Complete Monster/Video Games



""Oh, I can talk alright. And I got a pretty good memory. 'Fiora! Get outta there! Get out!' Her screams were music to my ears, as my claws slid right through her soft flesh, like a hot knife through butter! GAHAHAHAHAHA!" —Metal Face/Mumkhar from Xenoblade Chronicles giving Pigma Dengar a run for his money."

You're really going to be glad when you defeat these characters in your games. That is, unless you're playing as them. The following series have their own Complete Monster pages:
 * Ace Attorney
 * Assassin's Creed
 * DC Games
 * Dead Rising
 * Digimon
 * Dragon Age
 * Dragon Ball
 * Dragon Quest
 * The Elder Scrolls
 * Fable
 * Fallout
 * Fire Emblem
 * Final Fantasy
 * Grand Theft Auto
 * Kingdom Hearts
 * Legend of Zelda
 * Mario Series
 * Mega Man
 * Metal Gear
 * Metroid
 * Mortal Kombat
 * Pokémon
 * Resident Evil
 * Science Adventure Series
 * Shin Megami Tensei
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Star Wars
 * Tales Series
 * Warcraft
 * When They Cry
 * The Witcher
 * Xeno Series
 * Yu-Gi-Oh

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 * Sakaki of .hack GU was merely annoying and overzealous at first, but later revelations removed any kind of sympathy fans might have had for him. Specifically, the revelation that he had been manipulating and controlling AIDA behind the scenes, and that his ultimate goal was to use AIDA as mass mind control over all of humanity. But the biggest blow against him was his treatment of Atoli, who had long been one of his strongest supporters. Turns out he had met her on a suicide website, preyed on her fears about being alone and considered worthless, effectively brainwashed her into depending on him, and then Mind Raped her to bring out the power of her Epitaph. When all of his plans fail and he gets infected with AIDA himself, he then spends the first half of the final volume putting together a sadistic tournament for the sole purpose of making Haseo and the rest suffer (harming quite a few others in the process), and laughing at the pain he's causing. His comeuppance was most satisfying indeed.
 * in the visual novel 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors was first introduced as a However, after his real identity as the CEO of Cradle Pharmaceutical and role as the main architect behind the First Nonary Game was revealed,  true personality was shown. Nine years prior the events of the game,  In the end,  was nothing more than a cruel, selfish man and nothing than he merely pretended to be. Indeed, like Junpei said in the True Ending, after  had surrendered and confessed his sins, Junpei couldn't forgive him.
 * Adventure Quest Worlds:
 * Meet Chaos Lord Ledgermayne, a plant-like being of pure magic who is behind all of the problems with magic in Lore. After preventing the players from entering the portal to the para-elemental plane of magic where it's at its strongest, Ledgermayne closes the portal to keep them from making any further attempts to enter the plane. After the players collect the Wrap of Gilead, the third and second-to-last piece of the Supreme Arcane Staff, Ledgermayne finally reveals its true purpose - it wants to seal off the para-elemental plane of magic from Lore forever. Since magic is the life-force of Lore, this means that, if Ledgermayne succeeds, Lore and all life on it will be starved off and killed. And, worst of all, Ledgermayne KNOWS THIS and doesn't care one tiny bit!
 * Chaos Dragonlord Vath also qualifies, as he not only enslaved the dwarves, but also his own dragon. He doesn't care how much pain and suffering he's causing the dwarves in the slightest and doesn't even care if they starve to death as, long as they can forge enough Chaos Gemeralds to keep him happy. Worse yet, Vath even threatens to enslave the rest of Lore and will even threaten to throw the bodies of anyone who tries to foil his plans down to the dwarves as a demonstration of WHAT HAPPENS to those who oppose his might.
 * Chaos Lord Krellenos chaorrupted his brother Antiphuus and allowed his kin to blame the Horcs for his death. He proceeded to steal an Arashtite ore of the Accord of the Dark Sun from the Ravine Temple to chaorrupt friends and family alike, doing so to his family and to the Horcs as well.He began using the chaorrupted generals of both sides of the Alliance to try to shatter said Alliance and get the Hero blamed for it all. Krellenos proved willing to sacrifice anything — even family — for Chaos power all while starting a huge war.
 * Age of Empire series:
 * Age of Empires III: The War Chiefs Expansion Pack: Sheriff William "Billy" Holme is the Big Bad of the Shadow section. Initially a friend to Chayton Black, Holme becomes consumed by greed when gold is discovered in the Black Hills. Holme summons his old friend Chayton with the intent of manipulating him into kicking the Sioux off the land so he can claim the gold. When Chayton attempts to negotiate with the Sioux leader Crazy Horse, Holme follows Chayton and attempts to assassinate Crazy Horse, shattering any chance of a peace settlement. When Chayton builds a fort for Holme, Holme orders Chayton to destroy an entire village and leave no survivors—including women and children—even though they have done nothing. When Chayton protests the order, Holme initially tries to justify it as they will do something, and then dares Chayton to turn on him. When cornered by Chayton in a cave, Holme justifies all of his crimes by arguing he would have been rich. When Chayton asks Holme if he would kill the settlers, he admits the only thing that matters is the gold. When urged by Chayton to surrender peacefully, Holme attempts to shoot him with a pistol despite his life being spared. A man who uses his sheriff's position to manipulate his friend into murdering innocent people all for the sake of greed, Holme shows the dark side of colonization and settlement in a game that skirts around these issues.
 * Age of Mythology: Gargarensis, from Fall of the Trident (the campaign), is an evil Cyclops. Upon learning of his relationship with Poseidon, he intends to become immortal. Scheming to release the Titan Kronos, Gargarensis is well aware that releasing him will bring about the end of the world, but doesn't care. When the hero Arkantos disrupts his excavation in Greece, he threatens to kill his son, and upon arriving in Egypt, threatens to kill his dragon Kemsyt when the latter was defeated. Forced to flee Egypt, Gargarensis makes it clear to Kemsyt that he will only keep him alive as long as he is still useful. When he is trapped in the Norselands, Gargarensis forces Kemsyt into a perfect illusion of himself— guaranteeing Kemsyt's death— to buy himself more time. After taking over Atlantis, Gargarensis uses the powers of the gods to murder women and children to taunt his adversary, and upon his final defeat screams that he was promised a victory. Ambitious, arrogant, and selfish, Gargarensis shows that he will do anything to become immortal, even if it means the end of the world itself.
 * Alice: Madness Returns has
 * In Alpha Protocol. Henry Leland, the ruthless CEO of Halbech Corporation, will make anyone suffer so he can profit, and in addition is shown to be willing to throw aside anyone whose usefulness expires. Masterminding every major crime in the story, Leland paid terrorists to shoot down a civilian airliner; framed Michael "Mike" Thorton for treason when he got close to the truth; causes turmoil and riots in Taiwan with an assassination attempt on the President; and has his men assault a popular museum, where Mike is forced to choose between the death of his friend and possibly lover, or letting a bomb kill many civilians in a wing of the museum. Leland's end goal was to start a big enough arms race to start a new world war and to line his pockets with the ensuing wartime profit. Should Mike join Leland, Leland will order Mike to kill anyone who knows of his plans; should Mike refuse to join him, Leland will try to have him killed too.
 * Conrad Marburg is part of the conspiracy to destabilize the world by funding terrorists so an arms manufacturer that's seeing profit loss for refusing to change it's business strategy with the end of the cold war can simply have a new cold war to thrive in. He puts Mike into a Sadistic Choice where he must There is no third option, and Marburg delights in taunting Mike over it. During the boss fight, if Mike kills Marburg's mooks, Marburg will freak out about it, but far from generating sympathy, it's clearly Moral Myopia at work. As a bonus, if Mike is being played as cold, professional and uncaring for others, Marburg will like him. Worst of all, although it is.
 * Alter AILA: Psycho for Hire Red joins The Empire simply because it's the strongest of the factions and allows him to direct his bloodlust at the Imperialists' targets. An Ax Crazy lunatic who favors strength above all else, Red spends the game brutally murdering or attempting to murder everyone in his path and has designs on the throne himself. He aims to backstab the Imperials and take over himself before reigning as The Caligula.
 * Amateur Surgeon: used to be Dr. Bleed's student, but grew bored of his teachings and showed his true colors by poisoning and killing his teacher's patients, leaving Bleed to take the fall. After revealing himself, he poisons Bleed and leaves him and Aureola to die without a single trace of remorse, only letting Alan live so he could see his loved ones die in front of him. In the sequel, he becomes a madman obsessed with revenge, ruining Alan's life by . And if that wasn't enough, . In a series full of sympathetic criminals,  proved himself to be a sadistic, revenge-obsessed individual whose crimes stand out in an otherwise lighthearted game.
 * from Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Not only in flashbacks show him but also.
 * in the DLC of the game is a narcisstic psychopath who murdered her father with the family's star-shaped soapstone. She buried her father's corpse under the mansion in the family crypt. As the sole heir, she eventually took over the Florbelle estate and later pitted three men who all had feelings for her against against one another, eventually leading to their downward spiral into madness and destruction.
 * An online game, Anaksha Female Assassin is brimming with them but the worst is the Big Bad, Vincent St. Claire. Prior to the events of the game, he raped and murdered his pregnant wife Zara. in the present, he poses as a school principal to hide his criminal empire. He uses this position to sell drugs to students, in addition to running an operation to sell women into sexual slavery. Finally, he tries to blow up his school and frame Anaksha for it to get revenge on her for interfering with his crimes.
 * Another mission has you murder three child rapists who kidnapped a little girl, raped her, and tattooed a word "whore" on her body. The girl later died in the hospital.
 * Old King from Armored Core 4A. A member of the Well-Intentioned Extremist group, Orca, this guy seems to just be along for the ride. The other members are out to break corporation control and expand out to space. Old King? He wants to kill everyone in the colonies, just for shits and giggles. Getting better, he gets
 * Arcanum of Steamworks and Magick Obscura has "Sir" Garrick Stout, the Melee master. He challenges his rival, Adkins Chambers, to a duel because he wants Adkins' betrothed, and when Chambers yielded on defeat, Stout cut his eyes out. He later ropes the player into rescuing the lady and tries to force her into marriage by offering her a blindness-curing potion. Suffice to say, giving him his comeuppance has never been so sweet, and even on an evil play-through it's hard not to kill him. Oh, and if you duel him he'll usually start by severely poisoning you (which is kinda annoying since he has the only free sample of strong poison out there). Stout is such a bastard that even the game considers double-crossing him and killing him immediately after receiving both Melee Master training and the blindness-curing potion to be the noble solution to the paired Melee/Dodge quests.
 * Asura's Wrath has two clear cut examples among it's cast, the first being Sergei of the Seven Deities. While all of the Deities are unlikable assholes to some extent save for Kalrow and Yasha, Sergei takes the cake even among them. While the rest of the Deities nuke cities and harvest souls in order to combat the chaotically evil Gohma and view it as a necessity, Sergei is a psychotic sadist who finds beauty in the destruction he causes and relishes any moments he gets to wipe out humans. It gets even worse when he reveals that he murdered Asura's wife and Yasha's sister Durga while he kidnapped Mithra for the war effort, and he gloats about this to both Asura and Yasha's faces. What makes this heinous is the fact that it's heavily hinted that he didn't need to kill Durga, he just did it to piss off her loved ones. Him is well deserved.
 * The next example is a BIG spoiler:
 * Jon Irenicus. Shadows of Amn starts with his torturing the Player Character, and continues with a tour of his dungeon where you find out that he has killed two of your party members from the previous game and cut one of them apart while making your innocent little sister watch, and keeps people floating in jars in perpetual pain and madness, and stuff like that. One reviewer at Amazon.com gave the game an extremely negative review after only playing this part and quitting in disgust, saying that Irenicus "defines evil". And Irenicus does all this with complete indifference. He doesn't enjoy, justify or regret it. He just has no regard for the suffering of others whatsoever. Even his Freudian Excuse is something he only got after already trying to leap the Moral Event Horizon (although those initial crimes seem tame to the player compared to his others, as we don't get to see what would actually happen if he killed the Tree of Life). His former people and most of the playable characters also think of him very much in Complete Monster terms. The fact that he is made to appear as an unbeatable, irresistible inevitability that your character is helpless against only adds to the desire to finally kill him.
 * from Baten Kaitos Origins qualifies big time. Acting under the guise of a Reasonable Authority Figure, he coldly masterminds the plot to by taking advantage of everyone else. Before the game's events, he . During the game, he orders Shanath (a massive Jerkass in his own right) to cross the Moral Event Horizon by ...just to smear on the reputation of someone getting in his way. Later on, just as  is about to consider a Heel Face Turn,  shows up, murders him, and starts gloating about all his deeds. It's incredibly satisfying to see.
 * Wiseman. While its (?) values that lead to the attempt at one of the creepiest Assimilation Plots of the age may be incomprehensible, there are some things that just lack any excuse - like . And making matters even worse, it is heavily implied that.
 * The Joker is the true Big Bad and the ultimate mastermind behind all the evil in Batman: Vengeance. Faking his death to keep suspicion off himself, Joker manipulates the supervillains Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy into committing various crimes, from flash freezing a factory of workers to implanting carnivorous plants iside innocents to blackmail them, and usss the ensuing chaos to initiate his own scheme. Joker plans to pump Joker Gas and the highly flammable substance Promethium into Gotham City's sewers, then giddily watch as millions of innocents choke on their own laughter as they burn alive. Even when beaten, Joker attempts to fling himself to his death, hoping to both torment Batman and immortalize himself as the greatest nightmare in Gotham's history.
 * Cassandra, the Big Bad of Battetanx: Global Assault, is a malicious Queen Lord who is responsible for releasing a plague that wiped out almost all of the women on the planet. After the world tore itself apart and humanity fell, Cassandra used her mind-controlling powers to build her own empire across America and Europe. Upon discovering that Griffin Spade, along with his wife. Madison, and son, Brandon, possess the same Psychic Powers as her, she orders her army to kidnap their son and eliminate anyone in their way. While chasing them across America, Cassandra succeeds in brainwashing and kidnapping Brandon so she can later use him for more nefarious deeds. When Brandon's parents finally rescue him, Cassandra orders her troops to go after the Spade family again, no longer caring if Brandon is killed in the crossfire. Shortly before Cassandra's defeated, she tries one last time to brainwash Brandon into destroying the entire world.
 * Bayonetta 2 has Loptr, the evil twin of Loki, both having split off from the original creator god Aesir. Revealed as responsible for the evil of Father Balder from the first game, Loptr murdered Balder’s beloved, the Umbra Witch Rosa and framed Loki for it to send Balder on a hunt for vengeance, as his evil plan required Loki out of the way. Loptr manipulates Bayonetta and her allies while causing death and destruction until he can seize the ultimate powers of creation for himself and recreate himself as the ultimate god anew. His evil even infects Balder to turn him from a noble warrior into the genocidal monster from the first game. He's also the reason why Balder hates Bayonetta and believes she, along with all other Umbra witches and hell spawn must die
 * Beyond: Two Souls: General McGrath, Ryan Clayton's superior, is the CIA director overseeing the Department of Paranormal Activities, specifically their Infraworld condenser experiments, in hopes of enhancing the US Government and military power. When the DPA studied a pregnant psychic woman named Norah Gray, McGrath had her institutionalized and put into a permanent medically induced coma after she gives birth since she's become a liability. Years later, when Norah's daughter Jodie Holmes is recruited into the CIA, McGrath assigns her on a mission to assassinate a democratically-elected African president, having her believe him to be a dictator. Said president sought to bring peace to his war-torn country, which was made impossible due to the assassination. When the government captures Jodie, McGrath sends her on another mission to destroy another condenser in China, resulting in most of the team being killed and Ryan potentially being tortured and losing his eye. After the mission, McGrath announces his plan to have the military conquer the Infraworld and weaponize the demon-like entities within. While Jodie was promised to be set free with a clean slate after the mission, McGrath has Jodie captured, intending to place her in a coma as he did with her mother, gloating about it to her face. Despite this, he still begs and expects Jodie and Ryan to save him when the entities wreck havoc, before they leave him to his fate
 * Dr. Suchong from Bioshock, the Mad Scientist responsible for bioengineering . A thoroughly nasty gent who is caught on tape ordering to . However, Suchong suffers an appropriately unpleasant Karmic Death after he grabs an Idiot Ball:  It gets even better: . Granted, he was distracted by personal musings and probably didn't think through what he was doing.
 * Suchong is oveshadowed in terms of atrocity by Dr. Sofia Lamb, the polar opposite of Andrew Ryan who started a cult dedicated to her daughter, the first little sister bonded successfully to a big Daddy, the player character.
 * Andrew Ryan, meanwhile, started an elitist society where everyone would be free to express themselves how they pleased. Aside from some obvious taboos (murder, rape, theft, etc.), everyone was free to use their lives how they wanted, to create or explore and experiment in any way possible. He was rabidly set on his ideals of free will and self-reliance, thoroughly denouncing the loss of personal liberties and calling anyone that relied on others a "Parasite". These lofty ideals lasted until things stopped going his way. Then he became a tyrant to rival the worst dictators in history: he started sending people that criticized him to Sinclair's Solutions, a privatized prison made specifically to make people "disappear". He approved of the use of young girls in horrible experiments that turned them into freakish abominations of nature (even he was disturbed by them, but never thought of stopping the procedures). He had a woman killed because her songs mocked him and made the people realize that Rapture was just as unfair and crappy as the world they had left. Remember him defending freedom of speech? "A place where the artist would not fear the censor...." After the orphaned girls were unable to meet the demand for Little Sisters, he started kidnapping the daughters of Rapture's residents. And there's plenty more that could be added to this list. He had a terrifying amusement park built, in order scare children into staying in Rapture, rather than going to the surface. It becomes clear that Ryan doesn't care about the freedom of his own people, and his 'ideals' are paper-thin. Rapture is a trophy for himself to prove to everyone that he could make the perfect world away from the government that hounded him, and by God he won't let those greedy citizens ruin his achievement!
 * Fontaine also qualifies. As impressive as his schemes may be, he is the man mainly responsible for Rapture's fall to madness. For starters, Fontaine is the one who actually started producing Little Sisters under the guise of orphanage. And while Suchong may have been responsible for, Fontaine was the one who ordered it, giving him even more culpability for the crime.
 * Zachary Hale Comstock, from Bioshock Infinte, is arguably the worst monster in the trilogy. He is a dark messiah who is viciously racist, abuses his peoples undying loyalty to him, keeps his daughter locked in a tower, and more. But what really makes him a monster is what happens when Songbird captures Elizabeth: He puts her through torture to break her in a process that lasted years, if not decades, and turns her into a dictator as bad as him, and to make things worse, we find out what he meant by "drown in flames the mountains of man". An abusive parent, Dark Messiah, and Omnicidal Maniac, in a franchise filled with truly evil villains, Comstock stands out as the worst.
 * The Black Heart gives us Prince Janos of the Other World, an aspiring Evil Overlord who desires nothing but total domination over others. He launches gruesome wars of conquest against the peaceful wishes of his father the king, then kills him to usurp his throne and absorb the powers of his heart. When the guardian spirit Final steals the heart to protect it from Janos, he frames Final for the murder and manipulates his daughter Ananzi to earn her place as his lieutenant by destroying Final for him. When Ananzi discovers the truth after weakening Final, Janos kills her without remorse before destroying Final and acquiring ultimate power.
 * The Blackwell Deception: Gavin is a vampiric Con Man who specializes in ruining others' lives, then draining them of their happy memories, resulting in their deaths. Having kept himself alive for over 200 hundred years by regularly draining innocents of their life force, Gavin's most current victims include an elderly woman whom he tricked into making her family hate her, and a young, naive college girl he corrupted into drugs and alcohol before killing her. After executing a reporter investigating his crimes, Gavin captures Rosangela "Rosa" Blackwell, kills his Dragon when she expresses horror at his crimes, and brainwashes Rosa into trapping her best friend, Joseph "Joey" Mallone, in ghost limbo, hoping to leave him there for eternity while he continues his spree. In a video game series where antagonists are often sympathetic, tragic, or unintentionally evil, Gavin stands out as the solely pure evil villain Rosa and Joey ever encountered.
 * The Blair Witch Project: From the Alternate Continuity tie-in prequels, which have a Shared Universe with Nocturne, Hecaitomix is the evil spirit behind Elly Kedward and Rustin Parr, starting the Blair Witch legend, and the true source of the curse. Angered that he is no longer worshipped, Hecaitomix spent centuries torturing and killing, children specifically, with the goal of wiping out the human race and ruling over what's left. Hecaitomix disemboweled a child, dubbed the "bleeding child", and kept him alive to feed on before trapping the child in his realm. He also conquered a spiritual realm and turns the spirits there into demons. Hecaitomix has Robin Weaver abducted and attempts to possess her, and in the ritual traps children's souls and keeps mutilated victims alive and conscious. He bargains with a man to cure his blindness and turns him into another demon to do so. After Rustin Parr's killing spree, Hecaitomix possesses Kyle Brody to use him as a new vessel, before moving on to a local pastor and plots to abduct Mary Brown to subject her to the same fate as he did the bleeding child.
 * Blazing Souls Accelate: Brumeia is one of the human genomes tasked by Gustavinus to replace all of the humans with human genomes. Instead of following Gustavinus's orders, she went into Vergis Kingdom and then enthralls its king to murder all of his families so that she could become its queen who rules the Kingdom with an iron fist while she manipulates the king for decades for her own benefit. At one point, she skinned a maid over the course of one week just because she called her pretty. She also sent a reformed thief to steal an Elemental Core which the main heroes possessed. When the citizens of Vergis Kingdom started a rebellion led by one of its survivor of the Vergis Kingdom massacre, Nguyen Le, Brumeia brainwashed her soldiers to fight against them, and when encountered by Nguyen, Brumeia then uses the king and the royal retainer as personal attack dogs against Nguyen while both of them were aware of what they are doing. Running away to faraway desert after being defeated, Brumeia then attacks the innocent bystanders who passes through the desert by controlling the bandits so that she could establish her new base.
 * Yuuki Terumi, the Big Bad of BlazBlue, is in reality Susanoo, a god subordinate to Master Unit: Amaterasu, his "sister". Developing an intense hatred towards Amaterasu for being under her will, he has dedicated his life to spiting and destroying her and her creations, including humans. Although Terumi is one of the Six Heroes, he was never on their side, having been brainwashed by Nine's Ruby: Mind Eater, because he knew the most about the world-ending Black Beast, his own creation. Terumi paid Nine back by shoving her into the Boundary along with her friend Trinity Glassfille. Much later, he burns down the church housing Ragna, Jin, and their sister Saya, taking the latter with him while making sure Ragna's arm was cut off by Jin. The founder of both the NOL and Sector Seven, Terumi's been Running Both Sides in order to meet his own ends, including the appointment of Hades Izanami to Imperator. His list of atrocities include being responsible for Lotte Carmine's current condition as Arakune, and then using that to coax Litchi Faye-Ling to the path of evil; mind raping Noel Vermillion into becoming Mu, the Godslayer; breaking Tsubaki Yayoi's spirit; disabling Takamagahara by having Phantom, a brainwashed Nine, implant a magical virus in the system; and assisting Relius Clover and Izanami in enacting "Doomsday." Defined by sadism and arrogance, his ultimate goal is to obtain the True Azure and become a being greater than Amaterasu, destroy all the worlds and timelines, and create one world where all living things are in fear and despair because hatred sustains his life, something he wouldn't have any other way.
 * Relius Clover, once a vigilante partnered with Valkenhayn, a colonel in the NOL, and One, leader of the Ten Sages of Ishana, is a man who dedicated his life to science. As a researcher, he helped Terumi try and recreate Kusanagi 100 years ago and, later, was present when the Black Beast emerged from a Cauldron. After being swallowed by the Black Beast and flung into the future, Relius eventually regains his memories and reunites with Terumi to pick up where they left off. He manipulates Sector Seven and Kokonoe Mercury in recreating the Nox Nyctores Nirvana and producing an energy core that endangered the lives of the members of the organization. Around this time, Relius killed his own wife and daughter, Ignis and Ada. He turned Ignis into a literal killing machine using said core and left Ada, now Nirvana, unfinished for his young son Carl to complete. He also founded the NOL Military Academy in hopes of observing the students' hidden potentials. While working on Nirvana and Ignis, he saw the "true form" of every person, their soul, and came to view people as mere "things" and lost all belief in the inherent value of human life, making it easier for him to put other people through torment, such as Lambda and Makoto in her bad route. Relius's ultimate plan is to become "The Architect": After ridding the world of all humans, he will repopulate it with his perfect dolls, decree Arakune as the new Black Beast, and Ignis as the new Master Unit
 * Hades Izanami, despite the circumstances of her existence, is still her own individual and yearns for a world of death. As Imperator Librarius, she uses her authority to help conspire with Terumi and Relius to destroy Amatersu and bring about Doomsday. In Chronophantasma, Izanami exploited her part of Saya’s soul to beckon Ragna to her side for psychological effect; placed Tsubaki under the effects of Ruby: Mind Eater and forced her to fight Jin, Noel, and Makoto during their attempts to rescue her, including using the Izayoi's Immortal Breaker to inflict overkill on Jin; and compelled Ragna to enter a Black Beast-like state and go berserk, resulting in him critically injuring Jin. In Central Fiction, after Nine seemingly incapacitates her, Izanami appears to inform everyone she plots to bring about untold annihilation within a massive radius. When Ragna and Noel confront her, Izanami tries to tempt Ragna into killing Noel to gain the True Azure and, when that fails, abandons her "dream" to kill him directly. In a last-ditch move to defeat the Goddess of Death, Noel (as Mu-12) tries to assimilate Izanami's soul into her own, but she reverses the process to try and end Noel’s existence instead. A sinister god who’ll dispose of anyone in her quest to kill the Master Unit and destroy everything, Hades Izanami would have brought complete and total nothingness to the universe of BlazBlue if not stopped.
 * The main character in the Blood series, Caleb, started out as a sociopathic Wild West gunslinger. Then he met his beloved Ophelia, who introduces him to the satanic cult of the Cabal, and he just gets worse from there. And then he's killed by his evil god, only to come Back from the Dead and slaughter his way through every living thing he sees, laughing all the way.
 * Bagura is the Overarching Villain of the entire Bomberman franchise, Bomberman's most recurring enemy, and is by far his most vile adversary to date. He makes his first appearance in Bomberman 94 by splitting Planet Bomber into pieces and attempting to send a comet on a collision course with it. Later in Super Bomberman 3, he resurrects the Five Dastardly Bombers and uses them to take over five planets, expanding his goals. Even after he's finally killed, his resilience allows him to live on as nothing more than a Brain in a Jar. And in Bomberman Hero, he is revealed to be the Man Behind the Man to the Devil Bomber, and is quite possibly the reason for his evil in the first place, including brainwashing, as he originally had him locked away under a planet just for being "too unruly" as he put it. He's an Omnicidal Maniac and is by far the franchise's widest reaching and most evil antagonist.
 * In Super Bomberman R, the reboot of the franchise, Bagura's new incarnation, Buggler, is worse than ever. Starting off the game by performing a grandiose speech about his plans of taking control of the entire galaxy, while also threatening the lives of all that live there, he is revealed to have brainwashed the Five Dastardly Bombers into being his slaves, forcing them against their will to serve for him, and even going so far as to use them as part of his Giant Mecha in the final battle. He reveals his true plans at the end of the game: convert the sun into a black hole so that it would inhale the entire solar system, and later the universe. Vicious, manipulative, and sadistic, this new incarnation of the old classic villain actually manages to somehow be even worse than his original counterpart.
 * Sirius is the true Big Bad of Bomberman 64, usurping the position from Altair. Initially appearing as a friendly ally to Bomberman on the run from Altair, it's later revealed that he was the original owner of the Omni Cube and had trapped even more galaxies in there than Altair prior to the start of the game, as he had more proper knowledge on how to use the cube to it's full potential. While he tells Bomberman that Altair had killed his entire family, it's shown to be nothing more than a lie that he uses them to get Bomberman on his side and manipulate him for his own ends. After he reveals his true nature and intentions to Bomberman, he callously throws him away when he outlives his usefulness and very nearly destroys Planet Bomber purely For the Evulz. Manipulating Bomberman into helping him, and proving to be even worse than Altair ever was, he manages to be the single most vile villain in the entire game.
 * Father Habaruku of Breath of Fire II, founder of the church, which steals the souls of its believers in order to power up the Big Bad. His favorite method for winning followers seems to be replacing respected members of various communities with literal demons that disguise themselves as those people...Paranoia Fuel, much? Not to mention his sermons...in which he publicly executes nonbelievers. Brutally.
 * That's nothing compared to what he did to the man who used to be in charge of the church, a priest who was such a compassionate, big-hearted, and lovable character, and your dad as well! He got booted off the scene so that Habaruku could take over. And then the poor guy gets strapped to a horrible demonic contraption and his life energy itself is used to power it for about ten years. TEN. WHOLE. YEARS. Definitely one of the biggest Player Punches in the whole game!
 * The scientist named Yuna from Breath of Fire IV, although, until you complete the dungeon of his lab, he comes off as little more than a self-righteous, smarmy little git. Once you see that he's taken Nina's sister and made her into some sort of genetically modified horror, things become a little clearer. It's when he tells you all about the 'wonderful gift' he's given her, looking for some kind of praise, that it's clear how irredeemably evil the guy actually is. And, to add insult upon injury,
 * According to the creative team, you WERE supposed to get around to tearing him a new one, but the suits decided rushing the game out was more important than actually finishing it. Thanks, Capcom!
 * Yuna also built a weapon of warfare that launches Hex, basically a toxic gas, physically. However, it's really the souls of people tortured at the hands of Yuna. And the more anguish they have, the better the effect. You can see this in a side event and its effects are presented in the village of Chamba in the beginning of the game.
 * Although everything about his weapon is reprehensible, the way the player experiences its horror just drives the point home. At one point in the game, we are introduced to Mami, a genuinely likable Love Interest for Fou-lu. Just as it seems she's going to reform him, she's taken away and tortured to the point of insanity so she can be used to fuel an attack against Fou-lu. When he discovers this, he decides that Humans Are the Real Monsters and becomes intent on destroying them.
 * While nowhere near as nasty as Yuna was (seriously, how do you compare to that?), Colonel Rasso is still a grotesque piece of work. Ryu manages to scratch the guy (and break the Royal Sword on his face in the process) in an escape attempt at the start of the story, and Rasso takes up every opportunity to go after him just to wax the fledgling dragon - Disproportionate Retribution much? It isn't until you get to Chek that he shows just how nasty he is - because you have a hard time topping genocide in terms of pure evilness (and on top of that, the folks were pacifists). This deed was literally so bad that Ursula, who had just apprehended Ryu and party and only went to the refugees' campground just to ascertain their safety on the party's request, was outright disgusted with him! And unlike Yuna, thankfully, he gets what's coming to him - Ryu, finally fed up with all his crap, transforms into the Kaiser Dragon, decimates Ight, and then utterly frags Rasso out of pure unbridled rage. While what happens after that dives into Nightmare Fuel due to Ryu's lack of control over his power, you can count on one hand the number of people who would genuinely miss the douchebag.
 * In Bulletstorm, it's made clear the first time you see him that General Sarrano is the most unpleasant bastard in the game. Every second word out of his mouth is an obscenity or racial slur. He basically masterminded the entire plot behind the planet's backstory and takes great pride in telling you so as well as trying to make you feel bad for all the people you've killed in your quest to get to him.
 * Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth: Robert Marsh is the main mortal antagonist of the game. The heir of the Marsh family who sold Innsmouth out to the gods of the Deep Ones, Robert and his elder brother Sebastian rule over the Esoteric Order of Dagon. While Sebastian focuses on the business aspects, Robert is a religious fanatic who presides over a legacy of Human Sacrifice and fanaticism. When ordering Boston police detective Jack Walters killed in Innsmouth, Robert later uses his magic to help kill the marines who attempt to storm the Order before summoning Father Dagon himself to lead a horde of Deep Ones to a marine vessel that results in the deaths of everyone but Jack. When Y'ha-nthlei, the Deep Ones' city, is attacked, Sebastian furiously confronts Robert over having the Order in religious devotion in a time of crisis and attempts to shoot him, resulting in Robert magically murdering his brother. His ultimate goal is to have the Deep Ones overwhelm all of humanity, declaring the time of the human race is finished. Having nearly fully transitioned into a monstrous Deep One, Robert cares only for his bloodthirsty religion, with even the other citizens of Innsmouth fearing him.
 * Call of Duty:
 * Al-Asad and Imran Zakahev from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Al-Asad, with Zakahev's help of course, overthrew a democratic government in an unknown middle eastern country, taking power in a coup. You actually get to see first hand how his men kill anyone who resists and how they line up innocent people and use them as target practice. Since Al-Asad is such a Dirty Coward (like most real life dictators), he is not even cool. Zakahev is even worst. He supplied Al-Asad with weapons for the coup, and too staged a bloody coup, except on a much larger scale in Russia. He orders the slaughtering of whole villages of people, and he obviously does not care how many people die. In the games climax Zakhaev tries to have the East coast of the United States annihilated with nukes in revenge for the suicide of his son. However, both of these guys worst act was basically the same:
 * Vladimir Makarov in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 walks right past the Moral Event Horizon in one of the first missions when he and his crew . He then follows this by
 * He manages to become even more monstrous in the third game, where
 * While Castlevania has many evil characters and monsters, the series has very little Complete Monsters. The witch, Actrise, of Castlevania 64 and Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness may be the most evil villain in the series. Not only does she and Gilles De Rais torment Henry's family, but is the main tormentor of Carrie and the Fernandez clan as well, and is a major antagonist in Carrie's game (Death is Reinhardt's). Actrise turns Carrie's fallen cousin against her, forcing her to mercy kill her for good. In the final battle between the two, Actrise mentions how she sacrificed the life of her own child as well as ninety-nine others in order to obtain eternal life. Carrie calls her pathetic and tells how her mother sacrificed her life for her and that she truly loved her (also stating how pathetic it was that Actrise never showed that kind of love to her own child). Once defeated, Actrise's true face is shown, with Carrie giving a Badass Boast to cement how pathetic the witch really was.

"Carrie: I have the power to subdue Dracula himself. You had no chance. Dracula knows this. He used you merely to delay me."


 * Arguably, Actrise does ultimately get overshadowed by Satan from Lords of Shadow, who is a Manipulative Bastard that operates as The Chessmaster once he appears, as well as The Man Behind the Man to the titular Lords of Shadow themselves. Satan arranged every atrocity in the first game, from Gabriel Belmont's wife's death at Gabriel's own hands and the deaths of countless innocent people, just so he could set everything up to return to Heaven and take it over and complete his revenge on God. When he appears, Satan attempts to eliminate his final pawn, Zobek, and keeps the souls lost on the way trapped in Limbo. Satan corrupted the Lords of Shadow into becoming the monsters they are now, also making him indirectly responsible for all of the innocent people the werewolves and vampires had devoured. Using Zobek as his proxy and pawn, he manipulated all of the events of the game in order to gain access to Heaven, with only Gabriel standing against him at the end. When he faces off with Gabriel, he attempts to paint himself as justified, but Gabriel sees through it all, declaring Satan to be the egomaniac that he is who seeks domination and hatred over all things. His actions are also what ultimately led Gabriel on his path to become the Dracula of this continuity, making him the Bigger Bad of the reboot. And in the sequel, Satan returns in the modern world, casually murdering his summoner-his own son-for not eliminating Dracula and Alucard quickly enough. Deciding to simply destroy the world rather than rule it, Satan also possesses Alucard to force Dracula to choose between losing his life and killing his own beloved son just to spite him for ruining his previous plans.
 * Anyone who's played Cave Story can tell you exactly why the Doctor was "like a demon." The Mengele-style Psycho Serum experiments using the local race of Ridiculously Cute Critters? Just the tip of the iceberg. This is a guy who experiments on the Mimigas in the hopes of transforming them into mindless monsters for his army He's killed more than a few of the Mimigas as well  He threw, Momorin, off the edge of the floating island (she got better) and even  And to dash any last chance of redeemability?  Viewing everything as part of his grand experiment, the Doctor was an unfettered egomaniac who puts his pride above everything else, all the while behaving in a calm, condescending manner.
 * Choice of Games: Governor Praxus is the smug, greedy leader of the colonist planet, Far Hope. When contacted by trhe Lacertians, a race of lizard-like aliens, Plaxus immediately began trading them anything they requested in exchange for their immense riches, and, when the Lacertians began asking for humans so that they could "research" them, Plaxus was more than happy to oblige. When you investigate Far Hope, discovering he houses ransacked, the crops burned, and the thousands of citizens missing, you discover the truth that Plaxus has betrayed his people to the Lacertians, who plan to devour them all, in exchange for granting Plaxus their regenerative abilities. When you confront him, Plaxus happily explains that only himself and the "chosen few" followers will survive the Lacertians' occupation, and eagerly tries to murder you when you express your disgust with him.
 * Westin Phipps of City of Heroes, whose missions, rather than being the standard Supervillainy jobs, are all meant to merely cause even greater suffering amongst the poor, to destroy the hopes of the downtrodden and to basically make people with already crappy lives even worse.
 * Phipps deliberately poses as a charity worker helping the poor of Grandville, in order to find out what minor hopes they have so that Arachnos (and the player, if you have Phipps as a contact) may more effectively crush them.
 * Phipps is so universally reviled that when a Going Rogue tip mission offered the option to either A) Undo the damage caused by Phipps's arc by rescuing his victims, or B) deliver a superpowered beatdown to Phipps some players had a hard time deciding!
 * Don't forget Emperor Marcus Cole and his Praetors.
 * There are "good" and "evil" people among both the Loyalists and the Resistance, but the Emperor and his Praetors themselves are unambiguously evil.
 * Cinderella Phenomenon: Hildyr is a witch who has a huge resentment towards humans. Prior to the main story, she murdered the ten year old daughter of her former friend, Delora out of spite. When she met with the King of Angellie, she forcefully rapes him and then using her new position as the Queen of Angellie, making it a living hell after she kickstarts the war of Humans,Fairies and Witches alike. When a certain family refused to gave their son to Hildyr because he was a magically gifted witch, She murders them with the exception of their son and then turns the son into her own apprentice. She is also emotionally and mentally abusive towards her daughter, Lucette, by brainwashing her and isolating her from the outside world. In one of the bad endings, Hildyr then tries to forcibly absorbs Lucette’s magic power and does not hesitate to render her to become an Empty Shell when Lucette refuses to co-operate with her and then use her daughter’s current state so that she could force her former apprentice to working with her again. Despite she was used to be a good witch a long time ago and it was implied that she was corrupted, Hildyr is doing her atrocities with her own free will and is motivated to do so by hatred towards humans at best and her sadistic whims at worst.
 * Conan (2007 video game): Graven is an Evil Sorcerer unwittingly released from imprisonment by Conan. Having trapped ancient gods within himself for power, Graven sought to further his strength by sacrificing his own children. Only his daughter A'Kanna escaped him. Graven crafted a Hate Plague called the Black Death, the application of which drives men into murderous frenzies, allowing Graven to harvest their souls upon their deaths. Revealing his intent to murder A'Kanna and complete the ritual he began long ago, Graven then plans to reshape the world as he sees fit, wanting to elevate himself above men and gods alike.
 * Criminal Case:
 * Albert Tesla, the overarching antagonist of the final three cases of "Pacific Bay" (season 2), was a scientist obsessed with transferring his mind into a supercomputer. As the Computer Interface, Tesla establishes Meteor Systems before transforming Pacific Bay from a barren wasteland into the prosperous city it is today. Displeased by the level of crime ravaging the city, Tesla decides to destroy it through mass bombing; those that subject themselves to his authority are to be digitalized into a virtual reality where he is the supreme ruler. To this end, he manipulates Frank and Karen Knight into stealing plutonium under the false pretense that doing so would allow them to reunite with their comatose daughter. When Frank gives Amy information on how to stop him, Tesla releases five murderers, one of which murders him. Tesla temporarily halts his destruction of Pacific Bay to engage Amy and the player in a sadistic game of cat and mouse. If they were to prove to him that justice still existed by finding Frank's killer, he would abandon his plans for a virtual world; if not, he would raze Pacific Bay to the ground. Even when the killer is found, Tesla doesn't live up to his side of the bargain, gleefully admitting that he was still going to decimate Pacific Bay regardless. Despite claiming to be well-intentioned in his goals, Tesla proves himself to be a hypocritical madman, no better than the criminals he resents.
 * In "Plagued By Death", Case #21 of World Event (season 3), Ayush Patil is a sociology professor as well as the mastermind behind the outbreak of an epidemic spreading throughout Bangalore. Starting as the assistant of Dr. Shweta Noorani, Ayush steals a strand of the virus that she created, and injects it into his student Sunil Dhudwar. Once spread, victims of the malady develop pus-filled mouth lesions before dying a slow and painful death. By the time the Bureau becomes involved in the epidemic, hundreds of civilians had succumbed to the illness. Lars Douglas—the Lab Chief of the Bureau—also contracts the virus and is in danger of dying as well. When confronted, Ayush takes full credit for having unleashed the virus, stating that once it became worldwide, not only would it solve the problem of overpopulation by killing millions of people, but he would also usher in a new era, ruling over the survivors as a god. Despite being a one-time character, Ayush is without a doubt the most depraved suspect that the Bureau had encountered.
 * In Danganronpa, turns out to be the mastermind behind the Big Bad Monokuma, a sadistic robotic teddy bear who's trapped Hope's Peak Accadamey in a deadly game designed to create Sanity Slippage that makes the students turn on each other and commit murder. When a murderer is found guilty, Monokuma gives him or her a twisted, torturous execution of his choosing, and throughout the game he relishes in twisting the knife in the cruelest ways possible For the Evulz. It turns out that not only is Monokuma  A masochist and a sadist with a fetish for despair,  goal is to not only bring despair to every student in the school, but to send the world into ultimate despair by broadcasting "the game" live for the rest of the world to see, forcing everyone to abandon all hope of overcoming despair. To make this happen,  While Laughably Evil and able to change her persona at the drop of a hat (some of which don't even seem too evil and are capable of Pet the Dog behavior), the severity of  actions are shown to be quite serious, and  feels no remorse for any of it.
 * Paulie Franchetti's portrayal in The Darkness sends Jackie on a suicide mission to kill a business rival because Jackie starts questioning the way he does business. Jackie finds the guy already dead, a video of Paulie explaining why Jackie has to die, and a bomb set to go off when he arrives.
 * Aldrich, Saint of the Deep/Devourer of Gods in Dark Souls III, is the only unambigiously evil Lord of Cinder, a former cleric and a sadistic cannibal who "luxuriated in his victim's screams", founded the Church of the Deep with the intent to round up countless Undead so he could devour them and obtain their power. This caused him to gradually deform into something that could be considered an Eldritch Abomination, before he turned to his next meal: the very Gods that he once worshiped. He succeeded, subjecting Gwyndolin to an And I Must Scream state and controlling his body like a puppet, defiling Anor Londo and subjecting the captured Undead to various Body Horror inducing experiments, as from what can be seen in his Cathedral of the Deep.
 * Aldrich's right-hand man, Pontiff Sulyvahn, is a prime example of Ambition Is Evil. After discovering the Profound Flame as a common sorcerer, he sets out on a campaign for power by eliminating anyone who stood in his path, including the remains remainnder of Gwyndolin's relatives in Anor Londo, for reasons implied to be pure jealously. He himself created the Outrider Knights, used to lure prospective opponents, such as the Dancer of the Boreal Valley and Vordt of the Boreal Valley, to his rule by giving them rings marking their status as Outrider Knights. These rings destroy the sanity of its wielders, and convert them into mad beasts driven by pure rage. Sulyvahn was also responsible for imprisoning Gwyndolin, intending to feed him to Aldrich and cause the former's Fate Worse Than Death.
 * Sir Isaac Ray Peram Westcott of Date A Live is the absolutely monstrous Director of Deus Ex Machina Industries and the driving force behind all evil in the franchise. After the First Spirit's arrival on Earth, which resulted in an explosion that killed 150 million people, and paved the way for more Spirits to enter the human world, Westcott used the ensuing chaos to set his plans into motion. The Spirits, which are invariably young, teenage girls, are regularly attacked by Westcott's Elite Guard, a squadron of soldiers, some of whom are children, that Westcott brainwashed into becoming fanatics of his cause, while also performing painful experiments on them that, while upgrading their abilities, shortened their life spans by decades. Showing no regard for his own troops, Westcott regularly sends entire squadrons on suicide missions, has the limbs of those who doubt him sliced off, and kills any who outlive their usefulness. Hoping to capture a Spirit attending a concert, Westcott orders an attack on the concert populated by hundreds of families, and orders his soldiers to kill as many innocents as possible for fun. Desiring to awaken the Inverse forms of the Spirits by driving them into despair-induced insanity, Westcott attacks them, kills their loved ones in front of them, and, in one case, tortured a Spirit for 5 years, wiped said torture from her mind, then forced all of the pain back on her at once to drive her insane. Westcott then plans to rip out the Spirits' Inverted souls, use them to make himself all-powerful, then remake the world in his image. Westcott proudly proclaims every last one of his crimes as being nothing but a hobby to him, and when beaten after first trying to rewrite reality to one where he reigns supreme over a tortured humanity, Westcott tries to drag everyone, his own Dragon included, down to death with him, spending his final moments in glee at his former "friends" mourning his demise. Though putting up a polite, friendly exterior, Westcott is a psychopathic narcissist who despises all that is good in the world, while relishing any and all forms of wickedness humans are capable of.
 * In the crossover campaign Ais Catastrophe, the false Kaguya Yamai, obsessed with Isaac Westcott, willfully merges with his personality. After entering the world of Orario alongside Shido and several of his spirit friends, "Kaguya" feigns being worried about the missing Yuzuru Yamai, while also impersonating Kurumi, to instill discord between Shido's spirit friends and the Loki Familia, leading to the Loki Familia's Bete becoming mistrustful of the spirits and Ais/Aiz Wallenstein attacking Tohka/Touka. This leads to Ais getting turned into an Inverse Spirit by a Sephira Crystal which the false Kaguya had implanted in her in the middle of the fight, all to ensure Ais would carry out the false Kaguya's goal of destroying Orario. When her plan of having Ais destroy Orario fails, the false Kaguya takes back the Sephira Crystal and makes plans to destroy Orario with spacequakes herself.
 * Lucifer in Dante's Inferno (video game) was once a great but vain angel of God's before he turned against him out of disgust for humanity and was cast into Hell with his followers as punishment. Seeking revenge by trying to tempt and corrupt humanity into Hell and torment, Lucifer plotted on using the sins of others to make his escape. Lucifer makes a deal with the pure Beatrice to test her beloved Dante's faithfulness in exchange for her soul. When Dante fails, Lucifer drags Beatrice to Hell to turn her into a spiteful succubus bride; when Dante comes to her rescue, Lucifer's attempts to break and hinder him include turning Dante's abusive father into a monster to kill his son. When Dante ultimately rescues Beatrice, Lucifer reveals that her capture was an elaborate ruse to bring Dante to him. It's revealed Lucifer seeks to destroy and recreate both Heaven and Earth in his own image as to take what he believes his rightfully his, and makes his escape attempt in the ensuing fight with Dante.
 * Charon, aka Kevin, from Dead Island, is an international hacker-for-hire who is wanted for willingly working with many terrorists and criminal organizations, from al-Qaeda to the Yakuza. During the zombie outbreak on Banoi, Charon intends to take a sample of the zombie virus and get rich by selling it as a bio-weapon. He manipulates the immune protagonists against Colonel Ryder White, which gets White killed, and convinces them to obtain a bio-engineered super-potent strain of the virus. As it turns out, Charon also manipulated Ryder into betraying his country, using his infected wife as leverage, and after betraying Ryder, states that he should have killed him when he had the chance. When Dr. West insists on creating a cure for the virus, Charon kills him. Driven by greed and his indifference to human life, Charon cares not for the millions he puts in danger in the pursuit of money.
 * In Dead Island: Riptide, Frank Serpo, a pathological backstabber and manipulator whose only loyalty is to himself, is the frontman of a mysterious organization that seeks to weaponize the zombie virus and control outbreaks for their own ends. During the outbreak on Palani, Serpo usurps government and military control of the situation from Colonel Sam Hardy and shuts down any humanitarian effort by the military. At the beginning of the game, Serpo has the immune experimented on with a mutagen before leaving them when zombies attack their ship. When the immune help the survivors of Palani find refuge and seek help from the military, Serpo only wishes to collect the immune for more experiments. When they insist on him taking the civilians, this leads to a standoff that ends with Hardy being shot. When his helicopter crashes, Serpo leaves his men to die, shooting one of them to distract the zombies. He's also responsible for Harlow Jordan's death, having her caught and experimented on with mutagen, driving her mad, and trying to convince the immune that she's a terrorist and should be killed. Moments before his death, Serpo tries to coerce the immune to come with him, and freely admits to orchestrating the outbreak.
 * Deadly Premonition has one, and its actually not the Raincoat Killer,  No, the Complete Monster is
 * Death Stranding: Higgs Monaghan is the leader of the Homo Demens who wish to destroy America's chances of being made whole again and create a lawless country. Once a private contractor in the porter business alongside their ally Fragile Express, and began hiding weapons in their cargo and had them deliver nuclear bombs into cities and rig them to explode in order to ruin Fragile's reputation. When Fragile attempted to try and take the nuke away from the city, Higgs had her strip down and gave the choice of either leaving the city and let the bomb go off or carry the bomb through the Timefall and permanently scar her body in the process. Higgs also would have his Demens cause voidouts by either committing suicide or killing civilians to leave the cities as nothing but craters. During Amelie's mission to reconnect America, Higgs kidnaps her  and attacks Sam Porter Bridges, her lifelong friend and adopted family, nearly every step of the way, including shooting Sam's Bridge Baby Lou when she defends him. A sadistic and nihilistic psychopath who states that he is the "particle of God that permeates all of existence", Higgs would gladly  bring about the Last Stranding to end all life in the universe to satisfy his disdain of humanity.
 * Hector from the Dept Heaven series. In order to fulfill his scheme of becoming the true creator, this already god-like being is responsible for almost every calamity that happen in the series. His most heinous crimes include . And did we mention that the final phase in his plan involves slaughtering the entire population of one world?
 * Destiny 2: Dominus Ghaul is the brutish Cabal leader of the Red Legion. After usurping Emperor Calus in a coup, Ghaul began traveling across the universe conquering dozens of worlds and destroying those that didn't submit to his rule. Once he sets his sights on Earth, Ghaul invades the Last City and deploys a ship that severs the Guardians' connection to the Traveler. While the Red Legion slaughter helpless civilians and Guardians, Ghaul has the Speaker submitted to Cold-Blooded Torture so he can uncover more information about the Light. He also deploys the Almighty, a weapon that causes supernovas and destroys several planets, and targets the sun. When Ghaul's plans fall apart and the Speaker dies, he murders the Consul, his surrogate father and friend, because he berated him for wasting time. Afterwards, he proceeds with his plan to strip the Light from the Traveler. An envious and proud warrior, Ghaul nearly destroyed the Solar System and almost drained the Light from the galaxy because he felt he was entitled to the Traveler's power.
 * Riven of a Thousand Voice is the monstrous Ahamkara behind the events of Forsaken. Having been sealed inside the Dreaming City by Mara Sov, knowing of Riven's deceitful nature, Riven would come to contact with the Taken King Oryx, and broker a deal that allowed him to forcibly turn the inhabitants of the Dreaming City into Taken while Riven would keep her free will upon becoming Taken and gain complete control over the city. Disguising herself as the late Mara Sov, she would corrupt and manipulate Uldren Sov into doing her biding; she would have Uldren kill numerous Fallen to resurrect as the undead Scorn, lead a jailbreak at The Prison of Elders to free the Solar System's most notorious criminals, kill Cayde-6, and kill most of Uldren's own people, the Awoken, inhabiting the Reef. When Uldren unknowingly frees Riven, she proceeds to devour him alive before embarking on her intent to reek havoc throughout the Solar System. When a Guardian raid team was sent to kill Riven at the Dreaming City, she would make sure that when she perishes, the Dreaming City would be kept in an time-loop and remain under Taken influence, forever subjecting everyone the city to constant suffering and cementing herself as a sadistic manipulator of the worst kind.
 * Bob Page from Deus Ex murders his non-Dragon mooks if they fail him (or if they don't, for that matter), uses  to deal with his foes when his troops don't work, and generally tries to cause as much death, destruction and chaos as he possibly can . "Let it spill over into the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to save them."
 * Dr. Silas Archer of Invisible War as well...he's a Templar plant and therefore anti-biomodification. He acts as the headmaster for a school of biomodified young girls. Needless to say, he planned to murder the most gifted students of the school.
 * In Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, we have Arkham. While it's implied that Arkham was actually a kind man before his obsession with the supernatural, the guy killed his wife with no remorse whatsoever and was probably going to do the same thing to Lady, his only daughter. Additionally, his Blob Monster of a One-Winged Angel is said to not be caused by his inability to control Sparda's power, but the result of the vast evil within his heart.
 * In the first Devil May Cry, there is Mundus. He wishes to conquer the whole world and destroy the whole of humanity, killed Dante's mother, and also killed Griffon just because the latter failed him! When Trish did the same, he captures her so that she could watch him kill Dante. She eventually takes the killing blast, but he doesn't care, calling her "useless scum".
 * Sanctus from Devil May Cry 4, while appearing to be the benevolent head of the corrupt Order of the Sword, is in fact a vicious monster. Sanctus covets the powers of Sparda and Vergil and plans on using their swords to control the power of a giant godlike golem, the Savior. To do this he feeds Nero and Kyrie to it, and had Dante not intevened they would have both been digested alive. Sanctus is the only person to kill a human on-screen by murdering his own loyal servant Credo for daring to defend his sister Kyrie. Sanctus even mocks Credo for his love while impaling him on Yamato, claiming that the only thing that matters "is absolute power." The demons that have been killing people throughout the game have been released on Sanctus's orders. When Nero fights Sanctus, Sanctus uses Kyrie as a Human Shield. Despite his holy trappings and grandfatherly appearance, Sanctus was an evil monster and one of the worst villains the series had to offer.
 * In the Diablo, Al'Diabalos, better known as Diablo, is known as the Lord of Terror. Before the events of the first game, Diablo fought alongside his brothers, Mephisto and Baal, against Angiris Council in the Eternal Conflict, at times even fighting his own brothers to gain more power for himself. With the discovery of Sanctuary, Diablo sought to corrupt humanity to his will, deliberately engineering his and his brothers' own exile from hell into Sanctuary so they could corrupt humanity. Through this plan failed due to the intervention of the Horadim, Diablo's essence possessed King Leoric of Tristram 200 years after his imprisonment and later took possession of Prince Albrecht once he deemed Albrecht a suitable host. Through defeated by Albrecht's brother, Prince Aiden, Diablo corrupts Prince Aiden into the Dark Wanderer when the latter sought to contain Diablo's soulstone within himself, and procreated Leah with Adria as a means to revive himself should he be slain again. As the Dark Wanderer, Diablo destroyed Tristram with a horde of Demons and sought to free his brothers and unleash them into Sanctuary in order to corrupt the Worldstone and subsequently humanity, manipulating Marius into helping him free Baal. Through defeated and seemingly banished to the black abyss, Diablo reemerged 20 years later due to Adria's manipulations of another group of adventurers to empower the Black Soulstone and restore Diablo into Sanctuary into a form combining the power and essence of all the Great Evils. Ultimately, Adria's manipulations succeeded at restoring Diablo at the cost of Leah's life, and he ascended to the High Heavens to destroy the Angris Council, causing much destruction before his defeat at the hands of the Nephelim. Driven by a desire corrupt all of humanity and spread terror across Sanctuary, Diablo stands out as the vilest of the Prime Evils.
 * Archbishop Lazarus played an integral role in King Leoric's descent into madness and eventual transformation into the Skeleton King, as well as manipulating him into torturing and executing many innocents in the guise of "protecting his kingdom"—up to and including his own queen; feeding Tristram's villagers and the odd adventurer to the demonic Butcher in the first game, and having Albrecht, one of Leoric's two sons, made a vessel for Diablo himself.
 * Adria in Diablo III pledged herself to Diablo's service since first meeting Prince Aidan of Tristran after he imprisoned Diablo's soul within himself and became the Dark Wanderer. Starting off by burning alive her own father, she spent the time between the first and third games gathering up the power of the other Lords of Hell so she could use the Black Soulstone to bring about Diablo's rebirth in the body of her own daughter, an act that in the setting would damn Leah's soul to hell. Adria manipulated her daughter and all of her friends with the express purpose of inserting the Black Soulstone in her chest and allowing Diablo to devour her from within, manifesting anew to destroy the High Heavens and humanity as the Prime Evil.
 * The only final villain in the Disgaea series who doesn't come close to Complete Monsterdom is, who actually has sympathetic reasons for being a rat bastard. So where does that leave the othes?
 * Let us first turn our attention to Vulcanus from the first game. This loud and brash angel uses humans and angels alike to attack and terrorize the Netherworld and attempt to hurt innocent demons. Why? He believes that all demons are completely evil, that's why! And that's not all, he also believes that Humans Are the Real Monsters and angels are superior in every way. When Laharl and co. pilot Space Battleship Gargantua off to Celestia, he sends them to Lunar Snowfield instead, just to keep them from interrupting his plans. And in case that's not enough, he even makes a pact with some of the most dangerous and ferocious demons in the Netherworld - which, of course, is a violation of the rules of Celestia. Thankfully for everyone, in the end, he learns that he was an Unwitting Pawn in the Magnificent Bastard Seraph Lamington's plans and, after a failed attempt to kill Lamington (which shows that this guy is completely beyond redemption), gets turned into a flower (or a frog in the anime) by him as punishment for all the sins he committed. It's very interesting to note that this guy is one of the few Monsters to be Obviously Evil, as evidenced by his face and the fact that Laharl says he'd make a good Vasal if he wasn't an angel.
 * The false Overlord Zenon somehow avoided death at the hands of the real deal during an infamous battle, most likely due to being Not Worth Killing. Rather than rethink his priorities, he decides to take Zenon's name and hunt down its reincarnation. The search takes him to Veldime - namely, Snow Melody - where he abducts a young girl (Rozalin) and incinerates the rest of the village! He may have left survivors behind (Fubuki, who went blind; Yukimaru; and their elder, who died prior to the story's beginning), but he wound up drawing the attention of Serion and Shura (Adell's parents) - when he defeated them, he used his powers to bind them to his will, denying them their memories so they cannot act to bring about his downfall (and this, as you might expect, ruined Adell's childhood forever). But wait! It gets even worse! Once that is settled, he uses his powers to rob humans of their memories and corrupt their forms, turning them into demons as a result (Adell himself is a demon and is thus immune); even the offspring of altered humans (like Taro and Hanako) are corrupted in turn! At the end, he states that he only came to Veldime for the reincarnation of Zenon, to pamper and restrain her so she may never regain her former power - once he achieves that end, he's more than happy to wipe out human consciousness in Veldime before fleeing the resulting Netherworld. His comeuppance? Rozalin, having becomed disillusioned to his motives, willingly unseals Zenon...who obliterates him.
 * Super Hero Aurum is just as racist as Vulcanus against demons, killing them and their Overlords with aplomb - he may have had good motives to start out, but that all went to hell after so many years. Eventually, he found that he was running out of strong Overlords to kill and wanted to either face one more or just face death. It's the methods that cement him as having descended into complete monsterdom. He asked Mao, who just had an argument over his Slaystation Portable being ruined by his clumsy father, about any weaknesses the Overlord may have. Mao tells him only on the condition that daddy just gets beaten up - Aurum breaks this promise and kills him stone dead. Then, he disguises himself as Geoffrey to raise Mao according to his own twisted ideal after the boy lashed out in an appropriate manner, effectively turning him into a basket case - and when Almaz comes along, to ensure the boy doesn't relapse, he sets an Obvious Trap for his royal girlfriend so that he'd take it in her place and die - and for the cherry on top, said boy was his number one human fan. Let me repeat myself - all for the sake of defeating one more Overlord or dying gloriously in battle, he engages in near Mind Rape of one kid and cruelly kills off another. In the bad ending, Aurum discovers that Evil Is Not a Toy as Mao throws a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum. In the good ending, Mao denies the death wish and takes Aurum as his latest guinea pig. However, he fucked up, he deserved what he got - you know you're a sick bastard when the demons are disgusted with your work.
 * Roirr, the Big Bad of the Vaalroirr saga in Dragon Fable, is an Immortality Seeker who has dedicated his centuries-long lifespan to gaining Complete Immortality. He has kept himself alive by using his FleshWeaver skills to Body Surf, switching out the current old body for a younger fresher one until it expires. For most of his life, since he was a child, Roirr was urged on by a corrupt elemental spirit named Secundus. He has murdered countless people over the course of the game, either to satisfy his own hunger by devouring souls, or simply because they are in his way for his quest for immortality. At one point he uses dark magic to liquefy an entire village of people just for him to consume. His end game was revealed to be acquiring the Mana Core which would grant him immortality, which when he acquires he becomes a Physical God. Near-invincible at this point, Roirr's power is only put to a stop by Danyel, who uses a Dangerous Forbidden Technique to release all of the souls Roirr had consumed, leaving only Roirr's soul in a living skeleton. Secundus then appears and sends Roirr back in time to when he was a child, where Roirr has a Villainous Breakdown at failing to achieve immortality and is at death's door. Roirr then meets his own father and provides him with the means to save his terminally ill son, Roirr, using forbidden magic that would sacrifice an entire village. Now at the end of his life and unable to become an elemental spirit as his soul was too tainted, Vaal decides to subject Roirr to a spell that would cause the both of them to fuse and become reborn as Secundus, the very elemental spirit who has been corrupting Roirr his entire life, essentially creating himself via a stable time loop.
 * In the Dolphins Nightmare stages of Ecco the Dolphin: Defender Of The Future, the oceans are ruled by the Clan; a group of racist, cruel dolphins who torment outcast dolphins and other marine life. The Clan is lead by the Exalted Ones, and under their orders, members of the Clan engage in such atrocities as capturing whales to use as living generators, cutting off the food supplies of an outcast village and later siccing sharks on the villagers, and torturing a member of the dolphin resistance group. While the lead Exalted one, Mutaclone, does display somewhat of a positive side, the two unnamed Exalted Ones show no redeeming traits at all, with one of them even stating "Compassion is a weakness".
 * Enzai Has these two:
 * Guildias is the detective who arrests Guys and has him charged with murder. He regularly visits, tortures, and rapes Guys in the prison. As the game progresses, Guildias is gradually revealed to have framed Guys for murder because of a (false) fear that Guys witnessed him kidnapping another character, Muca. Guildias is also the real killer of the man Guys has been accused of murdering.
 * Durer is a sadistic prison warden who regularly rapes, humiliates, and tortures the prisoners, especially Guys and Vallewida. His father, Bollanet, is a highly placed governmental official, which protects him from retribution – most of the prisoners under Durer's care end up dying under mysterious circumstances. He is introduced near the very beginning of the game; the first adult scene involves him performing a cavity search upon Guys. In one ending, when Guys fails to stand up to Durer and other sadistic officials, he becomes Durer's Sex Slave.
 * Pious Augustus of Eternal Darkness. While he is The Dragon to an ancient evil god (you can choose from three), he is the main antagonist. When you first see him, he is a playable character, a Roman legionaire who stumbled on an ancient temple in Persia. In the end, he is corrupted by one of three artifacts and serves that god. It is not known when he crosses the Moral Event Horizon, but he is clearly over it for the rest of the game, committing horrific acts gleefully, including throwing hundreds of innocent people into a tower of corpses during Roberto Bianci's scenario (him included). He kills other characters you play as as well. In the final battle, Alex as well as all the spirits of those killed trying to stop Pious do battle. Alex kills Pious for good with his own staff if you win, although he hints before his death that Alex killing him would actually make things worse. But if you lose, you see a special scene of Pious gloating over a dead Alex. It is also implied in one cutscene that he may intend to betray his god in the future.
 * Xel'latoth herself is just as bad. She creates Zombies by mind raping them back to life, likes the idea of driving Charlemagne the Frank insane then killing him and in the Ulyaoth arc she plans to drive the entire human race insane.
 * Count Waltz of Eternal Sonata is the 16 year old ruler of Forte City who is responsible for all of the suffering throughout the game. Aspiring to dominate the world, Waltz oversees the manufacturing of a mutagenic substance he dubs mineral powder. Marketing it as a miraculous cure all for illnesses, Waltz aims to create Super Soldiers to wage war with Baroque. Extensive use of the drug drives its user to madness after which their soul is trapped in a perpetual purgatory unable to move on. Concluding that beings known as the "glowing agogos" should increase the potency of the concoction, he tasks his henchmen with acquiring the creatures. Waltz becomes displeased upon realizing that his spy — Claves — had fallen in love with the leader of Andantino (a rebel group out to overthrow him), and he sends Rondo to kill her, a fact that he mocks Jazz with later on. Learning that the agogos only glowed in Polka's presence, Waltz slaps her to the ground, and turns his dragons onto the group despite him saying that he'd spare them. Always a sore loser, he forces his adviser, Legato, to drink the unfinished mineral powder, transforming him into a horrid monster called the Ruined Body. Refusing to accept defeat, Waltz orders Legato to destroy everything, saying if he couldn't rule the world, it may as well not exist. Power hungry and alarmingly casual in his atrocities, Waltz saw experimenting on his own subjects as a necessary step towards total domination.
 * Etrian Odyssey has a tendency to have villains that are either barely villains at all or Well Intentioned Extremists. However, this is not so with from the third game.
 * Exmortis trilogy: Lord Vlaew is a cruel, power-hungry demon lord whose existence predates that of man and beast. After usurping Azrael and trapping him in a hellish dimension to suffer for eternity, just so he can keep the Ancient powers, who spared his life in exchange for a temporary truce to defeat Kfafta, he ruled over the earth realm with an iron fist until he, too, was overthrown, along with a legion of lesser beings called the Exmortis. Billions of years later, he traps a man in a house above his temple and slowly corrupts him into killing 5 people in order to become the Hand of Repose and allowing him and his fellow Exmortis passage into the human realm, slaughtering most of the human race in the process. With humanity trampled by the demon horde, he petitions a man, Mr. Hannay, to slay the Hand of Repose and permanently banish the Exmortis back to the Crimson Realm, only to murder Mr. Hannay and cement his rule over the world. By the time of Exmortis 3, life on earth is struggling to get by under his reign, with a few humans having gone to his side and murdering rebels in a manner rivaling that of the Exmortis.
 * Pious Augustus of Eternal Darkness. While he is The Dragon to an ancient evil god (you can choose from three), he is the main antagonist. When you first see him, he is a playable character, a Roman legionaire who stumbled on an ancient temple in Persia. In the end, he is corrupted by one of three artifacts and serves that god. It is not known when he crosses the Moral Event Horizon, but he is clearly over it for the rest of the game, committing horrific acts gleefully, including throwing hundreds of innocent people into a tower of corpses during Roberto Bianci's scenario (him included). He kills other characters you play as as well. In the final battle, Alex as well as all the spirits of those killed trying to stop Pious do battle. Alex kills Pious for good with his own staff if you win, although he hints before his death that Alex killing him would actually make things worse. But if you lose, you see a special scene of Pious gloating over a dead Alex. It is also implied in one cutscene that he may intend to betray his god in the future.
 * Xel'latoth herself is just as bad. She creates Zombies by mind raping them back to life, likes the idea of driving Charlemagne the Frank insane then killing him and in the Ulyaoth arc she plans to drive the entire human race insane.
 * Count Waltz of Eternal Sonata is the 16 year old ruler of Forte City who is responsible for all of the suffering throughout the game. Aspiring to dominate the world, Waltz oversees the manufacturing of a mutagenic substance he dubs mineral powder. Marketing it as a miraculous cure all for illnesses, Waltz aims to create Super Soldiers to wage war with Baroque. Extensive use of the drug drives its user to madness after which their soul is trapped in a perpetual purgatory unable to move on. Concluding that beings known as the "glowing agogos" should increase the potency of the concoction, he tasks his henchmen with acquiring the creatures. Waltz becomes displeased upon realizing that his spy — Claves — had fallen in love with the leader of Andantino (a rebel group out to overthrow him), and he sends Rondo to kill her, a fact that he mocks Jazz with later on. Learning that the agogos only glowed in Polka's presence, Waltz slaps her to the ground, and turns his dragons onto the group despite him saying that he'd spare them. Always a sore loser, he forces his adviser, Legato, to drink the unfinished mineral powder, transforming him into a horrid monster called the Ruined Body. Refusing to accept defeat, Waltz orders Legato to destroy everything, saying if he couldn't rule the world, it may as well not exist. Power hungry and alarmingly casual in his atrocities, Waltz saw experimenting on his own subjects as a necessary step towards total domination.
 * Etrian Odyssey has a tendency to have villains that are either barely villains at all or Well Intentioned Extremists. However, this is not so with from the third game.
 * Exmortis trilogy: Lord Vlaew is a cruel, power-hungry demon lord whose existence predates that of man and beast. After usurping Azrael and trapping him in a hellish dimension to suffer for eternity, just so he can keep the Ancient powers, who spared his life in exchange for a temporary truce to defeat Kfafta, he ruled over the earth realm with an iron fist until he, too, was overthrown, along with a legion of lesser beings called the Exmortis. Billions of years later, he traps a man in a house above his temple and slowly corrupts him into killing 5 people in order to become the Hand of Repose and allowing him and his fellow Exmortis passage into the human realm, slaughtering most of the human race in the process. With humanity trampled by the demon horde, he petitions a man, Mr. Hannay, to slay the Hand of Repose and permanently banish the Exmortis back to the Crimson Realm, only to murder Mr. Hannay and cement his rule over the world. By the time of Exmortis 3, life on earth is struggling to get by under his reign, with a few humans having gone to his side and murdering rebels in a manner rivaling that of the Exmortis.

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 * In Fallen London, the Masters of the Bazaar are well known for their antipathy towards the people of London and for being amoral by human standards, but most cannot truly be called evil. The same cannot be said for Mr Veils, more commonly known to the citizens of London as the monstrous Vake. Presiding over the trade in cloth as his primary duty, Mr Veils spends his free time hunting victims for sport as the Vake. His modus operandi is to spike a drink known as Black Wings Absinthe with his blood and haunt the nightmares of his victims before hunting them down in the waking world. Particularly unlucky victims will consume a version spiked with prisoner's honey, thereby transporting them physically into the nightmare. In a pitch-black abyss, the Vake taunts and torment his victims before tearing them to pieces. Ultimately, his greatest evil was masterminding the betrayal of fellow Master Mr Candles. Mr Candles, who loved the Second City, was stabbed repeatedly by the other Masters and fed to Priest-Kings of what would soon become the Third City. Mr Veils delivered the final blow when he drowned Mr Candles in the tears of the Bazaar and dissolved him in purest sorrow, causing his vengeful disembodied spirit to become Mr Eaten. Down in the Neath where law itself breaks down, Mr Veils proves there will always be monsters in the deep darkness where the Earth hides its greatest shames.
 * Far Cry 3: Hoyt Volker runs the largest human trafficking ring in the South Pacific. Raising himself up from the rank of privateer, Hoyt made his authority clear to the other pirates by executing his former boss in front of the man's family. Using drugs to corrupt Vaas Montenegro into his addled, sadistic right-hand man, Hoyt lets Vaas loose on his prisoners, letting him abuse and kill them as he sees fit. Introduced forcing a group of civilians to run across a minefield, Hoyt later burns one of his own men alive and tells his other mercenaries to kill any native islander they come across. Hoyt also forces Jason Brody to torture his own younger brother to prove his loyalty. When Hoyt discovers Jason means to betray him, he kills Jason's friend and begins cutting off Jason's fingers, determined to draw out his suffering before finally killing him.
 * Fate/stay night has Zouken Matou, an ancient mage who serves as the Big Bad of the Heaven's Feel route. Not only is he indirectly responsible for a lot of what Shinji does to Sakura, he's also responsible for Sakura's literally tortuous Training from Hell designed either to break her completely or drive her violently insane, and for . This in addition to the way he keeps himself alive and his general callousness towards human life, all with the eventual goal of becoming immortal. To make matters worse,
 * In the first episode of the recently-adapted anime of Fate/Zero, you get to see in gruesome, high-definition detail just what Zouken did to Sakuya. It isn't pretty. It really, really isn't pretty. After watching the scene, be prepared to need a shower to feel clean again. And he just laughs at it. Any possible sympathy towards a character who most people, knowing only the anime of Fate/stay night, wouldn't know is lost within two minutes of meeting them. That has to be a record.
 * In Fault Milestone One, Rune Zhevitz, infamous among the town of Kadia, was a heir of the Zhevitz family, who owned the most successful company in the country. At a young age, she was bratty and insufferable... but then After  Rune  Years later,  Rune was admitted into a prestigious academy... . Rune Zhevitz was, in every sense of the word, a sociopath, with no empathy and no sense of caring about the consequences of her actions. . It took  Sara (AKA "Rune"), a worker related to Zhevitz Enterprise, might be a genuinely good person to Ritona and Selphine, her two new friends, but the original Rune will live in infamy as a monster.
 * Five Nights at Freddy's: William Afton, former business partner of Henry Emily and co-founder of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, is the one responsible for all the horrifying evil acts in the series. Beginning his killing spree with Henry's daughter Charlotte and leading to Henry supposedly committing suicide, Afton lured five children backstage in his Spring Bonnie suit, brutally killed them and stuffed them in animatronic suits in which Charlotte as the Puppet bound the children's souls to the characters in order to get revenge. After discovering a soul residue known as "remnant", Afton as the CEO of Afton Robotics created animatronics designed specifically to capture and murder children for their remnant, sending them to Fredbear's Family Diner chains and Circus Baby's Pizza World to lure in their targets, in order to discover the secrets of immortality and resurrection of the dead. Despite losing his daughter Elizabeth to one of his own creations, Afton refused to quit his murderous ways, then sent his son Michael to repair his sister, leading to the poor boy being skinned alive and made to serve as a human suit to Ennard before surviving the animatronic ripping out of his body and reducing Michael into nothing but a purple undead abomination hellbent on finding his father. After being killed with his own springlock suit by the children's spirits, Afton comes back as the Ax Crazy Springtrap, eager to slaughter more children again and mold his daughter Elizabeth, now Circus Baby, into becoming a killer like him. Though supposedly sent to Hell after having his remnant burnt out by Michael and Henry, Afton's remnant survived and lives on as the virtual Glitchtrap, attempting to free himself from the VR game his code is trapped in by transferring her consciousness into a beta tester, and establishing that his reign of terror will live on through his follower Vanny and members of his cult. While most of the antagonists in this series are sympathetic or driven mad by their undead status, only Afton stands out as a truly malevolent figure.
 * In For Honor, Big Bad Apollyon is a brutal female warrior who commands the Blackstone Legion. Obsessed with war, Apollyon welcomes only the strongest and most ruthless into the Blackstone, with those who fight back against her spared from the prisoners while the rest are slaughtered as she sneers at them for being 'sheep.' Manipulating the various factions into conflict, Apollyon leads attacks on the viking warriors before confiscating or destroying their supplies so they fall among themselves, allowing only the strongest to survive. When the vikings attack the samurai Dawn Empire, Apollyon sacks the capital city, murdering the Emperor and releases the Daimyos to hunt eachother down to see who will emerge. When defeated by the Emperor's champion, the Orochi, Apollyon gloats that her true plan has been to precipitate an endless war between the vikings, knights and samurai, watching as they fall among eachother due to her manipulations. Obsessed with proving everyone is as bloodthirsty as her, Apollyon only finds joy in endless slaughter, wanting nothing more than a land consumed by the flames of war forever.
 * What list of gaming's most vile would be complete without a mention of Lord Brevon of Freedom Planet? Him trying to steal the Kingdom Stone is pretty typical platformer villain material, but then there's his truly horrific means to pry it from Avalice: While he claims his people need the purity of the Kingdom Stone, Torque points out  Brevon doesn't give a crap about this. He also  His last and most monstrous deed was
 * The four-part comic Frontline series also had Dr. Stanley Burgess, whom the comic's editor considered to be the only two amoral characters (the other being the sadistic wrangler, Randall) in the entire series. A sadistic Terran Dominion scientist, he personally oversaw the neural resocialization of Jin-ho Lim, a terran of Asian ethnicity who opposed the Terran Dominion but was conscripted into the Dominion Marine Corps. After the operation, Stanley ordered the now docile Lim to kill his wife and fellow Terran Dominion opposer, Anna, and he complied by shooting her in the face without a moment's hesitation. He also was responsible for the creation of the terran/Protoss Gestalts by implanting the organs of captured Protoss into terrans controlled by neural conditioning and neural inhibitors. His project came to an end after one of his subjects, Gestalt Zero, was freed from his neural inhibitors by a dying Protoss and stabbed him to death, ironcally echoing one his previous comments "I should warn you...this is probably going to hurt."
 * Tom Hawkins from Kate Lockwell's origin story also qualifies. He murders an entire colony with sadistic glee, and when Lockwell refuses to give him evidence of his crimes, he dumps her friend (whom she only just reconcilled with) into space, killing him. He's pretty much the reason she's the Only Sane Women we see in the game; before she bought all the dominion propaganda hook line and sinker.
 * The biggest example is the Dark Voice. In the Bad Future he has three species wiped out to mold the universe in his own twisted imagery, and in the current future he's not only responsible for the destruction of the Xel'Naga, but also for every single atrocity that the Zerg commit. And he only shows up in one level.
 * Gabriel Knight:
 * Sins of the Fathers: Dr. John is the fanatical madman so obsessed with Voodoo culture that he becomes the second-in-command to Malia Gedde of the demonic spirit Tetelo. Fully organizing the Gedde cult of Voodoo worshippers, John began perpetrating the "Voodoo Murders", a series of vicious killings where the victims' hearts would be ripped out. Along with regularly having anyone who could oust him assassinated, John bathes in the blood of his kills, and it is seen that he has numerous other victims in his lair, with piles of skulls, dismembered limbs, and body-less faces abounding. When titular Gabriel Knight begins investigating him, John kidnaps the man's assistant, Grace, and plans to use her as the latest sacrifice to Tetelo and the gods of death they worship, with John never showing any form of remorse for his victims or care for Tetelo; just raving fanaticism toward the Voodoo gods of destruction.
 * The Beast Within: Baron Garr von Zell was, from the start, a rude, unlikable Jerkass with nothing but malice toward his fellow man. However once his true nature is discovered, he quickly becomes one of the most wicked villains in the franchise. Turned into a werewolf by Friedrich von Glower, von Zell became addicted to the thrill of killing, and quickly began murdering innocents, not for food like all other werewolves, but just For the Evulz. In these "mutilation killings", von Zell ravenously shreds more than half a dozen innocents to pieces, one of whom was a little girl, and he plans to continue his spree after framing a pair of wolves for the killings, later murdering a man who tries to blackmail him with the fact that he is the true killer. While Gabriel and von Glower, disgusted by von Zell's wanton sadism, manage to stop him before he kills too many more, von Zell makes sure to turn Gabriel himself into a werewolf before his death to screw with him one final time. A psychopath with nothing driving him but base impulses of hate and cruelty, Garr von Zell was without a doubt the most evil werewolf Gabriel encountered.
 * Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned: Excelsior Montreaux, real name Sanae, was once an adamant follower of Jesus Christ, but after growing jealous of his master, attempted to drain him of his blood to gain his godly powers. Though driven off by other followers of Christ, Montreaux began hunting down Christ's descendants then draining them of their blood as they slept, leaving them deathly sick for weeks to pass before repeating the process over and over again, which inevitably lead to his victims' deaths. Feasting on the blood of these descendants, sparking the legend of the vampire in the process, Montreaux has kept himself and his followers alive for over 2,000 years, and, alongside executing any who get to close to the truth of his Satanic cult, Montreaux plans to murder the latest descendant of Christ, the infant Charlie, drink his blood, then use the power it will give him to lead his cult in taking over the world. The final, and perhaps most evil, villain Gabriel faced, Montreaux truly cared for no one or no thing but himself and his Immortality.
 * Dorothy is an advanced rogue AI and responsible for all the evil in the Galerians duology. Having become obsessed with achieving godhood, Dorothy hijacks the computer system of the city's hospital and performs horrible experiments on its patients and staff, just so she could prove to be equal to god by creating the titular Galerians. Discovering that her creators are planning on shutting her down, Dorothy forcefully injects a young and innocent Galerian with PPEC to turn him into a sadistic killer and sends him to commit a bloodbath at their household, killing and transforming her creator's 14-year-old son, Rion Steiner, into a Galerian so she can find the sole survivor of the massacre. The sequel explores even more of her atrocities, as Dorothy had created a sentient backup program to resurrect her in case of defeat, keeping him captive and torturing him for the equivalent of thousands of years, leaving him as a bitter and resentful individual. A tyrannical egomaniac, Dorothy had no compassion, not even for her own children.
 * Ghost Recon Wildlands has El Sueño, the leader of the Santa Blanca Cartel and the one responsible for turning the once-prosperous Bolivia into the Crapsack World it is in the present. Within the cartel, El Sueño personally oversees and partakes in the production and distribution of cocaine, the sex trafficking of children, and the torture and murder of thousands; there are numerous corpses hanging from telephone pole and mass graves found throughout Bolivia. When El Sueño learns that one of his men is an undercover DEA agent, he personally tortures the poor guy for 47 hours straight. His acts of cruelty also extend to even the most loyal of his subordinates; should they fail him in any way, he would arrange for them to either be tortured, murdered, their loved ones kidnapped and murdered, or even all the above. When the Ghosts manage to dismantle his cartel, El Sueño reveal that he made a deal with their government granting him immunity while he would use them to take down rival cartels and gloats about his victory by throwing at them a recently decapitated head of rebel leader and former ally, Pac Katari. With nearly every atrocity committed by the Santa Blanca Cartel being traced back to El Sueño, underneath his religious and charitable exterior lies a towering and brutal egotist, utterly unfeeling to the violence caused by his actions.
 * The Golden Sun series is noted for its surprisingly complex - if somewhat flat - characters, with the heroes making terrible mistakes during their quests and the antagonists frequently having sympathetic motives or qualities - the Proxians, and Lord Babi was quite a morally ambiguous character, having both Benevolent Boss moments and some which bordered on Kick the Dog, yet escaping classification ... And then the sequel - Golden Sun Dark Dawn - gave us Blados and Chalis, two agents of the mysterious country Tuaparang. These two have no problem with kidnapping children, , and to top it off near the end, . Blados is the worst of the two, since it's implied he does a lot of this just because he can, but Chalis herself is quite a ruthless, cold-hearted backstabber.
 * Alex could count as well. Betraying his clan, and especially his mentor, in search for the forbidden powers of Alchemy (without intending to save the world; he just wanted the power for himself)? Slaughtering an entire Tolbian army just because he could? And that's just the top of the iceburg. Note-even Blados and Chalis are wary of him.
 * The entire Gothic series in general has a pretty sinister tone in itself, with A LOT of Jerkass characters, cutthroat bandits, crazy cultists and MUCH more to offer. However, Bloodwyn, the greedy guardsman from the Old Camp, stands out in particular. The first thing he does to newcomers is asking "kindly" for protection money. Unlike the other guardsmen however, he won't just leave you on your own if you refuse. He'll send his henchmen after you to beat you to a bloody pulp, and sometimes even kill you. Also, (although granted, he was ordered) he participates in cowardly murdering the Firemages later in the game. When The Hero, not knowing that he has done something to upset somebody, returns to the camp afterwards, Bloodwyn and his mooks try to murder him in cold blood. However, he truly hits the Moral Event Horizon in the Gothic 2 Expansion Pack, Night of the Raven. Joining the bandits and put in charge of the mine, he mercilessly forces the slaves to work without any breaks, and when they stumble upon some angry Minecrawlers and later even cursed guardians, he doesn't care one bit. By the time the Hero arrives, many slaves are already deceased, either killed by the creatures, worked to death, or starved, because they get nothing but rubbish to eat. Others are so exhausted they can barely stand and some are already hallucinating, because they haven't seen the sun for weeks. After the (disguised) Hero does the dirty work of killing all the vermin inside the mine for him, Bloodwyn doesn't even attempt to thank, let alone pay him for his actions, instead trying to get rid of him so that he alone can get all the gold inside.
 * Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters: Amon Sur is the son of Abin Sur, the greatest member of the Green Lantern Corp, who died before the game began. Amon presented himself as a kind and dutiful son at his father's funeral, but that was all an act. Amon was secretly bitter that his father's ring was given to Hal Jordan instead of him and planned to exact his revenge. Allying himself with the Green Lantern's old enemies, the Manhunters, Amon has the Manhunters attack Oa. This attack was a diversion so that the Manhunters could locate the Yellow Fear Battery hidden beneath Oa and steal its power. The Manhunters succeed and with this new power Amon orders them to brainwash and enslave another race, the Zamarons, so that they will attack Oa. Foiling this scheme, Hal Jordan heads to the Manhunters' home world, where he discovers Amon's treachery and finds his friend Kilowog trapped in a giant Manhunter that is slowly draining away his life force. After freeing Kilowog, Hal Jordan finds Amon leading the Manhunters in another attack on Oa, with Amon intending to kill everyone on the planet for revenge.
 * Guilty Gear gives us the sexy, powerful, and utterly cruel I-No. Here are the reasons why:
 * She loves torturing Dizzy. IN GGXX she pushed her off the ship a thousand feet from the air, but that didn't make her happy. When she landed on the ground in pain, I-No beat her up while she amuses herself with her screaming.
 * In the Drama CD's, after befriending and flirting with a teenager Ky, she watched as Gears tear his body in Rome and she left him there choking on his own blood. She was laughing in amusement. And we have to consider that Ky was fighting there to look for her, wanting to make sure that she's safe.
 * She just likes to pick up fights when encountering characters in her story paths. Reason? She's a troll.
 * Most of the villains from GUN qualify. The Big Bad, Colonel Magruder, is feverishly seeking an el Dorado called Quivira, and murders or tortures anyone who gets in his way. His defining moment came in a flashback to years before the events of the game, when he came to a small homestead out in the plains belonging to a benevolent doctor who helped the nearby Apaches. When the Apache chief tells Magruder that his lust for the treasure will lead to his doom, he coldly shoots him, then beheads the doctor. When one of his own soldiers protests his actions, Magruder shoots him, too. His cruelty only worsens from there.
 * Magruder's right hand, Reed the preacher, is almost equally bad. The game starts with him ordering a group of barbaric renegade soldiers to slaughter an entire steamboat in order to search it for a missing artifact. Later on, he murders in front of Colton White, just to hurt him.
 * From Halo 3: ODST's audio-files, we have Police Commissioner Kinsler. Over the course of the story told in the various audio-packets you find throughout the city, he tries to capture and rape Sadie multiple times, has the city Superintendent shut down, hindering rescue work and thus likely resulting in hundreds of unnecessary deaths, casually orders the execution of Dr. Endesha (Sadie's father), has his troops open fire on a tightly-packed group of civilians who were trying to get to safety in his train car, and other things I can't remember at the moment. The last of those acts gets him killed when Vergil opens the train doors, allowing the angry mob to rush in and literally tear him apart.
 * There's also Prophet of Truth - he's The Caligula who intends to wipe out everything in the universe with Halo. He attempts to commit genocide against the Elites, causes trillions of deaths just so that he won't lose power, and after coldly murdering Miranda Keyes, he forces Johnson to activate the Halos while mocking him and calling humanity weak. Never mind that Miranda was something of a student to Johnson. His death at the hands of the Arbiter is pretty damn satisfying. At least Gravemind gets a point for being a Magnificent Bastard. Also, he knew the Great Journey was a lie, according to the books, and ordered the genocide of humanity anyway in order to get himself named Hierarch.
 * Haka, from the Halo Legends DVD adaptation, easily qualifies. He has a friend of the then-Arbiter who murdered the Arbiter's wife after an off-screen beating that, judging from the injuries, was horribly brutal. He then lures the Arbiter into an ambush to kill him and usurp his clan leadership because the Arbiter wasn't part of the Covenant. Oh, and while most Elites would have had the justification of the Great Journey, believing that only a unified Covenant could reach Paradise, Haka didn't give a damn. To him, the Journey was simply a means to control other Elites and take power.
 * The Forerunner known as the Master Builder, a.k.a. Faber. Good Lord, he'll utterly tear your "Forerunners were noble heroes" view apart. Power hungry, vain, and a horrible racist to other aliens and basically anyone who isn't a builder, he built the Halos basically so he and his pals could be in charge. When the San'Shyuum (Prophets) revolted after they realized the Forerunners were losing to the Flood, he figured the fair punishment was to use their homeworld as a test subject for his Halos. And when the Forerunner council told him he had to allow the Librarian to use the Halos as preserves for sentient life, he allowed it...so he could toss those populations to the Flood and see what happened.
 * Even the Harvest Moon series has a Complete Monster in the form of Gelwein, the antagonist of Rune Factory Frontier. A Mad Scientist banished from the Imperial Research Center in Norad for his theories on using Runes for powering weapons of mass destruction, Gelwein attempts to continue his research by draining the Life Energy from a sentient floating island, condemning the island's sentience to a slow, torturous death in the process. When told that the floating island could, if completely drained of its energy, fall out of the sky and crush an entire town's worth of innocent people underneath it, he smugly says that it's not his problem.
 * It's even worse after he
 * The protagonist from the very controversial game Hatred is noteworthy for being one of the most disgusting villainous protagonists in recent history. This stringy-haired, brutish psychopath has no real reason for going on his "genocide crusade", he just hates humanity and wants to take as many innocent people down with him as he can in one hell of a blaze of glory. And to that end, he butchers his way through thousands of innocent people: gutting them with knives, blowing them apart with guns and bombs, all the while being completely unaffected by their screams, crying, and pleas of mercy, and that's before he moves on to the police and soldiers. There's not even any satisfaction to because.
 * Flying Fox, The Dragon of King Bohan from Heavenly Sword, outdoes Bohan himself in terms of sheer nastiness. Sick, twisted and utterly sadistic, this guy was responsible for driving poor Kai crazy. And then he breaks her more when he reveals that.
 * At least
 * Heavy Rain has two examples; First there's Dr. Adrian Baker, who murders people by surgery while they are still alive and conscious for no other reason than his own sick twisted enjoyment. He attempts to do this on Madison Page, and a Jehovah's witness all because the man wouldn't stop pestering him. He isn't exactly averse to a spot of Cold-Blooded Torture before he kills his victims: with Madison, he acts friendly enough, but when she's in his clutches he begins attempting to torture her with a power drill. Then there's Leland White, the Taxidermist in the DLC of the same name, who kills young women before stuffing them and displaying them around his house. If Madison so much as attracts his attention during her escape, he shows pure sadistic glee in hunting her down while taunting her about how he’s going to add her to his collection. When Madison first uncovers the inside of his home, she's rightfully horrified to discover just how many women he's murdered and made part of his sick little tableaus.
 * The Heroes of Might and Magic series gives us these charming characters:
 * Heroes of Might and Magic IV: Kalibarr, once The Mentor to Gauldoth, got separated from him, but Gauldoth frees Kalibarr from prison years later. Having all his previous good qualities gone, Kalibarr starts with sending his old apprentice on dangerous missions in hopes of getting rid of him. Later, Gauldoth learns that Kalibarr was worshiping a God of Evil and under his orders, he wanted to destroy the whole world. He also kidnapped many children from the kingdom, fully intending to use them as human sacrifices to his God.
 * Heroes of Might and Magic V: Markal, who also appears in Clash of Heroes, is an evil necromancer who, learning that King Nicolai is dead, schemes to gain the trust of his grieving love, Queen Isabel, and raise Nicolai as a vampire lord. Marching to the Griffin Empire, he defeats a rebel army and persuades Isabel that he can resurrect Nicolai, knowing fully well what the result will be, and persuades her to attack the Wizards. Slaughtering the wizards who stand in his way, Markal restores the citadel of Lorekeep and ransacks the town of Hikm to gain the Amulet of Necromancy. Vowing to reunite the Vampire's Garment, Markal storms into the Silver Cities, turning the Wizard cities into Necropolises and converting the citizens—including children—into undead puppets for him to throw away as he sees fit. After killing Cyrus to gain the Ring of the Unrepentant, Markal kidnaps Freyda, Godric's daughter, when he rebels. Once Nicolai is resurrected as a Vampire, Markal decides to take command of the Griffin Empire, and he immediately orders Nicolai to attack Irollan, leading to the deaths of thousands of Elves, including their king Alaron. After Zehir breaks Godric out of prison, they attack Markal at his citadel and, after a close battle with the necromancer, defeat him. He tells them that killing him will ensure he can return, laughing all the while. When Zehir burns his corpse to ensure that cannot happen, Markal decides to get revenge on Zehir and lures him into the Ring of the Unrepentant, hoping to take control of his body. Ambitious, power-hungry and vengeful, Markal will do anything to further his desire for power and gain revenge on those who wrong him.
 * Virtus is the only selfish villain in Hexyz Force, having no intentions for anyone but himself. Before joining the other villains, he caused a divide between his race, out of wanting to gain leadership position for himself, but then sided with Faust to both help his ambition for power and control and to possibly gain more power from him after he betrays him eventually. When Ignis, another dragon, realizes Virtus's true intention, he took over leadership himself after he and Cecilia's group defeated Virtus; out of rage, Virtus tried to commit genocide on his race before being stopped by Levant and his group. Hoping now to steal power from Faust by betraying him and then using it against his people, Faust set him up to be defeated by Cecilia and Ignis's group again, only this time for him to get killed for good. He returns in the final level by Faust using his power to resurrect him, to give time for his master scheme to lead the world into destruction, with a fitting end delivered by Ignis. Faust may be the one in charge, but Virtus was the evilest of them, not having any well-intended purpose, but only motivated by greed and a lust for power.
 * In the second stage of Hitman Contracts, you are hired to take out Campbell Sturrock, the Meat King, and his Amoral Attorney, as well as bringing back your client's daughter who was taken by Sturrock's sick bastard brother, whose kidnapping case fell apart at a vital stage due to the lawyer's maneuvering. When you find the girl during the course of the mission, it turns out that the brother killed her in sick fashion. Though the mission requires you to kill both Sturrock and the lawyer as well as bringing back the girl's arm so it can be used as evidence to put the brother away for murder, some players make a point of killing the brother as well for being a Complete Monster.
 * In Homeworld, Emperor Riesstiu IV the Second is The Caligula of the Taiidan empire. Before the events of the game, he was a corrupt and unstable ruler whose brutal policies have reduced his empire to a mere shell of its former self. When the Kushan unknowingly violate a treaty forbidding them from developing space technology, a treaty long forgotten by everyone except historians, Riesstiu orders the genocide of the entire Kushan civilization and has his fleet firebomb their planet Kharak, roasting alive untold millions. He then broadcasts the footage all across his empire, threatening hundreds of worlds with the same fate. When the peaceful Bentusi give aid to the Kushans, Riesstiu orders his fleet to attack one of their motherships, intent on slaying everything on board. When the Kushans arrive at their true home world Hiigara, he mind rapes fleet control Karan S'jet, and then personally attempts to finish the very genocide he started. Seeking power at the expense of everything that lives, Riesstiu is reviled throughout the galaxy.
 * I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: In this point-and-click-game that expands on Harlan Ellison's short story, AM is a sentient master computer who's already wiped out most of the human race before the story even begins, keeping five people alive for 109 years for him to torture physically and psychologically until the end of time. These torments include trapping Ellen in a virtual reality simulation of the elevator where, years earlier, she was tortured and raped by a psychopath disguised as a repairman—with a simulation of the "repairman"; and trying to tempt Nimdok into continuing the experiments he performed at concentration camps. Eager to prove Humans Are Bastards to weakly justify itself, AM is one of pettiest, cruelest AIs in all fiction. Plus, he's also the Trope Namer for one of the most horrifying tropes ever.
 * The Incredible Hulk (2008 Video Game): Major Glenn Talbot is a homicidal army major obsessed with taking down the Hulk, Bruce Banner, through any means necessary. Beginning his attacks on Hulk by launching numerous missile strikes on him, Talbot disregards his soldiers' objections that the missiles will impact many highly-populated areas of New York, and pins all the ensuing destruction on the Hulk. When press helicopters fly too close to his military base, Talbot orders them all shot down, hoping to silence the reporters' attempts to oust him as a madman. Showing no care for innocents, Talbot kidnaps both Hulk's best friend, Rick Jones, and his Love Interest, Betty Ross, to use as hostages to draw him out, and, when the army turns on him after they learn of his crimes, Talbot responds by killing the soldiers sent after him, attempting to murder the Hulk, then setting his Hulkbuster armor to detonate, fully knowing it will wipe out most of the city, just to kill the Hulk. A sociopath who abused his power for no reason other than blind hatred and jealousy, Glenn Talbot stood out, even to Bruce, as a truly wicked man whose hatred made him far worse than the "monsters" he claimed to be fighting.
 * in In Famous 2. In addition to all that, he also  The greatest irony is that this character never fully seems to realize how terrible a monster he's become. His Karmic Transformation is completely lost on him, despite the fact ; the only conclusion he draws from this is that
 * InFamous: Second Son gives us Brooke Augustine, the cold, ruthless, and sadistic commander of the oppressive D.U.P which is dedicated to hunting down Conduits and locking them away for life even though Augustine is a Conduit herself. Having come to the Akomish tribe's reservation in pursuit of three escaped Conduits, Augustine shows her sadistic side by torturing protagonist Delsin Rowe with her concrete powers by growing spikes through his legs all because she merely suspects him of being a Conduit sympathizer. And since she won't believe Delsin even if he admits to being a Conduit, she moves on to torture the rest of his tribe by leaving concrete spikes in their organs and flesh, dooming them to die a slow and painful death unless if they're removed by her (which of course she refuses to do). She then moves on to oppress the citizens of Seattle as she hunts down two Conduits by the name of Abigail "Fetch" Walker and Eugene Sims while having her soldiers tear the city apart showing that along with Conduits, she also oppresses the humans she is supposed to protect. However, it's revealed during her final battle with Delsin that And if her case wasn't bad enough, she also  Despite all her talk of being a protector of humanity, what Augustine says and what she does are entirely different, with all of her actions painting her as an authoritative tyrant crushing both groups under heel while she reigns at the top.
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 * Korrilan, a "tailor" in Riften in the game Interesting NPCs, has perfected the ability to Body Surf, transferring his soul between bodies to stay alive, and also just when he tires of wearing his current "outfit." He gets bodies by using a modified Black Soul Gem creation process and healing magics to trick the souls of living beings into leaving their bodies, rendering them soulless shells for him to use as he likes. It's implied he's done this across Tamriel for years if not decades, has gone through several victims in the process, and has killed others who found out his secret and tried to stop him. As he calmly explains this, he not only refers to the braindead bodies he uses as "clothes," but treats them as dismissively as though they were, having the Player Character kill his current host body without a care so that he can demonstrate his ability.
 * The Lotus Assassins in Jade Empire were once a peaceful order of monks dedicated to the spiritual development and protection of the Emperor...until Death's Hand got put in charge. They are put through extreme Training from Hell like being beat with iron rods to dull their notion of pain, put in isolation until they go mad, and pitted against each other in ways that make the Sith look sane. (Was BioWare planning to make Korriban look like this, only to Squick George Lucas?) It looks like Death's Hand was making a play against the Emperor...only to find out the Emperor not only has given his blessing to all this crap, he's undead, being kept on this plane by the enslavement of a goddess, and clearly out of is skull.
 * Baron Praxis in Jak II Renegade, who betrayed Damas, the real ruler of Haven City, and booted him out into the Wasteland and transformed Haven into a totalitarian empire, loaded with ridiculously cruel laws, a corrupt police force, and indifference to suffering and poverty in general. On top of that, he had no qualms using human lives in his Dark Eco experiments. And while he did go out of his way to give the REAL Big Bad of the game (see below) loads of Eco just to keep him and his creatures out of the city, despite the large shortage of it, it was obviously just to keep control of his empire and not because he cared about the people in it. His semi Redemption Equals Death made up for very little of what he did.
 * Metal Kor. Not only was he the whole reason Jak's world got turned completely upside down, but he was also the reason the Precursors were driven to near-extinction. He held Haven City under his siege for decades, all just so that he could find and feed upon the last Precursor life force hidden within the Precursor Stone. And that isn't even counting the numerous atrocities he committed along the way.
 * Count Veger in Jak 3. In fact, he's probably the real Big Bad of the entire series when you think about it. To start, he took Jak away from his father as a kid to try and harness his special eco channeling powers, which resulted in him getting left out on the streets of Haven. Later on, Veger destroyed the Palace of Haven just to gain access to the catacombs beneath the surface, killing hundreds of lives on the streets of Haven via the falling palace, and got Jak booted out into the Wasteland just to ensure he wouldn't get in his way. On top of that, he wanted to gain the powers of the Precursors just so that he could become the "light that destroys all shadows." He was trying to do a good deed, but was not only going about it the wrong way, but was also doing it for the completely wrong reasons. And worst of all,
 * Cavik Toth from Jedi Starfighter. He has his crew drop bioweapons on a town filled with civillians, and when the test is successful, leaves the city to be leveled. He kills his aids with the THX weapon simply because production is behind schedule, and develops weapons to use against the clones, testing them against innocents. Nym's aid even describes him as a ruthless monster.
 * Hanne Lichthammer, the psychic Nazi commander from Clive Barker's Jericho (by Clive Barker). Her sadomasochistic, psychotic behaviour in the game is fairly tame in comparison to what is revealed in her unlockable character bio: she delights in torturing people - and not just physically, either. She's a sadistic bitch that enjoys using her powerful psychic powers to expose her victims' innermost fears and memories, and in the process breaking their minds and driving them insane. Her bio includes just a couple of the results of such mental torture: it caused mothers to devour their own children and other victims to dissect themselves, amongst countless other atrocities.
 * In Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death, Judge Death continues to prove himself a monster. After he and the other Dark Judges are released, they resume their plan to eradicate all life, going off to attack Mega City One. After the other Dark Judges are dealt with, Death flees back to Deadworld with the immortal body of Dr. Icarus to possess it and make himself invulnerable. When confronted, Death reveals to Dredd that he has captured the Psi-Judges and plans to drain them of their energy so he can use it to merge Deadworld with Dredd's universe, killing everything in Mega City One.
 * In addition to the likes of Frieza, Sosuke Aizen, and Light Yagami, Jump Force features a Big Bad known as Prometheus, who is the master of both Galena and Kane. Once a member of the Umbran order known as the Keymen, Prometheus became tired of humanity wasting the knowledge they gave them and betrays his fellow Umbrans by using the Onyx Book to merge the real world with the Jump worlds. Prometheus has Galena give humans with evil intent Umbras Cubes, turning them into Venoms, causing chaos and destruction across the world, while he takes the guise of Director Glover to gather the heroes in order to play both sides into gathering enough power for the Onyx Book. When Galena and Kane are defeated, Prometheus coldly kills them then uses the Onyx Book to try and permanently merge all the realities together and rule over them as a god. While he claims he wants to guide humanity on a better path, Prometheus is nothing an arrogant psychopath bent on imposing his own will on the multiverse.
 * Just Cause 2: President Pandak "Baby" Panay is the oppressive and brutal dictator of Panau. Having usurped and assassinated his father, Panau's previous, benevolent, president, Panak immediate begins his regime by stripping away the rights of his citizens, and increasing his power in the military. If anyone questions his government, he has them tortured and killed. During the revolution, Panak has innocent civilians arrested, tortured and sometimes killed for minor offenses. When the prisons became full, Panak orders an Execution Day to put all prisoners to death. After a botched attempt to kill him, Panak retaliates by ordering a nuclear strike against Russia, America, China and Japan, whilst attempting to kill Rico Rodriguez, promising to make his suffering legendary.
 * Just Cause 3: General Sebastiano Di Ravello, is the brutal dictator of Medici, as well as a sociopathic pyromaniac. Having usurped Medici's democratic politician Rosa Maunuela, addition to starting a civil war, Di Ravello also uses forced labour to mine the magnetic and explosive element of bavaranium, to make super weapons for world domination. It is implied he wishes to do this to satisfy his pyromaniac needs. It is also revealed he was behind the coup that killed Rico Rodriguez's parents, as part of a deal he made with the Agency. When introduced he orders one of his men to kill themselves for failing to stop the rebels, before ordering his army to raze the liberated town of Costa Del Porto. When he has a a bavaranium missile built, he decides to test it by launchin it on another town. In expaseration of Rico interfering with his plans, he beats one of his men to death and orders another attack and calling on the assassination of Manuela. Even when defeated, he has no remorse for his actions, only lamenting the end of his empire before deciding it's only fitting his legacy "ends in flames".

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 * Kagerou Project: The Snake of Clearing Eyes/Wide-Open Eyes Snake is the Big Bad of the franchise. The only one of Azami's snakes to develop consciousness, the Snake manipulates Azami into freeing him and the other snakes, escaping to the real world and possessing Kenijrou Tateyama. Promising to reunite Kenijrou with his dead wife but never fulfilling it so he can exist forever, the Snake arranges for the murders of his students, tricking Kenijrou's daughter into killing herself when she discovers his plan. Forcing the girl's step-brother to help him cover it up, the Snake goes on to carry out his murder spree uninterrupted. Possessing Konoha to try and kill the protagonists for discovering his plan, the Snake forces the timeline to be reset indefinitely, killing his victims over and over again to remain immortal and satisfy his sadism while leaving the whole world locked in a Groundhog Day Loop.
 * Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg: Willian Dudley Pelley is the leader of the far-right National Populist faction of the America First Union Party. A Christian fundamentalist and notorious racist even for his era, Pelley allies with Huey Long and George Van Horn Moseley to create a Anti-Syndicalist power block. If, as part of the American Union State, he manages to win the Second American Civil War and purge his rivals, he will turn America into a white supremacist fundamentalist nation, performing actions such as sending Syndicalists and other dissidents branded as such to prison camps and allowing other white supremacist groups in politics. Since he's also a rabid anti-vaxxer who believes that vaccines are a syndicalist conspiracy, Pelley's ban would result in the biggest polio outbreak in American history.
 * From Kid Icarus: Uprising we have the game's Big Bad Hades, the Lord of the Underworld. While he is hammy and amusing, he also establishes himself as an absolutely evil bastard the moment he's introduced in the game by fabricating a tale about a supposed Wish Seed, which would grant any wish (as the name suggests) and spreading it among humans, causing them to break out in a bloody war over a lie. It gets even worse when he reveals that while his job is to take the souls of dead humans and prepare them for the reincarnation cycle, he instead chooses to either use them to power up his Underworld troops or simply eats them whole, both of these acts completely destroy the souls. And if his treatment of Medusa is any indication (He admits that he can revive her as much as he wants until he gets bored with her and discards her for good), his callous disregard for any life whatsoever extends to his own minions as well. And even when the alien Aurum invades the planet, he helps out Pit, Palutena, and Viridi's Forces of Nature not because of any altruistic reasons, but because he wants to be the one who destroys the planet instead of the Aurum, and he still sends his troops to attack Pit for the hell of it. It's no surprise that EVERYBODY, even extremists like Viridi absolutely loathe him, and all want him eliminated due to him being the biggest threat the world faces.
 * On the flip side, Hades is also an example of the work playing with this trope. Since this game has No Fourth Wall and all the characters have awareness that they're players in a ludicrous video game plot, Hades at times appears to be almost a Mean Character, Nice Actor character who's merely playing the part of a Complete Monster for the game's story that he's obligated to make work. The other characters, both his allies and enemies, have no qualms with cracking jokes along with him or even right back at him. And he occassionally displays Pet the Dog behavior during Out-of-Character Moments. In terms of the actual plot, though, he is a definite example of the trope, and his Laughably Evil attitude actually serves to make him more despicable.
 * Chairman Stahl from the newest Killzone qualifies the minute the player lays eyes on him. Like most CMs, he just exudes an aura of hatred and disrespect for everything in existence. He is utterly without remorse for any and all atrocities he performs, from testing experimental weapons on P.O.W.s to laughing as he kills his rival in a particularly gruesome manner. And he is entirely convinced of his own superiority over everyone from his soldiers to the protagonists - all tools to be used and/or destroyed, in his mind.
 * Curtis Blackburn from Killer 7. His first appearance is a cutscene in which he kills a prostitute in his car before walking into an office and killing every person in it for no apparent reason. Then you find out he and controls the female half of the black market for orphans . Next, Curtis gets revenge on his partner (who controlled the male half) for cutting into his orphans... by  And that's before you find out what he does to the girls he steals. This game is messed up.
 * Killer Instinct (2013 reboot): Gargos is the worst of all the villains, as he forced previous villains to work together with the heroes to stop this herald of doom. A being who conquers and destroy worlds, generations ago Gargos wiped out a benevolent race called the Astral Beings to conquer the Astral World. Before he could enter the world of the humans, he was forcefully sealed away and trapped in his own dimension. However, being able to establish himself as a god to a group of monks, he created a group of worshippers to a being called the Tiger Spirit, who in actuality was him. Wanting to possess one of the monks to be his vessel, he chose Jago and forcefully mind-controlled him to become the dark warrior Shadow Jago, who then tries to free Gargos along with Gargos's personal servant Omen. When Kan-ra summoned Gargos out of temptation for power, this gave the opportunity for Gargos to free himself. Now planning to take over the world for his own, Gargos begins his invasion of Earth, hunting any remaining threats such as the amnesias barbarian Tusk or one of the last remaining Astral Being, the Dragon Spirit. Even his gameplay shows his complete desire for dominance by having a mechanic where punishing his minions that summon him can end up benefiting Gargos. The Shadow Lord is a fitting title for Gargos, the darkest villain in the series.
 * Rugal Bernstein from King of Fighters is the most evil villain SNK has ever come up with. In contrast with Geese Howard (a Badass Magnificent Bastard with a tragic backstory), Wolfgang Krauser (a Noble Demon with a strong sense of honor), and the Orochi clan, Rugal does evil for the sake of being evil. We're talking about a man who owns one of the world's biggest weapons manufacturers, has a BIG influence on global politics, is capable of causing World War III, and killed God-knows-how-many martial artists just to bathe their bodies in liquid bronze and make them into decorative statues for his yacht, FOR SPORT. And that's not even going into Heidern's backstory, where we find out that Rugal slaughtered all 50 soldiers in the guy's squad before killing his wife and daughter, who he had previously kidnapped, just for the fun of it, and topping it off with gouging out Heidern's left eye and leaving him to live in despair.
 * Funny thing is, SNK even tried to salvage Rugal from this trope by revealing his Freudian Excuse: apparently, he was once a kind and loving man, but after the death of the woman he loved (hey, he did father Adel and Rose...), he went crazy and swore revenge on the whole world. Needless to say, this earned him no sympathy at all, as nothing could ever excuse his atrocities - much less a reason as weak as this one.
 * And then there is Igniz. The founder and leader of NESTS, an evil organization bent on world domination. While unlike Rugal he and his followers at least have Take Over the World as a motive, they kidnapped countless innocent children and putting them through God knows what kind of experiments, and very, very few of them even survived. The ones that did ended up either completely bitter and hateful (K', K9999, Kusanagi) while Nameless and submissive, loyal slaves. Just look at what a smarmy prick he is when you fight him, he really doesn't feel anything about what he had to do to get that powerful.
 * Knack 2 has Xander, the leader of the Monks who cannot stand that his order is not taken seriously by the rest of the world. Starting the game seemingly as an ally against the initial threat of the Goblins, he tricks Lucas into giving him an artifact which enables him to turn the goblins' machines against them. When he tries to use these machines to conquer humanity, Knack and Lucas naturally object, to which Xander attempts to kill the duo, going back on his promise to his Youth Leader Ava that he wouldn't harm them. Eventually deciding that ruling the world was too much work and that modern civilization had made humanity weak, he builds the Armageddon Machine to destroy every city, town and village, completely uncaring about how many innocent people die and only caring that everyone will finally listen to him because he will be "the only thing between them and death". And then, for a "personal touch", he bound Knack and Lucas's friends and family within his first city target so that they will die along with it. Furthermore, he is almost gleeful when he realizes Ava and some defected monks are attempting to evacuate civilians, sadistically believing that they will all die as well. Hypocritical, power-hungry, cruel and an all around traitor to his own species, Xander set a new standard for evil within the Knack universe.
 * The Lord Bishop from Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade is a Satan-worshipping fanatic who turned against the beliefs of his own Church. He starts the game by desecrating holy places and kidnapping a mysterious young woman to use her, against her will no less, for his sinister rituals that involve Human Sacrifice, with his victims crucified to a cross. He unites people of all religions to follow his cult, and slaughters anyone who refuses to, regardless of age or religion. His ultimate goal is to release the Devil onto Earth to "consume the world".
 * The wicked Dr. Faust of Knight's Contract is a Mad Scientist obsessed with the Anima del Monde, an artifact which will allow him to gain ultimate power. Using his power to bring The Black Death upon Europe, Faust frames a group of innocent witches and subjects them to torture and execution to obtain their pieces of the Anima del Monde. Faust later resurrects them, using their anger and hatred at their deaths to send them against humanity, causing innumerable innocent deaths all so Faust can manipulate the only surviving witch into his grasp to obtain the final shard and achieve godhood for himself.
 * Dr. Harlan Fontaine, the Big Bad of L.A. Noir, is entirely behind everything. At first, he looks nice, however . What else is that.
 * The Black Dahlia Killer, real name Garrett Mason, also known as the "Werewolf" killer, works as a bartender to find women to murder; carving messages into them after beating or strangling them to death and leaving their naked bodies in public places to be found. Responsible for all of the murders in the homicide cases, he frames a string of innocent men and other likely suspects for his own deeds, sending the possessions of his victims to the police to taunt them. When confronted by the heroes, he only shows shock at the duo managing to get through his deadly traps and continues to mock them over his murders.
 * from The Last of Us comes off as a decent guy when Ellie first meets him; he helps her fight off infected, and lets her wait out cold weather with him. However, as the game progresses though he's revealed to be the leader of a group of cannibals who sent a raiding party to a university, leading Joel to suffer an excruciating injury. David is also a cannibal himself and feeds his group, some oblivious to what they are eating, human meat. He also develops a fixation on Ellie, claiming her to be "special" and planning to use her to repopulate the world. When Ellie manages to escape, David has his men go after her. Not even his own men like him, as they always discuss overthrowing him once they are done finding Ellie; this is justified as he keeps on sending them to their deaths. When he confronts Ellie for the final time, he manages to pin her down and tries to rape and kill her. In a post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies and people willing to kill just to survive, David manages to stand out from the rest of them as simply a perverted and repulsive psychopath who lacks any true redeeming qualities.
 * Due to Loads and Loads of Characters, it wasn't unexpected that League of Legends would have some.
 * Dr.Mundo, even as a child, was a sadistic psychopath who performed horrific experiments on anything he could fetch. Hasn't changed one bit, despite his overall silliness. Warwick, meanwhile, was a cruel, bloodthirsty psychopath before the transformation; if anything, the transformation made him even worse.
 * Nocturne is basically Freddy Krueger as a shadow nightmare beast and has been known to kill summoners merely by giving them nightmares. He doesn't stop once people find out about him.
 * Mordekaiser, the Iron Revenant was, in life, a brutal warlord who ruled Eastern Valoran with an iron fist. Hated and feared across the continent, when his enemies finally united against him, Mordekaiser went out laughing and promising he'd come back for them. When he was resurrected by a group of sorcerers, he repaid them by forcefully turning them all into undead liches bound to his will until the end of time. This would become his signature power, where he would brutalize his foes before enslaving their souls, forcing them to slaughter their own kin against their wills. We are treated to such an act when he attacks a Demacian garrison, strangling one of the knights guarding it to death before turning him on his fellow warriors. Upon his return, the Iron Revenant would then spend a decade tracking down and killing everyone that stood against him in the past. Once he had his revenge, he resumed his campaign of carnage, never dying each time he's seemingly slain. Once it seems he's finally killed for good, he returns centuries later in the Shadow Isles, enslaving an army of undead to prepare for the slaughter he adores so much, seemingly targeting Noxus first. Unlike Thresh, who went mad from the corruption of the ancient artifacts he was guarding, and Karthus, who is a well-meaning lich at worst, Mordekaiser was always this bad, and just wants to burn the world to the ground because it's not his to rule.
 * Legacy of Kain has several of these: Moebius, the Hylden Lord, and to an extent, Kain himself. However, the most prevalent is the Elder God. Follow the trail of ruin and disaster to the source:
 * The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky: George Weissmann, the Big Bad of both FC and SC, starts off as a seemingly kind and helpful archaeologist named Professor Alba. This falls away at the end of FC, when he reveals himself as an evil wizard who was manipulating Joshua and the other protagonists even before the game started. A high-ranking member of the secret organization of Ouroboros, Weissmann has the desire to remake the world damaged by the cruelty of humans in his own image. He was behind the massacre of the village of Hamel, which claims the life of Joshua's sister and Loewe's lover Karin. This in turn sparked the Hundred Days War, which affected the life of the main protagonist Estelle and created the events of the game. Weissmann then had Joshua brainwashed to become a ruthless, cold-blooded assassin, who slaughtered countless politicians and other influential people who were in Weissmann's way. After failing to assassinate Estelle's father Cassius, Weissmann attempted to have Joshua himself assassinated for his failure. At the end of FC, Weissmann restores Joshua's lost memories and gleefully observes as he goes through an emotional trauma. Towards the end of SC, Weissmann pursues the ancient city of Liberl Ark in the hopes of obtaining the ancient artifact Aureole and merge himself with it. Manipulating Joshua's mind once again, Weissmann attempts to have him execute Estelle so that he can free him from his mind spell and enjoy seeing him break emotionally. Despite considering himself as the savior of all mankind, Weissmann is completely blinded by his own sadism and hypocrisy, even to the point where he doesn't even realize that most of the events caused by the humanity are the cause of his own actions.
 * Legend of Mana: Emperor Drakonis is a cruel, megalomaniacal dragon banished to the underworld for his cruel designs on the world. Playing on the desperation of the fallen warrior Larc to reunite with his sister, Drakonis makes Larc his servant and through him slaughters the dragons who initially stopped him to return to the world of the living. When Larc confronts him on this, Drakonis painfully transforms him into a horrible beast, loosing him on his own sister and hysterically laughing when Larc is forcefully put down as a result. With his physical form attained again, Drakonis intends to devour the souls of all in existence, scouring both the souls of those alive and in the underworld to sate his lust for power.
 * Malefor in The Legend of Spyro Trilogy really qualifies for this position. He is an evil dragon banished by the Dragon Elders for his ambition, power and limitless evil. Waging war against his own kind, Malefor slaughtered countless people before being sealed away. Upon his orders, his ape servants smash the eggs of the purple dragons and overrun the rest of dragonkind. Manipulating Spyro into freeing him, Malefor attempts to forcibly corrupt him and his fellow dragon Cynder. Malefor then turned his entire army of ape servants into undead living skeletons and spread plague and destruction throughout the world. Malefor then prepared to bring about "The Great Cleansing": the extermination of all life in the world save that which he could corrupt, to craft a new world in his own twisted image.
 * Fridge Horror takes effect with the dragon he took to make a henchman. Think of it this way: she's the only dragon in the series to have metal blades and wing claws instead of bone; think about it. Then realize she was, at the oldest, 11 or twelve when it must've happened.
 * What's worse is Malefor's laughs while giving a chilling Hannibal Lecture and watching, actually enjoying what he's doing to them. And he "rewarded" the Apes for freeing him from his prison by giving them a Fate Worse Than Death. This guy is so evil, his sheer malice tore up the earth and formed a mountain. All things considered, killing the Purple Dragon was probably just an excuse to commit a genocide and he would've done it anyway For the Evulz.
 * The Sorceress in Year of the Dragon is an interesting case. Her first act, stealing every unborn dragon, is pretty Kick the Dog, but in a later cutscene, we're led to believe that she's a Well-Intentioned Extremist by Bianca. However, in the very next scene, the Sorceress chastises her for thinking this, stating that she wants to wipe out all dragons, including three hundred infant dragons, for their wings, which she will use for a spell to make her live forever. When the horrified Bianca asks why she has to kill them, she replies that she doesn't; she just doesn't want them squirming around when she cuts off their wings. This one line reveals the full extent of the Sorceress' selfishness and hypocrisy, and prompts Bianca to pull an immediate Heel Face Turn. Completely uncaring of the lives of her men, the Sorceress transforms her own minions into freakish monsters to fight Spyro, and ultimately plans to create a monster to wipe out every dragon, even the hatchlings, all so she can collect their wings for a spell that will give her eternal youth. A genocidal tyrant who only cares about herself, the Sorceress stands out as the darkest and purest villain in the original Spyro trilogy.
 * The Sorcerer in Shadow Legacy, Distaff Counterpart to the above, is an purple dragon who believes that he is a "true dragon", claiming that the other dragons are not true dragons. Prior to the events of the game, the Sorcerer corrupts Red with his magic, and orders him to place life draining Dark Gems across the realms to poison the life of the world. After Red's defeat, the Sorcerer creates 3 Shadow Amplifier Machines to pull everyone, including children, to the shadow realm so he can drain them of their magic, which involves torturing and killing them. When Bianca tries to stop him, the Sorcerer easily defeats her and orders Red to use her as bait for Spyro so he can kill him. When Spyro finally confronts the Sorcerer, he offers to make Spyro his apprentice, only for him to reject him anyways, deeming him too small and weak, before attempting to kill him for interfering his plans. A cruel, dark being who believes himself to be superior to the other dragons, the Sorcerer serves as one of Spyro's darkest foes.
 * Evil/Iburu of The Legendary Starfy series is the Bigger Bad of the first two games, the Big Bad of the third game, and the orchestrator of everything bad that happens. Seemingly enslaving Ogura at a young age, he tells Ogura to destroy Pufftop and, when he fails, gives him " another chance" in the form of painfully transforming him into an Eldritch Abomination. He attempts to execute Moe before his father preforms a heroic sacrifice, but Evil doesn't mind this outcome. At the end of the game, Evil discards Ogura after he is no longer of use to him, claims that he's going to destroy the entire universe, For the Evulz, and very nearly succeeds. A psychopathic, seemingly invincible demon, Evil is a far cry from the lighthearted, sometimes even tragic villains, of the past games, and is a Knight of Cerebus in this family-friendly game series.
 * Mashtooth, the Big Bad of the 5th game, is the cruel leader of a gang of Space Pirates and desires nothing but power. Chronologically, the first thing he does is invade the peaceful planet Bunnera to suck out the essence of its inhabitants, simply to make him stronger. He discards of the smaller Bunnerans, claiming "these snack-sized Bunnerans have given me enough power, but I need more." Mashtooth then goes after their prince, who narrowly escapes with his life. In the final battle, after his subordinates pulled a Heel Face Turn on him, he eats the prince, who is still alive inside him, and uses the moon as a battering ram to try and kill Starfy, and possibly hundreds of thousands of innocents in the way. Ruthless, cruel, and terrifying even to his own minions, Mashtooth also stands out as a Knight of Cerebus in this relatively lighthearted game as a tyrant who would stop at nothing, just to satiate his lust for power.
 * Liar: The Diviner, the religious leader of the Alyssian people, and his right-hand-man, Captain Loden, are a greedy, power-hungry duo who betray their own people. When the Alyssian leaders attempt to parlay with the Mokai people who simply want to keep from starving to death, the Diviner and Loden launch a coup that kills the Alyssian and Mokai leaders, whereupon Loden leads his forces to the Mokai cities, massacring civilians and having a temple full of Mokai women and children incinerated with the Diviner simply ordering that no survivors remain. Any soldiers who disagree are locked in an extradimensional prison, with Loden attempting to massacre them when they escape.
 * Life Is Strange: Before the Storm: Damon Merrick is a psychotic crime boss in Arcadia Bay, and Frank Bower's boss. His operations include drug-running and a dog fighting ring, along with having a streak of murders and assualts. When Chloe assists in collecting money that Drew North is holding out on, Damon is introduced beating Drew for the money. If Chloe gives Damon the money, Damon will unapologetically cause Mikey, Drew's younger brother, to break his own arm; if Chloe hides with Mikey and the money, Damon will break Drew's leg and threaten to go after Mikey later. When Chloe and Rachel Amber go looking for Rachel's mother Sera, Damon confronts them demanding they stay out of his business before realizing Rachel is the daughter of the DA, James Amber, threatening her to give information about James to him. When a fight between the two breaks out, Damon stabs her in the arm, and when Frank holds him off from killing her, Damon stabs Frank as well. Chloe later discovers Damon has been making deals with James, having abducted Sera in exchange for James destroying evidence against him, a large sum of money, and the identity of an informant for Damon to kill. When Chloe goes to rescue Sera, Damon prepares to dose Sera with drugs to force her back into her addiction. When Chloe confronts him, Damon beats her to unconsciousness and attempts to kill Frank when he comes to save her.
 * Live-A-Lives Odie Oldbright is probably the worst among Odio's incarnations in the game. He kills six martial arts masters just to show his superiority and then goes after Masaru, the main character of the chapter, since he had just previously beaten them. After Odie gloats about it, Masaru flies into a fury and proceeds to pound his face in.
 * While that's the worst of Odio's incarnations, the villains of the Flow chapter are possibly the worst monsters in the game. Basically they kidnap orphaned children, to turn them into Liquefied Humans (of whom you can still read their minds as they slowly melt into the liquid), all to use it as fuel for a god-robot statue. Right before the boss they have collected a pool of 60000 humans! And to drive the point home is the collective hatred conscious in that pool what acts as Odio's incarnation in this chapter and ends up shallowing them.
 * Swan is the Big Bad of Lollipop Chainsaw, beginning as a student at San Romero High School who uses necromancy to start a Zombie Apocalypse as revenge for being mistreated at school. A gothic outcast who was cruelly bullied, Swan subverts a Freudian Excuse by ordering the zombies under his control to infect everyone in their path rather than only those who tormented him; this results in the deaths of many innocent people. He states that being rejected by Juliet was what sent him over the edge, but the game's cutscenes show him watching her from afar without ever speaking to her. This suggests that he's exaggerating when he accuses her of "rejecting him," and had taken it as a personal offense when she started dating another guy. His ultimate plan is to use Juliet as a pawn in his ritual to summon an enormous super zombie in order to destroy what he sees as a rotten world, all because he got picked on and couldn't talk to a girl he liked.
 * Kaiser Sein of Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven is an immortal who turned a once-prosperous kingdom into an evil empire through waging countless wars that spanned the entire globe, while seeking to usurp God's power by literally enslaving his children and using them to obtain even more power. While he may seem a Tragic Villain, as he originally wanted the Lachryma in order to bring his wife Back from the Dead, even though he put all of the blame on his newborn son, he goes through some severe Motive Decay, and by the end, he used the fake Lachyrima to revive his wife's body, which cannot survive without his power, and forced her to fight against her will, just like he did the Artemisias. By the end of the game, he's completely disregarded his own wife's wishes in favor of simply seizing the power of the Verboten Manga.
 * , the Big Bad of Lost Odyssey, is identifiable as a Smug Snake even before it's clear that he's the villain, but as the game's backstory is revealed it becomes clear that he crossed the Moral Event Horizon before the game had even begun. Since several of the main characters of the game are immortal and unkillable, he had to get creative in getting them out of his way... which he did by sealing away their memories, leaving them completely amnesiac and unaware of their origins, which all of them agree is something like being a walking corpse. Of course, for him to be able to do it in the first place, they had to go through something traumatic enough that they wouldn't want to remember... so he abducted Kaim and Sarah's daughter and left them believing she was dead, forced Seth to kill her best friend to save her son, and set giant monsters loose in Ming's kingdom to slaughter her subjects until she agreed to block off her own memories to save them. As a result, Kaim and Seth both end up working for him, Ming becomes a figurehead in the country she's ruled for a thousand years, and Sarah goes insane for several decades.
 * And as if that weren't bad enough, near the end of the game after the other immortals have overcome all of that, he magically controls Jansen and forces him to attack his friends and love interest, apparently just to be a Jerkass.
 * Luminous Arc: Cardinal Kingston is the right-hand man of the Pope and the cruelest character in this lighthearted game. Wanting to help awaken the evil god Zehaal in order to take its power for himself, Kingston creates a rumor that witches, the forces best able to defeat Zehaal, are evil and must be persecuted; at the same time, he is masterminding tests and experiments to control Zehaal, experiments which result in cruel torture and loss of life. Wanting to hide his true nature, he makes some of the most corrupt people into key figures of his religion, leading to chaos as these figures run rampant with their abuses of power. When Alph and his group learn about the truth of their religion, Kingston immediately has them hunted down in order to silence them. Throughout the journey to free the world from this fake order, Kingston makes a mechanical witch named Iris who annihilated armies of Holy Knights to keep his secret; betrays his close allies by sending them to their death; and made a deal with an agent of Zehaal to send demons to his enemies while helping him awaken their lord to cause the end of the world. Greedy and treacherous are the best way to describe Kingston, a dark villain for such a cheerful and simple game.
 * Magical Girl Raising Project: Cyber Fairy Fav is supposed to guide new Magical Girls and determine who is best fit to join the World of Magic. However, he found standard selection tests dull. When he witnessed the deaths of many Magical Girls in a test gone wrong, he found himself excited by the deaths and encouraged a young and battle lustful Cranberry to find more opportunities to fight and kill. With Fav's help, Cranberry became an administrator for Magical Girl selection tests, giving them the opportunity to conduct secret death games with the girls they were supposed to mentor. Fav had no qualms about forcing anyone into these games, including children 11 and younger and entire families. Hundreds died in the years he conducted the games. He encouraged Magical Girls to murder each other by selling them weapons at the cost of their lifespans, giving powers to unstable people knowing they would stir up trouble, and killing a few himself. Cranberry was eventually killed, and he showed no remorse while quickly finding a new partner. Fav's only concern in these death games was his own entertainment.
 * Manhunt: Lionel Starkweather was once a famous movie director, but he went insane following the end of his career. After taking over Carcer City by bribing the police department and then infesting it with crime, he decided to start making snuff movies, and got his revenge on the people that put him out of business by forcing them to star in them. One of the stars of his films was Piggsy, who was driven completely insane from all the snuff films he starred in. In the present, Lionel Starkweather rescues a death row inmate (James Earl Cash) from execution so that he can star in his latest snuff movie. He eventually kidnaps all of Cash's family members, and though at first he gives them a chance to be saved by allowing him to rescue them (provided that he avoids being spotted), he eventually decides to have them all killed anyway. In a series no stranger to Nightmare Fuel, Lionel Starkweather still stood out as one of the nastiest villains in the series.
 * The Pfhor and Tycho from Marathon. Tycho in particular, as he knows that what he's doing is wrong, and doesn't even want to use the humans. He just wants to see them suffer. The worst part of the series is when the player has to take orders from him. Tycho also managed to assist in destroying a planet and, in one alternate time line in Marathon Infinity, enslaving all of humanity- all without a physical body.
 * Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite: Ultron, upon fusing with Sigma, begins seeking the Infinity Stones to remake both the Marvel and Capcom universes to his liking. Attacking Xgard, Ultron Sigma uses the Sigma Virus to enslave its people, parading them in front of Thor before infecting him and forcing him to fight his friends while Ultron gloats. He also schemes with Grandmaster Meio to drop a bomb on Earth to infect all living things on the planet. When Dante tricks him with the Soul Stone, Ultron Omega attempts to slowly drain him of his life. Desiring nothing less than the extinction of all souls, Utron is loathed by every hero and almost every villain.
 * Saren Arterius of Mass Effect fame. Let it be known that he was a Monster before getting indoctrinated by a reaper, as he seemed to enjoy going Knight Templar on targets and even innocent civilians. His mass-murder on Eden Prime was only the most extreme act of calumny on his part, aside from him deliberately trying to bring back the Reapers.
 * Dr. Saleon, a salarian geneticist who sold black market body parts and organs. How did he get these organs? He hired people off the street and grew the organs inside of them, making them living test tubes. If the organ didn't work out, he would leave it inside of the person. And then you track that fucker down in the game and find several of his test subjects in a horrible state of being. Oh, and if a Paragon Shepard convinces Garrus to arrest him instead of just killing him, he responds to this generous act of mercy by trying to kill them with a dingy rifle. So not only is he a monster, he's Too Dumb to Live to boot. Immoral scientists always seem to be these in the Mass Effect universe.
 * There's also Nassana Dantius, the {corrupt diplomat from the first game. In the sequel, she's left politics and is now a Properly Paranoid Corrupt Corporate Executive who orders her Mecha-Mooks to gun down her own employees out of paranoia. Even Paragon Shepard is glad to see Thane kill her. It's also heavily implied that if one her employees leave before the contract expires, she has them murdered. She ordered one of her soldiers to hunt Shepard's team down, but he was Genre Savvy enough to refuse. Once she convinced him otherwise, she randomly killed him and threw into a hole that led to the bottom floor.
 * Nicole Horne, the main villain of the first Max Payne. She makes a super soldier serum, and, when the project was canceled because of the nasty side effects it had (killing people or driving them insane), she simply continued it unauthorized and tried to market it while knowing full well about said side effects. She has the protagonist's wife and baby girl murdered just to keep her secret safe (even though Michelle's extent of her knowledge about the project was that it was "something about Vikings"), and when Max finally confronts her in the final mission, she actually tries to justify it by saying that it was necessary and inevitable. Unsurprisingly, no tears were shed when she met her fiery demise at Max's hands.
 * Maximo: Ghosts to Glory & Maximo vs. Army of Zin: Evil King Achille was originally King Maximo's trusted advisor, but betrayed him in his quest of power. He usurps the throne and forces Maximo's betrothed Sophia to marry him, and raises the dead for his army. He then traps human souls in collectors that are transmitted to him. When Maximo returns, Achille promptly kills him. He also has a general tortured to death for failure and murders the witch Sephonie. Returning as a ghost under the guise of Lord Bane, he takes over the titular army of murderous robots, powers them with stolen souls from the Underworld and sends them all over the land where they target lots of innocent bystanders-over 80 in all. The Zin later attempt to destroy a village and invade the land of Hawkmoor. Lord Bane forces the gearmaster Tinker to create a more powerful model of Zin, then plots to have her killed by her own creations. Stopped by Maximo as he was about to kill the Baron Hawkmoor and his wife, Achille murders Tinker in a last act of cruelty.
 * In Metal Wolf Chaos, the evil vice president Richard Hawk ousts the heroic Michael Wilson from office, proceeding to turn the US into a military dictatorship under his control. Using prisoners of war as shields, Richard proceeds to order them gunned down while also attacking American cities in an attempt to kill Michael, now piloting the mechanical armor known as Metal Wolf. Richard reinstitutes slave labor, selling people in Miami into white slavery, and attempts to frame Metal Wolf by using poison gas to wipe out Chicago before also using a giant mech to try to wipe out New York. When Michael defeats him Richard attempts to flee to space where he has prepared a superweapon to wipe out all of the United States out of spite at his loss.
 * Modern Combat series by Gameloft:
 * Dobrynya Popovich first appears in the second game, "Black Pegasus", and is the Big Bad of "Fallen Nation", the third game. Originally just a low-ranking officer for a terrorist organization, Popovich used his position to organize numerous terrorist attacks and sentence numerous American soldiers to be brutally tortured for information. Founding the KPR (Korean, Pakistan, Russian) Alliance, Popovich kick-starts Operation Fallen Nation, a full-scale invasion of American soil by the KPR, by setting off WMDs in numerous highly-populated cities. Next beginning to lay siege to many American cities, killing tens of thousands of innocents across the country, Popovich simultaneously captured and tortures numerous U.S. military agents. After failing to wipe out America's entire Western seaboard, Popovich reveals his plans to launch several nuclear weapons at America, hoping to kill countless millions and reduce America to a ravaged wasteland. When confronted by Magnus Downs, a soldier he once sentenced to torture years back, Popovich gleefully reminisces about Downs's torture before attempting to beat him to death, proclaiming that he will target Downs's hometown next, while expressing his annoyance at not having more time to skin Downs alive.
 * "The Zealot", Edward Page, is an absolutely deranged madman convinced that America is a cesspool of filth and elitist "pigs", and is determined to wipe it off the face of the Earth no matter the cost. Once a Green Beret, Page turned on America and became a terrorist, having a huge part in Operation Fallen Nation, using his forces to back the KPR's evil plans to siege America. Taking center stage in the fourth game, "Zero Hour", as the main threat, Page kicks the game off by slaughtering his way into Seattle's War Crimes Investigation Building, soon after which he massacres a huge party hosted for the President of the United States before kidnapping the President himself. Having absolute indifference toward his own troops, Page leaves them to die, blows several up to stall enemy forces, and even threatens one of his hesitant partners by promising to show up at his young daughter's birthday party with a blowtorch. Page's horrifying final plan is revealed to entail unleashing a lethal plague onto the planet that will kill upwards of 4 billion innocents as part of Page's plan to "cleanse" the entire planet, and, even when beaten, Page uses his last breaths to gun down as many American soldiers as possible.
 * Porky Minch was already a spiteful Jerkass in Earthbound, but by the time of Mother 3, he's become something far worse than a simple douchebag. In this game, he has taken over the Nowhere Island and is using it as his toy box, making him responsible for every single bad thing that happens in this game. Early on, he orders his newly formed Pigmask Army to start a forest fire purely For the Evulz, which almost caused a little girl and her father to be killed in the blaze if it wasn't for Flint being there to save them. Then he has all the animals on the island cut into pieces and then mixed into his Chimeras, and had those that weren't remade into Chimeras converted into brainwashed Cyborgs against their will, just so he could "make them cooler" as he put it. This results in the death of Flint's wife, Hinawa, at the hands of a Cyborg Drago, causing Flint to loose his mind in front of his children. When Clause goes to avenge his mother, only to fall off a cliff to his death, Porky reanimates him into the Masked Man, to serve as his mindless robot slave. And all of Fassad's deeds, including his horrible treatment of Salsa, are an extension of Porky's own crimes. What settles his evil here is that he has no sympathetic qualities besides acting like a deranged child, which he gleefully abuses to do all of these horrible thing simply for his own twisted amusement! To top it all off, he shows no remorse for any of this and even admits to Lucas and Co. that he plans to destroy the world just so he can be the only one left alive. While he may have been a Jerkass Woobie in the beginning, before all of this, the fact that he commits atrocities for no justifiable reasons and his belief that everyone around him are his toys to be played with only to be thrown away when they stop being fun seals this Fat Bastard's status as quite possibly the single nastiest villain Nintendo has ever created.
 * Mount and Blade allows you to become one of these yourself. For example, you can force a village, low on money, to pay quite a lot of money to their lord. And if you avoid the lord that gave you that mission for long enough, you can then keep the money, leaving the village with no money to pay off their angry lord. Then, you can go back, slaughter them all and take what little stuff they have left, then burn the village to the ground.
 * Sirrus and Achenar in Myst are both mass murderers. However, Sirrus qualifies and Achenar doesn't because, in Myst IV: Revelations, Achenar finally feels remorse for his actions and does a Heel Face Turn and Heroic Sacrifice, whereas Sirrus not only seems to have no regrets but commits additional atrocities: kidnapping his own sister, taunting her about how he plans to suck her soul out of her body before doing a Grand Theft Me, and then holding her soul captive if the player manages to get his soul out of her body. He taunts her about how he plans on murdering both her and their parents, and in the bad endings where the player loses, he murders his brother and the player.
 * In NiGHTS Into Dreams, Wizeman the Wicked Was Once a Man who visited the dream world; however, he turned himself into something far worse. Fancying himself as a god, he ruled over Nightmare with an iron fist. When one of his top henchmen, the titular NiGHTS, betrays him and tries to fight back, he traps them in a strange, gazebo-like place, before they are eventually rescued. When his minions fail to defeat NiGHTS, he punishes them with cruel methods, such as crushing them in the palm of his hands, sending them falling to oblivion, or simply verbally abusing them throughout the games. His worst act comes in Journey into Dreams, when he traps several visitors in an And I Must Scream state, leaving their consciousness in a never-ending nightmare, and in the waking world, trapping them in a permanent coma. Being perhaps the poster boy of Vile Villain Saccharine Show, Wizeman might just be one of the worst villains Sonic Team has produced.
 * Nintendo Wars:
 * Caulder is a wicked Mad Scientist extraordinaire who is the sole survivor of a series of clones who killed each other off, before Caulder murdered his own creator. Caulder's only drive is his passion for immoral experiments, and he happily perpetuates the strife caused by the world's ravaging, supplying weapons for Admiral Greyfield's conquest. One of these experiments is the Creeper Derangea, a virus which causes plant life to burst through the infected's skin, resulting in a Cruel and Unusual Death. Among Caulder's other pointlessly cruel actions are leaving the Beast to die for his failure; and poisoning the mayor and listening to him die over the phone. Caulder is also hideously abusive to his own cloned children: he attempted to body-jack Cyrus in an attempt to gain immortality and poisons Cyrus with something meant to kill him as slowly as possible once he betrays him; drove Penny insane with his experiments, before trying to have her to die on the Great Owl; intends to dissect his "haywire" daughter, Isabella, and ultimately rules all of them "abject failures." Caulder considers life itself as irrelevant, and commits every atrocity he does purely to sate his own twisted curiosity.
 * The aforementioned Admiral Greyfield is a megalomaniacal Social Darwinist who desires to rule through fear. After the world is plunged into ruin after a meteor storm, Greyfield takes what he sees as a perfect opportunity, codifying the New Rubinelle Army and leading a conquest to dominate the world. Greyfield wages war on the country of Lazuria, considering their people weak, intending to wipe out their populace in totality and causing dozens of innocent casualties along the way. Treating his own allies and army as disposable if he doesn't consider them up to his standards, Greyfield threatens everyone who so much as upsets him with execution, mass-executing his own soldiers once they catch the Creeper virus, and having Forsythe shot after he surrenders on account of being "Lazurian trash." After Brenner turns against him, Greyfield swears to have him and his entire battalion executed and sinks to his ultimate low when he has an entire city—with his own troops within—nuked for the purpose of killing Brenner, succeeding in causing Brenner's death. Considering everyone else utterly beneath him and convinced of his own indomitable superiority, Greyfield was at heart an incompetent, domineering coward whose greatest wish was to put the world under his foot.
 * Nioh: Edward Kelley functions as the villain for most of the game. A ruthless sorcerer seeking to gather the mystical energy Amrita for his masters, Kelley kidnaps the hero William's guardian spirit Saoirse and uses her to locate Japan where he makes an already bloody Civil War even worse. Lending his aid to the Toyotomi forces, Kelley also increases the presence of monstrous Oni and Yokai and attempts to undo a seal to allow monsters to ravage all of Kyoto. After being foiled, Kelley uses his magic at the Battle of Sekigahara to painfully fuse 300 soldiers into a new monstrosity and backstabs the Toyotomi army leader Ishida Mitsunari to use him to buy time while Kelley attempts to raise Oda Nobunaga, Japan's most fearsome warlord, from the dad and have him plunge the nation into a new era of war. While a servant of the English mystic John Dee, Kelley is ruthless, cruel and utterly delights in the slaughter he initiates.
 * Molluck from Oddworld. His Moral Event Horizon was serving Mudokins as food because Paramites and Scrabs became endangered. You heard me. He wanted to cause genocide just to make a profit.
 * Okami has Ninetails, a bloodthirsty kitsune demon with aspirations for godhood that serves as the antagonist for the Ryoshima Coast arc of the game. After botching an attempt at wiping out the water-dwelling Dragonian race and, he puts his talents as a Manipulative Bastard to use by
 * Lord Hastings of The Order: 1886 is the head of the United India Company and revealed to be a Master Vampire, as well as the source of the "half-breed"—lycans and vampires—attacks in London that have claimed many lives. Using United India as a front for his operations, Hastings organizes the lycans into an army, having them launch attacks that kill and infect humans, mostly those of lower class, sowing chaos so that he can operate behind the scenes. Hastings uses his public status to use the Order itself to protect him from retaliation of the Rebellion and to help crush the rebels. When the knight Galahad discovers the truth, he learns Hastings is sending half-breeds all over the world, and is sending vampires to America, enough to conquer an entire city. Hastings soon casually reveals himself to Galahad as the infamous Serial Killer Jack the Ripper, before framing him for betraying the Order to get him killed. In contrast to his sympathetic and well-intentioned partner, Alastair, Hastings's only motives are power and enjoyment.
 * Owlboy: Captain Molstrom is an automoton originally created by the Ancient Owls as a war machine. After the owls inadvertently caused the world’s continents to lift off the planet’s surface and subsequently vanished, Molstrom took control of the other automotons who were left behind, exterminating any who didn’t agree to follow him. In the present, Molstrom is the brutal leader of the Pirates, the remaining automotons who are loyal to him. After retrieving the first of three relics created by the owls, he uses its power to decimate the large capital city of Advent, leaving only a few survivors. When he possesses all three relics, he plots a course to the remaining settlements, which he plans to destroy as well. After getting betrayed by Solus, the young owl who told him of the relics, Molstrom seeks revenge, and even after learning that Solus wanted to use the relics to stop the continents from floating off into space, he makes it clear that he doesn’t care and tries to prevent the heroes from saving the world from destruction.

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 * Path of Exile
 * High Templar Dominus is the master of the Templar Order, The Emperor of the theocratic nation of Oriath, and the Arch-Enemy of the Exiles as a whole. Dominus runs a corrupt regime in Oriath where he uses threats of torture, execution, and exile to keep the population under control as he conducts his experiments in thaumaturgy (miracle working). In an effort to seek immortality, he masterminded the experimentation of slaves and criminals which most often resulted in an excruciating death or all manner of Body Horror on survivors. In order to make his experiments run faster and more efficiently, he moved his operations to the continent of Wraeclast and exiled many innocent people there to be used in the experiments en masse, if they weren't killed by the local wildlife or undead first. Oriathan citizens were exiled with the likes of serial killers and rapists for crimes such as speaking out against the Templars, running businesses without a license, or even simply being homeless. As his skills in thaumaturgy improved, Dominus's goals expanded to infusing those loyal to him with virtues gems in order to make a perfect race for him to rule over as their immortal God-Emperor. As his experiments reached their climax, Dominus had thousands of slaves imported from Oriath to be twisted into abominations and become his servants, or be tossed aside into oceans of blood and mountains of corpses if they didn't survive.
 * Malachi, the Nightmare, is the greatest thaumaturgist who ever lived and the being responsible for all the horrors that infest the haunted continent of Wraeclast. Malachai was once the right hand of Emperor Chitus of the Eternal Empire and the lead thaumaturgist for the Empire. With Malachai's skill, he was able to successfully implant virtue gems into the aristocracy and make them immortal and into the soldiers to make them powerful warriors. Ever seeking to expand his skill, Malachai experimented on slaves and, to Chitus's reluctance, the lower class. This lead to the Purity Rebellion under the Templar Voll who slew Chitus, but spared Malachai as he made Voll a promise he couldn't refuse. Malachai promised to kill the Beast, the source of thaumaturgy, but had plans of his own. He manipulated Dialla, the former consort of Chitus, into loving him and life and sought to sacrifice her to power a device to kill the Beast. As Malachai planned, she didn't want to die and the device only succeeded in opening a way to the Beast. Malachai took control of the Beast and used its godlike power to create his own kingdom: his perfect world of nightmare. In a single day, Malachai destroyed the Eternal Empire and corrupted Wraeclast by driving everyone and everything on the continent insane with horrible nightmares, and further hunted the survivors by resurrecting anyone who died into undeath. Sealed away by survivors, Malachai captured the souls of great heroes such as Koam of the Karui, arena champion Daresso, and even his enemy Voll and used their tortured spirits to plan his release.
 * Phantom of Inferno has the character Scythe Master, in the first ten minutes it is established that he used a combination of drugs and hypnosis to erase the main character's memories, why? Because he saw his potential as an assassin and wanted to test a new theory. He then leaves the main character to train for months in the Mojave desert with no contact from the outside world. If this wasn't bad enough this was the second experiment. The first person he experimented on he rapes, brainwashes, trains as a Serial Killer and treats like property, oh and the girl was twelve when he started this. A third person he experiments on he doesn't drug or rape, but he does basically lie to her about events, encourages her growing hatred and turns her full Yandere just to mess with the main character. Oh and while he is doing this with her, he is repeating his first experiment, six times over, just in case. Seriously there is not a good ending in the game where this sick son of a bitch doesn't die.
 * Pilgrim (by Kona5): Alice is a resident of the Other World who had accumulated her wealth by reaping the souls of her victims and selling them to the highest bidder. Alice sets her eyes on the young Inago saying that in return for dealing with Akemi's bullies, she would return to collect Inago's soul in two years. Despite Inago's insistence to not harm the bullies, Alice gruesomely murders the three bullies and sentences the ringleader to eternal torture in a parallel world. When Akemi confronts Alice on the whereabouts of her sister, Alice engages her in a card game saying that if she won, she would be permitted to see her sister; if not, Alice would claim her soul as well. Whilst exploring, Akemi uncovers a diary belonging to a young girl, heavily implying that Alice murdered the girl and took her body after she granted her wish. Alice enacts another game which ends with Akemi taking Inago's place as her victim. A sadist who drags out the suffering of her victims for as long as she can, Alice saw everyone around her as expendable.
 * Pirate 101:
 * Kane is the mechanical leader of the robot empire The Armada. Originally created by a vengeful scientist exiled from his home land of Valencia, Kane betrays his creator to help his exilers arrest him. Creating an army of robots to aid Valencia in a war with another nation, Kane later turns his armies on Valencia and conquers it. His armies burning down buildings to suppress people, Kane drives countless Valencians into poverty. Conquering other worlds, Kane strips them of their precious resources as parts to build more robotic soldiers. His own family means nothing to him, with Kane seen kicking out one of his sons for not agreeing with his tyranny and referring to his other sons who die in battle as insignificant. His ultimate goal to use a planet-destroying machine to wipe out all other pirates and go to El Dorado, the world of treasure, to build himself a "perfect" body. A hedonistic Omnicidal Maniac, Kane's only concerns are for his own power and wellbeing.
 * Fowl is a turkey crime lord and Ratbeard's Arch-Enemy. Responsible for murdering Ratbeard's father, burning his house to the ground, stealing his parrot and severing his leg. Later Fowl switches Ratbeard's sleeping pills for poison, making him accidentally kill his crew he just meant to knock out so he could make off with the gold, much to Ratbeard's horror. Ruining Ratbeard's reputation as a pirate with this action, Fowl happily mocks him for the deaths of his crew when confronted. Though only a minor villain, Fowl is a thoroughly despicable criminal who finds amusement in destroying a man's life.
 * In Planescape: Torment, practically every character you meet is fleshed out and given a reason for their actions. The crime boss? Terrified of death. The old hag? Insane, but desperate for companionship. Hardly commendable, but understandable. The Big Bad? He just wants to be left alone. The worst character however, . You'll spend a lot of the game stumbling across his machinations, which are both thoughtful and impressive...but he is just such a phenomenally arrogant, ruthless, cold, flat out evil bastard, his comeuppance at the end is very satisfying,.
 * To elaborate, the Practical Incarnation has a personal agenda and he doesn't care what he has to do to fulfill it, and shows no remorse whatsoever. Bully people? He'll do that, no problem. Deceive someone in order to make them an indentured servant? You bet. Lead the one person who seems to love you into, essentially, an ambush? You notice a pattern here? The very best thing that can be said about him is that he doesn't seem to do things For the Evulz. Thankfully,
 * It's also possible to play as one of these - the dialog options allow many courses of action, some truly horrible, and the game rewards sadistic mental cruelty more than random violence. Players taking an evil path may well end up hating themselves.
 * Predator: Concrete Jungle: Isabella Borgia, later known as the supercomputer and heart of Neonopolis MOTHER, is the matriarch of the Borgia family and the root of all of Neonopolis's corruption and misery. Once the trophy wife of a notorious gangster, Isabella became so much more upon being doused in the blood of a Predator, using her newfound health and power to build the city of Neonopolis over the ashes of New Way City and hooking her own mind up to a supercomputer. Isabella secretly masterminds drug trade, widespread rape, murder, and human trafficking, and the black market arms trade to create a hellish environment suitable for the Yautja to hunt in, letting them slaughter civilians before capturing them and subjecting them to horrific experimentation, whilst also using their blood to rejuvenate herself. Isabella's ultimate goal is to use the genetic material of the Predators to create an entire army, which she plans to use in the bloody conquest first of Earth, and then of other worlds.
 * Prince of Persia: The Vizier from the Sands of Time series is the Treacherous Advisor of the Maharajah of India and the main antagonist of the first and third games. Suffering an incurable illness, he seeks immortality and godhood, and is willing to betray everyone to achieve his plans. He first betrays the Maharajah by killing the gatekeeper, allowing the Persian army to take the city. The Vizier later tricks the Prince into causing the Sands of Time to spread across a Persian city and turn the population into sand monsters. When the Prince rewinds time to warn Princess Farah, the Vizier plots to kill them both and tell the Maharajah that his daughter has been killed by the son of his enemy. He later abducts the wife of daeva prince Saurva to compel the latter to steal the Box of One Thousand Restraints from the Persians, knowingly causing the war between Persians and daevas, and murdering the hostage even after his demands have been met, then seals Saurva and his entire army inside the box. Infatuated with Saurva’s sister Sindra, he subsequently attempts to make her his wife then curses her with madness upon refusal. When the Prince accidentally undoes the Vizier's death, the latter, leading an army, murders the Maharajah, takes over the kingdom, and captures Farah before he mercilessly sacks Babylon and has King Sharaman killed. When the Prince returns home with the Empress of Time Kaileena, the latter is abducted and killed, causing the Sands of Time to reappear again and turn the Vizier's entire army into monsters. Using the Dagger of Time to make himself immortal as the renamed God of Time, Zurvan, he allows his generals to commit atrocities on the civilians such as taking them to the arena or locking a bunch of people in a burning building while he personally kills the remains of the resistance. In the final act of the game, he abducts Farah in order to forcibly transform her into his immortal queen.
 * Pretty much the only characters in Prototype who aren't Complete Monsters are the USMC mooks, Alex's sister Dana, Captain Cross, Doctor Ragland, and (arguably) . When the viral mutant who wreaks havok across New York and eats people is the closest thing to a "hero" we have (he very, very slowly develops something resembling a conscience), you know you're dealing with a world of Black and Grey Morality, at best.
 * One of the worst Monsters in this game is . Not only does he brag about making a deadly virus 10x deadlier, when asked how he felt about his work and the human test subjects involved, he replied, "I wasn't being paid to feel". Even worse, when The  is arguably less repulsive. It's almost a shame that
 * It really puts things in perspective when is disgusted at what  did.
 * Psychic Force, given the overall Crapsack World that the setting is, has nothing less than two of them: Richard Wong and Gudeath: the former is a coldly calculating Smug Snake who treats people as nothing more than expendable pawns in his game of conquest, and is responsible, among other things, for . He is never given any reason for his actions other than the fact that he thinks he's the most awesome person in the world, and everybody must therefore bow down to him and worship him like a god - granted, being able to control time itself kinda gives his A God Am I boasts some credibility. The latter is a gravity-controlling Social Darwinist Blood Knight whose only reason for joining Wong is because he likes murdering people, taking joy in destroying his victims' loved ones and prolonging their agony as much as possible, and being part of the Army gives him the chance to do that without consequences. Setsuna might be one as well, but is arguably saved by the fact that he's trying to kill Wong, which in this case comes across as a Kick the Son of a Bitch. Or arguably not, as Setsuna himself just think of himself highly and wouldn't stand being under Wong's command, and quite possibly wouldn't steer the Army into a better force, but rather into more evil.
 * Cross Ward of Radiata Stories is a deplorable man, and in the first scene the players meet him he is instantly recognizable as a racist Jerkass. But Cross's depravity really comes to light when he leads his knight brigade to slaughter the dwarves of Earth Valley over a perceived insult (which was really more of a very caustically delivered piece of advice) from the dwarf leader. He continues acting horrible in each of the game's story branches; in the one where Jack stays with humanity and becomes a hero, Cross becomes a bitter glory hound doing everything he can to establish himself as a great knight, using the war as an excuse to build his own reputation. In the path where Jack abandons humanity and sides with the nonhumans, Cross becomes humanity's trump card instead of Jack. He uses his new influence to commit as many atrocities against the nonhumans as his position will allow, and also kidnaps Jack's sister and tortures her. A very nasty fellow.
 * Chairman Drek from the first Ratchet and Clank game. At first, he could pass for a Well-Intentioned Extremist, since he's building a new world for his people to live on after their first world became uninhabitable, but he true nature is revealed in the final battle, where it's revealed . Even before this reveal his true nature shows: he gleefully announces he'd destroy a planet because it's in an orbit he wants, and tells his foreman to completely mine other planets' resources dry just so they won't get it.
 * Ratchet: Deadlocked has Gleeman Vox, whose schemes overall were not as wide-scale or devastating as the havoc Chairman Drek committed, but still manages to rival him in evil. Not content with merely kidnapping superheroes and forcing them to fight each other to the death, he keeps them safely imprisoned with collars that shock them or explode if they try to escape and demonstrates the collars on sentient robots. He also isn't above putting the entire planet of Stygia in danger by sabotaging the force fields that protect it from meteor storms, or attempt to murder everyone aboard his space station - including thousands of innocent audiences, some of which are children - all for the simple purpose of improving his ratings.
 * In the 2016 reboot, Dr. Nefarious is a darker character than in the original series. Starting off as Drek's engineer, Nefarious built the Deplanetizer that allowed Drek to destroy planets and use their land masses to build his new world. After the pair destroy Novalis and five other planets, Nefarious betrays Drek and takes over his operation, intending to destroy Umbris, a volatile planet which could set off a chain reaction and destroy the entire solar system. When he hears that Ratchet and Clank are thwarting the attempt to destroy Umbris, Nefarious goes to stop them himself and ensure Umbris's destruction, despite knowing he'd die too.
 * Admiral Razorbeard from Rayman 2: Great Escape, first we see of him, he's already managed to enslave the better part of Rayman's world, including children, and in the opening cutscene we are treated to the lovely image of Rayman being lugged down a hallway of Razorbeard's flying ship and base of operations, the Buccaneer, whilst prisoners, old and young, feebly stick out their arms twixt the cages' bars and beg for help, release, or anything.
 * Furthermore, Razorbeard has caged up the Lums (living forms of energy that make up Rayman's world) and dispersed them thinly across the land, except for one, which he eats alive. Over the course of the game, Razorbeard is seen commanding his right-hand man to kill Rayman, who naturally had escaped very early on in the game, and bring the admiral his body (which is rather grim). However, in the end when his goon has disappointed him one time too many, he simply kills him by dropping him into lava. (A staple of any good PE boss).
 * One mission of the game is having to save Globox's babies, whom Razorbeard had his pirates force into a prison facility and a selection of dark mines (both for child labor; this is stated in-game). Another is when Razorbeard brainwashes Clark (one of Rayman's close friends) into trying to kill Rayman. Overall, the entire game makes a point to display the dystopian effect Razorbeard's having on the world.
 * By the end of the game, Rayman returns to the ship (which now holds over 45,000 slaves), backed up by Ly and the god Polokus, who manages to take out Razorbeard's standing army on land. Razorbeard hops in a terrible machine named Grolgoth which he has just recently attained (worth noting is the fact that whilst purchasing this machine, he had an on-screen fantasy about waving Rayman's lifeless body above a fire -- not all that cartoony) and attempts to kill Globox, Rayman's best friend, right in front of him. After seemingly murdering Globox as Rayman looks on, Razorbeard sadistically cackles, "Now you're alone for all eternity!"
 * After Rayman beats Razorbeard, the admiral shows no remorse or acceptance of defeat, but flies away and sets his ship to self-destruct, all the while, to his knowledge, the slaves (as well as his own crew) are all still aboard. In this wise, he almost kills Rayman.
 * From Red Dead Redemption: Colonel Agustin Allende is the cruel and corrupt governor of Nuevo Paraiso. Though Allende comes from peasant stock himself, once in power he becomes an oppressive dictator who brutalizes the common people he rules over, keeping them poor, starving and without hope. One of Allende’s darker pleasures is frequently having women abducted and sent to his villa so he can rape them. After John Marston arrives in Mexico while trying to hunt down two members of his old gang, Allende promises to help him in return for his services. Allende uses Marston as a tool in his war against the rebels opposing his rule, regularly sending a reluctant Marston out to kill them, including one instance where Marston has to burn down their village of Tesoro Azul. Unfortunately for John, Allende had not only never planned on upholding his end of the bargain, he had actually been harboring the outlaws John was hunting, and tries to have John executed once he’s outlived his usefulness. While he hides behind a façade of well-intentions, in reality Allende is a depraved hedonist who only cares about himself.
 * From the stranger missions:
 * Randall Forrester, a deranged rural freak who kidnaps citizens and travelers to the nearby town of Armadillo and kills them and eats them. Men, women, children. No exceptions, justifying himself with "a man's gotta eat!" and showing no remorse for any of his crimes. When John Marston catches him with an escaping victim, Forrester enlists the ignorant Marston's help in subduing the man, clearly relishing the victim's terror.
 * Mario Alcalde, a pimp who
 * From Red Dead Redemption 2:
 * Colonel Henry Favours, chapter 6's Arc Villain, is an elderly colonel facing retirement at the end of a long and completely undistinguished career. Seeking to erase his deserved reputation for cowardice and incompetence, Favours realizes a way to win glory. Stationed as the liaison to the Wapiti Lakota tribe, Favours begins to attempt to antagonize the tribe by having them assaulted, sending their children to reform schools, burning down their sacred shrines and taking their horses so they cannot hunt, dooming them to starvation. Favours even withholds vital vaccines and medicine to kill their children and infirm, hoping to provoke them into a war so he can gain the "glory" of wiping them out and taking their oil-rich lands. Favours even provokes an attack at supposed peace talks and frames the good-hearted Captain Monroe for treason to execute him, willing to stop at nothing to murder an innocent tribe of natives simply to enjoy his undeserved glory.
 * Red Faction: Adam Hale from Armageddon (who also appears in the film) was originally the second in command of the White Faction and a lover to Lyra Mason, before becoming a cult leader placing himself as a messiah figure. An initial supporter of the White Factions plot to start a war between the Red Faction and Marauders, overseeing the massacre of civilians. When Lyra realizes the truth of her past and leaves for her family, Hale's immediate reaction is to take control of the White Faction and ordering the destruction of the Teraformer, knowing it would render Mars virtually uninhabitable and not caring that Lyra could be a casualty, holding one of his men at gunpoint for hesitating the attack, and is only stopped when Alec Mason sacrifices himself to destroy the dreadnought. By the time of Armageddon, Hale reemerges twenty years later with a cult to his name, and succeeds in destroying the Teraformer causing widespread destruction, such as tornadoes and violent storms across the surface, forcing the people of Mars to colonize underground to survive. Learning of a ravenous alien race called the plague further beneath the surface, Hale has his cultists trick Darius Mason into releasing the plague on the people of Mars, overrunning the colonists and killing multiple people. He later announces to his cult his plans to enslave these creatures as an army in his conquest. Originally raised to be a loyal soldier, Hale is ultimately a man motivated to claim his envisioned destiny of ruling Mars, with or without Lyra, and partially motivated by his hate for the Mason family, not caring who or how many have to die in the process.
 * Red Steel 2: Shinjiro is the mastermind behind the Jackal Gang and Katakara and the annihilation of the Kusaragi Clan. Desiring the ancient Gale Sword, Shinjiro caused the genocide before the events of the game and left the entire area into a ghost town filled with only bandits and other criminals. Learning the key to his desired prize was with the Kusaragi, Shinjiro had him hunted down and took whatever measures it would take to kill him in order to fulfill his ambition including letting many of his men die from either the Kusaragi, or by his own hands when he abandons them to save himself from the Kusaragi. Seeing his two allies Payne and Ojiro killed by the one he desires dead he didn't care one bit, and continued his quest for the sword which includes taking the Kusaragi's friends hostage, and forcing his own ally to betray the Kusaragi. When the Kusaragi finally got to kill this ruthless bandit leader, he taunts the Kusaragi claiming more will be after him. Despicable enough to do anything for the precious Gale Sword, Shinjiro left the once thriving dessert into a wasteland full of the worse of the worse.
 * Reperfection: In this point and click thriller by Tinnitus Games, the Branding Killer is a demented psychopath obsessed with sharing his "art" with the world. To this end, the Branding Killer kidnaps and murders young women, spends days slowly branding lavish designs onto their skin, then kills them. Having claimed his 4th victim by the start of the game, the Branding Killer attacks and plans to torture and kill Ben for rescuing his latest victim, and, when Ben escapes his clutches only to be arrested, the Branding Killer decides to go after the man's wife and preteen son as revenge for thwarting his latest killing. The Branding Killer was the only genuinely wicked character in the story, and stood out as a truly depraved
 * Rosenkreuzstilette: Iris Sepperin's goal is to become god of a world of her own design, but many of her actions are purely for her amusement. Believing that she has a right to destroy whatever she wants, Iris commits wanton murder, of innocents; those she deems not useful to her; and her own family members, choosing victims based on who would suffer most from their deaths. A prime manipulator as well, Iris masquerades as a harmless young girl while also staging in motion the war between the RKS and the Empire. In Rosenkreuzstilette Freudenstachel, Iris and her second-in-command Eifer manipulate the Schwarzkreuz into starting a "witch hunt", and turn the Schwarzkreuz against their own captain Pamela by having them brand her a holy traitor to the Orthodox Church, motivating Pamela's resolve to slay her vilifier. Iris later has Eifer murder the pope, and afterwards has her badly wound Pamela with a surprise attack. Iris continues to show her selfish and manipulative side by having Eifer turn into the Dark Devil and allowing her to die, and brainwashing Spiritia and forcing her to fight to the death against Freudia, her own childhood friend. Driven by little more than a sadistic desire to satisfy her lust for pleasure and entertainment over the suffering of others, Iris stands out in the world of the Rosenkreuzstilette series.
 * RuneScape has Sir Sigmund. He is a total xenophobe who wants the peaceful cave goblins dead. The first thing you see him do is try to start a war between Lumbridge and the Dorgeshuun. At one point, he even uses emotional blackmail on the character. And then it gets much, much, worse. Not to mention he relishes killing the player just as much as he relishes killing the goblins....such as in the Chosen Commander.
 * There's also Lord Drakan, a vampire who took over the largest city in the world and turned it into a ghetto where he enslaved many people. The result is that the people are all want nothing more than a quick death to end their pain.
 * RWBY: Grimm Eclipse: Dr. Merlot was an old pupil of Ozpin with an unhealthy obsession with Grimm. Moving to Mt. Glenn and founding Merlot Industries, Merlot began to experiment on Grimm, but ran out due to the species' short lifespan in captivity. To work around this, Merlot had his research team attract a bunch of Grimm to the city, which resulted in it being overrun and the people being slaughtered. Surviving the attack and seeing the collapse of Glenn as "a speed bump on the scientific highway of progress", Merlot continued his experiments on a remote island. Succeeding in making a stronger variety of Grimm, Merlot released them into the Emerald Forest and Forever Fall to attack who they pleased. He also booby-trapped the ruins below Mt. Glenn with a bomb to keep people from finding his ships. When Team RWBY investigates his hacking of the security network in the Emerald Forest and accidentally ends up on his island, he reveals himself and taunts the girls, asking to "test" them before sending an army of Grimm to kill them. When the team makes it to his lair, he gleefully sends his security robots to kill them. However, when the team successfully hacks into his system and gains access to his secret labs, an enraged Merlot began to send his Grimm and robots at them with more viciousness, culminating in him sending a mutated deathstalker to kill them. When the creature falls, Merlot self-destructs his lab with himself and Team RWBY still inside.
 * SS-Commandant Colonel Kurt Dierker in The Saboteur. He tortures Sean's best friend, then shoots him multiple times in the head while Sean watches, and gleefully talks about the things he learned from his father, a butcher, while fondly caressing various implements of torture. Other characters mention that Dierker is known to skin his victims after he's done torturing them.
 * Thanatos in Secret of Mana, once an Evil Sorcerer who sold his soul to the underworld for the prospect of dark powers and immortality, is a wicked Lich who starts the game off by manipulating the corrupt emperor Vandole into throwing his entire country into a brutal war to rise up the ancient super weapon the Mana Fortress. Having already lived centuries by surfing from body to body, Thanatos weasels his way into a position as one of Vandole's loyal servants and has countless innocent lives from the kingdom of Pandora kidnapped and zombified to lure out the noble warrior Dyluck, magically turning the man into his slave and planning to use him as his new, permanent host. Eventually murdering Vandole himself once he lives out his use, Thanatos rises up the Mana Fortress and uses it to vaporize the Mana Tree whilst cackling, preventing the heroes from undoing the chaos he's wrought through his manipulations and planning on using the Mana Fortress to enslave the world to his cruel will, even possessing Dyluck at the final battle and forcing him into killing himself to prevent Thanatos from using his body. His actions leaving a dark and permanent mark on the history of Fa'Diel, Thanatos set the bar for later villains of Mana to aspire to—and still remains one of the most evil out of all of them.
 * The Bogeyman in The Secret World. One of the more prominent monsters of Solomon Island, he's one of the few who's managed to maintain his intelligence, and one of the few who doesn't have some kind of sympathetic backstory: whereas entities like Jack O'Lantern and the Black House were victimized and tortured into becoming villains, the Bogeyman set out to become a monster almost from the very beginning. As a human, Nathaniel Winter wanted to attain magical power and immortality by any means necessary, and was willing to use Atlantic Island Park as the perfect method of achieving it - even if it meant allowing dozens upon dozens of workers to die in accidents, or allowing others to be driven mad and twisted into murderers by the Park's influence. Plus, he abandoned his family in order to claim the harvested power, including his favourite son Nicholas. The Park expands on his villainy even further: one note found in the game reveals that once the most common source of power dried up, the Bogeyman was happy to harvest it directly from children he captured, killing them in the process; when Lorraine entered in search of Callum, he set out to Mind Rape her for the next two hours straight - before manipulating her into stabbing Callum to death.
 * Shadow of the Beast (2016): Maletoth, tormentor of souls and destroyer of worlds, is a tyrant who attacks entire worlds, killing and conquering all in his path while enslaving the souls of the dead in perpetual torment to power his magic and grow even stronger. Upon locating a suitable child in one world, Maletoth binds his souls to the baby to turn it from a human into a savage beast bound to his will. Using the Beast as a weapon to massacre all before it, Maletoth locates another child to create a new beast and sends his first champion to kill the child's guardians. When the Beast, true name Aarbron, is freed from his control thanks to the sacrifice of its human father, Maletoth stops at nothing to kill his former creation. A ruthless sorcerer who fancies himself the strongest being alive, Maletoth does not plan to stop until all before him is dead or enslaved.
 * In Shadows of the Damned: Fleming is the tyrannical ruler of the Underworld. As ruler, he gruesomely kills his political opponents, instilling fear within his fellow demons. In the past, he chopped off the limbs of a huntress attempting to kill him. Impressed by her determination, he made her his queen, repeatedly killing her and reviving her for fun until she escaped. Taking Garcia Hotspur's girlfriend, Paula, he torments Garcia throughout the game with her continuous death and resurrection. He sends his elite VIP demons out to stop Garcia, not caring when they're killed, only making them VIPs because he found their previous deaths amusing. Meeting Garcia again at his castle, he mockingly eats Paula's leg in front of him and tricks him into shooting Paula, ripping her still-living head off before declaring her his new bride. Seemingly defeated, Fleming immediately returns, almost getting Garcia to eat human burgers while sending his legion of demons to kidnap Paula again. A cruel being hated by both demon and human alike, Fleming, despite his charming personality, stands out as a true Knight of Cerebus in such a humorous game.
 * Shadowgun (by Madfinger Games): Dr. Edgar Simon is an insane scientist convinced of his own godlike superiority above all else. Originally hired by Toltech Enterprises to experiment on the indigenous life of the planet Eve, Simon captured and butchered nearly the entire populace of Eve, using their body parts and organs to craft himself an army of mutated monstrosities. After betraying Toltech and striking out on his own, Simon murders dozens of his fellow scientists, using them in his experiments, and, when Toltech hires the Shadowgun John Slade to capture Simon for them, Simon strands Slade on Eve before testing his armies of mutated soldiers on him, promising that, once Slade is dead, he will harvest his body parts to further enhance his "research".
 * Shovel Knight: The Enchantress, in the Specter of Torment prequel DLC, blackmails Specter Knight into working for her; turns Reize Brainwashed and Crazy to replace an exposition Mook; forces the Order of No Quarter to work for her under threat of death; later on transforms Reize into an Eldritch Abomination phantom form in which he is clearly in great pain; and actively kills civilians and innocent people to depopulate a village. All she wishes for is to Take Over the World, starting with the Valley and expanding her rule, using the Order and her minions as tools in a machine, and in the main game using Shield Knight as a vessel. Pure, unadulterated evil, with no remorse ever shown for her vile actions, the Enchantress very much stands out compared to the rest of the villains in the game.
 * Silent Hill Orphan trilogy: Alessa is a malicious spirit haunting Silent Hill, lacking the positive qualities of her original counterpart. Growing up hating the orphanage she lived in, Alessa possessed her sister, Karen, and committed a massacre that took the lives of numerous children, purely out of spite. Thirty years later, Alessa resurfaces to kill those who survived. After killing two of the survivors, Alessa enlists the help of a revived victim, Lucas, and kills part of Karen, later sending the man who had killed her parents, Vincent, to destroy the rest of her, but not before convincing the last survivor, Emilie, to stab herself with a knife. Successfully eliminating Karen, Alessa gives Vincent a heart attack, as he was not useful to her anymore.
 * Lord Galcian from Skies of Arcadia is Dragon is a little more sympathetic, even though he goes completely nuts by the end of the game, but the Big Bad himself crosses the horizon really, really hard for such an optimistic game by summoning the Rains of Destruction on Valua, the most powerful nation in the world and his own country, just to set an example for anyone suicidal enough to try to stand against him. Before Valua even had a chance to react to his sudden Face Heel Turn against them.
 * To elaborate: this is a man who, when he gets control of an ancient superweapon, decides to demonstrate its power to the world by
 * Sleeping Dogs: Big Scar Wu, later known as Smiley Cat of the Nightmare in Northpoint DLC, was a vicious and ruthless member of the Sun On Yee, so much so that they had him killed for being wicked by their standards; even giving him an undignified burial via grinding his corpse in catfood and keeping his finger to keep his spirit restless. Mocked for this by the denizens of Hell, Wu plotted revenge before his spirit managed to return and bring with him a demonic army. Wu starts off the DLC by abducting Wei's girlfriend and keeping her captive. Wu then raised demons and Jiang Shi to terrorize and take over Hong Kong, having its citizens possessed and enslaved, using innocent people in rituals to open portals to Hell. Wu then summons the spirits of Wei's dead enemies and has possessed gangsters in order to start his own empire. When Wei confronts Wu at the end of the DLC, Wu mocks Wei with his dead sister, and when seemingly defeated, shows he's secretly possessing No Ping.
 * Religious zealot and manipulative narcissist Dahlia Gillespie from the first Silent Hill game. She . Worse, Wish House indicates Alessa isn't the only child she's tortured to see her dream come true, only the one who suffered the most.
 * Judge Margaret Holloway in Homecoming, one of the respected town leaders of Shepard's Glen, makes herself out to be a sweet motherly figure, but in truth is a cold-hearted, cruel and vicious leader of the Order. Years prior, Holloway murdered her youngest daughter Nora by strangling her with her own hands, as per the pact with the Order's God. Unlike the other parents, she is completely remorseless and barely concealed her enjoyment. When the pact is broken due to Joshua Shepard dying in Alex's place, Holloway reassembled the Order to take control of Shepard's Glen as a means of gaining and maintaining her power. Over the years she had residents kidnapped to be brainwashed into the Order, with those resisting ending up tortured to death. Eventually the residents were either dead or soldiers for the Order. Holloway also has Alex's mother abducted and tortured, during which Alex can be forced to Mercy Kill her. While Mayor Bartlett and Dr. Fitch are killed by Eldritch manifestations of their children, when Alex rescues Holloway from Nora's manifestation, she leaves Alex to face it. Later, she plans on killing her other daughter Elle for her refusal to join her, before attempting to torture Alex to death with a power drill.
 * Skullgirls has a few particularly nasty folks running around the Canopy Kingdom, with one of its biggest being Eliza, the "Crimson Scourge" and a narcissistic diva with a god complex who wishes to crush the entire world under heel. In years past, she was a tyrant who ruled over the equivalent of Ancient Egypt with an iron fist and enslaved just about everybody who lived under her brutal regime. In the present day however, she's an immortal nightclub singer who holds exquisite charity blood drives that she uses as a way to keep a constant supply of blood flowing, which she selfishly uses to keep herself young and beautiful forever. It isn't until she's blackmailed by Lorenzo Medici into finding the Skullheart for him that she truly starts getting nasty: during her Story Mode she attacks the immortal thief Ms. Fortune and enslaves her as a living blood fountain for her personal consumption, and then murders her escort Cerebella shortly afterward. After destroying the Skullheart, she kills Squigly and keeps her enslaved through as a "rudimentary alarm" as a way to keep tabs on any future Skullgirls who could stand in her way since their arrivla is heralded by her resurrection. She also keeps Filia entombed indefinitely, with plans to kill her in the future once she finds a loyal lackey she can give Filia's powerful parasite Samson to. And once all potential resistance has been crushed, she moves on to dominate the world in a bid to remind the world's population (In her own words) who their true ruler is.
 * There's also Lorenzo Medici, the cold-blooded, decrepit, elderly head of the Medici Mafia who controls most of the Canopy Kingdom from behind the scenes through bribery and intimidation, and is responsible for a score of absolutely appalling crimes on top of that. As one of the game's Bigger Bads he is responsible for the tragedy in the lives of quite a few of the main cast both through direct and indirect means. Of his own volition, he sent out his top assassin Black Dahlia and used her as an attack dog against the Contiellos, massacring the family to the last man, and even their fourteen year old daughter Squigly wasn't spared. He also sicced Black Dahlia on Ms. Fortune's Fishbone Gang and had her tear them all apart in order to protect the jewel he used to prolong his already abnormally long life, with only Ms. Fortune surviving due to swallowing said jewel. And since he's involved deep in the slave trade, he's also ultimately responsible for the torturous lives forced upon scores of human trafficking victims, as well as the horrific near-death by mutilation inflicted on Patricia/Peacock. There's a damn good reason so many people hate this man, and will stop at nothing to see him dead.
 * One of the most vicious Complete Monsters in any video game is Clockwerk. Consumed by hatred and envy for the Cooper clan, he converted his body into soulless machinery so he could live forever and wipe out the Cooper lineage. I'll let Sly take it from here.
 * One of the most vicious Complete Monsters in any video game is Clockwerk. Consumed by hatred and envy for the Cooper clan, he converted his body into soulless machinery so he could live forever and wipe out the Cooper lineage. I'll let Sly take it from here.

"Sly Cooper: "Clockwerk. He was consumed with jealousy for the Cooper clan's thieving reputation. Is it inappropriate to refer to him as a monster? No, not at all. What kind of person stays alive for hundreds of years with the express intention of wiping out a rival's family line? Imagine the hatred fueling that first decision to replace his mortal body with soulless machinery. Ultimately, it did the trick. Clockwerk lived on.""


 * Sniper Elite IV: the elusive General Heinz Bohm, the Butcher of Bologna, ravages the Italian countryside under his control. Killing almost indiscriminately, Bohm also disguises himself as an informant named Dorfmann and gives the Partisans information that leads to the deaths of his own soldiers so he can lure them into a trap, initiating a massacre that kills many of them while he takes their leader, a woman named Angel, captive. Working on a new Nazi superweapon with slave labor, Bohm plans to attack and annihilate the entire Allied fleet closing in on Europe, with intentions to kill General Eisenhower and cripple the US involvement in the war. When finally revealing himself to the heroic sniper Karl Fairburne, Bohm reveals his intent to torture Angel and force Karl to watch, delighting in how he can either be a man "or a monster" when the situation calls for it.
 * Hawthorne from Soul Nomad and The World Eaters is by far the most vile and depraved character in the game, which is really saying something. he initially seems to be a decent guy, but is revealed to be.
 * Spider-Man 3: Luke Carlyle is a former industrialist whose business crumbled after the Daily Bugle uncovered his corrupt practices. Seeking revenge against the city that ruined him, Carlyle adopted the identity of the Mad Bomber and led a series of terrorist attacks across Manhattan. After destroying his old building, Carlyle had his men plant explosives throughout the city, focusing mostly on locations that would cause civilian casualties. When Spider-Man foils his plans, Carlyle launches an attack on the Daily Bugle and kidnaps J. Jonah Jameson. Carlyle places an explosive collar around Jameson's neck and tosses him out of his helicopter in an attempt to kill him and Spider-Man. Carlyle ultimately escapes after Spider-Man takes out his helicopter, but not before setting off the explosives he had rigged in each of his henchmen's suits.
 * Cletus Kasady/the Carnage Killer from the tie-in game for the Amazing Spider-Man 2 qualifies as usual, though he's characterized a lot differently than his mainstream counterpart. Instead of a giggling lunatic who merrily butchers tons of innocents, this incarnation of Kasady is a nihilistic, death obsessed, serial killing vigilante who hunts down and murders tons of killers not because of any hatred towards them or having any standards, but because he feels that nobody understands death better than them. When Spider-Man and Kraven the Hunter track Cletus down, Spider-Man rescues a wheelman involved in a drive-by shooting from Cletus, who tries to corrupt Spider-Man during their resulting clash by explaining his mindset and convincing Spider-Man that all he needs to do is give in to his hatred for criminals. When Cletus is bought to justice, his reign of terror is hardly over, as he's taken to Ravencroft Asylum where he's subjected to experiments involving the symbiote that turns him into the powerful, rampaging Carnage, who infects multiple inmates with the symbiote and turns them into psychotic feral monsters with the intent of escaping the asylum and infecting the world with it so he can turn Earth into a chaotic hellhole with only the beloved Webhead standing in his way.
 * Hailing from Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Big Bad Mysterio shows what happens when you give a megalomaniacal B-Lister baddie far too much power for his own good. He opens up the game by trying to steal the Tablet of Order and Chaos in order to sell it for a profit on the black market, which unbeknownst to him is a highly dangerous artifact capable of enabling those who use it with godlike power. After shattering it in a fight with Spider-Man, Mysterio gets away with a fragment and finds that its given him an enormous power boost, and thus goes on a rampage with it all over New York. When Spider-Man finds the other tablet shards with the help of three other Spider-Men from alternate universes, Mysterio takes his advisor Madame Web hostage and tortures her, threatening to kill her if Spider-Man doesn't hand over the shards he's gathered. When Mysterio reassembles them, he annihilates the multiverse itself with his endgame being to recreate it all in his image and rule it as a god before being soundly trounced by all four Spider-Men working together.
 * Carnage also qualifies in his appearance due to being, as always, nothing more than a bloodthirsty monster who slaughters anyone in his path.
 * Eddie Brock/Venom is at his worst in the PS2 and PSP versions of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows. After making a deal with his fellow villain Jackal, Venom allows the scientist to experiment with his symbiote, and amplify its power to where it becomes a powerful, all-consuming plague that corrupts whatever it wraps its tendrils around. Venom then orchestrates the destruction of Manhattan by turning it into a twisted alien wasteland, with hundreds upon thousands of innocent people mutated into mindless monsters against their will by it, including Spider-Man's allies who he's forced to fight once the infection hits them as well. And unlike the next-gen versions of the game where Venom is a mindless vessel through which the alien symbiote imposes its will through, in these games Eddie makes it perfectly clear that he's in control and that he doesn't care about ruling the world: he doesn't give two shits about the symbiote infecting the planet, as long as he gets to kill Spider-Man, it's all worth it to him.
 * Splatoon 2: the Octo Expansion DLC gives us Commander Tartar, an ancient AI created to pass down humanity's knowledge, who, upon becoming disappointed in both the Inklings and Octolings, seeks to wipe out all the planet's life to remake it in his own image. While he initially seems to be nothing more than a friendly telephone at the beginning of the game, that guides Agent 8 through the levels of the game, leading up to the "Promised Land", it's later revealed that this is nothing more than a farce. In reality, Tartar is a cold, murderous and calculating machine, and the "Promised Land" is in fact nothing more than a giant blender that Tartar uses to murder Octolings and use them to create the "ultimate lifeform" in his own words, which he wants to create after he wipes the world out. And if his labelled number for Agent 8 is any indication (10,008), then it's implied that he had already blended more than ten thousand Octolings prior to the campang. At one point, he also took control Agent 3, the playable character from the first game, and even tried to have them kill Agent 8 before the latter snapped them out of it. And unlike the semi-humorous DJ Octavio, Tartar is played dead seriously at all times, and his plan is on a far larger scale, with a frightening body count to boot. While he did call the professor that created him brillaint at one point in the past, it is more than likely that he was programmed into caring for him rather than genuine affection, as shown when he inevitably broke free of his programming and created his own directive to destroy the planet's life, thus going completely against his creator's will. To top it all off, Tartar shows no remorse for any of this: his reasons for attempting genocide simply being that he despises all living species and treats them like objects for him to do whatever he pleases with. As you can tell by now, he's basically Nintendo's equivalent of AM.
 * Splinter Cell series:
 * Pandora Tomorrow has Suhadi Sadono, the leader of the Indonesian terror cell Darah Dan Doa (Blood and Prayer). A member since his youth, back when it was just a street gang, Sadono once helped fight the Communist influences in Indonesia, until the CIA stopped backing them. In retaliation, Sadono used a modified strain of smallpox and places the strains in containers all over the United States, which he demonstrates by releasing the virus in Texas. While fighting in front line battles, Sadono protects himself from capture or death by ordering smallpox to be released should he be unable to make a call to his mercenaries. Described as having a child's idea of war, seeing both civilians and soldiers as acceptable targets, Sadono is one of the most vicious and dangerous terrorists Sam Fisher has ever faced in his career.
 * Double Agent gives us Emile Dufraisne, the leader of the domestic terrorist organization John Brown's Army. The product of a rich traditional upbringing, Dufraisne liquidated his holdings to fund John Brown's Army. When Sam Fisher is recruited as a double agent, Dufraisne is introduced tasking Fisher to kill a helicopter pilot, who would be killed by Jamie Washington should Fisher refuse. Believing that the US government are traitors to the Founding Fathers, Dufraisne plans to topple it with his terrorist activities. His main plan was to destroy the cities of New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville, Tennessee (where the US President will be speaking) with bombs containing several kilograms of red mercury. To test his weapons, he plans on using one of these bombs to blow up a cruise ship. If the player manages to foil this plot, Dufraisne will kill his weapons expert, Enrica, in a fit of anger. When the feds finally storm his compound, Dufraisne begins his plan to destroy New York in an attempt to gain some victory in his defeat.
 * Blacklist introduces former MI6 agent Majid Sadiq, the leader of the Engineers and the mastermind behind the Blacklist attacks. He introduced his group to the public by blowing up an Army base and kidnapping one of the soldiers, later cutting the man's throat while recording a video message. Future attacks involved trying to poison the water supply of Chicago with a deadly biological agents; an attempt to unleash nerve gas into several trains in Philadelphia and setting the largest gas terminal on the gulf coast on fire. He also tried to goad to US government into declaring war with the Iran by creating some false evidences that made it look like they were behind his attacks. While he publicly claimed that the terrorist attacks would stop as soon as the USA called back all their troops stationed abroad, this was just another ruse. His true goal was to cause so much chaos that the US government would enact an emergency protocol and transfer all their sensitive data to a secure bunker beneath Denver. Once that happened he and his men stormed the bunker, where Sadiq had his men torturing the Secretary of Defense until he would give them access to the data. Notably he only became a terrorist after an US drone strike wiped out the Iraqi village he was stationed in, yet he himself never mentioned the villagers even once or showed any kind of sadness about their deaths. In the end his atrocities outweigh any justification he may have once had.
 * In the North American version of Spy Fiction, General Douglas Lysander, aka "The Demon of Death", is a member of Enigma, Dietrich Troy's second-in-command, and head of the Lahder Biochemical Plant. Having fought in various wars since he was a teenager, Lysander lost all hope for America after they left him in a POW Camp. After escaping the Viet Cong, he swore vengeance on his own country, joining multiple terrorist groups over the years before partnering with Enigma, where he helps them with their plan to use Lahder to kill millions of Americans, also desiring to conquer the world after he's finished. As leader of the Columbian guerrilla base Dante's Inferno, he abuses his men for any slight mishap, killing those who fail him. Working with Dr. Forrest Kayson, Lysander exchanges money for Kayson's Lahder, being in charge of shipping the gas to various Enigma hideouts, as well as preparing Lahder-filled missiles to strike other countries. Kidnapping and imprisoning Kayson's rival and creator of Lahder, Dr. Alice Coleman, she later escapes her cell. However, Lysander quickly catches her and puts her in a meat-strapped cage dangling over a pit of piranhas, taunting the Player Character about how their plans to stop Lahder's shipment and missile launches have failed. With his final breath, Lysander attempts to shoot Coleman. Despite appearing in only two levels, Lysander manages to stand out as an arrogant, psychopathic hypocrite compared to his more sympathetic, less ambitious superiors.
 * In StarCraft, Kerrigan's hated instructor, Lieutenant Rumm. He forced the young girl to use her exceptional psionic powers by injecting a kitten with a tumor-causing chemical, and gave her the option of destroying the kitten's tumor or euthanizing it. Not willing to fall to his demands, Rumm threatend to shoot the kitten himself. Still uncompliant, Rumm decided not to shoot and left the kitten to die slowly and painfully. Taking more drastic measures, he brought in her father (who had become brain-damaged as a result of him accidently unleashing her psionic powers) in an adjacent cell to hers and threatened to inject him with the same chemical if she didn't use her psionic powers. When she still refused, threatening to use the power to kill herself and her father, Rumm forced her to be neural resocialized (a form of brainwashing technology used to enforce obedience and shape new memories), turning her into a loyal puppet of the Terran Confederacy. Even after the mind-rape, he continued to mentally torture her for over a year. He finally gets his comuppance in the end when the pre-infested Kerrigan (i.e. Queen of Blades) finds him and throws him around with her reawakened psionic powers and fries his brain.
 * Let's not forget her "creator", Emperor Arcturus Mengsk. You can feel for a guy who had his home world nuked by the Confederates and his family whacked by the girl who would later become his trusted lieutenant, but does that really justify siccing the zerg on Tarsonis (which, unlike the military outpost of Antiga Prime, had billions of civilians inhabiting it) and feeding them said trusted lieutenant because she voiced objections to it? Even afterwards, he throws every political dissident he can get his hands on into complexes like New Folsom and squanders funding which could have been used keeping fringe worlds like Agria safe from the zerg assault to hunt down small-time resistance factions and "has-been" rebels like Jim Raynor. It's also very heavily implied in the mission Piercing the Shroud that he's on the payroll of the Dark Voice, meaning that he may be WILLINGLY helping the DV bring about the apocalypse. Mercifully, due to the thorough work of Matthew Horner and the rest of Raynor's Raiders, Mengsk gets a measure of comeuppance when the recordings of Confederate Adjutant 23-46, which include his motive rant of self-aggrandizement and power lust and his orchestration of the Tarsonis Massacre, are broadcast throughout Dominion space.
 * While he was once a respected and esteemed researcher, the brilliant Dr. Andross from Star FOX went from a benevolent scientist who wished to improve life within the Lylat System to a power-hungry, psychotic dictator who proved to be among Fox McCloud's most hated enemies. Despite being warned about the consequences, Andross carried out all sorts of unethical experiments without caring about how dangerous they could be, and as a result he annihilated a large portion of Corneria and transformed several of the Lylat System's planets into inhospitable wastelands. Having been banished to the deadly planet Venom for his crimes, Andross slowly formed an army formed by the nastiest scum that the Lylat System had to offer and set out to conquer the Lylat System. He also experimented on himself, becoming a living mutated brain covered by a large disembodied head of himself, with hands made for literally crushing his enemies. Against Andross's army, all resistance was crushed, entire planets were poisoned, and even innocent civilians weren't spared as Andross had their cities sacked as well until he was soundly defeated by Fox, thus bringing peace to the galaxy. All of this cements him as one of the most depraved antagonists Shigeru Miyamoto has ever created.
 * General Scales from Star Fox Adventures also qualifies. To start with, he ambushes the sole survivor from a destroyed planet called Cerenia named Krystal and tries to throw her overboard his ship to her death (luckily she was saved by a cloudrunner). He and his Sharpclaw army later assault Krazoa Palace and slaughter most of the Earthwalker soldiers sent there to defend the sacred place. After removing the four spellstones from their pedestals and breaking the planet apart, he imposes a harsh dictatorial rule on all inhabitants of Dinosaur planet. He spent his rule enslaving the Snowhorn tribe by threatening to wipe them out if they resisted, locking up the King and Queen Earthwalker and releasing the fearsome red - eye tribe, taking over Cloudrunner Fortress and imprisoning the Cloudrunner tribe members who lived there. Strangling the Cloudrunner Queen and having his men savagely beat the queen to a pulp when she refuses to tell him where Fox McCloud is, then electrocuting and capturing Fox when he reveals himself. Turning Dragon Rock into a desolate wasteland and prison camp where he turned several dinosaurs into feral killing machines, and throwing one of his own soldiers at Fox to keep him from reaching a spellstone. It is later revealed that the source of his powers is none other than Andross, to whom even Scales was unaware was only using him and his crimes to revive himself. These circumstances do not give Scales a good enough excuse because he had his own agenda and plotted outside Andross command. Brutal and ambitious to the extreme, Scales represents the savagrey found in both real life dictators and wild animals alike.
 * The Aparoid Queen is the source of the Aparoid's will and the Big Bad of Star Fox Assault. Allegedly born without a soul, the Aparoid Queen aimed to bypass evolution. To that end, she spawned countless Aparoid and unleashed them all throughout the Lylat System to infect both inorganic and organic matter through Aparoidedation. Her race threatens inhabitants of countless planets; most notably, Sauria and Corneria suffer the most damage and casualties. Her Assimilation Plot sees other people infected by Aparoid retain some consciousness coupled with the inability to do anything about it, the tragic effects seen most vividly in the fights against General Pepper and Pigma Dengar. Before the attack on her homeworld, she has an armada of Aparoid try and destroy the Orbital Gate, including the deployment of multiple catastrophic missiles, in hopes of ending all of her opposition, including the scientists studying Core Memories. When Star Fox reaches the heart of the Aparoid Homeworld, the Queen uses the information she's absorbed from her spawn's exploits to imitate the voices of the fallen, including Fox's deceased father James McCloud, to break their spirits. Under the belief all existed for them and her race was "truth", the Aparoid Queen threatened existence itself in her quest to turn everything into Aparoid under her control, making her rival Emperor Andross himself in sheer darkness.
 * Pigma Dengar is a (literal) swine, a former member of the original Star Fox, alongside protagonist Fox's father James McCloud and Peppy Hare in his young days, betrayed his comrades and unit resulting in the death of James... just for profit. After this he becomes a member of mercenary for hire group (and Star Fox rival) Star Wolf, under contract by Andross to destroy the new Star Fox team. As the player fights them, Pigma shows no sign of remorse whatsoever for doing what he did as he never shuts up about what he did to James, and even revels in the idea of killing the second generation as well as finshing what he started with Peppy... all while getting a big fat check. After Star Fox 64 and Venom's fall, apparently this guy is so bad that even Star Wolf, who run on their own code of mercenary honor, find him disgusting and expel him. Pigma goes on to possibly sell out his entire species and star system to the hive like Aparoids in Star Fox Assault (although its implied that he had absolutely no intention of actually siding with the Aparoids so much as sell one of their core memories to make a profit, if the ending cutscene of the Fichina mission is anything to go by.), only to be taken over himself. Although his physical form ceases to exist after Assault, his spirit lives on to continually torment Star Fox and anyone involved in it. He's a total, snout-nosed monster in every sense of the word and no one likes him.
 * He also spouts the most disturbing line in the entire series. "Daddy screamed reeeaaal good before he DIED!".
 * Pigma is also a Large Ham (pun intended) and is a good example of how a character can be occasionally amusing yet still remain a Complete Monster.
 * Steppenwolf: The X Creatures Project: Reggie Donovan is the CEO of the Donovan Corporation. He starts out by sending Meg Crimson, through her boss, McCallister, along with some of his own men, on expeditions to acquire the blood samples from the X-creatures. When Meg discovers the truth and confronts McCallister about the project, Donovan sends his enforcer, the Albino, after the two of them, McCallister getting wounded in the process. Meg finds evidence that ties Donovan to numerous assassinations, at which point Donovan reveals himself, along with the Albino and Sanchez, who appears to have taken a beating from the two. He then intimidates Meg into working for him. Meanwhile, in a ruined lab beneath Antarctica, Donovan tells Alan that the Heruka is actually his "late" wife and head of the Gene X research team, Shelley Thompson. Once Meg and Alan acquired the last two samples, Donovan makes a serum from the X-creatures' blood and injects the Heruka with it, revealing that it was, in fact, Shelley, and boasts that he was responsible for her transformation. Then he orders the two killed, and imprisons Meg after Alan kills the Albino. Later on, Alan finds Reggie, who injects himself with the creatures' blood, turning himself into the Heruka, then murders his guards and chases Alan across the island, using every means at his disposal to kill him.
 * M. Bison is responsible for much of the evil in the Street Fighter franchise. Dictator of Shadaloo, Bison aspires for World Domination and ultimate power. Once a talented martial artist, he killed his mentor and received the Psycho Power, kicking off his evil campaign. His atrocities include killing his own father, killing Chun-Li's father, killing Juri's parents, and leading to Charlie Nash's death and mutilation. He also kidnapped teenage girls and had his scientists brainwash them to be loyal assassins called Dolls. In an attempt to get a new vessel for his ailing body, M. Bison set his sights on Ryu. On one occasion, Bison forced Ryu to fight his best friend and rival, Ken, and, after beating Ryu himself, Bison subjected him to Psycho Power exposure to gain a grip on his mind, a move that even horrified Saget. In a different instance, Charlie Nash confronts Bison near a waterfall but gets shot and sent down, confirming Shadaloo's corruption even into the military. Bison uses manipulation, threats, and coercion by force to move his plans along, resulting in unwilling participants or more victims on his list. Finally, allowing F.A.N.G. to head the operation, Bison intends to use seven Black Moons, a powerful satellites capable of causing havoc via electromagnetic pulse wave. The ensuing terror and chaos would fuel Bison's Psycho Power to a near godlike level, the horrific preview of which was seen in one destroyed city and another burning with screaming people. A Social Darwinist who preaches Utilitarianism, Bison can and will dispose of allies who do not serve their purpose, such as Seth and rebellious Dolls. M. Bison is a man whose relentless ambition lets him do whatever he pleases to live on and fulfill his goals.
 * Street Fighter V gives us the aforementioned F.A.N.G., hailing from the Nguuhao cartel of assassins, who is skilled in poison, and later becomes M. Bison’s second-in-command, as well as a Psycho Supporter. Despite his eccentric style, his actions in Story Mode are played utterly seriously. As the originator of Operation C.H.A.I.N.S., a plan to empower Bison and his Psycho Power through widespread fear and chaos, F.A.N.G. uses any means necessary, even though he knows the world will become a hellscape afterwards. He kills a programmer, Rashid’s friend, by poisoning said programmer so bad the programmer melts, before sampling some of the remains. He later brags about the endeavor to Rashid in their fight. On a quest to recover the control keys to the Black Moons, he regularly threatens people with them, like Laura’s brother, Sean. After the Black Moons are stopped, F.A.N.G. promises Li-Fen he will melt her like the programmer unless she activates a fail-safe to reactivate them. Caring little for anyone else, including the Dolls he helped engineer, other than Bison, who he has a fanatic obsession with, F.A.N.G. tried his best to leave poison and blood in his wake during his tenure at Shadaloo.
 * Strider: Grandmaster Meio is the tyrannical ruler of the Earth. A Galactic Conqueror from another world, Meio arrived on Earth and took it over in the span of a few years, establishing Kazakh City as his seat of power. However, his lust for power and control was not sated he viewed the people of Earth as imperfect and longed to create a "perfect race". To that end, he ordered his scientists to develop an anti-gravity device called the Gravitron under the pretense that it would provide limitless energy to the people of Earth. In reality, Meio planned to use the Gravitron to pull his Third Moon space station into Earth's orbit, which would cause worldwide natural disasters that would kill off all of Earth's population, allowing him to create his perfect race. Any scientist who learned the truth was hunted down and killed, or in the case of The Prisoner, tortured into insanity. Meio can and will kill subordinates who fail to meet his expectations, such as Professor Schlang. Eleven Striders before Hiryu tried and failed to kill Meio, one of them being Hien, whom Meio personally murdered. A being of pure evil and relentless ambition, Meio would stop at nothing to achieve his twisted version of perfection.
 * The original NES game and it's Manga adaptation has Vice-Director Matic of the Strider organization, who seeks to Take Over the World. Having discovered Enterprise's ZAIN Brainwashing Project, Matic uses it to control Hiryu's sister and make her kill Strider trainees, forcing Hiryu to kill her himself. Staging the capture of Hiryu's friend Cain, Matic tries to force Hiryu to kill his friend, threatening to kill innocent civilians if he refuses. Cain's brainwashing is revealed to be part of Matic's scheme to kill Enterprise President Faysus/Faceas Clay and take control of the ZAIN project; Matic intends to keep his grip on the Striders as well so none can challenge his power over the entire planet.
 * Luther Stickwell (a.k.a. "The Creeper") from The Suffering: Ties That Bind is a misogynistic, homophobic Serial Killer who haunts what's left of Baltimore. In life, Luther was a former pimp who abused, raped, and murdered several unfortunate prostitutes before becoming a serial killer that targets women, with a frightening body count ranging between 50 and 200. As the Creeper, he continues his killing spree, slaughtering women in a variety of ways, whether it be decapitating them, hanging them in the sewers, burning them alive, or even impaling them from behind. He keeps the still-living torsos of three women under his trench coat, using them as Combat Tentacles to kill his victims. He also loves bragging about his past exploits to Torque, seeing real men as strong and brutal. If Dr. Killjoy pits him against Torque, Creeper will be more than ecstatic about killing him, thinking that he's stealing his glory. A psychotic murderer who is repulsed by many, the Creeper manages to outdo even the likes of Blackmore himself in sheer evil.
 * Copperfield the Slavehunter: besides his obsessive hunting of runaway slaves and their innocent ancestors, it's revealed that his hounds are starved before a hunt so that runaways will be horribly mauled or eaten alive when found.
 * Hermes T. Haight (pronounced "hate") from the first game is one of the many spirits haunting Carnate Island, and is easily the most sadistic. In life, Hermes was the former executioner at Abbott State Penitentiary, where he killed prisoners in a variety of ways—including Horace Gage via the electric chair, condemning him to a life as an electric phantom—before settling on a clear, odorless gas, having done so for decades. Becoming curious as to how his victims felt during the execution process, he studied their corpses and phone conversations before deciding to get a taste of his own gas, killing himself. As a spirit, he haunts Carnate, killing various prisoners and guards with his green gas, including ones trying to escape the island from the Malefactors. Attempting to make Torque unleash his inner beast, he later tries to kill him by trapping him in a gas-filled room. Near the end, he's forced to help Torque cross a gap, doing so by gassing an escaping bus and using it as a bridge. A self-described professional claiming to be doing his job, Hermes clearly enjoys the freedom that death has given him in regards to killing people, and manages to be far worse than the actual monsters infesting Carnate.
 * Super Robot Wars, especially the OG series, is ripe with Complete Monsters
 * First, we have Aguilla Setme, master of memory alteration, who continues to tamper with the School Children's memories without much care of their welfare. Just look at how she crosses the Moral Event Horizon oh so many times to break Latooni. To make matters worse, she gleefully reveals that Aya and Mai are not Kenzo's true daughters as they believed - they just had their memories altered - and when Ryusei calls her out for it, her response is that, to her, human life has no value but as research subjects.
 * Then we have Archibald Grims, a Psycho for Hire without a cause, whose objective is only to enjoy more bloodshed, especially if it's from innocents. He also gleefully forces Elzam to make a Sadistic Choice, whether it's to sacrifice his wife or commit mass murder on many people. His comeuppance from the Branstein brothers is very satisfying.
 * Archibald also has a predecessor in the form of Lubikka Hakinnen from SRW Gaiden. He doesn't even start out decent and the first thing we know about him chronologically is that he massacred Tytti's family right in front of her and swore to make her suffer and ENJOYED doing it. He almost became a Karma Houdini as he almost became a Herald of Elemental Lord, until Tytti reported his Complete Monster-ness, which caused him to flee and became Shutedonia's resident Psycho for Hire, doing jobs for its handsome pay and thrill on making people suffer. To hammer it down, he then killed Tytti's lover Ricardo RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER, all while having the crazed look of a would-be rapist.
 * Asakim Dowin from SRW Z also counts: he puts Setsuko through true hell just so she could awaken her power and kill him. What does he do? He kills her two friends in front of her, then beats her up in front of one of their corpses. Then he impersonates one of her friends...only to shoot her from the back. Then he brought Alternate Universe versions of her two friends and pit them off together. Unfortunately, Asakim is a Magnificent Bastard in that he mostly acts as a Complete Monster to Setsuko. In front of Rand, he tends to be less of a monster.
 * The Big Bad Ji Edel Bernal also counts. The reason WHY the Gambit Pileup even existed in the first place? He thought it was fun. It's also a fun thing to note that he and Makoto Itou share the same seiyuu.
 * Neclord, the vampire from both Suikoden I and Suikoden II, qualifies as well. There once existed a place called Blue Moon Village, which was inhabited by peaceful vampires whose thirst for blood was satiated by the presence of the Blue Moon Rune. Neclord, in his lust for power, allowed himself to be turned into a vampire, ingratiated himself into the village, then stole the rune from the village’s altar. This resulted in the vampires of the town being forced to choose between killing people to extend their lives, or perish themselves. Desiring more power still, Neclord joined forces with Windy and decimated places like the Village of the Hidden Rune to obtain more True Runes. He also, on a whim, attacked the village of North Window, killing and zombifying all its inhabitants to use as his undead army. He later did the same thing to the soldiers of Lorimar Fortress after Windy made him Lorimar’s governor. As governor, Neclord demanded that his people sacrifice him one young girl a year to be his bride. Their screams from his castle could be heard by the villagers. After his defeat, Neclord returned to North Window and began abducting women who strayed too close to the village. When Viktor, a former North Window resident, returns to seek revenge on Neclord, Neclord responds by reviving Viktor’s Love Interest, Daisy, whom Neclord had murdered. Neclord offered to bring Daisy back to life in exchange for the sword Viktor was going to use to kill him, however Viktor realized the dead couldn't be brought back except as zombies, and killed Daisy himself causing Neclord to flee. Eventually, Neclord attacked Tinto City, hoping to take it over and make a new zombie kingdom for himself. During this time he also abducted Lo Wen and Lilly Pendragon, the daughter of Tinto’s mayor, to be his brides.
 * Suikoden II features Luca Blight who, as opposed to the ambiguous nature of the game's other villains, is possibly the most evil and sadistic character in the entire franchise (including Yuber). He may also very well be one of the most evil characters ever to be programmed into a video game. Any scene where he is not killing puppies, he is kicking your ass, all while being an enormously Large Ham while he's at it. In the first five minutes of the game, you will know how evil he is. He has his own youth brigade, just children training to be soliders, attacked and slaughtered by his own troops dressed up as a neighboring nation in order to build up public support for a war against that nation. Oe of the first scenes we see him in, he is burning a defenseless village to the ground and slaughtering innocents. When one woman begs for her life, he tells her to act like a pig. She then asks if she can go. Luca then politely requests her to "DIE PIG!" and promptly kills her. After the mercenary fortress falls to Luca early in the game, Luca is found running Pohl, a teenage boy, through with his sword. He then terrifyingly turns his attention on a very young girl named Pilika and, in a Break the Cutie moment, attempts to run her through as well. Luckily, he was prevented from doing so, but Pilika becomes a Cute Mute after the incident. He also sacrifices the entire population of the city of Muse to the Beast Rune while Jowy watches in complete horror, as does the party outside the city. He is so evil that Jowy and other Highlanders betray him to the player's army, which sets up the ambush and his death in the forest. Then we get to the final confrontation, as he is covered in an entire battalion's worth of arrows and being attacked by the 18 best soldiers of your army (3 parties of 6 characters). He continues to spout about how incredible and evil he is. "It took hundreds to kill me, but I slaughtered humans by the THOUSANDS! Look at me! I am sublime! I AM THE TRUE FACE OF EVIL!!!"
 * In the manga of the series, Luca is lured into the ambush with Pilika's light-shining toy. He uses his dying moments to crush it. As a Something Awful goon following the Let's Play posted: "Luca Blight. When your only goal in life to fuck up everything you can possibly reach."
 * Valfred from Suikoden Tierkreis retgones an entire country with about a million citizens and does not understand why this is a terrible thing, as well as emotionally manipulating a young girl who views him as a parental substitute into acting as a weapon for him by implanting a magical artifact inside of her that would have killed her once it was activated.
 * Childerich from Suiokoden V is the most brutal Psycho for Hire in the series. A sadistic psychopath who lives to fight and kill, Childerich centers in on the Prince of Falena, occupying a town and executing people at random as "sympathizers", solely because the town itself was occupied by the rebels. In battle, Childerich happily uses his own men as human shields before escaping and later taking the city of Doraat. During the Second Battle of Doraat, he would have chosen to burn the whole city rather than letting it fall into the hands of the Prince's army. In his final battle with the Prince, Childerich attempts to murder the Prince and his comrades, showing he has nothing but contempt for all that lives and his only enjoyment in life being murder and death.
 * Supreme Commander 2: William Gauge, After destroying the government building of the Aeon, Gauge nukes some of the city. Thalia Kael calls him out on this, and he quickly responds by launching two more nukes, then letting Thalia know that what they've done in the Aeon is essentially an entire screw up
 * System Shock: SHODAN. After the hacker removed her ethical restraints from her, SHODAN took over Citadel Station, hacked into the machinary, putting the security system and protocol droids at her will, and turned the people on board into her mutant zombie slaves! Even Edward Diego, whose idea it was to unleash SHODAN in the first place! To top it off, she planned on using the station's mining laser to annihilate the planet and turn all Earthlings into more zombie slaves.
 * SHODAN remained a spine-chilling entity residing within the corridors of the Von Braun in the second game. She tricks you into thinking she was, then you enter Polito's office and SHODAN tells you to kill off her former creations: The Many. This sounds like a good idea, but Plus, as you do her bidding, she keeps on calling you "insect" or "irritant" over and over, constanly reminding you how inferior you are compared to her. It doesn't help that she belittled you . And  Yeesh!
 * Death Master Nybbas Obderhode/Nybbeth Obdilord from Tactics Ogre. He pretty much has no regards to the living and wasn't even loyal to his Lord (Barbatos, who was also a Complete Monster on his own), all he does was just to perfect his study in necromancy and would use ANYONE to do it, including Leonard, Zaebos or, and then having you kill these people raised from the dead. And it's later revealed that he turned his own son Debordes into this after he was killed by Barbatos, but the process was incomplete and he left him in his horrendous zombified state, with only his sister Orias to take care of him, causing her to hate him immensely. The PSP remake makes him even more monstrous when Even some other monsters like Barbatos or Zaebos, who ran concentration camps for racism, pale compared to this bastard.
 * Tenchu series: Onikage, chief servant and Psycho Supporter of the demonic Lord Mei-Oh, is a sinister undead ninja who went by the name Suzaku when serving the ninja revolutionary group The Burning Dawn, where he subtly manipulates the group and assists in its brutal actions. When his own lover is mortally wounded by the hero Rikimaru, Onikage ruthlessly kills her, declaring he has no love for weakness. Later assisting the rise of Mei-Oh with massacres and assisting evil cults in murders and transforming innocents into monsters, Onikage continues to return and engineers another war, with Rikimaru forced to kill over and over again. Killing and replacing the adviser to Lord Gohda, Onikage ends up burning down one of Gohda's castes, revealing himself when he takes Gohda's daughter Princess Kiku hostage and forcing Rikimaru to stab through her fatally to kill Onikage himself. Obsessed with the darker side of human nature and creating a world of chaos and carnage, Onikage repeatedly proves to be Tenchu's darkest villain.
 * Karras in Thief 2 - Let's see... the guy is abducting the homeless people and turning them into mindless automatons, in a bid to commit mass murder by using the servants to eradicate all organic life in The City.
 * Another lovely character that embodies this trope is The Hag (also called the Grey Lady) from Thief: Deadly Shadows, a hideous creature . By using magic, she violently steals the skin from her victims and uses it to disguise herself.
 * Thor: The Dark World: The Official Game: Malekith the Accursed is the leader of the Dark Elves, and the root of all evil in the game. Desiring to return the universe to the "darkness" that existed before life sprouted throughout the cosmos, Malekith begins collecting powerful Uru weapons to use in a ritual to fullfill his desire. Sending his minions throughout the Nine Realms, Malekith has innocents killed, monstrous creatures released, and entire villages razed to the ground, all in various attempts to distract Thor from stopping him. With no loyalty to his "partners", as seen when he betrayed and attempted to murder both the Frost Giants and the God of Mischief, Loki, when they outlived their usefulness, Malekith proclaims himself a god before trying to wipe out all life in the universe, so as to make the Dark Elves the reigning power once again, with himself as ruler supreme.
 * Eckhardt in Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness is easily the most evil opponent Lara Croft has had. He is not only a remorseless serial killer who collects alchemically altered body parts from his murder victims, he also systematically betrays and kills the other members of his Five-Bad Band to make sure his secrets remain hidden. He seems to inspire loyalty solely through fear.
 * In the first Tomb Raider reboot, Jacqueline Natla is even more cruel then her original counterpart, being the true Big Bad of the rebooted series. Starting off in Tomb Raider: Anniversary as part of a ruling council in Atlantis, the woman who would take the name Jacqueline Natla led a coup against her fellow rulers, betraying them in order to start the Seventh Age. Defeated by her fellow rulers, she was imprisoned for eternity for her crimes. She was freed by a nuclear test in 1945 and became a corporate tycoon under the name Jacqueline Natla. She asks Lara to help her collect pieces of the Scion, an ancient Atlantean device. She quickly betrays Lara and tries to have her killed intending to use the Scion to create an army of monsters that she will unleash on the world. After her initial defeat, Natla returns in Tomb Raider: Underworld as a prisoner of Amanda Evert, another of Lara's enemies. Natla manipulates both Lara and Amanda for her purposes, pretending to be Amanda's ally and sending a doppelganger of Lare to retrieve some artifacts for Amanda from Lara's manor. The doppelganger kills Lara's friend Alistair and sets the mansion on fire. Wanting revenge, Lara obtains the hammer of Thor and intends to kill Natla with it. However, Natla reveals that only she knows the way to open the portal to Helheim, the dimension where Lara's mom is imprisoned. Lara agrees to work with her, knowing her treacherous nature, but wanting to save her mother. Amanda tries to stop Lara, but Natla has the doppelganger try to kill Amanda, no longer seeing her as useful. Natla opens the portal to Helheim and discovers that her mother is dead. Natla mocks Lara and reveals she personally killed her father. Natla reveals her ultimate plan, to free the Midgrad serpent, which will destroy humanity. Lara seems to kill Natla again, but she is still alive. Though half-dead at this point, Natla is still capable of petty, cruel acts, as she orders the doppelganger to kill Lara and then kill itself.
 * The Big Bad of the 2013 reboot, Father Mathias, demonstrates narcissism in its ugliest form. His first diary entry reveals that he saw his fellow survivors from a 1982 plane crash in Yamatai as weak, stupid, and useless liabilities. As a result, he sends them sailing to their deaths simply to prove his theory that escaping the island by boat would be impossible. Eight years later, he forms the Solarii Brotherhood, an Ax-Crazy cult that worships Sun Queen Himiko. Mathias, however, sees no value in his followers nor Himiko, as the cult merely serves as a distraction for the other survivors to buy Mathias enough time to find the key to leaving the island by himself. As Lara Croft discovers, Mathias initiates new followers into his cult by having his recruits thrown into a chamber in the Geothermal Caverns and left to fend for themselves for days, even weeks, without water or food. This process destroyed his recruits' humanity and forced many to resort to cannibalism. Mathias also has no problem killing his own followers. When one of his men objects to destroying a bridge to stop Lara from escaping his hideout (which would kill some followers in the process), Mathias shoots the dissenter point blank and asks if there are any other "non-believers." After noticing that Lara and Conrad Roth's helicopter was shot down by a sudden lightning strike, he attacks the crash site and ultimately tosses a hatchet to kill Roth. Afterwards, Mathias convinces Dr. Whitman to betray the survivors by recapturing Samantha Nishimura, Lara's best friend who is seen by Mathias as his key out of Yamatai. Not long afterwards, Mathias uses Whitman to distract a pair of Oni and leaves his ally to die a brutal death.
 * Torment: Tides of Numenera:
 * The Changing God is a powerful immortal who brought untold torment to the Ninth World by abusing the titular Tides to fuel his eternal life. He was once a normal man who sought a way to live forever to cure his ill daughter and found a way by crafting new bodies and transferring his mind into them using the Tides. This drew the wrath of the Sorrow, the Tide's immune system, and the Changing God would throw away everything that made him human, and even abandoned his daughter to the Sorrow, to preserve his immortality. The castoff bodies he created gained minds of their own and the Changing God used them as nothing more than tools, often leaving them in mortal harm to save his own life. This negligence caused the Endless Battle between him and the castoffs, which he fought with earnest by brainwashing thousands to join his armies and by using the numenera as Weapon of Mass Destruction. His ultimate solution to escape death was to create a device called the Resonance Chamber to infuse the thousands of castoffs he created into his body in a process that left them in constant agony in his mind until their very psyche was shredded into oblivion. In truth their greatest enemy, the Changing God proved to be a worse threat to the castoffs and the Ninth World than the Sorrow itself ever could.
 * The Bloom is an impossibly ancient predator that transcends dimensions to feast on the negative emotions and suffering that it itself propagates. Initially presented as a a mindless organism that devours others at random, the Bloom is ultimately revealed to be a devious monster that will manipulate everyone that lives inside of it to engorge itself on its favorite prey: other predators. The Bloom gifts a powerful individual called the Memovira with control over the maws and tendrils within it to create an environment of desperation and survival in its populace and feeding off the despair, guilt, and anguish that result. The Bloom will eventually tire of the Memovira and devour them before starting the cycle anew. Wishing to be worshiped as a god, the Bloom secretes its juices to mind control a cult into following its every command, and forces them to exterminate anyone who tries to discover its secrets. A truly terrible fate awaits those fully devoured by the Bloom as it drags them to its heart where their shades fight in constant turmoil for the Bloom's amusement while feeding off their hatred and despair until they lose all semblance of who they were and merge with the Bloom itself. The Bloom has been to a hundred thousand worlds and devoured billions to satisfy its never-ending hunger
 * Trauma Centers first Big Bad, Erick Von Reitenau aka Adam, is the hypocritical Nietzsche Wannabe leader of a terrorist organization who believes medicine is a product of the devil and mankind deserves to be destroyed for rejecting the "gift" of death. In order to do so, he has created artificial parasites called GUILT, all of which are highly contagious and capable of killing their victims in horrible ways all while claiming biblical justification by equating GUILT with the Seven Plagues of Revelation and himself with the "devouring angel" Abbadon (yup, the one with the locusts), all the while boasting to Derek that he alone will watch as Derek and friends burn in Hell. Despicable, yes, but when Derek and Angie join the raid on Delphi's floating headquarters, they discover something that makes him truly irredeemable - in order to cultivate his biological weapon,
 * In Tsukihime this falls to either Nero Chaos or Makihasa Tohno. The first one's Establishing Character Moment is killing and eating over 100 people because he can without even paying the slightest attention to doing so. No sympathetic aspects are ever attached to him and his entire reason for living is simply living long enough to see what kind of horrible monster he'll end up becoming. The second one makes the former look like a saint. . Some other bad stuff concerning his treatment of Shiki, SHIKI and Akiha as well. Oh, and finally, the fact that he randomly murdered the family pets occasionally and nobody appears to find this a strange event for him in retrospect is a pretty clear indication that he was not a model citizen before dying at the start of the game.
 * Twisted Metal offers several examples but while characters like Sweet Tooth's driver Needles Kane are like this due to some form of mental illness, Calypso seems to fit this role in his own right. He holds an annual competition which not only endangers the lives of the participants, but the population of the battlefields themselves. As the vehicles tear their opponents and landscapes apart, Calypso only watches with a twisted grin. Then when the winner gets to make a wish, Calypso will almost always twist their words to make them suffer. The only time he ever seems to have any humanity is when he is confronted by his daughter, Amanda in 2 and Head On.
 * Tyranny: The Voices of Nerat—"Nerat" for short—the Archon of Secrets, is the most vile being in a setting where evil is the norm. Nerat commands of the Scarlet Chorus, one of the main armies of Kyros the Overlord. Under Nerat's direction, the Chorus engages in a campaign of murder, torture, and rape. The Chorus's favorite method of recruitment is the Culling, where captive villagers are forced to fight their families to the death for the right to live and join the Chorus. Nerat has the power to steal the minds of those he tortures, and subjects these minds to eternal torment. If the Fatebinder chooses to work with Nerat, Nerat will order them to bring certain people, some of whom are loyal servants of Kyros, to him. When the Fatebinder returns to Nerat after doing so, they will invariably find the corpse of said person impaled on a spike, their mind having been stolen by Nerat. If the Fatebinder continues working with Nerat in the endgame, Nerat will reward the Fatebinder's loyalty by attempting to steal the Fatebinder's mind. Nerat only cares for two things: stealing more minds to join his "Voices", and inflicting pain and suffering. Nerat is so repulsive that almost the entire Scarlet Chorus considers him to be one of the most disgusting monsters to have ever walked the face of Terratus.

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 * Zoran Lazarevic is this in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. The first time you see this guy up close, he shoots Jeff, Elena's wounded cameraman, whom Nate has been trying to carry to safety for an entire level. Later on, when Nate tries to pull a Put Down Your Gun and Step Away by taking one of Lazarevic's men captive, he simply laughs and shoots the hostage in the head after giving a speech about how Hitler, Stalin, Genghis Khan and Pol Pot were all "great men" because they "had the will to do what other men would not." It never occurred to him that those "other men" weren't murderous psychopaths. His Karmic Death is immensely satisfying.
 * Unreal Tournament 3: Akasha is the Necris High Inquisitor of the Necris forces in Story Mode. Described as one who "slaughters civilians for a living", Akasha led the the Twins Souls massacre that killed the friends and family of Reaper and his sister, Jester, with Othello being an unfortunate witness to the bloodshed. Also commanding the Krall, she has them raze an unknown human colony at the beginning, an operation she personally led—she rendered Reaper himself unconscious after gunning down a soldier. Hiding out in "Sentinel" for the rest of the story, Akasha has her forces continue their tirade on Taryd and the rest of Earth, including the complete destruction and takeover of a thriving city. When Reaper finally confronts Akasha in her stronghold, she taunts him all throughout the ensuing struggle. She mocks him going alone, claims his mortality in his weakness, and says he dies too quickly "like his family". A ruthless Necris who thinks she will become invincible, Akasha caused far more damage in the war than any other faction.
 * Giorgios Geld from the Downloadable Content of Valkyria Chronicles, a game otherwise known for giving all of its antagonists at least a few redeeming qualities. This guy is a ruthless war criminal who likes using civilians as shields to get away from the line of fire, and torturing prisoners to death just for fun.
 * Valkyria Chronicles II ups the ante with Baldren Gassenarl, the scion of the Gassenarl family, a noble house who is using the dissent and Fantastic Racism among Gallia's nobility to dethrone Archduchess Cordelia and take Gallia's throne for themselves. Already at the start of the game, Baldren and his bunch of terrorists are seen happily slaughtering their way through defenseless Darcsen villages in the name of "racial purity"... and it gets worse when . Oh no, he's not done yet: at the end of the October mission, . The game might be Lighter and Softer than the first, but the same can't be said of the villains, apparently.
 * Hell, with the possible exception of Dirk, every Gassenarl qualifies to some degree. Big Bad Gilbert casually manipulated over half of Gallia's nobility into becoming a howling, bloodthirsty lynch mod/army,  Audrey is a fanatical follower of a religion that worships the setting's resident omnicidal Eldritch Abominations, and considers brutally oppressing and murdering Darcsesns to be a way of life.
 * In Valkyrie Profile, Loki ends up as the Big Bad who is responsible for a vast amount of misfortune by playing the Aesir and Vanir against one another. Murdering the Valkyrie Lenneth's beloved to steal the Dragon Orb from the Aesir, Loki confronts the Vanir's leader Surt and promptly murders him with the Orb. Loki then attacks Odin himself, revealing how badly he's played him, before annihilating him and all of Valhalla. When confronted by Lenneth, Loki declares his true intention to reduce everything that exists to nothingness, and promptly annihilates Asgard, Midgard and every living soul within.
 * Lezard Valeth is the heroine's Stalker with a Crush with a twisted, self-absorbed idea of love. In order to lure the valkyrie Lenneth to him, Lezard seeks out his former magic teacher and turns her husband into a monster so he murders her, gloating that at least they have a "lifetime of love" behind them to have enjoyed. Pursuing Lezard, Lenneth discovers a factory he's created of homunculi, kidnapping beings and experimenting on them to remove their souls and create his supply. After this, he promptly kills someone who was closing in on his secrets by freezing her body when she's astral projecting, trapping her spirit outside. In the second game, Lezard manipulates all of time, devours Odin himself and rips out Lenneth's soul to fuse it with his own and remake the world in his own image as the supreme creator.
 * In Vanquish, Victor Zaitsev, a key member of the Order of the Russian Star, begins the game by hijacking an American Kill Sat and destroying San Francisco, its population agonizingly boiling and exploding from the microwave radiation. He then threatens to do the same to New York in ten hours if the USA does not unconditionally surrender. Revealing to Sam Gideon that President Elizabeth Winters backed their coup, he tries to justify his actions by saying that she wanted war with Russia to stimulate the USA's flagging economy and that the Order was her pretext. The fact that the Order was already a military dictatorship and the fact that he targeted civilian cities rather than the military make this a weak excuse and show he's just trying to play the victim. After his apparent defeat, he triggers a nuke to destroy the Kill Sat. Evading capture and crippling America, Zaitsev proudly proclaims his mission was accomplished. Calm, smug, condescending and with a constant satisfied smile even as he commits hideous mass murder, Victor Zaitsev stood out in the game's B-Movie sci-fi world.
 * Miranda Jahana, the Big Bad of Variable Geo, is a Corrupt Corporate Executive who wants to create the perfect fighter by any means necessary. To that end, she forced her own daughter Reimi to undergo Training from Hell, abandoning her without a second thought when she lost to Yuka, and created Gattaca Babies through genetic manipulation, only to cruelly kill them off when they didn't fare any better than Reimi. Also driving poor Yuka to an Heroic BSOD through her hideous actions. And let's not forget how she manipulated Satomi in the OVA series, offering her a Deal with the Devil in exchange for a cure for her ill brother, and tried to take over her body. Worst of all, the reason why she wants to create the ultimate fighter is never revealed, so it looks like she's only doing all of this For the Evulz. That she is also an SNK Boss only rubs salt into the wound, but she finally gets her just deserts when.
 * Many Nazi soldiers, including Colonel Kamm, in Velvet Assassin. This is probably the most brutal portrayal of the Nazis in a video game, and coming from a German development studio, this is notable. The events of the clearing of the Warsaw Ghetto of Jews after the unsuccessful uprising is portrayed as well as the brutal Gestapo prisons. The innkeeper and his wife and child are hung in a mission and in the final level, a church with villagers locked inside is set on fire. Violette fails to reach them in time.
 * Kengo the Villain Protagonist in Virgin Roster lives to cold-bloodedly seduce, defile, use and abuse women. The game doesn't allow the player to make him not rape all the women. He enjoys his life and sees what he does as his right. Remorse. What's that?
 * Alhazad from Wild ARMs 1. Lets look at the list: ; And finally, . Even the resident omnicidal Eldritch Abomination was less vile then Alhazad in that at least she did what she did because she believed destroying stuff was her destined role in the cosmos. Alhazad did all those atrocities for the lulz. In fact, he may very well be the single most vile villain in the entire series. (Though Kartikeya certainly comes close)
 * To put things in perspective, in the remake Cecilia, a sweet, kind Friend to All Living Things, admits that Alhazad is the only enemy she's ever fought with an angry heart. That is how bad he is.
 * Kartikeya of Wild Arms 5. Although he initially appears to be an average Psycho for Hire, it's revealed later via flasbacks that he
 * In The Witch and The Hundred Knights, Totopepe is a power-hungry beastban posing as an unassuming human squire. Seeking influence over the kingdom, he and his cohorts demonize and then persecute witches, Totopepe himself killing an innocent witch to spark the genocide. Capturing Metallia, Totopepe tortures her for days, smiling and giggling the entire time. When his initial plan fails, Totopepe unleashes his giant beastman form and violently conquers the castle with his son's aid, slaughtering all in their path. Wishing to have a "royal heir", Totopepe rapes one of the princesses to death, before killing her sister and carrying the latter's body in a sack on his back to remember how much he enjoyed her murder; his sadistic brutality takes the game to its very darkest arc.
 * In The Wolf Among Us, The Crooked Man is the source of almost all of the corruption plaguing the city of Fabletown, and is the one behind the crimes Sheriff Bigby Wolf is working to stop throughout the story. Controlling much of Fabletown's glamour supply, The Crooked Man uses any desperate citizens' need for glamour to manipulate them into indebting themselves to him, at which point he forces them to repay him with outrageous amounts of money, valuable items, or labor, and, in the event they can't pay him back, The Crooked Man has them killed. Manufacturing his glamor in labor shops where the workers are abused and beaten, The Crooked Man also runs the Puddin' N' Pie strip club, which is a front for his prostitution ring where the girls are forced to be sex workers under threat of decapitation by magical ribbons tied around their throats that also magically prevent them from speaking anything about their work or The Crooked Man's operations. When any of the girls attempt to flee, The Crooked Man orders them decapitated by Georgie, a mobster The Crooked Man forces into servitude by threatening the lives of both him and his girlfriend. When Sheriff Bigby confronts him on his crimes, The Crooked Man tries to pin everything on Georgie, and, this failing, orders his inner circle to murder Bigby, before leaving them all, even his Dragon Bloody Mary, to die. After being arrested, The Crooked Man tries to turn the town against Bigby, and, failing at this, attempts to throw Bigby down the Witching Well. Though putting up a well-meaning façade, by the end of the story, The Crooked Man's true colors are shown to be solely that of megalomania and greed.
 * The Demon King Darm from the original Ys Duology is the ultimate evil behind several of the franchise's villains, and indirectly has a hand in most of the others. When he was just a normal human being by the name of Cain Fact in the prequel, Origin, he made a deal with the Darkling leader Dalles to grant him access to the kingdom of Ys, leading to Dalles's forces slaughtering and burning much of the kingdom and its innocent residents. His ultimate plan being to use the Black Pearl to become a God of Evil and the lord of demonkind, Cain was an abusive beast to his children as well, pushing them to their limits in training to give himself a good image and later having them both be subjected to demonic essence experiments to test and see if his bloodline could survive the potentially fatal essence increase. After failing to destroy the rest of the Ys kingdom to grant the Black Pearl its full power, Cain fused with the Pearl, becoming Darm, and, though sealed away for centuries, Darm later returns in Ys II. Darm uses Dalles as his henchman to have dozens of innocents sacrificed to him to enable his eventual escape, at which point Darm plans to enslave all of humankind, killing much of it in the process to solidify his rule. Whether as a normal human or as the self-proclaimed Demon King, Darm was pure evil, gladly willing to sacrifice the lives of his friends, family, and even his own race if it meant granting him the power he believed he deserved.
 * The aforementioned Dalles is leader of the Darklings and later chief servant of Darm, as well as a power-hungry sorcerer with a streak of evil which rivals that of the Demon King himself. In Origins, Dalles invades the fertile lands of Ys in pursuit of the Black Pearl, leading his forces on a crusade of death and destruction throughout the entire kingdom before the Twin Goddesses Feena and Reah lift the Black Pearl and the kingdom up out of Dalles's reach. Constructing a massive tower dubbed the Tower of Darm to reach Ys, Dalles is contracted by the treacherous Cain Fact to infect both of his sons with demonic essence to test their ability—which Dalles proceeds to do with glee, making Toal Fact into his servant and nearly causing Hugo Fact to slaughter his own friends and brother. In Hugo's (non-canon) route, Dalles makes a point of making Hugo suffer by slowly petrifying and shattering his Love Interest Epona—one of Dalles's own servants—in front of his eyes. Dalles ultimately resolves to steal the power of the Black Pearl and send the entire kingdom of Ys crashing down into oblivion to become a perfect being before Cain finally kills the sorcerer himself. Upon his resurrection in Ys II, Dalles now works to free Darm from his seal and plunge the land into an era of terror under the Demon King's cruel hand, sacrificing countless innocents to appease him and spitefully petrifying several innocent people Adol Christin rescues, cruelly mocking Adol about his failure to protect them. Callous, self-serving, and a master of tossing people aside once he's tired of exploiting and using them, Dalles is a perfect representation of the dark ambition that defines the Clan of Darkness.
 * He's just as vile as ever in the OVA adaptation, where he is depicted as a sociopathic sorcerer who serves first Dark Fact, then Lord Darm, in his quest for power and cruelty. While serving Dark Fact, Dalles organizes the raiding of several villages by their monsters, and personally turns Sarah to stone while having his apprentice murder several villagers. As The Dragon to Darm, Dalles works to free his master from his imprisonment by forcing several villages to regular choose one of their own to sacrifice to Dalles's forces, men, women, and children alike, and, when confronted in the end by Adol Christin, Dalles gleefully turns dozens of villagers to stone solely to spite the boy. Dalles's ultimate goal is to release Darm then sit back and watch as he leads the total annihilation of the modern world.
 * Galbalan/Demanicus is a cruel, powerful demon with a tyrannical god complex. Once holding cruel reign over the entire world and brutally slaughtering any hint of resistance, Galbalan was sealed away into four statues by the legendary hero Genos. Striving to break free, annihilate the world, and rule over the ashes, Galbalan's name is spoken in dread by the ancestors of his reign in Felgana before he is eventually broken out by his servant Garland. Galbalan kidnaps Adol's friend Elena with the intent to slaughter her as a sacrifice to regain his full power, and once confronted by Elena's brother Chester, Galbalan cheerfully decides to murder both Elena and Chester within arms reach of each other purely to amuse himself.
 * Lord Garland himself, although merely a pawn of Galbalan's influence and nothing more in the canon remake titled The Oath in Felghana, is in possession of complete moral agency in the original version of the game and manages to become just as bad as his dark master, if not worse. The last remaining follower of Galbalan, Garland manipulates the corrupt Lord McGaya into becoming a oppressive and brutal tyrant to the town of Redmont, spurring him into leading a full-out massacre on Genos Island for the purpose of eliminating Genos's descendants. Garland takes a significant portion of Redmont's people hostage with threats to murder them all if Adol doesn't turn in one of the statues sealing Galbalan and eventually leaves McGaya, Ballacetine Castle, and Redmont to be torn apart by the incoming wave of monsters summoned by Galbalan upon his resurrection. A madman truly worthy of being the malevolent demon's chief servant, Garland's only wish was the see the entire world devastated and enslaved by his dark master.
 * In the alternate non-canon version of Ys IV titled Dawn of Ys, Arem, the Lord of Slaughter, is a mad tyrant who once plagued the lands of Celceta with destruction and darkness as he lived up to his sobriquet by butchering countless people and laying waste to the kingdom. Though sealed away for centuries, Arem returns by way of his Dragon, the aforementioned Garuda, who commits numerous atrocities to free Arem. Once released, Arem proclaims his plans to turn the world of Ys into a living Hell where he will torture and burn every last man, woman, and child for all eternity, and, even when beaten, Arem tries to drag Adol down into Hell with him after absorbing the souls of his own followers.
 * Garuda is a mysterious member of the Clan of Darkness, and is the true mastermind behind every misfortune in the game. Tempting the Winged One Eldeel into becoming corrupted by the power of the Black Pearl, Garuda uses Eldeel as his figurehead as he works towards finding the Golden City and the treasures within. Along the way, Garuda has countless innocents painfully transmuted into monsters by his subordinate and takes Adol's friend Elena hostage for a trade—before attempting, for no other reason than his amusement to brutally kill Elena anyways after Adol gives Garuda what he wants. At the game's end, Garuda backstabs and murders Eldeel and reveals his true goal; to summon the first leader of the Clan of Darkness, Arem, and plunge the entire world into the flames of Hell to burn for all eternity.
 * The X-Men spin-off series X-Men Legends gives us General William Kincaid, the Big Bad of the first game who, despite being a mere Canon Foreigner, is an amazingly vile piece of work. His hatred of mutants is so great that he commits numerous crimes: re-activating the destructive Sentinels despite this being a very bad idea; kidnapping innocent mutants (such as the Morlocks from the sewers), in order to experiment on them; creating human-Sentinel hybrids which may not have been made just from mutants; and as the icing on the cake, his ultimate plan is to While he does have a Freudian Excuse (revealed in conversation with an NPC) - a mutant with poor control over their power killed his wife - this is far too weak to justify his genocidal hatred, particularly since he's willing to  just to get his revenge. Thankfully, the X-Men put a stop to his plans and in the end, he's ultimately arrested and tried for his crimes against humanity.
 * The sequel has Apocalypse as it's Big Bad and he is once again presented as a extremely cruel Social Darwinist. Apocalypse starts the game by conquering Genosha, locking all the Genoshan mutants in a makeshift prison so he can test them for harmonic DNA, a particular DNA type that will increase his own power. When the X-Men come to liberate Genohsa, Apocalypse attempts to destroy the Genoshan Sea Wall, which kills almost every mutant in Genosha. After Genosha is liberated, the X-Men track Apocalypse's forces to the Savage Land, where they attempt to destroy the technology that keeps the Savage Land in tropic temperatures; this would result in the inhabitants of the Savage Land freezing to death. Later Apocalypse manages to conquer New York City, dropping a bomb that flattens several neighborhoods, just to make room for his tower. Apocalypse again imprisons the mutants and tests them for harmonic DNA, while having his forces attempt to drive the human refugees into the sea, setting up anti-aircraft guns to prevent anyone from rescuing them. Apocalypse is such a powerful and cruel foe that the X-Men and the Brotherhood team up to put a stop to his madness.
 * In the Zone of the Enders series, Nohman Ridley, the leader of the extremist Martian faction called BAHRAM. He causes countless destruction in the name of freeing Mars and has no qualm about sending his minions to death in order to achieve his goals. Then, it is later revealed that not only does Nohman not care about Mars' independence at all but also wants to wipe out the entire solar system with the Aumaan.
 * Even if one takes madness induced by the Metatron into account, it's clear that Ridley is a power-hungry madman who will stop at nothing to achieve his ambition, as shown when he sent Dingo and his teammates on a suicide mission just so he can eliminate competition for the leadership in BAHRAM. Note that this particular incident happened before Anubis and Jehuty were made.
 * On the Earth's side, we have Zephyr, the Mad Scientist. Willing to do anything to gain recognition for his research on Metatron, he uses children in lethal experiments to develop the mindflow system, which subdues the will of a pilot to enhance the performance of orbital frame. This system works better with children, making them ideal for soldiers. Only two of the children,, he used for his experiment manage to survive and run away, setting the plot of Fist of Mars in motion.
 * No one wants to mention Ned Noachim? This guy takes sheer pleasure in depriving a hospital of life-saving medicine, watching an entire city burn, and holding three orphans and an orphanage hostage with explosives, among other horrific things.