Time you rooted for the antagonist

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Well, can't you not help rooting for Vegeta?

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

I've rooted for:

Dracula: Dracula
Goa'uld: Stargate
Voldemort: Harry Potter
The Galactic Empire: Star Wars
Team Rocket: Pokemon
The Drowning Doom and the Tainted Coil: Brutal Legend
The Atlanteans: Age of Mythology
The Fire Nation: Avatar: The Last Airbender


I think it would be easier to just list the times I actively rooted for the good guys. Hell, I liked Cain a whole score more than Abel. Cain busted his ass and God just played favorites. What the Hell, Yaweh?

 

[Klitch]

07-Ghost. I rooted for the bad guy not because he had a good plan or was interesting or anything; he was actually just a bland trope evil doer who wants to destroy everything for no real reason. I cheered Ayanami on mostly because the protagonist of that anime, Teito, was the most obnoxious, pathetic excuse for a "hero" that I've ever seen. I watched that anime almost two years ago but that androgynous emo twat still makes my blood boil.

 

[gkid87]

the shark in soul surfer

 

[Matt225distraction]

Just like in the Jason post up above, Alien/Predator/Alien Vrs. Predator I never really gave a crap about the human characters. Just because it's a wittle kid wit his daddy out hunting doesn't mean I'm going to cry when I see facehuggers popping out of their chests. Oh, and some cop we never really characterized got skinned and hung upside-down in the woods like some twisted pinata thing. 'Mkay.

Oh, what? The military "Jus' followin orders" idiots bombed the entire town and killed civilians along with the aliens? It's disappointing enough to get rid of the antagonists- you had to have the crazy woman and her stupid daughter not be a part of the bombing. C'mon!

 

[TimeLord]

I rooted for Admiral Orlock in Killzone 3. He was massively underused and.....

Spoiler

....should not have been killed off!

 

[Queen Michael]

Darth Vader in the original trilogy.

 

[OctoH]

There is a South Korean spy thriller series called "Iris," as well as its spin-off "Athena." In "Athena," I ended up rooting for the main antagonist (Son Hyeok) before the lead male protagonist (Lee Jung-woo).

 

[tzimize]

Ahh, I was rooting for Dragon Age 2's antagonist.


Yeah.
Try figure out who the **** I could be talking about.

The Arishok? Unless you're poking fun at the game having no clear-cut major antagonist/villain. (Though it does feature many personages of incredibly warped and/or evil persuasion).

I'm poking fun. I'd rather poke the Marketing team with something sharp, but this will have to do.

Though now you mention it, the Arishock is a good example. The game only ever seemed to come to life when he was on screen. So yeah, I guess I WAS rooting for him. That, and everyone else felt utterly insane. His hatred of being stuck in Kirkwall reflected my own thoughts.
I wanted to go off with him on a much more interesting adventure.

Hahahah, ah...you know, I feel surprisingly similar when I think about it.

 

[Adam Green]

Gargamel from The Smurfs. Buncha blue little tossers that needed killing every time they even muttered their own race name.

 

[norwegian-guy]

In my first playthrough of Arcanum I was a good natured necromancer, upon meeting Kerghan, who then proceeded to share his philosophy, I myself became the "antagonist".

Then we killed everyone in the world. To stop all the suffering of course...

The best thing about this ending is that if you have Virgil (I think that was his name, the first partmember that joins you as part of the story) actually tells you that the antagonist is kinda right in his philosophy through an experience he had (IF he's poisitive-karma Virgil.)

 

[Nexoram]

Well, I sometimes root for anti-heroes...? No? Well, anyway, I almost always root for the protagonist. Can't remember hoping the bad guys win off the top of my head.

 

[thevillageidiot13]

Generally all the slasher movies. You know the villain is going to be killed so you root him on to kill as many people as possible until then.

Same. Also, the non-villains tend to be oblivious fuckheads, mindless dipshits, and horrible actors, so who really cares if they all get killed off?

 

[Vrex360]

Jason Voorhees.

Those teenagers are idiotic, they must not be allowed to breed into our gene pool... LEAVE NONE ALIVE!!

 

[iLikeHippos]

I rooted for the humans in Avatar, because their technology was so massively superior to the Na'vis that I had goosebumps.

Like, when they... hit the big tree with all those rockets, I screamed in my head "YEAH! EAT THAT MOTHERFUCKERS!!! Human tech in the house!"
And I was disappointed when that inevitable bullshit happened in the end.
Not even going to have explaining that. You know what I'm talking about...

Also, in Death Note, I was all for L. Mainly because I could relate more to him than Kira, as it was, in the end, to defend everyone.
But who is the antagonist and protagonist is all subjective there I suppose.

 

[DanDeFool]

Wile E. Coyote.

... he must be starving to death after trying to catch that roadrunner for that long.

 

[Sulgoth]

Pretty much most of the time.

Cobra = way cooler outfits and theme than GI Joe.
Skeletor = Way cooler than He-Man. Also, has a skullface.
Etc, etc.

In fact, you can pretty much blame this effect on 80's cartoons. For me, at least.

Ugh now all I can think about is those stupid mutants the Thundercats were always fighting, not rooting for those useless twits OR Mumrah.

On the other hand the deceptacons have always been much cooler than the auto bots. Megatron was plain bad ass.

 

[Sarge034]

The Covenant in Halo ODST. That game ripped me off. I wished death upon humanity.

 

[Antwerp Caveman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyljCxdFUs

 

[Wondermint13]

Team Rocket!

Prepare for Trouble And Make it Double
To Protect the World from devastation
To Unite All People within our Nation
To Denounce the Evils of Truth and Love
To Extend our reach to the Stars Above
Jesse
James Team Rocket Blast off at the Speed of Light
Surrender Now or Prepare to Fight