Sometimes in video games, you encounter a villain who you can't wait to kill; they're
usually a terrible individual whose done terrible things, and you can't wait for the satisifcation
of snuffing them out for good.
But, alas, sometimes you don't get that oppertunity.
On many occassions, we've encountered games where you don't get to face off against the
villain in the final boss battle - rather, you defeat them through other means.
So today, we're examining a selection of those wiht our list of the top 10 video game baddies
that weren't the final boss.
10 Harry Flynn - Uncharted 2 Harry Flynn is an English treasure hunter
and one-time associate of Nathan Drake and Chloe Frazer.
While he's technically the secodnary antagonsit of the game, working for main baddie Zoran
Lazarevic, he does double cross Nathan and leaves him for dead, making you despise him
that much more.
Despite really wanting to take him down, you never actually get the chance to - Flynn ends
up ending his own life with a suicidial grenade attack, once again being a nuisance, even
in death.
9 Giovanni- Pokemon Red & Blue While arguably you could say that your Rival
(or Gary, if you prefer) should be considered the main antagonist of the Pokemon Red & Blue
games, sure, that's accurate.
But for the sake of this list, he is by no means a baddie.
He's a rival, not a villain.
But the series does have a villain, in the form of Geovanni, the leader of Team Rocket
at the Gym Leader of Viridian City, the final gym you enter before hitting up the Indigo
Plateau & the Elite Four, and eventually facing Gary.
So while the character is definitely nefarious, and towards the end of the game - you face
him multiple times - he's not the final boss, which is probably for the best.
8 The Panther King - Conker's Bad Fur Day This 2001 game starts with you trying to get
back home to your girlfriend Berri after a night of binge drinking.
It then explodes into a giant pop culture reference, and sets you up to take on an antagonist
- who wants to turn you into a table leg - called the Panther King.
Right before you think you're going to take on the Panther King, a xenomorph jumps out
of his chest, very similar to the ones from the Alien franchise.
Because it's a parody.
This is a result of the Panther King's scientist screwing around behind the scenes, and it
instantly kills him.
So instead of the foe you had been gearing up to battle, you now have to ensure this
horrific creature named Heinrich doesn't slaughter everyone, in a battle that looks and feels
a little too similar to aspects of the Alien films.
7 Dr Loboto - Psychonauts Loboto is an insane shower cap wearing dentist
who is trying to steal you and your fellow campers' brains at the Whispering Rock Psychic
Summer Camp.
Not cool.
By the time you reach his lab by the end of the game to free your friends, rather than
taking on the deranged dentist yourself, you end up solving a few puzzles that activates
a laser which launches Loboto out of his tower.
A little anti-climatic, isn't it?
6 The Illusive Man - Mass Effect 3 The Illusive Man is a threat of a different
kind - he's always lurking in the shadows, manipulating through Ceberus and his network
of contacts in order to make humanity ascend above all other races.
Eventually, your Commander Shepard comes face to face with him in a final confrontation,
which, rather than a battle of brawn or physical skill, becomes a poorly waged war of words.
Regardless of what you respond with, the outcome is the same - The Illusive Man dies, with
you killing him or him killing himself.
To be fair, considering the overall reception of Mass Effect 3, the way this confrontation
pans out shouldn't be much of a surprise - to some, the whole game is considered a disappointment.
5 Songbird - BioShock Infinite The true villain of the game is Comstock - the
white nationalist dictator of floating city in the sky who locked up his daughter Elizabeth
from another reality who turns out to just be another version of you, protagonist Booker
- but all throughout the game, you're anticipating a final boss battle with his giant mechanical
Songbird, who acted as a guardian of Elizabeth's, and occasionally pops up, hunting her and
you down.
By the end of the game, Songbird ends up becoming an ally of yours instead, aiding you in the
final showdown on an air ship.
4 Sullivan Knoth - Outlast 2 Horror survival Outlast 2 places you in the
midst of a psychotic religious cult, trying to find your missing wife and escape.
Sullivan Knoth, the Reverend and leader of a church dubbed the Testament of the New Ezekiel
where he recorded all of his messages from God in a book titled the Gospel of Knoth.
He's also convinced that your wife Lynn is pregnant with the anti-christ.
He also has syphilis, which he's spread through 'spreading his seed' to women in the community,
banishing those who are unfected to a seperate encampment while he takes penicillin in secret/
Yeah, dude is F-ed up.
By the end of the game, your wife dies in childbirth, and Knoth, failing to kill the
child before it was born, has mass murdered all of his followers in the cult.
He then encounters you, where he says he failed and then slits his own throat.
Prior to that, the final boss you face is Marta, who has been chasing you throughout
the game.
3 Vaas - Far Cry 3 Vaas is one of the most compelling villains
that the Far Cry franchise has seen.
Not only is he completely unhinged - he nearly kills you multiple times, let alone kidnaps
your friends and kills your brother - but he gave life to the game's story.
Which is a shame considering his departure in the game was so lack lustre, especially
since you don't even get to fight him.
Vaas ends up dead after a trippy dream sequence where you stab the character, long before
the game's end.
2 The Joker - Arkham City While we did get a final boss battle against
the Joker in Arkham Asylum - although the jacked up version of him didn't bode well
with a lot of fans - people still expected to face off agaisnt the Joker in the finale
of Arkham City.
For context, the Titan formula from the previous game has now begun to mutate inside of the
Joker, giving him a fatal disease that he then gives to Batman in hopes to have the
caped crusader figure out a cure.
When you did get to the end of the game, you end up fighting Clayface, who has been working
for the Joker and masquarding as a healthy version of him all along.
Instead, we get a much more dramatic ending with the Joker in the following cinematic,
where the character succumbs to his disease.
Batman then carries him out of Arkham City in a cinematic sequence that leaves you with
chills, ending the game.
Its worth noting that there's also the whole protocol 10 plot with Hugo Strange, too, but
the Joker always takes the cake for best Batman villain, doesn't he?
1 Frau Engel - Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus Frau is a villain that is easy to hate.
Carrying over from the first Wolfenstein, A New Order into the 2nd, The New Colossus,
she immidiately makes you hate her after she brutally executes your leader, Caroline, in
front of you by decapitating her.
She's also incredibly cruel to her daughter, who she abuses and basically abandons, much
to your luck since she ends up teaming up with you to take her mother down.
Eventually, the game leads you to stealing a powerful Nazi ship called the Ausmerzer,
which results in a massive boss battle that doesn't even Engel, but fear not!
She does meet her end - after successfully hijacking the ship, you return to the ground
where Engel is appearing on a nationally televised program.
You sneak onto the set and execute her, proclaiming the start of a revolution.
There we have it friends!
Hope that didn't overly spoil these games for you.
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