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ShadowKnight49 — My Top 10 Most Terrifying Villains

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It's easy to find a villain who you find loveable because they are sympathetic, or have a good cause they are misguided in. But what about ones that you love because they are just so damn terrifying? 


10. Nemesis (Resident Evil)
If there's one thing that struck me about Nemesis... he was relentless. He's always chasing you around, never taking a break, no matter what you shoot him with, no matter how many times you hit him. What certainly doesn't help is his sheer size, his twisted face, that badass trenchcoat, at the fact he's usually pictured lugging around a goddamn rocket launcher or minigun. And hell, he looks like he could crush your skull into paste with a simple squeeze of those fingers of his. 

I think it's obvious that, with him so low on the list, things only get worse and worse.


9. The Batter (OFF)
(SPOILERS!!!)
What's worse than a monster that chases you around? A monster who you've been helping this whole time. The Batter seems to be another friendly RPG character who is on a holy mission to purify the world. He goes out and destroys ghosts, twisted creatures that were once men, and... whales? But as the game goes further and further, you realize something: by 'purifying' the world, The Batter is erasing any signs that it ever existed. Maybe the world was messed up, but it begins to dawn on you that you are taking thousands, millions of lives to succeed in this 'holy mission' of his, and, should you side with the Judge to stop this monster you have created, you begin to see that he is hardly the hero you once saw him as.

Stay in your coma...


8. Flowey (Undertale)
We all know the story. This little flower tries to pull your strings, make you kill everybody and everything Underground, and once he gets the souls of the human children, he becomes Omega Flowey, a rough, photoshopped eldritch abomination with a flickering TV for a head... which certainly doesn't give you Netflix. Not to mention, he broke the game itself to destroy you, and constantly makes mockery of you, especially once he has you trapped. Of course, you do win in the end, but damn... this guy.


7. King Ghidorah (Godzilla)
(Godzilla KOTM SPOILERS!!!)
If there's one easy way to make something scary... make it goddamn huge. And King Ghidorah is really huge! Being a kaiju and all, he could tear through cities in order to get to one place to another. The way he makes the lightning crackle, how he creates massive storms as he moves, the fact that an oxygen bomb, which nearly killed goddamn Godzilla, only pissed him off, gives chills down my spine and wonder what would happen if Godzilla wasn't around to stop him.


6. SCP-682 (SCP Mythos)
Imagine a beast that could regenerate faster than Deadpool. Imagine if it was the size of Doomsday. Imagine if it could adapt to anything that attacked it. Imagine that it was so unkillable that a reality warper gave up on killing it, a machine that could show you anything you wanted couldn't give a single scene where it dies, an unstoppable force that will kill anything that looks at it not only fails to kill it, but also refuses to kill it again! That is SCP-682, who isn't even the most powerful character in the SCP Mythos. This guy is just so broken that they tried to blow him up on the moon, which kind of worked... until the remains of his DNA just TURNED HIM INTO A GIANT VERSION OF HIMSELF THAT BEGAN TO CONSUME PLANETS. Forget Hard-to-Kill Lizard! He's the fucking IMPOSSIBLE-to-Kill Monster!


5. Utsuho Reiuji (Touhou Project)
Utsuho Reiuji is one of the few characters in Touhou who can actually be considered evil (the others being Seija, Seiga, Mima, and Shinki), and just... do you know what her power is? She can manipulate nuclear energy. And do you know what her plan was? To rule the world... by destroying it. Basically, if she wasn't stopped by Reimu Hakurei/Marisa Kirisame, she would have turned the world into a burned wasteland by burning it with nuclear fire. Or, hell, she would have shot actual stars at it to just have it disappear completely. And why would she do this? Because she's too stupid to know the difference between right and wrong! Utsuho is so stupid, she wouldn't know the difference between saving the world and leaving it like Fallout!


4. Molag Bal (The Elder Scrolls)
(TRIGGER WARNING!!!)
I had a hard time picking which Daedric Prince to put here. I looked at the House of Troubles, seeing as they are the 'evil' Daedric Princes. Maybe Malacath, considered the worst by the Dark Elves and loves watching mortal conflict? Or maybe Sheogorath, the casually insane Madgod who makes the Joker look sane and created music out of a woman's remains after he slaughtered her? Perhaps Mehrunes Dagon, the main antagonist of Oblivion and we actually got to see destroy stuff? 

But I decided to go with Molag Bal.

The dude is literally the antithesis of a good life! He's the Daedric Prince of vampirism (which isn't pretty in the slightest in Elder Scrolls), slavery, and corruption! Oh... and rape! That's how he created the first vampire, and it's implied that Serana, the vampire companion in Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC, got that treatment as well. 

His physical form is like an Elder Scrolls' idea of Satan. His realm is a hellish version of Nirn (being the normal world). In his quest in Oblivion, he makes you turn a mourning husband into a murderer, who you can go back to and haunt/mock. His Skyrim quest is you killing a guy with a rusty mace... twice. 

This dude is an absolute monster.


3. Nyarlathotep (Cthulhu Mythos)
No, not Nyaruko from that one anime. Nyarlathotep. 

You love the classical gods of Earth from our myths, right? Nyarlathotep finds them as nothing more than mere annoyances and is noted to be able to wipe out every singe god on Earth. The Egyptians bowed to him without knowing what the hell he is. His matter manipulation can twist a city or turn a man's face into nothing but skin, no open pores or anything. Or, to get straight to the point, he will turn the world into dust and blow it all away.

And, let's get straight to the point here. Nyarlathotep is the soul of Azathoth. Yes, the soul of the most powerful character in fiction. That right there... whoa. 


2. Darkseid (DC Comics)
While his Marvel counterpart Thanos is scary on his own, I actually find Darkseid more terrifying. He always keeps his arms crossed behind his back, his back straight, which is already a terrifying pose to signify how superior he is. But the thing is... he can back it up. He fights easily even without using his arms, every move is crisp, quick, planned out, and aimed to kill. His Omega Beams don't need to be fired more than once because they zigzag until they hit their target. He makes the likes of the Justice League bow to him, and nobody can stop him.

Of course, he has been defeated before... in his fragment form.

Oh, did I forget to mention? The Darkseid we all know isn't him.

He is the absolute form of evil, and lives in his own realm so he doesn't destroy others trying to enter it. Yes, he's so powerful that he destroys entire universes by entering them! 

And, to prove his danger, he is the third most powerful character in all of DC Universe! Yes, the third most powerful in the series where The Presence itself exists! 




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Before we go to Number 1, here are some honorable mentions:

-Onslaught (Marvel)
-Nameless King (Dark Souls)
-Isaac Westcott (Date A Live)
-Alduin (Elder Scrolls)
-Shao Kahn (Mortal Kombat)
-The Radiance (Hollow Knight)
-El Ray (Nomad of Nowhere)
-Gargos (Killer Instinct)
-Ultron Sigma (Marvel vs Capcom)
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1. All For One (My Hero Academia)
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxSVeu… )

Think of this: a beast that levels cities without trying. It defeats the world's best defenders without really thinking. It manipulates, creates alliances, experiments on humans to create monsters. It finds your weaknesses, physical and emotional, and exploits them with deadly efficiency. It forces the #1 hero to his knees while mocking him, draining the fight out of him.

Who could do this? A beast that came from the abyss? A demon crawled out of Hell? A god? 

No. A man did this. And his name is All For One.

A man with the ability to steal others' powers, All For One is the most feared and dangerous villain in the MHA Universe, destroying every hero with ease, taking down Edgeshot, Endeavor, Gran Torino, and Best Jeanist without a second thought. And what does he do to All Might?

First, All For One mocks All Might by reminding him of how he killed All Might's teacher and One For All's previous owner, Nana Shimura.

Next, he defeats All Might in physical combat, wearing him down until All Might returns to him true form.

Finally, he tells All Might about one more deed he did. One that destroyed the Symbol of Peace and obliterated his spirit.

His design gives the feeling of terrifying eloquence, with his tuxedo and skull mask/life support. His theme is horrifyingly beautiful and can easily send chills down one's spine. His voice acting is done horribly well in both Japanese and English, played by John Swasey in the English version. And, even under the mask, nothing helps because his face is just scar tissue.

No matter how grim things are for him, he’s cool, crisp, and composed, smirking at his enemy and taunting them. Even when locked away behind bars, he’s still smiling and manipulating all who come across him. He’s a puppet master, everything that happens is a part of his plan, no matter how poorly they go.

And, what's strangely most chilling of all, is the fact that he is still human. Despite his godlike power and his twisted appearance, he is noted to feel love. It is stated that he did genuinely love his younger brother a lot. And he is shown to love Tomura Shigaraki the same way that All Might loves Midoriya: as a son and student. I don't know why, but something about that cements the fact that he is the most terrifying villain I have ever seen.
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A-Y-H [2021-07-19 11:41:18 +0000 UTC]

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patrickthenobleman [2019-07-03 13:30:38 +0000 UTC]

Nice list.

I particularly agree with your number 2 and 1 slots. I think Darkseid is more terrifying than Thanos because of one thing in particular, his desires for the Anti-Life Equation which will allow him to destroy all free will in the universe. While Thanos is a death worshiping nihilist who would take the lives of half the universe, Darkseid wants to take away everything that makes life worth living to begin with.


As for All for One, what makes me think he's so terrifying is the fact that at every point we see him he appears to be in absolute control of everything . Whether it's behind the scenes offering lessons to Shigaraki or actually on the battlefield, you can sense how he just has total control of everything. He never has outbursts of fury or loses his composure, even when he's defeated by All Might and sent to prison it still feels like he's entirely in control. Like everything is a puppet to him and all are bound to serve his desires, whether they know it or not.

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CouncilMember05-1 In reply to patrickthenobleman [2022-11-30 16:13:39 +0000 UTC]

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KaijuAlpha1point0 In reply to patrickthenobleman [2019-10-27 19:05:38 +0000 UTC]

And what's even scarier, it's implied he's in jail because he chooses to be and he could break out if he so much as felt like it. 

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ShadowKnight49 In reply to patrickthenobleman [2019-07-03 14:12:27 +0000 UTC]

Holy shit I gotta add those to the explanations

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FireballofDstrXn [2019-07-03 02:07:39 +0000 UTC]

Nemesis is sure is terrifying to the core.

Could have add Onslaught and Shao Kahn to the honorable mentions.

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ShadowKnight49 In reply to FireballofDstrXn [2019-07-03 02:59:00 +0000 UTC]

Oh yeah. I should be adding an honorable mentions list.

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