For me, it would be GLaDOS.

Portal 2 spoiler

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?

  • Enkrod@feddit.org
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    21 days ago

    Catherine Foundling, the Protagonist of A Practical Guide to Evil.

    But I don’t know if this counts. Catherine has only the best intentions and many Heros are kinda Dicks in PGtE. She definitely causes a lot of (what she considers) necessary suffering to end unnecessary suffering. And in-universe she undeniably is a Villain, but as the villain protagonist it’s hard to argue that she’s on the same page as villain antagonists.

    • Djehngo@lemmy.world
      4·
      21 days ago

      I like the black knight from the same work.

      None of it is earned. It is handed to them, and this offends me.”

      “You asked me what I want,” Black said. “This once, just this once, I want us to win.”

      The smile across his face was a cutting, vicious thing.

      “To spit in the eyes of the Hashmallim. To trample the pride of all those glorious, righteous princes. To scatter their wizards and make their oracles liars. Just to prove that it can be done.”

      There was something his eyes burning like coals and embers.

      “So that five hundred years from now, a band of heroes shiver in the dark of night. Because they know that no matter how powerful their sword or righteous their cause, there was once a time it wasn’t enough. That even victories ordained by the Heavens can broken by the will of men.”

      • Enkrod@feddit.org
        3·
        21 days ago

        Oh yeah! Soooo many of the things that make Cat cool she learned as the Squire to the Black Knight. I love his worldview, his genre-savy and blunt pragmatism.

        His little speech of why he chose Catherine over Akua is just Chef’s kiss

        I chose you Catherine Foundling, because I remember what it’s like… that feeling in your stomach when you look at the world around you and you know you could do better.

        The things Heiress knows, you can learn. Will learn.
        But that indignation you have boiling under your skin?
        That is not something that can be taught.
        And that is exactly why, when the time comes… you will beat her.