User blog:Red Chevalier/PE Proposal: Admiral Greyfield

Here's the other PE from Advance Wars: Days of Ruin I'll be proposing.

What is the work?
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is the latest installment in Intelligent Systems' Advance Wars series of Real Time Strategy games, released in 2008. Unlike previous installments, this game takes place in a different, darker setting. The world has been devastated by a meteor shower which has also caused the collapse of two of its major superpowers, Rubinelle and Lazuria. The game follows the 12th Battalion, a surviving regiment of Rubinelle soldiers, as they travel around gathering survivors and fighting warlords and other foes who have taken power in wake of the meteor shower.

Who is the villain?
Admiral Greyfield, one of the game's main villains. After the meteor shower destroyed Rubinelle, Greyfield formed the New Rubinelle Army from the surviving Rubinelle forces and turned into a major power in the wasteland. Triggering another war with the Lazurian Army, Greyfield seeks to dominate the entire world and rule it as "King Greyfield the Mighty".

What does he do?
Greyfield initially appears as an ally to the 12th Battalion, forming an alliance with them to defeat the Lazurian Army. It isn't long however before Greyfield's rhetoric in his conversation with Will exposes him to be an insane warmonger who cares nothing for those he sees as "weak", openly disparaging the 12th Battalion's leader Captain Brenner.

After the Lazurian Army is defeated and surrenders, Greyfield has his second-in-command Waylon execute the Lazurians' commanding officer Forsythe out of spite, and vows to do the same to all of the other Lazurian prisoners. This, however, triggers the 12th Battalion's rebellion against him and causes Brenner to free all of the Lazurian soldiers and help them escape.

Infuriated by Brenner's betrayal, when Brenner stays behind to buy time for the 12th Battalion and Lazurians to escape, Greyfield orders Caulder to drop a nuke on the city Brenner is in, even though doing so would kill many of his own troops.

Later, when the Creeper virus begins to spread throughout his own troops, Greyfield orders the execution of anyone found out to be infected with it, even though he himself secretly caught the virus.

Heinous Standard
Greyfield caused the deaths of thousands all while being motivated by his own pettiness and over-inflated ego. Many of the other antagonists in Days of Ruin are also tyrannical, but Greyfield stands out for the utter disregard he has for those around him, including his own troops, and the level of destruction he causes in pursuit of his own selfish goal to become undisputed ruler of the world.

Mitigating Factors
See here.

Final Verdict
See here. (Okay, maybe I'm having too much fun).