History BadBoss / VideoGames

* [[TheChessmaster Motonari Mori]] from ''Videogame/SengokuBasara''. Despite calling his troops [[LightIsNotGood "children of the sun"]], he has no compulsion of sending waves of them to their deaths, or even killing them himself, if it furthers his own ambition. Not only could he originally attack his allies in earlier games, he can summon archers and smack them towards his enemies as [[GrievousHarmWithABody human missiles]] essentially. His victory quote in the third game sums it up perfectly:

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' Series:
** [[BaldOfEvil Futoshi Shimano]], Patriarch of the Shimano family, is a loud and abusive gangster who delights in punishing his minions in a variety of cruel ways (example, when an underling comes to him with bad news, he forces the guy to perform {{Yubitsume}}, only to take over half way through and hack off two of the underling's fingers and then some with a straight razor). He's also shown to take sadistic glee in his actions, as shown in flashbacks during ''Yakuza 2'' when he happily gunned down members of the Jingweon mafia and civilians alike (contrasting [[NobleDemon Kazama]], who had given the Jingweon a LastSecondChance before circumstance forced his hand). Many of Shimano's underlings hate him, and Goro Majima isn't sad to see him go when he's killed near the end of the game.
** [[EnsembleDarkhorse Majima himself]] [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzags this]]. He treats his men like shit, will beat them senseless at the drop of a hat, and doesn't really care when he sends them into the meatgrinder. That being said, his men love him and show UndyingLoyalty despite his antics, and when Majima is shown pursuing non-criminal enterprises (such as the nightclubs he ran in ''0''), he's a BenevolentBoss who is praised by staff and customers alike for his business savvy and comforting workplace practices.

--> You will keep that whelp from interfering with my ritual. ''I don't care if the whole lot of you get lodged on the end of his blade.'' You will buy me the time I need! Do not fear him... Fear my wrath if you fail me!"

** Rose is a high-ranking member of the Crimson Skulls who kills her underlings because she wants to be the one to capture Ash and gain the Crimson God's favor.

** Colonel Volgin is known to get off on torture, even more so than Ocelot, who himself (ironically) [[EvenEvilHasStandards also hated Volgin's use of torture]], despite becoming a TortureTechnician in the future -- its implied that even for Ocelot, though, Volgin took things way too far. After he captured Snake, it is also implied that he threatened to kill any guards who fail to keep Snake alive before he does a second torture (that is, died from ''the torture Volgin himself had inflicted on him''). He overworked the scientists/maintenance staff to complete the Shagohod, and it is also implied that he intended to execute them simply to keep them silent after the tests were completed. After being defeated by Naked Snake, he also ends up taking the Shagohod for a joyride, and... well, long story short, he killed/destroyed anyone and anything that was in his way.

** [[spoiler:Queen Sectonia]], the BigBad of ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe''. [[spoiler:Her response to Taranza accidentally kidnapping [[DudeInDistress King Dedede]] instead of Kirby is to simply blast him into oblivion for his failure... and ultimately set up his HeelFaceTurn in the progress. And given that she's a big {{Narcissist}}, she imprisons the People of the Sky, attacks her own minions during his fights, and even tries to choke out all life on Popstar after performing a FusionDance with the Dreamstalk - Floralia included.]]

** [[spoiler:[[BigBad Hyness]]]] from ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'' establishes himself as one of these within ''the first 20 seconds he's on screen'' when he, with utter coldness, shoves [[ShockAndAwe Zan Partizanne]] out of the way after she begs for him to help her. In the second phase of his fight, he drains Zan, along with her sisters [[AnIcePerson Francisca]] and [[FieryRedhead Flamberge]], of their energy and uses them as [[GrievousHarmWithABody weapons]] and a [[HumanShield shield]]. And after Kirby beats them, he mind controls them into [[HumanSacrifice jumping into the]] [[ArtifactofDoom Jamba Heart]] to power it up (To give what little credit is due, [[ThanatosGambit he then jumps in himself.]])

* The game manual of ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'' states that the GiantSpider [[BigBad Queen Cadavra]] not only berates her insect minions, but also ''eats'' them.