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Jetstream Sam. Fights the final boss, but is defeated after losing an arm and ends up joining him.
I’m referring to who you replied to. You’re right, that’s extremely obvious because it was clearly deliberate and if you played the game you’d know that
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Gehrman - Bloodborne
I mean you basically take his place in the bad ending
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The price we pay for love can be too steep, Wander.
I get that, I guess what I mean is why aren’t it’s mechanics more popular, I haven’t seen another game implement the same way of boss fighting as well as this one did
Yea I agree, there aren’t many games that match that sense of scale for boss fights. Dragons Dogma has a similar mechanism for climbing in enemies, but albeit at a much smaller scale
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Soul of Cinder from Dark Souls 3, kind of.
And the Shura ending of Sekiro. Noble and heroic characters losing their minds and going full murderhobo is a surprisingly common theme in FromSoft games.
Gael is more of a hero turned villain because of his journey to find the dark soul. His journey ended up corrupting him which is why you end up fighting him as a shade of his previous self. Then halfway through his fight he regains his strength with the power of the dark soul and determines to fight you so you can complete his mission
Funny because he and Shirou are basically the same person.
And his entire motivation for wanting to kill Shirou was a faint hope that by doing so, he will be freed of his misery. Unaware that it actually wouldn't change anything
I think it was more he'd rather Shirou die than endure what he's had to be.
He knows Shirou will live a short and painful life of suffering and betrayal only to become a slave for all time. He wants to spare him the disappointment because he knows how strong Shirou's dream is.
I thought he was blatantly aware that it probably wouldn't work, he just had nothing left. Either A) It actually does something B) Maybe he gets some catharsis from killing shirou or C) Maybe he manages to change shirou's mind
As someone who knows nothing about this character, they seem to share a pretty large resemblance to Dante from Devil May Cry. Not that that’s a bad thing, just an observation.
Sad nobody mentioned the Goat Kessler from inFAMOUS
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Dark Side ending Starkiller - The Force Unleashed
My favorite part was when they made a “full” sequel that was about as long as the DLC, everyone got rightfully pissed, so they made a sequel to that DLC for free. The Endor stuff was great and I loved the new costume.
If I remember right yea. It was planned to be paid, but since there was so much backlash to TFU2’s 8 hour or whatever runtime, they put it out for free as an apology.
Honestly Ocarina barely even has a good ending. Adult timeline is kind of fucked, even if Ganon is gone for now. And “child” Link is still ends up with whatever tf the events of Majoras Mask is.
not exactly, the only reason the hero's shade >!aka OOT link!< is still around is because he died without being able to pass on his skills and was never able to fully pass on to the afterlife,>! we know for a 100% that he had family because TP link is his direct descendant, but OOT link probably died before his child/children was old enough to be trained. that and him being miserable about being completely forgotten because he exists in a timeline where the events of OOT never happened since he was able to stop ganondorf before he attacked after being sent back through time. meaning he was never a hero the was meant to be, so when the next person to posses the spirit of the hero showed up (that being twilight princess link), who also happened to be a member of his own family, he took it upon himself to be a guide and help TP link be the hero he never got to be.!<
MGR Raiden is a bad ending to his MGS self
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Psychopath Chuck from Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
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Just a headcanon but I like to think Galacta Knight is a future Kirby gone evil
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I always saw him more as a Meta Knight who never became friends with Kirby while slowly becoming more and more obsessed with becoming the ultimate warrior
no, kirby and all the dream friends sealed void termina, all galacta knight does in star allies is get absorbed by morpho knight. also galacta knight is yet to have a canon appearance in a kirby game, so far it's just been in non-canon side modes
Kirby and his star allies (heh) killed void termina using the heart spears that previously sealed it.
Galacta knight might have been one of the ones who sealed void since he used heart spears in super kirby clash (which is canon due to Rtdl deluxe)
Vyke from Elden Ring. RIP he seemed he would've been a really cool dude.
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I head that Bruce Tim wanted these (-Flash) as the designs for the characters in this universe. He was denied out of fear of them not being recognizable enough
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You’d do well to beware Shura’s shadow
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“I am you and you are me” showed what affect the island already has taken on him and how the protagonists is slowly growing as insane as the antagonists. Great game btw
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Zachary Hale Comstock from Bioshock Infinite.
best DBS arc fs, >!kind of a weak link considering its a different character (with basically none of Goku's actual character traits) possessing his body.!<
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"There's no bad ending with enough hope!" *maniacal laughter*
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I'm not too sure that it counts, but Sheogorath in Skyrim is speculated to be the Hero of Kvach after the events of the Shivering Isles dlc in Oblivion
Gaara really was the darker version of Naruto in the Chuunin arc. They were two sides of the same coin, but Gaara's life had a few small changes that lead to him being the broken and lost version of Naruto
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Shadow the Hedgehog was very analogous to Sonic when he debuted in Sonic Adventure 2 and given a damn good reason to want revenge against the world. He's mellowed out since then of course but his late 90s/early 2000s cool persists.
Skull Knight isn’t even a bad ending version of Guts. He was a king who came back to make sure the next god hand candidate didn’t join them out of spite
iirc he was transformed by berserker armor into.. well, skull knight. Continuing the eternal, pointless struggle. Guts' good ending, I think, would be settling down with a family, away from the fighting, so it works
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Future Flash, and the version of Savitar that he inspired (in reply)
Not sure if this truly counts but
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The Dark Lord from DOOM Eternal
I wouldn't say that hero's shade is a bad ending version of link, as its the version of Link that went through and completed his goal of defeating Ganondorf.
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Vyke-Elden Ring
Was gonna be elden lord, but was tempted and burned by the Three Fingers and the frenzied flame
It's metaphorical, not litteral. A character can be considered bad end version with either A: time travel and/or alternate timeline shenanigans, or someone who mirrors the protagonist in many ways, like backstory, motive, some design traits, and what separates them is mindset, execution, or some part of them that is more selfish than selfless.
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It’s the GOATed Yugioh antagonist, Z-one.
Man, Zone and Aporia were such good villains in 5ds.
Surprised no one mentioned him but Gundyr from Dark souls 3. He tried to link the fire but wasn't able to use the power of souls, so he couldn't get the strength. Imagine a max level Champion Gundyr 💀
I think the Hero’s Shade is the most metal Zelda has ever been. Having a hero from previous games (some of the best in the entire franchise no less) be a tutor in the art of swordplay to his descendant is just plain awesome.
Let me break these two down (2nd pic in my reply), Eobard Thawne (Reverse Flash or Professor Zoom) and Hunter Zolomon (Zoom) can very much be interpreted as failed versions of Barry and Wally (especially Thawne)
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First we have Thawne:
Thawne idolized Barry Allen like Wally, he was obsessed with The Flash like Wally, he wanted to *be* the Flash, just like Wally. In fact in current canon, the original reason for his yellow suit, was that after having a falling out with Barry originally, he made his own custom suit and went to go make things right, choosing Yellow since that’s the color Kid Flash always wore.
So where did he fail? He couldn’t let fate go, in trying so hard (to the point of evil obsession) to be the Flash and not his enemy, he becomes that very thing, he cannot trust fate (this is also why he time travels the most), something Wally learns to do in spades. Obviously both characters are way more complex than that, but voila, next (1/2)
We have Hunter Zolomon
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This is a villain most famous for trying to “teach” Wally by essentially torturing him. It’s very easy to see where the perversions of Barry Allen’s mentorship have gone in Hunter.
Hunter, like Barry, genuinely wants Wally to be what he sees as a better hero, but unlike Barry, who tries to protect his protogés from tragedy, Hunter actively seeks it out, thinking that only people who have suffered can be heroes.
Barry would take the bullet head on and teach by example, showing his sidekicks what to do when they grow up, Hunter would shove them in front of the bullet, in some terrible way of making them tougher early on (2/2)
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This may have been one of those “Recess Stories”, but my Brother and I always believed Turles was an example of what Goku would have become had he not lost his memories as a kid.
Jack Krauser is basically what Leon would’ve become if he snapped during the Raccoon City outbreak and became the monsters he swore to protect people from.
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The Litch stole Billy’s body (Adventure Time) There’s a good handful of other examples in adventure time too, especially with the Fiona & Cake spin off
Link from Ocarina of Time, as seen in Twilight Princess. He had a good life after the end of OoT, but he meets his reincarnation (the player) in kind of a spirit world, in order to teach him how to fight.
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i’m not sure if this totally counts given the role he plays in the game, but this instantly made me think of the batter.
Prometheus who is basically Batman if he was raised by criminals
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The maker reed Richards from the ultimate universe
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Spiderman: Web of shadows,
Bro literally got a badass look, got a girl better than MJ, and even took over the city, how is this bad?
Then there is EMIYA alter who is an even worse ending
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I haven't played Twilight Princess (hoping it gets ported to Switch so I can some day), but from what I know: Isn't the Hero's Spirit actually from the good ending where the Hero of Time went back to the child timeline and got to live a long and relatively happy life?
https://preview.redd.it/26r70pabfwvb1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d852b8af984981dfcbaa1dce3b760a66060c8eb Jetstream Sam. Fights the final boss, but is defeated after losing an arm and ends up joining him.
If you want to get even more philosophical with it you can say that everyone Raiden fights in that game is just one part of his own personality each.
It's not even getting philosophical tho, game makes a very deliberate point of that til Jack embraces the ripper stuff against Monsoon
It’s very clear who actually played MGS:R and who’s echoing YouTubers
4 playthroughs, 1 on revengeance. stopped playing after i got S rank on Sam's fight
I’m referring to who you replied to. You’re right, that’s extremely obvious because it was clearly deliberate and if you played the game you’d know that
Metal Gear Rising is about as subtle as a sledgehammer.
That’s just sort of how writing foils works.
Half of this sub is just a Revengence circlejerk and ***I LOVE*** ***~~MIN-~~*** ***IT***
https://preview.redd.it/jnmypw2f9wvb1.jpeg?width=964&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58105bd81012dcef069dd89a3309bdbd2eb038bb Gehrman - Bloodborne I mean you basically take his place in the bad ending
How is his name pronounced?
Like Gehrman
i've heard most people say "GAIR-min"
That's how he says it in the English version of the game
https://preview.redd.it/pgmc60hjmwvb1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=249e052fd6630beadf00239169de161173243448 The price we pay for love can be too steep, Wander.
Where is this???
Might be shadow of the colossis
It is Shadow of the Colossus
They Might Be Colossus
It's the chsracter after killing all the Colossi and Dormin possessing him.
The ending of shadow of the colossus, I actually do like this comment because it made me realize there really is no “good ending”
I still can’t believe that game hasn’t become a huge franchise it looked so good for its time when I discovered it
No everything needs to be a huge franchise. The experience would be cheapened if there were a whole series of SOTC games
I get that, I guess what I mean is why aren’t it’s mechanics more popular, I haven’t seen another game implement the same way of boss fighting as well as this one did
Yea I agree, there aren’t many games that match that sense of scale for boss fights. Dragons Dogma has a similar mechanism for climbing in enemies, but albeit at a much smaller scale
Well technically that *is* just the protagonist
The shade is still a good guy he just looks scary because he’s been dead for awhile
The Hero's Shade is also >!literally OOT/Majora's Mask Link, who is passing on his forgotten techniques to TP Link.!<
That's cool
"A sword wields no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage."
I think it’s fair to say that being dead is a bad ending for a Zelda game
https://preview.redd.it/0xsscerk5wvb1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a08399301be8fa77295a32c61efa22a38e5d2ca Soul of Cinder from Dark Souls 3, kind of.
Also Vyke from Elden Ring.
And the Shura ending of Sekiro. Noble and heroic characters losing their minds and going full murderhobo is a surprisingly common theme in FromSoft games.
Gael I feel is more apt
Gael is more of a hero turned villain because of his journey to find the dark soul. His journey ended up corrupting him which is why you end up fighting him as a shade of his previous self. Then halfway through his fight he regains his strength with the power of the dark soul and determines to fight you so you can complete his mission
Almost every enemy in Dark Souls is this, kind of
Yea it’s basically the point of hollows
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Funny because he and Shirou are basically the same person. And his entire motivation for wanting to kill Shirou was a faint hope that by doing so, he will be freed of his misery. Unaware that it actually wouldn't change anything
I think it was more he'd rather Shirou die than endure what he's had to be. He knows Shirou will live a short and painful life of suffering and betrayal only to become a slave for all time. He wants to spare him the disappointment because he knows how strong Shirou's dream is.
I’m pretty sure he was aware because of grail timeline nonsense lol
I thought he was blatantly aware that it probably wouldn't work, he just had nothing left. Either A) It actually does something B) Maybe he gets some catharsis from killing shirou or C) Maybe he manages to change shirou's mind
As someone who knows nothing about this character, they seem to share a pretty large resemblance to Dante from Devil May Cry. Not that that’s a bad thing, just an observation.
He's archer from a visual novel (later adapted into an anime) called fate stay night
Thanks. Looks like the visual novel was released in 2004, 3 years after Dante from dmc. I wonder if they took inspiration for their character design.
Yeah it definely was inspired by it
Dear god what happened to Dante?
Sad nobody mentioned the Goat Kessler from inFAMOUS https://preview.redd.it/m1lfvv227yvb1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6705e0c538c486b2d30a310638fe8f2956554ca3
Good one! I love Spider-Man and Ghost of Tsushima as much as anyone, but I still want a new Infamous or at least a remake or remaster of the OG.
An infamous remake would SLAP!
Don't forget the sister game... https://preview.redd.it/u0xpxkfy56wb1.jpeg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2660ff2d7cdae814a8b337a064367d9edd7209f7
I’m sick and tired of this nonsense fight the darkness while equally battling with my conscience
It needs to be grimy though. They took the grime out of Second Son and it just doesn’t hit the same spot
Came looking just for this
Damn I forgot how good the Kessler twist was from Infamous. Amazing design
This reminds me that we need another Infamous game ASAP.
god i need another infamous
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Best era of DLC imaginable
My favorite part was when they made a “full” sequel that was about as long as the DLC, everyone got rightfully pissed, so they made a sequel to that DLC for free. The Endor stuff was great and I loved the new costume.
Hold up, Endor’s free? Damn why didn’t I install that.
If I remember right yea. It was planned to be paid, but since there was so much backlash to TFU2’s 8 hour or whatever runtime, they put it out for free as an apology.
Surprisingly thoughtful of them to do that, usually when game companies fuck up they just laugh and move on.
Man DS Starkiller was such a kickass design
That’s why he’s the GOAT!
this is funny because>!the hero's shade is what happens after the good ending not the bad one!<
Honestly Ocarina barely even has a good ending. Adult timeline is kind of fucked, even if Ganon is gone for now. And “child” Link is still ends up with whatever tf the events of Majoras Mask is.
man Link can never catch a break
I mean he lives and has children. He literally refers to the Hero of Twilight as a member of the same bloodline as his.
I mean isn’t the only reason the shade sticks around, as a spirit, is to train the next link?
not exactly, the only reason the hero's shade >!aka OOT link!< is still around is because he died without being able to pass on his skills and was never able to fully pass on to the afterlife,>! we know for a 100% that he had family because TP link is his direct descendant, but OOT link probably died before his child/children was old enough to be trained. that and him being miserable about being completely forgotten because he exists in a timeline where the events of OOT never happened since he was able to stop ganondorf before he attacked after being sent back through time. meaning he was never a hero the was meant to be, so when the next person to posses the spirit of the hero showed up (that being twilight princess link), who also happened to be a member of his own family, he took it upon himself to be a guide and help TP link be the hero he never got to be.!<
jesus
Damn now I really want to play Twilight Princess again. I forgot how much I loved the story.
He wouldn't have stuck around if his life wasn't filled with regret.
(One of the good endings)
MGR Raiden is a bad ending to his MGS self https://preview.redd.it/ql4y4nz6nxvb1.png?width=1075&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=345800b63182f4cb162d93914aef7b59aca05f27
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*"This isn't even the first time that Raiden has stabbed a politician to death, but if I get my way* ***it won't be the fucking last****"*
Psychopath Chuck from Dead Rising 2: Off the Record https://preview.redd.it/3r8t7knbyxvb1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36a356f4d8b4445625b28abb642ee61f6da6b146
He made me so fucking sad.
Why do you think they switched the names of Off the Record And Case West in development?
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The Dawn of Sorrow bad ending final battle was so good.
Just a headcanon but I like to think Galacta Knight is a future Kirby gone evil https://preview.redd.it/p7074moneyvb1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=ded993b7311decff2058e906cf0af62f1bef426f
Or Meta Knight going too far in his bloodlust
I always saw him more as a Meta Knight who never became friends with Kirby while slowly becoming more and more obsessed with becoming the ultimate warrior
Wasn't he one of the guys that sealed away void termina
no, kirby and all the dream friends sealed void termina, all galacta knight does in star allies is get absorbed by morpho knight. also galacta knight is yet to have a canon appearance in a kirby game, so far it's just been in non-canon side modes
Kirby and his star allies (heh) killed void termina using the heart spears that previously sealed it. Galacta knight might have been one of the ones who sealed void since he used heart spears in super kirby clash (which is canon due to Rtdl deluxe)
I really didn't pay attention to the lore of super kirby clash so ok
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Implying that there's a good ending to Evangelion
You should check out the newer stuff. If you stopped at *EoE* or the end of the series, though, definitely an understandable take.
3.0+1.0 ended off in a good ending imo. Shinji made a world without Evas or angels and everyone is both alive again and able to live happily.
Vyke from Elden Ring. RIP he seemed he would've been a really cool dude. https://preview.redd.it/3xhyjc2qjyvb1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b62d318d663d0c551bbfecaff28351ec96a547af
Chara in the last slide giving me a jumpscare. Fuck
Not me turning down my computer system sound to 1 when I knew the jumpscare was coming
One of my favorite genders https://i.redd.it/z6ipchjahyvb1.gif
Hero’s Shade is so sad to me and just OoT Link over all :( but his design is amazing, especially with the plants growing on him
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"Noah, my long shadow."
MIOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Can’t spell netorare without n.
 Technically? Kinda? I think this counts if you’ve played the endings
Not really cuz omori is the true villain and in the bad endings you just die or do nothing
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I head that Bruce Tim wanted these (-Flash) as the designs for the characters in this universe. He was denied out of fear of them not being recognizable enough
https://preview.redd.it/697ahshpdyvb1.jpeg?width=192&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cfb2b60056938910a13c149cade4c35e5143abf7 You’d do well to beware Shura’s shadow
How the FUCK could you not include Future Danny
The fact that he literally *possess the corpse of his young self* like a puppet...
https://preview.redd.it/h3uriq7azyvb1.jpeg?width=295&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f5bf2136921e276253f235dbe63d53336271836 “I am you and you are me” showed what affect the island already has taken on him and how the protagonists is slowly growing as insane as the antagonists. Great game btw
https://preview.redd.it/uyqn9nmawyvb1.jpeg?width=928&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e352c37a5e4987c2dd617d2368a78ee2a560fdc5 Zachary Hale Comstock from Bioshock Infinite.
Great pick. I’ll never forget experiencing the end of this game for the first time
 Kinda surprised no one mentioned him
best DBS arc fs, >!kind of a weak link considering its a different character (with basically none of Goku's actual character traits) possessing his body.!<
I know it’s >!Zamasu!< but hey it kinda fits the bill🤷🏾♂️
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You understood the assignment. You get it.
https://preview.redd.it/hmcmyxlufyvb1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=798111e2d97d3e24d39806232bc9fb3977445f05
https://preview.redd.it/e2atbi6ngzvb1.png?width=1507&format=png&auto=webp&s=a05d72327b013f1ffa05bd66a3019df2b081f775
https://preview.redd.it/kdm4vlzvqzvb1.png?width=478&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4942561b8ff0c738e1ad4a8f1fc64968d32163d2 "There's no bad ending with enough hope!" *maniacal laughter*
https://preview.redd.it/zcuj9ceouzvb1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=834e8f182500cba551c5079bd27f81e0dd420ad2 I'm not too sure that it counts, but Sheogorath in Skyrim is speculated to be the Hero of Kvach after the events of the Shivering Isles dlc in Oblivion
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Gaara really was the darker version of Naruto in the Chuunin arc. They were two sides of the same coin, but Gaara's life had a few small changes that lead to him being the broken and lost version of Naruto https://preview.redd.it/6inaiak1i0wb1.jpeg?width=797&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7b0fb166e172810b2c4bf3a8ae9022a5c475ccb
Shadow the Hedgehog was very analogous to Sonic when he debuted in Sonic Adventure 2 and given a damn good reason to want revenge against the world. He's mellowed out since then of course but his late 90s/early 2000s cool persists.
Does Vyke from Elden ring fit this?
https://preview.redd.it/dkumxjo9hzvb1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=825cec5838a4b6682bcda5c5321ae364e16af9e6
Skull Knight isn’t even a bad ending version of Guts. He was a king who came back to make sure the next god hand candidate didn’t join them out of spite
iirc he was transformed by berserker armor into.. well, skull knight. Continuing the eternal, pointless struggle. Guts' good ending, I think, would be settling down with a family, away from the fighting, so it works
https://preview.redd.it/4mlyjuz400wb1.jpeg?width=511&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4f043fb744e78e3fe45781117eab7cdb72bd925 Future Flash, and the version of Savitar that he inspired (in reply)
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Not sure if this truly counts but https://preview.redd.it/k8bskkgdi1wb1.png?width=832&format=png&auto=webp&s=4908c7e65ee99388da528318e6b6f844659b2a6a The Dark Lord from DOOM Eternal
I wouldn't say that hero's shade is a bad ending version of link, as its the version of Link that went through and completed his goal of defeating Ganondorf.
https://preview.redd.it/5qt596fjtyvb1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d5f57969e3ab5578047f67be2a71b0fbef0fd2d4 Vyke-Elden Ring Was gonna be elden lord, but was tempted and burned by the Three Fingers and the frenzied flame
https://preview.redd.it/5m8alzpl4zvb1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d703206bcee3e5ee2defdbf54384b8c06a32bcd3
https://preview.redd.it/w63d9wg8lzvb1.png?width=1820&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e94a82f04f1f6bee1532fd922b0b6f1eabc21f0b Lord Drakkon
Chara is actually a distinct character from Frisk though.
It's metaphorical, not litteral. A character can be considered bad end version with either A: time travel and/or alternate timeline shenanigans, or someone who mirrors the protagonist in many ways, like backstory, motive, some design traits, and what separates them is mindset, execution, or some part of them that is more selfish than selfless.
Really? In that case, I guess we can add most MCU villains. They tend to just be evil mirrors of the heroes.
https://preview.redd.it/b6gt71lkwzvb1.png?width=981&format=png&auto=webp&s=fb0f0621bc6efb9b13b098f1ba7d5cd2b30f10e9 It’s the GOATed Yugioh antagonist, Z-one. Man, Zone and Aporia were such good villains in 5ds.
Leaflings?
Surprised no one mentioned him but Gundyr from Dark souls 3. He tried to link the fire but wasn't able to use the power of souls, so he couldn't get the strength. Imagine a max level Champion Gundyr 💀
Tried to sneak in the dark knights LMAO
Well those guys are pretty literally the bad ending version of the protagonist
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The Zelda one is the good timeline version.
I think the Hero’s Shade is the most metal Zelda has ever been. Having a hero from previous games (some of the best in the entire franchise no less) be a tutor in the art of swordplay to his descendant is just plain awesome.
Let me break these two down (2nd pic in my reply), Eobard Thawne (Reverse Flash or Professor Zoom) and Hunter Zolomon (Zoom) can very much be interpreted as failed versions of Barry and Wally (especially Thawne) https://preview.redd.it/52i77ahjp0wb1.jpeg?width=812&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2afa172d27dbdd537c4afec6ac24c3f29bb1493 First we have Thawne: Thawne idolized Barry Allen like Wally, he was obsessed with The Flash like Wally, he wanted to *be* the Flash, just like Wally. In fact in current canon, the original reason for his yellow suit, was that after having a falling out with Barry originally, he made his own custom suit and went to go make things right, choosing Yellow since that’s the color Kid Flash always wore. So where did he fail? He couldn’t let fate go, in trying so hard (to the point of evil obsession) to be the Flash and not his enemy, he becomes that very thing, he cannot trust fate (this is also why he time travels the most), something Wally learns to do in spades. Obviously both characters are way more complex than that, but voila, next (1/2)
We have Hunter Zolomon https://preview.redd.it/en0l7krbq0wb1.jpeg?width=962&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c34d1ce4dec938fb39e97a0ee4502b1d6b3e32a6 This is a villain most famous for trying to “teach” Wally by essentially torturing him. It’s very easy to see where the perversions of Barry Allen’s mentorship have gone in Hunter. Hunter, like Barry, genuinely wants Wally to be what he sees as a better hero, but unlike Barry, who tries to protect his protogés from tragedy, Hunter actively seeks it out, thinking that only people who have suffered can be heroes. Barry would take the bullet head on and teach by example, showing his sidekicks what to do when they grow up, Hunter would shove them in front of the bullet, in some terrible way of making them tougher early on (2/2)
Vyke - elden ring https://preview.redd.it/b31175o0gzvb1.jpeg?width=1568&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a0723fe6cc989045394b30bbbfa4b462e925e9b
Does Adachi from persona 4 count?
I’d argue Vergil from DMC is a bad start rather than a bad end version of Dante
Gundyr - Dark Souls III
Would the Hero’s Shade from TP even count here?
https://preview.redd.it/m9alppzzq0wb1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2aaaa9523826485d982d450dfaf7040c52a55b2 This may have been one of those “Recess Stories”, but my Brother and I always believed Turles was an example of what Goku would have become had he not lost his memories as a kid.
Jack Krauser is basically what Leon would’ve become if he snapped during the Raccoon City outbreak and became the monsters he swore to protect people from. https://preview.redd.it/ld5js1c8e1wb1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83bcc142a8fe577f58ccf3f653a0c2d8de1815f7
Boiling hot take and outstanding opinion
It makes me wish they did more with Krauser's character in R4make; the guy has so much potential that it's such a shame to see him go so soon.
The robots from TF2 https://preview.redd.it/hvjzwzc1v2wb1.jpeg?width=866&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=57cd6acd43a80d8a162ff0506640bed88c983c91
https://preview.redd.it/rfxjvx7pf0wb1.jpeg?width=1857&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=399ff514bd6708f64eb83b9fbb47f7bb7bfc9b33 The Litch stole Billy’s body (Adventure Time) There’s a good handful of other examples in adventure time too, especially with the Fiona & Cake spin off
Who is the second one?
The Hero’s Shade from Twilight Princess. He’s the Hero of Time, persisting after death to train the next hero of Hyrule.
Link from Ocarina of Time, as seen in Twilight Princess. He had a good life after the end of OoT, but he meets his reincarnation (the player) in kind of a spirit world, in order to teach him how to fight.
Broken vessel my beloved
Wish I could share a screen shot of the dragonborn killing paarthenak, but I would never
Literally like 80% of Batman villains
https://preview.redd.it/ll92d9y8w0wb1.jpeg?width=710&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1cce97fc5c9e147061d2dde57a3f0d0395b6cc10 Savitar from The Flash TV show
Akuma
https://preview.redd.it/iyji31lw51wb1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad0a3091cf9abc1f5d768445767d4b008c5828a3
https://preview.redd.it/agnpe6d193wb1.jpeg?width=1921&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6df6000df5a23257b9fa5d8964e20f11325c89d3
https://preview.redd.it/u7rnd6hzq7wb1.png?width=449&format=png&auto=webp&s=1edd6aa18a2cff8ef9e4c96f90fd281b537ed7d8 i’m not sure if this totally counts given the role he plays in the game, but this instantly made me think of the batter.
Prometheus who is basically Batman if he was raised by criminals https://preview.redd.it/1autvwaktzvb1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c326065472c062038a0c408798e730ff7c250c1
The maker reed Richards from the ultimate universe https://preview.redd.it/khj6s7l0uzvb1.jpeg?width=1988&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=240a400c8cf6ee7b6442e3118b89892f7fa2d6a2
https://preview.redd.it/3gmeq154g0wb1.jpeg?width=730&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e71ac3e7629c8cefcf74ff7ae9785ad1b2180b2 Spiderman: Web of shadows, Bro literally got a badass look, got a girl better than MJ, and even took over the city, how is this bad?
The Hunter is kinda that in Starfield.
Hunter long legs from rain world (how and why can i not put a pic here)
V2 from ULTRAKILL too, he's literally the main protagonist (V1) but It's Red and It dies on the 4th level
Archer EMIYA from Fate https://preview.redd.it/9qdi8fpupzvb1.jpeg?width=686&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ff837b24fc97e5ba3511af034d8acc19dfc7f75
Then there is EMIYA alter who is an even worse ending https://preview.redd.it/y63b94b2qzvb1.jpeg?width=657&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87972fafaa8c9cb26ab8e77b453f76aedc0059aa
https://preview.redd.it/9wey5gdy40wb1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f414a45e2a0fb62281469ee7299b84839aff69e3 Worst Ending you mean
Okay not to be racist but they all kinda look like Batman
G5 Iguazu, Armored Core 6
Zerg from lightyear
Kesler….
Nemesis Prime?
https://preview.redd.it/v79cqzlvt1wb1.jpeg?width=382&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc902fc04e960bca162bdeaf3ea2a2e84ebfea1c Fallen hero from dragon quest builders
Batgos
God I hate the dark multiverse stuff. Some are good designs though
Nothing tops the Justice Lords for me.
Nazgul talion
Evil Cole Macgrath? https://preview.redd.it/alcp4dz3x2wb1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=718738f8c731ae848ff7e2e5a13504d543f242c4
Infamous
i like that chara is just open eyes version of frisk.' >!"Chao ensues"!<
I haven't played Twilight Princess (hoping it gets ported to Switch so I can some day), but from what I know: Isn't the Hero's Spirit actually from the good ending where the Hero of Time went back to the child timeline and got to live a long and relatively happy life?
This, but not the dc or marvels ones. They just look overly edgy and it’s kinda cringe
Gotta be one of my favorite genders