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| “ | No cure for what I'm going to do to you... | „ |
| ~ A young Ruben as he dissects a pig head. |
| “ | Who do you think you are? I know who you are, "Seb". I know what you crave, what you fear... Will you be able to live with yourself knowing what I'm going to make you do? Poor little Joseph couldn't... Too bad they dragged you into this. But either way, you're mine to do with what I please. | „ |
| ~ Ruvik to Sebastian. |
Ruvik is the secondary antagonist of The Evil Within series. He is the main antagonist of the 2014 horror video game The Evil Within, a major antagonist of The Evil Within DLC: The Assignment and The Consequence and a minor flashback character in The Evil Within 2.
He was voiced by Jackie Earle Haley.
Biography[]
This section is too long. Visit here for more details: Ruvik's Synopsis on the Villains Wiki.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Alongside Marcelo Jimenez, Ruvik experimented on and tortured several animal and even human test subjects for several years.
- He killed both his parents at a young age despite only his father being responsible for Ruben's imprisonment, while his mother was unaware and assumed him dead.
- He corrupted the world of STEM, turning people who died while connected to it, into serial homicidal monsters, one of the worst being The Sadist.
- He killed or tried to kill anyone who went into the world of STEM.
- He managed to manifest into beacon hospital and killed anyone who stood in his way, including the police.
- He sent Kidman, Joseph, and Sebastian into STEM and tried to kill them in different scenarios like:
- Knocking out Sebastian and forcing him into the Sadist’s lair to try and get him tortured or killed.
- Transforming Oscar Conley into a Haunted, forcing Sebastian to kill him.
- Multiple times in the story he turns Oda, Kidman, or Sebastian into a haunted which is shown to cause them immense pain.
- Turning Valerio Jimenez (Brother of Marcelo) into a haunted, getting him killed.
- Creating the monster version of his sister, Laura, and sending her to kill Sebastian.
- There are several other attempts to claim the trios lives, but there is WAY too much to list.
- He killed Dr. Marcelo with the Amalgam Alpha.
- Even after he recognizes Sebastian and Joseph were forced into STEM by Mobius, Ruvik still attempts to kill them simply for sadism and (involuntarily) intervening with his plans.
- He mind raped and possessed Leslie in order to escape Beacon Mental Hospital.
- His affect on STEM would carry over into the Evil Within 2 as the kidnapping of lily brought back his corruption to union.
- His torture traumatized Sebastian Castellanos. This caused Sebastian to be declared crazy by his peers, lose his job as a police officer, and fall into a deep depression for 3 years.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He genuinely loved and cared about his sister Laura and might not have become who he is if she hadn't died like she did.
- He is genuinely tragic. Him and his sister were burned by villagers as an act of revenge against their parents for buying up land. While Ruben survived the fire, he was heavily disfigured and later, was imprisoned in the basement by his father to hide his son's disfigurement. Even after he freed himself, Mobius would later reduced Ruvik down to just his brain and use him as The Core to STEM.
- While Ruben was performing his experiments at the time, they were not public; making his burning unprovoked and unwarranted.
Trivia[]
- Incidentally, Ruvik is inspired by Freddy Kruger from A Nightmare on Elm Street (a character played by Jackie Earle Haley in the 2010 reboot). However, unlike Freddy, Ruvik cannot qualify as Pure Evil due to his tragedy holding up and his care for Laura.
External Links[]
- Ruvik on the Villains Wiki.