko, commited suicide after being ONLY partially absorbed into Unit 02. THis meant that when she she was left insane and replaced her daughter with a doll (going so far as to start calling it "Asuka"). As for Asuka's father (who is never named), he hooked up with the head nurse looking after Kyoko before she had killed herself. He then married her afterwards.
What's so fascinating about the two characters isn't so much that there's reasons for their personal dysfunctions (no, that's just decent character writing) but that the characters are so different despite the fact that they're so different despite the fact that their personal tragedies are si very similar.
Asuka is basically Narcissism given form. She attempts to prove herself to others, pretend she is worth something and attach her identity to Evangelion's because she ultimately hates herself and is filled with self loathing just like Shinji does, they just express it in different ways. She gets attention and praise from piloting (stuff she didn't get through childhood due to the tragic death of her mother) and so she gets extremely filled with self loathing when she can't be the best because she feels like she hasn't proved herself.
Shinji on the other hand is basically the personification of Avoidant Disorder (look it up) and avoiding pain, responsibility, reality and other people due to his feelings of self loathing.
While Cohen was pretty messed up, I was much more affected by Dr. Steinman. His shattered perceptions of beauty and his drive to make women beautiful are so tragic and amplified by the fact that he's the first real person you meet in Rapture. That character still blows me away.
I love what Bioware does with its fucked up characters. My favorite though would have to be HK-47. One being a murderous Droid assassin (that is, a droid who is an assassin) and the other a neurotic though brilliant mind. HK-47 is just an utter delight to have in the party if only to hear the dialogue he spouts off when you're talking to NPCs. Also his attempts to cheer up the player character and his definition of 'Love' make him really quotable for me.
I was close to mentioning Mordin Solus but he's just a neurotic mess...too bad too, would have wanted to mention those seashells.
Crona own blood is his/ her weapon so it must of been tortue from him/ her. Crona had an odd relationship with his/ her mother Medusa like she wanted Crona to slay a baby dragon but Crona couldn't do it. Medusa locked Crona in a room with no light and the next day Crona was able to slay that baby dragon without a problem but with a creepy smile on Crona face. Also I still have no bloody idea if Crona is a boy or a girl! (I assume Crona is a girl since that flashback scene Crona had a dress but my mate think Crona is a boy).
I want to get LOVE carved onto every cell in my body to illustrate just how much I love Crona. S/He was the reason I watched that show to the very end, but the manga was still better cause he murders three rabbits with a STICK, then stabs the fuck out of Medusa with this insane grin on his face. His arc was really really good in both, but the manga was better.
That being said, Soul Eater really should have been a satire of anime. It flopped around in mediocrity as a serious story, with only Asura and Crona giving it any strengths.
Also most of the characters from Stephen King's Dark Tower books, reserving the most of the amazingly fucked upness for the core group of heros all who have twisted horrible pasts and struggle with their demons every day.
Going to also throw in The Phantom of the Opera and Achilles from the Iliad because literary snob is how I fucking roll.
I just saw Sunset Boulevard last night and would like to add Norma Desmond to the list. Her character is a superstar from silent films. 30 years later, no one cares about silent films and her immense and fragile ego has left her as an old woman, afraid to go out and face a world that no longer cares about her. She lives in a mansion filled with pictures of her when she was young, she spends every night watching old films she starred in, and she essentially refuses to leave the old-fashioned world where everyone loved and respected her.
She talks like she is still the most valuable person on the planet and attempts suicide whenever anyone does anything to remind her that she isn't. She spends almost the entire movie convinced that she is still a superstar living in the age of silent films, and goes to ridiculous lengths to keep up the lie.
Wow. No Yuno from Future Diary? The most amazingly fucked up Yandere to end all Yanderes? How uninformed are you guys?
She has so many different degrees of fucked up I can't even go through half of them... Let's say that the main character (a spineless coward for more than half the manga/anime) has to rely solely on this unstable, mentally scarred girl who has been stalking him for god knows how long to simply survive.
By "stalker" I mean the only one thing her Diary does is tell her exactly what Yuki is doing right now in ten minute intervals. Obsessed is a massive understatement
Yuki knows he needs her, she knows he needs her, but he is shit scared of her at the same time. Seriously, Yuno could gut Yuki easily at any time. She loves him though... Way too much.
There's a part where she's happily chopping down countless men with a massive fuck off axe because she's protecting her darling Yuki.
For those who have not seen it - her stalker phone literally says "she's trying to turn him, that ***** must die". And cue the rape face
I'd have to cast a vote for Claire Stanfield from Baccanno - a character who is called "Vino" because he enjoys soaking himself in his victims blood to the point it looks like he's covered in wine. He also used to be an acrobat in the circus so he can do some pretty crazy stuff (hanging from the side of trains by his legs, looking like a demon etc). If he was a normal assassin he would not have been the character he was
Dexter Morgan. More from the books because he talks to the moon, complains about blood while hacking people up and admits to getting kind of turned on when cutting a rapists face off... He's also technically the good guy and your still technically supposed to root for him. Also the way he can't kill innocents but has no prblem getting other serial killers to do it for him is kinda fucked up.
Marcus (Shamrock) from Ace Combat 6. He has a pretty interesting identity crisis when he thinks him and the player make a great team. Excuse me, I make a great team. He can crash into a pylon for all I care.
For real: inb4 GLaDOS. The first Portal game had a perfect balance of making her seem ominous and psychotic.
I loved Larry (Pixy) from Zero more. His crisis comes from his hatred of War and countries fighting for power. He accepts war for what it is, he hates the concept of it, and defects to become the leader of the terrorist group A World With No Boundaries
It also annoyed the fuck out of me cause he was actually a useful partner (Probably the best one in the Ace Combat series). And when he leaves you get stuck with who is probably the crappiest AI Wingman in the Ace Combat Series: PJ. Seriously Fuck PJ. He can't hit a ground target to save his life and his air to air combat skills are pretty shit also. Plus he uses one of the crappy starter Jets in the game. Again. Fuck PJ.
Rorschach from Alan Moore's Watchmen. I'm struggling to write why so instead I will implore you to read the graphic novel and watch the film. He's insane, but you may find yourself rooting for him.
But yeah, Rorschach is a character I find myself identifying with more than a little, not just in the fact that his mind has been twisted by the traumas of his life, but that even in the throes of madness he still seems more "sane" to me than most people, maybe I'm just a bit insane.
Nobody has said max payne yet? escapees, you surprise me! This guy has been through hell his entire life, he had his wife and baby girl murdered by some junkies because of some conspiracy of a corporation bringing back a drug, he gets addicted to painkillers and alchohol, he has terrible nightmares about the time his wife and child got murdered, he has to deal with a whole crime family of gangsters and then proffesional commandoes attemptimg to kill him and finally men in black elite bodygaurds and thats just the first game! This guy is a wreck but he manages to perservere through sheer power of will, probably one of the most human characters ive seen.
From FullMetal Alchemist, Solf J. Kimblee. Kimblee is a complete and udder PSYCHOPATH! He kills everyone he wants in Ishval because it pleases him, he betrayed and killed his own officers "Because I could"(while uber-ed on a Philosopher's Stone), he gets a kick out of looking his victims in the eyes while he kills them
He gets absorbed into Prides Philosopher's Stone, AND IS ABLE TO MAINTAIN HIS INDIVIDUALITY BECAUSE "THE SCREAMING SOOTHS ME"!!!
He's even more of a psychopath when you consider that he has a morality, which is based entirely around the idea of being honest to yourself vs being hypocritical, so you have the scenario where Kimblee who enjoys killing and takes countless innocent lives rates as being on the same end of his morality scale as armestrian doctors who treated wounded Ishvalans because they were as commited to saving lives as he was to taking them. While soldiers who don't remember their kills and soldiers who dislike taking lives he views as hypocritical and equally as 'immoral'.
Also while I was thinking of FMA had to atleast give some mention to Shou Tucker because to go from posing as a loving father to doing that...damn he must have serious problems.
Well, I've recently finished an indie adventure game called Deponia, and its' main character is a complete tosser and a sociopath. Well, he starts out as clearly naive and dangerously overconfident, but wacky and still somewhat loveable, but then in the second game he uses his girlfreind as a lightning rod and makes cat food out of cute baby dolphins. Those actions had the same effect on me as That One Scene from Spec Ops: the Line - I began to realise that the character's actions, his zany plots and general goofiness become less and less funny the more I think about them. I realised that I grew to despise the character, and by extension myself.
And of course Spider Jerusalem from Transmetropolitan. Someone already mentioned him, but I think this thread needs more Spider.
fuminori from Saya no Uta(song of Saya) his perception of the world was fucked up by an experimental surgery that leaves the world as a fleshy gory mass and humans as incomprehensible eldrich abominations. he only think keeping him from going over the edge is the only exception to the transformation of the world around him, a little girl named Saya, who still looks, feels, smells ect. like an ordinary human.
Things seems normal(ish) with him until he
kills a man that is attacking saya, who she changed to perceive the world the same way fuminori does. After that he realizes that Saya is an exception to his perception because SHE is the eldrich's abomination. She offers to change his perception back to normal if he wants, but fuminori decides to stay int he warped reality to stay with saya... Now honestly thats kinda disturbed but not to the truly extreme levels he ends up taking it. After making this decision he promptly throws all of his morals out the window, trying to kill his best friend, EATING said friend's lover( human flesh is the only appealing food to him now) and turning his former love interest into a sex slave after she gets transformed into a creature like Saya.
Its amazing how depraved he gets, but when you play it you understand and can even sympathize with his motives, it all really is because of his obsession with Saya... who is just as obsessed with him~
Man I didn't think anyone would mention this one. personally I was going to go for Saya herself due to her various experimentation throughout the piece, but yes Fuminori is just as fucked up as she is about midway into Saya no Uta
Thanks!
yeah, I would agree with you about Saya if not what for she is; in light of her basic nature he's only strange for not following her biological imperatives. Fuminori on the other hand... he just goes off the deep end and never comes back.
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