Most evil video game villains -

[Scarlett Johansson]

Redd, Alita, Dahlia Hawthorne, Damon, Callisto, Morgan, etc

But good fucking god Dahlia Hawthorne


Bitch is quite possibly the most evil character in the entire Ace Attorney franchise. She's cold hearted, manipulative, reprehensible...horrid pure evil.

But the most horrid thing about her is she has no remorse for anything or anyone. Ever.

 

[Mix Me a Molotov!]

Chief Brian Irons from RE2.

1. Gets into bed with a megalomaniacal pharmaceutical company conducting horrific genetic experimentation

2. Sells out his entire Raccoon Police Dept. by effectively trapping them in the station, to be slaughtered by the the zombie hordes

3. Kidnaps a child with dubious intent (RE2 remake)

4. Murders the mayor’s daughter with the clear intent of some necrophilia/taxidermy fetish shit

Considering that RE for a long time used comic villain tropes, Irons was a very fucking dark character early on in the series.

 

[CrippleThreat]

I know a [bad] guy. Oersted, from Live-A-Live.

Needless to say, this dude's pretty fucking evil. However, he walked a long road before his decline. Allow me to divulge the details:

Live-A-Live is a character-centric title, focusing on the story and journey of the main characters through their respective playable scenarios, each of which center around a specific setting (i.e. the Stone Age, or something you'd see out of science fantasy media). In that case, the game puts Oersted as the last main character, for his specific scenario.

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Spoiler: Oersted's Scenario, His Rise and Fall

For Oersted: He wins the final round of a tournament [held in the Kingdom of Lucretia] against his best friend, the magician Straybow. The grand prize is the marriage to the princess, Alicia. Oersted and her are engaged, but she gets kidnapped by the Demon Lord, away to his hideout.

Being this great hero and all, Oersted sets out for his betrothed, with his best bud, Straybow, tagging alongside him. They obtain the help of past heroes, Uranus (stop laughing) and Hash, with the latter of the two having experience fighting the Demon Lord. With a party of 4, they take the battle to the Demon Lord, and defeat him. However, Hash tells the others that the Demon Lord was unlike the Demon King he had fought in the past. Hash would died after the battle, succumbing to a plague known only by him. In his parting words, he tells Oersted to never make the same error he made by deciding to no longer believe in humanity.

After that, a sudden tremor prompts the remaining to vacant the late Demon Lord's lair. Oersted and Uranus manage escape the cave-in, but it seems Straybow wasn't as lucky. Only those two came out unscathed, but just like that, following the plague-ridden old hero, the new hero's best friend appears to have perished as well. At the end of it all, the duo return to the castle without a rescued Alicia in tow, and two allies gone. The King of Lucretia can only tell Oersted to rest and fight another day.

Unable to sleep thanks to visions of this "Demon King," Oersted awakes and sees the figure of Straybow slink out of his quarters. Giving chase, he sees the should-be-vanquished Demon Lord on the King's throne. He does battle with the fiend, and appears to slain him yet again, but unfortunately, it was only an illusion. Oersted, in actuality, just slew the King in cold blood, on the man's own throne! The guards arrive, and the same guards who once congratulated and praised Oersted, now spit vile remarks and call him after his fallen nemesis—a Demon.

Uranus arrives to buy him time to flee as he gets captured, but like the guards, the same villagers than once hailed him as a great hero, now lash out with the same remark—Demon. He turns himself in and awaits execution, but like Hash, Uranus [in the the cell beside his] tells him to keep fighting with the idea that if at someone keeps believing in him, this whole ordeal will never truly be for naught. Uranus then uses the last of his strength to free Oersted from his cell, and then perishes soon after. Oersted dirtily escapes; it is not without killing those same guards does he manage to flee the kingdom once more.

Oersted, with no options left, proceeding to the Demon Lord's lair in an attempt to rescuing Alicia, the one person whose bound to still have faith in him. He arrives to where he fought the Demon Lord, and uncovers a secret entrance, which leads to out into the open pinnacle. There, he sees that Straybow was alive, and learns that it was the jealous heart of his best friend that conspired this chain of events; he gave Oersted visions of the Demon King; and it was he lured Oersted out to see the King in an illusion as the Demon King, so he would ruin himself by killing the King. The two do battle. Oersted wins, Straybow dies, and Alicia pops out to see the outcome.

Oersted is glad to finally reunite with his lover, but he is suddenly taken aback when the first words she udders are, "STAY AWAY!" Alicia says that Oersted made not a single effort to rescue her, unlike Straybow. She confesses her love for the late mage, right in front of Oersted. In her pathos... she kills herself, the only person who Oersted still thought had faith in him, right in front of him.

Ultimately, with no one he knows that believes in him, and with the world as he knows it calling him "Demon," in that moment, Oersted loses it, denounces his humanity and his hatred towards it, and proclaims himself to be the new Demon King, Odio.

Spoiler: After His Fall

Being the Demon King, Odio kills everyone in Lucretia, holds the world in a perpetual stasis. He also uses the previous Demon King's status to reincarnate himself across worlds throughout different eras. Those reincarnations of Odio serve as the main bosses for each of the other main characters' scenarios. These bosses range from a prehistoric dinosaur to a HAL 9000 reference. All of these incarnations/bosses show the evils of humanity, either in themselves or others.

In the final arc of the game, Odio summons the other main characters to discuss if they also believe that humanity is as loathsome as he thinks. Hearing the negative from the main cast, infuriates Odio, who proceeds to attack them. However, the heroes prevail, even against his final form—Pure Odio.

You could have the heroes kill him, but he dies with regret as Alicia's name alone are is dying words. The game ends with ambiguity as his stasis still persists, and the heroes seemingly remain trapped in the stilled remains of Lucretia.

If you refuse and leave him alive, he returns and tries to debate the heroes that hatred is prevalent throughout all times, cautioning them. He makes them fight their respective incarnation of himself/boss, and when they succeed, he just gives up. He takes the moment to ask the lead character you're controlling where he when wrong, what was he missing all along. They tell him that he just gave up his humanity when, even in the worst of times, they still held close to theirs. He dies finally hearing this, but not with out a warning: No one is destined to become Demon King, but like him, all it takes is hatred, and gears are already in motion.

In the final arc, you can also play as Oersted, now Odio. You primarily fight as the incarnations against the heroes, and defeat them. Or, should you let their HP reach a critical point, you can activate "Armageddon," and wipe away not only the world of ruined Lucretia, but also, the main characters' worlds and eras, leaving nothing behind as a result. The final boss, Pure Odio, also does this attack should you lose to him. Perhaps, with Odio at his full power, Armageddon was answer he wanted to hear from the heroes.

If Odio wins via his incarnations, he becomes convinced of his own philosophy and critiques a belief in humanity as an illusion of its own. The game ends as he walks across the ruins of Lucretia. A sense of pathos is present as it appears clear that even with desires satisfied as Odio, Oersted returning to the tower of the castle—the place where he shared a moment with Alicia and where his quest began—can only look outward, seemingly unsure of whether he's the real disillusioned one and the real victor in this entire fight.

Also, in his boss fight, he uses move called "Saint Alicia," which projects a beautiful woman who then becomes horrid creature that lets out a piercing screech. He was truly "down bad," as the kids today say, indeed.

Might not be as evil, but he's a quality villain in my books.

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tl;dr: Knight goes through a lot of shit, goes nuts, and stops listening to a well-known song by Journey. But he does provide one of the best tracks in the game:

 

[Absolute Brainlet]

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Manfred von Karma from the Ace Attorney games. This asshole spent his 40 year career as a prosecutor more or less doctoring evidence, compelling false testimony and otherwise lying to maintain his undefeated prosecutorial record. He was responsible for sending countless innocent people to jail or to their deaths while enriching himself.

Redd, Alita, Dahlia Hawthorne, Damon, Callisto, Morgan, etc

But good fucking god Dahlia Hawthorne

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Bitch is quite possibly the most evil character in the entire Ace Attorney franchise. She's cold hearted, manipulative, reprehensible...horrid pure evil.

But the most horrid thing about her is she has no remorse for anything or anyone. Ever.

*block your fucking path*

>gets Phoenix disbarred by planting forged evidence
>hatches an autistic plan to eliminate anyone who could've known of the forgery
>a plan that lasts 7 fucking years
>all because a client chose Wright over him

>is the one who gave Manfred von Karma his penalty
>is thereby indirectly responsible for DL-6
>openly states that his own son is a fucking useless retard
>takes pride in being able to "create his own truth" - forging evidence
>it's implied that he had his wife "dealt with"

>has all defense attorneys in her country executed
>burns down the royal palace just to kill some bitch who turns out to be Apollo's mom
>blackmails Nahyuta into acting like a religious extremist on her behalf
>rewrites laws on the fly

 

[Book Thief]

Touhou rarely has antagonists who are genuinely evil, but when they are, they tend to be outright monsters.

Kanako Yasaka

Takes over a shrine by force, forces its resident god to work for her, then transports the shrine into Gensokyo, kicking the residents off of Youkai Mountain for the express purpose of colonizing all of Gensokyo into worshipping her. When her face gets rightfully punched in by the heroines, she takes a stealthier approach to acquiring worshippers by attempting to "modernize" Gensokyo, giving it nuclear power, which she attempts to accomplish by feeding an idiot bird a sun god. Said idiot bird goes berserk with power and nearly burns all of Gensokyo to nuclear ash.

Hell, even her theme song makes it apparent that she's bad news.

Seija Kijin

A manipulative bitch who lies to others for her own gain; obsessed with her own perceived oppression; wants to get back at her "oppressors" by inverting what she believes to be the pecking order of society; believes she's making the world a better place for everyone involved; has a Black-and-White, With-Me-Or-Against-Me mentality; is willing to use violence to achieve her goals... wait, am I describing a Touhou character, or a Social Justice Warrior?

Like Kanako, her theme song makes her monstrosity quite apparent.

Junko

Seeks revenge for the death of her son by COMMITTING GENOCIDE. Her attacks on the Moon lead the Lunarians into staging a plan to warp their capital city onto Earth, but before that can be done, they have to "purify" the Earth... which is to say "eradicate all life on Earth." Her thirst for ethnic cleansing against the Moon People would've resulted in total extinction on Earth if the heroines hadn't intervened.

Sadly, her theme song doesn't convey the raw emotion one should feel when faced with such a monster, but I'll link it here since I did it for the other two.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Xavier from sengoku rance. this demon was ordered by his boss to purge the Japanese because they are devil worshipers (im serious) but ended up getting sealed not once, not twice, but three times at the spam of a hundred years. the fourth time is when you come in and at that point, he just wants to purge the Japanese out of existence of pure spite. he also went on a long raping spree and ended up having a daughter he later beats and rapes because normal humans tend to die too quickly unlike his daughter. i guess human females cant handle having their stomach rip up and getting their organs played with while getting dunkey punched until their skull cracks.

luckily he got stopped by the giga chad that is rance.

how could i forget he also had Kou, a cute 12 year old princess that become like a little sister to Rance, locked up in a shack and raped by kids around her age for the lulz. that made my fucking blood boil!!

 

[Dark Edea]

*block your fucking path*
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>gets Phoenix disbarred by planting forged evidence
>hatches an autistic plan to eliminate anyone who could've known of the forgery
>a plan that lasts 7 fucking years
>all because a client chose Wright over him
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>is the one who gave Manfred von Karma his penalty
>is thereby indirectly responsible for DL-6
>openly states that his own son is a fucking useless retard
>takes pride in being able to "create his own truth" - forging evidence
>it's implied that he had his wife "dealt with"
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>has all defense attorneys in her country executed
>burns down the royal palace just to kill some bitch who turns out to be Apollo's mom
>blackmails Nahyuta into acting like a religious extremist on her behalf
>rewrites laws on the fly

I didn't play those ones (were they good?) but the last one has boobies (they are good).

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Xavier from sengoku rance. this demon was ordered by his boss to purge the Japanese because they are devil worshipers (im serious) but ended up getting sealed not once, not twice, but three times at the spam of a hundred years. the fourth time is when you come in and at that point, he just wants to purge the Japanese out of existence of pure spite. he also went on a long raping spree and ended up having a daughter he later beats and rapes because normal humans tend to die too quickly unlike his daughter. i guess human females cant handle having their stomach rip up and getting their organs played with while getting dunkey punched until their skull cracks.

luckily he got stopped by the giga chad that is rance.

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Lol yes! You can end the thread here. Or curb stomp the monkey in chapter two.

 

[Imperial Citizen]

Bruh, he trooned out his son because he used the wrong kind of magic! He's John Money's spirit animal!

Don't forget Aldrich also ate Gwynevere (the son Gwyn trooned out, poor guy couldn't catch a break). Eater of God's indeed. Also, saw a theory that the Deep is connected to Kos (or some say Kosm...) from Bloodborne, so early Healing Church?

You mean Gwyndolin, Gwynevere is the big titty sun goddess. But while Gwyn did terrible things, it was all out of fear. To remove or isolate anything that would threaten the Age of Fire, the Age that he worked so hard to fight for. While that did distort the Dark into humanity gone wild, I find it hard to state that Gwyn is extremely evil because his intent was to keep an age of prosperity alive. No one knows what the Age of Dark will look like and from the destructive actions of the Darkwraiths, the manipulations of the shards of Manus, the hunger of the locust priests, it is not hard to conclude that the Dark would not be a nice Age. Of course, the problem is that all of these actions are the result of Gwyn sealing the Darkness within the Dark Sign, but the Deep is an even greater perversion than what Gwyn did.

The Deep is said to be the final resting place for abhorrent things, including biting insects and spider-lycan creatures. Perhaps it is a reflection of the Demons, born of the Witch of Izalith artifically creating another First Flame. I'd like to think that the Deep manifests as an hostility to the continued existence of the Age of Fire and enjoy making life suffer. That twisted sense of pleasure makes the Deep truely evil.

 

[Absolute Brainlet]

I didn't play those ones (were they good?) but the last one has boobies (they are good).

Apollo Justice (where the first guy is from) is okay. It's not exactly the best game in the series, but for what it's worth, I'd say it deserves some good will, at the very least for giving us Klavier Gavin. Klavier is fucking awesome.

Ace Attorney Investigations 2 (where the second guy is from) is pure kino, from start to finish. Problem is, it was only released in Japan. But there is a fan-made English patch on the web somewhere. (Also, you'll have to play AAI1 to know what the fuck is going on.)

Spirit of Justice (where booba girl is from) is pretty good too, I'd put it around the level of the original trilogy. Plus I'd argue that SoJ's "rival" - Nahyuta Sahdmadhi - gets a lot of undeserved hate.

 

[Jimboree]

Touhou rarely has antagonists who are genuinely evil, but when they are, they tend to be outright monsters.

Kanako Yasaka
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Takes over a shrine by force, forces its resident god to work for her, then transports the shrine into Gensokyo, kicking the residents off of Youkai Mountain for the express purpose of colonizing all of Gensokyo into worshipping her. When her face gets rightfully punched in by the heroines, she takes a stealthier approach to acquiring worshippers by attempting to "modernize" Gensokyo, giving it nuclear power, which she attempts to accomplish by feeding an idiot bird a sun god. Said idiot bird goes berserk with power and nearly burns all of Gensokyo to nuclear ash.

Hell, even her theme song makes it apparent that she's bad news.

Seija Kijin
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A manipulative bitch who lies to others for her own gain; obsessed with her own perceived oppression; wants to get back at her "oppressors" by inverting what she believes to be the pecking order of society; believes she's making the world a better place for everyone involved; has a Black-and-White, With-Me-Or-Against-Me mentality; is willing to use violence to achieve her goals... wait, am I describing a Touhou character, or a Social Justice Warrior?

Like Kanako, her theme song makes her monstrosity quite apparent.

Junko
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Seeks revenge for the death of her son by COMMITTING GENOCIDE. Her attacks on the Moon lead the Lunarians into staging a plan to warp their capital city onto Earth, but before that can be done, they have to "purify" the Earth... which is to say "eradicate all life on Earth." Her thirst for ethnic cleansing against the Moon People would've resulted in total extinction on Earth if the heroines hadn't intervened.

Sadly, her theme song doesn't convey the raw emotion one should feel when faced with such a monster, but I'll link it here since I did it for the other two.

Wait a sec, if they're so evil, then why do i wanna [le sexy time] them?

 

[JamesFargo]

Chief Brian Irons from RE2.

That first scene in the original is just so great. Gary Krawford knocks it out of the park. Real Norman Bates energy.

The corpse and the stuffed animals on the walls suggest that Umbrella has 'infected' the police. (They probably went a little too far in making the RCPD resemble the mansion from RE, but this part is gold.)

Wait a sec, if they're so evil, then why do i wanna [le sexy time] them?

 

[Gravemind]

Chief Brian Irons from RE2.

1. Gets into bed with a megalomaniacal pharmaceutical company conducting horrific genetic experimentation

2. Sells out his entire Raccoon Police Dept. by effectively trapping them in the station, to be slaughtered by the the zombie hordes

3. Kidnaps a child with dubious intent (RE2 remake)

4. Murders the mayor’s daughter with the clear intent of some necrophilia/taxidermy fetish shit

Considering that RE for a long time used comic villain tropes, Irons was a very fucking dark character early on in the series.

That first scene in the original is just so great. Gary Krawford knocks it out of the park. Real Norman Bates energy.

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The corpse and the stuffed animals on the walls suggest that Umbrella has 'infected' the police. (They probably went a little too far in making the RCPD resemble the mansion from RE, but this part is gold.)

IIRC, in the old, non-canon novelization of RE2, it was also very strongly implied that Irons was going to rape Claire after she stumbled upon his underground torture chamber, and I vaguely recall the scene being appropriately skin-crawling to read on top of that as well.

Incredibly fucking dark at the time for what was originally kind of a B-movie quality, survival horror series.

 

[Niggernerd]

Linkara from the Oney fan game

 

[CrippleThreat]

Chief Brian Irons from RE2.

That first scene in the original is just so great. Gary Krawford knocks it out of the park. Real Norman Bates energy.

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The corpse and the stuffed animals on the walls suggest that Umbrella has 'infected' the police. (They probably went a little too far in making the RCPD resemble the mansion from RE, but this part is gold.)

IIRC, in the old, non-canon novelization of RE2, it was also very strongly implied that Irons was going to rape Claire after she stumbled upon his underground torture chamber, and I vaguely recall the scene being appropriately skin-crawling to read on top of that as well.

Incredibly fucking dark at the time for what was originally kind of a B-movie quality, survival horror series.

It's crazy how Irons was originally conceptualized as some "advisor"-type character to Leon and Marvin, as he recovered from the attack, to a nutcase more involved with Umbrella back during the development of RE 1.5 to 2.

 

[R.A.E.L.]

Lorenzo from Haunting Ground is pretty fucked up, now that I think about it.

Guy is an ancient alchemist who wants to be immortal by any means necessary, and when he finds out that his granddaughter Fiona has something inside her that can be used to extend his life even more, he has no qualms about orchestrating the deaths of her parents so that she can be kidnapped and brought to him. First thing he does when Fiona arrives is watch her get changed through a peephole. When his goons start going after her for their own reasons, he pretends to be her ally and slips her notes on how to escape, all so that he can get her to himself (his body is too old and decrepit to intervene directly). And when he finally does, after having spied on her all throughout the game? Creepy fuck comes clean, abandons his wheelchair so he can scrabble after her, rejuvenates himself, and takes on an even more sadistic and rapist-like attitude towards Fiona - who, need I repreat, is his granddaughter - temporarily locking her in a room and scaring her for the lulz. Even after he gets boiled alive, he manages to come back as a flaming skeleton and chases Fiona in one last desperate attempt to kill her. Fortunately, his quest for eternal life ends there when he quite literally burns himself out. If he does manage to kill you, the noises you hear during the game over screen are downright nasty.

Tl;dr: Old guy kidnaps and puts his granddaughter through hell because immortality

 

[Pentex]

Most evil? Gwyn doesn't strike me as the most evil, though that may come from how the Way of White introduces us to him in the first game. Gwyn was afraid. Afraid of the work that he fought for fading. His existential dread drove him to do anything to retain his rule, including sacrifice himself to rekindle the First Flame. A villain, yes, but a tragic one.

The most evil villain of the Souls series would be Aldrich. A cannibal priest who ate so many people that he turned into bloated sludge, corrupted the Way of White into the worship of the the Deep. And whatever the Deep is, it is not friendly to human life. His servant, Pontiff Sulyvahn, takes control of Irythyll, converts some of its populace into animalistic servants, all to stop the rekindling of the First Flame. Aldrich and his followers want to plunge the world into a twisted form of darkness where they can all feed on the collective suffering of all living things.

He tried to replace an endless age of gray/stone with an endless age of fire, despite knowing that he had, through his own actions, created the cycle of fire and dark, life and death. He defeated the natural order once (stone) and was arrogant enough to believe that he could do it again. Aldrich was a cannibal and a sadist, but no one did as much damage to the world in the setting than Gwyn.

 

[Kier]

I know a [bad] guy. Oersted, from Live-A-Live.
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Needless to say, this dude's pretty fucking evil. However, he walked a long road before his decline. Allow me to divulge the details:

Live-A-Live is a character-centric title, focusing on the story and journey of the main characters through their respective playable scenarios, each of which center around a specific setting (i.e. the Stone Age, or something you'd see out of science fantasy media). In that case, the game puts Oersted as the last main character, for his specific scenario.

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Spoiler: Oersted's Scenario, His Rise and Fall

For Oersted: He wins the final round of a tournament [held in the Kingdom of Lucretia] against his best friend, the magician Straybow. The grand prize is the marriage to the princess, Alicia. Oersted and her are engaged, but she gets kidnapped by the Demon Lord, away to his hideout.

Being this great hero and all, Oersted sets out for his betrothed, with his best bud, Straybow, tagging alongside him. They obtain the help of past heroes, Uranus (stop laughing) and Hash, with the latter of the two having experience fighting the Demon Lord. With a party of 4, they take the battle to the Demon Lord, and defeat him. However, Hash tells the others that the Demon Lord was unlike the Demon King he had fought in the past. Hash would died after the battle, succumbing to a plague known only by him. In his parting words, he tells Oersted to never make the same error he made by deciding to no longer believe in humanity.

After that, a sudden tremor prompts the remaining to vacant the late Demon Lord's lair. Oersted and Uranus manage escape the cave-in, but it seems Straybow wasn't as lucky. Only those two came out unscathed, but just like that, following the plague-ridden old hero, the new hero's best friend appears to have perished as well. At the end of it all, the duo return to the castle without a rescued Alicia in tow, and two allies gone. The King of Lucretia can only tell Oersted to rest and fight another day.

Unable to sleep thanks to visions of this "Demon King," Oersted awakes and sees the figure of Straybow slink out of his quarters. Giving chase, he sees the should-be-vanquished Demon Lord on the King's throne. He does battle with the fiend, and appears to slain him yet again, but unfortunately, it was only an illusion. Oersted, in actuality, just slew the King in cold blood, on the man's own throne! The guards arrive, and the same guards who once congratulated and praised Oersted, now spit vile remarks and call him after his fallen nemesis—a Demon.

Uranus arrives to buy him time to flee as he gets captured, but like the guards, the same villagers than once hailed him as a great hero, now lash out with the same remark—Demon. He turns himself in and awaits execution, but like Hash, Uranus [in the the cell beside his] tells him to keep fighting with the idea that if at someone keeps believing in him, this whole ordeal will never truly be for naught. Uranus then uses the last of his strength to free Oersted from his cell, and then perishes soon after. Oersted dirtily escapes; it is not without killing those same guards does he manage to flee the kingdom once more.

Oersted, with no options left, proceeding to the Demon Lord's lair in an attempt to rescuing Alicia, the one person whose bound to still have faith in him. He arrives to where he fought the Demon Lord, and uncovers a secret entrance, which leads to out into the open pinnacle. There, he sees that Straybow was alive, and learns that it was the jealous heart of his best friend that conspired this chain of events; he gave Oersted visions of the Demon King; and it was he lured Oersted out to see the King in an illusion as the Demon King, so he would ruin himself by killing the King. The two do battle. Oersted wins, Straybow dies, and Alicia pops out to see the outcome.

Oersted is glad to finally reunite with his lover, but he is suddenly taken aback when the first words she udders are, "STAY AWAY!" Alicia says that Oersted made not a single effort to rescue her, unlike Straybow. She confesses her love for the late mage, right in front of Oersted. In her pathos... she kills herself, the only person who Oersted still thought had faith in him, right in front of him.

Ultimately, with no one he knows that believes in him, and with the world as he knows it calling him "Demon," in that moment, Oersted loses it, denounces his humanity and his hatred towards it, and proclaims himself to be the new Demon King, Odio.

Spoiler: After His Fall

Being the Demon King, Odio kills everyone in Lucretia, holds the world in a perpetual stasis. He also uses the previous Demon King's status to reincarnate himself across worlds throughout different eras. Those reincarnations of Odio serve as the main bosses for each of the other main characters' scenarios. These bosses range from a prehistoric dinosaur to a HAL 9000 reference. All of these incarnations/bosses show the evils of humanity, either in themselves or others.

In the final arc of the game, Odio summons the other main characters to discuss if they also believe that humanity is as loathsome as he thinks. Hearing the negative from the main cast, infuriates Odio, who proceeds to attack them. However, the heroes prevail, even against his final form—Pure Odio.

You could have the heroes kill him, but he dies with regret as Alicia's name alone are is dying words. The game ends with ambiguity as his stasis still persists, and the heroes seemingly remain trapped in the stilled remains of Lucretia.

If you refuse and leave him alive, he returns and tries to debate the heroes that hatred is prevalent throughout all times, cautioning them. He makes them fight their respective incarnation of himself/boss, and when they succeed, he just gives up. He takes the moment to ask the lead character you're controlling where he when wrong, what was he missing all along. They tell him that he just gave up his humanity when, even in the worst of times, they still held close to theirs. He dies finally hearing this, but not with out a warning: No one is destined to become Demon King, but like him, all it takes is hatred, and gears are already in motion.

In the final arc, you can also play as Oersted, now Odio. You primarily fight as the incarnations against the heroes, and defeat them. Or, should you let their HP reach a critical point, you can activate "Armageddon," and wipe away not only the world of ruined Lucretia, but also, the main characters' worlds and eras, leaving nothing behind as a result. The final boss, Pure Odio, also does this attack should you lose to him. Perhaps, with Odio at his full power, Armageddon was answer he wanted to hear from the heroes.

If Odio wins via his incarnations, he becomes convinced of his own philosophy and critiques a belief in humanity as an illusion of its own. The game ends as he walks across the ruins of Lucretia. A sense of pathos is present as it appears clear that even with desires satisfied as Odio, Oersted returning to the tower of the castle—the place where he shared a moment with Alicia and where his quest began—can only look outward, seemingly unsure of whether he's the real disillusioned one and the real victor in this entire fight.

Also, in his boss fight, he uses move called "Saint Alicia," which projects a beautiful woman who then becomes horrid creature that lets out a piercing screech. He was truly "down bad," as the kids today say, indeed.

Might not be as evil, but he's a quality villain in my books.

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tl;dr: Knight goes through a lot of shit, goes nuts, and stops listening to a well-known song by Journey. But he does provide one of the best tracks in the game:

Finally, someone else who knows how great this game is.

 

[CrippleThreat]

Finally, someone else who knows how great this game is.

It's a real gem. Those bonus bosses can eat shit though.

 

[Absolute Brainlet]

Oh right, how could I forget about this faggot right here

>drives a girl to suicide because she was dating his rival
>gets said rival assassinated for trying to expose him
>blackmails the assassin that he hired
>has said assassin kidnap Maya
>will have her killed if he doesn't get a "Not Guilty"
>rubs all of this in your face
>all of this for the sake of maintaining his reputation
Matt Engarde might not be the most evil antagonist, even in his own series, but he is 100% the biggest jackass in the series.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Lol yes! You can end the thread here. Or curb stomp the monkey in chapter two.

the monkey route is pretty funny since by "accidently" killing nobunagas monkey, he dosent start the hole process of the real story and you can just chill out and take over japan like normal.

or ran route where xavier goes full retard and ends up getting sealed again after five minutes of being free.