User blog:AustinDR/The Worst PE Villains

Whether they are badly written or are generally assholes, these are some instances where just because a villain is PE isn't that much.

Michael Myers
Yes. Michael Myers; the main antagonist of the Halloween franchise. Yeah I know that Myers is a lot of people's favorite slasher villains as he codified the slasher genre itself, but I feel he's overrated. While Myers has a personality, he has a very simplistic one; that being killing people just because he's "evil on two legs." Myers lacks what other slasher villains like Chucky or Krueger. Both of these antagonists, while sadistic killers, they also have a lot of spirit to their personalities. They're funny (not in a way that mitigates them being a threat) which makes them a love to hate for many. With Myers, however, he lacks that sense of charm to his character, and just stands out to me as pretty bland.

Sir Issac ray peram
So here's where a villain committing vile acts because they love being evil doesn't really work for me. With Isaac, he is such an unlikable prick. While I get that's what they're going for, sometimes I feel that they overdo how much of a monster Isaac is. He tortures people, he subjects several people to severe mind rape such as that one instance where he removed a girl's memories of her harsh torture performed by him, only to then reinsert those memories into her, thus driving her to insanity. And when you delve into his backstory when you discover that his village was destroyed which partially explains why he wants to destroy the human race, he is doing this because he was profiting off of the incident. That;'s right; a Freudian excuse that could've been a legitimate one is rendered null and void because Isaac invested in this tragedy.

Grings kodai
Probably one of the worst villains from the Pokemon franchise. This seriously sounds like a bad fanfic about some psychopath torturing Pokemon. He just feels really out of place in the franchise let alone the anime. This asshole is willing to electrocute a baby Pokemon in front of its adopted mother - and even states that he thoroughly enjoyed it - all to get his hands on the Time Ripple. Worse, he was the one who destroyed all of the vegetation in Crown City twenty years ago, and he is perfectly fine with starting the disaster all over again as long as he reaps the benefits. He lacks what makes other villains like Hunter J or any of the non-CM Pokemon film antagonists have, in this case a sense of charm. He stands out as being extremely petty, egocentic, and bloodthirsty.

sal
This one is actually a candidate of mine that I had proposed on the cleanup forum for the Complete Monster trope a month or so ago. Sal is an albino salmon shark who seems to be a loyal servant of Princess Uomi. Of course, this is all a facade, and he is actually a psychotic, sadomasochist who's goal is to release Princess Uomi's sister from the Sea of Death, which would result in death and chaos on a massive scale. It was so obvious that he would be evil, but even then, what makes Sal slightly worse is his obsession with the titular witch Wadanohara. He obsesses after her, and in one bad ending, he even rapes her whilst brainwashing her into a slave to the Sea of Death. The video game had its violent moments don't get me wrong, but the game immediately jumps to a rated T one when Sal's true nature comes to light.

the horned king
Cool design, but ultimately a weak Disney Villain. He stood out as being a genetic evil overlord if it wasn't for the whole use the Cauldron Born to slaughter a majority of humanity so that he could rule over both the living and the dead.