Villians that weren't actually doing anything Illegal.

[D0WNT0WN]

The Baddie From Quantum Of Solace. Something Greene I think his name was, he didnt do anything bad from what I could tell from the movies abysmal storytelling.

It was a pants movie anyway.

Well, he did do a lot of illegal things. He killed the president of a country, got friendly with the man that was supposed to take his place, got him to sign over some land containing water supplying the country, and then forcing that country to pay them for water-supply, otherwise the president would be killed and the procedure would be repeated. Greene also had Fields killed, and a lot of others, and he was one of many people in the organized crime group Quantum of Solace.

Well, you can blame the bad storytelling on the account that I had no idea why Bond and whatsherface were hunting down Greene. Bond villians are supposed to be memorable and over the top but Greene was a boring character anyways.

I prefer Casino Royale.

 

[SamElliot'sMustache]

The "villains" in Lost Planet. For something like 2/3 of the game, I had no idea why they were the bad guys, the only reason the snow pirates and the protagonist gave for being against them was that they were trying to kill all the alien-thingies, which is precisely what their goal in the game is, too. And they spend most of their time trying to figure out a reason why they were against the "villains" in the first place, apart from the fact that they look kind of villainous. And they get around to the big "revelation" about how evil they really are that still gave me the feeling of "weren't the good guys doing this, too?"

That game was really bad, plot-wise.

 

[Cherry Cola]

The Baddie From Quantum Of Solace. Something Greene I think his name was, he didnt do anything bad from what I could tell from the movies abysmal storytelling.

It was a pants movie anyway.

Well, he did do a lot of illegal things. He killed the president of a country, got friendly with the man that was supposed to take his place, got him to sign over some land containing water supplying the country, and then forcing that country to pay them for water-supply, otherwise the president would be killed and the procedure would be repeated. Greene also had Fields killed, and a lot of others, and he was one of many people in the organized crime group Quantum of Solace.

Well, you can blame the bad storytelling on the account that I had no idea why Bond and whatsherface were hunting down Greene. Bond villians are supposed to be memorable and over the top but Greene was a boring character anyways.

I prefer Casino Royale.

Me too.

It actually had... Oh, what's that called? Uh... Oh yeah, interesting characters.

Well what can you expect when Quantum of Solace wasn't written by Ian Flemming.

 

[Merteg]

Mirror's Edge is the obvious choice.

The government assassinated someone for finding out about their plots and framed a police officer for it.

I'm pretty sure that's against the law.

O.T.: Ummmmmmm, I can't think of anything, sorry.

I didn't know that. When did it say that?

Did you not watch the cut-scenes? The government assassinated that one mayoral candidate because he found out about their "Project Icarus," and blamed it on Faith's sister, a police officer.

 

[pffh]

Andrew Ryan?
He might not have been in the MORAL right, but what he did did make sense.

Yeah,but was it legal?

1) Andrew Ryan wasn't the villain, or even -a- villain. Would you kindly consider the rest of the game?
2) Absolutely his actions were legal. He didn't break any laws; he simply -couldn't- because he -made- that laws of that undersea nation. It's a logical impossibility.

Actually,one city don't mean a nation.

Unless....GASP! There are other Raptures!

*Grabs diving gear.*

Sorry to butt in, but Vatican City a nation and its only a city. Just saying

OP: The thought ploice in 1984.

So is Monte Carlo it has small amount of country side around and that's it.

not to mention san marino or Andorra there just a couple of mountain tops.

Nice work team

And lets not forget all the city nations of ancient Greece.

 

[Cherry Cola]

the joker
i think...

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well people have done worse

Let's count up his crimes:

He has the highest non-genocide orientated murder count in the DC universe
He threw a baby at a woman, then killed her for catching him
He shot out the spine of Jim Gordon's daughter, paralyzing her for life
He proceeded to kidnapping Gordon, stripping him naked, made him be tortured by weird deformed insane babies NAKED, whilst people laughed at him, then showed him pictures of his naked and violated bleeding daughter
He beat Robin, who was still legally a child, to death with a pipe
At one point he stole the power of an omnipotent being, fucked up the universe, and subjected Batman to near eternal torture, never ending his torment
He abuses his on-off again girlfriend Harley to the point of fatal wounds
He's bombed masses of civilians for giggles
He restrained several GCPD officers, dressed them in costumes to make them look like him, then got them shot by a police sniper with a grudge against The Joker
He Jokerized all of the metahumans in Slabside Penitentiary, making himself an army of insane supervillains who nearly literally destroyed the world.

He's committed genocide, first, second and third-degree murder, he's pillaged, bombed, extorted, robbed, driven people insane, tortured, and has been a bit of a dick overall.

People, combined, have NOT done worse. Please note all of these examples are canonical to the Comics, don't even get me started on the various spin-offs.

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On topic: Probably has to be Andrew Ryan, he didn't really do anything illegal, seeing as he WROTE the laws of his city. He wasn't in the right, but he wasn't doing anything illegal.

All of that and I still love the Joker.

 

[mechanixis]

Hey, no one's mentioned the Colossi from Shadow of the Colossus yet. They're a good example.

That and Mirror's Edge. All that game ever did was make a half-hearted attempt to stir up players' preexisting paranoias about corporations.

 

[stonethered]

The Empire from star wars.

But they.....*gasp*.....Killed younglings!!!

Younglings that they had taken from their families.

The empire was simply defending the people's best intrests. Sure they had a few maniacs in the upper ranks, but things would have worked out sooner or later. I mean, only the emperor would have lived more than another hundred years or so. Think of the good the imperial armies could have done for the slaves of the outer rim if they hadn't been bogged down fighting those bloody hippies back on endor and hoth.
The rebellion did more harm than good, they should have waited and planned. It's not like jedi wouldn't have eventually offed palpatine in secret. Then the whole galaxy could have settled back into a nice peaceful routine.

the empire re-legalized slavery of all non human beings,just thought id say that, still not illegal though

Oh right, the non-humans.
gotta say, they can stuff it.

I mean, it semed pretty well established to me that humans were already the dominant race of the galaxy. most stormtroopers were actual humans, not clones, most rebel troops were the same. sure the aliens were novel and exotic and all, but when push came to shove who was running things. It had been that way in the republic, it continued to be that way in the new republic. If aliens siding with the rebellion thought they were actually gaining anything they were in for a surprise. The aliens that sided with the empire, they did fairly well for themselves. It was the ones that resisted that suffered.

 

[Sewblon]

The Anti-Christ. In the Bible he basically just sets up his own regime and deliberately enacts immoral laws.

 

[mechanixis]

The Combine were absolutely doing nothing illegal. Just taking over another world and exterminating a race of undesirables. =-)

They weren't even exterminating them, they were inviting them to join their extraplanar empire in a state of perpetual biotechnological transcendence! Really, if you listen to Breane, Gordon and the rebels were just kind of being bigots.

 

[NuclearPenguin]

Almost every "villain" in Tomb Raider

Lara Croft is the villain.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

Stephanie Meyer.

Do I need to explain why?

 

[ButanicXpandA]

Dr. Breen, he didn't do anything illegal, he saved the human race... (even though it did turn out bad in the long run)

 

[whycantibelinus]

The Combine were absolutely doing nothing illegal. Just taking over another world and exterminating a race of undesirables. =-)

They weren't even exterminating them, they were inviting them to join their extraplanar empire in a state of perpetual biotechnological transcendence! Really, if you listen to Breane, Gordon and the rebels were just kind of being bigots.

God bless The Combine, I would join them in a heartbeat.

Have you ever watched Freeman's Mind or Civil Protection?

 

[Poofs]

I'd Say all of the villainsin the first Assassins Creed
They pulled a few dick moves but all in all they wanted to help people
except for the last boss, he was a true villain

Also the main villain of the Far Cry movie
you was just working for the gov't to get a nice payday and then some dick with a weird accent comes along and frees a bunch of mindless super soldiers that kill him

neither of them ever actually broke any laws

 

[silentsentinel]

mirrors edge of course, its all very shiny and nice i didn't see any corruption, well probably coz i couldn't see anything to begin with

The glare in that game blinded me.

 

[brumby]

Bowser, aside from kidnapping, he's never really done anything

IT WAS A DATE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! Mario just couldn't accept the fact that peach dumped him in favor of Big Bowow because he actually took her places.

lol. so true. it was her stupid fault for living in a giant castle all by herself.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

A lot of the bad guys in Jade Empire weren't doing anything "illegal" by the laws of that time. They just had power and were using it to their advantage.

And most of the baddies in God Hand are just standing around minding their own business until you run up and punch them in the face.

Of course, any question of legality in the Warhammer 40k universe is ludicrous. Even those enforcing the law are hypocritical in the extreme. Personally, I've always felt the Eldar were the closest to the moral "good."

 

[Thaius]

The antagonist in almost any romance story (chick flicks specifically). Illegal activities are rare in that contrived, derivative, dying genre.

 

[Miles Tormani]

No one mentions Tom from Tom and Jerry? If anything, Jerry was the villain for doing all that stuff to get Tom in trouble with his keepers. Tom, being a cat, was just doing his job of trying to get rid of a mouse.

EDIT: Also, Andrew Ryan is not the villain in Bioshock.