Anti-Villain/Video Games: Difference between revisions

* Magus of ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' is a decent enough example. In 600 A.D. he's the Fiendlord, head of an army of magical demihumans waging war on humanity...officially. In the meanwhile, he's brooding in his keep, trying to summon and destroy the [[Eldritch Abomination]] that [[Dead Little Sister|took his big sister away]], drove his mother to madness, and destroyed his home, while his "generals" led the campaigns and are the only ones interested in the war. That said, he did kill the heroic knight Cyrus (in self defense?) and turned Frog into a...well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|frog]]. But hey, he has [[Pet the Dog|pet the cat]] moments.

** Magus was always a slightly cold person, as evidenced by your party's encounters with his youthful counterpart, Jacky/Janus. Losing his only friends (his sister and cat), to say nothing of becoming displaced in time, simply made him moreso, hence, while he could presumably care less about whether the Guardians or Ozzie's armies won the war, he still was a wicked enough person that he probably did enjoy inflicting suffering on others (assuming Frog's flashback of Cyrus' death didn't exaggerate Magus' cruelty).

* Dhaos, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'', appears to be a ruthless [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] that aims to destroy all of mankind. However, after his defeat by the heroes, he regrets that it didn't have to end that way and reveals that he was actually the leader of an alien planet named Derris Kharlan, which had become ravaged by a great war and was slowly dying without a tree of mana to support it. In order to obtain a mana seed, he came to Aselia, but that planet's mana tree, Yggdrasil, was in danger of dying itself due to the development of [[Magitek]]. He attempted to warn the leaders of the research in Midgard, beseeching them to stop, but when that failed, he decided that [[Humans Are Bastards]] and waged war on Midgard to force them to stop Magitek research. The heroes feel guilty, as they've effectively doomed Derris Kharlan by killing its would be savior. In the end, Martel, the spirit of Yggdrasil, transforms Dhaos' body into a mana seed and transports it to his home planet.

** For that matter, the [[Big Bad]] in almost ANY [[Tales (series)]] game is an [[Anti-Villain]], although some more than others, since they may be revealed at the end of the game or the last few hours.