I need help with selection of villains in Tropes Campaign


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I've been running a game inspired by the basic plot of part 1 of Sword Art Online/Log Horizon (mostly SAO at first, I hadn't discovered Log Horizon at the time this began). People playing an MMO of Pathfinder get stuck in the game, death in the game=death in reality, no respawn, no log out.

My big personal spin on all of this was the setting is a world I call Tropegeist. I took appx. 40 entries from the TV Tropes Pantheon section of TV Tropes, and used those as the campaign deities. So players could Worship Mr. Rogers, Darkseid, Jack Sparrow, Azula, Hannibal Lecter, Kamina, etc.

The campaign and the world are highly meta and influenced by a massive mixing of all the various shows (and more besides) that were poured into the Campaign's pantheon. These deities were not the original deities of the world. Those deities managed to kill themselves/get killed, and have been replaced again and again in an ongoing cycle every could tens of thousands of years. Whenever a pantheon manages to wipe itself out, the world causes new deities to rise up and replace it.

Well, I'm currently on the hunt for a variety of fun to use villains from across fiction to use as both current and future villains and possible new deities, should there be a sudden lack of evil deities in the pantheon.

I'm especially hunting for a couple of guys whose preference is total annihilation. As in, they want to end the world. Jealousy is a preferred trait. I've got some ideas of my own, but I'm not arrogant enough to believe I can find the best villains for the job. So, does anybody want to help out?


First that comes to mind on the total annihilation front is Heath Ledger's Joker...some men just want to watch the world burn. Scary as a villain, could be truly terrifying if he was a god and had the strength to make it happen.


Joker would make a finde CE god.

My sugestion? Brain. From Pinky & The Brain. Best LE Eva. Would lov e to see what he does with godlike powers (take over the planes, like every other night)

P.S.: Seems like a very fun campaign. also, have you read Guilded Age?


Omnicidal villains tend to not be as cool as, say, Vader or other villains with more practical goals. That said, Kefka from Final Fantasy sticks out, as does Marvin the Martian.


Entities that want total annihilation? Daleks from Doctor Who.


Maybe not an Iconic character but an Iconic idea: currently Im building a homebrew with a final BBEG both not being the mastermind behind it all (they will have butchered him 2 modules ago) but his creation who is a draconic Aasimar sorcerer who is attempting to raise a dead god to become a full dragon (or have a full dragon's power). Raising a dead god to have some of it's power is a good trope.


I should probably have thought to mention that Joker is my BBEG. An amalgam of all joker versions. At any given moment he can appear as any given joker and even change form from one to another. typically he appears as whichever joker creeps/scares whoever is viewing him the most.


Good, because he's ideal for the trope. :)

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Rennaivx wrote:
First that comes to mind on the total annihilation front is Heath Ledger's Joker...some men just want to watch the world burn. Scary as a villain, could be truly terrifying if he was a god and had the strength to make it happen.

check out the "emperor joker" story arc

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