Sword Art Online

[Inazuma]

I'm surprised no one here speaks about the villain admitting to perfect brainwashing technology.
I mean - the guy just pulls the James Bond villain rookie mistake. Get the girl, reveal your plan to her. Atop of that he wants to break her will through some passive aggressive techniques.
This is no supervilain - he doesn't even deserve to be a low level henchmen. Things would have been so much more interesting if the system itself was the bad guy, if somehow Cardinal backed up it own self into a different game taking some players together in the process in order to challenge Kirito he whom defeat it's father.

Please SAO, don't go Kubo on me now.