Scarlet is the Best Villain

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Posted by: Psykotik.2691

Psykotik.2691

I believe that Scarlet Briar is the best Villain that a video game has ever encountered. She is the best villain because she is the worst character.

A villain in a video game acts to provide motivation for the protagonist. A good villain provides better motivation than a weak villain does. Scarlet provides a different kind of motivation than a lot of other video-game villains. Scarlet provides out-of-character motivation.

In most video games you have to suspend disbelief and “put yourself” in the character’s shoes in order to have motivation to do whatever tasks are set before you. Scarlet breaks this by providing out-of-character motivation.

Scarlet is unanimously held to be the worst character ever created in media ever. She’s cheesy, cliche, shows no signs of clever inspiration, and would be hard pressed to be worthy of a B-list Saturday morning cartoon. The fact of the matter is that a seven year-old could design a villain better than Scarlet without having to even try very hard.

Her place as the worst character of all time is precisely what makes her the best villain of all time. She is a blight on the Guild Wars name. Guild Wars has always told very mature stories with depth and complexity. Scarlet ruins all of this, and in doing so, elevates herself to the status of the perfect villain.

I hate Scarlet passionately. This motivates me to try to stop her. I want nothing more than to sever her head and free GW2 from her tarnishing and silly influence. Take a minute and ask yourself when the last time was that you felt a personal connection to stopping the villain. This is what Scarlet accomplishes.

Maybe we’ve all been trolled – Scarlet is the best villain of all time because she is the worst character of all time.

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Posted by: Sevifor.1925

Sevifor.1925

I had to log in quick just to comment on this. I’ve heard this theory a few times, and I couldn’t feel more different.I have zero moti ation to fight scarlet AT ALL. other villians aregenuinely despicable. There is a difference between hating a villian and just not wanting to deal with the villian. Scarlet is the latter.

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Posted by: Nike.2631

Nike.2631

I don’t know if we’ve all been trolled, be everyone reading this thread certainly has…

“You keep saying ‘its unfair.’
I wonder what your basis for comparison is…”
- Jareth, King of Goblins.

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Posted by: Sunshine.4680

Sunshine.4680

Scarlet just makes me feel meh, after reading the journals and they’re trying to salvage her by saying she’s controlled makes me even more apathetic to her and her plight. She’s not worth saving and has no redeemable qualities what so ever. The fact she’s a bumbling moron would make me worry she’d screw everything up and the Dragons (Wherever they are.) would run rampant.

I kind of wish they would make a more original bad guy, one who isn’t crazy, has a bad past etc, bad parents yadda yadda. There is too much of that, I’d like to see a villain who can be considered a hero or a villain depending whom you talk to. Look at Ghengis Khan, some consider him a legendary hero and others consider him a genocidal maniac. That’s the kind of villain I want. One who’s motive is based on personal need and what they consider necessary, one who works on cold logic. An example would be two factions keep fighting each other, no peace in sight.. solution, destroy them both. That sort of logic and leadership.

Make people question themselves on if the villain’s judgement is sound or flawed.

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Posted by: Guardian.5142

Guardian.5142

Because Heath Ledger’s not around to salvage the roll. Scarlet’s not the villain we need. She’s the villain we deserve for not spending more in the gem store. This is a direct example of pay to win.. and this does NOT feel like winning.

Seriously, I just hope Mordenrath or whoever her master is supposed to be is worth all of this fun to get to. I can’t give up now. I need closure…

What did ANET do when the sheer mass of the event ZERG was too much for the server to support?
They had to SPAWN MORE OVERFLOWS!

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Posted by: Curunen.8729

Curunen.8729

I dunno – the Catalyst in ME3 could give her a run for her money…

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Posted by: Thereon.3495

Thereon.3495

Scarlet is unanimously held to be the worst character ever created in media ever.

Where was I when this vote was held? After reading this one sentence your entire post was written off. Sure you dont like Scarlet, we get it but for you to then say that the rest of us hate her…. that I hate her?!

Scarlet, just like many of the characters in GW2, are great in themselves but are let down twofold by the disjointed way in which the Living Story is released and the pressure from the ‘hardcore minority’ to provide repeatable content worthy of their time rather than a well structured, in depth story.

I personally love that Scarlet has, for so long, seemed like a maniac with a huge amount of power in the mold of Heath Ledger’s Joker. Now things are changing and we’re slowly finding out there is a master plan and it probably involves an Elder Dragon. Its taken a long time (maybe longer than it should have) but im looking forward to the next few patches.

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Retired and living in a shack. Relaxing!

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Posted by: Moon.7310

Moon.7310

Scarlet is unanimously held to be the worst character ever created in media ever.

I can see that a lot of people in the forum hate her, but I – you can hate me for that ;-) – like her. I think she is a fun enemy and I like her craziness. And also, most people in my guild also think she is kinda cool

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Posted by: Guardian.5142

Guardian.5142

I dunno – the Catalyst in ME3 could give her a run for her money…

I actually liked the ending. Remember, regardless of whether is a TV-show, a movie or a video game, its a sci-fi first. Even bad sci-fi is actually still kinda good sci-fi. Besides, they could have just ended it at the final clutch point and rolled credits… and it would have still been a pretty good sci-fi, just a whole lot more ironic.

Different strokes I guess..

What did ANET do when the sheer mass of the event ZERG was too much for the server to support?
They had to SPAWN MORE OVERFLOWS!

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Posted by: Astralporing.1957

Astralporing.1957

Scarlet is unanimously held to be the worst character ever created in media ever.

Oh, no, that would require some quality. Instead, she’s just plain bad.

Actions, not words.
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Posted by: Curunen.8729

Curunen.8729

I dunno – the Catalyst in ME3 could give her a run for her money…

I actually liked the ending. Remember, regardless of whether is a TV-show, a movie or a video game, its a sci-fi first. Even bad sci-fi is actually still kinda good sci-fi. Besides, they could have just ended it at the final clutch point and rolled credits… and it would have still been a pretty good sci-fi, just a whole lot more ironic.

Different strokes I guess..

I wasn’t an ending hater as such – in fact I found it quite emotional at the time, even though it made little sense.

I do think starchild is tied with scarlet in this though.

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Posted by: Locuz.2651

Locuz.2651

Scarlet is either an illusion or a puppet being controlled by the real villain. She is a mere distraction to keep us busy while that evil character or entity looks for something underground (as that new asura character stated). If i had to take a guess he/she/it is looking for primordus.