Sometimes our enemies in the Ace Combat games can justify their actions with some sort of
context or background but many times there's nothing to justify - they are just evil.
Welcome to the top 5 ranking of the most evil characters
and organizations within the Ace Combat series:
Coming at number 5 we have Commander Park from the Japanese version of Ace Combat 3.
Park was the number 2 in command of UPEO and always had some pretty big ambitions.
In the UPEO, Neucom and Self Aware paths of the game Park orders Nemo to shoot down the
private jet carrying UPEO's delegate Clarkson and if the player doesn't intervene to save
the private jet, Park would be the one responsible for the death of the delegate and Fiona, who
was also aboard the plane.
If betraying UPEO once and faking it on TV wasn't enough, Park later betrays UPEO once
more by siding with the terrorist organization Ouroboros and putting General Resource and
Neucom in a war against each other so that in the end
he would be the one ruling the continent of Usea.
As for number 4 we have the group of the young Erusian officers who took over Megalith after
the fall of Farbanti.
After losing their capital there was no way that Erusea could change the tide of the war
against ISAF but a small group of Erusian officers took control of Megalith, the secret
Erusian superweapon designed to shoot and destroy asteroids, and were planning to use
it as a weapon of massive retaliation against ISAF.
Then again, their only objective was to cause massive casualties with Megalith, maybe even
including civilians, while the knew they would not make any difference in the war.
In third place we have the Grey Men - this secret Belkan organization was formed after
the Belkan War in 1995 and their goal was to obtain revenge
against the countries who won the war.
The Grey Men literally wanted to see the world burn and they aimed to do that by creating
an endless war between Osea and Yuktobania who used to be allies that fought against
Belka during the Belkan War.
Later in the events of Ace Combat 5, the Grey Men switched their focus from just starting
a conflict between the two countries to using superweapons, such as the Arkbird loaded with
a nuclear warhead and the SOLG, to inflict massive damages to civilian targets and fuel
the conflict event further.
Number 2 on the list is Andre Olivieri from the PSP game Ace Combat Joint Assault -
Olivieri was one of the masterminds of the Golden Axe plan whose objective was to fund
terrorist organizations whose attacks would in turn help Olivieri make more money in the
insurance sector in the long run and eventually make him one of the richest guys on the planet.
In short, he funded actions of terrorist groups and some private military companies where
he knew people would be killed just so he could earn money from that,
that is why I consider Olivieri to be more evil than the Grey Men.
The Grey Men at least had the revenge factor even though it doesn't make too much sense
since Belka was the one who started the Belkan War.
Before we get to number one just some honourable mentions:
I didn't include Dision, Ouroboros, A World With No Boundaries nor the Belkan military
because I think they aren't necessarily evil, I think they're more “crazy” than "evil".
In the first place of the ranking, and to me the most evil character in all the Ace Combat games is
Diego Gaspar Navarro from Ace Combat X.
Similar to Olivieri, Navarro's goal was to make money with war
since he was Leasath's commanding officer and also head of the country’s arms industry.
But here's why he's worse than Olivieri.
First comes from the fact that he was himself the military commander of the country -
he was using his own soldiers as if they were expendable in order to make money.
Second, this wasn't the first war at which Leasath was involved in recent years,
one year before the invasion of Aurelia, Leasath was in a civil war.
Wasn't Diego satisfied with that one conflict?
Didn't he make enough money on the civil war?
Is that why he went for a season 2 in a conflict against Aurelia?
I consider Diego Gaspar Navarro number one in this ranking because he single handedly
put his impoverished country on another war just so he could make bigger a fortune out of it.
This was my top 5 ranking on the most evil characters and groups of the Ace Combat series,
do you agree with the list?
What is your ranking of most evil characters in the Ace Combat games?
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