>The Main Villain is literally the ultimate force of evil in the world
Is there even a point into fighting a villain like that? Either you just can't beat him, or if you win, something happens to essentially replace the guy or otherwise undo what you've done, because creating an earthly paradise is just a too cheesy ending.
Just give him love
Pretty much.
I once had an overzealous paladin and cleric that went out of their way to bind the God of Evil to the material plane so that they and the rest of the party could kill her. 'Course, doing that only ended with the partial unravelling of reality as their own deity was forced to assume the mantle of the new God of Evil in order keep most of creation from crumbling apart.
As you can imagine, they both lost their divine powers — along with every other divine spellcaster, mind you. It kind'a put the two on a lot of peoples' shit lists until they were able to regain their powers.
Twist: Whoever kills it takes its place
Twist: Party thinks it's the force of evil, but actually it's the force of chaos (since it can be difficult to tell them apart), thus the world becomes a totalitarian nightmare where the slightest infraction on the force of order renders you immediately non-existent
This: the elder god of the universe comes in mortal form, asks who's dun fucked up. Whoever last hit the god is the one to replace it as the new god, no matter what they say.
Roll new sheet
We use kindness and mercy to weaken him.
Why can't they just win and create the Earthly paradise? At the very least it could just last a while before someone else decides to rebel against That Which Is Good and become the Main Villain. Then you have the best of both worlds: a meaningful victory but also an eventual new villain to deal with.
user it's the same reason why games and stories keep going: as long as free will exists evil will exist. That doesn't mean you should let the ultimate evil run unopposed. It's in defeating the evil that good shines.
Imagine if Link for example came and went: "you know, I won't destroy Ganon. He will probably come back in another form." The world would become a crapsack because it needs Link to struggle and defeat the evil, proving the the world is worth fighting for.
Pray for him. Actually, genuinely, love this great evil and hope every day for its redemption. Just be genuinely good.
I just want my shit back goddammit
What's wrong with a cheesy "everyone lived happily ever after" ending?
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>Killing the ultimate force of evil means there's no more evil
That's like saying shooting the serial arsonist puts out all the fires he started. He's done the damage and we still have to deal with the effects of that. Plugging him just means he'll stop making things worse.
I like The Silmarillion way. Morgoth may perish but he got a second in command more than ready to take over and be number 1.
Just go fucking Gurren Lagann, pussy.
>Eru
>Elves only called him Illuvatar
imposter
You could banish the ultimate force of evil, unsure of whether it might return in the end-times.
> Is there even a point into fighting a villain like that?
Yes, there is.
You do it so you can fill the position of Ultimate Evil with evil of your choice. So instead of "a god of murder and rape" in charge of being the Ultimate Evil, you now have "a god of grabbing your Magic cards with Cheeto-dusted fingers and not using coasters".
It's all about controlling WHAT evil actually gets perpetrated, and installing the god of reasonably minor evil in place of Ultimate Evil.
>Is there even a point into fighting a villain like that?
IT IS THE MISSION OF EACH TRUE KNIGHT
HIS DUTY - NAY, HIS PRIVILEGE.
TO DREAM AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
>not installing one of the good gods as a puppet to keep evil ineffective
>just a too cheesy ending.
Some people disagree amazingly.
Incompetent evil is better than competent good when you need evil to be incompetent.
Technically, for every single moment that you are resisting him is a moment where he is losing. So yes, it's possible.
And if you can't...
Because you can seal him away.
There may be no earthly paradise, but if you can stop an earthly hell? That's a good enough reason to fight.
>Villain
Ugh