10 Biggest Video Game Villains With The Smallest Screentime

10. Ted Faro - Horizon

In Horizon Zero Dawn, Ted Faro is the man responsible for the Faro Plague, as the robots he created ultimately eluded his control and drove humanity to the brink of extinction. Later, Faro also sabotaged efforts to stem said plague.

Faro is as a result one of the series' primary villains and one of its most important characters overall, and yet, he's not really in either game.

In Horizon Zero Dawn, we only glimpse Faro through holographic recordings and audio logs, and in sequel Horizon Forbidden West, we learn that he's managed to extend his lifespan to 1000 years, albeit while being turned into a cancerous mass of mutated flesh.

But because developers Guerrilla Games didn't want to lean into the horror aspect too much, we never actually see Ted's gnarly new form - merely a hologram showing a rough silhouette.

On one hand it'd probably never live up to the grotesque imagery we can each conjure in our own minds, but on the other, it's baffling that the person responsible for the entire story of both games is basically MIA for all of it.