Best Set of Villains?

[Noni]

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Edited September 10, 2016 by Noni

[FiboSai]

For me, this is a close choice between the FE4 and FE8 villains. I ended up voting for FE4 mostly because I think this is the game where the villains achieved the most.

[Thane]

I can only speak for Fire Emblem 1, Gaiden and the localized games, so the choice is obvious: Sacred Stones. Lyon is the only villain actually done really well in all of the Fire Emblem games I've played - others may be interesting or have potential, but there's always a big, fat "but" accompanying those bad guys. Lyon, on the other hand, has a solid backstory, an established personality, comprehensible motives that still lead to questionable acts and then good interactions with the protagonists.

Really, it's sad they seem to have done their best to move away from a villain that's so heavily involved with the protagonists and the story as a whole; hell, just compare Lyon to Ashnard, whom Ike doesn't even recognize before the final battle starts.

[Etrurian emperor]

I think Genealogy has the most interesting villains if you judge them as a group...because they aren't one. Most villains aren't on each others side or are in direct competition with each other. Trabant is as much as an enemy of the empire as Celice and Leif are and in the empire there's a power struggle going on between the sane people like Alvis and to some extend Ishtar, and those loyal to the lopt sect.

Sacred stone also deserves a mention because the villains really come in every flavor. You got your madman, your utter pragmatist, the evil cultist and the Camus all on the same side. Most manage to get some decent amount of screentime too.

Edited September 8, 2016 by Etrurian emperor

[Magical Glace]

FE8 for me, which I mainly attribute to Lyon.

I really like Lyon for the reasons Thane listed.

Edited September 8, 2016 by Glaceon Mage

[ChibiToastExplosion]

This was a really hard choice between the cast of 1 and 6, but I voted 1. I think Michalis and Medeus really tipped the scales on that one.

[Fire Emblem Fan]

As much as I love the Elibe games and think they have the strongest overall cast, I gotta go with Sacred Stones on this one. That group of villains are fantastic.

[MCProductions]

While I admittedly have a soft spot for the like of Garon and Hans as well as Lyon, there's a rather big but with them. As such I gotta go with FE4, because Arvis honestly should've been the hero of that game.

[EineKleineNachtmusik]

FE4 had the best villians in the series, but mixed in with some middling to boring antagonists. I'm going to have to go with FE8 because it has a variety of hateable goons I could fight.

[SullyMcGully]

I chose FE7, because I love how emotional and complicated it gets once you start dealing with the Black Fang villains. It makes me want to cry every time I put the finishing touch on Linus/Lloyd with Nino or Legault. Then there are the morphs and the different ways the react to their "puppet" status. Also, Nergal is a decent enemy once you get to know his backstory a little bit better.

I also like FE8 and FE10 though, mainly due to Selena and Sephiran.

[blah the Prussian]

Although i will always maintain that Ashnard is the best villain in the series, the rest of the Tellius antagonists are okay to awful. That being the case, FE8 hits all the right notes.

[Noni]

I am watching an LP for FE4 and will answer after that.

I struggle between FE4, FE8 und FE10.

All FE10-Villains have some big buts, but I like how they get some deph due to having Boss Battle Dialogues with over a dozen different Charakters and talking differently with different characters.