7 Villains Who Worked WAY Too Hard Just to Mess With You

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Published 2024-06-05
Look, we get they're villains, but SURELY there was a simpler way?

Written by Phil Iwaniuk and Outside Xtra.

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All Comments (21)
  • @NameRealperson
    Bowser is a zookeeper who is really dedicated to providing enrichment for Mario's enclosure
  • @silas6328
    Ellen: "Either Kazuya is a deeply unhappy man who buries himself in his work in order to avoid dealing with his feelings or he's run out of things to chuck off a cliff." Kazuya: "yes."
  • @kytamura
    If you actually do the milk thing, it unlocks the secret boss fight with Andy. Winning that unlocks the ending where Ellen is actually revealed to be several cats in a human suit.
  • @Daktangle
    In G-Man's defence he exists outside of spacetime, and it's able to be where and when he needs to be whenever he wants.
  • @TheoSylar
    Loved ignoring the Riddler and watch him loose it ranting
  • @GaryCurnowII
    No Handsome Jack?!? It’s basically his M.O.
  • @thajocoth
    Bowser stole the Star Rod because his wishes were being ignored while other people were getting theirs granted. He wanted to grant his own wishes with it, like marrying Peach and ruling the Mushroom Kingdom... So that one's not evil for the sake of evil. It's the previous categories combined. The power went to his head though and sorta took over making him more evil. Power corrupts, even if you're already evil.
  • @jmace2424
    It’s adorable to think of the bad guys actually bothering with paperwork and red tape 🤣
  • @Mikebumpful
    Aha, «Bill Nighy» the actor, not «Bill Nye, the Science Guy»… That makes more sense in London!
  • @volomas_7938
    “Did this man cheat on the Rapture Entrance exam?” No, Andy, he raised his first genetically modified son on the moon to take the test for him.
  • @gezblair
    My own hunch is the Riddler's behaviour had less to do with criminal forensic psychological behavioural issues and more with the developers urge to shoehorn that bloody bat car into every corner of an otherwise decent game.
  • @jason4443
    First thing I thought of reading the title: "It was me, Barry!"
  • @wolfskinchanger
    I remain convinced that the mainline Mario games are a series of in-universe productions, and the golf and tennis and go-karting and all that are the cast enjoying some simple downtime between seasons of the show.
  • This list needed Kingdom Hearts Xehanort on the list. That man time travels, creates a whole organization, plays weird chess with Mark Hamill, gets Disney villains to do his job, and a bunch of other stuff to fight a teenager in Sora.
  • “Novelist” is probably the kindest descriptor I’ve ever heard for wretched misanthropic demagogue Ayn Rand, but I’ll concede that it scans better than “wretched misanthropic demagogue”
  • @andybrown4284
    Riddler went down the path of retroactive planning permission and taking care not to demolish any historic pubs in the process probably helped keep things quiet.
  • Regarding Bowser's erratic motivations: Shigeru Miyamoto's official stance is that the Mario characters are like a troupe of actors, doing what they do because the game calls for it rather than because they want to.
  • @claratalbot7613
    What about Mother Miranda from Resident Evil Village? She loses her daughter, then tries to make a host to bring her daughter back through a massive plan of experimenting on people, pretending to be Mia, kidnapping Rose & cutting her into pieces to be stored in jars until Ethan could come along & unintentionally help her complete the ceremony
  • @Thrythlind
    I think one of the Nintendo devs have said that Bowser, Marrio, Peach, et al are friends and the games' plots are basically all shows they put on for an audience.