History EvilVersusEvil / VideoGames

** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'' has three enemy factions that all want the Phazon on planet Aether to themselves: The Ing, the Space Pirates, and Dark Samus. The Pirates are the {{butt monkey}}s, most of the ones that aren't killed by Samus are either possessed by Ing or killed defending their Phazon from Dark Samus, who herself is the reincarnation of [[spoiler:Metroid Prime, the villain of the [[VideoGame/MetroidPrimefirst game]]]]. At first it's unclear if the Ing and Dark Samus are allies or enemies, but a scene just before the second fight against Dark Samus shows her killing a group of Dark Pirate Troopers (Ing-possessed Pirate Troopers) and taking their Phazon, creating enmity between her and the Ing.

* Probably more 'grotesque monstrosity versus grotesque monstrosity,' but ''VideoGame/KillingFloor'' occasionally has instances of zeds fighting each other. This is sometimes relatively even (a [[MakeMeWannaShout Siren]] versus a [[FatBastard Bloat]]), and sometimes comically one-sided (a [[{{Mooks}} Clot]] standing in the way of a [[LightningBruiser Fleshpound]]). Notable for the fact that, if left alone, they will gladly spend quite some time attacking each other and will often ignore players, even those who are two steps away and pointing a rocket launcher at them.

** [[VillainProtagonist Kazuya]] and [[ArchnemesisDad Heihachi Mishima]]'s series-long feud is a case of this from ''2'' onward. While the first game posits Kazuya as an AntiHero with a sympathetic reason for opposing his BigBad dad (Heihachi throwing him off a cliff when he was merely five as a twisted test of his strength), the sequel shows that he has become just as bad, if not ''worse'', than Heihachi upon assuming control of the [[MegaCorp MishimaZaibatsu]]. Which of the two is EvilerThanThou generally depends on the day (and game), but both are nevertheless consistently depicted as highly immoral and antagonistic towards the rest of the cast.

* The war between Mishima Zaibatsu and G Corporation in ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}''.

** ''Street Fighter IV'' pits Vega/M. Bison against Seth, a clone and intended replacement body of the former. Both of them are power-hungry villains who want to TakeOverTheWorld for themselves. ''[[UpdatedReRelease Super Street Fighter IV]]'' also introduces Juri Han, Seth's new [[TheDragon right-hand woman]] who wants revenge against Bison for [[YouKilledMyFather murdering her parents]], but is also a [[AxCrazy deranged]] [[{{Sadist}} sadist]] whose [[EstablishingCharacterMoment narrative introduction]] includes [[PersonOfMassDestruction destroying an amusement park full of innocent people]] in ''SSFIV'''s OVA.

* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' has Vega/M. Bison pitted against Seth, both of whom are power-hungry villains who want to TakeOverTheWorld for themselves.
** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' takes things even further by having Shadaloo, Seth and the Illuminati all go at each other's throats. Also, no one really knows if G's intent to unite the world [[AmbiguouslyEvil is benevolent or not]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}'' is one of the best examples of this trope. You're James Earl Cash and you were in death row for a crime that's never explained to you, but the fact that your character is able to murder people with so much stone cold brutality to the point of ''torturing'' them before killing them, it might not be too hard to guess what you were thrown in for. Oh, and your victims? [[AcceptableTargets Pedophiles, rapists, cultists, murderers, psychopaths]], so, as far as you know, you're not bad as them.

!!General:
* If you take the evil path in the vast majority of {{R|olePlayingGame}}PGs, you're still going to have to fight the same evil BigBad. In a Creator/BioWare game, your quest will be close to the same regardless of your alignment, including a struggle against the minions of the BigBad; ''maybe'', at the end, you'll be given an option to join them instead of fighting them; otherwise, you'll just prove to be EvilerThanThou.

** In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment'', [[Anime/VoltesV Boazanians]] are sworn enemies of [[Anime/BlueCometSPTLayzner Gradosians]] and [[LightNovel/FullMetalPanic Gauron]] at one point picks up a fight with [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED ZAFT forces]]. The Fury are trying to kill everybody.

* In the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series, more than a few murders involve an AssholeVictim and an unsympathetic killer, and in a few cases, the victim tried to kill the murderer.
** In the first game, it turns out that the victim, Jack Hammer, drugged [[NiceGuy Will Powers]] and tried to kill the actual killer, [[spoiler:Dee Vasquez]], for {{blackmail}}ing him over accidentally killing a co-star. After killing Hammer, [[spoiler:Vasquez]] then tries to frame Powers for the crime.
** In the second case of ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', the victim, Pal Meraktis, tries to kill [[spoiler:Alita Tiala, a nurse]], when the killer tried to [[spoiler:stop him from going public with the fact that he'd botched Alita's fiance Wocky's operation and that Wocky didn't have long to live, since Alita [[GoldDigger planned on marrying Wocky for his inheritance]].]] Unfortunately, he didn't finish the job, and ended up being murdered by his intended victim.
** The final case of ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations'' has [[spoiler:Ambassador Quercus Alba]], the leader of the smuggling ring and the BigBad, kill two people- [[spoiler:his right-hand man Manny Coachen and the fake Mask [=DeMasque=] Coachen hired.]] The former is one of the most loathsome murder victims in the series, due to not only being a high-ranking smuggler, but also being responsible for Cece Yew's murder. It's lampshaded when the cast remark that the first victim and the killer were both horrible people.
** The second ''Investigations'' game has the murder in the third case. Both the victim and the murderer were in cahoots to win a dessert-making contest, but the former betrayed the latter once he was no longer useful, kidnapping the latter's son(who doubled as his taste tester) in order to ensure he couldn't win on his own. After the killer murdered the victim then fled the country and abandoned his son (whom he no longer needed after regaining his ability to taste), and willingly let an innocent man be imprisoned for 18 years as an accomplice to the murder.
** In the final case, the BigBad, [[spoiler:Simon Keyes, who'd manipulated the cast and caused several murders as a revenge plot]], murders [[spoiler:the president of Zheng Fa's body double]], who was part of a conspiracy to [[spoiler:KillAndReplace the actual president]] and was one of the other main antagonists of the game.

* ''VideoGame/LegoDCSuperVillains'' has you playing as the members of the Legion of Doom for most of the game, but you're mainly fighting against Darkseid and the Crime Syndicate after the latter removes the Justice League from Earth.

** The exception to this is ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters''. You can choose to be evil and ''actually be evil''. Instead of siding with the good guys to take down the bigger evil while occasionally doing something to remind yourself that you're supposedly playing an evil character, ''you are the bigger evil''. Smaller time villains from the good path side against ''you'' because you're a massive threat to the world.

* ''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'' has its two many opposing forces. [[spoiler:On the one hand, you have the Advance political party and its leader, Prime Minister Julia Salisbury. Under Salisbury, Advance effectively upends the social order in the country, makes enemies of other nations, and transforms the country into a fascist dictatorship that nukes its enemies, puts the kibosh on freedom of the press, comes down hard on perceived enemies within the country's borders, and engages in questionable scientific research that ultimately (if unwittingly) leads to a SterilityPlague. On the other, you have the insurgency group Disrupt and its spokesman, conspiracy theorist Alan James. While Disrupt starts off as a peaceful, if disruptive, protest group calling out the Advance government's less-than-moral actions, they soon graduate to terrorist bombings and, in some routes, attempted assassination of the prime minister. There is also the fact that, in secret, Disrupt is backed by political enemies of Advance, both within and without the country, who want to overthrow Advance so that the formerly rich of the country can regain power and the oligarchs can continue engaging in [[SarcasmMode such wholesome pursuits as]] ''drug-dealing and '''[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil sex-trafficking]]'''''. Which of these forces is ALighterShadeOfBlack is ultimately left to the player.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}''. The idealist objectivist turned bitter despot Andrew Ryan versus the sleazy power-hungry smuggler and rebel Frank Fontaine, both with hordes of insane, vicious mutated Splicers at their command. [[spoiler:And you're a mind-controlled test tube baby used by Fontaine (under the guise of Atlas, a noble rebel and family man) to kill Ryan, then he turns on you. He dies. Only you and Tenenbaum, a Jewish Nazi collaborator and TheAtoner, survive the events of the story.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{IratusLordOfTheDead}}'': You play a mass-murdering necromancer out to conquer the world from a genocidal theocratic dictatorship. Neither side has any redeeming qualities.

*** It goes even further in ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'' where the X Parasites also infect the Mawkin Tribe of the Chozo, since they wanted the Metroids as perfect bioweapon minions for their leader [[Characters/MetroidRavenBeak Raven Beak]] to rule over the galaxy with, due to one of their scouts [[spoiler:being infected by one after returning from SR388 during a search for any Metroids that didn't get sealed by the Thoha Tribe of the Chozo.]] Plus, Raven Beak himself is [[HoistByHisOwnPetard infected by an X Parasite at the end of the game]], which had the DNA of Kraid, Experiment No. Z-57, and several other creatures, [[ClippedWingAngel reducing him to an abomination that can only crawl towards Samus and eat her]]. The Mawkin Tribe themselves also fought against the Space Pirates, though any Pirates other than Kraid fought by them as yet to be seen.

* ''Franchise/Metroid'':

* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'': Protagonist Kain is a MagnificentBastard VillainProtagonist EvilOverlord. He's the hero of the games mainly because his enemies are KnightTemplar {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s who are even worse than he is.

* The main conflict in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' is between two factions in [[TheEmpire Erebonia]], the Noble Alliance and the Reformist faction. The Noble Alliance consists of many openly classist nobles who resent any commoners that climb their way to the top, and want Erebonia to remain stuck in the past so they can maintain their control. On the other hand, there's the Reformists, who have absorbed several smaller nations into Erebonia, which has made the nation's foreign relations much more hostile. It's also implied that they've hired jaegers (elite mercenaries in this world) to cause chaos in these smaller nations so they can jump in and act as the "savior" of these nations and justify absorbing these nations into the empire. There's also a third evil in the form of the Imperial Liberation Front, a terrorist group that wants to kill [[EvilChancellor Chancellor Osborne]], the leader of the Reformist faction, yet whose actions could've killed several people unrelated to Osborne had Class VII not intervened. It's also revealed that [[spoiler:the Imperial Liberation Front and Noble Alliance are working together because [[EnemyMine they share a common enemy in Chancellor Osborne]]]]. Additionally, we have the overarching villains Ouroboros, who are [[spoiler:playing both sides but, as of the end of the second game, are outdone by Chancellor Osborne]].

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'' actually allows the ''player'' to pull this off along with an in-story use. At one point in the game, you find a castle where a demon summoning is taking place. Why? [[InvokedTrope So that the demon can be ordered]] [[SummonBiggerFish to kill the]] BigBad. Shockingly, the demon refuses to take orders from a mortal, and nukes the castle instead. Much later, you find the BonusBoss of the BonusDungeon. If you beat him in less than 20 turns, he not only recognizes your strength, but even grants you a wish, [[spoiler:teleporting you directly to the BigBad and utterly and completely destroying him. Then he wishes you a good day and leaves.]]

** During the first half of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', the Empire is the prime villain; an oppressive, tyrannical regime experimenting on sentient beings (Espers) to gain more power. Eventual BigBad Kefka Pelazzo is at this point seemingly a deranged, amoral coward with [[TheStarscream Starscream tendencies]]. This all comes to a head when Kefka turns on Emperor Gestahl, frying him with magic and kicking him off a {{Floating Continent}}.

* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'' has three enemy factions that all want the Phazon on planet Aether to themselves: The Ing, the Space Pirates, and Dark Samus. The Pirates are the {{butt monkey}}s, most of the ones that aren't killed by Samus are either possessed by Ing or killed defending their Phazon from Dark Samus. At first it's unclear if the Ing and Dark Samus are allies or enemies, but a scene just before the second fight against Dark Samus shows her killing a group of Dark Pirate Troopers (Ing-possessed Pirate Troopers) and taking their Phazon, creating emnity between her and the Ing.
* In ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', the [[TheVirus X parasites]] and Metroids '''''REALLY''''' don't like each other. Put them in the same room, and they'll both ignore Samus and go right for each others' throats (or the nearest anatomical equivalent). [[spoiler: This is because the Chozo created the Metroids specifically as predators for the X, to keep it from spreading to other worlds. After absorbing Samus' abilities, the X can now fight back.]]

** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' this occurs between [[spoiler: Chiaki, Isamu, and Hikawa]], they all develop Reasons in the Vortex World and try to [[WellIntentionedExtremist develop their own 'utopia']] that fits their personal tastes. This leads them to be at odds with each other, but the game shows quite well that they're also complete hypocrites, forsaking their own personal philosophies when convenient. No wonder you have the additional option to, if you're not in the mood to save them all from themselves, KillEmAll and let Lucifer sort 'em out.

* ''VideoGame/TerrordromeTheGameRiseOfTheBoogeymen'', with the sole exception of [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash Williams]], is nothing ''but'' this with the other combatants being [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], [[Film/{{Phantasm}} the Tall Man]], Franchise/{{Chucky}}, [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Pinhead]], Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}, the Film/{{Candyman}}, [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], ''both'' the living and undead versions of [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[Film/ManiacCop Matt Cordell]], [[Franchise/{{Scream}} Ghostface]], and [[Film/ReAnimator Dr. Hebert West]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:[[Literature/{{It}} Pennywise]] and [[Film/{{Wishmaster}} the Djinn]] are respectively manipulating Myers and [[CollectiveIdentity the Ghostfaces]], the latter also siccing [[Film/{{Species}} Sil]] and a [[Franchise/{{Predator}} Yautja]] on his pawns once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they served their purpose]], and Pinhead's ending features the Film/{{Warlock}}.]]

* ''VideoGame/TerrordromeTheGameRiseOfTheBoogeymen'', with the sole exception of [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash Williams]], is nothing ''but'' this with the other combatants being [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], [[Film/{{Phantasm}} the Tall Man]], Franchise/{{Chucky}}, [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Pinhead]], Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}, the Film/{{Candyman}}, [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], ''both'' the living and undead versions of [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[Film/ManiacCop Matt Cordell]], and [[Film/ReAnimator Dr. Hebert West]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:[[Literature/{{It}} Pennywise]] and [[Film/{{Wishmaster}} the Djinn]] are respectively manipulating Myers and [[CollectiveIdentity the Ghostfaces]], the latter also siccing [[Film/{{Species}} Sil]] and a [[Franchise/{{Predator}} Yautja]] on his pawns once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they served their purpose]], and Pinhead's ending features the Film/{{Warlock}}.]]

* ''VideoGame/TerrordromeTheGameRiseOfTheBoogeymen'', with the sole exception of [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash Williams]], is nothing ''but'' this with the other combatants being [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], [[Film/{{Phantasm}} the Tall Man]], Franchise/{{Chucky}}, [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Pinhead]], Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}, the Film/{{Candyman}}, [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], ''both'' the living and undead versions of [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[Film/ManiacCop Matt Cordell]], and [[Film/ReAnimator Dr. Hebert West]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:[[Literature/{{It}} Pennywise]] and [[Film/{{Wishmaster}} the Djinn]] are respectively manipulating Myers and [[CollectiveIdentity the Ghostfaces]], the latter also siccing [[Film/{{Species}} Sil]] and a [[Franchise/{{Predator}} Yautja]] once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they served their purpose]], on his pawns and Pinhead's ending features the Film/{{Warlock}}.]]

* ''VideoGame/TerrordromeTheGameRiseOfTheBoogeymen'', with the sole exception of [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash Williams]], is nothing ''but'' this with the other combatants being [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], [[Film/{{Phantasm}} the Tall Man]], Franchise/{{Chucky}}, [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Pinhead]], Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}, the Film/{{Candyman}}, [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], ''both'' the living and undead versions of [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[Film/ManiacCop Matt Cordell]], and [[Film/ReAnimator Dr. Hebert West]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:[[Literature/{{It}} Pennywise]] and [[Film/{{Wishmaster}} the Djinn]] are respectively manipulating Myers and [[CollectiveIdentity the Ghostfaces]], the latter also siccing [[Film/{{Species}} Sil]] and a [[Franchise/{{Predator}} Yautja]], on his pawns and Pinhead's ending features the Film/{{Warlock}}.]]

* ''VideoGame/TerrordromeTheGameRiseOfTheBoogeymen'', with the sole exception of [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash Williams]], is nothing ''but'' this with the other combatants being [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], [[Film/{{Phantasm}} the Tall Man]], Franchise/{{Chucky}}, [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Pinhead]], Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}, the Film/{{Candyman}}, [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], ''both'' the living and undead versions of [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[Film/ManiacCop Matt Cordell]], and [[Film/ReAnimator Dr. Hebert West]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:[[Literature/{{It}} Pennywise]] and [[Film/{{Wishmaster}} the Djinn]] are manipulating Myers and [[CollectiveIdentity the Ghostfaces]], the latter also siccing [[Film/{{Species}} Sil]] and a [[Franchise/{{Predator}} Yautja]], on his pawns and Pinhead's ending features the Film/{{Warlock}}.]]

* ''VideoGame/TerrordromeTheGameRiseOfTheBoogeymen'', with the sole exception of [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash Williams]], is nothing ''but'' this with the other combatants being [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], [[Film/{{Phantasm}} the Tall Man]], Franchise/{{Chucky}}, [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Pinhead]], Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}, the Film/{{Candyman}}, [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], ''both'' the living and undead versions of [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[Film/ManiacCop Matt Cordell,]], and [[Film/ReAnimator Dr. Hebert West]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:[[Literature/{{It}} Pennywise]] and [[Film/{{Wishmaster}} the Djinn]] are manipulating Myers and [[CollectiveIdentity the Ghostfaces]], the latter also siccing [[Film/{{Species}} Sil]] and a [[Franchise/{{Predator}} Yautja]], on his pawns and Pinhead's ending features the Film/{{Warlock}}.]]

* ''VideoGame/TerrordromeTheGameRiseOfTheBoogeymen'', with the sole exception of [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash Williams]], is nothing ''but'' this with the other combatants being [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], [[Film/{{Phantasm}} the Tall Man]], Franchise/{{Chucky}}, [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Pinhead]], Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}, the Film/{{Candyman}}, [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], ''both'' the living and undead versions of [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[Film/ManiacCop Matt Cordell,]], and [[Film/ReAnimator Dr. Hebert West]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:[[Literature/{{It}} Pennywise]] and [[Film/{{Wishmaster}} the Djinn]] are manipulating Myers and [[CollectiveIsentity the Ghostfaces]], the latter also siccing [[Film/{{Species}} Sil]] and a [[Franchise/{{Predator}} Yautja],] on his pawns and Pinhead's ending features the Film/{{Warlock}}.]]