Complete Monster/Tales (series)

Tales of Destiny

 * Kronos (known as Miktran in Japan), the millennia-old King of the Aetherians, is a racist who uses his people's well-being as an excuse to commit genocide against the populace of the Earth, known as the Er'thers. When the Er'thers tried to kill him, he killed one of them and overwrote their Swordian's personality in order to remain alive. Once he's unearthed a thousand years later, he possesses Hugo Gilchrist, making him kill his wife and abuse his son for 16 years and nearly causing several world wars to erupt as a means to gain the Eye of Atamoni. Though he uses the well-being of the Aetherians as an excuse to laser the Earth both before and after his "death" and to kill hundreds of people, he has no true care for his people,shown by him ignoring the descendants of the Aetherians living in the wasteland of Calvalese. A cruel and petty man, he takes amusement from the suffering of others and would stop at nothing to revive his kingdom.
 * 2 introduced Barbatos Goetia, a man so evil that, after his defeat by Dymlos, his name is removed from history altogether. After Elraine resurrected him, Barbatos happily became her Dragon in order to mark his name in history (and be praised as a hero instead, as seen in an alternate timeline) and has no qualms about murders, be it for missions or for the heck of it. The first time we see him on-screen during the flashback, he crosses Moral Event Horizon big time by holding Loni hostage and forcing Stahn and Rutee to drop their weapons, and then proceeded to outright murder Stahn and crippled Rutee, all in front of young Kyle's eyes. In the present, he also tried to kill other heroes like Philia and Garr/Woodrow just to eventually get himself marked in history. Looks fine, but when his method involves such brutality for the heck of it, he can't be a Well-Intentioned Extremist, but a Complete Monster who thinks It's All About Him. Though he's hilarious enough (with an epic voice to match) to double as an Ensemble Darkhorse.

Tales of Symphonia

 * Tales of Symphonia makes up for having a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Big Bad through the sheer depravity of some of the game's minor villains.
 * Kvar is noted in-game as having a reputation as "the cruelest of the Desian Grand Cardinals", and that is really saying something. He's basically a Josef Mengele Expy who tells Lloyd that he experimented on Lloyd's mother until she became a mindless monster, and in order to protect Lloyd from her, Lloyd's father had to kill her himself. Talk about It's Personal.
 * Rodyle continues Kvar's experiments after the latter dies, and if that's not bad enough, he drowned dozens of prisoners, including children, while the heroes watched but could not do anything about it, just to mess with them.
 * Vharley is a stooge of Rodyle and a bastard in his own right. An Exsphere broker, what was his response when Regal denied him access to his Exsphere mine? He tortured and experimented on Regal's lover until she could do nothing but beg for death...and ensured that Regal would have to kill her with his own hands.

Tales of Rebirth

 * Tohma, one of the Four Stars, stands out even in comparison to his boss Zilva as a vile being for his treatment of two characters in particular, Hilda and Millitsa. Tomha was intrigued in the combat potential of Halves, and so lures out and abducts Hilda from her loving parents and kills her father in one punch when he tries to get her back, laughing at how weak he was. He proceeds to raise Hilda as a Tyke Bomb, making her and Millitsa grow up in an environment where they would be neglected and ignored for being Halves and lies to them about being able to gift them with 'pure' bodies if they do as he says. He then trains them to torture and kill while they are still children, abducting people for them to 'practice' on. When Hilda breaks off her horns in an attempt to pass as human, Tomha sends her on a suicide mission he fully expects her to fail and reveals he lied to her when she does, making her powers go out of control which could easily kill her. Racist and cruel, he only gets his comeuppance after threatening and killing Hilda's mother, after he tries to kill his partner Saleh for being Huma.
 * The aforementioned Saleh, Tohma's partner in the Four Stars, is a Boomerang Bigot who willingly goes along with Zilva's plans to eradicate all Humans, despite being one himself. Obsessed with "The power of the heart," he aims to destroy this power by causing misery and despair wherever he goes, be it by hurting civilians for no reason or by deliberately heightening tensions between Huma and Gajuma (said tensions powering an Eldritch Abomination). No one is safe from his malice, including children or the comic relief villains, whom he brainwashes into attacking the heroes until they either kill them or die trying. Cruel and twisted, he is disposed of as the first human to die as part of Zilva's plan. However, unlike Tohma, Saleh is fairly pretty...
 * Both of them work for Zilva Madigan, who turns out to be just about as bad as Tohma, and she pretty much manipulated the whole Kingdom of Callegea in order to ensure that Gajuma reigns supreme and all Huma are eradicated. No, it's not because of the Fantastic Racism that she suffered, but because she just thinks that she and the Gajuma are superior, and thus deserving to rule (basically a female Tohma). She manipulated the kidnapping of Huma girls to be switched with Agarte just so the latter can be with Milhaust, and thereby kickstarting the game's events, and later on, she possessed the body of Dr. Barrs to strike at Eugene, thereby framing him for exile and not only prevents him from advising Agarte further, but also set Barrs' daughter Annie into a path of vengeance and turn her into a Gajuma-hater. When both work out and eventually confront and defeat Zilva, Annie nearly killed her only to back down just so she doesn't become as bad as her. Zilva's response wasn't even gratitude, but openly declaring on how much family love disgusts her. Even Hilda had to admit that most of Tohma's atrocities rooted from Zilva.

Tales of Legendia

 * Vaclav, the Evil Prince of the Crusand Empire who ultimately wants to Take Over the World. Vaclav first sends out Senel Coolidge to capture the Merines that control Legacy, a small continent that acts as a ship, in order to seize Legacy for himself. When Senel befriends the Merines instead of capturing them, Vaclav launches an all-out assault on the Village of the Ferines. Though Vaclav doesn’t capture his targets, he does kill many of the Ferines and kidnaps Stella Telmes, the Merines sister, because he views her as useful. Trapping her in suspended animation, Vaclav turned Stella into a proto-Merines and used her to control the Legacy, with the ultimate goal of using Legacy’s Nerifes Cannon to destroy the Holy Rexalian Empire. Vaclav also committed genocide against the Orerines people and performed vicious experiments on them in special camps.
 * There's also Jay's abusive surrogate father Solon, a sadistic psychopath with a love for physical and mental torture of all kinds who blackmails Jay into helping him with his evil plans by threatening to massacre Jay's other, better surrogate family, the Orrosoren. He mocks the very idea of Jay having a family and does everything in his power to dehumanize the kid.

Tales of Vesperia

 * Cumore, Ragou, and definitely fall into this trope..
 * Cumore tricked dozens of peasants into working in brutal slave camps and later sent an incredible number of villagers into the desert on what is basically a suicide mission looking for a Physical God.
 * is the Commandant of the Imperial Knights. However, he betrays his Empire in an attempt to conquer the world. To accomplish this, Alexei orchestrates a genocide of the Entelexeia, the race that protects the world, so he can harvest the powerful apatheia from their corpses. Two of his minions are forced to obey him because he will shut off their artificial hearts at the first sign of defiance. He tortures Estelle, a member of the royal family he was sworn to serve, to force her to use her powers to activate Zaude, an ancient superweapon. Using Estelle for this purpose floods Zaphias, the capital city of the Empire, with deadly aer and vicious monsters. While the original version may have positive qualities, the English translation removes these.
 * Ragou, the corrupt magistrate of Nor Harbor, is the worst of them, though. Nor Harbor has been experiencing storms, making it hard for the people there to make a living off of the port commerce. To make things worse, Ragou harshly taxes his people. If someone cannot afford his taxes, Ragou sends his mercenaries to take their loved ones (including children) as collateral. He keeps these loved ones in a basement full of monsters. When the heroes confront him over this, he explains that he finds people getting eaten by monsters to be entertaining. Ragou offers only one hope to his people: if they kill a vicious monster and bring back its horn as proof, they will never have to pay taxes again. Of course, this monster would make short work of most people who try to fight it. The heroes eventually discover that the storms around Nor Harbor are created by a special Blastia in Ragou's mansion, showing that he orchestrated the suffering of his people for his own amusement.

Tales of Phantasia

 * In search for the MacGuffin to wake up Dhaos, Mars is willing order his men to destroy everything and every life in Toltus, include the very young sister of Chester and Cress' ill mother. They also abduct Adnade family and kill Mint's mother. Not that Mars is important to the story, since he is killed off the very moment Dhaos is resurrected.

Tales of the Abyss

 * Grand Maestro Mohs is pretty damn vile; he deliberately tries to engineer a genocidal war in order to fulfill a prophecy, mentally manipulates Anise, an adolescent girl, by threatening the lives of her parents, and is generally a huge asshole to Ion up to and including forcing the poor kid to read the final Fonstone, a process so exhausting it kills him. In fact, the neural contamination effect of the Seventh Fonons in his body eventually causes him to transform into an insane, raving, vicious demon-like creature--and this is noted as being an improvement compared to his old personality! And to add insult to injury,.

Tales of Berseria

 * Innominat the Suppressor, the 5th Empyrean, mind rapes the entire malak population, turning them into soulless shells and slaves for the human population of the world. He takes great pleasure in both physically and psychologically torturing several victims, including . Feeding on malevolence, when he gains enough power to do so he begins to Mind Rape humans into the same state as malakhim, forcing anyone who’d ever sinned to commit Psychic-Assisted Suicide. He has no care for his followers, and when he does not even shed a tear over him, instead throwing a tantrum over being hungry.

Tales of the Tempest

 * The unnamed Spot possessing Inquisitor Rommy captures Leimorneans to use them for magical experiments and to harvest their souls. Psychotic and cruel, the demonic spirit kills for fun and frames its crimes on its own innocent prisoners. Controlling Caius Qualls's father, the Spot forces him to fight his own son before it grows bored and kills him in front of Caius. Killing the heroine's parents for no reason other than to entertain itself, the Spot also enjoys twisting the heroes' trust of each other to watch the emotional turmoil. Twisted and sadistic, the Spot killed, tortured and brainwashed for its own sick enjoyment.