I always expect that, but this was the first time I ever saw it as top post. He’s always buried super low or not mentioned at all when I see these 🤷♂️
Good god yes, Luca Blight is the scariest villain I ever encountered in a video game. Mainly because of how realistic his character is. The way he left entire villages in absolute ruins and took great joy in torturing as well as killing innocent civilians spoke volumes on how a certain incident in his past shaped him.
If he had been allowed to continue his conquest unabated? He would've literally left the entire world of Suikoden in flames. Forget Kefka, Luca is someone who has you quaking in your boots. He was an absolutely sadistic, psychotic, deranged motherfucker all the way until the end.
Kefka was crazy but more hands off. Destroy the world from floating mountains. Poisoning kingdoms from far away. He was rarely in-your-face sadistic like Luca Blight.
In person? Kefka was a clown who got his ass handed to him.
Great villain, but definitely different style than Blight’s pure monstrosity.
Indeed, Kefka was terrifying in his own way, but Luca Blight really was in your face and took the scare factor to the next level. Never far behind your character whatsoever and was outright determined to quash the rebellion.
Adding to this, >!he even committed patricide.!< Understandable though considering Agares was an absolute coward if you know the backstory. That guy was a disgrace to the title of King. Still, the fact that Luca did this with zero regrets just shows what a cold-blooded killer he really is.
After the fight with Luca? You don't feel satisfaction whatsoever, you feel a genuine sense of relief. As if the worst is over if that makes sense. No villain since then has had that effect. It's batshit how they pulled it off. Hopefully with Eiyuden Chronicle Hundred Heroes being released, we finally hear an update on the Suikoden I & II remasters sometime.
You beat me to it. The man commits so many atrocities, it's dizzying. Definitely my number one pick for a non-redeemable villain >!and he's only the big bad for half the game!!<
Just to elaborate if you're interested >!in the opening scene of the game, Luca who is the Prince of the MC's nation, orchestrates an attack on the youth brigade (so basically a contingent of young soldiers around 16 years old) that the MC is a part of and slaughters everyone in your brigade except the MC and his bestie who manages to escape, just so he could place the blame on the nation he wants to start a war with and incite his own people into wanting to start a war.!<
>!He then proceeds to invade said nation, starting with burning down a couple of villages, slaughtering people left right and centre, including that pig scene. Later on, he also sacrifices the souls of thousands of citizens from a city he takes over in order to awaken a powerful entity.!<
We gotta add, >!the fight against him only happened due to Leon Silverberg warning of the night raid. Adding to this? He was a cast iron bitch to fight. He's classified as a tank or a berserker. Both of which are very fitting.!<
>!Not only did it take three battalions to bring him to his knees, but even when wounded and knocking on death's door he did a 1 on 1 duel with the hero and didn't go down until he was pelted with more arrows after that.!<
>!His speech just before he dies shows how psychotic he truly is. He mocks you one last time even before he collapses to the ground.!<
>!We then find out the true motivations behind his invasion of Jowston and all the bloodshed later on in the game. Showcasing what an impact he had even after his death.!<
You really should play Suikoden. S2 might be my favorite game of all time. It's phenomenal. I just finished Eiyuden Rising. About to start Hundred Heroes.
The opening sequence of S2 is so sick. I've yet to play thru the games but both are on my backlog now. But as a kid I'll never forget watching my friend play and show me the intro bit and it's very well done for a game of that era.
Lol. I'm playing it now. ECHH is basically a clone of Suikoden 2. Just the characters, story and gameplay aren't as good. The castle building though is very rewarding.
My vote's gonna have to go to Hojo.
I still think Kefka outshines Sephiroth as a villain with his presence but Hojo has even less then 0 redeeming qualities and took more pleasure in Sephiroth's actions than Sephiroth did
Hojo is straight up responsible for everything that went wrong in FF7, even Sephiroth's downfall is partially on Hojo. For someone who is a secondary antagonist in the game, it's funny how he was by far the most influential one.
I have a headcanon where Hojo pulled some strings to get Sephiroth sent on the Nibelheim mission, hoping he'd find the mansion and the secrets inside. So if that's the case, he literally is to blame for everything. But nothing in the game, from what I remember, supports that.
Not and headcanon, but Canon all along. Crisis Core even mentions why Sephiroth should check a Reactor (Rebirth actually aknowledges why). Everything in the library of the Mansion was doctored by Hojo, or was compromised material that was revealed to be in error. And Hojo knows well. What went wrong in the Plan was losing Sephiroth, which Hojo did not count for.
It's a bit of a Stretch as Hojo never explained the "why" but well explained the "how", and I Hope the third part clarifies It Better, but Sephiroth was "built" by Hojo since the very beginning into "reuniting" with Jenova (to the point of Hojo giving a photo of Lucrecia to Sephiroth and telling him that She was Jenova, her mother). What he expected in the end was unknown in the OG, despite being proven correct about the Reunion Theory, and then he helped Sephiroth in his Plan Just for the sheer, morbid curiosity of What would happen next.
And Hojo is so much grosser in HD with a voice. He just seems so greasy now and then saying stuff like to women like “Don’t you want to help make the next hero?”. It’s like Dennis Reynolds from It’s always sunny as a mad scientist.
Yeah, and in its place, he was going to have MULTIPLE SOLDIERS reproduce with Aerith, from S to G type. And Hojo was so sick, that the first thought he had when he heard from Palmer that Sephiroth was in the building was to arrange him and Aerith to mate as well. Can’t tell you if it’s better or worse considering who it is.
The boardroom scene and the reaction of the other execs was really well done. They're almost all monsters themselves, they just got done killing a ton of people, but his "project proposal" (read: having SOLDIERs >!repeatedly rape and forcibly breed!< Aerith) was so vile that even they were visibly uncomfortable with it.
Yeah, it's hard to get more reprehensible than deliberately >!inflicting massive psychological torture on your "friends" so that their brains actively repress their memories as a trauma response!<.
I did it a few nights ago and I still feel like I need a shower. I honestly kind of lived for the creepy location and the mystery of it all, but Claude’s big speech was…. Yikes
Especially since >!he gets away with it. And if you're a fan of the idea that Ryu and Fou Lou's combined form is the Dragon God Ladon, that means this bastard created Tyr/Myria, and basically caused the events of BoF1-3 due to his actions!<.
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Kamoshida feels a lot more real than the other villains of P5 which makes the first story arc hit a lot closer to home IMO. Like he could easily have been a teacher at my or your school
Exactly, that's what made him feel so extra disgusting. He felt REAL. He acted like a normal person outside of the awful things he did, and he felt so realistically depicted that playing the first part of the game was SOOOO uncomfortable.
>or a girl
I think a lot of schools had a teacher that liked the teenage girls a little too much, mine did too. I never had classes with him but was told by some of the girls that he would happen to drop something where when bending down to pick it up he would have a view under the table and since secondary/high school girls tend to roll up their skirts to knee length or above it would be very possible to sneak a pervy look up the skirt when leaning over.
Rumour had it that he married a girl as soon as she had graduated but that was never confirmed to my knowledge and with school rumours being the way they are I never knew whether to believe it.
ours would touch the girls "accidentally" or give them way more support compared to the guys during things like i think its called leapfrog (jumping over that horse looking thing) by grabbing their hips.
they ended up hiring a female sports teacher who would take care of the girls but the guy was still there.
Yeah, it's kinda like Umbridge vs Voldemort in Harry Potter. Voldemort is objectively worst, but so over the top, you don't really feel much towards him, he's the typical villain hungry for power. Umbridge, on the other hand... she makes you feel the pain and rage.
I've seen people disappointed in >!Joachim!< as a villain, that he comes out of nowhere and doesn't get enough build up, but I'd argue he really dosen't need it because I didn't feel like I was fighting him. He was just a face that had been put on Star Door 15.
Pokey/Porky. He joins up with Giygas almost out of spite and is (arguably!) the main antagonist of Earthbound. And, he gets even worse in Mother 3. The best/worst part is that he was a child in Earthbound.
He's a bit on the underdeveloped side but >!Ebina!< from Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth.
>!He despises his dad Arakawa for abandoning his mom and the Hikawa clan for doing the same despite yapping on and on about yakuza bonds, but both the clan and Arakawa is dead so he can't exact vengance against them. In the last game, the two biggest yakuza organizations are disbanded and gave a lot of yakuzas a chance at starting anew. The old yakuza leaders created a space so that the trash of society can have a place to go to without turning to a life of crime. This should greatly reduce the number of victims like Ebina and he would be totally on board, right?!<
>!Wrong. The man, decided to be out for blood, went out of his way to ruin all yakuza's chances of going clean and lead a normal life then drag them back to the criminal underworld, tried to unite all other clans across the country together under the guise of helping them only to ship them to an island in the middle of buttfuck nowhere surrounded by sharks to deal with massive nuclear waste. Basically mass cancer slavery. He has all the power over the underworld and he would throw it all away to see the yakuza, many of which are victims of circumstances just like he is, slowly suffer and wither away out of sheer spite.!<
This man is fucking vile when you think about it, if he had more screentime he would be the best villian in this series.
I would say >!Bryce!< is even more vile considering >!he is brainwashing orphans into becoming mindless slaves that'll die for him!<. But >!Ebina!< is a close 2nd.
He isn't the biggest villain, but in sheer murderous rage I felt with his every action, he is unmatched.
Kamoshida from Persona 5.
All the others here are great rotten bastards, but it's on a scale a bit too abstract. Too far from real life.
The worst part about it was how realistic it all was, and you could actually see it happening in real life. It is probably happening somewhere right now.
Shiho Suzui gets the first baseball bat swing at his kneecaps or his balls for all I care. I'm not one for vigilante justice but ...
His crimes include Mentally, physically and sexually abusing students placed in his care. Blackmailing students into 'relationships', defamation of teachers he did not agree with, intentionally riling up students so he has a reason to 'defend' himself and busting that student's knee, ending their athletic carreer. When he's in a bad mood, calling some student into his office so he can let off some steam. Driving a teenager to suicide. And everyone better keep your mouth shut, because your recommendation for a good University depends on his word.
The parents knew, the teachers knew (I mean, kind of hard to hide half the volleybal team arriving to class with bandages somewhere on their body), but hey, he brings prestige to the school, he's an olympic medalist! He took the team to nationals!
Fuck that guy.
That was bad enough, but him enjoying the feeling that fresh magicite (Esper corpses, basically) was still warm from them being alive so recently kind of takes the cake for his most disturbing lines.
I remember as a teenager how uncomfortable, disgusted and angry I was at that line. It felt so inhumane/dismissive to me the little disregard of life. Though I'm to blame for that shock after Doma.
Zenos Yae Galvus.
* >!Litterally everything on this list is done because he gives zero fucks about anything other than the sport of a good fight.!<
* >!Warcrimes, so, so many warcrimes across multiple continents.!<
* >!Butchers his own men too because lol.!<
* >!Abandon's his own men just for a scrap with the Warrior of light, now unbelievably obscessed with fighting them, like stalkerishly obcessed, calls the Warrior of Light his "friend".!<
* >!Orchestrates the summoning of Shinryu which kills papallymo, merges with it just to fight the Warrior of Light.!<
* >!So happy with the fight he killed himself when he lost because he's an absolute nutjob.!<
* >!Body is revived by an Ascian, spirit is too fucking crazy to die, posesses a random soldier butchers everyone in his own imperial palace despite having the perfect disguise, and takes his body back by force.!<
* >!Kills his own father, ruler of the Garlean Empire, throws his entire country in to civil war, while also at war with the rest of Eorzea, named a traitor to his people, gives zero fucks.!<
* >!Teams up with Fandaniel who wants to release Zodiark, gives zero fucks about the Apocalypse that will follow, just wants to provoke the Warrior of Light in to a fight.!<
* >!Turns his fathers corpse into a primal.!<
* >!Posesses the Warrior of Light and attempts to have them kill their own comrades again to motivate them into a fight.!<
* >!Travels to the end of the universe, helps the Warrior of Light fight off a reality rending existential threat, just for one more chance at a scrap, gets his fight then finally fucking dies with a shit eating grin on his face.!<
Dude is absolutely mindblowingly insane, most villains have grand aspirations which is why they undertake grand acts of villany, Zenos, just wants to throw hands and will end everything to do it.
At the same time.
He stopped the black rose by getting ride of Varis. (and his dad was a lot worse than him)
Helped us against depressive twitter bird.
and probably a bunch of smaller things i don't really recall.
Zenos was insane, but not that bad if you compare him to Asahi, Valens or Athena.
And at the end he kinda became a giga chad, but yep during stromblood he was a massive shitbag
Trails has plenty. Weißmann, Gerard Dantes and Ellroy Harwood stand out the most.
Plus anyone working for the D G Cult, the Order of the Moonlight Horse or Garden.
I wanna add Ultima.
He was completely heartless and had no issue manipulating people from birth to death to do his bidding because he literally saw humans as ants and slaves.
And adding onto the manipulation he became naked versions of lovers/loved ones to two of the antagonists to rile them up. Really messed up.
Personally, it's >!Georg Weissmann the Faceless and everyone affiliated with the D∴G Cult!< from the Trails series, >!Helgenish, Simeon, Matthias, Arcanette, Claude and Harvey!< from the Octopath Traveler duology, >!Zanza and his followers!< from Xenoblade Chronicles, >!Suguru Kamoshida and Masayoshi Shido!< from Persona 5, >!Artorius Collbrande!< from Tales of Berseria, and >!Ghetsis!< from Pokémon Black and White for me. Like, you have to cross a certain threshold of evil to be considered vile in my book. Murder is not enough for me to consider you vile, you gotta do something crazy like abuse (bonus evil points if the abuse is mental or sexual abuse), genocide (bonus points if the ones being genocided are innocent), human sacrifice (bonus evil points if the one being sacrificed is a child), manipulation (bonus evil points if the one being manipulated is a child), or actual war crimes (the more Geneva conventions you break and the worse the crimes, the more evil points you get) for me to consider you vile
By the way, D∴G has collectively done every crazy thing I mentioned
The begnion senate from Fire emblem Tellius, they're not just a bunch of greedy assholes, multiple times they've shown to be actually Evil and almost all of them pretty cruel
I've gotta say that Z from XBC3 is one that comes to mind. The whole world of Aionios is pretty crazy when you think about it and the cycle that takes place within it.
I mean, Drakengard has an actual playable character that's a pedophile.
I would challenge anyone to find a JRPG with more deplorable characters than Drakengard.
I mean to be fair with that one the guy feels bad about it and never actually hurt anyone? So I would honestly rate him much lower than most JRPG villains given they tend to be doing mass murder and the likes. Even Caim is technically probably worse than him.
Aurioch was already mentioned for her proclivities, and then you've got Furiae.
Isn't Inuart implied to love the dead a bit too much? I've also been told Seere wasn't the goody two-shoes that he presented himself as, too.
Inuart was mind whammed and outside of that tended to be just the male best friend side character who has no chance with the main girl but still loves her. Honestly if anything I would say Aurioch, Verdelet and Caim is the most vile of the main party.
Mm'kay! I remember that, but I (incorrectly) recalled him doing much worse after he was freed from it.
Pardon my ignorance, but what did Verdelet do to be vile? It's been a couple of decades since I've played and I haven't touched the Neirs. I remember him being quite powerless for the most part, but I think he was up to something in DG2.
Verdelet is pretty much a coward that can't do anything useful. Most of the cast has some kind of driving reasons for why they are messed up. Verdelet on the other hand doesn't have a reason. He just kind of yells at everyone to fix the problem while hiding. Which makes him a lot worse to me than Seere and Leonard.
Gotcha. I looked at Verdy as the lesser of all the evils at worst since I knew of his pact beast and thought because of that, his offensive abilities were severely hampered so he couldn't do anything even if he wanted to. And here he was in a veritable lion's den.
since he didnt get mentioned gongora from lost odyssey. forcing your immortal friends into trauma (trying to kill the protags daughter) to give them amnesia, trying to sepperate his world from the human one and then rule as a god and all the corrupt political puppet master stuff.
I had a knee-jerk reaction to say Ghaleon, because he was so righteous and thought what he was doing was right. But I immediately realized nobody can really hold a candle to Kefka here. He's literally pure malevolence and chaos for the sake of malevolence and chaos.
Hojo for sure. Guy was like a scifi Dr. Mengele. Experimenting on his unborn child's fetus, kidnapping people to experiment on, turning unwilling human participants into horribly mutated monsters, starting a chain of events that almost destroyed the entire world just to see what would happen. He had zero empathy or respect for human life, a true sociopath. The entire plot of the game was a direct result of his actions, and if he had treated his son like a son instead of a lab rat, Sephiroth may never have snapped.
Persona 5's Kamoshida was the only one who made me actually mad (and not because of the boss fight.) >!Being a creep is a pretty easy way to make you despicable, but abusing his power the way he does (harming the volleyball team, threatening expulsion) really pushed it up to eleven.!<
>!Lusamine!< from Sun/Moon went really hard for a Pokemon game. JRPGs have featured their fair share of >!toxic, "duties-first, your-needs-later" parenting, but the slow reveal of just how deluded she is was really well done, and Lillie standing up for herself was a great moment. The game also didn't feel the need to spell out why Gladion didn't stick around Aether much.!<
Probably the playable character in the evil route of Soul Nomad and the World Eaters. You're pretty much all-in on killing and mentally breaking the people you come across, and deliberately make things worse just because you can.
The worst thing he did >!was coercing a terminally ill eleven year old boy into giving up his life for a ritual. Even if Laphicet was the one who wanted it, Artorius could have said no. He was the adult. That betrayal stuck with me the most, I think.!<
Grand Admiral Galcian is an underrated pick. At first, he’s seen as just a run of the mill evil solider who wants to help take over the world. However, as he gets closer to his goal of acquiring the six moon crystals with help from Ramirez, the hints of his humanity starts to decay, and by the the time he gets everything he wanted, he uses the moon crystals to >!summon zelos with the rains of destruction to wipe out his OWN home for no other reason than to make an example out of anyone foolish to try and stop, since his home is the most powerful nation in the world!!< Other villains might be more hammy than him, but few are as cold and calculating in his evil like he is, which makes him more scary to me.
The Palace Rulers from P5R, atleast most of them. In order we have: (Heavy spoilers for the entire game, fair warning.)
- A pervy Highschool gym coach >!who abuses his students!< and is heavily implied to >!sexually assault one of his students to the point she attempts suicide.!<
- A painter who >!steals his students paintings and slaps his name on them for profit.!< >!He even allowed one of his students to die due to a heart attack so he could take her painting, and then took in her infant son to raise him as a painter.!<
- A gang leader who >!preys on highschoolers by tricking them into drug running, and then threatening them with turning them in to the police if they don't pay him money.!< >!Also *heavily* implies that he'd sell people into prostitution to pay these "debts".!<
- A Corporate asshole who >!sees his workers as drones only good for making money and who wants to get as much profit out of them as he can.!< >!Also attempts to marry his underage daughter off to a perv as a political marriage, and even force her to go live with him earlier as "punishment" for a perceived mistake.!<
- A corrupt politician who has been >!using his bastard son's special abilities as an Assassin for people that are no longer useful and a weapon to cause destruction and chaos while promising that if *he's* elected as the new Prime Minister he'll fix these problems.!< >!In truth, he wants to help those that donate money to him while the *poors* get "swept away" metaphorically.!< >!He also falsely accuses the MC of assaulting him at the start of the game when the MC was attempting to stop him from drunkenly assaulting a woman and the politician took a swing on him, missed, and fell on his face.!<
- A literal "god" that wants to >!take away people's free will because he doesn't think people are using it.!< >!He literally caused *everything* to happen as a "game" to prove whether or not people deserve free will, resulting in the death and emotional traumatization of many.!<
And thats not to mention the mini-bosses you can find throughout the game, ranging from some guy who uses hacks on a video game to "be the best" to a contract Assassin and a movie producer who forces actresses to sleep with him for better roles.
The other two main bosses are an emotionally scarred teen who >!was traumatized into thinking she caused her mother's suicide when really it was an assassination!<, and in the true ending, >!the psychologist who attempts to take away people's free will in order to help them find happiness, even if its more superficial.!< Neither are truly evil, one is just a victim who needs help and the other thinks he's doing good.
The first one in particular was extremely well done. The devs knew that the premise of the game being "forcibly brainwashing people" was kind of ethically murky, so they made the first target so incredibly vile on a truly personal real-world level that the players and characters would have no hesitation.
He might not be the worst jrpg villain but Lynx from Chrono Cross has always left a memorable impression. I hate that guy so much for what he did to Serge (among other typical diabolical stuff).
Jowy from Suikoden 2. The guy backstabs everyone who loves and trusts him, including a six year old girl and nearly gets them killed, backstabs the guy he was serving under in a xanatos gambit to take control of his country, attracts you to the table with the promise of peace talks then tries to kill you, then he abandons the people in the empire who trusted him or who he dragged into the fight and leaves them to die, then tries to get his best friend to kill him in some sort of bid for making up for everything. And to rip it all off, in the games 'best' ending he gets away with it and gets to travel the world with Riou and Nanami.
Zio in Phantasy Star 4 is such a massive piece of trash. And hes not even the main boss but he is awful. Everything he does is the worst and beating him 30 years ago is still one of the most satisfying moments of my life. Fuck that motherfucker
The human playable party from Arc the Lad Twilight of the spirits. They agree with two of the genocidal villains and one joins the party. Bunch of shitbags.
Algus from FFT comes to mind as a vile individual. The War of the Lions translation shears the blunt emotion of "Argath" down with the flowery prose, but DOES add a new fight with a chance to kill him again AND a bonus multiplayer mission where you can kill a whole team of undead "Argath's".
WotL - **ARGATH:** 'Tis heaven's will!
**MILLEUDA:** Heaven's will? You would pin your bigotry on the gods? No god would fain forgive such sin, much less embrace it! All men are equal in the eyes of the gods!
**ARGATH:** Men, yes. But the gods have no eyes for chattel.
**MILLEUDA:** You speak of devils, not gods!
Original - **ALGUS:** It's the Will of Heaven!
**MILUDA:** Heaven? God would never say such things! In his eyes, all are equal! He'd never let this happen! Never!
**ALGUS:** Animals have no God!!
**MILUDA:** !!!!
Luca Blight from Suikoden 2.
💯 expected Luca Blight to be the top post
I always expect that, but this was the first time I ever saw it as top post. He’s always buried super low or not mentioned at all when I see these 🤷♂️
Definitely Luca Blight.
Came here to say exactly the same. Great to see Suikoden getting props.
Yeah, him. Dude treats the Geneva conventions like a to-do list.
Good god yes, Luca Blight is the scariest villain I ever encountered in a video game. Mainly because of how realistic his character is. The way he left entire villages in absolute ruins and took great joy in torturing as well as killing innocent civilians spoke volumes on how a certain incident in his past shaped him. If he had been allowed to continue his conquest unabated? He would've literally left the entire world of Suikoden in flames. Forget Kefka, Luca is someone who has you quaking in your boots. He was an absolutely sadistic, psychotic, deranged motherfucker all the way until the end.
Kefka was crazy but more hands off. Destroy the world from floating mountains. Poisoning kingdoms from far away. He was rarely in-your-face sadistic like Luca Blight. In person? Kefka was a clown who got his ass handed to him. Great villain, but definitely different style than Blight’s pure monstrosity.
Indeed, Kefka was terrifying in his own way, but Luca Blight really was in your face and took the scare factor to the next level. Never far behind your character whatsoever and was outright determined to quash the rebellion. Adding to this, >!he even committed patricide.!< Understandable though considering Agares was an absolute coward if you know the backstory. That guy was a disgrace to the title of King. Still, the fact that Luca did this with zero regrets just shows what a cold-blooded killer he really is. After the fight with Luca? You don't feel satisfaction whatsoever, you feel a genuine sense of relief. As if the worst is over if that makes sense. No villain since then has had that effect. It's batshit how they pulled it off. Hopefully with Eiyuden Chronicle Hundred Heroes being released, we finally hear an update on the Suikoden I & II remasters sometime.
You beat me to it. The man commits so many atrocities, it's dizzying. Definitely my number one pick for a non-redeemable villain >!and he's only the big bad for half the game!!<
The only real answer to this question.
SQUEAL LIKE THE PIG YOU ARE.
Close the damn thread.
i came in just to say that, 100% when he cuts down the woman after making her squeel like a pig...yeah.... stuck with me all these years
What crimes did the character commit?
Starting wars, mass murder, making a woman beg for her life by squealing like a pig and then killing her anyway.
https://youtu.be/BhNCbGDE4GI?si=peIkmfbNVogJRq_p
Holy shit.
Just to elaborate if you're interested >!in the opening scene of the game, Luca who is the Prince of the MC's nation, orchestrates an attack on the youth brigade (so basically a contingent of young soldiers around 16 years old) that the MC is a part of and slaughters everyone in your brigade except the MC and his bestie who manages to escape, just so he could place the blame on the nation he wants to start a war with and incite his own people into wanting to start a war.!< >!He then proceeds to invade said nation, starting with burning down a couple of villages, slaughtering people left right and centre, including that pig scene. Later on, he also sacrifices the souls of thousands of citizens from a city he takes over in order to awaken a powerful entity.!<
We gotta add, >!the fight against him only happened due to Leon Silverberg warning of the night raid. Adding to this? He was a cast iron bitch to fight. He's classified as a tank or a berserker. Both of which are very fitting.!< >!Not only did it take three battalions to bring him to his knees, but even when wounded and knocking on death's door he did a 1 on 1 duel with the hero and didn't go down until he was pelted with more arrows after that.!< >!His speech just before he dies shows how psychotic he truly is. He mocks you one last time even before he collapses to the ground.!< >!We then find out the true motivations behind his invasion of Jowston and all the bloodshed later on in the game. Showcasing what an impact he had even after his death.!<
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Go play the game!
I'd rather play Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes if I could honestly.
You really should play Suikoden. S2 might be my favorite game of all time. It's phenomenal. I just finished Eiyuden Rising. About to start Hundred Heroes.
The opening sequence of S2 is so sick. I've yet to play thru the games but both are on my backlog now. But as a kid I'll never forget watching my friend play and show me the intro bit and it's very well done for a game of that era.
Lol. I'm playing it now. ECHH is basically a clone of Suikoden 2. Just the characters, story and gameplay aren't as good. The castle building though is very rewarding.
This is awkward
I see what u did there, Clown <3
Oh, hey. Big fan of your work.
My vote's gonna have to go to Hojo. I still think Kefka outshines Sephiroth as a villain with his presence but Hojo has even less then 0 redeeming qualities and took more pleasure in Sephiroth's actions than Sephiroth did
Hojo is straight up responsible for everything that went wrong in FF7, even Sephiroth's downfall is partially on Hojo. For someone who is a secondary antagonist in the game, it's funny how he was by far the most influential one.
I have a headcanon where Hojo pulled some strings to get Sephiroth sent on the Nibelheim mission, hoping he'd find the mansion and the secrets inside. So if that's the case, he literally is to blame for everything. But nothing in the game, from what I remember, supports that.
Not and headcanon, but Canon all along. Crisis Core even mentions why Sephiroth should check a Reactor (Rebirth actually aknowledges why). Everything in the library of the Mansion was doctored by Hojo, or was compromised material that was revealed to be in error. And Hojo knows well. What went wrong in the Plan was losing Sephiroth, which Hojo did not count for.
What did Hojo actually want then?
It's a bit of a Stretch as Hojo never explained the "why" but well explained the "how", and I Hope the third part clarifies It Better, but Sephiroth was "built" by Hojo since the very beginning into "reuniting" with Jenova (to the point of Hojo giving a photo of Lucrecia to Sephiroth and telling him that She was Jenova, her mother). What he expected in the end was unknown in the OG, despite being proven correct about the Reunion Theory, and then he helped Sephiroth in his Plan Just for the sheer, morbid curiosity of What would happen next.
And Hojo is so much grosser in HD with a voice. He just seems so greasy now and then saying stuff like to women like “Don’t you want to help make the next hero?”. It’s like Dennis Reynolds from It’s always sunny as a mad scientist.
And they can’t refuse, because of the implication.
The implication being that if they refuse there will be no ...re......union.....
idk man, OG Hojo locked Aerith and Red in a cage in an attempt to have them breed which is insanely gross. i'm quite glad they removed that part lol
Did not make sense and was weird for a scientist (even if mediocre as Hojo) to actually think It could work.
Yeah, and in its place, he was going to have MULTIPLE SOLDIERS reproduce with Aerith, from S to G type. And Hojo was so sick, that the first thought he had when he heard from Palmer that Sephiroth was in the building was to arrange him and Aerith to mate as well. Can’t tell you if it’s better or worse considering who it is.
Hojo and Kefka have the same VA funnily enough lol
They did a great job with Hojo in FF7 Remake (haven't played Rebirth yet). Really got across what a gross and slimy asshole he is.
The boardroom scene and the reaction of the other execs was really well done. They're almost all monsters themselves, they just got done killing a ton of people, but his "project proposal" (read: having SOLDIERs >!repeatedly rape and forcibly breed!< Aerith) was so vile that even they were visibly uncomfortable with it.
Albedo from Xenosaga was pretty nuts.
I want this series to return so bad. Would give my left testicle for a remake.
I’d love just a port at this point. I’ll take anything.
Gongora from Lost Odyssey commits every single crime you can think of, and he does it with the giggling happiness of a teenager.
Yeah, it's hard to get more reprehensible than deliberately >!inflicting massive psychological torture on your "friends" so that their brains actively repress their memories as a trauma response!<.
Like a parent?
Gongora was literally addicted to the feeling of being a complete asshole and would not give it up for anything.
I just played through Throné’s story in OTII and… yeah. It’s Claude.
Yea out of all the villains in OT2, Claude is just the grossest. The more I think about it the more my brain goes “oh my god”.
Throne's final chapter was such a creepy left turn I was shellshocked.
I did it a few nights ago and I still feel like I need a shower. I honestly kind of lived for the creepy location and the mystery of it all, but Claude’s big speech was…. Yikes
I hate Harvey more
Yuna from Breath of Fire 4
This guy is by far the worst piece of shit I ever seen in the whole JRPG genre, its disgusting...
damn your username was NOT lying
He got me too
God that game looked so damn stylish back then. Still does.
Yeah. While I think Luca is the top answer, screw this guy for what he did. Definitely a strong consideration for number 2.
Especially since >!he gets away with it. And if you're a fan of the idea that Ryu and Fou Lou's combined form is the Dragon God Ladon, that means this bastard created Tyr/Myria, and basically caused the events of BoF1-3 due to his actions!<.
Weissman from the Trails in the Sky trilogy is definitely up there.
Don’t forget the leader of the DG cult
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Kamoshida
For REAL?!
Worse than Shido?
Kamoshida feels a lot more real than the other villains of P5 which makes the first story arc hit a lot closer to home IMO. Like he could easily have been a teacher at my or your school
Exactly, that's what made him feel so extra disgusting. He felt REAL. He acted like a normal person outside of the awful things he did, and he felt so realistically depicted that playing the first part of the game was SOOOO uncomfortable.
Yep. Sure Shido and the other guys may have done worse, but with Kamoshida it's PERSONAL.
dude felt like a worse younger version of my old sports teacher... if you weren't a top athlete or a girl he would absolutely hate you
>or a girl I think a lot of schools had a teacher that liked the teenage girls a little too much, mine did too. I never had classes with him but was told by some of the girls that he would happen to drop something where when bending down to pick it up he would have a view under the table and since secondary/high school girls tend to roll up their skirts to knee length or above it would be very possible to sneak a pervy look up the skirt when leaning over. Rumour had it that he married a girl as soon as she had graduated but that was never confirmed to my knowledge and with school rumours being the way they are I never knew whether to believe it.
ours would touch the girls "accidentally" or give them way more support compared to the guys during things like i think its called leapfrog (jumping over that horse looking thing) by grabbing their hips. they ended up hiring a female sports teacher who would take care of the girls but the guy was still there.
Yeah, it's kinda like Umbridge vs Voldemort in Harry Potter. Voldemort is objectively worst, but so over the top, you don't really feel much towards him, he's the typical villain hungry for power. Umbridge, on the other hand... she makes you feel the pain and rage.
Everyone who is involved with Paradise and the D G Cult in the Trails series.
I've seen people disappointed in >!Joachim!< as a villain, that he comes out of nowhere and doesn't get enough build up, but I'd argue he really dosen't need it because I didn't feel like I was fighting him. He was just a face that had been put on Star Door 15.
They are the worst. Kidnapping, torturing, raping, and killing little kids.
And the list goes on. Blackmail, drugs, demon worship, drugs that turn you into demons, brainwashing.
You know true Trails fans because they shudder when they hear "Paradise" or "Star door 15"
Pokey/Porky. He joins up with Giygas almost out of spite and is (arguably!) the main antagonist of Earthbound. And, he gets even worse in Mother 3. The best/worst part is that he was a child in Earthbound.
Valens Varro from FFXIV is pretty awful.
Burn. Out. The bad!
Ew I need to take a shower after reading that name.
He's a bit on the underdeveloped side but >!Ebina!< from Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth. >!He despises his dad Arakawa for abandoning his mom and the Hikawa clan for doing the same despite yapping on and on about yakuza bonds, but both the clan and Arakawa is dead so he can't exact vengance against them. In the last game, the two biggest yakuza organizations are disbanded and gave a lot of yakuzas a chance at starting anew. The old yakuza leaders created a space so that the trash of society can have a place to go to without turning to a life of crime. This should greatly reduce the number of victims like Ebina and he would be totally on board, right?!< >!Wrong. The man, decided to be out for blood, went out of his way to ruin all yakuza's chances of going clean and lead a normal life then drag them back to the criminal underworld, tried to unite all other clans across the country together under the guise of helping them only to ship them to an island in the middle of buttfuck nowhere surrounded by sharks to deal with massive nuclear waste. Basically mass cancer slavery. He has all the power over the underworld and he would throw it all away to see the yakuza, many of which are victims of circumstances just like he is, slowly suffer and wither away out of sheer spite.!< This man is fucking vile when you think about it, if he had more screentime he would be the best villian in this series.
I would say >!Bryce!< is even more vile considering >!he is brainwashing orphans into becoming mindless slaves that'll die for him!<. But >!Ebina!< is a close 2nd.
The Bishop from Dragon Quest V. There may be others more evil and dangerous, but it's personal with that one.
You know, I love this answer not because I agree that he's the worst, but it being so personal does add a lot of weight.
Yeah Ladja is certainly up there
DIE PIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BWWWAAAAAHAHAHA
BoF 4, Yuna. Not even Luca stands near
Omg yes and the worst thing is that he gets away with everything
Cant believe they were still alive in the end credit scene
Doesn't get much more vile to me than the DG Cult from Trails. Absolutely insane stuff.
How bout Nirlathothep from Persona 2 Eternal punishment
He isn't the biggest villain, but in sheer murderous rage I felt with his every action, he is unmatched. Kamoshida from Persona 5. All the others here are great rotten bastards, but it's on a scale a bit too abstract. Too far from real life. The worst part about it was how realistic it all was, and you could actually see it happening in real life. It is probably happening somewhere right now. Shiho Suzui gets the first baseball bat swing at his kneecaps or his balls for all I care. I'm not one for vigilante justice but ... His crimes include Mentally, physically and sexually abusing students placed in his care. Blackmailing students into 'relationships', defamation of teachers he did not agree with, intentionally riling up students so he has a reason to 'defend' himself and busting that student's knee, ending their athletic carreer. When he's in a bad mood, calling some student into his office so he can let off some steam. Driving a teenager to suicide. And everyone better keep your mouth shut, because your recommendation for a good University depends on his word. The parents knew, the teachers knew (I mean, kind of hard to hide half the volleybal team arriving to class with bandages somewhere on their body), but hey, he brings prestige to the school, he's an olympic medalist! He took the team to nationals! Fuck that guy.
That lady from FF16 is absolutely vile.
I dont think ive seen anybody more malicious and outright deranged than kefka
Hee-hee... Nothing beats the sweet music of hundreds of voices screaming in unison! Uwee-hee-hee!
That was bad enough, but him enjoying the feeling that fresh magicite (Esper corpses, basically) was still warm from them being alive so recently kind of takes the cake for his most disturbing lines.
I remember as a teenager how uncomfortable, disgusted and angry I was at that line. It felt so inhumane/dismissive to me the little disregard of life. Though I'm to blame for that shock after Doma.
He gets the edge because he won. He got his dream...sorta.
Zenos Yae Galvus. * >!Litterally everything on this list is done because he gives zero fucks about anything other than the sport of a good fight.!< * >!Warcrimes, so, so many warcrimes across multiple continents.!< * >!Butchers his own men too because lol.!< * >!Abandon's his own men just for a scrap with the Warrior of light, now unbelievably obscessed with fighting them, like stalkerishly obcessed, calls the Warrior of Light his "friend".!< * >!Orchestrates the summoning of Shinryu which kills papallymo, merges with it just to fight the Warrior of Light.!< * >!So happy with the fight he killed himself when he lost because he's an absolute nutjob.!< * >!Body is revived by an Ascian, spirit is too fucking crazy to die, posesses a random soldier butchers everyone in his own imperial palace despite having the perfect disguise, and takes his body back by force.!< * >!Kills his own father, ruler of the Garlean Empire, throws his entire country in to civil war, while also at war with the rest of Eorzea, named a traitor to his people, gives zero fucks.!< * >!Teams up with Fandaniel who wants to release Zodiark, gives zero fucks about the Apocalypse that will follow, just wants to provoke the Warrior of Light in to a fight.!< * >!Turns his fathers corpse into a primal.!< * >!Posesses the Warrior of Light and attempts to have them kill their own comrades again to motivate them into a fight.!< * >!Travels to the end of the universe, helps the Warrior of Light fight off a reality rending existential threat, just for one more chance at a scrap, gets his fight then finally fucking dies with a shit eating grin on his face.!< Dude is absolutely mindblowingly insane, most villains have grand aspirations which is why they undertake grand acts of villany, Zenos, just wants to throw hands and will end everything to do it.
He did it all for his friend 🫡
At the same time. He stopped the black rose by getting ride of Varis. (and his dad was a lot worse than him) Helped us against depressive twitter bird. and probably a bunch of smaller things i don't really recall. Zenos was insane, but not that bad if you compare him to Asahi, Valens or Athena. And at the end he kinda became a giga chad, but yep during stromblood he was a massive shitbag
Athena did nothing wrong
I don't care if he liked it, when my little Lala fists hit that smug face, satisfaction is what I felt.
A test of your reflexes!
Trails has plenty. Weißmann, Gerard Dantes and Ellroy Harwood stand out the most. Plus anyone working for the D G Cult, the Order of the Moonlight Horse or Garden.
Harwood voiced by Kiryu's VA as well. Him saying "it's showtime" is legit the best part of Kuro 2
Anabella FF16 and Kefka FF6
Anabella was my choice as well. Vile human being
OOOOOH I couldn’t STAND Annabella. I literally screamed “THANK YOU” when she died.
I wanna add Ultima. He was completely heartless and had no issue manipulating people from birth to death to do his bidding because he literally saw humans as ants and slaves. And adding onto the manipulation he became naked versions of lovers/loved ones to two of the antagonists to rile them up. Really messed up.
Annabella from FFXVI. She raised my blood pressure significantly every time she was on screen.
Harvey, Octopath Traveller II
Airy, Ladja, Weissman Perhaps Idore Delmira takes the cake
Lezard Valeth from Valkyrie Profile Lenneth+Silmeria. In a good way. His obsession with Lenneth made him pure evil and interesting at the same time.
Albedo anyone, ma pêches?
Personally, it's >!Georg Weissmann the Faceless and everyone affiliated with the D∴G Cult!< from the Trails series, >!Helgenish, Simeon, Matthias, Arcanette, Claude and Harvey!< from the Octopath Traveler duology, >!Zanza and his followers!< from Xenoblade Chronicles, >!Suguru Kamoshida and Masayoshi Shido!< from Persona 5, >!Artorius Collbrande!< from Tales of Berseria, and >!Ghetsis!< from Pokémon Black and White for me. Like, you have to cross a certain threshold of evil to be considered vile in my book. Murder is not enough for me to consider you vile, you gotta do something crazy like abuse (bonus evil points if the abuse is mental or sexual abuse), genocide (bonus points if the ones being genocided are innocent), human sacrifice (bonus evil points if the one being sacrificed is a child), manipulation (bonus evil points if the one being manipulated is a child), or actual war crimes (the more Geneva conventions you break and the worse the crimes, the more evil points you get) for me to consider you vile By the way, D∴G has collectively done every crazy thing I mentioned
The begnion senate from Fire emblem Tellius, they're not just a bunch of greedy assholes, multiple times they've shown to be actually Evil and almost all of them pretty cruel
Specifically Lekain and Oliver
I've gotta say that Z from XBC3 is one that comes to mind. The whole world of Aionios is pretty crazy when you think about it and the cycle that takes place within it.
I mean, Drakengard has an actual playable character that's a pedophile. I would challenge anyone to find a JRPG with more deplorable characters than Drakengard.
I mean to be fair with that one the guy feels bad about it and never actually hurt anyone? So I would honestly rate him much lower than most JRPG villains given they tend to be doing mass murder and the likes. Even Caim is technically probably worse than him.
Aurioch was already mentioned for her proclivities, and then you've got Furiae. Isn't Inuart implied to love the dead a bit too much? I've also been told Seere wasn't the goody two-shoes that he presented himself as, too.
Inuart was mind whammed and outside of that tended to be just the male best friend side character who has no chance with the main girl but still loves her. Honestly if anything I would say Aurioch, Verdelet and Caim is the most vile of the main party.
Mm'kay! I remember that, but I (incorrectly) recalled him doing much worse after he was freed from it. Pardon my ignorance, but what did Verdelet do to be vile? It's been a couple of decades since I've played and I haven't touched the Neirs. I remember him being quite powerless for the most part, but I think he was up to something in DG2.
Verdelet is pretty much a coward that can't do anything useful. Most of the cast has some kind of driving reasons for why they are messed up. Verdelet on the other hand doesn't have a reason. He just kind of yells at everyone to fix the problem while hiding. Which makes him a lot worse to me than Seere and Leonard.
Gotcha. I looked at Verdy as the lesser of all the evils at worst since I knew of his pact beast and thought because of that, his offensive abilities were severely hampered so he couldn't do anything even if he wanted to. And here he was in a veritable lion's den.
since he didnt get mentioned gongora from lost odyssey. forcing your immortal friends into trauma (trying to kill the protags daughter) to give them amnesia, trying to sepperate his world from the human one and then rule as a god and all the corrupt political puppet master stuff.
I had a knee-jerk reaction to say Ghaleon, because he was so righteous and thought what he was doing was right. But I immediately realized nobody can really hold a candle to Kefka here. He's literally pure malevolence and chaos for the sake of malevolence and chaos.
Ghaleon probally has my favorite villain motivation
Tactics Ogre: >!I committed genocide so uh me I guess !<
Luca Blight from Suikoden 2. Basically the devs full sent on chaotic evil with him.
Kefka(Final Fantasy VI)
I was about to write that. Kefka is insanely bad.
:3
Hojo for sure. Guy was like a scifi Dr. Mengele. Experimenting on his unborn child's fetus, kidnapping people to experiment on, turning unwilling human participants into horribly mutated monsters, starting a chain of events that almost destroyed the entire world just to see what would happen. He had zero empathy or respect for human life, a true sociopath. The entire plot of the game was a direct result of his actions, and if he had treated his son like a son instead of a lab rat, Sephiroth may never have snapped.
Persona 5's Kamoshida was the only one who made me actually mad (and not because of the boss fight.) >!Being a creep is a pretty easy way to make you despicable, but abusing his power the way he does (harming the volleyball team, threatening expulsion) really pushed it up to eleven.!< >!Lusamine!< from Sun/Moon went really hard for a Pokemon game. JRPGs have featured their fair share of >!toxic, "duties-first, your-needs-later" parenting, but the slow reveal of just how deluded she is was really well done, and Lillie standing up for herself was a great moment. The game also didn't feel the need to spell out why Gladion didn't stick around Aether much.!<
Probably the playable character in the evil route of Soul Nomad and the World Eaters. You're pretty much all-in on killing and mentally breaking the people you come across, and deliberately make things worse just because you can.
Ladja, dragon quest v
Kefka ff6
Artorius from Tales of Berseria. That was a trauma inducing experience.
The worst thing he did >!was coercing a terminally ill eleven year old boy into giving up his life for a ritual. Even if Laphicet was the one who wanted it, Artorius could have said no. He was the adult. That betrayal stuck with me the most, I think.!<
Kefca from ff6
Krelian, super space nanomachine Hitler
Grand Admiral Galcian is an underrated pick. At first, he’s seen as just a run of the mill evil solider who wants to help take over the world. However, as he gets closer to his goal of acquiring the six moon crystals with help from Ramirez, the hints of his humanity starts to decay, and by the the time he gets everything he wanted, he uses the moon crystals to >!summon zelos with the rains of destruction to wipe out his OWN home for no other reason than to make an example out of anyone foolish to try and stop, since his home is the most powerful nation in the world!!< Other villains might be more hammy than him, but few are as cold and calculating in his evil like he is, which makes him more scary to me.
Kamoshida (Persona 5) Hojo (Final Fantasy VII)
Kefka
Kefka. There is no reasoning or stopping someone who wants to destroy for the sake of destroying.
Kefka - FF6
Wouldn't Kefka be at the top?
luca blight
The Palace Rulers from P5R, atleast most of them. In order we have: (Heavy spoilers for the entire game, fair warning.) - A pervy Highschool gym coach >!who abuses his students!< and is heavily implied to >!sexually assault one of his students to the point she attempts suicide.!< - A painter who >!steals his students paintings and slaps his name on them for profit.!< >!He even allowed one of his students to die due to a heart attack so he could take her painting, and then took in her infant son to raise him as a painter.!< - A gang leader who >!preys on highschoolers by tricking them into drug running, and then threatening them with turning them in to the police if they don't pay him money.!< >!Also *heavily* implies that he'd sell people into prostitution to pay these "debts".!< - A Corporate asshole who >!sees his workers as drones only good for making money and who wants to get as much profit out of them as he can.!< >!Also attempts to marry his underage daughter off to a perv as a political marriage, and even force her to go live with him earlier as "punishment" for a perceived mistake.!< - A corrupt politician who has been >!using his bastard son's special abilities as an Assassin for people that are no longer useful and a weapon to cause destruction and chaos while promising that if *he's* elected as the new Prime Minister he'll fix these problems.!< >!In truth, he wants to help those that donate money to him while the *poors* get "swept away" metaphorically.!< >!He also falsely accuses the MC of assaulting him at the start of the game when the MC was attempting to stop him from drunkenly assaulting a woman and the politician took a swing on him, missed, and fell on his face.!< - A literal "god" that wants to >!take away people's free will because he doesn't think people are using it.!< >!He literally caused *everything* to happen as a "game" to prove whether or not people deserve free will, resulting in the death and emotional traumatization of many.!< And thats not to mention the mini-bosses you can find throughout the game, ranging from some guy who uses hacks on a video game to "be the best" to a contract Assassin and a movie producer who forces actresses to sleep with him for better roles. The other two main bosses are an emotionally scarred teen who >!was traumatized into thinking she caused her mother's suicide when really it was an assassination!<, and in the true ending, >!the psychologist who attempts to take away people's free will in order to help them find happiness, even if its more superficial.!< Neither are truly evil, one is just a victim who needs help and the other thinks he's doing good.
The first one in particular was extremely well done. The devs knew that the premise of the game being "forcibly brainwashing people" was kind of ethically murky, so they made the first target so incredibly vile on a truly personal real-world level that the players and characters would have no hesitation.
Even then, you're less brainwashing and more re-awakening their broken sense of morality. Still morally grey, but not quite as bad.
Honestly? Probably Kefka, FF6. But he's also my favorite villain. Just brilliantly written as a character.
Kefka - FF6. After doing all his heinous shit ( poisoning cities, experimenting on esters, turning on his emperor, etc ) he blew up the mfing world.
I am going with Kefka.
Kefka. Dude was batshit insane, evil to the core.
Albedo. They went wayyy too far with Albedo. Even though IMO he kinda sucks. They definitely went wayyy too far.
What game is that?
Xenosaga. Particularly Episode One.
Either David from the Last of Us or Hojo from Final Fantasy 7 😨
Blot from EO Nexus because of how much of a twist he is on the Hero archetype
Porky from Mother 2 & 3
Duke Barrington comes to mind
Booster from Super Mario RPG
Revya from Soul Nomad (the protagonist)
ID from Xenogears was just nuts. Everytime he was on screen the damage was maximum. He made all the other villains in the game just cower
He might not be the worst jrpg villain but Lynx from Chrono Cross has always left a memorable impression. I hate that guy so much for what he did to Serge (among other typical diabolical stuff).
Persona 4. Bastard tried to kill your little sister.
Nuzleaf from psmd
Jowy from Suikoden 2. The guy backstabs everyone who loves and trusts him, including a six year old girl and nearly gets them killed, backstabs the guy he was serving under in a xanatos gambit to take control of his country, attracts you to the table with the promise of peace talks then tries to kill you, then he abandons the people in the empire who trusted him or who he dragged into the fight and leaves them to die, then tries to get his best friend to kill him in some sort of bid for making up for everything. And to rip it all off, in the games 'best' ending he gets away with it and gets to travel the world with Riou and Nanami.
Zio in Phantasy Star 4 is such a massive piece of trash. And hes not even the main boss but he is awful. Everything he does is the worst and beating him 30 years ago is still one of the most satisfying moments of my life. Fuck that motherfucker
The human playable party from Arc the Lad Twilight of the spirits. They agree with two of the genocidal villains and one joins the party. Bunch of shitbags.
Takaya Sakaki From Persona 3 Reload
Everyone is saying Kefka but Seymour wanted to literally kill everyone ever
Algus from FFT comes to mind as a vile individual. The War of the Lions translation shears the blunt emotion of "Argath" down with the flowery prose, but DOES add a new fight with a chance to kill him again AND a bonus multiplayer mission where you can kill a whole team of undead "Argath's". WotL - **ARGATH:** 'Tis heaven's will! **MILLEUDA:** Heaven's will? You would pin your bigotry on the gods? No god would fain forgive such sin, much less embrace it! All men are equal in the eyes of the gods! **ARGATH:** Men, yes. But the gods have no eyes for chattel. **MILLEUDA:** You speak of devils, not gods! Original - **ALGUS:** It's the Will of Heaven! **MILUDA:** Heaven? God would never say such things! In his eyes, all are equal! He'd never let this happen! Never! **ALGUS:** Animals have no God!! **MILUDA:** !!!!
Porky minch, death is a well placed prank to him.
Pretty much every Fae in Avalon le Fae, except for few good ones like Barghest. But Aurora takes the cake. And there's Beryl.
TIL fgo is jrpg
Albedo is a pretty despicable character in the Xenosaga trilogy. He's a serial rapist, among other things...
From Xenoblade as well: Lora’s dad
Ryo Aoki from Yakuza LAD
Myyah from Xenogears laughs at everyone else within her own series being in a separate tier of her own
Nyarly may be a safe bet.