This Inconsistently Heinous was Headlined on November 2023.
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Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact...same f-cking thing, over and over again, expecting...shit to change. That is crazy; but the first time somebody told me that... I dunno, I thought they were bullshitting me, so boom – I shot him. The thing is, okay...he was right. And then I started seeing: everywhere I looked, everywhere I looked, all these f-cking pricks, everywhere I looked, doing the exact same f-cking thing. Over and over and over and over again, thinking: "This time, it's gonna be different; no, no, no, no, no, please...this time it's gonna be different." ...I am sorry, I don't like the way you are looking at me. Okay? Do you have a f-cking problem in your head? Do you think I am bullshitting you? Do you think I am lying? F-ck you, okay?! F-CK! YOU! It's okay, man. I'm gonna chill, hermano. I'm gonna chill. The thing is...alright, the thing is I killed you once already, and it's not like I am f-cking crazy. It's okay. It's like water under the bridge. Did I ever tell you the definition... of insanity?
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~ Vaas Montenegro giving his famous "definition of insanity" in his monologue to Jason Brody.
Vaas Montenegro is the secondary antagonist of the 2012 first-person video game Far Cry 3, and the titular main protagonist of the Far Cry 6 DLC, Vaas: Insanity. He is the leader of the pirates on Rook Island and the brother of the Rakyat leader Citra. As part of a major running theme in the game, Vaas and all of the other villains are mentally unstable. Vaas is also known to be a charismatic but psychotic man at the same time. He is the archenemy of Jason Brody, the game's protagonist.
Helps Hoyt Volker operate his human slavery and trafficking ring for newcoming tourists on his island, selling them off regardless if the ransom is paid.
According to the game's survival guide, Vaas and his pirates are rapists.
Forcing a man to wear a deer's carcass while he piggyback-rides him, gunning him down once his usefulness expires.
After massacring a cruise ship, Vaas forced one of the only three survivors (a girl named Jennifer) to choose between gunning down one of the other two male survivors. Vaas then killed both men anyway regardless of Jennifer's choice.
Slowly torturing Christopher Mintz-Plasse to death for over a week while he's buried neck-deep in sand. Said torture includes:
Ripping out one of his teeth with pliers.
Forcing him to do snorkeling when the beach's tide comes up, and then pouring cigar ashes down the snorkel tube.
Electrocuting his temples with a car battery.
Dehydrating him, and then trapping his head in a glass bowl with giant spiders.
Setting a firecracker off in his face, which is covered with a bucket.
Urinating on his face when he refuses to wake up.
Feeding him human flesh that came from the leg of his cameraman Barry, whom he shot and then blew to smithereens with a bazooka.
Killed Jason's friend Doug before the game's main events by slicing him open.
Executing four men with headshots while taunting the last one about how his family just got him killed.
Killing Jason's brother Grant with a bullet to the neck right in front of him, psychologically damaging Jason as a result and giving him PTSD.
Planning to take over Rook Island by waging a deadly war on Hoyt.
Gunning down one of his own men just for miswording something, which pretty much confirms that his affability towards the rest of them is ingenuine.
Trying to burn Jason and his girlfriend Liza alive with gasoline.
Executing a man by tying cinderblocks to his ankles and pushing him into a cenote.
After shooting at Jason at point-blank range, Vaas celebrated by slaughtering an entire village and burying him under all the casualties.
Despite the Far Cry series' massive Heinous Standards, he easily stands out for having less resources than most of the other villains who are much worse than him and he also has a considerably high kill count coupled with his personal villainy towards Jason given he forced him to watch as he shot his brother dead. He is also very brutal with his murder methods.
While he may have many comedic moments, he's still taken 100% seriously in-universe.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
He is very tragic since Hoyt Volker brainwashed him with money and drugs, and his sister Citra forced him to kill his old friends in order to cut ties with his former life then tried to manipulate him into having sex with her. He also shows some remorse for what he's become, telling Jason he wished he and Citra never grew up the way they did.
He's also very insecure about himself, as shown in the audio recording of a conversation between him and Hoyt, implying that his evil deeds are partially to not appear weak in front of others.
Despite claiming that he is not insane, his behavior harshly contrasts that claim, as his erratic mood swings and inhumane crimes strongly contradict that claim, and despite defining insanity as doing the exact same thing over and over again, he does just that as he repeats his words constantly and makes multiple failed attempts on Jason's life. He also genuinely tells a dead man to wake up from his sleep and tried to shoot him to see if he would dodge the bullet. This gives him moral agency issues.
He sincerely cares about his pirates. Despite taunting and sometimes bullying them, he never harms them, even when they disappoint him, like letting Jason get away. He was also furious when Chris almost shot them.
He is shown to have some standards, as he was angered when Hoyt's men referred to members of the Rakyat as "natives" despite Vaas and his men being natives to the island themselves.
It's implied by the after-credits scene in Far Cry 6 that Vaas is turning over a new leaf, supplying weapons to fight back the remaining loyalists in Castillo's regime while also expressing sadness at what Anton did to his son Diego.
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