And as the heroes lined up to face Cthulhu they made the mistake of leaving me at their back. After they were dead I dismissed my pet Cthulhu.
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You’re making my favorite action series heroes sound bad. Making them out to be villains.
Care to give an example so I better understand your point?
Khun or “blue turtle” (not actually a turtle. Rak just calls everyone ___ turtle.) is a cold calculating ruthless piece of work from Tower of God but he remains friends with the hero team and is 1 of 2 of the biggest members. Even one of the 3 founding members actually.
Well, I don’t know him, but is he really a hero or a protagonist (not necessarily the main one but in the sense that the point is of view is influenced by his or other protagonists wills and motives)?
Because they are different. There may very well be villains protagonists (Dexter, Walter White, Light Yagami…) And hero antagonists.
Obs: Probably most of my examples can be seen as antiheros but I still see them as villains, they seem like antiheros because we see from their perspective thus justifying most of their mistakes.
Edit: typos.
The tower didn’t even have any heroes until he met 25th Bam (sweet naïve overpowered Bam) and Rak. Well there’s a rebellion but every one of THEM is a jerk.
Doesn’t help that the tower is like a life and death multiplayer game.
Yes he is a protagonist.
Sure it stands to reason that you would get to chose what type of villain you want to play; and i think variety is a top tier priority in this, so if you want to play an anti-hero, a murdering psycho, assassin with a code, etc. you can finally do it! (since not many games allow you to play as the bad guy)
What i personally like in a good villain, is his/her true evilness, that is to say how BAD they really are, in their nature. I think i got sick of the “modern” type of villains who all got their own reasons and justifications for their actions, or simply they’re convinced they’re doing the good thing. But no, the kind of villain i’m talking about is someone who could be seen as a saint if only they started pretending to be good, cause they know perfectly well, even better than most heroes themselves, what will do good, and what will do bad, and they always pick what will do bad, and excel at it.
Dousing yourself in gasoline and lighting it will do bad, eati g a sandwich will do good… Well I’m the do bad expert!
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lol well, in that case a true villain will postpone burning themselves to death, cause that would “do good” for many potential victims out there! xD this lets me think of “Crossed”, a very gruesome comic about some type of virus or something that turned people into maniacs, anyway their “leaders” would always be smarter than normal, and unlike them would also have an instinct of self-preservation, so that they’ll be able to infect even more humans and enjoy killing. (the others “stupid” ones would often kill themselves just for fun)
Getting to pick the kind of villain you are - a criminal in for the dough like Captain Cold, a would be world ruler like Doctor Doom, or an insane aimless psychopath like Carnage. Villains in comics are immensely diverse and games involving them should reflect that.
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Is Captain Cold in it for the dough? The incarnations I’ve seen he’s in it for the challenge.
Well with Cold it’s the fact in the comics (haven’t seen the Flash show yet so I can’t speak for him) he and the Rogues traditionally have pretty big rules about how they operate, including most importantly that they don’t kill people… or I think at the very least innocent people.
Captain Cold on the Flash is the best Reason for watching it. He goes from villain to antihero to hero. And he’s deliciously hammy ( though being the guy from prison break along sone might say he’s just delicious and his prison break partner being his heatwave partner)
Yeah, getting through the entire Arrowverse at some point is on my to do list, it isn’t exactly getting any smaller… 
Right now I’m busy enough catching up with the Netflix Marvel shows and Legion.
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Six seasons of arrow , three seasons of Supergirl, three seasons of flash, two seasons of legends of tomorrow on Netflix You can do it!
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Yes, I would…
…if I didn’t live in the UK where Amazon Prime and Sky snapped the rights up first and helpfully separated it all between them for moe money. 
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I like a villain who makes me question the reasoning of the"good" side, one who points out the flaws of the good guys and their hypocrisy, one who’s arguments and cause makes more sense than those of the heroes.
That’s why I liked most of the traitor primarchs in the Horus heresy series, some of them actually had compelling reasons to turn on the imperium
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To be able to be a “good” villain like the whole steal from the rich and give to the poor. Also being able to do what you think a villain would do like rob, kill, blow stuff up because you feel like it you know the classic villains that did what they wanted when they wanted. Hope this helps
This post was extremely villainous in itself and I really like that also If playing as a villian I want options I want to be able to redeem myself or go past the point of no return. Shakespearean Jullians like those in Macbeth or Hamlet are awesome.
I like the idea of a hero turned villain slowly due to moral choices best example being the main character of spec ops the line. The game has a good amount of moral choices that increasing severity the more you play through the game . Examples:Shooting at a civilian mob that’s hanging one of your men, Choosing between a deserter or a thief, Shooting at dying soldiers that you used white phosphorus on and many more that I cant think of right now.
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