History TheUnfettered / VideoGames

** [[AntiVillain The Architect]] of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'' is a darkspawn {{Ubermensch}} who will stop at nothing to end conflict between darkspawn and non-darkspawn.

** The basic idea of the Grey Wardens is that they can go to any lengths -- conscripting murderers and criminals, sacrificing cities, leaving armies to a horrible fate, and sacrificing their own lives and the lives of everyone they've ever cared about -- in order to defeat the Blight. ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' gives it a thorough deconstruction, when[[spoiler: the Grey Wardens being used to crossing moral lines to stop the blight meant that it didn't take much of a push for Magister Erimond to use Corypheus's false Calling to convince them to immediately leap across the MoralEventHorizon and summon an army of demons that he intended to use for his own purposes, instead of looking for more rational solutions or investigating the source of the Calling. [[TheEmpath Cole]] even confirms that [[NotBrainwashed no mind control was necessary]]; he just [[MoreThanMindControl took advantage of the Wardens' fears]] to get them to unknowingly serve Corypheus.]]

* The Batter, the stoic protagonist of ''VideoGame/{{Off}}'', is on a mission to purify the world, and he ''will'' see that it's accomplished. [[spoiler:This means [[KinSlayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil unflinchingly killing]] his [[TilMurderDoUsPart former lover,]] his creator/[[OffingTheOffspring son]] (it's complicated) and, if you side with him in the final fight over The Judge, throwing a switch that [[OmnicicalManiac destroys the entire universe, including himself.]]]]

** In ''VideoGame/AceCombat3Electrosphere'', Simon Orestes Cohen created [[PlayerCharacter Nemo]] and instigates the Corporate War just to kill one man, even if another war is the last thing Strangereal needs. [[AllThereInTheManual Being an assistant to]] [[VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown Dr. Schroeder]] and having a frontrow seat to Hugin and Munin's shenanigans in the Lighthouse War means he was entirely aware of the risks of letting loose a combat AI upon the world even when it's clear that Nemo can become very destructive, unstoppable, and unpredictable.

** J from Verdict Day and the Raven from ''Armored Core 4'', especially in the latter's [[RogueProtagonist later appearance in For Answer]]. [[spoiler:The two are heavily implied to be the same individual, despite the massive time gap between games -- although they now share vastly different goals, the Raven's being to protect [[DoomedHometown Line Ark]] [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl (and moreover, his love interest Fiona Jarnetfeld, who lives there]] and J's being to [[DeathSeeker create a world in which he can die]]]].

** In the series' backstory, Pelinal Whitestrake was the [[LongDeadBadass legendary 1st Era hero]] of mankind/[[FantasticRacism racist]] [[TheBerserker berserker]]. Believed to have been a [[EternalHero Shezarrine]], [[GodInHumanForm physical incarnations]] of the spirit of the [[GodIsDead "dead" creator god]] Lorkhan (known to the Imperials as "[[IHaveManyNames Shezarr]]"), Pelinal came to [[FounderOfTheKingdom St. Alessia]] to serve as her [[PhysicalGod divine champion]] in the war against the [[AbusivePrecursors Ayleids]]. Pelinal would fly into fits of UnstoppableRage (''mostly'' directed at the Ayleids) during which he [[BloodSplatteredWarrior would be stained with their blood]] and [[PaintTheTownRed left so much carnage in his wake]] that Kyne, one of the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Divines]], would have to [[CueTheRain send in her rain]] to cleanse Ayleid forts and village before they could be used by Alessia's forces. To Pelinal, the [[KnightTemplar only good elf was a dead elf]]. Men, women, children, soldiers, civilians...it didn't matter. He'd slaughter them all, even if his actions risked causing the Divines to ''abandon the mortal world''.

* Zoran Lazarevic of ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'' believes that the lack of mercy and compassion in pursuing one's goal is what makes one strong, citing men such as Hitler and Pol Pot as examples. By the end of the game, he considers [[{{Determinator}} Nathan]] [[OneManArmy Drake]] [[NotSoDifferentRemark the same]].

* Colress of ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' will, by his own admission, do anything to advance his research into the hidden potential of Pokémon. [[spoiler:He allies himself with Team Plasma in pursuit of this goal, but ultimately acknowledges the merit of the [[ThePowerOfFriendship protagonist's methods]]]].
-->''"If it means the strength must be brought out by the interactions between Pokémon and Trainers, then so be it! If it means you have to use a merciless approach, like Team Plasma's, and force out all of the Pokémon's power, then so be it! And yes, if the entire world is destroyed as a result, then so be it..."''
* [[OmnicidalManiac Volo]] from ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus''. Volo will do anything to achieve his dream of meeting Arceus, even if he has to kill the player and destroy the world.
* [[TrueFinalBoss Professors Sada & Turo]] from ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletandViolet''. Absolutely nothing would stop the Professor from running the time machine. Not their spouse running out on them, not the influx of deadly past/future Pokémon going rampant, not the risk of the entire region being desolated by their research. Not even their own gruesome death at the hands of the Paradox Legendary stops their ambition, as they had gone to every single measure to keep the machine running posthumously.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenalogyOfTheHolyWar'': Travant, king of the long-suffering Thracia, will do anything to reunite his country with Munster and bring it out of the endless famine and poverty it's suffered since the two were separated. That's why he ruthlessly [[spoiler:ambushes and slaughters Quan and Ethlyn]], raises Altena as his daughter to gain the Gáe Bolg lance, allows Bloom to fall before Seliph's army, invites Loptr clerics into his country, and even takes his best general's son hostage to ensure he won't defect or resign in the face of Travant's increasingly ruthless actions. In the end, Travant decides to [[spoiler:go down as a villain and hands his holy weapon to his son Arion before flying off to die in battle, effectively granting him rule of Thracia in hopes that Arion will turn it around--unfortunately, Arion is too afflicted with pride to do so until the final chapter]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'': Handsome Jack will do, quite literally, ''anything'' to remake Pandora in his image -- sacrifice countless resources to destroy the Vault Hunters, spend a fortune on an {{Egopolis}}, [[spoiler:trap his daughter in a jar for her entire life]]...

* VideoGame/MaxPayne: "''Collecting evidence had gotten old a few hundred bullets back. I was already so far beyond the point of no return I couldn't remember what it had looked like when I had passed it''."

* ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2'': A man has been locked up in a gulag for five years. His first act upon getting out? Lead a commando raid on a Russian nuclear missile sub base to [[spoiler: fire a nuke at the US Eastern Seaboard to both garner sympathy for the US and to use the EMP to knock out all the Russian equipment and halt the invasion]]. Because after five years in hell, your mind begins to snap a bit. Or, in his view, your eyes begin to open to possibilities you wouldn't have considered before, and you'll do ''whatever it takes'' to win. Gentlemen, this is what happens to [[spoiler: Captain John Price]].

* In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'', King Boo was a WellIntentionedExtremist with the sympathetic motive of avenging his kind. Fair enough. In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'', however, he becomes devoted to making sure Luigi, Gadd, and everyone they know suffer a FateWorseThanDeath, even being willing to put his once treasured Boos in harm's way and [[spoiler:attempting to destroy the universe]] in order to do so.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

** The basic idea of the Grey Wardens is that they can go to any lengths -- conscripting murderers and criminals, sacrificing cities, leaving armies to a horrible fate, and sacrificing their own lives and the lives of everyone they've ever cared about -- in order to defeat the Blight. This is most clearly, and horrifically, shown in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', [[spoiler:when Corypheus manipulates them into thinking that The Calling is coming for every Warden, frightening them into wanting to stop future Blights as soon as possible, leading to them committing atrocities such as HumanSacrifice, in order to summon a demon army to help them kill the last two Old Gods before they're all gone]].

* [[TheRival The Templar Order]] from the ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'' series, are almost always portrayed as the villains this way. True they aren't restricted so much in their methods, unlike the Assassins. But even they aren't allowed to get in each others way. To say all the Templars were evil is debatable, since nowadays the Assassins are getting painted as wrong. In the end, both Assassin and Templar are [[TheHorseshoeEffect two sides of the same coin.]]

** [[spoiler:Merlina]] in ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight''. [[spoiler:Merlina's]] singular goal is to save [[spoiler:her]] kingdom. To that end, [spoiler:she]] will free it from the Black Knight's monsters and the Knight himself... But will also [[spoiler:plunge it into the Underworld herself and flood it with monsters to give it complete immortality. She lets her previously-braided hair down as a visual indicator of her removing any chains of morality once her true goals are revealed,]] and while [[spoiler:she]] speaks with an anguished, sorrowful tone at having to resort to [[spoiler:her]] methods, [[spoiler:she]] is unflinching in doing what [[spoiler:she]] thinks must be done.

* [[KillerRobot Killer Robot]] Revenant from ''VideoGame/ApexLegends'' has literally [[HatesEveryoneEqually zero qualms]] in murdering the other Legends. It's just as well, since none of them like him in return. He's by far the most villainous Legend as of yet. Even the reason for why he choses to take part in the games, is merely because he has all eternity to [[ItAmusedMe entertain himself]].
* ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas'' has Father Elijah, the insane former leader of the Mojave Brotherhood of Steel chapter. Following a disastrous military defeat that saw the chapter driven into exile and terminal decline, Elijah sets out to unearth [[AppliedPhlebotinum lost pre-war technologies]] he can use to bring about the Brotherhood's revival, alongside [[spoiler: massacring the competitors who brought about their downfall in the first place]]. His pursuit of these technologies lead him to first begin fitting people with explosive collars to make them do his bidding, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness whom he kills once their use runs out]], and finally to [[spoiler:attempt genocide]].
** [[PlayerCharacter The Courier]] can also be played like this (and pretty much every other way), if one wishes. Particularly if s/he goes the Wild Card route and maintains neutral karma, The Courier runs around the Mojave making alliances when it furthers his/her goals, removing factions when it furthers his/her goals, and generally doing whatever it takes to string the NCR, House, and Caesar's Legion along until s/he realizes his goal of a free (and quite likely, chaotic) Mojave.
* The Renegade option in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series, particularly ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' (when it doesn't involve just being a dick to random shopkeepers).
** [[TheChessmaster The Illusive Man]] is willing to do anything if it will give Cerberus--and by extension, humanity--an advantage over the alien races and the Reapers.
** The same goes for Aria, the crime boss of [[WretchedHive Omega]]. She knows who Shepard is but still cooperates when they both want the same people gone. When talking to her how her jobs can be done, she really doesn't care. Just do anything it takes to get the result.
** Javik in the third game, as the avatar of vengeance, literally has no other purpose to live, other than to stop the Reapers. Throughout the game, he advises Shepard that nothing other than stopping the Reapers matters, and states as bluntly as possible to ignore, subjugate or destroy whoever is unwilling to help the war effort. For him, nothing is too precious to sacrifice against the unfeeling, eternal threat of synthetics.
** According to the video archives of the Citadel DLC of the third game, the first Spectre was a Salarian operative who used 30 civilians as bait to flush out a target of his. Evidently this attitude impressed the Council enough to give him a job.

* In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', the Practical Incarnation is this. He can and will do ''anything'' to find out the truth about himself and his own power. This effect is either slightly lessened when you realize his willingness to sacrifice his own life is due to his quasi-immortality, or slightly increased when you realize he will die to achieve his goals ''[[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning and even that won't stop him]]''.
* Havik from ''Franchise/MortalKombat''. Casting off primitive ideas like "measure" and "focus" gave him a real sense of measure and focus towards destroying the ideas of measure and focus.
** Although it is part of Havik's BackStory that he was once TheFettered himself, utterly dedicated to order and peace; It took years for the priests of chaos to break his spirit, but once he freed himself from the shackles of reason and temperance he never looked back.
** Raiden, once the civil and sage protector of Earthrealm, descends into this during the events of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception'', having used the power of his godly essence to try to eliminate Onaga when he was released. Reconstituting as a more vengeful and angry god, he decides he won't stand for Earthrealm's wasteful handling of their own destiny and sets out to correct this by force. While this version of Raiden ended up erased thanks to the events of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', the Raiden of the present timeline has also succumbed to such ways of thinking thanks to the events of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', where he is forced to draw out the evil energy pumped into the Jinsei by Shinnok. While he saves Earthrealm, the consequence is his sense of humanity and mercy towards others is compromised to nothing.
* [[spoiler:Mithos Yggdrassil]], the BigBad of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'' gives us Velvet, who only wants to murder Shepherd Artorius. To that end, she thinks nothing of starting a violent prison riot, colluding with thieves and pirates, or firebombing an entire port (and cratering the town's economy) to steal a single ship. Oh, and she's the ''protagonist''. [[spoiler:The fact that killing Artorius and dismantling the Abbey on the way to him is good for the world in the long run is ''genuinely a complete accident''.]]
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Magus does whatever it takes to [[spoiler: destroy Lavos and save his sister]], including [[spoiler: leading the fiends in a war against humanity, learning dark magic, posing as an oracle to his own people, and even [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking joining the heroes' party]]]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'': Alex Mercer is a wild example of an Unfettered ''that gets Fettered''. He starts out totally without rules, only with hunger and hate... and slowly picks up Fetters. Doing so makes him much, ''much'' stronger.
** [[TheEvilArmy Blackwatch]], on the other hand, never ''had'' any fetters. They're perfectly willing to firebomb entire city blocks to wipe out TheVirus, and some of them actually [[SociopathicSoldier enjoy doing so]].
* In ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'' this fits the PC of the [[spoiler:Chaos]] [[MultipleEndings ending]] to a tee: if [[spoiler:[[ThereCanBeOnlyOne fighting]] to take the power of [[SealedEvilInACan a superbeing stuck in a tower]] so you can start a war ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu to kill]] {{God}}'' because you think [[GodIsEvil he's being a bastard]] (which is mostly just his subordinates) for holding his SecretTestOfCharacter]] isn't throwing out all ideas of restraint, I don't know what is.
** The idea goes far more into the past of the franchise, with the Gaians of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI'' and ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'', and some characters in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne''. Jimenez from ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'' may also count. In fact, it may be easier to say that this is the Chaos alignment's creed: desire, change and ambition, limited only by one's personal strength.
* The ex-Death Knight, Thassarian, is very close to this in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Wrath of the Lich King''. As one of the first Death Knights raised into the Scourge army, he has a long history of reasons he wants to pay Arthas back. As far as he is concerned, revenge is the only option or consideration.
** After the victory against Arthas in Wrath of The Lich King, players can encounter Thassarian again, this time fighing against the Horde; he says that after his revenge, [[NowWhat all he has left is war]].
** ''All'' of the Knights of the Ebon Blade adopt this mindset in the ''Legion'' expansion, spelled out by their new creed, "We do what the living cannot." To stop TheLegionsOfHell from destroying Azeroth, the Death Knights are willing to do things normal people cannot, raising new hosts of undead against their will, attacking former allies to get said undead, mangling souls in the afterlife, ''anything'' to protect Azeroth from total destruction.
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'': Kratos is one of this trope's more violent examples. Absolutely nothing will stand in the way of his goal, which is no less than the destruction of Zeus. Even if it means cutting his way through the rest of the Greek Pantheon. His only moment [[spoiler:since his family's death]] of being fettered came [[spoiler:just before Pandora's HeroicSacrifice]].
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': Revan is a [[BuffySpeak zig-zaggy]] example. He started out as TheFettered (he ''was'' a Jedi, after all), slowly lost his fetters as he fought in the war, became a Sith, became The Unfettered, toughened up the galaxy by beating several distinct shades of hell out of it, lost his memory, became a Jedi ''again'', went Light Side, and became The Fettered once more. In canon, anyway. You can play him as The Unfettered all the way to the end, if you really want, and the Dark Side ending is [[spoiler:him picking up right where he left off, preparing the galaxy for invasion from the Sith Empire, which makes for much less zig-zagging]].
** [[spoiler:And then comes VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic where after spending three hundred years a prisoner of the Sith Emperor, he becomes completely determined to wipe out all traces of Sith DNA in the galaxy. Which includes 97.8% of the Imperial population]].
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'': John Marston, outlaw turned rancher turned reluctant frontier government assassin, does absolutely everything to get his family back, up to and including [[spoiler:helping overthrow a tyrant during the Mexican Revolution to install ''an even worse tyrant'']]. While he's certainly polite and has some moral standards ([[VideoGameCrueltyPotential up to]] [[VideoGameCaringPotential the player]]), his quest to get his old life back, and the lengths he has to go to, mean he'll stop at nothing to get his family back.
* VideoGame/MaxPayne: "''Collecting evidence had gotten old a few hundred bullets back. I was already so far beyond the point of no return I couldn't remember what it had looked like when I had passed it''."
* ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2'': A man has been locked up in a gulag for five years. His first act upon getting out? Lead a commando raid on a Russian nuclear missile sub base to [[spoiler: fire a nuke at the US Eastern Seaboard to both garner sympathy for the US and to use the EMP to knock out all the Russian equipment and halt the invasion]]. Because after five years in hell, your mind begins to snap a bit. Or, in his view, your eyes begin to open to possibilities you wouldn't have considered before, and you'll do ''whatever it takes'' to win. Gentlemen, this is what happens to [[spoiler: Captain John Price]].
* Cao Cao from ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'', in keeping with his portrayal in [[Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms the source material]].
* Similarly, ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'' gives us Nobunaga Oda, depicted as ruthless and willing to do practically anything for his goals. Buck the social trends of the era and promote officers based on talent? Plot treachery with a neighboring lord's retainers to pull off a backstab when it's least expected? Burn down an entire village and massacre its civilians and religious followers because their militia opposed him? If it accomplishes his aims, he'll do it.
* Finally, ''VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi'' gives us Orochi himself...no remorse, no hesitation, no qualms about doing anything to have fun with the humans he's captured for a MassivelyMultiplayerCrossover. He expects to be futilely opposed by his enemies and unconditionally obeyed by his subordinates, and that's about all he wants. He goes as far as to casually decapitate one of his longest-serving officers just for questioning his orders once.
* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/NieR'' is a man determined to save his (depending on the versions of the game) [[KnightTemplarBigBrother sister]] / [[PapaWolf daughter]] Yonah at all costs and does not hesitate to destroy those who get in his way, [[spoiler:ultimately destroying humanity itself in his journey]].
--> ''"I swore to protect my daughter and my friends. If someone puts them in danger, they must stand aside or be cut down!"''
* The predecessor to ''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'', gives us Caim, the SociopathicHero protagonist, who is even more angry, determined, and violent than Nier.

** The basic idea of the Grey Wardens is that they can go to any lengths--conscripting murderers and criminals, sacrificing cities, leaving armies to a horrible fate, and sacrificing their own lives and the lives of everyone they've ever cared about--in order to defeat the Blight. This is most clearly, and horrifically, shown in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', [[spoiler:when Corypheus manipulates them into thinking that The Calling is coming for every Warden, frightening them into wanting to stop future Blights as soon as possible, leading to them committing atrocities such as HumanSacrifice, in order to summon a demon army to help them kill the last two Old Gods before they're all gone]].

* The entire dwarven race is this in ''Videogame/ArmageddonMUD''. Every dwarf develops an immensely difficult goal as they reach adulthood, and they will not stop at anything to attain said goal. Reaching their chosen focus only leads to the dwarf finding another, often even more difficult goal.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Shadowverse}}'', Eleanor cares only for research and not the upcoming war.
* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** [[TheRival Shadow]] defines this for the series, being the only character whose goal depending on what it is, never hinders his moral compass and will relentlessly pursue said ambitions with extreme [[MoralEventHorizon intentions bordering on immoral or down right vicious]].
** [[RoboticPsychopath E-123 Omega]] is obsessed with destroying Eggman for a [[DisproportionateRetribution perceived slight on his ego]]. The world could be [[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog in the middle of a demonic invasion]], but Omega would rather [[BlueAndOrangeMorality destroy Eggman's robots than bother himself with the greater conflict]]. However, in ''VideoGame/SonicChronicles'', Omega temporarily suspends this goal and [[EnemyMine allies with Eggman]] when Shadow and Rouge convince him to do so. [[EpilepticTrees This might imply]] that "destroy Eggman" has actually become his ''secondary'' goal, with "support [[MoralityPet Shadow and Rouge]]" being his new primary goal.

* Zoran Lazarevic of ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'' believes that the lack of mercy and compassion in pursuing one's goal is what makes one strong, citing men such as Hitler and Pol Pot as examples. By the end of the game, he considers [[{{Determinator}} Nathan]] [[OneManArmy Drake]] [[NotSoDifferentRemark the same]].
%%* [[spoiler:ZODIAC Ophiuchus]] from ''VideoGame/RefleX'' fits this trope to a T.
* Liir Black Swimmers from ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' have as a goal 'protect their fellow Liir from aggression'. Since they've already broken the greatest taboo of the Liir--[[ActualPacifist being willing to inflict harm on others]]--any question of 'restraint' in terms of method is hypocrisy to their eyes. A Black Swimmer sees no distinction between firing a warning shot or exterminating another species by infecting their worlds with deadly viral bombs--both are merely means towards the end.
* Arthas in the human campaign of ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' becomes this more and more as the campaign goes on, not caring what he has to sacrifice if he only can kill Mal'Ganis. [[TheCorruption It didn't end well]].

* In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'', King Boo was a WellIntentionedExtremist with the sympathetic motive of avenging his kind. Fair enough. In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'', however, he becomes devoted to making sure Luigi, Gadd, and everyone they know suffer a FateWorseThanDeath, even being willing to put his once treasured Boos in harm's way and [[spoiler:attempting to destroy the universe]] in order to do so.

* Quite a few examples from ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'' fit this trope perfectly--most distinctly, Thermidor/[[spoiler:Otsdarva]] from ''For Answer'', who is willing to commit mass-scale terrorist attacks, form and break alliances in an instant, abandon his own men and [[spoiler:massacre billions]] in order to give mankind a chance to [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans expand into space]].
** J from Verdict Day and the Raven from ''Armored Core 4'', especially in the latter's [[RogueProtagonist later appearance in For Answer]]. [[spoiler:The two are heavily implied to be the same individual, despite the massive time gap between games--although they now share vastly different goals, the Raven's being to protect [[DoomedHometown Line Ark]] [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl (and moreover, his love interest Fiona Jarnetfeld, who lives there]] and J's being to [[DeathSeeker create a world in which he can die]]]].
* Annarotta Stohls from ''VideoGame/{{Super Robot Wars Z}}3: Jigoku-Hen'' is ruthlessly violent when it comes to fulfilling her mission, and won't refrain from pulling inhumanly cruel moves on her opponents.

* Cia, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', is absolutely [[LoveMakesYouEvil obsessed with Link]] to the extent that she kick-starts a war with Hyrule in an effort to have him to herself.
* In ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth'''s ''Rising Tide'' expansion, the Supremacy/Harmony hybrid affinity is [[WordOfGod described by the developers]] as "power by any means", using ''both'' extensive cybernetics ''and'' genetic modification to turn their citizens into things that just aren't recognisably human any more.
* Ayano of ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' meticulously [[MurderTheHypotenuse removes anyone who would stand between her and her beloved]], [[EmotionlessGirl literally unable to feel pity or compassion]]. The game gives opportunities for stalking, social sabotage, staging accidents, spreading rumors, blackmailing, bullying, driving them to suicide, murdering them with her own hands and... [[MurderArsonAndJaywalking making them fall in love with other boys]].
--> ''"I don't care who I have to hurt. No one else matters. Sempai will be mine. He doesn't have a choice."''
* The Jennerit from ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' in general are this as they'll do anything at any cost in order to achieve their goals. This is so much so that their culture's official motto is: "Any Deed. Any Price."
* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'': Handsome Jack will do, quite literally, ''anything'' to remake Pandora in his image - sacrifice countless resources to destroy the Vault Hunters, spend a fortune on an {{Egopolis}}, [[spoiler:trap his daughter in a jar for her entire life]]...
* ''VideoGame/AlienSyndrome'' (2007): Final boss Isadora Midas was forced into eternal life and desired to die. The killer she picked out for herself was Aileen Harding on account of the similarity between the two of them. However, believing that Aileen would never kill a child, she forced the other's hand by destroying many ships and stations, killing or grossly mutating its inhabitants, including Aileen's fiancé, and threatening to continue her actions would Aileen not stop her.
* ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'': [[TheCorruption The Darkening]] is a phenomenon that can cause its victims to become this and it's not always clear where a victim's own will ends and the Darkening's manipulations begins. Most notably is [[spoiler:Naho]], whom under influence of the Darkening unleashed the means to get to Heavenly Host on the world just so her LoveInterest [[{{Yandere}} would have many subjects to study while he was visiting the place]].
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''
** This is a cultural trait of the Sload, a race of "slugmen" native to the archipelago of Thras to the southwest of Tamriel. The Sload are a race of careful and deliberate [[TheChessmaster Chessmasters]] who are utterly ruthless in the pursuit of their goals, with even ''genocide'' being on the table if it helps them achieve their ends (though a reluctant option after their last major try, in the First Era, backfired ''severely''). Making matters worse, they are naturally skilled at {{necromancy}} and mysticism (especially the [[YourSoulIsMine capturing of souls]]), leading them down some extremely dark paths. While they tend to operate on their own BlueAndOrangeMorality, they are universally seen as AlwaysChaoticEvil by the other races of Tamriel. (Attempting a FinalSolution using a MysticalPlague which killed half the population of Tamriel will tend to cause that...)
** This is also a trait of the Dark Brotherhood, an illegal [[MurderInc organization of assassins]] whose membership mostly takes a [[PsychoForHire sadistic glee]] in killing and who practice a ReligionOfEvil. As long as the [[OneBadMother Night Mother]] orders it, they're being paid, and it doesn't violate one of the [[TheCommandments Five Tenets]], they'll kill just about anyone, regardless of [[WouldHurtAChild age]], [[WouldHitAGirl gender]], or social standing.
** In the series' backstory, Pelinal Whitestrake was the [[LongDeadBadass legendary 1st Era hero]] of mankind/[[FantasticRacism racist]] [[TheBerserker berserker]]. Believed to have been a [[EternalHero Shezarrine]], [[GodInHumanForm physical incarnations]] of the spirit of the [[GodIsDead "dead" creator god]] Lorkhan (known to the Imperials as "[[IHaveManyNames Shezarr]]"), Pelinal came to [[FounderOfTheKingdom St. Alessia]] to serve as her [[PhysicalGod divine champion]] in the war against the [[AbusivePrecursors Ayleids]]. Pelinal would fly into fits of UnstoppableRage (''mostly'' directed at the Ayleids) during which he [[BloodSplatteredWarrior would be stained with their blood]] and [[PaintTheTownRed left so much carnage in his wake]] that Kyne, one of the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Divines]], would have to [[CueTheRain send in her rain]] to cleanse Ayleid forts and village before they could be used by Alessia's forces. To Pelinal, the [[KnightTemplar only good elf was a dead elf]]. Men, women, children, soldiers, civilians...it didn't matter. He'd slaughter them all, even if his actions risked causing the Divines to ''abandon the mortal world''.
* In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', most of the Noxian leadership believes that you should do whatever it takes to win. This has created a bit of a conflict with the more SocialDarwinist side - one champion, Riven, is a DefectorFromDecadence after they deployed chemical weaponry to destroy both her regiment and a Demacian one, rather than allowing them to fight it out and see who was stronger. There are also individual characters from outside Noxus who slip over into this trope, such as Xerath, who at one point brought about the destruction of his home country in order to attain his personal freedom, and centuries chained in a pit hasn't exactly made him less fixated.
* ''VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles'' gave us Alistair Dalimar, who devoted his entire life solely into the search for immortality. He spent more than five hundred years seeking it, and nigh everything he ever did was driven by this goal. His quest led him among others to search for an AncientArtifact on the entire globe, conduct some a wide number of gruesome experiments, brainwash and even kill many innocents, sink his own hometown into the sea, and kill his very own offspring (at the ''very least'' his daughter Lily and his granddaughter Gwendolyn) - it was even hinted that he had children solely to use them as pawns in his plans in the first place.
* All of the [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots playable characters]] from ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'' can be this, depending on the player's choices, but a special note goes to [[AndroidsAndDetectives Connor]]. Most of his story focuses around his mission: to investigate and stop the spread of [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming android deviancy]]. He can prioritize this mission over saving his partner Hank from potentially fatal situations [[spoiler:(or outright kill him)]], he can kill an innocent android for his creator's [[ForTheEvulz amusement]] in exchange for information, and when [[spoiler:he and Hank are taken off the case, Connor will go behind the police's back and investigate on his own.]] Thanks to his BodyBackupDrive, not even death will stop him, and later, once [[spoiler:the US calls for the immediate recall and disposal of all androids]], he can commit suicide to avoid a conflict and come back later. Even in an ending where [[spoiler:the androids win their freedom and convince the world that AndroidsArePeopleToo, Connor can defy everyone else and assassinate the android leader.]]

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'':
** Edelgard proves throughout the game that nothing is beneath her in her quest to destroy the Church of Seiros and the Crest-based nobility order proliferated by it. Her actions in pursuit of this goal (depending on the route) include [[spoiler:having the heirs apparent to the continent's other nations assassinated (one of whom is her childhood friend and first love), teaming up [[TeethClenchedTeamwork however reluctantly]] with a shady clique of sociopathic callous [[MadScientist mad scientists]] who burn down villages and turn the inhabitants into mad people ForScience (though freely admits they went behind her back there) despite them being a big part of her own childhood trauma, betraying her classmates and teacher, and physically warping her body into a demonic form in order to combat her enemies]]. If [[PlayerCharacter Byleth]] chooses her [[spoiler:and stays with her]], they act as a MoralityChain, but otherwise all bets are off.
** Dimitri turns into one of these during the war stage after the TimeSkip, obsessed with [[RevengeBeforeReason getting revenge]] on [[spoiler:Edelgard]] as his single goal, as he believes that [[spoiler:she is responsible for an attack that resulted in [[YouKilledMyFather his father dying]] along with several prominent Faerghus nobles ([[NotMeThisTime she is not]], though her [[TeethClenchedTeamwork temporary allies]] are)]]. Again, Dimitri is likely to turn into a FallenHero before dying in battle, unless he has Byleth on his side to guide him out of this state and help him find an actual purpose to fight for.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Thanks to obtaining the omnipotent power of the gods, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'''s Ganon is to date, the series' most deadly. His wish "to rule the entire cosmos" wasn't thwarted by the Sages seal, it's still in the process of being granted, so they merely slowed him down. The game takes place on the "Eve of the Great Cataclysm", thus if Link doesn't stop him before the seal completely collapses... all is lost.
* ''VideoGame/AceCombat''
** In ''VideoGame/AceCombat3Electrosphere'', Simon Orestes Cohen created [[PlayerCharacter Nemo]] and instigates the Corporate War just to kill one man, even if another war is the last thing Strangereal needs. [[AllThereInTheManual Being an assistant to]] [[VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown Dr. Schroeder]] and having a frontrow seat to Hugin and Munin's shenanigans in the Lighthouse War means he was entirely aware of the risks of letting loose a combat AI upon the world even when it's clear that Nemo can become very destructive, unstoppable, and unpredictable.
** ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown''
*** Mihaly wants to fly. He knows very well that he is getting old and his body is breaking down from decades of soaking up ionizing radiation and pulling high-G turns, but he will do what it takes to stay airborne. Abandon his homeland, scare his grand-daughters, sign up with his ancestral enemy, fight an unprovoked war, gun down fleeing enemies, break his own body, help develop weapons that will make manned fighters obsolete... as long as it keeps him in the air one more minute, Mihaly doesn't care.
*** In the final SP Mission, [[spoiler:the Alicorn’s ballast tanks are damaged preventing it from submerging. It’s captain, Matias Torres, [[ISurrenderSuckers fakes a surrender]] knowing that the Oseans chasing after him will argue with each other over whether they should comply in international laws. David North sees through his ruse, and tries to talk Torres out of it, only for Torres to ask him; ‘What do you know of beauty?!’. Realizing that Torres is not going to stop, [[PlayerCharacter Trigger]] disobeys orders, and strikes the Alicorn before it can fire its rail cannon at Oured, and the LRSSG decides to sink Torres to the bottom of the ocean.]]
* ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' and ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'': the Doom Slayer has single-mindedly dedicated his existence to killing demons... albeit with a focus on protecting Earth and humanity from the demons. Deny Earth a power source it desperately needs to avoid an energy crisis? That power source comes from Hell, so he obliterates it. He has to betray his adopted people, the Night Sentinels, and give up his pseudo-royal status among them? Does it without a second thought, since it also kills a Hell Priest. Gets threatened by the series' equivalent of an archangel for interfering with Hell's invasion of Earth? Kills the archangel and dooms "heaven" to a demonic invasion with no remorse. Fully realized in the DLC for ''Eternal'': [[spoiler:the Slayer permanently prevents the series' equivalent of ''God'' from ever manifesting physically again, because the Father might interfere with him trying to kill the Dark Lord of Hell.]]
* As the main antagonist of ''Franchise/ResidentEvil [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis 3: Nemesis]]'' (and [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake its remake]]), the Nemesis is quite a famous example. Because members of S.T.A.R.S. uncovered Umbrella's bio-terrorism activities in [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 the original game]], the latter creates the Nemesis with the sole purpose of [[HeKnowsTooMuch killing any S.T.A.R.S. member he encounters in Raccoon City]]. Jill Valentine and Brad Vickers[[labelnote:*]]Special mention goes to him, because Brad's death is different depending on which of the 2 versions of ''[=RE3=]'' you play. In the original, the Nemesis kills him in front of the Raccoon Police Station quite early in the game. In the remake, he's fully aware of the Nemesis, but never encounters him. Instead, Brad gets bitten by a zombie early on in the remake and [[FaceMonsterTurn becomes one himself]], while the Nemesis completely focuses on targeting Jill.[[/labelnote]] are the only members in town. He chases after Jill Valentine throughout most of the game relentlessly. In turn, she'll fight back and seemingly put him down, [[ImplacableMan only for him to return later]]. He's been programmed with this single mission to the point that [[OneWordVocabulary all he can say]] (or ''[[NoIndoorVoice roar]]'') is "S.T.A.R.S.". He'd only ever attack anyone else if they're standing in his way of attacking Jill.
* The Boss in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' can become this if they kill Killbane, as it cements that the Boss prefers killing their enemies over saving their friends. This will lead them to turn Steelport into their own city state. Alternatively, their friends can stop them from going overboard with their project.

* In ''VideoGame/AceCombat3Electrosphere'', Simon Orestes Cohen created [[PlayerCharacter Nemo]] and instigates the Corporate War just to kill one man, even if another war is the last thing Strangereal needs. [[AllThereInTheManual Being an assistant to]] [[VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown Dr. Schroeder]] and having a frontrow seat to Hugin and Munin's shenanigans in the Lighthouse War means he was entirely aware of the risks of letting loose a combat AI upon the world even when it's clear that Nemo can become very destructive, unstoppable, and unpredictable.
* ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'': Mihaly wants to fly. He knows very well that he is getting old and his body is breaking down from decades of soaking up ionizing radiation and pulling high-G turns, but he will do what it takes to stay airborne. Abandon his homeland, scare his grand-daughters, sign up with his ancestral enemy, fight an unprovoked war, gun down fleeing enemies, break his own body, help develop weapons that will make manned fighters obsolete... as long as it keeps him in the air one more minute, Mihaly doesn't care.

* As of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonFour,'' Clementine has raised AJ from birth, he's her absolute number one priority, and she says in the pre-season trailer that [[MamaBear she will do anything to keep him safe.]]

* [[KillerRobot Killer Robot]] Revenant from ''VideoGame/ApexLegends'' has literally [[HatesEveryoneEqually zero qualms]] in murdering the other Legends. It's just as well, since none of them like him in return. He's by far the most villainous Legend as of yet. Even the reason for why he choses to take part in the games, is merely because he has all eternity to [[ItAmusedMe entertain himself]].

* Zoran Lazarevic of ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'' believes that the lack of mercy and compassion in pursuing one's goal is what makes one strong, citing men such as Hitler and Pol Pot as examples. By the end of the game, he considers [[{{Determinator}} Nathan]] [[OneManArmy Drake]] [[NotSoDifferent the same]].

* [[KillerRobot Killer Robot]] Revenant from ''VideoGame/ApexLegends'' has literally [[HatesEveryoneEqually zero qualms]] in murdering the other Legends. It's just as well, since none of them like him in return. He's by far the most villainous Legend as of yet. Even the reason for why he choses to take part in the games, is merely because he all eternity to [[ItAmusedMe entertain himself]].