20 Video Game Villains You Never Realised Got The Last Laugh

Senator Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is simultaneously the funniest, scariest, and buffest depiction of a US senator in history.

Acting as the antagonist of the game, Armstrong seeks to plunge the world into a never-ending war, where everyone everywhere has to pick up arms and fight for what they believe.

His war-centric ideology is something that he discusses at length with Raiden during their climactic fight, and although you eventually manage to defeat him, the rhetoric he tries to sell Raiden on actually seems to persevere.

The theme of conflict is prevalent throughout the entirety of Metal Gear Rising, and the confrontation with Senator Armstrong is the culmination of it. Raiden does his best to ignore the senator’s words and simply stop his plan from succeeding, but after he kills him, it becomes apparent that his belief that only violence and those strong enough to wield it can rule the world is true.

His final words about him and Raiden being one and the same really stay with you when you realize Raiden too had to resort to killing to achieve what he wanted.