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9* ''VideoGame/AlterEgo2018'': In the [[spoiler:Giving in to Impulse]] ending, [[spoiler:poor Es]] goes mad and decides to destroy the library-like world of the game and [[spoiler:go after the Façade]]. She concludes everyone else is a product of her imagination. A big part of her mental breakdown is the mental stress of reigning in her impulses and a deep feeling of loneliness.
10* ''VideoGame/AnnasQuest'': The BigBad is [[spoiler:[[{{Satan}} The Devil]], but the villain of the in-universe ''story'' is a young girl he tricked people into casting out for a murder she didn't commit, while she was still traumatised at losing her best friend]].
11* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'': Yasha is a combination of this and IronWoobie, who is legitimately the only one of the deities that turned on Asura that feels legitimate regret for the way they treat humanity after betraying Asura, forcing them into a MartyrdomCulture.
12* ''Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries'':
13** Poison Ivy can be classified as a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds because she is an eco-terrorist essentially because society harms Nature, her "babies", and she wants humans to stop hurting the planet. In addition, in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', she locks herself up and really just wants to be left alone when Catwoman comes in and she sees herself forced to kill her.
14** Mr. Freeze, a.k.a. Victor Fries. [[TheLostLenore Enough said]]. Also, in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:the Arkham Knight, a.k.a. Jason Todd,]] is one, too.
15* ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'': [[spoiler: Vicki Vale. She was born Victoria Arkham in this game but her parents were murdered because they tried to stop Thomas Wayne’s amorality, and then she was adopted by a couple who abused her and other foster children to a horrific degree. It’s no wonder that she went insane and became Lady Arkham. Sadly, it doesn’t justify her actions or those of the Children of Arkham, whom she leads.]]
16* ''VideoGame/BattleTech'': Samuel Ostergaard is one. Every questionable decision he made was to avenge the death of his son at your hands. In the end, he has committed grotesque atrocities in the name of his vengeance, even turning a gun on his own crew. Still, hearing his final words and watching him sit, looking at a photograph, while his ship disintegrates around him leaves the hardest a little misty-eyed.
17* In the "worst" ending of ''VideoGame/BioShock2'', [[spoiler:Eleanor Lamb]] turns into one of these. She [[spoiler:was almost laser-guided by her mother to become some kind of Utopia, although some fans thought that she would become an Eldritch Abomination or an otherwise unpleasant form of Life that would destroy Rapture and the Topside World. In the Bad Ending, Eleanor is influenced by Delta's murders, kills her mother in revenge, and, depending on how many of the [=NPCs=] and Little Sisters the player killed, will be allowed by Delta to absorb his mind and, we assume, his powers, or will do the same, only against Delta's will. Whether the case, she swears to punish the world, while watching a storm fall over the corpse-filled ocean.]]
18-->"''There is no Name for what I am. But, with your help, they will never see me coming... (Fade to Black)''"
19** Keep in mind that [[spoiler:Eleanor watches Delta through the Little Sisters, so if he chooses to murder them, she experiences her beloved father horribly murdering her while she begs for mercy. Over and over.]]
20* In ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'', [[spoiler:Elizabeth becomes this in a BadFuture where Booker fails to save her and Comstock successfully molds her into his heir. In the end, it wasn't the mental and physical conditioning that broke her. It was the complete loss of hope and the belief that Booker betrayed her that drove her into wishing to burn the world. However, her final act is to bring Booker into this world to pass on an important clue to her past self that would change things.]]
21* If there were any worthier candidate for the epitome of this trope, it would have to be ''Franchise/BlazBlue'''s [[VillainProtagonist protagonist]] Ragna the Bloodedge. [[spoiler:Not only did he lose his home at the hands of Terumi, but he was also betrayed by his brother, Jin, who cut off his arm simply because [[DisproportionateRetribution Ragna didn't pay attention to him enough]]. In addition, his younger sister had been kidnapped, and he was left to die. ''Then'', Rachel saves him from death by turning him into a half-vampire, causing him immense trauma and making his hair [[LockedIntoStrangeness turn white]]. Then, later, we find out that his sister is the template for a series of robotic clones, two of which are playable characters in the game. One of them, Noel, is a grown-up Saya for the most part, while the other, Nu, is a {{Yandere}} who wants to fuse with Ragna to complete herself and form the Black Beast, which turned the world into a [[CrapsackWorld crapsack one]] already.]] He's already flat-out stated that he hates everything because of these events.
22** Jin's desire to kill Ragna (and thus the cutting off of his arm) is due to being the World's Antibody and part of his function as the Power of Order. He is meant to be the opposite to Ragna, who is the Destroyer of the World (by being the Black Beast). However, Ragna could instead become the Protector of the Azure.
23** [[spoiler:Noel Vermillion]] eventually becomes one. [[spoiler:She]] was [[spoiler:nothing more than a clone of Ragna and Jin's dead/missing little sister, Saya. Since she looks like Saya, whom Jin despises, he's cruel to her. Noel understandably doesn't know why... Making matters worse is that her best friend, Tsubaki, has been ordered to kill her as of the end of Calamity Trigger. Oh, and then Terumi gets ahold of her, mind-rapes her, and turns her into an unholy implement of destruction. All the hate and rage she kept pent up has now been amplified and directed towards the world itself. She does eventually get better, but still...]]
24*** And these three are ''the good guys''. It's [[BlackAndGrayMorality that kind of story]].
25* Fou-Lu from ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV''. He's an [[GodEmperor immortal emperor]] who also happens to be a [[PhysicalGod dragon]]. He's been [[KingInTheMountain hibernating for the past six hundred years]], during which time some [[TheEmpire not-nice people]] usurped his throne and plotted to have him killed when he awakens. He manages to escape the assassination attempts, mostly through turning into a large [[BreathWeapon energy-breathing monster]] and schooling them all in the arts of pain and suffering, and then goes about trying to regain his throne. Along the way, he runs into (and is hidden by) a [[CountryMouse nice, friendly farm girl]] who wears a bell as jewelry, who promptly [[LoveAtFirstSight falls in love with him]]. He falls for her, too, though he's [[IUhYouToo too much the stoic and quiet type to admit it]]. The {{Big Bad}}s find out that she's been harboring the Dragon-Emperor, take her captive, and drag her off to one of the [[PoweredByAForsakenChild more horrible fates imaginable]]. See, they have a [[EvilWeapon superweapon]], called the [[FantasticNuke Carronade]], that uses [[LoveHurts people with very close bonds to their target]] as [[HumanResources ammunition]], converting their pure soul (after a good amount of ColdBloodedTorture) into a foul and unspeakable city-destroying curse. So, the Emperor's walking through a forest on his way to his rightful palace to retake it, when he senses the powerful world-rending curse heading his way, and defends himself against it as best as he can. The last thing he sees before the force of the curse renders him unconscious is the [[ItsAllMyFault farm girl's bell charm falling from the heavens to land in front of him]]. Cue [[LaughingMad insane cackling]] and his plans going from "regain throne" to "[[LeaveNoSurvivors kill everybody]]".
26** A decision that is ''firmly'' cemented when he finally meets up with [[TheEmperor Emperor Soniel]], who acts as if he is welcoming Fou-lu back -- and then proceeds to run him through with a [[EvilWeapon soul-eating sword]] created by [[KarmaHoudini his head thaumaturgist Yuna]] from a previous botched summoning where only the head came through. This would normally kill even a lesser being; Fou-lu is merely pissed off enough to [[OffWithHisHead decapitate the back-stabber with the very same sword]]. As if he needed any further cementing of the idea that HumansAreBastards...
27* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'':
28** Dracula may be the GodOfEvil, Prince Of Darkness, TheAntiGod, what-have-you, but one has to wonder if he would have become such had he not suffered the deaths of his two wives. [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLamentOfInnocence His first wife's death]] caused him, then a Crusades warrior, to [[FaithHeelTurn renounce God]], along the way stealing the power of another vampire with the help of Death. [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight As stated later on]], several centuries later, he calmed down, fell in love with a human woman and had a son with her and might have been redeemed... had it not that some people [[BurnTheWitch accused her as a witch and burned her]], and he [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge snapped]] and declared war on humanity.
29** Soma Cruz from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow'' -- kill Mina, and he is going to kill you in revenge and proceed to become this, requiring Julius Belmont, Yoko Belnades, and Alucard to stop him.
30* [[spoiler:Ballos]] from ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', who [[spoiler:destroyed the very kingdom whose people he loved and helped out after being subjected to ColdBloodedTorture by the king (and if the Wii version of his speech is of any indication, he may have brought the torture upon himself by recklessly allowing his power to grow), forcing Jenka to seal him within the floating island. In fact, when you reach him at the end of the BonusLevelOfHell, [[DeathSeeker he begs you to kill him]]... or [[IllKillYou he shall kill YOU!]]]]
31* Schala, from the [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Chrono]] [[VideoGame/ChronoCross games]]. In ''Trigger'', she was abused and neglected by her mother, Queen Zeal, who went mad after discovering the power of Lavos. Schala was later caught in the Ocean Palace as it collapsed and never seen again... [[spoiler:until ''Cross'', when it was revealed that, since she had such a miserable life, she wished for none of it to ever happen. This let Lavos take over her soul, and turn into the Time Devourer, which threatened to destroy everything that ever existed. She finally gets a happy ending at the end of ''Cross'', when Serge uses the Chrono Cross to free her from the Devourer and RetGone Lavos out of existence once and for all.]]
32* Nero from ''VideoGame/CielNosurge'' and its [[VideoGame/ArNosurgeOdeToAnUnbornStar sequel]] is a little girl who was [[spoiler: stolen from her home world to help humans of another one migrate to a new planet, immediately [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed]], then her wandering soul was rediscovered, put in a new body and used to [[PoweredByAForsakenChild power the Cielnotrons]]. All she wants to do is go home, but the ways to do that are taken away until the only way to do it is via [[AssimilationPlot Assimilation Plot]].]]
33* [[DarkMagicalGirl Yuriko Omega]] from ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3''. Found to possess psychic powers from an early age, she was scorned by her schoolmates, and eventually taken away from her family by the Japanese government to be placed into a weapons development program, which put her through TrainingFromHell to develop her inherent psionic powers, [[BreakTheCutie at the cost of her sanity]]. When World War 3 broke out, she was forced to fight by the Japanese military, who viewed her as little more than a weapon. After the defeat of Japan, she was captured by the Allied Nations, only to break out, partly to get revenge on the head scientist of the project, and partly to meet her "sister" Izumi. This sets off her campaign in the ''Uprising'' expansion. [[spoiler:While she eventually manages to kill the scientist and get her revenge, it turns out Izumi was always planning to kill her, and Yuriko is forced to kill Izumi in self-defence. In the ending cutscene to her campaign, she is shown alone and depressed on a hillside, overlooking a city, pondering what to do]].
34* ''VisualNovel/{{Crimsoness}}'' casts one of these as the PlayerCharacter.
35* [[spoiler:Sirus, aka Dark Emperor Griffon]], from ''VideoGame/DarkCloud 2''. [[spoiler:Originally a member of the Moon Tribe (aka anthropomorphic bunny) who loved nothing more than the flowers in the palace gardens, he was accused of trespassing. Alexandra [[RescueRomance interceded for him]] and made him the Garden Keeper. But then invading armies searching for the [[CosmicKeystone Atlamillia]] utterly ''annihilated'' the kingdom, leaving it a blasted wasteland, and killed Alexandra]]. [[LoveMakesYouCrazy His grief was so great]] that he swore [[OmnicidalManiac vengeance on all of mankind]], and started systematically ''erasing it from existence'' via TimeTravel, acquiring the MacGuffin for himself so he could reduce the world to nothingness. Regardless, the player and the protagonists are made to feel sorry for him by means of flashback scenes scattered throughout [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Moonflower Palace.]]
36* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/DarkLaw'' is King Daruk, who was also the villain of the great war that ravaged the world 300 years ago... all of this started when his kingdom got hit with a horrble famine pushing them into desperation or death and ''nobody'' absolutelly nobody, ''no human or god'', would help them. Then he found a power willing to, a corruptor entity outside of the universe that turned both him and his subjects into monsters.
37* In the ''VideoGame/{{Disciples}}'' series, GodOfEvil is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] since the "evil" gods only became evil because their "good" compatriots were jerks who treated them like garbage. This does not apply to their followers. Bethrezen's [[LegionsOfHell Legions of the Damned]] are by far the nastiest faction who gleefully corrupt and slaughter in Bethrezen's name and TheUndead Hordes are utterly ruthless while following Mortis' will.
38* [[spoiler:[[AxCrazy The real Overlord Zenon]]]] from ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'' definitely is this trope. [[spoiler:Overlord Zenon is the famous and well-known "God of All Overlords" for [[OneManArmy having slain about 1000 other Overlords, 99 on the day she fled to Veldime to reincarnate.]] She doesn't appear much, but when she does, she tries to kill everyone, because she's convinced that everyone is going to betray her. Understandable, since nearly all the demons in the Disgaea universe tend to be rather ambitious. "Everyone who has ever come close to me, has betrayed me..."]]
39** In ''Disgaea 3'''s "Human World Ending", after each of his party members dies one by one, Mao finally loses it when [[spoiler: Super Hero Aurum kills Raspberyl.]]. Afterwhich, he effortless annihilates him and we are told he destroys the universe, and Mao is left all alone, floating in nothingness for all eternity.
40* Anders in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' becomes this by the end of the game. After a time growing up in the Mages Circle -- a life stuck in a tower, bound to do whatever [[PathOfInspiration the Chantry]] asked him to -- he escaped from the [[KnightTemplar Templars]]... seven times. On the last time, he joined the [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins Grey Wardens to escape more permanently.]] It's all downhill for him after that, unfortunately. The Grey Wardens consider him a wuss and mock him enough that he leaves, and then he lets a wayward Spirit of Justice -- once a friend of his -- into his body. All of this isn't too bad, but it starts getting nasty when [[spoiler:he goes to Kirkwall.]] The sheer dark magic of the place corrupts Justice into a Demon of Vengeance. By the time Dragon Age II begins, he's constantly fighting for control over the influence of Vengeance/Justice. After all of this, his brooding is pretty justified. (He gets added points for being the constantly-hunted leader of a Mages' Rights group.) In the final act, though, [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession he can't fight Vengeance off anymore,]] and essentially performs a [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope terrorist attack on the local branch of the Chantry.]]]] Talk about a TraumaCongaLine. Ultimately, his fate is left up to [[PlayerCharacter Hawke.]]
41* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'': Psaro the Manslayer becomes a super-powerful, omnicidal maniac after his lover Rose gets murdered.
42* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', this is one possible interpretation of BigBad PhysicalGod Dagoth Ur depending [[TheRashomon on the version of events]] you choose to believe. If you look past the [[CorruptChurch Tribunal Temple]] [[BlatantLies dogma]] regarding [[WhenItAllBegan the events leading up to and immediately following]] the [[PlotTriggeringDeath death of Lord Nerevar]], it is possible that [[DeityOfHumanOrigin the Tribunal]] cast Dagoth away to do exactly what Nerevar explicitly told them ''not'' to do, while convincing Dagoth that Nerevar had betrayed ''him'' in the process. [[spoiler:As with everything else relating to those events, the game [[TheUnreveal never makes it clear]] ''exactly'' what happened, leaving it to the player to draw his or her own conclusions]].
43* ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'':
44** The smaller Shadow Blot is revealed to be this. His motives are just like Oswald's: he wants to be famous and loved by the people in RealLife. If you use paint, after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYbFNLV329E Mickey's climactic battle with it]], he gives WesternAnimation/{{Mickey|Mouse}} a big hug, leading [[DeadpanSnarker Gus]] to marvel: "''Huh''? He's actually kind of... ''sweet''."
45** WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit. Much of what he does (and well, mostly what he ''intends'' on doing) is the result of neglect, jealousy, and the loss of everything he cared about (especially Ortensia) and built in the Thinner Disaster.
46* ''VideoGame/FatalFrame'' is filled with these, in particular the primary antagonist of each installment. The majority of the spirits encountered throughout the series were killed by a curse and now forced to suffer for all eternity, seeking to inflict it upon others. Stand-outs include:
47** [[VideoGame/FatalFrameI Original]] BigBad Kirie, a VirginSacrifice that lived for a decade in isolation prior to her ritual. In the final months of her life, she fell in love with a visitor to the manor......and learned just before the ritual that he had been murdered. Her heartbreak and guilt caused the ritual -- which involved tearing her apart with ropes -- to fail, flooding the manor with Malice and turning her into a vengeful spirit. And even after she is free from the malice, she used her own body as a seal to prevent the gate from opening again for eternity. While the canon ending had Mafuyu staying with her to help ease her pain and burden, unlike the other main antagonists who were allowed to move on or at least find true peace, she would had spend eternity guarding the gate to prevent the malice from flooding the region again.
48** Reika Kuze, the BigBad of [[VideoGame/FatalFrameIII the third installment]]. After losing her entire family, she was taken into the Kuze Shrine and underwent the Tattooing ritual. This involve having the sorrow and nightmares of pilgrims ''tattooed'' onto her skin, taking up their burdens as her own. After completing the ritual, she was crucified inside a hidden shrine to dream the tattoos' pain forever... but her childhood sweetheart came to see her one last time. For this transgression, he was murdered right in front of her, and the pain caused the tattoos to overflow, cursing the manor. Unable to close her eyes or look away, she was forced to continue staring at her lover's corpse until Rei came to end the curse.
49** Ouse Kurosawa, the BigBad of the [[VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater fifth installment]]. As a {{miko}} of a local religion, she used her psychic powers to "glance" the hearts of suicides, allowing them to die without their burdens. When she reached her limit, she was prepared to be sacrificed as a Great Pillar to purify the lake connected to the underworld. But her heart wasn't strong enough to contain the Black Water, after sensing the slaughter of her companions and realizing she wanted to go on living with the man she loved. Until Yuuri came to the mountain to end the curse, Ouse endlessly sought out someone to ease her loneliness and heartbreak.
50* ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'''s Alma is a dead straight example of this trope. [[spoiler:Having been driven insane by her own psychic powers as a child, experimented on and locked up since she was eight years old, medicated into a coma and locked away in a shield vault for most of her life, forcibly impregnated and then having both of her children taken away, then killed once the project was terminated, all by her ''own father'', and ''then'' repeatedly shot at by ''one of her own children'' while trying to embrace him]], it's no surprise that the second she gets loose, people ''die''. ''F.E.A.R. 2'' continues her rampage as she tries to get revenge on everyone who ruined her life, and kills anyone who happens to get in her way.
51** Except for Becket, who she [[spoiler:[[StalkerWithACrush "covets"]].]]
52** In [[spoiler:The Point Man]]'s defense, being embraced by Alma tends to be ''a death sentence''.
53* Practically every villain of the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series from VI onward is either this or else PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery, and arguably the villains from many of the previous games and spin-off lines.
54** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': Kefka Palazzo can be seen as this, if you're feeling ''really'' generous. He was a PracticallyJoker MonsterClown with the FreudianExcuse of being a PsychoPrototype TykeBomb. Because WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity, he was a StrawNihilist who could simply find no reason to continue living after TheEmpire denied him the opportunity to [[FriendlessBackground form any meaningful bonds with others]], with the insanity they bestowed on him alienating him from others even further. After a lifetime of being completely and utterly alone with everyone from civilians to his fellow soldiers terrified of him, even after the heroes [[EvilCannotComprehendGood attempt]] TalkingTheMonsterToDeath, he felt he had no choice but to be an OmnicidalManiac. When he reappears in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' he's presented as even ''more'' of a SadClown, with his final laugh being a sobbing, sad one.
55** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Sephiroth, thanks to the revelation that he is the product of a MadScientist's experiment, compounded by the effect of falling into the Lifestream and being exposed to the voices of all souls not currently alive, warping his mind even more. His crossing of the MoralEventHorizon keeps him from truly being a [[TheWoobie Woobie]], but then again, he is the premiere DracoInLeatherPants of the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series.
56*** He's built up much more into this in the prequel, ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', where his two best friends turn out to be [[FlawedPrototype flawed prototypes]], abandon Shinra, and are hunted down like animals. One goes insane and the other commits SuicideByCop in fear of doing the same, and in a few months, Sephiroth loses the only people he could relate to and any pretense of trusting the organization that rules his life. So when Genesis and Hojo set him up for TheReveal [[IAmAMonster about himself]] and Jenova starts messing with his head, he cracks because he's got nothing worth holding on for. Also, ''Crisis Core'' shows that prior to the Nibelheim incident, Sephiroth was a [[PetTheDog fairly decent and caring person]].
57*** A much more straight example of this trope is [[spoiler:Dyne, who snapped when [[MegaCorp Shinra]] took everything away from him]].
58** While [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Ultimecia]] may not be a [[EpilepticTrees future version of Rinoa]], her own backstory is just as tragic. Due to being [[BlessedWithSuck a Sorceress]], she was persecuted her entire life because of the terrible actions of evil sorceresses in the past. Not only that, but thanks to history, she knows she is destined to die at the hands of a bunch of teenage mercenaries and all her plans are based on a desperate desire to [[ScrewDestiny escape her fate]]. Sadly, her actions in the past to achieve this goal caused the start of the persecution of Sorceresses in her own time. The story itself screws her over because of the subtle method of storytelling in the game, her backstory has to be pieced together from hints and comments by characters and plot events, making her seem like a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere.
59** Kuja in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' and Seymour in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' are PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery types, and thus their examples fall under that page. Seymour was ''waaaaay'' too far gone to TakeAThirdOption, however.
60** Shuyin in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' fits this trope to a T, being subjected to ''a thousand years'' of non-stop visions of [[MindRape him and his girlfriend being murdered]] until two years before the start of the game. It's [[TheWoobie quite understandable]] that he'd want to use [[LostSuperweapon Vegnagun]] on a world that basically made his existence hell...
61** It's implied that this affects [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Kefka Palazzo]] in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' during his surprisingly [[AlasPoorVillain touching]] final scene in which it is implied that the reason Kefka became an AxCrazy NietzscheWannabe was because he's so damn insane, he thinks there's nothing worth living for except destruction. Terra herself says that he was destroying to try and fill his "broken heart".
62*** While you don't find out exactly why [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Garland]] betrayed Cornelia, his actions in Dissidia are said to be motivated by him pitying Chaos and Cid of the Lufaine. Also, One Man's Monologue depicts him lying paralyzed in the destroyed parallel world for several days and clearly shows that he felt regret about his time loop shenanigans in hindsight.
63** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 Caius Ballad]]. He was tasked by Etro to forever guard over the [[FaintingSeer Seeress of Paddra]] (Yeul), and [[BlessedWithSuck 'blessed']] with Etro's own heart, making him [[WhoWantsToLiveForever immortal]]. Which means he's had literally ''millennia'' of the same cycle; Yeul dies young, is reborn, dies again... etc. By the time the game starts, his mind has become so warped by the pain of her thousands of deaths, that he believes Yeul's cruel existence must be put to an end, and that [[TimeCrash stopping time itself from existing]] (after all, how can a seeress have visions if there's ''nothing'' to see?) is the only way to truly save her.
64** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV Bahamut]] and the remaining Meracydian dragons would certainly qualify for this as well. Forced to be summoned for thousands of years, his followers prayed to Bahamut for salvation -- not knowing that Bahamut himself was imprisoned and tortured alongside them. By the time Bahamut destroys Eorzea in the opening cinematic, he has literally endured hundreds of lifetimes worth of torture. By the end of the Binding Coil storyline, you start to realize that the opening theme of the game, Answers, was more about the Meracydians than modern-day Eorzeans.
65*** '''Answers Opening Chorus''': "''I close my eyes, tell us why must we suffer? Release your hands, for your will drags us under. My legs grow tired, tell us ere must we wander? How can we carry on with redemption beyond us?''"
66*** In the endgame of ''Stormblood'': [[spoiler:Yotsuyu, the cruel BoomerangBigot viceroy of Doma, has lived in hell for practically all of her life. Her mother died when she was young, leaving her in the care of her relatives. Her aunt hated her with every fiber of her being. She was forced into marriage with an abusive drunk, then when he died in debt, was forced to pay off those debts in sexual servitude before being recruited into the Garlean military, where she took out her rage on her own countrymen. She was believed dead near the end of the game, but actually survived, albeit with amnesia. It seemed for a time she would finally get a chance at happiness as the childlike "Tsuyu", unburdened by memories of abuses both suffered and inflicted...until her foster brother Asahi forcibly resurfaced her memories and manipulated her into performing a summoning and becoming the primal moon goddess Tsukuyomi. During the battle, she realizes her power came from her suffering, inviting phantoms of those who hated her to strike her down, until a vision of Gosetsu tries to save her. She laments, however, that she is beyond redemption as the primal influence robs her of her agency. Then after Tsukuyomi is defeated, Asahi shoots and hits her until he gets his KarmicDeath at the hands of Yotsuyu in her dying moments.]]
67*** The BigBad of Endwalker and the GreaterScopeVillain turns out to be one of these. [[spoiler: Meteion is part of an empathic HiveMind made by a researcher named Hermes, with the goal of Meteia being to go to other worlds and establish contact with the life on them. Tragically, Hermes never prepared Meteion for what happened if things out in space weren't as happy as he envisioned. Every world that the Meteia found with sentient life had either been driven to extinction for a variety of reasons, or were actively in the process of going extinct and well past the DespairEventHorizon. This resulted in the HiveMind absorbing all of these dying civilization's despair and agony, giving rise to a being who believed that life itself is nothing but pointless suffering, and that it's an act of love and mercy to cause a [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 total universal extinction event]] by wiping out what societies are still alive, sealing off the flow of life into her nest so reincarnation can no longer happen, and speeding up Universal Heat Death just for good measure. At the end of it all though... Meteion is just a scared child who was forced to experience horrors she was never prepared to deal with, and when the [[HopeBringer Warrior of Light]] manages to give her a happy answer and show why mortals would live even when they will inevitably die, she frees all the captured souls she was hoarding and ([[UncertainDoom possibly]]) dies at peace.]]
68* Zephiel from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade The Blazing Blade]]'' [[spoiler:was a talented youth who did his best to win approval from his father, the king of Bern. But the harder he strove, the more distant his talentless father grew, and the fact that he was born from [[ArrangedMarriage a loveless marriage]] didn't help either. The final straw came when the king poisoned his heir's drink, several years after a first assassination attempt failed. Zephiel's closest retainer, [[WorthyOpponent Murdoch]], came up with the idea of faking his death to get him out of there. However, the king opened the casket, causing Zephiel to finally snap and stab him. According to his half-sister, Guinevere, Zephiel never smiled again. Years later, he (now king of Bern) was stirring up quite a bit of trouble in neighbouring countries, trying to offer the land back to its rightful owners because HumansAreBastards. He had to be killed... with his crestfallen sister's help, no less]].
69** Another example is [[spoiler:Prime Minister Sephiran]] of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Radiant Dawn]]''. He was once a great hero, [[spoiler:one of four champions of Ashera, Goddess of Order, in her war against Yune, Goddess of Chaos. He was a kind man, and a member of the most peaceful race on the continent, the heron laguz; indeed, once Yune was subdued, he defied Ashera's order to kill her and simply sealed her away. As Ashera thereafter proceeded to thereafter seal herself, he promised her that Tellius would see no war for the next thousand years, with the goddess adding ominously that if that promise were broken, she would destroy the world. Sephiran married a fellow hero and started a family, a family that would found the greatest country on the continent, which, given his [[TimeAbyss absurdly long lifespan]] as a heron, he would continue to serve in high positions all his life.]] Everything appeared to be going fantastic for him. Then, nineteen years before the main story [[spoiler:a SmugSnake subordinate of his assassinated the country's beloved empress and pinned the crime on the herons, all but four of whom were wiped out in the resulting genocidal war. Sephiran]] resolved that a world in which ''that'' could happen simply didn't deserve to live, and resolved that he would [[spoiler:create a war so devastating it would wake the goddess and bring doom to all life]].
70* The ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' franchise heavily implies, and later confirms, the animatronics are this. [[spoiler:To be specific, they're actually possessed by the Purple Man's victims, who are simply children who want to avenge their deaths.]] However, later games confirm that [[spoiler:the animatronics themselves are sentient, and do ''not'' like all the horrors they've been forced to take part of.]] ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' all but spells it out with Circus Baby, who [[spoiler: not only was forced to kill a little girl due to her programming, but also convinces her fellow animatronics to combine into one and then wear Eggs' skin so that they can escape. All this, simply because they don't want to suffer anymore.]]
71* General Nathan Sheridan, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Fracture}}''. When you read his back story you find out he sacrificed his career in the Atlantic Alliance military, his reputation, his friends and family all for the sake of his daughters, who were diagnosed with a rare genetic disease which couldn't be cured by conventional means. Desperate, he moved to the Republic of Pacifica, where there is no ban on genetic research. There the best geneticists worked tirelessly in a race against time to save them, but their efforts were futile and his daughters died within weeks of each other. And just to twist the knife in a little deeper six weeks after their deaths a cure was found. His wife divorced him soon afterwards and the rest of his life collapsed around him. Determined to make sure what happened to his daughters never happened to anyone else, he starts building an army the likes of which the world has never seen before to remove the ban on genetic research by force.
72* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': The Nomadic Merchants. They were once a thriving culture in their own right as the Great Caravan, but when they were accused of heresy, they were all rounded up and buried alive en masse. Their despair at their fate and hatred for the Golden Order for the atrocity [[spoiler:attracted the [[OmnicidalManiac Frenzied Flame]] to the Lands Between, which (if your character so desires) can lead to the world being burned to the ground.]]
73* [[spoiler:Yomiel]] in ''VideoGame/GhostTrick''. [[spoiler:He was falsely accused of giving secrets to the enemy and scared into thinking that he had no hope of acquittal, so he stole a police officer's gun and broke out of the police station, taking a little girl hostage out of panic. A shard of the just-crashed Temsik meteorite penetrated his back, freezing his body at the moment of death and severing it from his soul. By the time he finally pulls himself together and returns home, his fiancée has killed herself because he's been officially reported as dead. Yomiel is forced to wander the world alone, unable to die but not truly alive, separated from the rest of humanity. The isolation nurtures a darkness in his heart, making him want revenge on those who put him in that position, but he still desires most to have some way to lead a human life. His only friend and companion over those ten long years was a cat... and while trying to manipulate Lynne into shooting his shell, Yomiel accidentally kills him.]] Even his victims feel sorry for him when they find out his story.
74* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'':
75** Victor Vance from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories''. His attempt to improve his situation and that of his family is often undermined by circumstances beyond his control. At first, he is nothing more than an honest, upright, and decent man simply doing his job in the army. However, Martinez's corruption and his brother's greed, combined with the fact that he becomes entangled in a world of violence and organized crime in Vice City after being expelled from the army due to Martinez, pave the way for him to become the most powerful drug lord in the city. Nevertheless, a part of his humanity is still there, with both Pete and Louise being his [[MoralityPet Morality Pets]].
76** Niko Bellic from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' is decidedly the most tragic protagonist in ''GTA''. He is a veteran of UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars with a history of [[AbusiveParents parental abuse]] and [[ShellShockedVeteran having experienced and committed a series of war crimes during that conflict]]. His dual consciousness and contradictions, as well as his internal conflict between {{revenge}}, finding a better option for himself in America, or being caught in a wave of murders and organized crime, are largely the focal points of his story.
77** Trevor Philips from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''. Implied to be one. Given all the misfortunes that he has gone through his life, it is not difficult to imagine that much of his traumas contributed to his AxCrazy behavior.
78* The Ur-Didact from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' was the military commander of the [[{{Precursors}} Forerunners]] and led them in a war against [[AdvancedAncientHumans humanity 110,000 years ago]] that took the lives of all of his children. During the war, the Forerunners had discovered the existence of the Flood and begun devising plans to counter a resurgence. The Ur-Didact proposed shield worlds, huge mobile fortresses that could be dropped in and out of slipspace to combat Flood infestations while also acting as safe havens for species that are threatened by the Flood, while his political rival, the Master Builder Faber, proposed the Halo array, which would be used to cleanse systems of Flood by killing all sentient life within the desired area of effect. The Ur-Didact staunchly opposed the array, viewing it as an affront to the Mantle, the Forerunner's belief system that forms the basis of their civilization, since it involved killing off large numbers of lifeforms. His opposition lead to the halting of the construction of shield worlds, the diminishing of the rate the Ur-Didact belonged to, the Warrior-Servants, and his exile inside a Cryptum. 10,000 years later, he was awakened from his Cryptum during the final years of the war between the Forerunners and a newly resurgent Flood army by a pair of humans and a Forerunner manipular called Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting. When he discovered that a Halo ring had been test-fired by the Master Builder near Charum Hakkor, destroying the Precursor technology there [[AchillesHeel because it is vulnerable to the Halo array due to the technology being based on neural physics]], freeing the Primordial, [[spoiler:a surviving member of the [[RecursivePrecursors Precursor]] species that were responsible for seeding life across the galaxy and were hunted down by the Forerunners when they rejected the Forerunners' claim to the Mantle and control of the galaxy]], with whom the Ur-Didact had conversed regarding the nature of the Flood while the Primordial was held in stasis on Charum Hakkor, he performed a brevet mutation on Bornstellar, imprinting his personality and memories on him in the process, as a precaution in case he was captured or killed. [[ProperlyParanoid As the Ur-Didact feared]], he and his companions were captured by the Master Builder and he was abandoned in a Burn, a Flood-infested system, where he was subjected to MindRape by the Gravemind, which now incorporated the consciousness of the Primordial. The Gravemind intended to cause extra havoc within what remained of the Forerunner ecumene by returning the Ur-Didact to Forerunner space, where he was interrogated about his encounter, forcing him to recount his experience and causing him yet more suffering. He then began turning to more desperate and extreme methods to counter the Flood. This included a failed mutation of his body to try to make him immune to infection by the Flood, leaving him disfigured. He then turned to using the Composer to convert Forerunners into digital form and rendering them immune to the Flood. While the Ur-Didact's Promethean comrades willingly subjected themselves to composition, he believed that the reason that the Forerunners were unable to halt the Flood's advance was due to a lack of numbers in his [[MechaMook new Promethean army]]. [[KickTheDog He then decided to compose the remaining humans that his wife, the Librarian, had collected as part of the conservation measure]], believing that humanity's [[UnwillingRoboticization enslavement]] would redeem them of the crimes of their ancestors during their war with the Forerunners. This enraged the Librarian, causing her, one of the few people he didn't resent, to imprison in him in a Cryptum with the intention of healing his mind to be healed through meditation in the Domain, a vast repository of knowledge that was mysterious to the Forerunners. His actions also indirectly lead to the Librarians death since she was forced to return to Earth to collect new human specimens to save their species, leaving her stranded within the galaxy when the Halo array fired. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:the Domain was protected by Precursor technology and was damaged by the firing of the Halo array]], meaning the Ur-Didact was unable to access the Domain, culminating him in [[GoMadFromTheIsolation being subjected to]] ''[[GoMadFromTheIsolation yet another]]'' [[GoMadFromTheIsolation insanity-inducing event]] [[TimeAbyss for the next 100,000 years]] due to being limited in his ability to interact with anything outside his Cryptum. By the time he had been set free, the rest of his species had exiled themselves from the galaxy, meaning all the people he knew and cared about were either dead, had resettled on distant worlds, or were merely digital essences that made up what remained of his Promethean army. He also discovered the species he now came to loathe, humanity, was rapidly becoming prominent again with some help from the plans the Librarian had put in place for when the Forerunners had reseeded the galaxy. The Ur-Didact would then attempt to finish what he started by trying to compose the rest of humanity as well as try to regain control of the galaxy in the name of the Forerunners. After this failed, [[{{Hypocrite}} he decided to try to fire a Halo ring near Earth to eradicate humanity]]. This lead to his eventual defeat at the hands of the Master Chief, resulting in [[spoiler:him being subjected to the composer and being contained on the Composers Forge, the planet Clinquant. Because his mutation seemingly rendered him immune to the composer's effects, [[AmbiguousSituation he was]] ''[[AmbiguousSituation not]]'' [[AmbiguousSituation composed in the way that normally happens]]]].
79* The Origami Killer, aka [[spoiler: Scott Shelby]] in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' is the way he is all because [[spoiler:his own father was a complete bastard who regularly abused him and his brother both physically and verbally and ultimately convinced him he was worthless, and then to top it all off was forced to watch his own brother drown and said dad refused to help him. And his mom, the nice parent, apparently contracted Alzheimer's and all but lost her mind so she couldn't take care of him anymore. And now he drowns children and puts their fathers through sadistic tests all in the deluded hope that they can save them and that the kids can have fathers that are worthwhile and will always be there for them, something he never had]].
80* ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' has Iosa the Invincible. A maniacal BloodKnight even by her species' high standards, her lust for carnage began when the Tasen [[ApocalypseHow Alpha Struck]] her home planet, killing ''every living thing'' on it [[{{Determinator}} except for her]]. Afterwards, she desired nothing more than the extermination every last Tasen in existence.
81** Iji herself can become one of these, depending on the player's actions. Indeed, Iosa is portrayed as her EvilCounterpart because their histories (and possible subsequent actions) are almost identical.
82* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
83** Subverted with the FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2''. [[spoiler:Xion has been one of main character Roxas's two best friends for the year he's been alive, and finds out that she is an imperfect Replica of Roxas that's been absorbing Sora's memories. The knowledge causes her much grief, but after Xemnas reprograms her to absorb the rest of Roxas's power, she appears to be BrainwashedAndCrazy, turning OneWingedAngel to attack Roxas and saying that she needs to absorb him to be complete. When she's defeated, she gets a gutwrenching death scene where she says goodbye to Roxas and dies in his arms, seemingly only now herself again, and gets the even sadder fate of being RetGone from the memories of everyone who knew her.]] However, reading the character's Secret Report reveals the truth: [[spoiler:the reprogramming hadn't really taken, Xion was actually pulling a SuicideByCop to do what she thought was best for Roxas. As explained earlier in the game, if she lived, it would've kept [[TheHero Sora]] from ever waking up again and would eventually kill Roxas. In dying, she stopped the Organization from continuing to use her as a weapon, gave Roxas back the power she'd unintentionally drained from him, and would help Sora wake up with his memories restored. Ultimately still playing the "Woobie" part straight.]]
84** The novels for ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' paint Vanitas as such. He's a [[DarkIsEvil vicious and cruel villain]] in the present day, but the backstory he's given would've made it impossible for him ''not'' to be. [[spoiler:As the living darkness extracted from Ven's heart, he really just wants to rejoin with Ven to put an end to the suffering he experiences from his unnatural existence. Here his creation of the Unversed is depicted as both painful and involuntary for him; he hates the Unversed and destroys them, but he feels their pain when they die and since they're the embodiment of his negative emotions, this creates more Unversed he hates, making a vicious cycle. To add to that, for four years he's put through TrainingFromHell by ruthless [[AbusiveParents Master Xehanort]] and has no one else, and at the same time that's going on, he's also sensing Ven's happiness through their connection as Ven makes friends in Terra and Aqua and is treated like a son by Master Eraqus. Vanitas becomes resentful and bitter of Ven's friendships, which is why he goes out of his way to be such a bastard about them in the game.]]
85* The King of Sorrow from ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}'' fits this trope perfectly. [[spoiler:Long story short, he ends up being ignored by the entire world for representing an emotion that everyone hates. He goes mad and, as an act of vengeance, decides to unleash sorrow all across Lunatea, which, judging by the reactions, will cause quite a bit of destruction.]]
86** [[spoiler:He outright says that he plans to destroy the world when you reach him in the Terminus of Tears and it's pretty clear that he's gone AxCrazy]].
87* Several characters from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' fit this trope.
88** [[BlackMage Veigar:]] A member of a [[OurGnomesAreWeirder notably short and cheerful race]], he was driven insane from isolation while imprisoned in [[WretchedHive Noxus]]. He then spent years learning dark magic, and vowed to end conflict by bringing all nations to their knees.
89** His new retconned backstory is ''even worse''. He befriended several Noxian mages only for all of them to be slaughtered by Mordekaiser. Mordekaiser then kidnapped him, cursed him to be unable to return to Bandle City, and forced him into servitude using powerful dark magic both to extend Mordekaiser's life and to torture others. Centuries of this resulted in Veigar's body and mind corrupting and him forgetting his entire past life. Even when Mordekaiser was defeated, Veigar was unable to break free of his influence and continues to practice evil, though fortunately for those he encounters he is a MinionWithAnFInEvil who's mostly interested in duking it out with worse threats.
90** [[ColdSniper Varus:]] The guardian of the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pit of corruption]] whose village was burned and family was killed by invading Noxian forces. Overwhelmed by regret and fury he absorbed the power of the pit of corruption, failing the sole task he was given in the process, in an attempt to gain the power he needed to exact his revenge.
91--> ''"Beware a man with nothing to lose"''
92** While Noxus seems prone to create this sort of character, they aren't without their own woobie.[[CrutchCharacter Urgot]] was once a proud, fearsome soldier of Noxus who threw himself into the fray until the day his hands were too mangled to hold a weapon. He was awarded for his loyalty by having his hands replaced by blades and given the role of High Executioner. While following a group of soldiers on a mission, he was going to get the opportunity to kill Jarvan IV, the prince of rival nation Demacia but before he was given the chance he was chopped down by a Demacian soldier named Garen Crownguard. Robbed of the grandest moment of his life, Urgot's sheer anger and hatred was the only thing that made him survive being rebuilt as [[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/a/aa/Urgot_OriginalSkin.jpg the necromantic cyborg he is today.]]
93--> ''"Existance is torment."''
94* Skull Kid from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' was devastated when his friends, the Four Giants, had to leave him. The people of Clock Town also rejected him due to being tired of his pranks, leaving him all alone apart from the fairies Tatl and Tael. Then he found [[ArtifactOfDoom Majora's Mask]] and was possessed by it, gaining god-like power in the process which he uses to curse the people of Termina and [[ColonyDrop drop the Moon on them]].
95* [[spoiler:Oersted]] from ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', in the Middle Ages chapter. [[spoiler:His story begins when he wins a tournament to gain a princess' hand in marriage and, in doing so, earns the accolades of the people, only for her to be kidnapped by the Lord of Dark the following night. What seems to be a standard "save the princess" plot is soon turned on its head as the hero, Hasshe, who last slew the Lord of Dark, is killed when fighting against it with the rest of Oersted's party. Then, the Lord of Dark seems to assault Oersted in the night, only for it to turn out to be the king of Lucrece, who had been made to look like it -- a fact discovered only after Oersted kills him. Now treated as a demon by the townspeople, Oersted returns to the Archon's Roost to save the princess, the one person who might still believe in him, only to encounter his best friend, Streibough, who seemed to have died in battle with the Lord of Dark along with Hasshe. Turns out, he had orchestrated everything to make Oersted an outcast out of jealousy of the latter's success. On top of that, after Oersted battles and kills his old friend, the princess appears, accuses Oersted for not trying to rescue her when he had been trying to do so all along, professes her love for Streibough, and kills herself. With no one in the world now who doesn't loathe him, Oersted snaps and declares that, if the people want to think of him as a demon, why, then that's exactly what he'll become...Odio, the Lord of Dark. He then proceeds to slaughter every last person in the kingdom and send several incarnations of himself across time to test the virtues of humanity, thus starting the game's events.]]
96* [[spoiler:[[TomatoInTheMirror Vayne]]]] in ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'', after he [[IAmWho discovered the truth]] and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation failed to take it well]]. [[spoiler:Faced with the problem of honestly thinking that the best thing for the world would be if [[DrivenToSuicide he were to disappear]], while at the same time ''desperately'' not wanting to face the loneliness he lived with before coming to [[WizardingSchool Al Revis]], he decides to take the school and everybody in it with him]].
97* Durandal, an AI from the ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' trilogy, was deliberately threatened by his creator in order to drive him to [[AIIsACrapshoot Rampancy]] (as part of an attempt to safely study the process), made to open and close doors for hundreds of years in order to stifle his creative development and slow his Rampancy, and was probably about to be experimented on more when he entered the "[[KillAllHumans anger]]" stage of rampancy, secretly contacted hostile aliens and drew them to Tau Ceti to enslave or kill every single human on the colony or in the ship. Though he becomes less of a {{woobie}} later, when he turns into a badass {{Chessmaster}}.
98** He brought the Pfhor as a distraction so he could get loose. Once that was done, he started working on stopping them, freeing their slaves (admittedly, to work for him), and helping the Security Officer do that which he does so well. The extermination of those on Tau Ceti IV was not intentional.
99* Morinth of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' claims to be this, stating that she never wished to be born an Ardat-Yakshi (the Asari equivalent of a succubus). Possibly subverted if it was ultimately her choice to screw and kill the galaxy's population, in that order, as opposed to her being controlled by an addiction that she never asked for in the first place.
100** [[DarkMagicalGirl J]][[AxCrazy a]][[SociopathicHero c]][[BrokenBird k]]. She's probably the most powerful human biotic in existence and certainly one of the most powerful biotics of any species in the galaxy. Her backstory includes [[spoiler:being stolen from her mother as an infant, brutally [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] and [[PlayingWithSyringes experimented]] on by ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards rogue]]'' [[NGOSuperpower Cerberus]] [[EvilutionaryBiologist scientists]], used, abused, [[HeroicSacrifice watched the only person she ever truly cared about die to protect her]], and who knows what else.]] [[CosmicPlaything Yeah. Her life sucks.]] Good thing Shepard [[VideogameCaringPotential can help her deal with it and provide some measure of comfort]].
101** The ''Overlord'' DLC adds a new one. Simply naming who it is would be a spoiler, but anyone who's played it will know which character it is.
102** The ending implies that [[spoiler: the Collector General]] is one. [[spoiler: He's probably been controlled by Harbinger and the Reapers his whole life and was forced to do terrible things, all to aid in the galactic extinction cycle that claimed his own race. When Harbinger releases him as the Collector Base is being destroyed he sadly lowers his head in what appears to be remorse and [[DrivenToSuicide doesn't even attempt to escape the explosion behind him]], even though he easily could.]]
103* Elpizo from the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series exhibits traits of this trope, being sentenced to death for discovering records about a past [[MassHypnosis catastrophe]] in the ruined library ''he was ordered to examine''. He escapes this fate, only to get lots of people killed while leading a failed assault on his former rulers; this drives him to obsession and megalomania, and he decides that he wants to [[KillAllHumans re-enact the aforementioned catastrophe]].
104** In the sequel series ''VideoGame/MegamanZX'', [[spoiler: [[CoDragons Prometheus and Pandora]], [[{{Jerkass}} despite]] [[ObviouslyEvil appearances]]]], are very much this. They spent a long time fuming at the fact that they were [[spoiler: made to be slaves for [[BigBad Albert's]] Game of Destiny, the punishment for disobedience [[YourDaysAreNumbered being their lives]]. Prometheus's last words, after he [[TheStarscream kills]] [[ActuallyADoombot Albert]] and before he and Pandora are [[UnwittingPawn royally owned by Model W]], were a long rant about how pointless Albert's goal was, and that he might as well destroy the whole world thanks to the pain of what he and his sister had to endure]]. [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat It's unclear what happened to them afterwards]].
105* The King of Planet FM from ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce''. [[spoiler:Everybody, including his family, wanted to kill him to overtake his throne. As a result, he stopped trusting people. He destroyed Planet AM and almost Earth, because he thought that the people there would want to kill him as well.]]
106** Jack and Queentia from ''Star Force 3'' also fit this trope like a glove. [[spoiler:They were once the prince and princess of a small, but prosperous country, which was attacked by neighbor nations for their advanced EM technology. And it just went downhill from there...]]
107** [[spoiler:You could probably also say this for Burai/Rogue, also in the 3rd game. After the first time you fight him on your way to fight Jack Corvus, he may have shared his backstory, saying something along the lines of "Go ahead and save him. Later on, he will betray you."]]
108* Big Boss, of the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series, had a life that could best be described as a TraumaCongaLine of absolutely ''epic'' proportions. First off, in 1964, he is forced to kill the only woman he had ever loved, the woman who had served as his mentor and mother figure for more then ''fifteen years'', all because somebody in the U.S. government held a grudge and set her up. Ten years later, Big Boss comes up with the idea for an "Outer Heaven". A place where soldiers can live free from the manipulations of governments, and be given the honor and respect they deserve. Along the way, he decides that The Boss abandoned her soldiers virtues, and therefore him as well.[[spoiler: This Outer Heaven is promptly destroyed, and Big Boss watches hundreds of the men and women he loved as brothers and sisters die in front of him, and he is sent into a ten year long coma]] After returning to action, Big Boss strives to take revenge and build his Outer Heaven, gathering a formidable army, and also nuclear weapons, only to be foiled and [[spoiler: crippled]] by his very own ''son'' Solid Snake. [[spoiler: Big Boss is then held unconscious, a prisoner in his own mind for over ''ten years''.]] And when he is finally able to return and come to peace with his son, he dies soon after. All things considered, its a wonder Big Boss didn't snap ''sooner'' then he did.
109* Fortune and Vamp from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' (with a little more emphasis on the Woobie bit in the former case and the Destroyer bit in the latter). The former endured the deaths of everyone dear to her, and as such is a [[TheResenter Resenter]] and DeathSeeker who happens to cause a lot of carnage with her {{BFG}}. The latter was the victim of terrorism, having to resort to cannibalism in order to survive in the ruins and developing a [[WhoWantsToLiveForever troubling immortality]] in the process.
110* [[spoiler:Melissa Bergman/MB]] in ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM''. [[spoiler:Her]] only crime initially was occasionally disagreeing with the other scientists on the Bottle Ship, but for that, they decided that [[spoiler:she had to have her emotions removed from her. She]] saw this as betrayal by her beloved mother [[spoiler:figure]], and as a result, everyone got horribly mauled by monsters.
111* In ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'', [[spoiler:The Dark Curse]], who stole the face of countless Miis, WasOnceAMan that was royally ignored by everybody and came to hage his own face, which he deemed uninteresting and blamed for his loneliness. He shed his face away and soon the rest of his body faded, leaving a bitter and envious soul behind.
112* [[spoiler:Aribeth]] from ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights''. [[spoiler:She starts as a heroic paladin and your main ally, beloved by all and considered a national hero. Then the people of the city you and her worked your asses off to save force the government to execute her innocent lover for being an ''unwilling'' pawn in [[TheMole Desther]]'s plans. And the government had no say in it, ''the townspeople formed a mob and forced Fenthick's execution.'' In the next chapter, Aribeth is so filled with despair that the BigBad is able to manipulate it into hatred and rage, turning her against the titular city (and the player). Aribeth is especially pitiful when you face her in the finale, as, with her lover dead and feeling of betrayed by Neverwinter, you can tell that she feels she has nothing left to lose.]]
113** The King of Shadows himself, the BigBad of the Original Campaign. [[spoiler:He started out as the greatest hero of the ancient realm of Illefarn. Then he volunteered for a horrifically painful ritual that turned him into a construct of pure magic, the Guardian, to make an effective deterrent to [[TheEmpire Netheril]]. Then the Netherese wizard Karsus tried to usurp Mystryl's place as god of magic[[note]]Not actually, according to the source material -- Karsus himself arguably fits in this trope -- but when you're borrowing power from the goddess of magic and the consequences end up being he death and magic being permanently reduced, who'd believe you were actually just trying to save your people and thought you were making a HeroicSacrifice?[[/note]] and all hell broke loose. The Weave was interrupted and the Guardian faced destruction. He chose to continue his vigil over Illefarn by drawing power from the [[BlackMagic Shadow Weave]]. That's when he became the King of Shadows. Illefarn tried to destroy him and only succeeded in binding him outside the Material Plane.]]
114** In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2: Mask of the Betrayer'':
115*** [[spoiler:Akachi the Betrayer]], who, as [[ThePunishment punishment]] for defying the gods by [[spoiler:trying to rescue his beloved's soul from the [[AndIMustScream Wall of the Faithless]]]], is turned into [[spoiler:the Spirit-Eater curse, an EldritchAbomination driven only by hunger and the instinct to possess bodies and devour spirits, always eating but never satiated]].
116*** The Founder, the definition of WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds. She inflicted the PlayerCharacter with a soul-eating curse and set into motion events that threaten the very fabric of the TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms, all to save her lover from [[AndIMustScream the Wall of the Faithless]].
117* [[spoiler:King Valentine]] in ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'' throws a SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum in the final book by [[spoiler:using the Cauldron to turn Leventhan into a really pissed-off Sheng Long, which ends up destroying him along with the rest of existence]]. Granted, he got broken pretty hard before and during the story, beginning with [[spoiler:being forced to kill his own daughter because she had an affair with the king of an enemy country]], then dying horribly, along with most of his kingdom, after being betrayed [[spoiler:by his own son]], enduring endless torture in the netherworld, and escaping it only to be spitefully denied the complete destruction he was so desperately seeking, [[spoiler:by the dude who started the whole thing by shagging his daughter, no less]].
118* ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest'': At first, [[BigBad Kuro]] the giant owl, seems like a classic case of DarkIsEvil as her goal is to take away the the light of the forest of Nibel so she and other being of darkness can reign supreme. However it couldn't be further from the truth: [[spoiler:Kuro's children were killed by the light of the Spirit Tree and all she has left is an unatched egg, since she doesn't want her child to suffer the same fate, she made the vow to destroy the light and make a world where [[KnightTemplarParents she would never live in fear of losing another child]]]].
119* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'':
120** In ''[[VideoGame/Persona2 Persona 2 Innocent Sin]]'', [[spoiler:Joker's true identity is Jun Kurosu, a kind-hearted child from a broken family, whose greatest source of joy was the time he spent playing with his best friends... three of whom then brutally murdered the other right in front of him. This didn't actually happen, but thanks to a heavy dose of MindRape, Jun is completely convinced that it did. As part of his plot for revenge, he becomes twisted into Joker and steal the existences of countless people across Sumuru City. Mass terrorist acts are committed in his name and he gets a lot of people killed. All of this, as it turns out, originated from the BigBad, who was using Jun in order to prove that humanity are doomed to destroy themselves. When Jun finally snaps out of it and regains his true memories, he's utterly broken by what he did and spends the rest of the game as TheAtoner.]]
121** Strega of ''VideoGame/Persona3'' is a trio of this, all of them being artificially [[BlessedWithSuck implanted with the powers of Persona by the Kirijo Group and forced to take drugs that shorten their lifespan in order to control their powers]]. The leader, Takaya, later [[spoiler:embraces [[EldritchAbomination Nyx]] coming to destroy life, proclaiming that his fight against [=SEES=] is him fighting for his way of life]].
122** BigBad [[spoiler: [[SerialKiller Adachi]]]] in ''VideoGame/Persona4'' was a SourOutsideSadInside StrawNihilist who became the way he was after being screwed over by everyone in his life. [[FreudianExcuse His parents forced him to stay inside and study all the time while never letting him have any friends]], [[spoiler: he was reassigned FromNewYorkToNowhere by his last boss over minor infractions, and the resulting SmallTownBoredom]] alongside his FriendlessBackground, (initially mild) sociopathic tendencies, and superiority complex caused him to GoMadFromTheIsolation and decide that [[MisanthropeSupreme humanity is worthless]]. While it sounds like a classic case of EvilIsPetty on the surface, he's actually one of the more realistic depictions of a SerialKiller; his toxic line of thinking [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkcmxrkHXD0 is a real trap that real people fall into all the time]] with often tragic results. After his defeat and surrender, [[AlasPoorVillain even the Investigation Team starts to pity him]].
123* The Hecatomb in ''VideoGame/PhantasmagoriaAPuzzleOfFlesh'' is revealed to be [[spoiler:the original Curtis Craig, thrown into the alien world when he was young by PAW and forced to grow up in a hostile alien dimension. He wants to destroy alien Curtis and kill his friends out of revenge]].
124* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
125** ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'': Cyrus, as revealed in ''Pokémon Platinum'', was motivated by a childhood full of emotional neglect (if not more) to [[EndOfTheWorldSpecial destroy the universe so it could be recreated]] without emotion entirely, to end the suffering it caused.
126*** Interestingly, you hear about this from his grandfather, who was well aware of the ParentalNeglect and regrets not helping him, implying that it's possible Cyrus could have turned out normal if his grandfather had stepped in.
127** In ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity'', the reason that [[spoiler:Munna and her gang]] are working to ensure that the world's foreseen destruction comes to pass is that all of them had suffered terribly at the hands of others (exactly how isn't elaborated on) and believe that a new world free of injustice and pain can be created after the end of the current one.
128** In ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', AZ had a uniquely-colored Floette that he loved with all his heart, then it lost its life fighting in a war with other Pokémon. He single-handedly built a machine to bring it BackFromTheDead, but even after doing so he couldn't bring himself to forgive humanity for costing his Floette its life in the first place, so he modified his machine into an instrument of destruction and ended the war by ending thousands of other lives. The Floette was apalled by his act and abandoned him, leaving him to grieve [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld for the next 3,000 years]].
129* As of ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', [=GLaDOS=] becomes this. After all, she [[spoiler:[[WasOnceAMan was originally a human, Caroline]], [[BrainUploading forcibly uploaded into a mechanical shell]]]], and, because she was (understandably) resistant to the orders of the people who did this, was also subjected to MindRape due to the cores they forced onto her, hearing voices all her life, and soon killed every living thing in the facility.
130** [[spoiler:Wheatley becomes this. At first, he's your friend and guide, helping you escape Aperture, but when he connects to [=GLaDOS=]'s body and becomes in control of the facility, he goes [[DrunkWithPower mad with power]] and [[FaceHeelTurn betrays you.]] But during the final battle with him, if you listen long enough, he begins ranting. He hysterically claims that you've been using him and that you plan on running off with [=GLaDOS=] once you could escape. He even accuses that you didn't catch him when he disconnected from his management rail [[note]]Which is unfortunately true...[[/note]], which he honestly believed would kill him! And worst of all... he's ''[[TearJerker crying...]]'']]
131* In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'', it turns out [[spoiler:Future Luke is not Luke, but Clive. He lost his parents thanks to a time-travel incident gone wrong, which interestingly also killed [[{{Foil}} Professor Layton]]'s girlfriend, and the person responsible is now the ''Prime Minster''! Thanks to a nice old lady's fortune, he decides to build a HumongousMecha to level London and rebuild it. Interestingly, Latyon actually prevented him as a kid from going back into the burning building on the day of the incident and, while he doesn't know why, got the Professor involved knowing full well he'd ruin his plans]]. [[DracoInLeatherPants As if he wasn't a fangirl magnet already...]]
132* ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'': [[spoiler:The true BigBad turns out to be Heiss, the previous Sacrifice, who was less than amused by the fact that his asshole of a brother got to be king (and do a terrible job of it) while he was expected to die to hold off the end of the world. His exploration of the various possible futures just led him to the conclusion that [[OmnicidalManiac the world sucked so much he might as well destroy it]], so he [[RefusalOfTheCall up and left]]. The fact that King Victor's reaction to this was to kill his brother's favorite nephew to get himself a new Sacrifice probably didn't help.]]
133* Ratchet, of the ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' series -- he's a walking [[ApocalypseHow class 1]] at the very least, though he manages to avoid wallowing in his existential angst and/or loneliness pretty well by [[ReluctantMadScientist keeping busy]].
134** Alister Azimuth fits this even better, being effectively an older, more cynical, and more ruthless Ratchet. [[spoiler:To the point that he very nearly [[TimeCrash destroys time itself]] in a misguided attempt to correct his own mistakes.]]
135* Jack Krauser is retroactively implied to be of this trope in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', as Darkside Chronicles explains that his reasons for turning to Wesker was because that was the only option left for him to do the thing he did well at, fighting, after his mission with Leon resulted in him being fired from SOCOM due to an arm injury that never recovered.
136* [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Elliana]] from ''VideoGame/RivalsOfAether'' only wanted to be able to fly and join the Air Armada despite the fact that she is a snake. After being mocked for her initial failures, [[{{Determinator}} but still pressing on until she was able to do the impossible]], she was rewarded with another violent rejection despite getting through her evaluation. Now, with her own MiniMecha, Elliana vows to destroy the Armada.
137* Kyrie from ''VideoGame/SandsOfDestruction'' is a unique example of this trope in that he is more than capable of destroying the world [[spoiler:(it was what he was created by the world itself to do, after all)]], but he ''doesn't want to do this in the least!'' His power brings about many a TearJerker in the game.
138* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' features one of these as the ArcVillain of the Facility dungeon in Transylvania: a Soviet-era cosmonaut-in-training by the name of Halina Ilyushin, she joined the space program in the hopes of fulfilling her childhood dream of going to space... and for her trouble, she was transferred to Facility 9 and submitted to the torturous experiments of [[SovietSuperScience the Red Hand in their attempts to create a "Phantom Cosmonaut."]] She was given mind-bending doses of pure [[TheLifestream Anima]], her friends and fellow test subjects died one by one, and things only got worse once the scientists brought the [[MysticalPlague Filth]] into the mix; in the end, she was the only surviving Phantom Cosmonaut -- a HumanoidAbomination of mingled Filth and Anima. And after all that, she never got a chance to see the stars: once the Filth experiments got out of control, the program was shut down and the terrified scientists were forced to seal the Facility shut with her inside, leaving her alone except for the base computer. For the last few decades, she's been trying desperately to fulfill her ambitions -- even using the Filth to create ReplacementGoldfish of her old comrades just to assuage her loneliness along the way -- until she ultimately made a deal with [[EldritchAbomination the Dreamers]] just for a chance to see the stars. Needless to say, her boss dialogue is nothing short of heartbreaking:
139-->Why do you ground me?! I ''TRAINED'' FOR THIS! ''THEY '''MADE''' ME FOR THIS!''
140* ''VideoGame/SeriousSam'': It's strongly implied [[BigBad Mental]] is this, as while he and his armies ''literally'' destroy entire worlds, he is the [[LastOfHisKind last of]] a race of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, and ended up [[GoMadFromTheIsolation going insane from loneliness]] so that he just wants to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy everything.]]
141* The ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' series has a few {{Big Bad}}s of this nature, but [[spoiler:Masaji Kato]] from Covenant takes the cake. Having the woman you love being executed for treason? Bad, really bad. Managing to clone her, doing your best to make her clone remember everything so that you can finally be happy together, only to have to kill her again, and this time permanently, just as she starts to love you too? OUCH. No wonder he snapped after this and tried to create a new world by destroying the current one... Even the protagonists feel sympathy for him as the final battle starts.
142* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' introduces the White, who are quite literally the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Humanity's despair over being pawns in the OrderVersusChaos ForeverWar. They are quite tired of it all as they believe ''everything'' plays into God's hands; they only want everything to go back to eternal nonexistence. So they have this giant MagicalParticleAccelerator built and a group of heroes suitably traumatized in hopes one of them will just go off the deep end, and as a living creature, give the universe a final death by breaking their machine and unleashing a chain of black holes to end the Multiverse for good.
143* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiV'' gives us Sahori Itsukishima, a student at Jouin High who is subjected to regular bullying by her fellow students; the background is that she was once a student coach on the school sports team who pushed her teammates a bit too hard in training, she really wanted them to succeed, and the bullying is how they repaid her efforts. Good news: a voice in the darkness is willing to give her the strength to stand up for herself. Bad news: it's Lahmu, who is seeking his Knowledge in order to become a Nahobino and finds it in her, and is willing to gorge himself on every student between him and her; once he finds her, he wraps his tentacles around her (physically [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse or otherwise]]) right away and never lets go, and the bullies are the only ones who he kills at her request. [[spoiler:Suffice it to say [[DeadlyEuphemism she is not coming back to school]] whether she wishes it or not.]]
144* ''Franchise/SilentHill'':
145** Alessa Gillespie is another textbook example. She was [[spoiler:burned to the point of near death but kept alive in excruciating pain, force-fed experimental hallucinogenics, and forcibly impregnated with ''[[OurGodsAreDifferent God]]''. This was all done by her mother]].
146** Claudia from ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' falls under PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery, however, since they wanted to rid the world of pain and suffering in general.
147** Walter Sullivan from ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'' may count. He's just a [[PsychopathicManChild little kid]] who wants his mom back. Plus he was raised by a cult of {{manipulative bastard}}s.
148* All three factions from ''VideoGame/SinsOfASolarEmpire'' to an extent. [[SpaceNomads The Vasari]] literally [[PlanetEater destroy whole planets]] while running from an enemy that practically wiped out their race. [[CycleOfRevenge The TEC Rebels]] want to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge wipe out the aliens and "deviants" who nearly wiped ''them'' out.]] [[ChurchMilitant The Advent]] were just a peaceful collectivist/religious/hive-minded society on a desert planet. And then along came the Trade Order, who [[BurnTheWitch banished them from their homes for a thousand years for "deviancy."]]
149* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': [[spoiler:Chaos]] in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' and Shadow in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', both of whom watched a girl they cared for be brutalized (and in Shadow’s case, killed) by cruel authorities seeking to use their powers for evil.
150* ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'':
151** Siegfried Schtauffen in the original ''Soul Edge'' and ''Soulcalibur'', and partially in ''Soulcalibur II'' prior to his quest for redemption. A teenage bandit who accidentally beheaded his own father during a raid, Siegfried completely lost his mind and set off in search of his father's "true killer." On recovering the Soul Edge from the defeated Cervantes De Leon, the Evil Sword completely consumed the fragile mind of the boy, transforming him into Nightmare. Whilst most characters fall under the thrawl of the Soul Edge on possession of it, it is implied the sword influences them to do evil, corrupting them with its power. In Siegfried's case, his immature and unstable mind allowed the sword to transform him into an extension of the sword itself. Eventually as the sword is weakened by its defeat at the end of ''Soul Calibur, ''Siegfried's will begins to reassert itself until he is finally able to break free and begin his quest for redemption.
152** Pyrrha, the daughter of FallenHero Sophitia in ''VideoGame/SoulcaliburV'', starts out as an innocent, drifting Woobie with no home or family of her own; being kidnapped by [[MagnificentBastard Tira]] at a young age followed by the demise of her mother resulted in her spending the next seventeen years of her life searching aimlessly for somewhere to belong, regularly attacked and forced to kill or be killed due to Tira's manipulations to make her a suitable heir to [[ArtifactOfDoom Soul Edge]]. When she finally reunites with her long-lost brother Patroklos, however, things finally seem about to get better for her. [[spoiler:Then Patroklos finds out Pyrrha is [[TheCorruption Malfested]] when she taps into her SuperpoweredEvilSide to save him from the BigBad, Nightmare. The still gentle and mostly-innocent but now ''utterly terrifying'' Pyrrha turns to Patroklos in concern to make sure he's OK only for Patroklos to point his sword at her in the midst of a HeroicBSOD, finally running away from her in horror. Pyrrha, heartbroken, decides she can never trust anyone but Tira and willingly takes up Soul Edge to escape being alone. The resulting entity Pyrrha Omega, is extremely violent and deadly compared to the frightened and naive Pyrrha, but she screams as much in ''pain'' as in rage while she fights, and doesn't seem so much to be possessed by Soul Edge as she is madly lashing out at ''everything'', thinking the entire world is her enemy and desperately needing to do something, ''anything'' to escape her pain.]]
153-->[[spoiler:'''Pyrrha:''' [[SanitySlippage Stop hurting me... stop rejecting me... stop killing me!!!]]]]
154* Doctor Octopus in ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' is a big one. He was partners with ComicBook/NormanOsborn on a project [[spoiler:to cure genetic diseases, which ended up creating a deadly bioweapon by accident as well as giving Mr. Negative his powers and killing his parents in the process]], causing him to leave and start his own lab where he began mentoring Peter. At the start of the game he was just a kind old man and helped Peter design the Advanced Suit after learning his secret, until Norman used his authority as Mayor to take away his grants and confiscate his research in an attempt to strongarm him into coming back to work for Oscorp. He continued his work on mechanical prosthetics regardless, [[spoiler:later revealing to Peter that he has a degenerative neurological disorder that would cause him to lose control of his motor functions within a year, adding to his desperation. He finally finishes his mechanical arms, which are controlled by a faulty [[BrainComputerInterface neural interface]] that drives him insane. Despite Peter's warnings he continues using it, causing him to snap and sabotage Osborn's reelection campaign by [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope releasing the bioweapon they created as well as all of New York's inmates, and forming the Sinister Six]] to destroy Oscorp. After Spider-Man defeats him, he tries to convince Peter to give him another chance and not to let the police take his arms. Despite everything, it's hard not to feel bad for him as he cries out for Peter while he turns his back on him.]]
155* The Ur-Quan of ''VideoGame/StarControl''. [[spoiler:After spending thousands of years psychically enslaved by evil toads who force them to exterminate whole species of their friends, and finally clearing their minds only long enough to revolt by putting themselves through unspeakable agony, anyone would be in a bad mood]]. The ''nice'' ones want to forcibly subjugate all sentient life in the galaxy. [[OmnicidalManiac The rest want to eliminate it altogether]].
156* ''Franchise/StarCraft'':
157** Sarah Kerrigan killed her mom (and a whole mess of other folks) by way of a psychic accident, watched a kitten die of cancer, was forced to choose between killing her mentally ill father or her sadistic headmaster ([[TakeAThirdOption she just broke his gun]]) and decapitate a rebel leader (and steal his head), was experimented on, and was betrayed by her father figure. Then she got [[BodyHorror infested]] by [[HordeOfAlienLocusts the Zerg]] after [[ManipulativeBastard Arcturus Mengsk]] betrayed and left her alone to defend against the oncoming Zerg horde. Is it any wonder that she's a little crazy?
158** Ironically, the one who made her that way also qualifies. The Overmind was forcibly enslaved by the Dark Voice into trying to commit genocide against the Protoss with the full knowledge that he and his Zerg would be wiped out once they did their job. [[ThanatosGambit Kerrigan was meant to be the one hope they had of breaking the Dark Voice's hold]].
159* [[spoiler:Dr. Lantis]] of ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory''. He loses his daughter, his last surviving relative, and goes insane from grief and rage. Because of this, he wants everything gone.
160* The Iconians, the BigBad for ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'''s first five years, were this, something that [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Jean-Luc Picard]] postulated. They were a simple, peaceful, yet very advanced race whose only real flaw was being just a little on the arrogant side. However, various races wanted their technology and when the Iconians refused, they decided to up and bomb them back to the Stone Age. Even worse, thanks to time travel shenanigans, the human-Romulan hybrid Sela killed a few of them, setting them on their destructive path of revenge.
161* The 501st legion from ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront''. Even though they're the Emperor's elite troops, somehow, you can't help feeling sorry for the narrator (who's quite obviously a ShellShockedVeteran), even when you're gunning down Rebels on Yavin 4.
162* ''VideoGame/SuikodenIII'' had this with Luc. In the first 2 games, he's a moody jerk who doesn't seem to have much motivation in participating in wars as his ParentalSubstitute mre or less drops him off. 15 years later, he concocts a plan to [[spoiler:destroy his [[MacGuffin True Wind Rune]] in a major case of crossing the MoralEventHorizon]]. The reason? [[spoiler:Turns, out he was a [[ArtificialHuman defective clone]] of another rune bearer who wanted vessels to [[GottaCatchThemAll collect all 27 of them]]. Even worse is that his rune gives him visions of an apocalyptic wasteland. He thinks that if he destroys the rune, he'll effectively kill god and change fate.]] This has caused many fans to categorize him as a WellIntentionedExtremist.
163* The main antagonist in ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', Count Bleck, who wanted to use the Chaos Heart to undo and redo all reality because he was heartbroken by his one true love. [[spoiler:Except it actually turns out that the "redo" part is a lie. He's ''that'' messed up by the loss of his love.]]
164* Duminuss from ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsReversal'', an artificial being (not sure of what she actually is, as she is only seen as a trippy eye glyph with a feminine/shota voice... and several {{Humongous Mecha}}s) whose only wish is to know her purpose. Her creator shunned her, and then she killed it. [[spoiler:Actually, her creator, Dark Brain, didn't die. He just implanted that memory into her for the lulz and left her]]. She shifts dimensions and invades the EXCELLENCE team labs searching for a time machine, to ask her creator for her purpose. She constructs 3 children, who are loyal and fight for her. Then Duminuss is destroyed, and her children kill themselves to bring her back. Then the heroes kill her again. She explodes, crying over how she'll die without ever knowing what was her true purpose. Unfortunately, [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Original Generation Gaiden]] threw this out of the window and made her an unrepentant JerkAss...
165** It's hinted that this isn't the same Duminuss, and [[spoiler:Dark Brain]] created multiple ones to do his dirty work. If it wasn't messed up like R's was, it makes sense that it's not the same.
166* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'':
167** [[spoiler:Mithos Yggdrasill]] of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' definitely qualifies. [[spoiler:As a kid, all he wanted was to make a world where humans and elves could live in harmony. After his sister was brutally murdered by the very humans she saved for being a half-elf, he completely ''snapped''. He went on a conquering rampage, accidentally found a means of becoming an all-powerful immortal, then grew addicted to his newfound godhood and spent the next four thousand years segregating the world (literally) so he could gorge on the power of souls. His ultimate plan was to resurrect his sister by breeding sacrifices who would be indoctrinated with a PathOfInspiration, with the intention of disposing of mortal life and replacing them with machines when he succeeded.]]
168** Arietta the Wild from ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss''. First, her family got killed during the Hod War, and she's left to be [[RaisedByWolves raised by the Ligers]]. Then she got handpicked as a Fon Master Guardian for Ion, but quickly lost her position to Anise, [[spoiler:not knowing that the Ion she loved is dead, and the current one is only a replica]]. Then, her mother got killed. [[spoiler:And later, just when it looked like she may pull a HeelFaceTurn, Anise lets Ion get killed, which revokes everything Arietta thought about changing sides.]] Then, she challenged Anise for a final duel and... [[spoiler:she's not even told about the truth about Ion, leaving her to die miserably and not realizing the reality.]]
169** [[spoiler:Paraiba]] in ''VideoGame/TalesOfHearts'', though on a smaller scale. After she absorbs Kohak's [[SoulFragment sadness spirune]], she tries to flood a town.
170** [[spoiler:Lambda]] in ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'', as well as [[spoiler:Richard, thanks to MoreThanMindControl]].
171** Artorius Collbrande in ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'', after suffering a DespairEventHorizon due to the loss of his beloved wife and unborn son, sets the protagonist on her RoaringRampageOfRevenge in his quest to strip the world of all emotions.
172* Jin Kazama shows some signs of this in ''Franchise/{{Tekken}} 6''.
173* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'':
174** [[CreepyChild Flandre]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction Scarlet]]. She may be [[CuteAndPsycho completely bonkers]] with the power to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up the world]], but she is still a [[BadassAdorable cute little girl]] who has [[MadwomanInTheAttic never seen the light of the sun]] and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent probably never will]]. Many fans [[CutenessProximity want to hug her]], even though they know it will inevitably end in a [[LudicrousGibs shower of blood and gore]].
175** Yuuka Kazami is also CuteAndPsycho, and she is one of the most powerful youkai in the series (second only to [[RealityWarper Yukari]]). However, her BackStory is what makes her into this. Before the events of Lotus Land Story take place, Yuuka was in a deep sleep... [[AndIMustScream and was harassed by a nightmare-inducing demon who refused to let her wake up. FOR SIXTY. YEARS. STRAIGHT.]] She did posess [[WaveMotionGun the Master Spark]], but that doesn't help in a nightmare. Especially not one that you are not in control of. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also, ZUN calls her]] "[[BilingualBonus youkai]] [[IncrediblyLamePun moe~]]".
176** Junko is a pure spirit -- made of pure ''resentment'' at the Lunarian princess Chang'e, and mounted an invasion of the Moon just to get at her. Why? Back in the day, there were too many suns in the sky, threatening to burn all life on the planet. Chang'e's husband shot down all but one of them, but one landed on Junko's son. She's been harboring a grudge for thousands of years since then.
177* All of the Camerata in ''VideoGame/{{Transistor}}'' turn out to be this to some degree. [[spoiler:Sybil Reisz was a BitchInSheepsClothing before the game, but after the Process run amok, she ends up [[YouWillBeAssimilated assimilated]] and driven completely insane. Grant Kendrall just wanted to stop everything in Cloudbank from changing so damn much, and his husband Asher was only supporting him. When he sees what he's wrought on the city, Grant opts to take the [[DrivenToSuicide coward's way out]]. Asher stays for a while longer to halfheartedly justify himself to Red before [[TogetherInDeath doing likewise]]. Royce Brackett is the least sympathetic out of all of them, though he does [[EnemyMine help you reign in the Process]] before turning on you out of necessity. Even then, he has a moment of genuine remorse [[VillainousBreakdown when his way home vanishes for good.]]]]
178* The [[EvilSorcerer Masked Mage]], from ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana''. [[spoiler:He was Belgar, the Oracle of Shadows. [[DarkIsNotEvil Contrary to what his title might imply]], Belgar was [[GoodShepherd a wise and righteous man]] who watched over [[SaintlyChurch the Holy City of Wendel]] in tandem with the Bishop of Light. The tragedy began when a sick girl showed up seeking his [[HealingHands healing prowess]]. Feeling helpless upon realising that it was an incurable disease, he turned to TheDarkArts in search of a way; however, the girl passed on before he could find one. Belgar continued his research and subsequently started dabbling in necromancy. The dark arts gradually began tainting his soul and the Priest of Light had to exile him from Wendel. By the time ''Trials of Mana'' begins, he had become the [[FallenAngel vengeful Masked Mage]], one of the potential {{big bad}}s. It's such a TearJerker when you play the prequel and see what a good man he actually was.]]
179** General Baxilios [[spoiler: or Cecilia]] from ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMana'' is another example. [[spoiler: She was going to have a baby with Yurchael but then suffered a TragicStillbirth which caused a rift in their relationship and gave Anise's Mirror the perfect opportunity to take advantage of Cecilia's vulnerability and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy turn her into Anise's vessel]] [[GrandTheftMe and ulitimately taking full possession of her]] and [[OneWingedAngel transforming her into the Goddess of Doom]] who is the FinalBoss of the game. It's a big TearJerker when what remains of Cecilia's good side speaks to Yurchael and reveals this at the climax of the final battle before telling him that only the Mana Sword can destroy Anise's Mirror. In the end all Yurchael can do is mutter her name as [[DyingAsYourself she fades peacefully.]]]]
180* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'':
181** In the [[spoiler:True Pacifist route]], this is how [[spoiler:Asriel Dreemurr]] turns out. [[spoiler:He had spent so long in the Flowey form, unable to feel emotions, but really just missed his "best friend", the first Fallen Child. After Frisk snaps him out of it and saves him, he realizes the first Fallen Child wasn't that great a friend.]]
182** This is also what happens to the Fallen Child in the Genocide Route, if you go by the theory that they weren't evil. [[spoiler:They [[ForcedToWatch could only watch as you went around killing monsters]] and so destroys the world in the end because, since they also hated humanity, they had nothing to live for.]]
183---> '''The Fallen Child''': [[spoiler: [[VictoryIsBoring There is nothing left for us here.]] Let us erase this pointless world, and move on to the next.]]
184* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
185** Depending on how charitable you feel, the darker members of the Forsaken may fall into this trope. They were once decent, devout humans and elves before being infected by the Plague of Undeath, killed, resurrected into undeath, corrupted by the Lich King and forced to massacre friends and family, and after finally breaking free of his control they were rejected by their faith and persecuted and hunted down by any remaining friends, family, and acquaintances. That so many of them snap with apocalyptic fury is certainly understandable, but some players feel that [[MoralEventHorizon the monstrosity of their deeds overrides their sympathetic qualities]]. There are still reasons the Forsaken are considered the TokenEvilTeammate of the Horde, after all, including their penchant for obscenely lethal plagues, doomsday weapons, and tendency to experiment on living test subjects.
186** Sargeras, the creator of the [[LegionsOfHell Burning Legion]], was so traumatized by the evil of some of the demons he fought against as the pantheon's chosen warrior that he decided that any universe where such things were allowed to happen was flawed, its attempts at Order pointless, and should be remade.
187*** This has since been revealed that Sargeras found that the [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]] were corrupting planets growing baby Titans, and if allowed to be born could possibly allow the Void Gods to enter reality. He destroyed the corrupted planet and the child within rather than risk the destruction of reality. Unfortunately Azeroth is incubating a baby Titan.
188** Despite the fact that he wants to destroy the world because he doesn't like how mortals are using magic, Malygos can count because, let's face it, [[TraumaCongaLine his life sucked before he ultimately snapped.]] He was betrayed by his best friend, Neltharion (aka Deathwing, who had been corrupted by the [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]]), who then went on to wipe out almost all the other blue dragons, coming very, ''very'' close to making Malygos the LastOfHisKind. He later ''supposedly'' regained his sanity (after being exposed to some volatile magical energies from another planet).
189*** Maly's prime consort Sindragosa could also qualify. One of the blue dragons murdered by Deathwing, she wasn't only enraged by his betrayal, but she assumed ALL Dragons (including her mate) had betrayed her when they wouldn't answer her cries for help returning to [[ElephantGraveyard Dragonblight]]. She died very emotionally damaged. Mix in some Scourge corruption when the Lich King resurrected her to be his, umm... [[TheDragon Dragon]] and she's angry enough to help extinguish all life on Azeroth.
190** The writers [[DependingOnTheWriter can't seem to agree]] on whether or not Ner'zhul is this. In the original canon he was a borderline cartoon villain who got more than he bargained for; in ''Literature/RiseOfTheHorde'' and ''Literature/BeyondTheDarkPortal'' he's portrayed as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who is tricked into aiding genocide and the corruption of his people and unable to stop it once it's set in motion, later suffering for his actions and those as Warchief of the Horde of Draenor by being made into the Lich King, a state of eternal torment and damnation that only deepened his bitterness and status as a FallenHero.
191** Kaelynara Sunchaser, a minor quest antagonist from ''Warlords of Draenor''. At first her draining a crystal mine of its magical energy at the expense of destroying the mine and everyone in it seems to be just regular old blood elf magic-lust at work. Then you find the "Tear-stained Letter" on her body, which reveals she was dismissed from her mage instructor's service in an [[KickTheDog incredibly cruel, callous fashion]] with the none-too-subtle message that she was of no use to anyone and which implies her actions were a desperate attempt to prove him wrong, casting her actions in a new, tragic light. It verges on UnintentionallySympathetic since the [=NPCs=] don't offer her any sympathy and seem to dismiss her as simply a cautionary tale. His sheer cruelty towards her also turned her master into TheScrappy for many.
192** Argus the Unmaker was an infant Titan at the core of Argus, home world of the Eredar. After Sargeras recruited the Eredar, Argus's soul suffered constant torture for eons as the planet around him was torn apart and infused with fel energy. By the time of ''Legion'' he is nearly mad with pain, his mind finally submitting to Sargeras just before the players arrive. He is born as an insane and powerful Titan dedicated solely to fulfilling the will of his tormentor.
193* In ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', we don't know for sure how many times [[spoiler:Fei and Elly reincarnated Themselves]], but for 10,000 years, the scenario has been mostly the same: [[spoiler:they find each other, fall in love, and when they seem to be about to have a little [[HappilyMarried marital bliss]], they die a horrible and painful death]]. If you had the painful experiment he was subject to in his childhood, [[spoiler:Fei end up with a multiple personality disorder, with TWO of his personalities wanting to destroy the world: one is able to exist independently and jump from body to body, and the other one is a PersonOfMassDestruction]]. And that's not all: [[spoiler:Krelian, a friend of Fei in a previous life, is another woobie ready to destroy the world if it allows him to be "reunited with God"]]. With that many {{Physical God}}s and {{Magnificent Bastard}}s on the same planet, you can guess that the ''Xenogears'' world is not [[WorldHalfEmpty the most pleasant place to be]].
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