Summary
- The Far Cry franchise could potentially introduce former protagonists like the Junior Deputy and Dani Rojas in more villainous roles.
- Willis Huntley, a character who has appeared in multiple Far Cry games, has already shifted from a heroic role to a more shady one, indicating that he could become a major antagonist in the future.
- Characters like Jack Carver, Jason Brody, and The Jackal have the potential to return as villains due to their unique characteristics and past experiences, providing interesting possibilities for future installments of the franchise.
The world of Far Cry is an unusual one, with a surprising amount of character crossover between entries in the long-running game series despite the casts and stories being so vastly different each time. Despite it being unusual for any game to do something like bringing back a heroic character as a villain, it certainly wouldn’t be out of place for Far Cry to do so.
Throughout the history of these games, a lot of effort has always been connected with character work. The Far Cry franchise is known for bringing in big actors to help create amazing heroes and villains alike, so one of the heroic characters returning to take on a more villainous role is entirely possible. Even though the franchise seems to be in limbo, it is actually still moving forward.
6 The Deputy
Perhaps one of the most likely former Far Cry protagonists to return later in a more villainous position, the Junior Deputy was the player character and main protagonist of Far Cry 5. He played an elongated game of cat-and-mouse with Joseph Seed, the dastardly villain who believed that a nuclear holocaust was coming, thus ushering in the end of the world.
Despite Seed being the leader of a fanatical cult, and his ideas being completely ludicrous, he ended up being proven right in what is known as the canon ending for Far Cry 5, the one in which the Deputy chooses not to kill him and gets into a bunker with Seed in time to survive the holocaust that does indeed come. The Deputy is referenced by Seed in Far Cry: New Dawn but is now being called The Judge, and has begun to take in more of what Seed says, believing him and submitting to his ideas. This is an easy set-up for the Junior Deputy to return as the villainous, fanatical Judge in the future.
5 Dani Rojas
Dani Rojas is the most recent main protagonist of the franchise in Far Cry 6. While this character fought viciously against the reign of Anton Castilo, helping the Resistance and making a lot of enemies along the way by not being particularly kind. However, when voted by many of the Resistance leaders to take over the role of El Presidente in Yara, Dani refuses.
This is interesting, but even more interesting is that Dani lets the Resistance factions decide who should be the next leader instead while admitting that they don’t have faith in the factions to choose a good leader. Dani wasn’t customizable as a character in Far Cry 6, which is rare for the franchise, and actually having a name and being fully voiced is also unusual, making it seem as if the developers wanted a special focus on Dani, so the character would be better-remembered than other protagonists. Could a more cynical Dani, after seeing that the overthrow of the Castilo regime didn’t help Yara, become a more villainous character in a future installment?
4 Willis Huntley
Willis Huntley is an interesting character because few if any others have appeared in as many editions of the Far Cry franchise as he has managed. First, he appeared in Far Cry 3 as a heroic side character, a CIA agent looking to help Jason Brody in his mission. However, Huntley has already managed to be a heroic character that returns with a less heroic role.
In Far Cry 4, Willis appeared to be using Ajay in different missions, forcing him to help in Huntley’s shady schemes on the basis of getting more information about his parents. He also made a briefer appearance in Far Cry 5, gaining the assistance of the Junior Deputy to recover an embarrassing VHS tape from a bunker, and a secret including him can even be found in Far Cry 6. His role has shifted violently over time, and it would be a simple thing to bring back Willis Huntley as a more major antagonist.
3 Jack Carver
The protagonist of the original Far Cry game, Jack Carver is a character who has already managed to star in Far Cry: Instincts and the Far Cry movie adaption which didn’t manage a great deal of success. However, it seems that the franchise has since chosen to move on from Carver. Nevertheless, a return is not out of the question for this character.
After being injected by Kreiger on Jacutan, Jack gained superhuman but feral abilities which make him dangerous in completely different ways to anybody else in the more recent Far Cry entries. As such, it would be easy to concoct a story about him living longer but slowly losing his sanity, making him the perfect choice for an insane villain in a newer entry. He also often found himself at the bottom of a bottle and broke, so finally turning to a life of crime to get by and finally have some money would be easily explained. Fans may see more in the unofficial fan-made sequel to the original game.
2 Jason Brody
Jason Brody was the protagonist of Far Cry 3, someone who started out as a nobody but became a legend in the Rook Islands after escaping Vaas and helping determine the future of the islands in several ways. He earned the respect of the Rakyat and became a member of their tribe along the way, but already somewhat appeared in a villainous role in a later entry.
Jason returned recently in the Far Cry 6 expansion Vaas: Insanity, which let players take control of Vaas Montenegro as a protagonist and view Jason as a villainous character. Obviously, this doesn’t really count as Jason becoming a villain, but Jason’s fascinating monologue at the end of Far Cry 3 about becoming a monster after all the killing he has been forced into makes for an interesting possibility that he could return as a villain down the line.
1 The Jackal
One of the main characters in Far Cry 2, The Jackal is never actually a playable character but was a back-and-forth character who ended up helping the Mercenary to save the day at the end. While it seemed as if the Jackal and the Mercenary both perished, there is a mention in the final cut scene that the body of the Jackal was never found.
This makes for an easy story about his escaping and moving on with his various shady activities. He already troubled the player several times throughout Far Cry 2 before actually helping them, so it wouldn’t be a large leap for him to return to the franchise under the guise of a more villainous character, especially given how long it has been in-universe since the events of Far Cry 2. Fans may find out more if this entry gets a remake at some point.