7 Idiot Heroes Who Created Their Own Villains Through Sheer Stupidity: Commenter Edition

[@giantWario]

A courier not checking inside the package they are delivering is most definitely not ''questionable behavior''. In fact, questionable behavior would be opening that package! I mean what, do you want every Amazon delivery driver to check your packages to make sure they're not delivering nuclear codes?

[@Tumbledweeb]

Indeed! I'd also like to add some more info to this one: The area in which the Courier delivered the package to did not have any postal service until the Courier offered to provide it. No other Courier would because of how dangerous the area was. Prior to getting postal service, people struggled to live there. Upon getting postal service, the area flourished. In regards to Ulysses, the moron is putting the blame on the wrong person; The Courier was just doing their job, why are they to blame and not whoever sent the package? Or even the delivery company that accepted the package? Furthermore, what was Ulysses' job before he became a full-time stalker? A Courier! This guy is a massive hypocrite.

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

Seriously. Being angry at a professional doing their job is just sour grapes.

[@FullMetalJack-ss]

"I swear I was just making sure they didn't plan on blowing up a country."

[@memecat9830]

@@Tumbledweeband how does he even know it was us? It could’ve been a different courier 6

[@teddybearpaladin]

@@TumbledweebMy memory of the DLC is distant and I can’t claim to be fond of Ulysses as a character, but I don’t think he seeks to hold the Courier morally responsible for what happened to Hopeville. He’s not angry over Hopeville, but he does take its death as lesson that informs his current world view. That’s what I remember of him.

[@SolKaras]

The Ulysses thing always annoyed me. Yeah, the courier did deliver the package, that doesn't make any of the events in the Divide their fault. The courier had no reason to believe they would have been carrying something dangerous, and it's kind of frowned upon to look at other people's mail. Hell, they most likely wouldn't have known what it was even if they *did* look. Ulysses is just targeting the courier because there's no one else left TO target. Ulysses wants there to be someone to punish, instead of accepting that a terrible thing happened and that everyone involved in said terrible thing was killed. But I suppose there's no therapists left in a post-apocalypse.

[@invisiblechick]

Yeah, the expression don't shoot the messenger is quite literal in this case.

[@OptimusSledge]

I always wanted the option to just say "I don't care" to Ulysses. The closest I can get is to not bother talking to him before the final encounter, headshotting him with the anti-material rifle before he can act, then launching nukes at Caesar and the NCR to emphasise how little I care about either faction. It would be nice if you could leave the Divide, finish the game without completing the DLC, and get an ending that mentioned how Ulysses eventually died waiting for the Courier who didn't care about him to turn up.

[@GenericProtagonist7]

Bro is about to realize the entire point was that grief drove him to take irrational and evil actions. Dude is about to get the entire point of the story, he's so close.

[@Mr.Brothybear]

@@invisiblechick nice

[@mikoto7693]

I always found it odd and funny that in all that time, it never occurred to Ulysses to target the people who sent the package-the people who paid the Courier to deliver the device to the Divide. Of course that plan has the same problem that targeting the Courier-the senders didn’t know what it was either. They simply discovered it and noticed that it had the same markings as some of the prewar ruins in the Divide and hired a courier to take it there so the personnel could try to work out the connection was and what it did. If the NCR had known they wouldn’t have hired a random courier to deliver it. Perhaps Ulysses is cowardly and couldn’t reach the sender so he decided to avenge himself on the lone, weaker target.

[@cookiecomments846]

My sims made me their worst enemy when they didn’t do what I told them. Now they live in the painting room

[@dracusdaiarr1788]

Ooo what is the painting room?

[@FirebladesSong]

@@dracusdaiarr1788 It's a room full of easels so they have nothing else to do. It's a common way to make money without using cheats in the game.

[@cookiecomments846]

@@dracusdaiarr1788 it’s the room in the basement with only a painting station, and if I’m feeling kind life necessities

[@error4life575]

But they still live

[@Arianainthedark]

Lol, I have a toilet room. They can relieve themselves at least, but have no maintenance skills, so if the toilets ever break....

[@jmgriffee]

My favorite note in the Day of the Tentacle manual that you're not likely to run across in these manual-free days: "Our Historical Accuracy Policy: We don’t have one. This game is not intended to teach the history of our country nor its possible future. Please don’t get into an argument at school or at a party and say, 'Well, LucasArts says that John Hancock wrote his name big because it impressed girls.' We’re both going to look silly."

[@FredCDobbs-rd5wi]

Worth noting: Fallout New Vegas includes a dialogue option where the Courier can simply tell Ulysses that he's got the wrong person and the Courier was *not* involved in the incident that wrecked the Divide. Ulysses will insist otherwise, but there's nothing in the DLC to prove this one way or the other. The player never comes across any proof of any kind that the Courier had visited the Divide previously. And Ulysses' claims are suspect because he is, well, bat-shit insane. So, if you want, you can quite easily headcanon that the whole mission is based on a mistake on Ulysses' part and that the Courier is completely innocent.

[@dolenir]

That's cool. I wish there was an option where the courier says something like: "all this, and you didn't even get the right guy", right before killing him Matthew Perry style. I hate Ulysses. Monologuing SOB, couldn't spend a single minute quiet

[@Macrochenia]

Even if the Courier was the one who was responsible for wrecking the Divide, it's hard to call it stupidity given that they had no way of knowing that the package the were hired to deliver was going to set off a bunch of nukes. IIRC, even Ulysses admitted that.

[@anarchyantz1564]

Personally I think it was Ulysses who did it and wracked by guilt and insanity blamed another courier, you.

[@awesomeninja1154]

@@anarchyantz1564 honestly that would line up with Ulysses character of bat shit insane

[@KaladinVegapunk]

Honestly new Vegas will top almost every list for complex options, mechanics and details. It runs circles around the rest of the Bethesda franchise that need 100 mods to be playable haha.

[@theubiquitouspotato]

Mike fell in the thames and only got dysentry? Lucky bugger.

[@hamishfox]

Honestly I'm surprised he didn't just bounce off... Or land on a bunch of used needles and turds.

[@robertbeisert3315]

He's like Mr. Burns. He's got every disease in perfect balance.

[@jmgriffee]

And here I had to travel the entire Oregon Trail. Falling in a river sounds easier.

[@Jonathon_Hennessey]

In the game Assassin's Creed Syndicate, one of the people that Jacob and Evie Frye recruit into the Brotherhood of Assassins is a troubled young man whose mother died because of the game's main villain Starrick Crawford and was subsequently sent to a madhouse.Eventually this young man would with the help of the training Jacob and Evie gave him would allow him to become one of history's most infamous serial killers Jack the Ripper.

[@rubyamateurtactician4354]

Now we need a video about villains who sealed their own doom/created their own heroes. I already have an example and it's called hi fi rush

[@Myomer104]

That would probably take up a dozen videos without even bothering with obscure games.

[@metasteelgaming4373]

Isn't this like every superhero origin story?

[@sinteleon]

Handsome Jack also happens to be in the same category, a bonus!

[@MrAuthor3DS]

Ohohoho, where to start with this? (SO MANY SPOILERS DOWN BELOW READ IT AT YOUR OWN RISK) - Grimleal (Robin) (Fire Emblem Awakening) - Sombron (Alear) (Fire Emblem Engage) - Solidus Snake (Raiden) (Metal Gear series) - Zanza (Shulk) (Xenoblade Chronicles) - Ultimecia (SeeD) (Final Fantasy 8) - Masayoshi Shido (Joker) (Persona 5) - Gruntilda (Banjo & Kazooie) (Banjo-Kazooie) - Geese Howard (Terry Bogard) (Fatal Fury) - Organization XIII (Xion, Roxas, Axel) (Kingdom Hearts) - "Darkness" (Ventus) (Kingdom Hearts: Union Cross) - Yuki Terumi (Ragna the Bloodedge) (BlazBlue) - The Skull Heart (Marie) (Skullgirls) - Jeane (Travis) (No More Heroes) - Tanzo Kubo (Rindo) (NEO The World Ends With You)

[@MemoryMori]

@@MrAuthor3DS I see you are a Man of Culture as well.... And I see not many Merykan games on the list,,,,coincidence?....or good writing...

[@jimwormmaster]

In Sketch's defense, even though he literally created his villain, it wasn't out of stupidity like the video theme says. He literally drew a comic book. He had no idea (and shouldn't have) that the villain would come to life and try to murder him. Same idea on Toonstruck (awesome point and click game with Christopher Lloyd as a cartoon artist that gets trapped in his own toon world)

[@boobah5643]

Not to be confused with that time Christopher Lloyd played a video game villain that escaped to the real world.

[@GregPivo87]

Anyone seen my birthday cake? I left it over there by Totally Didn’t Eat Your Birthday Cake Jane fifteen minutes ago and haven’t seen it since

[@flyingwithbirbs1202]

The deadpan sidenote of "not how that works" got me for some reason lol

[@MINTY_FN]

Honestly I'm just glad somebody remembered the Guardians of the Galaxy game.

[@alexwright5419]

Right? It’s a great game but the marketing hurt it so badly. Especially since it looked like a follow-up to Avengers

[@thespectresociety]

It was so much fun. The music and action truly made it shine

[@dmolmalowski]

It and Baldurs Gate were the best games i played last year, i was really surprised ny Guardians, just decided to give it a go on gamepass. Great story and fun to play

[@Mr.Brothybear]

How is it? is it Fun? Edit: Okay just Saw the Comments

[@simonreseigh6778]

I literally just remembered it too. I remember being pumped but then a lot got in the way and never saw anything about it ever again. The marketing killed the game man :(

[@reviewthis18]

Okay, let's remember that before Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel he was already pumping deadly amounts of Eridium into his daughter. He was already a vilian.

[@waylander9265]

Good guys build planet destroying death beams, right? Right? Pre Sequel tries way too hard to make Jack a good guy and it doesn’t work. Also how the hell is Jack a low level programmer with the resources at his disposal?

[@boobah5643]

@@waylander9265 The obvious implication was that Jack was already evil, and more powerful than he let on. Rather than depicting his descent into evil, it instead depicts his departure from sanity. Jack was in regular contact with Hyperion's CEO, he had the resources for (and reason to desire) a body double, he was involved with eridium research, and had the ability to get a vault hunter team up to the big H. We've seen what office drones on that station are like thanks to _Tales._ Jack was clearly upper management, even if he came up from programming.

[@timothycarney9652]

Did it say anywhere that the eridium pumping had started by then? He definitely had the equivalent of the control collar he used on Lilith by then- originally intended to prevent incidents like the one that killed Angel's mom, but very clearly being used for jack's own benefit even by the pre-sequel, but then again maybe Angel was helping him willingly until he went full psycho...

[@reviewthis18]

@@timothycarney9652 He was still using her to manipulate and lie to the Vault Hunters in BL 1. That's pretty damn bad.

[@alexsolomon8127]

actually no. he had her in the chair first just to supress/channel her powers safely....the eridium feed came later..AFTER he had taken over the corporation and was batsh** loco with power.

[@snowdenwyatt6276]

For crying out loud. Jack was an irredeemable villain the moment he strapped Angel into her chair. That happened looooong before the events of the Pre-Sequel.

[@mariawhite7337]

Yeah but people want to PRETEND he is a good person.

[@АлександрДараган-з8ц]

Good point, thought about it myself.

[@alexsolomon8127]

you know..i'll actually give him enough credit to say strapping angel to the chair was done with good intentions..she WAS dangerous..she DID accidently kill her mom. but then he starts realizing how he can "harness" a bad situation...and the deeper he goes, the more meglomaniacal he gets until we reach the level he's at in Borderlands 2 to where he is totally bonkers..but too powerful for (almost)anyone to stop him anymore.

[@snowdenwyatt6276]

@@alexsolomon8127 :shrug: That chair is what makes his "kingdom" possible. Strapping her in is the final step in him becoming a villain. Even if he went through the steps you're describing, he flew through them pretty fast and then went directly to imprisoning his daughter in a machine that made his ambitions possible.

[@alexsolomon8127]

@@snowdenwyatt6276 it all took years, actually. it wasn't the final step, but it was one of the first.

[@BobBX542]

Comix zone doesn’t count. Sketch definitely drew the bad guy, but the lightning made him real. Unless there is a history of drawings coming to life in thunderstorms, he would have no expectation of any of that happening.

[@Thrythlind]

Yeah, Jack had already put his daughter into the machine by the time the pre-sequel happened.

[@timothycarney9652]

Not the same machine actually, he restrained her by then (she did kill her mom by accident) but the full bunker set up- and especially the eridium pipline wasn't there yet. We don't actually get any info on what their relationship was like before he goes handsome psycho, but even if he did mistreat her and was DEFINITELY crazy after the scaring, he did love her.

[@JDog2656]

@@timothycarney9652 He did in fact force her into the chair

[@2bdaqueen268]

⁠@@timothycarney9652 ​​⁠​⁠ he may have loved her but he still used her, forced her into the chair and manipulated and gaslit her into staying here which isolated her and made her want to die, which all culminated into Angel damning him with her final words, speaking of which her death would’ve never happened if he didn’t hook her up to that machine. That’s s terrible form of love right there.

[@timothycarney9652]

@@2bdaqueen268 Yep- BUT we only get to audio logs of his interactions before and when he puts her in the first chair, and every other interaction between the two of them is after he is handsome jack, I need to finish playing all the dlc and stuff for the pre sequel, but he starts off in that game as just as reasonable as every other npc, and in fact, more concerned with morals and collateral damage. We get to see him get more comfortable with killing and make some morally dubious choices, but with regret, but he shows more care and concern for the average person then 90% of the npcs who aren't psychos, and we never see what his interactions with Angel are like before breaking an alien artifact that was interfacing with his mind on his face. He is insane and evil as Handsome Jack, but his evil before that feels more like premature judgement from characters like Moxi and Lilith, who ironically perform all the actions that convince him that the civilians of pandora are no better than the bandits. We have no idea how much his treatment of Angel might have changed, but he was definitely using her to his advantage since she guided the vault hunters of Borderlands 1.

[@stevenchoza6391]

Here’s an idea: bosses in remakes that should’ve been in the original game. For example, Prince Mush as a superboss in the TTYD remake.

[@JerichoTheBeagle]

Even if you take Ulysses' claims at face value, Courier Six is only an "idiot who created their own villain" if you want the mailman snooping through your mail.

[@timothycarney9652]

To be fair, it depends on what you consider reasonable standards in a post appocalyptic courier system, but in general yeah, not reading someone's mail is the right choice

[@midnights2631]

"His greatest achievement though? Renaming Pizza Butt to Pizza Bat. Now there's a businessman." "At Domino's Pizza, we-" The timing is hilarious.

[@metasteelgaming4373]

rofl

[@drake713]

I love when commercials line up with videos, makes them a bit more bearable

[@ScrayDragon]

Have to be the arsehole but it's Batt, dude literally changed a letter 🤣

[@coolbones]

It only change in the English version. In Japanese it's always been bat.

[@midnights2631]

@@ScrayDragon My bad, I missed that part.

[@zacharysmith4856]

As an American, I am proud of Andy for knowing the true history of Benjamin Franklin. 16:13 🙂

[@vhunterlock]

Does anyone else remember the (imho) underrated Sleepy Hollow TV series? That's where I learned MY United States history.

[@zacharysmith4856]

@@vhunterlock I LOVED the two seasons. After that, it lost me, but those first two seasons are still among my favorites for any show. 🙂

[@Ongaliman]

I think he was majoring in American history. I believe he also specialised in the civil war period. Or at least I think I remember him saying that.

[@JervisGermane]

​@@Ongaliman In a livestream he said he majored in English and American literature. In another livestream someone mentioned that both Andy and Mike lived in the US for some amount of time during their uni years, but they didn't say where, when, or for how long.

[@Ongaliman]

@@JervisGermane I remember him talking about majoring in history, but maybe he was talking about some courses and I've remembered incorrectly? Thanks for the information.

[@oxfanblink4115]

Won’t be surprised if Andy’s and Mike’s story at the start is actually how Mike became part of the team 😆😆😆😆

[@AdrianColley]

16:55 "lightning comes in through the window - not how that works!" Sometimes you can just tell who writes a script.

[@WraythSkitzofrenik]

I'm so happy to see Day of the Tentacle on this list! One of my favorites!

[@hamishfox]

ᕙ⁠(8⁠)⁠ᕗ

[@markusnixon3156]

I take exemption to Comix Zone being on here, yes, Sketch did make his own villian, but it wasn't duo to sheer stupidity, just very weird bad luck.

[@Crocogator]

Fallout 4: Nora literally gave birth to the main villain. Don't worry though. In my current playthrough, my Nora has 8 endurance. I intend to put him back where he came from. My belly.

[@jimwormmaster]

Don't encourage the fandom!

[@MySerpentine]

Cannibalism perk FTW?

[@benjaminhome6272]

I see you picked up the cannibalism perk

[@Crocogator]

@@benjaminhome6272 I brought him into this world...

[@MySerpentine]

@@benjaminhome6272 Jinx

[@sycho-tech5104]

11:20 I mean technically the whole pre-sequel was Jack getting backstabbed by everyone he thought was a friend, the shit regularly kicked out of him, all his initial efforts to help people spat back into his face and then finally snapping into the megalomaniac we all know and love to hate.

[@sinofsanity6593]

if you want to get complicated enough to give yourself an aneurism, Kratos created the final boss of GoWIII by becoming a threat to Zues after travelling in time to save himself. or did Zues create an enemy by fathering Kratos? I need 10 aspirins already

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

If Zeus (that's how he's written by the way) created an enemy by fathering someone, he's probably the being with most enemies out there. I mean, he's definitely been around the block a few times.

[@stone5against1]

"you might create a super villain out of one of us" Isn't jane already one though..?

[@takizuzufu5332]

I thought of Handsome Jack too, but my twin argued that he was always going to be a villain before Lilith branded him with the vault symbol. After playing the BL3 DLC the Handsome Jackpot, I do think that even though Jack was probably always going to end up being a bad guy, but his absolute hate towards Vault Hunters was caused by Lilith, Roland and Moxxi's actions in BLTPS. If you remember, the start of BL2, your character survives a train being blown up and claptrap greets you and hints that Jack has killed a lot of vault hunters. Then again, I really really liked Handsome Jack so I might be doing alot of mental gymnastics to make him less of a evil villain and more a tragic villain

[@AmeenaWordweaver]

Based on the Echo logs you find about him in the Arid Nexus area in BL2 (as well as the ones in other areas that explain why each of the first four BL2 characters came to Pandora in the first place), he was most definitely already masterminding plots and manipulating people before the first game even started - he had Angel "plugged in" when she was a young child, and then had her speak to the original BL1 characters when they were on the bus at the beginning of the first game, and the aforementioned Echo logs on his history end with him about to off Tassiter and openly take control of Hyperion ("Do you know the difference between choking and strangulation?"). The Pre-Sequel seems to sort of retcon/change some of this, or perhaps just downplays it. But yeah, he was a total monster way before then. Good villain, though :D.

[@lisah-p8474]

Yeah I think maybe his wife's death might have cracked his brain, and perhaps if that hadn't happened he could have potentially not been a villian. But once you force your siren daughter to become the cyber brain for your Hyperion tech you've gone full villian mode regardless of whatever happened with Lilith and the gang later on. Also I love Jack. He's great. Lol

[@Destructocorps]

I think you could argue they made 'their own villain' by putting themselves right in his crosshairs, even if they didn't turn a hero into a villain

[@2bdaqueen268]

They didn’t make him evil, they just made things personal

[@TheCozyBearGamer]

Can i just say i really appreciate that of all the gaming list style channels I watch, you're the only one that bothers to give spoiler warnings. Also, If you'll allow me a nitpick, there are multiple bits of evidence, ranging from hinting to straight up proving, that Colt's plan has merit. Granted, thats all in documents you may not find and an easy to miss sidequest.

[@Peter_The_Great]

In the original Lego Island game, when playing as Pepperoni. If you deliver a pizza to the Brickster after building the Police Helicopter. You'll accidentally let him loose. Your blundering actions lead to the boss fight. You technically didn't create the Brickster, but you certainly are responsible for him becoming the main villain, and a thorn in your side for all three Lego Island games.

[@lightsidesoul]

Fun Fact: In the sequel, despite the jail having a sign *right next to the Brickster's cell* that says "No Pizza", The restraint, the police, *and* Pepper all just seem to forget how he broke out, and deliver *another* pizza to him, allowing him to escape *again* and wreck havoc on several islands.

[@konoikurozora5851]

Can we really fault Sketch though, considering he was just literally making a comic book, which isn't a dumb thing to do in itself. Couldn't suspect what would happen!

[@gorgha3988]

Oh man I almost forgot about Comic Zone. I absolutely LOVED that game back in the day.

[@metasteelgaming4373]

I always confuse Comix Zone with Bonanza Bros and have *no* idea why. I hear Comix Zone and I automatically think of those BS lookin' dudes made up of a square and a circle. It'd be like if you say "Sonic and Tails" and I see Toejam and Earl for some effing reason. Absolute nonsense

[@deathbykonami5487]

Lezard Valeth from Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria, although that's a case of less stupidity and more being too trusting to weird wizards you meet in the forest.

[@rickhealey4231]

Well, he's only kind of an example. due to time travel shenanigans, he's the same Lezard Valeth as the one in VP2 (which was a prequel). In Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth (the first game), he was a creepy wizarding prodigy who was pretty nasty originally, but he caught a glimpse of the heroine and became psychotically obsessed with her, leading him to do all the evil stuff he did in both games. So Lenneth "created" him technically, but it's not her fault that he went stalker mode after glimpsing her once.

[@KassandraOdessa-i5z]

Benny made the villian that chased him across the mohave then murdered him in his own casino!

[@zpick2214]

Thanks for being an amazing channel and one of my favorites for years!

[@WavingWorld]

Mike, your hiring joke at the intro was fantastic. As was the banter between you and Andy. 😁

[@Banquet42]

If memory serves, Mike died on his first day at OutsideXbox after Andy lured him into the office by saying he'd found his cat. This chicken wing lore changes everything...

[@mascadadelpantion8018]

At 1:08 Are we just going to completely overlook?The fact that Jane has somehow scientifically bend time and space and find herself in a time loop?!?!?!

[@zacharyunger2004]

Seeing ComixZone and making sure that people know you could trigger a fart sound effect in that game by ducking down repeatedly. Video games are a lost art.

[@kyuubinaruto17]

And(at the cost of either a fouth or a third of your health bar) you could hold the attack button and Sketch will rip the comic page he's on, make a paper airplane, and throw it. I think it's instant death against everything but bosses.

[@OptimusSledge]

Comix Zone is an underappreciated masterpiece.

[@lisah-p8474]

That soundtrack was so choice. 👌

[@Michael_Lindell]

1:02 "Loop what you made me do!"

[@HHog]

To be fair, designing a good villain for your comic book isn't really a stupid move, assuming that lightning just behaves the way it ought to. It's more of a "boy, in this situation, I kinda wish I hadn't done that" move.

[@NightWatchGaming47]

I was both surprised and impressed with how good the Guardians of the Galaxy game was. It felt like a template that could have also worked well with Firefly/Serenity.

[@dasdiesel3000]

I'm commenting because it *still* makes a difference! Thanks for the reminder Mr. Channel

[@liamnehren1054]

IRL there are infrequent but real cases of lightning coming through windows... not sure how many have led to a comic book writer being pulled into his comic but the lightning part happens.

[@jeffreygout]

Eddie Riggs from brutal legend? He didn’t make the big bad, but he still shot himself in the foot making ophelia turn bad

[@intern_dana]

cole reacted to julianna being [REDACTED] in the exact same tone as duke nukem taking a turd out of a toilet 😭

[@Brasc]

So... Andy created Mike by being too British to call Security to escort Mike out of the building when he kept showing up? All these years... everything going Mike in Hitman... the motorsports talk... the turning of Luke to F1... it could have all been avoided.

[@thecountalucard666]

Next video: Idiot villains who created heroes out of sheer stupidity :P

[@stueymon]

Even back in the 90s, I remember seeing Comix Zone and thinking "that is SO 90s, we will look back in shame" and we did! That makes me a prophet

[@spospartan-104]

Every time I see a comix zone reference I get a little happier because I know I'm not the only one that remembered that freaking fever dream

[@jodinsan]

Whoever wrote the line for Andy, "And then instead of mounting it on a wall against the express wishes of everyone he lives with," it _should have_ ended like this: "Uses it to kill people... against the express wishes of those people."

[@canismajor1186]

Pizza Butt is the nickname they gave C.C. from Code Geass because she had a big butt from eating pizza.

[@vaevictusdeus]

1:06 "Stuck in a never ending time loop" was sincerely one of my ongoing theories to explain how Jane hasn't seemed to AGE in well over 10 goddamn years. The other two were a "Death becomes her" esque fountain of youth cult and LITERAL vampirism (little disappointed I was wrong about that one), but I've legit been a fan of her work for over a decade and those are the only three logical explanations.

[@BobBobson]

"is like me covered in crumbs calling myself didn't steal your birthday cake Jane" But you can't steal what's freely given. If Jane shows up to my birthday party she can have as much birthday cake as she wants.

[@IndustrialBonecraft]

Mike falling in the Thames and not dying truly is asserting dominance.

[@mcmogg_incmogg2080]

I wouldn’t say comix zone because he was a comic artist and who would know it would come to life , how is that being stupid on his part?

[@markkuijpers3818]

Like, I get that you could take random shots from most games and paint an insane picture out of contest, but holy hell that Day of the Tentacle entry was wild. Seriously, people thought of that. People signed off on it. People played it. The future is now

[@1994Mildew]

This is hilarious. It reminds me when I played Tales of Berseria and would constantly rob the turtle merchant throughout the story just for him to turn evil at the end of the game and fight you 😂😂

[@rickimaru915]

Actually Dracula is the scientist, you’re thinking of Dracula’s Monster

[@itsdantaylor]

2:56.......in fairness to Colt........it worked? Everyone but Colt kept looping and not retaining memories so he kept killing Juliana her to break her out of the loop. She did break out and then developed a technique to keep her memories.........BUT then Colt himself succumbed to the Loop and began to forget so Juliana kept killing him again to 'bring him back' which ALSO worked. So in a way both Juliana and Colt created their own enemies in the same way..........poetic in a way.

[@NameRealperson]

Acktchually, Dracula wasn't a doctor at all, he dropped out of university to write Childe Harold

[@metasteelgaming4373]

It's not Dracula, it's Dracula's *Monster*

[@Dargonhuman]

Oh so now the Day of the Tentacle bonus level in Zombies Ate My Neighbors (bcdf on the password screen and if you have a way to break walls in Level 1, there's a Bonus Level icon behind a hedge at the top of the level) makes a whole lot more sense.

[@HitchcockJohn]

In Red Dead Redemption II you have several unscrupulous characters to deal with, but a big part of the plot is how you keep making enemies through your crimes. Granted it’s more Dutch who is to blame than Arthur but he does get stuck having to participate in several robberies that turn out to be stealing from Leviticus Cornwall. Thdn you make a bigger enemy of the Pinkertons by killing them. Dutch’s plan of trying to profit by playing the Grays and Braithwaites against each other makes enemies of both, and then gets them stuck dealing with the mafia. And all that ends up leading to Agent Ross becoming the main antagonist of the first game. Spec Ops: The Line is a weird example. The protagonist creates his own villain in the sense that the “villain” he thinks he’s fighting is entirely a construct of his own mind and trying to fight him just causes him to become the true villain instead.

[@ericpresler3935]

13:45 I believe the plural of "Ulysses" ought to be "Ulyssi."

[@boobah5643]

You'd think; it _is_ the latinized version of 'Odysseus,' so it ought to follow Latin rules.

[@thompse412]

Jack does NOT go on this list. He'd been abusing his Siren daughter long before the game, and as you lot pointed out he was already snapping all on his own

[@shinrailp1416]

I'd say he still fits. Yes he was a villain from the get go BUT he only really became the personal villain of the Vault Hunters after this event. So while he was a villain he only became THEIR villain later on. Semantics i know but hey, it counts

[@thompse412]

@@shinrailp1416 yeah, I suppose that's fair

[@Apt23-v8u]

sounds a little pathetic but hey hes jack, being patethic is his shtick

[@timothycarney9652]

The Pre-Sequel is his villainous origin story, where we see him go from corporate drone that is trying to save Elpis, to the Insane narcissistic monster we see in Borderlands 2. We don't actually get to see how he treats Angel when he isn't insane, other than trying to restrain the powers that killed her mom, and while he does various morally dubious things in the pre-sequel, Moxxi and Lilliths attempts to kill him are what lead him to believe all Pandorans were as bad as the bandits and drove him insane respectively. The tragedy is that he isn't really worse than plenty of NPC's you gleefully work for in the other games, and could have been a great force for good but the events of the Pre-sequel and the actions of several characters meant that would NEVER be possible.

[@thompse412]

@@timothycarney9652 borderlands 2 audiologs very much predate pre-sequel. He'd been abusing Angel for years.

[@claratalbot7613]

What about BG3? If let a companion like Astarion or Shadowheart make evil choice, but then if you at any point try to stop them or call them out well, just be ready for a fight with them. You can bring them back but don't expect a warm reception from them

[@Jifuryu]

Not a hundred vampires; no, specifically one hundred Draculas.

[@docette2015]

Comix Zone does look like a very cool beat-em-up, so kudos to Sketch Turner for making his own enemies in that game -- he did an excellent job! I'm sure HE doesn't feel that way, but -- details. XD

[@RayAP17]

SPOILERS for Spider-Man 2 (PS5): Can we get a video of awesome characters you only got to use for a little while? Like Snake in MGS2 or Venom in Spider-Man 2

[@Rensune]

Benny "accidentally" making the Courier his enemy is a much better example. At least Benny knew what he was doing, and meant to do it.

[@Alsebra]

The entirety of Lonesome Road is basically the start of Final Fantasy 4. The courier is Cecil Harvey, the Divide is Mist (destroyed unintentionally by the protagonist), ED-E is Rydia (joins the protagonist after they destroy the area), Ulysses is Golbez (ostensibly the BBEG but actually not the real evil)...

[@MGG87]

Wow, Comix Zone, now there's a call back. I remember renting that from Blockbuster when I was a kid.

[@vhunterlock]

I'll take Andy as my self-created nemesis. As long as it's not Jane, Jane would be...*shivers*

[@annana6098]

I'm trying to imagine what it looks like when Andy rampages. It's got to be something like him playing a New Game+ and absolutely wrecking everything because he's collected all the upgrades and unlockables already. Or would you never actually see him rampaging because he's gone the Hitman route and everything falls apart after he's already left? I suppose it changes as the situations demands.

[@xaderalert]

So. Many. Birthday. Cakes. 😱

[@Gemmasis]

The Andinator… what a chilling concept!

[@robxholicfoxyfan8552]

I do wonder the inverse: Villains that made their own heroes. Of course, one that comes to mind is Kale Vandelay who made the hero of Hi-Fi Rush, Chai, due to his own negligence and laziness and disregard to Chai's property. Literally throws the MP3 or Ipod away and down to where Chai's robot arm surgery was. He said "No defects" to everybody else on his team but it was his stupidity and laziness that made Chai so unexpectedly powerful. He also forced his own sister, Peppermint's hand and replaced Macaron with the very money incompetent Zanzo, which made Macaron create CNMN for self esteem support, and he even made Korsica heel turn on him because he hired her under false pretense, and when she found out he tried to kill her with a meta developer scrapped boss robot. Kale also got his ass beat by a literal cat (named 808), who his sister built not even for fighting, and CNMN totalled the robot he stole from Zanzo who also wasn't made for fighting. Kale freaking made literally every single protagonist and (aside from Roquefort and Korsica), everyone else he hired sucked at their job due to a critical flaw making them not competent at exactly what they were made to head. Rekka literally just scrapped everything with even a ding on it without care to fix them which wastes money, Zanzo literally was somehow worse with a creator conplex going unchecked and draining the budget of the company in mere hours as well as likely ensuring every creation aside from himself and maybe Roquefort blew up when they failed (including the other production heads and his literal boss), Mimosa was literally a narcissist who drained whatever other budget to make herself look good on stage, and Roquefort was only interested in money (but at least he was more well rounded knowing stuff about security and being generally collected and wasn't an idiot overall). Kale literally is a lazy brat of a manchild that stole his mother's company and her free will but didn't care enough to do anything himself. He didn't even go the cyborg army route, he just wanted to not think ever again and have everyone just grab the stuff he had made no questions asked with mind control. Kale made a mind control device to be lazy and that's it.

[@SP_-]

I'm pretty sure Magus from Chrono Trigger qualifies. I don't have the energy to map it all out, but it all started with the pendant reacting to the telepod.

[@RG4327-]

I feel like Wheatley from Portal 2 would feel right at home in this list, from a certain point of view.

[@annana6098]

Some might say that it seemed like a good idea at the time, but I immediately knew it was a bad idea to plug Wheatly into the facility controls. There just weren't any other ideas available at the time.

[@breensprout]

good news, wheatley is in the first video

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Really can't unhear Yuri Lowenthal lately, judging from No More Heroes. At least it's nice to hear Denny Delk in DoTT though. He's also Murray in The Curse of Monkey Island and Return to Monkey Island and the Secret Order guy in Star Wars: TIE Fighter.

[@randomjimmystuff9862]

Expecting this to be filled with mainly batman

[@kmfrog]

Same

[@jimwormmaster]

Maybe if you listened to the kangaroo court from that episode of The Animated Series...

[@michaelandreipalon359]

​@@jimwormmasterAh, somebody who knows about "Trial".

[@jimwormmaster]

@@michaelandreipalon359 I admit I didn't watch the show faithfully as a kid, but I saw LegalEagle's review of the episode. He brought up some very good points.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@jimwormmaster Oh, highly recommend it (plus its movies Mask of the Phantasm and SubZero), alongside Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures (plus Mystery of the Batwoman+Chase Me), Batman Beyond (plus Return of the Joker), Justice League (and maybe the Elseworlds-ish Crisis on Two Earths), Justice League Unlimited (watch "Epilogue" last though), and maybe even Static Shock.

[@gunnerdown]

In borderlands jack created his own villains by sending them on a wild goose chase in the first game all for some weird plan to save pandora

[@DFloyd84]

The reason Lilith didn't double-tap Jack is because she used her Phasewalking power to get into the Vault, which only exists in phase space, and she can only throw one punch before she gets pulled back into normal space.

[@Whatsupimdeck]

Lee from the walking dead literally created a psychopathic kidnapper by taking all of that guys supplies lol

[@罗一虎]

Day of the tentacle... Games that funny, clever and challenging are rare to be seen nowadays.

[@Gee-un6tq]

Ahhhh DOTT! Geez that takes me back. The 90s were such a blast god i miss it so! 😫

[@tacwolf4962]

No More Heroes still remains one of the more highly underrated games. Such a niche gem.

[@olivertunnah3987]

Missing Jacob Crow from Timespitters Future Perfect. After meeting Crow's older selves Cortez explains how Crow has achieved his aim to his hapless younger self thus creating his enemy.

[@bareakon]

I fell into a vat of chemicals while liking and subscribing, and have become the villain of OX (and indeed of all youtube creators), THE COMMENT SECTION.

[@Cyrus_T_Laserpunch]

Personal Villain Andy would be a dangerous foe, his counter is making sure you never isolate yourself on your patrol.

[@timothycarney9652]

What bugs me the most about the Handsome jack stuff, is that all the questionable stuff Jack does prior to becoming Handsome Jack is pretty much par for the course for the Borderlands world, especially for someone who is part of a megacorp- and in fact Jack does his most regretable acts when he is trying to do the right thing but feels compelled to push on and cause suffering in the process, which YOU as the various vault hunters also do in many missions, often for less reason, if with also less collateral. Destroying the space laser I could see as the right thing to do, especially since it would be in the hands of Hyperion in general, not necessarily just Jack, but not only was it destroyed before the actual antagonists of the game were gone, but done so in a way that would have killed not only Jack, but also all the other player characters, several of which become villains in borderlands 2. Whilhelm apparently being a bit of a boogieman to the Crimson Raiders hits differently when you know Moxxi, Mordecai and Lilith tried to kill them in the middle of their attempt to save Elpis. Lilith breaking a mind affecting artifact (which If I remember right was supposed to be a repository of the vault maker's knowledge- ie the source of Jack's intel on things like the Warrior) on Jack's face instead of killing him, taking the artifact, or just breaking it, is baffling when she ALREADY said she was happy to kill him earlier. Frankly there were many missed opportunities to have this come up in the content post reveal of this (The Pre-Sequel where this happens is told as an account by one of the vault hunters working for Jack in that game, after being captured and about to be executed by Lilith, that part is happening after all of Borderlands 2 except the commander Lilith DLC). The commander Lilith DLC has some echo logs of Brick talking a little to Lilith about it, but it also comes up not at all in Borderlands 3 (like 90% of the vault hunters from 2 for most of the game, really wish we got more of them outside DLC). The whole thing is basically skimmed over as a sign of how Lilith needs to grow as a leader, when it really should call her entire role into question since she not only could have prevented EVERYTHING Jack did, but arguably ensured he became the psycho he was by the time of Borderlands 2. Overall, a weird thing where they both went too far and not far enough- having done nothing to prevent any of the questionable acts Jack did, and then seemingly gave up after one assasination attempt, and also were basically ignoring the army attacking the moon and focusing on Jack instead, but not enough to kill him...

[@LunaP1]

What about Epic Mickey? Mickey was the reason the Blot even existed.

[@metasteelgaming4373]

That's meta, dude. Because that was an entry on the original vid, and *this* vid was made from suggestions in the comments from *that* vid... but then *this* comment could end up in another comment vid...

[@darealdoofy2041]

im glad u guys are covering the gotg game, hella slept on imo

[@lonewolffang]

Also, in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, the villian of the gane is her Bunkers & Badasses chatacter she stopped playing. Also in the Presequel, Moxxxi had a sense that Jack was suspicious after some of the missions. So what Lilith did wasn't the cause of Jack. He wanted to play God over Pandora to begin with.

[@DerekBarns]

If a comic in Nintendo Power is canon Mario and Luigi bullied Wario into villainy

[@BJGvideos]

I think that was all Mario's doing

[@unwithering5313]

I heard that Mario was a jerk to Wario when they were kids, not sure about Luigi though.

[@tempestflare4339]

11:05 as has been stated by a lot of people the thing about Handsome Jack is while yes he was a bit of an ass to his daughter the entire time she was around (that one's justified though and he legitimately cared for her) Jack was literally working with future knowledge although fragmented Since he didn't know Angel would die before his passing. His tip into madness was him realizing his death and everything that led up to it would be inevitable. So he just played the part. After the death of Angel, his daughter and the one thing he truly cared about in the universe, that's when he really became a villain. Everything before that you could say he was playing a part, but killing his daughter made it personal.

[@matthewberard3406]

I completely forgot about Comic Zone. Such a fun game

[@Chibimano]

Deathloop has me more wondering why Colt thought killing someone in a timeloop would “free” them.

[@coyoteartist]

And meanwhile Happy Jack lives in the sand on the Isle Of Man. And they couldn't stop Jack from being happy.

[@dragerien2]

You called Ulysses a reaident of the Divide, but he wasn't. ^^; He was a spy for the Legion, and deeing the Divide gave him hope. Hope built up by the main character because the community sprang up around the Courier's route, but then was "wiped out by the Courier."

[@CelticVictory]

That's how you succeed in this world. Just show up and refuse to leave.