Chara from Undertale is an active participant in the genocide route who verbally encourages the player to keep going throughout and ends up destroying all of existence regardless of if the player agrees to or not, even claiming that the player was never the one in control. Yet, lots of people still think they're an innocent victim who was forced by the player to murder their loved ones despite them literally saying and demonstrating otherwise.
Hurting Debbie at least still makes sense in his own twisted logic since she's supposedly been evil in other universes, but teaming up with actually evil versions of Mark to get revenge on the one good version of him BY KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE is just crazy.
Angstrom is objectively a million times worse but Powerplex dragging his own infant son into the vendetta and killing him makes me hate him a bit more.
I thought it was a bold decision to have him not be dead, it paid off really well. Perfect balance of cartoonishly evil but also legitimately dark and tragic.
I also wanna add Bardock from Dragon Ball Minus/Super if he counts. Went from a villain protagonist who's pretty unique in the franchise and acts as a contrast to Goku, showing what he could've been if he wasn't raised by good people on Earth, but also gives the Saiyans extra sympathy and redeeming qualities without glorifying them... to a bland Jor-El clone who actively contradicts the series' mythos and themes by acting like a compassionate person raised by compassionate people instead of a Saiyan warrior who was raised on battle hungry, might-makes-right propaganda. DBS Bardock also takes attention away from Grandpa Gohan, the dad who actually raised Goku and contributed to who he is today instead of just making sure he was born and didn't die in infancy.
I don't know much about him in the games but I second Hector from Castlevania. It's a great show overall but his subplot was not enjoyable to watch in any way, just extremely uncomfortable with an equally uncomfortable resolution, giving him a romance with the vampire who manipulated him into slavery for her sisters who were trying to take over the world. It's funny that the show made Hector a much worse character but made Isaac an astronomically better character, from what I can tell.
Genocide = killing a large amount of people with the intention to fully erase a specific race/species, religion, nationality, etc. from the world
Populicide = killing everyone in a specific populated area, up to a country, for any reason
@The nameless master Yeah but in real life there are tons of people who are just off the deep end one way or another and you can't expect to be able to reason with them, which the game doesn't really have proper representation for in my eyes. There's a lot of other things I could go on all day about but probably shouldn't here.
I personally would've liked Flowey from Undertale better if he were treated as a straight-up, inexcusably evil bastard who can't be redeemed instead of just being another "oh he's actually a nice guy if you look past the atrocities he's committing and he has such a sad backstory, pls feel bad for him" like most of the game's antagonists. Basically if he had nothing to do with Asriel and is just a plant that was given sentience and the power to control time, which made him see himself as separate from everyone else and naturally treat reality as a game since the suffering, death and happiness of others have no real value when all of it can be undone. That would've made him stand out more, added extra nuance to the game's narrative and made him a more fitting mirror image to the player.
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He's a rapper who named himself after Thanos from Marvel, he's a junkie, he speaks full English sentences a lot and he's funny.
He killed and tortured countless people, including and especially other Mortys, just so that he alone could escape the curve. He is way too selfish for that.
I agree with it, Henry does do some pretty awful things to further his own ends and a character doesn't need to be fully malicious to get a page here.
@The Pleasure Dome Hyper-advanced evil AIs, especially ones like AM, still have a lot of logical hurdles to jump before they could be considered plausible in real life, if ever. Even then, at the end of the day, the ensuing carnage would more be the responsibility of the evil and/or stupid humans who created the program than the program itself, same as any weapon of mass destruction. Holden is just a very cruel and very powerful person, something that has, does and will always exist everywhere on Earth as long as humanity does. Minus the parts where he might be a demon, but you get the idea. AM is one of many apocalypse scenarios that could happen however long from now but there are countless Holdens in existence right this second, doing what they do best.
If they have a death wish. With all the others at least they're trying, if they've straight-up given up and don't care anymore or WANT to fail then of course I'm gonna betray them
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He doesn't try to kill the player, he's just trying to kill your avatar which he knows won't actually hurt you. He really wants to HELP the player by making sure you don't get trapped in the game like he is. The closest thing he does to something bad is wanting to destroy the game, which could count as "omnicide" depending on if you wanna view the other, innocent characters as sentient and self-aware or not
@RawriGodzilla 2000 short for Yoshikage