Villainous Discussion

[Orange Monkey]

Alright my Escapist chums, here's an opportunity to show your creative streak. If you were a Villain in a video game, any genre you want, what would be your plot? What motive would you have to do your evil deeds? A tragic backstory perhaps? Show me how truelly twisted and deceitful you can be if you put your mind to it.

 

[aww yea]

oh barack obama will tell you all about that

in due time

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I would be an anti-villain.
I'd genuinely think my goals are pure, and actually be a pretty relateable person.
Also, I would be stark raving mad and periodically kill people in a teary, screamy rage.
That is, of course, if I was the villain.
I am actually more of an anti-hero.
Jerk with a heart of gold, and so-on.

 

[CMon]

Actually, if I had been a villain I suspect I would just have been an anarchic, sadistic fuckstick like The Joker from Batman; I'd wreck havoc, not because it earns me anything material, but because being bad would be delightfully satisfying. One of the dark sides of my personality is the "I would if I could" part. I would probably smash a car if that hadn't sent me to jail. I would probably start a career as a pickpocket if I had the skills for it.

Chaos is entertaining. When I play a sandbox game, I look for the first opportunity to break out of the main story and do some free-for-all roaming involving numerous innocent victims and as many explosions I can create in a short amount of time.

So that's my type of villain: A terrorist without a motive, that enjoys making life slightly more sour for everyone else. Possibly the most dangerous type of villain, because since he didn't need a push over the edge to start his regime of ludacrisy, he probably needs more than just one stumbling block to stop him.

 

[Mad Maniac with axe-firing chainsaw]

Hmm... I'd go down the mad biology route. Dragons, giant nuke resistant cockroaches, and always, always lots of three trunked elephants... with maces for trunks... and a laser cannon attached to the back... with iron skin.

 

[Internet Kraken]

I'd be a villain for the sake of being evil. I would twirl my mustache as I threaten to burn down the farmer's crops if they do not pay me. Then when they do pay me, I burn down their crops anyways while I laugh a sinister laugh.

I would also have a top hat and monocle.

 

[True Nero]

i would be Ramunis Fexir, a man who is known around the world for being evil with the likes of Osama, Kim Jong Il, and Rosie O'Donnell. Then when the time was right, i would hold the world hostage with my army of genetically altered attack peanuts. peanuts so evil that if you ate them, it would make even Jesus want to beat puppies with dead kittens.

mwa ha ha ha....

 

[No one knows]

Ah, I'm torn between two options here, the old style villain, you know the type, who would tie maidens to train tracks in silent films despite knowing that the hero would come and save the day. Or I would be the man who was forced into becoming an evil masterminds right hand man, because of his skills, he has no choice as the mastermind is threatening to kill his family if he doesn't work for him, when he eventually overthrows the mastermind he can go back to his old lifestyle, but he has developed a taste for the criminal underworld, and carries on the legacy... as the new mastermind

Whoa... I got a little bit too immersed into the backstory there, oh yeah and:

I would also have a top hat and monocle.

I would also don the top hat and monacle, one must look his finest when plotting to destroy his enemies.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

I'd run for president in the US, get the votes, then lead America to a time of poorness and despair...Oh, wait, that's been done.

No, but seriously, I'd be nice for a decade, build up the confidence and gain the trust of everyone so they'll do me favors. I'll trick them into doing devious things that will make me be able to create an empire, take over the planet, and give villains the right to do anything. Then, when all that is done, I will flee from the destroyed planet before I die, bring a few evil friends, and move to my secret base on the moon, with TV and all video games, and a parallel universe portal, so I can get DNF. Then I'll take over that universe, and the next one, and on and on, until I finally get what I want... A cake that isn't a lie!

 

[The_Echo]

I would be the evil force that nobody really understands what it is. You know, the ones that brainwash the main villain into doing its bidding because it can't do it themselves and spawn the thousands of enemies throughout the game at the worst moments just to piss you off. Yeah, that's the one. I have no backstory. I have no relate-ability. I have no physical manifestation, even! I just do evil things because I'm evil, and because I'm an "evil force" rather than an "evil person," I can keep coming back, resulting in one too many sequels, which is as evil as you can get!

Probably be any genre, really.

 

[Omikron009]

I would be a crazy comic book villain with a colourful, but functional costume and a liking for elaborate slow-moving death machines. I would, however, not tell the hero my plan before condemning him (or her) to certain escape. I would also wait and see if my trap actually worked. If not I would shoot them. My plot would probably involve a giant ray gun or nuclear weapon or mutant army. It would be very theatrical.

 

[HardRockSamurai]

My evil plot would be to halt the manufacturing of all condoms, birth control pills, etc

Once the world overpopulates itself, I'll sit back and laugh, stroking my pet cat...

 

[Lissa-QUON]

I would totally be the old school James Bond type of villian. Never get my own hands dirty unless I really wanted to (a girl's gotta have a hobby), and have henchmen do everything for me. Plus who doesn't want their own massive hidden fortress?

Of course my methods would be the "build a Doomsday Device and hold the world hostage while laughing maniacally" bit. Got to keep up appearances and all that.

 

[randommaster]

I'd be one who would constantly follow the hero around saying horrible puns, and when they attack me, everyone hates them and they becaome the villian because they attacked an innocent person.

If not that, I would be a villian who is out for revenge, but constantly gets the wrong hero.
"Wait, you mean you're not Xarnax? I'm really sorry about your family, then."

 

[KingPiccolOwned]

My plot would be to take 500 really crazy and strong dudes and meld them into an incredibly insane godlike being, and then seal myself off in another dimension with whatever people and things I so choose (so as not to get bored) and watch the havok unfold. And then throw Broly into the mix to see who is crazier and stronger. Round 3 would be the blue guy. Then Alucard, which I would not expect said blue guy to beat as he is simply a mass of negative incantations and science fails when confronted with true magic.

 

[watergirl]

I would build a giant psychic octopus and drop it on New York to convince everyone in the world they had to work together for the common good.

 

[SquirrelPants]

I would be a guy who controls a country's military. He is by no means a villain. His country is being invaded by a global superpower, and is eventually overcome. While the man WAS the enemy, and portrayed as a bad guy to the players and whatnot, he was actually a very noble man. This would result in the player's character(another military general, the one of the superpower) to kill himself since he killed such a great man.

 

[thiosk]

Step 1: Communicate with alien species.

Step 2: Trade the populations of various continents for battle fleet and nanobot replicators.

Step 3: Quash the inevitable rebellion, making sure all ventillation ducts in my secret lab are too small for people.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

I would be an anti-villain.
I'd genuinely think my goals are pure, and actually be a pretty relateable person.
Also, I would be stark raving mad and periodically kill people in a teary, screamy rage.
That is, of course, if I was the villain.
I am actually more of an anti-hero.
Jerk with a heart of gold, and so-on.

An anti-villian? Like...

Spoiler

Garland?

Anyway, I'd be what appears to be a hero, but I'd "accidentally" help the enemy at any possible moment. At some point, when a good number of people gather together, I'll stealth them all.

 

[klakkat]

Hmm. So many ways. I like the "Mad Scientist" route, since I actually do happen to be a physicist, and it would be perfect to name some apocalypse scenario after a friend of mine, he also being a physicist. It would be called "The Newby Effect" (yes, that is REALLY his name, spelled like that, and pronounced as you would expect).

But then, the "sudden betrayal" method is also quite fun, where I'm a hero for a bit then fuck over the other heroes. Always satisfying.

If I have no superpowers (and can't engineer some kind of apocalypse that's original, or at least better than nukes), then going the "Global Manipulator" route is the ticket. There's less glory (none in fact) in being the behind the scenes controller of the world, but hey, if I can't stop a bullet with my forehead or threaten to blow up the world, being undetectable is a good thing, and I still win.