History Characters / SwordArtOnlineAbridgedAntagonists

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the original version, the leader of Laughing Coffin didn't appear until Episode 6, whereas here he appears as an ordinary player in Episode 2.

* DirtyCoward: Beneath his frustrations towards other players and his grandiosity, Kayaba's core motivation is to protect himself. Although Kayaba never actually intended to put anyone at risk and that it was just an accident that spiraled out of control due to sleep deprivation. He chose to keep everyone hostage until he figured a way out of his mess and chose to go into the game with an immortal status, only deactivating his immortality when Kirito kept aggravating him. Even though Kayaba could fight every boss by himself and is effectively immortal, he chose to form a guild so he wouldn't fight any of the bosses alone, as shown by his fearful expression when he saw the final boss kill two players in one hit. In the end, he only kills Kirito after the latter becomes too grief-stricken to fight back after Asana's sacrifice. After revealing Kayaba's identity to everyone, Kirito specifically calls out his cowardice by saying that the players were braver than him because they chose to put their lives on the line.
--> '''Kirito''': "Hey! At least they had the guts to be here without a freakin' cheat code! They volunteered to be here. Even though they knew it could get them killed! Which is just a few magnitudes more than I can say about you."

!!Golden Apple

[[folder:Grimlock]]

[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8_29.png]][[caption-width-right:1000:So you see, boy. I didn't kill [[spoiler:Griselda]]. I killed [[spoiler:the thing that took her place]].]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Scott "Creator/KaiserNeko" Frerichs\\\

A member of the Golden Apple guild, married to another player, Griselda. He is the antagonist of Episodes 5 and 6 as the true killer of Griselda, who murdered her when she was too busy planning a raid with the others to make him dinner and asked him to eat leftovers instead.

* AdaptationalDumbass: On top of [[AdaptationalVillainy having his villainy upped to eleven]], this version of Grimlock is a complete idiot with the brain of a bratty (but more destructive) four-year-old who throws a tantrum over not having the dinner he wanted, then doubles down on his actions and tries to blame his mess on his former friend.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While murdering your wife out of fear she'll become a BloodKnight and no longer resemble who you fell in love with wasn't justified, it was a significantly less petty motivation than killing her for [[spoiler:not having the time to cook dinner one evening]].
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Is killed by Yolko, Schmitt, and Kains for having his own wife murdered. The fact that he put out a hit on them later doesn't help his case.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: If killing his wife over a sandwich doesn't prove this, then acting like ''he'' is the victim of the whole ordeal certainly does.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He must've been this to be held in such high regard by Yolko and Kains. By the time we see him, however, any superficial charm he might've had is long gone, replaced with a shallow husk of a man grasping at straws.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:He is confirmed as an ''SAO'' survivor in the canon, but here he is killed by his former guild.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Thanks to this guy's master plan, nobody's making him sandwiches any time soon.
* DirtyCoward: Implied to have killed Griselda [[InTheBack from behind]], and he hires some mercenaries to tie up loose ends instead of doing it himself.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. He sounds offended when Kirito accuses him of killing his wife over something as petty as [[{{Greed}} money]], only to then reveal that he actually killed her over [[spoiler: ''a sandwich''.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He's positively ''shocked'' that his former friends would turn on him after [[spoiler: he told them [[BlatantLies his tragic story]] of murdering his wife over a sandwich.]]
* EvilerThanThou: He's the ''one'' villain (before [[SmugSuper Sugou]] enters the picture) that [[EveryoneHasStandards manages to disgust Kirito]] with his actions, to the point where the latter gives him a brutal TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
-->'''Grimlock:''' (to Kirito) Kid, one day you'll understand what's like to be in love.
* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler:The most galling aspect of his crime. He didn't gain anything from it except a dead wife and the hatred of his guild when they find out.]]
* FalseFriend: He helps Kains and Yolko with their investigation of Griselda's murder, if only to [[spoiler: scare the already delusional Schmitt into falsely confessing to ''his'' crime. He also hires Laughing Coffin to get rid of all three of them once they fail.]]
* FauxHorrific: Only two things can drive him over the edge: His wife not making him dinner in time one day, and insulting his hat.
* GeniusDitz: His plan to get Schmitt framed for his crime is actually rather well thought out (due to the latter already being on the edge of his sanity), and it would've worked if not for Kirito' and Asuna's intervention. However, said crime was motivated by extremely stupid and immature reasons only befitting of a PsychopathicManchild.
* {{Greed}}: Subverted. [[spoiler:Kirito initially suspected that Grimlock killed his wife to keep that rare item for himself since married players share inventory space and no one would know he stole it. [[MotiveMisidentification However, his true motive is far]] [[EvilIsPetty pettier]]]].
* HateSink: The entirety of his screen time is devoted to showing off how much of a vile piece of shit he is.
* InsaneTrollLogic: [[spoiler:He claims he didn't kill his wife but "the thing that took her place." Keep in mind that this stems from the fact that she didn't cook dinner one day.]]
* LovingAShadow: As Kirito points out, he never really loved Griselda; he simply wanted to possess her.
* MagicalWeapon: Subverted. His sword, "Guilty Thorn" doesn't really kill players in safe zones; it was all part of a ploy by Yolko and Kains to scare Schmitt.
* MoralMyopia: "Delusional" doesn't even ''begin'' to describe this guy.
-->'''Kirito:''' (after sitting through his MotiveRant) [[SarcasmFailure Wow, okay.]] Let me see if I got this. You killed your wife because she wouldn't get in the kitchen and make you ''a sandwich''?!\\
'''Grimlock''': And what man would blame me?! Kains? Schmitt? You guys know what I'm talking about!\\
'''Kains''': [[TranquilFury Don't... don't talk to us, man.]]
* MotiveRant:
--> [[spoiler:'''Grimlock:''' Are you mad?! I didn't kill my wife for something as trivial as money! No. My story is... far more tragic.\\
''[cut to flashback]''\\
'''Grimlock:''' We were so in love. In all our time together, we never had a single fight. But then... one night... everything changed.\\
'''Griselda:''' I'm sorry, honey. I didn't have time to make dinner. I have to go meet Yolko and the girls to strategize for the raid. But there's still some leftovers in the fridge. Don't worry. I'll make it up to you tomorrow. Love you!\\
'''Grimlock:''' And just like that, I realized the woman I loved was gone. I was devastated. How could she betray me like this? Clearly, if I was to preserve her memory... to hold on to the angel she once was... something drastic had to be done. So you see, boy. I didn't kill Griselda. I killed the thing that took her place.]]
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Your ExtremeDoormat wife isn't making you a proper dinner (for the ''first'' time in years), prioritizing going on raids with her girlfriends over your basic needs (even if you still had leftovers in the fridge)? [[CallForward Have you considered... murder?]]
* NeckSnap: After Asuna complains that they're making too much noise, [[spoiler: Schmitt puts an end to the guild's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of him with one of these.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Not only does he kill his wife for not being a submissive housewife, but he tries to justify his actions to his fellow male players. Unsurprisingly, they're all repulsed by him.
* PsychopathicManchild: He considers his wife not making him dinner once to be her InUniverse MoralEventHorizon, and has a childish tantrum after Asuna says his hat makes him look like a hipster.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: When he tells [[LackOfEmpathy Kirito]], "Some day you'll understand what's like to be in love", he's obviously referring to him becoming a sexist asshole like him, but without the implications, it's actually a sound criticism of his character (and in episode 9, Kirito ''does'' eventually understand what's like to be ''really'' in love).
* SanitySlippage: By Episode 6, he's nothing but a blubbering mess pathetically trying justifying his actions at any chance he gets. Luckily, [[spoiler: his gang gave him the help he needed [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown behind a tree]].]]
* SkewedPriorities: As Kirito soon finds out, his dinner and '''his hat'' are far more important to him than his wife.
* SignatureHeadgear: His hat. Though Asuna and Kirito both think it makes him look like Music/JohnLennon joined the mafia.
* StayInTheKitchen: His attitude towards his wife, [[spoiler:to the point of killing her when she failed to do so.]]
* StrawMisogynist: Exaggerated to the point of parody. Every line of dialogue that comes from his mouth is dedicated to reinforcing this.
* StupidEvil: His actions weren't just atrocious, they were also extremely childish and immature; [[spoiler: he kills Griselda for not making him dinner ''once'', essentially ensuring she'll never be able to make him ''anything'' from then on.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: While the other Golden Apple members aren't saints (especially Schmitt), Grimlock is the only one who is an outright monster. Needless to say, he stops being a "teammate" after his murder of Griselda comes to light.
* VillainousBreakdown: ''Not'' brought upon by Kirito's well-founded ReasonYouSuckSpeech, but by Asuna telling him that [[FashionVictimVillain his hat makes him look like a hipster.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Since he's introduced as [[spoiler: Griselda's actual murderer, most of his entries are spoiler-tagged.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Is willing to do this to ''anyone'' the moment they don't do what he wants. [[spoiler: He pulls this on his wife after she stops making him dinner every day, and attempts this on Yolko, Kains, and Schmitt as well after the initial plan to frame the latter fails.]]

!!Aincrad Liberation Front
[[folder:Kibaou]]

[[quoteright:950:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/17_1.png]][[caption-width-right:950:''"Beta testers?!"'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Mackenzie "[=Hayabusa449=]" Murdock\\\

A loudmouth and conspiracy theorist who blames the beta testers for being trapped in ''SAO'', hijacks a strategy session early in the game, and causes more trouble later.

* AdaptationalDumbass: The original Kibaou was already a moron, but the Abridged version makes him more of an exaggerated conspiracy theorist who thinks the beta testers are responsible for trapping the players in the game. When Diabel asks for evidence of his claims, Kibaou outright states he does not need any, and expects everyone to back him up.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Unlike in canon, he doesn't try to accuse Kirito of letting Diabel die in this version, even though this Kirito was even more of an ass than the original ever was, giving him more of a reason to be spiteful towards the beta tester.
* AntiHero: NominalHero in Episode 2. He was on Diabel's side, but he was even more unsympathetic than ''[[{{Jerkass}} Kirito]]''. After his rise to power, he drops the "hero" label pretty quickly.
* AssassinationAttempt: Tries to get his guild's deposed leader Thinker killed during a staged peace treaty. Thankfully, Thinker's lieutenant Yulier enlists the help of Kirito and Asuna to rescue him.
* BadLiar: Told Thinker that he was willing to negotiate their leadership issues, but only if the peace talk was held inside a dungeon with a creepy OptionalBoss lurking inside. The worst part? [[IronicName Thinker]] fell for it.
* CannonFodder: Since he "hijacked conversations to rant about his political views", he makes it to the front lines, much to his horror. He actually survives the raid, though.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He may be a stupid asshole, but he survives the Floor 1 raid despite being on the front lines. He also goes on to become the leader of the ALF.
* FantasticRacism: He hates beta testers for not helping people (read: ''him'') clear the first floor, and blames them for getting everyone stuck in the game.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: If Diabel's exasperated reaction to his introduction is any indication. As dumb as most SAO players are, ''nobody'' listens to what this guy has to say. Yulier states this is part of why they didn't see his power-grab coming: they honestly didn't think anyone would follow him.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: His first and only onscreen appearance is in Episode 2 and is spent trash-talking SAO's beta testers and blaming them for getting everyone trapped in the game. Then in a classic display of OffstageVillainy, he joins the ALF and stages a violent coup that throws the entire guild into chaos.
* InsaneTrollLogic:
** Claims he doesn't need evidence to blame beta testers for anything, he just can.
** It goes both ways; when Kirito states his BadassLongcoat somehow makes him a superior being than him, Kibaou ''agrees''.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He tries to out the beta testers as traitors because he's bitter that ''they'' didn't teach ''him'' how to play the game, even though they did make a players' guide for him and the other newbies to read [[WhoWritesThisCrap (though given what was written in it...)]].
* ILied: Turns out he lied about the negotiation and only wanted to get Thinker killed by a boss. Everybody saw it coming save for Thinker himself.
* {{Jerkass}}: Much like in canon, although it's mitigated by the fact that Abridged Kirito actually ''is'' an asshole.
* KarmaHoudini: Unless Yulier and Thinker did something about his AssassinationAttempt, he essentially got away scot-free when Kirito logged every surviving SAO player out of the game.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: He claims to know with complete certainty that the beta testers are traitors. He has no evidence of this and it's soon made clear that he is only bitter about not having their advantage over the mechanics of the game.
* OhCrap: Has one when the guide almost literally singles him out as a potential candidate for a meat shield, due to how annoying he is.
* PetTheDog:
** Despite all the grief he caused Diabel, he yells out his name as he's killed, implying he cared about his leader to an extent.
** He also doesn't accuse Kirito of getting him killed like in canon, despite Kirito actually being responsible this time around.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Since the beta testers' guide turns out to be a bust, he's eventually proven correct about the beta testers (or at least ''one'' of them) intentionally hindering them. However, it doesn't make his argument any less stupid as he didn't even know the book existed, and it's clear he was speaking out of ignorance.
* StupidEvil: He's a moronic conspiracy theorist who somehow rose to the ranks of the ALF and became a tyrant.
* TokenEvilTeammate: The ALF is already filled with incompetent assholes, but Kibaou is the only one of them who actually attempted to [[PlayerKilling kill another player.]]
[[/folder]]

!!Laughing Coffin
[[folder:General]]
[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/13_8.png]][[caption-width-right:1000:''"Boss won't get off your back? Girlfriend won't stop nagging you? Did that fuckstick Tiffany sell you a bullshit dagger that broke almost immediately, despite the fact you spent half your goddamn col on it? Have you considered... murder?"'']]
A deranged group of [[PlayerKilling PKers]]-for-[[MurderInc hire]] feared throughout ''SAO'', though they're having trouble attracting clients due to a branding problem.
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* AdaptationalDumbass: Even ignoring Jeffrey's visions of an evil Jesus, these guys are far more stupid than their original counterparts, and they also doom themselves by making their address public as a "business strategy".
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Apart from the playful banter they have during their EstablishingCharacterMoment, this adaptation of Laughing Coffin willingly hand their prey over to Kirito as payment for his [[ItMakesSenseInContext business advice]] instead of [[DirtyCoward leaving out of cowardice]] like in SAO proper.
* AdaptationalWimp: They're depicted as a lot more incompetent, being easily manipulated by Kirito into letting targets go.
* AffablyEvil: If one thing can be said about them, is that they're never rude to other players. They even make an ad campaign for their job!
* CallingCard: The "Bible-quoting serial killer" theme. But because of Jeffery's CloudCuckoolander tendencies, people don't seem to take them as seriously as they should because of it.
* TheDreaded: A gang of high-level player killers who terrify pretty much anyone who isn't Kirito.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: They have no problems at all with paralyzing and murdering players, but even they don't approve of "that fuckstick Tiffany's" cons, if their ad campaign is anything to go by, right down to giving Tiffany devil horns and viciously flipping him off.
* {{Greed}}: Save for [[KnightTemplar Jeffrey]], this is their main motivation. Thanks to Kirito, this becomes their downfall when they [[TooDumbToLive reveal their location via an ad campaign]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Their {{Greed}} comes back to bite them in the ass when the army use their own ad campaign to track them.
* InTheHood: All of the Laughing Coffin members wear cloaks.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: While they fail to kill the Golden Apple members, they get off scot-free in Episode 6 after their encounter with Kirito. That is until Episode 9 where we hear they had been jailed / KilledOffscreen by the Knights of the Blood Oath.
* LaughablyEvil: While they're still [[NotSoHarmlessVillain genuinely dangerous and intimidating]], due to [[TheAbridgedSeries the series' nature]], their scenes are usually a riot to watch.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Both Johnny Black and Red-Eyes [=XaXa=] have masks in addition to their hoods.
* PsychoForHire: They try to be this, but Jeffrey's outlandish motif drives most of their clientele away.
* TrackingDevice: A self-inflicted one: As a marketing strategy, they sent an email with their exact location to every player in the game.
* TooDumbToLive: No seriously, they just told everyone where their guild of assassins was located. Even more foolishly, they came up with this idea ''themselves.''
* UncertainDoom: In Episode 9, Kirito mentions that most of them had been jailed, but Kuradeel later says that the former's advice got them "a blade through their hearts", implying at least one was killed during the raid.
* VillainRespect: They hand over their prey to Kirito after the latter teaches them how to DoWrongRight.
-->'''Jeffrey:''' You've given us much to think about, young man. As payment, the lives of these sinners are now yours to command.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jeffrey]]
[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/12_224.png]]
[[caption-width-right:1000:''"Oh my god! You guys can see it too?! So I'm not crazy! Isn't that great, Jesus?!"'']]
[[caption-width-right:1000:[[labelnote:Click here to see his imaginary Jesus]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/36_28.png''"That's right, Jeffrey. Now, '''kill them all'''"''.]][[/labelnote]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Stuart "[=LordMegatronG1=]" Hutson\\\

Laughing Coffin's religiously fanatical leader and one of Aincrad's most dangerous assassins. He's better at some parts of his job than others. He hallucinates a vision of Jesus Christ who instructs him to kill people, leading him to create Laughing Coffin.
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!!Knights of the Blood Oath

[[folder:Kuradeel]]
[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/14_852.png]]
[[caption-width-right:1000:Kirito:''"You look like Benjamin Button fucked an old catcher's mitt. Like 4 inches of face stretched over 12 inches of skull. Like a moldy Jack O' Lantern some frat guy barfed in and then crushed against his forehead because he was super drunk and thought it was a beer can and then immediately regretted every single life choice he ever made."'']]

Asuna's bodyguard, who moonlights as a clingy stalker. He challenges Kirito to a duel and promptly makes a fool of himself. He is actually a fanboy of Laughing Coffin, seeking vengeance on Kirito for orchestrating their downfall.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Even ''Asuna'' thinks he's too insane (or ugly) for her. Didn't stop him from stalking her in her sleep.
* AbusiveParents: Suggested as he mutters to himself after recovering from a blow.
-->'''Kuradeel:''' Don't hit me mommy, you know it makes me hard...
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: It's not much, but this incarnation of him actually has a personal reason (petty as it may be) to want to kill [[{{Jerkass}} Kirito]] and [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Godfree]] beyond simply being deranged. He also doesn't pull an ISurrenderSuckers on Asuna like in the anime, though this was likely because [[VillainKiller she didn't let him]].
* AdaptationalSympathy: His death is a very well-deserved one, but the implication that [[AbusiveParents his mother used to beat him]], as well as the fact that Kirito just won't stop mocking him for his InformedDeformity can add some sympathy to his death.
* AdaptationalWimp: He doesn't manage to get the drop on Asuna this time around, although to be fair, it's not like [[AdaptationalJerkass this Asuna]] was going to give him the chance.
* AintTooProudToBeg: Like in canon, when Asuna beats him, he goes to his knees begging for mercy. [[spoiler:Unlike in canon, however, Asuna is far less merciful and kills him on the spot]].
* AxCrazy: The guy is [[spoiler:a fan of [[HeroKiller Laughing Coffin]]]], so... ''yeah.''
* BerserkButton: [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe Butchering the]] [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Bard's]] prose, as [[spoiler:Godfree learns the hard way]].
-->'''Kuradeel:''' [[spoiler:''[whilst repeatedly stabbing Godfree]'' Wouldst thou shutteth the FUCK UP! I had to SIT and listen to you for MONTHS as you run Shakespeare through a wood chipper! Is that supposed to be endearing or something?!]]
* BodyguardingABadass: His protégée Asuna is clearly much more skilled than him, and from their interactions, it seems like she'd much rather not have him there. And this is before he's outed as a stalker.
* BullyingADragon: When Asuna comes in to Kirito's aid, he foolishly taunts her, only to end up on the receiving end of a vicious CurbStompBattle which ends with a sword through his skull.
* ButtMonkey: Asuna has little patience for him, and Kirito refuses to give him any respect.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Somewhat. In the original anime, Kirito kills him. Here, Asuna is the one who does him in. However, Asuna was actually the one who killed him in the original Web Novel.
* DirtyCoward: Since he knows he can't best Kirito, he opts for spiking his drink with paralysis instead. He also quickly folds and pleads for his life when Asuna comes in and wipes the floor with him, [[{{Hypocrite}} despite not showing that same compassion when he had Godfree at his mercy.]]
* EvilCounterpart: To Asuna. Both SAO players serve as impulsive and sadistic members of the Knights of The Blood Oath with tendency to [[StalkerWithACrush stalk those they feel drawn to.]] However, there is one notable distinction between them: Asuna is an AntiHero whose primary objective is still to escape the game, and her more villainous actions often stem from emotional responses to certain events. In contrast, Kuradeel's malevolence is premeditated, and [[SlasherSmile he takes great pleasure]] in embracing the role of a villain, in stark contrast to Asuna's desire to [[MaskOfSanity maintain a semblance of normalcy in front of everyone else]]. Both characters also have an alarmingly intense obsession with Kirito; however, Kuradeel's obsession is driven by [[{{Revenge}} a thirst for revenge]], whereas Asuna's stems from MadLove. Fittingly, [[KarmicDeath Kuradeel's demise at her hands mirrors Godfree's death at ''his'' hands.]]
* EvilIsHammy: He appears to be trying to invoke Johnny Black during his torture of Kirito, although he's not as effective and instead comes off as him trying too hard.
* EvilIsPetty: Sadistically kills Godfree because he annoyed him with his roleplaying, and admitted that part of his motivation for killing Kirito was in part because he humiliated him during a duel.
* {{Fanboy}}: [[spoiler:He's revealed to be one of Laughing Coffin, as opposed to being an actual member like his canon counterpart. That doesn't make him any less dangerous, but it does give Kirito more ammunition to mock him with.]]
** He seems to be one specifically to Johnny Black, whom he appears to be trying to emulate with his [[EvilIsHammy hammy demeanor]] and his MasterPoisoner tactics. He doesn't seem to be as effective, though. Ironically, Johnny himself was a LoonyFan of one of his victims as well.
** To a lesser extent, he shares [=Red-Eyed XaXa=]'s SlasherSmile when threatening his victims, and seems to be trying to invoke Jeffrey's HolyHitman act when interacting with Kirito.
--->'''Kuradeel:''' Your reckoning comes from a ''far'' greater sin.
* {{Foil}}: To Rosalia, the antagonist of Episode 4: They both stand out as rather sadistic SAO players whose behavior drove away a former guildmate (Rosalia tried to kill Silica's pet, while Kuradeel stalked Asuna while she slept), and who's killed by their respective [[GoodCounterpart Good Counterparts]], but they're polar opposites:
** Rosalia was a FemmeFatale who served as the undisputed leader of her guild, while Kuradeel was a {{Gonk}} who served as a bodyguard to Asuna, before turning against her.
** While both are FauxAffablyEvil, Kuradeel was a [[AxCrazy murderous lunatic]] who killed his victims by himself, while Rosalia was a SoftSpokenSadist who made her men kill other players for her.
** Though both of them try to kill Kirito at different points in his journey, Kuradeel comes ''much'' closer to actually ending Kirito's life thanks to his [[CombatPragmatist careful planning]], but was continuously humiliated by Kirito's insults, and by the end of Episode 9, Kirito had all but forgotten about him. Rosalia, on the other hand, couldn't leave so much as a scratch on Kirito's body, but left a ''massive'' scar on Kirito's mental state through her [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech brutal deconstruction of his character]], which haunted him up until his full redemption in Episode 11.
** Rosalia didn't budge [[FaceDeathWithDignity even after being killed by Kirito]], letting out one final DyingCurse before dying, while Kuradeel went out [[FaceDeathWithDespair screaming and begging Asuna for his life]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: It doesn't kill him, but during his "duel" with Kirito, his own dagger comes down on his head after Asuna slaps it into the air.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He complains about being trapped in SAO, but he's a player killer who targets both the best fighter in the game and a high-ranking member of one of its only competent guilds, meaning he's done little but hinder the progress of those who want to escape the game.
* IfICantHaveYou: Downplayed when compared to his canon counterpart, as he's far more eager to kill Asuna after she shows up to stop him, even if she was his LustObject. This implies he gave up on her after she got a dagger stuck in his head.
* InformedAbility: From what we see of her, it's not like Asuna was in need of a bodyguard anyway, much less someone whose go-to method of killing was poison. Lampshaded when Godfree tells Kirito that Kuradeel has decades of experience with the game, only for Kuradeel to meekly state that he's actually in his twenties (on top of the game only being out for two years at the time).
* InformedDeformity: While he's certainly not winning any beauty pageants, he's not quite the {{Gonk}} Kirito makes him out to be.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Even though Kirito was one of the best members of his guild and a very valuable asset for those who wanted to clear the game, Kuradeel still tries to kill him over some petty squabble.
* KarmicDeath: This time around, [[spoiler: it's Asuna (his previous protegee and the victim of his stalking) who offs him. [[WordOfGod According to Something Witty Entertainment]], this was the main reason for the change]]. Furthermore, he also gets executed [[AintTooProudToBeg while pleading for his life]] after being given a HopeSpot by his killer, similarly to the way he killed Godfree.
* LaughingMad: As he steps in to kill Godfree, whom he loathes for his [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe butchering]] of Shakespeare's characters.
* LightIsNotGood: He sports the traditional Nights Of The Blood Oath white armor, but he's a deranged psychopath.
* MasterPoisoner: Spikes his victims drinks with paralysis potion before killing them so he can draw their deaths out as much as possible.
* MuggingTheMonster: He challenges Kirito to a duel in Episode 8, unaware of the possibility that he ''might'' be in over his head.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Your protegee doesn't appreciate you stalking her? Your guildmate just won't stop ruining the Shakespeare prose with his hideous roleplaying? Did that scumbag Kirito get your favorite serial killer guild disbanded with his stupid business advice, on top of constantly degrading and humiliating you for your ugly face? Have you considered... murder?
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He initially seems like an IneffectualSympatheticVillain in Episode 8, but he becomes one of the three SAO characters (the others being ''The Gleam Eyes'' boss and ''Kayaba himself'') to bring Kirito's health into the red.
* NoRespectGuy:[[TrollingCreator Kayaba]] plays circus music when he challenges Kirito, and the latter isn't any less merciful when humiliating him.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Kirito wasn't exactly his most innocent victim, though this is {{Downplayed}} considering he had a much pettier reason for killing him.
* PsychopathicManchild: He tries to kill Kirito because he got his favorite cult of player killers disbanded, and he conveys these events to him as if he were talking about his favorite show getting cancelled.
-->'''Kirito:''' Let me guess. You prefer their early work?
-->'''Kuradeel:''' AND WHAT OF IT?!
* {{Revenge}}: While Kirito's {{Jerkass}} attitude is an unexpected side benefit, the main reason he wants to kill him is that Kirito got his beloved [[PlayerKilling PK guild]] killed.
* {{Sadist}}: [[spoiler: His EvilLaugh as he's killing Godfree and his slow torturing of Kirito should be enough evidence of this.]]
* ShadowArchetype: He's a lunatic who has a crush on Asuna and later tries to kill her boyfriend out of hate, but he's killed by a vengeful Asuna due to underestimating her. In the later arc, an employee of Asuna's father, Nobuyuki Sugou, finds himself lusting for Asuna as well, but is much more meticulous in his plan to make Asuna his "[[SexSlave wife]]" while crushing Kirito's spirits at the same time, using a brainwashing program to force her into submissiveness.
* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:Once he reveals his true colors.]]
* SmugSnake: He has a rather overinflated opinion of his own abilities and has a tendency to look down on people who can and will kick his ass.
* TheSociopath: He's an entitled sadist who blames Kirito for all of his problems and who idolizes a cult of murderers. He also stalks his protégée Asuna at night, tries to kill her and her boyfriend after being humiliated, and gleefully murders his friend because he finds his quirks annoying.
* StalkerWithACrush: His actions went "a little" beyond what was acceptable for a bodyguard. ''Especially'' breaking into Asuna's house at night.
* StupidEvil: He doesn't seem to be very bright.
-->'''Kuradeel:''' (after realizing Kirito severs his sword by its handle) I... feel like this was longer.
* TattooedCrook: As befitting for a {{Fanboy}}, he has the Laughing Coffin logo tattooed on his forearm.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:He was already angry at Kirito for insulting his being a fanboy of Laughing Coffin, but when Asuna comes at him, he loses all semblance of his pride and begs her not to kill him.]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Would you have guessed just from looking at him that he's 26?

!!Other Antagonists
[[folder:"The King of Ashes"]]
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->'''Voiced By:''' Spencer "[=BuddyVA=]" Downs\\\

A player who, upon being disappointed by the CurbStompBattle of Heathcliff vs Kirito, led a riot which burned down Floor 75 and set himself up as the ruler of the tribal society that was established after him and his acolytes ran out of things to burn down. He strikes a friendship with Don Fluffles and the two of them rule Floor 75 as a dictator, forcing Heathcliff to send Kirito and Asuna on a couples retreat for fear of them ruining the peace talks.

!Introduced in Season 2

!!RECT Progress and Ubisoft

[[folder:General]]
The developer and publisher, respectively, of ''[=ALfheim Online=]'' and main enemy faction of Season 2. RECT, run by Asuna's father Shouzou, purchased the ''Sword Art Online'' servers to build their own title using the source code. They are partnered with Ubisoft, who is providing [=uPlay=] to run the game via RECT's Amusphere device, despite the VR industry as a whole being dead since the ''SAO'' disaster. Noboyuki Sugou hopes to use the game to experiment on the ''SAO'' survivors for his own purposes.

[[folder:Shouzou Yuuki]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yuuki_shouzou.png]][[caption-width-right:350:''"It's good of you to keep visiting her like this. Like a watchful guardian looking after a slumbering princess. Lying there like a perfect, beautiful little parasite, SUCKING THE MARROW FROM MY VERY BONES!"'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Logan "[=BlazingAzureCrow=]" Laidlaw\\\

Asuna's father and the CEO of RECT Progress. He is a greedy, corrupt, and selfish man who marries the comatose Asuna off to one of his employees, Noboyuki Sugou, to avoid paying any more medical bills without having to kill her outright. He also loves Ferraris.

* AbusiveParents: Much like how Suguha gives us an idea of where Kazuto's issues came from, Shouzou shows us where Asuna's came from. He's actively contemptuous of Asuna (going so far as to call her a parasite and expressing a desire to cut off her life support so he wouldn't have to keep paying medical bills, while shortly later casually talking about buying a new Ferrari), and seemingly has zero issues marrying her off (while she's in a COMA, no less) to a man whose name ''he doesn't even know.''
-->'''Shouzou:''' It's good of you to keep visiting her like this. Like a watchful guardian looking after a slumbering princess. Lying there like a perfect, beautiful little ''[[MoodWhiplash parasite]]'', [[SuddenlyShouting SUCKING THE MARROW FROM MY VERY BONES!]]\\
'''Kazuto:''' I'm not letting you pull the plug, sir!\\
'''Shouzou:''' Ah, sorry. Force of habit. You can relax. My lawyers have advised me that killing my daughter to get out of medical bills would cause more problems than it would probably solve.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Does not even appear to love Asuna, given that he's willing to [[AbusiveParents let his daughter die to avoid paying for medical bills and then marry her off so someone else who can pay for them]].
* AwfulWeddedLife: It's implied in Episode 10 that his wife used to be very stubborn and always refused to compromise, resulting in their divorce. Then again, [[AbusiveParents it's not like Shouzou was much better.]]
* BriefAccentImitation: Like father, like daughter apparently. Shouzou puts on a hilariously bad Italian accent when talking to his Italian contact, Enzo, probably explaining where Asuna's weird insistence on talking to Tiffany in rather broken JiveTurkey came from.
* ConspicuousConsumption: He off-handedly implies that he's bought several Ferraris.
* ContemptCrossfire: Neglectful parenting and self-centered personality aside, he doesn't care enough about his prospective son-in-law to learn his name, instead calling him by the name of the briefcase he brought the money in.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Apparently, he wanted to cut off life support from his own comatose daughter, solely because he found the medical bills too expensive to support his Ferrari-buying habits. His lawyers had to talk him out of that idea. Instead, he is happy to marry her off to an obvious lecherous creep twice her age and provides that same creep resources for horrific mind control experimentation.
* HateSink: While not to the extent of Sugou, the single scene he is in establishes him as a [[AbusiveParents cruel, uncaring father]] to Asuna who greedily marries her off to an obvious creep so he can stop paying her medical bills without [[OffingTheOffspring killing her]], and seems to have no problem letting Sugou use his company for inhumane medical experiments. He is also an UpperClassTwit who [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain speaks in an exaggerated Italian accent to his Ferrari guy]]. Basically, all of Asuna's psychological issues are a result of his poor parenting, and unlike Suguha, who is responsible for Kazuto's issues but is a complex character, Shouzou has no FreudianExcuse to speak of.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He calls [[CardCarryingVillain Sugou]] - a man who wants to own Asuna like a sex slave and is exploiting his corporate privileges to that end - a "nice gentleman". Then again, given just how scummy he is, for somebody like him, Sugou probably ''is'' a nice gentleman.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He has some superficial charm that doesn't go beyond your average corporate executive, but he instantly drops it the moment he remembers how much money Asuna's situation is costing him.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of the second season. He only physically appears once in the first episode while his employee Sugou is the main villain, but Shouzou is the CEO of the company who marries off the comatose Asuna to Sugou to get out of paying medical bills and is presumably supplying Sugou with the means to perform his mind control experiments with no care for anything but his profits.
* {{Greed}}: While he ''does'' pay for his daughter's life support, he complains endlessly about it, makes it clear he would rather waste that money on endless Ferraris, and apparently would've unplugged her out of force of habit on more than one occasion had it not been for Kazuto. In fact, the entire arc is kickstarted by him selling Asuna to one of his deranged employees.
* ItsAllAboutMe: His rationale for deciding to marry off Asuna to Nobuyuki. He no longer wants to foot the bill for keeping his comatose daughter on life support but is all too happy to use the money to buy more Ferraris instead.
* {{Jerkass}}: Even if he wasn't fantasizing about killing his daughter, he's still a grade-A asshole. He essentially sells Asuna to a rapist ''in front of her boyfriend'' and then excuses himself to go buy a Ferrari. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking The prick doesn't even remember the name of his employees]], even the one he plans to marry his own daughter to.
* LackOfEmpathy: He doesn't seem to quite grasp why Kazuto would be upset at his comatose girlfriend getting sold to a man twice her age, treating the whole ordeal like an ordinary business transaction.
* MeanBoss: He doesn't bother to hide his lack of interest in Sugou's life, only remembering the name of the briefcase he kept Shouzou's money in. When corrected on this, he just flat-out tells him to keep the wrong name because he likes it better. Keep in mind, this is ''after'' he agreed to make him his son-in-law.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He seems to be just as racist as [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero Asuna]], but he lacks [[InnocentBigot her]] [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend redeeming]] [[TookALevelInKindness qualities]].
* PragmaticVillainy:
** He didn't take his daughter off life support to save money, if only because he'd be charged with murder otherwise.
** He took Sugou's suggestion to buy and maintain the servers holding the ''SAO'' players, keeping them alive, but only for the sake of getting good publicity and keeping up with the technology.
* TheSociopath: He resents his comatose daughter for making him pay for her life support, and casually states to Kazuto that he's marrying her off to some creep from his company, despite having enough money to waste on Ferraris.
* UpperClassTwit: It is made pretty clear that not only is he none-too-bright and has a rather limited attention span, but also that his money has allowed him to live a pretty sheltered lifestyle, leaving him blissfully unaware of how society at large actually functions. He treats setting up an arranged marriage for his daughter against payment and without her consent as if it is a perfectly normal and acceptable thing to do. He also mistakes the brand on Sugou's briefcase for his name and speaks in an exaggerated Italian accent to his Ferrari guy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shoji Yanai]]
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[[caption-width-right:1000: Kyle! ''Kyle!'' What do we do?! ''I can already feel my grip slipping!'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' [=Grimmjack69=]\\\

A bumbling henchman working under Sugou who helps keep Asuna captive. Or he tries to, at least, but frequently finds himself the victim of Asuna's vicious rampages. He appears as a slug in-game thanks to his bullying of the modeler, Trisha.
----

!!Moonlit Black Cats/The Crew
[[folder:Gary]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8ed3b547_90a7_4486_99a3_a00c52ab46ab.jpeg]][[caption-width-right:350:''"We must save my family!"'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Isaac "[=AtomicVoice=]" Lawson\\\

An NPC from one of ''Sword Art Online'''s quests, kidnapped by Keita to be a guild member. He ultimately causes the guild to die in a trap that he triggers (due to being set to auto-loot) and steals the teleport crystal that the group could have used to save themselves.

* AdaptationNameChange: From Ducker to Gary.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: From a human player to an AI.
* AdaptationalVillainy: ZigZagged. The original character never [[DirtyCoward teleported away or left his guild to die]] at any point, and instead died in the same room as them. Mitigated somewhat by him being an [[ArtificialStupidity AI]] in this version, meaning he's ObliviouslyEvil at worst.
* AlasPoorVillain: With the exception of Kirito and Asuna, everyone is left completely traumatized after his gruesome death.
* AntiVillain: He's a massive hindrance for his guild, as well as a DirtyCoward who leaves his friends to die. However, he's also an AI following his directive, so most of his reprehensible actions can be chalked up to ArtificialStupidity.
* ArtificialStupidity: Part of being an NPC. Because Sachi has set him to auto-loot, he does so slavishly with every chest he come across, even if said chest is an incredibly ObviousTrap.
* AscendedExtra: He ends up playing a far bigger role here than he did in canon. He's the actual cause of the Moonlit Black Cats dying since he teleported away with the crystals. He gets SparedByTheAdaptation meaning he survives for months longer. He also ends up being Kirito's BerserkButton and is mentioned many times later in the series.
* BerserkButton: To Kirito, especially after he abandons the rest of the guild in an ambush. Hearing his voice or someone mentioning his name will send Kirito into a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* BrickJoke: Kirito was ''really'' pissed at Gary for teleporting away with all their crystals and leaving Sachi to die. He shows up again in Episode 5 where Kirito proceeds to murder him in cold blood for abandoning them.
* BrokenRecord: "We must save my family!" Gets worse in Episode 5, as he repeatedly chokes the line out as many times as he can as he's being stabbed by Kirito.
* CannonFodder: Asuna planned to use him as this to fight Sheeptar, but Kirito had a score to settle with him first.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the original anime, he gets hacked to death by the Slaughternauts and Murder-Golems. Here, he manages to escape this fate [[DirtyCoward by abandoning his guild to die]], only to get brutally murdered by [[SoleSurvivor Kirito]] two episodes later.
* DirtyCoward: Kirito considers him this, since he teleported away and left the rest of the Crew to die.
* DumbBlond: He has blond hair and is by far the most dysfunctional of the [=NPCs=].
* FlatCharacter: Ducker was TheSneakyGuy in canon; here, he's just an NPC programmed to save his family. Ironically, he ends up playing a larger role here than [[RedShirt the one he had]] in canon.
* KarmicDeath: After getting Sachi killed, Kirito's next encounter with Gary ends with Kirito repeatedly running Gary through with a sword, with Gary futilely choking out [[WelcomeToCorneria his only line]] as he dies.
* KilledOffscreen: As he's hacked to death by Kirito, all the audience can see is the guild's horrified reactions.
* LethallyStupid: While in a dungeon, he triggers an obvious trap because Sachi set him to auto-loot, then teleports away with the party's entire supply of teleport crystals, leaving everyone trapped inside to die.
* TheLoad: He was almost completely useless for his guild, even moreso than Sachi and his fellow [=NPCs=]. He's never shown actually doing anything useful and only hinders or actively endangers his group on numerous occasions. In Episode 5, the only use Asuna finds for him is as CannonFodder.
* MauveShirt: He survives the longest out of his guild (outside of Kirito), but is killed early in Episode 5.
* TheMillstone: He gets his entire guild sans Kirito and Keita killed by opening a treasure chest in a dungeon which triggers a trap, and then teleporting away while storing all of the guild's teleport crystals.
* NonPlayerCharacter: From a quest that Keita has no intention of turning in, just so Gary can follow them forever.
* ObliviouslyEvil: He's a quest AI programmed to want to "save his family", even if it entails abandoning Kirito, Sachi and the other [=NPCs=] to their deaths.
* PokemonSpeak: "[[WelcomeToCorneria We must save my family!]]" [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as Keita never finished his quest, making him [[BrokenRecord unable to move on from that line]]. He's also heard chanting "To Kirito!" alongside the rest of the guild early in the episode.
* SoundOnlyDeath: Aside from his futile repeating of his only line, Kirito's insane laughter accompanied by sword striking sounds can also be heard as he's killing him.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Survives longer than in canon, only to come across Kirito once more. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Kirito doesn't forgive him for indirectly causing Sachi's death.]]
* WelcomeToCorneria: [[RuleOfThree All together now:]] "We must save my family!"
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Kirito initially defends him and the other [=NPCs=] against Asuna's [[CannonFodder tactics]], saying that some of his best friends had been [=NPCs=]. Ironically, while Kirito does brutally murder him, it's because he does see him as a person, albeit a treacherous coward who stole all their teleport crystals and left them to die.
[[/folder]]

!!The Mafia
[[folder:General]]
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[[caption-width-right:1000: I'm sorry, Don. We finally tracked down the one known as Kirito, but... we were beaten back by the legendary warrior [=BallsDeep69=] and his men. The boy escaped us yet again. I have no excuse. But I promise you, we will get back what was stolen. What are your orders... Don Fluffles?]]

An organized group of unsavory individuals who scattered themselves across SAO and make sketchy deals with other players. They've been chasing Kirito ever since his former guild leader Keita conned them out of a rare item, but the boy managed to evade them every time.
----

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Kirito initially defends him and the other [=NPCs=] against Asuna's [[CannonFodder tactics]], saying that some of his best friends had been [=NPCs=].

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Kirito initially defends him and the other [=NPCs=] against Asuna's [[CannonFodder tactics]], saying that some of his best friends had been [=NPCs=]. Then he remembers who Gary is and what he did, and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge he conveniently forgets about his stance]].

For the original series, see [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/SwordArtOnlineAntagonists here]].

!!The Mafia
[[folder:General]]
[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2023_10_28_101945_2.png]]
[[caption-width-right:1000: I'm sorry, Don. We finally tracked down the one known as Kirito, but... we were beaten back by the legendary warrior [=BallsDeep69=] and his men. The boy escaped us yet again. I have no excuse. But I promise you, we will get back what was stolen. What are your orders... Don Fluffles?]]

An organized group of unsavory individuals who scattered themselves across SAO and make sketchy deals with other players. They've been chasing Kirito ever since his former guild leader Keita conned them out of a rare item, but the boy managed to evade them every time.

!!Laughing Coffin

[[folder:General]]
[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/13_8.png]][[caption-width-right:1000:''"Boss won't get off your back? Girlfriend won't stop nagging you? Did that fuckstick Tiffany sell you a bullshit dagger that broke almost immediately, despite the fact you spent half your goddamn col on it? Have you considered... murder?"'']]
A deranged group of [[PlayerKilling PKers]]-for-[[MurderInc hire]] feared throughout ''SAO'', though they're having trouble attracting clients due to a branding problem.

* AdaptationalDumbass: Even ignoring Jeffrey's visions of an evil Jesus, these guys are far more stupid than their original counterparts, and they also doom themselves by making their address public as a "business strategy".
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Apart from the playful banter they have during their EstablishingCharacterMoment, this adaptation of Laughing Coffin willingly hand their prey over to Kirito as payment for his [[ItMakesSenseInContext business advice]] instead of [[DirtyCoward leaving out of cowardice]] like in SAO proper.
* AdaptationalWimp: They're depicted as a lot more incompetent, being easily manipulated by Kirito into letting targets go.
* AffablyEvil: If one thing can be said about them, is that they're never rude to other players. They even make an ad campaign for their job!
* CallingCard: The "Bible-quoting serial killer" theme. But because of Jeffery's CloudCuckoolander tendencies, people don't seem to take them as seriously as they should because of it.
* TheDreaded: A gang of high-level player killers who terrify pretty much anyone who isn't Kirito.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: They have no problems at all with paralyzing and murdering players, but even they don't approve of "that fuckstick Tiffany's" cons, if their ad campaign is anything to go by, right down to giving Tiffany devil horns and viciously flipping him off.
* {{Greed}}: Save for [[KnightTemplar Jeffrey]], this is their main motivation. Thanks to Kirito, this becomes their downfall when they [[TooDumbToLive reveal their location via an ad campaign]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Their {{Greed}} comes back to bite them in the ass when the army use their own ad campaign to track them.
* InTheHood: All of the Laughing Coffin members wear cloaks.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: While they fail to kill the Golden Apple members, they get off scot-free in Episode 6 after their encounter with Kirito. That is until Episode 9 where we hear they had been jailed / KilledOffscreen by the Knights of the Blood Oath.
* LaughablyEvil: While they're still [[NotSoHarmlessVillain genuinely dangerous and intimidating]], due to [[TheAbridgedSeries the series' nature]], their scenes are usually a riot to watch.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Both Johnny Black and Red-Eyes [=XaXa=] have masks in addition to their hoods.
* PsychoForHire: They try to be this, but Jeffrey's outlandish motif drives most of their clientele away.
* TrackingDevice: A self-inflicted one: As a marketing strategy, they sent an email with their exact location to every player in the game.
* TooDumbToLive: No seriously, they just told everyone where their guild of assassins was located. Even more foolishly, they came up with this idea ''themselves.''
* UncertainDoom: In Episode 9, Kirito mentions that most of them had been jailed, but Kuradeel later says that the former's advice got them "a blade through their hearts", implying at least one was killed during the raid.
* VillainRespect: They hand over their prey to Kirito after the latter teaches them how to DoWrongRight.
-->'''Jeffrey:''' You've given us much to think about, young man. As payment, the lives of these sinners are now yours to command.

[[folder:Jeffrey]]
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[[caption-width-right:1000:''"Oh my god! You guys can see it too?! So I'm not crazy! Isn't that great, Jesus?!"'']]
[[caption-width-right:1000:[[labelnote:Click here to see his imaginary Jesus]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/36_28.png''"That's right, Jeffrey. Now, '''kill them all'''"''.]][[/labelnote]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Stuart "[=LordMegatronG1=]" Hutson\\\

Laughing Coffin's religiously fanatical leader and one of Aincrad's most dangerous assassins. He's better at some parts of his job than others. He hallucinates a vision of Jesus Christ who instructs him to kill people, leading him to create Laughing Coffin.

!!Other Antagonists
[[folder:"The King of Ashes"]]
[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/34_910.png]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Spencer "[=BuddyVA=]" Downs\\\

A player who, upon being disappointed by the CurbStompBattle of Heathcliff vs Kirito, led a riot which burned down Floor 75 and set himself up as the ruler of the tribal society that was established after him and his acolytes ran out of things to burn down. He strikes a friendship with Don Fluffles and the two of them rule Floor 75 as a dictator, forcing Heathcliff to send Kirito and Asuna on a couples retreat for fear of them ruining the peace talks.

[[folder:Kayaba Akihiko]]
!!Kayaba Akihiko / Heathcliff

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kayaba_akihiko.png]][[caption-width-right:350:''"Alright, now that I have your ears as well as your spines, allow me to indulge myself for a moment and tell you all what every content creator has always wanted to say to their audience." [clears throat] "FUCK! ALL Y'ALL!"'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Curtis "[[Creator/TeamFourStar Takahata101]]" Arnott

->'''Kirito:''' What's wrong, [=McFly=]? Chicken?\\
'''Kayaba:''' Oh ho! ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''! Yes! That is ''definitely'' what I'm gonna watch after I kill you. Let's do this thing.

The main antagonist of [=SAO=] Abridged's Season 1. Posing as the leader of the Knights of the Blood Oath, Kayaba ends up trapping the entire player base in ''Sword Art Online'' and challenges them to reach the top of Castle Aincrad. Also an avid film expert.

For the original Kayaba, see [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineAkihikoKayaba here]].

!!Introduced in Season 2

!RECT Progress and Ubisoft

[[folder:Nobuyuki Sugou]]
!!Nobuyuki Sugou / Oberon

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"The thing is, it doesn't matter how sharp your tongue is... because this little lollipop... belongs to me now."'']]
->'''Voiced By:''' Scott "Creator/KaiserNeko" Frerichs\\\

->'''Sugou''' Do not forget, my dear, that I am the King of this world. Your consent is strictly a courtesy.

The antagonist of Season 2 and Asuna's prospective husband, thanks to her father marrying them off. He is an employee in RECT Progress and the creator of ''[=ALfheim Online=]'', an MMO he developed mainly as an experiment in mind control. His goal is to master the mechanics of the Charisma skill and make himself able to bend others to his will in the real world, and he has decided to use this to turn Asuna into a submissive housewife.

For the original series, see [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineNobuyukiSugou here]].

* TheDreaded: For the Moonlit Black Cats at least. Kirito tends to flee from them instead of confronting them head on, which is not something that can be said for Titan's hand or even ''Laughing Coffin''.

* ProperlyParanoid: Rosalia ''really'' should've listened to the guy who warned her that it wasn't a good idea to mess with a kid who brought himself and a little girl to what he thought was a fight with [[TheDreaded Laughing Coffin]].

* AdaptationalBadass: When facing Kirito, [[DownplayedTrope she doesn't last a second longer than her canon counterpart]], but she dies throwing the last jab at his character instead of letting him have the last word.

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[[folder:Akihiko Kayaba]]

Antagonists of ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged''.