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
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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.
Vaas Montenegro, awesomely well written character that should have been the main focus of fucking Far Cry 3
But of course you don't see him anymore halfway through the game which is a fucking shame because Vaas is the only character I really liked in that game.
Some examples that other people have pointed out:
Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver
Kabuto Yakushi from Naruto
New example that everybody seems to like: Vaas from Far Cry 3
And the best of them all: Rodion Raskolnikov from "Crime and Punishment"
The guy kills an old lady to steal her money, the rest of the novel is a plunge into the dark depths of the human mind.
I wouldn't call Lelouche a Sociopath, after all he cares enough about his (dickish) brother Clovis to be disgusted after murdering him, and he's been shown to love his friends very much.
Anyways, theirs Alexander Anderson, the crazy Catholic priest that spouts badass lines and kills vampires with machetes.
Coraline and ParaNorman both teased at the concept of a deeply disturbed antagonist in a kid's movie, so I'll give kudos to them first.
Then there's the anime stuff which should come as no surprise: Higurashi, Elfen Lied, Hellsing Ultimate, Deathnote, Future Diary, some Ghost in the Shell... but they're all just fucked up for the sake of shock value in my opinion. The inclusion of disturbing imagery and themes don't really add or detract from the story in any way, just set the mood and appeal to morbid minds.
From video game land, Spec Ops: The Line for making you sit there and think about what just happened.
Meet the Pyro was not what I expected, because I didn't expect anything in particular barring awesomeness, but it totally captured how I saw Pyro as well as TF2 itself: a bunch of children playing before nanny (the announcer) calls them out for refreshments.
What makes Pyro so disturbingly awesome is the fact that he's not even conscious of it.
There are plenty... but since I watched the anime a couple months ago, I think I'll have to go with Homura Akemi from Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
She watches her friend, Madoka, die and sacrifices her "life" to become a Puella Magi in order to save her. She gains the ability to reset time and goes back to when she'd first met Madoka in an effort to either prevent her from becoming a Puella Magi or simply to save her life.
She fails.
Over and over and over and over and over and over and over she fails and watches her friends die.
And when she finally "succeeds", Madoka becomes a being that transcends time and space, and is therefore forever beyond Homura's reach.
I loved Ladd Russo from Baccano! In a series that focuses on immortals in the early 20th century, it says something when the most interesting character is a mortal man who is just batshit insane.
Heh, people have found it odd that I think Ladd was much more entertaining than the comic-relief duo.
ABLb0y said:
What about Misa?
Poor girl... Parents murdered in front of her, dragged off the streets and held hostage for Celestia knows how long, falls in love with a man who couldn't give less of a shit about her... I could go on.
Without a doubt, the best two twisted characters and two of my all time favourite villains, hands down, The Joker (movie and games) from Batman and Vaas from Far Cry 3. Both are fantastically insane. Can't get enough of either.
I agree with Vaas from Far Cry 3, but people seem to overlook Jason, the main character.
He watches his brother die, is forced to take multiple drugs, has to deal with Vaas, Buck, and Hoyt. He starts to enjoy murdering people when he's saving his girlfriend; he gets so absorbed into the culture of the Rakyat that he believes he is one of them, almost abandoning his friends. He tortures his younger brother, who he has been trying to save throughout the whole game, and watches numerous people he loves die in front of him. He is forced to either kill his friends (who he's been trying to save), or abandon his tribe.
And after all this, he realizes that he is a monster, and that he may not be able to come back from all the murders and atrocities he has committed.
At any rate, all of the characters from FC3 are wonderfully written, and gloriously fucked in the head. That game has, by far, told one of the best stories in gaming, and it is my pleasure to have been able to witness it.
I gotta say the best decent into madness with a character iv ever seen is Light from Death Note. At the beginning you know its a bad idea and never gonna work but he is so perfectly awesome you just have to root for him. But the longer it goes on you can just see him slip from his perceived righteous path onto one of complete and total insanity. Plus it is amazing how ridiculously amazing the story gets off of the premise that there is a notebook that if you write someones name in it they die. Honestly the first time i watched it, it was late and i was half falling asleep while watching adult swim, which is the only reason i didn't change the channel, and all i could think at the start is the the whole idea was stupid, but dam dos it get amazing.
I'll one-up Vaas votes, second the motion that Jason is fairly fucked up as well, and raise the group Gorgeous Gary Golden, from Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.
He's a former Hollywood Silver Screen star who's lost it all because of the Nosferatu's tendency to privilege ironically fitting Embraces. As a result, he's still exceedingly bitter two mortal generations after his death and never fails to land deprecating remarks at the player, if you your choice of avatar is in the Toreador clan. They're essentially the antithesis of the Nosferatu. One's your average Max Schreck rat-faced fugly, the other one is somewhere along Anne Rice's concepts for vampires.
A lot of Coteries (player-character parties during pen-and-paper sessions) can mostly get along even with Nossies and Torries sharing space. Prejudices aren't things that any given player is obligated to roleplay. Even so, the rule of thumb is that you shouldn't be afraid to slander your pointy-eared peers, because they'll do it right back.
Plus, well, spend a couple decades in an excavated chamber underneath Hollywood's celeb cemetary and the borough's transit system... You're liable to turn a little batty over time.
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.
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.
Rorscharch is fucking great. It's ironic that, in the sense of the story, he's really the only sane person. His uncomprimising stance is also really admirable.
I took a pic of one of the panels, wherein he's flashing his awesomeness:
And in a similar vein, John McClane. I guess I just have a thing for "wrong place at the right time" stuff. I don't know why, people forced to do incredible things gets me. But in movies, I prefer those things be gunfights. Yeah. Gunfights.
...though I'm having a bit of trouble. I know for sure there's someone that gets turned into a robot who is really sympathetic, but all I can think of is Adam Jensen and it's not him I'm thinking of. Eh, I've always like Six Million Dollar Man situations, too. One of the only things I like about the Matthew Broderick Inspector Gadget film is him getting sad because he's been turned into a crappy robot man. Darth Vader, similar. I can't put my finger on it though. I like people being put into, like, android shells, though. And then trying to cry cos they can't touch things with their own fingers anymore. And then not being able to cry. An- ...geez. I'm a bastard.
Jack is a pretty good answer, mainly because she STOPS being a psycho.
I can't really think of anyone else that hasn't already been said over and over, so all I got left is a fan fiction character I created once, Sukron. Out of the gate I never pretended that he was anything other than a psychopath with a fetish for things getting set on fire and cutting them with knives. He also had a torture fetish and it was fun having two of my other characters to escape his grasp and have him go completely nuts about it, spending the next year hunting them down. That an other things but I've rambled enough.
There are plenty... but since I watched the anime a couple months ago, I think I'll have to go with Homura Akemi from Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
She watches her friend, Madoka, die and sacrifices her "life" to become a Puella Magi in order to save her. She gains the ability to reset time and goes back to when she'd first met Madoka in an effort to either prevent her from becoming a Puella Magi or simply to save her life.
She fails.
Over and over and over and over and over and over and over she fails and watches her friends die.
And when she finally "succeeds", Madoka becomes a being that transcends time and space, and is therefore forever beyond Homura's reach.
I don't know. She has had a screwed up life, but she is fairly well adjusted considering. In the end (last episode) she seems relatively happy after meeting Madoka's younger brother. Obviously she is not "happy" with what happened, but she doesn't appear to be screwed up herself.
I do love that anime, especially as I wasn't expecting it to be anything like it was.
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