Summary
While there’s a lot to love about Ubisoft’sFar Crygames, including their large open maps and chaotic FPS gameplay, the one aspect that always pushes them to greater heights is their villains. Despite how fans may feel about the overall quality of a newFar Cryentry, Ubisoft always manages to knock it out of the park with their bad guys, who will enjoy taunting the player as they go, while also revealing their master plan through big self-obsessed monologs.
Inevitably, this has resulted in these antagonists letting out a few quotes that have become extremely memorable, whether it be because it gives a glimpse into their twisted mindset, or because they simply catch players off guard with how random and absurd they are. Either way, with the series having such an impressive catalog of side and main villains, it seems like the perfect time to see which of their quotes have managed to stick with the fans for so long, along with uncovering what exactly they each mean.
Pagan Min, as a character, is very hypocritical. On the one hand, he possesses a calm and carefree personality that almost makes him seem like a good person at heart, but at the same time, he’s also a malicious leader who is more than willing to eliminate anyone who stands in his way. Players get an idea of these two sides very early on after Min interrupts one of his guards who claims things got “out of control” after a bus is shot up bythe Royal Army.
Min, claiming that he hates when things “get out of control”, proceeds to brutally kill the guard with a pen. In a way, it highlights just how untrustworthy Pagan Min truly is, since while he can say something one moment that tries to present him as a sane leader, he will easily go back on his word if he so feels like it, making him extremely unpredictable.
Faith is a little different from Joseph’s other subordinates. While she is still under his influence and is willing to follow his every order, she doesn’t attempt to attack or even harm the Deputy when she first meets them. Instead, at numerous points throughout the game, she will take players on a hypnotic adventure through a beautiful landscape filled with plant life and animals, but in truth, this is actually all a manifestation of the Bliss, which has corrupted Faith’s mind.
As a result, when Faith decides to say this line near the end of her quest, it forces payers to reflect on the amount of chaos they’ve been causing, almost like a meta-commentary. At the same time, it’s also a quote that sends shivers down the spine, since there’s no telling what sort of chaos Faith will be able to cause when she decides to choose violence, considering she has appeared so passive up to that point.
Anton Castillo, the main villain ofFar Cry 6, maybea ruthless dictatorwith a firm grip on the island of Yara, but to ensure the country doesn’t break free from his grasp, he also tries to mold his son into a hateful leader in order to continue the cycle. As a result, there are many scenes in the game showing Anton giving Diego some very questionable advice, including this line where he encourages his son to see himself as a “Lion” who keeps watch over a country of “Lambs”.
Castillo is putting his obsession with power on full display here, implying that the entire population of “Lambs” deserve to be ruled over by those such as himself and Diego, painting him as a pretty corrupt antagonist.
It doesn’t take long before players get to meet Pagan Min after booting up a new game ofFar Cry 4. After a chaotic bus trip, Pagan eventually reveals himself, but not before shooting one of his guards to death for not following his orders. When he takes a good look at the protagonist, Ajay, it’s made pretty clear that he knows them, leading to the iconic intro scene where he decides to sit down and enjoy some “crab rangoon” with his old buddy.
This is an incredibly intense sequence where Min shows just how petty and egotistical he can be as he constantly tries to mock his guests, but this quote is the one that really takes the cake for being the most belittling. Rather than escaping and seeing what all the commotion is outside, Min instead tries to convince Ajay to just sit idly and enjoy some of Kyrat’s finest cuisine, as if treating him like a child. What also makes this quote so well-known is that players can actually stay in place and enjoy the food, that is, if they want to unlock asecret premature ending.
While Joseph is the main villain ofFar Cry 5, before players can face off against him, they first need to deal with his 3 subordinates, the most violent of which being Jacob Seed. This particular quote can be heard multiple times in the game, sometimes through radio broadcasts, but also within Jacob’s minigame, where players must kill as many targets as possible to escape.
The truth is, though, this is more than just a creepy catchphrase, as it actually highlights Jacob’s twisted ideology that weakness has no place in society and that the “herd” must therefore be wiped out to make room for the strong. It’s a simple quote, but one that manages to say so much about one ofthe series' most sadistic characters.
Joseph Seed is the self-proclaimed leader of Hope County who believes he is a man sent by God to save his people from what he refers to as the oncoming “Collapse”. Rather than acting antagonistic towards the player, he instead tries to coerce them into his cult numerous times, and in this quote, echoes the notion that, no matter how many people they’ve killed, they can still find “salvation” by choosing to follow and embrace Joseph’s ideals.
This particular quote perfectly sums up just how eerie and sinister Joseph is compared to the otherFar Cryantagonists, always trying to worm his way into people’s minds with words of hope. It also becomes a rather thought-provoking line after players complete the game and witness the “Collapse” for themselves, which makes it easy to wonder whether Joseph may have truly wanted the best for his people all along, but ended up going about it completely the wrong way.
The Jackal is afairly complex antagonistsince while he’s certainly not an angel by any means, considering he helped plunge an entire country into war through his arms dealing, he does seem to have some instinct of remorse for his actions by the end of the game. However, until then, The Jackal comes off as a pretty stubborn man who seems to always crop back up no matter how many times he comes close to being killed, which is a trend of his that he himself sums up with this quote.
No matter how many times the Jackal is beaten down and defeated, he claims that it will only make him stand taller. However, as mentioned previously, this could also act as an indication of his supposed change of heart later on, and how he now stands “taller” than before by witnessing all the chaos and suffering due to the constant violence.
When Vass decides to open his mouth, he will either be trying to belittle Jason or will be giving him some wise words that feed into his journey to save his friends on the island, such as this quote, which has become one of the most recognizable lines in the entire series. A major theme ofFar Cry 3is becoming consumed by the island, referring to how Jason slowly turns into a bloodthirsty killer while trying to rescue his friends and escape, and that’s exactly what Vaas explains here.
Doing things over and over again, which in this case, means liberating outposts, activating radio towers, and slaughtering hundreds of soldiers, will inevitably warp Jason’s mind so much that he eventually begins to feel numb while partaking in these activities. It’s a clever bit of meta-commentary from Vaas that forces players to reflect on thegameplay loop, and how that might end up affecting the mental state of the game’s main protagonist.
