7. Alma Wade – F.E.A.R: I’m aware she’s a little girl, but she’s a little girl that can get inside of your head and make it worse than any other place you’ve ever been. Surreal in its design, F.E.A.R always drew me in because of the story as opposed to the slick gameplay. But what was the driving point was Alma, from the first few minutes of the game she is doing anything and everything to get inside your head. Granted, everything that Armacham did to her throughout the course of her life kinda meant that everyone connected to Project Origin had it coming, but excuse me if I don’t want to have my flesh psychically melted from my skin. Simply said, if there was one character I wouldn’t want to meet in a dark anywhere, it’s Alma freakin’ Wade.
6. Colonel Autumn – Fallout 3: So, after playing through the majority of Fallout 3, you discover than John Henry Eden is the President of the United States, however he isn’t so much a man as he is a computer. That’s ultimately okay because a computer can be outsmarted (if your speech is high enough, anyway), but a human with severe entitlement and superiority issues, that’s a problem. Colonel Autumn gives military leaders who believe they know what’s best a bad name. Personally, as far as people who believe they know what’s best for the United States following an atomic holocaust go, I think the only person who might be worse, if not scarier is Glenn Beck. But Colonel Autumn will kill just about any single person who gets in the way of trying to restore the United States he loves and believes in, including your father. Even after you make it to the Enclave and head to meet the President, the good Colonel tries to have you wasted on the way there. Call me crazy, but when finally confronting him, regardless of having high enough speech, I still had the urge to go all Inigo Montoya on him. He killed my father, prepare to die.
5. Sovereign – Mass Effect: I’m not sure how kindly other species of the galaxy might take someone trying to wipe out every sentient being in the known universe, humanity though as far as I was concerned didn’t seem too keen on the idea. But that is exactly what Sovereign was setting out to do. Sure, the Geth were on board because they worshipped him as though he was a God, but in the end they’d probably get wiped out too. On top of that, all throughout Mass Effect you hear about the lack of symmetry on Sovereign and how it weakens the resolve and constitution of those who are on board too long. Well if you were inside a ship that was more powerful than you could possibly comprehend and older than time itself, then I would take a guess that it could amply mess you up without too much trouble. Swaying both a veteran Specter and a Matriarch under its power, it is clear to see why Sovereign was left behind by the Reapers. Unfortunately for him though, it seems that he couldn’t survive the combination of a human-led coalition fleet intent on kicking ass and taking a single name. Whoever said peace couldn’t be secured by superior firepower?
4. Prophet of Truth – Halo 3: As a Prophet, you already have a significant amount of pressure to be something incredible. However, based on that whole caste thing in the Covenant, you really don’t have to worry since you’re guaranteed a position of power. But what if you accidentally stumbled upon a little piece of information that revealed the species you were currently committing galactic genocide against were the true descendants of the people you revere as Gods instead of you? Cover it up of course and pursue every last human to the edge of the universe hoping that know one ever discovers what you know. The problem is though, these humans are kind of resourceful and aren’t really all that willing to lie down and just die. Then you had to go and piss off the Elites, who are a warrior race that could give the Klingons a run for their money. Oh, and bravo on all those times the Flood were released, really way to go. In the end, I suppose it was an appropriate end that Truth fell to the Arbiter, a poetically twisted end.
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