History EvilIsPetty / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' has the titular mask itself. While its ultimate goal is to destroy Termina, that doesn't stop it from committing smaller and petty acts of cruelty such as shattering the Great Fairies into fragments of themselves, de-aging Kafei into a child days before his wedding, turning Link into a Deku Scrub, attacking Koume in Woodfall Swamp and cursing Termina's four main regions. Unlike most examples, however, this only serves to make Majora [[PlayedForHorror all the more terrifying]] as like the Joker in the Western Animation page, it seems completely indiscriminate in its villainy. Whether it's ruining someone's life, turning people into strange objects, or wanton acts of mass slaughter, it's all part of the same sick game. Most of these actions are attributed to Majora's puppet, The Skull Kid by NPCs familiar with him, who indicate they're in line with the pranks he would play, just with way more power so it's hard to say which were legit the Skull Kid abusing it's power, and which was the mask's power controlling him.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', [=GLaDOS=] has a habit of slinging petty insults at Chell for killing her in the first game, most of them being targeted at her incompetence and saying how she's a horrible person. (And in ''both'' games she insults Chell because she was adopted. For some reason, [=GLaDOS=] thinks that's a bad thing.)

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' has the titular mask itself. While its ultimate goal is to destroy Termina, that doesn't stop it from committing smaller and petty acts of cruelty such as shattering the Great Fairies into fragments of themselves, de-aging Kafei into a child days before his wedding, turning Link into a Deku Scrub, attacking Koume in Woodfall Swamp and cursing Termina's four main regions. Unlike most examples, however, this only serves to make Majora [[PlayedForHorror all the more terrifying]] as like the Joker in the Western Animation page, it seems completely indiscriminate in its villainy. Whether it's ruining someone's life, turning people into strange objects, or wanton acts of mass slaughter, it's all part of the same sick game.

* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'', [[Characters/SkylandersKaos Kaos]], has shown that he engages in this in the backstories of Skylanders. In [[AnIcePerson Slam Bam's]] backstory, Kaos grew jealous of the yeti's amazing snow-cones, and when surveillance proved fruitless, he destroyed the iceberg the yeti called home even though the yeti never actually did anything to him. Additionally, when [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Roller Brawl]] rejected his [[AbhorrentAdmirer affections]] and her [[BigBrotherInstinct elder brothers]] [[MySisterIsOffLimits intervened]], he sent his Drow army to imprison them, and as revealed in the comic, he had [[EvilPuppeteer Mesmeralda]] create voodoo puppets that brainwashed them into his henchmen, seeing this as vengeance for Roller Brawl rejecting him. This is also shown in the fifth game itself: when he has the BigGood Master Eon locked up by one of his minions, he calls him every half hour just to hear how much he's suffering.

* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'', Kaos, has shown that he engages in this in the backstories of Skylanders. In [[AnIcePerson Slam Bam's]] backstory, Kaos grew jealous of the yeti's amazing snow-cones, and when surveillance proved fruitless, he destroyed the iceberg the yeti called home even though the yeti never actually did anything to him. Additionally, when [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Roller Brawl]] rejected his [[AbhorrentAdmirer affections]] and her [[BigBrotherInstinct elder brothers]] [[MySisterIsOffLimits intervened]], he sent his Drow army to imprison them, and as revealed in the comic, he had [[EvilPuppeteer Mesmeralda]] create voodoo puppets that brainwashed them into his henchmen, seeing this as vengeance for Roller Brawl rejecting him. This is also shown in the fifth game itself: when he has the BigGood Master Eon locked up by one of his minions, he calls him every half hour just to hear how much he's suffering.

** When [[spoiler: Tohru Adachi]] is revealed as the true culprit behind the murders, it's also revealed that both of his initial murders are for incredibly petty and perverted reasons; the first one was just him throwing a temper tantrum because a celebrity he had a crush on had an affair, and the second was just because he saw a high school girl talking to an older man and deemed her a "whore" who had to die. From then on, he freely admits that he did everything else, including the other attempted murders, purely [[ForTheEvulz because he could]], and [[ItAmusedMe because it was fun]]; the Investigation Team even lampshade how petty and immature he is.

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' has [[spoiler:Titan Shang Tsung, from the Bad End of the previous game's expansion]]. This person acted as TheManBehindTheMan to [[EvilSorcerer Shang Tsung and Quan Chi]], rescuing them from the mundane lifestyles that [[spoiler:Fire God Liu Kang]] had planned out for them and empowering them to become the [[BigBadDuumvirate villainous selves]] of [[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance previous timelines]], for the purpose of [[DividedWeFall turning the realms against each other and eventually destroying them all]]. After TheReveal of the [[HijackedByGanon true identity]] and [[OmnicidalManiac true motive]] of the MysteriousBenefactor, [[WebSite/YouTube YouTuber]] Mike Trollinski has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACytRfOMNGU this to say]] (skip to 12:45 for TheReveal, or to 14:30 for his reaction):
--> '''Mike Trollinski:''' What is your ''problem?!'' You [[TakeOverTheWorld had your own world]], that [[TheBadGuyWins you controlled]], but that wasn't enough!? [[spoiler:Shang Tsung]] is literally the biggest hater of all time. He is a ''max prestige hater.'' He literally [[TimeMaster had his own timeline]] to [[MultiversalConqueror himself]], but he sees [[spoiler:Liu Kang]] [[CosmicRetcon doing good in this timeline]] and he just wanna [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight come mess it up]]. If that's not top-tier hating, I literally don't know what is.

--> '''Mike Trollinski:''' What is your ''problem?!'' You [[TakeOverTheWorld had your own world]], that [[TheBadGuyWins you controlled]], but that wasn't enough!? [[spoiler:Shang Tsung]] is literally the biggest hater of all time. He is a ''max prestige hater.'' He literally [[TimeMaster had his own timeline]] to [[MultiversalConqueror himself]], but he sees [[CosmicRetcon Liu Kang doing good in this timeline]] and he just wanna [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight come mess it up]]. If that's not top-tier hating, I literally don't know what is.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'': Ultimately, [[BigBad Skull Face's]] entire EvilPlan is a mix of being DrivenByEnvy towards Big Boss and twisted payback at Zero, the latter because he's pissed [[spoiler: at a black project Zero might not have even gone through with]].