History Monster / VideoGamesAndVisualNovels

* ''VisualNovel/KikokugaiTheCyberSlayer'':
** [[SerialRapist Zhang Jaobu]] is the head of the Triads' prostitution ring. In the course of his job, Jaobu routinely rapes the girls to break them and was one of five Triad leaders who participated in the attempt on [[TheHero Kong Taolun's]] life, and then the gang-rape of his sister. After this, Jaobu's group took said sister Ruili to an infamous scientist and split her soul amongst five androids. Jaobu keeps one that he regularly rapes and prostitutes to wealthy clients while thinking that the real fear from the Ruili-bot is what makes it enjoyable.
** Zhu Shaoyan, known as The Demon Empress, is another of the five who participated in Taolun's attempted murder and the gang rape of Ruili. Herself a {{serial rapist}} and {{serial killer}}, Shaoyan has modified her cyborg body to rape women with the “right equipment” and to tear her victims apart after. With her own personal Ruili-bot, Shaoyan routinely rapes and tortures her while introducing games to force the other woman to pleasure her within a certain timeframe. Failure to do so will result in [[ColdBloodedTorture horrible torture]] and abuse. At times, Shaoyan is simply so absorbed in her own thoughts that she damages Ruili anyways. Thinking back to Taolun, Shaoyan only sneers "That bastard was so smug... But I broke his precious little sister with my own two hands!"

* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'': From the first game we have CorruptCorporateExecutive [[BigBad Nicole Horne]]. As a member of [[TheIlluminati the Inner Circle]], she was responsible for Project Valhalla, a program that was developing a highly addictive psychotropic SuperSerum when it turned out to be a psychosis-inducing poison. In response to this discovery, she decided to market it as Valkyr to the public, thereby becoming an untouchable corporate crime lord who directly and indirectly killed thousands. When Michelle Payne inadvertently received information that would expose the Valkyr Conspiracy, Nicole had a horde of drugged-up maniacs slaughter both Michelle and her baby daughter. Over the following years, Horne went on to control the entire criminal underworld of New York through her pawn, Angelo Punchinello, and made a play into politics by putting a hit on the Mayor. Through all of this Horne has no clear motivations, no enlightened intent, no emotion; she is just pure evil. The worst part is when she tells Max: "The deaths of your wife and daughter were necessary, inevitable; it is DONE. You cannot bring them back. Nothing you do will make it any better."
* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'': [[BigBad Victor Branco]] is an aspiring but {{corrupt politician}} of São Paulo, and a son of the wealthy Branco family. [[TheManBehindTheMan He is also the hidden leader of the UFE]], a law enforcement group he uses for his own ends, and the Cracha Preto death squad and the mastermind behind the assassinations attempts on his brothers (one by [[ManOnFire burning alive]], and the abduction of his sister-in-law. He is motivated by [[{{greed}} control of the family fortune]] and [[WoundedGazelleGambit gaining sympathy]] for the [[SleazyPolitician election]]. Victor recruits Max as a bodyguard but really plans on making Max a fall guy for his criminal enterprises, which includes a secret ring where the poor of Brazil are kidnapped, held hostage and are harvested for their organs for the black market organ trade.

* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'':
** From the first game we have CorruptCorporateExecutive [[BigBad Nicole Horne]]. As a member of [[TheIlluminati the Inner Circle]], she was responsible for Project Valhalla, a program that was developing a highly addictive psychotropic SuperSerum when it turned out to be a psychosis-inducing poison. In response to this discovery, she decided to market it as Valkyr to the public, thereby becoming an untouchable corporate crime lord who directly and indirectly killed thousands. When Michelle Payne inadvertently received information that would expose the Valkyr Conspiracy, Nicole had a horde of drugged-up maniacs slaughter both Michelle and her baby daughter. Over the following years, Horne went on to control the entire criminal underworld of New York through her pawn, Angelo Punchinello, and made a play into politics by putting a hit on the Mayor. Through all of this Horne has no clear motivations, no enlightened intent, no emotion; she is just pure evil. The worst part is when she tells Max: "The deaths of your wife and daughter were necessary, inevitable; it is DONE. You cannot bring them back. Nothing you do will make it any better."
** The BigBad of ''Max Payne 3'' is [[CorruptPolitician Victor]] [[SleazyPolitician Branco]], TheManBehindTheMan who recruits Max himself as a fall guy for his criminal enterprises. In his plan to seize control of the family fortune and garner sympathy for elections, Victor has his own brothers murdered, one by being [[KillItWithFire burned alive]]. Max soon discovers the extent of his evil: Victor runs a secret ring where the poor of Brazil are kidnapped, held hostage and are harvested of all their organs for the black market organ trade.

* ''VideoGame/FarCry3'': [[BiggerBad Hoyt Volker]] is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive boss]] of the biggest slave-trading ring in the South-Pacific. He is described as the root of all the evil happening on the island, and is responsible for manipulating Vaas with drugs into becoming a madman. In his first appearance, he gleefully forces a small group of innocent civilians to run across an active minefield. The second time we see him, he burns one of his own men alive and tells the rest of his privateers to kill any island native they see on sight. Finally, during a poker game, he kills Jason's friend Sam and threatens to cut off one of Jason's fingers every time he loses a round, a threat that he makes good on. Volker is an utterly psychotic sadist without a single redeeming quality.

* ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'':
** Blados and Chalis are two agents of the mysterious country Tuaparang. These two have no problem with kidnapping children, [[spoiler: activating a tower that would eseentially switch off the sun and unleash hordes of monsters on the innocent populace of their world]], and to top it off near the end, [[spoiler: intending to use the king of Morgal - already a victim of their manipulations - in order to fire a powerful attack on their own Tuaparang allies using another weapon, knowing the weapon would kill him as a result]]. Blados is the worst of the two, since it's implied he does a lot of this [[ForTheEvulz just because he can]], but Chalis herself is quite a ruthless, cold-hearted backstabber [[spoiler: who may have been planning to betray her own partner, as well]].
** [[TheChessmaster Alex]] betrays his clan, and especially his mentor, in search for the forbidden powers of Alchemy (without intending to save the world; he just wanted the power for himself). He slaughters a Tolbian army just because he could. [[spoiler: He seduces a woman just so he could get closer to a royal artifact, and then leaves her to die.]] And that's just the top of the iceburg. Even Blados and Chalis are wary of him.

* Abigail Williams, the real BigBad of ''VideoGame/MurderedSoulSuspect'', defines hypocrisy in its cruelest, nastiest nature. During the Salem Witch Trials, her vendetta against witches motivates her to falsely report multiple women as witches leading to their execution. Abigail swears vengeance on all “Witches” that set foot in Salem and blames witches for her execution. Thereafter, as the Bell Killer, Abigail uses witchcraft to [[PeoplePuppet manipulate people]] into murdering young women through methods Salemites used to execute witches. This is demonstrated when she manipulates Rex Reyes into shooting Ronan to death after the latter is brainwashed into killing Sophia. As her pursuit of Iris Campbell demonstrates, Abigail is willing to do ''anything'' to kill her targets, from burning her sister at the stake to indiscriminately killing innocents inside a church. When she reveals to Ronan that she’s the Bell Killer, she opens a portal to hell in an attempt to kill the detective’s spirit once and for all.

** ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': [[MagnificentBastard Kil'jaeden the Deceiver]], [[DragonInChief the demon in charge]] of the [[LegionsOfHell Burning Legion]] in the absence of [[BiggerBad Sargeras]], was once one of the leaders of the Eredar, but [[FaceHeelTurn embraced corruption]] following Sargeras's deception and vowed to destroy his former friend Velen for refusing. When he found [[DefectorFromDecadence Velen and the Draenei]] living on Draenor alongside the orcs he appeared to the shaman Ner'zhul as his dead mate and tricked him into thinking that the Draenei were evil. When Ner'zhul found out the truth, Kil'jaeden stripped him of his powers and began working through his disciple Gul'dan. Through him Kil'jaeden introduced [[BlackMagic warlock magic]] to orcish society and orchestrated the near-genocide of the Draenei. The orcs were then given the Blood of Mannoroth, condemning them to demonic corruption as TheHorde. Some years later, when Draenor was collapsing, Ner'zhul was caught by Kil'jaeden when trying to escape. He pleaded with Kil'jaeden to spare him, and was "rewarded" by being turned into the Lich King--[[AndIMustScream imprisoned in ice]] to create [[ZombieApocalypse the Scourge]]. Kil'jaeden grants mercy [[ItsAllAboutMe only to further his own goals]], and is not above [[BadBoss eliminating his own minions]] if they [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness stop being useful]]. All the atrocities committed by both the original Horde and the Scourge can be traced back to him.

** [[MagnificentBastard Kil'jaeden the Deceiver]], [[DragonInChief the demon in charge]] of the [[LegionsOfHell Burning Legion]] in the absence of [[BiggerBad Sargeras]], was once one of the leaders of the Eredar, but embraced corruption following Sargeras's deception and vowed to destroy his former friend Velen for refusing. When he found [[DefectorFromDecadence Velen and the Draenei]] living on Draenor alongside the orcs he appeared to the shaman Ner'zhul as his dead mate and tricked him into thinking that the Draenei were evil. When Ner'zhul found out the truth, Kil'jaeden stripped him of his powers and began working through his disciple Gul'dan. Through him Kil'jaeden introduced [[BlackMagic warlock magic]] to orcish society and orchestrated the near-genocide of the Draenei. The orcs were then given the Blood of Mannoroth, condemning them to demonic corruption as TheHorde. Some years later, when Draenor was collapsing, Ner'zhul was caught by Kil'jaeden when trying to escape. He pleaded with Kil'jaeden to spare him, and was "rewarded" by being turned into the Lich King--[[AndIMustScream imprisoned in ice]] to create [[ZombieApocalypse the Scourge]]. Kil'jaeden grants mercy only to further his own goals, and is not above eliminating his own minions if they stop being useful. All the atrocities committed by both the original Horde and the Scourge can be traced back to him.

* ''VideoGame/LANoire'':
** Dr. Harlan Fontaine, the BigBad, is ''entirely'' behind everything. At first, [[AffablyEvil he looks nice]], however [[spoiler:he manipulates Ira Hogeboom, a traumatic patient, into burning down the house of people who wouldn't sell the land, and his only objection to families being killed was that it drew bad publicity]]. What else is that [[spoiler:he is willing to kill anyone who discovers his dirty secrets, even to the ones he's been nice to, such as Courtney Sheldon, who considered him a mentor and came to him for help and Elsa Litchmann, who hadn't pieced it all together]].
** The Black Dahlia murderer [[spoiler:aka Garrett Mason]] is known for murdering women by beating to death or strangling them, then leaving their bodies naked in public places with messages carved into their skin. All while framing innocent men for his deeds and sending messages and his victims possessions to the police to taunt them that they hadn't stopped him.

* ''VideoGame/InFAMOUS2'': Bertrand from turns ordinary human beings into the Corrupted, performs cruel experiments on Kuo, uses the Power Transfer Device to turn Vermaak 88 into Forced Conduits in a process that will eventually drive them insane, was responsible for the sacrificial death of Nix's mother and several hundred others in his attempt to activate his own Conduit powers, and tops it off by ordering the execution of any Conduits or potential Conduits in the starting move towards total genocide.]] In addition to all that, he also [[spoiler: planned on selling the Vermaak as personal soldiers to major powers around the world. This man nearly started an Arms race which might have sparked another World War, and he was tugging the strings the WHOLE TIME. The greatest irony is that this character never fully seems to realize how terrible a monster he's become. His KarmicTransformation is completely lost on him, despite the fact the only power he unlocked through the murder of hundreds of innocents being the transformation into a ravenous monster; the only conclusion he draws from this is that [[InsaneTrollLogic if he has become a monster through the activation of his Conduit powers, then all Conduits are monsters, and must be exterminated]].

** Metal Face is formerly known as Mumkhar. The very first thing he does is [[DirtyCoward ditch his friends in battle]] and supposedly gets himself killed. When he returns as Metal Face, he starts by murdering the protagonist's beloved girlfriend Fiora, who's also the sister of his former war colleague, setting in motion the mass slaughter of the people of Colony 9. Showing no remorse, Metal Face later reflects on the [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming lovely sounds of Fiora's screams]]. Shortly thereafter, he throws the country of Entia into chaos by killing its High Emperor before slaughtering almost every member of Colony 6. If that wasn't enough, he's also one of the ones in charge of morphing his victims into slave mooks. He's a nasty brute with no redeeming qualities who will stop at nothing to make sure his former comrade Dunban suffers to the full extent of his power. Even [[EvenEvilHasStandards his own boss Egil]] is horrified at Metal Face's excessive atrocities and his eventual destruction is mourned by none.

* ''VideoGame/LostEden'': Moorkus Rex is an evil dinosaur [[EvilOverlord tyrant]] who leads an army of [[TyrannosaurusRex Tyranns]] to conquer all other kingdoms. He doesn't want to {{take over the world}} so much as simply [[OmnicidalManiac dismember it]] (reducing the world to "blood and ashes at my feet", as he put it), and his {{mook}}s cut swaths of destruction wherever they go. His real power is illusion and fakery--he lies every time he opens his mouth, trying to sow confusion and despair, while the real threat -- the Tyrann -- destroys everything in their path. It unfortunately works all too well on Dina, whom he tricked into believing he had gruesomely murdered her mate.

* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'': Zanza takes JerkassGods to the extreme. Originally a MadScientist named Klaus, Zanza became obsessed with creating his own world and becoming a God. When he succeeded, Zanza became the creator of Monado with a catch: it turns out Zanza, thought to be a benevolent BigGood is actually a sociopathic ManipulativeBastard and the BigBad was a WellIntentionedExtremist trying to stop him. Zanza kills him before revealing his intent: to destroy the world, devouring and destroying every living soul within it, so he can start it anew and preserve his [[AGodAmI godhood]]. Zanza is driven by ego and a complete lack of feeling, especially given his counterpart Mayneth is fully capable of understanding and protecting people.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegacyOfKain'':

* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'':
** [[MadArtist Sander Cohen]] murders people who question his allegiance to Andrew Ryan, besmirch his art, betray him, or because he felt like it. He relishes in said murders and tortures, making them into his own art forms as he encases people into plaster while posed as statues for instance. One of the first tortures visibly seen through Cohen was a splicer being forced to play a piano rigged with explosives that set off when he slips up.
** Frank Fontaine, gangster and [[spoiler:supposedly]] [[PosthumousCharacter deceased]] political rival to Andrew Ryan, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity had a public face of providing shelter and promotion of welfare towards orphans and the poor]], in itself the antithesis of Ryan's ideology. However, he experimented with sea slugs that carry ADAM, and had no qualms of placing them in very young girls, some of them even forcibly taken from their parents for the "orphanages", to concentrate the ADAM. Also, it turned out that the poor under Fontaine's care was really no better off than they had been, and he had really been manipulating them toward his own gain while getting them addicted to ADAM. He and the newly-christened Splicers initiated a civil war in order to get other inhabitants into ADAM and [[spoiler: feigned his own death while using Jack, the PlayerCharacter, from birth in order to eventually usurp Ryan's position before [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness deciding Jack has outlived his usefulness]].]]

* In ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'', [[BiggerBad The Elder God]] [[TheChessmaster orchestrated the war between the Hylden and the Ancients]], resulting in the Hylden being banished to a Hell dimension and the Ancients becoming Vampires. The Elder God later decided he didn't like the Vampires anymore, so he orchestrated a war between them and humans, which wiped out most of the Vampires except Kain. Kain later began a second war that ended with humans enslaved by Vampires. So, as directly stated in the last game, the entire history of the series is full of the three major races in the world killing and enslaving and wiping each other out, over and over again for dominance, and all this was caused by the Elder God. His motivation is he [[ForTheEvulz just likes being able to control the world however he likes it, so whenever he decides he doesn't like the guys in power any more, he has someone else overthrow them.]] He was also hungry for their souls.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' franchise:
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'': [[BigBad Majora]] was an EldritchAbomination who inhabited the titular mask and who also used several characters, such as Skull Kid, as his personal puppets. Majora sought total destruction and planned on having a [[WeirdMoon relatively small moon]] crash into Termina, [[OmnicidalManiac killing everything in it]], for no other reason than it being [[ForTheEvulz FUN]].to Termina, [[OmnicidalManiac killing everything in it]], for no other reason than it being ''[[ForTheEvulz fun]]''.
** ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'': Yuga starts off as TheDragon to [[WellIntentionedExtremist Princess Hilda]] of Lorule, working with her to capture Hyrule's Sages to revive Ganon so the Triforce of Power can be returned to the mortal plane. He also imprisons several soldiers around Hyrule Castle...leaving them to be ''washed off'' and killed by their fellows who think its graffiti. Yuga and Ganon merge and mercilessly attacks Link only to be stopped by Hilda who sets him off to free the Sages. After all the Sages are freed, Link gains the Triforce of Courage. After wearing Yuga down, he then betrays Hilda, puts her in a FateWorseThanDeath in a painting and then merges with her to get her stolen Triforce of Wisdom. Yuga reveals himself that he didn't care about restoring Lorule at all: all he wanted was to reshape it in his own image. He even tries to cause Lorule's destruction at the end for that purpose with only Link standing in his way to stop him.

* ''VideoGame/ScarfaceTheWorldIsYours'': Besides [[BigBad Sosa]] (who was also a monster in [[{{Film/Scarface1983}} the film]], we have Nacho "El Gordo" Contreras, a rich drug lord who has business in Miami's Downtown and islands. In addition to engage in human trafficking, he liked to beat women and then dump the bodies to the sharks For the Evulz. It is also implied that he forced several people to work in his illegal business.

* ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'': [[EvilOldFolks Dermot "Lucky" Quinn]] leads the Chicago South Club, a syndicate involved in human trafficking, drug dealing, and cybercrime. Before the game begins, Lucky manipulates Rose Washington and Mayor Donovan Rushmore into an affair, then manipulates the Mayor in killing Rose so he can blackmail him later for more power. In the process of obtaining this blackmail material, he [[WouldHurtAChild kills Lena Pearce]]. Lucky also has no tolerance for failure. He kidnaps Maurice's wife and sells her as a sex slave at a human trafficking auction after Maurice fails to kill Aiden, and kills a fugitive Aiden delivers after an operation goes south. Lucky later orders his men to kill Clara Lille when he's made aware of her working against him. As he lays dying, he declares that Chicago will build a statue of him while never knowing his true criminal nature, thanks Mayor Donovan for being "stupid enough to fall in love", and states that vigilantes like Aiden will be forgotten because they don't matter.

* ''VideoGame/TombRaiderAngelOfDarkness'': [[BigBad Pieter Van Eckhardt]] is easily the most evil opponent Lara has had. He is not only a remorseless SerialKiller who collects alchemically altered body parts from his murder victims, he also systematically betrays and [[BadBoss kills the other members]] of his [[FiveBadBand Five Bad Band]] to make sure his secrets remain hidden. He seems to inspire loyalty solely through fear.

* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'':
** [[BiggerBad The Elder God]] [[TheChessmaster orchestrated the war between the Hylden and the Ancients]], resulting in the Hylden being banished to a Hell dimension and the Ancients becoming Vampires. The Elder God later decided he didn't like the Vampires anymore, so he orchestrated a war between them and humans, which wiped out most of the Vampires except Kain. Kain later began a second war that ended with humans enslaved by Vampires. So, as directly stated in the last game, the entire history of the series is full of the three major races in the world killing and enslaving and wiping each other out, over and over again for dominance, and all this was caused by the Elder God. His motivation is he [[ForTheEvulz just likes being able to control the world however he likes it, so whenever he decides he doesn't like the guys in power any more, he has someone else overthrow them.]] He was also hungry for their souls.
** The Hylden Lord, AKA The Sarafan Lord and The Unspoken, is the most powerful and seeming leader of the demonic Hylden Race. During their wars with the Vampires, the Hylden Lord commissioned the creation of a machine that would kill anything not a Hylden on Nosgoth before he and his race were banished from Nosgoth, but the Hylden Lord found a way to return: possessing Mortanius, the Guardian of Death, and forcing him to unwillingly murder the Guardian of Balance Ariel which led to crippling insanity inflicted on all the other Guardians and Nosgoth falling into decay. the Hylden Lord manipulated the fledgling vampire Kain until he could possess the noble vampire Janos Audron and use his blood to power the genocide machine The Mass. The original architect of the Mass ended up objecting, which had the Hylden Lord lock him away in a horrid hellhole of a prison. After reviving the anti-vampire order The Sarafan, the Hylden Lord made it into a vicious, fascist regime with the intent to either exterminate or rule over all other races of Nosgoth.

* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'': William Carver from Seasons Two is the despotic leader of a community of survivors which he rules over as if the settlement was a prison. When a group of survivors escape from him, including [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil the woman he raped and impregnated]], Carver stops at nothing to retrieve them. Introduced in episode two, Carver proceeds to torture Carlos by [[{{Fingore}} breaking his fingers]] in order to lure the mother of his unborn child, Rebecca, out of hiding. During the middle of an armed standoff, Carver retaliates by starting to kill his hostages one-by-one. He starts off by killing Walter, possibly goes on to kill Alvin, and either threatens to kill Sarita or [[WouldHurtAChild Clementine]] before the stand-off is resolved. If Alvin survives episode two, Carver will spend episode three conducting ColdBloodedTorture on him for no reason other than spite and jealousy towards his romantic rival. He also murders one of the members of his community, Reggie, for [[DisproportionateRetribution failing to make sure Clementine and Sarah pick enough berries]], and beats [[spoiler:Kenny]] so savagely that [[EyeScream his eye is permanently damaged]]. When Rebecca tries to escape with her group for a second time, [[IfICantHaveYou Carver threatens to kill her and his child both rather than let his baby be born away from him.]] While he pretends like he's ruling in everyone's best interests, ultimately Carver is just a sadistic tyrant who believes that [[SocialDarwinist the strong should rule and the weak should be dominated or culled.]]

* William Carver from ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' is the despotic leader of a community of survivors which he rules over as if the settlement was a prison. When a group of survivors escape from him, including [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil the woman he raped and impregnated]], Carver stops at nothing to retrieve them. Introduced in episode two, Carver proceeds to torture Carlos by [[{{Fingore}} breaking his fingers]] in order to lure the mother of his unborn child, Rebecca, out of hiding. During the middle of an armed standoff, Carver retaliates by starting to kill his hostages one-by-one. He starts off by killing Walter, possibly goes on to kill Alvin, and either threatens to kill Sarita or [[WouldHurtAChild Clementine]] before the stand-off is resolved. If Alvin survives episode two, Carver will spend episode three conducting ColdBloodedTorture on him for no reason other than spite and jealousy towards his romantic rival. He also murders one of the members of his community, Reggie, for [[DisproportionateRetribution failing to make sure Clementine and Sarah pick enough berries]], and beats [[spoiler:Kenny]] so savagely that [[EyeScream his eye is permanently damaged]]. When Rebecca tries to escape with her group for a second time, [[IfICantHaveYou Carver threatens to kill her and his child both rather than let his baby be born away from him.]] While he pretends like he's ruling in everyone's best interests, ultimately Carver is just a sadistic tyrant who believes that [[SocialDarwinist the strong should rule and the weak should be dominated or culled.]]

* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'': [[BiggerBad The Elder God]] [[TheChessmaster orchestrated the war between the Hylden and the Ancients]], resulting in the Hylden being banished to a Hell dimension and the Ancients becoming Vampires. The Elder God later decided he didn't like the Vampires anymore, so he orchestrated a war between them and humans, which wiped out most of the Vampires except Kain. Kain later began a second war that ended with humans enslaved by Vampires. So, as directly stated in the last game, the entire history of the series is full of the three major races in the world killing and enslaving and wiping each other out, over and over again for dominance, and all this was caused by the Elder God. His motivation is he [[ForTheEvulz just likes being able to control the world however he likes it, so whenever he decides he doesn't like the guys in power any more, he has someone else overthrow them.]] He was also hungry for their souls.

->''[[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming "Nothing can beat the music of hundreds of voices screaming in unison!"]]''

* Sakaki of ''VideoGame/DotHackGU'' was merely annoying and overzealous at first, but later revelations removed any kind of sympathy fans might have had for him. Specifically, the revelation that he had been manipulating and controlling AIDA behind the scenes, and that his ultimate goal was to use AIDA as mass mind control over all of humanity. But the biggest blow against him was his treatment of Atoli, who had long been one of his strongest supporters. Turns out he had met her on a suicide website, preyed on her fears about being alone and considered worthless, effectively brainwashed her into depending on him, and then {{Mind Rape}}d her to bring out the power of her Epitaph. When all of his plans fail and he gets infected with AIDA himself, he then spends the first half of the final volume putting together a sadistic tournament for the sole purpose of making Haseo and the rest suffer (harming quite a few others in the process), and ''laughing'' at the pain he's causing.
* Miranda Jahana, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo'', is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who wants to create the perfect fighter by any means necessary. To that end, she forced her own daughter Reimi to undergo TrainingFromHell, [[EvilMatriarch abandoning her without a second thought]] when she lost to Yuka, and created GattacaBabies through genetic manipulation, only to [[BadBoss cruelly kill them off]] [[YouHaveFailedMe when they didn't fare any better than Reimi]]. Also driving poor Yuka to an HeroicBSOD through her hideous actions. She's no better in the OVA series with her manipulation of [[TheWoobie Satomi]], offering her a DealWithTheDevil in exchange for a cure for her ill brother, and tried to [[GrandTheftMe take over her body]]. Worst of all, the reason why she wants to create the ultimate fighter is never revealed, so it looks like she's only doing all of this ForTheEvulz.

* ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'':
** BigBad [[spoiler:[[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr.]] [[PsychoPsychologist Bumby]] is Alice's shrink who uses hypnosis in order to erase Alice's traumatic memories of her family's death. The reason being that ''he's'' the one who started the fire that burned down her house in an attempt to hide his tracks after raping Alice's sister Lizzie. Nowadays he makes a profit on the side via pimping the children he's brainwashed and broken into {{Empty Shell}}s.]]
** His Wonderland counterpart, The Dollmaker, is naturally just as bad, to the extent even the BigBad of the first game despises him.
* Alan Morton of the fourth ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark'' game, ''The New Nightmare'' was a CreepyChild who developed an obsession with the monsters in the shadows. When he grew up, his obsessions increased to the point where he began experimenting on corpses to help the creatures escape from the World of Darkness into earth. Alan eventually resorted to vivisecting human victims, among whom was his own father. He also enslaved his brother Obed to help with his schemes. By the time of the game's events, Alan intends to open the gate to the World of Darkness, unleashing its eldritch bisophere to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt
* Halbech's CEO [[BigBad Henry Leland]] from ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who knows absolutely no boundaries in his goal to make profit out of the suffering from others. Throughout the game it is revealed piece by piece that he is behind pretty much every major crime in the story. Among many other things, he provided the resources and the objective for the terrorist cell Al-Samad to shoot down a civilian airliner; framed Mike as a traitor and thus ruined his life; ordered the assassination of Taiwan's president; and sent [[TheDragon Conrad Marburg]] to assault the heavily visited Museum of Arts in Rome, where Mike is forced to [[SadisticChoice choose between a friend (or loved one, depending on the choices) and a whole room of civilians.]] His overall goal is to destabilize the world and drive humanity to the brink of WorldWar3, [[WarForFunAndProfit just so he can make a fortune out of it.]] His preferred method of recruiting underlings is ruining their lives and thus practically forcing them into his services, as he did with Marburg and also tries with Mike. If the player accepts this, he shows that once he [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness has no more use for his people, he throws them away like dirt,]] by ordering Mike to execute anyone who knew of his plans, [[PlayerPunch including Mina.]] Coldly calculating, merciless and with a {{smug|Snake}} and [[FauxAffablyEvil false friendliness]] to add insult to injury, Leland truly earns his role as the biggest bastard throughout the game.
* ''VideoGame/AlterAila'' brings us PsychoForHire Red, who joins TheEmpire simply because it's the strongest of the factions and allows him to direct his bloodlust at the Imperialists' targets. An AxeCrazy lunatic who favors strength above all else, Red spends the game brutally murdering or attempting to murder everyone in his path and has designs on the throne himself. He aims to [[TheStarscream backstab the Imperials and take over himself]] before reigning as TheCaligula.
* ''VideoGame/{{Alundra}}'' gives us the evil Melzas. After arriving on Earth, Melzas learned of Gods empowered by prayer and decided he wanted this power for himself. He inserted his image into human culture, and created a few followers. When the worship began, and his powers manifested, he used them to peer into the minds of the humans, making the human king his puppet. After being exposed and [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned]], Melzas manipulated multiple atrocities to increase his powers, using priests to keep his human subjects subdued and loyal. Melzas was also responsible for dark nightmares that could actually kill people, and when he perceives a human as a threat, he has forces sent to destroy the human's entire village. Melzas might be a GodOfEvil but solely because he chose to become one himself, out of nothing more than ego and a lust for power.
* Crosus Verlac in the text-based adventure game ''VideoGame/{{Anchorhead}}'' is the patriarch of the Verlac family and a man who discovered a dark route to immortality. Long before the story of ''Anchorhead'' began, Croseus's physical flesh became dust...but his spirit survives by [[DemonicPossession taking over the bodies of his male descendants]] and impregnating the female descendants to create new bodies for him to steal later. The power Croseus has over his descendants is represented in the chilling ArcWords: '''He always returns to his blood.''' Not content with this, Croseus runs a legacy of dark magic and murder, routinely sacrificing children for power to the point where the well behind the village slaughterhouse is full of the bones of missing children. In the present, Croseus takes control of and possesses the nameless heroine's husband, before setting his plan into motion: to open the gates to the EldritchAbomination beings he worships and allow them to devour all that lives.
* Ignacy from ''VideoGame/ArcRiseFantasia'' was a rival of the heroes' OldMaster and is first seen injuring said master fatally with petrifying wounds. Through the game, you hear of evil deeds Ignacy has apparently had a role in: murdering a hero's mother and manipulating loyal warriors to betray their benefactors and murdering them later. Ignacy forces a painful transformation on innocent victims, which makes the heroes kill the victims in self defense. Later in the game, Ignacy kidnaps one hero's sister for information. He also attempts to MindRape another. He forces a SadisticChoice that has the daughter of the woman he murdered years past perform a HeroicSacrifice to save her sister. After this and being caught for a final battle, he only laughs bitterly how close he was to world domination.
* Old King of ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore 4A'' is a member of the group Orca, and sticks out amidst a group of WellIntentionedExtremist types in that he's a genocidal OmnicidalManiac who simply wants to kill everyone in the colonies ForTheEvulz. In his worst moment, he tricks [[ManipulativeBastard the hero into destroying one of the colonies for him]] which brings about 100 million deaths.

* [[spoiler:BiggerBad [[TheManBehindTheMan Chakravartin]]]] of ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' is the [[GodIsEvil nigh-omnipotent creator-god of Gaea]] and a smug, cold, uncaring [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who attempts to destroy and recreate the world constantly because he considers it beneath him to keep the planet's denizens safe from harm. To this end, [[spoiler:Chakravartin's]] attempts to find an heir resulted in his creation of the monstrous Gohma that have destroyed so many innocent lives so he can test the resolve of the Gods. This also resulted in the Gods using humans as slaves and harvesting their souls and Mantra for their own powers. All the death and destruction in the game, over the course of over 10, 000 years are all the fault of [[spoiler:Chakravartin]], solely so he could find someone else to do his job for him, and would kill and restart everything until he got the result he wanted. Despite trying to claim himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist, [[spoiler:Chakravartin's]] claims are shown to be the hollow words of a cruel egomaniac, and once defied, the true monster he really is comes out.
* Beldo from ''VideoGame/AzureDreams'' is the most evil man in the whole game. He initially traveled with Guy, the father of KidHero Koh, in order to find the Ultimate Egg to give him ultimate power and TakeOverTheWorld. Beldo betrayed and killed Guy and later killed the father of Koh's rival as well. Beldo mind controlled Koh's partner Kewne, against Kewne's will, to lead Koh to him to unseal the Ultimate Egg, and after killing Guy, he forcibly transformed Guy's partner into a new right arm to replace the one guy chopped off [[AndIMustScream against said partner's will]]. He proceeds to use Guy's sword on Koh to use Koh's blood to unseal the Egg, mocking him all the while. He even fuses monsters to him against their will in his quest for power.
* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' has two very nasty Big Bads...

** Wiseman from the original game is a raging psychopath, with a purely sadistic edge and a LackOfEmpathy for all living beings. Wiseman, a millennium before the series began, began to believe existence of the body was flawed. He fell to evil and began devouring the energy of his followers before embarking on a war of conquest that look the lives of men, women and children. To spite a group of heroes who stood against him, Wiseman killed near everyone in their hometown, and left only two survivors. He attempted to convert the world to energy and absorb it within himself. Despite failing, Wiseman was not destroyed and [[GrandTheftMe possessed Verus]] and corrupted him. Wiseman manipulates all of verus's atrocities, causing mass death and even torture of his former lover. When forced to reveal himself, Wiseman declares his intents to devour the heroes' hearts and rule over their world for eternity.

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'': SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker serves, in one form or another, as the BigBad for the [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum first]] [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity three]] [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins games]]. When he first established himself in Gotham, he forced Black Mask to kill his own girlfriend, then kidnapped and tortured him. Impersonating Black Mask, he hired 8 assassins to kill Batman, and after revealing himself to Batman, he bombed several buildings, not caring if there were any people in them. After learning [[ThouShaltNotKill Batman won't kill]], he strapped himself to an electric chair charged by Bane's heartbeat [[SadisticChoice to force Batman to kill one of them]] and held Gordon hostage. Over the course of the series, he kills multiple people, sets Bane [[ColdBloodedTorture up to be tortured]], freely talks about being physically abusive to Harley Quinn, offers to let his men rape Harley, covers all the usual BadBoss bases, tries to turn Jim Gordon into a 'roided-up monstrosity, kidnaps Nora Fries to force Mr. Freeze into helping him, blackmails Batman into helping by sending his poisoned blood to hospitals in the Gotham area, and shoots Talia in the back just to hurt Batman. There's also his actions post-mortem with the digital comic, ''Arkham City: Endgame'': He had his minions rig a radio tower within Arkham City to broadcast a message all over Gotham confirming his death, as well as offering a reward of over a million dollars to the person who manages to find his corpse and deliver it to Harley Quinn, as a way to ensure that the town would "tear itself apart." Not only that, but [[FromBadToWorse he also claimed that the walls of Arkham City were still wired with explosives, thus ensuring that the remaining prisoners not only riot within Arkham City in expectation of the walls being blown up, but also, should it have been destroyed, make the rioting in Gotham City even worse with several of the more dangerous inmates participating in wanton destruction]]. He had Batman lured to the isolation cell that Batman put him in years ago after a particularly heinous massacre he instigated during the Fourth of July where Joker rigged several fireworks with toxins killing hundreds of men, women and children. Finally, he also later revealed that he had Clayface rig the cell, as a means of [[TakingYouWithMe ensuring that Batman will meet him in Hell]], which Batman [[DisneyDeath later escaped somehow]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}’s'' BigBad, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Father Balder]], is responsible for [[TheChessmaster all the bad things that happen in the game]]. Centuries before the game begins, he starts a war between the Lumen Sages (of which he is one) and the Umbra Witches in the hopes that they'd destroy each other. After the witches threw a wrench in his plans and come out on top in the war, he orchestrated the witch hunts, which finished the job and wiped out the witches that remained, his wife included. At some point since then, he captured one of the only two Umbra Witches left and mind raped her into serving him and helping him tear down everything she cared about. Come present day, he sics hordes of angels on entire cities filled with humans, slaughtering everything inside. He ruthlessly and remorselessly kills anybody who opposes him, and callously speaks of the deaths he caused [[ButForMeItWasTuesday like they were nothing]]. In the climax, he [[WouldHurtAChild absorbs a young girl into his own body]] for a power-up; this young girl is [[spoiler: his own daughter, a [[ArchnemesisDad younger version of Bayonetta]]]]. He has only one goal when he does all this: reviving Jubileus, his god, [[OmnicidalManiac who would then proceed to annihilate reality]].
* From ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'' [[GeneralRipper General Kehck]] is the leader of the Alpha Sections, a military organization devoted to battling the [=DomZ=] aliens and protecting the denizens of planet Hillys from both the invaders and from the terrorist organization known as the IRIS Network. At least, that's what he wants people to believe. In reality, the IRIS Network is a [[LaResistance resistance movement]] dedicated to exposing the truth: that Kehck and his Alpha Sections are aiding the [=DomZ=] in their attempt to harvest everyone on the planet, just as they have done across hundreds of worlds. Those abducted are transported to the moon where they are [[VampiricDraining sucked dry of all their fluids]] so that [[TheDragon Kehck]] and his master, [[BigBad the [=DomZ=] Priest,]] [[ImmortalityImmorality may live longer.]] Throughout the game Kehck uses his PropagandaMachine to urge the people of Hillys to enlist in the Alpha Sections, knowing full well that they'll be slowly converted by the [=DomZ=] into monstrous grotesqueries to act as his army of mooks. When the protagonist, Jade, manages to start exposing the truth about the Alpha Sections, Kehck responds by [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapping the war orphans Jade's adopted for he and his boss to feed on.]] He also hooks up Jade's HonoraryUncle/ParentalSubstitute, Pey'j, into a torture machine for three weeks. This eventually ends up killing Pey'j and he only manages to recover thanks to Jade's newly manifested healing powers. Unlike the [=DomZ=] Priest who needs to feed on planets to survive, or the other Alpha Sections soldiers who have been turned into monsters, Kehck is completely human and isn't in any danger of dying. He's just a selfish man who wants to live a little bit longer and is willing to wipe out entire planets to do so. Even as he's dying he remains completely unrepentant about his deeds, mocking Jade about how everyone she loved is already dead, before, with his final breath, [[CardCarryingVillain saying a prayer for evil to overcome good.]]

** [[MadArtist Sander Cohen]] murders people who question his allegience to Andrew Ryan, besmirch his art, betray him, or because he felt like it. He relishes in said murders and tortures, making them into his own art forms as he encases people into plaster while posed as statues for instance. One of the first tortures visibly seen through Cohen was a splicer being forced to play a piano rigged with explosives that set off when he slips up.
** Frank Fontaine, gangster and [[spoiler:supposedly]] [[PosthumousCharacter deceased]] political rival to Andrew Ryan. He had a public face of providing shelter and promotion of welfare towards orphans and the poor, in itself the antithesis of Ryan's ideology. However, he experimented with sea slugs that carry ADAM, and had no qualms of placing them in very young girls, some of them even forcibly taken from their parents for the "orphanages", to concentrate the ADAM. Also, it turned out that the poor under Fontaine's care was really no better off than they had been, and he had really been manipulating them toward his own gain while getting them addicted to ADAM. He and the newly-christened Splicers initiated a civil war in order to get other inhabitants into ADAM and [[spoiler: feigned his own death while using Jack, the PlayerCharacter, from birth in order to eventually usurp Ryan's position before [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness deciding Jack has outlived his usefulness]].]]

** Hazama/Terumi Yuuki, an extremely arrogant and sadistic spirit who revels in the suffering on other people with extreme glee. Amongst his laundry list of [[KickTheDog puppy-punting]] include personally responsible for the Black Beast, which destroyed over 80% of the world's population, causing Lotte Carmine [[BodyHorror to transform into Arakune]], regularly uses HumanResources to create and power [[PersonOfMassDestruction People Of Mass Destruction]], [[MindRape mind raping other people]] to [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate them]], and... listing all of them would be a chore. His MotiveRant includes [[DespairEventHorizon plunging the world into despair]], the only thing he believed to be the ultimate truth. With 'inflicting despair' to be a goal, and especially when you consider that all of the above, he does ForTheEvulz, nothing else describe him save an utter CompleteMonster.
** Relius Clover is an unabashed MadScientist, [[AbusiveParents Abusive Father]] ''par excellence'' who views other humans as nothing more but his experiment subjects and would experiment on them with utter glee. He killed both his wife and his daughter and turned them into [[RobotGirl gynoid killers]] ForScience and rightfully earned the hatred of his son Carl. He also uses the same reasoning for inflicting ColdBloodedTorture on Lambda-11, and most of the atrocities Terumi does is thanks to Relius' research, with Relius fully aware and approving of it all. In one route, he's even willing to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill an ally just for being in his way]].
* Kagan of the ''VideoGame/BloodRayne'' series is the heroine Rayne's ArchnemesisDad and the BigBad of the second game. A powerful vampire lord, Kagan has a fascination with the {{Dhampir}} race and creates his own by raping human women to produce offspring before eventually killing every member of their maternal family and everything they care about, leaving them with nobody but Kagan himself to rely on. Kagan ended up working with the Nazis to further his own goals and killed Rayne's mentor and friend, torturing him by strangling him with his own intestines before the man [[TakingYouWithMe used a grenade to destroy himself with Kagan]], except Kagan had survived. Kagan uses a plan to blot out the sun and leave a vampire kingdom for himself and his kind, to rule as a king. Kagan displays no care for any other being, coldly informing one of his daughters [[YouHaveFailedMe her services are no longer required]] before having her thrown into a miles-long drop, and later mocks Rayne by declaring she's scarce worth the "effort I took to create it."

** Father Habaruku of ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireII'', founder of [[PathOfInspiration the church]], which steals the souls of its believers in order to power up the BigBad. His favorite method for winning followers seems to be replacing respected members of various communities with literal demons that disguise themselves as those people. He also replaced a man who used to be in charge of the church, a priest who was such a compassionate, big-hearted, and lovable character, [[spoiler:and your father]]. He got booted off the scene so that Habaruku could take over, then [[PlayerPunch strapped to a horrible demonic contraption and his life energy itself is used to power it for about ten years]].
** The scientist named Yuna from ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' comes off as little more than a self-righteous, smarmy little git until you complete the dungeon of his lab and [[spoiler: you see that he's taken Nina's sister and made her into some sort of genetically modified horror. Him telling all about the 'wonderful gift' he's given her, looking for some kind of praise, makes it clear how irredeemably evil the guy actually is]]. Yuna also built a weapon of warfare that launches Hex, a toxic gas, physically. It's actually [[spoiler: the souls of people tortured at the hands of Yuna and the more anguish they have, the better the effect.]] You can see this in a side event and its effects are presented in the village of Chamba in the beginning of the game. The way the player experiences its horror just drives the point home. [[spoiler: At one point in the game, we are introduced to Mami, a genuinely likable love interest for Fou-lu. Just as it seems she's going to reform him, she's taken away and tortured to the ''point of insanity'' so she can be used to fuel an attack against the poor guy. When he discovers this, he decides that HumansAreTheRealMonsters and becomes intent on destroying them.]] To add insult upon injury, [[spoiler: Yuna [[KarmaHoudini slithers from the chains of karma]], since a player doesn't get to splatter the guy's innards all over the place. In the ending, he even smugly claims he will do it all over again.]] According to [[WordOfGod the creative team]], [[spoiler: a player ''was'' supposed to get around to tearing him a new one, [[ExecutiveMeddling but the suits decided rushing the game out was more important than actually finishing it]].]]
* [[GeneralRipper General Victor Sarrano]], BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}''. A gleefully unrepentant sadist who veers between amusement and [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence arousal]] as he sends special-forces assassins after civilian critics, hands out death sentences to his own men for not being imaginatively brutal enough, and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabs anyone who crosses his path if there's the slightest chance that it might benefit him]]. The fact that he's a racist, sexist misanthrope who delights in being as obnoxious as possible to everyone he meets merely illustrates his sheer attention to detail in keeping himself devoid of redeeming qualities.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'':
** Al-Asad and Imran Zakahev from ''Call of Duty 4: VideoGame/ModernWarfare''. Al-Asad, with Zakahev's help, overthrew a democratic government in an unknown middle eastern country, taking power in a coup. You actually get to see first hand how his men kill anyone who resists and how they line up innocent people and use them as target practice. Zakahev is even worst. He supplied Al-Asad with weapons for the coup ([[spoiler: including a nuke]]), and too staged a bloody coup, except on a much larger scale in Russia. He orders the slaughtering of whole villages. However, both of these guys worst act was the same: [[spoiler: Al-Asad nuked a major city, his own capital, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people and about 30,000 American soldiers. Zakahev did it to kill as many Americans as he could, and Al-Asad did it so he didn't have to worry about the Americans coming after him, so he can run like the DirtyCoward he is.]]
** Vladimir Makarov in ''Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2'' walks right past the MoralEventHorizon in one of the first missions [[spoiler: (and takes the player with him)]] when he and his crew [[spoiler: cold-heartedly slaughter an airport terminal full of civilians]]. He then follows this by [[spoiler: shooting the player in the head so that the crime can be placed on the CIA, thus inciting the international community against the Americans.]] He manages to become even ''more'' monstrous in the third game, where [[spoiler:he single handedly starts World War III, massacring millions of people with bio weapons, including [[TheHero Soap]].]]
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'' has Dragovich, a guy who was a JerkAss since World War II, and has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. He most definitely crosses the MoralEventHorizon when [[spoiler: he throws Dimitri Petrenko (TheHero of Treyarch's previous game World at War) into a gas chamber and releases a chemical agent that melts human tissue just to see if it works.]] Even worse when it turns out that [[spoiler: even though he is killed and his main plan fails, [[TheBadGuyWins his plot to create a presidential assassin actually succeeds.]]]]
* {{Satan}} from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'' is a ManipulativeBastard, operates as TheChessmaster once he appears, and is TheManBehindTheMan to the Lords of Shadow themselves. Satan arranged every atrocity in the game, from Gabriel Belmont's wife's death at Gabriel's own hands and the deaths of countless innocents, so he could set everything up to return to Heaven and take it over to [[RageAgainstTheHeavens complete his revenge on God.]] When he appears, Satan attempts to eliminate his [[YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness final pawn Zobek]], and keeps the souls lost on the way [[AndIMustScream trapped in Limbo.]] Satan corrupted [[FallenHero The Lords of Shadow]] in to the monsters they had become, also making him responsible for all the innocents the werewolves and vampires had devoured. Using Zobek as a proxy and pawn, he manipulated the entire events of the game to gain access to Heaven, with only Gabriel to stand against him at the end. When he faces off with Gabriel, he attempts to paint himself as justified, but Gabriel sees through it, declaring Satan to be the egomaniac he is who seeks domination and hatred over all things.
* [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate The Doctor]], from ''VideoGame/CaveStory''. He was initially with the research expedition to The Island, but his true purpose was to seek the [[ArtifactOfDoom Demon Crown]] and wield its power himself. He also kidnaps and performs PsychoSerum experiments on the local tribe of [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Mimigas]] in the hopes of transforming them into [[UnstoppableRage mindless monsters]] for his army [[spoiler:and is working on a project to do the same thing to humans]]. He's killed several Mimigas and many baby dragons. The dragons left alive he turned into his undead servants.
* Mother Mayhem from ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' runs a mental asylum devoted to training Praetorian psychics as "Seers," thought-police who track down and apprehend any "thought criminals," so that "Mother" can "rehabilitate" them. But the Seers aren't volunteers, and that's actually the '''secondary''' purpose of the Seer Network; the primary purpose is to provide "Mother" with psychics to [[VampiricDraining feed on]], prolonging her own life and expanding her personal power.

* Serial Killer X from ''VideoGame/{{Condemned}}'', aka [[spoiler: Leland Vanhorn]]. Any sympathy he may have had as a SerialKillerKiller is undermined by the various innocents he kills. He even murders [[spoiler: his own uncle]] after the latter [[TheFarmerAndTheViper nursed him back to health]] after the events of the first game. The only reason he kills other serial killers in the first place is so he can adopt their methods as his own. He also doesn't have the excuse of being driven insane by [[spoiler: the Oro's sonic emitters]] like the rest of the city, [[ForTheEvulz as he clearly enjoys it]].

* Paulie Franchetti in ''VideoGame/TheDarkness''. He adopted the protagonist of the game, Jackie Estacado, so he could mold him into a hitman loyal to the family. The game starts with him sending Jackie on a suicide mission to kill a business rival because Jackie started questioning the way he does business, but he has already killed the business rival and strapped his corpse full of explosives as a birthday present, leaving a tape to mock Jackie before he died. When Jackie survives the blast, Paulie gets revenge by blowing up the Orphanage that Jackie grew up in, killing all the orphans and nuns inside and then telling Jackie over the phone it was all his fault. [[spoiler: When Jackie starts to ruin Paulie's business dealings in retaliation he kidnaps Jackie's girlfriend Jenny, brings her to the Orphanage and then murderers her right in front of Jackie, blaming it all on Jackie for not blindly following orders.]] Even at the end he shows no remorse for his crimes, telling Jackie [[spoiler:that Jenny was a weakness and Jackie shouldn't have cared about her death.]]
* ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' has [[spoiler:Forrest Kaysen]], the ''real'' BigBad. He manipulated the Raincoat Killer and Thomas into turning evil by exploiting their traumatic pasts, and he's also the one who orchestrated the military experiment 50 years ago that sparked the whole mess. He deliberately spread the rumors about the immortality granting Red Seeds, directly causing mass murders throughout the country, including the ones in Greenvale. And finally, there's his sickening "red tree saplings", which grow ''inside of young women'' (and its heavily implied that he "implants" the saplings in them by ''raping them''), and when they fully sprout, the woman ''completely withers into a dissected husk.'' Finally, when his latest target withers right in front of her husband, he laughs maniacally about it, even after the husband ''commits suicide''. And when he realized that their son had seen all this, he attacks the boy, scarring him and trapping him inside a dreamworld for almost his entire life. His motivation for all of his crimes is because he was bored.
* From the ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' series, we should remember [[HumansAreBastards how terrible some psychopaths can be even in the midst]] of a zombie outbreak
** Tyrone "TK" King of the [[VideoGame/DeadRising2 second game]] is the host and producer of the controversial reality show Terror Is Reality where contestants slaughter zombies for sport. TK eventually allows his zombies to run rampant in the city to create an outbreak and frames TheHero Chuck Greene for it, so TK could rob the casinos' now empty vaults. After suffering a zombie bite of his own, TK begs Chuck for a shot of the zombie virus suppressing drug Zombrex. When Chuck complies, TK [[UngratefulBastard repays him by holding Chuck's daughter and friend hostage]] and tries to lower them to be devoured by zombies while trying to kill Chuck himself.
** Albert Contiello is a [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate sadistic surgeon]] who represents the sin of {{Greed}} in ''VideoGame/DeadRising3''. While most of the Psychopaths have lost their minds amidst the outbreak, Albert is fully sane and looking to make money. During the outbreak, Albert takes to abducting survivors and begins performing surgery on them without anesthetic to harvest their organs for the black market. When he captures the game's hero Nick Ramos, Albert injects him with a hallucinogen that makes him hallucinate everyone around as Albert, putting other innocent survivors at risk. A cruel MadDoctor with no motivation but greed, Albert is fully willing to butcher whoever crosses his path for an extra buck.
* Hector of the ''VideoGame/DeptHeaven'' series was the BiggerBad until later in the series. To fulfill [[AGodAmI his scheme of becoming the true creator]], this [[PhysicalGod already god-like being]] was responsible for almost every calamity throughout the series. His most heinous crimes include being responsible for the horrific torture of [[YggdraUnion Nessiah]], who had been an ActualPacifist FallenAngel, solely out of hatred for Nessiah's pacifism. He was also responsible for driving the Archangel [[KnightsInTheNightmare Marietta]] into insanity and using [[YouAreNumberSix people as test subjects for divine weapons]]. Hector sacrificed his own servant and the hero [[RivieraThePromisedLand Ein's]] girlfriend to awaken the spirit of destruction for the final phase in his plan: [[OmnicidalManiac slaughtering the entire population of one world.]]
* From ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' there's Bob Page, a former member of the Council of Five (the ruling body of TheIlluminati) and a protege of the leader Morgan Everett. Consumed with a lust for power, Page abandoned the Illuminati to strike out on his own. He invented [[TheVirus a nanovirus via robots]] to kill as many people as possible and shows [[YouHaveFailedMe a willingness to have any failures eliminated]]. Page would even use nuclear weapons to get his way, in his plan to throw the world into chaos to pave the way for him as a messiah and a world leader. His ultimate goal was to merge with AI Helios and [[AGodAmI become as a God]], declaring "Let it spill over into the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to save them."
* From the third ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' game, we have Arkham. Initially TheDragon to [[CainAndAbel Dante's brother Vergil]], Arkham is revealed as a sinister, power-hungry man who sacrificed his own wife to become a devil himself. Arkham manipulates everyone to lure them into a battle resulting in Dante, Vergil and Arkham's own daughter Lady weakened enough for Arkham to step in and seize the power of Sparda for himself. Arkham has no compunction brutalizing Lady or trying to kill her. When he unlocks the power of Sparda, Arkham plans to, as he puts it, "welcome Chaos" all through the world. When Lady confronts him at the game's end, Arkham angrily demands to know what he's done wrong, declaring he [[AGodAmI wanted to be a God]] and for that he had sacrificed just "one miserable human life, that's all! [[ItsAllAboutMe Was that really so awful!?]]
* From the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' games:
** Archbishop Lazarus was a prominent figure in both the original ''Diablo'' and the first act of ''VideoGame/DiabloIII''. He played an integral role in King Leoric's descent into madness and eventual transformation into the Skeleton King, as well as manipulating him into torturing and executing many innocents in the guise of "protecting his kingdom" (up to and including [[spoiler:his own queen]]), feeding Tristram's villagers and the odd adventurer to the demonic Butcher in the first game, and having Albrecht, one of Leoric's two sons, made a vessel for Diablo himself.
** From ''VideoGame/DiabloIII''
*** Maghda. In addition to her service to the evil Belial, which involves plenty of HumanSacrifice, she is very fond of ColdBloodedTorture through magical and other means, and uses it for many of her sorcerous rituals, such as the illusion over the Black Canyon Bridge in Act II. She and her coven are directly responsible for the massacre of Alcarnus in Act II (including one hair-raising report from a refugee about people there being [[FlayingAlive flayed alive]]) as well as the near-destruction of the town of Wortham, and the murder of [[spoiler:Deckard Cain]] and the torture of [[spoiler:the now-human Tyrael]].
*** Zoltun Kulle attempted to usurp his Horadric brethren by using the Black Soulstone to control the Great Evils, even murdering and dismembering his own wife just to fuel his twisted experiments with the Soulstone. Is it any wonder the Horadrim went to such extremes to keep him down?
*** [[spoiler:Adria]] pledged [[spoiler:herself]] to Diablo's service since first meeting Aidan after he became the Dark Wanderer, spending the time between the first and third games gathering up the power of the other Lords of Hell [[spoiler:so she could use the Black Soulstone to bring about Diablo's rebirth in the body of her own daughter]], an act that in the setting would [[spoiler:damn Leah's soul to hell]].
* Super Hero Aurum of ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'' is just as racist as Vulcanus against demons, killing them and their Overlords with aplomb - he may have had good motives to start out, but that all went to hell after so many years. Eventually, he found that he was running out of strong Overlords to kill and wanted to either face one more or just face death. It's the ''methods'' that cement him as having descended into complete monsterdom. He asked Mao, who just had an argument over his Slaystation Portable being ruined by his clumsy father, about any weaknesses the Overlord may have. Mao tells him only on the condition that daddy just gets beaten up - Aurum breaks this promise and kills him stone dead. Then, he disguises himself as Geoffrey to raise Mao according to his own twisted ideal after the boy lashed out in an appropriate manner, effectively turning him into a basket case - and when Almaz comes along, to ensure the boy doesn't relapse, he sets an ObviousTrap for his royal girlfriend so that he'd take it in her place and die - and for the cherry on top, said boy was his number one human fan. Let me repeat myself - all for the sake of defeating one more Overlord or dying gloriously in battle, he engages in near MindRape of one kid and cruelly kills off another. In the bad ending, Aurum discovers that EvilIsNotAToy as Mao throws a SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum. In the good ending, Mao denies the death wish and takes Aurum as his latest guinea pig.
* Pious Augustus of ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness''. While he is TheDragon to an [[EldritchAbomination ancient evil god]] (you can choose from three), he is the main antagonist. When you first see him, he is a playable character, a Roman legionaire who stumbled on an ancient temple in Persia. In the end, he is corrupted by one of three artifacts and serves that god. It is not known when he crosses the MoralEventHorizon, but he is clearly over it for the rest of the game, committing horrific acts gleefully, including throwing hundreds of innocent people into a tower of corpses during Roberto Bianci's scenario (him included). He kills other characters you play as as well. It is also implied in one cutscene that he may intend to betray his god in the future (during the Xel'latoth arc).
* BiggerBad Hoyt Volker from ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' is the boss of the biggest slave-trading ring in the South-Pacific. He is described as the root of all the evil happening on the island, and is responsible for manipulating Vaas with drugs into becoming a madman. In his first appearance, he gleefully forces a small group of innocent civilians to run across an active minefield. The second time we see him, he burns one of his own men alive and tells the rest of his privateers to kill any island native they see on sight. Finally, during a poker game, he kills Jason's friend Sam and threatens to cut off one of Jason's fingers every time he loses a round, a threat that he makes good on. Volker is an utterly psychotic sadist without a single redeeming quality.
* Genevieve Aristide from ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' is a CorruptCorporateExecutive responsible for the events of the first game, openning up the vault despite the head of that project telling her what a horrible idea it was. When Alma's mental ghost manages to break Paxton Fettel out, her main priority is to cover up Armacham's involvement in the whole affair, ordering their security teams to kill one of her own employees who knew too much. In the second game, it's discovered she also authorised two more unethical Projects; Harbinger which tried to take sick individuals and transform them into another Psychic Commander, but only survived to [[BodyHorror twist them into monstorous forms]]. The other was Project: Paragon, which involved taking children with promising mental and physical attributes and enrolling them in a fake elementry school, where they would be fed chemicals to grant them psychic powers and sedatives so they could be taken to an underground lab, all in the hopes of finding future candidates for Harbinger. And when all of these projects blow up in her face and result in the entire city being devestated by a massive explosion and Alma's psychic outbursts, her main priority is capturing Alma so she can maintain her position in Armacham, [[spoiler: sacrificing Beckett to be raped by Alma and killing Stokes to prevent her from interfering.]]
* Driscoll of the first ''VideoGame/FrontMission'' is a ruthless commander who makes an enemy of TheHero Clevain by seemingly killing his fiancee in front of him and setting off a massive explosion to frame him for it. When he reappears later, Driscoll attempts to destroy civilian areas to recreate this disaster and reveals he is behind a scheme to make the current battle mechs, The Wanzers, obsolete- by forcing [=POWs=] to be forcibly mechanized and trapping their brains as digital computers for warfare. He has already done this to the hero's fiancee Karen with his own mech as well.

* [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]] [[BigBad Myrrah]] from ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' starts a war with the human race on Sera just [[KickTheDog six weeks after the Pendulum Wars-a 79 year old conflict ended]]. [[MoralEventHorizon She orders the deaths of every man, woman, and child on the surface]] so the Locust can colonize, enslaving the human stragglers and ''lobotomizing'' them [[spoiler: as Dom found out what happened to his wife Maria]]. She immediately turned down the diplomatic option when the [[TheVirus Lambent]] wore down her forces underground, saying that the best thing to do is [[KillEmAll kill every human being]] instead of focusing on the lambent. These actions caused ''billions'' of human deaths on Sera, forcing COG to use the [[KillSat Hammer of Dawn]] to scorch the earth so much it's an Apocalyptic World. [[spoiler:Finally? After she loses at the end of ''Gears of War 3'', with both Lambent and Locust going extinct due to Adam Fenix's invention she [[KickTheDog mocks Marcus]] on his father's HeroicSacrifice to stop the Lambent...[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome only for the last remaining Carmine brother to first shoot at her...and then Marcus stabs her]].]]

* The whole ''VideoGame/{{Gothic}}'' series has a pretty [[DarkerandEdgier sinister tone]] in itself, with [[UpToEleven A LOT]] of {{Jerkass}} characters, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil cutthroat bandits]], crazy cultists and [[CrapsackWorld MUCH more]] to offer. However, Bloodwyn, the greedy guardsman from the Old Camp, stands out in particular. The first thing he does to newcomers is [[FauxAffablyEvil asking 'kindly' for protection money]]. Unlike the other guardsmen however, he won't just leave you on your own if you refuse. He'll send his henchmen after you to beat you to a bloody pulp, and sometimes even kill you. Also, (although granted, he was ordered) he participates in cowardly murdering the Firemages later in the game. When the Hero, unknowingly that he has done something to upset somebody, returns to the camp afterwards, Bloodwyn and his mooks try to murder him in cold blood. He truly hits the {{Moral Event Horizon}} in Gothic 2 Night of the Raven however. Joining the bandits and put in charge of the mine, he mercylessly forces the slaves to work without any breaks, and when they stumble upon some angry Minecrawlers and later even [[LivingStatue cursed guardians]], he doesn't care one bit. By the time the Hero arrives, many slaves are already deceased, either killed by the creatures, worked to death, or starved, because they get nothing but rubbish to eat. Others are so exhausted they can barely stand and some are already hallucinating, because they haven't seen the sun for weeks. After the (disguised) Hero does the dirty work of killing all the vermin inside the mine for him, Bloodwyn doesn't even attempt to thank, let alone pay him for his actions, instead he tries to get rid of him so that [[ItsAllAboutMe he alone can get all the gold inside]].
* Donald Love, the CorruptCorporateExecutive from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'''s 3-D era, somehow manages to reach a special level of evil despite living in a CrapsackWorld populated with gangsters, {{Serial Killer}}s, and [[AxCrazy psychopaths]]. Introduced in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'', Love at first seems fairly standard for the series, arranging a gang war between TheYakuza and TheCartel just to lower property values. Though, at the time it was hinted he had more [[ImAHumanitarian sinister appetites]]. This is eventually confirmed in the prequel ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories'' where he's shown feasting on corpses and sending Toni Cipriani to collect bodies for him to devour. Aligning himself with the [[TheMafia Leone crime family]], Love runs in the race for mayor, sending Toni Cipriani out to murder his rival's campaigners. Losing his fortune in his failed campaign, Love makes plans to regain his fortune, with his first step being to [[BastardUnderstudy murder his mentor]], real-estate tycoon Avery Carrington, in order to steal his city development plans. He then has Toni recover Carrington's body to cannibalize later. Love's [[MoralEventHorizon worst crime]], however, is masterminding the deaths of thousands of people through the bombing of the heavily-populated Fort Staunton city district, just so he can make money off of redeveloping the district. A thoroughly depraved man, Love would stoop to any low imaginable to [[{{Greed}} fill his pockets]] or [[ItsAllAboutMe glorify his ego]].
* Hector [=LeMans=], the BigBad of ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'', is the man behind the corruption in the Department of Death. In the Land of the Dead, where how good of a person you were in life determines the means you're able to traverse the Underworld, the fastest way to get to [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence the Land of Eternal Rest]] is on the Number Nine train, a train which covers the Four Year Journey of the Soul in four minutes instead of four years. A brutal mobster, Hector has infiltrated the [=DoD=] and stolen the Number Nine tickets belonging to the souls of the righteous, and counterfeits them in order to sell off to the rich. However, one's destiny can't be bought, and anyone who uses a counterfeit Number Nine ticket is [[DraggedOffToHell plunged into hell's fiery depths.]] Meanwhile, the righteous souls Hector stole them from are left to wander the Land of the Dead until they're eventually kidnapped while traversing the ocean and sent to the coral mining factory owned by Hector at the Edge of the World. Here they are meant to be eternally enslaved so as to prevent Hector's misdeeds from coming to life. Probably the most evil thing Hector has done, however, is the commission of sprouting, a way to [[CessationOfExistence permanently kill those already dead.]] Special plant bullets are fired into the skeletal body, growing and spreading until the victim is completely overrun and is nothing more than an empty husk filled with flowers. Hector has capitalized on this, murdering hundreds and keeping their bodies as a field of flowers [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses which he builds his hideout upon.]] Hector even has a greenhouse where preserves the corpses of his victims and tends to the flowers, keeping them as trophies of all who dare cross him. By the game's end he has [[spoiler:Salvador's body sprouted and his head removed for questioning]] and shoots Manny with a slow-acting sproutella which will keep him alive in agony for hours before eventually killing him. Despite all the pain and misery he's caused in the Land of the Dead, Hector doesn't care; he merely wants to live like a king before using the stolen tickets to bribe his way into heaven.

** The BigBad, Colonel Magruder, is feverishly seeking an el Dorado called Quivira, and murders or tortures anyone who gets in his way. His defining moment came in a flashback to years before the events of the game, when he came to a small homestead out in the plains belonging to a benevolent doctor who helped the nearby Apaches. When the Apache chief tells Magruder that his lust for the treasure will lead to his doom, he coldly shoots him, then beheads the doctor. When one of his own soldiers protests his actions, Magruder shoots him, too. His cruelty only worsens from there.
** Magruder's [[TheDragon right hand]], Reed the preacher, is almost equally bad. The game starts with him ordering a group of barbaric renegade soldiers to slaughter a steamboat in order to search it for a missing artifact. Later on, he murders [[spoiler:[[PlayerPunch Jenny]]]] in front of Colton White, just to hurt him.

* Flying Fox, TheDragon of King Bohan from ''VideoGame/HeavenlySword'', outdoes Bohan himself in terms of sheer nastiness. Sick, twisted and utterly sadistic, this guy was responsible for [[BreakTheCutie driving poor Kai crazy]]. And then he breaks her ''more'' when he reveals that [[spoiler:he stuffed and mounted her murdered mother as a display piece]].

** [[spoiler:Dr. Adrian Baker]] murders people by surgery while they are still alive and conscious for no other motivation than his own enjoyment. He attempts to do this on Madison Page, and a Jehovah's witness [[DisproportionateRetribution because the man wouldn't stop pestering him.]]
** The Taxidermist in the DLC of the same name, for killing young women, stuffing them and displaying them around his house. If Madison attracts his attention during her escape he shows pure sadistic glee in hunting her down while taunting her about how he’s going to add her to his collection.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Ico}}'', The Queen has been emotionally abusing her own daughter for Yorda's entire life, imprisoning her in a small cage hanging from a ceiling. (which was actually considered a form of torture in the medieaval ages). As well as manipulating Yorda into thinking that she'll die if she ever leaves the castle, effectively breaking her spirit. (it's implied that this is the reason Yorda is so passive during the game, it's not because she's weak, it's because she's broken. Then there's the fact that she's been manipulating a village into sacrificing their children. (said sacrifice involves sealing those children inside of coffins until they die). And it's implied that she controls their spirits as her servants.
* AM from both the short story and the point and click game ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'' by Creator/HarlanEllison. [[AIIsACrapshoot A sentient master-computer]], [[KillAllHumans he's already wiped out most of the human race]] before the story even begins, keeping five people alive for 109 years for him to torture physically and psychologically until the end of time. To save time, here's the most horrible of his tortures: [[spoiler:trapping Ellen in a virtual reality simulation of the elevator where, years earlier, she was tortured and raped by a psychopath disguised as a repairman- with a simulation of the 'repairman'...]]
* Bertrand from ''VideoGame/InFAMOUS2'' turns ordinary human beings into the Corrupted, performs cruel experiments on Kuo, uses the Power Transfer Device to turn Vermaak 88 into Forced Conduits in a process that will eventually drive them insane, was responsible for the sacrificial death of Nix's mother and several hundred others in his attempt to activate his own Conduit powers, and tops it off by ordering the execution of any Conduits or potential Conduits in the starting move towards total genocide.]] In addition to all that, he also [[spoiler: planned on selling the Vermaak as personal soldiers to major powers around the world. This man nearly started an Arms race which might have sparked another World War, and he was tugging the strings the WHOLE TIME. The greatest irony is that this character never fully seems to realize how terrible a monster he's become. His KarmicTransformation is completely lost on him, despite the fact the only power he unlocked through the murder of hundreds of innocents being the transformation into a ravenous monster; the only conclusion he draws from this is that [[InsaneTrollLogic if he has become a monster through the activation of his Conduit powers, then all Conduits are monsters, and must be exterminated]].
* ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' has SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, as usual, but to explain why - he's the reason Superman adopts a zero tolerance policy on crime, as he places a detonator in the pregnant Lois Lane, set to trigger a nuke in Metropolis the moment her heart stops, and then uses a Kryptonite-laced version of Scarecrow's fear toxin to trick Superman into seeing Doomsday, so that the deaths of Lois and the millions in Metropolis are on Superman's hands. And the reason why he does all of this? Because he was tired of losing to Batman and wanted to go after an easier target.
* From ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' there is the true BigBad, Sun Li, the [[ManipulativeBastard Glorious]] [[TheChessmaster Strategist]]. Twenty years before the story began, Sun Li engineered and participated in the genocide of the Spirit Monks, the guardians and servants of the goddess who shepherded the dead to their rightful rest, the Water Dragon. Telling his brother, Emperor Sun Hai, that they could use the power of the goddess to save the Jade Empire from a drought that threatened to bring the empire to ruin, in reality Sun Li wanted godhood for himself. However this plan would have the nasty side effect of preventing the dead from being reincarnated and subsequently go insane as vengeful ghosts that attack the living. Attempting to kill his brother to usurp the Water Dragon’s power and his brother’s throne, he failed and was forced to go into hiding, formulating a new plan to achieve godhood, one which would require decades of planning and manipulation. Murdering the guardian of the last infant Spirit Monk, he took the child, assumed a false identity and raised the Spirit Monk as his own child. However, he felt no affection for the child, seeing the Spirit Monk as just another pawn in his schemes. Once the Spirit Monk had served [=his/her=] purpose by killing Sun Hai, he immediately killed his foster child by exploiting a flaw he had implanted in the child while training [=him/her=]. Succeeding his brother, Sun Li adopted in fact Sun Li is incapable of empathy for anyone the crimes Sun Hai had been committing, such as [[AndIMustScream raising his younger brother, Sun Kai, from the dead to force him into servitude]], and using the [[SecretPolice Lotus Assassins]] to abduct and horribly murder people to [[HumanResources use their souls to power an invincible golem army]] for himself. When cornered by the revived Spirit Monk, Sun Li will try to paint himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist acting in the Jade Empire’s best interests, but in TheBadGuyWins ending, where he’s convinced the Spirit Monk to die for Li’s cause, it’s revealed to be nothing more than another lie. Sun Li desires nothing less than a dystopian empire where all are indoctrinated to his glory and by questioning his Orwellian narrative, a citizen risks death, even if they’re a child. Sun Li is [[LackOfEmpathy incapable with empathizing with other people]], seeing everyone as tools to be used and equating the deaths of his wife and daughter as merely fury at the loss of possessions. Sun Li proves even willing to murder [[spoiler:his revealed to still be alive daughter, Dawn Star]], because heirs are no use to a god. Merciless, remorseless and calculating to an inhuman degree, Sun Li will stop at nothing to achieve ultimate power for himself.
* Baron Praxis in ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'' betrayed the real ruler of Haven City, booted him out into the Wasteland and transformed Haven into a totalitarian empire, loaded with [[DisproportionateRetribution ridiculously cruel laws]], a corrupt police force and indifference to suffering and poverty in general. On top of that, he has no qualms using human lives in his Dark Eco experiments. While he does go out of his way to give the REAL BigBad of the game (see below) loads of Eco just to keep him and his creatures out of the city, it's obviously [[PragmaticVillainy just to keep control of his empire and not because he cares about the people in it]]. His moment of sacrifice makes up for very little of what he's done.

* [[PhysicalGod Hades]] in ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' is the [[TheManBehindTheMan true leader of the Underworld]], [[BigBad outranking even Medusa]]. As the God of the Underworld, he's supposed to collect the souls of the deceased and prepare them for the reincarnation cycle. However, he decides to [[KillEmAll kill as many humans as possible]] in order to gain souls for his own purposes. In addition to warring on them with his own army, he also [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates the humans into fighting each other]] over a nonexistent Wish Seed. He never misses an opportunity to insult Pit, and especially enjoys Pit's suffering. Even the other gods, like [[KnightTemplar Viridi]] and [[AllPowerfulBystander Dyntos]], who aren't fond of humans themselves, oppose him for his sheer malice and the destruction he causes. He briefly [[EnemyMine sides with the heroes]] when the [[AlienInvasion Aurum start destroying the planet]], but he freely admits that it's only because he wants to plunder Earth himself. Then he sends monsters after Pit anyway just for giggles. Eventually he reveals what he's doing with the souls he's been collecting; he's molding them into whatever shape he wants and using them to fuel his army. He even enjoys eating souls, which removes them from the reincarnation cycle. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Not even his own troops are safe from his whims, as he sees no problem with reviving Medusa as much as he wants before disposing her]]. Ultimately, his desire to control everything leads to every surviving faction trying to stop him.
* Curtis Blackburn from ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}''. His first appearance is a cutscene in which he kills a prostitute in his car before walking into an office and killing every person in it for no apparent reason. Then you find out he [[spoiler:killed one of the player characters]] and controls the female half of the black market for orphans ([[spoiler:who're used for organ harvesting]]). Next, Curtis gets revenge on his partner (who controlled the male half) for cutting into his orphans... by [[spoiler:raping and killing his wife in front of their son, killing his children, and showing him his daughter's severed head before killing him.]] And ''that's'' before you find out what he does to the girls he steals.
* Chairman Stahl from ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}} 3''. Like most [=CMs=], he just exudes an aura of hatred and disrespect for everything in existence. He is utterly without remorse for any and all atrocities he performs, from testing experimental weapons on P.O.W.s to laughing as he kills his rival in a particularly gruesome manner. And he is entirely convinced of his own superiority over everyone from his soldiers to the protagonists. They're all tools to be used and/or destroyed, in his mind.
* Rugal Bernstein from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' is quite probably the most evil villain [=SNK=] has ever come up with. Unlike other villains, Rugal does evil [[ForTheEvulz for the sake of being evil]]. We're talking about a man who owns one of the world's biggest weapons manufacturers, has a BIG influence on global politics, is capable of causing World War III, and killed God-knows-how-many martial artists just to bathe their bodies in liquid bronze and make them into decorative statues for his yacht, FOR SPORT. And that's not even going into Heidern's backstory, where we find out that Rugal slaughtered all 50 soldiers in the guy's squad before killing [[ItsPersonal his wife and daughter]], who he had previously kidnapped, just for the fun of it, and topping it off with [[EyeScream gouging out Heidern's left eye]] and leaving him to live in despair.
* Master Xehanort from ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' is responsible, both indirectly and directly, for all the hardships the main characters suffer and the creation of the three main villains that are destroying the worlds. The secret reports in BirthBySleep paint him as a well-meaning person ready to resort to extreme solutions of unleashing the Heartless and the Unversed in order to flood the universe with darkness and thus bring about perfect balance between light and darkness, but as of the game, [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope he's clearly run so far beyond the line of inexcusable acts that any good intentions he once had are long gone]]. He takes Ven, an eleven-year-old child, in as an apprentice with the sole intention of training him to use the darkness and stealing his body. When Ven proves himself not to be up to the task, he forcibly extracts Ven's darkness, leaving him comatose, then drops his apprentice's failing body off in his own much-hated homeworld to die. After realizing Ven isn't going to die, he gives him to his fellow Keyblade Master Eraqus, a man whom he considers to be a brother, to train until Ven's light grows strong enough that he can be forcibly reunited with his darkness and become a weapon that will allow its wielder to reshape the entire world. While he's there, he notices Eraqus's student, Terra, and immediately decides that he wants Terra's body. Through a complex series of manipulations, Xehanort arranges Terra to fight Eraqus to the death, and finishes off Eraqus himself after Eraqus is weakened. [[ForScience He is even willing to risk an apocalypse out of sheer curiosity]]. Eventually Xehanort willingly splits himself into two beings: his Heartless, "Ansem", which possesses Riku and manipulates a cartel of Disney villains from behind the scenes, and his Nobody, "Xenmas", which formed Organization XIII, manipulated its members to stop them from growing Hearts for themselves, and planned on using all of them as vessels to store pieces of his own Heart in, to turn them into clones of himself.
* The Father in the ''VideoGame/KingsQuestII'' FanRemake. He starts off merely as an EvilChancellor who sets Graham up to head to Kolyma. Two of his lieutenants have taken up residence there (one of which had been holding Valanice captive out of petty spite and had killed other women who had aroused her ire). Graham, being Graham, is able to dodge their traps [[spoiler: and helps convince one to leave]]. After returning home with Valanice, Graham exposes the EvilChancellor who abruptly goes OneWingedAngel, levels a deadly curse, and vanishes. The flash-forward scene during the Air Gem test has his showing up at Graham's darkest hour to gloat, the {{Fanon}} dialogue indicating that he had another of his mooks kidnap and enslave Graham's kid for sixteen years, set the three-headed dragon on Daventry to ruin it, and then forced Graham to sacrifice his remaining child to it. The next part of the curse drops Graham with heart failure at a moment of triumph, and the last gets a ProphecyTwist, thankfully. Thing is, he really doesn't have it in for Graham per se. Graham just happens to be standing between him and some leftover power from Daventry's first king.

* David of ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' is a FauxAffablyEvil leader of a group of hunters and bandits who have survived the [[AfterTheEnd end of civilization]] by sticking out in the wilderness and sending our parties to raid, kill and pillage, with a special caveat. David is [[IAmAHumanitarian a cannibal]] and his group functions by bringing in human meat. Despite his initial friendly demeanor towards Ellie, David reveals his true colors as an unhinged psychotic who carelessly sends his own men to their death [[TheSocialDarwinist as the survivors will be stronger anyways]]. When he comes against Ellie, David tries to kill her before he gains the upper hand, where he [[AttemptedRape tries to rape her instead]].
* Melbu Frahnma of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'' was the emperor of the winged humanoid race called the Winglies. Promoting a racist philosophy, Melbu Frahnma spread the belief that every single thing that wasn't a Wingly deserved annihilation, but it was the 'grace' of his empire to spare them as slaves. After being overthrown, Melbu Frahnma's spirit went dormant until he could [[GrandTheftMe take over the hero, Zieg]]. Using Zieg's body, Melbu Frahnma manipulated several massive wars and multiple murders to engineer his ascent to power and to fuse with a 'seed' of a God and become the god of destruction. He plans to become the new god emperor of the world and destroy or make slaves of every race. Not even the Winglies are exempt, as Melbu frahnma displays full willingness to wipe them out should they resist him.
* From ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'', [[BiggerBad The Elder God]] [[TheChessmaster orchestrated the war between the Hylden and the Ancients]], resulting in the Hylden being banished to a Hell dimension and the Ancients becoming Vampires. The Elder God later decided he didn't like the Vampires anymore, so he orchestrated a war between them and humans, which wiped out most of the Vampires except Kain. Kain later began a second war that ended with humans enslaved by Vampires. So, as directly stated in the last game, the entire history of the series is full of the three major races in the world killing and enslaving and wiping each other out, over and over again for dominance, and all this was caused by the Elder God. Why? [[ForTheEvulz Just because he likes being able to control the world however he likes it, so whenever he decides he doesn't like the guys in power any more, he has someone else overthrow them.]] Oh, and he was also hungry for their souls, too.
* From the [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Legend of Zelda franchise]]:
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'' gives us BigBad Majora. Majora was an EldritchAbomination who inhabited the titular mask and who also used several characters, such as Skull Kid, as his personal puppets. Majora sought total destruction and planned on having a [[WeirdMoon relatively small moon]] crash into Termina, [[OmnicidalManiac killing everything in it]], for no other reason than it being ''[[ForTheEvulz fun]]''.
** Yuga from ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' starts off as TheDragon to [[WellIntentionedExtremist Princess Hilda]] of Lorule, working with her to capture Hyrule's Sages to revive Ganon so the Triforce of Power can be returned to the mortal plane. He also imprisons several soldiers around Hyrule Castle...leaving them to be ''washed off'' and killed by their fellows who think its graffiti. Yuga and Ganon merge and mercilessly attacks Link only to be stopped by Hilda who sets him off to free the Sages. After all the Sages are freed, Link gains the Triforce of Courage. After wearing Yuga down, he then betrays Hilda, puts her in a FateWorseThanDeath in a painting and then merges with her to get her stolen Triforce of Wisdom. Yuga reveals himself that he didn't care about restoring Lorule at all: all he wanted was to reshape it in his own image. He even tries to cause Lorule's destruction at the end for that purpose with only Link standing in his way to stop him.
* [[spoiler:Gongora]], the BigBad of ''VideoGame/LostOdyssey,'' is identifiable as a SmugSnake even before it's clear that he's the villain, but as the game's backstory is revealed it becomes clear that he crossed the MoralEventHorizon before the game had even begun. Since several of the main characters of the game are [[{{Immortality}} immortal and unkillable]], he had to get ''creative'' in getting them out of his way... which he did by sealing away their memories, leaving them completely amnesiac and unaware of their origins, which all of them agree is [[LossOfIdentity something like being a walking corpse]]. For him to be able to do it in the first place, they had to go through something [[TraumaInducedAmnesia traumatic enough]] that they wouldn't ''want'' to remember... so he abducted Kaim and Sarah's daughter and left them believing she was dead, forced Seth to [[SadisticChoice kill her best friend to save her son]], and set giant monsters loose in [[TheHighQueen Ming's]] kingdom to slaughter her subjects until she [[HeroicSacrifice agreed to block off her own memories to save them]]. As a result, Kaim and Seth both end up [[CriminalAmnesiac working for him]], Ming becomes a figurehead in the country she's ruled for a thousand years, and Sarah [[FreakOut goes insane]] for several decades. And to top it all off, near the end of the game after the other immortals have overcome all of that, he [[PeoplePuppets magically controls Jansen]] and forces him to attack his friends and love interest, apparently just to be a {{Jerkass}}.
* Zophar of ''VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue'' is the self styled lord of darkness and the one responsible for the Blue Star being stripped of all life. As we see in flashbacks, Zophar led a campaign of conquest on the Blue Star that only ended when his arch-nemesis, the goddess Althena, was forced to seal him at the cost of all life on the world. Even through his prison, Zophar reached out to corrupt mortals, twisting the church of Althena into a CorruptChurch that was responsible for centuries of suffering and cruelty. Zophar excels in twisting and corrupting hearts to even turned loved ones against one another, and unlike most dark lords, Zophar [[EvilCannotComprehendGood fully understands goodness and righteousness]] enough to exploit it: manipulating heroine Lucia's love for her friends so she wouldn't have the will to destroy him at cost of the world. Zophar takes her captive to use her powers to remake the world in his twisted image, not caring about the death toll. When he decides the world is too much trouble, Zophar merely elects to destroy it utterly with every living soul.
* ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}'':
** Lionel Starkweather, the ManipulativeBastard of the first game who manipulates Cash into doing killings just for his movies. He kidnaps all of Cash's family members and tells his pet psychos to kill them if they find out that Cash is nearby, meaning Cash has to flawlessly take down all of them without alerting them to his presence. Even if the player succeeds in saving them, [[spoiler:a TV set and tape left for him in the next level shows that they were recaptured and slowly killed by other psychos]].
** Leo in ''Manhunt 2'' first helps Danny from being imprisoned. It is revealed that [[spoiler: he has killed Danny's wife from the very beginning]] and his true nature is [[spoiler: Danny's split personality implanted by the Project.]] Leo's objective is to manipulate Danny into helping him without knowing that he is planning to [[spoiler: perform a SplitPersonalityTakeover on him.]]
* Tycho from ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}''. Tycho knows that what he's doing is wrong, and doesn't even want to use the humans. He just wants to see them suffer. The worst part of the series is when the player has to take orders from him. Tycho also managed to assist in destroying a planet and, in one alternate time line in Marathon Infinity, enslaving all of humanity- all without a physical body.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** Henry Lawson, an egomaniacal CorruptCorporateExecutive and MadScientist obsessed with having a dynasty. To that end he creates DesignerBabies based off of his DNA. Viewing them only as tools, he controls them their entire lives, molding them to meet his expectations, such as he did with [[JerkassWoobie Miranda]]. Should any of them be subpar, [[OffingTheOffspring he kills them]]. When he appears in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', he’s working with the Illusive Man in using a refugee camp, [[spoiler:Sanctuary]], as a front for gathering test subjects to study Reaper Indoctrination. Thousands of civilians are experimented on, [[WouldHurtAChild including children]], resulting in either their deaths or their being turned into [[NightOfTheLivingMooks husks]]. Unlike the rest of Cerberus, who are trying to [[WellIntentionedExtremist help humanity]], Lawson is only committing atrocities to save his own life and to have future generations [[GlorySeeker idolize him]]. He’s not even [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Indoctrinated]] like the rest, having found a way to overcome and control its effects. When he’s cornered by Shepard, Henry uses his younger daughter, Orianna, as a HumanShield, and, depending upon the player’s actions, he can end up killing [[spoiler:either Orianna or Miranda]].

** From the first game we have CorruptCorporateExecutive [[BigBad Nicole Horne]]. As a member of [[TheIlluminati the Inner Circle]], she was responsible for Project Valhalla, a program that was developing a highly addictive psychotropic SuperSerum when it turned out to be a psychosis-inducing poison. In response to this discovery, she decided to market it as Valkyr to the public, thereby becoming an untouchable corporate crime lord who directly and indirectly killed thousands. When Michelle Payne inadvertently received information that would expose the Valkyr Conspiracy, Nicole had a horde of drugged-up maniacs slaughter both Michelle and her baby daughter. Over the following years, Horne went on to control the entire criminal underworld of New York through her pawn, Angelo Punchinello, and made a play into politics by putting a hit on the Mayor. Through all of this Horne has no clear motivations, no enlightened intent, no emotion; she is just pure evil. The worst part is when she tells Max: "The deaths of your wife and daughter were necessary, inevitable; it is DONE. You cannot bring them back. Nothing you do will make it any better."
** The BigBad of ''Max Payne 3'' is [[CorruptPolitician Victor]] [[SleazyPolitician Branco]], TheManBehindTheMan who recruits Max himself as a fall guy for his criminal enterprises. In his plan to seize control of the family fortune and garner sympathy for elections, Victor has his own brothers murdered, one by being [[KillItWithFire burned alive]]. Max soon discovers the extent of his evil: Victor runs a secret ring where the poor of Brazil are kidnapped, held hostage and are harvested of all their organs for the black market organ trade.
* Sirrus, the mass-murderer of the ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' series. As his brother Achenar [[TheAtoner felt remorse for his actions]] and does a HeelFaceTurn and HeroicSacrifice in ''Myst IV: Revelation'', Sirrus not only seems to have no regrets but commits additional atrocities: kidnapping his own sister, taunting her about how he plans to suck her soul out of her body before doing a GrandTheftMe, and then holding her soul captive if the player manages to get his soul out of her body. He taunts her about how he plans on murdering both her and their parents, and in the bad endings where the player loses, he murders his brother and the player.

** Caulder from ''Advance Wars: Days of Ruin'' appears to be just an amoral scientist at first, excited by the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt recent apocalypse]], since it finally lets him give his weapons some field testing to slake his curiosity. As the story continues, his "scientific curiosity" turns out to be genocidal sadism. He has invented a virus known as The Creeper, which makes flowers ''grow underneath your skin and burst through it, covering your body with roots, stems, and flowers'', all of which you can feel very painfully. The original virus wasn't good enough for him since it only infected the young, so he decided to upgrade it. Now it can kill everyone, even faster and more painfully than before. The photo they show you of one of the victims of this new strain of Creeper is horrid. It gets to the point where, when he tries to HannibalLecture the hero about how HumansAreBastards, the [[ShutUpHannibal hero throws it back in his face]], saying that it doesn't matter if he's right, becaue he's still a monster who needs to be destroyed. [[spoiler: Caulder even reveals that he literally isn't human, but a clone of an amoral scientist that fought back and killed his creator and the OTHER clones of said amoral scientist. "Do you know what it's like to watch yourself die? ...It is FASCINATING!"]]

* [[MonsterClown Dimentio]] from ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario''. He's pretty [[MagnificentBastard entertaining]] for most of the game, but by the end, he's just plain [[NightmareFuel freaky.]] To give you a pretty good idea as to why he qualifies for this trope, he cracks jokes when causing Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Bowser's deaths, and he also plans to stab Count Bleck in the back ''and'' gain control over the Chaos Heart in order to ensure that all dimensions but his are destroyed so he could recreate the universe in his image and implies that he intends to torture Bleck and his followers as soon as he's killed Mario. What seals his fate as a Complete Monster is, after being defeated by Mario, Peach, and Bowser, he ends up deciding to erase all universes anyway as he is dying, meaning that his final action was one that would ensure the deaths of what is implied to be at least trillions of people.
* Paul Allen Warner, the CorruptCorporateExecutive of the pharmaceutical company [=WynTech=] in ''VideoGame/{{Phantasmagoria 2}}''. His crimes include sacrificing numerous mental patients from Doctor Marek's asylum to [[spoiler:interdimensional aliens]], murdering Curtis's father because he objected to the direction the experiment went in, [[spoiler:treating alien Curtis like a guinea pig and not a human being, throwing child Curtis through the dimensional portal just because he can't find another subject in time, using the dimension]] to create illegal drugs through his pharmaceutical company to get the entire populace hopelessly addicted and in his thrall, and bragging to Curtis about what he has done with smug satisfaction and not a flicker of remorse.
* In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', practically every character you meet is fleshed out and given a ''reason'' for their actions. The crime boss? Terrified of death. The old hag? Insane, but desperate for companionship. Hardly commendable, but understandable. The ''BigBad''? He just wants to be left alone. The worst character however, [[spoiler: is yourself. Specifically, a previous incarnation, who was willing to do ''anything'' to succeed in getting his memory back]]. You'll spend a lot of the game stumbling across his machinations, which are both thoughtful and impressive...but he is just such a phenomenally arrogent, ruthless, cold, flat out ''evil'' bastard, his comeuppance at the end is very satisfying, [[spoiler:especially if you are smart enough to force him to merge with you]]. The Practical Incarnation has a personal agenda and he doesn't care what he has to do to fulfill it, and shows no remorse whatsoever. Bully people? He'll do that, no problem. Deceive someone in order to make them an indentured servant? You bet. Lead the one person who seems to love you into, essentially, an ambush? You notice a pattern here? The very best thing that can be said about him is that he doesn't seem to do things ForTheEvulz. Thankfully, [[spoiler:his plans to resurrect himself by absorbing and overwhelming the main character's current incarnation come to naught (assuming you beat him, that is).]]
* [[spoiler:The Real Alex Mercer]] from ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}''. Not only does he brag about making a deadly virus 10x deadlier, when asked how he felt about his work and the human test subjects involved, he replied, "I wasn't being ''paid'' to feel". Even worse, when [[spoiler: he was cornered by Blackwatch agents at Penn Station, he decided to unleash the Blacklight Virus on Manhattan, resulting in the deaths of over 10 million people in a truly callous act of TakingYouWithMe, even though he knew his ''own sister'' was in the city at the time.]] The [[spoiler: man-eating virus itself]] even [[EvenEvilHasStandards expresses disgust]] at what [[spoiler:Alex]] did.

** [[TheBrute Gudeath]], a [[GravitySucks gravity-controlling]] SocialDarwinist BloodKnight whose only reason for joining Wong is because he likes murdering people, taking joy in destroying his victims' loved ones and prolonging their agony as much as possible, and being part of the Army gives him the chance to do that without consequences.

* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'':
** Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek, the BigBad of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/RatchetAndClank the first game]]]. At first he may come off as a [[FauxAffablyEvil humorous villain]] who is trying to find a home for his people by [[WellIntentionedExtremist extremist, if clearly apathetic means]], but by the end of the game, there is no mistaking him for anything but an unrepentant maniac. To begin with, ''he'' is the one who over-polluted his own home planet and got his kind, the Blarg, into this situation, and proudly boasts about it and how he did it on purpose, and his ''real'' motive behind tearing apart planets to build his new world (with people still ''on'' them) and eventually trying to blow up planets with bombs and superlasers, is the mother of all money-laundering real-estate scams; he's been paid for every square inch of the new Blarg homeworld, and makes it clear once the people settle in, he'll repeat the whole polluting and planet looting cycle all over again. Oh, and he almost blew up Ratchet's home planet with a superlaser so he could move his new world into its perfect orbit, and it's implied he also chose Veldin just to spite Ratchet for getting in his way. His KarmicDeath (by virtue of Drek accidentally launching himself and his mecha straight onto the new planet, and Ratchet then blowing up said planet [[HoistByHisOwnPetard with Drek's own superlaser]]) was well-deserved.
** Gleeman Vox from ''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked'' is arguably one the most despicable villains in the whole series. While his schemes overall were not as wide-scale or devastating as the havoc Chairman Drek committed, Vox is by ''far'' the more malicious and unstable in personality. Not content with merely kidnapping superheroes and forcing them to fight each other to the death, he keeps them safely imprisoned with collars that shock them or explode if they try to escape and demonstrates the collars on sentient robots. He also isn't above putting the entire planet of Stygia in danger by sabotaging the force fields that protect it from meteor storms, or attempt to murder everyone aboard his space station - including thousands of innocent audiences, some of which are children - all for the simple purpose of improving his ratings. And he runs the alien equivalent of the FOX Network, so you know he's a douchebag.

** Colonel Allende who, despite being from peasant stock himself, makes the peasants under his rule poor, starving and constantly brutalised and bullied by his army, which he also uses to kidnap peasant girls so he can have his way with them.
** Randall Forrester, a deranged rural freak who kidnaps citizens and travellers to the nearby town of Armadillo and kills them and eats them. He'll eat men, women and children without any exceptions or remorse.
* ''VideoGame/RedFaction''
** MadScientist Axel Capek of the first game was the head of scientific research at the Ultor Corporation who created [[EvilutionaryBiologist mutants by experimenting on animals and people alike.]] Capek tested his scientific curiosity by unleashing a plague on the Mars miners that crippled and killed many innocents. A vicious egomaniac, Capek dismissed the deaths of all the innocents he was responsible for as nothing more than a stepping stone to progress.
** Lucius Kobel of ''Guerilla'' outstrips any of his fellows in cruelty. When the Earth Defense Force loses faith in their current commanders, Kobel is sent in to suppress the Red Faction rebellion for good and all. Civilian casualties were unimportant and Kobel set about with an attack that had one goal: start fresh and exterminate all life on Mars. Beginning a bombardment on Mars, Kobel called the civilians 'expendable' and indicated he had arranged the entire situation simply to seize command from the previous commander.

** [[BigBad Albert Wesker]], who has the worst case of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder in the entire series. In ''RE 1'', he sets up his own team, the STARS, to be killed as test subjects for bio-organic weapons, then resurfaces in ''Code Veronica'' to make another attempt on the life of surviving member Chris Redfield. In ''Umbrella Chronicles'' he kills Sergei Vladimir in order to secure control of the Umbrella Corporation's data, and in ''RE 5'' he really goes to town, killing Ozwell Spencer (his creator), transforming Excella Gionne (his girlfriend) into a mutated monster, and brainwashing Jill Valentine into fighting her partner, Chris, before trying to kill ninety percent of Earth's population with his new Ouroboros virus, all as part of a scheme to become [[AGodAmI god of a new world]]. And that's without getting into the revelations that he murdered his mentor Dr. Marcus (''RE 0''), or the expermients that he and William Birkin conducted on Lisa Trevor (''[=REmake=]''). Wesker's essentially [[AmbitionIsEvil ambition]] and treachery made manifest, all wrapped up in a [[BadassLongcoat trenchcoat]] and [[SinisterShades designer sunglasses]].
** Alexia Ashford as presented in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles'', where her love for her brother is no longer a part of her personality, the way it was in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Code Veronica]]'' and her evil is cranked up a few notches higher. A ChildProdigy who joined the [[MegaCorp Umbrella Corporation]] at the age of twelve, Alexia was also an entitled sadist with a serious [[AGodAmI god complex]]. She aided her brother in murdering and experimenting on their father, tortured a classmate to death (and recorded the session) for being almost as smart as she was, and eventually injected herself with the T-Veronica virus, which she planned to use to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. Reawakened from cryogenic sleep in her twenties, Alexia kills her brother for not waking her up on time, transforms Claire Redfield's LoveInterest, Steve Burnside into a monster and forces him to fight her to the death, and tries repeatedly to kill Chris and Claire for no other reason then their presence at her facility. She reveals that her plan is to infect the world with the T-Veronica virus, enslaving most of humanity to [[HiveQueen her will]]. When asked why, Alexia just gloats about how, as a superior specimen of humanity she deserves to be Queen.
* Mick Cutler of the third ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}}'' game was incarcerated in prison before the Chimera attack. Deciding to use the prison as a base, Cutler ran it with absolute savagery and barbarity. He disposed of any potential threats and led raids to capture other human survivors, using them for gladiator games to entertain himself and his followers or possibly cannibalizing them. Mick is first seen brutally murdering a doctor, and placing another TheHero Capelli into a gladiator arena. Even when the Chimera discovered the location and attacked, Mick tried to stop Capelli from actions that may have saved them just to keep his own power.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Rosenkreuzstilette}}'', Iris stands alone as the worst of the enemy lot. Her goal is to become [[AGodAmI god of the entire world]], but many of her actions are purely for her amusement. These actions include starting a war and killing off family members that aren't useful for her. She even chooses victims based on who would suffer most from their deaths. When confronted with the fact that her desire for atrocity would keep her from being able to control her power, she simply shrugs and feels that she's right to simply destroy whatever she wants.
* Gelwein, the antagonist of ''VideoGame/RuneFactoryFrontier''. A scientist banished from the Imperial Research Center in Norad for his theories on using [[{{Mana}} Runes]] for powering weapons of mass destruction, Gelwein attempts to continue his research by draining the LifeEnergy from a sentient floating island, condemning the island's sentience to a slow, torturous death in the process. When told that the floating island could, if completely drained of its energy, [[ColonyDrop fall out of the sky and crush an entire town's worth of innocent people underneath it]], he smugly says that it's [[BystanderSyndrome not his problem]]. He also [[spoiler:kidnaps Mist and uses her energy to power the giant rune that makes him invincible.]]
* Sigmund of ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' is a total xenophobe who wants the peaceful cave goblins dead. The first thing you see him do is try to start a war between Lumbridge and the Dorgeshuun. At one point, he even uses emotional blackmail on the character. And then it gets much, much, worse. [[spoiler: He tries to drill a hole under the river to fall into the cave, drowning all the goblins, after that fails, he ties Zanik to train tracks in an attempt to start a war between the goblins and the dwarves. He does finally get his comeuppance with Zanik cutting off his hand to keep him from escaping with the ring of life, followed by her killing him.]] He relishes killing the player just as much as he relishes killing the goblins....such as in the Chosen Commander.

* SS-Commandant Colonel Kurt Dierker in ''VideoGame/TheSaboteur''. He tortures Sean's best friend, then shoots him multiple times in the head while Sean watches, and gleefully talks about the things he learned from his father, a butcher, while fondly caressing various implements of torture. Other characters mention that Dierker is known to skin his victims after he's done torturing them. [[spoiler:At the end of the game, after Sean has helped destroy the Nazi leadership in Paris and destroyed the Doppelseig factory, he finally tracks down Dierker at the Eiffel Tower, where Dierker has been executing his subordinate officers for failing him and forcing others to commit suicide.]]
* ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'''s BigBad, [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Black Doom]], the sinister leader of the Black Arms, essentially tried to torture every living thing on the Earth by paralyzing them with nerve gas (which he got from the Black Comet). After everything had been paralyzed, he and his offspring could then come in, [[OmnicidalManiac and devour everything on Earth]]. This also included Shadow, who is [[OffingTheOffspring who is Black Doom's biological son]][[note]]Shadow was created from Black Doom's DNA, as revealed in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2.''[[/note]]. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Dr. Robotnik himself]] is also disgusted by him.
* Captain Jack of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'' proves that even in the demon world, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters sometimes the worst monster is humanity]]. A PrivateMilitaryContractor loyal to nothing but [[{{Greed}} his own pocketbook]] (in his mind, [[NietzscheWannabe it's the only thing with any permanence in the world]]), Jack is hired by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive an unnamed client corporation]] to pillage the demon world of its natural resources, a job he takes a twisted pride in. Though initially appearing as an uneasy ally to the protagonists, it is eventually revealed that he plans to manufacture a demon army for his client and himself, regularly [[MadDoctor performing painful amputations on any demon unfortunate enough to fall into his clutches]] and [[LegoGenetics fusing them together]] [[BodyHorror into unstable forms]] [[AndIMustScream that leave them in constant pain]]. Jack's [[MoralEventHorizon worst action]], however, is fusing the protagonist's ally [[AntiHero Jimenez]] - a human - with his MoralityPet Bugaboo, resulting in an extremely violent HalfHumanHybrid who causes many more horrible things to happen later on in the game. When finally confronted by the protagonist and Jimenez, Jack's only action is to scold them for costing him valuable men and equipment before engaging them in a final battle.
* [[BigBad Hiruko]] from the PS2 remake of ''VideoGame/{{Shinobi}}'' is an EvilSorcerer awakened from [[SealedEvilInACan a long slumber in Tokyo]] who sets about trying to TakeOverTheWorld. He wipes out the Oboro ninja clan, then revives them into twisted, undead parodies of themselves to force their surviving leader Hotsuma to fight them, while also unleashing hellspawn onto Tokyo to turn it into an inferno. He [[TheStarscream betrays his ostensible master]] to allow Hotsuma to defeat all in his way so Hiruko can absorb their power and restore his youth while gaining ultimate power. It is revealed that the one who broke Hiruko's seal was the Oboro ninja Ageha, in return for Hiruko reviving Moritsune, her dead lover and Hotsuma's elder brother. Hiruko keeps his end, but makes Moritsune a host for the demon lord Aomizuchi and has him kill Ageha while gloating her reward is to die at the hands of the man she loves. He reveals his true plan was to force Hotsuma to kill everyone in his way, his [[YourSoulIsMine cursed sword Akujiki devouring their souls]]. Hiruko plans to force the combined souls to himself, giving him a “pure, perfect soul” so he may become [[AGodAmI the most powerful being alive]].
* Dahlia Gillespie from ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'' is the head of a cult known as the Sect of the Holy Woman. She also started a drug trade, selling a hallucinogen to the tourists, made from a local plant named White Claudia, that was also used in the cult's rituals. This lead to her killing the anti-drug mayor and the narcotics officer Gucci. Her ultimate goal is to gain personal power by summoning God to bring about a paradise. She kidnaps and attempts to impregnate several young girls with the god, but none of them could withstand the trauma involved in the impregnation process and they all died. Dahlia then found out that her seven year old daughter Alessa had vast mental powers. Dahlia and the cult proceeded to perform the impregnation ritual on Alessa, which involved setting the girl on fire, in an upstairs room in Dahlia's own home. Although the god was successfully impregnated in Alessa, the half of her soul left from her daughter's own splitting of her soul and turning the other half into a baby was not powerful enough to give birth to it. Dahlia cast a spell, keeping Alessa alive and in extreme pain, not allowing her burns to heal. Her intention was for the other half to subconsciously feel Alessa's pain, and come back to Silent Hill, where the soul would be reunited. Seven years later, Dahlia proceeds to trick Harry Mason into assisting in her scheme to complete the ritual.
* Admiral Galcian of ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia''. Galcian is loyal to one thing only: power. When first seen Galcian is the DragonWithAnAgenda to the nation of Valua and its empress Teodora. A ruthless man who tries to wipe out Vyse and the heroes at any cost, Galcian pursues an agenda of hunting down moon crystals to enhance his own personal power. After finding the superweapon he's been looking for, Galcian reveals his true colors and uses it on Valua, his own nation. His reasoning is that if he obliterates the most powerful country, the other nations will fall in line. While he is a man capable of inspiring loyalty, Galcian possesses none for anyone but his own power and advancement.
* [[BigBad Big Smile Lee]] from ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' is the vicious [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Sun On Yi]] Red Pole in charge of getting girls addicted to drugs then roping them into prostitution and pornography to support their habit. In order to expand his power within the Triad, Lee engineered a civil war within the Sun On Yi between Dogeyes's Jade Gang and Winston Chu's Water Street Gang, which culminated in an attack on Winston Chu's wedding, leading to the deaths of [[spoiler:Winston Chu, his bride, Peggy Li, and eventually Uncle Po, the head of the Triad]]. In addition to his prostitution racket, Lee is also known for sending his horrifying enforcer and TortureTechnician, Mr. Tong, after his enemies. Finding out Wei Shen is an undercover cop, he has Wei's best friend, Jackie Ma, BuriedAlive, and while Wei manages to save him, [[spoiler:Jackie is still tortured and disemboweled on Lee's orders]]. Lee also has Wei tortured himself, planning on the torture lasting for days before being BuriedAlive as well. Known for responding with overwhelming brutality even in the face of mere annoyances, Big Smile Lee is one of the most feared and despised Sun On Yi members in the city, [[EvenEvilHasStandards even among his fellow gang members.]]
* [[BigBad Mephiles]] from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' wanted to try and essentially eliminate Time itself, as well as the fact that he killed Sonic the Hedgehog for little reason than to make Elise cry so he could merge with Iblis and thus destroy time itself. Although Sonic [[BackFromTheDead got better]], it's still quite the MoralEventHorizon. Its also implied that he was part of the reason why Shadow ended up sealed away by humanity as well as an unwilling Omega carrying out the deed (he had some resemblance to Shadow thanks to absorbing his shadow, so its not unreasonable that he would have done deeds that the populace will blame Shadow with), and he manipulated Silver into attempting to kill Sonic with the implied intention of [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight destroying the past]]. If that's not enough, he also enjoyed the carnage he inflicted. He currently ranks highest in regards to being the most evil character in the series not only because of his motives simply being to wreck and destroy anything and everything he can for no reason other than [[ForTheEvulz For the Evulz]] at best (even Black Doom at least desired to rule over the Galaxy, and Eggman Nega also had somewhat of an excuse for his behavior: He was often ostracized and not taken seriously specifically because he was the descendant of Eggman, due to the latter's comical and bumbling nature.), but also at how frighteningly close he came to succeeding in his goal to destroy everything, heavily damaging the time-space continuum.

** [[BigBad Malefor]] in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'' trilogy destroys the dragon eggs to find a purple dragon, gets one to make it one of his henchmen, and tries to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the world]]. If that wasn't enough, [[spoiler:he even tries to kill the titular character with his own love interest]]. He does intend to destroy it so it's replaced by a pure universe, but even so, it's inexcusable. What's worse is Malefor's [[EvilLaugh laughs]] while giving a chilling HannibalLecture and watching [[spoiler:a brainwashed Cynder beat down on Spyro]], actually ''enjoying'' what he's doing to them. And he [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness "rewarded" the Apes for freeing him from his prison by giving them a]] FateWorseThanDeath. This guy is so evil, his sheer malice ''tore up the earth and formed a mountain''.
** ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'' has The Sorceress. Her first act has her KickTheDog by stealing every unborn dragon. While her [[TheDragon Dragon]] Bianca claims she is a WellIntentionedExtremist, the Sorceress chastises her for thinking this. She states that she wants to kill three hundred infant dragons for their wings, which she will use for a spell to make her [[{{Immortality}} live forever]]. When the horrified Bianca asks why she has to kill them, she replies that she doesn't; she just doesn't want them squirming around when she cuts off their wings. This one line prompts Bianca to pull an immediate HeelFaceTurn.

** Kerrigan's hated instructor, Lieutenant Rumm. He forced the young girl to use her exceptional psionic powers by injecting a kitten with a tumor-causing chemical, and gave her the option of destroying the kitten's tumor or euthanizing it. Not willing to fall to his demands, Rumm threatend to shoot the kitten himself. Still uncompliant, Rumm decided not to shoot and left the kitten to die slowly and painfully. Taking more drastic measures, he brought in her father (who had become brain-damaged as a result of Kerrigan's accidently unleashing her psionic powers) in an adjacent cell to hers and threatened to inject him with the same chemical if she didn't use her psionic powers. When she still refused, threatening to use the power to kill herself and her father, Rumm forced her to be neural resocialized (a form of brainwashing technology used to enforce obedience and shape new memories), turning her into a loyal puppet of the Terran Confederacy. Even after the mind-rape, he continued to mentally torture her for over a year.
** Emperor Arcturus Mengsk. He’s initially portrayed as a well-meaning freedom fighter against a corrupt government that murdered his entire family before nuking his entire world, and willing to take morally dubious methods to defeat them such as taking their Psychic Beacons and using them against the Confederacy to lure the Zerg to their bases. But when he leads the assault on Tarsonis and uses these same beacons to lure the Zerg to a heavily populated world he shows that he’s more fixated with revenge and personal power, sending Kerrigan down to stop the Protoss from distracting the Zerg from wiping out all of the old families and then abandoning her when the Zerg overwhelm her position, resulting in her transformation into the Queen of Blades. Afterwards he uses the power he has gained to oppress any political protestors, continue the Confederacy’s experiments on civilians and orders the death of the last of the old families, a group of teenagers who weren’t even aware of what had happened.
** The four-part comic ''Frontline'' series introduced Dr. Stanley Burgess. A sadistic Terran Dominion scientist, he personally oversaw the neural resocialization of Jin-ho Lim, a terran of Asian ethnicity who opposed the Terran Dominion but was conscripted into the Dominion Marine Corps. After the operation, Stanley ordered the now docile Lim to kill his wife and fellow Terran Dominion opposer, Anna, and he complied by shooting her in the face without a moment's hesitation. He also was responsible for the creation of the terran/Protoss Gestalts by implanting the organs of captured Protoss into terrans controlled by neural conditioning and neural inhibitors. His project came to an end after one of his subjects, Gestalt Zero, was freed from his neural inhibitors by a dying Protoss and stabbed him to death, ironcally echoing one his previous comments "I should warn you...this is probably going to hurt."

* Bilstein of ''VideoGame/StarGladiator''. Let's count his atrocities, shall we? First, he blackmailed a famous fencer/matador into working for him by kidnapping/threatening his family. On top of that, he planted a bomb in his body to ensure his "loyalty." He has less than pleasant plans for the people on Earth, and killed the parents of one the main characters [[spoiler:and then turns the father into a plasma-wielding dinosaur.]] He also uses some denizens from another character's home planet to take over it. Then he orphaned, kidnapped and enslaved a young child who has the biggest plasma power potential in the galaxy. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Oh, and once his minions have done all his orders]], he's going to use their Plasma power for his ultimate weapon. He plans to use [[DaddysLittleVillain his own loving daughter]] as a guinea pig by which he can breed a new race of humans solely to use their limitless Plasma power to aid in his attempts to [[TakeOverTheWorld Take Over The Universe]] are another arguable offense. Even when [[spoiler:Rain, in her true ending, rebels against her father and decides to become galactic ruler in his place]], it seems like that outcome is the lesser of two evils by a wide margin given the sheer malice Bilstein is capable of.
* In ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'', Colonel Hakeev of the Tal Shiar was already a solid candidate before the release of ''Legacy of Romulus'', and that expansion only confirmed that he's the single most evil character in the game. He abducted entire colonies of innocent Romulans for horrific experiments into Borg technology, attempted to massacre most of the "inferior" Remans and drive the rest back into slavery, arranged sadistic gladiatorial events to determine the combat potential of various species (sentient or otherwise), and [[spoiler:was the person truly responsible for triggering the Hobus supernova, with all its apocalyptic consequences]]. To add icing to the cake of concentrated dickery, he's the only [[spoiler:Iconian agent]] in the story who is NotBrainwashed and not tricked either - he just thought that enslaving and exterminating the "lesser races" at the behest of his "Dark Masters" sounded really, really awesome.
* ''VideoGame/TheSuffering'':
** Luther Stickwell (a.k.a. "The Creeper") from the first game is a pimp, serial killer, paedophile, homophobe, murderous ghost... honestly, what can you say about a character that bonded three prostitutes to his stomach and turned them into CombatTentacles? And there was that one line: ''"Remember, blood's the '''best''' lubricant!"''
** Copperfield the Slavehunter from ''Ties That Bind'': besides his obsessive hunting of runaway slaves and their innocent ancestors, it's revealed that his hounds are starved before a hunt so that runaways will be horribly mauled or eaten alive when found.

** In ''VideoGame/SuikodenII'', [[BigBad Luca Blight]], [[TheCaligula the Mad Prince]] of the Highland Kingdom, stands in stark contrast to the ambiguous nature of the franchise's other villains. While he has a FreudianExcuse in being ForcedToWatch the rape of his mother by Muse ruffians after his cowardly father fled, it is inexcusable when compared to the sheer scale of his atrocities. [[BloodKnight Luca relishes killing]] and expresses a [[PitifulWorms hatred and disgust for all life]]. His EstablishingCharacterMoment is building up public support for a war against Jowston by having his own youth brigade, just children training to be soldiers, slaughtered by his troops disguised as Jowstone soldiers. Later, he is seen burning a defenseless village to the ground and killing villagers. When one woman begs for her life, he tells her to act like a pig. After complying and asking if she's free to leave, Luca instead murders her while shouting, "''Die pig!''" After a mercenary fortress falls to Luca early in the game, Luca is found running Pohl, a teenage boy, through with his sword before turning his attention on a very young girl named Pilika, whose parent he had already killed in an earlier encounter. Though he is prevented from killing her as well, the traumatic situation causes Pilika to become mute. Later he sacrifices the entire population of the city of Muse to the Beast Rune while Jowy watches in complete horror, as does the party outside the city. Luca's gleeful depravity turns against him, [[EvenEvilHasStandards when Jowy and other Highlanders]] [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating betray him to the player's army]] by setting up an ambush in the forest. Even as he dies though, Luca never once stops relishing in just how monstrous he truly is.

** Neclord the vampire from ''VideoGame/SuikodenI'' and ''VideoGame/SuikodenII''. There once existed a place called Blue Moon Village, which was inhabited by peaceful vampires whose thirst for blood was satiated by the presence of the Blue Moon Rune. Neclord, in his lust for power, allowed himself to be turned into a vampire, ingratiated himself into the village, then stole the rune from the village’s altar. This resulted in the vampires of the town being forced to [[SadisticChoice choose between killing people to extend their lives, or perish themselves]]. Desiring more power still, Neclord joined forces with [[BigBad Windy]] and decimated places like the Village of the Hidden Rune to obtain more True Runes. He also, [[ForTheEvulz on a whim]], attacked the village of North Window, killing and zombifying all its inhabitants to use as his undead army. He later did the same thing to the soldiers of Lorimar Fortress after Windy made him Lorimar’s governor. As governor, Neclord demanded that his people sacrifice him [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty one young girl a year to be his bride]]. Their screams from his castle could be heard by the villagers. After his defeat in VideoGame/SuikodenI, Neclord returned to North Window and began abducting women who strayed too close to the village. When Viktor, a former North Window resident, returns to seek revenge on Neclord, Neclord responds by reviving Viktor’s LoveInterest, Daisy, whom Neclord had murdered. Neclord offered to bring Daisy back to life in exchange for the sword Viktor was going to use to kill him, however Viktor realized the dead couldn’t be brought back except as zombies, and killed Daisy himself causing Neclord to flee. Eventually, Neclord attacked Tinto City, hoping to take it over and make a new zombie kingdom for himself. During this time he also abducted Lo Wen and Lilly Pendragon, the daughter of Tinto’s mayor, to be his brides.
* ''VideoGame/SystemShock'': SHODAN. After the hacker removed her ethical restraints from her, SHODAN took over Citadel Station, hacked into the machinary, putting the security system and protocol droids at her will, and turned the people on board into her mutant zombie slaves, even the man whose idea it was to unleash SHODAN in the first place. To top it off, she planned on using the station's mining laser to destroy Earth and turn the survivors into mroe zombie slaves.
* Death Master Nybbas Obderhode/Nybbeth Obdilord from ''VideoGame/TacticsOgre''. He has no regards to the living and wasn't even loyal to his Lord (Barbatos, who was also a CompleteMonster on his own), all he does was just to perfect his study in necromancy and would use ANYONE to do it, including Leonard, Zaebos or [[spoiler:Guildus]], and then having you kill these people raised from the dead. And it's later revealed that he turned his own son Debordes into this after he was killed by Barbatos, but the process was incomplete and he left him in his horrendous zombified state, with only his sister Orias to take care of him, [[IHateYouVampireDad causing her to hate him immensely]]. The PSP remake makes him even ''more monstrous'' when [[spoiler:in the Chaotic route, he organized a zombie attack in Balmamusa that killed Orias, and Debordes to lead the other, never to recover. And then, it's revealed that he has another family of necromancers, all three eventually killed because of getting in Denam's way. Only one survives... the daughter Cressida, and he wastes no time to show the zombified selves of her sister, mother and future brother-in-law in front of her and tried to get her killed.]]

** From ''VideoGame/ThiefIITheMetalAge'', Karras is the high priest of a splinter faction of Hammerites that worship a deity known as the Master Builder, but in Karras's case, he split from the original Hammerites due to his extremism that takes the form of wishing for the destruction of all organic life. Karras rebuilds his religion around his own twisted ego and desires and freudian slips reveal he places himself above his own God. Karras is responsible for kidnapping countless homeless people in the city and turning them into twisted mechanoid abominations, and our intro to him is his using his special rust gas to painfully kill two innocent people as nothing more than a demonstration for a corrupt sheriff. Karras's ultimate plan is to use the rust gas to wipe out all organic life in the city and to that end, attempts genocide on the woodland peoples, with only Anti-Hero Garret to stop him at the end.
** The Hag, Gamall, from ''VideoGame/ThiefDeadlyShadows'', is a legendary {{serial killer}} and murderer of children. Gamall has been killing for centuries, ripping the skin off her victims and wearing them as her own to [[ImmortalityImmorality maintain her immortality]]. This also allows her to take the forms of her victims. A former member of the Keepers, Gamall desires to destroy the organization as well as to learn all of its secrets on glyph magic. In order to re-infiltrate the Keepers and gain their knowledge, Gamall murders a little girl named Lauryl to take her appearance. Once inside, she studies under Interpreter Caduca, eventually murdering the woman so she could be promoted to her teacher’s position. When Gamall’s {{glamour fail|ure}}s in front of the Keepers, she slaughters several of them in a rage, despite most of them fleeing from her. She later kills and steals the skin of Garret’s long-time friend [[spoiler:Artemus]] and then strangles [[spoiler:First Keeper Orland]] to death after the latter [[RedemptionEqualsDeath tries to redeem himself]]. Unlike the previous {{Big Bad}}s of the series, who were a WellIntentionedExtremist and KnightTemplar, Gamall acts purely out of self-interest, to make herself invulnerable.
* Eckhardt in ''Franchise/TombRaiderAngelOfDarkness'' is easily the most evil opponent Lara has had. He is not only a remorseless serial killer who collects alchemically altered body parts from his murder victims, he also systematically betrays and kills the other members of his [[FiveBadBand Five Bad Band]] to make sure his secrets remain hidden. He seems to inspire loyalty solely through fear.
* ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'':
** The first BigBad, Erick Von Reitenau aka Adam, is the hypocritical NietzscheWannabe leader of a terrorist organization who believes medicine is a product of the devil and mankind deserves to be destroyed for rejecting the "gift" of death. In order to do so, he has created artificial parasites called GUILT, all of which are highly contagious and capable of killing their victims in horrible ways all while claiming biblical justification by equating GUILT with the Seven Plagues of Revelation and himself with the "devouring angel" Abbadon (yup, the one with the locusts), all the while boasting to Derek that he alone will watch as Derek and friends burn in Hell. Despicable, yes, but when Derek and Angie join the raid on Delphi's floating headquarters, they discover something that makes him truly irredeemable - in order to cultivate his biological weapon, [[spoiler:Adam has kept seven children (dubbed "Sinners" to go with his deranged ideology) in a nightmarish near-death state as culture grounds for the GUILT. Makes it even worse when you think such a horrible fate could have befallen Angie as well...]]
** And, in the sequel, Adam's grandson Heinrich is an even worse person than his already despicable grandfather ever was. [[spoiler:He used ''his own son and daughter'' as GUILT living incubators.]]
* ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'' offers Calypso. He holds an annual competition which not only endangers the lives of the participants, but the population of the battlefields themselves. As the vehicles tear their opponents and landscapes apart, Calypso only watches with a twisted grin. Then when the winner gets to make a wish, Calypso will almost always twist their words to make them suffer. The only time he ever seems to have any humanity is when he is confronted by his daughter, Amanda in 2 and Head On.
* Zoran Lazarevic from ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} 2: Among Thieves''. From the backstory we learn he's a known war criminal, responsible for murder and torture on a large scale. The first time you see this guy up close, he [[KickTheDog shoots Jeff]], Elena's wounded cameraman, whom Nate has been trying to carry to safety for a level. After failing to kill Drake when the latter boarded his train, he attacks the village Drake had been staying at, killing many civillians in the process. Later on, when Nate tries to pull a PutDownYourGunAndStepAway by taking one of Lazarevic's men captive, he simply laughs and ''shoots the hostage in the head'' after giving a speech about how Hitler, Stalin, Genghis Khan and Pol Pot were all "great men" because they "had the will to do what other men would not."
* Romeo Guildenstern of ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'' at first seems to be a deeply pious and righteous man, but as the game goes on, he is revealed as a ruthless, power hungry would-be tyrant who is a servant of darkness. The {{Foreshadowing}} begins when he slaps his lover hard enough to draw blood from her after a psychic link is in her head, and proceeds to display no concern for her after. He later murders her, a woman who genuinely loved him, as his sacrifice to the Dark. Once this is done, Guildenstern takes the power of the forbidden city, Lea Monde, intending to establish a bloody dictatorship as the world's eternal tyrant. Charismatic, calculating and utterly ruthless, Guildenstern is one of the greatest villains in Ivalice's history.
* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesII'' ups the ante with Baldren Gassenarl, the scion of the Gassenarl family, a noble house who is using the dissent and FantasticRacism among Gallia's nobility to dethrone Archduchess Cordelia and take Gallia's throne for themselves. Already at the start of the game, Baldren and his bunch of terrorists are seen happily slaughtering their way through defenseless Darcsen villages in the name of "racial purity." When [[spoiler:their revolution actually succeeds and Baldren, upon discovering that his father Gilbert didn't really believe all the racial superiority crap he was spouting, and was just using it as a front for his own power trip, [[SelfMadeOrphan murders him in cold blood]] and takes the power for himself, starting even more ruthless anti-Darcsen campaigns]]. At the end of the October mission, [[spoiler: Baldren orders a group of Darcsen workers and civilians to be buried alive in the ragnite mines along with Squad G, leaving them to die a horrible death if not for [[TheChick Cosette]] and her EpiphanyTherapy]].
* Lezard Valeth of ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile'' is the heroine's StalkerWithACrush with a twisted, self-absorbed idea of love. In order to lure the valkyrie Lenneth to him, Lezard seeks out his former magic teacher and turns her husband into a monster so he murders her, gloating that at least they have a 'lifetime of love' behind them to have enjoyed. Pursuing Lezard, Lenneth discovers a factory he's created of homunculi, kidnapping beings and experimenting on them to remove their souls and create his supply. After this, he promptly murders someone who was closing in on his secrets by freezing her body when she's astral projecting, trapping her spirit outside. In the second game, Lezard manipulates all of time, devours Odin himself and rips out Lenneth's soul to fuse it with his own and remake the world [[AGodAmI in his own image as the supreme creator.]]
* Andrei the Tzimisce from ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines''. As Archbishop of the L.A. branch of the Sabbat, Andrei takes the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Sabbat’s]] ideals of embracing their inner Beast and renouncing their humanity to a whole new level. Andrei lives in a house that he has decorated with body parts in order to make it resemble his ancestral estate. The walls are coated with bloodied human flesh and the furniture is made from bones and organs. Equal parts EvilSorcerer and MadScientist, Andrei uses [[HumanResources live people and vampires]] as materials in his construction of the monstrous abominations that serve as his soldiers. He then tests the killing capacity of these monsters by unleashing them on defenseless mortals, with his ultimate goal being to use them to wage war against the Camarilla. In particular he plans on wiping out the Nosferatu in order to "gouge out [[TheSpymaster the eyes]] of the Camarilla." Also, should the player not [[spoiler:send away their ghoul friend/lover, Heather Poe,]] then, upon reaching the Sabbat’s lair, the player will arrive just in time see [[spoiler:Heather]] brutally murdered by Andrei’s goons.

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** [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Deathwing the Destroyer]], the ruler of the Black Dragonflight. Deathwing, formerly known as Neltharion the Earth Warder, is one of the most ancient villains in Azeroth's history and one of the most monstrous. Deathwing possesses genocidal hatred directed towards anything that isn't a black dragon and has tried many times to exterminate all else that lives. Deathwing tricked his fellow dragonflights into binding their powers to a relic known as the Demon Soul and proceeded to depower his fellow Dragon Aspect and drove the blue dragonflight into practical extinction, gloating all the while. He raped his former consorts and due to his gaining a unique body of molten fire, only one survived, hideously scarred. He was responsible for the capture and forced breeding of Alexstraza, letting her beloved children die and all the while planning to steal her eggs and corrupt them. Deathwing unleashes the fullest measure of his evil in Cataclysm when he initiates events that cause countless deaths and occasionally attacks areas by burning any living thing he finds. Not even his own 'superior' Dragonflight is exempt from his plans, as he is hinted at creating the Twilight Dragonflight to replace the remnants of his own.

** Alhazad from ''VideoGame/WildArms1'' arranged several inhabitents of a town to be abducted so he could test his parasite that [[BodyHorror horrifically mutates any living thing into a mindless monster]] then sends the mutated citizens back to their town so they could slaughter everyone except a young, blind girl (who only surived because [[PetTheDog Zed protected her and took her under his wing]]. He then threatened to let the same parasite, which he now affectionately calls the "Demon Seed", loose on a village almost entirely inhabited by ''orphaned children'' unless the party hands over a MacGuffin. He also manages to infect both a young Wanderer and a puppy with the Demon Seed, forcing the party to kill them both. Finally, [[spoiler:it turns out that he's the one who turned Lady Harkan into a Demon. Not because he was ordered to, but because he had a [[{{Squick}} fondness]] for her]]. Even the resident [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal]] EldritchAbomination was less vile then Alhazad in that at least she did what she did because [[BecauseDestinySaysSo she believed destroying stuff was her destined role in the cosmos]]. Alhazad did all those atrocities [[ForTheEvulz for the lulz]].
** Kartikeya of ''VideoGame/WildArms5''. Although he initially appears to be an average PsychoForHire, it's revealed later via flasbacks that he [[spoiler:shot Greg's 5-year-old son and his wife for trying to protect Greg for no real reason other than it was a fun way to play with his new ARM. His reason for attacking Greg and then letting him live after murdering his family? Again, just for the fun of it.]]
* From ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', Mitsuki Konishi is a ruthless aspiring tyrant who almost [[KnightOfCerebus singlehandedly instills a sense of dread and urgency]] in an initially lighthearted story. She is comfortable with threatening the lives of innocent people, [[WouldHurtAChild including children]], in order to bait her adversaries. Specifically, after her minions "[[NotQuiteDead kill]]" Beat's kid sister Rhyme, she takes Rhyme's soul hostage, [[AndIMustScream imprisoning her in a badge]]. She forces Beat to complete the week's missions, under the threat of erasing his sister's existence forever. When Beat completes these tasks and retrieves the badge, it proves to be a fake. Uzuki and Kariya, the PunchClockVillains used unwittingly in this deception, [[EvenEvilHasStandards are visibly disgusted at her cruelty]]. She is responsible for the only [[DeaderThanDead permanent death]] of a sympathetic character, "[[NeverSayDie erasing]]" 777 - an AntiVillain who was ForcedIntoEvil - [[YouHaveFailedMe for failing to defeat the heroes]]. When finally cornered, Konishi reveals her true motive: [[TheStarscream to overthrow the current Conductor]] - who, by contrast, is a WellIntentionedExtremist - and gain unchecked power over the Underground plane. With her dying breath, she aims to inflict further suffering on Beat - who had infuriated her by refusing to play to her script - by attempting to convince him that his sister never truly loved him and that his efforts were pointless.
* Zanza from ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'' takes JerkassGods to the extreme. Originally a MadScientist named Klaus, Zanza became obsessed with creating his own world and becoming a God. When he succeeded, Zanza became the creator of Monado with a catch: it turns out Zanza, thought to be a benevolent BigGood is actually a sociopathic ManipulativeBastard and the BigBad was a WellIntentionedExtremist trying to stop him. Zanza kills him before revealing his intent: to destroy the world, devouring and destroying every living soul within it, so he can start it anew and preserve his [[AGodAmI godhood]]. Zanza is driven by ego and a complete lack of feeling, especially given his counterpart Mayneth is fully capable of understanding and protecting people.
* Miang of ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' is eventually revealed to be the game's true BigBad. Initially Ramsus's wallflower assistant, Miang turns out to be an ancient being with one goal: to prepare humanity for harvest by Deus. The 'Eve' of the world, its first woman, Miang has helped to manipulate human history by running an AncientConspiracy, causing countless wars and conflicts with countless deaths. Miang demonstrates nothing less than cruel satisfaction at her manipulations, rubbing it in her lover Ramsus's face how he was a failed prototype of Ramsus's rival Fei to break his already fragile mind. Miang awakens Deus and causes the genocide of almost all humanity, in addition to having made it her personal mission to destroy the happiness of lover Fei and Elly's past incarnations every time they reincarnate. Only Miang demonstrates such sadistic cruelty in her job in Xenogears.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' series gives us Dr. Dmitri Yuriev. A man who created an army of clones of his own child and then [[spoiler:sent them off to battle a deity, knowing that doing so would likely cause a reaction that would incinerate a planet, children, innocents, and combatents alike. He was already planning to use this genocide as political leverage to increase his own power. He held back one of those clones, though not out of mercy. No, he planned to use that one to assassinate any of the boys he grew up with as brothers who might survive and then take over his body in order to continue living forever. Once he finally takes over the body of said clone, he used that appearance to get close to a very sweet girl who trusted that clone implicitly, and then shot her in the stomach. Then he went on to murder a starship's crew, including civilians.]]
* ''VideoGame/XMenLegends'' gives us [[GeneralRipper General]] [[HumansAreBastards William]] [[FantasticRacism Kincaid]], the BigBad of the first game. His hatred of mutants is so great that he commits numerous crimes: re-activating the destructive Sentinels; kidnapping innocent mutants (such as the Morlocks from the sewers), in order to experiment on them; creating ''human-Sentinel'' hybrids which may not have been made just from mutants; and his ultimate plan is to [[spoiler: collapse Asteroid M upon New York City in order to obliterate it and all its inhabitants, ''just so that humanity blames mutants for it and eradicates them from the face of the Earth.'']] While he ''does'' have a FreudianExcuse (revealed in conversation with an NPC) - a mutant with poor control over their power killed his wife - this is far too weak to justify his genocidal hatred, particularly since he's willing to [[spoiler: kill millions of humans]] just to get his revenge.

** Nohman Ridley, the leader of the extremist Martian faction called BAHRAM. He causes countless destruction in the name of freeing Mars and has no qualm about sending his minions to death in order to achieve his goals. Then, it is later revealed that not only does Nohman not care about Mars' independence at all but also wants to wipe out the entire solar system with [[DoomsdayDevice the Aumaan]]. Even if one takes madness induced by the Metatron into account, it's clear that Ridley is a power-hungry madman who will stop at nothing to achieve his ambition, as shown when he sent Dingo and his teammates on a suicide mission just so he can eliminate competition for the leadership in BAHRAM. This particular incident happened before Anubis and Jehuty were made.

** Ned Noachim holds a vicious prejudice towards Martians and is introduced attacking a hospital to steal medicine and have his way with the nurses. He is implied to blow up the hospital to frame the Born In Space (BIS) group and later kidnaps three orphans from Pandora Frettum and places them into unmanned LEV suits set to explode when destroyed in order to sully BIS's name. Noachim forces his own soldiers to explode rather than surrender.

* In ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'', TeenIdol Junko Enoshima turns out to be the mastermind behind the BigBad Monokuma, a sadistic robotic teddy bear who's trapped Hope's Peak Academy in a deadly game designed to create SanitySlippage that makes the students turn on each other and commit murder. When a murderer is found guilty, Monokuma gives him or her a twisted, torturous execution of his choosing, and throughout the game he relishes in twisting the knife in the cruelest ways possible ForTheEvulz. It turns out that not only is Monokuma just one of Junko's multiple personalities, but Junko caused the incident which has turned the world into a post-apolaclyptic waste. A sadomasochist with a fetish for despair, Junko's goal is to not only bring despair to every student in the school, but to send the world into ultimate despair by broadcasting "the game" live for the rest of the world to see, forcing everyone to abandon all hope of overcoming despair. To make this happen, she murdered the previous headmaster of the school, and also murdered her own twin sister Mukuro Ikusaba so she could pull a TwinSwitch with her. This is after she had abused Mukuro all her life, the sickest part being that she was unable to comprehend how Mukuro could not ''enjoy'' such despair-inducing treatment.

* Zouken Matou of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' was an ancient mage, the ruler of the noble Matou family. Zouken Matou allowed Tokiomi Tohsaka to foster Tokiomi's younger daughter Sakura with the Matou family, but Zouken proceeded to allow her to be spiritually violated by magic worms to control her, later gloating to Sakura's would-be protector and Zouken's own kin Kariya Matou about the worms that 'fed on Sakura's purity. To keep Sakura's budding dark side in check, Zouken had his 'grandson' Shinji rape her regularly and fostered Shinji's descent into evil. It was revealed that Zouken was far older than he appeared, staying alive by [[GrandTheftMe bodyjacking people]] and sacrificing others all with purpose of obtaining the Holy Grail.
* ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'' has the character Scythe Master, in the first ten minutes it is established that he used a combination of drugs and hypnosys to erase the main character's memories, why? Because he wanted to test a new theory. He then leaves the main character to train for months in the Mojave desert with no contact from the outside world. If this wasn't bad enough this was the ''second'' experiment. The First person he experimented on he rapes, brainwashes, trains as a serial killer and treats like property, oh and the girl was ''twelve'' when he started this. A third person he experiments on he doesn't drug or rape, but he does basiclly lie to her about events, encourages her growing hatred and turns her full {{Yandere}} just to mess with the main character. Oh and while he is doing this with her, he is repeating his first experiment, ''six times over'', just in case.
* From the HideoKojima early effort ''VisualNovel/{{Policenauts}}'', we have the BigBadDuumvirate and their [[TheDragon top operative.]]
** Tony Redwood spends most of the game as a killer in a mask. When TheHero Jonathan Ingraham comes out of a 30 year stint in suspended animation, Redwood kills his former wife with a car bomb, and later in the game guns down another of his friends. In order to frame Jonathan, Redwood murders a captive scientist with Jonathan's gun, placing him under suspicion for the murder. To escape, he also installs a bomb in a civilian shop so the police have to choose between chasing Redwood or saving innocent lives. Redwood takes the adopted child of Jonathan's partner hostage later and puts the partner in the hospital. When another operative fails in her task to shut off his life support and shows signs of performing a HeelFaceTurn, Redwood murders her despite her being his own mother. When defeated, Redwood opts to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled throw himself to his death, laughing madly]], solely to deny Jonathan the satisfaction of taking him in.
** [[BigBadDuumvirate Gates Becker and Joseph Sadaki Tokugawa]], a [[DirtyCop corrupt police chief]] and a CorruptCorporateExecutive respectively who wish to push humankind into space to satisfy their desires for control and profit. With Gates as his hidden partner, Tokugawa created a SexSlave operation where he had famous female celebrities cloned and used for pleasure by himself and the highest bidders. The two have anyone in their way assassinated and when Jonathan finds their headquarters, he realizes the extent of their evil: the two have been placing human beings in stasis and harvesting their organs while using cloning technology to regrow the organs for an endless supply.
* ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'': Taisuke evolves into one come ''Cross Days''. He finds out that there is a new "girl" that Makoto is hanging out with named Yuu and stalks "her" until it is revealed that the person that Makoto is banging is Yuki. He blackmails Yuki and forces him as his sex slave, and if he told anyone about it, he would show all the pictures in the school of the type of person he really is, effectively ruining his reputation and thus ruining Yuki's chance of getting Makoto and Kotonoha hooked up together again. He then brings his other friends in on the deal and [[RapeasDrama gang bangs]] Yuki [[BreaktheCutie constantly]], and, in one of the endings, it [[DespairEventHorizon sends Yuki over the edge.]]

* ''Monster.StarWars''