Thursday, February 17, 2011

50 Video Game Characters: 45

"Thank you, naive human. Now I can finish taking over the world!"



45. Purple Tentacle(Day of the Purple Tentacle)

A being of pure evil, the Purple Tentacle is a highly avanced sentient tentacle, evolved after drinking from Dr. Fred Edison's runoff toxic waste(the waste isn't from anything, it's a pipe specifically designed to pump toxic sludge. it's all the rage with mad scientists these days). Soon enough, he is blessed with a vast intelligence and small flippers.

Unlike most other villains, the Tentacle actually succeeds in his task, if 1/3 of the game is to be believed(before Bernard and his friends stop him that is). When Laverne is accidentally transported 200 years into the future, she finds herself in a dystopia where humans are pets in a tentacle-ruled society and the Purple Tentacle is viewed as a hero. Of course, by the end everything is righted when the Purple Tentacle is prevented from drinking the sludge a day in the past, but there is forever an alternate future where the little guy won. And that's pretty special for a little guy like him.

Best moment: The strange, cartoony transformation sequence that gifts him with stubby little arms.

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