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What can I say about Grima, the ultimate villain from Fire Emblem: Awakening?
Well, what is there to say. "Living mass of evil" seems to encapsulate his character well. At first glance, Grima is the quintessential "Generic Doomsday Villain", having no discernible motivations or reasons for wanting to destroy the world. He simply seems to be there to create a threat to Lucina and the future she comes from.
And yet, in an odd way, that's part of what makes Grima a very effective villain to me.
I believe Cracked.com put it best in this short paragraph.
"(Micheal) "Myers was meant to be evil personified. He wasn't a killer who had been wronged, he wasn't seeking vengeance or profit, he wasn't trying to prove a Saw-like point or haunting the place where he'd been abandoned by negligent teens. He was literally just a big, psychotic prick who defied sense."
In a way, Grima is similar to Micheal Myers because he represents absolute evil, at least in Awakening and perhaps in Fire Emblem as a whole.
And just like Micheal Myers, Grima is always viewed with horror and nigh despair, at least from Lucina's point of view, until the heroes figure out a way to stop him from. The fact that his motives, if he really has any besides doing the Nelsonn Muntz laugh at the world's carcass, are a mystery adds to the idea of him as an unspeakable horror.
Why?
Because humans fear the unknown, and the unknowable. Motives like greed, anger, pride... we can understand them.
But just sadism and destruction for its own sake? That's a very difficult thing to wrap one's head around. ell, that's half the reason everyone underestimate the Joker in the Dark Knight-no one was prepared for someone who wanted to destroy the foundations of human morality for laughs.
To me, Grima makes for an effective villain in Awakening, despite of his lack of comprehensible motives.
Scratch that. Part of what makes him so effective IS exactly that.
In the end, Grima doesn't just inspire horror in his universe. He IS horror, pure and simple.
Well, what is there to say. "Living mass of evil" seems to encapsulate his character well. At first glance, Grima is the quintessential "Generic Doomsday Villain", having no discernible motivations or reasons for wanting to destroy the world. He simply seems to be there to create a threat to Lucina and the future she comes from.
And yet, in an odd way, that's part of what makes Grima a very effective villain to me.
I believe Cracked.com put it best in this short paragraph.
"(Micheal) "Myers was meant to be evil personified. He wasn't a killer who had been wronged, he wasn't seeking vengeance or profit, he wasn't trying to prove a Saw-like point or haunting the place where he'd been abandoned by negligent teens. He was literally just a big, psychotic prick who defied sense."
In a way, Grima is similar to Micheal Myers because he represents absolute evil, at least in Awakening and perhaps in Fire Emblem as a whole.
And just like Micheal Myers, Grima is always viewed with horror and nigh despair, at least from Lucina's point of view, until the heroes figure out a way to stop him from. The fact that his motives, if he really has any besides doing the Nelsonn Muntz laugh at the world's carcass, are a mystery adds to the idea of him as an unspeakable horror.
Why?
Because humans fear the unknown, and the unknowable. Motives like greed, anger, pride... we can understand them.
But just sadism and destruction for its own sake? That's a very difficult thing to wrap one's head around. ell, that's half the reason everyone underestimate the Joker in the Dark Knight-no one was prepared for someone who wanted to destroy the foundations of human morality for laughs.
To me, Grima makes for an effective villain in Awakening, despite of his lack of comprehensible motives.
Scratch that. Part of what makes him so effective IS exactly that.
In the end, Grima doesn't just inspire horror in his universe. He IS horror, pure and simple.
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A return of this series? Maybe. Either way, I wanted to take a look at Fire Emblem Awakening's ultimate villain.
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