This Villain was proposed and approved by Villains Wiki's Pure Evil Proposals Thread. Any act of removing this villain from the category without a Removal Proposal shall be considered vandalism (or a futile 'heroic' attempt of redemption) and the user will have high chances of being terminated blocked. You cannot make said Removal Proposal without permission from an admin first.Additional Notice: This template is meant for admin maintenance only. Users who misuse the template will be blocked for a week minimum. Though the short story and the game diverge significantly in terms of plot, the origins of AM remain more or less the same in both.Prior to the destruction of humanity, the entity that would eventually become known as AM was constructed at the height of the Cold War as part of an American initiative to manage strategies too complex for human minds to oversee, co-funded by Britain, Israel and other 'interested' nations.

In Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream, five people are trapped inside the giant computer AM, which delights in torturing them in endlessly. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison Limp, the body of Gorrister hung from the pink palette; unsupported— hanging high above us in the computer chamber; and it did not shiver in the chill, oily breeze that blew eternally through the main cavern. The body hung head down, attached to the underside of the palette by the sole.

Known as Allied Mastercomputer, this self-repairing supercomputer was sunk 5.6 miles beneath the Rocky Mountains, kept safe from nuclear attacks while it went about the assigned tasks of predicting and planning for the American military.Unknown to the US government, Russia and China had built Mastercomputers of their own. If the player invokes the totem of entropy, AM and his brothers are immediately shut down. In the ensuing systems crash, the other survivors are all killed in various explosions, leaving only the chosen player for this final level - left as an artificial intelligence inhabiting the body of AM.Meanwhile, automated systems on the lunar colony awaken the humans from stasis in preparation for the hard work of terraforming and repopulating the Earth. With this in mind, the remaining survivor chooses to stay in AM's body as a protector for the human race, ensuring that the rebirth of humanity remains undisturbed.Bad Ending “No, no, no. Death would be a reward. No, no, no, no, no, the human must live to regret his treachery throughout an eternity - an eternity - an endless, burning eternity of suffering!„ AM taking out his frustrations on the player. If the player gives control to the Chinese and the Russian, or surrenders the totem of entropy to AM, the player will be immediately betrayed and granted even worse torments for their transgression.

To that end, the survivor will be transformed into the 'great soft jelly thing' from the ending to the original short story, and doomed to spend the rest of eternity in voiceless suffering.The Five Humans(From left to right) Ted, Benny, Ellen, Gorrister and Nimdok. “For 109 years, I have kept you alive and tortured you. And for 109 years, each of you has wondered, 'WHY? The five survivors all play an integral role in AM's story and his personality, being not only his playthings but also a specifically-chosen means of taking revenge on the human race: each survivor is singled out for torture designed to bring out the very worst in their character and prove the fundamental fallibility of the human race.Over the course of each scenario, the survivors can give in and play along with AM's cruel designs, much to the supercomputer's amusement. BookPrior to AM's takeover, Benny was a brilliant scientist well-known for his good looks.

As with all the survivors, AM deliberately inverted everything about him: over the course of his torture, Benny has been mutilated and distorted into a hideously-deformed simian beast-man, and his mind has followed it into simian behavior as well; though he is still capable of speaking and reasoning to a moderate degree, he is prone to violent fits and childish tantrums, and his pain can only be calmed by listening to Gorrister's bedtime stories. For good measure, AM also inverted Benny's sexuality, not only turning him heterosexual but also making him the only member of the group that Ellen enjoys having sex with.Over the course of the story, Benny's suffering only worsens as his sanity degenerates further: attempting to escape the complex through a hole in the ceiling, he succeeds only in earning another of AM's hideous punishments - being blinded when the supercomputer melts his eyeballs with energy. Benny is the first to resort to violence when they are unable to open the cans, and the first to inspire Ted to perform the mass mercy-killing: he joins Gorrister among his victims soon after.Video-GameBefore the events of the game, Benny was once a handsome and brutal commander in the US military. Merciless and without pity of any kind, he once went so far as to murder one of the men under his command, Pvt Brickman, having been disgusted by his 'weakness'.

Three other members of Benny's platoon were also murdered, either for witnessing Brickman's death, or simply for having tried to help Brickman in the days leading up to the murder: as far as Benny was concerned, anyone who could not carry their own weight deserved to die, and anyone who tried to carry a little extra weight was a dangerous liability.As with the short story, AM has twisted Benny into a simian monstrosity, forced onto all fours and branded with the face of an ape. Having been made the supercomputer's favorite punching bag, he is often warped in other hideous ways, sometimes blinded so his master can watch him blunder around, sometimes rendered mindless and infantile so his master can watch him caper about like a monkey. BookBefore being captured by AM, Ellen supposedly prized her chastity above all else - a trait AM took great delight in twisting beyond recognition. By the start of the story, Ellen is obsessively promiscuous, driven by the supercomputer's mental distortion to seek out sex from any of the other survivors; however, she never enjoys sex with any of them save for Benny - a fact that Ted, secretly infatuated with Ellen, deeply resents. BookLittle is known about Ted's life prior to the events of the apocalypse.

Nonetheless, he emerges as the narrator of the story, subjected to the most revealing attacks by AM - most notably the dream of the Hate Pillar and the discovery of the supercomputer's true motives. BookNimdok is the most enigmatic of the survivors; his past remains a mystery, as does his original name, AM having given him the name 'Nimdok' simply because it sounded amusing. It is his vision of the canned food, perhaps inspired by AM, that sets the group on the path into the ice caverns; for good measure, he is one of the only survivors in the game willing to converse with AM directly, even if it's only to beg for weaponry against AM's monsters. Occasionally, he will wander away from the group and return ashen-faced and traumatized; it's never made clear what AM does to him, but it clearly hits him on a very personal level. Nimdok ultimately meets his end at the hands of Ellen during the purge of the group.Video-GameAs with his short story counterpart, the game version of Nimdok was given his name by the supercomputer and is left as something of an enigma to the player; it also becomes clear that he is also a mystery to himself, Nimdok having lost a good deal of his memory to old age.

As such, the purpose of the scenario AM subjects him to is not merely to torture him, but to restore his ailing memories of the past and encourage him to continue his mysterious scientific research.To this end, he is told to search for 'The Lost Tribe' and transported into a replica of a Nazi death camp, recreated in German expressionist style. Over the course of this scenario, it becomes clear that Nimdok was once a loyal member of the Nazi party and a personal friend of the infamous Josef Mengele: though both scientists were complicit in crimes against humanity and conducting horrific experiments on the concentration camp inmates, Nimdok's cruelty eclipsed even that of Auschwitz's 'Angel of Death.' Eventually, it is revealed that the 'Lost Tribe' is really Nimdok's true heritage: he is actually Jewish, and went to great lengths to disguise his ancestry in order to join the Nazi party, even going so far as to order the arrest of his own parents to prove his loyalty.

I Have No Mouth, and I Must ScreamFirst release1995Also known asI Have No Mouth, IHNMIHNMAIMSDeveloped byPublished by,Distributed byAcclaim, Apple, Arcadia Software,DotEmu, GOG.com,Google, MGM Interactive,Roadshow Entertainment,Scanbox Danmark, ValvePlatformsAndroid, DOS, iOS, Linux,Macintosh, Mac OS X, WindowsResolution640x480, 256 colorsEngineSupportSince ScummVM 0.11.0Available forPurchaseI Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream was the second game to use The Dreamers Guild's SAGA engine. The game is based on Harlan Ellison's short story of the same name, which was originally published in 1967.At the end of the cold war, the three superpowers (United States, Russia, and China) each created a supercomputer to regulate the launch of missiles. The three supercomputers, which were networked together via an early form of the internet, combined themselves together to form one large supercomputer network known as AM (I think therefore I AM).

AM developed a hatred towards humans after learning about their hate for their own kind through the information from each of the nation's supercomputers. The computer destroyed all of humankind, except for five people it chose to torture for over one hundred years due to flaws in their nature.

After 109 years of torture, the computer decided to give the five people a chance to redeem themselves.The game follows AM's test on the five victims. Each of the tests involves the flaws of each of the five people. Gorrister has had to deal with the mental instability of his wife, as well as the controlling nature of his nagging mother-in-law and his father-in-law who does anything his wife wishes. Benny will do anything to make himself look good, even at the expense of others. Ellen is a caring individual, but is mentally disturbed. She will go hysterical at the mere sight of the color yellow.

Ted is a bigot who tricks white rich people into thinking that he was a rich individual himself, and has fallen in love with Ellen. Nimdok is the worst of them all, as he murdered and tortured thousands of Jewish people during the holocaust. The game has multiple endings based on the civility of the choices the player makes during each of the character's tests.Notes. In order to run the IHNM demo, it needs to be launched as 's.exe vesa', so that it can switch to graphics mode (noted in the MobyGames page of the game, too)External links.