History AlasPoorVillain / VideoGames

** From the minute you encounter Eddie Gluskin in the Whistleblower DLC, it's clear that he's a [[MoodSwinger volatile,]] misogynistic killer, sent to Murkoff for [[SerialKiller killing multiple women who didn't live up to his vision of his]] [[LoveHungry "perfect bride" who would serve him dutifully and give him a loving family.]] The other inmates are terrified of him and often refer to him as "The Groom". He scrawls saccharine marital advice on the walls, litters his makeshift workshop with bridal dresses, and mutilates whatever male inmates he can get his hands on by [[GroinAttack chopping off their penises]] and sewing breasts onto their dead bodies. Once he turns his sights onto Waylon, he comes ''this'' close to giving him the same fate before he manages to escape his operating table; Eddie hunts Waylon through the asylum afterwards, cycling between threats and warm pet names. So it's even more surprising when his last words before [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice he succumbs to his wound and dies]] are surprisingly tender. In addition, reading the document that details the [[RapeAsBackstory horrific childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his father and uncle]] and how he's dissociated from it in order to cope makes you think that his desire to be a good father to his children and his unrelenting pursuit of a beautiful home with a loving family [[FreudianExcuse most definitely has some psychological weight behind it.]]

** From the minute you encounter Eddie Gluskin in the Whistleblower DLC, it's clear that he's a [[MoodSwinger volatile,]] misogynistic killer, sent to Murkoff for [[SerialKiller killing multiple women who didn't live up to his vision of his]] [[LoveHungry "perfect bride" who would serve him dutifully and give him a loving family.]] The other inmates are terrified of him and often refer to him as "The Groom". He scrawls saccharine marital advice on the walls, litters his makeshift workshop with bridal dresses, and mutilates whatever male inmates he can get his hands on by [[GroinAttack chopping off their penises]] and sewing breasts onto their dead bodies. Once he turns his sights onto Waylon, he comes ''this'' close to giving him the same fate before he manages to escape his operating table; Eddie hunts Waylon through the asylum afterwards, cycling between threats and warm pet names. So it's even more surprising when his last words before [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice he succumbs to his wound and dies]] are surprisingly tender. In addition, reading the document that details the [[RapeAsBackstory horrific childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his father and uncle]] and how he's dissociated from it in order to cope makes you think that his desire to be a good father to his children and his unrelenting pursuit of a beautiful home with a loving family [[FreudianExcuse most definitely has some psychological weight behind it.]])

** From the minute you encounter Eddie Gluskin in the Whistleblower DLC, it's clear that he's a [[MoodSwinger volatile,]] misogynistic killer, sent to Murkoff for [[SerialKiller killing multiple women who didn't live up to his vision of his]] [[LoveHungry "perfect bride" who would serve him dutifully and give him a loving family.]] The other inmates are terrified of him and often refer to him as "The Groom". He scrawls saccharine marital advice on the walls, litters his makeshift workshop with bridal dresses, and mutilates whatever male inmates he can get his hands on by [[GroinAttack chopping off their penises]] and sewing breasts onto their dead bodies. Once he turns his sights onto Waylon, he comes ''this close'' to giving him the same fate before he manages to escape his operating table; Eddie hunts Waylon through the asylum afterwards, cycling between threats and warm pet names. So it's even more surprising when his last words before [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice he succumbs to his wound and dies]] are surprisingly tender. In addition, reading the document that details the [[RapeAsBackstory horrific childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his father and uncle]] and how he's dissociated from it in order to cope makes you think that his desire to be a good father to his children and his unrelenting pursuit of a beautiful home with a loving family [[FreudianExcuse most definitely has some psychological weight behind it.]])

** From the minute you encounter Eddie Gluskin in the Whistleblower DLC, it's clear that he's a [[MoodSwinger volatile,]] misogynistic killer, sent to Murkoff for [[SerialKiller killing multiple women who didn't live up to his vision of his]] [[LoveHungry "perfect bride" who would serve him dutifully and give him a loving family.]] The other inmates are terrified of him and often refer to him as "The Groom". He scrawls saccharine marital advice on the walls, litters his makeshift workshop with bridal dresses, and mutilates whatever male inmates he can get his hands on by [[GroinAttack chopping off their penises]] and sewing breasts onto their dead bodies. Once he turns his sights onto Waylon, he comes ''this close'' to giving him the same fate before he manages to escape his makeshift operating table; Eddie hunts Waylon through the asylum afterwards, cycling between threats and warm pet names. So it's even more surprising when his last words before [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice he succumbs to his wound and dies]] are surprisingly tender. In addition, reading the document that details the [[RapeAsBackstory horrific childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his father and uncle]] and how he's dissociated from it in order to cope makes you think that his desire to be a good father to his children and his unrelenting pursuit of a beautiful home with a loving family [[FreudianExcuse most definitely has some psychological weight behind it.]])

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''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest'' has Kuro, a rampaging owl who is trying to stop your quest to revive the light of the forest at all costs. [[spoiler:About halfway through the story, you find out the light emitted by the Spirit Tree while searching for Ori killed her babies, and she is only trying to make sure the same doesn't happen to her last unborn chick. When she sees for herself what damage she has wrought on Nibel and the immediate danger it presents to her egg, she returns Sein, the source of the Spirit Tree's life, to the tree, sacrificing herself so the forest may return to normal.]]

** From the minute you encounter Eddie Gluskin in the Whistleblower DLC, it's clear that he's a [[MoodSwinger volatile,]] misogynistic monster, sent to Murkoff for [[SerialKiller killing multiple women who didn't live up to his vision of his]] [[LoveHungry "perfect bride" who would serve him dutifully and give him a loving family.]] The other inmates are terrified of him and often refer to him as "The Groom". He scrawls saccharine marital advice on the walls, litters his makeshift workshop with bridal dresses, and mutilates whatever male inmates he can get his hands on by [[GroinAttack chopping off their penises]] and sewing breasts onto their dead bodies. Once he turns his sights onto Waylon, he comes ''this close'' to giving him the same fate before he manages to escape his makeshift operating table; Eddie hunts Waylon through the asylum afterwards, cycling between threats and warm pet names. So it's even more surprising when his last words before [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice he succumbs to his wound and dies]] are surprisingly tender. (In addition, reading the document that details the [[RapeAsBackstory horrific childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his father and uncle]] makes you think that maybe his unrelenting pursuit of a picturesque home with a loving family [[FreudianExcuse has some psychological weight behind it.]])

* ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest'' has Kuro, a rampaging owl who is trying to stop your quest to revive the light of the forest at all costs. [[spoiler:About halfway through the story, you find out the light emitted by the Spirit Tree while searching for Ori killed her babies, and she is only trying to make sure the same doesn't happen to her last unborn chick. When she sees for herself what damage she has wrought on Nibel and the immediate danger it presents to her egg, she returns Sein, the source of the Spirit Tree's life, to the tree, sacrificing herself so the forest may return to normal.]]

* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'': DeBeers by all accounts is a terrible, classist man whose actions during the 20th century and during the beginning of the 21st lead the world into the state that it is in. That being said, it's hard for some to not feel sorry for him when the player learns that Morgan has no intentions of curing his diseases and plans to leave him in a cryopod indefinietly.

* In ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'' Johannes is greatly upset by the death of his mentor Alfred, despite everything the man had done prior and during the events of the game, reflecting on how the man's motives were [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood about as noble as they could have been given his situation]] and how Alfred went into the castle knowing full-well that no matter what happened he wouldn't survive the events that transpired there.

-->'''Johannes:''' [[spoiler:Dominique]]... [[spoiler:She]] could have done so much good, but...\\

* ''VideoGame//DeusEx'': DeBeers by all accounts is a terrible, classist man whose actions during the 20th century and during the beginning of the 21st lead the world into the state that it is in. That being said, it's hard for some to not feel sorry for him when the player learns that Morgan has no intentions of curing his diseases and plans to leave him in a cryopod indefinietly.

* In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'', after you defeat the recurring WorthyOpponent Nelo Angelo, it's revealed that he was really Dante's twin brother Vergil. Vergil also qualifies for this in the third game, when he chooses to stay in the demon world after losing to Dante.

* Duvall, the main villain in ''VideoGame/{{Haze}}'', is an extremely arrogant and over-confident jerk for the entirety of the game. When's he fatally wounded in the final duel, however, it's hard not to feel sorry for him when he's sobbing, and then begs you not to tell his mom what he's done (slicing off fingers, killing people, etc.).

-->'''Sinclair''': You saw it? [heartbroken] Then you ''know'' that the most beautiful city in history was destroyed by our '''benevolent protectors'.''

* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair Shinji Matou]] in ''VideoGame/FateExtra''. A Jerkass and a SmugSnake who is constantly treating everybody as if they were below him. But once he loses, [[NeverMyFault he immediately starts lashing at his Servant for being weak and you for beating him]]; all while whining [[AndYouThoughtItWasAGame he does not want to die]]. Then, [[ItMakesSenseInContext we get]] [[WhamLine his last words]]: “I’m only eight years old!”.

** There is a measure of sympathy to be found in the horrifically insane [[TheCaligula Sergey Taboritsky]]. Even as he [[spoiler:gasses his own people and slaughters everyone with the slightest hint of impurity or disobedience in Russia until he completely kills even the ''idea of Russia as a nation''...]] there is something harrowing in watching him realise how delusional and lost his cause is, becoming more insane especially after he [[spoiler:murders his friend Nabokov]]. This culminates in the revelation of the obvious: that [[RightfulKingReturns Alexei Romanov]] was murdered as a boy by the Bolsheviks, and is never coming back no matter what he does to "purify" Russia. He dies screaming at a horrific hallucination, pitifully begging for Alexei to return.

** There is a measure of sympathy to be found in the horrifically insane [[TheCaligula Sergey Taboritsky]]. Even as he gasses his own people and slaughters everyone with the slightest hint of impurity or disobedience in Russia until he completely kills even the ''idea of Russia as a nation''... there is something harrowing in watching him realise how delusional and lost his cause is, becoming more insane especially after he murders his friend Nabokov. This culminates in the revelation of the obvious: that Alexei Romanov was murdered as a boy by the Bolsheviks, and is never coming back no matter what he does to "purify" Russia. He dies screaming at a horrific hallucination, pitifully begging for Alexei to return.
* ''VideoGame/NieR'', particularly NewGamePlus, is ''made'' of this trope.

** ''VideoGame/GodOfWar2018'': [[spoiler:[[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesOtherCharacters Baldur, a.k.a. the Stranger]]]]. His death by Kratos' hands to prevent him [[spoiler:killing (an unresisting) Freya in revenge]] is treated as an extremely solemn affair. Besides how it ''devastates'' Freya, it leaves quite the impression on Kratos and Atreus, with the latter being dismayed to think that being a god will always end with children killing their parents like Kratos did and like what Baldur awould have done, whilst Mimir solemnly comments there was no easy choice regarding Kratos' action.

*** Selena - the good general hopelessly in love with her long-deceased King.

** From the minute you encounter Eddie Gluskin in the Whistleblower DLC, it's clear that he's a [[MoodSwinger volatile,]] misogynistic monster, sent to Murkoff for [[SerialKiller killing multiple women who didn't live up to his vision of his]] [[LoveHungry "perfect bride" who would serve him dutifully and give him a loving family.]] The other inmates are terrified of him and often refer to him as "The Groom". He scrawls saccharine marital advice on the walls, litters his makeshift workshop with bridal dresses, and mutilates whatever male inmates he can get his hands on by [[GroinAttack chopping off their penises]] and sewing breasts onto their dead bodies. Once he turns his sights onto Waylon, he comes ''this close'' to giving him the same fate before he manages to escape his makeshift operating table; Eddie hunts Waylon through the asylum afterwards, cycling between threats and tender pet names. So it's even more surprising when his last words before [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice he succumbs to his wound and dies]] are surprisingly tender. (In addition, reading the document that details the [[RapeAsBackstory horrific childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his father and uncle]] makes you think that maybe his unrelenting pursuit of a picturesque home with a loving family [[FreudianExcuse has some psychological weight behind it.]])

** From the minute you encounter Eddie Gluskin in the Whistleblower DLC, it's clear that he's a [[MoodSwinger volatile,]] misogynistic monster, sent to Murkoff for [[SerialKiller killing multiple women who didn't live up to his vision of his]] [[LoveHungry "perfect bride" who would serve him dutifully and give him a loving family.]] The other inmates are terrified of him and often refer to him as "The Groom". He scrawls saccharine marital advice on the walls, litters his makeshift workshop with bridal dresses, and mutilates whatever male inmates he can get his hands on by [[GroinAttack chopping off their penises]] and sewing breasts onto their dead bodies. Once he turns his sights onto you, he comes ''this close'' to giving Waylon the same fate until you manage to escape, and he hunts you through the asylum afterwards, cycling between threatening Waylon and bestowing pet names upon him. So it's even more surprising when his last words before [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice he succumbs to his wound and dies]] are surprisingly tender. (In addition, reading the document that details the [[RapeAsBackstory horrific childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his father and uncle]] makes you think that maybe his unrelenting pursuit of a picturesque home with a loving family [[FreudianExcuse has some psychological weight behind it.]])

** From the minute you encounter Eddie Gluskin in the Whistleblower DLC, it's clear that he's a [[MoodSwinger volatile,]] misogynistic monster, sent to Murkoff for [[SerialKiller killing multiple women who didn't live up to his vision of his]] [[LoveHungry "perfect bride" who would serve him dutifully and give him a loving family.]] He scrawls saccharine marital advice tidbits on the walls, litters his makeshift workshop with bridal dresses, and mutilates whatever male inmates he can get his hands on by [[GroinAttack chopping off their penises]] and sewing breasts onto their dead bodies to make them biologically female. Once he turns his sights onto you, he comes ''this close'' to giving you the same fate until you manage to escape, and he hunts you through the asylum afterwards, hellbent on getting revenge. So it's even more surprising when his last words before [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice he succumbs to his wound and dies]] are surprisingly tender. (In addition, reading the document that details the [[RapeAsBackstory horrific childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his father and uncle]] makes you think that maybe his unrelenting pursuit of a picturesque home with a loving family [[FreudianExcuse has some psychological weight behind it.]])

** Johannes also expresses sadness after the final downfall of [[spoiler:[[EvilAllAlong Dominique Baldwin]]]]. Subverted in that he's not sorry for [[spoiler:her]] fate, but that [[spoiler:she]] allowed [[spoiler:her]] RageAgainstTheHeavens for [[spoiler:remaining silent while her loved ones were slaughtered in the Demonic Invasion]] to warp [[spoiler:her]] into a depraved, manipulative person only interested in power. Given that Miriam has also endured a lot of suffering in her life, [[{{Foil}} but uses this as a reason to help others instead of as an excuse to hurt them]], she understands where Johannes is coming from.

--> '''Miriam:''' [[SympathyForTheDevil You sound like you've found some forgiveness for him...]]