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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
Sure to Silence. I think with Ellen and "Not Important" getting cut, Silence is just the second CM who's the Player Character (not counting fighting games).
for Brother Silence. Video game protags C Ms are indeed a rare thing.
Yes to Silence. Very strongly leaning "no" to Lennox, though, on the technicality he never really even appears. The only reason I'm not saying no outright is that he appears to have minimal presence in the game (Gorea from Metroid is the thin line I use to judge the minimum amount of character we need) but we don't and shouldn't be listing characters who fully qualify as The Ghost.
I'd fucking love to do the nameless Alchemist from Bloodstained, but the fact he never appears in the flesh—not even bones or audio recordings, just the notes he left behind—renders most everything he's done as Offscreen Villainy, sadly. These are the kinda pitfalls that come inherent with that.
Reminds me off the Imposter king from The Lumatere Chronicles. Betrays his kingdom to an invading army, has the women and girls sexually abused and orders a purge off all magic users in his kingdom....(You know Normal Ya literature stuff.....)
And we never see him ever appear onscreen in person.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."He does briefly appear in cutscenes however, just enough to establish an MO for him to make it (in my opinion at least). He never speaks because the Framing Device is Keller's narration - he wouldn't be speaking no matter what, and what we can attribute to him shows him to be a Manipulative Bastard who commits terrorist atrocities for greed. Even the fact that he never actually appears in-game is justified by him using a body double to die in his place. The fact is that the story was written after the game was already made, so they had to work around it, but he does appear in cutscenes and we see the aftermath of some of his actions - especially his killing about a dozen US forces in his retreat.
I'll freely admit that it's not the most exciting keeper ever, but I really do think he's got just enough to make it here.
So about Mikey I ended up accidentally discovering that he was EPed a while ago but was shot down due to some Pet the Dog moment involving his fish something that the current EP doesn't make any mention of I could be overthinking this and I am not sure myself if this is disqualifying but I think this should at least be brought up.
Also here is the link for the original EP
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Edited by Ordeaux26 on May 25th 2021 at 8:41:28 AM
@NTG Sagat is still seemingly loyal to Bison, and was grateful to Bison for recruiting him and "Saving him"" (Note this is Bison we are talking about so this is likely him gaining new pawns) and wanted to succeed in his mission to repay him.
- Malibu Comic's Street Fighter: M.Bison employs Sagat and Balrog to assassinate Ryu's friends, including Ken, to weaken Ryu and lure him in. Having Ken assaulted, and later stabbed to death, delivering a chunk of his scalped hair to Ryu afterwords. While recruiting Vega, he snaps the neck of a monk and sends an assassin to poison Shen Long, Ryu's mentor, in order for him not to intervene with his plans. Augmenting Sagat's powers to a near-deadly rate, allowing him to brutally beat and seemingly kill some of his men in training to prepare him for another fight with the Street Fighters.
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If he can have even one line, the Framing Device is no excuse for him not to have more. He sounds like a borderline GDV with how little the game elaborates on him.
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Interesting.
Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on May 25th 2021 at 11:44:14 AM
Uh considering we have no clue why he's doing this. Plus only having ome line and not even being in the plot much, I'm going with a
now.
Edited by miraculous on May 25th 2021 at 8:47:09 AM
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."The line that he has is the one thing Keller ever heard him say, so it actually is largely about the Framing Device. And like I said before, we get enough of the pattern, a fairly fleshed out backstory, and enough indication that the motive is Greed that he's not a GDV - in fact, Keller mentions that he originally thought Lennox was a gun for hire. I do understand if Offscreen Villainy is a concern, but even just what we see in the cutscenes and stumble on in-game is just enough to push him over.
And in cutscenes we see him coordinating executions on other agency spooks and committing bombings - a newspaper clipping in the cutscene estimates 90 casualties
Edited by STARCRUSHER99 on May 25th 2021 at 12:08:17 PM
Lemme proffer I'm not voting no to Lennox outright. He'll never count on MB because he doesn't really have the onscreen personality for it. I'm more lenient on that with CM given all the character you really need is "pure evil."
I'm gonna elaborate on why a character like Gorea qualifies and someone like Elizabeth Bartley (from Castlevania) doesn't. Gorea has really thin character and really thin motivation given it only appears at the end of the game and when encountered directly it mostly just seems to be a lumbering, silent Final Boss. But—Gorea is demonstrated to be intelligent, particularly for an Eldritch Abomination. One of the two lines it gets is to set up a Batman Gambit so effective it fools seven of the galaxy's greatest bounty hunters. Furthermore the in-game logs hint as heavily as they can that Gorea's a freaking sadist—purposefully taking on the form of the Alimbics to mock them while it was wiping them—and even failing that, it's ravenous to the point it would devour all life in the universe if it were left unchecked.
Bartley gets nothing like that. Nothing. No hints or implications toward a motive; no dialogue; no sadism; not even a change in expression. She's there to fill the role of a boss. I sadly came to a similar conclusion to a really, really nasty human trafficker from Nightside, who despite creating one of the most sadistic industries in the series, sadly just didn't do anything to give her any individual presence beyond having a name and a gruesome death.
Lennox being almost entirely The Ghost is my biggest issue because that seriously hampers what we're supposed to be measuring onscreen. But he's not totally removed from the plot, he's got a decent body count, and there's a motive that speaks for itself...
I honestly can't vote yes to Lennox because these are some really big issues I can hurdle over—even Gorea actually became the Final Boss at the end—but I can't really say "no" outright because it'd be inconsistent with my own rulings. I'm gonna let the thread hash this out; at best, IMO, he only keeps by technicality.
Edited by Scraggle on May 25th 2021 at 10:22:05 AM
If Mikey actually does care about the fish, it's not refuted and it's not just being shown as an indicator of his sociopathy (like Marlo in The Wire having more "affection" for pigeons that any human being), no to him.
@ACW: The trafficking operation from Nightside is called "Precious Memories" where little, little kids are tortured and raped to death in every way imaginable and a magical "precious memory" is created of the event so the clients can vividly relive it any time they want.
The issue—like Mir said. She shows up to stand around, say nothing, do nothing, get lectured by the heroes and then die. She's not even visibly sadistic.
I'm with Mir, can we please discuss Mikey more properly?
Like, does he get over losing the fishes? From the sounds of the EP, it says that he "liked" all the other fishes, and he ends up killing all the other fish he liked without batting an eye.
Also, considering his obsession with being loved and how he treats everyone like possessions, who's to say that he's just upset that they took away his "Things"?
TD;LR, how's the scene played?
Edited by DoodSlayer136 on May 25th 2021 at 9:40:00 AM

silence
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."