8 Best Female Villains From Famous RPGs
Even though they aren’t as common as their male peers, these famous RPG villains are just as bad.
Most main characters in video games are male. Things have gotten better over time, which is a sad fact. Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider series is an early example of a standout character. Some of Lara’s more sexualized traits have been toned down over the years, which is great because video games are better for it.
So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that men have also been the most popular villains. But there have been some women who stand out and are fun to both like and dislike. RPGs like to dip their toes into the pool of bad women, and these are just a few sneaky examples.
Queen Brahne
The main bad guy in most of Final Fantasy 9 is Queen Brahne. She is the queen of Alexandria, and Garnet was given to her by another family. Throughout the RPG game, Queen Brahne does anything to get power. She almost kills all of the rat-like people of Burmecia with the power of the Summon Odin.
When it comes to showing war, Final Fantasy 9 doesn’t hold back at all. She does some bad things in the game, and even though she was under a spell, she gets what she deserves for it.
Maleficent
In the Disney movie about Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent is the bad guy. In that movie, she is scary, but she is also scary in the Kingdom Hearts series. Before Organization 13 showed up, she was behind most of the bad things that happened in the first game.
She is the one who tries to kill Sora’s best friend Riku by putting him under a spell. It made sense for Disney to make her the main bad guy because she was so powerful, even more so than other famous bad guys like Ursula or Jafar.
Cackletta
In Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga, Cackletta is the bad guy. This was the first game in a new RPG series with the two brothers as the main characters. She pretended to be a message from the Bean Bean Kingdom, but what she really did was steal Princess Peach’s voice.
Fawful, her sidekick, possibly stands out more because he spoke broken English and said things like “I Have Fury!” Still, Cackletta is also a force to be reckoned with, and even though it was on a Game Boy Advance, that laugh of hers was terrifying.
Tron Bonne
In Mega Man Legends, Tron Bonne is one of the bad guys. She is a member of the Bonne family of sky pirates, who are always around to bother Mega Man Trigger. Now, Mega Man Legends might not be a typical action or turn-based RPG like some of these other games. It’s a role-playing game in the same way that The Legend of Zelda is an action-adventure game.
Players can get new tools and power-ups that boost their stats. So, it should count because Tron Bronne is such a classic bad guy in this series, even though she has her good times, just like Jessie in Pokemon.
Eve
Eve is the main bad guy in the movie Parasite Eve. One night at an opera, Eve takes over the body of a young woman onstage named Melissa. She does this by taking over her mitochondria, which turns Melissa into a monster. Aya Brea, a detective in New York, happens to be in the crowd when she changes. This puts the two of them in a dangerous game of chase.
Eve keeps putting her mutagens all over the city, affecting both people and animals. She does this because she wants to be in charge. This makes them explode into fire, turn into slime, or change into monsters. This scary RPG will stay with players for a long time after they finish it.
Jessie
Team Rocket’s first line in the Pokemon series was, “Get ready for trouble, and make it double.” Ash knew he was in danger whenever Jessie, James, or Meowth showed up. When the first two games and cartoons came to the West, they were a huge hit on the Game Boy.
So, later, a special version called Pokemon Yellow was made that followed more of the anime’s story and added the famous trio from Team Rocket. Jessie was a bad guy who was fun to cheer against but also had some good traits.
Selvaria
In Valkyria Chronicles, Selvaria is one of the secondary bad guys. The Valkyrie were famous fighters from a group of people called the Darcsen. Selvaria is one of the last Valkyrie left in the world, and the Empire in Spacebar Clicker has her.
Alicia is one of the main characters, and she also has this power hidden away inside her. Alicia and her group keep running into Selvaria, and each time they just barely get away. In fight, nothing can stop her, so it’s best to stay away from her as much as possible in this strategy RPG.
Cia
In The Legend of Zelda games, there aren’t that many bad girls who are women. Hyrule Warriors, a sequel, is one of the best examples of this. Cia is a witch who, like most bad people, wants to control the power of the Triforce.
She opens a link and gets bad guys from all over the series to help her. She fails, just like all the other bad guys in this series, because Link and his friends are always in control.
