Andy of Comix Inc said:
That pic looks a lot like the broodmother from DA: O (which, as I recall, someone actually got suspended for posting a pic of once, so I'll leave googling it to you). Maybe some "inter-developer inspiration" going on? LOLJK, don't flame me guys.
OT: I can't really say that I've ever found female villians any worse than male ones. Though there are quite a bit less. I actually tend to find them less effective, because they tend to be used as a sort of "Dark is Sexy" motif, and have tight fitting letter, and an inevitable seduction by the hero character, along side either a heel face turn (hers or his) or a dramatic refusal of the villains advances (to show how pure the hero is). I won't link tvtropes to any of my post, because I like the Escapist community too much to kill their entire day.
A non-game female villain that I liked was actually in the Sword of Truth series. Pretty terrible series of books towards the middle (not because their poorly written
per se, just that they're heavy handed with the "moral"), but one of the main female villains in the early-mid books is pretty scary. She puts what's called a "maternity spell" on the female protagonist (this causes anything that happens to one person in the pair to happen to the other, more or less), and then gets herself violently raped
just to cause the protagonist pain. I forget what the exact reason was for why she didn't just have the guy rape the protagonist, but still... That's pretty ridiculous. And that's not an isolated incident of craziness.
(I have no sympathy for anyone who calls spoilers on my post. The series is pretty old, especially the books that happens in. And I even managed to not say the villain's name.)
