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My Top 5 Video Game Villains

I'm really only doing these top lists because I see everyone doing them everywhere and I'm like "Hey! I want to do that!" So expect a lot of posts to be like this. Anyways, since yesterday I did top 5 heroes I decided to go with top 5 villains today.

5. Fawful (Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga)

It might be strange to have this guy on the list but his humor gives him a one up on many villains. His catch phrases "I have fury!" and "I have chortles!" are probably what make him so funny, not to mention that diabolical laugh, the fact that he manages to keep reappearing in each Mario and Luigi RPG game, he must be a good villain right? Although he's not entirely scary by any means, he certainly is a fun enemy.

4. Sephiroth (Final Fantasy 7)

Although FF7 was only so-so, Sephiroth and Cloud revolutionized the image for heroes/villains since that game (Cloud just still wasn't good enough for a slot yesterday). While the story and game were only average, Sephiroth did bring a terrifying feeling wherever he appeared. Players are first introduced to Sephiroth as they travel through blood stained halls in the Shinra building, and eventually find his infamous (or infamously long) Masamune stabbing through the heart of the president of the Shinra Corporation. He's a one man army, he has his own insanely creepy theme music, and he's killed more people than most other video game villains ever have. A classic villain and still memorable to this day.

Since I don't want to make a top five list with only FF villains, I'm just going to shout out special mentions to Seymour (FF10) and Barthandelus (FF13) for being the best recurring villains throughout a game. I guess Rosche deserves a slot on that list too, but oh well.

3. Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda)

If Link is one of the greatest heroes, Ganondorf has to be one of the greatest villains. Twilight Princess made the already sinister Ganandorf even more of a villain when after he gets stabbed through the chest, he tears the sword out of his own body and proceeds to kill the person that attempted to kill him. Ganondorf has always been a towering threat that, again, you just never want to come in contact with him prior to the end of the game. His sinister, evil, manipulative, he possesses all of the greatest traits of a villain. Although thankfully they changed his look or else he would have never made it onto this list. Evil Gerudo king is much better than the evil pig he was back in the day.

2. Sho Minamimoto (The World Ends With You)

Sho makes it close to the top due to the fact of how memorable he is. What are his qualifications? He looks like a punk that would mug you on the street while happening to be a brilliant mathemetician at the same time. He uses math terms as slang "so zetta slow" "It's x2 die" "Die radians" "SOHCAHTOA" "You're off your vector!" "Let's get derived" and many, many more. He also creates these weird art sculptures whose beauty only he seems to be able to comprehend. Oh, and he's cocky, what kind of villain would he be if he wasn't extremely cocky? As he says "gravity can drop an apple, I'll drop the freaking moon." There's also the fact that he BLEW HIMSELF UP just so that he could bring himself back to life four days later with power to rival the Composer. Truly a great villain, both funny and menacing. Number two belongs to him.

1. Xemnas (Kingdom Hearts 2)

First of all, congrats for being able to find a way to creatre a recurring villain without the way he comes back each time being completely stupid. Ansem was the scientist in the first Kingdom Hearts that nearly plunged every world into darkness via the Heartless due to his experiments, and Xemnas (the remainder of Ansem, his shell, his Nobody) is just as good as the original. He has no emotions whatsoever, he merely has knowledge tha he has no heart and so he seeks to complete himself. Not so bad right? It is, because without feelings he completes his designs at ANY cost. As it's been said, apathy is worse than either good or evil, and his purely objective motives make him one of the most evil villains to date. Not to mention all of the different forms he takes on, can you talk about one seriously hard villain to kill? Not bad for a guy who technically doesn't even exist. Can't wait to see how he is incarnated into the next installment of Kingdom Hearts. It's going to be interesting that's for sure!