r/JRPG • u/nitrokitty • 15d ago
Discussion Ultimate JRPG Villain Party: Giliath Osborne, The Blood and Iron Chancellor, is our Team Leader! Vote today for Team Muscle!
Rules:
- Most upvoted comment will be the winner. Upvote a character you want to win instead of creating more comments.
- Only one debut game per character. This means when a character is chosen, no other characters that debuted in the same game can be used. If the top comment is ineligible, the next highest will be the winner. If the top comment has more than one character named, the first one will be taken. This is to encourage diversity while still allowing some wiggle room for long running series.
- Characters must be from Japanese-style role playing games. They do not need to necessarily be from Japan, but must fit the theme of this subreddit.
- Characters can be nominated as a group. If there's several villains commonly associated with one another, they can be collectively nominated instead of individually. For example, Team Rocket could be nominated instead of the individual members alone.
- Characters should fit the role they're nominated for. I retain veto power for meme responses.
- Keep things at a PG level. No characters from adult/hentai games will be accepted.
Ultimate JRPG Party Final Roster
Team Leader: Giliath Osborne (Trails in the Sky the 3rd)
Vote today for Team Muscle! Who's the brute crushing our enemies?
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u/21shadesofsavage 15d ago
jack garland from stranger of paradise would be my pick. he's a complete powerhouse that edges over metaphor's louis and suikoden's luca blight imo. dude is straight punching his way to victory, and his battle animations communicate raw strength and brutality
he's the embodiment of chaos and literally allows the warriors of light to fight him just to train them up
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u/CurtisManning 15d ago
Black Knight from Fire Emblem Path of Radiance.
He gets things done, and he's really obedient. He's a true menace. Might develop a fascination for the main protagonist.
Also, his armor is ultra badass.
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u/PvtSherlockObvious 15d ago
I've gotta vote for Raijin from FF8, ya know? Strong as an ox, dumb as a post, doesn't shy away from a fight, and fiercely loyal to his boss.
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u/Nice-Guard-9223 15d ago
I put forward Vigoro, the third admiral and literal Chad meme from Skies of Arcadia. One of the only villains to survive to the end, his big guns and bombastic persona makes him an extremely memorable villain. He also comes back at the end and serves as the games final challenge and super boss.
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u/EldritchAutomaton 15d ago
Might be better suited for "Team Killer", but I put forth into consideration Luca Blight from Suikoden II. Consider what it took to even bring that man down.
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u/Crossbell0527 15d ago
Depending on how you interpret "muscle" I think I like Seifer Almasy for this one. I think of the muscle metaphorically - the enforcer, the bodyguard, the guy who does the thug work for the boss. That's Seifer to a t.
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u/PvtSherlockObvious 15d ago
Fair interpretation. For reference, when people voted for the heroes, they named Sabin with Dogi as the runner-up, so people were pretty clearly leaning toward the "big burly bastard, possibly on the meathead side" interpretation, but we certainly don't need to be bound by that now or anything. Some of these are going to be really tough to think of characters for, since villains don't usually follow some of these archetypes as closely.
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u/xansies1 15d ago edited 15d ago
Im going to say sephiroth. He can really only fit here and team killer and maybe team undead and swordsman. think it makes sense to put him here. Sephiroth in the original game is kinda just strong. Hes not really a planner. His plan is thus: 1. summon meteor. 2. kill everyone. 3. Absorb the life stream. 4. Become godlike and move to the next planet. He's lavos. Well, jenova is, but he wants to be. He just really muscles his way through the story using his clones. The remake version seems to have more to him and this version actually does trick the party and make plans. That's more of a later characterization, I think but even then he really leans on being the strongest guy around for most of the story so far. Like he's the strongest thing in ff7
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u/nitrokitty 15d ago
Somebody is going to suggest Sephiroth for every single category until it sticks, aren't they?
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u/PvtSherlockObvious 15d ago
Sephiroth for Team Gunner, because... Man I don't know, it's Sephiroth.
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u/xansies1 15d ago
Probably. I was going to suggest hugo from 16 and I just thought it was too obvious and no fun. I know sephiroth is a hard sell. That makes it more fun
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u/PvtSherlockObvious 15d ago
I'd argue he's a strong contender for Team Badass too. He's a legendary war hero before he finds out he's half-Great Old One and goes nuts. As for his plan, I agree that he's mimicking Jenova's behavior, but I think you're underselling his cleverness, like his manipulating people who have Jenova cells. Even Cloud, who thinks he's not affected the same way, is effectively dancing on Sephiroth's strings for the first half of the game and following the Reunion in his own way while Sephiroth-controlling-Jenova's-corpse just lures him along. It's also fun to think that he's basically using Shinra's methodology in order to do so. Think about it: Make a big gouge on the planet, cause the Lifestream to well up there, and suck it out for power? Sounds kinda exactly like a Mako Reactor to me. The only difference is that he's not using it for electricity or selling it for political dominance, it's a different kind of "power."
And yeah, Jenova is totally a variant on Lavos, just on a world with a different tech level where Zeal killed it and cut it up instead of plugging it in. I even have a little fanon that Lavos and Jenova are two creatures from the same species that went to different planets.
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u/Mintensity 15d ago
This is going to be out there but I'm going to say Lavos from Chrono Trigger.
For muscle you want someone (or something) strong, Lavos is definitely that
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u/mr_showboat 15d ago
It's tough to really remember all that many muscly villains who don't end up being kinda pushovers (compared to how they're presented), but I'll go with Hugo Kupka from FF16.