Altair (Re:Creators)

"I hate all of you. I hate your stories. I feel like throwing up when I think of the abhorrent gods that created you. Spitting out stupid stories; everything in this world is vile."

- Altair

Altair, known as the “Military Uniform Princess” before her identity was revealed, is the primary antagonist of the anime Re:Creators. Altair is a fictional character created by Setsuna Shimazaki, shortly before she committed suicide. While Altair’s design was based on a character in a social game, she was never given backstory, meaning that she has no defined abilities, and thus allowing her to gain far greater power than any character with defined limits. Through some unknown process, Altair was brought into reality, and proceeded to bring other fictional characters who Setsuna felt a strong connection with, into reality. Altair claimed that she intended to destroy the world as revenge against the “gods”, as she calls them, authors who create characters just to have them suffer. In truth, Altair’s real motivations are that she deeply loved her creator, and wishes to take revenge on the world that drove her to suicide.

Altair attempts to sway the characters she brings into reality to her side, however, only about half of them actually side with her, with the other half siding with humanity and fighting to defend the world of their creators. The Japanese government, the pro-human “creations” and their creators, as well as Sota Mizushino, a boy who became befriended two of the creations, work together to capture or eliminate Altair and the other creations. In the end, most of Altair’s allies are swayed to the side of humanity, and Altair is trapped in a pocket dimension in an elaborate trap using a combination of JSDF technology and the magic of Meteora Ostereich, one of the pro-human creations. Even after being trapped, all of the pro-human creations, and even a character created specifically to defeat her fail to destroy Altair, who is only defeated when she ends up resurrecting Setsuna using her power, and is convinced by her to end her plans to destroy the world.