Survey: The Greatest Villan

[Remnant]

Just curious to know who, in your opinion, is the greatest video game villian ever. (I realize because of where these forums are, this is going to be bias, but still...)

You can consider any factor you want, not just the acts they did- think about things like:

Personality
Appearance
Motives
History behind them
Things they say
Anything else you think is relevant.

My pick: Jon Irenicus from Baldur's Gate II.
(SPOILER)He steals your soul to replace his own, which was stripped from him after a failed attempt to become a god at the expense of the elven people. In addition, there is a certain "MacBeth" dynamic, in that his sister influenced his initial betrayal, but he continued to carry through with it.

His voice acting and lines are great as well. He manages to pull of the oxymoron of emotionless hatred and depravity better than any other voice I've heard, including other genres. His attempts to get your character to embrace his heritage have such an "evil logic" quality to them that he gets my vote for the greatest villian.

[Flying Mullet]

Bowser


(had to throw in this cosplay picture I saw)

[Doomgaze]

Id, Xenogears
Psycho Mantis, MGS
Officer Tenpenny, GTA: San Andreas

[edczxcvbnm]

Krelian - Xenogears
Mithos - Tales of Symphonia
Revolver Ocelot - MGS 1, 2 and 3
Liquid Snake - MGS 1
Albert Wesker - Resident Evil and Resident Evil: Code Veronica

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Irenicus is pretty cool, as is Id.

However, I have to go with Grahf, also from Xenogears.

(SPOILER)The fact that Grahf is actually Lacan, a former incarnation of the main character Fei, is freakin' awsome, not to mention his power over the dark wave and such.

[XxSephirothxX]

While this isn't technically a video game character, he's been IN some games. Darth Vader, man. He's the personification of evil, but the depth of his character and his eventual return to the light side makes him one of the best villians of all time. I can't think of anyone better at the moment, anyway.

[Dking'squeen]

Rubedo from Xenosaga
Darth Vadar from (come on, you know)
Mr. Burns from the Simpsons

[Doomgaze]

Rubedo is Jr.

You mean Albedo.

SOMEWHAT INTERESTING OMG XS & XG SPOILER SIDENOTE:

(SPOILER)Gaignun, Jr., and Albedo are all realians. In power, their rank seems to go in that order. Now, we rank their hair colors by their power, and...
Black < Red < White

Now, this is probablly nothing, but...

Weltall (Black) < Weltall-ID (Red) < Xenogears (White)

It'd be more convincing if Gaignun's name had something to do with Black like the other two, though. Even then it's a stretch.

[edczxcvbnm]

I think it is more of a coincidence because major villians usually have white/silver hair. Krelian(at some point), Sephiroth, Kuja, Albedo and this thrend does extend into the relm of anime quite a damn bit.

[Doomgaze]

Krelian's hair is currently dirty blonde, and originally blue. It seems to be a bluish-white in the ending movie, though.

And yeah, I really doubt it means anything.

[Casey]

Id also have to go with Grahf from Xenogears, also Fou-Lou from Breath of Fire 4.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Bison from Street Fighter
Orochi from King of Fighters (His influence on Iori and Leona made him look like such an evil bastard)
I-No from Guilty Gear X2 (The way she messes with the heroes minds is entertaining)
Luca Blight from Suikoden II

[Dking'squeen]

You mean Albedo.

Yesm I do

I-No from Guilty Gear X2 (The way she messes with the heroes minds is entertaining)

I can't stand her, I don't like how she talks about Dizzy, Ky and Chipp

[chaosknight]

You poor deluded fools are all wrong. I know the one kick ass villan who would kill all of your silly villans. Sephiroth. He could single handedly kill all of your villans. He wears a cool lookin black outfit, he has the longest sword Ive ever seen, he has no mercy for the weak at all(take to mind the legendary death of Aries... poor Aries....), he can summon meteors from space to destroy entire planets with out a sweat. He would not take the time to boast about any deaths he's caused, to him the ones hes killed where weak fools not worthy of existence. He is the embodiment of destruction, the angel of death, and my hero.

[Flying Mullet]

Sephiroth's boring and over-rated.