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Are these your new minions, Christoff? Will you sacrifice them to destroy me as you did with so many others? Are you prepared to pay that price one last time?
~ Phobos to Jebediah, talking about Hank, Sanford and Deimos.
Step aside gentlemen, a god stands before you now.
~ Phobos before his boss fight in the sequel.

Director Phobos is the main antagonist of the Project Nexus duology and overarching antagonist of Madness Combat series. He serves as the main antagonist of Madness: Project Nexus, and the main antagonist of its sequel Madness: Project Nexus 2 (or, for its Story Mode at least), as well as overarching antagonist of Madness series

He is the corrupted head of Project Nexus, and a narcissist with a god complex. His main weapon is the Binary Sword, which was later carried around by Dr. Christoff after his death.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]

In general/background[]

  • Even by standarts of Madness' series characters (Who are known for their cruelty and mass murders), Phobos regarded as absolutely irredeemable and egotistical evil, who virtually has no redeeming and sympathic qualities or any proper explanations on his actions (Unlike rest of antagonists here), other then wanting to achieve his personal comfort, and whom even author confirms to be worst person here.
  • Although he clearly mentally ill and further, after turning into ghost, was poisoned by dissonant reality (Which is mind distorting material), there no indications that he suffers from moral agency issues, as he already was evil even before dying and getting corrupted by dissonance, at that time basically admitting to Christoff that he don't cares if he gonna to eliminate everything on the way to be immortal.
  • He forced his people to be merchants and sell Nexus-Core's weapon stuff and experimental super-soldiers all across Nevadean's neverending expansions, only to gain reputation and thus hide his own plans about obliterating world. Though here no in-detail elaborations on this, it is can be assumed that said actions supported various conflicts and countless murders in the Nevada.
  • He is a tyrannical ruler over Nexus City and Director of Nexus-Core, with everyone worshipping him like a god and there being statues of him everywhere, and with one of hints in the game even directly saying that he is tyran.
    • Judging by what Crackpot says in the Arena Mode, Phobos can also become abusive towards his minions if he's not happy and he overall does not cares about them at all, even if they served tp him well.
  • While Auditor created Project Nexus for saving reality from collapse and for other good intentions (such as letting citizens escape diseases and extend their lives) and gave Phobos post of Director of Nexus-Core because his charismatic nature, Phobos merely manipulated him and used it for his own, selfish gain, trying to use it for godhood and immortality while also sacrificing the world for this.
  • He supported the creation of Zeds by Dr. Crackpot, which would involve inhuman experimentations on innocent people and turning them into mindless cannibals just to try way of achieving immortality in the process.
    • This is also will cause zed-apocalypse in the Nexus-City with ending of almost every citizen either being killed or infected by zombie-virus and itself City being destroyed. And while Phobos did it indirectly, he still was responsible for creation of zombies in the first place so it is does no excuses his actions.
    • And even worse, since during main game protagonists can found remaining of Phobos' propaganda, where he tried to make everyone believe that situation in the city under control and that citizens should not try to escape from "Zed-mageddon" in the City and he actively attempted to cover fact of zombie outbreak, showing how cynical and careless he is.
  • When Dr. Christoff told him that his plans would lead to the end of the world, Phobos didn't care and fired him, with threats of sending him to the Other Place, which is the series' version of Hell.
  • He had Dr. Herman Gonne secretly work on Project Kobold to perfect Generation 05 for full mass production and create soldiers using the fragments of Prime Code given by the Employers, as well reach S-3LF destruction, which ended with Dr. Gonne and his research group dying and bringing into the world unstable and unkillable killing machine.
  • His influence directly ties to every other main villains of the series:
    • He is a former boss for both Tricky The Clown and Jebus (Who are was simple scientists in the Nexus-Core at that time) with Tricky getting droved insane due to own work and also him creating improbability drive, meaning Phobos responsible for all of Tricky's actions.
    • He was ally for Sheriff and reason of him getting access to Improbability Drive, meaning he also responsible for Sheriff activating Drive and corrupting reality.
    • He is reason why Crackpot completely became insane and started own cult
    • He is reason why Jebus gained Halo and started to slowly lose his mind, so he responsible for all his actions too.
    • His Nexus-Core developed cloning machines, as well as Improbability Drive, and delivered them to Auditor, meaning he partially had hand in all of his actions.
    • Ironically, all of them ended to be enemies for Phobos, who would help/try to stop him and in Crackpot's case he would usurp power from Phobos after fall of City.

Game duology[]

  • He tried to kill Christoff, who caused rebellion against him and was massive obstacle on Phobos' goal
  • After being killed by Christoff and send to the Other Place, Phobos possesses MAG Agent: Gestalt. What's worse is that it was confirmed that while Gestalt acts like a feral beast, he's fully sapient and is just too insane to know what's going on due to all souls/minds (S-3LFs) that Phobos made him absorb
  • After Gestalt is weakened, Phobos escapes into the living realm and tries to kill Christoff, Hank, Sanford and Deimos by himself.
  • He plans to merge Gestalt with the Other Place, showing once again that he doesn't care about the end of the world if it means reaching godhood.
  • Despite the insanely high heinous standard of Madness Combat, Phobos easily meets it as no one else in the series is omnicidal like he is. While Hank also becomes evil and tries to end the world once Phobos is killed, he did it for some very slightly honorable reasons, as it was his mission to destroy Project Nexus no matter the consequences. Phobos does it out of pure selfishness.
  • While Madness Combat is an exploitation series, Phobos is taken completely seriously, especially since the Project Nexus duology, while confirmed to be canon, is taken seriously as well, and exploitation villains are allowed to be pure evil so long as they meet all criteria.

Trivia[]

  • Phobos is the only Madness Combat character to be Pure Evil.
  • Phobos' status as pure evil might change in the future after release of Madness Movie
  • Phobos possess strong resemblance with Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars media-franchise - another pure evil tyrannical villain who is regarded as most evil antagonist of own series, and who wished to achieve immortality

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