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For me, it would be GLaDOS.

Portal 2 spoilerShe deleted the one remaining human part of herself because it was just too much to deal with. She releases you at the end of Portal 2 as a path of least resistance measure because "killing you is hard."

What about you, what is your favorite media villain?

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[-] rustyricotta@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 30 minutes ago

David Robert Jones.

There's just something so classy about this guy, and he does the coolest stuff.

[-] tgirlschierke 2 points 4 hours ago

Shepard Lambert in Would You Rather?, played by Jeffrey Combs.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Picking a Jeffrey Combs role is cheating though.

[-] WongKaKui@piefed.ca 3 points 8 hours ago

Sadavir Errinwright from The Expanse

Loved that its not just evil for no reason

He actually has a goal I can sympathize with

I feel like in the TV Portrayal at least, its like I can feel like he actually does kinda care about Earth...

in his own fucked up way, but still...

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 hours ago

Blaine from iZombie. He's 100% bastard, and the show tries to humanise him by showing us origins and "how could he be any different" and so on, but he's always great on screen.

[-] Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago
[-] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Jesicaaaaaaaaaaa

[-] kionay@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

if for no other reason than to have a bit of a different answer:

Raboniel from Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson

Her interaction with Navani made for some VERY good chapters

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Naraku, hes basically a troll that is also malevolent, oddly although he despises humans most of his goals dont harm them directly through out the series until the very end when hes get desperate, as he never targets humans directly unlike most other demons, or his own incarnation which he ends up killing to prevent them from interfering. or if you want to dig a little deeper, the shikon jewel is an amoral villian, sacrifices any user who made wishes to keep itself alive. hes a complex characther, he has much more contempt for demons than humans, eventhough he hates humans, but has not alright vindictiveness like he has against inuyash and his gang going on unless they gets in his way.

[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 20 points 21 hours ago
[-] deadymouse@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Hmm, a rather difficult question, I have quite a lot of them and I could not get attached to any of them, well, maybe him:

and him:

[-] Kaput@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg. He's a monster.

[-] 50MYT@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Fire one million

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 2 points 14 hours ago

The only right answer.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 19 hours ago

"What a fool you are. I'm a god. How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence. How could you be so naive? There is no escape. No Recall or Intervention can work in this place. Come. Lay down your weapons. It is not too late for my mercy." - Dagoth Ur in Morrowind

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

One of my favorites as an adult, and one that scared the living shit outta me as a kid. Jude Doom from who framed Roger Rabbit.

[-] callyral@pawb.social 7 points 21 hours ago

I don't have one favorite villain in particular, but...

The Good Place spoilersMichael is the villain for part of the series, and oh boy is he devilish. I mean, in season 2 (i think) he is literally the devil as far as the main cast is concerned. "I can't believe you figured it out!" perfect delivery. Just wow.

oh, and also Megamind. Megamind is my favorite. I need to rewatch that movie, and completely ignore the "sequel".

[-] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 1 points 14 hours ago

Megamind was the first thing that popped to my mind without thinking further. Was hoping someone said it, didn't have to scroll that far either.

[-] fireweed@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Silco from Arcane.

I often struggle with media villains, finding them unrealistic or unconvincing, but Silco is just so well-rounded and well-written, he elevates the quality of every other character he interacts with. In a series full of near- and actually-superpowered people, this weak, middle-aged man is the most terrifying and influential of them all.

spoilerHis absence from season two is one of the reasons why it flops compared to season one; Ambessa and Viktor are good characters, but weak villains.

[-] xylogx@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I feel like everyone is a villain in that series.

[-] regdog@lemmy.world 83 points 1 day ago

Your favourite media villain

Easy answer: Rupert Murdoch

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[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Handsome Jack.

Best hero to villain in a game yet. Plus dude had charisma for days so even though he was a clear cut asshole you couldn't help but love his antics.

[-] YerLam@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

Butt Stallion is an amazing throwaway joke, just so much thought put into even the stupid stuff.

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

Baron Harkonnen, from the David Lynch dune film.

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 2 points 14 hours ago

Moar spice!

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago
[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

The Borg. I was terrified of them as a little kid.

[-] tpyo@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Forest Whitaker as Jon Kavanaugh in "The Shield"

He made me so viscerally upset. I saw it almost two decades ago but I still remember how strongly I felt

[-] Quazatron@lemmy.world 158 points 1 day ago

Here are the test results: You're a horrible person. That's what it says. A horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.

[-] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago
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