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* The Big Bad of ''[[Franchise/DotHack .hack//]]'' could go one of two ways: Cubia [[spoiler:(although defeating him doesn't really solve anything other than getting him out of the way)]], or Morganna, although you never really fight her directly. She simply uses the phases to interact and fight for her. Once [[spoiler:Kite "kills" Aura, she is able to come back and defeat the last phase of Morganna, and truly be born.]]
* [[spoiler:Cubia]] from the ''[[VideoGame/DotHackGUGames .hack//G.U.]]'' games.
* The Man in Glasses from ''VideoGame/TwelveThirteen'' [[spoiler:turns out not to be. He's the only person who was actually on your side throughout the entire game, while everyone else -- including your apparent "ally" that he kills -- were trying to stop you from performing the mission you were created for, believing you were too irretrievably damaged to be successful.]]
* ''VideoGame/ABlindLegend'' has the king who has Edward's daughter captured by some of his guards.
* The Kurain Village Arc of the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series eventually revealed that it had a Big Bad of sorts in [[spoiler:Morgan Fey, whose schemes to get her daughter Pearl installed as the "Master" of the Kurain Spirit Channeling technique spans two games and strikes the main characters from beyond the grave. She also has her daughter Dahlia as a [[TheDragon Dragon]] of sorts.]]
** Two of the games have their own Big Bad.
*** In the first game, the Big Bad is [[spoiler:Manfred von Karma, who essentially set the entire series into motion with the murder of Edgeworth's father. A murder in the present that was orchestrated by him to get back at Edgeworth ultimately results in his comeuppance.]]
*** [[spoiler:Damon Gant]] is revealed as the true criminal of the bonus case in the first ''Ace Attorney''. [[spoiler:Gant]] eventually states that [[spoiler:he]] is responsible for [[spoiler:controlling Lana Skye, the High Prosecutor]] who in turn was responsible for "helping" Edgeworth with cases, which resulted in [[spoiler:the rumors of Edgeworth's backhanded deals and forgeries that DIDN'T already come about from Edgeworth's already established relationship with Manfred von Karma]].
*** The third game has [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne, who on top of essentially being Morgan's [[TheDragon Dragon]], is a Big Bad in her own right because of all the murders she conducted that had to be cleaned up by the end of the game, resulting in finally facing her spirit in court.]]
** The second game doesn't necessarily have someone as the Big Bad, but each of the cases impact at least part of the story. [[spoiler:In the fourth case, the Big Bad is at first thought to be Shelly de Killer, but when he turns out to be an assassin, his client becomes the Big Bad. And guess who his client is: Matt Engarde, Wright's own client. This sets up the overall theme of the game of what is a defense attorney.]]
** ''VisualNovel/{{Apollo Justice|Ace Attorney}}'' has its own Big Bad as well in [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin, who uses every trick in the book, from forged evidence to outright murder, to take down Phoenix Wright and keep everyone quiet about it.]]
** Then ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'' has [[spoiler:[[DiplomaticImpunity Ambassador of Allebhast]] Quercus Alba, who is the head of an international [[TheSyndicate crime syndicate]] and is quite possibly the first ever Ace Attorney villain to be the TheManBehindTheMan to nearly all the other murderers in the game. The lone exception is the culprit of the third case, and even then it's the criminal's father who has a connection to Alba's syndicate.]]
** ''Ace Attorney Investigations 2'' has the distinction of having both a BigBad and a GreaterScopeVillain. The latter is [[spoiler:the Fake President of Zheng Fa and his minions, who controlled both Zheng Fa and the prison and legal systems of Japan/USA]]. The former, however, is [[spoiler:Simon Keyes, who killed his former best friend and the aforementioned president for personal reasons, tricked the president's cohorts into committing murder, and is the final boss of the game.]]
** Mia Fey is implied to have had her own in [[spoiler:Redd White of Blue Corp. He's the second criminal in the first game and he has a role in the story of the first game.]]
** ''Dual Destinies'' has a BigBad for just about everyone but Phoenix in [[spoiler:the phantom]], the man who bombed the space center seven years ago [[spoiler:and again during the game]], among other things brought on by trying to keep these crimes hidden. [[spoiler:He's also impersonating your detective after killing him a year before the game, trying to lead the case away from himself]].
** ''Spirit of Justice'' has, for its overarching plot, [[spoiler:Queen Ga'ran, who staged a fake assassination attempt on her sister which resulted in the death of Apollo's father and the disgrace of Dhurke. She would later hold her sister's daughter Reyfa hostage while raising Reyfa as her own and would later kill two of the victims in the final case. She was also responsible for the DC Act that killed and imprisoned so many lawyers. Her husband Inga comes close, being behind the villains of 6-1, 6-3, and the beginning of 6-5, as well as killing another of the victims in the final case, but is ultimately killed by Ga'ran when discovered]].
* ''[[VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo Advanced V.G.]]'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Miranda]] [[EvilMatriarch Jahana]] is the driving force behind the series' overarching plot and is the founder of her own secret bioweapons division: [[ResearchInc Section-9.]] Which is where she subjected her own daughter, Reimi, to inhumane experiments when she was a child and, later, created her [[{{tykebomb}} hybrids.]] The tournament is little more than a smokescreen by which she gets to field-test them, by pitting them against the [[UnwittingPawn unsuspecting waitresses.]] Since [[TheHero Yuka]] [[SpiritedCompetitor Takeuchi]] is the strongest among them and is responsible for defeating Reimi and her hybrids, she's become [[ArchEnemy the focal point of Miranda's hatred.]] So she'll [[BreakTheCutie stop at nothing]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOTaSivc1Mc to break Yuka.]]
* ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'' has Drakath, the Champion of Chaos, who is sending out thirteen Lords of Chaos to terrorize the land of Lore, and who killed [[spoiler:Sepulchure]], who was the BigBad in most of Creator/ArtixEntertainment's other games.
* ''VideoGame/AlanWake'': [[EldritchAbomination The Dark Presence]].
** ''Alan Wake's American Nightmare'': [[HumanoidAbomination Mr. Scratch]].
* ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'': The Dollmaker, A.K.A. [[spoiler: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr.]] [[PsychoPsychologist Angus Bumby]]]].
* Baldour, the evil being of the Silver Star in ''VideoGame/AlisiaDragoon''. His followers are trying to revive him through most of the game, and eventually do succeed... Alisia, of course, tears him a new one.
* ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation'': [[SuperPersistentPredator The Alien]] drives the conflict [[spoiler:even after it is defeated halfway through]]. [[MasterComputer APOLLO]] also qualifies, since he is responsible for turning turning the [[ArtificialHuman Working Joes]] against the humans on the station and [[spoiler:outlives the Alien.]]
* ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Henry Leland]].
* ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark'': Ezechiel Pregzt in the first game, One-Eyed Jack in ''2'', Jedediah Stone in ''3'', Alan Morton in ''The New Nightmare'', and Lucifer in the 2008 game.
* ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice'': [[spoiler:[[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the Queen of Hearts]].]]
* ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'': [[EvilOldFolks Baron Alexander]].
** ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs'': The Engineer aka [[spoiler:the Machine]].
* ''VideoGame/AmongTheSleep'': [[AbusiveParents The Protagonist's Mother]].
* ''VideoGame/AnakshaFemaleAssassin'': Vincent St. Claire, a drag dealer and crimelord who is behind the worst evil of Santa Lina and was responsible for the death of Anaksha's best friend.
* ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' has [[KingMook King Pig]].
* ''VideoGame/TheAngryVideoGameNerdAdventures''[='=]s ExcusePlot concerns the Nerd and company [[TrappedInTVLand getting sucked into Game Land]]. At the end of the final level, the person who did this is revealed: [[spoiler:Fred Fuchs/[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Fucks]], the programmer for one of the games the Nerd made fun of.]]
* ''VideoGame/ApeEscape'': Specter.
* ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'': [[EldritchAbomination The Dark One]] in the first two games, and the [=PRofessor=]/[[spoiler:Ludwig]] in Arc the Lad III.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Arkanoid}}'' series has [=DoH=].
* The ''VideoGame/ArmedWithWings'' series has Vandheer Lorde. He's the series' most recognizable antagonist and serves as the FinalBoss of most of the games. The main exception is ''Armed With Wings 2'', which has Vandheer Lorde as the VillainProtagonist and the Armed With Wings/Lone Warrior the HeroAntagonist. Network is sort of TheManBehindTheMan to Vandheer Lorde in ''Armed With Wings 3''. However, the latter still serves as the FinalBoss while Network is the second-to-last boss.
* The overarching plot of the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' series has Abstergo/The Templars, with [[EvilGenius Warren Vidic]] being their most prominently villainous member in the main games. Following [[spoiler: Vidic's death]], Juhani Otso Berg becomes the master Templar. [[spoiler:Juno]] was also revealed as a [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] villain at the end of ''III'', and from then on acts as the GreaterScopeVillain to both factions. Each game also has its own BigBad:
** ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedI'' has [[spoiler:Rashid ad-Din Sinan AKA Al Mualim]].
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' has "The Spaniard" revealed to be [[spoiler:Rodrigo Borgia / Pope Alexander VI]].
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' has Cesare Borgia.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'' has [[spoiler:Prince Ahmet]].
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' has [[spoiler:Haytham Kenway]] with [[spoiler:Charles Lee as TheHeavy who pulls a DragonAscendant]].
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIIILiberation'' has [[spoiler:Madaline de I'lsle]].
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'' has a BigBadEnsemble between Laureano de Torres y Ayala and [[spoiler:Bartholomew Roberts]], with [[spoiler:John]] in the modern segments. [[spoiler:Some could say Aita is the true BigBad, as Roberts and John are his reincarnations]].
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedFreedomCry'' has [[spoiler:Pierre, marquis de Fayet]].
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue'' has an interesting example. Considering you are playing as Shay Cormac, [[VillainProtagonist a Templar]], and do battle with the Assassins, the primary antagonist of the game is Achilles Davenport, though he's portrayed as an UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom who has caused countless innocent deaths through a mix of recklessness and incompetence.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity'' has [[spoiler: François Thomas Germain]].
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' has Crawford Starrick.
** ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' has [[spoiler:Lucius Septimius and Flavius Metellus]].
* In the regular storyline of ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'', Lord Deus and Gohma Vlitra are the primary forces that are plaguing the world that Asura finds himself in. In the GrandFinale DLC, however, it turns out that [[spoiler:Chakravartin, the Creator, is the one responsible for the Gohma, and by extension, all the horrible things the earth gods did to try to fight them]].
* The ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' series:
** Sarevok Anchev in the first game.
** Jon Irenicus in the second game
** Amelissan the Blackhearted in the ''Throne of Bhaal'' expansion to the second game and the last part of the story.
** For the series as a whole, Bhaal might count, but in each individual installation, he's the GreaterScopeVillain.
* The ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' series has Gruntilda.
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' has the Joker.
** Joker continues to play a critical role in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', but it is Professor Hugo Strange who is responsible for the creation of the mega-prison, the unwarranted arrest of Bruce Wayne and all of the "political prisoners" in Arkham City who either knew too much about the prison's creation or spoke out against it (all without trial, no less), and even [[spoiler: supplying the various supervillains with weapons in order to fuel their raging gang wars]]. At the end, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Strange is [[TheManBehindTheMan a disciple of Ra's al-Ghul]] (who promised Strange immortality and his position at the head of the League of Assassins in exchange for his help), and Arkham City's purpose was to gather all of Gotham's criminals in one place so that the two could use the dangerously escalating gang violence as an excuse to [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans cure Gotham City's criminal problem]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist by exterminating all of the prisoners via a huge military airstrike]].]]
** Joker's also in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' [[spoiler: as the true man responsible for hiring the eight assassins to kill Batman after stealing Black Masks's identity.]] Though this time, the role of Big Bad is split between him and [[spoiler:Bane, who poses a much greater threat to Batman's identity and serves as his final real opponent.]]
** Scarecrow fills this role in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', with the titular villain serving as his [[TheDragon Dragon]] [[spoiler: who ends up pulling a HeelFaceTurn in the end]]. [[spoiler: Joker is also present as a part of Batman's mind as the remnant of a virus caused by his exposure to Joker's blood in ''Arkham City'' which is strenghtened by Scarecrow's fear toxin and tries to take him over from within.]]
* ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'': Season 1 has the leader of the Children of Arkham, [[spoiler: Lady Arkham]] (aka [[spoiler: [[AdaptationalVillainy Vicki Vale]].]])
* ''VideoGame/Battlefield3'': Solomon.
* ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'': [[TheBaroness The Dark Queen]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' has [[spoiler:[[ArchnemesisDad Father Balder]]]].
** ''Videogame/{{Bayonetta 2}}'' has [[spoiler:[[EvilTwin Loptr]]]], who is revealed to be responsible for [[spoiler:Balder becoming the villain of the first game via possession]].
* ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'': [[spoiler:The DomZ High Priest.]]
* ''VideoGame/BioShock'':
** Andrew Ryan and [[spoiler:[[TreacherousQuestGiver Frank Fontaine]]]] in ''VideoGame/BioShock1''.
** [[TotalitarianUtilitarian Sophia Lamb]] in ''VideoGame/BioShock2''.
** [[DarkMessiah Zachary Hale Comstock]] in ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite''.
* ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' has [[TheGeneralissimo Generalissimo Killt]] [[spoiler: until Master-D comes BackFromTheDead and promptly kills Killt, before declaring his intention to TakeOverTheWorld himself.]]
* Mingrawn Timbletot in ''VideoGame/BitTrip''. He only shows up in two games, but is undoubtedly the villain. What his intentions are and who he is depends on your view of the series.
* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' has the [[BigBadDuumvirate Triumvirate]] of [[SatanicArchetype Yuuki Terumi]], better known as [[{{Troll}} Hazama]], the most proactive and involved of its antagonists, [[EvilGenius Relius]] [[ArchnemesisDad Clover]], his partner in crime ever since the start of the Dark War, 100 years before the start of the first game, and [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades]] [[MythicalMotifs Izanami,]] [[OmnicidalManiac the Goddess of Death.]]
* ''VideoGame/BloodRayne 2'' has [[ArchnemesisDad Kagan]].
* ''VideoGame/BlueDragon'' has Nene.
* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' has [[TheBaroness Commandant Helga Steele]].
** ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' has [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Handsome Jack]].
** ''Videogame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' has Colonel Tungsteena Zarpedon as the main villain for most of the game, [[spoiler:though she's defeated in the penultimate main mission]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Braid}}'' [[spoiler:'''inverts''' this trope. The supposed Big Bad in the final level is in fact ''rescuing'' the DistressedDamsel from ''you'']].
* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'', the spiritual sucessor to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyThe4HeroesOfLight'', has [[TinTyrant Braev Lee]], the templar and Grand Marshall of [[TheEmpire Eternia]], wanting to stop Agnès and her party from awakening the four crystals. [[spoiler:[[EvilAllAlong Except it’s actually a plan]] concocted by [[FairyCompanion Airy]] to awake the Crystals and create links to alternate worlds for her master [[GreaterScopeVillain Ouroboros the God of Destruction]]]].
** ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'', the sequel to ''Bravely Default'', has [[TheEmperor Kaiser Oblivion]], the ruler of the Glanz Empire, who has kidnapped Agnès and wants to [[spoiler: [[WellIntentionedExtremist rewrite the past for a better future and erase his bloodline from existence.]] Except he has been manipulated by [[EvilAllAlong Anne]] into constructing the Holy Pillar so she can get rid of the moon, then re-open the link to the Celestial Realm to allow her master, [[GreaterScopeVillain Providence]] to invade, while revealing that she only assisted in the defeat of Airy and Ouroboros in the first game in order to remove a threat to Providence]].
* Lord Doviculus in ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'': [[GeneralRipper General Victor Sarrano]].
* Gary Smith, the [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] and ManipulativeBastard in ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'' who manipulates the main character Jimmy Hopkins and the cliques against each other in order to become the ruler of Bullworth Academy.
* ThoseWackyNazis serve this role for the World War II- set ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' games:
** ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'':
*** ''Call of Duty 4'': Imran Zakhaev.
*** ''Modern Warfare 2'': At first you think it's Vladimir Makarov, but it turns out to be [[spoiler:General Shepherd.]]
*** ''Modern Warfare 3'': Makarov's the real deal this time around.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'': Nikita Dragovich.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2'': Raul Menendez.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts'': Gabriel Rorke. The leader of the Federation appears to be a GreaterScopeVillain of sorts. He's never seen or referred to by name, but Rorke seems to hold him in great respect.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps3'': [[spoiler: Corvus.]]
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyInfiniteWarfare'': Admiral Salen Kotch.
* The first ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarez'' has the titular Juan "Juarez" Mendoza.
** The prequel ''[[VideoGame/CallOfJuarezBoundInBlood Bound In Blood]]'', Jeremy Barnsby. Juarez is also featured as a supporting antagonist.
** ''[[VideoGame/CallOfJuarezTheCartel The Cartel]]'' Cartel leader Juan Mendoza ([[NamesTheSame Mind you not the same character in the first two games]]) and CorruptCorporateExecutive Michael Duke, [[spoiler: as well as Assistant Deputy Director Shane Dickson acting as Mendoza's partner inside the Justice Department]], and Psycho for Hire Antonio Alvarez playing all sides against each other for his own advantage.
** ''[[VideoGame/CallOfJuarezGunslinger Gunslinger]]'' has Roscoe Bryant.
* ''VideoGame/CannonDancer'' features Jack Layzon as the primary antagonist who used and betrayed the main character, Kirin, for his own needs. [[spoiler:[[GreaterScopeVillain The mysterious goddess Slaver]], however, uses Kirin's revenge as a way to enslave him to her will, and ends up becoming the FinalBoss for her troubles.]]
* ''VideoGame/CapellasPromise'' has the the previous king of Ilnacia, who built the Mother superweapon to convert his citizens into monstrous soldiers. [[spoiler:However, he's eventually killed by his son, Zanara, who takes over as king and fuses with the Mother, becoming the new BigBad.]]
* ''VideoGame/CaptainCommando'' has Scumocide ([[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Genocide]] in Japanese), the leader of a genetically-enhanced breed of "Super Criminals" terrorizing Earth.
* {{Dracula}} in almost every ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' game. The Japanese title is ''Demon Castle Dracula'' for a reason. There are exceptions, however:
** In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines'', ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' and ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'', while he ''does'' appear, he's out of the picture until [[FinalBoss the very last boss fight]], meaning he's more GreaterScopeVillain this time. Instead, the BigBad in ''Bloodlines'' is Elizabeth Bartley, and in ''Portrait Of Ruin'' it's Brauner. In ''Symphony'', it's apparently [[spoiler: Richter Belmont]], but it's more complicated than that; [[spoiler: Shaft is the ManBehindTheMan controlling Richter, and the active force behind Dracula's resurrection]].
** In ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Aria of Sorrow]]'', the BigBad is the {{Cult}} leader and self-proclaimed {{Antichrist}}, Graham Jones. [[spoiler:At least until TheReveal, at which point it turns out that ''you'' are the actual {{Antichrist}}, prompting a crazy TrueFinalBoss battle against [[EnemyWithin Dracula's power trying to take you over from within]].]] ''Dawn of Sorrow'' continues the story by splitting Graham's role between Celia Fortner, who leads a cult (possibly the same as Graham's), and the two Dark Lord Candidates [[PlayingWithFire Dario Bossi]] and [[PowerCopying Dimitrii Blinov]]. In the end, [[spoiler:Dario is stripped of his powers and flees, and Dimitrii copies Soma's Power of Dominance and sacrifices Celia to strengthen it. This [[EvilIsNotAToy doesn't work out]], and the souls of the demons he absorbed end up manifesting as [[EldritchAbomination Menace]], who serves as the FinalBoss.]]
** The ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow Lords of Shadow]]'' series has {{Satan}}, with Dracula as the Big Bad in ''Mirror of Fate'', but he is the protagonist in ''Lords of Shadow 2''.
* In the licensed game ''VideoGame/TheCatInTheHat'', Mr. Quinn plays this role (as he did in the movie).
* ''VisualNovel/ChaosHead'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Norose Genichi]].
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' has Lavos, whose influence is felt in every time period and who is ultimately responsible for not one, but ''two'' [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt extinction-level events]] (extinction of the Reptites and start of a long ice age in 65,000,000 B.C., and the destruction of the magical Kingdom of Zeal in 12,000 B.C.). The heroes are trying to prevent a third which will occur in 1999 A.D.
** ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' has FATE
* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' has a number of especially powerful and influential bad guys that compete to take over the world.
** Lord Recluse, the EvilOverlord who [[PresidentEvil rules an island nation with an iron fist]], said nation being where ''City of Villains'' is set.
** Nemesis, who [[GambitRoulette may or may not be behind darn near everything in the game]]. [[MemeticMutation It's all a Nemesis plot]].
** Tyrant, the DimensionLord of the MirrorUniverse, EvilTwin of the game's biggest hero Statesman. (the BigGood?)
** Rularuu the Ravager, somewhere between EldritchAbomination and [[GeniusLoci sentient dimension]] [[PlanetEater that eats other dimensions]] with a bad case of SplitPersonality.
** The Center, the mysterious leader of the fascist paramilitary group known as The Council.
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'':
** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries'' has [[DarkMessiah Kane]].
** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlertSeries'': has Joseph Stalin in ''Red Alert''. ''Red Alert 2'' has Premier Alexander Romanov for the Allied campaign, and Yuri for the Soviet campaign and ''Yuri's Revenge''. ''Red Alert 3'' has Anatoly Cherdenko and FutureTech.
* ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen'' has TheRival Mortimer [=McMire=] in Episode 3, who serves as the GreaterScopeVillain for the other episodes except in ''KeenDreams'', a GaidenGame where Boobus Tubber is the villain instead.
* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' has [[CatsAreMean the Panther King]].
* In the WebGame [[VideoGame/{{TCT RPG}} The Colour Tuesday]], Officer Maxwell is the closest seen in the only released installment. The closest ''[[TheManBehindTheMan seen.]]''
* In ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'', Red Falcon serves as the BigBad for most of the games. However, in ''Shattered Soldier'', [[spoiler:the BigBad at first is assumed to be Lance Bean, but the real villains in the game are the [[GovernmentConspiracy Triumvirate]].]] In ''Neo Contra'', the BigBad is Master Contra [[spoiler:though he's actually Bill Rizer, or so he thinks. Red Falcon is in the game, but here, he's more like a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere.]] As of ''Contra: Shattered Soldier'', however, [[spoiler:it turns out that the Triumvirate were [[GreaterScopeVillain truly responsible for the aliens attacking Earth in the previous games]], as they had secretly stole the [[ArtifactOfDoom Relic of Moirai]] prior to the start of the original Contra.]]
** Tiberius serves as the BigBad in the prequel ''VideoGame/HardCorpsUprising''.
* In ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'', the murderer of the children is the one keeping everyone trapped in the haunted OldSchoolBuilding: Yoshikazu Yanagihori [[spoiler: [[DiscOneFinalBoss was framed for this]] by Sachiko the Girl in Red, who is the [[EnemyWithout incarnation of Sachiko Shinozaki’s hatred after being killed horribly]]]]. Though they take a back seat in ''2U'', leaving [[spoiler: Yuuya Kizami]] to take the position. ''Blood Drive'' reveals that [[spoiler: “Red Sachiko” is basically an avatar for [[GeniusLoci Heavely Host itself,]] embodied by the Witch Queen who serves as the FinalBoss]].
* Uka Uka from ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot''. While Dr. Neo Cortex seemingly was behind all the events in the [[Videogame/CrashBandicoot1996 first]] [[Videogame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack two]] Crash games, it was eventually revealed in the [[Videogame/CrashBandicoot3Warped third game]] that he did everything under Uka Uka's orders. However, in ''VideoGame/CrashMindOverMutant'', Cortex double-crosses Uka Uka and becomes the villain himself. There are also a few standalone villains:
** Nitros Oxide in ''Videogame/CrashTeamRacing''.
** The Evil Twins in the main plot of ''Videogame/CrashTwinsanity'' and N. Tropy (who is under Uka Uka) in the sub-plot of ''Twinsanity''.
** Emperor Velo XXVII in ''Videogame/CrashNitroKart''.
** [[spoiler:Willie Wumpa Cheeks]] in ''Videogame/CrashTagTeamRacing''.
** [[spoiler:Nina Cortex]] in ''VideoGame/CrashOfTheTitans'' (At least the console version).
* ''VideoGame/CreepyCastle'' has Darking who want to establish peace by [[spoiler: removing people's emotions. Then Possessor awakens and the characters have [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt much bigger problems now.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/CryOfFear'' has [[spoiler: Simon's book that he uses to [[{{GoneHorriblyWrong}} write his feelings in for therapy]].]]
* Monokuma appears to be this in both ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'' games. [[spoiler:He is being controlled by the real Big Bad, Junko Enoshima.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': [[{{Satan}} The Devil]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Cyberbots}}'' has the Earth Force Federation and its creation, G.O.D., a giant brain-like lifeform that has decided to wipe out humanity after considering it is its own greatest enemy.
* ''VideoGame/DarkCloud'' has the Dark Genie. The sequel, ''VideoGame/DarkChronicle'', had Emperor Griffon/[[spoiler:the Dark Element]] story-wise, though [[spoiler:the Dark Genie returns in the final BonusDungeon]].
* ''VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga'':
** ''VideoGame/DarkForces'': [[GeneralRipper General Rom Mohc]].
** ''VideoGame/JediKnightDarkForcesII'': [[AGodAmI Jerec]].
** ''VideoGame/JediKnightIIJediOutcast'': [[LizardFolk Desann]].
** ''VideoGame/JediKnightJediAcademy'': [[DragonAscendant Tavion Axmis]].
* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', spiritual sucessor to ''Demon's Souls'' that can be seen below:
** ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' notably doesn't ''have'' a real BigBad. The reason behind everything going wrong is simple entropy. [[spoiler:Gwyndolin]] does try to manipulate you in a bid for power, but he's ultimately a minor player -- he's not even a required boss fight. The ''Artorias of the Abyss'' DLC has Manus, implied to be the Furtive Pygmy.
** ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' has [[spoiler:Queen Nashandra]], a Soul Fragment of the aforementioned Manus. However, Aldia the Scholar Of The First Sin takes her place after the game got updated.
** ''Videogame/DarkSoulsIII'' like the very first game doesn't really have a true big bad but if one can look through the game's lore, Prince Lothric comes in the closest since he was supposed to rekindle the flame but chose not to, which causes the events of the game to happen and he interferes with the Ashen One's quest serving as the penultimate boss. The Soul Of Cinder can also be considered to be a big bad as well due to being the final boss of the game, not to mention being the amalgamation of those who chose to rekindle the flame.
* ''VideoGame/TheDarkness'': [[TheDon Paulie Franchetti]].
* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'':
** ''Dawn of War has [[GeneralFailure Lord Bale]] [[spoiler:before being usurped by [[EvilSorceror Sorceror Sindri Myr]].]]
*** ''Winter Assault'' has a BigBadEnsemble between [[GreenAndMean Warboss Gorgutz]] and [[GutturalGrowler Lord Crull]].
*** ''Dark Crusade'' has either [[EvilOverlord Lord Eliphas the Inheritor]], [[TheSoulless Necron Lord of Kronus]], and [[JokerImmunity Warboss Gorgutz]].
** ''Dawn of War II'' is a BigBadEnsemble of [[HiveMind the Tyranid Hive Tyrant Alpha]], the Eldar, and the Orks.
*** ''Chaos Rising'' has [[FatBastard Ulkair]].
*** ''Retribution'' has [[spoiler:Chapter Master Azariah Kyras.]]
** ''Dawn of War III'' has [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination the Storm Prince]].]]
* [[spoiler:Forrest Kaysen]] in ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'', who caused most, if not all of, the problems in the story ([[spoiler:the murders that take place in Greenvale, and driving the townspeople insane with purple gas]]). It's even to the point he's responsible for [[spoiler:horribly mentally scarring the original personality of the one called York, the original personality being Zach]].
* ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' series:
** Raidou in the first.
** Tengu in the second.
** Omega / [[spoiler:Genra]] in the third.
** ALPHA-152 in the fourth and fifth.
* ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' has The Voice [[spoiler:who seems to be Ryder White, but it's really Charon/Kevin.]]
** ''VideoGame/DeadIslandRiptide'' has [[spoiler:Frank Sherpo]].
* ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' has Carlito Keyes, though he's more of a BigBadWannabe.
** The Overtime mode introduces Brock Mason, the second Big Bad of the game.
** ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' has TK throughout the entire game, although the true mastermind behind the outbreak is revealed to be [[spoiler:Sullivan]], or [[spoiler:Stacey in the alternate timeline of ''Off the Record'']].
** The ''Case West'' DLC seems to reveal the series' GreaterScopeVillain in the form of the Director of Phenotrans, Marian Mallon.
** ''VideoGame/DeadRising3'' has a BigBadDuumvirate between Marian Mallon and General John Hemlock.
** ''VideoGame/DeadRising4'' has Calder.
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' has two, Mercer and [[spoiler:[[TheMole Kendra]]]]. The situation is unique as you fight neither of them, though you do fight what may or may not be considered as the third Big Bad, the [[HiveMind Hive Mind]].
** As a normal enemy, if you're daft enough to let the Infector get through necromorphing his corpse. Considering it's puppeteering the other Necromorphs and is the final boss, yeah, I'd consider the HiveMind to be a Big Bad. Mercer even talks about "... the Hive Mind's gift", suggesting he considers himself to be its servant.
** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' has Hans Tiedmann at first, [[spoiler:until Nicole/The Golden Marker (12B) reveals herself as the true Big Bad.]]
** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'' has Jacob Danik.
* ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'' has [[EldritchAbomination The Old One]] who is the source of the world's demons. Even worse, it's also the source of the setting's magic (called soul arts) [[spoiler:and is heavily implied to be "God" too]].
* ''{{VideoGame/Def Jam|Series}}: Fight for NY'': [[SmugSnake Crow]].
* ''VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}}'': Nya, [[spoiler: AKA Nyarlathotep]].
* In the ''VideoGame/DeptHeaven'' series, while "the biggest villain" is [[spoiler:Hector the treacherous magi]], each game has its own Big Bad.
** ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand'': [[spoiler:Hector]]
** ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'': [[spoiler:Nessiah]]
** ''VideoGame/KnightsInTheNightmare'': [[spoiler:Zolgonark]]
* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'':
** The first game has Bob Page and Walton Simons.
** ''[[VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar Invisible War]]'' has Saman, the head of The Templars.
** ''[[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution Human Revolution]]'' doesn't really have a main antagonist, but Hugh Darrow comes the closest. Bob Page from the original game serves as the GreaterScopeVillain though he is never encountered directly, and Pieter Burke is is the antagonist of ''The Missing Link'' DLC.
** ''[[VideoGame/DeusExMankindDivided Mankind Divided]]'' has Lucius [=DeBeers=], the leader of the Illuminati. However, his actual involvement is minimal, with [[spoiler:Viktor Marchenko]] serving as TheHeavy.
* The ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series has one in each game:
** ''Devil May Cry'' has Mundus
** ''Devil May Cry 2'' has Arius.
** ''Devil May Cry 3'' has [[spoiler:Arkham]].
** ''Devil May Cry 4'' has [[spoiler:Sanctus]].
** ''VideoGame/DmCDevilMayCry'' has Mundus.
* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'', the Lord of Terror, is the BigBad of the series that bears his name, though in ''Diablo II'', he shares this status with his two brothers, Mephisto and Baal, as the "Prime Evils." In ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', it's Diablo again [[spoiler:using Leah as his vessel]], and in the ''Reaper of Souls'' expansion, it's [[spoiler:the fallen angel Malthael.]]
* From the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' videogame adaptations:
** ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld'' has [[spoiler:Analogman, with his Machinedramon acting as the final boss]].
** ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld3'' initially had a BigBadEnsemble between the Leader of the A.o.A terrorists, [[spoiler:the MAGAMI president]], and [[spoiler:Lord Megadeath]] until [[spoiler:Snatchmon, a combination of various Vemmon,]] performed a DragonAscendant and merged with the Gunslinger Satellite to digivolve into Galacticmon with intentions of merging with ''Earth'' itself to become [[EldritchAbomination Gaiamon]]]].
* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'':
** ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'' has Vulcanus.
** ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'' has [[spoiler:the fake]] Overlord Zenon.
** ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'' has [[spoiler:Geoffrey/Super Hero Aurum.]]
** ''VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten'' has [[spoiler:Judge Nemo.]]
** ''VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance'' has Void Dark
* ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'': [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord Regent Hiram Burrows]] [[spoiler: with [[MeetTheNewBoss Admiral Farley Havelock]] taking over the role after his downfall.]]
** ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'': [[TheUsurper Delilah Copperspoon]].
** ''VideoGame/DishonoredDeathOfTheOutsider'': [[TheCorrupter The Outsider]].
* ''VideoGame/DivineDivinity'': The Demon of Lies [[spoiler: a.k.a. Duke Janus.]]
** ''VideoGame/BeyondDivinity'': Samual
** ''VideoGame/DivinityIITheDragonKnightSaga'': Damian, [[spoiler: Although Ygerna is the one who corrupted him, and Ygerna becomes the DragonInChief in ''Flames of Vengeance''.]]
** ''VideoGame/DivinityDragonCommander'': [[spoiler:Corvus.]]
** ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSin'': [[spoiler:Leandra.]]
** ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': Bishop Alexander [[spoiler:at first, but it later turns out to be Dallis the Hammer. In the end, however, it's a BigBadDuumvirate between Bacchus Rex and the God King.]]
* ''VideoGame/DoctorWhoLegacy'' has several. For the first season the main villains are the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Sontarans]], under the leadership of Captain Vade the Defiant. Season 2 adds in the Zygons as a BigBadDuumvirate, though Vade gets defeated towards the end. After that [[spoiler:the Master takes over this role.]]
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' and ''Donkey Kong 3'' both have the [[AntagonistTitle titular]] Donkey Kong. ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' has [[FaceHeelTurn Mario]].
* The ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' series uses King K. Rool for the series' main Big Bad. ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'' has [[spoiler:Tiki Tong]], while ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'' has Lord Fredrik.
* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'''s BigBad is the [[BrainInAJar Spiderdemon]], who is behind the invasions of Phobos and Deimos, and fighting through Hell to defeat him is the final goal of the game.
* ''VideoGame/DoomIIHellOnEarth'''s big bad is the MookMaker, the Icon of Sin, the one who spawned all the enemies in the first place. Considering that it only appears once in the game, and its destruction damages ''untold miles'' of Hell's surface, we can assume that it is the big bad of the game.
* ''VideoGame/{{Doom 3}}'''s Big Bad is Dr. Malcolm Betruger, who is singlehandedly responsible for the demon invasion of Mars, is both a MadScientist and an EvilSorcerer in league with Hell itself, and wants to bring about HellOnEarth. [[spoiler:He becomes a demonic dragon thing by the name of the Maledict at the end of the game proper, and you finally put paid to the evil bastard in ''Resurrection of Evil'']].
* ''VideoGame/DoomTheRoguelike'' has the spider mastermind. [[spoiler:And behind her, the true evil behind the invasion, John Carmack.]]
* ''VideoGame/Doom2016'''s BigBad is Olivia Pierce. Like Malcolm Betruger, she colludes with Hell bringing about [[HellOnEarth Hell on Mars]], and eventually [[spoiler:becomes the Spider Mastermind in a bid to become a God]].
* The ''VideoGame/DonPachi'' series has [[spoiler:Colonel Longhena, while [[TheDragon Hibachi]] acts as the TrueFinalBoss of every game.]]
* ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'':
** Willy Mackey in the arcade original and most remakes of it, as well as the arcade version of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonII''.
** [[CainAndAbel Jimmy Lee]] in the NES version of the first game.
** [[MasterOfIllusion The Mysterious Warrior]] in the NES and PC Engine CD versions of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonII''.
** [[spoiler: [[TreacherousAdvisor Hiruko]]]] in ''The Sacred Stones''.
** Duke in ''Return''.
** [[EvilUncle The Shadow Master]] in the [[WesternAnimation/DoubleDragon animated series]] as well as its adaptation ''The Shadow Falls''.
** Koga Shuko in [[Film/DoubleDragon the movie]] and its video game adaptation.
** [[DemBones Skullmageddon]] in ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonNeon''.
** [[BigBadDuumvirate Casey and Shannon Okada]] in ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonIV''.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge''
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' has [[WellIntentionedExtremist Loghain]] and [[GenericDoomsdayVillain the Archdemon]].
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'' has [[TragicMonster the Mother]].
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' deconstructs this trope. While [[spoiler:[[KnightTemplar Meredith]]]] is the FinalBoss, in the end, every party involved in the game's climax is partly to blame for how things turn out, whether by design or simply being a bit too close to the fire. Cassandra tries to find out who the BigBad was, but there is only GreyAndGreyMorality and WellIntentionedExtremist characters.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' has [[AGodAmI the Elder One]] a.k.a. [[spoiler:Corypheus]].
* The ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' games have their fair share of Big Bads:
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI'' had the [[EvilOverlord Dragonlord]].
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'' had [[EvilSorcerer Hargon]], who attacks Moonbrooke and [[spoiler:summons Malroth upon his defeat]].
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'' had [[spoiler:Zoma]].
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'' had Psaro the Manslayer, aka Necrosaro [[spoiler:until the DS version added a new chapter, revealing that Psaro's apparent [[TheDragon Dragon]] had in fact been manipulating him all along]].
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' had [[spoiler:Nimzo (also known as Mildrath)]].
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'' had Murdaw, also known as Mudo [[spoiler:until his defeat, upon which you find out evil still plagues the world. After D(h)uran is defeated, he tells them that he, Murdaw/Mudo, and the other demon lords were just pawns of the true Big Bad, Mortamor (also known as Dethtamoor).]]
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVII'' had Orgodemir, the Demon Lord who sealed most of the continents of the world to prevent God from defeating him. [[spoiler:In the second disk, he tries to seal the continents again, while posing as God Himself.]]
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' had [[VillainousHarlequin Dhoulmagus]] until it turns out [[spoiler:the scepter he stole had been containing the real BigBad, Lord Rhapthorne]].
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'' had [[spoiler:[[FallenAngel Corvus]], a former [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Celestrian]] driven mad by centuries of hatred and solitude.]]
* In ''VideoGame/DungeonMakerIITheHiddenWar'', the BigBad is Revenger, a demon looking to restart a 70,000-year-old war that almost destroyed the world.
* ''VideoGame/DyingLight'': Has Kadir "Rais" Suleiman.
* ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' has [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Slug-For-A-Butt]] for the first game, and [[FeatheredFiend Psy-Crow]] for the second game.
* While not the actual final fight, [[spoiler:Temuorin]] serves this role in ''VisualNovel/EienNoAselia''. Not the most powerful enemy faced, either. Just the one who was in charge all along.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' has a different BigBad in each game, though each often serves or is at least in league with one of the series' [[OurGodsAreDifferent many deities]], often a Daedric Prince. To note:
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena Arena]]'' has the [[EvilChancellor traitorous]] [[CourtMage Imperial Battlemage]] and EvilSorcerer classic Jagar Tharn in this role. Later works reveal that Tharn was secretly in league with [[OmnicidalManiac Mehrunes Dagon]], the Daedric Prince of [[DestroyerDeity Destruction]].
** ''Battlespire'', a DungeonCrawl spin-off game taking place during ''Arena'''s time period, has Mehrunes Dagon himself leading the [[LegionsOfHell Daedric invasion]] of the [[WizardingSchool Imperial Battlespire]].
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'' plays with it, having several plot relevant faction leaders without having a true Big Bad. Lord Woodborne [[spoiler:turns out to have been the one to murder the King of Daggerfall, kicking off the game's main quest]], but doesn't fit the role once the plot gets going. The Underking is the being most directly tied to the main quest and certainly looks the part of an evil villain, but [[spoiler:as it turns out, is not all that far from being a ''good guy'']]. Out of all of the faction leaders who can get what they want in the game's MultipleEndings, Mannimarco is the most malevolent and villainous in terms of his intentions, but still isn't a true Big Bad.
** ''Redguard'', a ActionAdventure spin-off game which tells a smaller-scale, more personal story, has the corrupt Imperial governor Admiral Richton as the main antagonist.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' has the PhysicalGod supervillain Dagoth Ur in this role. Depending on your interpretation of events leading up to and following the events of the game, [[spoiler:Azura, the Daedric Prince of Dawn and Dusk, may be either a BigGood for her role in defeating Dagoth Ur or a GreaterScopeVillain and ManipulativeBastard who manipulated these events to her own ends, ending up as a VillainWithGoodPublicity to the Dunmer people in the end]].
*** The ''Tribunal'' expansion has [[spoiler:Almalexia, one of the Tribunal {{Physical God}}s who, as a result of losing her divinity due to the events of the main game, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation goes completely insane]] and AxeCrazy]].
*** The ''Bloodmoon'' expansion has Hircine, the Daedric Prince of the Hunt. The plot of the expansion is essentially him finding the [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame most worthy competitors]] for his legendary hunt.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' has Mythic Dawn cult leader Mankar Camoran, with Mehurnes Dagon as his patron and BiggerBad.
*** The ''Knights of the Nine'' expansion has the resurrected Ayleid lord Umaril the Unfeathered, with the Daedric Prince Meridia as his [[GreaterScopeVillain divine backer]].
*** The ''Shivering Isles'' expansion has Jyggalag, the Daedric Prince of [[ControlFreak Order]] and [[spoiler:alter-ego of [[BigGood Sheogorath]], Daedric Prince of [[MadGod Madness]]]].
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' has Alduin, the colossal black dragon BeastOfTheApocalypse. The secondary main plot will have either [[FourStarBadass Imperial General Tullius]] or [[RebelLeader Stormcloak leader Ulfric Stormcloak]] in this role depending on which side you choose to support. In either case, the [[AntiHumanAlliance Aldmeri]] [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Dominion]] is the GreaterScopeVillain to either side, with each having different opinions of the best way to deal with them in the inevitable second Great War.
*** The ''Dawnguard'' DLC has Lord Harkon, the leader of the Volkihar [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] clan.
*** The ''Dragonborn'' DLC has Miraak, the [[EvilCounterpart First Dragonborn]]. He is in service to the Daedric Prince Hermaeus Mora, who serves as a GreaterScopeVillain [[spoiler:and [[TheBadGuyWins gets exactly what he wants]] in the end]].
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline Online]]'' has Molag Bal, the Daedric Prince of [[TheCorrupter Corruption]] and Domination, in this role.
* ''VideoGame/ElseHeartbreak'' has [[spoiler:The Ministry, who want to regulate use of Modifiers.]]
* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'' is the Shadow Blot, retooled into an EldritchAbomination made of paint and thinner. Oddly enough, he was created accidentally by ''Mickey Mouse himself''!
* ''VideoGame/EVOSearchForEden'' has a new BigBad for each of the five Eras:
** Era 1: King Kuralesache
** Era 2: King Bee, later succeeded by Queen Bee
** Era 3: The entire Tyrasaur/Tyrannosaurus species
** Era 4: Bird-Man King and Sir Yeti
** Era 5: [[spoiler:Bolbox]]. In addition, it turns out the ones accidentally responsible for all of these except King Kuralesache are [[spoiler:''Martians''.]]
* The big bad of ''VideoGame/{{Fable|I}}'' is the demon Jack of Blades. ''VideoGame/FableII'' has Lord Lucien. ''VideoGame/FableIII'' has The Crawler. It is hinted throughout the series that [[spoiler:Theresa]] may be serving as a GreaterScopeVillain, but this was outright {{jossed}} in ''Fable: The Journey''. [[spoiler:Theresa actually manipulated everything in order to save the world from The Corruptor (the BigBad of the game, and the GreaterScopeVillain of the series as a whole up to that point), so she's the BigGood for all intents and purposes.]]
* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series:
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}'': The Master.
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'': President Richardson.
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'': President Eden, with Colonel Autumn as the DragonInChief.
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': Caesar[[note]]a little trickier since there's an ending path where you join him, but he's still obviously the central figure in the main conflict, and siding with him merely makes your character a VillainProtagonist[[/note]], with Lanius as the DragonInChief. Aside from him, the {{DLC}} all have their own Big Bads:
*** ''Dead Money'': Father Elijah.
*** ''Honest Hearts'': Salt-Upon-Wounds.
*** ''Old World Blues'': Dr. Mobius, [[spoiler:later on revealed to be Dr. Klein]].
*** ''Lonesome Road'': Ulysses, who is also the GreaterScopeVillain of the [=DLCs=].
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'': "Father", the mysterious leader of the Institute. Though Elder Maxson can also be an antagonist if you don't ally with the Brotherhood of Steel.
* The original ''VideoGame/FarCry'' game has Dr. Krieger, [[spoiler: who is also in a BigBadEnsemble with Harland Doyle]].
** The [[VideoGame/FarCry2 second game]] The Jackal, an arms dealer selling weapons to both waring factions, APR and UFLL, who you were sent to kill. [[spoiler: Subverted as he turns out to be one of the good guys (if you can call it that), and by the end of the game you work with him to combat the factions, led by Nick Greaves and Hector Voorhees respectively, which team up by the games climax and intend to commit genocide on the civilians.]]
** The [[VideoGame/FarCry3 third game]] it looks to be Vaas Montenegro, [[spoiler: but it's really [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Hoyt Volker]].]]
*** ''[[VideoGame/FarCry3BloodDragon Blood Dragon]]'' has Ike Sloan.
** [[VideoGame/FarCry4 The fourth game]] has Pagan Min, [[spoiler: but it's not like [[LaResistance Golden Path]] leaders Amita and Sabal are any better, in fact the ending shows us they may be worse]].
** ''[[VideoGame/FarCryPrimal Far Cry: Primal]]'' has Ull, leader of the cannibalistic Udam tribe, [[BigBadEnsemble and]] Batari, leader of the slave-taking, sun-worshipping Izila tribe.
* ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' has Geese Howard.
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': "Heaven’s Feel" route is [[EvilOldFolks ancient mage]] [[TheWormThatWalks Zouken Matou]].
* In ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR]]'', it's a toss-up between humongously powerful psychic StringyHairedGhostGirl Alma and CorruptCorporateExecutive Genevieve Aristide. While Alma has undeniably been wronged, her revenge is... [[MindRape rather extreme]]. As for Aristide, she just wants to keep her job, and to hell with anyone who has to die in order for her to do so. Events would never have gotten as hellish as they did if either one of them wasn't in the picture.
* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series is famous for its Big Bads. Some of the most well-known, one in every game:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' had [[FourIsDeath The Four Fiends]] as the initial big bads, until it's revealed that [[spoiler:Garland, the very first boss you fought, is behind the whole thing, just before you fight his [[OneWingedAngel true form Chaos]]]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' had [[EvilOverlord Emperor Mateus Palamecia]] as the Big Bad. He's also the notable exception in the franchise's RoguesGallery in that he's the major antagonistic force through ''the entire game.'' ''Soul of Rebirth'', the sequel quest released with the Game Boy Advance and PSP remakes, puts an interesting spin on this. It's revealed that after the Emperor was killed the first time, his soul split in two, one half going to Heaven and one half to Hell. The Hell Emperor was the FinalBoss of the original game. In this one, the party meets the Heaven Emperor... who is ''also'' a BigBad who has upset the natural order of the afterlife and generally made a mess of things (apparently he ''planned'' this.) Yes, the Emperor is so evil that ''[[UpToEleven even his good half is evil]]''.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' had [[EvilSorcerer Xande]] as the big bad, who gets trumped by [[spoiler:[[OmnicidalManiac Cloud of Darkness]] after she gets released.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' has Golbez, [[spoiler:Cecil's brother, until later it was revealed he was under the control of the alien Zemus. Zemus is promptly killed by Golbez, and transforms into Zeromus, the game's ultimate Big Bad]].
** ''The After Years'' has the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Creator]], a nigh-incomprehensible alien being out to resurrect its long-dead race, no matter whose planet it has to step on to do so.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' had Exdeath, who at first appears like a conventional evil emperor type character, but is actually [[spoiler:made up of evil spirits that were trapped into a giant tree, and then said tree manifested itself as a humanoid]]. The GBA version also reveals [[spoiler:Enou, a necromancer who was mentioned in the original game as Exdeath's predecessor, another villain who also tried to control the void,]] as an optional superboss battle.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' starts with Emperor Gestahl until he is usurped by Kefka, a MonsterClown who becomes a god by killing Espers and absorbing their souls.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' has Sephiroth, a {{Bishonen}} SuperSoldier with mommy issues. Sephiroth is also the BigBad of all the spin-offs, except the following ones mentioned:
*** ''VideoGame/BeforeCrisis'' has [[MadScientist Fuhito]], usurped for the final battle by [[spoiler:[[OmnicidalManiac Zirconiade]], the SealedEvilInACan he opens up.]]
*** ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'' seems to have [[SuperSoldier Weiss the Immaculate]] as its BigBad, though it's revealed that he was actually [[spoiler:possessed by the VirtualGhost of Professor Hojo, Sephiroth's father and the guy indirectly responsible for everything.]]
*** ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' has [[PsychoPrototype Genesis Rhapsodos]], who was indirectly responsible for everything [[spoiler:Hojo]] wasn't.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' had Sorceress Edea, the schoolmaster of Galbadia Garden, [[spoiler:until it's revealed that she was merely a puppet for Ultimecia, a sorceress from the future. It is revealed that the final boss battle leaves Ultimecia in a weakened state, in which she goes back in time, and possesses Edea, meaning the game is a time-loop paradox. Also, Edea was the wife of Balamb Garden's schoolmaster, Cid Kramer, who created a special forces military group whose sole mission is to exterminate sorceresses, including his wife.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' had Kuja and Garland competing for the position, the winner being [[spoiler:Kuja, although Garland, like Professor Hojo from VII, is responsible for nearly everything in the background]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' has the massive entity Sin [[spoiler:until it is revealed Sin contains Yu Yevon, a god-like being with a cycle to reincarnate itself as the creature Sin]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' has a similar monstrous entity, Vegnagun, who [[spoiler:is actually not a creature but a weapon, piloted by the angry ghost of Shuyin, a hero-like character with a similar appearance to Tidus. It is implied Shuyin was the actual person the Fayths were inspired by when creating Tidus.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' has the Shadow Lord, [[spoiler:revealed to originally be a Galka soldier who sold his soul to the underworld after being wronged in a love affair]], in the original game and acts as the overall Big Bad. Expansion packs also added new villains:
*** ''Rise of the Zilart'': [[spoiler:Eald'narche]]
*** ''Chains of Promathia'': [[spoiler:Promathia]]
*** ''Treasures of Aht Urhgan'': [[spoiler:Alexander]]
*** ''Wings of the Goddess'': [[spoiler:Probably Lilith or [[EldritchAbomination Atomos]]]] (flashback sequences also feature the Shadow Lord's origins)
*** ''A Crystalline Prophecy'': The Seed Crystal, creator of the other crystals which have been causing trouble.
*** ''Evil in Small Doses'': Riko Kupenreich, Exhibit A as to why giving AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks cosmic power is a Very Bad Idea. Even if they are [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Moogles]].
*** ''The Legend Torn, Her Empire Born'': Shantotto. [[spoiler:[[MesACrowd Both of them]]. [[CloningBlues Neither of whom are the original]]. These two are [[DarkIsEvil Domina Shantotto]] and [[LightIsNotGood Belle Shantotto]], respectively.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' had Vayne, the WellIntentionedExtremist prince of Arcadia [[spoiler:who is actually part of a Big Bad Triumvirate with MadScientist Cid and the rogue EldritchAbomination Venat.]]
** ''Revenant Wings'' has Feolthanos, the crazed [[AGodAmI self-proclaimed god]] of a long-lost race, the Aegyl.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' has Primarch Galenth Dysley, who is actually [[spoiler:Barthandelus, the fal'Cie creator and leader of [[FloatingContinent Cocoon]]. He and Orphan, his fellow fal'Cie who powers Cocoon, collaborate together to ensure its destruction.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' has Caius Ballad, [[spoiler:[[TheBadGuyWins and he wins]].]]
** ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'' has [[spoiler:Bhunivelze, the world's supreme deity who created Pulse, Etro, and Lindzei.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has the Garlean Empire and its unseen Emperor, though the plot of the game was never completely finished, as Square Enix decided to scrap the game in favor of a reboot, ''Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn''. It is unknown if the plot of ''A Realm Reborn'' will feature the Garlean Empire as the head villain or not. The closest character the game has to a major villain is Nael van Darnus, one of the leaders of the Garlean invasion, though he is just one of many generals.
*** In ''Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn'', the title of BigBad is given to Gaius van Baelsar, a minor character from the 1.0 storyline who serves the empire as a high-ranking general[=/=]warlord. Although he's a TinTyrant whose main goal is to conquer Eorzea for the Empire, he is a better man than Nael ever was. A FourStarBadass who practices the complete list of EvilVirtues and is [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning, if misguided]], Gaius is a triumphant example of a NobleDemon who successfully activates an ArtifactOfDoom with intent to turn it against the series' JerkassGods, believing he can save Eorzea from itself by removing them from play, taking over the continent and putting himself in charge.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' has the Emperor of Niflheim, Iedolas Aldercapt, [[spoiler: but the actual BigBad is Ardyn Izunia/Ardyn Lucis Caelum, the Chancellor of Niflheim and an ancient HumanoidAbomination who was an ostracised Lucian king and healer. He plots to bring about the Starscourge and end the Lucian royal line. He succeeds in the latter when the last of the line, [[TheHero Noctis]], sacrifices himself to destroy Ardyn.]]
** ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' establishes that in the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' multiverse, the evil god Chaos is the biggest BigBad. He bosses around most of the people listed above, and the only ones who try to double-cross him are [[spoiler:[[TheStarscream Emperor Mateus]], who plans to outlive Chaos to rule the universe]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Golbez]] who, as he was not the BigBad of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV his game]], decides to help his [[spoiler:brother]], Cecil, in getting the crystal.
*** Though Chaos himself actually doesn't boss or even order anyone around at "all". Most of the orders come from either the Emperor, or oddly enough... Kefka and Kuja.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' had [[spoiler:Lord Folmarv, who is actually Hashmal, the second-in-command and acting leader of the Lucavi. Ultima, his superior, would be considered a GreaterScopeVillain of sorts as she is completely incapacitated until the final battle.]]
* The ''FireEmblem'' series is home to quite a few per game.
** In the first game and its remake (Shadow Dragon), we have the BigBadDuumvirate of Earth Dragon Medeus and Demon King Gharnef.
** The second game has the dark god Doma [[spoiler:though he's actually a pretty okay guy; he just has some cosmic-scale sibling rivalry going on]].
** Medeus and Gharnef return in the third game.
** The fourth game has the evil deity Loptous, though he's a very impersonal opponent, [[spoiler:and indeed you never fight him directly]], with most of the direct villainy being done by his high priest Manfroy and his human vessel Yurius.
** The fifth game, a "midquel" to the two halves of the fourth, has the dark priest Veld, though he's actually Manfroy's second-in-command.
** Fire Emblem: Fuin No Tsurugi, the 6th game, had King Zephiel as the main Big Bad.
** Fire Emblem: Rekka No Ken (simply Fire Emblem in the English version), the 7th installment, first focuses on Lundgren, as he's trying to kill Lyn so he can rightfully ascend to the throne of Caelin, but he's just the villain in the prologue. After that, there's a decoy Big Bad in the form of Lord Darin, but the actual wirepuller is the Dark Druid Nergal.
** Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones features The Demon King, Formortiis, as the main enemy. He had been defeated by the five heroes many years ago, but he has been revived due to [[spoiler:Lyon's creation of the Dark Stone from Grado's sacred stone]]. While indirectly responsible for Grado's military ambitions, and all that followed it, he is directly responsible for the appearance of monsters across Magvel.
** Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance stars Ashnard, king of Daein, as the primary antagonist. He desires a world in which the strong dominate the weak, and he seeks to use Lehran's Medallion to awaken a Dark God and gain power. He is the final boss, and most of the earlier bosses are working for him. This includes the Four Riders, most notably the BlackKnight.
** Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn is divided into four parts, each part having its own big bad. In Part I, the primary antagonist is Jarod, a Begnion general who seeks to supress the Dawn Brigade's uprising in Daein. In Part II, it is Lord Ludveck, who wants to displace Queen Elincia as ruler of Crimea. Part III is unique, in that you alternately play as opposing armies; it could be considered Micaiah, or Ike, but it would better be considered [[spoiler:Pelleas' signing of the blood pact, or rather Lekain, who orchestrated said deed]]. In part IV, the big bad is Goddess Ashera, who seeks to destroy the world, which she has deemed irredeemable, [[spoiler:at the urging of Lehran]].
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' has Grima, the fell dragon. In the future, Grima's killing Chrom ushered in an age of darkness and brought mankind to the brink of extinction. To prevent this, [[spoiler:the children of Chrom and his allies, led by Chrom's daughter Lucina, used Naga's power to travel back in time to prevent Grima's awakening. It is later revealed that the [[PlayerCharacter Avatar]] was created to be a vessel for Grima - and that Grima, still possessing the Avatar from the bad future, ''also'' came back to the past, following Lucina's army to ensure his own existence]].
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' has [[spoiler: Anankos, who creates the Fake Garon before the game itself, mind controls Takumi, and is the Final Boss of the third path]].
* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' has Freddy Fazbear himself.
** In ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'', Freddy takes a backseat to the Puppet, [[spoiler: as he is the one who gave the other animatronics life]], although Freddy is still TheHeavy.
** In ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'', Freddy has become a mere phantom, and the new BigBad is Springtrap AKA [[spoiler: the Murderer and the GreaterScopeVillain of the series, possessing a new body of his own]]. Also, it repaints [[spoiler: the Puppet]] as the ''BigGood''. A really misguided GoodIsNotNice BigGood, but one nevertheless.
** While previews of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4'' painted Nightmare Freddy as the BigBad, the true big bad [[spoiler: was the brother of the protagonist. His bullying directly led to the protagonist becoming the Bite of '87 victim.]]
** [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation Sister Location]] has Circus Baby, [[spoiler:who later merges with the other animatronics to become Ennard.]]
** Fittingly enough for a game intended to be the GrandFinale, ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator'' pretty much has a BigBadEnsemble of many of the Big Bads come back: Springtrap, Baby, a now Molten Freddy ([[spoiler:who's made up of the other parts of Ennard after they rejected Baby]]), and a new Freddy-esque Big Bad named Lefty, [[spoiler:who's revealed to actually be the Puppet in disguise, and also confirms the Puppet is the Big Good.]].
** All that said, the true villain of the franchise is the murderer, [[spoiler:William Afton]], who's responsible for all the evil surrounding Fazbear Entertainment in the first place (being the one who murdered the children whos's souls inhabit the animatronics).
* ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' has [[EvilOverlord Emperor Palpatine]]. ''The Force Unleashed II'' has [[BlackKnight Darth Vader]], since Palpatine is not physically present in the game.
* ''VideoGame/ForgottenWorlds'' has the Celestial Emperor Bios, a powerful being bent on taking over all life on the universe, one planet at a time.
* The UsefulNotes/DSiWare game entitled ''Foto Face: The Face Stealer Strikes'' has the professor as the antagonist, though the description of the game mentions the professor as the Face Stealer. The professor copies your face and then causes you pure hell by wrecking havoc, causing some to blame you, while some are working for the professor, and the remaining others don't know what the heck they are doing, attacking you for no reason. However, six of the characters are not evil. Anyway, you have to chase down the professor and fight him.
* Queen Myrrah in the ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' series.
* Rez in the ''VideoGame/{{Gex}}'' series.
* ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'': Astaroth
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarSeries''
** Ares in the first game
** Persephone in "Chains Of Olympus"
** Thanatos in "Ghost Of Sparta"
** Alecto in "Ascension"
** Zeus in the second and third main installments.
* ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe'' has [[AnAxeToGrind Death Adder]] is the arcade version. [[spoiler:In the console version, [[PaletteSwap Death Bringer]] is the true BigBad and TheManBehindTheMan to Death Adder.]] In 'II'', the BigBad is Dark Guld, and in ''III'', the BigBad is Damud Hellstrike.
* Each ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' game has one:
** The first game has Saturos and Menardi as a BigBadDuumvirate, though Saturos is the dominant of the two.
** The second game has Agatio and Karst as a BigBadDuumvirate, though Agatio is the dominant one of the pair, and ItsPersonal for Karst.
** ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'' has Arcanus, [[spoiler:whom any person who played the first games will instantly recognize as Alex.]]
* The ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'' series:
** Bacterion is usually the Big Bad of the Gradius games.
** Gofer in Gradius II, IV, and Nemesis III (not to be confused with Gradius III)
** Dr. Venom in Nemesis II, Nemesis III, [[spoiler:Salamander for the MSX version, Gradius V, and Gradius Rebirth]]
** Zelos in Salamander/Life Force
** Doom in Salamander 2
** O.V.U.M (Original Visions of Ultimate Monster)in Gradius Gaiden
* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series:
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto2'': The Zaibatsu Corporation.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'': Catalina.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'': Sonny Forelli.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': Frank Tenpenny and [[spoiler:Big Smoke]].
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoAdvance'': [[spoiler:Vinnie]] and King Courtney.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories'': Massimo Torini.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'': Jerry Martinez and the Mendez Brothers.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': [[spoiler:Dimitri Rascalov]], who is responsible for almost all the major conflicts in the game. If you choose the Revenge Ending, [[spoiler:Jimmy Pegorino]] becomes the BigBad and FinalBoss.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned'': Billy Grey.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony'': Ray Bulgarin.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoChinatownWars'': [[spoiler:Wu "Kenny" Lee]].
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': Devin Weston and Steve Haines.
* ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'': Hector [=LeMans=].
* All VideoGame/GuildWars campaigns have Big Bads of some sort, except perhaps Prophecies (which has several evil groups). The Nightfall campaign also [[spoiler:makes Abaddon the big bad of the first three campaigns]].
* Lou the Devil in the VideoGame/GuitarHero series tries to get aspiring rock-stars to sign his contract so he would get possession of their souls, and also kidnaps the God of Rock in order to get an artifact to drain audiences of their souls.
* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' has That Man, who created the Gears, who in turn have wreaked havoc on the world. He's a pretty ambiguous guy (no one even knows his name) and not much is known about him or what he's planning.
* ''VideoGame/{{GUN}}'': Colonel Thomas Magruder.
* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', and its expansion packs ''Decay'', ''Blue Shift'', and ''Opposing Force'', the Big Bad would have to be the Nihilanth, the creature that was maintaining the rift all along.
** In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' and its Episodes, it's Wallace Breen, former administrator of Black Mesa and the human ruler of Earth under the Combine. However, with [[spoiler:Breen's death at the end of the game, it's not certain who the actual BigBad is, but it's highly likely that the leader(s) of the Combine will surface in Episode 3]].
* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
** ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' lacks a specific BigBad, though [[spoiler:343 Guilty Spark]] is featured as TheHeavy during the final act, and is directly behind one of the two massive threats to the galaxy.
** ''VideoGame/Halo2'' and ''VideoGame/Halo3'' has the BigBadEnsemble of the Prophet of Truth, and the Gravemind. Truth due to being the leader of the Covenant and primary instigator of the Human-Covenant War and Gravemind for being the {{Hivemind}} of [[TheVirus the Flood]]. Truth is also this for ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'', though he only physically appears in the [[HarderThanHard Legendary]] ending.
** ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'' introduces a new Big Bad in the form of [[spoiler:the Didact, the former military leader of the Forerunners]]. Also, Jul 'Mdama, leader of the Covenant remnant, is this for the ''Spartan Ops'' co-op campaign.
** ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'' has [[spoiler: Cortana]], who's had a FaceHeelTurn offscreen in between games.
** The closest thing ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' has to a BigBad is the unnamed Elite Field Marshal who seems to be leading most of the Covenant ground troops that the player personally fights (specifically, those of the Fleet of Valiant Prudence).
** ''VideoGame/HaloWars'' has Arbiter [[DragonInChief Ripa 'Moramee]]. While subordinate to the Prophet of Regret, Ripa is a much more authoritative and physical threat.
** ''VideoGame/HaloWars2'' has [[GeniusBruiser Atriox]], leader of the Banished, a Covenant splinter-faction.
* The Big Bad of ''[[Videogame/HarmoKnight HarmoKnight]]'' is Gargan, in which his intentions are to [[spoiler:[[TakeOverTheWorld become ruler of all of Melodia]]]]. He even planned to [[spoiler:''[[HypnotizeThePrincess use the princess as an energy boost,]]'' which would let him fill the world with ''never ending'' noise, thus ''[[EarthShatteringKaboom destroying the planet of Melodia.]]'']] That's two, no, ''three'' [[EvilPlan Evil Plans]] for the price of one!
* Atticus Thorn in ''The Haunted Mansion''.
* ''VideoGame/HeavenlySword'': appears to have [[EvilOverlord King Bohan]], [[spoiler:but it is actually [[TheDogWasTheMastermind the raven]].]]
* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' has [[SerialKiller the Origami Killer]] [[spoiler:a.k.a. [[DirtyCop Scott Shelby.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/HeroesMustDie'': Lord Murder
* ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}''
** Professor Ort-Meyer in the original ''[[VideoGame/HitmanCodename47 Codename 47]]''.
** Sergei Zavorotko in ''[[VideoGame/Hitman2SilentAssassin Silent Assassin]]''.
** Inspector Fournier in ''[[VideoGame/HitmanContracts Contracts]]'', as the one who managed to put 47 in the jeopardy that constitutes the game's FramingDevice.
** Alexander Leland Cayne, the leader of the Franchise in ''[[VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney Blood Money]]''.
** [[Videogame/HitmanAbsolution Absolution]] had a BigBadEnsemble with [[FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit Blake Dexter]] and [[GeneralFailure Benjamin Travis]] as the central antagonists who both want 47 and the child he's protecting dead.
** The [[Videogame/Hitman2016 2016 game]] doesn't have a central villain, instead dealing with the ICA being caught in a proxy war between [[TheIlluminati Providence]] and [[MysteriousBacker The Shadow Client]].
* Each game in the VideoGame/{{Homeworld}} franchise has a pretty clear-cut example:
** The [[TheEmperor Taiidan emperor]] from ''Homeworld''. Spends most of the game in the shadows, but according to the [[AllThereInTheManual backstory]] for ''Homeworld: Cataclysm'', he was a twisted, ruthless mess of a ruler who managed to stay on his throne by cloning himself, and who ordered the destruction of a planet [[spoiler:-- namely YOURS --]] mostly as a publicity stunt.
** [[TheVirus The Beast infection]] is the primary antagonist in ''Homeworld: Cataclysm'', and towards the end of the game it is controlled by [[spoiler:The [[HiveMind Nagarrok]], an ancient alien vessel that picked up the Beast infection in Hyperspace]]. It even has its own [[TheDragon Dragon]] in the [[spoiler:infected lower half of the Somtaaw Command Ship]].
** [[GalacticConqueror The nomadic Vaygr]] from ''Homeworld 2'' are led by [[DarkMessiah Makaan]] in their attempts to conquer the galaxy. Unusually for a BigBad, he's [[spoiler:killed before the end of the game, and you spend the last mission fighting off what's left of his fleet as they try to bomb your planet.]]
** [[VisionaryVillain The K'Had Sajuuk]], leader of the [[WellIntentionedExtremist Kiith Gaalsien]], in ''Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak'', who seeks to stop the Kharaki space program and destroy the Coalition to bring peace to and protect Kharak.
* Caleb Goldman in ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead'' series. However, there is a GreaterScopeVillain, and it's the Mysterious Man.
* The demon Varalys in the ''Hydlide'' series.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Ikaruga}}'' has [[AGodAmI Tenro Hourai]], with [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/RadiantSilvergun the Stone-Like]]]] as the GreaterScopeVillain.
* ''VideoGame/InFamous'' has Kessler [[spoiler:until the end reveals the Beast as the true BigBad]].
** Joseph Bertrand III in the [[VideoGame/InFamous2 second game]], with [[spoiler:the Beast as the GreaterScopeVillain]].
** ''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon'' has Brooke Augustine.
* ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' has an AlternateUniverse version of Franchise/{{Superman}}.
** ''VideoGame/Injustice2'' has ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}, [[spoiler: though the last chapter has the position [[HijackedByGanon Hijacked By Superman]].]]
* The last episode of ''VideoGame/JackFrench'' reveals that [[spoiler:Vince was the serial killer of that episode, and that he killed Nami from episode 1 as well]].
* ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' plays with this trope: [[spoiler:Death's Hand first appears to be a bad guy acting on his own, and then it is revealed that he has been acting on Emperor Sun Hai's orders all along and the Emperor was the one who set up the death of the Water Dragon and the upsetting of the balance in the first place. Once you defeat the Emperor, your kindly old Master Li wanders in, reveals that this was all part of his EvilPlan to get vengeance on his brother Sun Hai, and kills you, and it turns out that he was actually the mastermind behind the massacre at Dirge, as well as the final boss of the game.]]
* From ''Franchise/JakAndDaxter'':
** Gol and Maia for ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy''.
** Baron Praxis and [[spoiler:Metal Kor]] for ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade''.
** Count Veger and [[spoiler:Erol]] for ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander''.
** [[spoiler:Kaeden, Metal Kor's [[TheDragon Dragon]],]] in ''Daxter''.
** [[spoiler:Duke Skyheed]] for ''The Lost Frontier''.
* Mizar, a.k.a. [[spoiler:Tribal leader Jeff's long-lost brother Barry]], in ''VideoGame/JetForceGemini''.
* In ''VideoGame/JusticeLeagueHeroesTheFlash'', [[spoiler:Braniac]] is the one who united the villains and unleashed the robot army.
* ''VideoGame/KaoTheKangaroo'': In the first and second game, it's the Hunter who captures Kao's friends. In the third game, it's the Volcano God (or "the fiery guy") who unleashes lava monsters onto the island.
* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' has Medusa, the BigBad of the original ''VideoGame/KidIcarus''. [[spoiler:At least for the first third of the game. Then it's revealed that she was just a pawn for [[TheManBehindTheMan Hades.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct''.
** Gargos in KI2 and KI 2013 (Season 3)
** AIRA in KI 2013 (Season 2)
* The ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series has the scientist turned madman Master Xehanort serving as the main BigBad. While by the first game's timeline he is long gone, aspects of him serve as villains of almost every game in the series. There are others. The list of villains in each game is as follows:
** Ansem, Seeker of Darkness [[spoiler:AKA Xehanort's Heartless,]] in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI''.
** Marluxia for Sora's story, and Ansem for Riku's in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories''.
** [[spoiler:Xehanort's Nobody,]] Xemnas, leader of Organization [=XIII=] in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.
** It's up in the air who the BigBad of ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]'' is due to all but the very end playing out like a VillainEpisode. Xemnas appears, but he is mostly removed from the action and it is not until the end of the game that he starts to become a threat. Saix is the best candidate as he is a more direct antagonist. The Heartless themselves may also serve as candidates considering that they are the primary enemies and are not being led by anyone else.
** In ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded Coded]]'', the Big Bad turns out to be [[spoiler:the data version of Sora's Heartless.]]
** Master Xehanort in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep''.
** Xehanort is the villain again in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', though [[spoiler:his past self]] does most of the legwork.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning''[='s=] Big Bad is Gadflow, leader of the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Tuatha Deohn]]. [[spoiler:Tirnoch is the GreaterScopeVillain and the actual final encounter of the game's main quest.]] The various factions also feature their own Big Bads of their respective questlines; the House of Ballads has the Maid of Windemere, the Warsworn have Niskaru Lord Khamazandu, the Scholia Arcana has the Dark Empyrean, the Travelers have the Hierophant/[[spoiler:Argine of Sun Camp]], the House of Sorrows has Saturnyn/[[spoiler:King Bisarane]], and the House of Valor has [[spoiler:Tyr Magnus]]. The Big Bad of the first DLC, ''The Legend of Dead Kel'', is of course Dead Kel himself, while the second, ''Teeth of Naros'', features [[spoiler:Primos Anokatos]]. Notably, more than a few of these Big Bads (the Maid, Khamazandu, and the Hierophant) can actually be ''sided with'' rather than being fought.
* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' varies away from it from time to time, but overall, the major villain of the series is Orochi.
* The ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series has many Big Bads.
** ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand'': King Dedede.
** ''VideoGame/KirbysAdventure'': King Dedede at first glance, [[spoiler:but he's just trying to seal away Nightmare, the real BigBad.]]
** ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2'': King Dedede at first, [[spoiler:when he's actually possessed by Dark Matter.]]
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'':
*** King Dedede in Spring Breeze, Dyna Blade in [[AntagonistTitle Dyna Blade]], Wham Bam Rock in The Great Cave Offensive, Meta Knight in Revenge of Meta Knight, and [[spoiler:Marx]] in Milky Way Wishes.
*** The DS remake has King Dedede (in Masked form) in Revenge of the King, Wham Bam Jewel in Helper to Hero, Galacta Knight in Meta Knightmare Ultra, and [[spoiler:Marx Soul]] in The True Arena.
** ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3'': [[spoiler:Dark Matter. Or more specifically, Zero, the core of Dark Matter.]]
** ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'': [[spoiler:Zero again. This time reincarnated as 0[[superscript:2]].]]
** ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheAmazingMirror'': [[spoiler:Dark Meta Knight at first, when it is actually Dark Mind.]]
** ''VideoGame/KirbyCanvasCurse'': Drawcia.
** ''VideoGame/KirbySqueakSquad'': Daroach, [[spoiler:although [[SealedEvilInACan Dark]] [[GreaterScopeVillain Nebula]] is the FinalBoss.]]
** ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'': Yin-Yarn.
** ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack'': Necrodeus.
** ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'': Landia at first, [[spoiler:before eventually revealed to be Magolor.]]
** ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'': Queen Sectonia in Kirby's story, and [[spoiler:either the Dimension Mirror or Dark Meta Knight]] in King Dedede's story.
** ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheRainbowCurse'': Claycia [[spoiler:who is revealed to be possessed by Dark Crafter.]]
** ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'': President Haltmann [[spoiler:before being betrayed by his own computer Star Dream]] in Kirby's story, and [[spoiler:either Star Dream itself or Galacta Knight]] in Meta Knight's story.
** ''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe'': [[spoiler:[[EvilTwin Dark Taranza]], who himself is TheDragon to King D-Mind.]]
** ''VideoGame/KirbysBlowoutBlast'': King Dedede, once again.
* ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}'': Ghadius in ''Door the Phantomile'', [[spoiler:The King of Sorrow]] in ''Lunatea's Veil'', [[spoiler:Bagoo]] in ''Empire of Dreams'', Garlen in ''Klonoa Beach Volleyball'' and ''Dream Champ Tournament'', and Tenebrae Hue in ''Dream Traveler of Noctis Sol''.
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' gets its fair share, with the first having Darth Malak. [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords The second game]] has Darth Traya, but [[GreaterScopeVillain Darth Nihilus]] and Sion get their share of screen time as well.
* ''Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade'': [[SinisterMinister Lord Bishop]].
* ''VideoGame/LANoire'': BigBadDuumvirate of [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Harlan Fontaine]] and Leland Monroe.
* ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'': [[spoiler: Marlene, leader of the Fireflies.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheLastStory'' presents Zangurak as this, until it's revealed that [[spoiler:Dagran is the real villain]].
* The AI Director itself in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' is the big bad behind every possible bad thing that happens to the players, especially on Expert difficulty where all it does is punish players for doing badly and slaughtering them for trying to be good.
* In the ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' series, while the morality of all of the characters is somewhat difficult to determine, by the end of ''Defiance'', it seems to be firmly established that the big bads of the series are [[spoiler:the Hylden Lord (and his entire race in general)]] and [[spoiler:the Elder God]].
* The textbook Big Bad for ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series is Ganon/Ganondorf. Ganon is frequently incapable of ''[[HijackedByGanon not]]'' being the Big Bad. There are exceptions, however:
** There's no defined Big Bad in ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'', but rather Link must fight the remnants of Ganon's army and the guardians of the jewels to ''prevent'' the revival of Ganon and save Princess Zelda.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'': Nightmare/Dethl plagues the Wind Fish and keeps him from waking up. [[spoiler: Interestingly enough, it actually sees [[TheHero Link]] himself as the real BigBad, since his mission to wake the Wind Fish would cause [[DreamLand Koholint Island]] to fade from existence and depriving it of a place to rule.]]
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' has the eponymous mask, though it spends the majority of the game possessing Skull Kid.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwords'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'' both have Vaati as the BigBad.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'' has [[spoiler: Bellum, an evil demon of chaos.]]
** The BigBad of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'' is Chancellor Cole, who wishes to free the GreaterScopeVillain [[spoiler: King Malladus.]]
** [[EvilOverlord Demon Lord Ghirahim]] takes the role in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword''. [[spoiler:His boss, [[GreaterScopeVillain Demon King Demise]], is the FinalBoss, but he spends most of the game as a SealedEvilInACan. The last thing Demise does, though, is curse the future Links and Zeldas to face an incarnation of his hatred, who is series BigBad Ganon.]]
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' features Yuga as the primary antagonist. [[spoiler:He is actually the only villain to ''defy'' being HijackedByGanon, as immediately after he is revived, Yuga fuses with him, retaining his role as the BigBad.]]
* A long slew of 'em in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon''.
** For the entirety of disc 1, it's the literal DiscOneFinalBoss Emperor Doel, leader of Imperial Sandora. Afterwards, focus shifts to the platinum-haired [[spoiler: Wingly]] Lloyd, but he explains that he's working for a mysterious Emperor Diaz, who supposedly died about 11,000 years ago. Cut to the end of disc 3, where it's revealed that Emperor Diaz is actually [[spoiler: Dart's father, Zieg Feld, who supposedly died when the Black Monster attacked Neet.]] Cut to the very end of disc 4, where it's revealed that [[spoiler:Zieg was possessed by Melbu Frahma, the leader of the Winglies from over 11,000 years ago, who was cut down by Zieg, who was, in turn, [[{{TakenForGranite}} turned to stone.]] Turns out after all those years, Melbu's spirit was inhabiting Zieg's Red-Eye Dragoon spirit, waiting until the time was right to merge with the Virage Embryo to destroy all of Endiness.]]
** The Black Monster seems like one of these, until it's revealed in disc 3 that the so-called "Black Monster" is actually [[spoiler: your party member Rose, who's been going around murdering children for [[{{Really700YearsOld}} over 11,000 years]] to ensure that the Moon Child never reunites the God of Destruction's body with it's soul.]]
** The Virage Embryo is this due to its nature of being the body of the god of destruction, whose primary goal is to exterminate all life on Endiness so Jerkass god Soa can remake the planet.
* ''VideoGame/LEGODimensions'': Lord Vortech. [[{{FromaSingleCell}} And he can regenerate.]]
* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'': In the first three episodes, it seems that Nathan Prescott is behind the drugging of girls at Vortex club parties, and behind Rachel's disappearance. In the fourth episode, [[spoiler: we learn Nathan is but a pawn to the true apparent mastermind, Mark Jefferson.]]
* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'': The overarching Big Bad is ultimately revealed to be [[spoiler:Oersted/Odio, a knight turned demon king who incarnates throughout the game as the final boss of each chapter save the one detailing his Start of Darkness. The Big Bad of Oersted's own chapter is Straybow, who is simply tired of being second best to Oersted and orchestrated his fall]].
* ''VideoGame/LostEden'': [[EvilOverlord Moorkus Rex]].
* ''VideoGame/LostOdyssey'': [[spoiler: [[SmugSnake Gongora]]]].
* ''VideoGame/LuxarenAllure'': EvilOverlord Darkloft.
* ''VideoGame/MafiaTheCityOfLostHeaven'' has [[spoiler: Don Ennio Sallieri]].
** ''VideoGame/MafiaII'' has Don Carlo Falcone.
** ''Videogame/MafiaIII'' has Don Sal Marcano.
* ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}'': [[ManipulativeBastard Lionel Starkweather]].
** Its sequel has [[spoiler:Leo Kasper, who kills Pickman and remains the antagonist for the rest of the game]].
* ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion'' initially appears to have [[MadDoctor Dr. Fred Edison]] [[spoiler:but he is actually being controlled by [[MagicMeteor the Meteor]].]]
** ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'' has [[AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage Purple Tentacle]]
* ''VideoGame/MapleStory'' seems to be angling to have the Black Magician as the Big Bad. He sure fits it. He had several heroes frozen in ice for a while, chased the people from continent to continent, and is willing to do it all twice.
* ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'':
** The first game provides a rare, non-villainous (though certainly antagonistic) example: Durandal. Although he has his own goals and desires like any other being, Durandal was the one that set things up for the first game; he's ultimately responsible for everything that happened to the titular ''Marathon'' ship. Sure, he helps you halfway through, but only because it fits with what he was aiming for in the end.
** In the second game, T'fear is introduced as the commander in charge of Pfhor Battle Group Seven, but he isn't even encountered, much less killed, and serves more as a GreaterScopeVillain. Later in the game, Tycho is reintroduced, this time allied with the Pfhor, trying to kill Durandal and the humans (he has bad experience with both). Tycho, however, is killed about halfway through, and the rest of the game deals with cleaning up the mess.
* The BigBad in both ''Marathon Infinity: Blood Tides of Lh'Owon'' and ''VideoGame/PathwaysIntoDarkness'' is the W'rkn'cacnter, an EldritchAbomination capable of destroying the universe. In both cases, the Jjaro help you stop it. In ''Infinity'', Tycho ''thinks'' that he's the Big Bad, but he doesn't know the universe is being threatened and that he's essentially a [[BigBadWannabe wannabe]], as the Jjaro are transporting you through space and time (although he ''does'' force you to go into another timeline, thanks to his capture of you).
* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' and predecessors:
** ''VideoGame/XMenChildrenOfTheAtom'' has Magneto in a very loose adaptation of the ''ComicBook/FatalAttractions'' comic book arc.
** ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' has Thanos in a very loose adaptation of ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet'' comic book arc.
** ''VideoGame/XMenVsStreetFighter'' has Apocalypse randomly kidnapping X-Men and Street Fighters for some reason.
** ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter'' has Apocalypse doing it ''again'', with his enhanced enforcer [[OriginalGeneration Cyber-Akuma]] serving as a DragonTheirFeet.
** ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomClashOfSuperHeroes'' has Onslaught in a loose adaptation of the ''ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}'' comic book arc.
** ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2'' has the mysterious entity Abyss, an OriginalGeneration.
** ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' and ''Ultimate'' has the BigBadDuumvirate between Albert Wesker and Dr. Doom, which unwitingly brings in Galactus for a FinalBoss fight.
** ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite'' has [[FusionDance Ultron-Sigma]], the merged form of Marvel's Ultron and Capcom's [[Franchise/MegaManX Sigma]] in a bid to TakeOverTheWorld and eliminate all [[OmnicidalManiac organic life.]]
* Rogue turian Spectre Saren Arterius serves as the Big Bad in ''[[VideoGame/MassEffect1 Mass Effect]]''. [[spoiler:Only, [[TheReveal he's not.]] The ''real'' Big Bad is [[SapientShip Sovereign]], [[TheDragon Saren's]] flagship, in reality a fully-sentient member of an ancient race of "machine devils" known as the Reapers.]]
** And in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' we have the Collector General, [[spoiler:but, again, it's a fake-out, and the real Big Bad is Harbinger, a Reaper merely useing the General to control the Collectors.]]
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[spoiler:the Catalyst.]]
* ''VideoGame/MasterOfTheMonsterLair'': The Devil Prince. Also The prince's father, Devil Lord, who you can fight in the post-game.
* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne''
** [[spoiler: Nicole Horne]] in ''Max Payne''.
** [[spoiler: Vladimir Lem]] in ''Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne''.
** [[spoiler: Victor Branco]] in ''Max Payne 3''.
* ''VideoGame/MeatBoy'' has [[FetusTerrible Dr. Fetus]].
* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'':
** Hermann Müller in both the first game and ''Allied Assault''.
** Rudolf Ulbricht von Sturmgeist in ''Frontline''.
** Masataka Shima in ''Rising Sun''.
** Grad von Scrader in ''European Assault''.
* No matter who starts the plot in each original ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' game, you can guarantee that Dr. Wily is behind it in some way. Same goes for Sigma in the ''X'' games ([[VideoGame/MegaManX6 with]] [[VideoGame/MegaManX8 three]] [[VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission exceptions]]), and eventually, Dr. Weil in the ''Zero'' games. Even ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' does this, with the villains of the 2nd, 4th, and 5th games being connected to -- you guessed it -- Dr. Wily.
** Prior to the ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series, then leader of the Maverick Hunters, Sigma, was infected with the Zero Virus after he fought the rampaging Zero, the last creation of -- yup -- Dr. Wily. Sigma eventually succumbed to the virus and turned maverick himself.
** Dr. Weil of ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' fame seems to be following in Wily's footsteps. Not only is he the one who caused TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, he continues to plague the world, even after his and Omega's exile. Most of the machinations behind the series' first half can be indirectly linked to Weil. And, in ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'', it was hinted that it wasn't Serpent, Master Albert, [[spoiler:or Master Thomas]] who was the true Big Bad, but it was actually [[ArtifactOfDoom Model W]], which is what remained of Dr. Weil's own consciousness. And Weil was closely linked to Omega, who was what Wily's Greatest Creation was supposed to be, thus creating a distinct intellectual link between the two {{Big Bad}}s.
** Mr. King in the third ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'' game.
* The ''Franchise/MetalGear'' series is probably best known for its [[MindScrew mind screwiness]] and [[GambitRoulette Gambit Roulettes]], and while the series as a whole appears to go through several ArcVillain Big Bads, culminating in the reveal that [[spoiler:there has never been a true BigBad at all]], the confusion is mitigated somewhat by the fact that each individual game has a BigBad of its own:
** Big Boss in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGear1 Metal Gear]]'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake''.
** Liquid Snake in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''.
** Solidus Snake in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''.
** Colonel Volgin in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''.
** Gene in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPortableOps''.
** Liquid Ocelot in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots''.
** Hot Coldman in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker''.
** [[spoiler: Senator Steven Armstrong]] in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''.
** Skull Face in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', though [[spoiler: the closest there is to a Big Bad in Chapter 2 of ''The Phantom Pain'' is Huey]] .
* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' has General Morden, although he's constantly upstaged by the Mars People or some other threat. In ''Metal Slug 6'', both Morden ''and'' the Mars People are forced into an EnemyMine situation by the Venusians.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' games Ridley is Samus' ArchEnemy, but he is rarely a BigBad in his own right; usually, he's TheDragon to Mother Brain or a different villain. Presented chronologically, each game in the series has its own BigBad:
** E-Manga: Mother Brain
** ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' and ''[[VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission Zero Mission]]'': Mother Brain
** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'':
*** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'': [[BigBadEnsemble Meta Ridley and Metroid Prime]]
*** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeHunters'': Gorea
*** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'': Emperor Ing (Dark Samus also appears, albeit as an OutsideContextProblem)
*** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'': Dark Samus, this time as the actual mastermind
** ''VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus'' doesn't have a definite villain, as the Queen Metroid only serves as an instinctive FinalBoss for being the one breeding the Metroids (the killing objective for Samus in the game). The same applies to the [[VideoGameRemake remake]], ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns''.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid:'' Mother Brain
** ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM:'' [[spoiler:MB, the Federation's attempt to re-create Mother Brain. The epilogue implies that ''Phantoon'' of all people may have been involved.]]
** ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion:'' The X Parasites in general, with the SA-X as TheHeavy and most visible of their number.
** Ridley aside, Mother Brain is the most recurrent antagonist among the 2D games, and the ''Prime'' games are all tied by the threat of Phazon, which serves as the trilogy's GreaterScopeVillain.
* The ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'' series has had a number of Big Bads over its very long run.
** Might and Magic 1 to 5: Sheltem, a rogue Planetary Guardian, one of many created by [[ThePrecursors The Ancients]], who went a little bonkers and decided the best way to protect his own planet was to destroy all the other ones that were created by the Ancients.
** Archibald Ironfist was the BigBad of Heroes of Might and Magic 2, being the evil contender in the titular Succession War. He seems to be set up as this in Might and Magic 7, after being released in 6, but ultimately is upstaged by his [[TheStarscream Terran advisors]], who themselves fail to reach this level by virtue of not causing most of the problems the heroes must solve.
** Might and Magic 6 and Heroes of Might and Magic 3: The Kreegan, the ancient enemies of the Ancients, although their leadership changed quite frequently due to consistently being killed by the games' heroes. M&M 6 had the Kreegan Queen and [=HMM3=] had Xenofex and, after Xenofex gets killed in M&M 7[[note]]He is not the Big Bad of that game - no one is, most problems the heroes must solve being actually independent -, but he gets killed in it.[[/note]], Lucifer.
** Might and Magic 8: Escaton the Destroyer causes, directly or indirectly, most of the problems the heroes must face. As opposed to Sheltem, however, [[spoiler: he is not malfunctioning, just caught between his programming and the realization that the Ancients might have failed to consider this situation or deemed it acceptable losses.]]
** Might and Magic 9 and Heroes of Might and Magic 4: These two games mainly suffered from CanonDisContinuity due to 3DO games crashing and burning at the time they were made.
** ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic 5'' and ''VideoGame/DarkMessiah'': The Demon Sovereign, Kha-Beleth.
* ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'': [[spoiler:Mayor Callaghan, although she is not physically present in the game]]. A mysterious assassin [[spoiler:revealed to be Celeste Wilson]] and [[spoiler:Jacknife]] are the physically present villains in the game, but neither of them are at the top of the villain food chain.
* ''VideoGame/MonkeyHero'' has the Nightmare King
* ''Monster Girl Quest'' has [[spoiler:[[GodIsEvil Illias]], TheCreator who seeks to destroy the entire monster race. She even killed off an entire city for coexistence between monsters and humans, and sealed a former Hero for rebelling against her. Her deep-seated hatred for monsters was even made into a ''religion''. The she started planning to recreate the world in her own image after [[TheHero Luka]] rebels against her at the end of Part 2, '''[[KillEmAll by killing every]] [[OmnicidalManiac monster and human on the entire planet!]]''']]
* ''VideoGame/MoonDiver'' has Faust, a mysterious boy with the power to grant life to the inanimate and a desire to eliminate humanity off Earth so he can claim it as his own.
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'':
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' has [[EvilSorcerer Shang Tsung]].
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombatII'' and ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 3]]'' both have Shao Kahn, who is also TheManBehindTheMan to Shang Tsung in the first game. Due to being retellings/reboots of the same plot, ''VideoGame/MortalKombatShaolinMonks'' and ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' has Shao Kahn back at this position.
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombatMythologiesSubZero'' and ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'' has Shinnok. Being the retelling of this events during the new continuity, ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' brings back Shinnok at the helm of the story.
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombatSpecialForces'' has Kano.
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'' has a BigBadDuumvirate between Quan Chi and Shang Tsung.
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception'' has Onaga.
* ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'' has Giegue.
** Giegue also comes back in the fangame ''[[VideoGame/CognitiveDissonance Mother: Cognitive Dissonance]]'', though he starts to change his name halfway through to Giygas the Transcendent One.
** Giegue returns as the BigBad in the sequel, ''Mother 2'', aka ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', though in the American game he's called Giygas.
** [[spoiler:Porky Minch, who serves as TheDragon for Giegue/Giygas early in the game, later has a role-reversal when it is revealed that Giygas has lost the ability to make his own thoughts, and Porky winds up pulling the strings at the end, taunting the heroes as they battle a powerful but dumb Giygas.]]
** In ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', [[spoiler:Porky Minch, aka the bratty kid from the second game who turns out to be TheDragon to Giygas]] is revealed to be the BigBad in the final chapter.
* ''VideoGame/MurderedSoulSuspect'': [[KidsAreCruel Abigail Williams]].
* ''VideoGame/MysteryOfMortlakeMansion'': The EvilSorceror, [[spoiler:Cagliostro]], who dwells in the "shadowy" mansion.
* ''VideoGame/NAM1975'': [[spoiler: [[MadScientist Dr. R. Muckly]].]]
* ''VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom'' has [[OriginalGeneration Saya]], but near the end of the game, [[spoiler: the true villain is actually [[GreaterScopeVillain 99]].]] Its SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' has Due Frabellum as the main antagonist, [[spoiler: however, [[TheHeavy she is only the villain]] until [[GreaterScopeVillain Meden]] [[TheManBehindTheMan Traore]] reveals himself as the true villain and FinalBoss of the game.]] Then in the sequel, [[spoiler: Byaku Shin is revealed to be the true antagonist of the game.]]
* ''VideoGame/NancyDrew'':
** While the series itself does ''not'' have a BigBad, every game has at least one figure who plays this role, the Culprit. The Culprit is usually directly or indirectly responsible for the case Nancy is solving, and occasionally even makes an attempt on Nancy's life.
** In the case of the second game, [[spoiler:Dwayne Powers is the Culprit and the only one to return in a later game]], perhaps making this the closest to a series-wide BigBad.
** ''Haunting of Castle Malloy'' simply [[NoAntagonist averts this]] - while [[spoiler: Fiona]] is considered to be the culprit, [[spoiler: she had nothing to do with the "kidnapping" of Matt - which happened by a total accident anyway. She did nothing but try to help him. Granted, this wasn't much since she was a [[ItMakesSenseInContext seventy year old feral woman flying around on a jetpack]].]]
* Most {{Franchise/Nasuverse}} works have one.
** Roa[[spoiler:/SHIKI (whoever is dominant at the time)]] in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''.
** The Night of Wallachia, then White Len, in ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood''. It's taken over by the Dust of Osiris in ''Actress Again''.
** Kotomine Kirei and Gilgamesh in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' (they didn't start everything, but are lying in wait). They did it in ''VisualNovel/FateZero'' too.
** In ''Heaven's Feel'', the BigBad is Zouken (who is directly or indirectly responsible for everything bad that happens in the ''entire'' route) , although both Kotomine and (eventually) [[spoiler:Dark Sakura]] could also be seen as this.
** Araya Souren in ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai''. Notably, he was confronted about halfway through the series and never heard from again.
** In ''VideoGame/FateExtra'' it's [[spoiler: Twice H. Pieceman]], but in ''CCC'', the derailment of the War transfers the role to [[spoiler: Kiara Sesshouin]].
** [[spoiler: Archimedes]] for ''VideoGame/FateExtella'', though he's working on behalf of the true enemy, [[spoiler: the Velber]].
** The first arc of ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' has [[spoiler: Beast I, Goetia]].
** On the other hand, in the overarching story about the struggle of humanity in the multiverse, the overall BigBad is Gaia, the spirit that embodies Earth. Because humanity is growing out of their "nursery", so to speak, [[MyBelovedSmother Mother Earth]] who can't stand that Alaya (embodiment of humanity) becomes independent from her, do her best to destroy humanity's progress. [[Literature/AngelNotes In one universe]], she continues to do so despite being effectively dead by summoning her "siblings" to aid her.
* The ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed'' series:
** Eddie in ''Need for Speed: Underground''.
** Caleb in ''Need for Speed: Underground 2''.
** Razor in ''Need for Speed: Most Wanted''.
** Darius in ''Need for Speed: Carbon''.
** Ryo Watanabe in ''Need for Speed: [=ProStreet=]''.
** [[spoiler:Chase Linh]] in ''Need for Speed: Undercover''
* ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'':
** ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia'' and it's [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaReBirth1 remake]]: Arfoire.
** ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaMk2'' and it's [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaReBirth2SistersGeneration remake]]: Deity Of Sin Arfoire.
** ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory'' and it's [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaReBirth3VGeneration remake]]: [[spoiler: Rei Ryghts]].
** ''VideoGame/MegadimensionNeptuniaVII'': [[spoiler: Kurome Ankokuboshi/Dark Orange]]
*** Zerodimension Neptunia Z arc: Arfoire.
*** Hyperdimension Neptunia G arc: Affimojas.
*** Heartdimension Neptunia H arc: [[spoiler: Kurome who, as mentioned above, is this for the game as a whole]].
** ''VideoGame/HyperdevotionNoireGoddessBlackHeart'': Eno (A.K.A. Arfoire)
** ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaUActionUnleashed'': [[spoiler: The Next-Gen Mech]]
* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' series:
** The [[AbusivePrecursors creator race]] queen Morag in the original. She seeks to restore the [[LizardFolk reptiloid]] dominion over the Sword Coast.
** The medusa Huerodis in ''Shadows of Undrentide''. She wants to raise the fallen Netherese city of Undrentide for unknown reasons, and [[MacGuffinDeliveryService manipulates you into delivering]] a mythallar to do it with. No word on what the next bit of her plan was.
** The archdevil Mephistopheles in ''Hordes of the Underdark''. After being bound on the Prime Material Plane by a powerful drow priestess called the Valsharess, he manipulates you into destroying her armies and attacking her, weakening her enough to break free. He wants to TakeOverTheWorld.
** The King of Shadows in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2''. This is a PureMagicBeing that seeks to uphold the laws and protect the descendants of the ancient empire of Illefarn. Problem is, Illefarn is long gone due in large part to the King of Shadows' origin story, and the King is corrupted by BlackMagic.
** Akachi the Betrayer in ''Mask of the Betrayer''. Sort of. He was transformed into a curse of elemental hunger that is slowly killing you.
** In ''Storm of Zehir'', the [[SnakePeople yuan-ti]] House Se'sehen, led by an avatar of Zehir, the yuan-ti god of poison. They want to TakeOverTheWorld.
* The pantheon in ''VideoGame/NexusClash'' has three [[GodOfEvil Evil Elder Powers]] that are the power source of the demonic hordes, but most of the conflict in the game can be traced back to one of them: [[ManipulativeBastard Tlacolotl]], personification of violence. The other two Dark Powers are [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] whose influence will permeate the universe AsLongAsThereIsEvil. As a DeityOfHumanOrigin, Tlacolotl has no such protection, and so most of the divine conflict in the game is caused by him overtly or covertly stirring up vendettas between the rest of the pantheon to keep them from ever properly uniting to defeat him.
* ''VideoGame/NightStriker'': Gyrohound, [[CorruptPolitician the terrorist leader]], though it's later revealed [[spoiler: that [[TheDragon the terrorist adjutant]], Sky Dragoon, [[TheManBehindTheMan was the true mastermind calling the shots]], having manipulated the mentally unstable terrorist leader as a puppet.]]
* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' plays with this in a surprising way. The Big Bad ends up being [[spoiler:Ace]] as the person who set everything into motion, but the current Nonary Game is actually being run by [[spoiler:June and Santa]], who are trying to [[spoiler:punish the four men responsible for the first game and to get Junpei to save June's life. Time travel loops and all that.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheNightOfTheRabbit'': It is [[spoiler:the EvilWizard Great Zaroff]]. Though you get hints about it early in the story, you do not discover the identity of the villain until much later.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'':
** ''NinjaGaiden'' (of the older games): Jaquio
** ''NinjaGaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos'': Ashtar [[spoiler:until he is usurped by Jaquio.]]
** ''Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom'': A. Foster [[spoiler:until he is usurped by H.P. Clancy.]]
** ''Ninja Gaiden'' (of the newer games): Vigoor [[spoiler:before Murai reveals himself as the actual BigBad.]]
** ''Ninja Gaiden II'' (of the newer games): Vazdah.
** ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden 3'' (of the newer games): Clifford "Cliff" Higgins.
* ''VideoGame/NintendoWars''
** ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars'' has [[ManipulativeBastard Sturm]], the leader of Black Hole who manipulates the other nations into fighting. He returns as the BigBad in the sequel, ''Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising'', with four COs at his side.
** ''Advance Wars: Dual Strike'' has [[EvilOldFolks Von Bolt]], the new leader of Black Hole seeking to suck Omega Land dry.
** ''Advance Wars: Days of Ruin'' has [[MadScientist Caulder]].
* ''VideoGame/NocturneRPGMaker'' has Ristill, who appears to be the one behind the elemental barrier that weakens Reviel, as well as a Dark Chains curse to weaken him further. [[spoiler:Then it turns out she was only behind the Dark Chains curse while Khaos was behind the elemental barrier. Khaos turns out to be aiding Ristill in order to make the rivalry between her and Reviel more interesting. After Reviel defeats Ristill, Khaos attacks the village of Algiz and reveals his plan to destroy and reconstruct the world, forcing the two into an EnemyMine to stop him.]]
* Jasper Batt Jr. in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle''. In almost every other game by Suda 51, including the first ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'', [[MindScrew whether or not there's a villain, let alone WHO, is up to interpretations.]] Other exceptions include Fleming in ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheDamned'', and Swan in ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw''.
* ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever'' and its sequel have [[spoiler:the Director of H.A.R.M.]]
* ''Oddworld'':
** ''Abe's Oddysee'' has Molluck the Glukkon.
** ''Abe's Exoddus'' has the Brewmaster.
** ''Munch's Oddysee'' has [[BigBadDuumvirate Humphrey and Irwin]] with Humphrey as the dominant BigBad.
** ''Stranger's Wrath'' has Sekto.
** Lady Margaret, as the queen of the Magog Cartel, is the GreaterScopeVillain behind Molluck, Brewmaster, and all the other Glukkons, however she hasn't appeared in a game yet. Lady Margaret's grandmother is the GreaterScopeVillain behind Lady Margaret, and is supposed to appear in ''Squeek's Oddysee''.
* ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'': [[OmnicidalManiac King Valentine]].
* [[spoiler:Beiloune]] in ''VideoGame/{{Okage}}: Shadow King'', who turned out to be surprisingly sinister.
* There are ''three'' in ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': Orochi, Ninetails and [[spoiler:Yami]]. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:all of the main bosses in the game, main villains and minions, come from the same source (not another villain, but rather the source of evil's very existence)]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Okamiden}}'', there's [[spoiler: Akuro]], who may or may not be [[spoiler: the core of Master Anura, Bullhead, Sen, Ryo, and King Fury, a part of Yami along with the previously mentioned demons, or the GreaterScopeVillain of the first game, using both Orochi and Yami as vessels. The game contradicts itself a lot, though.]]
* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' has a different Big Bad for each of the class stories. Each one also has a DiscOneFinalBoss for the first act (Some even have a Disc Two Final Boss for the second act). However, the Sith Emperor Vitiate is the main antagonist of the overarching plot.
** The Jedi Knight has Darth Angral for Chapter 1 and [[spoiler:the Sith Emperor]] for the rest.
** The Jedi Consular has Lord Vivicar for Chapter 1, Lord Kyrus for Chapter 2 [[spoiler:until Blaseus is revealed]], and [[spoiler:The Children of the Emperor, specifically the First Son,]] in Chapter 3.
** The Trooper has Harron Tavus in Chapter 1 and General Rakton in Chapter 3.
** The Smuggler has Skavak in Chapter 1 and The Voidwolf for the rest.
** The Sith Warrior has Nomen Karr in Chapter 1, [[spoiler:Darth Vengean]] in Chapter 2, and [[spoiler:Darth Baras]] in Chapter 3
** The Sith Inquisitor has [[spoiler:Darth Zash]] in Chapter 1 and Darth Thanaton for the rest.
** The Bounty Hunter has Tarro Blood for Chapter 1 and Jun Seros for the rest.
** The Imperial Agent has The Eagle for Chapter 1 [[spoiler:until Darth Jadus is revealed]], Ardun Kothe in Chapter 2, and [[spoiler:The Star Cabal]] in Chapter 3.
** ''Rise of the Hutt Cartel'': Toborro the Hutt for the Republic, Szajin the Archon for the Empire.
** ''Shadow of Revan'': Revan.
** ''Knights of the Fallen Empire/Eternal Throne'': Arcann, and later on Vaylin, with [[spoiler:Valkorian/Vitiate playing the GreaterScopeVillain]].
* ''Manga/OnePiece: Pirate Warriors'' has Admiral Akainu.
** ''Manga/OnePiece: Pirate Warriors 2'' features an original alternate story with Marshall D. Teach "Blackbeard" who also [[BigBadDuumvirate joins forces with Gecko Moria]] to defeat [[BigGood Edward "Whitebeard" Newgate]].
* ''[[VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}} Onmyōji]]'' has [[spoiler: Kuro Seimei, the EvilCounterpart of Abe no Seimei.]] The worst part? [[spoiler: He is also the LiteralSplitPersonality of Seimei, meaning that he shares the same soul and aura as him, frequently causing people to mistake Seimei for him and pin ''his'' crimes on Seimei instead.]] ''Worse'' still, [[spoiler: it is none other than Seimei who [[CreateYourOwnVillain created]] him in the first place, thanks to a spell of his GoneHorriblyWrong.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}'': A BigBadEnsemble between [[TheGhost the Walrider]] and [[TheBrute Chris Walker]], and [[spoiler:[[WellIntentionedExtremist Dr. Rudolf Gustav Wernicke]].]]
** ''Outlast: Whistleblower'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Jeremy Blair]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has the Talon Organization, a terrorist syndicate who's sole purpose is to exterminate remaining Overwatch members after the group disbanded. The group is led by a council, which includes Reaper, Doomfist and Moira among others. Their actions are what lead to Winston calling the Overwatch group back together in order to combat this threat.
* While the ''VideoGame/PacMan'' series isn't one for story in the beginning, it still has villains that set up the plot.
** The Ghost Gang in most games.
** The ''VideoGame/PacManWorld'' series has quite a few.
*** Toc-Man in the first game [[spoiler: who is a robot run by a Ghost name Orson]].
*** Spooky in the second game.
*** Erwin in the third game.
** [[spoiler: Averted]] in ''VideoGame/PacManParty'', [[spoiler: as the ghosts who seem to be villains at the beginning of the game are just testing the titular character.]]
** As of the {{Reboot}}, ''VideoGame/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures'' has Betrayus.
* ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'' has [[PuppeteerParasite Eve]].
* ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'': [[spoiler:The Skedar.]]
* While all of the ''[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona Persona]]'' games have one, they certainly enjoy employing {{Greater Scope Villain}}s as the ManBehindTheMan and {{True Final Boss}}es.
** ''[[VideoGame/{{Persona}} Persona 1]]'' has Takahisa Kandori, a CorruptCorporateExecutive who wants to become a god. [[spoiler:After his death, Pandora, Maki's ShadowArchetype, is revealed as the TrueFinalBoss. At the same time, the Snow Queen quest introduces the Night Queen, who seems to be an ArcVillain, but whose victory riggers the BadEnding.]]
** ''VideoGame/Persona2'' toys with the idea of a BigBadDuumvirate between Jun Kurosu and UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler (we're not kidding), before it's revealed that [[spoiler:Nyarlathotep was posing as both Hitler and Jun's father and orchestrated the events of the first game.]]
** ''VideoGame/Persona3'' [[spoiler:elevates Nyx, an EldritchAbomination, as the primary focus following TheReveal. All other antagonists, including Strega, Ryoji Mochizuki and Shuji Ikutsuki, are trying to bring about Nyx's arrival, willingly or otherwise. It's worth noting that Ikutsuki instigated the entire thing in order to cause Nyx's arrival, but he dies shortly after TheReveal, so he counts more as a DiscOneFinalBoss. Even still, ''The Answer'' reveals that Erebus, ''another'' GreaterScopeVillain EldritchAbomination, was the one pulling Nyx's strings.]]
** ''VideoGame/Persona4'' has [[spoiler:[[DetectiveMole Tohru Adachi]], who [[spoiler:influences people like Namatame to do the actual dirty work after the first two murders. In typical ''Persona'' fashion, the True Ending reveals that Izanami has been behind everything from the beginning of the game, including Ameno-Sagiri, the thing enveloping Inaba in a poisonous fog]].
** ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' has a BigBadDuumvirate between the Eerie Voice ([[spoiler:Sho Minazuki]]) and the Malevolent Entity, even though they're operating on TeethClenchedTeamwork. ''VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax'' reveals that [[spoiler:the Malevolent Entity is A) The one truly pulling the strings, and B) Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, the personification of selfishness, who is a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute of Nyarlathotep (which implies that Nyarlathotep is still the GreaterScopeVillain)]].
** ''Videogame/Persona5'' has Masayoshi Shido, a corrupt and powerhungry politician at the head of TheConspiracy who plans to use the Cognitive World to become the Prime Minister as well as being the person responsible for the protagonist's predicament of being on criminal probation. The true ending reveals that the true villain is [[spoiler:Yaldabaoth, who has been disguising himself as Igor and has been secretly guiding the events of the game in an attempt to discern humanity's desires and control them.]]
* The ''VideoGame/PhantasyStar'' tetralogy has [[EldritchAbomination Dark Force]], [[spoiler:with the Profound Darkness, the FinalBoss of ''IV'', as TheManBehindTheMan.]]
* Although the player's goal in the Pokémon series is to become Champion, the leader of each generation's evil team serves as the BigBad, as they are the ones responsible for whatever troubles are occurring in each region.
** ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon Red, Green, Blue, Yellow]]'' [[{{Remake}} and its remakes]] (''[=FireRed=]'' and ''[=LeafGreen=]''): Giovanni (Team Rocket).
** ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon Gold, Silver, Crystal]]'' [[{{Remake}} and its remakes]] (''[=HeartGold=]'' and ''[=SoulSilver=]''): In the originals, there is no nominated leader of the regrouped Team Rocket; the final Team Rocket Executive fought in the Radio Tower is the closest the organization has to one. The remakes gave the Rocket Executives names, and so the aforementioned Executive was finally given an identity: Archer.
** ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald]]'' [[{{Remake}} and its remakes]] (''Omega Ruby'' and ''Alpha Sapphire''): Maxie (Team Magma) and/or Archie (Team Aqua), depending on which version you are playing (Magma for ''Ruby'', Aqua for ''Sapphire''). Notably, the other team leader will actually ''assist'' you in stopping the BigBad; however, both leaders are Big Bads in ''Emerald''.
** ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokémon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum]]'': [[OmnicidalManiac Cyrus]] (Team Galactic).
** ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': The game wants you to think that [[spoiler: [[AntiVillain N Harmonia]]]] is the BigBad. At the last second though, [[spoiler: his father Ghetsis turns out to be the true culprit behind Team Plasma's goals.]]
** ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'': [[spoiler: [[EvilGenius Colress]]]] is acting like the Neo Team Plasma boss, although he was acting as the boss only for his own purposes and the Big Bad is actually [[spoiler: Ghetsis again.]]
** ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'': [[spoiler:[[OmnicidalManiac Lysandre]]]] (Team Flare).
** ''Videogame/PokemonSunAndMoon'': Initially, Guzma (Team Skull) is set up as the main antagonist, being the leader of the local villain team. Later on it's revealed that [[spoiler:Lusamine (Aether Foundation) is the real villain and that Guzma is simply TheDragon]].
** ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'': In a main series first, the BigBad is not the leader of an evil team or even human for that matter - for these games, [[OlympusMons Necrozma]] takes the mantle as the main antagonist. In the post-game, Giovanni returns, now leading a team consisting of the villains from previous games.
* Then there's the spin-off series, ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers of Time/Darkness/Sky'': [[spoiler: Darkrai, who wanted to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt cover the world in darkness]] and has been manipulating events behind the scenes the whole time, messing with the fabric of time and space as well as appearing in the heroes' dreams to get them to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar kill themselves]]]].
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity'', you start with having dreams. Of course, Munna tells you that Munna is nice. [[spoiler:Nope, turns out that she tricked you into blaming Hydreigon, and you had to take your partner with you. This results in you getting separated from your partner [[DudeInDistress (And, eventually, your partner gets kidnapped.)]], and [[BigDamnHeroes you end up being saved by Hydreigon,]] who later on tells you that the real threat that you are trying to stop is the Bittercold. But sadly, Kyurem is guarding it, so, after going to the Holehills and saving your partner, later on in the game, after [[LiterallyShatteredLives Hydreigon is killed by Kyurem]] and you are [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown almost killed by Kyurem]], you have to beat Kyurem in the Glacier Palace and then fight the Bittercold solo]].
* ''VideoGame/PokeParkWii 2: Wonders Beyond'' had [[spoiler:a Darkrai as the Big Bad. He created the Wish Park to fulfill his sinister plans. Pikachu then gets depressed after Darkrai yanks the memories of Oshawott, Snivy, and Tepig. After getting out of his depression thanks to Piplup, Pikachu restores the memories of Oshawott, Snivy, and Tepig. Pikachu then must fight Darkrai to put a stop to Darkrai's evil plans.]]
* ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'' and ''Pokémon XD'' has the villainous organization Cipher as the main antagonistic body:
** The leader of Cipher in ''Colosseum'' is Nascour, [[spoiler:but the ''real'' BigBad is the Mayor of Phenac City]].
** The leader of Cipher in ''XD'' is [[spoiler:Greevil, whom you've known from the beginning as Mr. Verich.]]
* ''VisualNovel/{{Policenauts}}'': There is a BigBadDuumvirate of [[DirtyCop Gates Becker]] and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Joseph Sadaki Tokugawa]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'':
** ''VideoGame/Portal1'': [=GLaDOS=]. Not only does she place Chell in danger numerous times, half-way through the game she [[spoiler:tries to kill her by placing her on a platform heading towards a pit of fire and at the end of the game, she almost kills her by flooding the Enrichment Centre with a deadly neurotoxin.]].
** In ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' [=GLaDOS=] continues the role at first, but eventually, [[spoiler: she's overtaken by Wheatley. Finally it turns out that it's the mainframe which causes all the problems.]]
* ''VideoGame/Prey2017'': Apex Typhon, the one behind the attack of Talos-1 space station.
* The ''Franchise/PrinceOfPersia'' series often has one in each game:
** ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia1'': Jaffar.
** ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia2'': Jaffar returns as the BigBad in this game. [[spoiler:The ending has an image of a mysterious witch who had been watching the Prince. WordOfGod is that she was responsible for giving Jafar his powers, killing the Prince's family, and sacking the Prince's kingdom. However, the sequel it foreshadowed never came to pass.]]
** ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia3D'': Rugnor, who is working with his father, Assan.
** ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheForgottenSands'': Each version has a BigBad.
*** Console/PC version: Ratash
*** Wii version: The Sorceress
*** PSP version: Ahihud
*** DS version: The Master of the Cult.
** ''VideoGame/BattlesOfPrinceOfPersia'': Saurva.
** ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'': The Vizier.
** ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'': The Dahaka is the closest thing the game has to a BigBad since it's who the Prince fears the most. The Empress of Time[[spoiler:/Kaileena]] serves as a secondary antagonist, and the main reason The Prince goes against her is to save himself from the creature.
** ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones'': The Vizier [[spoiler:who has transformed into Zurvan, the God of Time,]] returns as the BigBad. This game also has a secondary antagonist in the form of [[spoiler:The Dark Prince.]]
** ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia2008'': Ahriman
** ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheFallenKing'': The main antagonist is [[AntagonistTitle the titular Fallen King]] [[spoiler: actually Zal's evil half emerged from the corruption]] though the aforementioned Ahriman [[GreaterScopeVillain is behind the events of the game]].
* ''Franchise/ProfessorLayton'':
** VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheCuriousVillage has [[spoiler: Don Paolo.]]
** VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheDiabolicalBox has [[spoiler: Anton Herzen.]]
** In VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture, there's [[spoiler: Dimitri Allen]] and [[spoiler: Klaus/Clive]].
** VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheLastSpecter and Anime/ProfessorLaytonAndTheEternalDiva has [[spoiler: Jean Descole.]]
** VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheMiracleMask has the Masked Gentleman, A.K.A. [[spoiler: Randall Ascot, though [[HijackedByGanon he’s actually working for Descole]]]].
** VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheAzranLegacy has [[spoiler: Bronev.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has Elizabeth Greene for the Infected, and General Peter Randall for Blackwatch.
** The true antagonist is [[spoiler:the real Alex Mercer as he created the Blacklight virus and unleashed it in New York]]. Too bad you won't confront him [[spoiler:since he died unleashing the virus]].
** The second game would have [[RogueProtagonist Alex Mercer]].
* ''VideoGame/PsychicForce'' has Richard Wong: an arrogant SmugSnake who is a MagnificentBastard and that he sees people as nothing more than pieces on a chess board, not caring about ruining the lives of many as he seeks to, you guessed it, TakeOverTheWorld.
* [[spoiler:Coach Oleander]] in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''.
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* ''VideoGame/RadiantSilvergun'': [[ArtifactOfDoom The Stone-Like]].
* ''VideoGame/RadiataStories'': While there are [[BigBadEnsemble multiple villainous characters driving the world off a cliff with their actions]], a full reading of the story makes it clear that the situation isn't the fault of any one individual, though the ways events escalate can largely (but not completely) be pinned down to a few people (namely Zane, Cross Ward, and Aphelion), and the only person who has a clear view of the plot is [[spoiler: ''not'' responsible for very much of it. He's reacting to a broken situation and trying to run damage control, but [[WellIntentionedExtremist his methods]] bring him into conflict with Jack]].
* ''VideoGame/RainbowSix'':
** The first game and its remake, ''Shadow Vanguard'', have [[spoiler:John Brightling.]]
** ''Rogue Spear'' has a BigBadDuumvirate of Maxim Kutkin and Samed Vezirzade.
** ''VideoGame/RainbowSix3'': ''Raven Shield'' has [[spoiler: a BigBadDuumvirate of Nikola Gospić and Alvaro Gutierrez.]] The console version has [[spoiler:Juan Crespo]].
** ''Lockdown'' has Bastian Vanderwaal.
** ''Vegas'' has Irena Morales [[spoiler:with Gabriel Nowak as her partner.]]
** ''Vegas 2'' has Alvarez Cabrero [[spoiler:but it turns out to be Gabriel Nowak.]]
* The ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' series gave us a nice selection of Big Bads as well, however the most recurring is Dr. Nefarious
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek]] in [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 the first game]].
** [[spoiler:Captain Qwark]] in ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando Going Commando]]''.
** Dr. Nefarious in ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal Up Your Arsenal]]''.
** Gleeman Vox in ''[[VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked Deadlocked]]''.
** Emperor Otto [=DeStruct=] in ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankSizeMatters Size Matters]]''.
** [[spoiler:Klunk]] in ''VideoGame/SecretAgentClank''.
** Emperor Percival Tachyon in ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction Tools of Destruction]]''.
** [[spoiler:Captain Romulus Slag]] and Captain Angstrom Darkwater form a BigBadDuumvirate in ''Quest for Booty''.
** Nefarious again in ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime A Crack in Time]]''.
** Artemis Zogg in [[ComicBook/RatchetAndClankComic the comic series]].
** [[spoiler:The Loki Master]] in ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankAll4One All 4 One]]''.
** Zurgo/[[spoiler:The Qwark Fanboy]] in ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFullFrontalAssault Full Frontal Assault]]''.
** Vendra Prog, along with her brother, Neftin Prog, in ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankIntoTheNexus Into The Nexus]]''. [[spoiler:However, the Nether leader, an EldritchAbomination, usurps the position, as he was the one manipulating them]].
* ''Franchise/{{Rayman}}'':
** ''VideoGame/Rayman1995'': Mr. Dark.
** ''VideoGame/Rayman2'': Admiral Razorbeard.
** ''VideoGame/Rayman3HoodlumHavoc'': André.
** ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'': The Magician.
** ''VideoGame/RaymanLegends'': The Magician.
* ''VideoGame/{{Rebuild}}'' had no designated bad guy for the first instalment, aside from the zombies. The second, however, has Father Kane, the head of the Last Judgement gang that enslave women for their own sexual pleasures and repeatedly attack your settlement. He's therefore the biggest threat aside from the zombies, and [[spoiler:killing him and his gang is one of the conditions that allows you to win]]. The third game has Mr Clark, an intelligent zombie, [[spoiler: but he is being manipulated by Senator Davis, who wants to gave her people hope, though her real plan is to create stronger zombies to take power.]]
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRevolver'' has [[spoiler: Govener Griffon, who betrayed Red Harlow's father and responsible for General Deigo's tyrany.]]
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' has [[spoiler: Edgar Ross. In control of John Marston for the vast majority of the game, he's not actually fought until the very, ''very'' end, and not even by Marston himself.]]
* The ''Franchise/RedFaction'' series has them, Axel Kaypeck in the first game [[spoiler: but [[TheDragon Masako]] pulls a DragonAscendant. For the remainder of the series, Kaypeck was a posthumous GreaterScopeVillain.]] The rest of the series has -
** In the second game, it looks to be, Victor Sopot, but it turns out to be [[spoiler: [[TheStarscream Crate Molov]].]]
** ''Guerrilla'' has a BigBadDuumvirate between Adrmiral Lucious Kobel and General Roth.
** ''Armageddon'' has Adam Hale as the human antagonist, but the bigger threat is the queen, an alien who is mother to a race known as the plauge.
* The Franchise/ResidentEvil franchise has the Umbrella Corporation, led by Ozwell Spencer, as the overarching BigBad for the first part of the series. The individual episodes have individual Big Bads:
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'' has [[spoiler: James Marcus]]
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' has Albert Wesker.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' has William Birkin and Mr. X.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' has Nemesis.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'' has [[spoiler: Alexia Ashford]]
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' has Osmund Saddler
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles'' has Sergei Vladimir
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' has Albert Wesker again.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations'' has [[spoiler: Morgan Lansdale and Jack Norman.]]
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' has Carla Radames.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'' has [[spoiler:Alex Wesker]].
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'' has [[spoiler: Eveline]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Rosenkreuzstilette}}'', Count Micheal Zepplin leads the evil LaResistance against TheEmpire, [[spoiler: [[DiscOneFinalBoss but]] [[DaddysLittleVillain his daughter Iris Sepperin]] is the true antagonist, as she arranged for the rebellion to be held against the Empire just ForTheEvulz of it. She had her father imprison Karl because HeKnowsTooMuch and arranged for Raimund to be brought BackFromTheDead. Her agenda is to become [[AGodAmI the god of the world]], and intends to use the power and intellect she got from being reincarnated from Rosenkreuz to do just that]].
* ''VideoGame/RuneFactoryFrontier'': [[MadScientist Gelwein]].
* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' has several, usually at least one in each of the various milti-part storylines:
** The Plague City series has [[ScrewYouElves Lord Iorworth]] and [[spoiler:[[UsingYouAllAlong King Lathas]].]] While nominally a BigBadDuumvirate, each thinks they're using the other. Before this, there were two RedHerring Big Bads: Iban and [[spoiler:King Tyras]].
** The Morytania series has [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Lord Lowerniel Vergidiyad Drakan]], a vampyre said to be [[UltimateEvil so horrible we've never actually seen him]]. His influence is felt mostly through his [[SecretPolice Vyrewatch]] commander, [[TheDragon Vanstrom]] [[HeroKiller Klause]].
** The Dwarf series has [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Director Hreidmar]].
** The Gnome series had [[GeneralRipper General Khazard]] for the tree gnomes and [[PoisonousFriend Glough]] for the city gnomes, [[spoiler:and now apparently [[EvilSorcerer Glouphrie]] for both.]]
** The Pirate series has Rabid Jack. Like Drakan, we've never actually seen him, but since both of the series's big villains so far, [[ZombieApocalypse Captain Donnie]] and [[MadDoctor Mi-Gor]], have been stated to be under his command, there's little doubt who the final foe is.
** The Temple Knight series has [[EldritchAbomination Mother Mallum]].
** The Goblin series has [[{{Cult}} H.A.M.]], led by [[SinisterMinister Johannes Ulsbrecht]] and Sigmund.
** And finally, the Mahjarrat series, which ties together the Desert, Dagon'hai, Defender of Varrock, Black Knight, etc. storylines into one huge MythArc that is probably the closest thing to a main story this very open-ended game has, has [[spoiler:[[AGodAmI Lucien]],]] a particularly impressive example. Once you steal [[spoiler:the artifact that ''created the world'']], there's really no stopping you. To a lesser degree, the other Zamorak-worshiping Mahjarrat qualify, including [[ZombieApocalypse Zemouregal]], [[DarkMagicalGirl Enakhra]], and [[SealedEvilInACan Hazeel]], but it's clear [[spoiler:Lucien]] is really the king here.
** The Sliske quest series has Sliske, obviously, who is holding a contest between the gods over the Stone of Jas; in order to distract the gods from Zaros' return. Sliske is arguably this for the Sixth Age in general, having caused the God series by killing Guthix, which allows the gods to return to Gielinor and continue their wars against each other. Although Sliske is nominally subservient to Zaros, his actions are unsanctioned, and Zaros clearly disapproves of his actions to the point of excommunicating him. Sliske is also more clearly villainous than Zaros.
* ''VideoGame/RWBYGrimmEclipse'' has Dr. Merlot, who is behind the communication network going down and the appearance of mutated Grimm.
* ''VideoGame/{{Sacrifice}}'': For all the attention he receives Charnel is not the central antagonist, Marduk is. And [[spoiler:Stratos is the reason Marduk's here. Charnel's evil but he's on your side when it comes to the big threat.]]
* Apsu in ''Sailor Moon: Another Story''
* The ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' series:
** Alderman Richard Hughes in [[VideoGame/SaintsRow1 the first game]].
** Dane Vogel in [[VideoGame/SaintsRow2 the second game]].
** [[VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird The third game]] presents Phillipe Loren as this, but [[DiscOneFinalBoss Loren is killed in the first act of the game]]. From then on it becomes a BigBadEnsemble with Killbane and STAG leader Cyrus Temple.
** Zinyak in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV''.
** {{Satan}} in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell''.
** Doctor Babylon in ''Videogame/AgentsOfMayhem''.
* From ''Franchise/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'':
** Conroy Bumpus in ''Hit The Road''.
** Mack Salmon in the TV series.
** [[spoiler: Hugh Bliss]] in Telltale Season One.
** [[spoiler: The Soda Poppers]] in Telltale Season Two.
** [[spoiler: The Narrator]] in ''The Devil's Playhouse''.
* ''VideoGame/ScarfaceTheWorldIsYours'' has [[Film/{{Scarface1983}} Alejandro "Alex" Sosa]].
* ''VideoGame/SCPContainmentBreach'' has [=SCP=]-079.
* ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'': [[spoiler:Thanatos.]]
* ''VideoGame/SeikenDensetsu3'' puts an interesting twist on this: there are actually three different Big Bads: the Dragon Emperor, the Prince of Darkness, and the Dark Lich. The three fight among each other as well as against you throughout the first half of the game, but at the halfway point, one of the three will annihilate the other two and become the main antagonist for the second half of the story. Which one wins depends on which of the six characters you've selected to be your main character.
* ''VideoGame/SepterraCore''. Doskias is the BigBad, right from the beginning of the game.
* ''VideoGame/SeraphicBlue'': At first, Ende, the Practitioner and leader of the Gaia Cancers, seems to have the most active role in the story by antagonizing the party at every turn. [[spoiler:Eventually, it turns out he and his human followers were secretly in communication with Er, the goddess of evil. It's revealed that she's the one directing them to stay one step ahead of Vene's party, which allows them to manipulate Vene into becoming the complete Seraphic Blue and unwittingly allowing Er to scale to her power. In the end, Er becomes Refuse Seraphic Blue, a being who will destroy Gaia in order to fulfill the desires of all nihilists who despise life.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'': [[PirateGirl Risky Boots]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Shenmue}}'': [[YouKilledMyFather Lan Di]] for the overall series. His [[TheDragon underlings]], [[AxCrazy Chai]] and [[LargeAndInCharge Dou Niu]] each serve as TheHeavy and FinalBoss in the first and second games, respectively.
* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'':
** ''VideoGame/MegamiTensei'' has [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]].
** ''VideoGame/MegamiTenseiII'', meanwhile, has [[GodIsEvil YHVH]], whom [[EvilVersusEvil Lucifer was working against the whole time]].
** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI'' has [[BigBadEnsemble YHVH and Lucifer again]], although this time mostly acting through proxies, namely the ArchangelMichael and the Asura Lord respectively.
** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'' has initially the Archangels Michael, Raphael, and Uriel, who are in charge of Millenium. After they are taken care of, the final Big Bad turns out to be YHVH again, who's gone [[MadGod so round the bend]] by this point Lucifer looks like a WellIntentionedExtremist, and is barely even a villain. To hammer the point home, YHVH is the FinalBoss even on the Law path, the path that ''normally sides with Him.'
** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIf'' has [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Ideo Hazama]] [[spoiler: and the GaidenGame for movie phones reveals Zurvan was manipulating him]].
** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' has [[BigBadEnsemble a whole lot of them.]] While it initially seems to be just [[WorldOfSilence Hikawa]], also added in are [[spoiler: [[TheSocialDarwinist Chiaki]], [[LonersAreFreaks Isamu]], [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill Kagutsuchi]], and [[ManipulativeBastard Lucifer]]]]. You can side with any of them (though only indirectly with [[spoiler:Kagutsuchi]]) or you can stand against them all, though one of them ([[spoiler:Lucifer]]), despite having his own agenda, will not stand against you.
** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'' has [[GaiasVengeance Mem Aleph]], the primordial Earth goddess out to punish humanity for abusing nature. [[TheChessmaster Lucifer]] (as usual), [[CouncilOfAngels the Three Wise Men]], and human villain [[PrivateMilitaryContractor Captain Jack]] [[BigBadEnsemble also contribute]].
** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' has another ensemble with [[spoiler: the Four Archangels, Lucifer, and newcomer villains [[OmnicidalManiac The White]].]]
** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'' has [[ManipulativeBastard Krishna]] and a Duumvirate with [[spoiler:Merkabah and Lucifer]]. [[spoiler:Krishna wins the battle among the gods and demons, but is taken down by Nanashi after becoming Vishnu. The plot continues, however, and the true villains are revealed to be Satan, who was split into Merkabah and Lucifer and thus led the Monotheists, and YHVH, the one who split Satan in the first place]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Shinobi}}'s'' [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 PS2]] remake: [[EvilSorcerer Hiruko]].
* ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' has the Enchantress, an evil witch rules over the land with her subordinates, the Order of No Quarter. She's the BigBad for all three campaigns, however, she's only the FinalBoss in ''Shovel of Hope'' (the base game). In ''Plague of Shadows'', the final boss is [[spoiler:the Corrupted Essence]]. In ''Specter of Torment'', the final boss is [[spoiler:Nightmare Reize]]. Both of which are influenced by the Enchantress herself based on the protagonists' personal desires.
* In ''VideoGame/StyxMasterOfShadows'', As it turns out, [[spoiler:the main villain is the original Styx, who wishes to use the Amber Heart to turn himself back into an Orc.]]
* The Marquis de Montalban in ''VideoGame/SidMeiersPirates''
* ''Franchise/SilentHill'' usually has the God but is more of a GreaterScopeVillain in It's appearances:
** Dahlia Gillepsie in the [[VideoGame/SilentHill1 first]] and in ''[[VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins Orgins]]''.
** [[BreakOutVillain Pyramid Head]] in the [[VideoGame/SilentHill2 second]]. Since then he evolved into the SeriesMascot.
** Claudia Wolf in the [[VideoGame/SilentHill3 third]].
** Walter Sullivan in the [[VideoGame/SilentHill4 fourth]].
** [[spoiler:Judge Margaret Holloway]] in [[VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming Homecoming]].
** Michael Kauffman sort of in [[VideoGame/SilentHillShatteredMemories Shattered Memories]].
** [[DirtyCop George Sewell]] in ''[[VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour Downpour]]'', though [[InspectorJavert Anne Cunningham]] and [[EvilCripple the Wheelman]] are TheHeavy.
* ''VideoGame/SinAndPunishment'': [[spoiler: Achi.]]
* ''VideoGame/SinAndPunishmentStarSuccessor'': Deko Gekiso.
* In ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'', the Valuan empire is led by Empress Teodora, although [[spoiler: her head admiral, Lord Galcian, has his own ulterior motives and serves as the true Big Bad. Incidentally, his [[TheDragon Dragon]], Ramirez, is the actual final boss, taking over after Galcian is killed, and changing the plan from rule the world to destroy the world.]]
* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'': [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Henry "Big Smile" Lee]].
* All ''Franchise/SlyCooper'' games feature Big Bads though they were not always who they appeared to be.
** ''VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus'' featured Clockwerk, an owl that traded his flesh and feathers for robotic immortality, all to wipe out the Cooper family.
** ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'' saw the return of Clockwerk, but in pieces, so it disqualifies him from Big Bad status. Arpeggio was resembling the Clockwerk pieces to reform the mechanical bird and fuse with him to gain immortality, [[spoiler:but at the end of the game, Neyla quadruple-crosses him and fuses herself with the frame, dubbing herself Clock-La]].
** ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves''' Big Bad is a MadScientist named Dr. M who has his own vendetta against Sly and the Cooper family.
** ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'' features [[TheCollector Cyrille]] [[SmellySkunk Le Paradox]], a museum owner who uses time travel to interfere with the Cooper ancestors [[spoiler: so he could have his revenge on Sly's father who indirectly caused Le Paradox's own father to be arrested.]]
* Bruno Dondurma, whose chase after the medallion to awaken Lares is the major conflict of ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}''. [[spoiler:[[DiskOneFinalBoss At first]].]]
* The textbook Big Bad for the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series is Dr. Eggman/Robotnik.
** Metal Sonic serves as the Big Bad in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'' after betraying Eggman and collecting all of the data from Sonic and the other characters just to fight Sonic.
** Just as ''Anime/SonicX'' features evil aliens with a separate BigBad, in the games Black Doom acts as the Big Bad for ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog''.
** Mephiles the Dark in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', although he is [[spoiler:one half of the sun god, Solaris.]]
** Eggman Nega serves as the main villain in the ''VideoGame/SonicRivals'' series in contrast in [[BigBadDuumvirate working along with Eggman]] in the ''VideoGame/SonicRushSeries''.
* Ballser in ''VideoGame/{{Something}}'' and the Evil Guy in ''Something Else''. [[spoiler:They even team up and fuse during the TrueFinalBoss fight in Something Else.]]
* [[spoiler: Drazil]] in ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'' fit's the bill in the Normal Path. However Gig was this in the backstory, and [[spoiler: [[BigBadDuumvirate both he and The Devourlord]]]] in the Demon Path manage to oneup [[spoiler: Drazil]] in every way. The kicker? [[spoiler: [[VillainProtagonist YOU are the Devourlord]]]].
* Kombayn Nikoladze in the first ''VideoGame/SplinterCell''.
** Suhadi Sadono is this at the start of ''Pandora Tomorrow'', but by the end he has forged a BigBadDuumvirate with [[spoiler: Norman Soth.]]
** [[spoiler: Douglas Shetland]] in ''Chaos Theory''.
** Emile Dufraisne in ''Double Agent''.
** [[spoiler: Tom Reed]] in ''Conviction''.
** Majid Sadiq in ''Blacklist''.
* The primary big bad in Namco's ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'' is the evil (and sentient) sword Soul Edge, whose main goals is the harvest of souls and creating unending chaos on the world.
** The sword acts through possessing its wielder, using Cervantes in the first game (''Soul Edge/Blade'') and Siegfried (under the Nightmare persona) in the first and second ''[=SoulCalibur=]''.
** In the third game, Soul Edge gains independence and assumes the Nightmare identity for itself. Zasalamel, however, is the true big bad of the game, having not only granted Nightmare his new body, but also manipualting him, the now-free Siegfried and other characters as part of his own agenda.
** Although Algol is the FinalBoss in ''[=SoulCalibur=] IV'', he's technically more of an OutsideContextProblem, as he was just recently awakened from a deep slumber, no character ever saw him coming and he's simply seeking the swords to sustain his new energy-based body. The one behind the whole conflict, the reason every character gathers at Osthreinsburg Castle and the one who opens the rift to the Astral Chaos (setting Algol free) is actually Soul Edge/Nightmare.
** Finally, ''[=SoulCalibur=] V'' has the new Nightmare, "Graf Dumas", as the primary instigator during most of the story, with Soul Calibur's own spirit (Elysium) taking over during the end game. While Algol is working behind the scenes using the conflict as a distraction, he himself has no actual hand on the plot.
* Each ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' game from the classic Creator/InsomniacGames trilogy always had a main villain on their own:
** ''Videogame/SpyroTheDragon'': [[OurGnomesAreWeirder Gnasty]] [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Gnorc]].
** ''Videogame/Spyro2RiptosRage'': [[TheNapoleon Ripto]].
** ''Videogame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'': [[WickedWitch The Sorceress]].
* The {{Reboot}}ed trilogy ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'' had the [[UltimateEvil Dark Master Malefor]] as it's main villain. His CoDragons Dark Cynder and Gaul serving as the main villains in the first two games due to their master being SealedEvilInACan they're trying to free at the time, but it's ultimately Malefor manipulating everything from behind the scenes. He's finally let out at the end of ''The Eternal Night'' and causes havok and destruction for three years while the heroes are SealedGoodInACan before serving as the direct villain of ''Dawn Of The Dragon''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' always has Kaos as the BigBad. Subverted in Trap Team, when [[spoiler: the Doom Raiders abandon Kaos as the focus shifts over to their leader, the Golden Queen]], but immediately averts that [[spoiler: with Kaos absorbing the Traptanium from the ultimate weapon.]]
** Completely subverted in Superchargers with [[{{EldritchAbomination}} The Darkness]].
* In ''VideoGame/StarCraft'', the Overmind filled this role. Kerrigan (and possibly the UED) in ''Brood War'', and in ''Videogame/StarCraftII'', Amon, a [[spoiler: fallen xel'naga]] and former master of the Overmind. The ''[[Videogame/StarcraftIINovaCovertOps Nova Covert Ops]]'' DLC has [[spoiler:General Carolina Davis]] as the antagonist.
* ''The VideoGame/StarFox'' team have faced:
** [[EvilutionaryBiologist Andross]] in ''VideoGame/StarFox1'', ''VideoGame/StarFox64'', and ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero''.
** [[ColonelKilgore General]] [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Scales]] in ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'' - [[spoiler:later revealed to be [[HijackedByGanon Andross]]' DragonInChief]].
** The [[HiveQueen Aparoid Queen]] in ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault''.
** [[TheEmperor The Anglar Emperor]] in ''VideoGame/StarFoxCommand''.
** [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Pigma Dengar]]]] in ''Star Fox Guard''.
* ''VideoGame/StarGladiator'' has Dr. Edward Bilstein: an EmperorScientist who takes [[ForScience his malevolent experimentations]] and [[TakeOverTheWorld universal conquest]] into high monstrous levels.
* The VideoGame/{{Stellar 7}} series presents Gir Draxon as the BigBad.
* The ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' franchise has M. Bison as its BigBad, although in the ''III'' series, Gill serves as this, even though he may actually qualify as a WellIntentionedExtremist. Gill's younger brother, [[TheDragon Urien]], could somehow be considered the real BigBad of the ''III'' series as he seeks to overthrow his brother and plunge the entire world into a state of chaos and destruction. Seth serves as this in the ''IV'' series.
* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage'': Mr. X.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Strider}}'' series' Big Bad is the Grandmaster, an intergalactic being out on a quest for godhood. He's the main antagonist in the first, second and remake games.
** The manga (and its loosely-adapted NES version) had the vice-director of Striders, Matic, as the primary antagonist, playing up both sides (Hiryu and the Enterprise corporation) in order to have everyone killed so he can claim both organizations for his own goals.
* ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'':
** [[VainSorceress Windy]] in the [[VideoGame/SuikodenII first game]].
** [[TheCaligula Luca Blight]] in the [[VideoGame/SuikodenII second game]] [[spoiler:until his death in the mid game, after which [[AntiVillain Jowy Atreides / Jowy Blight]] takes the position instead.]]
** [[MalevolentMaskedMen The Masked Bishop]] [[spoiler:who is later revealed to be [[FallenHero Luc]]]] in the [[VideoGame/SuikodenIII third game]].
** Graham Cray in the [[VideoGame/SuikodenIV fourth game]].
** Iskas in [[VideoGame/SuikodenTactics Tactics]].
** Gizel Godwin [[BigBadDuumvirate and]] his father, Marscal Godwin, in the [[VideoGame/SuikodenV fifth game]].
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' usually has [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosBowser Bowser]] as the textbook BigBad in the main series. While the original ''VideoGame/PaperMario'', ''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar'' and ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPaperJam'' have Bowser [[note]] or in ''Paper Jam'''s case, Bowser and ''Paper'' Bowser [[/note]] as their BigBad as usual, the other ''Mario'' RPG spin-offs featured original ones:
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'': Smithy.
** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'': [[EvilOverlord Grodus]], the leader of the X-Nauts, who desires [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]]. [[spoiler:Ultimately, however, the instigator of the plot was revealed to be not Grodus, but Beldam, who used Grodus to revive The Shadow Queen, the GreaterScopeVillain who becomes the Big Bad when Grodus is taken care of and Beldam reveals her true agenda.]]
** ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'': Count Bleck, a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who desires to destroy all dimensions. [[spoiler:At the end, he is revealed to be an Unwitting Pawn of Dimentio, initially believed to be one of his followers]].
** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi''
*** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'': Cackletta the witch.
*** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'': Princess Shroob. [[spoiler:There's two of them, the one seen for most of the game is the younger sister, the elder one is sealed inside the Cobalt Star.]]
*** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'': Fawful, [[DragonAscendant originally]] TheDragon to Cackletta. [[spoiler:Later usurped by The Dark Star.]]
*** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'': Antasma the nightmare monster, who forms a BigBadDuumvirate with Bowser. [[spoiler:Bowser ultimately ends up double-crossing Antasma and replacing him as the main antagonist, which is actually rather surprising given the secondary status he has in most Mario [=RPG=]s]].
*** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPaperJam'': Bowser and Paper Bowser.
*** ''VideoGame/MinionQuestTheSearchForBowser'': Fawful again.
** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' and [[VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon its sequel]] have [[KingMook King Boo]] as the main villain. In the first game, his goal was to avenge his fellow Boos. In the second game, ItsPersonal.
** Wart took this position in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2''.
** [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Tatanga]] from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand''. Tatanga made one more apearance working for Wario in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'', [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome then disappeared off the map]].
** Foreman Spike was the main villain in ''VideoGame/WreckingCrew'', though he became TheDragon to Bowser in ''Wrecking Crew '98''.
** While Baby Bowser is the final boss of ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'', he just [[SpoiledBrat really wants to play with Yoshi]]; Kamek is the true antagonist, but he remains as TheUnfought in both this game and its sequels.
** In the ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' series, Bowser is usually the final opponent the players must face. The exception is ''Mario Party 3'', where [[ButtMonkey Waluigi]] defeats Bowser and takes his place.
** ''VideoGame/CaptainToadTreasureTracker'' has Wingo, a FeatheredFiend who steals Power Stars and kidnaps the main characters multiple times over the course of the game.
** In ''VideoGame/MarioSuperSluggers'', Bowser Junior takes over the Baseball Kingdom, and your mission is to defeat him in his own arena. Though the final challenge is Bowser, not him.
** Bowser Jr takes the role of main antagonist in ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle'', [[spoiler: though the Megabug ends up as the FinalBoss.]] He was also the main villain of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' via his Shadow Mario disguise.
* The ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' games tend to have many Big Bads, because they're made up of [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover multiple mecha series in a single game]]. The result is that said game will (usually) have each and every Big Bad the series included did. Still, they tend to add an extra-big Big Bad unique to that game, often the FinalBoss. The greatest example in the series is Keisar Ephes, who [[spoiler: turns out to be the ManBehindTheMan for every single original villain in the Alpha sub-series, and, by extension, is more or less responsible, at least in part, for many of the Big Bads belonging to the various anime included. It also helps that he presents himself as the anti-[[Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon Ide]], making him an indirect Alternate Universe big bad for Ideon.]] Not bad for a guy who [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere never shows up until the final battle]].
** In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ'', [[spoiler:The Edel Bernal]] is a bit of a twist on this, but not that much of a subversion. We technically ''see'' him around occasionally, but he doesn't reveal his nature and part of the plot until, like Keisar Ephes, the final battle. He's just a PsychopathicManchild with ridiculous levels of power that organized the entire situation [[ForTheEvulz for his sick pleasure]] and let his unwitting Dragon do all the dirty work with a simple utterance of "I love you" once in a while.
* The ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series usually had a BigBad in the form of [[GiantHandsOfDoom Master Hand]], [[spoiler:but this changed in the Subspace Emmisary in ''Brawl'', when it was subjected to TheWorfEffect at the hands of Tabuu]].
* ''VideoGame/SystemShock'': [[AIIsACrapshoot SHODAN]].
* ''TheTaleOfAlltynex'' trilogy have the titular MasterComputer Alltynex [=OS=] where almost everything that goes wrong in the series can be traced back to it. [[spoiler:Altough in reality it can be traced back to the Senate, the ones that caused Alltynex to turn rogue in the first place]].
* The ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' has its fair share of Big Bads, although in many of them you don't learn that they are the Big Bad until much later in the game.
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'' has Dhaos [[spoiler: who is really trying to use the mana of the World Tree to save his homeworld, Derris-Kharlan.]]
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'' alternates it, initially pointing to [[spoiler:Balir, but he was DeadAllAlong and Shizel is the person behind it. However, ''she'' was possessed by a god called Nereid, triggered by Balir's very death, among other factors.]]
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny 2'' has Elraine at first, with Fortuna as the GreaterScopeVillain.
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', a distant prequel to ''Phantasia'', has [[spoiler: Mithos Yggdrassil, who is trying to use the power of the World Tree to revive his sister Martel and create a world where all people are stripped of free will and therefore are equal.]]
*** Its sequel, ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'', has Lord Brute, who is the leader of the Vanguard. [[spoiler:Until it is later revealed that Richter Abend was pulling the strings behind the Vanguard the whole time in an elaborate scheme to revive his long deceased friend Aster, with said plan involving killing Ratatosk and making a DealWithTheDevil to unleash the demons from Niflheim in order to do so. Granted, his motives were for a good cause, and he never planned on selling the world out to demons in the first place, since he had a back-up plan to double-cross the deal to prevent the demon invasion from happening. This makes him more of a NobleDemon AntiVillain. The closest this game has to a Big Bad would be Ratatosk himself, since he cares very little about humanity, and his true intentions aren't revealed until the bad ending.]]
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'' switches it up a bit, with Vaclav as the DiscOneFinalBoss during the first half. Maurits takes over the spotlight, but he's subordinate to the Nerifes, the real BigBad. Afterward, the Character Quests' overarching plot involves the black mist, and Schwartz, the one generating it.
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' has [[spoiler: Vandesdelca, aka "The One Who Would Seize Glory" (more commonly known early on as Luke's swordsmanship Master, Van Grants)]]
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' has [[spoiler:Alexei Dinoia]], though the last act of the game involves cleaning up his mess.
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' has Lambda for the main story, along with Fodora Queen in the Future arc.
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfZestiria'' has Heldalf; the Lord of Calamity, who is the source of the Hellions.
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'', a distant prequel to ''Zestiria'', has Artorius Collbrande; the leader of the Abbey, whose actions are responsible for triggering Velvet Crowe's RoaringRampageOfRevenge. [[spoiler:Later in the game, it's revealed that the purpose for his actions was to awaken the Fifth Empyrean; Innominat, and both share the same goal of purging humanity of emotions and free will for the sake of "reason".]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Tattletail}}'' has Mama Tattletail.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' has [[TheBaroness the Administrator]] who is the mastermind behind the RED and BLU conflict, though in-game, [[TheUnfought you don't get to fight her]]. That is until [[KnightOfCerebus Gray Mann]] came along.
** During Scream Fortress (Halloween), the BigBad is Merasmus, a magician who antagonizes the mercenaries simply because he wants revenge on the Soldier, [[FreudianExcuse for being an awful roommate]].
* ''VideoGame/TeamIcoSeries'':
** ''VideoGame/{{ICO}}'' has [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the Queen]].
** ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' has, [[AmbiguousSituation depending on your interpretation]], [[SealedEvilInACan Dormin]] or [[SinisterMinister Lord Emon]].
** ''VideoGame/TheLastGuardian'' has [[AIIsACrapshoot The Master of The Valley]].
* ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': The Shredder
** ''Video/Game/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame'': The Shredder
** ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime'': The Shredder
** ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheManhattanProject'': The Shredder
* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'':
** ''Tekken 1, 3 and 4'' have Heihachi Mishima serving as the host of the tournament, using it as steps on his plans for the world.
** ''Tekken 2'' has Kazuya, corrupted by his time as the CEO of the Zaibatsu and the influence of Devil, his ManBehindTheMan.
** ''Tekken 5'' has Jinpachi Mishima, although he's only trying to find someone that'd stop him before the demon inside him takes over and brings destruction to the world.
** ''Tekken 6'' has [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Jin Kazama/Devil Jin]]]].
** ''Tekken 7'' has Heihachi Mishima and Kazuya Mishima as [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonists]], so the BigBad is Kazuya for Heihachi and Heihachi for Kazuya.
** ChessMaster style [[BigBad villains]] such as Ogre (''Tekken 3'') and Azazel (''Tekken 6'') serve as demonic [[FinalBoss final bosses]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}}'':
** ''Tenchu: Stealth Assassins'' has [[{{Satan}} Lord Mei-Oh]], seeking to plunge the land into chaos and death.
** ''Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins'' has Lady Kagami of the Burning Dawn, a ninja seeking to free herself and her group from the shadows of servitude.
** ''Tenchu 3: Wrath of Heaven'' has the Dark Wizard Tenrai, seeking to increase his powers for his own ambitions.
** ''Tenchu: Fatal Shadows'' has Jyuzou of the Kuroya, seeking to break free of the traditional life of a ninja and "step into the light".
** ''Tenchu: Time of the Assassins'' has Onikage as the BigBad in all characters' stories except his own and Tesshu's, where his old friend Jinai takes the role.
** ''Tenchu: Dark Secret'' has Lord Kagemasa.
** ''Tenchu: Shadow Assassins'' has Onikage pulling the strings of everyone once again.
* ''VideoGame/ThiefTheDarkProject'' has Constantine [[spoiler: aka the Trickster.]]
** ''VideoGame/ThiefIITheMetalAge'' has Father Karras.
** ''VideoGame/ThiefDeadlyShadows'' has the Hag [[spoiler: aka Gamall.]]
* ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'':
** [[AristocratsAreEvil Sherudo Garo]] in the first game. However, unlike most ''Time Crisis'' [[BigBad Big Bads]], you actually deal with him first before fighting [[TheDragon Wild Dog]].
** [[MadScientist Ernesto Diaz]] in the second.
** [[PresidentEvil Giorgio Zott]] and [[TheMole Jake Hernandez]] in the third.
** [[WesternTerrorists Gregory Barrows]] in the fourth.
** [[spoiler: [[MoleInCharge Robert Baxter]]]] in the fifth.
** Ricardo Blanco in ''[[GaidenGame Project Titan]]''. However, [[TheStarscream Wild Dog betrays him halfway through the game for reasons unknown]] and in a strange twist, Wild Dog becomes the BigBad.
** [[TerroristsWithoutACause Derrick Lynch]] and later [[ScaryBlackMan Jared Hunter]] in ''[[GaidenGame Crisis Zone]]''.
** Paulo Guerra in ''VideoGame/RazingStorm''.
* ''VideoGame/{{TimeSplitters}}'' has Jacob Crow.
* ''Franchise/TombRaider'':
** ''VideoGame/TombRaider'' and ''VideoGame/TombRaiderAnniversary'': Jacqueline Natla.
** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderII'': [[TheDon Marco Bartoli]].
** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII'': [[MadScientist Dr. Mark Willard]].
** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderTheLastRevelation'': [[EvilFormerFriend Werner Von Croy]] [[spoiler: except [[GrandTheftMe he's actually possessed]] by [[MadGod the Egyptian God Set]].]]
** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderChronicles'': Is comprised of multiple segments, each featuring a different antagonist:
*** Segment 1: [[TheRival Pierre DuPont]] [[BigBadDuumvirate and Larson Conway]].
*** Segment 2: [[TheMafiya Mikhailov]]
*** Segment 3: [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Vladimir Kaleta]]
*** Segment 4: Werner Von Croy.
** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderAngelOfDarkness'': Pieter Van Eckhardt.
** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderLegend'': [[spoiler: [[EvilFormerFriend Amanda Evert]].]]
** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderUnderworld'': [[spoiler: Amanda]] initially continues to play the role continuing from ''Legend'', only to be forced into an EnemyMine with Lara, and leaving the true villain as [[spoiler: [[HijackedByGanon Jacqueline Natla]].]]
** ''VideoGame/TombRaider2013'': [[BadBoss Father Mathias]].
** ''Videogame/RiseOfTheTombRaider'': Konstantin.
* [[BigBad Erick Von Reitenau]], aka [[AGodAmI Adam]] from ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter: Under the Knife'' and its remake, ''Second Opinion''.
** ''Under the Knife 2'' has [[spoiler: Patrick Mercer, Reina Mayuzumi and Heinrich von Raitenau.]]
** ''New Blood'' has Kidman, who shows up about halfway through the game, though only to be killed in the next chapter and revealed to be working for [[spoiler: Master Vakhushti.]]
** ''Trauma Team'' has the Raging Bomber in Naomi's storyline.
* ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'' series has Calypso.
* Two thirds of the main ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' series had Big Bads:
** In ''VideoGame/UltimaI'' it was Mondain the Wizard, who was using the [[ArtifactOfDoom Gem of Immortality]] to take over the world.
** In ''VideoGame/UltimaII'', his lover Minax tries to take revenge.
** ''VideoGame/UltimaIII'' had their offspring/creation Exodus take its turn at world conquering.
** ''VideoGame/UltimaIV'' - ''VideoGame/UltimaVI VI'' had no Big Bads. A case could be made in ''VideoGame/UltimaV'' for the Shadowlords.
** ''VideoGame/UltimaVII'' - ''VideoGame/UltimaIX'' had [[DimensionLord The Guardian]] as their Big Bad, trying to conquer Britannia from without.
* ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}'':
** ''VideoGame/UnchartedDrakesFortune'': Gabriel Roman, [[spoiler: only for his [[TheDragon Dragon]], Atoq Navarrao, to betray him late in the game and take over as the FinalBoss.]]
** ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'': Zoran Lazarevic.
** ''VideoGame/Uncharted3DrakesDeception'': Katherine Marlowe.
** ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd'': Rafe Adler.
** ''Videogame/UnchartedTheLostLegacy'': Asav.
** ''VideoGame/UnchartedGoldenAbyss'': Roberto Guerro.
* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' sets [[KingKoopaCopy King Asgore]] up as one of these. He's the King of the Monsters, and the one who put out the decree demanding the [=SOULs=] of any human who entered his realm (which is why a lot of other monsters, most notably the Royal Guard, are out to kill the PlayerCharacter). To get home, you'll have to go through him. [[OrcusOnHisThrone But he never does much personally to impede your progress,]] [[spoiler:[[TragicVillain because the only reason he put out the decree was out of grief over the death of his son, and he's long since regretted that decision.]] It's just that the promise of freedom is all that gives his subjects hope anymore, so he can't stop. The ''[[ManBehindTheMan real]]'' [[BigBadDuumvirate villains]] are [[TreacherousAdvisor Flowey]] [[FoulFlower The Flower]] and [[CreepyChild Chara]] [[EnfantTerrible Dreemur]], the EnemyWithin of Asriel and Frisk, respectively, who’s ultimate goal is to [[AGodAmI become all powerful]] and [[OmnicidalManiac kill everyone]]. But they don't command anyone; they’re mainly [[ManipulativeBastard passive manipulators]], except in the genocide route where they are [[VillainProtagonist the main characters.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'': Has the killer terrorizing the protagonists on the mountain, [[spoiler: eventually revealed to be Josh Washington, who wasn't a real killer but an elaborate and vindictive prankster. After this is revealed, it turns out the real threat are the {{Wendigo}}, which haunt the mountain. Incidentally, the "main" leader of the wendigo, is Josh's sister Hannah, who disappeared a year earlier. In the unlockable "''Events of the Past''" video, we learn that the wendigo that hunted Hannah a year earlier is the biggest and most dangerous, Makkapitew, who is implied to be the one who possessed Hannah and transformed her.]]
* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'': Prince Maximilian
* Faulkner of ''VideoGame/VanguardBandits''. From his very first appearance in the story, to the endgame fight against in every ending. He isn't hesitant to head out to battle himself multiple times earlier on to lay a massive-sized beatdown on any poor fool who gets in his way.
* The 'VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'' series has one, mentioned at the end of the second game being responsible for everything... but the third game doesn't seem to be coming out any decade soon.
* The ''VideoGame/VirtuaCop'' series has international terrorist Joe Fang. In the first two games, he's the leader of a crime syndicate known as the EVL Inc. [[spoiler: Then in the arcade only release ''Virtua Cop 3'', he returns as the leader of the ECM terrorist organization.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'':
** Season 1 has The Stranger, a mysterious figure who [[spoiler:talks to Clementine through her supposedly-broken walkie-talkie, and later abducts her. To be fair, he is something of a subversion, since he isn't a mastermind or even particularly villainous - in the end he's just another survivor pushed past his DespairEventHorizon.]]
** Wyatt's story in ''400 Days'' has [[spoiler:Nate from Russell's story.]]
** Season 2 has William "Bill" Carver, who unlike The Stranger, is a truly evil being. [[spoiler:He imprisons the entire group eventually, and is by far the main threat for the first three episodes. He directly causes the deaths of several main characters, is heavily implied to have [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped Rebecca]], and isn't even given an AlasPoorVillain moment when he dies. However, he is brutally murdered by Kenny at the climax of Episode 3.]]
** [[spoiler:The rest of Season 2 is a bit more complicated. Depending on who you side with, which ending you get, and what you believe of the characters, either Kenny, Jane or both fall into this category. They cause the main conflict and DownerEnding of the season. If Kenny dies, however, he realises the error of his ways and tells Clementine that she made the right choice.]]
* Sargeras is the ultimate BigBad of the entire ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' universe, but because he's usually [[OrcusOnHisThrone on his throne]] or out of commission, his various minions tend to take over the roles. Out of several characters, Gul'dan and Medivh probably counted as a BigBadDuumvirate during the First War (or game), while Gul'dan took over the role alone for the Second (since he was using the orcs and fighting the humans). In the expansion, the job got handed off to Ner'zhul. In the Third War, Sargeras's Dragon, Archimonde, filled the role, while the other Dragon Kil'Jaeden and the Lich King both held it in an EvilVersusEvil situation in the Frozen Throne expansion. For ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' Big Bads, see that entry below.
* Captain Syrup in ''VideoGame/WarioLand 1'' and 2.
** Rudy the Clown in ''Wario Land 3.''
** The Golden Diva in ''Wario Land 4.''
** The Black Jewel in ''Wario World.''
** [[spoiler: Tiaramisu/Terrormisu]] in ''Wario: Master of Disguise.''
** The Shake King in ''Wario Land: Shake It!''
* ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'': [[EvilOldFolks Dermot "Lucky" Quinn]]. The DLC ''Bad Blood'' has JB "Defalt" Markowicz.
** ''VideoGame/WatchDogs2'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dusan Nemec]].
* ''Franchise/WhenTheyCry''
** ''{{VisualNovel/Higurashi|WhenTheyCry}}'': The cause of the HatePlague is identified as the curse of the guardian deity Oyashiro-sama. Thier true identity is[[spoiler:-well, there’s ''two'' of them. Hanyuu Furude is the true one, but she’s innocent; while [[TheDogWasTheMastermind Nurse Miyo Takano]] is revealed to be using the name as an alias to cover up the fact that she’s the true mastermind behind Rika's murder as well as the one orchestrating the Great Hinamizawa Disaster in what is a MilkmanConspiracy. Her plan is to [[AGodAmI actually become a god]]]].
** ''{{VisualNovel/Umineko|WhenTheyCry}}'' has Beatrice the Golden Witch A.K.A. [[spoiler: Sayo Yasuda for the first half. Once she dies she is usurped by [[BigBadDuumvirate Bernkastel and Lambdadelta]] for the second half. Because of this, Bernkastel is now a RogueProtagonist and FallenHero, since she was the amalgamation of all the dead Rika Furudes from Higurashi, while Lambdadelta was [[ManBehindTheMan the one who]] [[HijackedByGanon granted Miyo Takano’s wish to become a god]]]].
* In ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'', we are lead to believe that Azar Javed is the BigBad of the game. [[spoiler: The BigBad Turns out to be [[TheManBehindTheMan Jaques de Aldersberg]], head of the Order of the Burning Rose]].
** ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings'', Letho serves as the main antagonist, with other major antagonists varying depending on whether or not he sides with either [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Vernon Roche]] or [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Iorveth]].
** ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': [[MultiversalConqueror Eredin Bréacc Glas]].
* ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'': [[MadScientist Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse]].
* ''Videogame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'': [[TheBaroness Frau Irene Engel]].
* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'': [[spoiler:Majumi Kitanji and or Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu.]]
* Used (and not used) variously in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.
** In the original game, there were multiple {{story arc}}s, not all of which tied together and some of which had their own Big Bads, such as [=VanCleef=] (the final boss of one of the first dungeons), the DiabolicalMastermind behind the Defias who were behind everything until then in the human quests, right from the kobolds at the beginning. The closest to an overall Big Bad was dependent on the continent, with the final boss being [[EldritchAbomination C'Thun]] in Kalmindor and [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Nefarian]] in Eastern Kingdoms, respectively. Everything in Kalimdor was very obviously leading up to the Battle of Kalimdor, with the Silithid being woven in through multiple quest lines, culminating in the Scepter of the Shifting Sands quest chain, and everything in the Eastern Kingdoms was leading up to the final assault on Blackwing Lair, as Nefarian was behind Onyxia's motivations, which also led to the Defilas StartOfDarkness. Neither C'Thun or Nefarian were quite the final boss before the first expansion, but those who came after them weren't behind so much of everything.
** In ''Burning Crusade'', the main antagonists are the [[LegionsOfHell Burning Legion]].
** In ''Wrath of the Lich King'', as the name implies, it's very clear who the Big Bad is. The Lich King is a typical EvilOverlord bent on world conquest, and makes sure to appear several times along the story to make the point.
** The Big Bad for ''Cataclysm'' is Deathwing the Destroyer, an ancient dragon who sought to destroy the world, who also qualifies as a GreaterScopeVillain for Vanilla ''[=WoW=]'' as well, as he is the father of Nefarian and Onyxia [[TheManBehindTheMan and was the driving force behind their motivations the whole time]].
** In ''Mists of Pandaria'', there's no overall Big Bad, but there are several smaller ones that each affect large swaths of the story. The Sha might seem like the expansion's Big Bad, they are being fueled by all the infighting going on between the various races and factions of Pandaria, which includes the Yaungol, Mantid and Mogu (to name only three of many); and then there's the recent [[SarcasmMode helpful]] arrival of the Horde and the Alliance, who instantly proceeded to bring their own war to Pandaria, which made the Sha problem ''[[NiceJobBreakingItHero even worse...]]''. The Sha's progenitor, [[spoiler: the Old God Y'Sharaaj]], also has a lot to answer for. Another more major source of strife is Garrosh Hellscream, who inflames and effectively embodies the Horde--Alliance conflict until he pisses off everyone and they team up against him. There's also the Thunder King Lei Shen, who has set the stage for much of the events in Pandaria millenia ago.
** ''Warlords of Draenor'' is complicated in a different way. The beginning of the plot is run by Grommash Hellscream, but when he is turned into a BigBadWannabe by Gul'dan, the result is that neither of them is behind everything, so basically there are two characters taking turns at being the Big Bad for the first and second part.
* ''VideoGame/{{X}}'':
** ''[[VideoGame/{{X}} X: Beyond the Frontier]]'' has the [[AIIsACrapshoot Xenon]] M0 planet-killer.
** ''X2: The Threat'' features an AlienInvasion in the form of the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Kha'ak]]; the BigBad is the Kha'ak planet-killer.
** With said planet-killer destroyed at the end of ''X2'', the BigBad of ''X3: Reunion'' is the Kha'ak fleet itself.
** ''X3: Terran Conflict'' doesn't have an overall BigBad since its plot focuses on the [[SpaceColdWar growing political tensions]] between the [[HigherTechSpecies Terrans]] and the [[TheAlliance Community of Planets]]. Likewise, ''X3: Albion Prelude's'' plot is driven by the all-out interstellar war between the Terrans and the [[TheFederation Argon Federation]] about a decade later, though the main antagonists are the Plutarch Mining Corporation.
** ''X: Rebirth'' once again has the Plutarch Mining Corporation.
* ''VideoGame/XMenLegends'':
** The first game features a BigBadEnsemble between Magneto and General William Kincaid.
** ''Rise of the Apocalypse'' has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Apocalypse]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'': The Mechon in general drive the plot, but most of early game is spent in pursuit of "Metal Face," a Mechon war leader for whom ItsPersonal. [[spoiler:Later, it's revealed that he's TheDragon to Egil, the millennia-old creator of the Mechon, who is the game's real BigBad. But the ''real'' real antagonist turns out to be Zanza, one half of a duo of creator deities and a JerkassGod extraordinaire, who is also the [[UnholyHolySword Monado itself]] and has been inhabiting the main character all along.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'': The Xenosaga game series (as well as ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'') makes particular use of Big Bads, specifically by using bait and switching the big bads multiple times. A routine of the Xenosaga games is that once a Big Bad has been "dethroned" from their role, their connections to the main characters are deepened and explained. This happens with Albedo and Margulis, among others. The ultimate Big Bad of the Xenosaga series turns out to be [[spoiler: Wilhelm]], TheChessmaster who was manipulating '' all the previous Big Bads'' (and every other character as well). The ultimate big bad in ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' is [[spoiler:Deus]]. As an overlooked factor, [[spoiler:Miang Hawwa, or rather the Miang Factor personified as the Urobolous Snake is the Final Boss of the game. Defeating her means Deus cannot be activated and is utterly useless.]]
* Jason Stryker in the tie-in video game for ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''.
* ''VisualNovel/{{YoJinBo}}'' has Harumoto, upstart clan-leader wannabe and would-be murderer of Hatsuhime.
* ''VideoGame/YuGiOhBAM'' has the Organizer. Due to the Facebook game being canceled, his true identity was never revealed.
* ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders'': Nohman, though mostly in ''The 2nd Runner''. [[TheDragon Viola]] serves as [[TheHeavy the main antagonist]] for the first game.
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** ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' has [[SealedEvilInACan Dormin]].

* ''VideoGame/AgentsOfMayhem'': [[DiabolicalMastermind The Morningstar]].

* ''VideoGame/{{ICO}}'' has [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the Queen]].

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' has a different Big Bad for each of the class stories. Each one also has a DiscOneFinalBoss for the first act (Some even have a Disc Two Final Boss for the second act). However, the Sith Emperor Vitiate is the main antagonist of the overarching plot.
** The Jedi Knight has Darth Angral for Chapter 1 and [[spoiler:the Sith Emperor]] for the rest.
** The Jedi Consular has Lord Vivicar for Chapter 1, Lord Kyrus for Chapter 2 [[spoiler:until Blaseus is revealed]], and [[spoiler:The Children of the Emperor, specifically the First Son,]] in Chapter 3.
** The Trooper has Harron Tavus in Chapter 1 and General Rakton in Chapter 3.
** The Smuggler has Skavak in Chapter 1 and The Voidwolf for the rest.
** The Sith Warrior has Nomen Karr in Chapter 1, [[spoiler:Darth Vengean]] in Chapter 2, and [[spoiler:Darth Baras]] in Chapter 3
** The Sith Inquisitor has [[spoiler:Darth Zash]] in Chapter 1 and Darth Thanaton for the rest.
** The Bounty Hunter has Tarro Blood for Chapter 1 and Jun Seros for the rest.
** The Imperial Agent has The Eagle for Chapter 1 [[spoiler:until Darth Jadus is revealed]], Ardun Kothe in Chapter 2, and [[spoiler:The Star Cabal]] in Chapter 3.
** ''Rise of the Hutt Cartel'': Toborro the Hutt for the Republic, Szajin the Archon for the Empire.
** ''Shadow of Revan'': Revan.
** ''Knights of the Fallen Empire/Eternal Throne'': Arcann, and later on Vaylin, with [[spoiler:Valkorian/Vitiate playing the GreaterScopeVillain]].

* ''VideoGame/NocturneRPGMaker'' has Ristill, who appears to be the one behind the elemental barrier that weakens Reviel, as well as a Dark Chains curse to weaken him further. [[spoiler:Then it turns out she was only behind the Dark Chains curse while Khaos was behind the elemental barrier. Khaos turns out to be aiding Ristill in order to make the rivalry between her and Reviel more interesting. After Reviel defeats Ristill, Khaos attacks the village of Algiz and reveals his plan to destroy and reconstruct the world, forcing the two into an EnemyMine to stop him.]]

* ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'': [[EldritchAbomination The Dark One]] in the first two games, and the PRofessor/[[spoiler:Ludwig]] in Arc the Lad III.

** ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'', the sequel to ''Bravely Default'', has [[TheEmperor Kaiser Oblivion]], the ruler of the Glanz Empire, who has kidnapped Agnès and wants to [[spoiler: WellIntentionedExtremist rewrite the past for a better future and erase his bloodline from existence. Except he has been manipulated by [[EvilAllAlong Anne]] into constructing the Holy Pillar so she can get rid of the moon, then re-open the link to the Celestial Realm to allow her master, [[GreaterScopeVillain Providence]] to invade, while revealing that she only assisted in the defeat of Airy and Ouroboros in the first game in order to remove a threat to Providence]].

* The pantheon in ''[[NexusWar Nexus Clash]]'' has three [[GodOfEvil Evil Elder Powers]] that are the power source of the demonic hordes, but most of the conflict in the game can be traced back to one of them: [[ManipulativeBastard Tlacolotl]], personification of violence. The other two Dark Powers are [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] whose influence will permeate the universe AsLongAsThereIsEvil. As a DeityOfHumanOrigin, Tlacolotl has no such protection, and so most of the divine conflict in the game is caused by him overtly or covertly stirring up vendettas between the rest of the pantheon to keep them from ever properly uniting to defeat him.

** The nomadic Vaygr from ''Homeworld 2'' are led by [[DarkMessiah Makaan]] in their attempts to conquer the galaxy. Unusually for a BigBad, he's [[spoiler:killed before the end of the game, and you spend the last mission fighting off what's left of his fleet as they try to bomb your planet.]]

** [[VisionaryVillain The K'Had Sajuuk]], leader of the [[WellIntentionedExtremist Kiith Gaalsien]], who seeks to stop the Kharaki space program and destroy the Coalition to bring peace to and protect Kharak.

** [[TheVirus The Beast infection]] is the primary antagonist ''Homeworld: Cataclysm'', and towards the end of the game it is controlled by [[spoiler:The [[HiveMind Nagarrok]], an ancient alien vessel that picked up the Beast infection in Hyperspace]]. It even has its own [[TheDragon Dragon]] in the [[spoiler:infected lower half of the Somtaaw Command Ship]].

* ''VideoGame/DoomIIHellOnEarth'''s big bad is the MookMaker, the one who spawned all the enemies in the first place. Considering that it only appears once in the game, and its destruction damages ''untold miles'' of Hell's surface, we can assume that the big static face we call the Icon of Sin is the big bad of the game.

* ''VideoGame/Doom2016'''s BigBad is Ola Pierce. Like Malcolm Betruger, she colludes with Hell bringing about [[HellOnEarth Hell on Mars]], and eventually [[spoiler:becomes the Spider Mastermind in a bid to become a God]].

** [[VideoGame/FarCryPrimal The fifth game]] has Ull, leader of the cannibalistic Udam tribe, [[BigBadEnsemble and]] Batari, leader of the slave-taking, sun-worshipping Izila tribe.

* ''VideoGame/DoomTheRoguelike'' has the spider mastermind. [[spoiler:And behind her, the true evil behind the invasion, [[spoiler: John Carmack.]]]]

** The [[VideoGame/FarCry3 third game]] it looks to be Vaas Montenegro, [[spoiler: but it's really [CorruptCorporateExecutive Hoyt Volker]].]]

** ''VideoGame/DeadRising3'': Has a BigBadDuumvirate between, Marian Mallon and General John Hemlock.
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' has two, Mercer and [[spoiler:[[TheMole Kendra]]]]. The situation is unique as you fight neither of them, though you do fight what may or may not be considered as the third Big Bad, the/ HiveMind.

* ''VideoGame/DoomTheRoguelike'' has the spider mastermind. [[spoiler:And behind her, the true evil behind the invasion, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDoeKOSxLJw&list=UU3Q13RAmFVfDkYOWnnqFM2A&index=11#t=2h34m0s John Carmack.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/Doom2016'''s BigBad is Olivia Pierce. Like Malcolm Betruger, she colludes with Hell bringing about [[HellOnEarth Hell on Mars]], and eventually [[spoiler:becomes the Spider Mastermind in a bid to become a God]].

* ''VideoGame/CannonDancer'' features Jack Layzon as the primary antagonists who used and betrayed the main character, Kirin, for his own needs. [[spoiler:[[GreaterScopeVillain The mysterious goddess Slaver]], however, uses Kirin's revenge as a way to enslave him to her will, and ends up becoming the FinalBoss for her troubles.]]

** ''VideoGame/BraveySecond'', the sequel to ''Bravely Default'', has [[TheEmperor Kaiser Oblivion]], the ruler of the Glanz Empire, who has kidnapped Agnès and wants to [[spoiler: WellIntentionedExtremist rewrite the past for a better future and erase his bloodline from existence. Except he has been manipulated by [[EvilAllAlong Anne]] into constructing the Holy Pillar so she can get rid of the moon, then re-open the link to the Celestial Realm to allow her master, [[GreaterScopeVillain Providence]] to invade, while revealing that she only assisted in the defeat of Airy and Ouroboros in the first game in order to remove a threat to Providence]].

* ThoseWackyNazis serve this role for most of the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' games, excepting ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps Black Ops]]'', where the BigBad is Soviet General Nikita Dragovich.

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** ''X3: Terran Conflict'' doesn't have an overall BigBad since its plot focuses on the [[SpaceColdWar growing political tensions]] between the [[HigherTechSpecies Terrans]] and the [[TheAlliance Community of Planets]]. Likewise, ''X3: Albion Prelude's'' plot is driven by the all-out interstellar war between the Terrans and the [[TheFederation Argon Federation]] about a decade later.

* ''Videogame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'': Frau Irene Engel.

* ''Videogame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'': Frau Irene Engele.

* ''VideoGame/RadiataStories'': While there are [[BigBadEnsemble multiple villainous characters driving the world off a cliff with their actions]], a full reading of the story makes it clear that the situation isn't the fault of any one individual, and the only person who has a clear view of the plot is [[spoiler: ''not'' responsible for very much of it. He's reacting to a broken situation and trying to run damage control, but [[WellIntentionedExtremist his methods]] bring him into conflict with Jack]].

** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': [[spoiler:Dimitri Rascalov]], who is responsible for almost all the major conflicts in the game. If you chose the Revenge Ending, [[spoiler:Jimmy Pegorino]] becomes the BigBad and FinalBoss.

** The Zaibatsu Corporation in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto2''
** Catalina in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII''
** Sonny Forelli in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity''
** Frank Tenpenny and [[spoiler:Big Smoke]] in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas''
** [[spoiler:Vinnie]] and King Courtney in a BigBadEnsemble in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoAdvance''.
** Massimo Torini in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories''
** Jerry Martinez and The Mendez Brothers in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories''
** Dimitri Rascalov for most of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV''
*** Billy Grey in ''The Lost And Damned''
*** [[spoiler:Ray Bulgarin]] in ''The Ballad Of Gay Tony''
** [[spoiler:Wu "Kenny" Lee]] in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoChinatownWars''.
** [[spoiler:Devin Weston and Steve Haines]] in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.

** Joseph Bertrand III in the [[VideoGame/InFamous2 second game]], with [[spoiler:The Beast as the GreaterScopeVillain]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Rebuild}}'' had no designated bad guy for the first instalment, aside from the zombies. The second, however, has Father Kane, the head of the Last Judgement gang that enslave women for their own sexual pleasures and repeatedly attack your settlement. He's therefore the biggest threat aside from the zombies, and [[spoiler:killing him and his gang is one of the conditions that allows you to win]].

* ''VideoGame/{{TimeSplitters 2}}'' has Jacob Crow.