DugMachine said:
inb4 Cthulhu.
My favorite evil god is Cthulhu lol
Not a god. Also not evil. Being a being of cosmic scale with a mind incomprehensible to humans doesn't make him any more of an evil god than it makes you if you step on an anthill, or wash your hands with antibacterial soap.
AM City Watch said:
Well, I'm something of a traditionalist, so I'm going to have to say Lucifer. The Light-Bearer, the Morningstar, First of the Fallen, all that jazz.
Any dark god can fuck people up with blood sacrifice, armies of devoted followers, and powerful magics.
It takes class to screw over reality with a single piece of fruit.
He who shines the light of knowledge upon the ignorant, the divine teacher? No, seriously, the whole reason that Lucifer is connected with the judeochristian devil is because he gets referred to as the morning star which was also one of Lucifer's titles. It's really kind of sad that a minor Roman god of knowledge coupled with a Greek fertility god (really god of the wilds, theatrical criticism, and associated with spring and thus fertility) became the standard for describing the "great evil" of christianity.
BehattedWanderer said:
...Bowser.
Dude never dies, holds infinite cosmic power, has repeatedly shown that he can never die, subjugates worlds, has crushed his "nemesis" on quite a few occasions and then let said nemesis find a series of power boosts just to have someone on relatively equal ground to spar against. The only reason he loses is that he gives a fair chance to his rival, that it might be fun.
That or Sheogorath. Almost entirely because I'm fond of the batshit crazy fuckers who play with their own non-euclidean die when everyone else is rolling d6's.
Dirty Hipsters said:
Regiment said:
Apocalymon is pretty good, what with "destroy all the universes" as a special attack.
Does Hades from the Disney movie count? He's awesome.
I'm not sure why Hades is constantly shown in popular media as a villain. In actual Greek mythology he was a pretty cool guy.
Well, relatively. It's not like there were good and evil gods in that mythology, each god acting in turn savior and prickhead, depending on which mortal we're talking about. He's not exactly bad, but the whole pomegranate/Persephone thing doesn't exactly scream "I'm a nice guy".
I'm not sure Sheogorath is really evil, though. He's, by any mortal conception, mad as a hatter, but that's related to that whole "non-euclidean dice" thing.
Personally, I like Light, the (in his own words) God of the New World. He was pretty malevolent in order to push his own version of absolute justice, and was totally aware that that's what he was (unlike say Cthulhu to whom we are practically non-beings).
Deathleaper said:
I want to say Nyarlathotep, the one Outer God who enjoys royally fucking with humanity and, along with every other damned Outer God, can break a person by simply showing them one of his many forms(that isn't a human form).
He also answers to and serves Azathoth. Though, how he can serve a "blind, idiot god" that would unmake him if it were aware of him really is beyond my comprehension.
Now, Nyarlathotep I can get behind. Unlike the other Outer Gods and Old Ones, he actually seems to understand and interact with humanity in a fashion beyond how humanity treats bacteria. He's malevolent as hell, most of the time, too. As for Azathoth, Azathoth is essentially unthinking primal chaos -- entropy incarnate.
Mellomi said:
What, nothing of our great lady Xel'lotath? I'd say Mantorok, but he's not actually evil (as far as we know).
Ah, but Mantorok was the great schemer of the entire game (mostly through manipulating the Roivas line). By interacting with multiple alternate realities simultaneously, he got his siblings (each of which he is stronger than, but who he cannot handle in aggregate, which is how he was chained in the first place) to fight and defeat each other, and lead to being released from his bindings. If there were a sequel, he would be the big bad.
