Most Tragic Villain

[spartan231490]

The portrayal of Doc Ock in Spiderman 2 was pretty tragic.

Although there is also Golem from Lord of the Rings. Even at his most evil you can't help but pity him.

I help it. I feel very little pity for Smeagle, and none for Golem.

Most tragic villain? Denna, from Sword of Truth series. I won't spoil it, but if you've read Wizard's First Rule, you know what I'm talking about.

 

[Loud Hawk]

General Francis X. Hummel from The Rock

All he wanted was to compensation for the families of the soldiers that had been "shit on and pissed on by the Pentagon." as Commander Anderson put it.

 

[II2]

Andrew Ryan. Everyday.

So much for wanting your own peaceful, capitalistic utopia.... Under the ocean

Uh... no, actually. He only created Rapture for his own ends, and his ideals were not capitalist, he was into objectivism. From what I gather, that basically means your only goal in life is to serve yourself and no-one else. He was a douchebag who cared about nothing but his own interests, and he got what was coming to him when that all collapsed around him.

Someone who follows objectivism would never create a society for like-minded objectivists (not sure if that's a real word) to live in, because doing something for other people is exactly what that philosophy opposes.

Actually, exactly the kind of thing objectivists would get all over.

You're describing mindset of Frank Fontaine, whose actions and chain reactions ruined rapture.

Before madness and paranoia took him, Andrew Ryan was the archetype of a "Randian Hero" (google it), which makes his plight and villainy tragic.

 

[Outcast107]

Ah I thought of another villain. Davy Jones from Pirates of the Carribean. A man in charge of taking the dead to their resting place if they died at sea. His only thing he look forward to was to see the love of his live after every 10 years. The one day he got off, she didn't show up.

Who else would go mad from having to work your ass off for ten long years, and just seeing the one you love so much for only one day then that love didn't show up at all? I mean it would tear your heart out.

 

[370999]

Lisa Trevor from Resident Evil. I can't say if she's a villain, but if someone is following you throughout the game trying to clobber you to death I think that qualifies.

SPOILERS!
Lisa is the victim of the Umbrella Corporation. She was used as a test subject to determine the effects of various viruses and what-not. The effects were not pleasant. But she survived and proved to be a good test subject. However, she grew increasingly violent and became more of a burden than an asset. They tried to get rid of her but failed. What's left of Lisa is a monstrous form of a girl. She's quite bonkers at this point. Driven insane by misery and pain and the deep longing for her long lost mother. When she finally does locate her mother's remains, she leaps to her death to join her somewhere beyond. However, due to the experiments Lisa is invulnerable to practically all physical damage. Not until the mansion where she lurks (and where the majority of the game takes place) blows up does she finally die. But still, what a tragic existence.

She always felt more of a tragic monster, an onstacel which made you hate Umbrella, yet I think she does count.

I did like some interpretations of Lex Luthor, a brilliant man doomed by his hubris and jealousy. I don't think he is the best as he is a comicbook character but yeah. Also Magneto.

 

[Outcast107]

Another villain I just recently found out is Veigar From League of Legends. He was a non-human who wanted to explore the world and with a few friends got enough money to go with a traveler. Though on one of the stops something happen and Veigar and his friends took the fall. Torture in prison he was slowly driven mad and when he escape he went around learning all kinds of black magic he can.

 

[Rawne1980]

Grey Seer Thanquol from the Gotrek and Felix novels (and his own now).

Not tragic as in he has a sob story for why he does it but more tragic as in he constantly fucks up any plans he makes and manages to blame others.

He quite literally screw up everything so far as wiping out an entire Skaven army by accidentally summoning a Bloodthirster of Khorne, leaving him the only survivor.

 

[Outcast107]

Read first page.
The only books mentioned are Harry Potter and sodding Ayn Rand.
The rest of you list comic super-villains and video game characters.

Fuck this site, seriously. People ask for tragic villains and the vast majority of you list Final Fantasy characters. Fucking laughable.

How about having a cup of shut the fuck up? Get off your high horse and quit being such a asshole when we are just having some fun with naming some tragic villains. Hell why are you on here anyways if you "list video game characters herp a derp"

 

[manic_depressive13]

Read first page.
The only books mentioned are Harry Potter and sodding Ayn Rand.
The rest of you list comic super-villains and video game characters.

Fuck this site, seriously. People ask for tragic villains and the vast majority of you list Final Fantasy characters. Fucking laughable.

You're right; maybe we should go to an internet forum that has users who are well-read and intelligent.

Spoiler

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[k-ossuburb]

Domville from Weaveworld.

Spoiler: WARNING, SPOILER

He was in love with Immacolata, the main villain of the book and in order to prove his love to her he wanted to prove himself her equal and became a necromancer. It went horribly wrong and he accidentally summoned The Surgeons from whatever pit of Hell they resided in to come after him with nothing but revenge in mind for waking them. They chased him across London to Immacolata where she did nothing to stop them from tearing him to ribbons, just before his last breath, when he was nothing but blood, he made one request of Immacolata; that she take his soul. She did, but not for his sake, it was so she could summon him at a whim as The Rake and force him to do her bidding or she'll simply let him remain alive, sliced to ribbons and devoid of bones. If you ask me, all parties involved were lucky he got hit by a train.

 

[MurderousToaster]

Read first page.
The only books mentioned are Harry Potter and sodding Ayn Rand.
The rest of you list comic super-villains and video game characters.

Fuck this site, seriously. People ask for tragic villains and the vast majority of you list Final Fantasy characters. Fucking laughable.

Video game characters?

On a gaming site!?

Seriously, I agree with you. Fuck this place and fuck the people here, for posting things from the medium for which this site exists. Heretical! Blasphemous!

 

[Stealthygamer]

Albert Wesker

Not going into detail because i don't know enough about RE, but what i know from 4&5 it's pretty sad

 

[Toar]

Light from Death Note.

Yes, he was evil from the start, but you almost wanted him to win. He was like an evil SHerlock Holmes with a magic book from Hell.

His demise was unbecoming and therefore tragic.

 

[theevilgenius60]

Got to go with Black Adam's modern origin story. He was originally a superhero in ancient Egypt, but while he was away serving the people his family was brutally murdered. Thus he became a a tyrant of his country, an anti-hero and finally a villain. Plus the whole Isis thing sucks for him as well

 

[Introspector]

Joker. Imagine this, you lose your wife and baby, you have no job, no hope and still have to do a job for the mob or you'll be killed.

You do realize that none of that was real, right? The Joker made it up. Remember all that insanity he's got?

"Something like that happened to me, you know. I...I'm not exactly sure what it was. Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another...If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!"

Surely thats what makes the Joker so tragic, he can't pull his mind together for long enough to remember who he even is. The only thing he knows about himself is that something terrible happened to him. Its even worse if he chooses to have a mind that distorted, he would rather have no concept of who he is and be unable of displaying the most basic human trait, connecting with another person emotionally, than be able to remember this horific incident.