Zerukin here! This is my sandbox for villains I plan to propose.
What's the Work?
Who is Tyler Adler? What Does He Do?
Mitigating Factors
Heinous Standard
Alright. After looking over a classic favorite of mine, I realized this guy might be the most wicked character in the game (and considering how bad most of the cast is with only one character with nothing malicious to him, that's saying a lot).
What's the Work?
Conker's Bad Fur Day is possibly the most vulgar game ever made by Rare, and boy howdy did it become a cult hit. It stars an alcoholic squirrel who gets lost in a meadow and has to find his way home... only to get distracted by his own greed. There is also a panther that wants to use him to hold his table up.
Who Is Don Weaso? What Does He Do?
Mitigating Factors
Heinous Standards
Who you gonna call?
It took a bit longer than I had hoped to get this out, but it is here now. I have also agreed to let Bullman do the write up for this character afterward. Prolly better that way as I might not find the time to get that done myself.
What's The Work?
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is a sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife and the fourth entry in the original continuity that focuses on the new generation team trying to get settled into their role as ghostbusters while having to deal with a dangerous evil alongside the original group.
Who is Garraka? What Does He Do?
Long ago, Garraka was summoned by a greedy king who wished to rule over a land. With Garraka's help, the king was able to succeed in taking control. However, Garraka's actions made the king realize it would only be a matter of time before Garraka's power would be used against him, so he ripped Garraka's horns off in an attempt to depower the beast. Angered by this betrayal, Garraka swore to freeze all of humanity to death and he showed to still be very powerful even without his horns as he laid waste to a lot of the land he helped conquer. This eventually led to him being sealed away where he was safely locked away by the flame masters.
In the current day, the last of the Flame Masters (who doesn't even know of his heritage), finds the orb that Garraka is imprisoned in and decides to sell it for some quick money. This proves to be a big mistake as thanks to the orb no longer being in the tomb, Garraka's power begins to leak out and cause mayhem. Garraka even frees the Possessor who starts causing chaos and even attempts to get a tape to free Garraka. When that fails, Garraka manipulates a ghost girl named Melody, claiming he can help her pass on and reunite with her family in the afterlife (he actually can't as later pointed out, thus he is lying).
With this, he gets Melody to trick Phoebe into separating her spirit from her body, allowing him to possess her and force her to say the incantation, freeing him from his prison. Afterward, he immediately hunts down the last flame master. He ends up getting the wrong guy, but he still kills the poor fella in a very gruesome manner. After that, he heads toward the ghostbusters base to free all of the ghosts they had imprisoned in order to form an army to wipe out all of humanity.
While Melody continues to help him as she believes he will help her, Phoebe convinces her that she has to help herself and not rely on Garraka. Not that it matters, as Garraka manages to break the container and freeze the entire ghostbusters crew... even if only temporary. Taking Phoebe's words to heart, Melody manages to light a match which she uses to help Nadeem use his fire powers to turn the tables on Garraka, even saving the ghostbusters from freezing to death. Of course, with a monster as powerful as Garraka, they needed a prison that was equally powerful to hold him. Fortunately, Garraka ended up providing up due to his freeing of the ghost, making the old ghost chamber vacant enough to hold him.
And thus, Garraka is imprisoned once more. Hopefully for good.
Heinous Standards
You know what is necessary. We can't say right away that Garraka truly stands out without comparing him to, who else, Gozer. In terms of resources and intentions, the two are pretty similar. Both are powerful godlike supernatural evil beings, both had full intention on wiping out all of humanity, and both possess people in order to break free of their prisons. So it seems like Garraka is just like Gozer in resources and actions, right (with potential argument of Garraka having a little more resources)? Well, the key difference between them is methods. Gozer had to rely on its underlings Zuul and Vinz to possess two mortal beings to free them. Garraka had to manipulate a ghost into befriending a human and tricking said human into separating their soul from their body so that he could possess them into chanting the incantation to release him.
Not just that, but while both intended to kill all of humanity, Gozer opted to have humanity decide how they would die (which ended up being Stay Puft Marshmallow man thanks to Ray) and made intent of just quickly killing them in Afterlife. Garraka, on the other hand, had full intent on freezing all of humanity to death and is even actually shown killing people (even if Gozer is an Omnicidal Maniac, I don't recall any onscreen deaths caused by Gozer directly aside from Egon and Ivo Shandor in Afterlife, and even then that is two deaths compared to the much higher number that Garraka is shown onscreen to do).
We even get an onscreen backstory for Garraka. It's in a book presented to the heroes, but said backstory is in murals that give a good detail on his actions in the past. As such, Garraka very much stands out in my opinion.
Mitigating Factors
Does Garraka display any redeeming qualities? Nope! The dude lies to Melody that he would help her reunite with her family (which as Phoebe rightfully points out, he can't and that Melody has to do that herself). He also clearly doesn't care for any other ghosts as it is made clear through how he controls Phoebe's spirit that ghosts aren't obeying him willingly, he is forcing them to bend to his whims. Alright, You guys might be thinking "But he was betrayed, wasn't he? That means he has a freudian excuse." Here's the thing. The king's reason for betraying him didn't stem from no longer needing him, but actually fearing his power showing that even the king realized he was playing with fire. Not just that, but Garraka had initially helped said king in conquering lands which definitely lead to death due to his powers. In other words, Garraka was already evil before this betrayal. Also his desire to kill all humans is due to one human betraying him for somewhat understandable reasons (I say somewhat because the dude should have realized beforehand that summoning a power and dangerous entity was a bad idea).
Is Garraka too comedic? Nope! I'll be honest here. None of Garraka's appearances are played for laughs in any way. Him mistaking a drug store owner for the Flame Master is also played for horror as he is quick to kill the poor fella before moving on. Nothing funny about this guy. Actions are completely serious.
Is Garraka Made of Evil? Honestly, nothing that I saw indicated Garraka to genuinely being incapable of doing anything but evil (one hero calling him an embodiment of evil isn't enough to say he is made of evil as said character was clearly stating it because of how horrible Garraka is). His backstory doesn't say he is made of evil either.
So no redeeming qualities, no moral agency issues, and all humor is dropped whenever he is present to show how serious he is.
Had to propose this guy after seeing this movie.
What's the Work?
Missing (2023) is a movie that is viewed through a computer perspective about a girl doing what she can to find her Mom after she doesn't return home.
Who is James Walker? What Did He Do?
Getting to that
Redeeming Qualities
He could have possibly loved his daughter when she was a kid, but there isn't anything indicating that was truly the case considering how hostile he became when Grace has June leave the room out of concern regarding James's drug dealing. Even if he did, the actions he has with Grown up June are not love in the slightest, and instead have him come off as possessive. He even threatens to kill her when she resists (which prompts Grace to go all Mama Bear on his ass). When you consider what all Grace did to keep him from finding them, Grace would not have been okay with him.
Heinousness Standards
Coming Soon
Looking back, I realized just how heartless this character is.
What's the Work?
Rocket Knight Adventures is a video game series that started on the Sega Genesis with a sequel on the same system, another sequel (that is supposedly a different continuity) on the Super Nintendo, and another sequel on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. It stars an oppossum named Sparkster who does what he can to protect the Kingdom of Zebulos from those who threaten it.
Who is Axel Gear? What Does He Do?
Mitigating Factors
Let's begin by talking about why Axel turned to evil. He and Sparkster had the same mentor with Sparkster getting the most praise which got Axel to murder his mentor and turn against the entire kingdom. His sole reason for betraying his own kind was because he hated how Sparkster outshined him. Honestly, this doesn't sound tragic. If anything, it comes off as rather petty.
Also, the fact he switches alliances with each game further shows he doesn't even have any loyalty to the empires he is helping in attacking Zebulos. Hell! The manual for the first game outright states that he plotted to betray and kill Devligus, the Big Bad of the first game, all so that he could claim the spoils of war for himself.
He also shows to not be honorable or even caring as in Rocket Knight, he is supposed to be playing the hero of the Zebulos thanks to the truce between them and the Devotindos Empire, yet he prioritizes trying to kill Sparkster over actually doing anything about the attacking Wolf Army, runs away when a Wolf Mech appears before him and Sparkster, and then comes back and takes credit for the mech's defeat. So no. There isn't a single redeeming thing about this backstabbing mofo.
Heinous Standards
So in each game, the kingdom of Zebulos is attacked by various armies. Axel works for the enemy in every game and helps them in bringing destruction to the kingdom, which is his homeland. And he does this to satisfy his desire to defeat Sparkster. Not to mention that he actually planned to betray those armies (or at the very least Devligus) to claim all the glory for himself, and we have one heartless gloryhound who is very much a heinous bastard.
Somehow, this character went unproposed for a while on this site. Time to fix that.
What's the Work?Sonic.exe: Blood Scream is a game utilizing the ever so classic Sonic.exe bit. It got a sequel titled Blood Tears which got DLC titled Fall of the Angel.
Who is Akrasiel? What Did He Do?
Mitigating Factors
Heinousness Standards
The best comparison Akrasiel has is with Executor who could have been considered a complete monster himself if not for the sequel and its dlc.
Not just settling with Akrasiel.
What's The Work?Sonic.exe: Blood Scream is a game utilizing the ever so classic Sonic.exe bit. It got a sequel titled Blood Tears which got DLC titled Fall of the Angel.
Who is X? What Did He Do?
Mitigating Factors
Heinousness Standards
