8 Best 'Meet The Real Villain' Moments In Gaming History

6. Queen Myrrah - Gears Of War

Way back during the run-up to Gears of War, we knew very little about the world of Sera. The debut trailer became an overnight sensation thanks to Gary Joule's Madworld song, and as Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad, you slowly repelled what portions of the Locust horde you could.

The game's main antagonist was General RAAM, a fearsome slab of meat with a knife who guts your commanding officer and has you fight him on a moving train, only... the buck doesn't stop with him.

Soon after we hear - for the first time - the voice of the Locust themselves. The calm, calculated and older voice... of Queen Myrrah.

Only she's not a similarly grotesque Locust creature, but someone with a very human face. Unraveling who and what Queen Myrrah is would take over a decade of sequels and lore, but that first reveal of a human leading the Locust all along helped make Gears immediately iconic.