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** [[AbusiveParents Kujou Takayuki]] is a corrupt [[Characters/GenshinImpactTriCommission Tenryou Commissioner]] of the Shogunate and the head of the Kujou Clan who consistently abuses his children and Sara to make them loyal to the Shogun through force. Kujou kills Takatsukasa Isamu in order to obtain good publicity when he tries to blackmail Shiroyama for the poison he made to kill Kujou, while also framing Ryuji for the crime; ordered his men to drown the infected and sick inhabitants of Higi Village on the ship by dumping them in the water to pin the blame on the [[Characters/GenshinImpactWatatsumi Watatsumi]] Army; forces a merchant to sell Delusions at the black market to take over Inazuma, which leads to the start of a civil war in [[Characters/GenshinImpactInazuma Inazuma]] through the Vision Hunt, and Sakoku decrees murdering thousands of innocents while also giving them a FateWorseThanDeath. Kujou manipulates the [[Characters/GenshinImpactRaidenShogun Raiden Shogun]] into thinking the Vision is the real enemies before planning to slaughter everyone in Inazuma because Gongozaemon did not report to him about his son Masahito being overstated of the Tatarigami's effects.

** [[TheMole Nathan]] is a member of the [[Characters/GenshinImpactFatui Fatui]] and an agent of Pierro who is used to [[ManipulativeBastard prolong the war]] by commanding several Orobashi fanatics to destroy the Narukami Pillars, murdering thousands of innocents and leaving the island mostly deserted. Those who did not leave the island will be affected by the Tatarigami, causing them to have many illnesses, such as hallucinations. Nathan also helps [[Characters/GenshinImpactWanderer Scaramouche]] in the BlackMarket of Delusions to extend the war, leading to several soldiers dying slowly and painfully.

* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series has one of [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesKratos Kratos]]'s [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesMainAntagonists main antagonists]] from each era:

* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series:
** Greek era [[labelnote:Primarily]][[VideoGame/GodOfWarI First game]]; ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarGhostOfSparta Ghost of Sparta]]''; ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarAscension Ascension]]''[[/labelnote]]: [[ArchEnemy Ares]], the depraved [[WarGod God of War]], is [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesKratos Kratos]]'s predecessor upon [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesGreekGods Olympus]]. Not content with merely ruling over warfare and coveting sole rule of Olympus, Ares busied himself with endless slaughter. Responsible for directing every human conflict, massacre, and genocide, Ares gloried in the usage of monsters to torment humanity and the Furies to torture them. Upon arriving in Sparta and taking the boy Deimos, Ares gave him to the god [[EverybodyHatesHades Thanatos]] for eternal torture. Saving the life of the Spartan Kratos years later, Ares used him to conquer most of Greece with bloody purges until the day when Ares tricked Kratos into murdering his wife and child. Finally losing patience with his role, Ares then tried to annihilate all of Athens, with his ultimate goal being to destroy the other Gods, heedless of the damage it would do to the world.
** ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok Ragnarök]]'': [[MoreDespicableMinion The Raven Keeper]] is a wretched hag responsible for the creation of the Eyes of Odin. To achieve this, the Raven Keeper had [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesOdin Odin]]'s worshippers across the realms hang their [[WouldHurtAChild children]] to provide her their souls to twist into [[PoweredByAForsakenChild spies for Odin]], [[AndIMustScream keeping them fully aware of their torture]].

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' franchise: Even in a CrapsackWorld filled with all sorts of unpleasant characters, a select few manage to reach a special level of evil:
** ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoClassic London]]'' [[ExpansionPack mission packs]]: [[MadBomber Hans Nemesis]] is a terrorist specializing in bombs intending to kill countless civilians. During his first mission, Hans has potatoes replaced with bombs so civilians can be tricked into purchasing them, with an old man being killed by one of them. Fleeing the country shortly after said plan fails, Hans returns years later with multiple nukes armed to explode, aiming to kill as many people as possible, while taunting the protagonist at every possible moment during said mission. After his plans fail once again, Hans plans another massacre by [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink lacing tea bags]] to poison thousands of civilians, only to be stopped once again. When finally confronted, Hans [[SpitefulSuicide spitefully mocks the protagonist by blowing himself up]].
** ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories Liberty City Stories]]'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Donald Love]], a recurring character in [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII the]] 3D [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Universe]], is among its most depraved. Love [[FauxAffablyEvil presents himself]] as a charismatic, if eccentric, powerful businessman, arranging a [[MobWar gang war]] between the Yakuza and the Cartel just to lower property values. In this game it's revealed he is a self-indulgent cannibal, and implied sexual deviant. Aligning himself with the [[Characters/GrandTheftAutoLeoneCrimeFamily Leone Crime Family]], Love runs in the race for mayor, sends protagonist Toni Cipriani out to murder his rival's campaigners and collect more bodies to feed on. Losing his fortune and campaign, Love makes plans to regain his fortune, starting by murdering his mentor, real-estate tycoon Avery Carrington, in order to steal his city development plans, later cannibalizing the body; and killing many people through the bombing of the heavily-populated Fort Staunton city district, just so he can make money off of redeveloping the district.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'': [[PsychopathicWomanchild Catalina]] is a sadistic, ambitious, hateful thief and SpreeKiller turned [[TheQueenpin crime boss]], who started her career in [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]], purposefully escalating the violence in her robberies, killing numerous bystanders and cops with glee. Having a history of using and discarding her boyfriends and partners, Catalina shoots protagonist Claude, leaving him to die during a robbery, before rising through the ranks of the Colombian Cartel and abandoning her next partner, Miguel, later killing him. Catalina starts an empire, flooding Liberty City with the especially potent and mentally deteriorating drug, SPANK, [[EvenEvilHasStandards turning even]] the [[Characters/GrandTheftAutoLeoneCrimeFamily Leone Crime Family]] and {{Yakuza}} against her. Among her distribution methods, Catalina spikes SPANK through coffee shops and street vendors across the city. Encountering a vengeful Claude, Catalina drugs multiple addicts into crazed suicide bombers to try to kill him. Out of spite, Catalina then abducts Claude's alleged girlfriend Maria, attempting to lure him into getting executed.
** ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]]'': [[DirtyCop Officer Frank Tenpenny]] is the crooked, self-righteous head of [[Characters/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreasAntagonists C.R.A.S.H.]], using the unit as his own personal gang in a quest to control all of San Andreas. For years, Tenpenny has abused his authority to exploit the gangs of Los Santos for his own profit while turning them against each other and orchestrating bloody {{gang war}}s. Tenpenny eventually throws in exclusively with the ruthless Ballas, supplying them with dangerous crack cocaine with which to flood the streets and turn countless civilians and crooks alike into suffering addicts. To secure Balla rule, Tenpenny ensures the systematic slaughter of smaller gangs, such as [[Characters/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreasGroveStreetFamilies Grove Street]], and in a haphazard attempt on the life of Grove Street's leader Sweet, Tenpenny has a drive-by carried out that kills Sweet's elderly mother. To keep his crimes hidden, [[KillerCop Tenpenny]] regularly [[CopKiller murders fellow officers of the law]] as well as other whistleblowers, either with his own hands or by forcing those like [[AntiHero Carl "CJ" Johnson]] to do his dirty work, threatening the latter with having his brother raped and killed if he refuses. [[TheCorrupter Tenpenny]] is also responsible for the corruption of Big Smoke, making him become the face of the drug empire Tenpenny has constructed, planning all the while to eliminate him. Tenpenny's villainy is so rampant that Los Santos begins tearing itself apart in an outraged riot over his unchecked evil, at which point Tenpenny tries to eliminate loose ends, [[BadBoss leave his allies to die in a fire]], and flee the state to save his own skin. Tenpenny's ambition nearly destroys San Andreas, and to the very end he sneers that those against him were [[KnightTemplar nothing but "trash" to be taken out]].
** ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories Vice City Stories]]'': [[StarterVillain Marty Jay Williams]] is the redneck leader of the Trailer Park Mafia, who distinguishes himself as the worst abuser in the 3D universe. Marty uses his gang to run a ProtectionRacket threatening multiple innocents, and upon opening a brothel, he begins pimping out multiple women. [[DomesticAbuse Abusing his wife Louise for years]], Marty threatens her life [[AbusiveParents and the life of their baby]] on a regular basis to keep her in line, and when Louise finally tries to leave him, Marty kidnaps her with plans to force her into prostitution at his brothel.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Dimitri Rascalov]] presents himself as a reasonable man in the criminal world, but he is actually a duplicitous, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] snake with no sense of morals, empathy, or honor. Having created the [[Characters/GrandTheftAutoIVRussianMafia Faustin crime syndicate]] with his best friend Mikhail, Dimitri uses Mikhail's violent ways to profit and oversees a wide variety of brutality, extortion, and murders through the likes of Vlad. When Mikhail [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlives his usefulness]], Dimitri tricks [[Characters/GrandTheftAutoIVProtagonists Niko Bellic]] into murdering Mikhail, abandons Mikhail's wife and daughter to homelessness, then tries to kill Niko himself before burning down the business and entire apartment building of Niko's cousin Roman. Dimitri is revealed to be in cahoots with [[HumanTrafficking Ray Bulgarin]], who Dimitri empowers for further mayhem while also beginning a country-wide cocaine operation that threatens to destabilize the whole nation. Running his criminal empire far more brutally than Mikhail ever did, Dimitri tries to massacre a Senator's convoy to silence his campaign, blackmails Bernie over his sexuality, and tries to torture Roman to death. In the "Deal" ending, Dimitri feigns agreement to a heroin deal only to turn on and slaughter the buyers, kill his ally Pegorino, and orchestrate Roman's death at his wedding, proving himself to be a spiteful opportunist that every other criminal views with disdain.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': [[MoreHateableMinorVillain Peter Dreyfuss]] is a seemingly eccentric but egotistical [[DirtyOldMan retired]] Vinewood director, and a twisted "[[MadArtist artist]]" obsessed with [[{{Sadist}} the suffering of others]]. The culprit of Leonora Johnson's [[ColdBloodedTorture infamous murder]], Dreyfuss had tortured and raped Leonora for an extended period, mutilating her both physically and sexually while she was still alive, before decapitating her. Years after the fact, Dreyfuss torments her surviving family with taunting phone calls and messages, regularly sending them Leonora's belongings and severed body parts. In a confession letter to his "friend", Dreyfuss subtly belittles him for not understanding why he did it, comparing it to other instances of torturing hitchhikers; sleeping with young girls; and paying two prostitutes to stab each other. Confronted by Franklin, Dreyfuss cowardly tries to flee, attempting to justify himself by claiming he "immortalized" Leonora through his art.
** ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoOnline Online]]'''s ''The Doomsday Heist'': [[OmnicidalManiac Avon Hertz]] is a genius [[CorruptCorporateExecutive billionaire tech mogul]], inventor and "father" of the insane A.I. Cliffford, and the true [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the Doomsday Heist scenarios. Petty and egotistical to the extreme, Avon had his own vision for a perfect world. He sought to create a dystopia where all of mankind was replaced with sapient machines who worshiped him as God. He tricks the Online protagonists into feeding data to Cliffford under the guise of rooting out the Russian terrorist Bogdan, when he was actually using them to gain access to the United States defense grid. After trying to blow of the submarine the players and Bogdan are on, he reveals that he will use Cliffford to hack into missile systems throughout the world and unleash nuclear armageddon to completely wipe away humanity. Hiding out in an abandoned missile silo, Avon tried to use a nuclear warhead to wipe away San Andreas and buy time to allow Cliffford to hack into weapons systems around the world to unleash doomsday. While Avon and Cliffford are ultimately killed, his genocidal ambitions lifted him above all other villains in the franchise in terms of evil grandeur.

* ''VideoGame/GunsGoreAndCannoli'' duology: "[[BigBad Frankie the Fly]]" is a self-serving Mafioso who betrays [[PlayerCharacter Vinnie Cannoli]], the mob enforcer sent to rescue him. Although the government stopped poisoning alcohol during prohibition because it turned people into zombies, Frankie pays the scientist to continue producing the poison. [[ZombieApocalypse Zombifying nearly all of Thugtown]] as the "perfect diversion", Frankie kills mob boss Mr. Belluccio and attempts to steal his millions. In [[WeirdHistoricalWar the sequel]], Frankie, as the "Dark Don", sells the poison to the Nazis themselves--[[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder planning to eventually betray them as well]]--and tries to harvest Vinnie's blood so he'll have the only antidote to the zombie poison and will be able to rule the world.

** [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Babel Tanit]], the [[BadBoss Matriarch]] of the Tanit Tribe, at first presents herself as a benevolent leader who welcomes [[Characters/GenshinImpactTravelerAndPaimon the Traveler]] after they are invited by Jeht. In truth, Babel is a ManipulativeBitch who only allowed the invite because she saw an opportunity to use the Traveler for her own gain, having previously corrupted Jeht into her own personal assassin to kill the leaders before her; colluded with some Fatui mooks; betrayed said mooks; tricked the Traveler and Jeht into fighting one another under the claim that they had been betrayed by the other; and then sent her Tanit Falcons to finish them off. The instant Jeht realizes Babel's treachery and confronts her in vengeance, Babel reveals she had the Traveler and Jeht find the Eternal Oasis for her so she could use it to attack Sumeru City and overthrow the [[Characters/GenshinImpactAkademiya Akademiya]] and [[Characters/GenshinImpactNahida Dendro Archon]], before commanding the entire tribe to kill Jeht and the Traveler while [[DirtyCoward she runs off to her quarters]], leading to Jeht killing the entire tribe to get to her. Even after all the claims of caring for Jeht like a daughter, Babel reveals in her last moments that she had some scouts message every other [[Characters/GenshinImpactEremites Eremite]] tribe about Jeht being a traitor, forever rendering her an outcast and proving that she never loved her, only claiming to in an attempt to make Jeht easier for her to kill.

** [[BigBad El Sueño]] ("The Dream") is the leader of [[TheCartel the Santa Blanca Cartel]] and responsible for turning the once-prosperous UsefulNotes/{{Bolivia}} into a narco-state. Within the cartel El Sueño personally oversees and partakes in the production and distribution of cocaine, the trafficking of children, and the torture and murder of thousands; there are numerous corpses hanging from telephone poles found throughout Bolivia. El Sueno orders the kidnapping of anyone who opposes the cartel before torturing and executing them, then manipulating the mentally disabled man into turning the corpses into "meat" soup. When El Sueño learns that one of his men is an undercover DEA agent, he personally tortures the man for 47 hours straight. His acts of cruelty also extend to even the most loyal of his subordinates; [[YouHaveFailedMe should they fail him in any way]], he would arrange for them to either be tortured, murdered, their loved ones kidnapped and murdered, or all the above. When the Ghosts manage to dismantle his cartel, El Sueño reveals that he made a deal with their government granting him immunity while he would use them to take down rival cartels and gloats about his victory by throwing at them a recently decapitated head of rebel leader and former ally, Pac Katari. With nearly every atrocity committed by the Santa Blanca Cartel being traced back to El Sueño, underneath his [[FauxAffablyEvil religious and charitable exterior]] lies a [[LargeAndInCharge towering]] and brutal egotist, utterly unfeeling to the violence caused by his actions.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': [[MoreHateableMinorVillain Peter Dreyfuss]] is a seemingly eccentric but egotistical [[DirtyOldMan retired]] Vinewood director, and a twisted "[[MadArtist artist]]" obsessed with [[{{Sadist}} the suffering of others]]. The culprit of Leonora Johnson's [[ColdBloodedTorture infamous murder]], Dreyfuss had tortured and raped Leonora for an extended period, mutilating her both physically and sexually while she was still alive, before decapitating her. Years after the fact, Dreyfuss torments her surviving family with taunting phone calls and messages, regularly sending them Leonora's belongings and severed body parts. In a confession letter to his "friend", Dreyfuss subtly belittles him for not understanding why he did it, comparing it to other instances of torturing hitchhikers; sleeping with young girls; and paying two prostitutes to stab each other. Confronted by Franklin, Dreyfuss cowardly tries to flee, attempting to justify himself by claiming he "immortalized" Leonora through his art.

*** ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'''s "Patient Zero": [[DarkMessiah Oybek Nabazov]] and his second-in-command [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Sister Yulduz]] are the leaders of [[ApocalypseCult Liberation]], who attempted to cause a pandemic by having brainwashed cult members [[SuicideAttack inject themselves with a lethal virus]] and spread it around the globe. While Oybek is a fanatical "serial cultist" who has spent the last three decades founding cults and [[TheCorrupter leading them down a self-destructive path]] that resulted in several mass suicides, Yulduz has secretly invested large amounts of money into security and pharmacy companies to profit from the ensuring chaos, and plans to leave Oybek and rest of the cult to their fates once they have set their plan in motion.

* ''VideoGame/HelloPuppets'': [[PerversePuppet Mortimer]] was the puppet host of ''Mortimer's Handeemen'' who was brought to life by [[HollywoodVoodoo voodoo magic]], and decided to plot to TakeOverTheWorld and turn humans into puppet hosts. Killing his creator and most of the staff, Mortimer has the studio converted into his lair, luring in numerous people to kill and use as hosts, sometimes letting the psychotic [[MadDoctor Riley Ruckus]] operate on them, even allowing fellow puppets to be experimented on by her. Having personally put the innocent puppet Scout on the protagonist, Mortimer confronts them personally during their escape attempt, challenging Scout to one last game of cat and mouse to further torment the player, and has his mutant dog Rosco attempt to kill them, his [[FauxAffablyEvil polite facade]] disappearing rapidly as they escape, threatening to kill Riley and then the protagonist himself.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' franchise: Even in a CrapsackWorld filled with all sorts of unpleasant characters, these seven manage to reach a special level of evil:
** ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoClassic London]]'' [[ExpansionPack mission packs]]: [[MadBomber Hans Nemesis]] is a terrorist specializing in bombs intending to kill countless civilians. During his first mission, Hans has potatoes replaced with bombs so civilians can be tricked into purchasing them, with an old man being killed by one of them. Fleeing the country shortly after said plan fails, Hans returns years later with multiple nukes armed to explode, aiming to kill as many people as possible, while taunting the protagonist at every possible moment during said mission. After his plans fail once again, Hans plans another massacre by [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink lacing tea bags]] to poison thousands of civilians, only to be stopped once again. When finally confronted, Hans [[SpitefulSuicide spitefully mocks the protagonist by blowing himself up]].
** ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories Liberty City Stories]]'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Donald Love]], a recurring character in [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII the]] 3D [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Universe]], is among its most depraved. Love [[FauxAffablyEvil presents himself]] as a charismatic, if eccentric, powerful businessman, arranging a [[MobWar gang war]] between the Yakuza and the Cartel just to lower property values. In this game it's revealed he is a self-indulgent cannibal, and implied sexual deviant. Aligning himself with the [[Characters/GrandTheftAutoLeoneCrimeFamily Leone Crime Family]], Love runs in the race for mayor, sends protagonist Toni Cipriani out to murder his rival's campaigners and collect more bodies to feed on. Losing his fortune and campaign, Love makes plans to regain his fortune, starting by murdering his mentor, real-estate tycoon Avery Carrington, in order to steal his city development plans, later cannibalizing the body; and killing many people through the bombing of the heavily-populated Fort Staunton city district, just so he can make money off of redeveloping the district.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'': [[PsychopathicWomanchild Catalina]] is a sadistic, ambitious, hateful thief and SpreeKiller turned [[TheQueenpin crime boss]], who started her career in [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]], purposefully escalating the violence in her robberies, killing numerous bystanders and cops with glee. Having a history of using and discarding her boyfriends and partners, Catalina shoots protagonist Claude, leaving him to die during a robbery, before rising through the ranks of the Colombian Cartel and abandoning her next partner, Miguel, later killing him. Catalina starts an empire, flooding Liberty City with the especially potent and mentally deteriorating drug, SPANK, [[EvenEvilHasStandards turning even]] the [[Characters/GrandTheftAutoLeoneCrimeFamily Leone Crime Family]] and {{Yakuza}} against her. Among her distribution methods, Catalina spikes SPANK through coffee shops and street vendors across the city. Encountering a vengeful Claude, Catalina drugs multiple addicts into crazed suicide bombers to try to kill him. Out of spite, Catalina then abducts Claude's alleged girlfriend Maria, attempting to lure him into getting executed.
** ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]]'': [[DirtyCop Officer Frank Tenpenny]] is the crooked, self-righteous head of [[Characters/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreasAntagonists C.R.A.S.H.]], using the unit as his own personal gang in a quest to control all of San Andreas. For years, Tenpenny has abused his authority to exploit the gangs of Los Santos for his own profit while turning them against each other and orchestrating bloody {{gang war}}s. Tenpenny eventually throws in exclusively with the ruthless Ballas, supplying them with dangerous crack cocaine with which to flood the streets and turn countless civilians and crooks alike into suffering addicts. To secure Balla rule, Tenpenny ensures the systematic slaughter of smaller gangs, such as [[Characters/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreasGroveStreetFamilies Grove Street]], and in a haphazard attempt on the life of Grove Street's leader Sweet, Tenpenny has a drive-by carried out that kills Sweet's elderly mother. To keep his crimes hidden, [[KillerCop Tenpenny]] regularly [[CopKiller murders fellow officers of the law]] as well as other whistleblowers, either with his own hands or by forcing those like [[AntiHero Carl "CJ" Johnson]] to do his dirty work, threatening the latter with having his brother raped and killed if he refuses. [[TheCorrupter Tenpenny]] is also responsible for the corruption of Big Smoke, making him become the face of the drug empire Tenpenny has constructed, planning all the while to eliminate him. Tenpenny's villainy is so rampant that Los Santos begins tearing itself apart in an outraged riot over his unchecked evil, at which point Tenpenny tries to eliminate loose ends, [[BadBoss leave his allies to die in a fire]], and flee the state to save his own skin. Tenpenny's ambition nearly destroys San Andreas, and to the very end he sneers that those against him were [[KnightTemplar nothing but "trash" to be taken out]].
** ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories Vice City Stories]]'': [[StarterVillain Marty Jay Williams]] is the redneck leader of the Trailer Park Mafia, who distinguishes himself as the worst abuser in the 3D universe. Marty uses his gang to run a ProtectionRacket threatening multiple innocents, and upon opening a brothel, he begins pimping out multiple women. [[DomesticAbuse Abusing his wife Louise for years]], Marty threatens her life [[AbusiveParents and the life of their baby]] on a regular basis to keep her in line, and when Louise finally tries to leave him, Marty kidnaps her with plans to force her into prostitution at his brothel.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Dimitri Rascalov]] presents himself as a reasonable man in the criminal world, but he is actually a duplicitous, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] snake with no sense of morals, empathy, or honor. Having created the [[Characters/GrandTheftAutoIVRussianMafia Faustin crime syndicate]] with his best friend Mikhail, Dimitri uses Mikhail's violent ways to profit and oversees a wide variety of brutality, extortion, and murders through the likes of Vlad. When Mikhail [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlives his usefulness]], Dimitri tricks [[Characters/GrandTheftAutoIVProtagonists Niko Bellic]] into murdering Mikhail, abandons Mikhail's wife and daughter to homelessness, then tries to kill Niko himself before burning down the business and entire apartment building of Niko's cousin Roman. Dimitri is revealed to be in cahoots with [[HumanTrafficking Ray Bulgarin]], who Dimitri empowers for further mayhem while also beginning a country-wide cocaine operation that threatens to destabilize the whole nation. Running his criminal empire far more brutally than Mikhail ever did, Dimitri tries to massacre a Senator's convoy to silence his campaign, blackmails Bernie over his sexuality, and tries to torture Roman to death. In the "Deal" ending, Dimitri feigns agreement to a heroin deal only to turn on and slaughter the buyers, kill his ally Pegorino, and orchestrate Roman's death at his wedding, proving himself to be a spiteful opportunist that every other criminal views with disdain.
** ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoOnline Online]]'''s ''The Doomsday Heist'': [[OmnicidalManiac Avon Hertz]] is a genius [[CorruptCorporateExecutive billionaire tech mogul]], inventor and "father" of the insane A.I. Cliffford, and the true [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the Doomsday Heist scenarios. Petty and egotistical to the extreme, Avon had his own vision for a perfect world. He sought to create a dystopia where all of mankind was replaced with sapient machines who worshiped him as God. He tricks the Online protagonists into feeding data to Cliffford under the guise of rooting out the Russian terrorist Bogdan, when he was actually using them to gain access to the United States defense grid. After trying to blow of the submarine the players and Bogdan are on, he reveals that he will use Cliffford to hack into missile systems throughout the world and unleash nuclear armageddon to completely wipe away humanity. Hiding out in an abandoned missile silo, Avon tried to use a nuclear warhead to wipe away San Andreas and buy time to allow Cliffford to hack into weapons systems around the world to unleash doomsday. While Avon and Cliffford are ultimately killed, his genocidal ambitions lifted him above all other villains in the franchise in terms of evil grandeur.

* ''James Cameron's Film/{{Avatar}}: The Game'' ([[Platform/PlayStation3 PS3]][=/=][[Platform/Xbox360 360]][=/=]PC version): [[InsaneAdmiral Commander Karl Falco]], one of the commanding officers of the [[MegaCorp RDA]] security force at the planet Pandora, [[FantasticRacism possesses a deep hatred]] of its native population, the Na'vi. Having his soldiers to perform repeated airstrikes on Na'vi homes, Falco immediately orders [[PlayerCharacter Lance Corporal Able Ryder]] to find a mole within his organization. In both the Na'vi and the RDA path, Falco starts a full-on war with the Na'vi, wiping out their villages and burning down their forests. Seeking out the sacred Well of Souls, which is capable of controlling Pandora, Falco plans to use it to [[FinalSolution completely wipe out the Na'vi]]. Creating an Emulator of the First Voice, the only thing on Pandora which is capable of controlling the Well of Souls, Falco goes rogue on RDA, killing Professor Monroe and trying to use the Emulator on the Well of Souls himself, despite knowing that this could kill the entire planet, RDA people and himself included. When Able Ryder confronts him about this, Falco fully states that he doesn't care about the danger, and is fully willing to destroy all life on the planet, if it means he can kill all the Na'vi as well.

* ''VideoGame/GhostReconWildlands'':
** [[BigBad El Sueño]] is the leader of [[TheCartel the Santa Blanca Cartel]] and responsible for turning the once-prosperous UsefulNotes/{{Bolivia}} into a narco-state. Within the cartel El Sueño personally oversees and partakes in the production and distribution of cocaine, the trafficking of children, and the torture and murder of thousands; there are numerous corpses hanging from telephone poles and mass graves found throughout Bolivia. When El Sueño learns that one of his men is an undercover DEA agent, he personally tortures the man for 47 hours straight. His acts of cruelty also extend to even the most loyal of his subordinates; [[YouHaveFailedMe should they fail him in any way]], he would arrange for them to either be tortured, murdered, their loved ones kidnapped and murdered, or all the above. When the Ghosts manage to dismantle his cartel, El Sueño reveals that he made a deal with their government granting him immunity while he would use them to take down rival cartels and gloats about his victory by throwing at them a recently decapitated head of rebel leader and former ally, Pac Katari. With nearly every atrocity committed by the Santa Blanca Cartel being traced back to El Sueño, underneath his [[FauxAffablyEvil religious and charitable exterior]] lies a [[LargeAndInCharge towering]] and brutal egotist, utterly unfeeling to the violence caused by his actions.
** ''Fallen Ghosts'' [[DownloadableContent DLC]]: [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Los Extranjeros]] took over Bolivia after the collapse of the Santa Blanca Cartel and prove themselves to be amongst the [[PsychoForHire most monstrous enemies]] the Ghosts have ever faced. While its leader [[BigBad Colonel Juan Ignacio Merlo]] is absent throughout most of the DLC, his [[CoDragons three lieutenants]] in particular really stand out:
*** [[ColdSniper Major Luis Rocha]], "El Espectro" ("The Specter"), runs the Western Precinct in Bolivia where he subjects the populace in that area to [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave labor]] to rebuild cocaine production. Rocha would kidnap these people's loved ones to force them to work themselves to death, while also [[BadBoss killing some of his own workers]] and [[DeadGuyOnDisplay nailing their corpses in the fields]] as "extra motivation". When one village didn't meet Rocha's expectations, he orders his soldiers to lure the villagers into one building for them to slaughter.
*** [[AxCrazy Captain Dante Cruzar]], "El Diablo" ("The Devil"), runs the Northern Precinct of Bolivia where he carries out killing sprees on the Christian population, killing hundreds of innocent people and stacking their corpses onto a massive pile, with some of his victims being [[ManOnFire burned alive]]. When the Ghosts try to dismantle his hold on the Northern Precinct, Cruzar responds by initiating a massacre at a village, killing all the villagers there, while [[HollywoodAtheist mocking their belief in God's protection]].
*** [[BloodKnight Captain Tomas Ortega]], "El Oso" ("The Bear"), runs the Eastern Precinct of Bolivia where he establishes an arena there where he has the populace there [[GladiatorGames fight each other to the death]] for his amusement. Ortega would also kidnap innocent civilians and use them as target practice for his fighters to kill, and would even kill his [[BadBoss own soldiers]] if they don't meet his standards as warriors. When the Ghosts arrive in his Precinct, Ortega lures them to his arena where he uses his prisoners as [[CannonFodder disposable fodder]] against the Ghosts before trying to kill them himself.
* ''VideoGame/{{Ghostrunner}}'': [[MadScientist Mara]] is the Keymaster who co-founded Dharma Tower with Adam before killing him and all of his Ghostrunners, so she could [[TyrantTakesTheHelm rule over the tower's denizens as a tyrant]]. Mara would have any who rebel against her rule killed, sending Hel and the Keys to eradicate the Climbers, and leaking radioactive dust into Sector 5 to kill thousands, women and children included, as punishment for the people's defiance against her. Those whom Mara doesn't kill she has taken to her labs, where she [[UnwillingRoboticization forcibly converts them into feral cybernetic abominations]], having already done so to countless innocents. Mara intends to convert the rest of humanity, save for herself, into these mindless beasts in her [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist twisted and selfish ambition]] of creating a race that could survive the outside world's toxic air.

* ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe'' [[labelnote:Primarily]]UsefulNotes/PCEngine's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z89ZJ7QfbfU cutscenes]]; ''The Revenge of Death Adder''; & ''The Duel''[[/labelnote]]: [[TheWormThatWalks Death Adder]] is a monstrous tyrant who [[BigBad leads]] an army of evil to Firewood Kingdom, [[RapePillageAndBurn massacring]] everyone within the country such that Firewood utterly ceases to exist, exhibiting his personal sadism by murdering the king and queen in front of their young daughter, Princess Tyris Flare. Seeking even greater power, Death Adder invades Southwood kingdom to do the same thing, slaughtering villages and enslaving the populace. Upon his return from death, Death Adder opts to massacre and enslave everyone he can for revenge, with the consequences of his victory being death on scales such as the world has never before seen.

* ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}'': [[BigBad Kim Jong Un]] takes over UsefulNotes/NorthKorea after his father's death, uniting the country with South Korea to form the [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny Greater Korean Republic]] and ruling over its people with an iron fist. He would also forcibly annex numerous countries throughout Asia before setting his sights on the United States of America, launching an invasion to take over the country. Under his rule, he {{brainwash}}es his subjects into worshipping him; those who refuse to submit are sent to [[POWCamp re-education camps]] where they are systematically killed, with mass graves containing thousands of corpses.

** [[DraconicAbomination Typhon]] is the father of monsters who was sealed away by Zeus for attempting to overthrow him and the Olympians and rule over the cosmos. Upon being freed, Typhon goes on a rampage, murdering numerous gods and causing storms which result in more casualties, while subjecting those he can't kill [[FateWorseThanDeath to unsavory fates]]. Having his monsters wreak havoc on the Golden Isle, Typhon has [[TheCorrupter corrupted]] many soldiers into becoming disposable weapons to enforce his rule, with four legendary Greek heroes being the most prominent examples. Typhon would then have Ligyron retrieve ingredients to make a poison that he'll use to kill off all the gods before he enacts on his plan to merge the mortal realm with Tartarus to create a new world [[InTheirOwnImage in his own image]]. He would later betray Ligyron before attempting to eat him in front of his sibling. While claiming the gods are flawed, Typhon's refusal to see flaws within himself made him worse, willing to destroy everything and everyone to bring about his twisted idea of [[ThePerfectionist perfection]].

* ''James Cameron's Film/{{Avatar}}: The Game'' ([[UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 PS3]][=/=][[UsefulNotes/Xbox360 360]][=/=]PC version): [[InsaneAdmiral Commander Karl Falco]], one of the commanding officers of the [[MegaCorp RDA]] security force at the planet Pandora, [[FantasticRacism possesses a deep hatred]] of its native population, the Na'vi. Having his soldiers to perform repeated airstrikes on Na'vi homes, Falco immediately orders [[PlayerCharacter Lance Corporal Able Ryder]] to find a mole within his organization. In both the Na'vi and the RDA path, Falco starts a full-on war with the Na'vi, wiping out their villages and burning down their forests. Seeking out the sacred Well of Souls, which is capable of controlling Pandora, Falco plans to use it to [[FinalSolution completely wipe out the Na'vi]]. Creating an Emulator of the First Voice, the only thing on Pandora which is capable of controlling the Well of Souls, Falco goes rogue on RDA, killing Professor Monroe and trying to use the Emulator on the Well of Souls himself, despite knowing that this could kill the entire planet, RDA people and himself included. When Able Ryder confronts him about this, Falco fully states that he doesn't care about the danger, and is fully willing to destroy all life on the planet, if it means he can kill all the Na'vi as well.
* ''[[VideoGame/JamesNoirsHollywoodCrimes James Noir's Hollywood Crimes]]'': [[BigBad Matt Booker]] was once college roommates with the PlayerCharacter before getting arrested for a [[SerialKiller string of gruesome murders]]. However, Booker managed to escape prison, and upon learning of his former roommate becoming a contestant on the popular game show, ''[[ShowWithinAShow Puzzle Masters]]'', he targets former champions of said show for his next batch of [[CruelAndUnusualDeath murders]]. The first victim was burned alive under a pile of firewood; the second victim was drowned to death in his own pool; and the third victim had his stomach cut open to put a puzzle box inside before finally killed via hanging. Booker gets the player character involved by posing as an FBI agent, then pins his murders on him/her, condemning the innocent to prison. Six months later, Booker [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] the player character into escaping prison and right into his clutches where he plays a [[SadisticChoice sadistic version]] of ''[[DeadlyGame Puzzle Masters]]''. Should Booker win, he will shock the player character to death while promising his latest victim that he will kill again. Should the player character manage to win, he will try killing himself, being content that his former friend will have no choice but to take the fall for his crimes.

** ''[[VideoGame/HitmanAbsolution Absolution]]'': [[PsychoForHire Edward Wade]], a former cartel member and ruthless mercenary on the payroll of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Blake Dexter]], turns a simple locate-and-kidnap mission into a horrifying massacre, killing every single nun and staff member at an orphanage his target is located at and cajoling his mentally challenged associate [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Leonardo "Lenny" Isaac Dexter]] into murdering the head nun. Even threatening to [[BadBoss kill his own men]] if they hesitate with the slaughter, Wade's gleeful response to Agent 47 is to announce that he'll kill him and [[ILoveTheDead have his way with the corpse]].

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' franchise: Even in a CrapsackWorld filled with all sorts of unpleasant characters, these six manage to reach a special level of evil:

** [[BigBad Sun Li]], also known as [[TheChessmaster the Glorious Strategist]], helped to organize the extermination of the Spirit Monks with his brother. In truth, Sun Li was plotting to usurp Sun Hai with the intent of [[GodhoodSeeker becoming a god himself]]. Murdering a final Spirit Monk to take the baby protagonist and raise them to kill his brother, Sun Li then takes the powers of the Water Dragon for himself and plots to have more souls imprisoned within the golems, intending to create a "utopia" where [[AGodAmI everyone blindly worships Sun Li as a god]], and the mere act of questioning him can bring death.

* ''VideoGame/{{Growlanser}} IV: Wayfarer of Time'': [[BigBad Lord Vester]], [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first appearing]] murdering Crevanille's remaining comrades in cold blood, shows himself as a sinister man with insidious intentions. Actually a interdimensional dark [[GalacticConqueror conqueror]] ruling over the monsters, Vester's goal is to tear the dimensional rift in order to pour his legion of monsters to conquer Noievarl and sunder it into chaos, succeeding during the timeline of the Angels. His [[ManipulativeBastard plan]] is to teach Summoning Magic to all the major countries and intensify the ongoing war between them with his influence and powers' unbeknownst to them, his spells are actually bringing more of Vester's army. Sometimes to further his scheme, he'd resurrect some of his victims and control them through a parasite, [[MindRape lobotomizing]] his victims to his will. When Crevanille's group manage to thwart Vester's end game, Vester, in a furious rage, made one last attempt to kill them, taking them to his dimension and trap them into darkness.

** [[IronicNickname The Prophet of Truth]], born [[TheChessmaster Ord Casto]], is one of the {{Big Bad}}s of the original trilogy and instigator of the attempted genocide of two species. After finding out that humans are the descendants of Forerunners, thus violating [[Characters/HaloTheCovenant Covenant]] doctrine, Truth, along with his cohorts Mercy and Regret, declares war on all humanity, with the aim of completely destroying them, intending to preserve the strength of their species. Believing the Jiralhane--Brutes--to be more vicious and mindlessly devoted pawns than the Sangheili--Elites--Truth secretly orders the [[FinalSolution genocide of the Sangheili race]] after ensuring the Jiralhane will supplant them, triggering the Covenant CivilWar. Cold-blooded and ruthless, Truth feels no loyalty or affection for his fellow Prophets, prevents Covenant forces from saving Regret in order to use his death for political gain, and allows Mercy to be killed by the Flood in order to seize absolute power over the Covenant. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Concerned about personal power rather than Covenant religion]], and even after confronted with evidence that the Halo Rings were not a means of achieving godhood but instead weapons of mass destruction, [[OmnicidalManiac Truth still decides to activate them all]], [[GodhoodSeeker dedicated to the idea of becoming a god]] through the Great Journey, not taking care of killing every living thing in the universe while he ascends to godhood.

* ''VideoGame/GoodBoy'': [[OurDemonsAreDifferent The Toy Box Demon]] is a malevolent creature which lives in an old toy box. [[TheCorrupter Corrupting]] the children whose parents brought the toy box to their house, the demon has them [[SelfMadeOrphan murder their entire families]] to satisfy its lust for blood. Having already done this to at least two families, the demon tries to repeat the process with the protagonist and his family. [[DemonicPossession Possessing]] the protagonist's grandmother, the demon tries to urge the protagonist to kill their pets and mother, and if it succeeds, the demon has the grandmother call the police and commands the protagonist to [[CopKiller kill as many of them as he can]].

* ''VideoGame/IdeologyInFriction'': [[EvilChancellor Prime Minister Harald of ViktorBerg]] is a depraved CorruptPolitician whose appetites include abduction, extortion, murder, rape, and summoning demons, in some cases raping his abductees and then feeding them to his Evilroids. In one notable incident, Harald abducted a man's daughter and raped her to death. When the girl's father showed up, Harald promised him that he would reunite with his daughter in exchange for [[FrameUp framing Eliza for a murder]]. Afterwards, Harald invited the man to dinner, where he revealed that [[FamilialCannibalismSurprise the dinner being served was his daughter]], causing the man to die from shock, and later tossing his corpse for the Evilroids to feed on. Later, Harald would unleash the Evilroids at an Elf village, intending to [[FinalSolution commit genocide against them]], only stopped by Falke awakening his Dark Elf powers.