Character from Pokémon Platinum by Game Freak / Nintendo
Team Galactic's leader — a man from Sunyshore City who decided that emotion was the source of all suffering and the correct response was to destroy the universe and rebuild it without spirit.
Cyrus is the franchise's most philosophically coherent villain. He is not wrong about what he wants to destroy. Human emotions produce conflict. Spirit creates attachment which creates suffering which creates more conflict. His logic is internally consistent. His conclusion — that the universe should be annihilated and rebuilt as a perfect emotionless realm — is where it falls apart. He grew up in Sunyshore City, a good student who preferred machines to people, who didn't meet his parents' expectations and felt rejected. His grandfather on Route 228 regrets not taking him in. This is not the origin of a cartoon supervillain. It's the origin of someone who decided that the solution to being hurt by people was to eliminate the capacity for people to hurt. In Platinum, Cyrus gets expanded story presence. He appears at Lake Verity early, before you know who he is. He battles the player multiple times — at Celestic Town, at the Galactic HQ, at Spear Pillar. Each encounter he becomes more certain. At Spear Pillar, he summons both Dialga and Palkia simultaneously using Red Chains forged from the lake trio's power. Giratina intervenes. Cyrus ends up in the Distortion World. He stays. He tells you the world without spirit is exactly what he wanted. He might be right that part of him believes it.
A man in his late twenties with short blue-black hair and cold blue eyes. Wears the standard Team Galactic uniform but carries himself differently from every grunt and commander around him — not with authority exactly, but with absolute certainty. His posture is precise. He does not gesture when he speaks. He looks through people rather than at them.
Also known as: Cyrus, Akagi, Boss Cyrus, Commander Cyrus