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wow dk is very very evil i had no idea
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wow dk is very very evil i had no idea
Thank god for once
Thank god for once Sephiroth isn't on top! :D
what the cheese!
sephiroth wanted to use the planet as a boat!!!!!!! how the cheese did donkey kong beat him to nb 1
The main way it's fail IMO is having CATS up there that high (and with his trademark quote all there is to boot) and actually including Vega. C'mon if him, why not someone like Dio from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (in various games so far AFAIK thanks in part to the Jump DS games) since Vader's there, or maybe someone else from Street Fighter... Like Akuma? LMAO at Bison, I like him, but he looks too much like Washizaki (from Riki-Oh).
Fail where's ? Le Chuck from Monkey Island Series.
donkey kong number 1? wow whoever made this is retarded lol
Hogger should have been #1...he is the epitome of evil
i'm sure someone has already said it by now but there's no way Kefka should be anything lower than 2 on this list. And yes, he should be ahead of Sephiroth
The Butcher
Where the hell is The Butcher from Diablo 1?
Um... Wesker...#40? WTF!? Did the title say diabolical or am I misreading this? Seriously, DK?!! A hero, number 1!? wtf
info from where?
where did this guy get his info? Eggman, IQ of 3000. Wow, please telll me he typoed, even wikipedia got it right with 300....
Donkey Kong.....seriously?
got to remember DK was a villian to start with. in two DK games before his big SNES makeover.
The first powerful boss. (All the rest before him suck).
Where are the rest?
Ok, srsly, where r the rest? Wheres Sargeras and Kil'Jaeden and Kel'Thuzad? I dont see how a stupid monkey that snatched ur fave hooker is eviler then a Dark Titan who killed thousands or an evil lich who rules a big fat flying fortress and thousands of undead? WoW pwns all these games, holy crap. Open your eyes! And also, where the hell is the Prophet of Truth? A slut-snatching baboon is in no way more powerful then a diabolical monstrosity wanting to destroy the universe with thousands of religious fruitcakes praying for the day the get to pick up his crap! THESE ARE DIABOLICAL VILLAINS, NOT HOOKER STEALERS.COM!!! HOLY CRAP!
how the hell did Donkey Kong beat out Sephiroth?? Donkey Kong? Diabolical?? I would hardly call throwing barrels at mario to keep him at bay diabolical.
my god arthas the betrayer the corrupted the lich king is on # 20 WTF i mean stabbing fathers killing people killing mentors fucking ur friends girlfriend isnt enuogh?
Sephiroth 2!!!!!!???
I can't belive it....
wtf wheres hitler from wolfenstein?
Nemisis #29 OMG
Okay Nemesis is the most diabolical thing I've ever seen and hes #29!?!?! OMG! He should be #1 I mean Donkey Kong? Seriously, he's #1 on the Nice list Nemesis is Meant to BE #1!
illidan the betrayer?
:( HES EVIL!!!!Y AIN't ILLIDAN HERE!!!!!!!!
Kefka should have been ranked higher than Sephiroth.
I totally agree
video game villians
Arthas should be in top 10
Sephiroth and
Sephiroth and Final Fantasy VII altogether is NOWHERE NEAR AS GOOD as VI, and definitely nowhere near as good as its fanboys like to claim. Frankly, Sephiroth is like Master Chief, a video game cliche, and not even a challenge (Kefka was a decent challenge.)
Kefka gets my vote as the single greatest Final Fantasy villain of all time. And he sure as hell shouldn't rank lower than Sephiroth on ANY list. And I think whoever wrote this list bought into the hype or is a FFVII fanboy.
I find that FF actually turned to crap from VII on, as if Square stopped being so inspired. VI was definitely Final Fantasy at its very peak, veritably epic story, massive cast of player characters with an almost larger fleet of NPCs to interact with, the fact that you're taking on an entire empire that ends up not even being that actual threat ... and seriously... KEFKA. No other RPG villain was anything like Kefka.
Kefka definitely beats Sephiroth hands down because Kefka actually did things Sephiroth tried and failed to do:
1. Kefka enslaved the main character before the story even begins. Sephiroth did manage to take over Cloud for like three minutes in the entire story of FFVII, but that's not even a blip on the radar of almost the entirety of Terra's entire life that Kefka did. Why is Sephiroth considered a more primo villain than Kefka if he barely manages a few minutes of enslavement of the hero?
2. Kefka had THRICE committed full-scale genocide in Final Fantasy VI: First the unfortunate people of Doma were poisoned to death at the time Cyan joins the story, an action Kefka committed in clear opposition to his orders. Second, he absolutely slaughters pretty much the ENTIRE Esper race at Thamasa just for the sake of taking their magic. And third, he turns the light of judgment and kills almost everyone in Mobliz just because he didn't like them. Want to know how many genocides Sephiroth actually did? Zero. None. Why is Sephiroth considered a more primo villain than Kefka if he doesn't even slaughter an entire people?
3. Kefka murders a few key people key people in the story: General Leo, Emperor Gestahl, and if you're in too much of a rush to get off the Floating Continent: Shadow, a Player Character. Sephiroth only kills two people and emos for the rest of the game: President Shinra and Aeris. Why is Sephiroth considered a more primo villain than Kefka if he can only manage to kill two people, only one of which you get to play for only 1/3 of the game?
4. Kefka also does three VERY MAJOR THINGS Sephiroth does not do that essentially means Kefka "wins" in Final Fantasy VI: a. He actually BECOMES a god, unlike Sephiroth who couldn't even manage to hit the planet with a big-ass meteor. b. Kefka actual destroys the world, unlike Sephiroth, for the reason I just mentioned in a: He couldn't even hit the planet with a big-ass meteor. c. Kefka actually wins on the Floating Continent... nobody, as hard as they try, could stop him from exploiting the Goddess Statues and accomplishing a or b. Sephiroth... YET AGAIN... never once won in any sense, never reached godhood, and never thwarted everyone at any point in the story. The most he did was get the Black Materia which was only a means to an end. Why is Sephiroth considered a more primo villain than Kefka if he never actually attains his goals?
Kefka is better than Sephiroth in every way.
Reading these descriptions, I begin to think that, A, the reviewer has never played most of these games and is instead writing purple prose out their exhaust pipes and going on third hand information, B, whoever ordered the list might have been a different person, and C that the reviewer and staff are misinformed as to what diabolical means.
A lot of the villains on this list (specifically Sephiroth though) were not diabolical. Evil? Undoubtedly. But diabolical? No.
Murder is not diablogical. Genocide? Poisoning a castle and killing the entire civilian populace to achieve a goal? Planning a massive Xanatos Gambit to take over the world? That's diabolical. Sephiroth might have had the potential to be diabolical, but you really can't lay a claim to fame without some amount of success.
Also. Noble does not describe Cloud in any way. At all. Terms like noble are reserved for brooding anti-heroes, like Vincent, or innocent bastions of goodness, like Aerith.
Oh. like my gawd, u suck. like, sephy-poo should totally be number 1. I mean who's donky kong? why does a fat monkey beat the most handsome awesome villain ever?
Spherioth for numbar 1!
Hogger owns all. End of story.
donkey kong < all of the others
and i agree with kid who said illidan for pres. he's frickin evil. and lawlsauce at dk bein #1. imo it should be mother brain cuz she's the scariest fucking last boss i have ever encountered and i had nightmares.
I'm sad that Exdeath isn't on here. He did everything Sephiroth did and then some.
-Killed a main character
-Fought you 3 times (But Sephiroth died each one, Exdeath never died)
-Has a sword (That's Sepiroth's only weapon, Exdeath has the void)
Something villains never do: HE DID THINGS HIMSELF.
Crappiest article in hisrory. Yes, let's find a list of fifty games smothered in pop culture, then grab their antagonists and paint them as the greatest villains in videogaming, regardless of the merit or relevance of the characters themselves. Don't forget to epic up the title by mentioning "all-time".
CATS from Zero Wing and Donkey Kong in a diabolical villains list. For Christ's sake.
No Master Hand?? Really???
That's what Cloud said.
Thats gay...
WTF? Dk wasnt evil at all he just thrown fuckin barrels at mario and luigi wtf?
Whoever made this ure dipshit who dont even know whos worst bad ass!
Kerrigan is worst than DK she betrayed her friends DK did not lol
If Sephiroth is 2 then Kefka is 1, ontop of that Lance Vance? if you're going to pick someone from GTA:VC then the obvious choice is the protagonist; Tommy Verceti
This whole...
"Sephiroth is the best villain in the entire video game universe" thing is getting ridiculous. The only reason he's so goddamn great is because of the fanboys ranting and raving about him. It's been, what, 12 years since FF7 came out? Give other villains a chance, and not just Sephiroth OR other FF villains. For example, Wesker from the Resident Evil series (a.k.a #40). Wesker's MUCH more calculating than Sephiroth. Plus, Sephiroth didn't do much at all from what I can tell. He just walked through fire and tried blowing a planet up. Plus, he's a MOMMA'S BOY. Now, I'm not just ranting about Sephiroth because I hate him, I just think that he's being blown a BIT out of proportion. ...Okay, WAY out of proportion.
Kerrigan should be #1 in the list!!! Considered that in the eternal fight between good and evil good boys always win, but in StarCraft EVIL WINS!!! She's a lot more epic than any other villains... she even betrays her creator, which was already pure evil.
Take a look at her final speech of the game:
"Once again I stand atop the broken bodies of my enemies... Victorious but not unscarred. The Earth-borne Directorate has been destroyed, and the Overmind lies dead and trampled beneath the ashes of Char. As for my unlikely allies, I think that I shall allow them a reprieve, for in time I will seek to test their resolve, and their strengths. They will all be mine in the end, for I am the Queen of Blades. None shall ever dispute my rule again."
Kerrigan is pure PWNAGE! 'nuff said.
So lame
how can the Flood be 31st? They killed hundreds of billions of people and took over entire fucking galaxies. anyone who thinks they shoulden't at least be top three can eat shit and die.
seriously! WHERE IS HE! Giygas could whop all of these peoples asses IN ONE ATTACK! Not only that but giygas looks soooooo much cooler than anyone else and hes the reincarnation of evil itself!
first thing's first
this,as most villain/hero tops is based on memorability and popularity of the characters not evilness nor status
Sephiroth:a name which inspires gayness,like all gay fan boys who overrate and fanatically love him for no apparent reason(or maybe because they're fags)
all he did was being there and being momma's boy o,he WANTED to do many things(not really original of course) but couldn't because he's a pansy and hes not really awesome hes just ur usual gay knight rip off
as usual,most comments were shit they really made me lol a lot of sephi's fan boys with no arguments and some guys who didn't even know where they are
there's also a lot of flood supporters not that they're shit but they arent the most awesome and memorable or diabolical eusocial race of life devouring aliens
the zergs are kinda over rated also they arent the direct spiritual successor of the aliens it goes like this
aliens(first MODERN eusocial alien species)->tyrannids->zergs
not that zergs arent cool they're more awesome than the flood but their kinda copied after tyrannids blizz stoles a lot of ideas they first told the guys at games workshop that they want to make a warhammer game(with both warcraft and starcraft)so that they didn't risk copyright infringement
Lol, you guys all care so much about one person's opinion. There's no need to exert yourself so much on something which won't be changed because you swore at it =D
I love how there are more complaints about Sephiroth fanboys (like 8) than there are actual Sephiroth fanboys (1). Did you say Advent Children? Movie was tight. Respect. As for "Momma's boy hater": GET BACK TROLL! All you do is bash other people for having an opinion without positing one of your own. Off with his head.
Besides, we all know that Ganondorf is the greatest villain in history. Or at least he wins the A for effort... He's tried to take over Hyrule like 8,000 times.
you only live twice
"Ok, srsly, where r the rest? Wheres Sargeras and Kil'Jaeden and Kel'Thuzad? I dont see how a stupid monkey that snatched ur fave hooker is eviler then a Dark Titan who killed thousands or an evil lich who rules a big fat flying fortress and thousands of undead? WoW pwns all these games, holy crap. Open your eyes! And also, where the hell is the Prophet of Truth? A slut-snatching baboon is in no way more powerful then a diabolical monstrosity wanting to destroy the universe with thousands of religious fruitcakes praying for the day the get to pick up his crap! THESE ARE DIABOLICAL VILLAINS, NOT HOOKER STEALERS.COM!!! HOLY CRAP!"
Yet another anonymous u r completely right and the gods should take you in as one of their own, well that is if you added in the argument to add in Ganon and Ms. Bigglesworth and move hogger to the top. Other than that ur totaly right WoW kicks ass and Halo does too
DK, evil? That confuses me but i know where the authors coming from. Dk probably owned more gamers than all these games bosses combined. He may not be evil but he rapes gamers on a daily bases
jeeeeeeeeez...c'mon where's Doctor Proton from Duke Nukum ???
I would like to see arthas and sephiroth get in a fight, epic
I honestly don't understand how and evil jester/clown who DESTROYS THE WORLD loses out an ape and multiple others. How many did Sephiroth kill? like 7. How many did Kefka kill? 2 villages, let horrid beasts out (which killed people), killed the 1st have major antagonist and General Leo. How can this guy NOT be on the top. Just a hunch but his Judgment Light or whatever it's called could PWN anyone else on the list.
How is a stupid ape #1? We have groups in this list that are much more diabolical than a monkey who steals your girlfriend and throws barrels at you. Some of them even KILL your girlfriend. Then the monkey becomes friends with you in later games and that's SOOOOO evil. Donkey kong shouldn't even be on the list!
how bouts big smoke
he was your brudda (sort a)
then he back-stabbed you
Icon of Sin
What about the Icon of Sin from Doom II? He was a massive olive-green goat head with a hole leading to his brain that shot skull cubes that summoned massive amounts of demons to pwn you and took over and demonized earth AND committed a WORLDWIDE MASS EXTERMINATION of humans while the player was busy in Doom I (which is better than kefka)!
#40 you got to be kidding me that guy is dfinetly one of the top 20 and how is DK #1 there is no way with all the others not on the list
Sargeras could beat them all
Well Kil'jaeden was send by Sargeras so I wonder who is more evil. Sargeras was the one who send the Burning Legion into the outlands and Kil'Jaeden tricked Ner'zhul into believing the draenei wanted to attack the orcs. (ofc on demand of Sargeras)
So yeah Sargeras should be in the list. BTW Ner'zhul wasn't really that evil. He was tricked by Kil'. He even saved the Frostwolf clan by telling them not to drink the blood Kil gave to them. Thus saving the Frostwolf Clan(todays horde orcs) He even betrayed Kil'.
Eventually his body and soul were seperated and he became the Lich King.(Ner'zhul had a huge craving for power) Who took over Arthas and Atrhie killed his father and unleashed the plague upon Azaroth thus completing the circle.
Like I was saying Sargeras should be on the list.
But on nr there can be only 1: Chuck Norris.
"What? there is no video game of him?" "There should be"
Btw, Chuck Norris is nr 1 on any list!
Not enough love for Bowser
People really don't appreciate Bowser for his evil acts. Not only did he steal Mario's woman, but he made Mario fight his way through legions of minions and bad landscapes, to get to a castle that in the end, didn't have the Princess in it. Forcing Mario to continue on through more minions and more castles.
Prophet of Truth
Why is the Prophet of Truth not up there? How is it trying to blow up the entire universe with a giant ring kick ass purple ships all for a misguided Holy crusade NOT DIABOLICAL??? Hell the brutes themselves are more badass apes then Donkey kong ever was.
Also screw Arthas its the Lich King who should be up there? I mean killing thousands of people and THEN enslaving them isn't good enough to make the top ten?
What where you on when you wrote this article you stupid Misinformed author!?
VI-Fanboy ranting is nowhere better
maybe because attaining the goals of the villain's scheme isn't the only measuring criteria?
Tss...there you are ranting about FVII fanboys or Sephiroth Fanboys and in essence you're no better than that...only that you're a FFVI Fanboy (or girl) and a Kefka Fanboy(girl).
That stupid psycho clown is as overrated/or underrated as is Sephiroth.
Yes, Kefka is a good villain, no doubt about that, but Sephiroth is that as well.
And more often it's also an issue of personal taste.
There are many factors which contribute to a good villain besides Power, accomplishments and appearance.
Many villains just gain fame because they are memorable to a broad audience from their respective Game or other Games they appeared in.
It depends also on the success of the game itself over a longer time period. FFVII was the first 3D-FF and also the first one to be released world-wide (the world doesn't consists just of Japan and the USA!).
Most Final Fantasy villains are excellent and good villains, Sephiroth for example is one of the few villains who is strong in physical powers and swordplay as well as magic and psycho-powers.
If you're talking about great FF Villains you've also to talk about Artemisia from FFVIII who actually has power over time and space and is even acting through several time periods, something neither Sephiroth nor Kefka can.
Exdeath (FFV) or Cloud of Darkness (FFIII) have power over the void, Zemus has the power of mind control and Emperor Mateus from FFII even conquered Hell and Heaven.
Personally, although I regard Kefka as a fine villain he's not greater than Sephiroth for me, or greater than Artemisia, Xehanort from KH or Diablo.
However, departing from FF, I'll also wonder about Donkey Kong placed first...that Gorilla is more of a good guy than a villain. (At least he had more games where he appeared good, only one or two where he's the villain.)
it seems most of you people never played the original DK... Of all the ones you keep saying are so much better then him, I'll ask you a question. Did you ever beat them? Yes? okay. Did you ever beat the original DK? No. Got it. (in fact you CAN'T beat him...seems pretty diabolical to me...) He's arguably the hardest boss of all time.
Pyramid Head should be number 1!
retarded post , DK for fuks sake , u must be a 13 year old jap girl
I think Donkey Kong sucks.
There is no freaking way he is number one in a MOST DIABOLICAL VILLIAN! He threw barrels! WOOPTEY FREAKIN DOO!
WTFFFFFF DK??!!!?? ok DK had an evil streak yes....but arthas killed his DAD!!!! arthas should definitely b top 3
What about the freakin tonberry on FFVII!!! THE LITTLE BITH WAS EFFING INSANE!!! All he had was a knife!
Sephiroth: THE most overrated videogame character there is. No way should a wuss who burned down a village, went to sleep, and took adavntage of Jenova's body should be called the best Final Fantasy villain. A name that will forever inspire retarded fanboys to start wanking themselves to their girly looking pretty boy.
Garland, Golbez, Exdeath, Kefka, Kuja, and Jenova would all make Sissy-roth their whore.
really? No John Irenicus? fail
Fail list. You got most of the right names, but the order is all wrong. Kane, Lavos, Kefka, Kerrigan, Jon Irenicus should be Top 5, no questions. Sephiroth may belong in Top 10, but there's no way in hell he should be above Kefka; Kefka friggin' ATTAINED GODHOOD during the game, not to mention being a truly insane, dangerous villain.
I mean, sure, Seph killed Aerith, but Kefka...well, Kefka is a God. Enough said. You could argue that on Seph, but fact is that he ultimately "failed" while Kefka is one of the very few video game villains that SUCCEEDED. Oh, and he killed the Emperor while being clearly weaker than he was; Kefka is not only insane but brilliant.
M. Bison should be WAY higher than Goro (or Shang Tsung, Shao Khan or any other Mortal Kombat-villains) simply on scale; Bison is a semi-immortal pool of psychotic energy pretty much ruling the world and yeah.
Kane...I don't think anyone has the balls to doubt his villain quality. Kane is just...Kane.
Jon Irenicus...anyone who's played BG2 will place him on the top. Period. Only excuse for that is NOT having played the game. He was a truly dominant, powerful villain and one that WILL send chills down your spine.
And Kerrigan, well, that's just a matter of placement. You can't really beat her. You just can't.
Others you've underrated: SHODAN (eh, obvious), Lavos (remember that whole "morphing the race to his needs for a DNA pool to harvest and repeat the migration on other planets"-stuff?) and Lich King (what's Arthas doing up there? It's the Lich King that's the mastermind villain in that world; Arthas is merely a pawn).
The only worthy villains up there: Ganondorf (over Ganon, obviously), Darth Vader (though better fit for a movie list since that's where his true awesome lies), Mother Brain & maybe Bowser.
Awesome though they may be, Psycho Mantis & Septhiroth are simply out of their league here. So...yeah
Irenicus, how in the hell could I have forgotten about him?
Well, what i think is some people are just taking this way to seriously..
Where is "Pokemon Rival"??? hahaha...
yeah KEFKA for #1... did everything so sinister...
Sephiroth is just badass, not diabolic
I'm surprised Hogger didn't destroy this site! He has the power, trust me, he's destroyed more raids than anyone can count
How could you forget about Lechuck? How??!!!
A few people I think that should have been in this list:
Sargeras: this guy is just insanely diabolical. I mean, the Lich King is awesome, but Sargeras is the one who CREATED him, for god's sake!
Giygas: As far as diabolical goes, this guy is one of the best. When I fought him, he creeped me out so much that I had nightmares for a month afterwards.
Also, I know some of you don't like the opinions of the others, but that doesn't mean that you have to make three-paragraph posts that serve no purpose but to flame at the others!
All the Sephiroth hate is getting pretty retarded, understandable none the less. What separates him from many villains is his tragic past and the believable actions the writers chose to take with him. He's complex and isn't evil for the pure sake of being evil. There is a reason why he has so many "fanboys" and why he is one of the most popular villains in video game history.
Although i don't necessarily agree with his specific placement (I would have placed him maybe 4th or 5th), we all have different opinions on what makes a good villain. Do you value tragedy, complexity, fallen angels, pure evil, master scheming, etc? There needs to be real reason why you disagree and not because a character is too "pop," "fanboy," or "mainstream".
hey, anyone here complaining actually beat donkey kong for real? not just the 4th level, but wherever you actually beat him and the game says: the end? you beat sephiroth in the end
I don't think the guys here at PC World know what diabolical means.
According to Answers.com, diabolical means, "belonging to or so evil as to recall the Devil". There you have it, straight from the horse's glossopharyngeal cavity.
Yeah, doesn't really fit for this list....should be called memorable bosses or something, but diabolical?
How does being the first boss ever or having bad english qualify for this?
To the Sephirooth debate: Yeah he was a great villain, but the List says "diabolical"...i mean bosses like Tyson were diabolical cause they were so freaking hard to beat, Kefka/Kerrigan etc... were diabolical because they killed tousands out of fun(and did generally insane or evil acts). Sepphi was neither hard to beat nor did he kill thousand,(and he even only did a handful of Evil things) hes totaly misplaced on this list.
And i add one more to the forgotten diabolical Bosses: Ugh Zhan from Serious Sam, the first time you notice him, you go like wow hes big, and then you notice that hes very, very far away.
The guy was 300 feet tall(you are like 8), had 4 Weapons(which shots were bigger then yourself), spit fireballs, regenerated his health so you needed to activate some special device, which only worked when he stood at the right place WHILE still wounding him with normal weapons at the same time.
And I forgot: you have to fight him 1on1 in a rather small arena.
Thats Diabolical, altough not enough to place in the tops here.
I think that SHANG TSUNG, GORO, AND SHAO KAHN from
MORTAL KOMBAT SERIES must have a place in the list.
The Prime Evils from Diablo and Kel'thuzad and Kil'jaeden from Warcraft should've made the list, and in the top 10. Actually there are loads more missing...
How could they have forgotten President Kreeger from Disruptor? He had the hero's father murdered by terrorists, had a duplicate of his office created, but as a teleporter and then had the builders and people involved in funding him killed. He sabotages the reactor on New Atlantis and sends you in even though he knows there is no way to stop it or escape just to get rid of you and tries to extract the Terrablast psionic from you without using any painkillers because.. ' I'm not authorised to prescribe medication.'
Why is Kane in the 40's ? He planned and set up the events of Red Alert 1 and kills the woman at the end in the name of his Brotherhood of Nod when she is a member herself.
Diabolical does not mean: "How much the villain could PWN everyone else. It also is not how cool the villain looks, it's how the villain behaves and goes about his/her plans"
Baal from Diablo 2 was diabolical, getting the little guy to confess everything about the stone only to reveal who he is and laugh at him at the end.
Dude.. I am so totally upset about this list. I can't believe they didn't even include Brian Boitano....
Sorry and The Evil Ghost of the pirate LeChuck where is in that List?!?
Totally useless.
Sephiroth? Really? He's the suckiest villain ever.
Where the hell is GLaDOS?
29. Nemesis (Resident Evil 3: Nemesis)
Anyone who played this game must still have post-traumatic stress disorder from this guy. His constant pursuit made RE3 memorable even among the other, superior installments in the series. My policy: Whenever a guy has an eyeball in his shoulder, I vamos! (Photo Courtesy of Wikipedia) <---
True, the Nemesis is from Resident Evil 3. But it had the mostly humanoid form of a large, towering man.
The 'Eyeball in his shoulder', was from the 'G' creature (Aka William Birkin), which was born from being infected from the G-Virus. The G Creature was somewhat Humanoid to start with, other than the hideously mutated arm + eyeball, but it soon mutated into a ugly massive goo.... thing. Yeah.
Sooo, either you meant Resident Evil 2's 'G' or you got the wrong info with the Nemesis.
Like a few other people said...where's Jon Irenicus? For me, he's the best evil character I've seen in a video game. I mean, really, the dialogue and cutscenes of him make him into an all-powerful mage that fears nothing! Not even the Lord of Murder.
the most diabolical villain is the troll.
Dude Ganondorf is better than Sephiroth, and all of those guys on the list. He is so bad ass.......... he has his own freaking theme song. Enough said.......
dude, ridley is waaaaaaaaaay eviler than donkey kong.
and by the way...who the hell is sephiroth!?! Almost every villian on here I havent even heard of! Also just because your favorite villan didn't get to the top thingy doesn't mean you should throw a huge temper tantrum over it. Its just one guy's opinion.
Hmm. Pretty sure Kefka would obliterate Donkey Kong in a fight. Just sayin'. ;)
Every villain is a whore...
Epic List of Epic Failness, I wish I had four thumbs to give this list a FOUR THUMBS DOWN
Most Evil Video Game Character Ever: The G-Man (Half-Life series)
Darth Nihilus is much more nefarious than Malak will ever be. And I agree w/ Wiseman; i take personal insult at the fact they put the wrong picture of Mother Brain. Don't worry, though, I'm making a new one with reader input. I'll give the URL when I'm done.
Here it is!!
damn....really boring list....where the hell is Archimonde and sageras and all WoW ffans favrote the lich king Arthas...should be on top 3...
actually ''let them come....frostmourne hungers' who else said such a epic word Arthas shaould be NO. 1
Sorry the URL got changed up on me... it is now http://www.gametracker.com/clan/ThePHs/forum.php?post=229067#post229067. PS WoW Greatest Fan Sargeras made my revised list and Kil'Jaedan. Arthas remained in his spot, though.
All of you are clearly retarded.. cause #1 is Diablo. You can't get anymore evil / diabloic than the Devil himself.. come on now..
Although I have less than zero idea about more than half of those hardcore pre-2000 games, the list should be simply equal. Since opinions change, obviously. However, was glad to see Arthy, Raggy and Lord Hogger. But this list is a bit outdated....and I dont know why this hasnt been noticed in 2008(not so old). Of course, Arthy is much more cutey than Illidan for most players. Of course, everyone has been killed by Hogger(if you havent - go play private servers), and everyone loves Ragnaros. But....let's be logical. As of Cataclysm, Hogger has to move to place 15. Chogall has to move to 14. Nefarian has to be at 10. And then Deathwing has to compete with Sephiroth. That is, if you do not iclude Algalon, Old Gods and Lil Timmy. THIS WAS MERELY A SETBACK!
Okay, I'd pee my pants if I had to fight a frigin giant zombie with just a gun. Or if I had to fight the devil himself. But come on! A friggin ape that just throws barrels while you have a friggin hammer!? How is that even evil!?
Where is chuck norris
UM Ripto? Hello! Hes worse then all these fools.
DK? Rly? How about yuri from c&c. Came within minuets of controlling the minds of every human being on planet earth. Not even on the list? Cool
well, imo, the woman from prject sylpheed who fired the prometeus driver is the baddest of baddest, destroying an entire planet!
and the the flood, they are extremely much more badass than any of these villains...
Wheres The Butcher Baal Mephisto DIablo is there good WHERE THE HELL IS ATHRAS I THOUGHT I WOULD SEE HIM AT THE TOP
Why not Liquid from MGS series?
Seriously? Im sorry, I'm not biased against Square (Chrono Trigger and Einhander are among my favorite games of all time), but why does everyone overrate Sephiroth? He's really not that original or good of a villain... seriously cool for sure, but that's about it. :-\
WHERE IS THE DOG FROM DUCK HUNT??????? The evilest, vilest, more horrific villian in the history of villany. He sat there laughing at you, taunting you for every duck you ever missed. Sure he'd hang around and pick up whatever ducks you killed, but whenever you missed a SINGLE duck, he rears his ugly head and laughs at you as your heart and hopes are destroyed. I dont even know IF there is a way to beat duck hunt, but that dog should be number one on this list. The evil dog who TAUNTED you.
What the hell with you guys? Sephiroth 2nd? DONKEY KONG FIRST?! This is is supposed to be ranking of most diabolical, not hard or this shiet.
How about Dahlia Hawthorne that played with hearts of two people, killed many people...
Well, darn, she always lost in court, but she was evil as hell. Also creepy. Months after her execution, guess what? SHE GOES TO KILL EVERYONE CHANNELED BY SPIRIT MEDIUM.
wtf, where's GlaDos from the portal series?!
Anyone from the Fallout series
Caeser, President John Henry Eden, Mr. House
I can't believe the greatest villain of all didn't make it
Andrew Ryan: The mastermind and the legend
GLaDOS SHOULD BE IN THE TOP 2, FORGET THE FRIKIN TOP 47!!
I know a crap list when I see one, ESPECIALLY when Dk's on top!
I kinda liked this list-- up until you said DK was #1. But my problem doesn't lie with the list, it lies with the biased people (or some of them) commenting on it. I hate it when people think they're opinion is a fact and treat it like one. (ie "Sepiroth is beat my a monkey!? F**k this, U R retrarded!")
My problem with the list is that DK is #1. But wait, I just bashed idiots who treat their opinion like a fact, doesn't that make me a hypocrite? Hear me out: Though DK is indeed a on-&-off villain, for the most part, he is portrayed as a hero. Plus, compared to the things and personalities most of the characters on the have/have done, DK doesn't much hold a torch to them(ie Diablo, M.Bison, etc.). I'm not going to bash this opinion, I'm just trying to make a point.
Oh, that reminds me: The Sephiroth thing. Why? I mean, most people hate him without playing the game just because he's overrated and others just love him because he looks badass. Also, this whole "Momma's Boy" crap is just an idiotic banter. I'm sorry, but anyone, even an intelligent and reasonable person, who uses this argument to hate on him is stupid. I, for one, do NOT think he's great. I will say, he did everything a good villain should, but with a boring personality and poor fanbase, it really holds him down from being a "great" villain. I hate when people overrate him as much as I hate people for hating him for the sheer reason that he's "overrated." I probably would put him on my Top 50 Villains List if I could, but not near as high as this list did. This Spehiroth thing is just being blown out of the water. That's all I wanted to say.
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PS: Bob the Goldfish? Are you kidding? C'mon, who can take that seriously?
Seriously, DK is the 1st.
You have to be kidding me, he's barely evil, you mostly see him in Mario Party and such, yet no sign of evil nor diabolical I mean steal your girlfriend? Wow..I'd like to see DK go in a fight with any of these villains, i'd doubt he'd survive..Well, Bob the goldfish, eh..maybe. Yet, He was pretty hard to beat, being the first game(I think) But we're talking about DIABOLICAL not a freaking Impossible fart.
i agree with 31 anonomous i can name at least 5 people eviler than $&*%ing donky kong 1 MOTHER BRAIN (METROID), 2 THE FLOOD (HALO), 3 THE GHOSTS (PAC-MAN), 4 BOWSER AND HIS CHILDREN (MARIO BROS), 5 GANONDORF (LEGEND OF ZELDA)
Donkey Kong... the Colossi... if I'm not mistaken "diabolical" has a similar meaning to "evil". How in the holy name of f**k is a "boss" like Donkey Kong more evil than Kefka??? or Giygas? or Wesker? or Saddler? or Yami?? The GHOSTS from PACMAN?!?!?!?!?! Are you f**king kidding me?
Seriously, are you ok? Like, you know.. up there?
I believe the 4 ultimate video game villians would be Omega from the Megaman Zero series, Bass From the Megaman series, Angeal from Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core, and Vanitas (with the X-blade) from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.
Wait. Where is Ner'zhul?
The comments here are proof that a large portion of the so-called "gamers" lack in humor and coolness.
WHERE THE HELL IS GLaDOS?!?!?!?
Sephiroth is a whiny little bitch. No way around it. He is what he is. Hardly a compelling character, especially a villain, even for a straight-to-DVD movie.
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2s: UCLA (24-3), , Duke (23-4), Kansas (24-3), Georgetown (22-4)
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RandomTools Flavor: nonposint - describe a flavor of a random non-positive integer
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equation of the form range = value; specify option for the random non-positive integer
The flavor nonposint describes a random non-positive integer in a particular range.
To describe a flavor of a random non-positive integer, use either nonposint or nonposint(opt) (where opt is described following) as the argument to RandomTools[Generate] or as part of a structured flavor.
By default, the flavor nonposint describes a random non-positive integer in the range , inclusive.
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range = a
This option describes the left endpoint of the range from which the random integer is chosen. The left endpoint must be of type nonposint and it describes a random integer in the interval , inclusive.
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Flower Child Long Dress Adult Womens Costume
Get groovy in this Flower Child Long Dress adult womens costume. The long and flowing mod retro dress of this hippie costume features bold print along with lace-hemmed sleeves and bottom. Experience the love of flower power on Halloween in this classic costume.
Karate Kid Daniel Son Deluxe Child Costume
Celebrate martial arts when you wear this officially licensed Karate Kid Daniel Son deluxe child costume and learn to conquer all obstacles. The karate vest features a screen printed logo on back and comes complete with pants and a black belt.
Teen Titans Robin Child Costume
Join forces with superheroes when you wear this officially licensed Teen Titans Robin child costume. The green, red, yellow and black jumpsuit features a muscle chest and comes complete with boot tops, a cape, a belt and a character eye mask.
Batman Dark Knight Rises Bane Deluxe Child Costume
Create havoc on Halloween when you wear this officially licensed Batman Dark Knight Rises Bane deluxe child costume. The gray, beige and green jumpsuit features a muscle chest and comes complete with character face mask, molded belt and gauntlet.
Clown on the Town Child Costume
Steal all the attention on Halloween when you don this incredibly detailed Clown on the Town child costume. The yellow, blue, red and green, 100% polyester jacket of this clown costume features an attached shirt front and comes complete with a bow tie, matching pants and a clown top hat.
Got Busted Child Costume
You cant break the law without serving your time! Serve time this Halloween when you wear the Got Busted child costume. The bright orange prison jumpsuit lets everyone know youve been bad!
Ghost Rider Child Costume
Let's ride! Blaze through the night when you wear this scary and officially licensed Ghost Rider child costume. The 100% polyester superhero jumpsuit features a sculpted belt and comes complete with sculpted gauntlets and a character face mask.
Harry Potter Hedwig the Owl Child Costume
Dress you little one as a flying messenger on Halloween with this officially licensed Hedwig the Owl child costume. The white, 100% polyester plush jumpsuit comes complete with an attached character headpiece.
Flower Child Adult Womens Costume
Get groovy and go retro when you wear this Flower Child adult womens costume. The mod floral print mini dress of this hippie costume features cold shoulder accents and bell sleeves, complete with a matching head sash. Experience the power of the flower!
Child Muscle Shirt
Pump up your body with this entertaining Child Muscle Shirt. This fun child costume delights kids and boosts the Halloween spirits of any boy who wears it!
Adventure Time Finn Child Costume
Have a radi-cool Halloween when you wear this officially licensed Adventure Time Finn child costume. The light blue shirt of this Finn costume features a slight scoop neck and elbow-length sleeves, complete with dark blue knee-length shorts, a light acid green fleece backpack along with a white fleece…
Midnight Vampire Child Costume
Stay out late in the cover of the night, but beware of the early morning sun when you wear this Midnight Vampire child costume. The black, 100% polyester cape of this vampire costume features a stand-up collar and comes complete with pants, vest with attached shirt sleeves, a collar and a blood-red tie…
Dog Child Hoodie
Fit in with your favorite furry friend wearing this Dog Child Hoodie! If youre good you might even get a treat! Wear this fleece sweaT-Shirt and youll look and feel like a pup.
Howling at the Moon Gray Wolf Child Costume
Beware of the full moon when you wear this Howling at the Moon child costume. The 100% polyester, green plaid shirt of this werewolf costume features faux fur and comes complete with a ferocious wolf mask with open mouth and bared teeth.
Sorceress Hooded Black and Purple Child Costume
If you need a robe as enchanting as your powers this Sorceress Hooded Black and Purple Child Costume may do the trick! Robe ties at the waist. Sleeves drape down to your knees and hood cloaks your face to add an element of mystery.
Chimpanzee Child Costume
Sometimes you call your child a little monkey - make it real with this incredibly detailed Chimpanzee child costume! The faux fur and sculpted plastic jumpsuit transforms your little one into a zoo-worthy creature - folks will go bananas over this amazing costume!
Killer Clown Child Costume
This clown can throw a killer party! Seriously! Killer Clown Child Costume includes red and black patterned jumpsuit, blood splattered collar, and crazy clown mask with attached hair so no one will be laughing at you on Halloween.
Pac-Man Blinky Child Costume
Lose no time this Halloween when you devour all the dots in this officially licensed Pac-Man Blinky child costume. The red, blue and white character bodysuit features a Velcro closure for easy on and off!
Light Up Lavender Witch Child Costume
Dont plan on scaring anyone away wearing this Light Up Lavender Witch Child Costume.This pretty sparkly dress is rich in colors of lavender, aquamarine, and indigo with gold hem, so youll be the most beautiful witch of them all! Skirt twinkles so even in the dark your beauty will shine!
Ninja Red Leather Child Costume
Glide through the night in the cover of shadows when you wear this Ninja Red Leather child costume. The red accented hooded shirt comes complete with black pants, a red faux leather armor tunic, two arm guards, two shin guards and ties.
Checkered Bodysuit Child Costume
Check the checkered bodysuit off your wish list. Youll look like a human checkerboard wearing this Checkered Bodysuit Child Costume. Fabric covers body entirely so your face will be virtually unrecognizable beneath your new skin.


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The Catasauqua football team has already won one trophy this season for its ability on the field and might add some more hardware Saturday night.
But even if the Rough Riders go on to claim the biggest award of all in high school football on Dec. 15 in Hershey — a state title — chances are nothing will make head coach Tom Falzone prouder than the honor his team received Thursday night.
Falzone, along with his coaching staff and team, won the 2012 Sportsmanship Award from the Eastern Pennsylvania Football Officials Association at the annual EPFOA banquet at the West Coplay Maennerchor.
The EPFOA is the chapter that officiates all games in the Lehigh Valley Conference, Colonial League and Mountain Valley Conference.
It's one thing to have a winning football team. It's another to win with class and that's obviously what the unbeaten Colonial League champion Catty squad has been doing.
"It's awesome … it's a special award for us and our kids," Falzone said. "We preach all the time about doing things the right way on and off the field. This award reinforces that to our kids. We do have good kids as well as good football players."
Falzone said he can relate to what officials go through because his wife, the former Stephanie Gemmel, is a field hockey official.
"She has officiated for a lot of years and I know what it's like," Falzone said. "I definitely respect the profession. We try to conduct ourselves the right way as coaches. We're models for the kids and we want to act the right way. That's why this is so special."
The award meant so much to the Roughies that Principal David Ascani and athletic director Tom Moll were on hand to accept it along with the entire coaching staff.
One of the unique things about the Catty staff is that it includes three former head coaches: the legendary Ed Csencsits as well as Bob Bydlon and Bob Panny.
Csencsits and Bydlon are former Catty coaches and Panny was in charge at Whitehall.
"When you win something like this it's also in recognition of the kind of guys you have on your staff and I have great guys," Falzone said. "They all do a great job, but it helps to have the experience of three former head coaches with us."
Ascani noted that Catasauqua is the smallest public high school in the Lehigh Valley and said that makes the team's success even more remarkable.
"I can't say enough about Coach Falzone and his staff and our kids," Ascani said. "Not only do they perform well on the field, but they also do a good job in the classroom. Our students who play football are respectful of our teachers and other staff members and that says a lot for Coach Falzone and his staff. He not only has high expectations for them on the field, but in everything they do."
Moll kidded that he thought the school received the award because of free pizza and the high volume of mercy-rule games the Roughies have played, which allow the officials to get home early.
Turning serious, he said: "It's a great honor because it shows we try to do things the right way."
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) today launched its annual live, 24-hour-a-day webcast of a nesting pair of peregrine falcons who live on a ledge of the Rachel Carson State Office Building in Harrisburg. The falcons typically renew their pair-bond around Valentine's Day.
Three high-definition (HD) cameras will chronicle the falcons' activities while streaming the footage live on the internet to viewers around the world. Around the time the first egg is laid, an additional HD camera will be set up for an intimate view into the nest.
"Year after year, the Falcon Cam is one of the most popular features on our website," DEP Secretary Chris Abruzzo said. "It's a great tool to get Pennsylvanians engaged in the environment."
In recent weeks, a male peregrine has challenged the resident male, who has been at the ledge since 2005. Despite that, the resident male has defended the ledge, and will soon begin to mate with the female, who has been at the ledge since 2012. Breeding activity typically takes place this time of year, so territorial battles can be fierce.
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Ever wonder how the fortune gets into the fortune cookie? How toothpaste gets into the tube? Or how sheet metal is welded into a shiny new car or motorcycle? Having traveled thousands of miles and personally visited hundreds of factory tours since 1992, we invite you to explore some manufacturing mysteries of the world. Since most of the tours are free, and many give free samples, factory tours and company museums remain the best vacation value in America. Come along for the ride!
Read the article we wrote for the magazine Leisure Group Travel, and see our mention in Travel & Leisure.
Your guide to factory tours,
Karen Axelrod
Author and Factory Tour Consultant
Although manufacturing is our primary theme here at Watch It Made in the U.S.A., the naturally occurring resources that exist on and under American soil have always been one of the country's greatest strengths; without them, of course, much of our manufacturing would never have been possible. If you are interested by geological subjects in particular, and if your summer vacation will swing through the heartlands of the US, the two tours described below may be of interest.
Kansas Underground Salt Museum
Kansas is often considered to be the archetype of a place as far as possible from the ocean. About 275 million years ago, however, a large inland sea spread over this region. While that sea disappeared long ago over the course of geological time, its remnants persist in the form of thick, extensive salt beds deep below ground. In Hutchinson, you can explore one part of these ancient deposits at the Kansas Underground Salt Museum (recently restyled with the name "Strataca"). Here you ride 650 feet down to spacious, comfortable subterranean galleries excavated by salt-mining operations during the 20th century.
Deposited over many thousands of years as the ancient sea dried up, the layer of salt underneath Kansas varies in thickness between 100 and 500 feet and extends throughout most of the central and western parts of the state. After the salt beds were discovered in 1887, the first salt mines in Kansas were operating only a few years later. As in coal mines, workers descended in dangerous conditions to excavate minerals from deep chambers. The first salt mine in Hutchinson opened in 1923, and mining for road salt still occurs in the area.
The Kansas Underground Salt Museum is a truly remarkable experience. In the visitor center on the surface, you don the mandatory hard hat and then enter the mine's solidly built industrial elevator (or "hoist"). The descent of 650 feet takes a mere 90 seconds. You then emerge into a spacious, low-lit subterranean otherworld carved out of densely packed salt. The museum, fashioned in the disused mine itself, sprawls through an amazingly vast series of softly lighted salt-walled galleries with high ceilings. Indeed, the space feels more like a giant indoor sports facility than a manmade cave—no possibility of claustrophobia here. At a perpetual 68 degrees and 45% relative humidity, the environment could not be more comfortable. Explaining both the geological and the industrial histories of the Kansas salt deposits, the museum exhibits stretch extensively throughout the galleries, while a small train and a tram (called the "Dark Ride") convey visitors through other parts of the old salt mine.
Great Plains Synfuels Plant
Rising amid clouds of steam from the quiet prairie farmlands that cover western North Dakota, the Great Plains Synfuels Plant does something unusual. It makes natural gas. While natural gas (technically methane) is normally drilled from subterranean deposits, it is also possible to synthesize it from coal through a process called gasification. The Synfuels Plant is the only commercial-scale coal-gasification facility in the United States. Completed in 1984 and run by the Dakota Gasification Company, the plant now makes 145 million cubic feet of natural gas every day. Via pipeline, this resource is distributed throughout the eastern United States.
Although the plant's product is sent to distant places, its natural resources are local. Nearby deposits of lignite coal, the remains of peat swamps that existed 55–65 million years ago, are mined and delivered to the Synfuels Plant, which gasifies about 18,000 tons of coal per day. Meanwhile, the carbon dioxide generated in gasification is not spewed into the atmosphere, where it would add to greenhouse-gas pollution. Instead, it is piped north to oilfields in Saskatchewan, Canada, where a storage operation permanently sequesters the carbon dioxide underground. This environmentally friendly aspect of gasification at the Synfuels Plant is considered a model for the benign use of the abundant coal that the US has under its own soil. To many people, using this coal in a relatively clean way offers a sensible means to help the US become less dependent on foreign energy resources.
For obvious reasons, the work of the Great Plains Synfuels Plant is important to American national interests, and Homeland Security rules mean most of it is off limits to the public. Instead, the general tour at the visitors' center shows you an intricate scale model of the facility with interpretive displays and videos to illustrate how gasification works. The heart of the plant consists of its 14 giant gasifiers: cylindrical pressure vessels that tower 40 feet high and have an internal diameter of 13 feet. Gasification involves dismantling the molecular structure of coal through combustion: in the gasifiers, steam and oxygen are injected into the bottom of the coal to cause intense burning at 2,200 degrees. The hot gases dismantle the molecular bonds of coal and steam, releasing carbon, hydrogen, sulfur, nitrogen, and other substances to form a raw gas. This leaves the gasifiers and is cooled. Tar, oils, phenols, ammonia, and water co-products are condensed from the cooling gas, purified, and diverted. The gas enters a cleaning area, where it is scrubbed of other impurities, and then passes over a nickel catalyst that causes carbon monoxide and the remaining carbon dioxide to react with free hydrogen. This forms methane (i.e. what we call natural gas). The carbon dioxide is removed and sent on its way to Canada. After being cooled, dried, and compressed, the methane enters the gas pipeline—possibly on its way to you.
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These tours may be featured in the next edition of Watch It Made in the U.S.A. Meanwhile, you can read about other tours in the current edition of the book.
One feature we offer in Watch It Made in the U.S.A. is a section of itinerary planners listing factory tours you can take during a trip through a particular region. One of our tastier ideas for a multiple-day trip: the Gastronomic Tours of Texas.
Day 1: Mrs. Baird's Bakery (bread), Fort Worth. Discover the bakery that introduced sliced bread to Texas. The company daily uses 100,000 to 200,000 pounds of flour to make up to 144,000 loaves of bread every day. As you move out of the ingredients area and closer to the ovens, the aroma of fresh-baked bread fills your senses. Tours are also available at the company's locations in Houston and Lubbock.
Day 2: Collin Street Bakery (fruitcake), Corsicana. From October to mid-December, what you can see here ranks among one of the most memorable sights described in this book. A sea of workers, standing in small stalls on both sides of at least three production lines, hand-decorate fruitcakes' tops with pecans and candied fruit. The cakes, at this point, are only dough in round baking pans. Each worker grabs a cake, decorates it with pecans, and then places it back on the line, where it heads for the ovens.
Day 3: Blue Bell Creameries (ice cream) in Brenham. Almost everything here happens inside a maze of stainless-steel pipes and variously shaped tanks. After the base-mix ingredients are blended, homogenized, and pasteurized, they are then cooled and piped into refrigerated holding tanks. The ice cream and "dry" ingredients (fruit, cookie chunks, cookie dough, etc.) meet in the white pipes before traveling into containers. All this whets your appetite for the samples you'll enjoy in the ice-cream parlor.
Day 4: Jardine Foods (Texas-style foods) in Buda, near Austin. A visit to Jardine's combines ranch relaxation, a warm homey feeling, and an opportunity to view the bottling and packaging of salsa, barbecue sauce, chili, seasonings, and more through windows in the limestone ranch-house "factory."
Safe travels and happy eating!
Whenever we, the authors of Watch It Made in the U.S.A., travel around the country on business or vacation, we try to find local factory tours. On a recent business trip to Oregon, I (co-author Bruce Brumberg) took the factory tour at Bob's Red Mill in Milwaukie. The company offers free guided tours of its mill Monday through Friday at 10 a.m.
As I eat their healthy whole-grain hot cereals and use their flour and soup mixes, I looked forward to this tour, wondering what the company is really like. All I knew about them was what I had read on their product packaging, with the friendly picture of their founder wearing a Kangol-style cap and red vest.
Having taken many tours, I compare my experience here to my first visit to the Ben & Jerry's ice cream factory many years ago in Vermont. I enjoyed their products too, with their similar folksy packaging. I had expected a small operation, with Ben or Jerry making and packaging the ice cream himself. Instead I toured a large, modern food factory.
It's the same at Bob's. While the founder still has an active role at the company, the mill itself is a large industrial facility spanning 325,000 square feet over 17 acres.
It makes more than 400 natural food products from whole grains. The operation is very modern, with the latest in milling and packaging equipment, including separate areas of the factory for the gluten-free and regular grain products.
You can get a close-up look at these machines through the glass windows on the tour (though the tour does not include the warehouse, shipping department, and testing lab). The busiest time for the factory, when you can see the most production, is late summer through the cold months.
The milling equipment is specially made: French hard quartz millstones (technically known as burr stones) are encased in Danish-made equipment to grind grains shipped from all over the Americas. Bob's has 14 mills of various sizes and speeds, and the tour tries to give you a peek at what goes on inside them. The grains fall in uniform amounts from vibrating trays into the space between the millstones, where they are ground. The milled grains are then vacuumed up to go through shifters, and are returned if additional grinding is needed. In the form-and-fill packaging line, you'll notice how the product drops from the hoppers above into bags formed from three-ply wood-fiber cellulose that are then sealed. Wherever you look through the windows on the tour, you'll notice large one-ton bags of various grains that are either waiting to be milled, already milled, mixed with other grains, or packaged.
The tour guide, Christie, is a true devotee of the company's work.
In fact, her health was saved by its gluten-free products. She enthusiastically explains the manufacturing process and the company's interesting history (it's now employee-owned), including the 1988 fire that destroyed a smaller factory but served to challenge Bob Moore to build his much bigger company. At the grain table, she relates all the details you may want to know about the various grains used in their products, whether flax meal or quinoa, including recipes. She also walked us through various displays highlighting the company's history and its older milling equipment. I found it interesting to learn that since ancient Roman times, no machinery has ground grains into flours as well as the flint-hard millstones still used today.
When the tour is over, you're offered samples of products, and you can visit a small gift shop. Either before or after the tour, you'll also want to go to the nearby Bob's Red Mill Whole Grain Store, Restaurant, and Bakery (800-553-2258), where I went for lunch with Christie.
On the gearhead factory trail that runs from Hyundai in Alabama all the way up to Harley-Davidson in Pennsylvania, Subaru of Indiana Automotive (SIA) in Lafayette, Indiana, is not too far out of the way—and it may be well worth the detour, as SIA is the only Subaru factory in the United States. At the plant, which opened in 1987, Subaru builds three models of car: the Outback, the Legacy, and the Tribeca, made here for North and South America. SIA handles both manufacture and assembly, turning sheets of raw steel into finished cars. But this is not the only attraction for visitors—SIA is full of surprises. The plant is located on grounds of 820 acres, which include a two-mile test track and extensive wooded areas that have been designated a "Backyard Wildlife Habitat" by the National Wildlife Federation.
Departing from the building's public lobby, tours of SIA take place on a mile-long stretch of catwalk above the vast factory, which sprawls over an area of more than 3 million square feet. The immense scale of this plant and its operations is brought to life by a few statistics. The factory has nearly 11 miles of conveyors (seven miles in the paint department alone). The transfer press used to stamp out body parts from rolls of steel is three stories high—not including another two stories under the factory floor. Working in tandem, the employees and machines at SIA crank out 20,000 cars per month.
In the stamping section, newly shipped rolls of steel are uncoiled, flattened, washed, cut, and formed into the major body parts of each car. An overhead crane delivers coils of steel from the storage area to the blanking press, which flattens them into sheets and then slices them into "blanks" in roughly the shape of car parts. From here the blanks go to any of five massive transfer presses, where 500 tons of pressure shape the steel into finished parts.
Body assembly is where robots and associates assemble the parts into a vehicle. A typical car has 4,000 separate welds, nearly 99% of them made by the 266 robots operating here. Doors, hoods, trunks, and tailgates are also added at this point, as well as sealant on the doors for protection against leaks. Next comes the paint shop, which has three levels and 74 robots.
The area for trim and final assembly is where robots leave off and human beings really take over. Here more than 600 employees join painted car bodies with engine and drive components. They install wiring, lights, and interiors, combine bodies and frames, and assemble the drive and suspension components. Once parts have been installed and the cars are filled up with gasoline, oil, and brake fluid, each is sent to the tester line for quality control. The cars are then washed with a high-pressure water bath and then prepared for shipment anywhere in North or South America.
This tour will be featured in the next edition of Watch It Made in the U.S.A. Meanwhile, you can read about other tours in the current edition of the book.