Poll: Which Icons of Evil have Influenced Your Game's BBEG?
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fnork de sporg
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Xanatos, from the Gargoyles cartoon show.
What no lawyers!
Dr. Doom
Lex Luther
Scarface
Dr. Doom
Lex Luther
Scarface
TheAuldGrump
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S'mon said:I had a villain somewhat based off Torquemada from 2000AD's Nemesis the Warlock comic. Greatest comics villain ever (Evar?).
Try taking a look at the original... Tomás de Torquemada, first Grand Inquisitor of Spain (1483-1498)... The man who gave the shape and form to the Spanish Inquisition that we all know and love. Now there's a villain! (Much, much, scarier than what made it into the comic books...)
The Auld Grump, who was pretty sure he had mangled the spelling of Mephisopheles, but was too tired to look up the proper spelling... Though I am pretty sure that there are multiple spellings I am even more sure that my version wasn't any of them...
Others: Mathew Hopkins (Witchfinder General)
Genghis Khan
Bill Gates (Just kidding... I think...)
The Auld Grump
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Chuck Manson. The guy is just so far out there... I love watching his parole hearings. He starts off fairly polite and gentile. Once he is about halfway through he gets thoroughly pissed off and starts threatening every living being on the planet and talking about how he can do anything, kill anyone on the outside because he is God. Wonderful stuff.
Also, now that I've seen Appocolypse Now I'll be using Colonel Kurtz as a template for BBEGs.
Also, now that I've seen Appocolypse Now I'll be using Colonel Kurtz as a template for BBEGs.
Mystery Man
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What about Hitler?
You know, he pretty much ruined it for anyone who wanted to wear that particular style of moustache.
You know, he pretty much ruined it for anyone who wanted to wear that particular style of moustache.
Wombat
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Hmm, a lot of these I know are from cartoons from the 1980s, but since I stopped watching cartoons about 1969/70, I didn't see any of them 
I go for classics. I voted for Darth Vader, not as Darth per se, but as every Black Knight that ever walked. He is the ultimate Big Bad Heavy. Sauron also works -- the massive Unseen Power from Beyond, but ultimately he is too epic for my games (well, except for one, but that is beside the point...).
One of my favourites, though, falls under Other -- Basil Rathbone. He always played the intelligent, courtly bad guy in swashbuckler films (Robin Hood, Captain Blood, Zorro, etc.) and I loved the combo of traits. Another one in the same category is Cardinal Richelieu, a la Three Musketeers, rather than history. Again he is smooth, mannerly, polite, but he pulls thousands of strings from behind the scenes without most people realizing it is he who is behind it all.
Classical gods (and villains) from mythology of all stripes provide inspiration as well. Why turn to the comic book or tv versions when we have all these stories all around us? The Mighty Thor version of Loki is so wimpy, so constrained in comparison to his Eddac counterpart!
I like to have a lot of standard "types" -- the Hulking Brute, the Unscrupulous Manipulator, the Honourable Villain, the Secretive Killer, the Accidental Villain (thinks he is doing good, actually doing evil), etc. Archtypes -- gotta love 'em!
I go for classics. I voted for Darth Vader, not as Darth per se, but as every Black Knight that ever walked. He is the ultimate Big Bad Heavy. Sauron also works -- the massive Unseen Power from Beyond, but ultimately he is too epic for my games (well, except for one, but that is beside the point...).
One of my favourites, though, falls under Other -- Basil Rathbone. He always played the intelligent, courtly bad guy in swashbuckler films (Robin Hood, Captain Blood, Zorro, etc.) and I loved the combo of traits. Another one in the same category is Cardinal Richelieu, a la Three Musketeers, rather than history. Again he is smooth, mannerly, polite, but he pulls thousands of strings from behind the scenes without most people realizing it is he who is behind it all.
Classical gods (and villains) from mythology of all stripes provide inspiration as well. Why turn to the comic book or tv versions when we have all these stories all around us? The Mighty Thor version of Loki is so wimpy, so constrained in comparison to his Eddac counterpart!
I like to have a lot of standard "types" -- the Hulking Brute, the Unscrupulous Manipulator, the Honourable Villain, the Secretive Killer, the Accidental Villain (thinks he is doing good, actually doing evil), etc. Archtypes -- gotta love 'em!