History HateSink / VideoGames

* ''HateSink/Hitman''

* ''Hate Sink/Hitman''

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* In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'', the BigBad is the King of Shadows, a being of pure dark energy who commands armies of TheUndead and is driven to annihilate anyone who gets in his way. However, he doesn't put in an appearance until the very end of the game, and by then [[spoiler:you've been told about his [[TragicVillain sad, sad origin story]] -- that of an ordinary man who allowed himself to be turned into a creature of pure magic to protect his homeland and still believes he's protecting it even though it's been gone for thousands of years, and]] most players [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds feel sorry for him]]. Instead, most of the vitriol is directed towards his [[TheDragon Dragon]], [[BigBadWannabe Black Garius]]. Although more relevant to the overarching storyline than his master, Garius mostly shows up in occasional cutscenes to vaguely foreshadow the next threat the player faces, treat his underlings like dirt, or describe his plot to [[TheStarscream usurp the King of Shadows]] and gain ever more power. His underling [[AssInAmbassador Torio Claven]] also draws a lot of hatred due to the part she plays in {{fram|eup}}ing the player for the slaughter of the village of Ember as the prosecutor in the player's trial on top of her [[{{Jerkass}} abrasive]] and [[SmugSnake infuriatingly smug]] demeanour during the whole affair. However, even she can get some respect; you can save her from execution later in the game to work for you as a talent-spotter for followers to recruit for your new fortress Crossroad Keep, after which she seemingly pulls off a genuine HeelFaceTurn in the epilogue. By contrast, Garius's repeated appearances simply show him getting more and more despicable with every passing moment, and he has no redeeming features whatsoever. It's implied that {{even| evil has standards}} TokenEvilTeammate Bishop thinks he's a worthless cur.
* ''VideoGame/NieR'': While the Shades', [[spoiler:or Gestalts]], characterization is revealed [[spoiler:to be more complicated than it first seemed, revealing they were the original humans and many of them aren't really as evil as the protagonists thought, Hook seems to be the only exception. While most of the Shades have either regressed to a mindless state or are actually fighting for their survival and to protect their companions, Hook instead seems to attack others out of sadism. It's murder of Kaine's grandmother as well as imitating her voice to torment Kaine is [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom what leads her to stop trusting Shades enough to try and translate the Shades' speech and mediating a preventable conflict that would've saved both Replicants and Gestalts, and by extension, the human race]].]]
* ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni'':
** ''Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch'' doesn't really have any true villains since its antagonists, Shadar and the White Witch, are revealed to be {{Tragic Villain}}s and WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds that have been pushed beyond the DespairEventHorizon from the trauma they suffered. However, there are some notably big exceptions in the form of the the appropriately named Vileheart[[note]]Who has no characterization beyond being just detestable and evil[[/note]], [[spoiler:the Kingdom of Belicosia[[note]]A corrupt kingdom that sought to destroy anything they deemed a potential threat, including Sages, to the point where they're willing to massacre innocent civilians. They punished Lucien for refusing to engage with the enemy and letting the daughter of a Sage escape by burning down his home village and torturing him, making them the biggest reason he fell into despair and became Shadar. Belicosia was so corrupt and war-mongering that Gallus, who was secretly helping the heroes put a stop to Shadar and the White Witch, doesn't hold it against the former for destroying it, stating they deserved that fate.[[/note]] and most notably, the Council of Twelve, reborn in Cassiopeia's imagination as the Zodiarchy[[note]]The original council secretly caused the Wizard King's death so they could rule Nazcaa as despots, driving the kingdom to ruin while having his daughter, Cassiopeia, take all the blame as their puppet ruler. This in turn ends up causing Cassiopeia to cast the Forbidden Spell of Manna in an attempt to help her civillians, destroying the entire kingdom and leaving her all alone. Even after their death, their evil was so great it left a scar on Cassiopeia's psyche, transforming her into the White Witch and allowing them to be reborn as the Zodiarchs.[[/note]]]].
** ''VideoGame/NiNoKuniIIRevenantKingdom'' has Vermine, who sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned antagonists]]. [[spoiler:Mausinger wanted to free his own mousekind race from oppression, real or perceived, Pugnacious wanted to lift Goldpaw out of poverty, Nerea's draconic laws were enacted to prevent the destruction of Hydropolis, Zip Vector's reactor would have benefited Broadleaf, and Doloran wanted to restore his kingdom and his beloved kingmaker at any cost. Vermine wanted to seize the kingdom of Ding Dong Dell for himself, making his goal the only entirely selfish motivation in the game. He's also the only character who never repents for his evil actions. Granted, Doloran didn't give him much of a chance to.]]
* The ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'' game ''Advance Wars: Days of Ruin'' has [[MayorPain the mayor of Freehaven]]. Pretty much every interaction you have with the guy is him making ridiculous and immoral demands, a character explaining why those ridiculous demands are a terrible idea, and the mayor trying to disprove it with blatant bad-faith appeals and InsaneTrollLogic, before just falling back on his authority and demanding you do it anyway. He's incredibly self-centered and [[SmugSnake transparently manipulative]], while also treating himself as the instrument of the people's will and above the main characters because [[StrawCivilian he's not a soldier]]. The end of the first act, where his people finally vote against his will, is ''very'' satisfying -- as is his KarmicDeath at the hands of the main villain, where [[TooDumbToLive he decides to take a mysterious substance]] given to him by a MadScientist who [[BlatantLies told him it was an antidote]] to the plague and that taking it would not leave enough for his town. Predictably, it doesn't go well for him.
* ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'' has several dastardly villains that stand out among the cast as deplorable:
** Ophilia Clement's story: [[NoNameGiven Mystery Man and Shady Figure]] are two followers of a dark {{cult}} operating within Orsterra that worships the local GodOfEvil, that appear as the villains of Chapter 3. [[WouldHurtAChild They kidnap the young daughter]] of Goldshore's bishop, Donovan, and send a threatening letter to her father giving him an ultimatum: take the Ember from the Flamebearer (Ophilia) or they will murder his daughter. Later dialogue between the two reveals that [[ILied they were planning to murder Donovan and his daughter, Lysa, whether he brought them the Ember or not]]. Along with the ArcVillain of Ophilia's story, [[spoiler:[[DarkMessiah Mattias]]]], Mystery Man and Shady Figure are the only ones who succeed in making [[FriendToAllChildren Ophilia]] genuinely angry. Unlike [[spoiler:Mattias]], they have no sympathetic backstory explaining how they came to become so depraved.
** Tressa Colzione's story: While not among the most evil characters in the game, Morlock, the ArcVillain of Chapter 2, is a greedy, immoral landowner in Quarrycrest who uses his powerful position to claim ownership over any and all riches his miners dig up, then pays them only a small fraction of their value without his miners' knowledge. When Tressa's rival Ali tries standing up to him--having figured out his scheme--Morlock has his bodyguard Omar knock him unconscious and kidnaps him to his manor. Later, Morlock [[KickTheDog heartlessly mocks Ali's father]] in front of him and Tressa for being deceived by his own friend and falling into debt. This is when Tressa has had enough and delivers an incredibly satisfying TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Morlock before taking down his bodyguard Omar, forcing them both to flee Quarrycrest.
** Primrose Azelhart's story:
*** Helgenish is easily the most repulsive of all the {{Starter Villain}}s, and even manages to be one of the most repulsive antagonists in the ''entire game''. He is an [[BadBoss abusive tavern-owner]] who treats the dancers in his employment like slaves, who took Primrose in after her father's murder and the fall of her House while working with one of the men responsible. He's extremely cruel to all the dancers under his eye, Primrose included, regularly subjecting them to humiliation for the slightest disobedience, real or perceived, while simultaneously [[{{Narcissist}} thinking of himself as an amazing man whom nobody else has any right to not appreciate]]. [[spoiler:He tortures Yusufa, Primrose's OnlyFriend during her days in the tavern, for information on Primrose's whereabouts after she sneaks out in pursuit of Rufus, then [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished coldly murders her in front of Primrose]]]]. Fortunately, Primrose (and the player) soon get the satisfaction of beating him into the ground, then delivering a KarmicDeath to the bastard as he spins around in agony before expiring.
---->'''Primrose:''' [[BondOneLiner Quite the dancer yourself in the end.]]
*** Rufus, the ArcVillain of Chapter 2 and one of the Crow Men responsible for killing Primrose's father, is the head of a [[HumanTraffickers sex trafficking]] operation. He hands out kidnapped women to rich and powerful clients, and is seen giving a woman to an incestuous priest while keeping a captive harem for himself.
*** [[spoiler:Albus]], the ArcVillain of Chapter 3, was Captain of the city watch in Noblecourt and a friend of Geoffrey Azelhart and Revello Forsythe, who was his second-in-command. [[spoiler:However, Albus was secretly [[EvilPaysBetter frustrated that his honour wasn't earning him as much money as he would have liked]], and eventually decided to [[FaceHeelTurn switch sides to the game's criminal organization]], [[TheSyndicate the Obsidians]], in secret. [[EvilFormerFriend Albus participated in Geoffrey's murder]], then [[FakingTheDead faked his death]], tricking Noblecourt's residents including Forsythe into believing he had died with honour resisting the Obsidians. In the present day, Primrose infiltrates his hideout in Noblecourt accompanied by Forsythe, [[BrokenPedestal who is left broken]] by TheReveal that the man he admired as just and honourable was a traitor all along. Albus' "Money over Honour" motivation [[EvilIsPetty falls flat]], and then he decides it's a good idea to [[SpeakIllOfTheDead insult the deceased Geoffrey]] [[MockingTheMourner in front of both of them]], claiming that [[BlatantLies he took no action in the name of his beliefs]] and that his death proves "what the faith of a fool is worth". By this point, Primrose, Forsythe and the player are all sick of him. No tears are shed when Primrose fights him to the death.]]
** Alfyn Greengrass' story: [[spoiler:Miguel "Twinspears"]] is the boss of Chapter 3 and is the ArcVillain of the second half of Alfyn's story. [[spoiler:An unrepentant thief and murderer, Miguel fakes remorse for his deeds to Alfyn when the latter finds him wounded, tricking him into healing his wounds. He then [[UngratefulBastard wastes no time going back to his bandit ways]], kidnapping a child from the nearby town to hold for ransom and [[WouldHurtAChild wounding him]] because [[DisproportionateRetribution he was annoyed by his crying]]. This convinces Alfyn that Miguel is BeyondRedemption. It's a testament to what a horrible man Miguel is that he's the only chapter boss that the compassionate Alfyn [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness kills]], whereas every other antagonist in his story survives. The entire incident leaves Alfyn with a morality crisis of being an apothecary during much of his Chapter 4.]]
** Therion's story: [[spoiler:Darius]] is revealed to be the primary ArcVillain and a treacherous slimeball. [[spoiler:A former friend and partner-in-crime of Therion's, their friendship eventually became strained when Darius became frustrated with Therion's independent thinking and [[GreenEyedMonster better thieving skills]], and [[EvilFormerFriend he eventually betrays and tries to murder Therion]] to gain a higher position in the Ciannos, traumatizing Therion and causing his loss of faith in trust. Darius shows [[LackOfEmpathy no remorse]] for what he's done to Therion, actively [[EvilGloating gloating]] about the number of people he's betrayed over the years in his [[{{Greed}} conquest for wealth and power]]. Darius is [[BadBoss abusive towards his own minions and couldn't care less about them]], which comes back to bite him when [[KarmicDeath his remaining minions betray him, take all his money and leave him for dead]] when he's [[AssholeVictim weakened following his battle against Therion]]. The "Sorrow" track that plays from after said battle to his final moments is more about Therion's bitter acceptance that Darius is BeyondRedemption than eliciting sympathy for his KarmicDeath.]]
* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'':
** Throné Anguis' story: [[spoiler:Mother]] not only abuses the members of Blacksnakes, [[WouldHurtAChild including children]], sometimes for no apparent reason, she also tricks the members of Blacksnakes to frame and kill each other. Unlike [[spoiler:Father]] who has a tragic background story and a FreudianExcuse, there isn't anything positive about [[spoiler:Mother]], and the only person who "likes" her is Mira who is brainwashed by her.
*** From the same story, [[spoiler:Claude is one of the most vile antagonists in any ''Octopath Traveler'' game. His multiple atrocious actions include fathering multiple children such as Mother, Father, and even Throné herself, to watch them kill each other and be subjected to inhumane cruelty, stealing Marietta away from Father so he could have her for himself, and it's implied he raped of many women to further his goals. He shows no remorse and takes sadistic pleasure in the suffering of his children, not caring at all of the cruelty they endure, and treating them as nothing more than pawns for his own ego. He also serves as the GreaterScopeVillain of Castti's story, being the one who drove [[FallenHero Trousseau]] mad to begin with.]]
** Osvald V. Vanstein's story: [[spoiler:Harvey]] is easily one of the darkest villains in the game and possibly in the entire series, since he combines the jealousy and treachery of Darius, the obsessive sadism of Simeon, and the callous pursuit of knowledge of Lucia, all in one nasty package.. He only works with Osvald in order to [[spoiler: reach his family with the Lumina bloodline and use them to create the Book of Demons for the Moonshade Order, as well as learning the One True Magic]]. After that, he [[spoiler: kidnaps his family, fakes their death, and frames Osvald with a life sentence just to torment him more.]] It says a lot when even one of the overarching villains [[spoiler:whose goal is to destroy the world]] is disgusted by his actions and wishes to keep [[spoiler:her]] distance from him as far as possible. He's so bad that [[EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes Partitio of all people]] will actually support Osvald's goal of revenge in a travel banter.
*** Given that he helped Harvey ruin Osvald's life purely out of greed and that talking to the citizens reveals that nobody had anything nice to say about him, it's made clear that Captain Stenvar is not meant to be likable in the slightest.
** The GreaterScopeVillain themselves is not to be understated: [[spoiler:There is not a single scrap of good in Arcanette (the real identity of Mindt)'s body. Even if the stated purpose of the Moonshade Order is to "save" everyone by destroying the world so no one has to feel any negative emotions anymore, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Arcanette merely gives lip service to these ideals in order to justify her sadism]]. She is either directly or indirectly involved with the deaths of most of Temenos' allies, played the long game with Kaldena to ensure the poor woman would fall off the deep end and do most of Arcanette's job for her in the name of 'justice', worked with an immortal eugenicist serial rapist and a depraved egotist without batting an eye, seduced Tanzy when she was most emotionally vunerable to compel her to do Arcanette's every whim before ultimately sacrificing Tanzy to Vide, and has the gall to taunt Temenos over all he's lost. Her death is only played as a tragedy because it happens as the Order's plan is in full swing and she's already done so much wrong in the world.]]
* As subjective as most of the game is, ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' does have one character meant to be hated by everyone: Dedan, the JerkAss guardian of Zone 1 who is only ever seen either pushing his workers around or threatening to kill someone. [[spoiler:While he's in said zone, at least. Subverted later on when we learn he used to be much kinder.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Onimusha}}'' series, it is a little hard to find a specific HateSink when your opposition is the Genma, basically a race of {{Card Carrying Villain}}s supreme who delight in soul-consuming and eating humans [[EvilCannotComprehendGood with the concept of kindness completely alien to them]] [[AlwaysChaoticEvil because it's in their nature]], [[GodIsEvil right down to their creator]], and any historical figure [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade receiving great villain upgrade to unprecedented brutality]] because they get near the race. However, [[UsefulNotes/YagyuJubei Yagyu Munenori]] is basically the one character you can outright hate. The first source of hatred is that he is a traitorous son of the Yagyu clan that was built up by [[VideoGame/Onimusha2SamuraisDestiny the second game's]] protagonist Yagyu Jubei (Sekishusai) that aligned with the Genma because he's just power hungry. Then there's his actions, being a smug, petty {{Jerkass}} that constantly harrasses not only his enemies, but also his allies that have decency, like Ohatsu. Topping it all off, eventually the playable Jubei, Akane, reminds him that he's alive because his mother sacrificed her own eye so he could live on. Munenori suddenly has a rather overdramatic HeelRealization... only to suddenly reveal while laughing that [[ILied he was just faking it]], [[EvilFeelsGood he actually likes being evil]] and [[UngratefulBastard doesn't give a damn about his mother's sacrifice]]. It shows that to be designed for hatred, one doesn't always have to eat babies or possess some sort of God complex against humans. And finally, even going a little meta, he is basically one of the worst cases of HistoricalVillainUpgrade that the franchise uses, all he shares with the historical Yagyu Munenori being that he's good with the sword and comes from the Yagyu family; he doesn't even have any political inclinations like the historical Yagyu Munenori (and one of the big reasons why he's often vilified)[[note]]The eyepatch thing was popularized by the most famous Jubei and his son, Mitsuyoshi, not Munenori himself[[/note]], making him very much InNameOnly unlike other historical figures and almost like a disgrace to the historical figure himself. Capcom probably wanted to capitalize on the practice of vilifying Munenori, only for them to [[GoneHorriblyRight get it a bit too right on the mark]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}'':
** The first game:
*** [[SmugSnake Jeremy]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Blaire]] from the ''Whistleblower'' DLC. On Blaire's orders, the patients, many who came seeking genuine mental help, are [[MindRape psychologically tortured to the point of insanity]] to be used as test subjects in the [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Morphogenic Engine]]. While most inevitably die, a marginal few were successful enough to serve as hosts of [[OurGhostsAreDifferent the Walrider]], which Murkoff sought to use as a weapon. Despite the catastrophic effect the process has on women, Blaire also sought to use them as test subjects to increase profits. He is also shown to be willing to use potential leaks such as [[PlayerCharacter Waylon Park]] as test subjects to silence them. During the events of the game, Blaire does everything in his power to ensure that no one escapes the asylum alive except for himself to ensure that he and his fellow executives can escape justice. Never shown to be regretful like Dr. Rudolf Wernicke, [[GreaterScopeVillain Jeremy Blaire]] can be held responsible for every atrocity and act of horror committed, and all to satisfy his insatiable {{Greed}}.
*** [[MadDoctor Rick Trager.]] Before he was put into the Morphogenic Engine, Trager was an executive at Murkoff who [[DateRape raped a female underling named Michelle]] before [[AttemptedRape trying to do the same thing]] to a mitigation officer named Pauline. Like [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Jeremy Blaire]], Trager had people who weren't even sick involuntarily submitted to forced confinement and discovered that an orderly named David Annapurna threatened to contact the press and tell the world about Murkoff abusing their patients, having him processed as mentally unstable in a similar fashion to Waylon Park. During the outbreak at Mount Massive Asylum, Trager kidnaps and exacts ColdBloodedTorture via amputation of fingers, testicles, and tongue upon anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path, chopping off two of Miles Upshur's fingers and trying to kill him once he escapes. Never shown to be a WellIntentionedExtremist like Chris Walker or a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds with a DarkAndTroubledPast like Eddie Gluskin, this Variant has no excuse for his actions. He's just an AxCrazy Hate Sink who tortures and rapes people for his own sadistic pleasure, even ''[[Webcomic/OutlastTheMurkoffAccount before]]'' [[Webcomic/OutlastTheMurkoffAccount the outbreak]].
** ''VideoGame/OutlastII'': Father Loutermilch, appearing only in flashbacks, manages to be the most despicable character by virtue of not being a victim of MindRape like the other antagonists. Loutermilch was Blake's childhood teacher, and a predator who frequently preyed on his friend Jessica. Loutermilch would eventually murder Jessica just after one such rape, and covered it up as a suicide, leaving Blake traumatized with guilt after being unable to stop it. The incident continues to scar Blake well into his adult years, with the memory Loutermilch being represented by a perverted monster called The Stalker.
* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'': [[spoiler:Grubba is the seemingly kind promoter of the Glitz Pit. Midway through Chapter 3, fighters Bandy Andy and King K disappear and are removed from the roster. Mario starts getting threats from an anonymous blackmailer along with benign tips from a helpful person. He later finds out Grubba has since been draining the energy out of fighters, nearly killing them. In Prince Mush's case, he ''did'' kill him to keep his 65-year-old body youthful and in shape using a machine powered by the crystal star. Jolene is revealed to be the anonymous tipster and Grubba the blackmailer. Mario fights Grubba, and despite Grubba admitting that was a good fight, it has more to do with his BloodKnight personality. In the end, he was truly a despicable adversary for Mario and company to face.]]
* ''VideoGame/PeretEmHeruForThePrisoners'': Soji Mizumi may be [[PurposelyOverpowered a good party member]], but is a horrendous human being. Initially coming off as just another member of the tour group, Mizumi quickly reveals that [[ImmoralJournalist he doesn't care about the others (which include minors) dying if it means he gets a big story out of it]]. [[spoiler:And then he attempts to {{blackmail}} Sae Otogi into sex after discovering her drug smuggling, bragging that [[SerialRapist he had raped countless women in the past]]. Eventually, [[BullyingADragon he attempts to rape a monster]] just because it resembles a woman, which can easily end in his KarmicDeath -- Ayuto Asaki being the only one to mourn him. If Mizumi survives, he learns absolutely nothing from his experience, and once all is said and done begs Ayuto to go back to the ruins solely because he wants to photograph Pharaoh Khufu's body, despite the fact that [[AnyoneCanDie two people at the very least]] died in there. Although Ayuto rejects his offer through slamming the door shut in his face, [[KarmaHoudini Mizumi is left free, it only being a matter of time until he rapes again]]. As a unrepentant rapist with no regards for his companions, Mizumi is the sole member [[PayEvilUntoEvil who fully deserved Khufu's harsh view of justice]]]].

* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' has had it share of despicable enemies, but these top the list in terms of despicableness.
** ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002'' Chairman Drek is an irredeemable scumbag designed to be the type of character you'll want to see dead. His plan entails the destruction of several planets and the presumed deaths of billions, and halfway through the game he starts plotting to destroy Veldin just because it's in the way. Turns out he poisoned his own homeworld in the first place to make money of the creation of a new one, And he plans on doing it again and again, because it will make him incredibly wealthy. He does not show an ounce of guilt, regret, or remorse for any of his crimes.
** ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'' Courtney Gears is a Soft-Spoken Sadist who abuses her good publicity for cruel intentions, has no redeeming factors, highly racist towards organic life forms and sponsors their genocide, exploits her fanbase to be used as test subjects to the Biobliterator, shows sadist glee towards those she fights or tortures, and dates unsuspecting gladiators for their money.
** ''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked'' gives us Ace Hardlight, the [[TheDragon head lackey]] to [[BigBad main villain]] Gleeman Vox, who has a personality that's even more repulsive than his [[CorruptCorporateExecutive bloodthirsty boss]]. He's an [[SmallNameBigEgo arrogant, cocky]], cold-blooded, and [[{{Sadist}} sadistic]] scumbag who [[SellOut willingly sold out his heroism]], all for the [[OnlyInItForTheMoney thrill of fame and fortune]] and the [[BloodKnight chance to kill or maim whomever he wanted for kicks]]. His somewhat sympathetic origins are [[AllThereInTheManual never brought up in-game]]. He has nothing remotely likable or humorous about his personality -- everyone in universe hates him, even his ''own boss'', who can't even give away his merchandise. [[spoiler:When Ratchet [[DisneyDeath (seemingly)]] kills him, absolutely nobody mourns his loss except Dreadzone anchormen Dallas and Juanita (who are really only doing it because they're asskissers to Gleeman Vox).]]
** ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction'' The last Cragmite Emperor Tachyon is not only a GalacticConqueror who has subjugated the entire Polaris Galaxy and threatens genocide on any species that defies him. His worst crimes being responsible for getting rid of Ratchet's species the Lombaxes despite them saving his life and rising him as one of their own, and floats on how he was the one to murder Ratchet's father. Tachyon has shown himself to be the most personal enemy Ratchet has ever faced.
** ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankRiftApart'': Halfway through the game, [[MakeWayForTheNewVillains we are introduced to]] [[spoiler:[[TheEmperor Emperor Nefarious,]] an alternate counterpart to [[MadScientist Dr. Nefarious,]]]] who is ''far'' more unlikeable. He is a smug, arrogant, and sadistic tyrant who treats everyone, [[spoiler:including his counterpart,]] like garbage.
* ''VideoGame/RefleX'' has ZODIAC Virgo. It's nowhere near the BigBad -- that position belongs to Tsukikagerou, the commander of the Raiwat forces who is only seen in an intermission detailing how his plans are falling apart, and that's if you don't have ''[[AllThereInTheManual The Tale of ALLTYNEX Guidebook]]''. ZODIAC Virgo, on the other hand, is shown in Area 7 [[spoiler:destroying the human-made Virgo and then the PlayerCharacter and his ship, the Phoenix. When the Phoenix revives as ZODIAC Ophiuchus, few things are more satisfying than getting back at ZODIAC Virgo and tearing it a new one [[AttackReflector with its]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard own attacks]].]]
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' has [[DirtyCop Raccoon City Police Chief]] [[TheSociopath Brian Irons]]. Before his police career, Irons made a hobby out of capturing and dissecting animals at a very young age. In college, he was put under psychiatric examination after two incidents in which he was accused of [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil violent aggression and sexual assault towards female students]]. Due to his excellent academic performance, however, these incidents were not criminally investigated. It turns out that Irons was also bribed by the Umbrella Corporation (mostly by William Birkin) into keeping the company's secrets and allowing them to conduct experiments on living subjects, making him partially responsible for the T-Virus infecting Raccoon City. When Umbrella's T-Virus finally does break free and spread throughout Raccoon City, Irons decides to use this opportunity to cause chaos and kill people, which includes Katherine Warren, the mayor's daughter. [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake The remake]] adds even more depravity to his personality by revealing that he was also in charge of the [[OrphanageOfFear Raccoon City Orphanage]], which turned out to be a front for T-Virus test subjects. When one of the children managed to escape, Irons [[WouldHurtAChild executed every last child within the orphanage]] to cover his and the company's tracks.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' has [[EvilChancellor Derek C. Simmons]], who fans are immediately itching to put a bullet into the head of from the minute he appears on-screen. For starters, Raccoon City being [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis nuked off the face of the Earth]] was ''his'' decision, and he does everything in his power to ensure that the truth behind said nuking and the outbreak never comes out, up to and including recreating the incident by unleashing the C-Virus on the innocent community of Tall Oaks and nuking it as well just to prevent the President from exposing it; this costs the lives of at least ''70,000 people''. In doing so, he held Helena Harper's younger sister Deborah hostage to force her to help him carry out the Tall Oaks incident, promising to let her go if Helena did as he said... only to go back on his word and use Deborah as a lab rat for the C-Virus, turning her into a monster she has to be put down, and then arrange events so that both Leon and Helena [[TheScapegoat take the fall]]. He was Sherry Birkin's main parental figure for most of her life, locking her up for eleven years so his private research team can study G-Virus in her blood and viewing her as nothing but a pawn. He also has a [[StalkerWithACrush creepy obsession]] with Ada Wong, going so far as to experiment on 12,235 women just to turn them into [[CloneByConversion an Ada]] [[RetargetedLust he can have for himself]]; the success, Carla Radames, is the BigBad of the game, with everything she does being payback at Simmons for using her in such a manner, making Simmons responsible for effectively ''every bad thing that happens in the game''. He's so horrible that Carla arranges for him to be infected with the C-Virus [[EvilMakesYouMonstrous specifically to make him a monster both inside]] ''[[EvilMakesYouMonstrous and]]'' [[EvilMakesYouMonstrous out]].
* ''VideoGame/RidesWithStrangers'': Donald [=McArthur=] is the only stranger in the demo, so, to give players a real taste of what's in store for them in the final version, the creators went out of their way to make him as creepy, disgusting, and monstrous as possible. Donald is a SinisterMinister with an extremely creepy [[FauxAffablyEvil polite exterior]], who turns out to have [[SerialRapist raped]], [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]], and [[SerialKiller killed]] many people, with little boys being his "passion". He is also a PoliticallyIncorrectVillain, wanting to [[FinalSolution purge the world of all those he considers heretics]], which includes all members of the LGBT community. He thinks that all women who wear perfume are "whores" and need to be murdered, and he thinks that because he's a pedophile, [[NeverMyFault raping, torturing, and murdering children is just in his nature and therefor perfectly normal]], even believing that God won't judge him for it.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'', Bandos, the WarGod and patron of goblins, ogres, trolls, and other brutish and unintelligent races. He's basically meant as a replacement GodOfEvil to Zamorak, the god of chaos and former devil-equivalent who later got a more sympathetic portrayal, and oh boy does he live up to it. In his backstory, he ascended by killing the god protecting his planet from meteors, causing the extinction of his race just so he could be the last thing alive on the planet. He then found Yu'Biusk, home plane of the goblins (along with other races who followed him) and immediately set about making it as much of a CrapsackWorld as possible with his warmongering and forcing its people to fight for his amusement. The reason it's barely-habitable in the present day is because he destroyed it in a temper tantrum after being banished from Gilenor. In the game proper, he mind-controls Zanik, a Dorgeshuun goblin (a tribe that had rebelled against Bandos's efforts to force them into war) and the player's close friend, into becoming his puppet commander with the eventual goal of using her to conquer Gilenor in his place. It's no wonder that when he went up against Armadyl (god of justice and a much more sympathetic character) in a contest where players decided who would win and the loser died, he lost overwhelmingly.
* ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'': Most of the evil shinobi are {{Anti Villain}}s at worst, and the [[TheHeartless yoma]] are mindless beasts [[spoiler:who are also fully capable of love and kindness]], but these two shinobi are truly evil:
** [[spoiler:[[DiabolicalMastermind Dōgen]] is the cruel man who runs [[ThugDojo Hebijo Academy]]. Throughout the series, he manipulates the Hebijo girls, both old and new, into serving him. He cares nothing for them, however, and is willing to use their deaths to serve his plans. Whether it be sacrificing girls to [[EldritchAbomination Orochi]] (game)/the Yin and Yang scrolls (anime and manga), pitting several shinobi schools against each other, or summoning an army of [[TheHeartless yōma]] to destroy Japan, Dōgen completely lacks the sympathetic qualities of the other evil shinobi and antagonists, instead being defined by his malice and desire to TakeOverTheWorld.]]
** [[BitchInSheepsClothing Komichi]] was Homura's seemingly kind mentor and crush who is responsible for her turn to evil. After gaining Homura's trust over a long period of time, he gets her to confess to being a good shinobi heir, then reveals that he was an evil shinobi sent to kill her family. When Homura asks him why he befriended her instead of simply torturing her for the information, he explains that he [[{{Sadist}} loves to see the looks on people's faces after being betrayed]], before trying to kill Homura herself and ultimately getting her rejected by the good shinobi [[CrimeOfSelfDefense after she fights back]], driving her directly into the arms of the aforementioned [[spoiler:Dōgen]].
* Most of the [[TheEmpire Valuan]] admirals in ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' are either sympathetic {{Anti Villain}}s like Gregorio or Belleza, or LoveToHate-style villains like Galcian and Vigoro (or some mixture of the two, like Ramirez). And then there's sociopathic MadScientist De Loco and condescending, cowardly aristocrat Alfonso, who both lack a single sympathetic bone in their bodies, and are nowhere near badass or respectable enough to be LoveToHate material.
* ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' has a few examples that stand out from the quirky, sympathetic or redeemable villains that usually take up the spotlight:
** General Tsao of ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'' is a Chinese warlord who takes an arrogant pride in coming from a family line of warriors. The ArcVillain of the levels set in China, Tsao has kidnapped Panda King's daughter Jing to forcibly marry her and merge their "great bloodlines". When Sly confronts him, Tsao states that he prefers servants and obedience to love and friendship and that as a woman, Jing doesn't know up from down. Despite his pride in being a warrior, he chickens out when Sly gets the upper hand in a fight, and summons vampires and a dragon onto his village to avoid further interference. When Tsao is arrested, everyone is glad to see him go. During their fight, Sly specifically tells him to his face that, out of all of the villains he's faced, Tsao is undoubtedly the worst.
* ''VideoGame/{{Sofia}}'': [[MadScientist Dr. Claire Carter]] is the one who created the BigBad [[spoiler:Icarus]], and lacks their sympathetic qualities. To achieve the secret of {{immortality|Immorality}}, Claire set up Project Gen, where she and her team made hundreds of clones, called iterations, from the memories of the original. Claire would then kill any that came out imperfect, resulting in hundreds dead. She also showed a complete LackOfEmpathy towards anyone, calling fellow scientist [[spoiler:Sofia]] a failure upon her death, bullying [[spoiler:Dale Jenkins]] into going along with whatever she wanted, and even using her own son, [[spoiler:Fio Jenkins]], as a guinea pig. Her murder by [[spoiler:Icarus]] prior to the events of the story is thus [[AssholeVictim well deserved]].
* ''VideoGame/SomaSpirits'': [[spoiler:[[BigBadEnsemble Form and Dissonance]] are a pair of [[TheSvengali mentors]] who seem to want to help Heart and Soul save the world of Soma, but quickly become condescending towards both the protagonists and each other, hinting that there is something darker about them. Sure enough, their real goal is to corrupt their respective protege into becoming a living weapon who hates "undesirable" emotions as much as they do. In the worst endings of the game, they succeed and use their last words to [[KickTheDog mock the other protagonist for failing to stop them]], knowing that their corrupted protege will fulfill their genocidal ambitions. Their only seemingly sympathetic trait is their desire for peace on Soma, but this is undermined when they [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist hypocritically attempt to destroy Soma in the true ending]], all because the population's emotions don't match their visions of a utopia.]]
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheSecretRings'' has the [[BigBad Erazor Djinn]], a power-hungry, unempathetic, and purely self-serving genie who has nothing remotely sympathetic or likable going for him, acting extremely arrogant and haughty towards everyone around him. He treats Shahra like dirt and after her sacrifice, he has the gall to mock her as being weak. And that's not even getting into how he puts Sonic's life on the line to further his own ends and talks down to him and insults him, calling him a rat. [[spoiler:This makes it so satisfying when Sonic forces him to grant three wishes, with the last one [[PayEvilUntoEvil being to remain within his lamp forever just before Sonic tosses it into the fire]]]].
** ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' has Dr. Eggman's [[TheDragon new lieutenant]], Infinite. He is a [[PsychopathicManchild deranged and immature]] {{sadist}} who seems cool, but proves himself to be nothing more than a [[TheBully bully]] who enjoys murdering people just to show off his strength [[spoiler:after Shadow the Hedgehog [[EvilIsPetty bruised his ego by easily overpowering him and calling him weak]]. Once his biggest advantage is taken away, he isn't even competent enough to keep the fight up, revealing himself to be nothing more than a smug coward.]]
* ''VideoGame/SoulCaliburVI'' gives us Azwel, the NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist BigBad. While he isn't a DirtyCoward once defeated, he makes up for it by being a SoreLoser and a major {{Hypocrite}} who claims to love humanity, but is shown to be little more than a {{Sadist}} and a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who merely enjoys toying with people with glee, as is evident when he turns Groh into the very thing he's sworn to hunt down. There's [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking also the fact]] that he's an [[SNKBoss infuriating boss fight]] in the campaign.
* The ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' series has Moneybags, a greedy bear who exists only to impede your progress in the game [[CashGate until you pay him gems]]. Although annoying in [[VideoGame/Spyro2RiptosRage the second game]], he does provide useful services and teach Spyro different abilities to help him get through the levels. [[VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon The third game]], however, makes him way worse. He begins the game outright helping the villain by keeping the other characters caged up, only releasing them if Spyro pays up, and by the end of the game, he's outright extorting Spyro for no reason other than to get his money. For example, he wants to be paid for a password to open a door, and after he reveals the password is "gullible", he admits that there was no door password, he was just standing in front of the switch to open it. Thankfully, he gets his comeuppance at the end, where Spyro attacks him after he reveals a plan to auction off a dragon egg, resulting in Spyro getting back every single gem he ever paid him.
* ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}'': The Miniknog, the ruling caste of the Apex. Nothing you hear about them will make you sympathize with them -- it's like they practice [[KickTheDog puppy-kicking]] across the MoralEventHorizon as a sport. All their attempts at scientific progress appear to be directed towards strengthening the stranglehold on their own population and making them more miserable. There is absolutely zero sympathy for them. Ironically, you can feel some sympathy for [[spoiler:Big Ape, their supposed leader... when, after fighting him, you find out that he's been rendered nothing but another weapon for them to use]].
* ''Franchise/StarFox'': [[SinisterSwine Pigma Dengar]] of [[ThePsychoRangers Team Star Wolf]] is a [[{{Greed}} greedy]], [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder treasonous]], [[TheBully bullying]] {{slimeball}} who gladly sold out his former teammates, James [=McCloud=] and Peppy Hare, by luring them into a deathtrap set up by [[BigBad Andross]] because he paid better, and wouldn't hesitate to taunt Peppy or James's son, [[TheHero Fox]], about his past deed. [[EvenEvilHasStandards His greed and unreliability was so great that he was kicked out of Star Wolf.]] Years later, Pigma intervenes in Star Fox's mission to prevent an Aparoid invasion by stealing a Core Memory, a vital component required in order to find the location of the Aparoid Homeworld, and [[TheQuisling teaming up with the Aparoids to cover his ass]], all because he wants more money. [[EvilIsNotAToy This backfires on him as he himself gets assimilated into an aparoid]] and Star Fox has to kill him once and for all in order to get the Core Memory. While they were disturbed by the swine's fate, none of the team members mourn his death. Even compared to the other Star Wolf members, Pigma is a horrible person. Wolf O'Donnell is a ruthless mercenary, but he's a good leader who won't tolerate toxic behavior in his team and is capable of [[VillainRespect showing respect to his foes]]. Leon Powalski is a [[{{Sadist}} sadistic]] assassin with some signs of [[{{Narcissist}} narcissism]], but he carries an air of [[WickedCultured charming sophistication]], and his more [[AxCrazy unhinged]] portrayals has him veering into LaughablyEvil territory. Andrew Oikonny is an [[SmallNameBigEgo incompetent braggart]] who followed Pigma out the door due to his arrogance, and often hides behind uncle Andross's infamy, but he does what he does out of a desire to [[WellDoneSonGuy gain his favor and follow in his footsteps]]. Panther Caroso is evil enough to join Star Wolf, but he's also [[AffablyEvil quite polite and can develop genuine feelings for someone]]. Wolf, Leon, and Panther even [[DisneyDeath come close]] to a HeroicSacrifice at the end. Pigma, on the other hand, is repulsive, inside and out.
* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'':
** Emperor Vitiate is basically an even ''[[EvilerThanThou more depraved]]'' version of Palpatine. This is a man who tortured his true father to death, killed billions of people, was an utter dick to everyone, and was so evil that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even other Sith held him in contempt]], among ''many other things''.
** Tarro Blood from the Bounty Hunter storyline. He claims that you are unworthy to join the great hunt despite lying and cheating his way throughout the hunt. He also tries everything to avoid a direct confrontation with the hunter and instead uses his lackeys to do his dirty work. [[spoiler:When you finally meet him imprisoned in Kellian Jarro's ship, [[DeathByIrony you can leave him there to die instead of allowing him to fight you]].]]
** Skadge is a complete {{Jerkass}} that insults players even when he's assigned to do simple crew skill missions. Oh, and he hints that he might rape a female NPC from the Belsavis quest-line if he got the chance. [[SarcasmMode Lovely.]] Fortunately, players have the opportunity to get rid of him in a side-quest from ''Knights of the Fallen Empire''.
** Chancellor Saresh was only mildly annoying in the vanilla game. She becomes more unlikeable after the ''Shadow of Revan'' and Ziost storylines, as she proves herself to be unreasonable, hot-headed, and blinded by her hatred of the Empire, to the point of being an ObstructiveBureaucrat. She gets even worse in ''Knights of the Eternal Throne''. [[spoiler:She attempts to have the Alliance Leader killed by hiring a band of elite mercenaries. [[TheUsurper She then tries to take the place as the new Alliance Commander.]] Luckily the real Alliance Leader arrives and stops her. The leader can punch her in the face, execute her, or have her stay in a prison for a very long time.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'':
** ''VideoGame/SuikodenII'' had a few despite its graying morality:
*** Luca Blight. He is positively relishing in being as much of a brutal, sadistic, murderous, repulsive dick as he can be, having absolutely nothing that could be construed as a likable quality as a good person. As a villain, though? [[LoveToHate He's doing a damn good job.]]
*** Gorudo. He's a self-serving lord of a knightdom that doesn't care when other people are suffering, watching them die horribly without lifting a finger. He later goes turncoat at the drop of a hat without any care of knight honor, and also plans to seize power from both the City-State and Highland all for himself, additionally causing a possible death of the hero's sister figure Nanami. Enough that former friend turned enemy Jowy decides to team up with the hero solely to kill him.
*** Mayor Darrel, who by the time of the game is already dead. In the past he was basically TheLoad of City-States, launching assault on Highland, but driven back because of his own lack of military knowledge, only to be saved by Genkaku who ended up brokering for peace, only for Darrel to ''ruin it'' by simply not wanting to hand over one city, Kyaro. Then both sides agreed on a CombatByChampion between Genkaku and his best friend Han, but Darrel went an extra mile to secure his victory by coating Genkaku's sword with poison, which would make him a murderer of his best friend if he won. Genkaku detected that and ended up in defeat. Extremely salty about it, Darrel went on to not only exile Genkaku but decided to further spite Highland for making him lose Kyaro by hiring ruffians to ambush the Highland royal entourage, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom causing the rape of Luca's mother and starting his descent to madness and evil.]] The effects of his sheer spite and despicability left a lot of hole for his daughter Annabelle to [[SinsOfOurFathers clean up after she succeeded him.]] But generally, nobody has anything good to say about Darrel even if he was technically a predecessor of the protagonist's side, and he caused a ''lot'' of troubles due to his incompetence that he won't ever admit.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'':
** The Five Grand Cardinals are this to varying degrees, but Rodyle is the worst of them. He callously reacts to his fellow Grand Cardinals, Magnius and Kvar's death, regarding them as disposable tools, gloating about having manipulated the former into trying to kill the Chosen One, and planning on using the latter's research data for his own ends- destroying the Tower of Salvation and overthrowing his superiors. Not only does he have a human ranch of his own, but he responds to the protagonists' attempts at freeing the human prisoners by flooding a passage and killing them all. Once he is defeated, he activates the self-destruct system in an attempt at TakingYouWithMe, forcing Botta, who has become an ally to the heroes, to perform a HeroicSacrifice to save the party.
** Kvar is nearly as bad as Rodyle. He runs a human ranch, and attacks Luin after learning that prisoners escaped there, killing many and taking the rest to his ranch, where they are converted to Exspheres. He is also personally responsible for removing Lloyd's mother Anna's Exsphere, turning her into a monster and forcing Lloyd's father to kill her. After being defeated and on the brink of death, he attacks Colette, nearly killing her. It's rather cathartic to watch Kratos [[spoiler:who, as it turns out, is Lloyd's father]], brutally cut down Kvar.
** For a non-villainous example, there's the mayor of Iselia. [[JerkassHasAPoint He may have a point]] that Lloyd is responsible for the Desian attack on the village and should be banished(also banishing Genis when the latter claims equal responsibility), but he shows a chilling lack of sympathy for the people imprisoned at the ranch, apparently fine with them dying as long as the treaty is upheld. When Lloyd's group liberates the Iselia ranch, the Mayor is not only angry that Lloyd returned to the village, but that [[FantasticRacism Genis and Raine are actually half-elves]], Colette is a failed Chosen and prisoners from Iselia are returning. At that point, the rest of the village stands up to the mayor and calls him out on his behavior.
* ''VideoGame/TellMeWhy:'' Tom Vecchi, upon being revealed to be the twins' biological father, is shown to be an emotionally manipulative coward, doing what he can to cover up his past affair with Mary Ann to preserve his marriage, reputation, and political campaign. When the truth is discovered, it turns out he refused to help Mary Ann and the twins with their troubles despite knowing he's their father, and tries to take credit for how his wife helped them. It's also revealed that he witnessed Mary Ann's stabbing, and left her to drown to cover his tracks. When confronted with the truth, threatens to reveal Allyson was the one who stabbed her to keep his involvement from being exposed.
* ''VideoGame/TonyHawksUnderground'' gives us Eric Sparrow, your [[WithFriendsLikeThese supposed friend]] who has a habit of betraying the main character just to go big as pro, even going as far as to edit the big jump over the helicopter in Hawaii the protagonist attempted to make it look as if ''Eric'' was the one who did the big jump. On top of that, when he does make it as pro, he cares more about the money than the actual fun and skills as a skater and still acts as if he's a God of skating. [[spoiler:It says a lot when the game's AlternativeEnding has you punch his lights out instead of accepting his challenge.]]
* ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'' has its fair share of engaging villains like other entries in the ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'' franchise, and most of them are difficult to be a target of player hatred. Even the three {{Big Bad}}s are more of a trio of generic villains than anything else. Goremand, on the other hand, manages to be truly disgusting in many ways. He convinces the Ferolian beastmen to start a war against humanity, uses a magical spell to turn the [[PreciousPuppy adorable wolf puppy Karl]] into a monster and force Kevin to fight and kill him, kidnaps Heath in front of Charlotte just when the two have gotten reunited, slaughters people to reap their souls, and intends to take his much more sympathetic boss, the Masked Mage, and use him to turn the world into one of war and death so he himself can be free to devour more souls forevermore. [[DirtyCoward His cowardice knows no bounds]], as shown when he immediately panics as Kevin attacks him and Gauser in his rage and corners him over what happened to Karl, for example, and he is clearly not happy when you finally kick his ass near the end of Kevin and Charlotte's story. Even Gauser himself ultimately finds him and his flair for atrocity truly disturbing.
* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' has two:
** The game works as hard as it can to make you utterly despise Flowey the Flower, the two-faced, [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth wall-breaking flower]] who never ceases to guilt-trip the player for their actions during the beginning of the game before [[spoiler:suddenly reappearing at the end of the game to steal the six human souls -- twice, the second time ''after'' he's spared and given a second chance -- tries to torture the player for eternity, and overall just deny the player their happy ending]]. All is this is just so in the GoldenEnding and the Genocide Ending, the game can [[spoiler:blindside you as hard as it can with the revelation that [[SubvertedTrope he's the single most tragic character in the entire game]] and charge you with sparing and redeeming him to achieve the GoldenEnding]].
** The other one, PlayedForLaughs, is Jerry. Jerry is TheFriendNobodyLikes, and is designed to be obnoxious as shit no matter what path you're taking. Pacifists find that Jerry can't be properly spared, only ditched, and he'll come back after a couple of turns if the battle isn't over by then. Murderers find that Jerry is a StoneWall with massive HP and Defense, so even with their massive attack stat they have to hit him several times before he finally dies. Luckily, you can ditch him without aborting a genocide route.
* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'':
** General Gregor of the Imperials and General Damon of the Gallians are the target of much well-deserved hatred.
*** Gregor gets this mostly because he's effective at doing his job: being an incredibly racist Darcsen-hating general who runs concentration camps with glee. Jaeger is pretty affable, Selvaria can come off tragic, and Prince Maximillian has quite a bit of charisma even if he's an asshole himself, and all three also come with their own DarkAndTroubledPast, something that Gregor lacks, which makes him really hateable.
*** Despite the fact that Damon's ostensibly on your side, he's incredibly disrespectful of the militia, believing them to be worthless because they're "peasants", keeps sending them on suicide missions that translate into ridiculously difficult gameplay levels, and has a tendency to gleefully take credit for the militia/player's achievements. He basically exists as a way for the game to show that not everyone on your side are well-behaved nice people (and he damn well delivers!). The fact that, in Selvaria's DLC, [[spoiler:he breaks weapon treaties and uses poison gas on the Imperials and tries to claim that [[NeverMyFault it was the Imperials who broke the treaty]]]] only serves to solidify how much of a {{jerkass}} he is. [[spoiler:His death at the hands of Selvaria's TakingYouWithMe explosion is supremely satisfying, despite the fact that it horribly sets back Gallia's war effort.]]
** Among Squad 7's ranks there's Cezary Regard, a DirtyCoward who became a sniper to avoid the front lines and likes to [[ItsAllAboutMe showcase his selfishness]] at every moment possible. He's one of the few characters [[FantasticRacist racist enough against Darcsens]] to have the Darcsen Hater potential (which debuffs him when he's near a Darcsen unit), and one of two who have no FreudianExcuse for his racism. He's even acrophobic, which means that he takes a hit to his attack power when he's in a sniper nest or on top of a building (aka ''exactly'' where you want your snipers to be). Even the most unlikable members of Squad 7 have at least one or two redeeming qualities, but Cezary seems to go out of his way to have none whatsoever, to the point where he's a frequent sacrifice for the Splintered Horn medal (which requires you to let a unit with all their potentials unlocked die in battle).
* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'':
** Sebastian [=LaCroix=] is a pompous and condescending Prince of the Caramilla, and demands the utmost respect from the Fledgling despite sending them on multiple suicide missions. Just about every vampiric character in the game hates him for his attitude, his corruption is revealed with his alliance with Ming Xiao, and his plan to gain more power from the Ankaran Sarcophagus. After multiple attempts to get rid of the Fledgling, he eventually frames them for an attempt to kill Nines. Needless to say, no matter how he's defeated in the endgame, it is nothing short of satisfying to watch him melt down.
** Ming Xiao is the leader of the Kuei Jin, and a hateful murderer, who is behind the crime wave in the game. Not only does she desire to see the Kindred wiped out, but she has a nasty habit of betraying and disposing of all of her allies when their use wears off. If the player allies with her at the end of the game, not only does she come out on top, but she betrays the player by trapping them at the bottom of the ocean.
* ''[[VideoGame/{{Wadanohara}} Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea]]'': [[spoiler:Sal/Syake-san]] is [[TheMole the traitor]] to the Blue Sea Kingdom and the DragonInChief to Tostasu Kingdom. Feigning loyalty to Princess Uomi, the traitor secretly helps [[BigBad Princess Tosatsu]] in her invasion by sabotaging the defenses of the Sea Kingdom. [[spoiler:It is later revealed that he [[DivideAndConquer caused the war between]] the two kingdoms by sending an inflammatory letter framing Uomi for the massacre of several Tostasu soldiers which he himself perpetrated. He also frames his own twin brother, Samekichi, as being the traitor, and even [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil sexually assaulted Wadanohara in the past]]. At the end of the second act, he smashes the seal and unleashes the [[EldritchLocation Red Sea]], freeing his true master Princess Mikotsu. When Wadanohara confronts him, he taunts her about it before corrupting her in the first ending, and stabbing her and [[DirtyCoward fleeing]] with Mikotsu in the true ending]]. As bad as the traitor's Princess boss is, her evil is mainly [[OffstageVillainy offscreen]], and [[spoiler:Mikotsu [[GreaterScopeVillain doesn't have a hand in most of the game]] due to her [[SealedEvilInACan imprisonment]] within the Red Sea, which caused her to lose her sanity]]. The traitor serves as the target of hate instead, being wholly repugnant and narcissistic. [[spoiler:But thankfully got punished by his brother Samekichi.]]
* Grand Marshall Garithos in ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III: The Frozen Throne'', the bigoted commander of the survivors of Loarderon, who hates every non-human race of the Alliance. In truth his actions, although reprehensible, are fairly tame in comparison to the actual {{Big Bad}}s of the setting -- but then, none of the major characters in the expansion are entirely likable; [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Illidan Stormrage]] agrees to work for [[BigRedDevil Kil'jaeden the Deceiver]], his brother Malfurion is as StupidGood as ever, and Illidan's former Warden [[InspectorJavert Maiev Shadowsong]] throws one of her own comrades under a bus to avoid side-tracking while chasing him -- and that's just the ''first'' campaign.[[note]][[ReligiousBruiser Tyrande]] sort of breaks the mold by [[TheAtoner helping their attempt to recapture Illidan]], [[EscortMission helping protect the blood elves from the undead]], and offering Kael'thas [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre advice on dealing with his people's plight]]; ironic given [[{{Flanderization}} how]] [[{{Chickification}} she's]] [[OutOfFocus treated]] later in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''[[/note]] But given that most of them are still well-liked -- [[TheNecrocracy Ner'zhul the Lich King]] is a MagnificentBastard, [[TheEvilPrince Arthas]], [[TheDragon Kel'Thuzad]], and [[TheBrute Anub'arak]] are [[EvilIsCool pretty cool]], [[AntiVillain Kael'thas]] gets DrivenToVillainy and is trying to both [[ItsPersonal get revenge on Arthas]] for destroying his homeland and [[AFatherToHisMen save his people from their addiction to magic]], Illidan [[PetTheDog genuinely wants to help him with that]], Maiev is [[PunchClockVillain just doing her job]] [[JerkassHasAPoint trying to stop a dangerous escaped criminal]], [[TheUnfettered Sylvanas]] is a sympathetic TragicVillain, and [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Varimathras]] is [[LaughablyEvil entertaining and dry-witted]] -- having a plainly easy-to-hate character like Garithos was practically a necessity. While the remains of the Lordaeron Alliance would normally be a sympathetic {{Woobie}} given to how rough they had it throughout the game, Garithos is certainly not the ideal leader for them.
* ''VideoGame/TheWitchAndTheHundredKnight'': Totopepe is an unintelligent assistant to genocide and avaricious bastard who goes so far as to slaughter his way through the kingdom to steal the crown and rapes one of the princesses to death. While Totopepe is initially built up as a silly side character, the reveal makes him out to be a fully detestable villain.
* ''VideoGame/TheWitchsHouse'': [[spoiler:The [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Black Cat Demon]] is the true villain who is responsible for turning the TragicVillain Ellen into a monster. Manipulating the unloved Ellen and her predecessor into becoming his witches, he emotionally abuses Ellen into becoming a murderer and uses her to kill hundreds of innocents for centuries so he can eat their souls, eventually screwing over the innocent and kind Viola while leaving Ellen to live a hollow, empty life and [[KarmaHoudini getting away with it]]. Whereas Ellen [[IJustWantToBeLoved just wants to be loved]], the Demon, while [[LaughablyEvil humorous]], cares only for his insatiable appetite.]]
* For obvious reasons, the ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' franchise is filled to the brim with [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] that serve as our hero B.J. Blazkowicz's target practice:
** [[DeadlyDoctor Deathshead]] in ''[[VideoGame/{{WolfensteinTheNewOrder}} The New Order]]'' is shown to be more monstrous compared to [[AffablyEvil his Affably Evilness]] in previous games, taking joys in kicking dogs at every moment he gets to. However, thanks to a [[CreepyAwesome chilling performance]] by Creator/DwightSchultz, his LoveToHate behaviour and hamminess, and the fact that he ruthlessly crushes Allied forces in the beginning of the game and nearly succeeds in killing off B.J. in their final battle, Deathshead instead became a classic LoveToHate example. But that cannot be said for his adopted son [[StarterVillain Friedrich Keller]], a FrenchJerk who sold out his biological parents and the French resistance to Nazis as a kid all because of [[AbusiveParents his issues with his parents]]. He has his men (on Deathshead's orders) massacre an entire asylum, including Anja's parents when they try to stop it. It's also implied that he probably would've raped Anja if B.J. hadn't woke up from his coma just in time. And unlike Deathshead, he is also a DirtyCoward who attempts to run off when he sees B.J. kicking off Nazi asses. It's pretty satisfying to watch him [[BringMyBrownPants shitting himself]] when B.J. interrogates him ''with the chainsaw'', but Keller [[TooDumbToLive decides to insult B.J. one last time]]. [[OffWithHisHead You can probably guess how that ends for him.]]
** In ''[[VideoGame/{{WolfensteinIITheNewColossus}} The New Colossus]]'', we get introduced to [[AbusiveParents B.J's father Rip]], who manages to be the most despicable person in a series filled with Nazis. An awful and [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] man, he would often take out his anger by physically abusing young B.J., [[KickTheDog even going so far as to force him to kill his own dog]], [[DisproportionateRetribution all because B.J. had made friends with a black girl]]. He is nasty to everyone, including his wife Sofia due to her being Jewish ([[GoldDigger and the only reason he married her was for money and status]]). He is also hated in-universe for his smug behavior and conning people out of their money. However, some of B.J.'s monologues and flashbacks suggest that Rip does [[PetTheDog have his moments]] (if you can count one where he helps young B.J. overcome his fears of basement monsters), so maybe he wasn't always like that, right? [[spoiler:To drop any possible ideas of Rip redeeming himself and/or undergoing a HeelFaceTurn, when B.J. finally reunites with his father, he finds out that Rip sold out B.J.'s mom to the Nazis for money ([[DirtyCoward and probably to save his own skin]]) and that he is also helping [[BigBad Frau Engel]] capture/kill his son. This proves to be last straw for B.J., and he kills his assholish father in retribution, much to audience's satisfaction.]]
** Out of all the Nazis in the franchise, Frau Engel herself is one of the most despised of them. She runs a concentration camp in ''[[VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder The New Order]]'' and the only apparent redeeming quality she has is that [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes she has a boyfriend and is distraught when B.J. kills him]]. [[VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus The sequel]] makes her even more despicable so she can take over the role as the main antagonist. Her crimes in that game include bullying her own daughter Sigrun to the point of causing her to defect, decapitating [[spoiler:Caroline Becker]] with a fire axe and making B.J and Sigrun kiss it, maiming [[spoiler:Fergus or Wyatt]], shooting [[spoiler:Super Spesh]] several times and shoving the gun to [[spoiler:B.J.]]'s mouth and asking him how the gun she used to kill [[spoiler:Spesh]] tastes, and most notably, [[spoiler:[[HeroKiller cutting off B.J.'s head on live television]]]]. Luckily, [[spoiler:B.J gets brought back to life and as a result, players get the chance to finally kill her off through giving her a humiliating KarmicDeath on television by lodging an axe in her head.]]
* In the ''The World Ends With You'' duology:
** In ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', most of the antagonistic Reapers have sympathetic traits and/or entertaining personalities, but Mitsuki Konishi, the Game Master for the final week, is the exception. She's responsible for many KickTheDog moments, from [[spoiler:turning the Noise form of Beat's sister Rhyme into a pin and using it as collateral]] to [[spoiler:using her dying breaths to claim that Rhyme didn't love Beat as much as he loved her]]. She's [[ItsAllAboutMe purely out for herself]], being willing to [[spoiler:betray her boss to [[TheStarscream Sho Minamoto]], [[XanatosGambit knowing that Minamoto will make her his Conductor if he wins, and she can finish off Kitaniji if Minamoto loses]]]]. All this makes her easily the cruelest and most despicable character in the game.
** In ''VideoGame/NEOTheWorldEndsWithYou'', almost all of the antagonists are sympathetic in some manner; Fuya, Motoi, and Kanon are just trying to survive, most of the Shinjuku Reapers are actively working against [[BigBad Shiba]] [[spoiler:including the Ruinbringers]], and Shiba himself [[spoiler:is BrainwashedAndCrazy, and pulls a HeelFaceTurn once he's made aware of this]]. With this in mind, Tanzo Kubo is designed to be as obnoxious and unlikable as possible. Even early on, the Wicked Twisters get skeevy vibes from him. Then the last day reveals [[spoiler:he's an Angel who was ordered to erase Shinjuku, did so, went rogue, and now seeks to do the same to Shibuya motivated by nothing but sheer psychotic bloodlust]]. He quickly proves to be the most evil being in the series.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' series:
** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'':
*** [[SkeleBot9000 Metal Face]] is the leader of the Faced Mechon, whose [[EstablishingCharacterMoment very first action]] is to [[spoiler:attack Colony 9, killing several characters including Fiora, Shulk's girlfriend,]] in the process. When he returns after Shulk, Reyn, and Sharla defeat Xord, he quickly taunts Shulk about [[spoiler:Fiora]]'s death to get him mad, knowing the Monado doesn't work on the Faced Mechon. After that, he goes to Eryth Sea and kills [[spoiler:Emperor Sorean, Melia's father,]] in the process. He is revealed to be [[spoiler:the cowardly Mumkhar]] in Valak Mountain, where he attempts to stab [[spoiler:Fiora]] in the neck unless they give him the Monado, revealing that he only did all of this because [[spoiler:[[ForTheEvulz it's Dunban's home]] and he was jealous of him wielding the Monado. Among the AntiVillain Egil and his forces, he stands out as lacking any sympathetic qualities.]]
*** [[spoiler:Zanza is the seemingly kind god who turns out to be the true villain. He has no care whatsoever for the beings on Bionis or the Machina, comparing them to bacteria. His first action is sucking the souls from people so he can live, including Shulk and Arglas, before killing Meyneth and Egil and attempting to recreate the universe as he turns all the High Entia into Telethia, planning to exterminate all life on Bionis purely for himself. Afterwards, it's revealed that he tried to restart the entire universe back when he was a human to become a god in the first place.]]
*** [[spoiler:Lorithia is a fellow disciple of Zanza. She taunts Melia by kissing Kallian on the cheek while he's a Telethia, and also took part in turning the pure-blooded High Entia into Telethia. Lorithia's main reason for doing this is all because she wants immortality, despite the fact that Zanza is attempting to destroy and recreate the entire universe.]]
*** ''Future Connected'': While most villains in the first game are morally grey, Gael'gar isn't one of them, and his hypocrisy and delusion combined with his racism make the player want to kick his ass. His targeting of Teelan and [[{{Pyromaniac}} burning down an entire house to destroy Teelan's research]] only makes him worse.
** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'': Dr. Castrofari has no redeeming qualities and is made to be as unlikable as possible. He also attempts to turn children into Artificial Blades and torture Perun.
** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'':
*** Like Metal Face/[[spoiler:Mumkhar]] before him, Moebius D has no redeeming qualities whatsoever and is written to be as depraved and heinous as possible. His "crowning achievement" comes when [[spoiler:he impales Queen Nia right after the party wakes her up]], though fortunately it ultimately fails. He doesn't even get the small bits of sympathy that Dunban and Shulk gives Metal Face. Whereas [[spoiler:Mumkhar]] is stated to have not always been so bad, and only turned evil out of jealousy towards Dunban for being able to wield the Monado, D was apparently an unrepentant SerialKiller in every past life. Where Metal Face killed out of vendettas, perceived past slights, and an inferiority complex, D kills out of a sadistic sense of pleasure. Where [[spoiler:Mumkhar]] adored his new body for the power it gave him, D revels instead in the "transcendence" as a Moebius of being able to remember every killing and continue to add to his "collection" forever. Even among the ranks of [[TinTyrant the Consuls]] (most of whom are [[TheCaligula depraved hedonists]]), D is one of those who really stand out.
*** [[spoiler:Shania's]] FreudianExcuse comes from the fact that she had an [[AbusiveParents Abusive Mother]] who only saw her daughter as a means of getting power and recognition, and forcing her to become a soldier against her wishes. When [[spoiler:Shania]] didn't perform as well as her mother would have liked, she harshly scolds her daughter to make her feel bad about herself, and that she'll never be as good as [[spoiler:[[TheAce Ghondor]]]]. Even when her father and even [[spoiler: Ghondor herself]] try to encourage [[spoiler:Shania]] to [[BeYourself just be herself]], it doesn't work, and her lack of self-confidence is what eventually turns her into [[spoiler:Moebius S]]. Although [[spoiler:Shania's]] mother doesn't have too much screen time, the fact that she is the one solely responsible of turning her daughter into a villain is a prime case of [[JerksAreWorseThanVillains Jerks Being Worse Than Villains]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'':
** ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'' has Lao Gui, a creepy-looking master hitman who only has three appearances in the entire game, and two of them involve [[spoiler:capturing Tachibana, which leads to his death, and then shooting his sister Makoto, which leaves her comatose for the rest of the game]]. While the rest of the major villains that the main characters face off against are respected by fans to varying degrees, there are few who think that Lao Gui's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown at Majima's hands isn't absolutely deserved and extremely cathartic, [[spoiler:as is his eventual fate, being locked up for the rest of his life in a yakuza dungeon as leverage against Dojima]].
** ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' has Kyohei Jingu, who is the true main antagonist of the first installment. Unlike Akira Nishikiyama, who is also a main villain, Jingu has no redeemable traits whatsoever. For instance, he cheated on Yumi, hired an assassin to kill Yumi and his daughter Haruka, and showed no sign of emotion when fighting Kiryu, showing how cold-blooded and sadistic Jingu is compared to Nishikiyama. However, he would be defeated by Kiryu and killed by Nishiki later on, showing that his calculating demeanor wasn't able to defeat the unrelenting man who is the Dragon of Dojima.
*** There's also Sohei Dojima, a selfish sociopath willing to step on anybody to get ahead. He misuses his power to the point his own second in command plots against him advancing to the position of Chairman of the Tojo Clan because of how disastrous it would be. He ordered the massacre of the Jingweon Mafia, had [[spoiler: Tachibana tortured to death]], put [[TheWoobie Makoto]] through a horrible ordeal in an attempt to get a piece of land she owned, routinely cheated on his wife, and was a SerialRapist, with him finally being killed while trying to rape Yumi.
*** Shimano is an all around vile human being, him being the one who ordered Majima to be mercilessly tortured at a yakuza black site for a year following the Ueno Seiwa hit and then, when Majima failed to die, enslaved him to Shimano's sworn brother Sagawa. Shimano also gleefully participated in the aforementioned Jingweon Massacre, and his last act alive is throwing a grenade at a little girl. He's so bad a new scene in the ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' remake consists of him showing up for the sole purpose of mindfucking Nishiki, who was already in a fragile state.
** ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'' has Koji Shindo, who became a patriarch of Nishikiyama family after Nishiki's death. Unlike Nishiki, he has no leadership whatsoever and in order to gain power to satiate his lust, he betrayed the Tojo Clan and began to execute every person that proved vital for the stability of Tojo Clan. And let's not forget he tried to take Dojima's wife Yayoi and make her his "love". It's not hard to feel satisfied when Daigo shoots him in his head, killing him.
** ''VideoGame/Yakuza6'' has Tsuneo Iwami and Katsumi Sugai, who have proven themselves to be a despicable piece of shits due to their extreme cowardice and malice towards anyone they think they wronged them. However, Iwami is way worse than Sugai as he is even more of a Sadist who is unable to control his emotions and does everything he can to gain attention and to show Kiryu how "worthy" he really is. In addition, he has a problem with constantly backstabbing everyone he deems to be unfit for his plan. Unfortunately, his ego and pride backfired heavily when he challenged Kiryu at the end, which led Kiryu to his CurbStompBattle, causing Iwami to beg for his life, further demonstrating his cowardice and unworthiness to be a true yakuza member.
** ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon''
*** Sota Kume, the smarmy leader of Bleach Japan's Yokohama branch. A classist, racist, misogynistic bully, Kume spends the majority of his screen time harassing Ichiban and the other heroes in his efforts to eliminate the "grey" areas of society, and openly mocks the death of Ichiban's employer solely because the man owned a brothel. To add to his undesirable qualities, [[spoiler:he's the one that [[HeelFaceDoorslam slams the door]] on Ryo Aoki's HeelFaceTurn, stabbing his former mentor to death while saying that the Bleach Japan movement will outlast even his crimes]], and unlike Lao Gui he gets [[KarmaHoudini no onscreen punishment for his actions]].
*** Yoko Arakawa, mother of Masumi Arakawa was shown to be an utterly vile woman who was abusive in every way towards her family. Not only did she openly berate her son despite being a talented actor as well as take any money he earned but was also the one responsible for the [[ScarsAreForever massive scar on his face that he'd carry for the rest of his life]], even threatening to give him a worse one that can't be covered by makeup. She's just as awful to her husband Toshio as she openly cheats on him with another man and had no problem taking their money to go spend on herself.
* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'':
** A rare non-malicious example would be Midori Gurin. While she is not mean or anything, she was created to represent the annoying fan stereotype. She is depicted as an annoying [[TheDitz ditz]] who harasses people with stupid questions with obvious answers. In-game, everyone, especially the teachers, considers her an annoying idiot that wastes their time. In the game's development videos, she is often abused, being shut down, insulted, and even murdered. Using tropes like AnnoyingVideoGameHelper and UnwantedAssistance, she is depicted as a strawman. The developer has stated that her stupidity is not meant to be charming, nor is she meant to be seen as cute. She is meant to be despised.
--->''"Don't be a Midori-chan."''\\
-- '''[=YandereDev=]'''
** A straighter example would be Musume Ronshaku. The AlphaBitch leader of the bullies, she's a SpoiledBrat who feels no guilt about bullying people to the point of ''suicide'', would backstab even her posse if she got something out of it, and in one concept video openly mocks Kokona for her family situation ([[spoiler:her father's in massive debt to Musume's father, and Kokona's engaging in CompensatedDating to try to pay it off]]), says Kokona deserved it, and slut shames her. No wonder people weren't exactly sad [[spoiler:when Kokona beats her to an unrecognizable pulp and kills her]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Yoobiiverse}}'':
** ''VideoGame/AnnabelleRPGMaker'':
*** Jason Sunray is the BigBad of the series and the title heroine's sexually abusive father who gives her the nightmares that most games explore. In every game, he is shown to be an unpleasant individual to everyone around him and has no redeeming qualities. [[spoiler:In the final game, he becomes the new head of a church tripling as an orphanage and mental institution for troubled kids, where he traumatizes them to keep them needing his 'help' so he can satisfy his greed with government grants.]]
*** [[AlphaBitch Riley]], the leader of Annabelle's school bullies, is not nearly as disgusting or heinous as Jason, but is still an unlikeable jerk. In ''Projection'', she is the BigBad who picks on Annabelle, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain insults her by calling her a special-ed student]], and is majorly responsible for her body issues. And unlike Jason, Riley [[KarmaHoudini never gets any punishment for her actions]].
** ''VideoGame/TheBrainsAndTheBrawn'': Jeanne Panini turns out to be a fairly sympathetic villain by the end, and [[spoiler:Gale Ravena has a FreudianExcuse]], but these two do not:
*** Grasshead, the leader of a gang terrorizing Downtown Ravena, is a violent criminal who enjoys crime and chaos, and is revealed to be [[spoiler:Jeanne's main bully in high school who led the other students in harassing her out of envy for Jeanne's popularity with the teachers]]. Unlike Jeanne, Grasshead never displays any good qualities and is simply a hateful jerk.
*** [[MayorPain Mayor James P. Ravena]] is the {{lazy|Bum}} and corrupt former head of Ravena City. Under his leadership, the city has become a WretchedHive with rampant homelessness, crime, and a general low quality of life, yet he only cares about [[AbusiveParents turning his son]], [[spoiler:Gale Ravena]], into a source of literally backbreaking free labor and justifying it by saying that he is just teaching his son discipline and hard work. [[spoiler:When Jeanne and Gale capture him, he pathetically [[VillainsWantMercy tries to beg for his life]] and give an insincere apology to his son, only for Gale to [[AssholeVictim shoot him anyway]]]].

* ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'': [[TheNeidermeyer Colonel [=McKinsey=]]] is the [[DirtyCoward cowardly]] and abusive GloryHound base commander of the 444 Spare Squadron. He constantly bad mouths the squadron, throws any insubordination, no matter how minor, into solitary confinement, and hoards the squadron's accomplishments to himself in the hopes that he'll be transferred over to a desk job. He's so reprehensible that even [[{{Jerkass}} AWACS Bandog]] dislikes him, and in the mission ''Transfer Orders'', [[PlayerCharacter Trigger]] can shoot down his transport craft and will be rewarded a thousand points for it. Even though it will end the mission in failure, Bandog will remark that the cargo [[AssholeVictim was not worth protecting]]. He's never encountered again after that mission, as he [[LaserGuidedKarma gets sent to the frontlines]] where he will get the glory he so desires.
** DLC character [[CorruptPolitician Brigadier General Howard Clements]], possibly even moreso than [=McKinsey=]. He's incredibly disdainful and arrogant towards the pilots under his command from the get go, and unlike [=McKinsey=], he doesn't have the excuse that his pilots are dirty criminals, treating the LRSSG like crap and pulling rank. Then if that wasn't enough, turns out he hired Private Military Contractor mercenary pilots to assassinate Trigger because heroes are risk factors apparently. When he [[IdiotBall tries to contact the mercs during the second DLC mission]], his treachery is revealed, and post-mission [[LaserGuidedKarma the MPs arrest him and for good measure, Huxian knocks his teeth out.]]
* ''VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo'' series: [[EvilMatriarch Miranda Jahana]] is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive founder]] of Section-9, her own secret bioweapons division where she subjected her own daughter, Reimi, to inhumane experiments and created the [[{{tykebomb}} hybrids]]. The tournament is [[NotJustATournament little more than a smokescreen]] by which she gets to field-test them by pitting them against the unsuspecting waitresses/competitors, and Yuka Takeuchi in particular is [[ArchEnemy the focal point of Miranda's hatred]] as the strongest among them, so she will stop at nothing to break her. She also kills all her hybrids when they lose and tries to flee when finally defeated.
* ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' has [[TheDragon Conrad Marburg]], an EvilCounterpart to [[PlayerCharacter Agent Thorton]]. He's a SoftSpokenSadist, SmugSnake, and CorruptCorporateExecutive rolled into one and serves as the ArcVillain for the Rome missions. Unless you [[GuideDangIt make all the right choices]] he pulls a VillainExitStageLeft at the end of the arc [[spoiler:after a KillTheCutie]], but [[GuileHero baiting him]] into a DuelToTheDeath instead with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech is one of the most cathartic moments of the entire game.
* Duke Crabtree from Creator/ZapDramatic's ''Ambition'' series was clearly ''supposed'' to be one, having a constant smug look on his face combined with a obnoxious nasally voice, and the game giving the player plenty of opportunities to tell him off or even punch him, [[spoiler:before finally revealing that he's secretly a terrorist]]. However, he instead became the EnsembleDarkhorse of the series due to being far more competent than any of the protagonists (not only being a good detective and having plenty of JerkassHasAPoint moments, but [[HiddenDepths revealing himself to be surprisingly good at providing marital counseling]] [[spoiler:as well as a particularly funny and surreal game over scene where he kills the player with a tire iron while disco lights and a guitar riff materialize behind him]]. By contrast, Ted Hartrup is the CreatorsPet whom the player is supposed to sympathize with the most, [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic but is one of the most hated characters in the series]] due to the story bending over backwards to justify his horrendous actions.
* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'': While the later games portray their antagonists in a somewhat sympathetic light (especially the colonial eras) by showing that they genuinely believe in the Templar cause and want to make the world a better place, this is not the case for the early games. Those who stand out in later games of the series are usually even worse.
** Nearly every single one of your targets qualifies as this in [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI the first game]]. Every one of them is seen committing a KickTheDog moment before you kill them. This is especially the case with Majd Addin, since the others at least try to justify their actions before dying (and in a few cases VillainHasAPoint would be in effect if not for excessive cruelty, such as the mental patients being given care by no one but the resident MadDoctor and the gay politician struggling with fear of being outed in a medieval society), but not this psycho; he states that he executed innocent people because [[ForTheEvulz he enjoyed it]].
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'':
*** Rodrigo Borgia. He orders the execution of Ezio's father as well as his two brothers. When Ezio confronts him later he gleefully admits that he didn't really need to kill the brothers as well, he just wanted to prove a point. He's also described as being a ruthless psychopath and an incestuous pedophile during the target briefing, with one particular visual provided of him standing in the middle of a field of corpses, smiling happily. Also, Ezio maintains a pretty professional attitude most of the time -- except with Borgia, whom he calls a bastard and beats the living shit out of with his bare hands.
*** One of the major themes of the second game is that the Templars got so corrupt that they largely moved away from their initial WellIntentionedExtremist motivations. Marco Barbarigo is one of the worst. He orders the assassination of his friend Dante Moro because he lusts after his wife. When Dante survives being stabbed in the head, Marco takes advantage of the resulting brain damage by having him annul his own marriage -- and the next visual on the target briefing shows Dante standing guard at the bedroom door while his ex-wife is dragged away by Marco.
*** Silvio Barbarigo could be considered even worse from Marco, as he has the children of his enemies massacred at a party.
** The modern day sections of the first five games have [[MadScientist Dr. Warren Vidic]], a cruel and arrogant man who shows no concern for the Animus subjects. His cruelty drove Daniel Cross [[SanitySlippage insane]] and Clay Kaczmarek to [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]]. He also [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated]] Lucy Stillman into betraying the Assassins, making him partially responsible for her death at the end of ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood Brotherhood]]''. Needless to say, no tears are shed when [[spoiler:he's killed in ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII III]]'']].
** As written above, the later games made the antagonists somewhat sympathetic, but that is not the case for Governor Pierre de Fayet, who is likely the most evil character in the series. He creates an oppressive system of slavery where slaves are cruelly mistreated and whipped. But the worst thing he does is when he orders a ship of slaves sunk with slaves chained to the mast, giving them a slow and painful death. He is also a huge {{Hypocrite}} as he enjoys visiting the slave brothel. Even his death serves to make him only more despicable; rather than admitting to his bad actions, he justifies that blacks are less than human and he can do with them as he likes. Admittedly, de Fayet is not a Templar.
** [[spoiler:Flavius Metellus, otherwise known as the Lion, is one of the most despicable members of the Order of the Ancients and the Templar Order [[EvenEvilHasStandards even by their standards]]. [[WouldHurtAChild He was the man responsible for the death of Khemu, the son of Bayek and Aya]], which led them to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge go on a quest for vengeance]] and eventually form the Hidden Ones (the precursors to the Assasin Brotherhood). Additionally, unlike most Templars, he's not even a WellIntentionedExtremist, and simply wants a Piece of Eden [[ForTheEvulz just for his own amusement]], which makes his death at the hands of Bayek all the more satisfying]].
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'' is brimming with these;
*** Chrysis might be the most hateable villain in the whole franchise seeing how she kidnapped your baby sibling and tortured him (or her depending whom you picked to play as) into insanity. Combined that with her DirtyCoward behavior and deliberately leaving another baby to die in fire, and you have the most loathsome villain the franchise and killing her is so satisfying.
*** Podarkes is pretty close in cruelty to Chrysis. Especially his tendency to murder children of people who didn't pay him money. He did it only to make an example of. And trying to murder his own daughter Kyra makes him even nastier and one of most disgusting villains in the game.
*** Although, he isn't as despicable as aformnetioned Chrysis and Podarkes, Kleon is still a nasty piece of work. His love of WarForFunAndProfit as well as being a complete jerk to everyone he sees beneath him as well as his huge DirtyCoward behavior, make him one of the least likable characters in the game.
*** Although, these guys are minor villains, it's hard to not kill Makar and Lelex when they order misthios to kill their own son and daughter after finding out about their romance and being thieves.
* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' has four members out of the Seven Deities: Wyzen, Kalrow, Sergei, and Olga. While Augus, Yasha, and Deus all have understandable motivations or likable qualities, these particular four are mass murderers who would gladly abuse their positions for personal gain or enjoyment, to the point of going against Deus's plans and treating the humans as below them. Both Wyzen and Kalrow treat human beings only as a resource to use and act condescendingly smug towards Asura, Sergei is an AxCrazy killer who enjoys destruction and killing while also being the murderer of Asura's wife Durga, and Olga cares only for serving Deus, yet is willing to waste all the mantra collected just to kill Asura and potentially ruin Deus's plan to destroy Gohma Vlitra, [[AMillionIsAStatistic under the excuse they can just get more from murdering more people]]. Olga is also willing to [[WouldHurtAChild kill Mithra]] to [[MoralMyopia spite Asura and Yasha for killing Deus despite the fact that they saved the world]], which leads to her [[AssholeVictim well-deserved demise]] [[VillainousRescue when she is foiled and killed by the Golden Spider]]
* ''VideoGame/AyakashiRomanceReborn'' first introduced some sympathetic villains... then [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Doman]] [[{{Sadist}} Ashiya]] came along. Not only did he hex Yura, but he seems delighted that Yura [[spoiler:has to keep killing innocent animals so his brother Gaku won't die]], which is only because of what Doman did to Yura in the first place. Then, he tells Yura that [[spoiler:to save a dying Gaku he must kill the heroine]]. All of Yura and Gaku's suffering is Doman's fault, and he's all too happy to see them suffer more.
* The ''Franchise/BaldursGate'' series has its share. Most of its {{Big Bad}}s ([[VideoGame/BaldursGate Sarevok]], [[VideoGame/BaldursGateII Irenicus]], and [[VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal Amelyssan]]) are {{Magnificent Bastard}}s, some of them have sympathetic traits and tragic backstories (especially [[VideoGame/BaldursGateSiegeOfDragonspear Caelar]]), and they're generally too likeable to hate entirely. Even Bhaal, the GreaterScopeVillain of the series and one of the most evil deities on Faerun, makes a nebulous target for audience hate due to [[TheGhost how little time he spends on-screen]]. Thankfully, we have the following characters on-hand to provide easy targets:
** Angelo Dosan, a CorruptCop and one of Sarevok's lieutenants who assumes control of the Flaming Fist after Sarevok becomes duke of Baldur's Gate. If he captures you he puts you through a KangarooCourt and sentences you to hang purely because you oppose his boss; in fact, [[KickTheDog he will kill one of your party members]] [[DisproportionateRetribution if you piss him off at this time]]. He is also the abusive father of party member Shar-Teel, which goes a long way towards explaining her hatred of men. Killing him in the final fight is thus very satisfying.
** Also from the first game is a more indistinct example: Sarevok's stepfather Rieltar Anchev. He isn't ''just'' a CorruptCorporateExecutive leading the Iron Throne; he didn't ''just'' strangle his wife with a garrote over [[EvilIsPetty infidelity]] in front of their adopted son; he even helped dwarven party member Yeslick to reclaim his clan's mines, only to betray him, slap him in a dungeon, and take the mines over for the Iron Throne. His death either at your hands or those of imposters hired by Sarevok is used to frame you for conspiring with the Shadow Thieves in distant Amn to bring about a war between Amn and the Sword Coast; otherwise it's a textbook example of kicking someone worth kicking with shades of PayEvilUntoEvil (Sarevok orders the imposters to [[KarmicDeath use a garrote]], to begin with). All in all, he is the one character Sarevok kills or has killed that [[AssholeVictim you can really, truly feel no sympathy for whatsoever]].
** In ''Siege of Dragonspear'', Hephernaan takes this role. Whereas Caelar is [[HeroAntagonist a noble and kind woman whose intentions are merely at odds with your own]], Hephernaan [[ObviouslyEvil couldn't look, sound, or act more villainous if he tried]]. His entire role in the story is to manipulate his superior and you to fulfil his dark goal of [[spoiler:opening a portal to the Nine Hells to unleash TheLegionsOfHell on Faerun]], when he's not berating underlings for forgivable failures or running a cabal of necromancers behind Caelar's back. Both of his possible deaths are triumphant examples of DeathByIrony. [[spoiler:Either he dies in battle alongside his demon lord master when you and Caelar team up to stop him, or Caelar, enacting a FaceHeelTurn by making a DealWithTheDevil (the devil in this case being Hephernaan's master), asks only that her new lord destroy Hephernaan for his treachery, which said demon lord gladly obliges, even as Hephernaan pleads pathetically for his life.]]
** In ''Shadows of Amn'' there are the Cowled Wizards, who are a bunch of KnightTemplar, HolierThanThou jackasses who imprison mages on trumped-up charges, have a secret torture room, kidnap Imoen along with Irenicus at the start of the game, and try to murder potential party member Valygar just so they can get access to an interplanar spaceship using his corpse. Consequently, when Edwin assigns you the job to kill one such wizard tracking him, even good companions admit that going after a Cowled Wizard is okay in their book. All this seems to be designed to ensure that their downfall -- Irenicus breaks free from their holdings and slaughters them all, mocking them for thinking they could hold him, and takes over their asylum to serve as his new base of operations -- elicits NoSympathy from the audience and causes them to applaud the style with which Irenicus pulls it off. Just to drive the point home, just before Irenicus breaks free, two wizards discuss how Imoen "is a cute one" and that they'll "have to practice some Enchantment spells" on her.
** One character who makes the audience hate him not by being scum of the earth but by being a source of infuriation is Noober, also from the first game, and his successor Neeber in the sequel. In summary, Noober is a Nashkel villager who is ''despised'' by the other villagers and players alike; he comes up to you and forcibly initiates dialogue over and over and over, about 65% of what he says being "How about now?" regarding the question of whether you'll throw rocks at him. You can kill him for no Reputation penalty, and the Enhanced Edition gives you the chance to add his name to a divine hitlist, which will eventually make him the target of celestial retribution. Neeber is much the same, only his monologue slightly shorter and you can't add him to the list.
** ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' has FolkHero warlock Wyll's demonic patron Mizora, a ManipulativeBitch and SmugSnake who goes out of her way to [[KickTheDog systematically ruin his life]] as well as torment TeamMom [[BarbarianHero Karlach]] purely ForTheEvulz. As TheDragon to [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils the archdevil Zariel]] she's an InvincibleVillain [[KarmaHoudini beyond the party's ability to harm]] [[spoiler:(except at one specific point, which also gets Wyll KilledOffForReal in the process)]], although they can inflict a satisfying HumiliationConga on her in the third act.
** ''III'' also has the gnomish LaResistance leader Wulbren Bongle. A rude, UngratefulBastard who has NoSympathy for his best friend risking life and limb to save him, and is a StrawHypocrite who wants to murder enslaved Gondians [[MisplacedRetribution for no real reason]] other than unjustified FantasticRacism. Hated to the point of it being a meme in the community.
** Aradin is a mercenary met at the start of the adventure, and an obnoxious and temperamental thug with racist leanings. He's [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk not remotely sympathetic]], and the PlayerCharacter has the option to punch him out in their first conversation with him.
* ''Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries'':
** The series version of the the Riddler is the most obnoxious, irritating incarnation yet. You name the annoying trait, chances are he has it. He's an InsufferableGenius who thinks he's smarter and better than everyone, a {{Hypocrite}} who chides Batman for cheating on his riddles when his "puzzles" would be impossible for even a high intellect to solve without access to Batman's technology and he constantly changes the rules to benefit himself, [[NeverMyFault he never accepts defeat nor take responsibility for any of his actions]], has a massive [[AGodAmI God Complex]], he's a HollywoodAtheist, [[{{Sadist}} doesn't give a damn about anyone]], and lacks any of the characteristics that make the other Rogues sympathetic or likable. While he does have a FreudianExcuse like the other rogues (he was physically and verbally abused by his father and bullied by his classmates), he arguably brought it on himself by lying and cheating his way through life. And to further hammer it home, he is universally despised in-universe (not even the other villains like him) and appears in every game, getting more and more dickish as time goes by, constantly distracting Batman from far more important matters with his puzzles[=/=]deathtraps.
** The Penguin as well. He is one of the few villains in the game who lacks any kind of cool traits and is absolutely despicable, hateful and obnoxious. All we know about Penguin is an inelegant, tacky, {{narcissist}}ic, [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant]], [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain homophobic, misogynistic, racist]], and [[DirtyCoward cowardly]] {{sociopath}} [[SmugSnake who thinks he is way more sophisticated than he actually is]]. It certainly doesn't help the fact that he is the WickedPretentious trope incarnate.
** ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins Arkham Origins]]''' [[DownloadableContent DLC]] ''Cold, Cold Heart'' has its incarnation of Ferris Boyle. While Boyle is an awful person in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', he did have a point that Victor's experiment was unauthorized, and he was using stolen equipment. [[AdaptationalJerkass This Boyle has no such excuse and is given far greater crimes than his animated counterpart]]. [[spoiler:He makes a deal with Victor that he will help him find a cure for Nora in exchange for him developing cryo-weapons, personally assaults Victor when the latter realizes that he has no intention of honoring his bargain and refuses to cooperate with him any further, kidnaps Nora (all the while claiming she's his property as cryonic test subject), sadistically taunts a helpless Victor about how he will kill Nora in front of him before killing him, [[ForcedToWatch just so he can see her slip away]], all the while bashing him in the head, and [[UngratefulBastard attempts to kill Batman despite the latter saving his life]] just so he can erase all evidence of his crimes.]] Batman punching him unconscious is definitely satisfying as it is well-deserved.
* The ''VideoGame/BioShock'' series has no shortage of evil characters. However, even the most depraved antagonists tend to avoid this trope and fall squarely into LaughablyEvil or CryForTheDevil territory. The same cannot be said for these specific characters:
** [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Yi Suchong]] from [[VideoGame/BioShock1 the first game]] is a despicably immoral MadDoctor who [[ForScience performs horrific experiments on human test subjects with no remorse for their suffering]]. Unlike fellow MadDoctor J.S. Steinman, who is loudly enthusiastic about his work, Suchong shows nothing but cold indifference to the pain and anguish others suffer because of his actions, and [[CardCarryingVillain he explicitly says that he neither knows nor cares what a conscience is]]. He worked with [[spoiler:BigBad Frank Fontaine]] to make [[spoiler:the PlayerCharacter, Jack, a LaserGuidedTykebomb from birth]], testing his mental conditioning of the young man by [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals forcing him to kill a puppy]]. He later [[WouldHurtAChild slaps a Little Sister]] just for getting in his way -- only to suffer an ''immensely'' satisfying KarmicDeath immediately afterwards. During the events of ''[[BioShockInfinite/BurialAtSea Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea]]'', the player learns that he'd steal ideas from Jeremiah Fink, as Fink stole from him, depriving them of much credit for their innovations. During part II, he forces Elizabeth into doing relatively meaningless chores for his own benefit, such as forcing her to fix the tear machine (though she had her own reasons for fixing it) and risk going deeper into Columbia to get a hair sample (that ultimately becomes meaningless and is, not to Suchong's knowledge, Elizabeth's own hair). Elizabeth gets a first-row seat to witnessing Suchong's KarmicDeath with her own eyes.
** Stanley Poole from [[VideoGame/BioShock2 the second game]] is a {{smug|snake}}, sleazy JerkAss who has [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder a nasty habit of betraying people at the slightest provocation]]. He got himself into Andrew Ryan's good books by having the enigmatic folk hero Johnny Topside -- of whom Poole spoke highly beforehand -- turned over to the authorities, whereupon Topside was forcibly converted into the Big Daddy who would be known as Subject Delta, the PlayerCharacter. After ingratiating himself with the city's top brass, Poole infiltrates Dionysus Park on Ryan's orders, only to join Sophia Lamb's cult just to further his own goals. Poole [[TheStoolPigeon rats out Lamb to the police]] and has her imprisoned so he can have the run of the Park. He then proceeds to blow all of Lamb's money on [[HookersAndBlow lavish parties full of sex and drugs]]. When Lamb unexpectedly escapes from custody, Poole panics, because he doesn't want her to know what he did. To that end, he has Lamb's daughter, Eleanor, sent away to become a Little Sister (essentially damning her to a life of human experimentation and slavery) and floods Dionysus Park, killing everyone inside [[HeKnowsTooMuch just to keep his misdeeds under wraps]]. Poole keeps this information secret from you as he tasks you with finding and eliminating the Little Sisters, the last people who would know about what he did. When you find out the truth about Poole's doings and go to confront him, he [[DirtyCoward pathetically begs for his life]].
** [[DastardlyWhiplash Jeremiah Fink]] from ''[[VideoGame/BioShockInfinite Infinite]]'' is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who keeps the economic wheels of Columbia turning. He's insufferably condescending, shamelessly narcissistic, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain extremely racist]], and [[SmugSnake not nearly as clever or cool as he'd like to believe]]. He abuses his workers, keeping them toiling in conditions of virtual slavery (giving them 16-hour workdays with no sick leave and lunch breaks, paying them in scrip than can only be spent at his company stores, forcing them to live in ghettoes near his factories, etc.), all the while justifying his heinous actions with [[InsaneTrollLogic rhetoric that makes sense only to him]]. His only remotely redeeming qualities seem to be [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes his genuine love for his brother and son]], but even then, it's not given much focus and any good features the man might have had have long been drowned out by his {{greed}} and {{pride}}.
* Everyone hates Yuuki Terumi from ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' and several characters are after his head in particular, and for ''very'' good reason. [[WordOfGod Mori himself]] stated that he's supposed to lack any redeemable traits. His first known acts include kidnapping Saya, murdering Celica, and possessing Jin into cutting off Ragna's arm and have him fight Jin, all the while taunting him over it. He doesn't get any better as he is shown to be completely unpleasant to the rest of the cast. This includes his [[FantasticRacism racism towards beastkin like Makoto and Valkenhayn]], [[spoiler:[[WouldHurtAChild destroying Ada in front of Carl right before killing him]], laughing at [[WasOnceAMan Arakune's horrifying condition]], and [[MindRape mindbreaking Noel]] to transform her into [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Mu-12]]]]. While he does all these horrible things because [[ThePowerOfHate his existence hinges on people hating him]], that doesn't change the fact that [[ForTheEvulz he finds it fun]].
* ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuest'' Duology:
** ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheShiftedSpires'' has these two major antagonists:
*** [[GoldfishPoopGang Caleb Robertson]] is a HeroicWannabe who wants to defeat Catie and her team to prove he is better than her. Mistreating and looking down on everyone he encounters, Caleb insults Catie and her party whenever they meet, and after first being beaten, swears revenge. He then stalks Catie throughout her journey in order to fight her again and again, becoming more belligerent every time, and falsely accuses her of being the one destroying the Boxxysphere, intending to turn her in and [[GloryHound become famous]]. He also stole Cecil's Drug Mushrooms at one point in the past, and in his final encounter he threatens to have Kelly and her pirate crew executed, even [[spoiler:attempting to [[FalselyReformedVillain feign remorse]] when he loses]].
*** [[spoiler:[[OmnicidalManiac Rcoastee]], seemingly Catie's helpful mentor, was [[TreacherousAdvisor manipulating her all along]] to gain control of the Internet for himself. Having [[KillAndReplace killed the real Invective to pose as him]], he manipulated the 404 Calamity to create the Third Internet, and wants to revert it back to the Second Internet, killing many innocents. He is also revealed as a disgusting and controlling {{Yandere}} to Catie who demands she submit to him while admitting he truly cares nothting for her. A man every bit as destructive and wicked as Boxxyfan but completely lacking the latter's symapthetic backstory and qualities, Rcoastee even tries to [[TakingYouWithMe take the Internet with him]] when he is beaten.]]
** ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'' is a satire of Internet culture, and as such, these characters represent the worst of it:
*** [=RayWilliamJohnson=], [=PewDiePie=], and the [=YouTube=] executives from Chapter 4 are depicted as a cabal of {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s who lord their power over their denizens. First shown being uncooperative with the other site leaders at the Summit, even when the Internet itself is at stake, they make it blatant that they intend to TakeOverTheWorld. Within [=YouTube=], they ban and demonetize popular [=YouTubers=] willy nilly and [[CardCarryingVillain gleefully cackle about their deeds]]. In Chapter 4, they are the {{Arc Villain}}s who have the heroes imprisoned for supposedly stealing the crystals that keep [=YouTube=] running, while the real culprit gets away. It is revealed that [[spoiler:they are working with the real culprit and have been selling the crystals, uncaring if [=YouTube=] is destroyed because they can just leave]].
*** [[SinisterMinister Lady Anita]] and her Social Justice Warriors are a {{cult}} of women who hate men and cause trouble around the Internet. Encountered in Chapter 6, they attempt to force the Gatekeeper to commit suicide by jumping off his tower [[DisproportionateRetribution just because he made a sexist remark]]. All of them are shown as petty bullies who use their cause as an excuse to antagonize others, and when Til and Catie object to Lady Anita, she simply says [[CategoryTraitor they have internalized bigotry]], ever so dismissive of the women she claims to be protecting.
* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'': [[QuirkyMinibossSquad The Jobmasters]] of the [[TheEmpire Duchy of Eternia]] are a diverse set of villains, most of which are LaughablyEvil and or {{Anti Villain}}s, but these characters are not:
** Erutus Profiteur is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who leeches off of innocent people with his monopoly over Anchiem's water supply.
** Fiore de Rosa is a playboy who sees woman as tools fit to be brainwashed and drugged to become slave labor.
** Dr. Qada is a war criminal who perfects his toxic weapons of mass destruction by using the soldiers under his care as unwilling test subjects. He is plotting to unleash a deadly disease on the people of Eternia, and will only give out a cure in exchange for usurpation of the throne and its wealth. An optional cutscene has [[EvenEvilHasStandards Kamiizumi get fed up with his treachery and kill him]]. [[spoiler:While ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'' reforms Fiore de Rosa and Erutus Profiteur -- de Rosa takes an appreciation of the sciences and is hellbent on making his new energy source worth the sacrifice of the desert folk, and Profiteur buys up the land around Eisenberg in order to restore its economy -- there is no sign of Qada anywhere to be found; supplementary material reveals that even after Deneb revived him, he went right back to causing chaos before he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment, and his asterisk subsequently destroyed.]]
** The Evil One, aka [[spoiler:Airy the fairy]], is the despicable servant of the source of corruption. While the main antagonist aside from [[BigBad Brav Lee]] is the source of corruption, he [[GreaterScopeVillain doesn't have much of a direct hand in the plot]] and only shows up at the end. By contrast, [[spoiler:Ouroburos's "daughter" Airy [[EvilAllAlong is there from the beginning and manipulates the party into helping her destroy the world]]. She's a despicable liar who [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper loves to boss you around]], and acts like a SpoiledBrat DaddysGirl in regards to her creator. She's basically [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Navi]] except ''[[CuteIsEvil pure evil]]'' and ''designed to be hated'' instead of just annoying. At least in the best ending, [[KarmicDeath she ends up getting eaten alive by Ouroburos]].]]
* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefaultII'', just like the Jobmasters, has the Asterisk Bearers vary between EvilIsCool or [[AntiVillain Anti-Villains]], but there are definitely some that you can hate:
** [[spoiler:Folie, the ArcVillain of Chapter 2, is a MadArtist and SerialKiller who is secretly responsible for Wiswald's plight, and for a [[EvilIsPetty disturbingly petty reason too]]. Instead of using normal paint to create a painting she deems her masterpiece, she instead decides to use different materials she gathered through unethical means, namely murdering people to use their blood as red paint and creating trees that destroyed people's homes and potentially endanger them as a giant fire hazard just to get yellow paint from their bark. She is also revealed to have [[WouldHurtAChild murdered the daughter of Lily and Roddy McGranate]] so she can brainwash the latter into creating blue paint from industrial waste. Her own backstory does paint her as a LonelyRichKid, but it soon becomes clear that she's egotistical enough to look down on people as being "ugly and stupid", and the Heroes of Light [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse do not sympathize with her after learning the extent of her crimes]].]]
** [[spoiler:Helio, the true ArcVillain of Chapter 3, is a spy from Holograd who has been manipulating the Archbishop Domenic into helping him destabilize the country of Rimedhal and make it vulnerable to conquest by setting up "judgements", falsely accusing countless people of being fairies and executing them by forcing them to plunge into a frozen ravine. When the time for Holograd's invasion finally comes, Helio [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kills Domenic]] and [[JustBetweenYouAndMe cruelly gloats to Gladys]], his once devoted follower, that he murdered her parents and pinned it on the fairies so he can turn her into his weapon.]]
* ''VideoGame/BugFables'': [[ThePrimaDonna Mothiva]], the main rival of Team Snakemouth, initially appears to be [[NiceCharacterMeanActor a kind celebrity]], but in truth she is an extremely selfish, arrogant, vain and condescending [[{{Narcissist}} narcissist]] who is obsessed only with personal fame and glory, and her every appearance makes sure the player will hate her. She always insults Team Snakemouth at any given chance, [[UngratefulBastard refuses to thank them for saving her from]] [[BlobMonster the Ahoneynation]], and is even willing to assault them twice to hijack their missions, the second time she does so happening during the peace negotiation with the Termite Kingdom, which might have resulted in potentially ruining the chance of earning their favor, a fact she willfully ignores, which makes even [[NiceGuy Kabbu]] [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness snap at her in rage]]. In fact, her own teammate [[SycophanticServant Zasp]], whom she treats like a servant at best, is much more approachable than her, helping Team Snakemouth when she isn't around.
* While ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'' is a WorldOfJerkass, the following characters stand out as magnets for the player's ire:
** The game's BigBad, Gary Smith, is among the nastiest students in Bullworth, chronically manipulating and betraying just about everyone around him to take over the school. Working with the Townies frames Jimmy for a series of pranks, and setting the gym on fire with students within. Gary gains respect of the staff when Jimmy's expelled, before throwing the school into chaos. Just about every scene with Gary builds up the satisfaction of beating the crap out of him in the final fight.
** Mr. Hattrick is among the most blatantly corrupt and hateful teachers in Bullworth. Almost every scene of him has him bullying other teachers. His bullying caused Mr. Galloway to become an alcoholic, and he takes bribes from rich students to help them cheat. A deleted piece of dialogue also suggests that he callously drove his wife to suicide.
** Mr. Burton initially appears to be just a stereotypical bullying gym teacher, but later missions show that he is a pervert and creep, asking Jimmy to go on a panty raid for him. When Jimmy meets Zoe, we find out that he has sexually harassed her and when she went to the school about it, [[MiscarriageOfJustice they expelled her]]. From this, the player helps get payback at him not once, but twice; the first involves a prank and knocking down a porta-potty with him in it, and the second getting Burton fired when Jimmy reports him.
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'' and ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2 Lords of Shadow 2]]'':
** [[spoiler:In contrast to his [[TheGrimReaper mainstream counterpart]] who remains a devoted servant to Dracula, [[EvilOldFolks Zobek]] is a sickeningly evil necromancer who manipulates Gabriel into a variety of evil deeds, gloating over his despair and pain. Centuries hence, Zobek showcases he remains as much a monster as ever by feeding an innocent family to Dracula and attempting to string him along for his own purposes.]]
** [[spoiler:{{Satan}} is a self-centered FallenAngel who feels that he is entitled to rule above God, and upon being defeated by Gabriel, threatens him by implying that he will rape and torture his deceased wife's soul. After being summoned back to Earth, Satan kills his own son for incompetence and tries to destroy the Earth out of spite for Dracula and Alucard thwarting his plans. In a final act of cruelty, he possesses Alucard to force Dracula to fight his son, taunting him throughout their battle with references to child abuse, and ultimately proves himself to be nothing more than a [[DirtyCoward coward]] by trying to flee from his impending death.]]
* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'':
** [[MadDoctor Dr. Fuyuhiko Date]], aka The Doctor, is the BigBad, whose plans involve kidnapping, [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]], and brainwashing the cute and cuddly Mimiga into an army he'll send against the surface. He's described as "like a demon" by the supporting characters, and given how his evil plan involves inflicting Nazi-style vivisection and genocide against little rabbit creatures, that's an incredible understatement. The TrueFinalBoss, [[spoiler:Ballos]], despite being the GreaterScopeVillain as [[spoiler:the one who created the Demon Crown in the first place]], comes off a great deal more sympathetic.
** [[spoiler:The king who tortured Ballos to the point where the latter lost control of his mind and powers, all because [[GreenEyedMonster he couldn't tolerate his people loving Ballos more than himself]]. While [[PosthumousCharacter he's long gone]] and is only mentioned during Ballos' backstory, he was a [[EvilIsPetty petty]], [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] ruler, serving as a source of scorn from players and to provide sympathy fuel for [[AntiVillain Ballos]].]]
* ''VideoGame/ChildOfLight'': Nox [[spoiler:a.k.a. Norah]] is a strong candidate for the game's most despicable antagonist after her true personality is [[TheReveal revealed]] mid-game, mainly because she's a BitchInSheepsClothing who [[spoiler:pretends to be a sweet older stepsister to [[KidHero Aurora]] and is even a temporary ally in battle, but is later revealed to be one of the BigBad's daughters and [[FalseFriend had been lying to her little stepsister from the start]], guiding her to a MagicMirror in the sky that she says will [[TheHomewardJourney take her home to her dying father]], [[LuredIntoATrap but had been tampered with to take her to a prison tower instead]] where the BigBad waits to kill her. When it begins to [[StealthPun dawn]] on Aurora that she has been tricked, Nox breaks into a [[{{Sadist}} sadistic]] SlasherSmile and [[{{Troll}} coldly mocks Aurora for trusting her]], [[BreakTheCutie emotionally devastating the poor girl]]]]. It feels extremely cathartic to catch up to her in the Temple of the Sun and beat the life out of her for the PreFinalBoss battle.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Yakra XIII starts the game off as an EvilChancellor and adviser to King Guardia XXXIII. Due to time travel, near the start of the game, Crono and his friends kill the first Yakra, leading his family to swear revenge on them and the Guardia royal family. When Crono returns, Yakra XIII trumps up charges of kidnapping to have him arrested; even if he's found Not Guilty, Yakra XIII lies to the warden so that he'll be executed. When Crono tries to escape, Yakra XIII sends a ''tank'' after him. Later in the game, it's revealed that Yakra XIII has deliberately worsened the relationship between Marle (the princess) and her father, convincing her that her mother died pleading for the king to see her, but that the king refused. (In fact, King Guardia was at the queen's side the entire time she was dying.) When Crono and his friends acquire the Rainbow Shell and give it to the Guardia royal family for safekeeping, Yakra XIII fakes evidence of King Guardia XXXIII having sold it and puts him on trial, bribing the jury to ensure a conviction. Only Marle's arrival saves the king, at which point Yakra XIII loses it and tries to ''slaughter everyone in the courtroom''. There is nothing amusing or redeemable about Yakra XIII; he's through and through a spiteful, disgusting monster.
* ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersJericho'': The lieutenants of the First Born are a loathsome trio:
** Hanne Lichthammer is a psychic Nazi commander who guards the path of souls, littered by the countless bodies of her victims over the years in her service to the First Born. When confronted by the Jericho squad, Lichthammer continues to show her sadism in combat and even mocks the sexual abuse suffered by one member in her past.
** Bishop Maltheus St. Claire is an insane bishop and implied pedophile who convinced the pope to grant him an army of children for a crusade, only for them to be slaughtered alongside him. As a spirit in service to the First Born, Maltheus traps the children's wrathful, tormented souls in his chambers and has the audacity to curse the Jericho squad for calling him out on the monster he is.
** Governor Cassus Vicus is a bloated Roman aristocrat who sates his appetites on the endless suffering of his immortal subjects, regularly having them crucified, defiled, and cannibalized for his own delights. Aroused by his combat with the Jericho squad, Vicus's vile nature is symbolized in the waste he spews forth during their fight with him.
* ''VideoGame/CodeVein'': [[BigBad Juzo Mido]] is directly responsible for the plights of many of the game's characters. He's an EvilutionaryBiologist who happily performs all manner of horrifically cruel experiments, often just [[ForTheEvulz because he can]]. He once adopted a group of orphans -- including [[spoiler:major protagonist Yakumo]] -- [[AbusiveParents just so he could experiment on them and force them to fight for him]], among many other atrocities. Even his own allies aren't safe, with flashbacks showing him gleefully turning his experiments on his own researchers, and in the present he betrays [[spoiler:Jack and Eva and mutates the latter into a monster]] [[DisproportionateRetribution just for trying to check in on what he's doing]]. Though he ultimately tries to justify all his actions as being necessary to combat the horrors of the Great Collapse and further humanity's evolution, by that point nobody cares about his reasoning because of how excessively cruel he is.
* ''VideoGame/CookieRun'' has quite a few villains, all of whom span the full spectrum of evil. However, two cookies in particular stand out as being especially vile.
** [[LadyInRed Pomegranate Cookie]] is TheDragon to [[BigBad Dark Enchantress Cookie]]. Abandoning and cursing her own village out of a belief that [[YouCantFightFate joining the Darkness was her destiny]], Pomegranate has zero problems [[KickTheDog tormenting and screwing over other cookies]] if it suits her, her own allies included. She has a LackOfEmpathy for anyone who isn't herself or Dark Enchantress, and has no redeeming qualities to speak of. Even Dark Enchantress herself has a FreudianExcuse for [[AwfulTruth how she became this way]]; Pomegranate has none.
** [[EvilChancellor Affogato Cookie]] is the right-hand man to [[DarkIsNotEvil Dark Cacao Cookie]]. A ManipulativeBastard through and through, Affogato cares only for his own desires and has NoSympathy towards the suffering of his fellow cookies. He sweet-talks Dark Cacao into banishing [[LovedByAll Caramel Arrow Cookie]] out of [[GreenEyedMonster nothing but jealousy]], and allies with the Cookies of Darkness (including the above-mentioned Pomegranate) solely to claim the throne for himself. And for the cherry on top, after he is defeated, he outright [[DirtyCoward flees the kingdom altogether]], abandoning his followers to face Dark Cacao's wrath alone.
* ''VideoGame/CorruptionOfLaetitia'': [[HighPriest Cardinal Alfredus Marian]] is the tyrannical leader of the [[CorruptChurch Elysian Order]]. A [[FantasticRacism racist who despises demons]], he has his minions exterminate them, and kicks off the game by betraying heroine Celeste Avadona and stealing her powers. Throughout the game, we see how his industrial and military expansion brings mass pollution, famine, and suffering to the various monster tribes. He also treats his allies with contempt, brainwashes one of his minions into becoming a suicide bomber, and [[KnightTemplar insists that he is protecting his people]] despite the damage his incompetence is doing.
* ''{{VideoGame/Cyberpunk 2077}}'':
** FinalBoss Adam Smasher. He's introduced calling TheWoobie "a cut of fuckable meat" and rapidly becomes less likable. Smasher also does himself no favors in the prequel ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners''. In the show, [[spoiler:he ruins David's reunion with Lucy before [[MeaningfulName he smashes Rebecca on the floor]] and kills David]], all of which serve to reinforce his obsession for brutality. Put simply, Smasher is a callous, misogynistic, sadistic, brutal psychopath who prefers to take missions that will result in high body counts and massive collateral damage, and has no even vaguely redeeming features whatsoever.
** One of the various Gigs will call on V to either kill or capture Jotaro Shobo, a truly vile and depraved {{sadist}} who has a habit of murdering sex workers and recording their last moments as illegal snuff braindances to sell on the black market. The Moxes will pay good money for V to either walk into his club and put a bullet in his smug face, or drag him out of the club and into the back of a Mox pickup vehicle, whereupon he will be driven to their bar and the girls will take turns beating to death in retribution for all the evil karma he's accrued. [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Not even his fellow Tyger Claws are sad to see him go]], and just in case you think he has any redeeming qualities, you can dig around in his personal computer and find an email complaining about [[WouldHurtAChild not having enough kids to practice on]].
** Judy's questline has two, Woodman and Doc Fingers. The former is a {{slimeball}} working for the Tyger Claws [[spoiler:[[DudeShesLikeInAComa who raped the aforementioned woobie]]]], and the latter is a slimeball ''and'' CreepyCrossdresser infamous for giving his poorer clients low-quality cyberware that forces them to come back for repairs. There's no consequences for killing the former, but harming the latter used to lock you out of some of the best cyberware in the game. After the changes to his inventory, most players have decided that the consequences were now WorthIt, resulting in [[https://www.gamesradar.com/cyberpunk-2077-players-unleash-3-years-of-pent-up-rage-after-update-20-removes-the-downside-of-beating-up-fingers/ widespread player feedback indicating a lot of people went back to Fingers specifically to kick his ass]].
* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'':
** Petrus in the [[Videogame/DarkSoulsI first game]] is a condescending asshole who eventually [[spoiler:abandoned his charge, Rhea, to die in the Tomb of the Giants, and then tries to kill her later if the player rescues her]]. It's not uncommon for players to kill him right after clearing Tomb of the Giants, even though doing so counts as a sin within the game.
** Also from the first game is Lautrec of Carim, a sadistic psychopath who makes little pretense of hiding how murderous he really is. After you go to the trouble of breaking him out of a prison cell, his way of thanking you, after a certain point in the game, is to [[spoiler:murder Anastacia, disabling the Firelink Shrine bonfire]]. Again, it's very common for players to literally kick him off of a cliff once they have the chance; although this doesn't count as a sin, this does keep you from [[spoiler:obtaining Lautrec and Anastacia's armor sets]]... though you ''do'' still get the Ring of Favor and Protection.
** Maldron the Assassin from the [[Videogame/DarkSoulsII second game]] manages to be one without even having a single piece of dialogue, being an obnoxious NPC invader with many a [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheap]] and [[DirtyCoward cowardly]] tactic. The Fume Knight, Alonne, Aava, and The Ivory King may be more difficult encounters, being proper boss fights, but the former two are [[EvilIsCool cool]] and [[BestBossEver memorable]] badasses, while the latter two are sympathetic [[AntiVillain Anti-Villains]].
** [[Videogame/DarkSoulsIII The third game]] gives us Aldrich and Pontiff Sulyvahn, both of whom, for a first, are major bosses rather than [=NPCs=]. The former for his sadistic gluttony while the latter for his usurpation of various kingdoms and aiding the former in his devouring of gods. While many ''Dark Souls'' bosses are sympathetic figures with tragic backstories, Aldrich and Sulyvahn are aware of their crimes and take great pleasure in them.
* Several examples crop up in ''VideoGame/DeadIsland''. The zombies? No, they are merely victims. Ryder White? No, he's TheWoobie, framed, and makes a FaceMonsterTurn. Instead, we have Charon, who orchestrates the outbreak, Koritoia, who knowingly and willingly allowed the kuru outbreak to occur through cannibalism and tried to kill his daughter, and the Raskols gang; murderers, rapists, they set the infected against the survivors ForTheEvulz and are so bad the Banoi Islands Self Defense Force is formed to try and control them. [[spoiler:One of the criticisms of the game, in fact, can be that Charon [[KarmaHoudini escapes unscathed]] and [[TheBadGuyWins wins]], despite being a Hate Sink, preventing catharsis.]]
* ''VideoGame/DeadRising'':
** Brock Mason contrasts the more tragic Carlito Keyes, representing the cruelty the American government inflicted on his people, having oversaw the military occupation of Santa Cabeza. When the government's experiments resulted in a zombie outbreak, having civilians and survivors to cover up the incident. During the Willamette outbreak Keyes starts in retaliation, Mason intends to wipe out the city as part of the cover-up, expressing annoyance that humans are more stubborn "prey" than zombies.
** Jo Slade stands in stark contrast to the other "Psychopath" bosses, lacking any sympathetic aspects or comedic quirks. An abrasive, obnoxious, misogynistic, and lustful cop on a power trip, Slade uses her position and the zombie outbreak as an excuse to be a SerialRapist, keeping numerous women captive with the intent on raping them to death, and is preparing to molest a woman when Frank confronts her. Despite only appearing once, she establishes herself as one of the most deplorable and nasty bosses in the series.
** Kent Swanson is hateable enough when you first meet him, since he's an obnoxious, showboating asshole who cares more about taking memorable photographs during the Willamette outbreak and smugly taunts and jeers at Frank with every chance he gets. But should Frank start to one-up him during his photo challenge, Kent attempts to (and if you're too late to start the mission, ''will'') turn an innocent man as a zombie so he can capture the moment a person turns on camera with a childish, sociopathic sense of glee. At that point, it becomes clear that Kent isn't just a jackass, but a disgusting little creep that needs to go down. Luckily, Kent chooses that moment to become a Psychopath, giving you an invitation to kill him however you see fit.
* ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'':
** Leon Bell qualifies as this, being an obnoxious, egotistical and jealous person who sees everyone else below him, even going as far as to murder an innocent man in front of Chuck just to show him how little he values the lives of others. His sense of pride is also so pathologically big that he would rather kill himself via burning to death rather then let Chuck kill him, telling Chuck he is number one before burning to death in front of him, with Chuck only quipping "yeah, you're on fire."
** Reed Wallbeck is hatable enough in that he is an arrogant and abusive bastard that treats his assistant Roger Withers like trash, insulting him and seeing him as second fiddle to himself who doesnt deserve to share the spotlight. Reed also shows a callous disregard for the lives of others, seeing other humans as only test subjects to be used in his lethal magic tricks, brushing off the death of a woman when Chuck calls out her death, only claiming "it isnt as easy as it looks". His hateability is solidified when Roger finally gets to cathartically murder Reed by stabbing him repeatedly in the chest, saying "he has always wanted to do that" before finally passing away.
* ''VideoGame/DefJamSeries'': From ''Fight For NY'', Sticky is a childish member of D-Mob's crew, and a self entitled freeloader. Quickly becoming jealous of the PlayerCharacter becoming D-Mob's best fighter, Sticky joins Crow's crew out of spite, seeing D-Mob and the rest of the crew nearly killed in a drive by. Sticky later helps kidnap the Player's girlfriend for Crow, and tries to burn her to death to get the Player to fight him.
* Demon General Majorita from ''VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance'', despite only being one of [[BigBad Void Dark]]'s two [[TheDragon Dragons]], does a number of things that makes the heroes very furious towards her. To start, she has her "kill and recycle" gimmick: killing her enemies and then raising them as corpses that do her bidding. Some of her most despicable acts include [[spoiler:forcing Usalia's parents to undergo 100 days of tortuous servitude, putting a curse on Usalia so that she has to eat curry -- [[DoesNotLikeSpam her least favorite food]] -- or else she turns into an insane beast and eventually dies, killing her parents anyway right when they were about to gain their freedom, and then later ordering their zombified corpses to kill Usalia]]. Small wonder that the cast, especially Usalia, has nothing but seething hatred for her. [[spoiler:Even when she's defeated for real and trash-talked by the heroes for her atrocities in the penultimate episode and then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness gets discarded by Void Dark]], she never shows a single shred of remorse for her actions.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Dormitabis}}'': For this ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' fan game, [[spoiler:[[BigBad Garvey Write]] is a detestable murderer based on an outdated interpretation of William Afton, the real BigBad of the original franchise, but unlike what William evolves into, Garvey is '''much''' worse than he could ever be. Garvey sets the standard for an unlikable antagonistic character for any media, including fan media, in every possible way. The remaster of the game tones down his hateable aspects and [[AdaptationalNiceGuy makes him more likable]], but he still retains his original murderous self.]]
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', neither side of the BigBadEnsemble is easy to hold in contempt; [[TragicMonster the Archdemon]] is [[EldritchAbomination alien and unknowable]] and spends most of the game as an unseen threat, and [[TheHeavy Teyrn Loghain]] turns out to be [[AntiVillain a better]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist man]] than is initially apparent. The game provides easier targets for the players' hatred in the form of:
*** Arl Rendon Howe, one of Loghain's CoDragons. A sociopathic aristocrat who only cares about his own ambition, Howe is a SmugSnake who spends most of the game [[KickTheDog kicking dogs]] and carrying out Loghain's will in the most brutal way possible. Loghain's daughter Anora even mentions that desperation for political support was the only motivation Loghain had to even associate with the man. He gets bonus points if the player is the Human Noble, as in that Origin he is responsible for murdering most of the player character's family and household (including [[WouldHurtAChild his/her kid nephew]]) and forcing the player character to flee and join the Wardens, or a City Elf, since he spends most of the game leading a ''brutal'' purge against their alienage (over a "riot" that was resolved by the time he assumed office anyway) because "[[FantasticRacism when animals snap at their human masters]], [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman it's prudent to 'cull the herd']]." All this makes his eventual comeuppance all the more satisfying and poetic.
*** Bann Vaughan Kendalls. He's [[FantasticRacism racist towards elves]], an EntitledBastard, and a SerialRapist and [[SerialKiller murderer]] of elven women who abducts the female part of an elven wedding party, which includes the protagonist's cousin (and the protagonist herself if female) for [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty decidedly ignoble intentions]], but otherwise has no bearing on the plot beyond providing a single vote at the Landsmeet (and due to how the Landsmeet works you can pretty much ignore him if you've done a bunch of sidequests and make the right arguments). Indeed, any Warden gets the option to murder him on the spot when he's found in [[spoiler:Arl Howe's]] dungeon. In fact, he has 15 minutes at most of screentime, and it's clear his whole purpose is to a) act as a StarterVillain whose actions force the City Elf to join the Grey Wardens and b) put a name and a face to the contempt and discrimination city elves face at the hands of humans.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', being a game filled to the brim with GreyAndGreyMorality, has a few nasty pieces of work of its own.
*** [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Ser Alrik]] is a clear-cut portrait of this trope. He's a sadist who tortures mages and makes them Tranquil ForTheEvulz, and is pushing a plan called "[[FinalSolution the Tranquil Solution]]" to apply this to every mage in the city. Just in case you think Anders is exaggerating, his one scene consists of him threatening an apprentice who just wanted to see her mum again. "Once you're Tranquil, [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty you'll do anything I ask.]]" Oh, and NPC banter confirms he's done this before.
*** Then there's slaver Varian, who kidnaps a boy called Feynriel with intent to sell him off. He only appears in a single scene, but he spends that scene holding a sword at the throat of a minor. Can't say you feel in the least sorry for him as Rogue Hawke puts the Murder Knife through the bastard's throat at range.
---->'''Varian:''' One more step and I'll kill the boy!\\
'''Hawke:''' [[PreMortemOneLiner This is as close as I need to get.]]
*** The one thing the fans can agree upon is that everyone hates Sister Petrice. Her entire role in the story is to act as a catalyst for the human vs. Qunari tensions in Kirkwall and drive the less pleasant aspects of the plot by framing them for crimes they didn't commit, inciting ordinary citizens to abduct and murder them and pinning the blame for everything on Hawke whenever possible.
*** But far worse than most of the above is Ser Karras, a Templar who first appears during the sidequest Act of Mercy. An obvious KnightTemplar who clashes with ReasonableAuthorityFigure Ser Thrask near the end of the quest, he does absolutely nothing to earn your respect; he uses "Robes" as a slur against mages, is heavily implied to be raping one of the escaped mages he was tracking should he make it through the first act alive, and remains a supporter of Meredith all the way through the game, except ''perhaps'' once she drops off the deep end at the end of the game. Pretty much the ''only'' reason not to kill him and take his CoolSword as a bonus is that Thrask wants you to resolve the situation without violence -- and you'd have to really like Thrask to do that since it means Karras [[KarmaHoudini makes it through to the end of the game unscathed]], which is pretty egregious when there are many characters who are [[SacrificialLion far better and more likable]] than him who don't [[spoiler:like Thrask, for a start]].
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', [[LoveMakesYouEvil Alexius]], [[AntiVillain Calpernia]] and [[AFatherToHisMen Samson]] all have certain sympathetic and redeeming qualities. Even [[spoiler:[[BigBad Corypheus]]]] has a [[TragicVillain tragic aspect]] to his motivation. And then there's Livius Erimond, a straightforward SmugSnake who [[spoiler:manipulates the Wardens into committing horrific atrocities]] with no FreudianExcuse or likable trait to speak of. As opposed to the other three, he shows no remorse nor care for anyone else when he is judged by the Inquisitor at the end. Cassandra at one point asks [[TheEmpath Cole]] if there is any hidden pain that he can sense in Erimond. Without hesitation, the ''literal spirit of compassion'' Cole responds, "No. Erimond is an ''[[PrecisionFStrike arsehole]]''."
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' has Prince Charmles, the closest thing to a TropeNamer for PrinceCharmless, and never gets an ounce of positive character development. He has an arranged marriage to the Hero's love interest, and by the end of the game, [[spoiler:both the love interest's father and ''Charmles's own father'' wind up dropping support]]. And during his main plot focus, all he really does is make you do all of the work for his RiteOfPassage, ''four times over'', and then cheats his way into making the whole thing moot anyway.
* ''VideoGame/EasternExorcist'', set in a {{wuxia}}-fantasy inspired world filled with demons where you're the titular exorcist, have it's monsters either having little-to-no characterizations, [[TragicMonster tragic backstories]] or lacking enough of an impact to be despised. The sole ''[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters human]]'' villain, Zhang Huai-zhou your EvilFormerFriend, is a different matter; willingly supporting the demons' cause, Zhang deliberately arranged for your SuicideMission in the prologue while killing your sworn brothers, causing you to be expelled by the Cangshan Exorcist Sect, and then frames Xiaoyu, a benevolent, kind-hearted ''hulijing'' supposedly on your side as the traitor, before manipulating you to hunt her down after she saved your life as he tries to screw you over in every way. Repeatedly {{gaslighting}} you the entire game, Zhang even takes advantage of your friendship by pretending to reform, only to pull an ISurrenderSuckers trying to kill you in the final cutscene. Even the game's supposed BigBad, the Mandrill King, have his sympathetic moments ([[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes such as genuinely loving his son, Chi-tian the Ape Demon]]), which Zhang entirely lacks.
* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'':
** The [[MemeticMutation Loathsome Dung Eater]] is HatedByAll for routinely DesecratingTheDead [[ILoveTheDead in a manner so vile]] [[AndIMustScream the souls of his victims can't reincarnate or move on]]. Which, [[AxCrazy for equally unclear reasons, is exactly his goal]]. The player's very first encounter with him is him threatening to do the same to them leaving very few inclined to actually do his questline and not just kill him on sight at the earliest opportunity. [[spoiler:But if the player ''does'' bother to put the effort in, he tries to make good on his threat anyway. What, did you actually think the guy with the word "[[ObviousJudas Loathsome]]" in his name would ''[[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter help]]'' you? To make matters worse, if the player ''doesn't'' murder him on sight the bastard kills Blackguard Big Boggart who you potentially befriended.]] Should that not be enough to make you give in and off the bastard, [[spoiler:going all the way through with his questline gives you a Mending Rune that, if used to fix the Elden Ring, ''[[EarnYourBadEnding permanently damns everyone in the world]]''. And mind you, the Dung Eater makes it ''absolutely clear from the start'' that this is what's going to happen.]]
** Another in-universe example is Shabriri, whose worship of [[OmnicidalManiac the Frenzied Flame]] and ambition to have chaos take the world, marks him as the single most hated person in the Lands Between. This is NotHyperbole, it's what the lore documents in the game itself refers to him as. It's to the point that if you start following his instructions, then Melina, your own maiden, will abandon you for betraying both her and the entire world. And if you equip a talisman depicting Shabriri's smugly smiling face, enemies get more aggressive.
** Mohg, the Lord of Blood, seems to have been designed with this trope in mind. Sure, he hits a lot of EvilIsCool points, too, being a SatanicArchetype dressed in wizard robes with a [[EvilIsHammy Hammy]] personality and spectacular powers... but then there's him lusting over and kidnapping his half-brother, Miquella, in the backstory of the game. Miquella is cursed to eternally look like a child.
** And then there's Godrick the Grafted. Mohg at least has a cool design and an epic boss fight, but Godrick is just plain ''pathetic'', only making it up to WarmUpBoss status. And he only even manages this meangre upgrade by killing thousands of people to to graft their limbs to himself, all while calling himself "the lord of all that is golden" and generally having a SmallNameBigEgo. Absolutely ''no one'' likes or respects Godrick, not even his own servants, and he has ''none'' of his siblings' talents at magic, combat, generalship, or statecraft- the one battle he fought, he got beaten so badly that he had to sneak away dressed as a woman. The other demigods, even Mohg, have something good to say about them (Mohg helped block the way to the [[OmnicidalManiac Frenzied Flame]] and invented BloodMagic), but Godrick is just worthless in general.
** Preceptor Seluvis is probably the ickiest character in the game... and ''that's saying something''. His hobby is turning people into mindless puppets (something he plans to even do to his liege lady Ranni), he's horribly smug, and it's heavily implied that yes, he ''does'' take sexual advantage of his puppets. And he can't even scheme right; the only reason he gets anywhere in the game is by asking [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential the player]] to do things for him.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'':
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Maven Black-Briar.]] She not only consorts with [[ThievesGuild thieves]] and [[MurderInc assassins]], but she has the government of [[WretchedHive Riften]] in her hands, [[BadBoss has her employees killed if they displease her]], is ''very'' abusive to all of her children, and even supports the Thalmor. She's also [[ItsAllAboutMe insufferably arrogant]], treating the [[PlayerCharacter Dragonborn]] like they're less than dirt, and generally does everything in her power to be a massive {{Jerkass}}. Most infuriatingly, she's also a complete KarmaHoudini, as she is rewarded with becoming the Jarl of Riften if the Imperials win the Skyrim Civil War, stays the de-facto ruler from the shadows if the Stormcloaks win, and due to being both a potential Jarl and the source of numerous quests, [[GameplayAllyImmortality cannot be killed]]. Literally the ''only'' things one can like about her are her PragmaticVillainy and HyperAwareness, all of which she solely uses to expand her own power.
** Speaking of the Thalmor, they're an ''entire faction'' made to be a Hate Sink, no matter which side of the {{Civil War}} you're on. Pro-Empire folks get to deal with them parading about the fact that the Empire WonTheWarLostThePeace against the Third [[AntiHumanAlliance Aldmeri]] [[TheEmpire Dominion]] (the nation the Thalmor rule), while pro-Stormcloak people rail on them for [[TheInquisition persecuting]] [[DeityOfHumanOrigin Talos]] worshippers. The game also parading inquisition squads ("justicars") about on the roads between cities is an open invitation to kill them in manners most creative. They're also [[OurElvesAreDifferent Elvish]] [[ANaziByAnyOtherName racial supremacists]] with the ultimate goal of both [[TakeOverTheWorld conquering the entire continent]] and either [[FinalSolution wiping out]] or [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaving]] all [[FantasticRacism "lesser races"]] or [[DefectorFromDecadence "race traitors"]], and [[OmnicidalManiac literally undoing the very bonds of reality and collapsing the universe]] so they can AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence and become gods. Even [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating the people in their conquered kingdoms and own homeland hate them]] (the [[CatFolk Khajiit]] caravan leader [[NiceGuy Ri'saad]] disgustedly calls Khajiit that [[LesCollaborateurs willingly work with the Thalmor]] "Thalmor filth" since the Khajiit of Elsweyr only joined the Thalmor [[ManipulativeBastard because the latter set themselves up]] as {{Fake Ultimate Hero}}), but they're too terrified to fight back. [[MauveShirt Legate]] [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch Fasendil]], an Altmer Legate in the Imperial Legion, shows nothing but scorn for the Thalmor, even recalling to the Dragonborn some war stories of the Thalmor hunting down and massacring anti-Thalmor High Elf refugees during the Great War. As one fan put it, "We [the fandom] hate the Nazi elves more than the world-eating dragons." This may in fact even be the point of the Thalmor in the game, since the Civil War storyline is inherently so [[GrayAndGreyMorality Gray and Grey]]. The Thalmor add the [[BlackAndGrayMorality Black]], being the "Evil" in TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil trio.
*** A specific example among the Thalmor is Ancano. He is the Thalmor advisor to the College of Winterhold, and as such, you '''have''' to put up with this slimy douchebag's presence throughout the entire College questline, over the course of which he, like most Thalmor, is nothing but arrogant, condescending and rude, not just to the Dragonborn, but to basically '''everyone''' in the College. He is eventually revealed, [[TheUntwist to absolutely no one's surprise]], to be the BigBad of the questline, which most players will take as a relief because that means they get to justifiably kill him with extreme prejudice.
** ''Skyrim'' also gives us [[SmugSnake Nazeem]], an ''infuriatingly'' arrogant Redguard trader who constantly taunts and treats the rest of Whiterun [[WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons like idiots]] and acts like [[SmallNameBigEgo he's the most important person in the entire city]]. His only other defining character traits are that he's a DirtyCoward and a SycophanticServant, with his CatchPhrase being mocking the Dragonborn for not attending the "Cloud District", Whiterun's [[UrbanSegregation highest city level]] and home to [[TheGoodKing Jarl Balgruuf]] and [[StandardRoyalCourt his court]]. Combining all that together ''and'' the fact that [[TakeThatScrappy not even the other people of Whiterun like him]] (his ''own wife'', [[DeadpanSnarker Ahlam]], often snarks that he can be found [[ProfessionalButtKisser "stuffing himself up the Jarl's backside"]]), and one gets the idea that Nazeem is practically [[ConstructedWorld Tamriel's]] physical embodiment of the VeryPunchableMan.
** Grelod The Kind. Despite her name, Grelod is anything but kind. She is hated for being very cruel and abusive towards the children in Honorhall orphanage at Riften, making them work for many hours, constantly beating them, and refusing to give any of them up for adoption, and she is found to own a book called "The Pig Children", which shows that she is bigoted towards orcs. It is also strongly implied that she chains up and tortures the children, as some chains and shackles are found in one of the rooms in the orphanage. Even her assistant, Constance, is not immune to Grelod's abuse. The children of Honorhall orphanage hate her to the point where one of them, Aventus Arentino, decided to run away and contact the Dark Brotherhood to have her killed. She is shown to have no redeeming qualities whatsoever, unlike the Orc champion from ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', who is also the trigger person to kill to start the Dark Brotherhood quest in that game, but has more sympathetic qualities than she does. Grelod basically exists just so players won't have any problems with killing their target to start the Dark Brotherhood storyline due to how despicable she is shown to be in ''Skyrim''. The developers even motivate players to kill her even more in the "Hearthfire" DLC by requiring them to have her killed in order to be able to adopt any of the children in Honorhall Orphanage.
* ''VideoGame/EndRoll'': While [[VillainProtagonist Russell himself]] is a sympathetic character despite being a SerialKiller, the same cannot be said for [[spoiler:his AbusiveParents, who, uncaring of anything beyond their own hedonistic pleasures, are the reason he grew up to be the twisted boy he is]]:
** [[spoiler:Russell's father was a horrible drunk who made Russell [[TheAlcoholic buy him beer]] and beat him often. He also cheated on his wife with Russell's [[IntergenerationalFriendship older]] OnlyFriend Yumi, and eventually killed her, causing Russell to snap and [[SelfMadeOrphan kill his parents]]. His dream world counterpart, the [[TheHeavy Toxic One]], is a vile monster that terrorizes Nameless Town and is still [[{{Yandere}} disturbingly attracted]] to the dream version of Yumi.]]
** [[spoiler:Russell's mother was [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]], preferring to spend her time cheating on her husband [[ReallyGetsAround with several men]]. When Yumi was murdered, she just watched, uncaring. In the dream world, she appears as the Indecent One, [[BigBad the source of the monsters within the dream world]]. In the final dungeon, she [[BreakThemByTalking taunts Russell about him murdering his friends and constantly insults him]], and various aspects of their encounter imply that she [[ParentalIncest outright molested him]]]].
* ''VideoGame/EvenForEternia'':
** Unlike most Wraiths who are characterized, [[BitchInSheepsClothing Micah]] doesn't have any sympathetic or tragic qualities. He pretends to be a kindhearted rest stop manager, but actually uses hallucinogenic flowers to drug unsuspecting women and locks them in a basement, where he [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes]] and kills them in order to [[StrawMisogynist "teach them their place"]].
** [[PureIsNotGood King Callister]] of Excella is nasty even by the standards of anti-Umbra characters, since he is so at peace with his sadism towards them that he doesn't feel any guilt or negative emotions despite wanting to start a war of genocide against the Umbra. When he discovers that King Richard is an Umbra, he declares his intent to wipe Adalia off the map, non-Umbra citizens included, and tries to have the party publically executed. His cruel nature is exploited by Rowan and Dawn to break Rubellum's ideals of coexistence and discourage her from opposing them.
* ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'':
** Myron in ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' is Black Isle's attempt to build the worst human being imaginable. A perverted, snotty teenager, he's uglier than most Ghouls and has a grating, whiny voice. He claims to have invented Jet, one of the worst drugs in the series, solely because a crime boss asked him to. You can ''recruit'' this little toad, but aside from some minor skills at making chems, [[TheLoad he's worthless]] -- he can't fight at all and whines like a toddler if he's hurt. It's the rare player who lets Myron breathe for more than a few seconds after meeting him. [[spoiler:The ending goes out of its way, should Myron be alive, to note that [[KarmicDeath he was murdered by a Jet addict and instantly forgotten by the world]]. And the kicker is that in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', you can find a pre-war list of drugs hidden in a vault -- including ''Jet'', thus implying that he couldn't even come up with his own drugs.]]
** First Citizen Lynette in ''2'' somehow manages to be even less likable than Myron. She's the governor of Vault City, and according to WordOfGod she was intended to embody the absolute worst traits of Vault City's residents, brought about by a comfortable, privileged upbringing that resulted in a massive superiority complex to others. As a result, she's a self-righteous, arrogant, hypocritical, temperamental BitchInSheepsClothing who won't hesitate to banish you from the city if you challenge her opinions.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout3''
*** Colin Moriarty, a saloon owner living in Megaton, while technically neutral, is considered to be one of the more hated [=NPCs=], generally being both manipulative and a massive {{Jerkass}}. He's also hated in-universe among the other residents of Megaton. It's not uncommon for players, even for those aiming for very good karma, to secretly kill him, ignoring the karma penalty.
*** Roy Phillips is a ghoul and [[FantasticRacism an anti-human bigot]]. Having been rejected from living in Tenpenny Tower, Roy plan on releasing a horde of feral ghouls (basically zombies) on the tower so he can live there instead. At first it seems like Roy is willing to live in peace with the tower residents if you convince them to let Roy and his friends live there. However, Roy later kills all the residents (even the non bigoted ones) anyway and threatens to kill the PlayerCharacter as well if they object. Worse yet, if Roy is in control of the tower when Mr. Burke returns, he goes along with Burke's plan to nuke Megaton just because a lot of humans live there (Allistair Tenpenny had want Megaton nuked too, but wanted the people evacuated first). As with Colin, most players ignore the karma penalty and just kill Roy and his friends.
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'':
*** [[MurderIsTheBestSolution Colonel Cassandra Moore]] is Exibit A of the faults of the NCR (or would be if not for [[GeneralFailure General Lee Oliver]]). Abrasive and bloodthristy, Moore is the one [[PlayerCharacter The Courier]] reports to for a majority of the NCR's ending route. Every time she gives you a task, she pushes for the most violent option, wanting you to wipe out The Kings, The Great Khans, and The Brotherhood of Steel. She takes special ubrage with the peaceful route with The Kings, [[EvilIsPetty as she'll get Ambassador Crocker fired for it]]. She is likly a major factor in many players abandoning the NCR route in favor of Mr. House or Yes Man.
*** Dermot and Saint James of Westside are a pair of slavers who make their living kidnapping people (even children) and selling them to the drugged out Fiends. "Saint" James is the worse of the two, as he is also a SerialRapist and a [[PaedoHunt pedophile]].
*** The Fiends are the largest and most unstable raider "tribe" in the Mojave wasteland. Being so strung out on chems, the Fiends kill on sight and RapePillageAndBurn to their hearts (or lack there of) content.
*** The worst of the worst of the Fiends is their chef Cook-Cook. Cook-Cook takes the [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape]] and [[KillItWithFire burn]] part of the Fiends to the extreme, being that he rapes his captives senseless before burning them alive with a flamethrower. His raping is particularly infamous due to inflicting it on anything ([[BestialityIsDepraved even animals]]) he can get his hands on. The human flesh found at his camp implies he's also a cannibal.
*** Father Elijah was Veronica's mentor and the leader of the Mojave chapter of The Brotherhood of Steel until their defeat at HELIOS One, afterwards he abandoned the Brotherhood to take the treasures of Sierra Madre casino. By the time you meet him, if there was ever any good in Elijah, it has long been stamped out, as he has gone mad and become genocidal, planning to use the Sierra Madre's toxic cloud and holograms to wipe out almost all life in the Mojave, then enslave the survivors through the use of bomb collers. To that end, he puts one of the bomb collers on [[PlayerCharacter The Courier]] and forces you to find a way to open the death trap riddled casino, taunting you all the while.
*** The White Legs from the Honest Hearts DLC are a primative tribe with hopes of joining Caesar's Legion. However, they care nothing for the order the Legion's order and arn't misinformed like the Great Khans. Instead they only wish to join the Legion to contiune their endless pilaging. To prove their worthyness to the Legion, they attacked the peaceful [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} Latter Day Saints]] community of New Canaan, killing many of the families living there. After the New Canaan's escape and contiune their missionary work, the White Legs proceed to attack and kill the tribes that they preach to.
*** The White Legs leader Salt-Upon-Wounds is notably lothsome as, in addtion to the above, he is stated to have ordered his men to literally SaltTheEarth.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' gives us [[EliteMooks the Gunners]]. While [[MadScientist the Institute]] are [[spoiler:potentially]] the [[BigBad main antagonists]], the game's GreyAndGrayMorality makes it hard to truly hate them, with the Gunners instead taking that spot. Not only are they ruthless [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenaries]] with no scruples or morals, willing to take any job for a paycheck, but they're also utterly despicable, with even the player's own [[DeterminedHomesteader Settlers]] lampshading the fact that aside from their superior equipment and training, they're little better than [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Raiders]] in how they operate (and even ''Raiders'' [[WhatMeasureIsAMook get significantly]] [[PunchClockVillain humanized]] over the game's course). Not only do the Gunners [[RapePillageAndBurn massacre and sack any town in their path]], but they are also [[SmallRoleBigImpact part of the reason]] why the Commonwealth is still such a CrapsackWorld, as their war with the [[WeHelpTheHelpless Commonwealth Minutemen]] (one of the only completely [[NiceGuy benevolent]] factions in the entire game) has kept the Commonwealth divided and chaotic. One of their {{Establishing Character Moment}}s involves them massacring the innocent town of Quincy [[ForTheEvulz just because they can]], and another is a Gunner trying to talk the [[PlayerCharacter Sole Survivor]] into selling a Ghoul family into [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slavery]] for them. Even [[FriendlySniper MacCready]], one of the Sole Survivor's potential companions and a [[RetiredMonster former Gunner]], shows no mercy when fighting against his used-to-be comrades, claiming that they're so tightly wound-up that they're like a {{cult}} and stating that his joining the Gunners was [[MyGreatestFailure the worst mistake he ever made in his life]].
* ''Franchise/FarCry'':
** ''VideoGame/FarCry3'':
*** Buck is a slimy dirtbag and implied rapist who takes satisfaction in being the dominant one, Jason wastes no time hating his guts. And unlike Vaas, he doesn't have a tragic backstory or at least a Freudian Excuse like Hoyt. He's just an utter asshole.
*** Despite the fact that [[BigBad Hoyt Volker]] can be quite [[EvilIsHammy Hammy]] and entertaining to watch, he's ultimately the reason for everything bad that happens in the game. The man is an incredibly depraved mob boss who routinely has people murdered, tortured, slaved, or raped; and unlike Vaas, his "FreudianExcuse" is very weak. What makes Hoyt exceptionally detestable is that, unlike Vaas, he's not mentally ill and fully aware of his actions.
** ''VideoGame/FarCry4'':
*** [[spoiler:Mohan Ghale]] turns out to be one. He is talked up by the other characters in the story as [[FakeUltimateHero a great hero who fought for freedom]], but the more you learn about him the more his true nature rears its ugly head. He turns out to be a huge misogynist whose marriage fell apart due to his poor treatment of his wife, [[HoneyTrap even using her as a tool to spy on his enemies]]. [[GreaterScopeVillain He is also the real cause of the war]] as he [[spoiler:[[WouldHurtAChild murders Pagan Min's one year old daughter Lakshmana]], driving Pagan to further madness all because his wife chose Pagan over him]].
*** [[spoiler:Sabal]] becomes [[TheFundamentalist a deranged zealot]] if he gets his way. He plans on [[spoiler:killing everyone not following the Kyrat religion (meaning most of the country) and then closing the boarders to rule as head of a theocracy]].
*** [[spoiler:Amita]] truly only desires to supplant Pagan as head of his criminal empire. Not only will the production of drugs increase, but [[spoiler:she will also [[ChildSoldiers conscript children to fight her wars for her]] if she wins Kyrat]].
* ''VideoGame/FarawayStory'': The [[SinisterMinister unnamed Armonican priest]] is devoid of the sympathetic and entertaining qualities found in the game's other villains and is instead characterized by his [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence hatred and paranoia of non-Armonicans]]. He claims to be a pious clergyman, yet he displays his [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]] by ignoring Gran's teachings of generosity, as shown when he both refuses to help a dying outsider and threatens to punish Stella for helping. He gets worse when he frames Ellevark for trespassing on Armonica Cathedral's roof and orders his soldiers to shoot both Ellevark and Stella with poison arrows, killing Stella and traumatizing Ellevark into fearing interactions with humans. Eventually, his deplorable actions [[EvenEvilHasStandards cause one of his subordinates to poison him]] as a form of karma.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'':
*** Dr. Lugae from the first game is Golbez's so-called "master of war". He only has a small role in the game, but his mark on the story is much larger than it appears. He's the one who turned Edge's parents into monsters, leaving Edge ForcedToWatch them die. He also orders his men to genocide the Dwarves with the Super Cannon just because you defeat him. He's so nasty that even Rubicante, his superior and a NobleDemon, despises him and apologizes to the party for all the damage he did.
*** The Mysterious Girl, TheHeavy of the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears sequel]]. She spends the whole game travelling around the Blue Planet to steal its Crystals, insulting everyone around her by calling them an inferior species, killing anyone who gets in her way and [[EvilCannotComprehendGood muttering about how she finds acts of altruism, honour and defiance "incomprensible" and foolish]]. On a gameplay level, she also is responsible for ''several'' {{Hopeless Boss Fight}}s and frustratingly difficult encounters with the Eidolons, the game's versions of [[SummonMagic Summons]], all of whom she enslaved by encasing them in stone. She doesn't get anything approaching redeeming qualities until [[spoiler:the ''very'' end of the game when it's revealed she -- or rather, they -- are a HenchmenRace called the Maenads who were created to act on behalf of the true BigBad, and ultimately sacrifice themselves to allow the party to escape with a child version of them]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
*** Professor Hojo is not the ultimate BigBad -- that would be Sephiroth -- but safe to say, ''every'' tragedy that befell the world and its characters can be traced back to Hojo's inhuman experiments and activities done [[ForScience for his own definition of "science"]]. Even Sephiroth's StartOfDarkness has its roots in his sick experiments, since [[spoiler:Hojo was Sephiroth's ''father'', injected him with Jenova cells while his mother was pregnant with him and went along (at a distance) willingly with Sephiroth's EvilPlan just to see what happened]]. Every spinoff of the game will direct all of the tragedies to be eventually caused by Hojo himself. You know he's a horrible person when [[EvenEvilHasStandards even his fellow Shinra executives]] shows visible disgust at [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil his proposal to forcibly impregnate Aerith]].
*** President Shinra, who, unlike his EvilIsCool son Rufus, is an amoral CorruptCorporateExecutive who couldn't give two figs that his Mako reactors are poisoning the Lifestream and slowly killing the planet, so long as he keeps making a profit. When given an opportunity to take down AVALANCHE, he attempts this by [[DisproportionateRetribution destroying an entire sector, killing thousands despite AVALANCHE's membership barely scraping double figures]]. It makes it very satisfying when early on in the game [[spoiler:you find him slumped over his desk with Sephiroth's sword rammed through his back]]. [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake The remake]] changes exactly one thing about him: [[spoiler:the party, especially Barrett, get to ''watch him'' get skewered by Sephiroth]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'':
*** Seymour keeps popping up in the plot to provide a ''speaking'' villain for the party to fight on land instead of Sin. While he does have his own motivations and does get somewhat tied into the plot with Sin, his personal impact on the story itself is quite minimal overall aside from providing ever more complex boss fights [[spoiler:after you kill him and he just keeps creating ever more elaborate boss forms for himself]].
*** The Luca Goers, a Blitzball team that harasses Wakka's team, are also quite obnoxious and unlikable, serving as the motivation for the player to [[spoiler:attempt to master the Jecht Shot, win the tournament, and destroy their ego]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' has Argath Thadalfus, a perfect example of AristocratsAreEvil. Since the first act of the game (the length and breadth of time he appears for) keeps the true bad guys in the dark, there can't be any other reason for him to appear. He spends his time as a guest character repeatedly demonstrating his contempt for everyone not of noble birth -- quite pertinent, given that the antagonists of Act I are disgruntled peasant soldiers who want the nobles they serve to give them fair pay for their service in times of war -- which culminates in [[spoiler:[[ShootTheHostage killing Tietra]], whom an enemy had been trying to use as a HumanShield]]. He actually has his own FreudianExcuse, but it serves not to make him sympathetic, instead making him a much more despicable person, as he also shows a great case of hypocrisy. He is hated so much that he is almost guaranteed to appear in any "Most hated video game characters" poll, especially since he is from a ''Final Fantasy'' title. Square Enix is fully aware of how hated he is, and gladly caters to the fans whenever they can: The PSP remake of ''Tactics'' has a late-game stage where one of the villains resurrects him as a death knight so you can kill him again, and then they brought him back '''again''' as a boss in the ''Tactics''-themed raid in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', despite that game being set different universe, somewhere around four centuries after his original death. In short, he could be '''THE''' hate sink of the franchise.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' gives us Asahi sas Brutus. He initially plays himself off as a diplomat for Garlemald to the newly-independent Doma in order to request a transfer of prisoners of war, but it very quickly becomes clear that he wants anything but that. He brings his [[TraumaInducedAmnesia amnesiac]] adopted sister Yotsuyu to their AbusiveParents in an attempt to cure her amnesia (and return her to being the spiteful monster she originally was), resulting in them getting stabbed to death by her(they're the ones who ''made'' her into said spiteful monster, [[JerkassVictim so fuck them]]), knowing full well that it was a possibility. Then he goads Yotsuyu into becoming a Primal for the purpose of [[FalseFlagOperation framing Doma for summoning it]], all while taunting the [[PlayerCharacter Warrior of Light]] and hiding behing [[DiplomaticImpunity diplomatic immunity]] to dissuade them from ''killing him on the spot''. And once the Warrior of Light, known for being a slayer of primals, defeats the primal Yotsuyu, he berates her and physically assaults her as she lies dying on the ground. The reason he went through with everything? [[GreenEyedMonster He was jealous that Zenos made Yotsuyu viceroy of Doma over him]]. [[spoiler:Once TheDogBitesBack with Yotsuyu impaling Asahi on her swords, his corpse is left to rot and his second-in-command (who had no idea of Asahi's true intentions) goes through with the prisoner transfer... Only for ''Shadowbringers'' to reveal that the [[OmnicidalManiac rogue Ascian Fandaniel]] had taken up occupancy in his dead body and is shaping up to be just as big of a hate sink as the original. Ultimately subverted in ''Endwalker'' as Fandaniel was given a much more sympathetic background and sendoff than his host.]]
** Valens van Varro in The Sorrow of Werlyt side story is a completely depraved Garlean commander who abuses children and grooms them to become hardened soldiers. He also has no qualms with torture and he especially got his rocks off from [[ILied pretending that he would let a mother and child go]] if their father agreed to be sacrificed for an experiment. Valens is also incredibly racist and threatens one of his Au Ra subordinates (read: slave) with killing his entire race if he doesn't get him the results he wants.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI'': The audience can't hate the arch-villain Ultima due to his charisma, but there are other characters who are able to serve as targets for the hatred of players.
*** Annabella Rosfield is the cold-hearted, narrow-minded, tyrannous and oblivious-to-reality mother of Clive Rosfield, the game's main protagonist. Her every scene seems purposely calculated to make the audience despise her. She resents her son, Clive, for not inheriting the powers of the Phoenix and her dissatisfaction with her station in life leads to her having her good-hearted husband, Archduke Elwin, murdered and ruining the lives of Clive, Joshua and Jill. Having an obnoxious disdain for Bearers and Ducal Royalists, she sends the Black Shields - themselves a mockery of the Shields of Rosaria - to slaughter any they find. She is also a bigoted elitist regarding bloodlines, smugly looking down on Dion for being a Bastard. When finally confronted by Clive and Jill, Anabella has no regrets, callously and petulantly complaining how Clive's inability to awaken caused the other nobles to mock her and calling Jill an ungrateful savage despite both being enslaved and tormented because of her petty grievances. Her only good quality is she loved Joshua and Olivier, despite said love being very much conditional. In spite of this, Anabella is without a doubt, the most universally despised character in the entire game. [[spoiler:This makes her death -- [[DrivenToSuicide delivered by her own hand]] after being called out and having her world crumble around her -- all the more cathartic.]]
*** Imreaan is a slimy, hypocritical and cowardly man that forced Jill to be his attack dog by threatening children; children he killed anyway. When confronted, Imreaan is nothing but smug and self satisfied, insulting Jill, but quickly loses composure when the Liquid Flame manifests. When Drake's Breath's Heart is shattered, Imreaan is reduced to an absolute mess and Jill subsequently running him through is [[RevengeIsSweet nothing short of cathartic.]]
*** The sidequest ''All Bark'' gives us the pompous nobleman Benoit and his spoilt son. They play a "game" where they trick Bearers into fighting a wolf "attacking" the son and being torn apart for their trouble. When Clive finds out this is all a trick he is furious - depending on player choice Benoit may be reduced to a cowering mess. Regardless, Benoit promises to buy a new hound to kill Clive - which thenkills him and his son. The game considers this to be Karmic Justice and both are particularly despicable, especially compared to other characters that realise their prejudice against Bearers is wrong.
* The ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' series revolves around a bunch of killer robots built for a pizzeria chain. You can't hate them because they are haunted by the spirits of murdered children, and therefore, their moral agency, along with their intentions, are not all clear. However, there are some humans whom you ''can'' hate:
** Fazbear Entertainment Incorporated as a whole, or at least some of the more morally bankrupt people working there. The company gives you an extremely dangerous job without even warning you of the dangers, refuse to pay restitution if you are injured, hide your corpse if you get killed, underpay you, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and eventually fire you while insulting your odor]].
** The Brother in [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4 the fourth game]], is a nasty teen who bullies his younger brother to the point of tears. This includes scaring him with a mask, locking him in a room, leaving him behind at the restaurant -- a place he knows his brother is terrified of -- and locking him in the parts and storage room. To top it all off, he and his friends get [[spoiler:his brother's head bitten by Fredbear as a prank on his birthday, which put him in a coma and ''has killed him'']]. The robots in that game are just nightmares, so as a result, he is basically the only thing to hate in the game. [[spoiler:At the very least he has the decency to apologize to his brother.]] The implication that [[spoiler:he's Michael Afton]] does shed a slightly better light at him, however.
** [[SerialKiller The Purple Guy/William Afton]], the GreaterScopeVillain, BigBad, and TheHeavy of the franchise all at once. This guy is responsible for all the horror and tragedy that happens in the story. A sadistic and disgusting child murderer, William began everything when he murdered [[spoiler:his business partner Henry's daughter Charlotte]] and lured five children into the back of the pizzeria with a Spring Bonnie springlock suit and murdered them too, causing the Puppet, who is possessed by [[spoiler:Charlotte]]'s soul, to resurrect the children and have their souls possess the animatronics in order to get revenge on their killer. [[AmbiguousSituation For one reason or another]], he dismantles the animatronics, only for it to backfire and their spirits to chase him into his springlock suit, which he is killed by. However, he comes back as the horrific Springtrap and, in [[VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator the sixth installment]], goes to the new pizzeria with the other animatronics to fuel his own bloodlust despite realising it's a trap. After surviving that, he corrupts an innocent woman to serve him, and it's certain he'll do way more crimes along the way. While he apparently once cared for his daughter Elizabeth and warned her not to play with Circus Baby, an animatronic he made for her as a present, it's clear he only wanted to make her into his successor, and he sheds no tears for his son Michael, whom he instead manipulates and abuses. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And it's implied he]] [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals killed a dog.]] At the end of the day, William Afton is nothing but a depraved and remorseless psychopath who killed children for a living.
** The spin-off ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysWorld'' has Chica's Magic Rainbow, who, despite her limited screen time, demonstrates how this trope can be used well to create a truly insufferable character. Nearly all of her dialogue is annoying and mean, with most of her insults directed at the player for dying at her game -- a game which is a PlatformHell, and is thus very easy to die in. It doesn't help that she, several times, attacks Chica herself, regardless of how good the player has been doing at her game, and that she ignores the Voices Off button and ends her game outright if you push it. Things get worse when she decides to replace Purplegeist, the intended final boss, and makes her boss fight as blatantly unfair as possible by unleashing a ZergRush of clones and being a TimeLimitBoss with three minutes before she overkills the party with her "[[WaveMotionGun Rainbow Cannon]]". It is quite satisfying, therefore, when, as she dies, she undergoes [[VillainousBreakdown a breakdown]] and begins threatening to go after the player in real life.
* ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'''s BigBad Lord Brevon leaves quite an impression of letting us know that he was clearly meant to be despised the moment he throws in his EstablishingCharacterMoment of [[OffWithHisHead beheading the King of Shuigang]] right in front of Prince Dail and then brainwashing Dail into his puppet. Several of the traits that define him include [[MoralMyopia his refusal to accept that his actions are wrong]], even when Torque throws his so-called "intent to ensure his homeworld's safety" right in his face, as well as cruelty, bigotedness, selfishness, sheer sadism, being a jerk himself in his own right, and a flair for [[PlayerPunch committing acts so awful that they make players feel horrible]], not to mention [[VileVillainSaccharineShow being monstrously horrific despite appearing in an otherwise-lighthearted game]]. Unsurprisingly, the players even started calling for his head when he committed such despicable acts as [[spoiler:subjecting poor Lilac to a brutal combination of physical torture, ElectricTorture, and [[BreakThemByTalking breaking speeches]], [[WouldHurtAChild using Milla as a hostage to keep the heroines from retrieving the Kingdom Stone and then turning Milla into a monster and forcing them to fight her]] (after which they confront him in a rage with refusal to forgive him, which he simply replies to saying that he doesn't need forgiveness from people "putting his homeworld at risk for an oversized battery", as he describes the Kingdom Stone), and, in Milla's story, attempting to strangle her to death in a fit of seething rage]]. And worst of all, [[ThatOneBoss he's by far one of the most difficult bosses in the game]]. Interestingly, he's also the reason why the main antagonist of ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet2'', Merga, broke free from her crystal prison, due to the fact that [[spoiler:the Kingdom Stone was destroyed in the process of his defeat]].
* Speaking of ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet2'', Brevon is still despised and [[TheDreaded feared]] across Avalice, but since he's long since flown the coop, the title of "most hateable character" has passed to Serpentine, who remains as fanatically loyal to the warlord as ever, on top of continuing his campaign by stealing weapons from Shuigang, [[spoiler:ravaging a jungle just to take back Syntax, hijacking Bakunawa with the knowing intent of devouring Avalice's moon for space fuel, and leveraging Milla's origins like a Sword of Damocles over her head]]. This in comparison to the aforementioned Merga, who is a ruthless and cunning water dragon centurion [[spoiler:who watched her own people's genocide at the hands of the earth dragons and was sealed in said crystal prison before the one being that saw her as a person]]; Corazon Tea, who ravages Shang Tu's Avian Museum in Merga's name [[spoiler:out of a misguided desire to save herself and Carol from certain doom]]; Aaa, the tarsier who further ravages the museum and destroys Lilac and Carol's treehouse [[spoiler:because his scientific curiosity alienated him from the people he grew up around]]; [[spoiler:Captain Kalaw, who sells out Mayor Zao and the heroes to Merga out of a misguided desire to be a real hero after merely playing as one in the Battlesphere]]; and [[spoiler:the treasonous Sergeant Askal, who sells out Shang Tu to Merga and nearly knocks the Magister's block off due to outrage over the aforementioned genocide and the ongoing mistreatment of draconic half-breeds like himself]]. In a cast of villains with legitimately sympathetic motives, Serpentine stands out by ''not having one''.
* The [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Berman Army]] of ''VideoGame/FugaMelodiesOfSteel'' is a ruthless force occupying Gasco and exploiting its people for forced labor, and [[BigBad Colonel General Shvein Hax]] is certainly bad to the bone, but he's at least spared from being this trope due to his [[FauxAffablyEvil charismatic personality]] and sheer ambition. The same can't be said for a couple of his subordinates:
** Von Stollen and Von Baum are two old generals managing a frontline camp for the Berman forces, and while their time onscreen is brief, all of it portrays them as unflattering sadists who love to treat war as a game and rack up casualties and broken houses as a ''pastime'', and it's clear that they couldn't care less about the soldiers under their command. And despite how they openly mock said soldiers for their alleged cowardice in the face of danger, [[{{Hypocrite}} they aren't even a credit to the Berman Empire's ideals themselves]]-- after the Taranis defeats them, [[DirtyCoward they squirm and relent, divulge to the kids the information they were demanding]], and immediately afterwards [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere run away never to be seen again]].
** Character designer Yusuke Tokitsu [[https://twitter.com/shimipan/status/1431866080926965761?s=20 has confirmed]] that Doktor Blutwurst was fully intended with this trope in mind, especially given his larger role in the story compared to Von Stollen and Von Baum. To elaborate, he's a raving {{sadist}} using his experimentation on innocent Felineko as an opportunity to take out [[BoomerangBigot his grudge towards his own species]], culminating in him draining them of their life energy for the Berman Empire's usage. Appropriately, the soldiers under his command are also explicitly shown as feeling uncomfortable with the mere act of being around him, and the children of the Taranis-- who are usually portrayed as {{Reluctant Warrior}}s who hate having to fight and kill enemy soldiers-- find him enough of a monster to [[EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes express no guilt or grief upon his death]]. While there ''is'' an in-game report unlocked after his defeat describing his supposed FreudianExcuse, it's intended moreso to humanize him rather than make him a more sympathetic figure, given how the same report explores an incident where he implicitly had a soldier killed for [[DisproportionateRetribution laughing at his Felineko heritage behind his back]].
* Councilor Rawal in ''VideoGame/{{Geneforge}} 5'' is the rare character that actively defies the series' GreyAndGrayMorality and seems to have been made with the explicit intent of making the player want to get out of his control as fast as possible. He [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaves]] not just [[ServantRace serviles]] but also ''humans'', and you in fact start the game as one of his servants forced to do his dirty work or else die at the hands of the control tool implanted within you. Said dirty work entails undermining all the other members of the Shaper Council, partially out of ideological disagreement, but mostly so that Rawal can rise through its ranks. He has zero respect for the plight of the rebels nor for the laws of the Shapers as he regularly reShapes the player character [[spoiler:and turns out to have built a [[ArtifactOfDoom Geneforge]]]]. His motives are almost entirely based on selfishly increasing his own influence to the detriment of the war efforts, [[spoiler:and true enough, should the player stay by his side, [[EarnYourBadEnding they get a bad ending]] where the rebels successfully overthrow the weakened Shapers and kill both Rawal and the player]].
* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'':
** The [[ArcVillain main antagonist]] of the Inazuma arc, the Raiden Shogun, is a sympathetic character who perpetuates the Vision Hunt Decree for heavily flawed but understandable reasons, and her most prominent enforcer, Kujou Sara, is a MyMasterRightOrWrong sort with plenty of integrity. The same cannot be said for Kujou Takayuki, Sara's abusive adoptive father, who [[spoiler:sold out his nation to the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Fatui]] for purely selfish reasons by tricking the Shogun into enacting the Decree by feeding her false information]], and who side quests and flavor text across the world paint as a PointyHairedBoss willing to throw other people under the bus out of ego or personal gain.
** Similarly, the main Fatui antagonists of the Sumeru arc are Scaramouche (who has a DarkAndTroubledPast FreudianExcuse) and [[MadScientist Dottore]] (who is pure evil and could also be considered a HateSink, but is pretty charismatic in his evil). Because of this, the game draws your ire with the sages of the Akademiya, the Fatui's collaborators inside Sumeru, who have a whole heap of crimes (like keeping the kind god Nahida imprisoned) and act like arrogant academics who look down on the arts and perpetuate racist policies towards the people who live in the desert half of Sumeru.
** Regarding the Fontaine arc, while [[EnemyMine the Fatui ends up becoming the Traveller's allies for that chapter]], and the All-Devouring Narwhal, the overarching villain of that arc, acts too much like an animal to really hate, [[spoiler:Marcel/Vacher]], the culprit of the the serial disappearances of young women in Fontaine, acts as a villain that players can truly hate. [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes While not completely without redeeming qualities]], it's ultimately difficult to [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse sympathize with him]], as his crimes rather significantly outweigh them, in addition to how he [[NeverMyFault never accepts any real blame for them]].
** [[ChildAbuseIsASpecialKindOfEvil Crucabena]], the previous Knave, is a vile, abusive, and utterly repulsive bitch with absolutely no sympathetic qualities whatsoever. She was both physically and emotionally abusive to the point of the children under her care developing mental disorders such as "Loneliness Syndrome", with her worst acts being forcing the children to fight each other to the death, and sending [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness any children who were too injured to be of use to her]] to [[MadScientist Il Dottore]] as test subjects. Heck, even after she died, her fellow Fatui colleagues do not mourn her and instead promote her killer to her rank.
* Charlie Johnson from ''VideoGame/TheGetaway1'' was already hated in-universe before the plot of the game even starts because he was ''the'' drug lord of London. The game manual explains that he wants to go back to the glory days when he was one. It ends just as you would expect, only worse, because in order to force him to smuggle drugs and fight against the rival drug lords he kidnaps the son of the protagonist and kills his wife.
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'': Due to Kratos being an amoral AntiHero who nearly borders on being a VillainProtagonist, the game series provides many scumbags who are deserving of being beaten to a bloody pulp by Kratos.
** Ares, the Greek god of war, is mainly despised for triggering the events of the entire series. He is mostly hated for tricking Kratos into killing his own wife and daughter and then completely getting away with it because he is a god, while Kratos gets the full punishment for the murders. He then tries to decimate the city of Athens out of spite for his sister Athena, but luckily, Kratos is there to give him his just desserts. None of the other gods are fond of him either and fully support Kratos when it comes to killing him, and when he does, nobody mourns for him; not even Hades mentions his death during his speech to Kratos.
** Hermes from ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'' may not do anything particularly evil, but he makes up for it by being insufferably annoying. In addition to lacking the more sympathetic qualities of the other gods (particularly Hades), his tendency to repeat words over and over again and smugly taunt Kratos while running away makes players look forward to Kratos shutting him up [[spoiler:by chopping off his legs]] every single time.
** Castor from ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarAscension Ascension]]''. He owns slaves whom he horribly mistreats and forces to build multiple statues of him. He even murders a slave just because the slave spoke when not asked to and for requesting food and rest for him and the other slaves.
** In the [[Videogame/GodOfWarPS4 fourth main game]], we have Modi, younger brother of Magni and second son of Thor. Even though The Stranger [[spoiler:aka Baldur]] is TheHeavy, he ends up being [[SympathyForTheDevil too pathetic to completely hate]], while Thor and Odin are both TheGhost. So in the meantime, we get this [[DirtyCoward cowardly]] bully of a god who [[spoiler:ends up being the reason Kratos's son, Atreus, ends up ill]]. Even Magni comes off as far more likable, since he's a BloodKnight with [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]], who also at least dies honorably, albeit horrifically.
** Almost every line from Heimdall in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'' is a cruel jab at somebody else's expense. He's arrogant [[CombatClairvoyance (since his ability to read people's intentions instantly means he can never be hit),]] [[WouldHurtAChild he bullies and attacks Atreus and Thrud]] [[FantasticRacism while calling the latter a "half-breed",]] he mocks Freya over the loss of her dead son, [[KickTheDog and he kicks his mount when he's done riding it.]]
* The Prophet Hierarchs in ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' are all shown to display {{Jerkass}} behavior to even the most loyal of Covenant soldiers, leading the Covenant on a genocidal holy war against Humanity, replacing the Elite Honor Guard with Brutes, and ultimately [[spoiler:attempting to genocide the Elites, which in turn causes the downfall of the Covenant itself]]. Notably, each of the three Hierarch has an {{IronicName}}. The Prophet of Regret is too arrogant, bloodthirsty, and power-hungry to regret anything. The Prophet of Mercy is the harshest of the three, most notably at Thel 'Vadamee (the soon to be Arbiter)'s trial. And then there's Truth, [[spoiler:who is a CompulsiveLiar, including but not limited to hiding the fact that the Covenant's gods, the Forerunners, had designated Humanity to be their heirs, which served as the very basis for the Human-Covenant war, and secretly ordering the Brutes to massacre the Elites as early as the events of ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'', which take place roughly two weeks before the Great Schism truly kicks off in ''VideoGame/Halo2''.]]
* ''VideoGame/HellbladeSenuasSacrifice'': Senua's father, Zynbel, was an AbusiveParent who [[ManOnFire burned her mother alive]] and sold out his own village to the Northmen just so they were spared while the villagers all get massacred. It's clear that he's not meant to be liked from the start.
* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'':
** While several of the Nora display blatant bigotry towards Aloy for being a motherless outcast, most are given redeeming qualities. [[TheBully Bast]] proves to be a brave warrior [[spoiler:right before he's killed]], and Matriarch Lansra goes from calling Aloy "it" and believing her a curse to hailing her as [[spoiler:the Anointed of All-Mother (much to Aloy's chagrin)]]. Resh, on the other hand, is not only spiteful towards Aloy, but when the Nora finally come to accept Aloy, he decides to leave the tribe altogether.
** [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Ted Faro.]] Before getting recruited into the Zero Dawn project, he was the CEO of Faro Automated Solutions, a company that produced automated combat drones, and he deliberately [[WarForFunAndProfit helped start conflicts just so he could make a profit]]. But one day, he made a massive blunder that led to [[spoiler:'''the extinction of life itself'''. Said blunder was building the Chariot line, a series of self-replicating, biomass-consuming war machines and ''not installing a backdoor in case of emergency''. Guess what happened when the combat drones went from consuming biomass only in desperate situations to using them as their primary source of energy thanks to a glitch]]? Of course, that's just a case of [[HanlonsRazor outstanding negligence]], and from what we see of humanity's culture at the time, if he hadn't made those combat drones, someone else very well would have; what really clinches Ted's status as a high-quality Hate Sink is what he did ''after'' his mistake. [[spoiler:Namely, using an exploit to gain Omega level clearance into Zero Dawn, killing the ALPHA personnel, and deleting the APOLLO AI, the sum of all human knowledge. Ted justifies it by stating that humanity would be better off without that knowledge, considering it a "curse" that [[AndManGrewProud laid the groundwork for mankind's self-destruction]], but it was ''his'' mistakes and misuse of this knowledge that led them into this catastrophe in the first place, and it's heavily implied that he didn't do it out of any grand ideal, but [[ItsAllAboutMe out of the desire to not have his deep, deep shame broadcast to future generations]]. And that, dear reader, is why the humans of ''Horizon Zero Dawn'' are stuck in a world full of robot animals that can easily kill them and have only just started advancing past Stone Age level technology.]]
** Dodger "Dod" Blevins from the DLC was the security chief at the Firebreak project, a position he gained and kept solely because he was one of Faro's circle of bootlickers. A narcisistic egomaniac with a messiah complex, Blevins never even does anything that hurts Aloy, but is nevertheless an intensely unpleasant and hateable person. Among his list of asshole behavior is changing the access codes of Firebreak because he wanted to see his co-workers struggle, installing unmanned ''armed'' drones at a nature preserve out of his own messiah complex, getting anyone who speaks up to him fired then blacklisting them from the company to make sure they can never work there again (and considering that they work for the world's largest MegaCorp, that severely limited people's employment opportunities), and going on a joyride with an extremely polluting snowmobile in a fragile nature preserve a few years after a massive enviromental disaster. [[spoiler:Despite not even doing anything outright malicious, it's still intensely satisfying to learn that he died due to a prank gone wrong.]]
* Asha from ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' is a despicable, arrogant showboat of a villain, the worst act he pulls being [[spoiler:killing Iji's brother Dan without some serious GuideDangIt knowledge on the player's part]]. ''Nobody'' in-universe likes Asha, and the game goes out of its way to make sure the player doesn't either.
* The ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS}}'' series gives us Shane. Appearing in ''[[VideoGame/InfamousFirstLight First Light]]'' he forces [[PlayableCharacter Abigail "Fetch" Walker]] to do whatever he wants, by holding her brother hostage, and later attempts to kill them both despite Fetch already doing Shane's bidding. If that wasn't bad enough, he injects her with drugs that cause her [[spoiler:to accidentally kill her own brother]]. Oh, and Shane doesn't even have any superpowers to detract from his despicableness or make him a [[EvilIsCool cool villain]] and/or formidable threat like the {{Big Bad}}s before him. All of these factors have made Shane very easy to hate and [[spoiler:all the more satisfying to give a slow and painful death]].
* The Joker gets saddled with this role in the narrative of ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' and [[VideoGame/Injustice2 its sequel]] -- the version from the Injustice-verse itself, at least. He's responsible for [[FallenHero Superman's]] downfall by tricking him into killing his wife Lois Lane and destroying Metropolis with a nuke wired to her heart. As such, it becomes the catalyst for the ''Injustice''-verse becoming a CrapsackWorld. Nobody cares about [[AssholeVictim his death]] as they're happy he is finally KilledOffForReal, and even Batman and Harley Quinn refuse to indulge with him. His actions [[EvenEvilHasStandards sicken]] villains who have more abstract goals like conquest and power, and his attempts at BlackComedy are deconstructed to reveal the psychotic brute he truly is. In particular, while Superman does terrible things after his FaceHeelTurn, he is portrayed as a SympatheticMurderer due to the losses he suffered before becoming a bad guy.
** Wonder Woman also get this in the sequel. She is a bloodthirsty person who is willing to kill anyone step on her or the Regime's way. Her actions as a member of the Regime have caused her to be hated by everyone other than Superman's followers. This includes the Amazons, who disowned her before the events of the game; Supergirl, who [[HeelRealization is appalled by Diana coldly deciding to let innocents die and voicing her desire kill Batman even as he's fighting by their side]]; Blue Beetle, who disheartedly admits he no longer admires her; and Batman, who blames her for preying on Superman's insecurities and enabling him to become a dictator.
* ''VideoGame/TheInpatient'': The Police and their smug Captain are shown to be a corrupt squad trying to cover up the presence of the Wendigo as well as their murder of a nurse during a breakout. They spend the game hunting survivors and trying to kill them to prevent the truth from spreading. In the ending where the survivors escape, the Captain blackmails them into keeping quiet of the incident, threatening to send them back to the Sanitarium when exposure is threatened.
* ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' has a few.
** Gao the Lesser is an arrogant and aggressive bully who's [[HatedByAll hated by his fellow classmates at the Two Rivers School of martial arts, as well as virtually every townsperson he's spoken with]]. [[ItsAllAboutMe Feeling slighted that Master Li gives the Spirit Monk more attention]], Gao challenges [[PlayerCharacter the Spirit Monk]] to a martial arts match and, upon being defeated [[SoreLoser tries to kill the Spirit Monk with fire magic]], resulting in him being expelled. After learning about Master Li's identity as Sun Li, the Glorious Strategist, Gao leaks the informaton to his father before abducting Dawn Star, the girl he lusts after. He murders fellow student Si Pat while escaping Two Rivers and tries to kill the Spirit Monk when the latter comes to rescue Dawn Star. Gao's actions then result in his father and his Lotus Assassin allies invading Two Rivers, abducting Master Li and killing everyone else.
** Kai Lan the Serpent is master of the Imperial Arena, as well as a high-ranking member of the organized crime syndicate known as the Guild. In the past, he'd recruited the Black Whirlwind's brother Raging Ox, then a champion of the guild, as his hired muscle, resulting in the Black Whirlwind killing Raging Ox during an attempt on Kai Lan's lie and Kai Lan resurrecting Raging Ox as the Ravager. He arranges for the death of arena fighter Crimson Khana for being in his way, then tries to recruit the Spirit Monk to help him seize power. After the Black Whirlwind interrupts the meeting, Kai Lan tries to have the Spirit Monk killed. As an arrogant and unscrupulous individual, Kai Lan has the rare honor of being an evil sidequest NPC who can't be sided with.
** If the player seeks to join the Inquisitors, they must see to it that Judge Fang does not receive a report that would pose problems for the Lotus Assassins, and are encouraged to do so by discrediting or killing Fang or the minister delivering the report. Discrediting Fang is the Open Palm(i.e. good) option, since Fang is a DepravedBisexual who abuses prostitutes. The only thing resembling a redeeming feature he has is that [[EvenEvilHasStandards he considers the Lotus Assassins despicable]], but [[EvilVersusEvil is almost as bad as them himself]].
* The ''VideoGame/{{Judgment}}'' series:
** From ''VideoGame/{{Judgment}}'':
*** Kaoru Ichinose is the Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Health, and easily one of the most hated characters in the cast. He's a CorruptPolitician who abused taxpayer money to build the Medical Institute and the Advanced Drug Development Center, which is little more than a cushy vacation spot for retired executives in the Ministry of Health and produced very little useful output. When his seat of power was being threatened with shutting down, he then bankrolled the development of the lethal AD-9 drug in order to keep the ADDC relevant, rather than out of a genuine desire to cure Alzheimer's Disease. In fact, he even exploited Chief Prosecutor Morita's family tragedy to get him on his side, showing that he has zero empathy for people affected by Alzheimer's Disease. And if that weren't enough, Ichinose has no hesitation to kill his own subordinates to stop them from turning against him, as shown when he has his subordinate order the death of the Mole to keep him from being used against him court. It's all the more satisfying to see him lose his smug self-importance during his trial as all his subordinates turn on him and testify against him in court, putting an end to his crimes for good.
*** [[MadScientist Yoji Shono]], the creator of the AD-9 drug. While he initially seems like a weak-willed man who's being pushed around by his superiors, it turns out that he started the whole conspiracy, and is absolutely ''obsessed'' with finding a cure for Alzheimer's Disease, no matter what the cost. Shono's actions were what kickstarted the plot when he'd illegally experimented on an elderly dementia patient, then framed Shinpei Okubo for his death, then after Yagami got Okubo acquitted, Shono framed him again by murdering Emi Terasawa, Okubo's girlfriend, which ultimately ruined Yagami's career as a lawyer. Not only was he willing to cross every moral line for the sake of the drug, but he was convinced that every crime he committed was all for "the Greater Good", including murdering an innocent woman, framing her boyfriend and getting him put on the death row for three years, and engaging in human experimentation on yakuza. Even more, he refused to let anyone else work on his drug, even when it was proven to be lethal for humans due to the toxins that were impossible to remove, having already convinced himself that he could remove them, despite his failed experiments proving otherwise. Fittingly, he gets a KarmicDeath when he injects himself with AD-9 in an attempt to prove that it works, only to die from the lethal side effects he'd willfully ignored.
** From ''VideoGame/LostJudgment'':
*** [[PosthumousCharacter Hiro Mikoshiba]] was an unrepentant bully to Toshiro Ehara when they were students. He regularly stole his lunch money, then beat him up and belittled him whenever he couldn't pay, and he even crossed the line by breaking into Toshiro's house to steal the dinner money left for him. His actions eventually drove Toshiro to suicide, but he never faced any consequences due to his reputation as a model student. As a student teacher, Mikoshiba forced the students in the basketball club to perform needlessly rigorous exercises, then he singled out and encouraged the bullying of any student who fell behind, which was how Mami Koda became a target for bullies in her class. It was his actions that basically kicked off the events of the game, and they eventually came back to get the best of him when he got abducted, tortured, and brutally murdered by Toshiro's father.
*** Yui Mamiya seems like an innocent young woman who was the victim of a groping by Akihiro Ehara, but she's soon revealed to be a selfish and manipulative woman who was an accomplice to multiple cases of murder and took part in faking a sexual harassment case. And if that weren't enough, Mamiya also took part in bullying Mitsuru Kusumoto thirteen years ago, and she feels zero remorse for driving him to attempt suicide. In fact, she's more upset about being blackmailed into becoming a forced accomplice to Kuwana in his rampage against bullies, than she is for causing Mitsuru's near-death. It's hard to feel too sorry for Mamiya's plight, considering that she'd basically brought it upon herself through her cruelty in high school.
*** [[PosthumousCharacter Shinya Kawai]] was a brutal bully who shamelessly tormented Mitsuru Kusumoto thirteen years ago, which ultimately drove him to attempt suicide and end up in a coma afterwards. While he wound up bearing the brunt of the blame and seemingly felt bad over his actions, it was only an act to get Reiko, Mitsuru's mother, off his case; in reality, Kawai felt zero remorse and even ''bragged'' about pushing Mitsuru to his suicide attempt to the locals of Kamurocho. It's hard to blame Reiko Kusumoto for brutally murdering him, and hardly anyone truly sheds a tear over Kawai's death after it's made clear how much of a scumbag he was.
* ''VideoGame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg'': For all the moral ambiguity of the Second American Civil War, these individuals and groups within the American Union State are the worst of the worst.
** [[TheFundamentalist William Dudley Pelley]] and his Silver Legion are easily the most despicable faction within the American Union State. If he seizes power from Long with the help of the Prohibition Party, Pelley will turn America into a white supremacist Christian fundamentalist nation through enforcing Jim Crow all across America and bringing back slavery. He also permanently cripples the American population by banning all vaccines, leaving large amounts of the population crippled by polio.
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive The War Powers Committee]] are little better, being a committee of businessmen seeking to enforce corporate dominance over America at the expense of the poor. During the Civil War, [[PlayingBothSides they back the American Union State, the Federal Government, and the Pacific States]] as a means of destroying [[CommieLand the Combined Syndicates of America]] despite officially backing the American Union State. If they overthrow Huey Long using their frontman, General Van Horn Moseley, they will greatly empower the rich and American corporations while purging Combined Syndicates remnants, labour unions, and left wing activists, while barring immigrants suspected of Syndicalist leanings from immigrating to America.
* Cindy from ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten|2017}}'' is a controlling little brat and easily one of the most despicable characters in the cast. She goes through boyfriends like tissues and expects them to act as servants to her, even remarking on how "well trained" the protagonist is after he becomes her boyfriend in her route. She also takes delight in bullying other girls, especially by having her boyfriends [[GumInHair put gum in their hair]]. She's especially ruthless towards ShrinkingViolet Lily, whose brother Billy broke up with Cindy before the start of the game. Since he mysteriously disappeared soon afterwards, she's using Lily as a proxy for her revenge, [[spoiler:to the point of bullying her [[DrivenToSuicide into suicide]] at the end of her route]]. Her one redeeming feature is [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes her love for her pet dog Biscuit]], but that still pales in comparison to the horrible behaviour mentioned above, especially since [[spoiler:Biscuit is, unbeknownst to her, dead due to the AxCrazy janitor using him for his "[[MadeFromRealGirlScouts Biscuit Balls]]"]]. Fortunately, the protagonist can give her the comeuppance she deserves by [[spoiler:dumping a bucket of blood meant for Lily over her instead, causing her to run into traffic in a panic and get run over]].
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has Xor, the villain of Juhani's personal quest. He gleefully participated in the genocide of Juhani's Cathar people, then went on to enslave any surviving Cathar female he could find. After murdering Juhani's father, resulting in Juhani's mother losing the will to live, and then tries to enslave Juhani herself. As a murderous racist with no redeeming characteristics, Xor is perhaps the most despicable character in the game.
* Atris in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' is a hypocritical, HolierThanThou KnightTemplar who thinks she's the [[NoTrueScotsman last "true" Jedi]] in the galaxy, and has an [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity incredibly narrow view of the force]], even by Jedi standards -- to the point that [[spoiler:she's fallen to the Dark Side without even realizing it]]. She's [[SmugSnake very smug]] during your conversations with her, blaming you for everything bad that's happened to the order in the past ten years -- and the game gives you ''plenty'' of opportunities in these conversations to turn her accusations around and deliver a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* ''VideoGame/LANoire'':
** Roy Earle, Cole's partner in the Vice Desk, embodies the worst traits of the LAPD; he is a DirtyCop who abuses his position as Vice Detective to further benefit him, such as stealing money meant to be evidence and taking bribes from criminals. He's also a racist and a misogynist, as well as an unpleasant {{Jerkass}} towards people in general. Even his superiors in the LAPD can't stand him, and frequently chew him out whenever he acts like his usual douchey self. Players are definitely bound to hate him even more when he outs Cole's affair with Elsa to the public, which leads to Cole's disgrace and demotion, and even more so when he suffers no repercussions. And to drive the final nail into the coffin, he is the one to deliver the eulogy at Cole's funeral under the pretense of being Cole's trusted friend despite selling him out.
** [[InsufferableGenius Grosvenor [=McCaffrey=]]] is a person of interest in Cole Phelp's investigation of the murder of Evelyn Summers. Dishonorably discharged from the army for beating a woman to near-death, [=MacCaffrey=] became a writer and social activist championing for "the little guy". However, his supposed altruism merely serves to inflate his own ego, with him openly expressing disdain for the people whom he supposedly fought for. When Evelyn's boyfriend Tiernan comes to him in a drunken stupor, [=MacCaffrey=] [[{{Gaslighting}} tricks him into thinking he murdered her]]. Promising to help Tiernan cover it up, [=MacCaffrey=] instead rats him out to the police to save his own skin. When goaded by Phelps into an angry tirade when questioned about his dishonorable discharge, [=MacCaffrey=] [[NeverMyFault blames the woman he assaulted for ruining his chance at becoming a war hero]], as well as ranting that Evelyn [[DisproportionateRetribution deserved to die for taking his book]]. Though it's later revealed that [=MacCaffrey=] was among the many people framed by the [[SerialKiller Werewolf Killer]], his smugness and a general disdain for everyone around him hardly makes him sympathetic.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'': Georg Weissmann is so hated for his brainwashing of Joshua, his role in starting the 100 Days War, his self-righteous misanthropy, and his sadistic attitude towards others that many of his [[EvenEvilHasStandards fellow Ouroboros members are disgusted by him]]. He tries to come off as [[FauxAffablyEvil polite and scholarly]], which only serves to make him more unlikable whenever he gloats about manipulating and outmaneuvering your party for two whole games.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** Sakon from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'': Every other villain has a sympathetic origin, or a PetTheDog moment, or a bit of nuance; even Majora has a moment (and is too incomprehensible to hate). Not Sakon, he's just a cowardly thief who screws people over for his own gain, from innocent old ladies to young couples in love.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'': Mila's father repeatedly forces guilt tripping dialogue on Link in the first half of the game (which will get on your nerves fast), is openly classist and racist towards Ritos, shows no gratitude towards Link, and doesn't even pay you properly when you sell him Skull Necklaces; he underpays you and throws the money on the floor. He's clearly meant to be hated by the player.
** Yuga from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds A Link Between Worlds]]'': Even by the standards of the franchise's villains, this guy is a piece of work. He is an utterly depraved, smug, cowardly, self-entitled asshole who will take any opportunity to inflict pain on anyone he meets, whether or not it's necessary for his mission. He ends up backstabbing [[spoiler:Hilda and abandons any pretense of trying to save Lorule, declaring that he will instead reshape it and Hyrule in his own image]]. He relies on one main spell, [[DirtyCoward runs away when Link gets the better of him]], and ends up [[spoiler:stealing all of Ganon's power for himself]].
** The Yiga Clan from the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'': Although Calamity Ganon is the BigBad of the game, it is more of a force of nature rather than a character and the monsters it controls don't have any greater agenda beyond hunting and pillaging. As such, the fanatic Yiga Clan are the only enemies that players could truly hate, and they don't disappoint in that area [[spoiler:if you partake a Shrine Sidequest involving the Sheikah Dorian. As it turns out, the Yiga Clan murdered Dorian's wife and threatened to do the same to his daughters, Koko and Cottla, if he didn't give up information about Link and Kakariko Village. The loss of Dorian's wife left emotional scars on the two daughters, and they would have lost their father as well had Link not given the Yiga executioner a well-deserved ass-kicking.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfTianding'', set in Japan-occupied Taiwan in the 1900s, have it's sink being the ''first'' boss, "Piggy" Wang, a ruthless, greedy collaborator whose appearance screams "FatBastard!" a mile away. He's introduced barely a minute into the game using his cane to flog a civilian unable to pay rent while ordering his minion to haul his fat ass around, smugly boasts that he'll have the hero captured alive and tortured for getting in his way (only to flee while nearly wetting himself when confronted directly by Tian-ding) and is perfectly alright destroying the livelihoods of his own countrymen to fill his own pockets. The game even highlights his {{greed}} by revealing his mansion to contain a giant, ''golden'' statue of himself, built by the gold he had extorted from the citizens. In contrast, the rest of the villains are either GoodAllAlong or WellIntentionedExtremist(s); even the ruthless main antagonist, General Shimada, is more likeable for being intimidating alone.
* ''VideoGame/TheLiarPrincessAndTheBlindPrince'': Despite never appearing onscreen, with their actions only being described by the narrator, the king and queen's abuse and negligence of their son put the plot in motion. When the Prince is accidentally attacked and scarred by the Wolf, the Prince's parents lock away their son in a tower, disgusted by his facial injuries. This makes the Wolf feel even more guilty, and the act of cruelty disgusts her so much that she makes her plans to heal the prince without considering or caring how the two will be affected by the heir to their kingdom mysteriously disappearing for a few days.
* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'':
** Odie O'Bright, the ArcVillain of the Present Day chapter, is easily the most repugnant of [[spoiler:Odio's incarnations]]. He's a sadistic and remorseless SerialKiller who lacks any of the potentially likable or sympathetic traits of the other chapter villains. Justified, considering [[spoiler:Odio]] wants to prove to Masaru that anyone can be no better than him.
** [[spoiler:Streibough, Oersted's friend in the Middle Ages, is revealed to have been insanely jealous of his friend's success as a knight and as Princess Alethea's fiancé, which leads him to trick Oersted into killing the King of Lucrece with an illusion and framing him as the Lord of Dark, turning the entire kingdom against him. He also turns Princess Alethea against him by making her think he never searched for her and he's the only one who actually cares for her, leading her to commit suicide after Oersted kills Streibough. His actions are what lead Oersted to become [[BigBad Odio]], dooming all of Lucrece and several time periods, and when his spirit is found in Akira's dungeon, [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk it seems like he might regret his actions, but ultimately just asks if he's really at fault, implying that he's not sorry for all the damage he caused]], and ultimately does nothing but stand there and see what his spite has done. This is possibly justified (and invoked if you buy into Streibough being influenced by Odio) as the Lord of Dark wanted to show Oersted the worst possible example of humanity to turn him into his vessel]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Loopmancer}}'' have it's DiscOneFinalBoss, the triad boss Wei Long, who ruins the hero Xiang Zixu's life in the past when Zixu tries investigating him, by arranging for an "accident" that leaves Zixu's wife crippled and his daughter dead. Wei Long, besides escaping the authorities thanks to his lawyers, also spends the game's first half repeatedly taunting Zixu, [[RelativeButton threatening to make Zixu's wife suffer even further]] besides telling Zixu his daughter's death is [[NeverMyFault his own damn fault]]. Making matters worse is the revelation of how Wei Long rose to power in the backstory, by colluding with a local MegaCorp and having an entire village massacred for HumanResources, all without a shred of remorse, and finally spending whatever remaining miserable seconds of his life after losing his penultimate boss battle to taunt Zixu over his family's predicament, which makes his UndignifiedDeath borderline cathartic to watch.
* ''VideoGame/{{Lunarosse}}'': [[BigBad The Illusion Master]], really [[spoiler:Dr. Dario Naumov]], is the one who tricked the {{Anti Villain}}s Corlia and Yliandra into waging war on each other. [[spoiler:He is the psychologist of the real life [[SplitPersonality Corlia/Yliandra]] who grew to hate her because she didn't reciprocate [[{{Yandere}} his feelings towards her]] and because he hated the small role she gave him in her story.]] This causes him to start wreaking havoc on the titular world of Lunarosse, [[spoiler:the [[LotusEaterMachine dream world]] Corlia made]], in a spiteful attempt to hurt Corlia and Yliandra. [[spoiler:He creates three avatars -- [[EvilChancellor Zevahn]], [[TheStrategist Bellehan]], and [[AssInAmbassador Naamari]] -- to [[PlayigBothSides manipulate both sides of the war]]. He uses Noel's [[IncompatibleOrientation unrequited love for Channing]] to create the evil [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Gerard]], and then uses him to fake Naamari's death to reignite war, then has him pin the murder on and repeatedly attack his friends, and at one point psychologically tortures the heroes with images of their friends insulting them, including insulting Noel [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain for being gay]], before forcing the heroes to kill Noel near the end. He also demonstrates his pettiness by blasting a soldier just for making a stupid comment and having billionaire Escobar killed when he wants to end their partnership.]] When his plans are revealed, he decides to [[spoiler:[[InTheirOwnImage destroy the whole world and rebuild it the way he wants it to be]]]]. A petty manipulator who wants to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy Lunarosse]] out of pure selfishness, [[spoiler:Dario Naumov]] contrasts Corlia and Yliandra with his lack of sympathetic qualities.
* ''VideoGame/MadMax2015'': Scabrous Scrotus is a brutal wasteland warlord and the son of [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Immortan Joe]]. Introduced kicking his own dog to get it to attack Max, Scrotus also runs a substantial portion of the wasteland. Out of spite, Scrotus not only attacks Max after Max legitimately wins a race, and finally, decides to murder Max's new family, Hope and Glory, leaving Max lonely, insane, and dedicated to vengeance.
* ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'': Scorpion is [[AdaptationalJerkass more vicious]] than his comic counterpart, being a sadistic psychopath even before obtaining his exosuit. Whereas the other members of the Sinister Six either have sympathetic backstories or some degree of [[AffablyEvil charm]], Scorpion not only cares nothing for his partners in crime but makes clear that his only goal is to torture and kill Spider-Man no matter what. It says a lot about the guy when even hallucinations of him are deeply unpleasant.
** Screwball is an annoying, [[ItsAllAboutMe egocentric]] streamer who forces Spider-Man to undergo challenges that endanger people across the city, only caring about racking up views. She takes this to a particularly low level when she willingly endangers her own minions as part of a stunt.
** Hammerhead is a [[CompleteMonster cruel, vicious]] mobster who wants to take New York to the "good old days". To this end, he [[CopKiller murders numerous cops]] and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath tries to drown several mobsters in concrete]]. A particular low point of his is when he [[KickTheDog robs international aid]] bound for Silver Sable's homeland as it is being ravaged by a civil war, caring only about gaining power and nothing else.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** Ambassador Donnel Udina serves as one throughout the trilogy, particularly in [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 the first game]], where he's a smug, obstructive bureaucrat who constantly second-guesses Shepard and is willing to sell them out at the first sign of it being politically convenient. Even after Shepard saves all life in the galaxy and [[spoiler:possibly gets him elected Councilor]], Udina's one brief scene in the second game has him being an UngratefulBastard who seems angry that Shepard's BackFromTheDead. The third game is the only point where he becomes at all sympathetic, working hard to protect Earth from the newly arrived Reapers. [[spoiler:Oddly enough, this one redeeming quality is what leads to him becoming a full villain, performing a FaceHeelTurn and joining Cerberus so he can murder the rest of the Council, claim ultimate power on the Citadel, and better help fight the Reapers on Earth. The ploy ends with either Shepard or the Virmire Survivor gunning him down.]]
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'':
*** The Illusive Man's [[TheDragon Dragon]], Kai Leng, is a SmugSnake who spends most of the game taunting Shepard and [[HeroKiller potentially killing off fan favorite characters]]. He's a [[FantasticRacism racist]], [[DirtyCoward runs from every fight he doesn't have the advantage in]] but [[BoisterousWeakling acts like he's an unstoppable badass]], and is a perfect example of EvilIsPetty, going so far as to [[EnemyEatsYourLunch steal and eat Captain Anderson's cereal]] and send Commander Shepard a taunting message about [[spoiler:the fall of Thessia and the death of millions]]. This makes the prompt where Shepard [[spoiler:impales Kai Leng with [=his/her=] Omni-Blade]], one of the most popular prompts in the series.
*** Dalatrass Linron exists for the sole purpose of being vilified for refusing to help the Krogan overcome the Genophage. Her status as a hated character, however, depends on the actions of the player, given the fact that the game has player choices enact consequences that make up the backbone of the story. In her case, Linron perceives the Krogan as a bigger threat than the Reapers, when in reality it's the other way around. She is revealed to be a JerkAss because she fears that the Krogan would spark another Krogan Rebellion against the galaxy if the Genophage is cured. However, her arguments against curing the Genophage are [[FantasticRacism racist]], condescending, abrasive, and arrogant, as she comes off as viewing the krogan as inferior to the Salarians. In most playthroughs she shows off this kind of behavior towards Shepard and calls them a bully even when they try to be as nice as they can be to her in the Paragon route. Her case can be justified in some playthroughs, but only under special circumstances (which means killing Urdnot Wrex on Virmire), as in those playthroughs, sparking a rebellion is what Wreav does after the Genophage is cured, making Linron's fears turn out to be true. In the more Paragon playthroughs where Wrex is spared, her actions towards Shepard in convincing them to not cure the Genophage would require them to do evil things such as lying to Wrex and faking a cure, and/or murdering Mordin. It's also implied that she wanted the Krogan driven to extinction, as in the playthrough where she gets her way, extinction is exactly what happens to the Krogan. Whatever outcome the player decides for the Krogan, it ends with the Dalatrass getting away with her behavior completely without any karma getting to her.
** [[BigBad The Archon]] from ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'', on top of [[ScaryDogmaticAliens what the kett are already saddled with]], is a smug, sadistic, short-tempered loudmouth and their leader. He's not above [[BadBoss killing underlings who either question him too much or don't seem dedicated enough, to the point of extending the authority to do so to two of his lieutenants]]. He later even [[spoiler:[[EvilerThanThou betrays his fellow kett to increase his personal power]], and in his final moments just wants to hurt everyone around him and get as much as he can for himself]].
* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'':
** TheHeavy of the story, Yomi Hellsmile, is by far and away '''''the''''' most despicable person in Kanai Ward. [[{{Jerkass}} He insults everyone he deems beneath him, tries to kill the Master Detectives with the flimsiest excuses possible]], [[BadBoss subjects his own employees to cruel and unusual punishments]] [[YouHaveFailedMe as soon as they fail him]], and [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans is directly responsible for turning Kanai Ward into a city full of crime and corruption]]. [[spoiler:He is also indirectly responsible for causing Chief Yakou's death by giving him a map of Amaterasu's lap and info about Dr. Huesca's involvement with his wife's death so he'd kill the doctor and lead the Master Detectives into a trap and then kill them himself]]. It gets satisfying when Makoto and Martina arrested him for his crimes, freeing the remaining Master Detectives and all of Kanai Ward from his tyranny. For extra measure, by the words of Yomi's creator, he's "the disgusting guy of disgusting guys", so he ''is'' intentionally designed to be hated.
** [[spoiler:Icardi, the [[MonsterOfTheWeek killer of Chapter 3]], at first appears to be a loyal member of Shachi's resistance against the corrupt Amaterasu Corp, but is revealed to actually be a MadBomber who murdered Shachi and framed Yuma for terrorism. While his Mystery Phantom [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claims he did it for the sake of the resistance]], when Yuma exposes the lies, [[TheCynic Icardi admits that he grew sick of Shachi's idealism and saw fighting the Peacekeepers as a lost cause]], [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere so he decided to use the chaos he created to rob the banks and get out of Kanai Ward and has no qualms with framing Yuma to get him killed by the Peacekeepers]]. [[TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Yuma is noticeably outraged by Icardi's betrayal of Shachi]] to the point he has no problems exposing the truth with the Mystery Labyrinth despite knowing that this will kill Icardi.]]
* ''Franchise/MegaMan'':
** Though nowhere near as heinous as future Mega Man antagonists, [[LoanShark Lex]] [[MeaningfulName Loath]] from ''[[VideoGame/MegaManLegends The Misadventures of Tron Bonne]]'' is still notably cruel in his actions. Loaning one million Zenny to [[SkyPirate Tiesel Bonne]], he sends his servant, Glyde, to harass the Bonnes while Tiesel is going on an expedition to repay his debt. Glyde interrupts Tiesel's journey, and kidnaps both him and Bon Bonne. When Tron Bonne gets enough money to repay Loath's debt, Loath drops a two million debt onto the Bonnes as interest, having Glyde rudely drag Tron and the Servbots out of his office. After the interest is paid off, Loath once again dismisses Tron as being short on funds, and has her jailed with her brothers, revealing that he has enslaved numerous Diggers who owed him money to work towards finding the Colossus, a Reaverbot that he intends to use to TakeOverTheWorld. Once the Colossus is defeated by the Servbots, Loath is leaft [[VillainsWantMercy pathetically begging for mercy]] ala Dr. Wily as the Bonnes escape with his refractor. A greedy slave owner willing to resort to dirty tactics, Loath lives up to his name as a truly loathesume individual.
** Dr. Weil from the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series is one of the most despicable villains thus far, even one-upping [[VideoGame/MegaManX Sigma]] (who had nearly destroyed the entire world in a ColonyDrop just to try and restore Zero to his original murderous self and awaken his true potential) in his list of atrocities, and acting on nothing but petty revenge for a punishment he justly deserved and a desire to see all of human and reploidkind alike suffer under his rule. Players consider the moment at the end of ''[[VideoGame/MegaManZero4 Zero 4]]'' when they finally get to take him out to be one of the most satisfying in the franchise, [[spoiler:even if it does cost Zero his life, and even if Weil's death [[VideoGame/MegaManZX doesn't completely stick]]]]. On the other hand, Weil has also gotten respect from the fanbase for being one of the few recurring ''Mega Man'' villains to not succumb to VillainDecay.
** ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'': [[WardensAreEvil Silver Horn]] is the [[{{Sadist}} sadistic]] and [[SmugSnake arrogant]] operator of the Tianna POW Camp. Defying the Rebellion Army's [[WellIntentionedExtremist good intentions for the Reploid species]], Silver Horn tortures and murders any Reploids who refuse to join the Rebellion, including the famed hero Steel Massimo. Silver Horn rules over his camp with an iron fist and forces the navigator Nana to act as a sysop under the threat that he will execute all of the [=POWs=] if she doesn't comply. When confronted by the heroes, Silver Horn begins to gleefully torture Nana while [[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied gloating to Steel Massimo's successor all about how he dealt with his predecessor]] and adds that [[TheSocialDarwinist he believes the weak should serve the strong]]. Witnessing Silver Horn's arrogance and [[ItsAllAboutMe complete disregard for anyone's life but his own]] gives the [[CowardlyLion new Massimo]] [[BecomingTheBoast the courage to fight]] and the heroes put an end to the sadistic Reploid. A true Maverick, Silver Horn proved to be more loathsome than his well-intentioned [[BigBad boss]] Epsilon.
** Sonia Strumm's manager Chrys Golds from the first ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'' game is vile in a way that the [=FMians=] aren't. He may not be a manipulative genocidal alien, but he makes up for it by being an abusive, money-hungry scumbag who makes it clear that he doesn't give a damn about Sonia aside from the money she makes him, and will work her like a slave to squeeze every bit of Zenny he can out of her musical career. When he corners her after Geo tries to hide her, he threatens to sue her if she doesn't hold a concert she really doesn't want to do, and ''[[WouldHurtAChild punches]]'' Geo for standing up to him. When she wave changes into Harp Note out of desperation, it's not surprising that [[TheDogBitesBack she almost immediately attacks him as revenge for all the grief he's given her]].
** The second ''Mega Man Star Force'' game has Gerry Romero, the star of the Netopian TV show ''World Mysteries''. While at first appearing to try and find proof of the Legendary StockNessMonster, Messie, and even enlisting Zack's aid due to him being the first to see Messie, it's revealed that Romero had faked the Messie sightings just to boost ratings and has been stringing along Zack for the sake of good publicity. When Zack discovers the truth, [[HeKnowsTooMuch Romero locks him in a submarine to prevent him from revealing his hoax to anyone]]. Once he's given the power to Wave Change into Plesio Surf, he is willing to flood an entire village for the sake of ratings, and even gloats to Zack over how he used him from the beginning. A smug, self-absorbed, and manipulative sleazeball, Gerry Romero proves himself to be a nasty piece of work among the {{Arc Villain}}s appearing in the game, and elicits no sympathy when Mega Man stops him and exposes his hoax, leaving him to be surrounded by the angry villagers as he's begging for the cameras to be turned off.
** Mr. King from ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce 3'' is up there with Dr. Weil as one of the most vile characters in the Mega Man mythos. [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Apperaing to the public as a benevolant philanthropist]] who donates funds to orphanages and other institutions through his King Foundation, in actuality, King leads the organization called Dealer and kidnaps several orphans and raises them to commit several heinous actions in his name. Stumbling across Meteor G while researching means of world dominance, King has two of his minions, Queen Tia and Jack, test Noise Cards [[BrainwashedAndCrazy to have Wizards go rampant and cause destruction]], as well as farm the Crimson that results from their attacks. When Tia and Jack begin to show signs of defection, King does not attempt to realign the two back to him, instead manipulating his adopted children into serving him further despite his treatment. Mr. King ends up being such a cruel person that everyone in his organization [[FlockOfWolves turns out to not be loyal to him in the slightest]], and even the person he thought was his closest ally, Heartless, turns on King and banishes him into a Noise Wave (though King is revealed to have survived, having turned himself into an EM Being). King's final act of villainy is to fuse with the core of Meteor G and become the Crimson Dragon, consuming Geo's father to [[HumanShield get Geo to not fight against the Dragon's power]]. Despite being human himself, King [[AGodAmI sees himself above mankind]] and works towards the goal of conquering the world, resorting to its destruction if he cannot rule over it.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** Volgin of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''. His [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first action]] is blowing up his allies with a nuclear bomb, [[ForTheEvulz for the hell of it]]. Despite being ([[JigsawPuzzlePlot relatively speaking]]) the BigBad of the game, he's not the main antagonist -- the game is much more interested in the relationship between Naked Snake and The Boss. Volgin simply serves as 1) a {{homage}} to and AffectionateParody of ''Film/JamesBond'' villains, 2) a {{foil}} to The Boss, and 3) a form of catharsis before TheReveal. Volgin also stands out because if it hadn't been for the stunt he pulled with the nuke, ''the entire series'' would probably have never happened.
** [[spoiler:Huey Emmerich]] falls into this in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' by [[spoiler:committing horrible act after horrible act and throwing away any sympathy he had in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Peace Walker]]'']]. His crimes: [[spoiler:trying to put his son Hal (aka [[TheWoobie Otacon]]) into a robot when said son was still a ''child'', killing Dr. Strangelove via MurderByInaction when she objects to this, causing the events of ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes Ground Zeroes]]'' and ''The Phantom Pain'' by betraying Mother Base to Skull Face, being partly responsible for [[MoralEventHorizon the parasite outbreak]], and being a DirtyCoward with a severe case of NeverMyFault. CruelMercy is the only reason they [[SavedByCanon let him live afterwards]], perhaps to quickly justify how he would become estranged with his son as established in canon as the Big Boss saga is coming to an end in that game, and his manner of death was already set as told in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'': drowning in grief after finding out that his new wife slept with Hal (who at the time was underage, making it statutory rape), while also (possibly purposefully) trying to take his stepdaughter Emma with him, instilling her hydrophobia]].
* While ''Videogame/MightAndMagic'' usually has either so over-the-top villains that they avoid this trope or some GreyAndGrayMorality in play so the eviler side still has some redeeming aspects, in ''X'' there is a secondary villain who is utterly despicable, namely Markus Wolf. This guy staged, as a member of the Black Guard, a coup against government of Karthal, imprisoning them underground near the entrance [[spoiler:to Ker-thal]]. He then proclaimed himself Duke of the city. His cowardly nature shows when he abducts Ann Morgan, Jon Morgan's daughter, under whom you are working. When your party and Crag Hack [[spoiler:(Jon's dad)]] with his pirates come to her rescue, he just flees with Ann and lets the guards fight you, and even threatens to kill Ann when he is cornered (though she thankfully uses the moment and flees). During actual battle, this weakling goes down in one hit. And if you don't kill him there, you will meet him later at Fort Laegaire, and if you free him, during the escape from the dungeon he backstabs Rosalie, the woman who was actively helping everyone, including him, to escape from the place, [[spoiler:though thankfully Rosalie lives while this jerk dies falling on the rocks]]. Utterly pathetic man.
* Although ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' is a series where you fight mostly fictional animals, two of them are as close as you can get while having them stay as such:
** Yian Garuga are known to pick fights with other monsters. Unlike most monsters, it's not even out of necessary eating and survival, but just because it can. One such victim is the Yian Kut-Ku, a much weaker Bird Wyvern that are unable to fight back, and the Yian Kut-Kus are something of an EnsembleDarkhorse due to their [[UglyCute endearingly clumsy traits]].
** The Seltas Queen is actually more despicable, as while Yian Garuga can at least invoke EvilIsCool, the Seltas Queen has more common hatable villain traits, such as [[DirtyCoward cowardice]] and [[BadBoss abusiveness]]. They abuse the normal Seltas while trying to save their own skin, then fleeing whenever they're in danger or even devouring the Seltas.
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': While the other evil kombatants such as Shang Tsung, Shao Kahn, Shinnok, Quan Chi, etc. are unpleasant to begin with, they all have their fair share of their [[LargeHam hammy moments]] to the point where they qualify for the EvilIsCool trope. Even the ''Joker'' can at least make the player laugh. But not Frost. While she is supposed to be unlikable, the hate towards her increased with the release of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', as it's shown that her entitlement and arrogance has really gone up. It says something when even Shao Kahn ''of all people'' has been shown positive qualities where, in his own twisted way, he's shown care for Mileena, Kollector, and Skarlet, while Frost only [[ItsAllAboutMe sees herself as important]] and has no redeeming features mainly because she feels entitled being the Lin Kuei grandmaster. The fact that she even [[UnwillingRoboticization forcibly converted]] her ex-Lin Kuei comrades into {{Cyber Ninja}}s [[EvilIsPetty out of spite]] makes her even more unlikable. After her cyborgization, her ego has bloated to the point of demanding other kombatants give her control of their respective organizations in many pre-fight intros, but they all ignore it. Not that they're pleasant, [[EvenEvilHasStandards but even villains (even the more monstrous ones)]] such as Kano, Noob Saibot, '''and even Kronika''' see her as nothing but a PsychopathicWomanchild. Notably, when she claims she'll lead the Lin Kuei into a new era, Noob responds that they are better off with his younger brother Kuai Liang -- this is ''literally'' the '''''only''''' time he says ''anything'' positive about Sub-Zero in the entire game.
* ''VideoGame/{{Mother}}'':
** King P[[spoiler:orky Minch]] and Fassad from ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'', being abusive and manipulative {{Fat Bastard}}s, are much easier to hate than the BrainwashedAndCrazy Masked Man [[spoiler:Claus]].
** While Giegue of ''[[VideoGame/CognitiveDissonance Mother: Cognitive Dissonance]]'' does order his henchmen to do some heinous stuff like attacking a village of innocent civilians, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds his tragic origins]] and [[TragicMonster his ultimate fate]] garners some sympathy. His minion Greyface however has none of those saving graces. When he isn't mocking the heroes, he's stealing the Apple Pieces the player worked so hard to get. The hate gets hammered home when on Mars, [[spoiler:Greyface reprograms Larice to fight his friends, which nearly kills him, while he escapes from Mars. It's later revealed that Greyface's true identity is Porky, unsurprisingly.]]

** Judy's questline has two, Woodman and Doc Fingers. The former is a {{slimeball}} working for the Tyger Claws [[spoiler:[[DudeShesLikeInAComa who raped the aforementioned woobie]]]], and the latter is a slimeball ''and'' CreepyCrossdresser infamous for giving his poorer clients low-quality cyberware that forces them to come back for repairs. There's no consequences for killing the former, but harming the latter locks you out of some of the best cyberware in the game.

* ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'': Scorpion is [[AdaptationalJerkass more vicious]] than his comic counterpart, being a sadistic psychopath who even before obtaining his exosuit. Whereas the other members of the Sinister Six either have sympathetic backstories or some degree of [[AffablyEvil charm]], Scorpion not only cares nothing for his partners in crime but makes clear that his only goal is to torture and kill Spider-Man no matter what. It says a lot about the guy when even hallucinations of him are deeply unpleasant.

*** Annabella Rosfield is the cold-hearted, narrow-minded, tyrannous and oblivious-to-reality mother of Clive Rosfield, the game's main protagonist. Her every scene seems purposely calculated to make the audience despise her. She resents her son, Clive, for not inheriting the powers of the Phoenix and her dissatisfaction with her station in life leads to her having her good-hearted husband, Archduke Elwin, murdered and ruining the lives of Clive, Joshua and Jill. Having an obnoxious disdain for Bearers and Ducal Royalists, she sends the Black Shields - themselves a mockery of the Shields of Rosaria - to slaughter any they find. She is also a bigoted elitist regarding bloodlines, smugly looking down on Dion for being a Bastard. When finally confronted by Clive and Jill, Anabella has no regrets, callously and petulantly complaining how Clive's inability to awaken caused the other nobles to mock her and calling Jill an ungrateful savage despite both being enslaved and tormented because of her petty grievances. Her only good quality is she loved Joshua and Olivier, despite said love being very much conditional. In spite of this, Anabella is without a doubt, the most universally despised character in the entire game.

** ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' has the gnomish LaResistance leader Wulbren Bongle. A rude, UngratefulBastard who has NoSympathy for his best friend risking life and limb to save him, and is a StrawHypocrite who wants to murder enslaved Gondians [[MisplacedRetribution for no real reason]] other than unjustified FantasticRacism. Hated to the point of it being a meme in the community.

* ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' has TheDragon Conrad Marburg, an EvilCounterpart to PlayerCharacter Agent Thorton. He's a SoftSpokenSadist, SmugSnake, and CorruptCorporateExecutive rolled into one and serves as the ArcVillain for the Rome missions. Unless you [[GuideDangIt make all the right choices]] he pulls a VillainExitStageLeft at the end of the arc [[spoiler:after a KillTheCutie]], but [[GuileHero baiting him]] into a DuelToTheDeath instead with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech is one of the most cathartic moments of the entire game.

** Osvald V. Vanstein's story: [[spoiler:Harvey]] is easily one of the darkest villains in the game and possibly in the entire series. He only works with Osvald in order to [[spoiler: reach his family with the Lumina bloodline and use them to create the Book of Demons for the Moonshade Order, as well as learning the One True Magic]]. After that, he [[spoiler: kidnaps his family, fakes their death, and frames Osvald with a life sentence just to torment him more.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

* ''VideoGame/{{Dormitabis}}'': For this ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' fan game, [[spoiler:[[BigBad Garvey Write]] is a detestable murderer based on an outdated interpretation of William Afton, the real BigBad of the original franchise, but unlike what William evolves into, Garvey is '''much''' worse than he could ever be. Garvey sets the standard for an unlikable antagonistic character for any media, including fan media, in every possible way.]]