I'm going to nominate Gongora from Lost Odyssey. Some of the stuff he pulled was just plain sick.

Oh yes, almost forgot. The Azure Nightmare from Soul Calibur.

The ghosts from pacman are pretty evil lol

While Sephy is my favorite villain, for evilest I'd have to go with Alma from F.E.A.R. I'm not entirely sure what her motivation is, but she certainly scared the crap out of me...

id say your charactier (if he was evil) off fable because you can go around killing every one tourtring them in that town where you have no weps (they get taken off you) and being more evil than jack of blades and also getting a 100,000,000 bill for the crimes you did

King Ashniard from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. He killed his entire family, nearly brought the entire contenent to war, and enslaved entire nations because he felt like it. Stotic, yes, but if it weren't, then he wouldn't be evil.

Apologies to anyone who thinks Sephiroth is better; Not because he is, but because I pity your disillusion.

P.S. My spell check is busted, so I can apologize for that. Score one for Ron!

DeGoon:
Saladin
Civilization 4
Can never make this man happy, or from fighting.

gahahahaha to true!

Kefka. He murdered an entire village of people by poisoning their drinking supply. Why? Because he COULD.

Well it would have to be someone from this game http://www.sa-mp.com/ all you do is kill steal and stuff for the sake of it.

fnph:

Werewolflord:
Whats the bloody deal with choosing Kefka as being the most evil...he's not evil..(just misunderstood) XD,lol but seriously,all he does is laugh fiendishly and insults,then hightails it at the first sign of defeat. He was evil in the 1980s...probably >.<

As for me - Sephiroth, cuz hes a badarse manipulator and carries a really long sword <.<

Then he destroys the world as it is known. Then, he randomly destroys towns just for fun and leaves the entire population living in constant fear. Yeah, Kefka's not evil.

Tel me one decent villain who doesn't do this <.<
From shinra in final fantasy to any would-be follower of Kain in command and counqer,over all 9 current races in Warhammer Dawn of War to just about any villain in your average action cartoon... nah people just say Kefka's the most evil cause he laughs so much ,lol

twilight_dweller:
Kefka. He murdered an entire village of people by poisoning their drinking supply. Why? Because he COULD.

On that note - the prince Luca Blight from Suikoden 2 is evilier ^^; He slaughtered everyone in every village he got into,burned the village to the ground and while he was killing he made every one plea for their life on their knees while he laughed to their face.

Prince:"You'l do anything? Then act like a pig!"

Villager:"..wha?"

Luca:"I said act like a pig!"

Villager:"okay..oink oink.."

Luca:"hahahaha this is great!"

Villager:"then you'l..?"

Luca:"Yes...DIE PIG!!"

now ladies and gentlemen,THAT is EVIL!

Jon Irenicus from BG2.

Not sure if he is the most evil 'EVAR' but he deserves an honorable mention for shouting "You shall suffer, you shall all suffer!" as he tears apart an army of Cowled Magi.

Oh, and for draining your immortal soul, using it to make himself a god.

I think Gunther Hermann is an evil villain. eh wants a skul-gun and doesn't afraid of anything.

Gravity.

I think Mal'Ganis, the dreadlord who corrupted arthas in the end of the warcraft 3 human campaign was just pure evil.

For real evil, you gotta go with someone totally unrepentant and amoral, someone who doesn't waste time trying to explain their problems away with cheesy justifications.

I got five favorites.

Kefka - Not only was he cartoonishly evil, but he got results when he actually took out most of the world.

Lavos - I contend that Lavos might be the most creative concept for a villain ever. Billion year old space locust/starship that you can only fight with time travel and the collected weapons of at least three different civilizations.

Sargeras - Lots of villains start good and turn to evil. But it's a rare thing where that villain doesn't waste time trying to justify that slide, even if its only internally. If you have principles, but abandon those principles for pure nihilism, did you ever have any principles to begin with?

GLADoS - Jigsaw's got NOTHING on this maniac's traps. The lying, deceptiveness, and dishonesty never stops. The apologies for the deceptions are the only things that sound like obvious lies, which is the ultimate rebuke. Is the whole thing a massive training course/indoctrination session? And is there a person behind that curtain pulling the strings, cleaning the traps, baking the cakes?

Silent Hill - Normally Evil comes from a being, even if it is a mythical and invisible being. But its a rare work that makes a piece of geography so evil that it actually tears away from the rest of the world.

Anyone who didn't respond SHODAN obviously haven't played System Shock or they'd vote for her too. I honestly can't think of any other villain that got under my skin so much, it wasn't just a matter of "Oh, she's evil!" It's that she hates you, she really, really hates you for no real reason and she's perfectly happy to say so as often as she can.

Honestly, if you want to know why she's so memorable here's an excellent article written by Kieron Gillen about SHODAN: http://gillen.cream.org/wordpress_html/?page_id=1103

Good stuff!

Other than SHODAN? I always thought Sarevok was pretty damn evil. Creating an economic crysis in the sword coast region and laying blame on several factions in order to create a war between the nations. His ultimate goal? To soak the world with so much blood that he may take advance of his devine heritage as the new god of Murder as the prophecies fortold. Dramatic stuff there.

And here's one I'd be surprised if anyone agreed with; Myrkul from NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer. A dead god clinging to the last threads of sentience because of the havok his long ago creations make. He's like a leech, an evil parasite that's only clinging to exsistance because of the pure cruelty of his actions while he'd still been alive and the way people cringe when they hear his name. He's got no power left now and by all rights he's dead, and yet still he causes just enough terror and fear to cling to that last shred of power he's got left.

Out on a limb here....
Jack of Blades from Fable was a nasty bugger....

Hitler. FYI Hitler was in the beginning scenes of CnC: Red Alert, so he counts as being in a video game. I think. Sorta. Maybe.

T-004:
Out on a limb here....
Jack of Blades from Fable was a nasty bugger....

He was also a very generic bugger

Luca Blight, from Suikoden 2, gets my vote. He's unabashadly evil on a far more personal and realistic level than any Final Fantasy Villain. He doesn't try to destroy the world, but he massacres entire villages for no reason, murders several of your friends and takes 3 Parties and several dozen poisoned arrows to weaken him enough for you to actually kill him.

Kefka really is a good choice. Dethevn from Breath of Fire 2 was also a pretty horrible person. But, my vote will have to go with Colonel Nohman from Zone of the Enders 2.

Seymour FFX was pretty mean and I'm sure Sephiroth has been said a hundred but still he's a mean dude :(

Plz sephrioth isn't that evil. Anyone would turn into a mad man if he found out he was born in a terrible experiment. And you can't say Liquid sure he has a british acent andd all but he wants to destroy the Patriots and thats a good ing

Gary from Bully (aka Canis Canem Edit).

Damn ADD kids.

The pope in medieval 2. He's a f'cking tosser and keeps sending inquisitors to kill my best generals just because i'm trying to end a war the LE FLIPPING FRENCH STARTED! Anyway my vote is for the pope.

prahanormal:
Silent Hill (The Town)

I mean throughout the series, there have been evil people and people who go insane, but all of it leads back to silent hill.

agreed.

The enemies.

Me, when I killed my neighbors duck in Dink Smallwood (http://www.rtsoft.com/dink/).

I nominate Sludge Vohaul!

I'm going to have to go with gamingfreak48 on this one. Though I have never actually played through the game, Earthbound has what is possibly the most wicked character I have ever witnessed in a video game. One of my friends showed me the final battle with Giygas years ago, and it's the stuff of nightmares.

Psychologically, Giygas is truly terrifying. Formerly a malevolent alien who literally disintegrated into madness, Giygas isn't just an evil being; Giygas IS evil incarnate. The frightening aspect of all this is that the evil has so corrupted him that it's eaten his mind away. He is literally a babbling idiot who doesn't even know what he's doing anymore. He's not even alive in the technical sense. Perhaps the worst part of it all is his insane ramblings:
"it hurts..."
"I'm...happy..."

This is made all the more disturbing when I found out the inspiration behind Giygas' speech. Shigesato Itoi, the creator, was traumatized during his childhood when he accidentally walked into an adult movie and witnessed a rape scene. You can almost feel his trauma when you play the game (or witness someone else play it).

Well, I'd have to say Moebius The Timestreamer from the Legacy of Kain series, even though the Elder God was manipulating him, he was still a bastard right up until the end. He repeatedly played cryptic mind games with Raziel and Kain, his ultimate goals to keep Raziel from discovering his own destiny. He also prophecised that both Kain AND William the Just were to have the Soul Reaver, causing a paradox and a long and bloody war between Humans and Vampires. The Elder God twisted him into malevolence, cunningly disguised as just and noble actions until the end of the series. Although he believed his actions were good, he still destroyed many innocent Vampires for no good reasons, he my friends is the game version of the jaded chestnut of "God told me to do it!"

The Combine advisors are evil because they perform actions of incredibly cruelty with mere disinterest and dispassion - their blank faces move with a terrifying purpose and their sterile, sterile unemotional approaches to tearing out the brains of a human being in front of you is so disturbing.

Wallace Breen is sinister because he is so congenial and rational - were he not overseeing a regime which lobotomizes and dismembers its citizens to maximize utility, I'd expect to see him writing research papers and teaching post-doc students.

Bob Paige takes the cake for most convincing plot for world leadership, though. Essentially becoming a technological manifestation of god, his plan smacks of the Antichrist in the biblical of Revelations - usurping power by winning the world over with his marvels, then establishing a dominion of his own. With stuff like a universal constructor, limitless net bandwidth and nanite augmentations, his scheme comes off as semi-plausible.

Bowser takes the cake, though. Repeatedly kidnapping a japanese schoolgirl, destroying mushrooms and screwing over real estate agents with SEVEN FRIGGEN CASTLES which he doesn't pay taxes for!? Evil to the core, baby.

Hmm... I'm sure SOME of you might know who I'm talking about but it would have to be Lloyd from Legend of Dragoon... ESPECIALLY after what he does at the end of disk one... I have NEVER hated a character that much until he came along.

The entire Chaos race in Dawn of War (or the Games Workshop tabletop). They just kill stuff for no reason. Orks do it 'cos its fun and they think everyone else is enjoying it too, but Chaos do it out of hate for the sane.

qbert4ever:
Seeing as how overlooked this game is, I dont know if anyone will recognize him or not. But I have to go with Sephiroth from Final Fantasy Seven.

Like I say, most people won't know who he is, and it can take a while to dig up anything about him on the internet, but trust me. He's one mean SOB.

First of all Final Fantasy VII being overlooked, is extremely laughable. It is one of the most overplayed games ever invented....Unless you live in Ethiopa, which on that note, how the hell did you get internet?

The most evil villain ever would have to be the devil, he
s been in more games than anyone else and even has a religious debate after him.