For me, it would be GLaDOS.
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She deleted the one remaining human part of herself because it was just too much to deal with. She releases you at the end of Portal 2 as a path of least resistance measure because “killing you is hard.”
What about you, what is your favorite media villain?
the swarm from stanisław lems “invincible” (not the invincible show, this is a completly unrelated sci fi novel) (also the swarm is not really a villian its more like defending its territory
absolutely!
David Robert Jones.
There’s just something so classy about this guy, and he does the coolest stuff.
yessssss
Shepard Lambert in Would You Rather?, played by Jeffrey Combs.
Picking a Jeffrey Combs role is cheating though.
Okay, fine. Monster (2004)'s Johan Liebert.
Blaine from iZombie. He’s 100% bastard, and the show tries to humanise him by showing us origins and “how could he be any different” and so on, but he’s always great on screen.
Sadavir Errinwright from The Expanse
Loved that its not just evil for no reason
He actually has a goal I can sympathize with
I feel like in the TV Portrayal at least, its like I can feel like he actually does kinda care about Earth…
in his own fucked up way, but still…
There’s something genuinely compelling about SHODAN.
They’re malignant, objective evil, yet when they talk about their goals and ambitions, they seem almost benevolent, which makes them even more unsettling.
It’s like something telling you to calm down while it’s sawing off your legs to replace them with mechanical versions because it’s “improving you”.
You didn’t ask to be improved.
Similarly, the cybermen just want to upgrade everyone.
“Look at you hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors.”
Has a similar feeling to Mark Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger
SHODAN introduced my prepubescent brain to the concept of being “scaroused”.
Kilgrave in Jessica Jones
Jesicaaaaaaaaaaa
if for no other reason than to have a bit of a different answer:
Raboniel from Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
Her interaction with Navani made for some VERY good chapters
Incredible character, always had me guessing at her true motives and alignments. RoW was just an amazing installment in the series
Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg. He’s a monster.
Fire one million
The only right answer.
Your favourite media villain
Easy answer: Rupert Murdoch
It’s actually why I listed the James Bond villain Elliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies because he was an analogue for Murdoch, a media magnate who wanted to control the world through disinformation. It was a prescient character, because that was still during 1997, long before FOX News had become the danger it actually is. Yet Carver is pretty on-the-nose for what actually ended up happening and we didn’t have a James Bond to save us.
I think Carver was a mixture of Murdoch and Maxwell. He certainly received Maxwells death.
Australia’s most embarrassing export
Followed by Ken Hamm
And Nicole Kidman is awful, she’s friends with Murdoch
One of my favorites as an adult, and one that scared the living shit outta me as a kid. Jude Doom from who framed Roger Rabbit.
Hmm, a rather difficult question, I have quite a lot of them and I could not get attached to any of them, well, maybe him:
and him:
Silco from Arcane.
I often struggle with media villains, finding them unrealistic or unconvincing, but Silco is just so well-rounded and well-written, he elevates the quality of every other character he interacts with. In a series full of near- and actually-superpowered people, this weak, middle-aged man is the most terrifying and influential of them all.
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His absence from season two is one of the reasons why it flops compared to season one; Ambessa and Viktor are good characters, but weak villains.
I feel like everyone is a villain in that series.
And I think that’s because everyone is very well written and has a full profile rather than being one-or-two dimensional good/evil.
