Magnificent Bastard/Video Games: Difference between revisions

**** Of course, now that the first game is chronologically one of the last games in the timeline where {{spoiler|Ganondorf triumphed over the Hero of Time}}, it's possible to hypothesize his power had waned significantly over time and multiple defeats. Thus far, there's only been one timeline with a game implying he's been [[Killed Off for Real]], which is pretty impressive stuff.

* Though she may not have managed to impress fans sufficiently, [[Big Bad|Amelissan]] from ''[[Baldurs Gate]] II: Throne of Bhaal'' would qualify based on her actions. She had almost everyone convinced that she was a kind of activist dedicated to helping the weaker of the mortal children of Bhaal, the dead god of murder, while she was secretly herding them all in one place to be killed. She had the most powerful five convinced they could become demigods by destroying their lesser siblings in order to resurrect Bhaal, while her intention was to destroy them as well. And she had the dead god himself convinced she was going to resurrect him from the essences of his children, when she intended to use the power to [[A God Am I|become a god herself]]. When she encountered the [[Player Character]], she had them kill all the other powerful Bhaalspawn while making sure they stil couldn't save the weaker ones in the city where she had led them. The reason why she's not really hailed as a Magnificent Bastard may be that she wasn't very convincing to the player from the start... and that she was a bit of a psycho when she showed her true colours.

** Bhaal himself could qualify. After foreseeing his death in the Time of Troubles, he began a remarkably elaborate fail safe plan by walking the mortal realm ''before'' the Time and knocking up the women of nearly every race and culture, giving birth to thousands, if not ''millions'' of mortal children that each carried a sliver of his divine essence. After his death, he and his high priestess began orchestrating the mass slaughter of those children so that their essences could return to Bhaal, eventually causing him to be reborn stronger than ever. And he may very well have succeeded, if it wasn't for that fact that {{spoiler|his high priestess decided she wanted his power for herself.}}

** Sarevok. He served as [[The Dragon|second in command]] to his foster father, one of the most devious merchants in the realms, while orchestrating a plot to corner the iron market for the Sword Coast, with [[Dragon With an Agenda|his own plans]] to {{spoiler|escalate the tension and suspicions stemming from the manufactured resource crisis to start a war that he believed would prove him a worthy successor to his true father, the now-dead God of Murder Bhaal, and [[A God Am I|allow him to claim Bhaal's throne]]}}, manipulated the player character's party into [[Xanatos Gambit|either killing said foster father or being on hand to be framed for it]], allowing Sarevok to [[Dragon Ascendant|assume command of the Iron Throne trading cartel]], [[Villain With Good Publicity|got himself elected a Grand Duke of the city of Baldur's Gate and arranged the assassination of the others]], and aside from ''finally'' losing his cool when {{spoiler|undeniably exposed as a traitor in the middle of his coronation ceremony}} and nearly succeeding in assassinating the remaining Grand Dukes ''himself'', he [[Xanatos Speed Chess|bounced back from every defeat inflicted on the Iron Throne by the player's party, finding some way to use them to his advantage]]. On top of that, he winds up manipulating the player character again, into restoring him to life, in Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal (literally, it must be done to progress).