19th Villain

Lets keep the ball rolling.

The nineteenth villain is.










The Borg

Points: 37

# of voters: 4

Range: 16th - 6th place


“We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender you ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.” -The Borg (Star Trek: First Contact.)

I know the Borg are not one person but I posted in the rules I stated that races in science fiction will count as villains. You might also note that the Borg had the same points as Liquid Snake, so I had a few friends vote who would win (I did this with all the ties) and the Borg out did Liquid. Yes they are both cool, but liquid wanted to start a war, the Borg want to assimilate the universe. Plus the Borg would walk all over Liquid even if he was piloting Rex. Also the Borg think as one person.

Who are the Borg? They are a cybernetic race from the series Star Trek. They go throughout the universe conquering every race they could find. They conquered by turning people into one of the Borg through injecting nanoprobes, or "assimilate" them. In this same way they can assimilate ships, computers and other technology. The Borg have a collective conscience and share all the knowledge with each other. When they assimilate someone or something, they take all the knowledge and technology. In this way, they advance their own technology far beyond all other races. They are cold hearted and reason only like robots. Their only thought is to conquer and assimilate others. Their name is feared by all races in the universe.

In other words, they are a cool and frightening villain. If one of their ships enters your territory, you send every one of your space vessels to try to fight them off. They are that powerful. If a few enter your ship or planet, they can assimilate your friends and turn them against you. They could assimilate a leader and know your nations secrets. They are one race of people you pray you never meet.

20th Hero

Now that I got the 20th villain posted, its time for the 20th hero.

And the twentith hero is.







Guybrush Threepwood

Points 39

# of voters: 5

Range: 17th - 11th place

Can’t have this event without a pirate involved, and who else would make the list, Jack Sparrow? Heck no! We’ll have a man who with a name that no one will know how to say the first time, or every time if you’re a character in the series (Thriftweed? Gorbush? Threekwood?) Guybrush Threepwood is that pirate.

Guybrush Threepwood is a mighty pirate. So mighty that he can hold his breath for ten whole minutes (his one skill). He is the character you play in an adventure games series called Monkey Island. Threepwood is a man who dreams of being a mighty pirate, but he has no skills for the job what so ever. Other than his long breath skill, Guybrush must rely on his wit and smart-aleck speak. Like all adencture games he must talk his way out of everything or use odd objects to do odd things (what good is a rubber-chicken-with-a-pulley-in-themiddle anyway?).

His the stories, Guybrush falls for a beautiful pirate-governor Elaine Marley. Luckily for him (or Unluckily), he has plenty of chances to prove himself because a ghost-zombie-demon-pirate LeChuck LeChuck keeps kidnapping her.

Why do we like him? His witty comebacks. The oddness and dorkiness he has all the while keeping his misplaces ego. He can fit more items in his pants than even Solid Snake. His insult sword fighting skills and the ability to get the girl even though he is a idiot and misfit.

20th Villain

So it begins. It starts. It is now happening. Through pain. Through tribulations. Through hard labor. Through endlessly nagging and bothering my friends and sometimes even enemies. The project is afoot. It is beginning. Starting. Developing. Commencing. Launching. Dawning. It is even opening. Now is the time for:

TOP TWENTY HEROES AND VILLAINS

I’ll start the post with the villain who made it to the twentieth place. Though at the bottom He still made it as one of the best. The twentieth, but still one of them.

And the Twentieth place for greatest villain goes to:








Liquid Snake

With a total of 37 points

The number of people that voted for him was 3

He ranged from 11th place to 4th place

That’s right, Liquid Snake. The villain for the popular video game (Or as some would call movie) Metal Gear Solid. His mission, his goal, his objective was the evil plot of…… well I don’t really know what he wanted but I know he was willing to nuke something to get it! Now that means business. For those who don’t know, He took over a an island in Alaska where they were making a state of the art nuclear equipped walking battle tank, call Metal Gear. Only one thing could get in his way! Those bloody launch codes. But being the clever person he is, he simply hatched a plan to manipulate his hero-twin-brother, Solid Snake, to activate the launch codes for him. The nerve.

That brings me to my next point, why is he cool? After Solid Snake beat his old man Big Boss, who could provide a worthy adversary. Why his own twin brother with a vendetta against Solid and the dead Big Boss. Liquid provided a cool foe for our hero to fight against.

Another reason Liquid was cool was that he was somewhat mysterious. In the beginning, you only knew he had a similar code name and face as Solid did. It wasn’t until the end that you figure out that the two were clones of Big Boss and Liquid’s “Good” genes were given to Solid to make Solid the best soldier of all time (or the other way around. Liquid thought he was the insuperior one.) This gave his a cool edge. Also you never new what he was really planning or what his true goal was (ok, he just wanted to out do his old man, and kill Solid Snake).

But for the most part, at least to me, Liquid Snake rocked because he was manipulative, cunning, and in charge. Anyone who could order around a bunch of misfits like Foxhound knows how to give an order. Every rockn’ killer on that team gave reverence to “The Boss”. He could toy with Solid more that the military + Naomi could. Liquid Snake always seemed to plan a head of our best, even in the Pentagon and CIA.

Finally, how many people could survive a helicopter crash, an exploding mech, a drop from a Mech, and a jeep crash (while taking bullet hits) all in the same night! In the end a virus killed him (no, not me) and even then he came back in the form of an arm!

Down sides to this character? He seemed to babble and whine on and on towards the end (Fine! I do enjoy the killing! Now won‘t you shut up!). He seemed way to British to be an American soldier. And the coming back in the form of Revolver Ocolot’s Arm was somewhat stupid.

Event Delays

The event is coming soon. Most of the scores have been added up with some interesting results (as well as obvious ones). “Why hasn’t it started yet?” you ask? To make a long story short (I’ll skip the gory fight between me and a dragon, no one wants to hear about that anyway.), a friend who lives across the state made a list and is trying to get it to me. Since he lives so far away I will give him until the end of this week to give me the list. The second reason the I haven’t started posting the project is because there were a few ties in the lists. I said that I would just choose who I liked best but since so many people turned in lists (15 to 16 people) I decided to have a few people vote on it. I’m thinking I’ll have my club vote on it but we don’t meet until Tuesday. That means unless I find an alterative way to voting the ties away, I won’t be able to start the event until Thursday the 15th (I’m not starting on Valentines Day).

The Deadline, still need one more

Last day to hand in lists is today. So far I have six, if I can get one more I will still post this project. If I had more this would turn out better but I will still post it if I can get more than six. A lot of people firsts seconds and thirds will be on the blog’s top twenty even if no one else voted for them but that can’t be helped if I get a small amount. If that would be the case then there will be interesting picks on the two top twenties.

Tomorrow it the Deadline

Tomorrow is the last day to hand in the pair of lists. I have four list handed in already. I was hoping for a larger amount but I will still make the top project if I can get more than six. That shouldn’t be too much of a problem since I can count on at least two more people to turn in the lists as well and others claim to be making their lists. My original goal was ten to twelve but over half a dozen will be enough. Then it will still be a collectives opinion.

Misconception of terms and other items.

I know I’ve been calling the Top twenty deal a “event” but I don’t think that’s the right term. Event didn’t sound right but I couldn’t think of a better what of saying it. Now I’m second guessing myself; I think a better term might be project. But since no one will care, I plan to use both terms.

Another misunderstanding would be that I will post the ultimate list right after all the points are collected. This will not be the case. Instead, I will post each place individually, alternating the two lists. I will start with the twentieth place and work my way up. Each post will have the next place in line and a brief writing on who that person is and why he was probably picked. Therefore you will not know the winner until the end. I will try to post five posts a week and I plan to start about mid February.