"Shepard, that sounds way too scary and expensive to be a serious problem. So, no, you can't have the resources you need to fight the Reapers." That first sentence hits a little too close to home in regards to politics, which makes it brilliant.
If it wasn't entirely wrong. The end of ME1 creates a scenario where that scary threat is a few centuries away and will likely kill themselves trying to reach you. Eliminating enemy assets in a position to actually do bad things is...smart.
The Joker: "Kill Bane or his heartbeat will kill me" Batman: *Flashback to electrocutioner's comment about killing him and then jump-starting his heart* Batman: "Lol loophole"
Cold Fusion That's not quite what I mean. I mean times like Saints Row 4, when Zinyak warns you not to escape or else he will destroy the world. So you escape, and what does he do next?
to be fair if you where asleep for a thousand something years and tried to open on of the most powerful magically locked objects in existence you'd get someone else to do it for you
Well, he may be a nefarious dragon but it is wat more true to Odin to release your rival and let him grow powerful, not die weakly Plus, the legion would never get their best general that helps them beat the clueless, misguided ethnocentric storm cloaks that only help the thalmor sow discord and cripple the area
I dunno, I always feel that bad guys should eventually decide that trying to punch batman is detrimental to remaining fully functional and just not do it. It's different for dudes like bane who are so roided up the punches don't really hurt, but electrocutioner is just a guy. Like the guy from Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman that sees him and just nopes out of there.
2:00 Superman: "But... what about your rule?" Batman: (Slurps Coffee) "Didn't kill him..." Red: "To my knowledge, he lived out the rest of his days... drinking his food through a straw."
2:00 Superman: "But... what about your rule?" Batman: (Slurps Coffee) "Didn't kill him..." Red: "To my knowledge, he lived out the rest of his days... drinking his food through a straw."
Corypheus also accidentally saved the world. The very explosion that Corypheus caused, and Solas was hoping he'd die in, also not only spared the soon-to-be Inquisitor, but gave them the power to close rifts that would be instrumental in stopping Corypheus's plans.
“These squid-like space monsters rock up every fifty-thousand years, and harvest all the intelligent life in the milky way, and leaving only some rocks and kids eating Tide Pods...” -Jane Douglas 2018 That about explains it...
No Handsome Jack? He directly profits from your failures but also is responsible for constantly reviving the players thus giving them infinite attempts to beat him
They could always just remove the New-U stations entirely and have you just respawn like in a normal game, but no - Borderlands writers want to have their non-canon cake and eat it, too. Besides, Jack very directly saves the world in the events covered in the Pre-Sequel, so he counts, either way.
I would also accept having a rival corporation running the New-U stations as a way to stick it to Hyperion. "Oh Handsome Jack wants this person dead? Let's endlessly resurrect him/her!"
Jeedy Jay In the Presequel he wasn't a villain and his motives in 2 were to save the world he just got corrupted and scarred after many betrayals making his dark side be his only side and his goal that of a dictator.
When will the OXbox crew realise that the ultimate villain, Jane Douglas, is in their midst...wait, what was that noise? ...NO, I DIDN'T MEAN IT! PLEASE! NO, JANE! NO! AAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! ... ... ... ... Jane is lovely and any other statements made to the contrary were untrue.
So... what you're saying is that the last, best hope for humanity is one of Jane's experiments accidentally saving the world? I can live with that. More optimistic than the view of the world I held when I got up this morning.
Batman is and has always been insane. It's his insanity that drives him to fight crime the way he does. Sane people would tell him he's doing it the hard way.
Because they deserve it. Batman not killing isnt because he doesnt want to inflict that sort of misery upon the "villains". Killing just isnt right. Sure beating them up and almost killing isnt either but it still isnt as bad as killing
Mar Hawkman sane people would also agree that hard ways are often the better ways. Also "Batman is insane" comments are just memefied than practical. That's like saying people with PTSD or obsessive compulsive disorder are mental. Batman's most often is the latter, maybe a bit unstable, but his stance isn't even wrong. And his "no kill rule" isn't all his own. The GCPD commissioner explicitly said him the only reason he tolerated Batman and his allies cause they never killed. And this when Batman had enough with Joker and was beating him to death for one too many deaths. So yes, even Batman had often thought of crossing the lines.
Batman has only been 'insane' since _The Killing Joke._ Before then, he was someone who had gotten over his parents' deaths, but was still motivated by it to protect people. Not someone obsessed with stopping all crime all the time to the exclusion of his own wellbeing.
The Black Hand of Sauron in Shadow of Mordor. If only he didn't kill Talion in ritual to summon Celebrimbor and attempt to bind him. Like an idiot, dude decided to use the best ranger on the wall and obvious better choice for Celebrimbor instead of the cook or something.
@@anirudhmathur5555 i'd say it was the hardest out of all of the boss fights in that game... nope, bane! second hardest... shit, third, cause there was two bane boss fights.
You must be thinking of D-list Spider-Man villain Arcade, Andy, because the Riddler is awesome. Joker has to murder dozens of people at a time to get Batman's attention. Riddler leaves a half-finished crossword puzzle on a chair and Batman obsessively devotes all of his resources to tracking him down. Work smart, not hard.
Oh...my...lord. I've watched the series from my birth in 74 to its cancellation. How on earth could I have made such an error? I shall hang my head in shame for the next few minutes until a... SQUIRREL!
How is this not the #1 comment lol, Jane is awesome. If there wasn't the internal struggle of being turned off by a woman sharing the same name as my mother, i'd probably be asking if she's looking for someone to marry haha
Lucian in Fable 2. You would never have known you were a hero if he hadn't tested you, and you wouldn't have had any reason to assemble the other heroes and go after him if he hadn't shot your sister. Seeing as you're the only person who could destroy the spire...
GothNavyWife that's just Greek tragedy written all over it. The bad guy gets told that someone will stop him and so bad guy attacks unannounced hero and hero then seeks revenge on bad guy.
You forgot the unnamed villain from the Captain Fistfight anime/game where he unintentionally fixes the cities water pipes, upgrades the security, creates a new source of Vitamin D and fixed the main protagonists shoulder.
It is from a RU-vid video where a villain did all those things, but then the hero tells them that all the bad things they did fixed the city. Said villain shoots the hero and somehow it fixed his shoulder as well.
There is a fan theory that Alduin saved the dragonborn on purpose so that the status quo would have a champion in the battle with him to determine if the age came to an end or not (...jeez, it's like this is a prophetic Norse myth or something.) If that is the case then Alduin goes on a "___ Sporting Villians Who Gave Us a Fighting Chance" list.
@Viktor Samoja I feel like that more than anything sucks cause that'll be the fallout 3 of elderscrolls where th pc has no choice but to die whenever bethesda makes their final elder scrolls game
@@saphiwrath I mean, CPR, the proper emergency procedure to undertake when you find someone in cardiac arrest, usually breaks ribs. But it's better than being dead.
@@elafimilo8199 It does not "usually" break ribs. That first push breaks built up cartilage around the ribs. Sounds horrible, but not actually a bad thing.
I want to express my opinion on Jane failing to save the Council (Paragon Shep here and proud!) but there's something that looks suspiciously like an orbital laser satellite in the night sky, and I like my flat un-flattened....
What about Darth Malak from the Knights of the Old Republic? If he had not betrayed his master, the events that lead to his ultimate demise would not have occurred. Or, from a certain point of view, the Jedi council who thought that brainwashing a sith lord was a good idea? I mean what could go wrong with a plan like that?
Well, brainwashing a Sith Lord could actually turn out pretty okay, if you play Light Side. Sure beats simply killing him to end up eventually curb-stomped by his apprentice. (okay, so they still end up dead in the second game, but that's pretty much unrelated)
Given the Lightside ending of KotoR is the canon one (Well, the whole game isn't canon now, it almost was if Disney let Clone Wars continue, which also would have made the Yuuzhan Vong canon cause they had an episode planned with them in it, but you know what i mean and i'm rambling.) It uh..........Went about as well as they could have reasonably hoped, maybe even a little better..
*You thought the main antagonist was the creepy Dark Spawn, huh?* *Well, surprise! It's the fancy elf sitting in your library complaining about tea!* Pretty funny. Solas just wanna take revenge for the Inquisitor constantly jumping from the upper floor on his desk. Alduin obviously screwed up the worst though...you had one job Alduin.
A shoutout to every pokemon minion ever who always chose to fight you in a pokemon battle and back away, allowing you to progress, instead of merely refusing to battle you and halting your progress altogether.
In Pokémon X and Y, there's a Team Flare grunt that stands in your way, but refuses to move even after you beat him, leaving you to go all the way around, leading to ~15 minutes extra game.
That's the most overrated ending in gaming history. If there're infinite timelines, killing one dude is not going to do jack shit. That's why you don't play with timelines on your plot.
The idea was that right there at the end, that was more of a symbolic thing, I'd say. Of course he didn't *literally* kill every Comstock. It was a symbol of him doing it, erasing Comstock from every and any existence. Elizabeth transported them into a "meta-world", if you catch my drift. Don't take it as me defending it, or saying it's a good ending. I feel like it was done just for mere shock value, more than anything. When you see it, you say to yourself it's the best ever, but when you actually start thinking about it, and the entire plot of the game, it just stops making any logical sense. And then it falls apart because of Burial at Sea anyway. I definitely agree on the timelines, though. Putting them in your plot has some serious consequences, if you don't handle it right
What about the darkness in Alan Wake, it seems to me that if youre using a writers work to prophesies your return and the writer is the only one that can change the ending and you dont kill him off on page one then you just werent trying very hard. Its always "spooky things attack Alan" never "Alan's brain explodes"
The Darkness is limited, broadly, by genre and medium constraints, and it has to influence Alan, it can't directly make him do stuff, IIRC. Also, it wants Alan to survive. It's trying to hurt him enough for recapture so he can finish the book the way it wants, remember?
Question including spoilers . . . . . When it reveals that Alan was written into existence by Thomas zane I can't help but think of the poet and the muse song in that the old gods of asguard probably wrote zane into existance Is this possible?
I've not played it personally, but if the goal is to weaken and capture him.... Why not... Alan walks into a building. One which happens to have only one entrance. Which is a remotely sealed blast door. He is then successfully captured. If it can't make him do stuff, put something like an Ultimate Weapon in said building, but leave it inoperable (in case he escapes), as bait. Or kidnap someone he cares about and use them as bait.
There was a lot of stuff about why Gollum fell in the books that were left out of the movies. Oaths and curses and the hand of God and the remnants of Smeagol's sanity. If nothing else he literally had nowhere better to go: Frodo claiming the Ring had put a spotlight on them. Honestly, it might be more accurate to say that the Ring destroyed the Ring. Around the point where Frodo wasn't really Frodo anymore he cursed Gollum to die in fire if he ever touched 'me' again, and he did later touch both of the entities that 'me' might have counted as at that point.
I'm just going to say it right now, before something bad happens: Mike, turn that palantír over to Andy right now. No, do not look into it. It'll make you manically depressed, lead you into madness and you'll eventually try to set yourself on fire. Nobody wants to clean up after that.
Don't forget Father Mathias, the antagonist from the Tomb Raider reboot. During their first meeting Lara falls asleep and Mathias kidnaps Sam. I mean the guy's a zealous lunatic with no qualms about murder but he can't spare a moment to pick up a rock and stove in the head of his kidnap victim's sleeping confederate, thereby ensuring he's not followed? That's just careless.
The Riddler is one of the most underrated Batman villains. He takes time and plans out his schemes, and in the recent "War of Jokes and Riddles" storyline, he had some of Gotham's most fearsome on his team, terrorizing members of Gotham. I'd like to see Electrocutioner do that
For a story that's not Post-New 52 and features Riddler not being a joke, Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Zero Year does an excellent job of showing the Riddler as a strategic mastermind
My favorite Riddler story was when he decided to go straight and be a detective for Gotham PD. His motive? To prove Batman WASN'T the world's greatest detective!
God Mass Effect 2 was a good game. The feeling when you get revived and then get a really freaking cool ship. When you go to the crash site of the Normandy.... If there was one game I could play again as if I had never played it, it would be Mass Effect 2.
@@luisemoralesfalcon4716 Keep the essentials. Fix the rest like making choices really affect gameplay. Killed the rachni in ME1? No rachni-reapers. Got Mordin killed in ME2? A completely alternate mission to recruit the krogan. Gave Cerberus too much stuff (data from a side mission, Legion, the frickin' Reaper base)? Gain a questionable ally or somethin'.
I bet you Jane has a lot of hearts, and she really need to devour them to stop this pain from demonic powers in the chest, where her puny human heart once was.
no Jane is secretly A18 from Future Trunks timeline but she dyed her hair Burnette. therefore, she has a perpetual power core that never runs out of energy.
How about the Gravemind that saves Master Chief in Halo 3, thereby allowing him to stop the prophet of Truth from activating the Halo rings and saving the galaxy?
That was entirely intentional. If the Gravemind hadn't sent John to where he needed to be, the Prophets would have fired the rings and wiped out the Flood's food-source, and therefore eventually the Flood. The Gravemind knew EXACTLY what it was doing.
As a matter of fact, both examples are on purpose, pulling him from the water and ALSO the temporary alliance in Halo 3. If the rings fire, the Gravemind dies too.
Don't forget that in lore the true grave mind exists as a conceptual being. A member of an ancient race from before the age of the Forerunners. His plans are to infect everyone to keep them safe (they already tried giving people the authority to keep everyone else safe- and that sorta ended with the entire species save for the Gravemind being brutally massacred). In a really sorta screwed up way, the gravemind cares extremely that the current galaxy is not ended. He doesn't wish everyone killed (except for those dirty little forerunner arses); just united in a single, communal hivemind. I think his wording was something like "the Mantle of Responsibility demands we all become one" or something
I romanced Solas in my Inquisition playthrough and it adds so much more to the epilogue. Seriously I would highly recommend it. The extra lines and scenes you get during the confrontation is GOLDEN. Been waiting for so many damn years for the next dragon age game 😭😭😭
Another villain who helped save the day was Zoltun Kulle from Diablo 3. He created the Black Soulstone to empower himself but you eventually use it to trap all the Lords of Hell and save the day!
I don't know, the collecters seems like a bit of a reach. Saren on the other hand can be blamed for shepherd saving the citadel. Totally Alduin in Skyrim though.
Yea, the Collectors were a bit of a reach, imo. They were controlled by Harbinger, so it's more like the Reapers inevitably saved the universe* by killing Shepard, leading to his/her resurrection, and gaining the support needed in the 3rd game.
Worst batman villain is kite man. best batman villain is joker. Second best is calendar man despite having a dumb serial killer theme he is actually a genius
Scripts are printed on white paper, dumbass. And they're not "covered" in question marks, as question marks are only present on the paper when there's a question.
This a list about villains who wanted to do bad things and accidentally did good things, Loghain wanted to do good things and accidentally did bad things until the end where you told him that he did bad things
SPOILERS Basically, General Loghain was the kind of guy who thought the end justified the means, and he did terrible stuff in order to prevent something he thought was bad from happening, which ended up bitting him (and the entire realm) in the ass when it made things A LOT worse. Namely, he abandonned the King of Ferelden and left him and the last members of an ancient order of protectors to die during a crucial battle against a terrible evil, both because he didn't take the evil in question seriously and because he thought (correctly) that the King was about to make important concessions to a rival state. Problem is, the ancient evil was actually kind of a big deal, way bigger than the rival state, and turns out the ancient order in question was 100% necessary to defeat it. Woopsie.
Noir Nashman Summarising is not my strong suit. I don't know the difference between what's important and what not and I bring in extra info. So my summaries are often longer than the original. And I was hoping for not only the trilogy, but everything. As a true Tolkien fan, that is a minimum.
menno graafmans The original trilogy is what was specified. Plus, you can make summaries as generalized as you like. Even shortened down to one sentence. Like "Short guy tries to throw some jewelry into a volcano."
I like to think that the collectors had found a way to overcome their indoctrination in atleast the smallest of ways to intervene Shepard and deliver him/her to cerberus, because the reapers had already started indoctrination on the illusive man. Therefore the collectors found out about his massive resources knew he could get Shepard a way to stop the reapers and free them. I like to believe they did not intend to kill Shepard, just give him incentive and means to defeat the reapers. I just loved the Protheans... minus the whole galaxy wide dictatorship thingy.
This video went up an hour ago and I did not get a notification from RU-vid. Considering how funny the jokes are in this, I'm even more ticked than normally would be.
I don't think Atlas cared if the player killed the Little Sisters or not. Atlas needed a minion with the power of Adam and the player gets that Adam no matter what choice you make.
It doesn't _really_ matter, though. You can perfectly kill him without killing a single Little Sister. I think you get better rewards on the long term, actually.
I'm not sure I follow you. Atlas only cares about the Little Sisters to the extent that their death can power Jack up for his purpose. He does ends up killed for good by a bunch of Little Sisters, but in the end whether you kill them or not has no influence on either of these things. You can still kill him without the extra Adam, and they'll still kill him even if you go for the bad ending. Besides, all he cares about is himself, so honestly even if you kill every Little Sister you meet, that won't do him much good once he's dead. Then again, I suppose that he (or you) might have gone for the surface if he forced you to kill them, so maybe you're right.
persona 5: Shido frames Akira/Ren up for assault. setting up the events of the game, if akira wasn't framed, no persona powers, apocalypse by christmass. (That sounds like a great name for an indieband.) Persona 4: Adachi accidentaly sets Yu Narukami up to wonder "how did i get those powers?" preventing the apocolypse
Richard Spere Would the apocalypse still happen? Shido would basically be the representative for Yalbodoath or whatever his name is. Also, no one would care even if the apocalypse did happen, except for persona users, so just Goro who would've been killed by Shido.
I loved the twist of Solace in Dragon Age Inquisition and I loved the game, and what I'd love even more is seeing a couple of you guys have a go with it on the channel... this or having Luke and Ellen play a bit more of Kingdom of Amalor
Great video! One more to your list is shadow of mordor. The main character started out as a scrafice for the main baddie to receive the power of the ring maker but ends up giving the power to the main character making him the one person preventing the whole Middle Earth being taking over by the Dark Lord.
In a way, The One Ring may have been responsible for its own destruction and not Gollum. When Frodo was climbing Mount Doom and was overwhelmed by the ring's corrupting influence, Gollum attacked him. Frodo said Gollum would be cast into the fires of Mount Doom if he ever touched him again. Gollum attacked him again on the precipice, grabbed the ring, and subsequently fell in the fire taking the ring with him. It's entirely possible that what Frodo said wasn't just a threat, or the power of suggestion on a fragile mind, but may have been a curse laid down by the ring through him (which backfired for it spectacularly).
In one of the books (I think simerillian), Gollum trips on a rock that was moved by well basically god and falls in, so basically, Sauron lost because divine intervention it says a lot about Sauron when it takes multiple acts of God to actually beat him
There's a lot of credence to that apparently. I've since found out that Tolkien imagined Sauron had enchanted the ring so powerfully that nobody, not even someone as powerful as Gandalf, could willingly destroy the ring. They would always hesitate. Eru Iluvatar had to make a Rube Goldberg device of coincidences to make sure it suffered an "accident".
The thing about alduin is that he save the world in two ways. First is that he prevented the dragonborn to be executed and second is that he disobey his task as a world eater choosing to enslave it instead.
I always thought the reason Alduin from skyrim came to the village was to find a dragon sensing the sprite of a dragon not knowing that it was actually the dragonborn instead.
