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Reader's Choice: Best Villains
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Number 5
Diablo
Did he make GameSpot's list? No.
Most likely to be voted best villain by Satanists and Goths.
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He's had a rough past. Diablo was banished from hell (you know you're bad when you can't get a seat in hell) and still controlled a legion of missionary demons. And while most of you admit that he wasn't the most dynamic or deep character, you loved the fact that he was pure unadulterated evil, unfettered by any worldly concerns. Then there was that nice twist at the end....
"I remember playing through the single-player game of Diablo, fighting through monster after monster and hearing the sinister voice that played when you click on a book. It explained how Diablo was banished from hell by his own servants, and with his three brothers was hunted through the human world by a band of mages who trapped him and his brothers in a soulstone. What about how the hero of the story goes down to the very borders of hell to kill him only do find that the soulstone is broken and that he has to contain Diablo in his body. Now with Diablo 2 coming out we know that the entire first game was a plot for Diablo to capture a more powerful body. Think about that. In Diablo 1 the bad guy won! How many villains on your list can say that? In my opinion Diablo is the lord of badass villains. While Kane imagined himself in the right from his point of view (like most dictators), Diablo was pure evil."
"Diablo was actually the only villain that caused players to fear ending the games simply because most of them were afraid of meeting the lord of terror in battle."
"Just look at the loads of minions he has following him and all the supertough acolytes and hell spawns running around! You gotta be a great manipulator to get that many baddies to do all your commands. And even after you think you beat him in the end... he just laughs in your face and steals your soul and powers (heading into D2)."
"He was genuinely cool looking, and while he had little personality development during the game, I really felt that I kinda knew him after I lopped his head off with an axe. Besides, his final scream just kicked ass."
"Diablo takes the cake. He's Satan for cripes' sake! First he kidnaps a prince, then he makes King Leoric so insane that he kills half the people and makes them into skeletal slaves."
"He's muscular, all powerful, controls all the demons of hell, has volcanoes erupt from underneath you, and can withstand blow after blow after blow without flinching. Now that's a top 10 villain if I ever saw one."
"I ain't one of your fancy writers so I'm not gonna say much, but Diablo was cruel and evil enough to kidnap a little boy so that he could live inside him. Now that's evil."
"You will now die. Make whatever rituals are necessary for your species."
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