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** Throughout the series, there's a conflict between YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters and the GovernmentConspiracy. Villains such as Big Boss, Liquid Snake/Ocelot, and Solidus Snake formed their own, child-killing terrorist organizations to free the world's soldiers from the ''real'' villains, the manipulative politicians who consider entire civilizations expendable, particularly [[GovernmentConspiracy The Patriots]] (aka, the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo), whose ultimate goal is [[spoiler:total mind control of all humanity via nanomachines, followed by endless war]]. This forces Solid Snake and his friends to form a third side to combat the threat of both sets of villains, so that they could save the world from the war of two ideologies. [[spoiler:Eventually they decide to side with the Patriots over the increasingly insane Liquid Ocelot, but Sunny manages to triple-cross the Patriots by re-purposing Ocelot's nuclear super-base as a backdoor into the Patriots' AI core, effectively lobotomizing them.]]
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** Throughout the series, there's a conflict between YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters and the GovernmentConspiracy. Villains such as Big Boss, Liquid Snake/Ocelot, and Solidus Snake formed their own, child-killing terrorist organizations to free the world's soldiers from the ''real'' villains, the manipulative politicians who consider entire civilizations expendable, particularly [[GovernmentConspiracy The Patriots]] the Patriots (aka, the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo), whose ultimate goal is [[spoiler:total mind control of all humanity via nanomachines, followed by endless war]]. This forces Solid Snake and his friends to form a third side to combat the threat of both sets of villains, so that they could save the world from the war of two ideologies. [[spoiler:Eventually [[spoiler:Eventually, they decide to side with the Patriots over the increasingly insane Liquid Ocelot, but Sunny manages to triple-cross the Patriots by re-purposing Ocelot's nuclear super-base as a backdoor into the Patriots' AI core, effectively lobotomizing them.]]
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** If you choose to [[KarmaMeter go Dark]], ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' ends with the Sith Lord [[spoiler:Revan]] facing off against [[spoiler:his old apprentice]] Malak, whereas ''[[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords KotOR 2]]'' has the evil Sith Lord Jedi Exile (again, if you decide to go that way) fighting Darth Traya -- [[spoiler:formerly known as Kreia- in the ruins of the world she destroyed ''in the backstory'' to prove there's nothing more she can teach her]].
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** If you choose to [[KarmaMeter go Dark]], ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' ends with the Sith Lord [[spoiler:Revan]] facing off against [[spoiler:his old apprentice]] Malak, whereas ''[[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords KotOR 2]]'' has the evil Sith Lord Jedi Exile (again, if you decide to go that way) fighting Darth Traya -- [[spoiler:formerly [[spoiler:(formerly known as Kreia- Kreia) in the ruins of the world she destroyed ''in the backstory'' to prove there's nothing more she can teach her]].
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* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'':
** [[spoiler:[[DirtyCoward Flowey]]]] pulls this on [[spoiler:[[WellIntentionedExtremist Asgore]]]] when he's both at his weakest and while he's [[spoiler: in the midst of a HeelFaceTurn]].
** This also [[spoiler:happens to Flowey himself during the No Mercy route. Though whether the culprit was [[HumanoidAbomination Frisk]], [[EldritchAbomination the player]] or [[CreepyChild Chara]] is entirely up to speculation]].
** [[spoiler:[[DirtyCoward Flowey]]]] pulls this on [[spoiler:[[WellIntentionedExtremist Asgore]]]] when he's both at his weakest and while he's [[spoiler: in the midst of a HeelFaceTurn]].
** This also [[spoiler:happens to Flowey himself during the No Mercy route. Though whether the culprit was [[HumanoidAbomination Frisk]], [[EldritchAbomination the player]] or [[CreepyChild Chara]] is entirely up to speculation]].
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* ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesGrimm'': Grimm despises SugarBowl fairy tales, and his objective is going in to corrupt them to the DarkerAndEdgier versions they used to be. This
* ''VideoGame/BioShock'':
** [[VideoGame/BioShock1 The original game]] features a background conflict between the objectivist KnightTemplar Andrew Ryan, who [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans goes to great and terrible lengths in an attempt to preserve his utopia]], and the scheming mobster Frank Fontaine, who's just trying to claw his way to the top in the name of money and power.
** ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' shows that Ryan also faced opposition from collectivist cult leader and enemy of free will, Sofia Lamb.
** ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' also has this as the backstory. On one side, you have Comstock and his cronies who are [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain rabidly bigoted]] and [[TheFundamentalist theocratic]]. On the other hand, you have the Vox Populi resistance, who while [[WellIntentionedExtremist meaning well]], are [[KnightTemplar overly radical]], [[spoiler:though the ''[[VideoGame/BioShockInfiniteBurialAtSea Burial at Sea]]'' DLC {{retcon}}s the latter as being more reasonable than they seem in the game itself]].
* The three primary villains of ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' are Hades Izanami, the goddess and incarnation of death, who seeks to kill God and put the universe out of its misery, Relius Clover, a MadScientist and {{Abusive Parent|s}}, who seeks to usurp God and replace it with [[RobotGirl Ignis]] in order to create a perfect world inhabited by perfect humans, and Yuuki Terumi, a right evil [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]], who seeks to kill and usurp God and [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil turn the world into a cesspool of hate, fear and despair]]. Though they initially cooperate with each other due to a common shared goal, their end goals are incompatible and their alliance is ultimately dissolved in the third game when Izanami betrays the latter two and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness abandons them to fend for themselves against the heroes]]. [[spoiler:Of course, they both survive, and were the ones who created her in the first place, with Terumi revealing his true form as [[GodOfEvil Takehaya Susano'o no Mikoto]] and being the FinalBoss.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', you can become this if you are cunning enough yourself. [[spoiler:You can tell that the [[ObviouslyEvil Beggar]] is an Abhorrent Beast in disguise by seeing him eating a corpse. Why deal with him on your own when you can [[ThrowEmToTheWolves send him to Iosefka's Clinic]]?]]
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow'' has this all over the place. The BigBad orders Dario, the brute, and Dmitrii, the schemer, to compete for the position of BigBad; [[spoiler:Dario winds up dead and Dmitrii goes on to kill the BigBad and become the BigBad himself, albeit only briefly, unless [[SplitPersonalityTakeover the hero does it first]]]].
* ''VideoGame/CognitiveDissonance'': [[spoiler:Porky]] does this to Giegue, realizing he'll be put in charge if Giegue loses his mind and gleefully allowing his boss to enter [[spoiler:the Devil Machine]].
* Dr. Neo Cortex is routinely usurped and mocked by the other villains for his failure to defeat ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot''. Played with, however, since Cortex very often manages to manipulate things in his favour and take over as top of the RoguesGallery again in the end:
** Uka Uka, being the voodoo mask Aku Aku's evil twin, immediately made his presence known in ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'' by making Cortex ''beg for mercy''. His role as BadBoss to him and the other villains remained throughout the series, though as Uka Uka himself became more and more buffoonish, he became more of a PointyHairedBoss, culminating in Cortex betraying and humiliating him as payback for his past abuse in ''Mind Over Mutant''.
** Said betrayal was pivoted by Uka Uka finally getting sick of Cortex's failures in ''VideoGame/CrashOfTheTitans'' (along with foreshadowing signs of Cortex getting impudent around him), and replacing him with his own niece, Nina Cortex, whom both he and Aku Aku consider far eviler and smarter than Neo himself. Nina is inevitably defeated however, and Cortex, as punishment, ''literally'' boots her off to Evil Public School.
** The Evil Twins, former abused pets of Cortex who were mutated by their travels to the Tenth Dimension, return to Crash's dimension and decide to ''destroy the world'' as payback, along with messing with Cortex multiple times for petty kicks. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday When Cortex finally remembers who they are]], he and the Twins engage in what can be best described as a game of schoolyard bullying each other into submission, which, with Crash's help, Cortex finally wins, making the Twins retreat in fear.
** In ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'', Cortex is looked down upon by N. Tropy who betrays him after Cortex failed, yet again, to destroy Crash and Coco, with N. Tropy having [[OmnicidalManiac much more sinister plan]] in mind than Cortex. [[spoiler:After Cortex teams up with them, Tawna and Dingodile, they manage to defeat N. Tropy and his new associate, after which Cortex betrays Crash and co. only to be ultimately defeated by Team Bandicoots.]]
* ''VideoGame/DoItForMe'': The "Psychopath" ending has [[spoiler:the VillainProtagonist]] mock and kill [[spoiler:his girlfriend]] for thinking [[spoiler:she]] was in control when [[spoiler:he killed the students of his own free will]]. Averted in the other endings, in which [[spoiler:the girlfriend remains the BigBad and greater menace]].
* Appears within the ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' fandom, as many of the players dream up greater and more monstrous ways to abuse the Dwarves, Goblins, Elves, cats, and everything else. One of the most well-known examples being a plan to drain ''an ocean'' in order to capture mermaids, simply because crafts made from their bones are very valuable. The game's creator apparently deemed that stunt to be [[MoralEventHorizon going too far]] as he almost immediately nerfed the value of mermaid bone after finding out about it.
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', the Dark Brotherhood versus the Morag Tong. Both are MurderInc, but the Morag Tong is [[ProfessionalKiller government-contracted and has a strict code of ethics]], while the Dark Brotherhood is comprised of PsychoForHire criminals who practice a ReligionOfEvil. Ditto, to a lesser degree, for the ThievesGuild and the Camonna Tong: the former has a strict code of ethics as well and favors clean, stealthy burglary and smooth talking, while the latter is made of [[TheSyndicate xenophobic thugs who just kill and plunder]].
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** Kuja, Garland and Queen Brahne all come into conflict with each other over who gets to be the main villain of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''. Brahne and Kuja work together until she betrays him and he kills her, and Kuja is Garland's servant until he overthrows him.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', Ardyn [[spoiler:plays the Nifelheim Empire so he can cause the apocalypse, while Bahamut ''intentionally'' manipulated events so Ardyn would turn evil and cause the apocalypse]]. The novel reveals that while Ardyn wanted petty revenge [[spoiler:and had serious brain damage]], [[spoiler:Bahamut]] was sick of humanity not reaching his unreasonable standards [[spoiler:and wanted to kill them to start over]].
** ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' has three factions within the villains -- those who want to rule the world, those who want to destroy it, and those who are doing their own thing and don't care about the other two factions. Though the heroes spend most of the time in the spotlight, we see hints of the various villains making plays for power against each other.
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', we have [[NominalHero Kratos]] against the JerkassGods. Take your pick.
* The original ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' trilogy's main and opposing evil factions are the Flood, led by the [[HiveQueen Gravemind]], and the Covenant, led by the Prophet of Truth. [[spoiler:In ''VideoGame/Halo3'', the heroes manage to stop Truth's plan to wipe out all organic life in the galaxy, which plays right into the hands of Gravemind's plan to infect the galaxy shortly afterward.]]
-->'''Truth:''' My feet tread the path... I shall become a god!\\
'''Gravemind:''' You will be food, nothing more...
** [[VideoGame/BioShock1 The original game]] features a background conflict between the objectivist KnightTemplar Andrew Ryan, who [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans goes to great and terrible lengths in an attempt to preserve his utopia]], and the scheming mobster Frank Fontaine, who's just trying to claw his way to the top in the name of money and power.
** ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' shows that Ryan also faced opposition from collectivist cult leader and enemy of free will, Sofia Lamb.
** ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' also has this as the backstory. On one side, you have Comstock and his cronies who are [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain rabidly bigoted]] and [[TheFundamentalist theocratic]]. On the other hand, you have the Vox Populi resistance, who while [[WellIntentionedExtremist meaning well]], are [[KnightTemplar overly radical]], [[spoiler:though the ''[[VideoGame/BioShockInfiniteBurialAtSea Burial at Sea]]'' DLC {{retcon}}s the latter as being more reasonable than they seem in the game itself]].
* The three primary villains of ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' are Hades Izanami, the goddess and incarnation of death, who seeks to kill God and put the universe out of its misery, Relius Clover, a MadScientist and {{Abusive Parent|s}}, who seeks to usurp God and replace it with [[RobotGirl Ignis]] in order to create a perfect world inhabited by perfect humans, and Yuuki Terumi, a right evil [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]], who seeks to kill and usurp God and [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil turn the world into a cesspool of hate, fear and despair]]. Though they initially cooperate with each other due to a common shared goal, their end goals are incompatible and their alliance is ultimately dissolved in the third game when Izanami betrays the latter two and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness abandons them to fend for themselves against the heroes]]. [[spoiler:Of course, they both survive, and were the ones who created her in the first place, with Terumi revealing his true form as [[GodOfEvil Takehaya Susano'o no Mikoto]] and being the FinalBoss.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', you can become this if you are cunning enough yourself. [[spoiler:You can tell that the [[ObviouslyEvil Beggar]] is an Abhorrent Beast in disguise by seeing him eating a corpse. Why deal with him on your own when you can [[ThrowEmToTheWolves send him to Iosefka's Clinic]]?]]
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow'' has this all over the place. The BigBad orders Dario, the brute, and Dmitrii, the schemer, to compete for the position of BigBad; [[spoiler:Dario winds up dead and Dmitrii goes on to kill the BigBad and become the BigBad himself, albeit only briefly, unless [[SplitPersonalityTakeover the hero does it first]]]].
* ''VideoGame/CognitiveDissonance'': [[spoiler:Porky]] does this to Giegue, realizing he'll be put in charge if Giegue loses his mind and gleefully allowing his boss to enter [[spoiler:the Devil Machine]].
* Dr. Neo Cortex is routinely usurped and mocked by the other villains for his failure to defeat ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot''. Played with, however, since Cortex very often manages to manipulate things in his favour and take over as top of the RoguesGallery again in the end:
** Uka Uka, being the voodoo mask Aku Aku's evil twin, immediately made his presence known in ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'' by making Cortex ''beg for mercy''. His role as BadBoss to him and the other villains remained throughout the series, though as Uka Uka himself became more and more buffoonish, he became more of a PointyHairedBoss, culminating in Cortex betraying and humiliating him as payback for his past abuse in ''Mind Over Mutant''.
** Said betrayal was pivoted by Uka Uka finally getting sick of Cortex's failures in ''VideoGame/CrashOfTheTitans'' (along with foreshadowing signs of Cortex getting impudent around him), and replacing him with his own niece, Nina Cortex, whom both he and Aku Aku consider far eviler and smarter than Neo himself. Nina is inevitably defeated however, and Cortex, as punishment, ''literally'' boots her off to Evil Public School.
** The Evil Twins, former abused pets of Cortex who were mutated by their travels to the Tenth Dimension, return to Crash's dimension and decide to ''destroy the world'' as payback, along with messing with Cortex multiple times for petty kicks. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday When Cortex finally remembers who they are]], he and the Twins engage in what can be best described as a game of schoolyard bullying each other into submission, which, with Crash's help, Cortex finally wins, making the Twins retreat in fear.
** In ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'', Cortex is looked down upon by N. Tropy who betrays him after Cortex failed, yet again, to destroy Crash and Coco, with N. Tropy having [[OmnicidalManiac much more sinister plan]] in mind than Cortex. [[spoiler:After Cortex teams up with them, Tawna and Dingodile, they manage to defeat N. Tropy and his new associate, after which Cortex betrays Crash and co. only to be ultimately defeated by Team Bandicoots.]]
* ''VideoGame/DoItForMe'': The "Psychopath" ending has [[spoiler:the VillainProtagonist]] mock and kill [[spoiler:his girlfriend]] for thinking [[spoiler:she]] was in control when [[spoiler:he killed the students of his own free will]]. Averted in the other endings, in which [[spoiler:the girlfriend remains the BigBad and greater menace]].
* Appears within the ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' fandom, as many of the players dream up greater and more monstrous ways to abuse the Dwarves, Goblins, Elves, cats, and everything else. One of the most well-known examples being a plan to drain ''an ocean'' in order to capture mermaids, simply because crafts made from their bones are very valuable. The game's creator apparently deemed that stunt to be [[MoralEventHorizon going too far]] as he almost immediately nerfed the value of mermaid bone after finding out about it.
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', the Dark Brotherhood versus the Morag Tong. Both are MurderInc, but the Morag Tong is [[ProfessionalKiller government-contracted and has a strict code of ethics]], while the Dark Brotherhood is comprised of PsychoForHire criminals who practice a ReligionOfEvil. Ditto, to a lesser degree, for the ThievesGuild and the Camonna Tong: the former has a strict code of ethics as well and favors clean, stealthy burglary and smooth talking, while the latter is made of [[TheSyndicate xenophobic thugs who just kill and plunder]].
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** Kuja, Garland and Queen Brahne all come into conflict with each other over who gets to be the main villain of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''. Brahne and Kuja work together until she betrays him and he kills her, and Kuja is Garland's servant until he overthrows him.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', Ardyn [[spoiler:plays the Nifelheim Empire so he can cause the apocalypse, while Bahamut ''intentionally'' manipulated events so Ardyn would turn evil and cause the apocalypse]]. The novel reveals that while Ardyn wanted petty revenge [[spoiler:and had serious brain damage]], [[spoiler:Bahamut]] was sick of humanity not reaching his unreasonable standards [[spoiler:and wanted to kill them to start over]].
** ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' has three factions within the villains -- those who want to rule the world, those who want to destroy it, and those who are doing their own thing and don't care about the other two factions. Though the heroes spend most of the time in the spotlight, we see hints of the various villains making plays for power against each other.
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', we have [[NominalHero Kratos]] against the JerkassGods. Take your pick.
* The original ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' trilogy's main and opposing evil factions are the Flood, led by the [[HiveQueen Gravemind]], and the Covenant, led by the Prophet of Truth. [[spoiler:In ''VideoGame/Halo3'', the heroes manage to stop Truth's plan to wipe out all organic life in the galaxy, which plays right into the hands of Gravemind's plan to infect the galaxy shortly afterward.]]
-->'''Truth:''' My feet tread the path... I shall become a god!\\
'''Gravemind:''' You will be food, nothing more...
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* In the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' universe, there's a conflict between YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters and the GovernmentConspiracy. Villains such as Big Boss, Liquid Snake/Ocelot, and Solidus Snake formed their own, child-killing terrorist organizations to free the world's soldiers from the ''real'' villains, the manipulative politicians who consider entire civilizations expendable, particularly [[GovernmentConspiracy The Patriots]] (aka, the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo), whose ultimate goal is [[spoiler:total mind control of all humanity via nanomachines, followed by endless war]]. This forces Solid Snake and his friends to form a third side to combat the threat of both sets of villains, so that they could save the world from the war of two ideologies. [[spoiler:Eventually they decide to side with the Patriots over the increasingly insane Liquid Ocelot, but Sunny manages to triple-cross the Patriots by re-purposing Ocelot's nuclear super-base as a backdoor into the Patriots' AI core, effectively lobotomizing them.]]
** For an extra layer, the Patriots themselves were originally created to combat an even older group of world controlling politicians.
** Metal Gear V's Skull Face [[spoiler:tries to turn the entire world into a totalitarian state by turning every unstable dictatorship into a nuclear power, while infecting everyone with language-triggered diseases so they ''cannot'' talk it out]]. The Patriots are so afraid that they ''save'' Big Boss from death [[spoiler:and create their own super-soldier based on him]] to take Skull Face out.
* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'' features a background conflict between the objectivist KnightTemplar Andrew Ryan, who [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans goes to great and terrible lengths in an attempt to preserve his utopia]], and the scheming mobster Frank Fontaine, who's just trying to claw his way to the top in the name of money and power.
** [[VideoGame/BioShock2 The sequel]] also shows that Ryan also faced opposition from collectivist cult leader and enemy of free will, Sofia Lamb.
** ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' also has this as the backstory. On one side, you have Comstock and his cronies who are [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain rabidly bigoted]] and [[TheFundamentalist theocratic]]. On the other hand, you have the Vox Populi resistance, who while [[WellIntentionedExtremist meaning well]], are [[KnightTemplar overly radical]]. [[spoiler: Though the Burial At Sea DLC Retcons the latter as being more reasonable than they seem in the game itself.]]
* The three primary villains of ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' are Hades Izanami, the goddess and incarnation of death, who seeks to kill God and put the universe out of its misery, Relius Clover, a MadScientist and {{Abusive Parent|s}}, who seeks to usurp God and replace it with [[RobotGirl Ignis]] in order to create a perfect world inhabited by perfect humans, and Yuuki Terumi, a right evil [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]], who seeks to kill and usurp God and [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil turn the world into a cesspool of hate, fear and despair]]. Though they initially cooperate with each other due to a common shared goal, their end goals are incompatible and their alliance is ultimately dissolved in the third game when Izanami betrays the latter two and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness abandons them to fend for themselves against the heroes]]. [[spoiler:Of course, they both survive, and were the ones who created her in the first place, with Terumi revealing his true form as [[DestroyerDeity Takehaya]] [[GodOfEvil Susano'o]] [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseMythology no Mikoto]] and being the FinalBoss]].
* The villains of the ''VideoGame/StarControl'' series are the two races of Ur-Quan: The green Kzer-Za, who swept around one half of the galaxy ''enslaving every living thing''. (with the ultimate intention of sealing them on their respective homeworlds in impenetrable bubbles. They would also allow relative freedom if your race agreed to serve them as battle thralls.) And the black Kohr-Ah, who swept around the galaxy ''killing every living thing''. Once both met at the opposite end of the galaxy, they were both going to fight it out to decide whose approach is "better".
** Even better yet, both approaches are supposed to be '''for the citizens own good'''. The Ur-Quan were originally part of [[TheFederation The Sentient Milieu]], which accidentally stumbled upon the most evil species ever, the Dnyarri, telepaths so powerful that a single individual could utterly dominate the minds of a solar system. The Ur-Quan barely managed to free themselves from the Dnyarri's control by a fluke and destroy them after millennia of the most horrible abuse imaginable. While both Ur-Quan are ''extremely'' paranoid after said horrible abuse, the Kzer-Za don't want to kill everything, deciding that universal enslavement was enough to ensure that nobody could ever enslave the Ur-Quan, or anyone else, again. (That sounds strange, but the Kzer-Za see themselves as fair masters and usually do not permit their subjects to harm each other. Compared to every other "bad guy" race in the game, and some of your allies, they seemed downright beneficent). The Kohr-Ah just have a few screws loose, and outright state that, since they believe in reincarnation, by killing every non-Ur-Quan race in the galaxy, they are '''doing them a favor''' by giving them a chance to be reborn as Ur-Quan.
*** A rare example when a mediocre villain invoked much more disgust and ire than the major one. Unlike the Ur-Quan who, despite their omnicidal/totalitarian tendencies, retained a strict code of honor and had thorough and near-commiserable motivation, the Druuge were nothing but greedy heartless dregs.
* Kuja, Garland and Queen Brahne in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' all come into conflict with each other over who gets to be the main villain. Brahne and Kuja work together until she betrays him and he kills her, and Kuja is Garland's servant until he overthrows him.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'': Ardyn [[spoiler:plays the Nifelheim Empire so he can cause the apocalypse. Bahamut ''intentionally'' manipulated events so Ardyn would turn evil and cause the apocalypse.]] The novel reveals that while Ardyn wanted petty revenge [[spoiler:and had serious brain damage]], [[spoiler:Bahamut]] was sick of humanity not reaching his unreasonable standards [[spoiler:and wanted to kill them to start over]].
* ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' has three factions within the villains - those who want to rule the world, those who want to destroy it, and those who are doing their own thing and don't care about the other two factions. Though the heroes spend most of the time in the spotlight, we see hints of the various villains making plays for power against each other.
* Team Aqua and Team Magma in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Emerald]]''; Aqua wanting to flood the world and Magma wanting to expand the landscape.
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow'' has this all over the place. The BigBad orders Dario, the brute, and Dmitrii, the schemer, to compete for the position of BigBad; [[spoiler:Dario winds up dead and Dmitrii goes on to kill the BigBad and become the BigBad himself, albeit only briefly. Unless [[SplitPersonalityTakeover the hero does it first.]]]]
* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': The original trilogy's main and opposing evil factions are the Flood, led by the [[HiveQueen Gravemind]], and the Covenant, led by the Prophet of Truth. [[spoiler: In ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'', the heroes manage to stop Truth's plan to wipe out all organic life in the galaxy, which plays right into the hands of Gravemind's plan to infect the galaxy shortly afterward.]]
-->'''Truth:''' My feet tread the path... I shall become a god!\\
'''Gravemind:''' You will be food, nothing more...
** For an extra layer, the Patriots themselves were originally created to combat an even older group of world controlling politicians.
** Metal Gear V's Skull Face [[spoiler:tries to turn the entire world into a totalitarian state by turning every unstable dictatorship into a nuclear power, while infecting everyone with language-triggered diseases so they ''cannot'' talk it out]]. The Patriots are so afraid that they ''save'' Big Boss from death [[spoiler:and create their own super-soldier based on him]] to take Skull Face out.
* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'' features a background conflict between the objectivist KnightTemplar Andrew Ryan, who [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans goes to great and terrible lengths in an attempt to preserve his utopia]], and the scheming mobster Frank Fontaine, who's just trying to claw his way to the top in the name of money and power.
** [[VideoGame/BioShock2 The sequel]] also shows that Ryan also faced opposition from collectivist cult leader and enemy of free will, Sofia Lamb.
** ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' also has this as the backstory. On one side, you have Comstock and his cronies who are [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain rabidly bigoted]] and [[TheFundamentalist theocratic]]. On the other hand, you have the Vox Populi resistance, who while [[WellIntentionedExtremist meaning well]], are [[KnightTemplar overly radical]]. [[spoiler: Though the Burial At Sea DLC Retcons the latter as being more reasonable than they seem in the game itself.]]
* The three primary villains of ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' are Hades Izanami, the goddess and incarnation of death, who seeks to kill God and put the universe out of its misery, Relius Clover, a MadScientist and {{Abusive Parent|s}}, who seeks to usurp God and replace it with [[RobotGirl Ignis]] in order to create a perfect world inhabited by perfect humans, and Yuuki Terumi, a right evil [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]], who seeks to kill and usurp God and [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil turn the world into a cesspool of hate, fear and despair]]. Though they initially cooperate with each other due to a common shared goal, their end goals are incompatible and their alliance is ultimately dissolved in the third game when Izanami betrays the latter two and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness abandons them to fend for themselves against the heroes]]. [[spoiler:Of course, they both survive, and were the ones who created her in the first place, with Terumi revealing his true form as [[DestroyerDeity Takehaya]] [[GodOfEvil Susano'o]] [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseMythology no Mikoto]] and being the FinalBoss]].
* The villains of the ''VideoGame/StarControl'' series are the two races of Ur-Quan: The green Kzer-Za, who swept around one half of the galaxy ''enslaving every living thing''. (with the ultimate intention of sealing them on their respective homeworlds in impenetrable bubbles. They would also allow relative freedom if your race agreed to serve them as battle thralls.) And the black Kohr-Ah, who swept around the galaxy ''killing every living thing''. Once both met at the opposite end of the galaxy, they were both going to fight it out to decide whose approach is "better".
** Even better yet, both approaches are supposed to be '''for the citizens own good'''. The Ur-Quan were originally part of [[TheFederation The Sentient Milieu]], which accidentally stumbled upon the most evil species ever, the Dnyarri, telepaths so powerful that a single individual could utterly dominate the minds of a solar system. The Ur-Quan barely managed to free themselves from the Dnyarri's control by a fluke and destroy them after millennia of the most horrible abuse imaginable. While both Ur-Quan are ''extremely'' paranoid after said horrible abuse, the Kzer-Za don't want to kill everything, deciding that universal enslavement was enough to ensure that nobody could ever enslave the Ur-Quan, or anyone else, again. (That sounds strange, but the Kzer-Za see themselves as fair masters and usually do not permit their subjects to harm each other. Compared to every other "bad guy" race in the game, and some of your allies, they seemed downright beneficent). The Kohr-Ah just have a few screws loose, and outright state that, since they believe in reincarnation, by killing every non-Ur-Quan race in the galaxy, they are '''doing them a favor''' by giving them a chance to be reborn as Ur-Quan.
*** A rare example when a mediocre villain invoked much more disgust and ire than the major one. Unlike the Ur-Quan who, despite their omnicidal/totalitarian tendencies, retained a strict code of honor and had thorough and near-commiserable motivation, the Druuge were nothing but greedy heartless dregs.
* Kuja, Garland and Queen Brahne in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' all come into conflict with each other over who gets to be the main villain. Brahne and Kuja work together until she betrays him and he kills her, and Kuja is Garland's servant until he overthrows him.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'': Ardyn [[spoiler:plays the Nifelheim Empire so he can cause the apocalypse. Bahamut ''intentionally'' manipulated events so Ardyn would turn evil and cause the apocalypse.]] The novel reveals that while Ardyn wanted petty revenge [[spoiler:and had serious brain damage]], [[spoiler:Bahamut]] was sick of humanity not reaching his unreasonable standards [[spoiler:and wanted to kill them to start over]].
* ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' has three factions within the villains - those who want to rule the world, those who want to destroy it, and those who are doing their own thing and don't care about the other two factions. Though the heroes spend most of the time in the spotlight, we see hints of the various villains making plays for power against each other.
* Team Aqua and Team Magma in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Emerald]]''; Aqua wanting to flood the world and Magma wanting to expand the landscape.
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow'' has this all over the place. The BigBad orders Dario, the brute, and Dmitrii, the schemer, to compete for the position of BigBad; [[spoiler:Dario winds up dead and Dmitrii goes on to kill the BigBad and become the BigBad himself, albeit only briefly. Unless [[SplitPersonalityTakeover the hero does it first.]]]]
* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': The original trilogy's main and opposing evil factions are the Flood, led by the [[HiveQueen Gravemind]], and the Covenant, led by the Prophet of Truth. [[spoiler: In ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'', the heroes manage to stop Truth's plan to wipe out all organic life in the galaxy, which plays right into the hands of Gravemind's plan to infect the galaxy shortly afterward.]]
-->'''Truth:''' My feet tread the path... I shall become a god!\\
'''Gravemind:''' You will be food, nothing more...
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* Most games with a KarmaMeter will end up with something like this if the player chooses the Evil end of the spectrum - for example, ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' ends, if you choose to go Dark, with the Sith Lord [[spoiler: Revan]] facing off against [[spoiler: his old apprentice]] Malak, whereas ''[=KotOR=] 2'' has the evil Sith Lord Jedi Exile (again, if you decide to go that way) fighting Darth Traya- [[spoiler: formerly known as Kreia- in the ruins of the world she destroyed ''in the backstory'' to prove there's nothing more she can teach her]].
** Strangely, while it does have Dark and Light endings, ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' plays this straight ''both ways''. [[spoiler:The Dark Side Starkiller ultimately proves eviler than Darth Vader, but then the Emperor ends up being eviler than them. Though ultimately, as the expanded WhatIf Dark Side storyline is to be believed, Starkiller manages to one up the Emperor and Vader by corrupting Luke Skywalker, something that the other two never managed in the real timeline.]]
* ''[[VideoGame/CognitiveDissonance Mother: Cognitive Dissonance]]'': [[spoiler:Porky]] does this to Giegue, realizing he'll be put in charge if Giegue loses his mind and gleefully allowing his boss to enter [[spoiler:the Devil Machine.]]
* In ''VideoGame/OkageShadowKing'', a good deal of the game is spent helping [[LivingShadow Evil King Stan]] beat up the Fake Evil Kings to reclaim his title.
* Appears within the ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' fandom, as many of the players dream up greater and more monstrous ways to abuse the Dwarves, Goblins, Elves, cats, and everything else. One of the most well-known examples being a plan to drain ''an ocean'' in order to capture mermaids, simply because crafts made from their bones are very valuable. The game's creator apparently deemed that stunt to be [[MoralEventHorizon going too far]] as he almost immediately nerfed the value of mermaid bone after finding out about it.
* In ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', this is ''one'' possible AlternateCharacterInterpretation for the relationship between [[spoiler:the Overmind]] and [[spoiler:the Fallen One]] (the other possibility being a case of GoodAllAlong). Thus far we've only been given teases about it being a future plotline, but what is known is that the latter tried to use the former for his own ends, and the former pulled off a ThanatosGambit to stop him.
* In ''VideoGame/MarioSuperSluggers'', [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]] and [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry King K. Rool]] have absolutely ''terrible'' play chemistry when on the same team.
* [[LightIsNotGood Galeem]] and [[DarkIsEvil Dharkon]] are both this in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''.
** And Galeem (And in turn, Dharkon) are this to [[spoiler: [[DownloadableContent Seph]][[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII iroth]] in his Fighter reveal trailer, with Sephiroth destroying Galeem, who worfed the entire Smash Bros. cast pre-DLC sans Kirby, in one slash.]]
** Strangely, while it does have Dark and Light endings, ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' plays this straight ''both ways''. [[spoiler:The Dark Side Starkiller ultimately proves eviler than Darth Vader, but then the Emperor ends up being eviler than them. Though ultimately, as the expanded WhatIf Dark Side storyline is to be believed, Starkiller manages to one up the Emperor and Vader by corrupting Luke Skywalker, something that the other two never managed in the real timeline.]]
* ''[[VideoGame/CognitiveDissonance Mother: Cognitive Dissonance]]'': [[spoiler:Porky]] does this to Giegue, realizing he'll be put in charge if Giegue loses his mind and gleefully allowing his boss to enter [[spoiler:the Devil Machine.]]
* In ''VideoGame/OkageShadowKing'', a good deal of the game is spent helping [[LivingShadow Evil King Stan]] beat up the Fake Evil Kings to reclaim his title.
* Appears within the ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' fandom, as many of the players dream up greater and more monstrous ways to abuse the Dwarves, Goblins, Elves, cats, and everything else. One of the most well-known examples being a plan to drain ''an ocean'' in order to capture mermaids, simply because crafts made from their bones are very valuable. The game's creator apparently deemed that stunt to be [[MoralEventHorizon going too far]] as he almost immediately nerfed the value of mermaid bone after finding out about it.
* In ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', this is ''one'' possible AlternateCharacterInterpretation for the relationship between [[spoiler:the Overmind]] and [[spoiler:the Fallen One]] (the other possibility being a case of GoodAllAlong). Thus far we've only been given teases about it being a future plotline, but what is known is that the latter tried to use the former for his own ends, and the former pulled off a ThanatosGambit to stop him.
* In ''VideoGame/MarioSuperSluggers'', [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]] and [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry King K. Rool]] have absolutely ''terrible'' play chemistry when on the same team.
* [[LightIsNotGood Galeem]] and [[DarkIsEvil Dharkon]] are both this in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''.
** And Galeem (And in turn, Dharkon) are this to [[spoiler: [[DownloadableContent Seph]][[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII iroth]] in his Fighter reveal trailer, with Sephiroth destroying Galeem, who worfed the entire Smash Bros. cast pre-DLC sans Kirby, in one slash.]]
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* Most games with a KarmaMeter will end up with something like this if the player chooses the Evil end of the spectrum - for example, ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' ends, if you choose to go Dark, with the Sith Lord [[spoiler: Revan]] facing off against [[spoiler: his old apprentice]] Malak, whereas ''[=KotOR=] 2'' has the evil Sith Lord Jedi Exile (again, if you decide to go that way) fighting Darth Traya- [[spoiler: formerly known as Kreia- in the ruins of the world she destroyed ''in the backstory'' to prove there's nothing more she can teach her]].
** Strangely, while it does have Dark and Light endings, ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' plays this straight ''both ways''. [[spoiler:The Dark Side Starkiller ultimately proves eviler than Darth Vader, but then the Emperor ends up being eviler than them. Though ultimately, as the expanded WhatIf Dark Side storyline is''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'': When [[spoiler:Princess Hilda]] reveals herself to be believed, Starkiller manages to one up the Emperor mastermind behind the sage kidnappings and Vader by corrupting Luke Skywalker, something attempted theft of Hyrule's Triforce, albeit to [[WellIntentionedExtremist save Lorule from destruction]], she demands that [[BigBad Yuga]] give her the other two never managed in the real timeline.]]
* ''[[VideoGame/CognitiveDissonance Mother: Cognitive Dissonance]]'': [[spoiler:Porky]] does this to Giegue, realizing he'll be put in charge if Giegue loses his mind and gleefully allowing his boss to enter [[spoiler:the Devil Machine.]]
* In ''VideoGame/OkageShadowKing'', a good deal of the game is spent helping [[LivingShadow Evil King Stan]] beat up the Fake Evil Kings to reclaim his title.
* Appears within the ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' fandom, as many of the players dream up greater and more monstrous ways to abuse the Dwarves, Goblins, Elves, cats, and everything else. One of the most well-known examples being a plan to drain ''an ocean'' in order to capture mermaids, simply because crafts made from their bones are very valuable. The game's creator apparently deemedTriforce; instead, Yuga betrays her, revealing that stunt to be [[MoralEventHorizon going too far]] as he almost immediately nerfed the value of mermaid bone after finding out about it.
* In ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', this is ''one'' possible AlternateCharacterInterpretation for the relationship between [[spoiler:the Overmind]]was playing her all along and [[spoiler:the Fallen One]] (the other possibility being a case of GoodAllAlong). Thus far we've only been given teases about it being a future plotline, but what is known is that the latter tried plans to use the former for Triforce to remake Lorule in his own ends, and the former pulled off a ThanatosGambit to stop him.
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* In ''VideoGame/MarioSuperSluggers'', [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]] and [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry King K. Rool]] have absolutely ''terrible'' play chemistry when on the sameteam.
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*[[LightIsNotGood Galeem]] ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'': Many, many evil characters show up throughout the course of the game, and [[DarkIsEvil Dharkon]] are they perpetually outshine one another in their evil, starting with Yomi Hellsmile, who is easily more cruel than any other criminal in Kanai Ward due to being a [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans psychotic despot]] willing to kill anyone who isn't of any use to him, all the way to [[spoiler:Makoto Kagutsuchi, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the CEO of Amaterasu Corporation]], who is easily much more evil than anyone else in the game due to his willingness to manipulate entire cities, corporations, and the government itself to do his bidding, all while seeing himself as the good guy in that scenario, though the fact that he's willing to do all of that in the first place is no thanks to Yomi's excessive despotism over Kanai Ward. Makoto may indeed [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feel genuine remorse]] following all of his misdeeds, and undergoes a HeelFaceTurn, but it does not downplay how outright evil he is as the game's BigBad]].
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** Throughout the series, there's a conflict between YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters and the GovernmentConspiracy. Villains such as Big Boss, Liquid Snake/Ocelot, and Solidus Snake formed their own, child-killing terrorist organizations to free the world's soldiers from the ''real'' villains, the manipulative politicians who consider entire civilizations expendable, particularly [[GovernmentConspiracy The Patriots]] (aka, the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo), whose ultimate goal is [[spoiler:total mind control of all humanity via nanomachines, followed by endless war]]. This forces Solid Snake and his friends to form a third side to combat the threat of boththis in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''.
** And Galeem (And in turn, Dharkon) are thissets of villains, so that they could save the world from the war of two ideologies. [[spoiler:Eventually they decide to [[spoiler: [[DownloadableContent Seph]][[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII iroth]] in his Fighter reveal trailer, side with Sephiroth destroying Galeem, who worfed the Patriots over the increasingly insane Liquid Ocelot, but Sunny manages to triple-cross the Patriots by re-purposing Ocelot's nuclear super-base as a backdoor into the Patriots' AI core, effectively lobotomizing them.]]
** For an extra layer, the Patriots themselves were originally created to combat an even older group of world-controlling politicians.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'''s Skull Face [[spoiler:tries to turn the entireSmash Bros. cast pre-DLC sans Kirby, world into a totalitarian state by turning every unstable dictatorship into a nuclear power, while infecting everyone with language-triggered diseases so they ''cannot'' talk it out]]. The Patriots are so afraid that they ''save'' Big Boss from death [[spoiler:and create their own super-soldier based on him]] to take Skull Face out.
* In ''VideoGame/MogekoCastle'', the Mogekos are rapists who are obsessed with high school girls. Moge-ko is also a rapist who is obsessed with high school girls, but torture and cannibalism as well. She also preys on the Mogekos.
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': [[Characters/MortalKombatShangTsung Shang Tsung]] is a [[YourSoulIsMine soul-collecting]] sorcerer who is define by his pathological tendency to betray anyone who he sees as stepping stones to his goals once all is said and done, overshadowing his former boss Shao Kahn and even [[spoiler:Kronika]], whom she deemed to be extremely dangerous to be kept alive and is appalled by how low he can go betraying anyone to no end until he has nothing left to betray.
* A good deal of ''VideoGame/OkageShadowKing'' is spent helping [[LivingShadow Evil King Stan]] beat up the Fake Evil Kings to reclaim his title.
* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', Sir Grodus, is trying to unleash and take control of [[SealedEvilInACan the Shadow Queen]] so that he can take over the world. [[spoiler:He does his best to make this work, but she uses her powers to [[OffWithHisHead decapitate him]] -- in the first place, he was a pawn of Beldam, oneslash.of his supposed minions.]]
* ''VideoGame/PhysicalExorcismSeries'':
** ''VisualNovel/Case00TheCannibalBoy'': When Grete [[spoiler:feeds Hans to Brucie out of {{yandere}} spite, she didn't expect Brucie to immediately strangle her and eat her too]].
** ''VisualNovel/Case03TrueCannibalBoy'': Brucie proves to be the stronger [[spoiler:Cannibal Boy when he summons an army of assimilated evil spirits to eat the first Cannibal Boy's conglomerate of evil spirits, all while assimilating them in the process]].
* Team Aqua and Team Magma in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Emerald]]''; Aqua wanting to flood the world and Magma wanting to expand the landscape.
* ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'': [[spoiler:In the escape, Theodore's soul is the blackest and darkest among the thousands trapped in Limbo. [[AntiAntiChrist He rivals Satan]] and looks like a demon in his own right, complete with draconic head firing lasers and wings.]]
** Strangely, while it does have Dark and Light endings, ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' plays this straight ''both ways''. [[spoiler:The Dark Side Starkiller ultimately proves eviler than Darth Vader, but then the Emperor ends up being eviler than them. Though ultimately, as the expanded WhatIf Dark Side storyline is
* ''[[VideoGame/CognitiveDissonance Mother: Cognitive Dissonance]]'': [[spoiler:Porky]] does this to Giegue, realizing he'll be put in charge if Giegue loses his mind and gleefully allowing his boss to enter [[spoiler:the Devil Machine.]]
* In ''VideoGame/OkageShadowKing'', a good deal of the game is spent helping [[LivingShadow Evil King Stan]] beat up the Fake Evil Kings to reclaim his title.
* Appears within the ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' fandom, as many of the players dream up greater and more monstrous ways to abuse the Dwarves, Goblins, Elves, cats, and everything else. One of the most well-known examples being a plan to drain ''an ocean'' in order to capture mermaids, simply because crafts made from their bones are very valuable. The game's creator apparently deemed
* In ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', this is ''one'' possible AlternateCharacterInterpretation for the relationship between [[spoiler:the Overmind]]
* In ''VideoGame/MarioSuperSluggers'', [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]] and [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry King K. Rool]] have absolutely ''terrible'' play chemistry when on the same
*
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** Throughout the series, there's a conflict between YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters and the GovernmentConspiracy. Villains such as Big Boss, Liquid Snake/Ocelot, and Solidus Snake formed their own, child-killing terrorist organizations to free the world's soldiers from the ''real'' villains, the manipulative politicians who consider entire civilizations expendable, particularly [[GovernmentConspiracy The Patriots]] (aka, the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo), whose ultimate goal is [[spoiler:total mind control of all humanity via nanomachines, followed by endless war]]. This forces Solid Snake and his friends to form a third side to combat the threat of both
** And Galeem (And in turn, Dharkon) are this
** For an extra layer, the Patriots themselves were originally created to combat an even older group of world-controlling politicians.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'''s Skull Face [[spoiler:tries to turn the entire
* In ''VideoGame/MogekoCastle'', the Mogekos are rapists who are obsessed with high school girls. Moge-ko is also a rapist who is obsessed with high school girls, but torture and cannibalism as well. She also preys on the Mogekos.
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': [[Characters/MortalKombatShangTsung Shang Tsung]] is a [[YourSoulIsMine soul-collecting]] sorcerer who is define by his pathological tendency to betray anyone who he sees as stepping stones to his goals once all is said and done, overshadowing his former boss Shao Kahn and even [[spoiler:Kronika]], whom she deemed to be extremely dangerous to be kept alive and is appalled by how low he can go betraying anyone to no end until he has nothing left to betray.
* A good deal of ''VideoGame/OkageShadowKing'' is spent helping [[LivingShadow Evil King Stan]] beat up the Fake Evil Kings to reclaim his title.
* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', Sir Grodus, is trying to unleash and take control of [[SealedEvilInACan the Shadow Queen]] so that he can take over the world. [[spoiler:He does his best to make this work, but she uses her powers to [[OffWithHisHead decapitate him]] -- in the first place, he was a pawn of Beldam, one
* ''VideoGame/PhysicalExorcismSeries'':
** ''VisualNovel/Case00TheCannibalBoy'': When Grete [[spoiler:feeds Hans to Brucie out of {{yandere}} spite, she didn't expect Brucie to immediately strangle her and eat her too]].
** ''VisualNovel/Case03TrueCannibalBoy'': Brucie proves to be the stronger [[spoiler:Cannibal Boy when he summons an army of assimilated evil spirits to eat the first Cannibal Boy's conglomerate of evil spirits, all while assimilating them in the process]].
* Team Aqua and Team Magma in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Emerald]]''; Aqua wanting to flood the world and Magma wanting to expand the landscape.
* ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'': [[spoiler:In the escape, Theodore's soul is the blackest and darkest among the thousands trapped in Limbo. [[AntiAntiChrist He rivals Satan]] and looks like a demon in his own right, complete with draconic head firing lasers and wings.]]
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** In stages that feature both [[MadScientist Dr Eggman]] and [[AliensAreBastards Black Doom]] in ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'', Eggman's missions are considered the "Hero" ones.
** ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'': [[spoiler:Play the game on Hard mode and you'll be treated to a boss fight to the game's actual BigBad, a destructive, malevolent entity only known as The End. During its fight, The End reveals it saw Sonic's mind as he traversed through Cyber Space, noting he fought machines and gods. It quickly dismisses them as finite and declares itself to be infinite and far worse than them.]]
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', we have [[NominalHero Kratos]] against the JerkassGods. Take your pick.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'': When [[spoiler: Princess Hilda]] reveals herself to be the mastermind behind the sage kidnappings and attempted theft of Hyrule's Triforce, albeit to [[WellIntentionedExtremist save Lorule from destruction]], she demands that [[BigBad Yuga]] give her the Triforce; instead, Yuga betrays her, revealing that he was playing her all along and plans to use the Triforce to remake Lorule in his own image.
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', the BigBad, Sir Grodus, is trying to unleash and take control of the [[SealedEvilInACan Shadow Queen]] so that he can take over the world. [[spoiler:He does his best to make this work, but she [[OffWithHisHead uses her powers to decapitate him]]- in the first place, he was a pawn of Beldam, one of his supposed minions]].
* ''VideoGame/PhysicalExorcismSeries'':
** ''VisualNovel/Case00TheCannibalBoy'': When Grete [[spoiler:feeds Hans to Brucie out of {{yandere}} spite, she didn't expect Brucie to immediately strangle her and eat her too]].
** ''VisualNovel/Case03TrueCannibalBoy'': Brucie proves to be the stronger [[spoiler:Cannibal Boy when he summons an army of assimilated evil spirits to eat the first Cannibal Boy's conglomerate of evil spirits, all while assimilating them in the process]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', you can become this if you are cunning enough yourself, [[spoiler: you can tell the [[ObviouslyEvil Beggar]] is an Abhorrent Beast in disguise by seeing him eating a corpse. Why deal with him on your own when you can [[ThrowEmToTheWolves send him to Iosefka's Clinic?]]]]
* ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'': [[spoiler: In the escape, Theodore's soul is the blackest and darkest among the thousands trapped in Limbo. [[AntiAntiChrist He rivals Satan.]] And complete with draconic head firing lasers and wings, he looks like a demon in his own right.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', the Dark Brotherhood versus the Morag Tong. Both are MurderInc, but the Morag Tong is [[ProfessionalKiller government-contracted and has a strict code of ethics]], while the Dark Brotherhood is comprised of PsychoForHire criminals who practice a ReligionOfEvil. Ditto, to a lesser degree, for the ThievesGuild and the Camonna Tong: the former has a strict code of ethics as well and favors clean, stealthy burglary and smooth talking, while the latter is made of [[TheSyndicate xenophobic thugs who just kill and plunder]].
* In ''VideoGame/MogekoCastle'', the Mogekos are rapists who are obsessed with high school girls. Moge-ko is aslo a rapist who is obsessed with high school girls, but torture and cannibalism as well. She also preys on the Mogekos.
* In ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', there's a clique of bullies, delinquents, an amoral InformationBroker who deals in {{panty shot}}s, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a substitute teacher in gross violation of occupational ethics]]. Yandere-chan can be worse than any of them. [[spoiler: And her mother is worse than ''her''.]]
* ''VideoGame/DoItForMe'': The "Psychopath" ending has [[spoiler:the VillainProtagonist]] mock and kill [[spoiler:his girlfriend]] for thinking [[spoiler:she]] was in control when [[spoiler:he killed the students of his own free will]]. Averted in the other endings, where [[spoiler:the girlfriend remains the BigBad and greater menace]].
* Dr. Neo Cortex is routinely usurped and mocked by the other villains for his failure to defeat ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot''. Played with however, since very often Cortex, in the end, manages to manipulate things in his favour and take over as top of the RoguesGallery again:
** Uka Uka, being the voodoo mask Aku Aku's evil twin, immediately made his presence known in ''Warped'' by making Cortex ''beg for mercy''. His role as BadBoss to him and the other villains remained throughout the series, though as Uka Uka himself became more and more buffoonish, he became more of a PointyHairedBoss, culminating in Cortex betraying and humiliating him as payback for his past abuse in ''Mind Over Mutant''.
** Said betrayal was pivoted by Uka Uka finally getting sick of Cortex's failures in ''Titans'' (along with foreshadowing signs of Cortex getting impudent around him), and replacing him with his own niece, Nina Cortex, whom both he and Aku Aku consider far eviler and smarter than Neo himself. Nina is inevitably defeated however, and Cortex, as punishment, ''literally'' boots her off to Evil Public School.
** The Evil Twins, former abused pets of Cortex who were mutated by their travels to the Tenth Dimension, return to Crash's dimension and decide to ''destroy the world'' as payback, along with messing with Cortex multiple times for petty kicks. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday When Cortex finally remembers who they are]], he and the Twins engage in what can be best described as a game of schoolyard bullying each other into submission, which, with Crash's help, Cortex finally wins, making the Twins retreat in fear.
** In ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'' Cortex is looked down upon by N. Tropy who betrays him after Cortex failed, yet again, to destroy Crash and Coco, with N. Tropy having [[OmnicidalManiac much more sinister plan]] in mind than Cortex. [[spoiler: After Cortex teaming up with them, Tawna and Dingodile they manage to defeat N. Tropy and his new associate, after which Cortex betrays Crash and co. only to be ultimately defeated by Team Bandicoots.]]
** ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'': [[spoiler:Play the game on Hard mode and you'll be treated to a boss fight to the game's actual BigBad, a destructive, malevolent entity only known as The End. During its fight, The End reveals it saw Sonic's mind as he traversed through Cyber Space, noting he fought machines and gods. It quickly dismisses them as finite and declares itself to be infinite and far worse than them.]]
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', we have [[NominalHero Kratos]] against the JerkassGods. Take your pick.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'': When [[spoiler: Princess Hilda]] reveals herself to be the mastermind behind the sage kidnappings and attempted theft of Hyrule's Triforce, albeit to [[WellIntentionedExtremist save Lorule from destruction]], she demands that [[BigBad Yuga]] give her the Triforce; instead, Yuga betrays her, revealing that he was playing her all along and plans to use the Triforce to remake Lorule in his own image.
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', the BigBad, Sir Grodus, is trying to unleash and take control of the [[SealedEvilInACan Shadow Queen]] so that he can take over the world. [[spoiler:He does his best to make this work, but she [[OffWithHisHead uses her powers to decapitate him]]- in the first place, he was a pawn of Beldam, one of his supposed minions]].
* ''VideoGame/PhysicalExorcismSeries'':
** ''VisualNovel/Case00TheCannibalBoy'': When Grete [[spoiler:feeds Hans to Brucie out of {{yandere}} spite, she didn't expect Brucie to immediately strangle her and eat her too]].
** ''VisualNovel/Case03TrueCannibalBoy'': Brucie proves to be the stronger [[spoiler:Cannibal Boy when he summons an army of assimilated evil spirits to eat the first Cannibal Boy's conglomerate of evil spirits, all while assimilating them in the process]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', you can become this if you are cunning enough yourself, [[spoiler: you can tell the [[ObviouslyEvil Beggar]] is an Abhorrent Beast in disguise by seeing him eating a corpse. Why deal with him on your own when you can [[ThrowEmToTheWolves send him to Iosefka's Clinic?]]]]
* ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'': [[spoiler: In the escape, Theodore's soul is the blackest and darkest among the thousands trapped in Limbo. [[AntiAntiChrist He rivals Satan.]] And complete with draconic head firing lasers and wings, he looks like a demon in his own right.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', the Dark Brotherhood versus the Morag Tong. Both are MurderInc, but the Morag Tong is [[ProfessionalKiller government-contracted and has a strict code of ethics]], while the Dark Brotherhood is comprised of PsychoForHire criminals who practice a ReligionOfEvil. Ditto, to a lesser degree, for the ThievesGuild and the Camonna Tong: the former has a strict code of ethics as well and favors clean, stealthy burglary and smooth talking, while the latter is made of [[TheSyndicate xenophobic thugs who just kill and plunder]].
* In ''VideoGame/MogekoCastle'', the Mogekos are rapists who are obsessed with high school girls. Moge-ko is aslo a rapist who is obsessed with high school girls, but torture and cannibalism as well. She also preys on the Mogekos.
* In ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', there's a clique of bullies, delinquents, an amoral InformationBroker who deals in {{panty shot}}s, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a substitute teacher in gross violation of occupational ethics]]. Yandere-chan can be worse than any of them. [[spoiler: And her mother is worse than ''her''.]]
* ''VideoGame/DoItForMe'': The "Psychopath" ending has [[spoiler:the VillainProtagonist]] mock and kill [[spoiler:his girlfriend]] for thinking [[spoiler:she]] was in control when [[spoiler:he killed the students of his own free will]]. Averted in the other endings, where [[spoiler:the girlfriend remains the BigBad and greater menace]].
* Dr. Neo Cortex is routinely usurped and mocked by the other villains for his failure to defeat ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot''. Played with however, since very often Cortex, in the end, manages to manipulate things in his favour and take over as top of the RoguesGallery again:
** Uka Uka, being the voodoo mask Aku Aku's evil twin, immediately made his presence known in ''Warped'' by making Cortex ''beg for mercy''. His role as BadBoss to him and the other villains remained throughout the series, though as Uka Uka himself became more and more buffoonish, he became more of a PointyHairedBoss, culminating in Cortex betraying and humiliating him as payback for his past abuse in ''Mind Over Mutant''.
** Said betrayal was pivoted by Uka Uka finally getting sick of Cortex's failures in ''Titans'' (along with foreshadowing signs of Cortex getting impudent around him), and replacing him with his own niece, Nina Cortex, whom both he and Aku Aku consider far eviler and smarter than Neo himself. Nina is inevitably defeated however, and Cortex, as punishment, ''literally'' boots her off to Evil Public School.
** The Evil Twins, former abused pets of Cortex who were mutated by their travels to the Tenth Dimension, return to Crash's dimension and decide to ''destroy the world'' as payback, along with messing with Cortex multiple times for petty kicks. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday When Cortex finally remembers who they are]], he and the Twins engage in what can be best described as a game of schoolyard bullying each other into submission, which, with Crash's help, Cortex finally wins, making the Twins retreat in fear.
** In ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'' Cortex is looked down upon by N. Tropy who betrays him after Cortex failed, yet again, to destroy Crash and Coco, with N. Tropy having [[OmnicidalManiac much more sinister plan]] in mind than Cortex. [[spoiler: After Cortex teaming up with them, Tawna and Dingodile they manage to defeat N. Tropy and his new associate, after which Cortex betrays Crash and co. only to be ultimately defeated by Team Bandicoots.]]
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** In ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' stages that feature both [[MadScientist Dr Dr. Eggman]] and [[AliensAreBastards Black Doom]] in ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'', Doom]], Eggman's missions are considered the "Hero" ones.
**''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'': [[spoiler:Play the game Play ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'' on Hard mode and you'll be treated to a [[spoiler:a boss fight to the game's actual BigBad, a destructive, malevolent entity only known as The End. During its fight, The End reveals it saw Sonic's mind as he traversed through Cyber Space, noting he fought machines and gods. It quickly dismisses them as finite and declares itself to be infinite and far worse than them.]]
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', we have [[NominalHero Kratos]] against the JerkassGods. Take your pick.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'': When [[spoiler: Princess Hilda]] reveals herself to be the mastermind behind the sage kidnappings and attempted theft of Hyrule's Triforce, albeit to [[WellIntentionedExtremist save Lorule from destruction]], she demands that [[BigBad Yuga]] give her the Triforce; instead, Yuga betrays her, revealing that he was playing her all along and plans to use the Triforce to remake Lorule in his own image.
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', the BigBad, Sir Grodus, is trying to unleash and take control of the [[SealedEvilInACan Shadow Queen]] so that he can take over the world. [[spoiler:He does his best to make this work, but she [[OffWithHisHead uses her powers to decapitate him]]- in the first place, he was a pawn of Beldam, one of his supposed minions]].
* ''VideoGame/PhysicalExorcismSeries'':
** ''VisualNovel/Case00TheCannibalBoy'': When Grete [[spoiler:feeds Hans to Brucie out of {{yandere}} spite, she didn't expect Brucie to immediately strangle her and eat her too]].
** ''VisualNovel/Case03TrueCannibalBoy'': Brucie proves to be the stronger [[spoiler:Cannibal Boy when he summons an army of assimilated evil spirits to eat the first Cannibal Boy's conglomerate of evil spirits, all while assimilating them in the process]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', you can become this if you are cunning enough yourself, [[spoiler: you can tell the [[ObviouslyEvil Beggar]] is an Abhorrent Beast in disguise by seeing him eating a corpse. Why deal with him on your own when you can [[ThrowEmToTheWolves send him to Iosefka's Clinic?]]]]
* ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'': [[spoiler: In the escape, Theodore's soul is the blackest and darkest among the thousands trapped in Limbo. [[AntiAntiChrist He rivals Satan.]] And complete with draconic head firing lasers and wings, he looks like a demon in his own right.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', the Dark Brotherhood versus the Morag Tong. Both are MurderInc, but the Morag Tong is [[ProfessionalKiller government-contracted and has a strict code of ethics]], while the Dark Brotherhood is comprised of PsychoForHire criminals who practice a ReligionOfEvil. Ditto, to a lesser degree, for the ThievesGuild and the Camonna Tong: the former has a strict code of ethics as well and favors clean, stealthy burglary and smooth talking, while the latter is made of [[TheSyndicate xenophobic thugs who just kill and plunder]].
* In ''VideoGame/MogekoCastle'', the Mogekos are rapists who are obsessed with high school girls. Moge-ko is aslo a rapist who is obsessed with high school girls, but torture and cannibalism as well. She also preys on the Mogekos.
* In ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', there's a clique of bullies, delinquents, an amoral InformationBroker who deals in {{panty shot}}s, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a substitute teacher in gross violation of occupational ethics]]. Yandere-chan can be worse than any of them. [[spoiler: And her mother is worse than ''her''.]]
* ''VideoGame/DoItForMe'': The "Psychopath" ending has [[spoiler:the VillainProtagonist]] mock and kill [[spoiler:his girlfriend]] for thinking [[spoiler:she]] was in control when [[spoiler:he killed the students of his own free will]]. Averted in the other endings, where [[spoiler:the girlfriend remains the BigBad and greater menace]].
* Dr. Neo Cortex is routinely usurped and mocked by the other villains for his failure to defeat ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot''. Played with however, since very often Cortex, in the end, manages to manipulate things in his favour and take over as top of the RoguesGallery again:
** Uka Uka, being the voodoo mask Aku Aku's evil twin, immediately made his presence known in ''Warped'' by making Cortex ''beg for mercy''. His role as BadBoss to him and the other villains remained throughout the series, though as Uka Uka himself became more and more buffoonish, he became more of a PointyHairedBoss, culminating in Cortex betraying and humiliating him as payback for his past abuse in ''Mind Over Mutant''.
** Said betrayal was pivoted by Uka Uka finally getting sick of Cortex's failures in ''Titans'' (along with foreshadowing signs of Cortex getting impudent around him), and replacing him with his own niece, Nina Cortex, whom both he and Aku Aku consider far eviler and smarter than Neo himself. Nina is inevitably defeated however, and Cortex, as punishment, ''literally'' boots her off to Evil Public School.
** The Evil Twins, former abused pets of Cortex who were mutated by their travels to the Tenth Dimension, return to Crash's dimension and decide to ''destroy the world'' as payback, along with messing with Cortex multiple times for petty kicks. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday When Cortex finally remembers who they are]], he and the Twins engage in what can be best described as a game of schoolyard bullying each other into submission, which, with Crash's help, Cortex finally wins, making the Twins retreat in fear.
** In ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'' Cortex is looked down upon by N. Tropy who betrays him after Cortex failed, yet again, to destroy Crash and Coco, with N. Tropy having [[OmnicidalManiac much more sinister plan]] in mind than Cortex. [[spoiler: After Cortex teaming up with them, Tawna and Dingodile they manage to defeat N. Tropy and his new associate, after which Cortex betrays Crash and co. only to be ultimately defeated by Team Bandicoots.]]them]].
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* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', we have [[NominalHero Kratos]] against the JerkassGods. Take your pick.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'': When [[spoiler: Princess Hilda]] reveals herself to be the mastermind behind the sage kidnappings and attempted theft of Hyrule's Triforce, albeit to [[WellIntentionedExtremist save Lorule from destruction]], she demands that [[BigBad Yuga]] give her the Triforce; instead, Yuga betrays her, revealing that he was playing her all along and plans to use the Triforce to remake Lorule in his own image.
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', the BigBad, Sir Grodus, is trying to unleash and take control of the [[SealedEvilInACan Shadow Queen]] so that he can take over the world. [[spoiler:He does his best to make this work, but she [[OffWithHisHead uses her powers to decapitate him]]- in the first place, he was a pawn of Beldam, one of his supposed minions]].
* ''VideoGame/PhysicalExorcismSeries'':
** ''VisualNovel/Case00TheCannibalBoy'': When Grete [[spoiler:feeds Hans to Brucie out of {{yandere}} spite, she didn't expect Brucie to immediately strangle her and eat her too]].
** ''VisualNovel/Case03TrueCannibalBoy'': Brucie proves to be the stronger [[spoiler:Cannibal Boy when he summons an army of assimilated evil spirits to eat the first Cannibal Boy's conglomerate of evil spirits, all while assimilating them in the process]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', you can become this if you are cunning enough yourself, [[spoiler: you can tell the [[ObviouslyEvil Beggar]] is an Abhorrent Beast in disguise by seeing him eating a corpse. Why deal with him on your own when you can [[ThrowEmToTheWolves send him to Iosefka's Clinic?]]]]
* ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'': [[spoiler: In the escape, Theodore's soul is the blackest and darkest among the thousands trapped in Limbo. [[AntiAntiChrist He rivals Satan.]] And complete with draconic head firing lasers and wings, he looks like a demon in his own right.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', the Dark Brotherhood versus the Morag Tong. Both are MurderInc, but the Morag Tong is [[ProfessionalKiller government-contracted and has a strict code of ethics]], while the Dark Brotherhood is comprised of PsychoForHire criminals who practice a ReligionOfEvil. Ditto, to a lesser degree, for the ThievesGuild and the Camonna Tong: the former has a strict code of ethics as well and favors clean, stealthy burglary and smooth talking, while the latter is made of [[TheSyndicate xenophobic thugs who just kill and plunder]].
* In ''VideoGame/MogekoCastle'', the Mogekos are rapists who are obsessed with high school girls. Moge-ko is aslo a rapist who is obsessed with high school girls, but torture and cannibalism as well. She also preys on the Mogekos.
* In ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', there's a clique of bullies, delinquents, an amoral InformationBroker who deals in {{panty shot}}s, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a substitute teacher in gross violation of occupational ethics]]. Yandere-chan can be worse than any of them. [[spoiler: And her mother is worse than ''her''.]]
* ''VideoGame/DoItForMe'': The "Psychopath" ending has [[spoiler:the VillainProtagonist]] mock and kill [[spoiler:his girlfriend]] for thinking [[spoiler:she]] was in control when [[spoiler:he killed the students of his own free will]]. Averted in the other endings, where [[spoiler:the girlfriend remains the BigBad and greater menace]].
* Dr. Neo Cortex is routinely usurped and mocked by the other villains for his failure to defeat ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot''. Played with however, since very often Cortex, in the end, manages to manipulate things in his favour and take over as top of the RoguesGallery again:
** Uka Uka, being the voodoo mask Aku Aku's evil twin, immediately made his presence known in ''Warped'' by making Cortex ''beg for mercy''. His role as BadBoss to him and the other villains remained throughout the series, though as Uka Uka himself became more and more buffoonish, he became more of a PointyHairedBoss, culminating in Cortex betraying and humiliating him as payback for his past abuse in ''Mind Over Mutant''.
** Said betrayal was pivoted by Uka Uka finally getting sick of Cortex's failures in ''Titans'' (along with foreshadowing signs of Cortex getting impudent around him), and replacing him with his own niece, Nina Cortex, whom both he and Aku Aku consider far eviler and smarter than Neo himself. Nina is inevitably defeated however, and Cortex, as punishment, ''literally'' boots her off to Evil Public School.
** The Evil Twins, former abused pets of Cortex who were mutated by their travels to the Tenth Dimension, return to Crash's dimension and decide to ''destroy the world'' as payback, along with messing with Cortex multiple times for petty kicks. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday When Cortex finally remembers who they are]], he and the Twins engage in what can be best described as a game of schoolyard bullying each other into submission, which, with Crash's help, Cortex finally wins, making the Twins retreat in fear.
** In ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'' Cortex is looked down upon by N. Tropy who betrays him after Cortex failed, yet again, to destroy Crash and Coco, with N. Tropy having [[OmnicidalManiac much more sinister plan]] in mind than Cortex. [[spoiler: After Cortex teaming up with them, Tawna and Dingodile they manage to defeat N. Tropy and his new associate, after which Cortex betrays Crash and co. only to be ultimately defeated by Team Bandicoots.]]
* ''VideoGame/StarControl'':
** The villains of the series are the two races of Ur-Quan: the green Kzer-Za, who swept around one half of the galaxy ''enslaving every living thing'' (with the ultimate intention of sealing them on their respective homeworlds in impenetrable bubbles; they would also allow relative freedom if your race agreed to serve them as battle thralls), and the black Kohr-Ah, who swept around the galaxy ''killing every living thing''. Once both met at the opposite end of the galaxy, they were both going to fight it out to decide whose approach is "better". Even better yet, both approaches are supposed to be '''for the citizens' own good'''. The Ur-Quan were originally part of [[TheFederation the Sentient Milieu]], which accidentally stumbled upon the evilest species ever, the Dnyarri, telepaths so powerful that a single individual could utterly dominate the minds of a solar system. The Ur-Quan barely managed to free themselves from the Dnyarri's control by a fluke and destroy them after millennia of the most horrible abuse imaginable. While both Ur-Quan are ''extremely'' paranoid after said horrible abuse, the Kzer-Za don't want to kill everything, deciding that universal enslavement was enough to ensure that nobody could ever enslave the Ur-Quan, or anyone else, again. (That sounds strange, but the Kzer-Za see themselves as fair masters and usually do not permit their subjects to harm each other. Compared to every other "bad guy" race in the game, and some of your allies, they seemed downright beneficent.) The Kohr-Ah just have a few screws loose, and outright state that, since they believe in reincarnation, by killing every non-Ur-Quan race in the galaxy, they are '''doing them a favor''' by giving them a chance to be reborn as Ur-Quan.
** A rare example of a mediocre villain invoking much more disgust and ire than the major one; unlike the Ur-Quan, who retain a strict code of honor despite their omnicidal/totalitarian tendencies and have thorough and near-commiserable motivation, the Druuge are nothing but greedy heartless dregs.
* In ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', this is ''one'' possible AlternateCharacterInterpretation for the relationship between [[spoiler:the Overmind]] and [[spoiler:the Fallen One]] (the other possibility being a case of GoodAllAlong). Thus far we've only been given teases about it being a future plotline, but what is known is that the latter tried to use the former for his own ends, and the former pulled off a ThanatosGambit to stop him.
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** If you choose to [[KarmaMeter go Dark]], ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' ends with the Sith Lord [[spoiler:Revan]] facing off against [[spoiler:his old apprentice]] Malak, whereas ''[[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords KotOR 2]]'' has the evil Sith Lord Jedi Exile (again, if you decide to go that way) fighting Darth Traya -- [[spoiler:formerly known as Kreia- in the ruins of the world she destroyed ''in the backstory'' to prove there's nothing more she can teach her]].
** Strangely, while it does have Dark and Light endings, ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' plays this straight ''both ways''. [[spoiler:The Dark Side Starkiller ultimately proves eviler than Darth Vader, but then the Emperor ends up being eviler than them. Though ultimately, as the expanded WhatIf Dark Side storyline is to be believed, Starkiller manages to one up the Emperor and Vader by corrupting Luke Skywalker, something that the other two never managed in the real timeline.]]
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'': [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]]]] is this to both [[LightIsNotGood Galeem]] and [[DarkIsEvil Dharkon]] in his Fighter reveal trailer, [[spoiler:destroying Galeem, who [[TheWorfEffect worfed]] the entire ''Smash Bros.'' cast pre-DLC sans Franchise/{{Kirby}}, in one slash]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'':
** [[spoiler:[[DirtyCoward Flowey]]]] pulls this on [[spoiler:[[WellIntentionedExtremist Asgore]]]] when he's both at his weakest and while he's [[spoiler:in the midst of a HeelFaceTurn]].
** This also [[spoiler:happens to Flowey himself during the No Mercy route, though whether the culprit was [[HumanoidAbomination Frisk]], [[EldritchAbomination the player]] or [[CreepyChild Chara]] is entirely up to speculation]].
** The villains of the series are the two races of Ur-Quan: the green Kzer-Za, who swept around one half of the galaxy ''enslaving every living thing'' (with the ultimate intention of sealing them on their respective homeworlds in impenetrable bubbles; they would also allow relative freedom if your race agreed to serve them as battle thralls), and the black Kohr-Ah, who swept around the galaxy ''killing every living thing''. Once both met at the opposite end of the galaxy, they were both going to fight it out to decide whose approach is "better". Even better yet, both approaches are supposed to be '''for the citizens' own good'''. The Ur-Quan were originally part of [[TheFederation the Sentient Milieu]], which accidentally stumbled upon the evilest species ever, the Dnyarri, telepaths so powerful that a single individual could utterly dominate the minds of a solar system. The Ur-Quan barely managed to free themselves from the Dnyarri's control by a fluke and destroy them after millennia of the most horrible abuse imaginable. While both Ur-Quan are ''extremely'' paranoid after said horrible abuse, the Kzer-Za don't want to kill everything, deciding that universal enslavement was enough to ensure that nobody could ever enslave the Ur-Quan, or anyone else, again. (That sounds strange, but the Kzer-Za see themselves as fair masters and usually do not permit their subjects to harm each other. Compared to every other "bad guy" race in the game, and some of your allies, they seemed downright beneficent.) The Kohr-Ah just have a few screws loose, and outright state that, since they believe in reincarnation, by killing every non-Ur-Quan race in the galaxy, they are '''doing them a favor''' by giving them a chance to be reborn as Ur-Quan.
** A rare example of a mediocre villain invoking much more disgust and ire than the major one; unlike the Ur-Quan, who retain a strict code of honor despite their omnicidal/totalitarian tendencies and have thorough and near-commiserable motivation, the Druuge are nothing but greedy heartless dregs.
* In ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', this is ''one'' possible AlternateCharacterInterpretation for the relationship between [[spoiler:the Overmind]] and [[spoiler:the Fallen One]] (the other possibility being a case of GoodAllAlong). Thus far we've only been given teases about it being a future plotline, but what is known is that the latter tried to use the former for his own ends, and the former pulled off a ThanatosGambit to stop him.
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** If you choose to [[KarmaMeter go Dark]], ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' ends with the Sith Lord [[spoiler:Revan]] facing off against [[spoiler:his old apprentice]] Malak, whereas ''[[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords KotOR 2]]'' has the evil Sith Lord Jedi Exile (again, if you decide to go that way) fighting Darth Traya -- [[spoiler:formerly known as Kreia- in the ruins of the world she destroyed ''in the backstory'' to prove there's nothing more she can teach her]].
** Strangely, while it does have Dark and Light endings, ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' plays this straight ''both ways''. [[spoiler:The Dark Side Starkiller ultimately proves eviler than Darth Vader, but then the Emperor ends up being eviler than them. Though ultimately, as the expanded WhatIf Dark Side storyline is to be believed, Starkiller manages to one up the Emperor and Vader by corrupting Luke Skywalker, something that the other two never managed in the real timeline.]]
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'': [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]]]] is this to both [[LightIsNotGood Galeem]] and [[DarkIsEvil Dharkon]] in his Fighter reveal trailer, [[spoiler:destroying Galeem, who [[TheWorfEffect worfed]] the entire ''Smash Bros.'' cast pre-DLC sans Franchise/{{Kirby}}, in one slash]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'':
** [[spoiler:[[DirtyCoward Flowey]]]] pulls this on [[spoiler:[[WellIntentionedExtremist Asgore]]]] when he's both at his weakest and while he's [[spoiler:in the midst of a HeelFaceTurn]].
** This also [[spoiler:happens to Flowey himself during the No Mercy route, though whether the culprit was [[HumanoidAbomination Frisk]], [[EldritchAbomination the player]] or [[CreepyChild Chara]] is entirely up to speculation]].
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* ''VideoGame/AmericanMcgeesGrimm'': Grimm despises SugarBowl fairy tales and his objective is going in to corrupt them to the DarkerAndEdgier versions they used to be. This extends to the villains of the stories when he thinks their plans and actions make no sense or are petty at best. At one point he even goes after ''Satan'' for his ridiculous plan.
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': [[Characters/MortalKombatShangTsung Shang Tsung]] is a [[YourSoulIsMine soul-collecting]] sorcerer who is define by his pathological tendency to betray anyone who he sees as stepping stones to his goals once all is said and done, overshadowing his former boss Shao Kahn and even [[spoiler:Kronika]], whom she deemed to be extremely dangerous to be kept alive and is appalled by how low he can go betraying anyone to no end until he has nothing left to betray.
* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'': Many, many evil characters show up throughout the course of the game, and they perpetually outshine one another in their evil, starting with Yomi Hellsmile, who is easily more cruel than any other criminal in Kanai Ward due to being a [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans psychotic despot]] willing to kill anyone who isn't of any use to him, all the way to [[spoiler:Makoto Kagutsuchi, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the CEO of Amaterasu Corporation]], who is easily much more evil than anyone else in the game due to his willingness to manipulate entire cities, corporations, and the government itself to do his bidding, all while seeing himself as the good guy in that scenario, though the fact that he's willing to do all of that in the first place is no thanks to Yomi's excessive despotism over Kanai Ward. Makoto may indeed [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feel genuine remorse]] following all of his misdeeds, and undergoes a HeelFaceTurn, but it does not downplay how outright evil he is as the game's BigBad.]]
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': [[Characters/MortalKombatShangTsung Shang Tsung]] is a [[YourSoulIsMine soul-collecting]] sorcerer who is define by his pathological tendency to betray anyone who he sees as stepping stones to his goals once all is said and done, overshadowing his former boss Shao Kahn and even [[spoiler:Kronika]], whom she deemed to be extremely dangerous to be kept alive and is appalled by how low he can go betraying anyone to no end until he has nothing left to betray.
* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'': Many, many evil characters show up throughout the course of the game, and they perpetually outshine one another in their evil, starting with Yomi Hellsmile, who is easily more cruel than any other criminal in Kanai Ward due to being a [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans psychotic despot]] willing to kill anyone who isn't of any use to him, all the way to [[spoiler:Makoto Kagutsuchi, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the CEO of Amaterasu Corporation]], who is easily much more evil than anyone else in the game due to his willingness to manipulate entire cities, corporations, and the government itself to do his bidding, all while seeing himself as the good guy in that scenario, though the fact that he's willing to do all of that in the first place is no thanks to Yomi's excessive despotism over Kanai Ward. Makoto may indeed [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feel genuine remorse]] following all of his misdeeds, and undergoes a HeelFaceTurn, but it does not downplay how outright evil he is as the game's BigBad.]]
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* ''VideoGame/AmericanMcgeesGrimm'': Grimm despises SugarBowl fairy tales In ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', there's a clique of bullies, delinquents, an amoral InformationBroker who deals in {{panty shot}}s, and his objective is going [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a substitute teacher in to corrupt them to the DarkerAndEdgier versions they used to be. This extends to the villains gross violation of the stories when he thinks their plans and actions make no sense or are petty at best. At one point he even goes after ''Satan'' for his ridiculous plan.
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': [[Characters/MortalKombatShangTsung Shang Tsung]] is a [[YourSoulIsMine soul-collecting]] sorcerer who is define by his pathological tendency to betray anyone who he sees as stepping stones to his goals once all is said and done, overshadowing his former boss Shao Kahn and even [[spoiler:Kronika]], whom she deemed to be extremely dangerous to be kept alive and is appalled by how low heoccupational ethics]]. Yandere-chan can go betraying anyone to no end until he has nothing left to betray.
* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'': Many, many evil characters show up throughout the course of the game, and they perpetually outshine one another in their evil, starting with Yomi Hellsmile, who is easily more cruelbe worse than any other criminal in Kanai Ward due to being a [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans psychotic despot]] willing to kill anyone who isn't of any use to him, all the way to [[spoiler:Makoto Kagutsuchi, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the CEO of Amaterasu Corporation]], who them... [[spoiler:and her mother is easily much more evil worse than anyone else in the game due to his willingness to manipulate entire cities, corporations, and the government itself to do his bidding, all while seeing himself as the good guy in that scenario, though the fact that he's willing to do all of that in the first place is no thanks to Yomi's excessive despotism over Kanai Ward. Makoto may indeed [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feel genuine remorse]] following all of his misdeeds, and undergoes a HeelFaceTurn, but it does not downplay how outright evil he is as the game's BigBad.]]''her'']].
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': [[Characters/MortalKombatShangTsung Shang Tsung]] is a [[YourSoulIsMine soul-collecting]] sorcerer who is define by his pathological tendency to betray anyone who he sees as stepping stones to his goals once all is said and done, overshadowing his former boss Shao Kahn and even [[spoiler:Kronika]], whom she deemed to be extremely dangerous to be kept alive and is appalled by how low he
* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'': Many, many evil characters show up throughout the course of the game, and they perpetually outshine one another in their evil, starting with Yomi Hellsmile, who is easily more cruel
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* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', we have ChaoticEvil [[NominalHero Kratos]] against the LawfulEvil JerkassGods. Take your pick.
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* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', we have ChaoticEvil [[NominalHero Kratos]] against the LawfulEvil JerkassGods. Take your pick.
