Your Top Bad Guy Options

[grif11]

Everyone has encountered that one antagonist who was especially awesome or did something that made you go

My pick is the long haired "hero" with the impossibly long katana, Sephiroth!

reason 1: look at my avatar.

2:He does the unthinkable and kills the pretty hostage.

3: Ive lost count of how many times he skewered Cloud

4: Hes got (count them) one wing. Yeah. You try flying straight with one wing.

5: His English voice actor also does the voiceover for the Prius commercial. I smell irony!

[Cardboard Box]

My top bad guys are all stupid.

As in, they are too blinded by their own dogma to realise the immorality of what they're doing; any evidence just gets slotted into their world picture of how righteous they are.

So this list includes:

1. Wallace Breen
2. Col. Miles Quaritch
3. That corporate weasel alongside Quaritch who'd have loved Tasmania
4. Tom Marvolo "Voldemort" Riddle
5. Albus Brian Wulfric Percival Dumbledore
6. Petunia and Vernon Dursley
7. Fred Phelps

There are other villains, but they are either transhuman (and therefore do not have human thought patterns), or insane (and therefore do not have rational human thought patterns.)

Mind you, the dividing line is unremarkably fuzzy.

[grif11]

• Albus Brian Wulfric Percival Dumbledore
• Petunia and Vernon Dursley

Not my idea of villains.

Can I ask, why dumbledore?

This post has been edited by grif11: Aug 25 2011, 11:53 AM

[Cardboard Box]

• Albus Brian Wulfric Percival Dumbledore
• Petunia and Vernon Dursley

Not my idea of villains.

Can I ask, why dumbledore?

Well, let's see. This man has huge amounts of power: he controls the International Confederation of Wizardry; he's top dog in the Wizengamot; and the headmaster of what appears to be the only wizarding school in Britain - at least one that examines for OWLs and NEWTs.

Yet, as a headmaster, he's bloody hopeless with staff selection. Snape's got bullying issues. Binns is a broken record. DADA professors are, in sequence, possessed, frauds, persecuted, impostors, government toadies, and God only knows what else. Decorated war hero be damned: if I were Minister of Magic I'd forcibly retire the old fart.

And then consider how he treated - or rather, didn't - the Boy-Who-Lived. Just dumps the babe on the doorstep and la-de-das off, thinking all will be fine. No checks, nothing. Almost as though he didn't care a jot about the boy's welfare, as long as he came to Hoggies hungry for belonging and approval...

Moreover he seems to have three mental blind spots: his own infallibility; an idiot faith in the inherent goodness of others (especially with regards to 'road to Damascus'-style conversions.) Many other fanfic writers have attacked his Utilitarian obsession with the 'Greater Good'... which seems to involve subjecting Harry to abuse, either because it suits his purposes, or because he's too damn stupid to contemplate that possibility, or because he's been agreed with for too damn long to let observed facts get in his way.

All this makes me think of this geriatric Gandalf as an idiot villain.