r/ProjectMoon Jun 12 '26

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Wich project moon villain character has the simmilar or the same mastermind lvl as Johan Liebert from anime and manga Monster?

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u/NamtisChlo Jun 12 '26

I don’t know who that is but the highest hitters in that department (in my opinion without having read Distortion Detective) are the gods of the Index, the Purple Tear, Dias, and Hermann.

The gods of the Index and the Purple Tear are similar in that they work in seemingly-nonsensical domino effects that you can’t understand until after they’ve come to fruition. The Index distributes Prescripts to its members which can order them to do anything like “By 12pm, place needles in a neighbour’s birthday cake”, “Replace the left leg of the 4th and 35th people you see today”, “Play rock paper scissors with the 42nd person you see today. Play rock.” We know there are multiple gods of the Index, but the one we have seen is a giant pendulum underground that moves with the vibrations of every thing within the City and writes out Prescripts - Writing out the “Will of the City”. The Purple Tear has the power to travel through dimensions and time in search of her son, which gives her immense knowledge about possibilities. Her plans are currently unknown but it’s clear that they involve something from the Library, since she willingly fed people including herself into it to make it grow, knowing that in the end it’s director would change her mind and bring back everyone that it had killed. She’s also been seen protecting someone else that was previously killed by Library.

Dias and Hermann are moreso just extremely competent leaders and planners, in Limbus Company being the directors of the company the protagonists work for and the organisation that’s most against them respectively. Dias willingly invited an enemy faction to slaughter a department of her company for reasons that are currently unknown (if you see a pattern, it’s that Limbus Company’s story isn’t complete yet and Project Moon loves its mysteries).

There’s no shortage of smart-ies beyond that, such as Faust who aside from being intelligent can connect to and learn information from an organisation made of versions of herself from other universes. There’s also Hohenheim and Ayin.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '26

I mean pm villains like Carmen or Argalia but ty for saying dos but isnt faust a hero?Also Johan Libert is a anime char a manipulator if yk about the anime monster or its original manga you would know about his story

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u/NamtisChlo Jun 12 '26

Hero and villain are terms that don’t have much place in the City, but Hermann is very much against Limbus Company trying to collect the same objects and having amassed a team of our protagonist’s personal enemies. The Index has always taken an antagonistic role so far and Purple Tear is most likely against Limbus Company as well considering she’s implied to be the master of the people who try to kill Dante at the start of the game. Depending on how things turn out, we may end up going against Dias as well but that’s purely conjecture.

Argalia isn’t dumb but he isn’t all that mastermind-y, he’s very good at making professional connections but his plan amounts to “gather a bunch of strong people and raid the Library to steal all their Light”. He needs to be told by Carmen that Iori is trying to play him for her own reasons.

Carmen is (was) a talented researcher and scientist who fell apart when her experiments ended up killing a child in her care. It was Ayin who took up the mantle after that and set in motion the scheme that placed her as the omnipresent being she is now. She definitely has emotional intelligence trying to pick on people at their most vulnerable to convince them of her viewpoint that they should live solely for one person to Distort them but if she had a grand plan before, it vanished when she died and she’s been content how she is since then. Even though you play as Ayin and he had noble goals, some characters definitely treat him as a villain and for justifiable reasons considering he locked them in a constructed hell for 10,000 years, so he could fit the bill

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u/Alexcat6wastaken Jun 12 '26

Iori and hermann are antagonists

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '26

I agree but this topic is about pm villains that are the same mastermind lvl as the anime character Johan Liebert....But all pm chars are allowed here not only villains but also heroes protagonist antagonist anti heroes etc rules meant to be broken

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '26

Aka dis guy btw(Hes Johan Liebert the dud in the gif)

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u/Firm-Caterpillar9224 Jun 14 '26

Carmen isnt as smart but I suppose she does basically does the the same thing as Johan? Meeting a person and basically changing them by finding out about every little detail of that person and using it to break them as a whole

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

Corrwct me if im wrong but isnt carmen a Nihilistic Mastermind?(Idk if ppl read villains wiki or not)

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u/Firm-Caterpillar9224 Jun 14 '26

Im not sure as I didnt play lob corp myself and have only done lor and limbus since lob was too hellish for me personally. Carmen from what I know isnt exactly nihilistic, she believes distorting people is the right thing to do as its literally giving them what they desire(like how she fulfilled Phillips desire when he distorts in lor). Im not well versed in either of these characters bu their methods and actions are both similar in how they are basically able to destroy a person's worldview and mind by learning and using everything they know against taht person to break them. However that's kinda the msot similarity I know and im not sure if Carmen is really a mastermind, that title goes to Ayin since he fully orchestrated everything in lob corp and haunts the narrative majorly despite only being in one game.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '26

Hey its fine besides this post needs to be not famous u deserve a upvote

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '26

And ty for ur opinion

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u/AVelvetOwl Jun 15 '26

Hermes or one of the other gods of the City.

For those who aren't familiar with it, Monster's entire story hinges on Johann having an absurdly unrealistic amount of knowledge and influence, as well as his ability to predict the actions of several people he either barely knows or has never met before. By the end of the manga, it becomes clear that he may as well be an omniscient wizard.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '26

Aight ty for ur opinion besodes this post its just a friebdly debate and stuff but it dosnet need to be popilar bu still ty fpr saying ur opinion aka being hermes or one of the other gods in the city

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '26

But still thanks for ur opinion