Blog:Grust's Top 10 Most Evil Video Game Villains

Villains, without them many games just aren't that great. While some are goofy and silly, many are just nasty and pure evil. As a gamer I've encountered many evil villains in gaming. Due to my large collection, I'll only focus on games I have already beaten. I will also only focus on original titles i.e no movie or TV or comics based which also means Joker from the Arkham series is out, one game per franchise, and have very little or zero redeeming qualities.

The Countdown
10. Tohru (not even a spoiler anymore) Adachi from Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4: This bad cop is able to cover his tracks via the TV world which led to the deaths of 2 people and left one man framed for his crimes. He showed almost no remorse for his actions and even delighted in the human world becoming a world of Shadows. He's high on the list though because he accepts the consequences of his actions and becomes a model prisoner after his defeat showing that Narukami had an effect on him.

9. The Thalmor from Elder Scrolls: Skyrim: What, no Alduin? Well here me out! Yes, Alduin is technically more evil, but also he is meant to bring the end of the world so I see him as something that has to happen as life and evolution do require death, so he's a bit of a necessary evil. The Thalmor on the other, we can do without. They aided the dividing of the Empire with their Talos ban, imprisoned anyone that worships Talos and are so disliked, murdering one of them is a slap on the wrist to Hold guards. They relish in the civil war and if not won soon, they'd be the only winners. A bonus is that they aided in the creation of what I think is the most annoying character in Skyrim, Heimskar, who I take delight in killing every time I play just so he'll shut up.

8. Dracula from the Castlevania franchise: This immortal vampire hopes to cover the land in darkness and left many villages in ruins, lives lost, families destroyed and there has even been a ritual to sacrifice 100 children to him. CHILDREN!!! He feeds off of evil itself and resurrects 100 years. However he's still high on the list because of the tragedies he faced in life, losing the love of his life, finding her reincarnation only to lose her again.

7. Pope Zera from Grandia 2: This pope is a betrayer not only to his god (though technically his god is long dead) but the entire world. He set into motion the revival of the god of Darkness, Valmar and merges with him. Valmar's resurrection cost the lives of many people and as his plans are going well, Zera goes clearly insane with power. He is so warped with religion he believes mankind cannot exist without a divine leader and since Darkness won the battle of Good and Evil, he sought to become that leader. He clearly represents someone who goes fanatically insane because of his religion.

6. Master Xehanort from the Kingdom Hearts franchise: This evil Keyblade Master wants nothing more than to see what caused the Keyblade War no matter what kind of suffering his goal causes. His Heartless Ansem even helped the Heartless devour countless worlds. He is able to even manipulate the Mistress of All Evil, Maleficent.

5. Albert Wesker from the Resident Evil franchise: A betrayer to everyone, even the evil corporation that created him, this evil genius has no allegiance to anyone other than himself. His only real goal is world domination and wipe out almost 99% of the population with Ouroboros. Even his henchwoman, Excella Gionne, who loved him was nothing more than a pawn to him and she herself was infected and consumed by Ouroboros. Now granted Excella deserved to be punished for her crimes and aiding Wesker, but not like that. Wesker was such a monster to everyone and everything that nothing gave me more satisfaction than launching two rockets at him. Rest in Hell, Wesker.

4. Malcolm Betruger from Doom 3 and its expansion, Resurrection of Evil: Betruger, you sick monster, you betrayed your own species for the demons. Yes humans are flawed creatures but siding with demons? He became so evil that Betruger ascended to demonhood and was given power over Hell itself. It felt very great when I killed this bastard with the power he wanted so bad. Serves him right.

3. Bellum from the Legend of Zelda: Spirit Hourglass: While Ganon may be the main antagonist, he seeks power and world domination. Majora's Mask could be worse but he seems to have some honor giving Link Fierce Deity's Mask. Bellum however, has no other goal than feeding off life force. Even when he steals the life force from the Ocean King and Zelda, that's not enough for him. He wants the life out of simple Hylians and possibly all life. You could argue he is just a beast just trying to survive but no, he creates minions to help him feed on even the smallest life forms. His Ghost Ship even enters another dimension to find people to feed showing off his single goal.

2. Mephiles the Dark from Sonic 06 (yes I beat it): Representing the mind of Solaris, Mephiles seeks to merge with Iblis and rebirth Solaris and destroy not only existence itself but time itself, every thing had been done in the past would never happen. To do this he sought to make Princess Elise cry and how does he do this. He MURDERS Sonic in front of her. Thankfully Sonic is saved and Solaris is erased from history.

1. Kefka Palazzo from Final Fantasy VI: Many of these villains no matter how evil have some goal in mind. Albert believed he was saving the world with Ouroboros, Bellum was greedy, Mephiles and as a whole, Solaris wanted revenge, Dracula was tragic and Tohru was able to find redemption. Kefka however has none of these excuses. He just simply relishes in death and destruction. The only reason he poisoned Doma was simply for the thrill of the death of a kingdom. He cared very little for power or money, in fact you could argue that the only reason he became a god was simply to extend his destructive influence. He wanted to create a monument to non existence. While both Cloud of Darkness and Neo-ExDeath wanted these, it should be kept in mind that Cloud of Darkness was a force of nature so non existence was an instinct and ExDeath had the excuse of being composed of multiple evil spirits. Kefka lacks any excuse for what he does besides insanity is without any doubt the most evil villain in video game history.