The Archon - He has a doughnut for a head

I like the title of this thread because that's what I thought when I first saw the Archon. I haven't met him in the game yet so I can't comment on what he is like as a villain.

As villain for me is bad too but as a character he is "cute" isn't He? haha seems like the type that you tap his head so he get angry and start insulting you haha but yeah He seems like a generic villain. Maybe in the next games/DLC we face better enemies.

The Archon was like an evil little Koala Bear. Hard to take him seriously. Here's hoping the Primus will make a better villain in future dlc/games

I AM THE SENATE


anyway I'll leave

I see no Halo references.

I mean, yes, the Archon is a religious cult leader in charge of an army of fanatics seeking out an alien superstructure that will allow him to destroy all of the planets of the galaxy.

But there's no similarities.

If you do the mission about learning about him, the Archon is betraying his higher-ups and is greedy and obsessed with Meridian and you can even choose to ally with the lead lady Kett Primus and eliminate him, or turn her down and kill him. Either way I can't tell if she's happy or not in that end scene.

Basically his ego was his downfall, and he's not even a true villain. Just an idiot with a God complex.

The Archon has some parallels with Carausius, a Roman Governor in the 3rd Century who rebelled and declared himself "Emperor of Britain" for several years before he was eventually assassinated and his territory fell back under the control of the Empire.

Well I'll agree that he looks ridiculous.

I think his actor's voice work is some of the strongest in the game, which isn't saying a whole lot, granted. I like the audio files you get in his ship of him reviewing reports on the various Milky Way races and what traits would be best incorporated into the kett; his observations and the detached nature of it, the lack of hostility, the touch of admiration struck me. It really gave me the impression of someone who believes they're doing good work; that they're helping their own people as well as the people they convert, and what they're doing is without malice. That's something I never got from the Reapers. There was always an element of sadism from Sovereign and Harbinger that just didn't jive with what we found their ultimate goal to be.

That being said I would have liked a more clear explanation as to what the Archon wanted the Remtech for; his stated goal is to use the terraforming network as a gun to hold to the heads of everyone in Helius to accept exaltation or die, but that does seem rather a rather mundane use for one of the most impressive pieces of technology in the series thus far, and has a certain lack of ambition behind it that left me wondering if there was more to it, but that never got explored.

That, plus the Archon's unique if thoroughly unintimidating design, left me feeling that he was one of the weaker villains in Bioware's staple. But he's clearly intended as a starter villain.