History Sandbox / MonsterVideoGamesGToK

** [[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 has a [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesMainAntagonists main antagonist]] from each era:
** 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/GodOfWar'' series:

** [[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 Norse]]-era [[VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok duology]]: [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesOdin Odin]], the self-proclaimed [[BigBad All-Father of the Nine Realms]], wears the mask of a wise, friendly sage, but is actually a controlling {{narcissist}} who seeks ultimate knowledge and power, and [[ItsAllAboutMe only values those who further this cause]]. Lord of the Aesir who turned his people against their creator Ymir, Odin drowned the Jötnar race in Ymir's blood in a bigoted attempt to "[[FinalSolution cleanse]]" the Realms of Giants. Crafting Midgard and beginning a campaign of brutal conquest, Odin forced Svartalfheim to craft war machines by enslaving the dwarves; threw Helheim out of balance and caused the Desolation by corrupting the Valkyries into insanity; and lead repeated genocide attempts against both the realm of Vanaheim and the repopulated Jötnar. Odin created his "eyes" by having mortal followers [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] their [[WouldHurtAChild children]] so that [[AndIMustScream their souls would be trapped as Odin's "spies" forever]]. Odin has a knack for abusing and ruining those he "loves", from tricking the huntress Skaði into murdering her own father; to torturing [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesMimir Mimir]] daily for over a century; to damning his wife Freya to be trapped, defenseless, on Midgard while her people believe she abandoned them. Odin's immediate family fare no better, as he "thrashed" his son [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesThor Thor]] to raise him into an alcoholic killing machine, and regularly throws his other children or grandchildren into danger while deriding them as "useless" if they die. In his quest to avert his prophesied doom from Ragnarök, Odin turns Kratos's son [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesAtreus Atreus]] against his father; uses hundreds of Midgardians as {{human shield}}s; stabs the beloved Brok to death, and even [[OffingTheOffspring murders Thor]] when he refuses Odin's order to "not think; just kill who I tell you to kill!" A petty tyrant who mistreats everyone and everything in service of himself, Odin is described as never having loved anyone, and even when redemption is offered, [[RedemptionRejection he promises to never stop]] his mad quest for omnipotence.

** ''[[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]], his second-in-command [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Sister Yulduz]], and [[EcoTerrorist Owen Cage]] are the leaders of [[ApocalypseCult Liberation]], who attempted to cause a pandemic by having brainwashed cult members 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 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. When both of them are killed by Agent 47, Owen Cage willingly infects himself in order to become PatientZero to wipe out all life with the virus, and when contained in Hokkaido, manages to infect a nurse and can possibly infect hundreds of others in the quarantined zone if he infected Agent 47.

*** ''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/{{GUL}}'': [[MadScientist Kozu Osada/Nagata]] is the leader of the mansion and the head of the ongoing government-funded "GU-L" project. Basing his experiments on the real-life research on Unit 731, Osada guides stray wanderers to rent out his mansion to experiment on them and creating the UltimateLifeform that is virtually unkillable, morphing countless victims into [[BioweaponBeast monstrous and violent experiments]], and is not above using his own co-workers to further his research. Presumably coercing a maid into giving him children named Takaya and Takashi, Osada forcibly [[AbusiveParents experiments on both]] for the same reasons, even reviving Takashi from his stillborn death from his experients. Noticing Azumi was planning to betray him to save Takashi, Osada {{Brainwashed}} her with a parasite to follow his every command, such as poisoning the young Tsutomu. With his most recent experiment being subjecting young students into a DeadlyGame to see if his experiments were deadly enough, Osada ultimately fuses with his own son's remains to create the so called "GU-L" to kill them, and even when he's defeated, he proclaims that he's unkillable and immortal.

* ''VideoGame/{{GUL}}'': [[MadScientist Kozu Osada/Nagata]] is the leader of the mansion and the head of the ongoing government-funded "GU-L" project. Basing his experiments on the real life research on Unit 731, Osada guides stray wanderers to rent out his mansion to experiment on them and creating the UltimateLifeform that is virtually unkillable, morphing countless victims into [[BioweaponBeast monstrous and violent experiments]], and is not above using his own co-workers to further his research. Presumably coercing a maid into giving him children named Takaya and Takashi, Osada forcibly [[AbusiveParents experiments on both]] for the same reasons, even reviving Takashi from his stillborn death from his experients. Noticing Azumi was planning to betray him to save Takashi, Osada {{Brainwashed}} her with a parasite to follow his every command, such as poisoning the young Tsutomu. With his most recent experiment being subjecting young students into a DeadlyGame to see if his experiments were deadly enough, Osada ultimately fuses with his own son's remains to create the so called "GU-L" to kill them, and even when he's defeated, he proclaims that he's unkillable and immortal.