History BewareTheSuperman / VideoGames

* '''Literally''' in the ''Franchise/{{Injustice}}'' universe, which revolves around an alternative-universe Superman installing himself as the ruler of Earth after [[spoiler:ComicBook/TheJoker tricks Superman into killing ComicBook/LoisLane and their unborn child, as well as setting off a nuke that destroys Metropolis]]. Driving this home, the resistance is headed by the BadassNormal Batman and most of the heroes with Superpowers are with Superman. A far cry of what he used to represent, Superman now only believes in lies, injustice, and the authoritarian way. The ''Injustice'' series also provides the trope image with Superman wearing a darker, edgier version of his outfit.

** Both Dr. Kamizono and his son Copen firmly believe that all Adepts are a threat to the continued existence of {{muggles}} and wish to have them all destroyed so that non-Adepts like them can live in prosperity. Nova (an Adept himself) shares this view, only his goal is to subjugate all Adepts rather than exterminate them outright.

** Both Dr. Kamizono and his son Copen is a firm believer that all Adepts are a threat to the continued existence of muggles and wish to have them all destroyed so that non-Adepts like them can live in prosperity. Even Nova (an Adept himself) shares this view, only his goal is to subjugate all Adepts rather than exterminate them outright.
** Eden is a representation on how non-Adepts (especially Copen and Nova's) view towards Adepts; a threat to the former. PlayedWith because they are comprised mainly of Adepts who (with the exception of Milas and possibly Teseo) were badly mistreated at the hands of non-Adepts due to their usage of powers. Tenjian and [[spoiler:Zonda]] were the Adepts given the worst treatment as they grew up in a country where people like them are hunted from birth, and have since then founded Eden and took in like-minded individuals like them to not only [[TheDogBitesBack exact their vengeance]] upon baseline humans, but also to create a nation where Adepts can all live without fear.

* The story line of the ''Franchise/{{Injustice}}'' universe revolves around an alternative-universe Superman installing himself as the ruler of Earth after [[spoiler: ComicBook/TheJoker tricks Superman into killing ComicBook/LoisLane and their unborn child, as well as setting off a nuke that destroys Metropolis]]. Driving this home, the resistance is headed by the BadassNormal Batman and most of the heroes with Superpowers are with Superman. A far cry of what he used to represent, Superman now only believes in lies, injustice, and the authoritarian way. The ''Injustice'' series also provides the trope image with Superman wearing a darker, edgier version of his outfit.

** Eden is a representation on how non-Adepts (especially Copen and Nova's) view towards Adepts; a threat to the former. PlayedWith because they are comprised mainly of Adepts who (with the exception of Milas and possibly Teseo) were badly mistreated at the hands of non-Adepts due to their usage of powers. Tenjian and [[spoiler:Zonda]] were the Adepts given the worst treatment as they grew up in a country where people like them are hunted from birth. And has since then founded Eden and took in like-minded individuals like them to not only [[TheDogBitesBack exact their vengeance]] upon baseline humans, but also to create a nation where Adepts can all live without fear.

** Foreshadowed as far back as the first game, where [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid King Triton]] wants nothing to do with the Keyblade and orders Sora to leave his world, claiming it brings nothing but ruin.

* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'':
** A recurring antagonist throughout the mainline games is Destroyman, a superhero-themed contract killer who really puts the "ass" in "assassin". He returns in the second game as a pair of cyborgs after being bisected, and in the third game has a subplot where he's a hired terrorist trying to TakeOverTheWorld with mass-produced copies of himself.
** ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'' also has Prince Jess-Baptiste VI, aka FU, and his gang of intergalactic criminals. They "jump on" the superhero craze of America by rebranding themselves as superheroes in FU's scheme for world domination, becoming the Galactic Superhero Rankings. Their first action as "superheroes" is to blast a hole in Santa Destroy, and before declaring themselves superheroes they hit a city with a WaveMotionGun.

* In ''Franchise/DragonAge'', this is the [[TheMagocracy Tevinter Imperium]] to the rest of Thedas. Due to their [[AlwaysChaoticEvil destructive]] actions supposedly leading to The Maker [[HaveYouSeenMyGod shunning mankind]] and the creation of the Darkspawn, the rest of the Mages in Thedas are forced to enter the Circle, due to the overwhelming fear of what they would do if they were free and left to their own devices.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' reveals the [[spoiler:elven gods]] were super-mages who were so drunk on power that they declared themselves gods and purged anyone, even the moderate super-mages, that dared contradict them. One of the last (relatively) sane super-mages had to resort to ''[[TheMagicGoesAway turning magic off]]'' (mostly) to stop them from nuking the planet, which had the side effect of collapsing civilization. [[spoiler:And now he wants to undo that, which would be okay if not for the total genocide of all non-elf peoples]].
* ''Videogame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' runs a lot with this trope. The galaxy is in ruins after what's been called "The Jedi Civil War," with trillions of casualties across hundreds of planets. Many of the {{N|onPlayerCharacter}}PCs the Exile encounters neither know nor care about the difference between Jedi and Sith. (As one party member puts it, "Just men and women fighting about religion while the galaxy burns.") Kreia points out that the Republic and the Empire themselves are little more than proxies for the Force Users' never-ending religious warfare, and the Exile is her means to try and stop it all [[spoiler: by destroying the Force itself]].
* ''Videogame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' doesn't go as far as that second game, but the Force Users are still at their religious war, and doing horrible things to one another and the galaxy with trillions killed in the crossfire. The Sith Emperor takes the cake. As the most powerful known Force User of that era, both immortal and immoral, he has orchestrated ''centuries'' of warfare, including the current conflict [[spoiler: and even the protagonists of those last two games]], to further his goal of being the [[OmnicidalManiac only living thing in the galaxy]]!
** Driven home in the expansions. Force-wielders ''can'' be kind, respectful, responsible, wise, and generous, or they can be conquerors, killers, and hypocrites. It is an MMO, after all. Just like in the movies, though, some Force-wielders are depicted as an unambiguous good, such as the disguised one [[spoiler: that Republic players meet and secretly work for on Tatooine]].
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': As a Keyblade Master, [[BigBad Xehanort]] is supposed to be a guardian who protects the worlds and the universe itself. Instead, he's become DrunkOnTheDarkSide and uses his power as a Master to spread darkness and chaos wherever he goes. His megalomania grows to the point that he convinces himself that he is TheChosenOne, and that it is his duty to wipe away the current universe and start anew.
** Foreshadowed as far back as the first game, where [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid King Triton]] wants nothing to do with the Keyblade and orders Sora to leave his world, claiming it brings nothing but ruin.
* Throughout the Franchise/{{Pokemon}} series, the player is able to strike up a bond with incredibly powerful Legendary Pokémon thanks to their kind heart and skill as a Trainer, thus giving them a massive advantage over other Trainers should they choose to use the legends on their team. ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Black and White]]'' show what happens when a villain manages to win the loyalty of a Legendary through their pure heart. [[spoiler:He defeats the Champion and nearly separates Pokémon from humans entirely. Anthea and Concordia tell the player that the villain in question is dangerous because of his innocence and kindness, which makes him able to bring out the full power of pretty much any Pokémon but ''doesn't'' guarantee that he's in the right.]]
* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' turns [[spoiler: Gwyn]] into a case of this; the Ringed City DLC reveals that [[spoiler: Gwyn was the absolute worst possible Lord of Light, expressing a severe and completely unwarranted hate of the dark to the point he placed a seal of fire, aka the Darksign, on the Pygmies, which was passed down to their descendants, creating the Undead Curse. He also set in motion the Firelinking cycle, eventually ending the world, and through the soul of cinder acts as the TrueFinalBoss of the entire franchise. He also took extreme measures against anyone who disobeyed him or wasn’t exactly what he wanted them to be(annexing the Nameless King from history for betraying him and forcing Gwyndolin to present as a woman for being born with talent at Moonlight sorceries), and based on how long it took for the information to be uncovered, was very good at hiding it. LightIsNotGood taken to its logical extreme; the only reason the abyss ever caused any trouble at all was because Gwyn tried to restrain it when it was never a threat to begin with]].
* A major theme in ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution''. Part of the driving force behind the anti-augmentation activist movement is fear over the danger people with augmentations may pose. This can be seen in Jensen's backstory, which features an incident in which he was ordered to kill an augmented teenager simply because his augmentations made him a potential threat.

* The genocide run of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' runs with this as its main point, almost to the point of being a {{Deconstruction}}. The twist comes in that it's [[spoiler:[[VideoGameCrueltyPotential you, the player]] who is the [[VillainProtagonist superpowered villain]]. From an in-story standpoint, humans are overtly stronger than monsters and are limited only by their desire (or lack thereof) to kill, which gets stronger as your EXP (i.e. Executioner Points) go up. The entire tone of the game changes from a morally ambiguous narrative where both sides misunderstand one another, to one where you are overtly and incontestably the evil party. Thematically, the entire point of this path is to deconstruct the video game concept of [[LevelGrinding grinding]] by making you realise just how cruel and psychopathic you'd have to be in reality to go around senselessly killing creatures to get stronger. It's also exacerbated by the fact the player character's ability to save and reload is an explicit in-universe power, meaning that a particularly cruel player is capable of undoing missed opportunities to kill or even go back in time and '' kill a monster they've already killed again;'' the final boss of the route {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this if you do it.]]

** Both Dr. Kamizono and his son Copen is a firm believer that all Adepts are a threat to the continued existence of muggles and wish to have them all destroyed so that non-Adepts like them can live in prosperity.
** Eden is a representation on how non-Adepts (especially Copen's) view towards Adepts; a threat to the former. ZigZagged because they are comprised mainly of Adepts who (with the exception of Milas and possibly Teseo) were badly mistreated at the hands of non-Adepts due to their usage of powers. Tenjian and [[spoiler:Zonda]] were the Adepts given the worst treatment as they grew up in a country where people like them are hunted from birth. And has since then founded Eden and took in like-minded individuals like them to not only [[TheDogBitesBack exact their vengeance]] upon baseline humans, but also to create a nation where Adepts can all live without fear.

** Eden is a representation on how non-Adepts (especially Copen's) view towards Adepts; a threat to the former. ZigZagged because they are comprised mainly of Adepts who (with the exception of Milas and possibly Teseo) were badly mistreated at the hands of non-Adepts due to their usage of powers. Tenjian and [[spoiler:Zonda]] were the Adepts given the worst treatment since they live in a country where people like them are hunted from birth. And has since then founded Eden and took in like-minded individuals like them to not only [[TheDogBitesBack exact their vengeance]] upon baseline humans, but also to create a nation where Adepts can all live without fear.

** Both Dr. Kamizono and his son Copen is a firm believer that all Adepts are a threat to the continued existence of muggles and wish to have them all destroyed so that non-adepts like them can live in prosperity.
** Eden is a representation on how non-Adepts (especially Copen's) view towards Adepts; a threat to muggles. ZigZagged because they are comprised mainly of Adepts who (with the exception of Milas and possibly Teseo) were badly mistreated at the hands of non-Adepts due to their usage of powers. Tenjian and [[spoiler:Zonda]] were the Adepts given the worst treatment since they live in a country where people like them are hunted from birth. And has since then founded Ededn and took in like-minded individuals like them to not only exact their vengeance upon baseline humans, but also to create a nation where Adepts can live without fear.

* The story line of the ''Franchise/{{Injustice}}'' universe revolves around an alternative-universe Superman installing himself as the ruler of Earth after [[spoiler: ComicBook/TheJoker tricks Superman into killing ComicBook/LoisLane and their unborn child, as well as setting off a nuke that destroys Metropolis]]. Driving this home, the resistance is headed by the BadassNormal Batman and most of the heroes with Superpowers are with Superman. Also, Superman only believes in lies, injustice, and the authoritarian way.

* The story line of the ''Franchise/{{Injustice}}'' universe revolves around an alternative-universe Superman installing himself as the ruler of Earth after [[spoiler: ComicBook/TheJoker tricks Superman into killing ComicBook/LoisLane and their unborn child, as well as setting off a nuke that destroys Metropolis]]. Driving this home, the resistance is headed by the BadassNormal Batman and most of the heroes with Superpowers are with Superman.

** And in ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'', the same principle is taken up even further. The Luteces are [[spoiler:bordering on reality warpers, able to teleport early in the game and are eventually revealed to be suspended outside of time after their deaths]]. Though they choose to their powers mostly for messing with Booker, the full limits of these powers are revealed when [[spoiler:Elizabeth destroys the siphon in Monument Island. After this she is able to easily take out Songbird and teleport all three of them to an alternate Rapture. And even before this, she can summon murderous automatons and a tornado through the "cracks".]]

** A recurring antagonist throughout the mainline games is Destroyman, a superhero-themed contract killer who really puts the "ass" in "assassin". He returns in the second game as a pair of cyborgs after being bisected, and in the third game has a subplot where he's trying to TakeOverTheWorld with mass-produced copies of himself.

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' has a few examples of playing with this trope. First off is an enemy group called the Malta Group, who are zealously dedicated to making sure this DOES NOT HAPPEN in a world with literally millions of meta-beings. Trouble is, their methods routinely cross the MoralEventHorizon -- but what do you expect from a conspiracy of members of various western intelligence agencies, who were unhappy that they could no longer simply draft metas to do their dirty work? Then there's a small-scale example with the Rogue Isles, setting of the expansion "City of Villains", where a country of islands is ruled by super-villains. The only thing that prevents them from taking over the world is endless in-fighting and StatusQuoIsGod. And finally, the most triumphant in-game example is the alternate universe Praetoria, which was fleshed out in the "Going Rogue" expansion. There, alternate versions of the game's signature heroes rose to power by saving their doomed world and now rule what little is left with an iron fist.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': Kefka is noted to be an extremely powerful mage from an experimental procedure, who goes insane and destroys the world.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Sephiroth AND Genesis both go mad when they discover their true pasts and becoming evil supersoldiers of unrivalled power bent on killing many, many people.

* Prince FU and his fellow intergalactic alien criminals decide to "jump on" the superhero craze of America by rebranding themselves as such when they invade the world in the third ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' game.