People who like Malenia as a character

[QuentinTeo]

Why? What do you appreciate in her? I really don't understand: she claims to be undefeated, while she almost lost to Radahan and then she nuked Caelid to cover herself and, basically, maintain her status. Moreover, when she kills you she just flexes how much she's strong or how you shall rot, but when you kill her she's all "oh, tarnished, I admit my loss" etc etc. Where is her charm?

[CazadorDeLobo]

Have you made it to 2nd phase...?

[zero]

i mean, she beat radahan, thats like the whole thing with that fight, not sure where "nuked caelid to cover herself was"

im not sure what "charm" you're really looking for, shes just a confident swordsman that rightfully is a difficult fight, what more do you need for an interesting boss?

[Frostylicious]

Mommy material.

[Kalameet]

Originally posted by CazadorDeLobo:

Have you made it to 2nd phase...?

Is this some incel coomer comment i'm too normal to understand?

something like "haha nasty ♥♥♥♥♥ becomes naked goddess for phase 2, ngl she's going to be my forever waifu, let me gift her a ♥♥♥ wedding bouket already to her"

[CourtesyFlush09]

She's a coward - straight up.

She nukes a quarter of the Lands Between because she was beaten to her knees by the Starscourge, as shown in the opening cinematic. In that cinematic, we also see Radahn giving her a chance to surrender as he stands over her with his arms crossed. It's only when she re-attaches her arm and gets ready for another round that Radahn draws his swords. By "blooming and dooming" Radahn, she also abandons her pride to "meet Radahn's measure," as Millicent herself confirms.

Then she just sits in a chair by Miquella's Hailgtree like a complete bum instead of getting off her ass and investigating where the hell he went. I know she's in pain because of the Rot, but literally just strike things with your sword to regain health, lady. You already surrendered your pride anyway.

And then she has the nerve to say that she "finally met [her] match" after you beat her when in reality you are not her match, but her superior. How do we know this? Well, because you defeat her. Hell, Radahn does too (the only difference being that you finish the job).

[Don Lobo]

I love that she straight up "you didn't win!"-ed Radahn. I find it very funny.

[zanzibaroz]

Originally posted by CourtesyFlush90:

She's a coward - straight up.

She nukes a quarter of the Lands Between because she was beaten to her knees by the Starscourge, as shown in the opening cinematic. In that cinematic, we also see Radahn giving her a chance to surrender as he stands over her with his arms crossed. It's only when she re-attaches her arm and gets ready for another round that Radahn draws his swords. By "blooming and dooming" Radahn, she also abandons her pride to "meet Radahn's measure," as Millicent herself confirms.

Then she just sits in a chair by Miquella's Hailgtree like a complete bum instead of getting off her ass and investigating where the hell he went. I know she's in pain because of the Rot, but literally just strike things with your sword to regain health, lady. You already surrendered your pride anyway.

And then she has the nerve to say that she "finally met [her] match" after you beat her when in reality you are not her match, but her superior. How do we know this? Well, because you defeat her. Hell, Radahn does too (the only difference being that you finish the job).

broke the geneva convention and ran away

[Dragonirian]

She loves her little brother.
Many anime fans are into that.

[causality]

Ahem.

Booba.

[GoreTiger]

Originally posted by zero:

i mean, she beat radahan, thats like the whole thing with that fight, not sure where "nuked caelid to cover herself was"

im not sure what "charm" you're really looking for, shes just a confident swordsman that rightfully is a difficult fight, what more do you need for an interesting boss?

She didn't beat radahn tho, She lost more in that whole skirmish then Radahn did.

Radahn may have lost his mind and Caelid may have been nuked, But his army is still mostly intact. Scattered yes, But still there. His people still revere him, Festivals are still held in his honor, Npcs praise him and his strength, His army stands faithful in caelid fighting back the rot from spreading.


While Malenia was tricked by a god into allowing it to corrupt her further with the promise of power, Power that wasn't enough to fully defeat her enemy. That same power cursed her army and tore it apart. The whole reason she wanted to stop radahn was out of fear of him coming after miquella for his rune piece, And yet she still ends up losing her brother while she's gone fighting radahn. Her paradise tree now rots away as she does. Malenia herself only survived that situation because one of her soldiers carried her all the way back to the tree.

Malenia took L after L after L in that situation, And if we go by the cutscenes in the trailer, If not for that nuke Radahn would of ragdolled her. She was going to lose that war and hit the big red button on herself in the hopes that it would at least stop radahn from going after miquella.


On OP's topic: People like her simply because she's a giant naked woman that beats them up. She has no real personality and no real development, She's literally just a tall woman that ends up naked halfway through the fight.

[Malenia]

She is my wife

[An Irate Walrus]

Originally posted by Malenia:

She is my wife

I mean, I like my wife, too--but if she came home one day bearing rot marks all over her lady-bits, our first stop would be the hospital.

A serious talk about how said rot was acquired would be our second, depending upon the hospital's findings.

More seriously, I tend to agree with Courtesy Flush's take here. Malenia--at least to me--reads like the sort of narcissistic coward who has skills of a certain degree, but nowhere near the level she actually claims. When the truth of her character and abilities is laid bare, as it was in her battle with Radahn, she reveals what she really is by pushing the same button Carmilla did in the Netflix adaptation of Castlevania, just at a much higher intensity: "♥♥♥♥ you, I win."

It's hard to respect that.

I can respect a warrior--or anyone, really--who fights and loses honestly, because at least they were in the arena. But anyone who pulls the "nuh-uh" card instantly slots themselves into the category of emotionally-fragile, self-aggrandizing losers.

...in that sense, Malenia's a pretty solid metaphor for the current state of a lot of Capital G's.

[Martini]

Originally posted by CourtesyFlush90:

She's a coward - straight up.

She nukes a quarter of the Lands Between because she was beaten to her knees by the Starscourge, as shown in the opening cinematic. In that cinematic, we also see Radahn giving her a chance to surrender as he stands over her with his arms crossed. It's only when she re-attaches her arm and gets ready for another round that Radahn draws his swords. By "blooming and dooming" Radahn, she also abandons her pride to "meet Radahn's measure," as Millicent herself confirms.

Then she just sits in a chair by Miquella's Hailgtree like a complete bum instead of getting off her ass and investigating where the hell he went. I know she's in pain because of the Rot, but literally just strike things with your sword to regain health, lady. You already surrendered your pride anyway.

And then she has the nerve to say that she "finally met [her] match" after you beat her when in reality you are not her match, but her superior. How do we know this? Well, because you defeat her. Hell, Radahn does too (the only difference being that you finish the job).

meeting your match usually doesn't mean literally 'meeting your match'
It's for >=, good or better

[Sabaithal]

She didn't nuke the area to cover herself. She got her ass whooped so hard that the nuke just triggered on reflex, which knocked her ass out by the way. She had to be carried back to the haligtree by her sole remaining knight (Finlay, who died in the process). The nuke killed the rest of her army, so whether that was on purpose or not, that's a MAJOR black stain on a commander's record.

So she basically lost one of her limbs, her army, the war itself, her brother, her pride as soon as she goes all phase 2 on us (seriously put some clothes on you nasty ♥♥♥♥♥), and finally the will to live.

Her entire existence is irony as she's "never known defeat" yet has been losing ♥♥♥♥ constantly.

To top that off her fight is less about skill and swordplay and more about 1-shot gimmicks and a ton of health. Its disappointing honestly.

[causality]

Originally posted by An Irate Walrus:

More seriously, I tend to agree with Courtesy Flush's take here. Malenia--at least to me--reads like the sort of narcissistic coward who has skills of a certain degree, but nowhere near the level she actually claims. When the truth of her character and abilities is laid bare, as it was in her battle with Radahn, she reveals what she really is by pushing the same button Carmilla did in the Netflix adaptation of Castlevania, just at a much higher intensity: "♥♥♥♥ you, I win."

It's hard to respect that.

I can respect a warrior--or anyone, really--who fights and loses honestly, because at least they were in the arena. But anyone who pulls the "nuh-uh" card instantly slots themselves into the category of emotionally-fragile, self-aggrandizing losers.

...in that sense, Malenia's a pretty solid metaphor for the current state of a lot of Capital G's.

Yeah, I hard swap to great lances when I'm losing and exclusively spam crouch r1 or jump r2 while playing passively. How could you tell?