Most beautifully fucked up character you've seen

[Tohuvabohu]

First person that comes to mind.



Motherfucking Lil Ze' from City of God.

The way this guy is portrayed in this movie is just frightening. Made worse by the fact that he is based off a real person. His behavior in the movie might be exaggerated compared to the person he is based off of, but holy fuck this guy is a [b]monster[/b], a bloodthirsty sociopathic scumbag with no regard to human life. Even as a goddamn CHILD he was more like a demon. The worst kind of creature without a shred of redeeming qualities. This guy makes Emperor Palpatine look like Abraham Lincoln.

What exactly makes him so monstrous? Well if you haven't seen the movie, this vid sums up this guy quite nicely.

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^And that's just scratching the surface. Much of the rest of the movie, he spends killing A LOT of innocent people, sexually abusing women, pushing an insane amount of drugs, and putting guns in the hands of children and forcing them to shoot each other. Just... goddamn.

Great movie though.

 

[Harley Q]

I love Harley Quinn. as I'm sure you've guessed. The first time the Joker tried to kill her, she just smiled while his hands gripped her neck. I like the fact that she was already messed up before the joker (ahem) got his hands on her. Also in the new 52 suicide squad, she cuts off the face of dead joker and puts it on deadshot, this amuses me.

 

[The Wykydtron]

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.

Um. This is a little pet peeve of mine. But why are you expecting people to mention obscure manga series or know what "Yandere" means off the top of their head? I mean if this were an anime/manga themed site it would be one thing, but here?

I'm not really "expecting" anything. I just thought that somebody would have posted the most fucked up character of all time in the thread about fucked up characters before me. There are plenty of anime fans on this site, well relatively speaking.

I use Yandere because she is the poster girl for the entire trope. I'm not even kidding. Here, have some evidence

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Yandere/AnimeAndManga


I assume people can deduce what a Yandere is by reading between the lines of my post. They could just skip over it if they really didn't care.

And is Future Diary considered obscure now? I have honestly no idea. The anime adaptation was highly anticipated by so many people as soon as it was announced. I guess it all depends on your perspective. I've been watching countless anime since I was 14/15 so i'm used to it.

If I really wanted to go obscure on you I would post some Needless. Literally nobody else on this site brings that anime up except me. Any other anime would have at least one guy going "oh yeah, i've seen that, it's pretty good!" Nope, never.

Oh and I was in a rush when I wrote this post so maybe I would have linked a Yandere explaination if I had the time before.

 

[Stoic raptor]

The Mayor from Prentisstown in The Knife of Never Letting Go (a book that is easily one of my most favorite books and is recommended to everyone). He seems likes a cunning psychotic individual, but he is actually insane, in the truest sense of the word.

Also, most, if not all, the characters in Higurashi no naku koro ni. Very frighting and crazy, although to be fair, it can be argued that they are not really insane.

 

[schiz0phren1c]

Durzo Blint From The Night angel Trilogy badass who went from Honorable Knight all the way down the alignment scale to unscrupulous master Wetboy (super-magic-assassin)

Yeah Durzo is pretty fucked up alright,
two of the best fucked up characters I've read recently are from the same series,
Glokta the tortured torturer and The Bloody Nine the Berserker/Barbarian from the First Law books by Joe Abercrombie,
each in his own way is totally fucked and continues to get fucked by life,but they are amazingly strong despite their individual weaknesses.

 

[Bruenin]

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.

THIS ^_^

Yuno was insane, but to be fair the whole series was kind of messed up : P

I loved it

 

[greyscarf]

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.

Agreed! That's my number one favorite movie & you are spot-on about her character. I got a chance to see SB on the silver screen not long ago & when she has her final breakdown, I was in tears. That last sequence is so beautiful & scary!

OT: Frank (Dolly) Dillon from Jim Thompson's A Hell of a Woman. Dillon is the Raskolnikov in Thompson's reimagining of Crime & Punishment in an industrial American town. He can have good intentions but is poor, desperate for the good life that eludes him & finds that murder is easier than the alternative. The last chapter is written with alternating lines of text for each of the realities he perceives in his schizo state & each ending is terrifying. But there's no way you can put the book down; Dillon is too damn interesting.

 

[MSfire012]

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.

I see...well, it's been a while since I watched Evangelion, so I didn't quite remember Asuka's past, thanks for clearing that up. But I still think Asuka is insane. And yes, what happens with Shinji in End of Evangelion is possibly of the most tragic things I've ever seen. Finally, yes, Shinji and Asuka are almost polar opposites yet have extremely similar traumas and tragedies, I just forgot to bring that up.

 

[Karhukonna]

I've got one.

Kain from the Legacy of Kain series.

Okay, so get this. Dude starts out as a noble, looking for a place to stay for the night, gets killed on the streets and goes to what I imagine is Hell, is resurrected by a necromancer as a vampire and finally finds out that it's his destiny to die to pretty much fix the world.

And he refuses. The world falls into ruin, and he takes over the world as a vampire overlord, resurrecting long dead heroes of the Sarafan, who essentially function as vampire hunters, as his underlings. I never played past what I believe is halfway though Soul Reaver 2, so I can't say much more. And then there's Simon Templeman. Say what you will about him, but he does one kickass tormented antihero act.

 

[IrenIvy]

Didn't see him mentioned there.
Theon Greyjoy of "Games of Thrones" series, as he is by "Dance with Dragons" book.
I really don't want to spoil but "You must remember your name" still gives me creeps.

And also Hanzel and Gretel from "Black Lagoona"
Twin brother and sister, both are orphaned children who, when even younger, went through underground porn ring and later forced to fight other children to death; both are very, very broken and are remorseless killers but even if their story is short, a viewer can understand why they are this way.

Oh, and Captain Martin Walker from Spec Ops: The Line. Being actually broken by the way of the game with the player as that force that drives him into madness.

I would rather not to use the word "beautifully" to describe their history and history of many other characters in that tread. There was nothing beautiful about what those people had to go through, I think.

P.S. Forgot Deadpool, so - Deadpool (I actually think he'd made much better villain for Batman than Joker.)

 

[Spinhorse]

Does it have to be from a game? If not I choose Ms. Coulter from the His Dark Materials trilogy

 

[RedDeadFred]

Walt from breaking bad. His character is developed so well over the series, and he becomes pretty fucked up I guess.

And just as he's starting to redeem himself:

Spoiler

Karma catches up with him. I wonder what Hank will do...

Seriously, that is probably the biggest cliffhanger I have ever seen. It hurts me to know that I have to wait until the summer to see the conclusion.

OT: Aside from Walter White, I'll go with the Joker from TDK. No real motive other than wanting to cause as much chaos as possible in sadistic and emotionally disturbing ways.

Also, I'll put another one in for Handsome Jack. At first he just seems like a funny, douchebag, asshole. Then you see some of the shit he's willing to do and he becomes quite dark and twisted but somehow never losing his wacky charm.

 

[Dfskelleton]

We're talking favorite Lunatics here? alright, I've got a lot, but here's my two favorites:

Spoiler: Pretty big spoiler for Silent Hill 2

James is one of my favorites because while he's clearly damaged, he's still very human and relatable, which is accentuated by Guy Cihi's amazing voice work. He's a good type of depressing, mellow psychopath.

Caleb from Blood. He's completely insane, but somehow completely loveable; everything he says is pure gold (even when it's a quote). Half of his dialogue is maniacal laughter, and frankly, it can be hard not to laugh with him.
Plus, who can NOT like an undead mentally unstable gunslinger with a thirst for revenge and a hatred of mimes yet unseen?

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

I forgot before, but I need to add Simon from Misfits. The guy's been pushed around and bullied most of his life, and is a complete neurotic mess because of it. He's on community service because he finally decided to take revenge on a bully... By dumping a flaming bag through his letter slot to burn the guy's house down. However, upon realising that the family's cat would get burned too, he decides to put out the fire. By pissing through the letter slot that we put the bag through. Seems like the only fucked up character in this thread who's not dangerously psychotic in one way or another.

Then he has this whole brilliant character arc that ends on one of the most bittersweet notes imaginable. Plus he becomes a badass. [small]And that chest...[/small]

I second that. Rorschach was a great character.

Now to ruin him for you!

Spoiler: Heh heh heh...

I believe the correct answer to that last comic is Dr. Manhattan asking "Why would I want to eat at a place that has no steaks in?".

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

Bioware has a habit of writing almost all of their characters as varying degrees of fucked up. It makes said characters interesting and three-dimensional, sure, but it's true. The poster boy of this is Jacob from Mass Effect... because he was the one character that wasn't particularly fucked up, and thus he was decried as bland. (Which he was, don't get me wrong. But I'm just sayin'...)

Aside from that... hm. Guts from Berserk has been mentioned, but I have to counter that with Griffith, also from Berserk. He has been told that he is going to become a great person of the age, and thus believes it to be true: and to accomplish this, he rallies a band of mercenaries to him... but has to sell himself out to a pedophile nobleman to get funding for his band. He knows very little other than war, and seems to only be seducing a princess to further his goals of becoming someone great. He finally meets a person who he believes understands him... and that person promptly leaves, causing him to briefly lose sight of his goal and sleep with the princess he was seducing, which leads to him getting captured, tortured, beaten within an edge of his life, and barely able to hold a sword. And he certainly can't lead anymore, even after he gets rescued, considering his tongue was cut out.

In the end, he's so broken that he thinks the only way he can accomplish his dreams is to sacrifice everyone he's been fighting beside in a deal with the devil. All the people who have followed him, gone, including a girl who was in love with him and a guy who he claimed was one of his only friends and his only equal... and he agrees. Which leads to one of the most messed-up conclusions of a story arc that I have ever seen.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I haven't had time to read the whole topic but...I hope I'm not the first to mention Therese and Jeannette Voerman from Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines.

I have never seen a more fucked up pair of sisters in my life. 0_0

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Then there is Gunther Herman from Deus ex 1. Total nutjob. Loyal to the end, but also psychotic, probably in love with a doomed character, and desperate to kill anything he hates in the most violent way possible. And HE VANTED ORANGE, BUT IT GAVE HIM LEMON LIME!

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Then there's Gaige, the Mechromancer of Borderlands 2. I mean....go on youtube and look up her echo logs. She starts off slightly unbalanced, and by the last one, you are both thinking she's insane, and also feeling a lot of pity for her too.

.....And that's not even mentioning tiny tina. OH GOSH TINY TINA. That is insanity incarnate.

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Half the cast of Psychonauts. Pretty much everyone you meet in that game has some kind of mental disorder. And you need to go INTO their brains. Including a manic-AGRESSIVE woman whose entire life plays out for you on a stage in her own mind, and another guy whose mind is a twisty turvy crazy conspiracy in which he trusts nobody (including HIMSELF).

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Also I think I'll just name drop Spec Ops the Line, and say no more.

 

[JaceArveduin]

Personally, I'm going with Sweet Tooth. I mean seriously, I psychotic clown that kills everybody while driving an ice cream truck? The earlier models get bonus points for actually looking like an (almost) unassuming truck.

 

[deanospimoni]

By coincidence I am listening to Dancing Mad as performed by the Black Mages, so I am going to say...Jack from Mass Effect. It seems a miracle that she is even functional after all the things that she has experienced.

Not only is he a sadistic bastard that kills and tortures for the sheer fun of it, by the end of the game he is a sadistic bastard with godlike power.

 

[averydeeadaccount]

Every character in borderlands 2 fits the bill well, but i'll have to go with Ender Wiggin.

 

[triggrhappy94]

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The possibilities are endless.

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