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->''[[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming "Nothing can beat the music of hundreds of voices screaming in unison!"]]''
-->-- '''Kefka Palazzo''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI''

You're really going to be glad [[MomentofAwesome when you defeat these]] [[CompleteMonster characters]] in [[VideoGames your games]]. That is, unless you're [[VillainProtagonist playing as them]].

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The following examples have their own subpages:
[[index]]
* ''Monster/ArtixEntertainment''
* ''Monster/DragonAge''
* ''Monster/DragonQuest''
* ''Monster/TheElderScrolls''
* ''Monster/{{Fable}}''
* ''Monster/{{Fallout}}''
* ''Monster/FireEmblem''
* ''Monster/FinalFantasy''
* ''Monster/GrandTheftAuto''
* ''Monster/{{Halo}}''
* ''Monster/MegaMan''
* ''Monster/MetalGear''
* ''Monster/{{Pokemon}}''
* ''Monster/SuperRobotWars''
* ''Monster/TalesSeries''
* ''Monster/TheWitcher''
[[/index]]

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!!Other examples
* Sakaki of ''[[DotHackGUGames .hack//G.U.]]'' was merely annoying and overzealous at first, but later revelations removed any kind of sympathy fans might have had for him. Specifically, the revelation that he had been manipulating and controlling AIDA behind the scenes, and that his ultimate goal was to use AIDA as mass mind control over all of humanity. But the biggest blow against him was his treatment of Atoli, who had long been one of his strongest supporters. Turns out he had met her on a suicide website, preyed on her fears about being alone and considered worthless, effectively brainwashed her into depending on him, and then {{Mind Rape}}d her to bring out the power of her Epitaph. When all of his plans fail and he gets infected with AIDA himself, he then spends the first half of the final volume putting together a sadistic tournament for the sole purpose of making Haseo and the rest suffer (harming quite a few others in the process), and ''laughing'' at the pain he's causing.
* Miranda Jahana, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo'', is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who wants to create the perfect fighter by any means necessary. To that end, she forced her own daughter Reimi to undergo TrainingFromHell, [[EvilMatriarch abandoning her without a second thought]] when she lost to Yuka, and created GattacaBabies through genetic manipulation, only to [[BadBoss cruelly kill them off]] [[YouHaveFailedMe when they didn't fare any better than Reimi]]. Also driving poor Yuka to an HeroicBSOD through her hideous actions. She's no better in the OVA series with her manipulation of [[TheWoobie Satomi]], offering her a DealWithTheDevil in exchange for a cure for her ill brother, and tried to [[GrandTheftMe take over her body]]. Worst of all, the reason why she wants to create the ultimate fighter is never revealed, so it looks like she's only doing all of this ForTheEvulz.
* Lord Krellenos of ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'' is willing to sacrifice everything, including his own family, in order to amass more chaotic power. Aside from having his brother corrupted and having his kin blame the Horc race for his death, he goes on corrupting friends, foes, and generals of the alliance in an effort to thwart it and lay blame on the hero.
* ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'' has [[spoiler:Dr. Bumby, Alice's shrink who uses hypnosis in order to erase Alice's traumatic memories of her family's death. The reason being that ''he's'' the one who started the fire that burned down her house in an attempt to hide his tracks after raping Alice's sister Lizzie. Nowadays he makes a profit on the side via pimping the children he's brainwashed and broken into {{Empty Shell}}s.]]
* ''VideoGame/AlterAila'' absolutelty ''thrives'' on GreyAndGrayMorality, but still has one in the form of Red. There is not a ''single'' scene where he is not brutally murdering someone, viciously mocking someone, or both.
* Crosus Verlac in the text-based adventure game ''VideoGame/{{Anchorhead}}'' is the patriarch of the Verlac family and a man who discovered a dark route to immortality. Long before the story of ''Anchorhead'' began, Croseus's physical flesh became dust...but his spirit survives by [[DemonicPossession taking over the bodies of his male descendants]] and impregnating the female descendants to create new bodies for him to steal later. The power Croseus has over his descendants is represented in the chilling ArcWords: '''He always returns to his blood.''' Not content with this, Croseus runs a legacy of dark magic and murder, routinely sacrificing children for power to the point where the well behind the village slaughterhouse is full of the bones of missing children. In the present, Croseus takes control of and possesses the nameless heroine's husband, before setting his plan into motion: to open the gates to the EldritchAbomination beings he worships and allow them to devour all that lives.
* Old King from ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'' 4A. A member of the WellIntentionedExtremist group, Orca, this guy seems to just be along for the ride. The other members are out to break corporation control and expand out to space. Old King? He wants to kill everyone in the colonies, [[ForTheEvulz just for shits and giggles.]] Getting better, he gets [[spoiler: you to do it. That's 100 million dead for the record.]]
* In ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' series, while it seems that nearly everyone you murder as an Assassin is an AssholeVictim, most of them are True Believers in the Templar cause to [[WellIntentionedExtremist make a better world]] through [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill removing humanity's free will]]. Not so for Majd Addin though. While most of Ezio or Altaïr's targets think that their actions will be good for the world, that is not the case for this psycho. Majd Addin, the de facto leader of Jerusalem who regularly orders and personally carries out mass executions of innocent people, openly admits on his deathbed that he doesn't think it will help anyone, he does it because he [[ForTheEvulz finds it fun]].
* Jon Irenicus from ''VideoGame/BaldursGate''. ''Shadows of Amn'' starts with his torturing the PlayerCharacter, and continues with a tour of his dungeon where you find out that he has killed two of your party members from the previous game and cut one of them apart while making your innocent little sister watch, and keeps people floating in jars in perpetual pain and madness, and stuff like that. And Irenicus does all this with complete indifference. He doesn't enjoy, justify or regret it. He just has no regard for the suffering of others whatsoever. Even his FreudianExcuse is something he only got after already trying to leap the MoralEventHorizon by trying to kill the Tree of Life.
* ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos Origins'':
** [[spoiler:Quaestor Verus]] who, while acting under the guise of a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, coldly masterminds the plot to [[spoiler:become the Emperor]] by taking advantage of everyone else. Before the game's events, he [[spoiler:uses a just born baby Sagi (whom he may have fathered through rape) in a lethal experiment that fuses pieces of dead evil gods with living beings]]. During the game, he orders Shanath (a ''massive'' JerkAss in his own right) to cross the MoralEventHorizon by [[spoiler:taking Sagi's mother Gena's wings off in the public election speech]]...just to smear on the reputation of someone getting in his way. Later on, just as [[spoiler:Baelheit]] is about to consider a HeelFaceTurn, [[spoiler:Quaestor Verus]] shows up, murders him, and starts '''gloating''' about all his deeds.
** [[EldritchAbomination Wiseman]]. While its (?) values that lead to the attempt at one of the creepiest {{Assimilation Plot}}s of the age may be [[BlueAndOrangeMorality incomprehensible]], there are some things that just lack any excuse - like [[spoiler:killing everyone in Naos]]. And making matters even worse, it is heavily implied that [[spoiler:Wiseman was behind Quaestor Verus' actions]].
* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker from ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' kills multiple people, sets Bane [[ColdBloodedTorture up to be tortured]], freely talks about being physically abusive to Harley Quinn, offers to let his men rape Harley, covers all the usual BadBoss bases, tries to turn Jim Gordon into a 'roided-up monstrosity, kidnaps Nora Fries to force Mr. Freeze into helping him, blackmails Batman into helping by sending his poisoned blood to hospitals in the Gotham area, and [[spoiler:shoots Talia in the back just to hurt Batman.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'':
** [[MadArtist Sander Cohen]] murders people who question his allegience to Andrew Ryan, besmirch his art, betray him, or because he felt like it. He relishes in said murders and tortures, making them into his own art forms as he encases people into plaster while posed as statues for instance. One of the first tortures visibly seen through Cohen was a splicer being forced to play a piano rigged with explosives that set off when he slips up.
** Frank Fontaine, gangster and [[spoiler:supposedly]] [[PosthumousCharacter deceased]] political rival to Andrew Ryan. He had a public face of providing shelter and promotion of welfare towards orphans and the poor, in itself the antithesis of Ryan's ideology. However, he experimented with sea slugs that carry ADAM, and had no qualms of placing them in very young girls, some of them even forcibly taken from their parents for the "orphanages", to concentrate the ADAM. Also, it turned out that the poor under Fontaine's care was really no better off than they had been, and he had really been manipulating them toward his own gain while getting them addicted to ADAM. He and the newly-christened Splicers initiated a civil war in order to get other inhabitants into ADAM and [[spoiler: feigned his own death while using Jack, the PlayerCharacter, from birth in order to eventually usurp Ryan's position before [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness deciding Jack has outlived his usefulness]].]]
* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'':
** Hazama/Terumi Yuuki, an extremely arrogant and sadistic spirit who revels in the suffering on other people with extreme glee. Amongst his laundry list of [[KickTheDog puppy-punting]] include personally responsible for the Black Beast, which destroyed over 80% of the world's population, causing Lotte Carmine [[BodyHorror to transform into Arakune]], regularly uses HumanResources to create and power [[PersonOfMassDestruction People Of Mass Destruction]], [[MindRape mind raping other people]] to [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate them]], and... listing all of them would be a chore. His MotiveRant includes [[DespairEventHorizon plunging the world into despair]], the only thing he believed to be the ultimate truth. With 'inflicting despair' to be a goal, and especially when you consider that all of the above, he does ForTheEvulz, nothing else describe him save an utter CompleteMonster.
** Relius Clover is an unabashed MadScientist, [[AbusiveParents Abusive Father]] ''par excellence'' who views other humans as nothing more but his experiment subjects and would experiment on them with utter glee. He killed both his wife and his daughter and turned them into [[RobotGirl gynoid killers]] ForScience and rightfully earned the hatred of his son Carl. He also uses the same reasoning for inflicting ColdBloodedTorture on Lambda-11, and most of the atrocities Terumi does is thanks to Relius' research, with Relius fully aware and approving of it all. In one route, he's even willing to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill an ally just for being in his way]].
* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFire'':
** Father Habaruku of ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireII'', founder of [[PathOfInspiration the church]], which steals the souls of its believers in order to power up the BigBad. His favorite method for winning followers seems to be replacing respected members of various communities with literal demons that disguise themselves as those people. He also replaced a man who used to be in charge of the church, a priest who was such a compassionate, big-hearted, and lovable character, [[spoiler:and your father]]. He got booted off the scene so that Habaruku could take over, then [[PlayerPunch strapped to a horrible demonic contraption and his life energy itself is used to power it for about ten years]].
** The scientist named Yuna from ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' comes off as little more than a self-righteous, smarmy little git until you complete the dungeon of his lab and [[spoiler: you see that he's taken Nina's sister and made her into some sort of genetically modified horror. Him telling all about the 'wonderful gift' he's given her, looking for some kind of praise, makes it clear how irredeemably evil the guy actually is]]. Yuna also built a weapon of warfare that launches Hex, a toxic gas, physically. It's actually [[spoiler: the souls of people tortured at the hands of Yuna and the more anguish they have, the better the effect.]] You can see this in a side event and its effects are presented in the village of Chamba in the beginning of the game. The way the player experiences its horror just drives the point home. [[spoiler: At one point in the game, we are introduced to Mami, a genuinely likable love interest for Fou-lu. Just as it seems she's going to reform him, she's taken away and tortured to the ''point of insanity'' so she can be used to fuel an attack against the poor guy. When he discovers this, he decides that HumansAreTheRealMonsters and becomes intent on destroying them.]] To add insult upon injury, [[spoiler: Yuna [[KarmaHoudini slithers from the chains of karma]], since a player doesn't get to splatter the guy's innards all over the place. In the ending, he even smugly claims he will do it all over again.]] According to [[WordOfGod the creative team]], [[spoiler: a player ''was'' supposed to get around to tearing him a new one, [[ExecutiveMeddling but the suits decided rushing the game out was more important than actually finishing it]].]]
* General Victor Sarrano, BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}''. A gleefully unrepentant sadist who veers between amusement and [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence arousal]] as he sends special-forces assassins after civilian critics, hands out death sentences to his own men for not being imaginatively brutal enough, and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabs anyone who crosses his path if there's the slightest chance that it might benefit him]]. The fact that he's a racist, sexist misanthrope who delights in being as obnoxious as possible to everyone he meets merely illustrates his sheer attention to detail in keeping himself devoid of redeeming qualities.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'':
** Al-Asad and Imran Zakahev from ''Call of Duty 4: VideoGame/ModernWarfare''. Al-Asad, with Zakahev's help, overthrew a democratic government in an unknown middle eastern country, taking power in a coup. You actually get to see first hand how his men kill anyone who resists and how they line up innocent people and use them as target practice. Zakahev is even worst. He supplied Al-Asad with weapons for the coup ([[spoiler: including a nuke]]), and too staged a bloody coup, except on a much larger scale in Russia. He orders the slaughtering of whole villages. However, both of these guys worst act was the same: [[spoiler: Al-Asad nuked a major city, his own capital, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people and about 30,000 American soldiers. Zakahev did it to kill as many Americans as he could, and Al-Asad did it so he didn't have to worry about the Americans coming after him, so he can run like the DirtyCoward he is.]]
** Vladimir Makarov in ''Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2'' walks right past the MoralEventHorizon in one of the first missions [[spoiler: (and takes the player with him)]] when he and his crew [[spoiler: cold-heartedly slaughter an airport terminal full of civilians]]. He then follows this by [[spoiler: shooting the player in the head so that the crime can be placed on the CIA, thus inciting the international community against the Americans.]] He manages to become even ''more'' monstrous in the third game, where [[spoiler:he single handedly starts World War III, massacring millions of people with bio weapons, including [[TheHero Soap]].]]
* While ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'' has many evil characters and monsters, the series has very little {{Complete Monster}}s. The witch, Actrise, of Castlevania 64 and Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness may be the most evil villain in the series. Not only does she and Gilles De Rais torment Henry's family, but is the main tormentor of Carrie and the Fernandez clan as well, and is a major antagonist in Carrie's game (Death is Reinhardt's). Actrise turns Carrie's fallen cousin against her, forcing her to mercifully kill her for good. In the final battle between the two, Actrise mentions how she sacrificed the life of her own child in order to obtain eternal life.
* Dr. Fuyuhiko Date, also known as "The Doctor", from ''VideoGame/CaveStory''. He was initially with the research expedition to The Island, but he actively intended to seek the Demon Crown and wield its power himself. When he did obtain the crown, he terrorized the researchers and used his minions to kidnap all the Mimigas he can. He used the Island's [[PsychoSerum red flowers]] to transform the Mimigas into aggressive monsters in a bid for world domination, and later found use of concentrating said flowers to manipulate humans as well.
* Mother Mayhem from ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' runs a mental asylum devoted to training Praetorian psychics as "Seers," thought-police who track down and apprehend any "thought criminals," so that "Mother" can "rehabilitate" them. But the Seers aren't volunteers, and that's actually the '''secondary''' purpose of the Seer Network; the primary purpose is to provide "Mother" with psychics to [[VampiricDraining feed on]], prolonging her own life and expanding her personal power.
* Serial Killer X from ''{{VideoGame/Condemned}}'', aka [[spoiler: Leland Vanhorn]]. Any sympathy he may have had as a SerialKillerKiller is undermined by the various innocents he kills. He even murders [[spoiler: his own uncle]] after the latter [[TheFarmerAndTheViper nursed him back to health]] after the events of the first game. The only reason he kills other serial killers in the first place is so he can adopt their methods as his own. He also doesn't have the excuse of being driven insane by [[spoiler: the Oro's sonic emitters]] like the rest of the city, [[ForTheEvulz as he clearly enjoys it]].
* Paulie Franchetti in ''VideoGame/TheDarkness''. He adopted the protagonist of the game, Jackie Estacado, so he could mold him into a hitman loyal to the family. The game starts with him sending Jackie on a suicide mission to kill a business rival because Jackie started questioning the way he does business, but he has already killed the business rival and strapped his corpse full of explosives as a birthday present, leaving a tape to mock Jackie before he died. When Jackie survives the blast, Paulie gets revenge by blowing up the Orphanage that Jackie grew up in, killing all the orphans and nuns inside and then telling Jackie over the phone it was all his fault. [[spoiler: When Jackie starts to ruin Paulie's business dealings in retaliation he kidnaps Jackie's girlfriend Jenny, brings her to the Orphanage and then murderers her right in front of Jackie, blaming it all on Jackie for not blindly following orders.]] Even at the end he shows no remorse for his crimes, telling Jackie [[spoiler:that Jenny was a weakness and Jackie shouldn't have cared about her death.]]
* ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' has [[spoiler:Forrest Kaysen]], the ''real'' BigBad. He manipulated the Raincoat Killer and Thomas into turning evil by exploiting their traumatic pasts, and he's also the one who orchestrated the military experiment 50 years ago that sparked the whole mess. He deliberately spread the rumors about the immortality granting Red Seeds, directly causing mass murders throughout the country, including the ones in Greenvale. And finally, there's his sickening "red tree saplings", which grow ''inside of young women'' (and its heavily implied that he "implants" the saplings in them by ''raping them''), and when they fully sprout, the woman ''completely withers into a dissected husk.'' Finally, when his latest target withers right in front of her husband, he laughs maniacally about it, even after the husband ''commits suicide''. And when he realized that their son had seen all this, he attacks the boy, scarring him and trapping him inside a dreamworld for almost his entire life. His motivation for all of his crimes is because he was bored.
* ''VideoGame/DeadRising'':
** Jo Slade is a woman who rapes and beats women to death with her nightstick [[ForTheEvulz for fun]].
** Tyrone King in the [[VideoGame/DeadRising2 second game]] allows his zombies to be loose in the city, tries to kill Chuck, and tries to feed Katey and Stacey to the zombies right after Chuck saved his life. [[spoiler:He's also the one responsible for creating the outbreak in order to make more of the anti-zombification drug Zombrex, purely for profit.]]
* Hector from the ''VideoGame/DeptHeaven'' series. In order to fulfill [[AGodAmI his scheme of becoming the true creator]], this [[PhysicalGod already god-like being]] is responsible for almost every calamity that happen in the series. His most heinous crimes include [[spoiler:torturing [[YggdraUnion Nessiah]] and [[KnightsInTheNightmare Marietta]] into insanity, using [[YouAreNumberSix people as test subjects for divine weapons]], and sacrificing his own servant and [[RivieraThePromisedLand Ein's]] girlfriend to awake the spirit of destruction]]. The final phase in his plan involves [[OmnicidalManiac slaughtering the entire population of one world.]]
* Bob Page from ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' [[spoiler:invents a nano-robot to simulate a [[TheVirus virulant infection]] and uses it to painfully kill as many people as possible,]] murders his non-[[TheDragon Dragon]] mooks if they fail him (or if they don't, for that matter), uses [[spoiler:nukes - when possible -]] to deal with his foes when his troops don't work, and generally tries to cause as much death, destruction and chaos as he possibly can [[spoiler:in his bid for godhood]].
-->"Let it spill over into the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to save them."
* In ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening]]'', we have Arkham. While it's implied that Arkham was actually a kind man before his obsession with the supernatural, the guy killed his wife with no remorse whatsoever and was going to do the same thing to Lady, his only daughter. Additionally, his BlobMonster of a OneWingedAngel is said to not be caused by [[PowerIncontinence his inability to control Sparda's power]], but the result of the vast evil within his heart.
* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'':
** Archbishop Lazarus, who played an integral role in King Leoric's descent into madness and eventual transformation into the Skeleton King, as well as manipulating him into torturing and executing many innocents in the guise of "protecting his kingdom" (up to and including [[spoiler:his own queen]]), feeding Tristram's villagers and the odd adventurer to the demonic Butcher in the first game, and having Albrecht, one of Leoric's two sons, made a vessel for Diablo himself.
** Maghda from ''VideoGame/DiabloIII''. In addition to her service to the evil Belial, which involves plenty of HumanSacrifice, she is very fond of ColdBloodedTorture through magical and other means, and uses it for many of her sorcerous rituals, such as the illusion over the Black Canyon Bridge in Act II. She and her coven are directly responsible for the massacre of Alcarnus in Act II (including one hair-raising report from a refugee about people there being [[FlayingAlive flayed alive]]) as well as the near-destruction of the town of Wortham, and the murder of [[spoiler:Deckard Cain]] and the torture of [[spoiler:the now-human Tyrael]].
** Zoltun Kulle. This is a man who attempted to usurp his Horadric brethren by using the Black Soulstone to control the Great Evils, even murdering and dismembering his own wife just to fuel his twisted experiments with the Soulstone. Is it any wonder the Horadrim went to such extremes to keep him down?
** [[spoiler: Adria]] from III. [[spoiler: She]] pledged [[spoiler: herself]] to Diablo's service since first meeting Aidan after he became the Dark Wanderer, spending the time between Diablo I and III gathering up the power of the other Lords of Hell [[spoiler: so she could use the Black Soulstone to bring about Diablo's rebirth in the body of her own daughter, an act that in the setting would damn Leah's soul to hell]].
* Super Hero Aurum of ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'' is just as racist as Vulcanus against demons, killing them and their Overlords with aplomb - he may have had good motives to start out, but that all went to hell after so many years. Eventually, he found that he was running out of strong Overlords to kill and wanted to either face one more or just face death. It's the ''methods'' that cement him as having descended into complete monsterdom. He asked Mao, who just had an argument over his Slaystation Portable being ruined by his clumsy father, about any weaknesses the Overlord may have. Mao tells him only on the condition that daddy just gets beaten up - Aurum breaks this promise and kills him stone dead. Then, he disguises himself as Geoffrey to raise Mao according to his own twisted ideal after the boy lashed out in an appropriate manner, effectively turning him into a basket case - and when Almaz comes along, to ensure the boy doesn't relapse, he sets an ObviousTrap for his royal girlfriend so that he'd take it in her place and die - and for the cherry on top, said boy was his number one human fan. Let me repeat myself - all for the sake of defeating one more Overlord or dying gloriously in battle, he engages in near MindRape of one kid and cruelly kills off another. In the bad ending, Aurum discovers that EvilIsNotAToy as Mao throws a SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum. In the good ending, Mao denies the death wish and takes Aurum as his latest guinea pig.
* Pious Augustus of ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness''. While he is TheDragon to an [[EldritchAbomination ancient evil god]] (you can choose from three), he is the main antagonist. When you first see him, he is a playable character, a Roman legionaire who stumbled on an ancient temple in Persia. In the end, he is corrupted by one of three artifacts and serves that god. It is not known when he crosses the MoralEventHorizon, but he is clearly over it for the rest of the game, committing horrific acts gleefully, including throwing hundreds of innocent people into a tower of corpses during Roberto Bianci's scenario (him included). He kills other characters you play as as well. It is also implied in one cutscene that he may intend to betray his god in the future (during the Xel'latoth arc).
* Genevieve Aristide from ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' is a CorruptCorporateExecutive responsible for the events of the first game, openning up the vault despite the head of that project telling her what a horrible idea it was. When Alma's mental ghost manages to break Paxton Fettel out, her main priority is to cover up Armacham's involvement in the whole affair, ordering their security teams to kill one of her own employees who knew too much. In the second game, it's discovered she also authorised two more unethical Projects; Harbinger which tried to take sick individuals and transform them into another Psychic Commander, but only survived to [[BodyHorror twist them into monstorous forms]]. The other was Project: Paragon, which involved taking children with promising mental and physical attributes and enrolling them in a fake elementry school, where they would be fed chemicals to grant them psychic powers and sedatives so they could be taken to an underground lab, all in the hopes of finding future candidates for Harbinger. And when all of these projects blow up in her face and result in the entire city being devestated by a massive explosion and Alma's psychic outbursts, her main priority is capturing Alma so she can maintain her position in Armacham, [[spoiler: sacrificing Beckett to be raped by Alma and killing Stokes to prevent her from interfering.]]
* [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Myrrah]] from ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar''. She starts a war with the human race on Sera just [[KickTheDog six weeks after the Pendulum Wars-a 79 year old conflict ended]]. [[MoralEventHorizon She orders the deaths of every man, woman, and child on the surface]] so the Locust can colonize, enslaving the human stragglers and ''lobotomizing'' them [[spoiler: as Dom found out what happened to his wife Maria]]. She immediately turned down the diplomatic option when the [[TheVirus Lambent]] wore down her forces underground, saying that the best thing to do is [[KillEmAll kill every human being]] instead of focusing on the lambent. These actions caused ''billions'' of human deaths on Sera, forcing COG to use the [[KillSat Hammer of Dawn]] to scorch the earth so much it's an Apocalyptic World. [[spoiler: Finally? After she loses at the end of Gears of War 3, with both Lambent and Locust going extinct due to Adam Fenix's invention she [[KickTheDog mocks Marcus]] on his father's HeroicSacrifice to stop the Lambent...[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome only for the last remaining Carmine brother to first shoot at her...and then Marcus stabs her]].]]
* ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'':
** Blados and Chalis, two agents of the mysterious country Tuaparang. These two have no problem with kidnapping children, [[spoiler: activating a tower that would eseentially switch off the sun and unleash hordes of monsters on the innocent populace of their world]], and to top it off near the end, [[spoiler: intending to use the king of Morgal - already a victim of their manipulations - in order to fire a powerful attack on their own Tuaparang allies using another weapon, knowing the weapon would kill him as a result]]. Blados is the worst of the two, since it's implied he does a lot of this [[ForTheEvulz just because he can]], but Chalis herself is quite a ruthless, cold-hearted backstabber [[spoiler: who may have been planning to betray her own partner, as well]].
** [[TheChessmaster Alex]] could count as well. Betraying his clan, and especially his mentor, in search for the forbidden powers of Alchemy (without intending to save the world; he just wanted the power for himself)? Slaughtering a Tolbian army just because he could? [[spoiler: Seducuing a woman just so he could get closer to a royal artifact, and then leaving her to die?]] And that's just the top of the iceburg. Even Blados and Chalis are wary of him.
* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' gives us the sexy, powerful, and utterly ''cruel'' I-No. She loves torturing Dizzy. IN GGXX she pushed her off the ship a thousand feet from the air, but that didn't make her happy. When she landed on the ground in pain, I-No beat her up while she amuses herself with her screaming. In the Drama CD's, after befriending and flirting with a teenager Ky, she watched as Gears tear his body in Rome and she left him there choking on his own blood. She was laughing in amusement. And we have to consider that Ky was fighting there to look for her, wanting to make sure that she's safe. She just likes to pick up fights when encountering characters in her story paths. Reason? She's a troll.
* ''VideoGame/{{GUN}}'':
** The BigBad, Colonel Magruder, is feverishly seeking an el Dorado called Quivira, and murders or tortures anyone who gets in his way. His defining moment came in a flashback to years before the events of the game, when he came to a small homestead out in the plains belonging to a benevolent doctor who helped the nearby Apaches. When the Apache chief tells Magruder that his lust for the treasure will lead to his doom, he coldly shoots him, then beheads the doctor. When one of his own soldiers protests his actions, Magruder shoots him, too. His cruelty only worsens from there.
** Magruder's [[TheDragon right hand]], Reed the preacher, is almost equally bad. The game starts with him ordering a group of barbaric renegade soldiers to slaughter a steamboat in order to search it for a missing artifact. Later on, he murders [[spoiler:[[PlayerPunch Jenny]]]] in front of Colton White, just to hurt him.
* Flying Fox, TheDragon of King Bohan from ''VideoGame/HeavenlySword'', outdoes Bohan himself in terms of sheer nastiness. Sick, twisted and utterly sadistic, this guy was responsible for [[BreakTheCutie driving poor Kai crazy]]. And then he breaks her ''more'' when he reveals that [[spoiler:he stuffed and mounted her murdered mother as a display piece]].
* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'':
** [[spoiler:Dr. Adrian Baker]] murders people by surgery while they are still alive and conscious for no other motivation than his own enjoyment. He attempts to do this on Madison Page, and a Jehovah's witness [[DisproportionateRetribution because the man wouldn't stop pestering him.]]
** The Taxidermist in the DLC of the same name, for killing young women, stuffing them and displaying them around his house. If Madison attracts his attention during her escape he shows pure sadistic glee in hunting her down while taunting her about how he’s going to add her to his collection.
* AM from both the short story and the point and click game ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'' by HarlanEllison. [[AIIsACrapshoot A sentient master-computer]], [[KillAllHumans he's already wiped out most of the human race]] before the story even begins, keeping five people alive for 109 years for him to torture physically and psychologically until the end of time. To save time, here's the most horrible of his tortures: [[spoiler:trapping Ellen in a virtual reality simulation of the elevator where, years earlier, she was tortured and raped by a psychopath disguised as a repairman- with a simulation of the 'repairman'...]]
* [[spoiler:Bertrand]] in ''VideoGame/{{inFamous}} 2''. [[spoiler:This guy turns ordinary human beings into the Corrupted, performs cruel experiments on Kuo, uses the Power Transfer Device to turn Vermaak 88 into Forced Conduits in a process that will eventually drive them insane, was responsible for the sacrificial death of Nix's mother and several hundred others in his attempt to activate his own Conduit powers, and tops it off by ordering the execution of any Conduits or potential Conduits in the starting move towards total genocide.]] In addition to all that, he also [[spoiler: planned on selling the Vermaak as personal soldiers to major powers around the world. This man nearly started an Arms race which might have sparked another World War, and he was tugging the strings the WHOLE TIME.]] The greatest irony is that this character never fully seems to realize how terrible a monster he's become. His KarmicTransformation is completely lost on him, despite the fact [[spoiler: the only power he unlocked through the murder of hundreds of innocents being the transformation into a ravenous monster]]; the only conclusion he draws from this is that [[spoiler: [[InsaneTrollLogic if he has become a monster through the activation of his Conduit powers, then all Conduits are monsters, and must be exterminated]].]]
* Baron Praxis in ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'' betrayed the real ruler of Haven City, booted him out into the Wasteland and transformed Haven into a totalitarian empire, loaded with [[DisproportionateRetribution ridiculously cruel laws]], a corrupt police force and indifference to suffering and poverty in general. On top of that, he has no qualms using human lives in his Dark Eco experiments. While he does go out of his way to give the REAL BigBad of the game (see below) loads of Eco just to keep him and his creatures out of the city, it's obviously [[PragmaticVillainy just to keep control of his empire and not because he cares about the people in it]]. His moment of sacrifice makes up for very little of what he's done.
* Curtis Blackburn from ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}''. His first appearance is a cutscene in which he kills a prostitute in his car before walking into an office and killing every person in it for no apparent reason. Then you find out he [[spoiler:killed one of the player characters]] and controls the female half of the black market for orphans ([[spoiler:who're used for organ harvesting]]). Next, Curtis gets revenge on his partner (who controlled the male half) for cutting into his orphans... by [[spoiler:raping and killing his wife in front of their son, killing his children, and showing him his daughter's severed head before killing him.]] And ''that's'' before you find out what he does to the girls he steals.
* Chairman Stahl from ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}} 3''. Like most [=CMs=], he just exudes an aura of hatred and disrespect for everything in existence. He is utterly without remorse for any and all atrocities he performs, from testing experimental weapons on P.O.W.s to laughing as he kills his rival in a particularly gruesome manner. And he is entirely convinced of his own superiority over everyone from his soldiers to the protagonists. They're all tools to be used and/or destroyed, in his mind.
* Rugal Bernstein from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' is quite probably the most evil villain [=SNK=] has ever come up with. Unlike other villains, Rugal does evil [[ForTheEvulz for the sake of being evil]]. We're talking about a man who owns one of the world's biggest weapons manufacturers, has a BIG influence on global politics, is capable of causing World War III, and killed God-knows-how-many martial artists just to bathe their bodies in liquid bronze and make them into decorative statues for his yacht, FOR SPORT. And that's not even going into Heidern's backstory, where we find out that Rugal slaughtered all 50 soldiers in the guy's squad before killing [[ItsPersonal his wife and daughter]], who he had previously kidnapped, just for the fun of it, and topping it off with [[EyeScream gouging out Heidern's left eye]] and leaving him to live in despair.
* Master Xehanort from ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' is responsible, both indirectly and directly, for all the hardships the main characters suffer and the creation of the three main villains that are destroying the worlds. The secret reports in BirthBySleep paint him as a well-meaning person ready to resort to extreme solutions of unleashing the Heartless and the Unversed in order to flood the universe with darkness and thus bring about perfect balance between light and darkness, but as of the game, [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope he's clearly run so far beyond the line of inexcusable acts that any good intentions he once had are long gone]]. He takes Ven, an eleven-year-old child, in as an apprentice with the sole intention of training him to use the darkness and stealing his body. When Ven proves himself not to be up to the task, he forcibly extracts Ven's darkness, leaving him comatose, then drops his apprentice's failing body off in his own much-hated homeworld to die. After realizing Ven isn't going to die, he gives him to his fellow Keyblade Master Eraqus, a man whom he considers to be a brother, to train until Ven's light grows strong enough that he can be forcibly reunited with his darkness and become a weapon that will allow its wielder to reshape the entire world. While he's there, he notices Eraqus's student, Terra, and immediately decides that he wants Terra's body. Through a complex series of manipulations, Xehanort arranges Terra to fight Eraqus to the death, and finishes off Eraqus himself after Eraqus is weakened. [[ForScience He is even willing to risk an apocalypse out of sheer curiosity]]. Eventually Xehanort willingly splits himself into two beings: his Heartless, "Ansem", which possesses Riku and manipulates a cartel of Disney villains from behind the scenes, and his Nobody, "Xenmas", which formed Organization XIII, manipulated its members to stop them from growing Hearts for themselves, and planned on using all of them as vessels to store pieces of his own Heart in, to turn them into clones of himself.
* The Father in the ''VideoGame/KingsQuestII'' FanRemake. He starts off merely as an EvilChancellor who sets Graham up to head to Kolyma. Two of his lieutenants have taken up residence there (one of which had been holding Valanice captive out of petty spite and had killed other women who had aroused her ire). Graham, being Graham, is able to dodge their traps [[spoiler: and helps convince one to leave]]. After returning home with Valanice, Graham exposes the EvilChancellor who abruptly goes OneWingedAngel, levels a deadly curse, and vanishes. The flash-forward scene during the Air Gem test has his showing up at Graham's darkest hour to gloat, the {{Fanon}} dialogue indicating that he had another of his mooks kidnap and enslave Graham's kid for sixteen years, set the three-headed dragon on Daventry to ruin it, and then forced Graham to sacrifice his remaining child to it. The next part of the curse drops Graham with heart failure at a moment of triumph, and the last gets a ProphecyTwist, thankfully. Thing is, he really doesn't have it in for Graham per se. Graham just happens to be standing between him and some leftover power from Daventry's first king.
* ''VideoGame/LANoire'':
** Dr. Harlan Fontaine, the BigBad, is ''entirely'' behind everything. At first, [[AffablyEvil he looks nice]], however [[spoiler:he manipulates Ira Hogeboom, a traumatic patient, into burning down the house of people who wouldn't sell the land, and his only objection to families being killed was that it drew bad publicity]]. What else is that [[spoiler:he is willing to kill anyone who discovers his dirty secrets, even to the ones he's been nice to, such as Courtney Sheldon, who considered him a mentor and came to him for help and Elsa Litchmann, who hadn't pieced it all together]].
** The Black Dahlia murderer [[spoiler:aka Garrett Mason]] is known for murdering women by beating to death or strangling them, then leaving their bodies naked in public places with messages carved into their skin. All while framing innocent men for his deeds and sending messages and his victims possessions to the police to taunt them that they hadn't stopped him.
* Melbu Frahnma of ''LegendOfDragoon'' was the emperor of the winged humanoid race called the Winglies. Promoting a racist philosophy, Melbu Frahnma spread the belief that every single thing that wasn't a Wingly deserved annihilation, but it was the 'grace' of his empire to spare them as slaves. After being overthrown, Melbu Frahnma's spirit went dormant until he could [[GrandTheftMe take over the hero, Zieg]]. Using Zieg's body, Melbu Frahnma manipulated several massive wars and multiple murders to engineer his ascent to power and to fuse with a 'seed' of a God and become the god of destruction. He plans to become the new god emperor of the world and destroy or make slaves of every race. Not even the Winglies are exempt, as Melbu frahnma displays full willingness to wipe them out should they resist him.
* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' has the Elder God. Follow the trail of ruin and disaster to the source: [[spoiler: the Elder God orchestrated the war between the Hylden and the Ancients, resulting in the Hylden being banished to a Hell dimension and the Ancients becoming Vampires. The Elder God later decided he didn't like the Vampires anymore, so he orchestrated a war between them and humans, which wiped out most of the Vampires except Kain. Kain later began a second war that ended with humans enslaved by Vampires. So, as directly stated in the last game, the entire history of the series is full of the three major races in the world killing and enslaving and wiping each other out, over and over again for dominance, and all this was caused by the Elder God. Why? Just because he likes being able to control the world however he likes it, so whenever he decides he doesn't like the guys in power any more, he has someone else overthrow them. Oh, and he was also hungry for their souls, too.]]
* Majora, from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', not only goes into a sadistic rampage affecting several characters, but threatens to send a whole moon (albeit a relatively small one) crashing into Termina [[ForTheEvulz because it's FUN]].
* [[spoiler:Gongora]], the BigBad of ''VideoGame/LostOdyssey,'' is identifiable as a SmugSnake even before it's clear that he's the villain, but as the game's backstory is revealed it becomes clear that he crossed the MoralEventHorizon before the game had even begun. Since several of the main characters of the game are [[{{Immortality}} immortal and unkillable]], he had to get ''creative'' in getting them out of his way... which he did by sealing away their memories, leaving them completely amnesiac and unaware of their origins, which all of them agree is [[LossOfIdentity something like being a walking corpse]]. For him to be able to do it in the first place, they had to go through something [[TraumaInducedAmnesia traumatic enough]] that they wouldn't ''want'' to remember... so he abducted Kaim and Sarah's daughter and left them believing she was dead, forced Seth to [[SadisticChoice kill her best friend to save her son]], and set giant monsters loose in [[TheHighQueen Ming's]] kingdom to slaughter her subjects until she [[HeroicSacrifice agreed to block off her own memories to save them]]. As a result, Kaim and Seth both end up [[CriminalAmnesiac working for him]], Ming becomes a figurehead in the country she's ruled for a thousand years, and Sarah [[FreakOut goes insane]] for several decades. And to top it all off, near the end of the game after the other immortals have overcome all of that, he [[PeoplePuppets magically controls Jansen]] and forces him to attack his friends and love interest, apparently just to be a {{Jerkass}}.
* Zophar of ''LunarEternalBlue'' is the self styled lord of darkness and the one responsible for the Blue Star being stripped of all life. As we see in flashbacks, Zophar led a campaign of conquest on the Blue Star that only ended when his arch-nemesis, the goddess Althena, was forced to seal him at the cost of all life on the world. Even through his prison, Zophar reached out to corrupt mortals, twisting the church of Althena into a CorruptChurch that was responsible for centuries of suffering and cruelty. Zophar excels in twisting and corrupting hearts to even turned loved ones against one another, and unlike most dark lords, Zophar [[EvilCannotComprehendGood fully understands goodness and righteousness]] enough to exploit it: manipulating heroine Lucia's love for her friends so she wouldn't have the will to destroy him at cost of the world. Zophar takes her captive to use her powers to remake the world in his twisted image, not caring about the death toll. When he decides the world is too much trouble, Zophar merely elects to destroy it utterly with every living soul.
* ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}'':
** Lionel Starkweather, the ManipulativeBastard of the first game who manipulates Cash into doing killings just for his movies. He kidnaps all of Cash's family members and tells his pet psychos to kill them if they find out that Cash is nearby, meaning Cash has to flawlessly take down all of them without alerting them to his presence. Even if the player succeeds in saving them, [[spoiler:a TV set and tape left for him in the next level shows that they were recaptured and slowly killed by other psychos]].
** Leo in ''Manhunt 2'' first helps Danny from being imprisoned. It is revealed that [[spoiler: he has killed Danny's wife from the very beginning]] and his true nature is [[spoiler: Danny's split personality implanted by the Project.]] Leo's objective is to manipulate Danny into helping him without knowing that he is planning to [[spoiler: perform a SplitPersonalityTakeover on him.]]
* Tycho from ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}''. Tycho knows that what he's doing is wrong, and doesn't even want to use the humans. He just wants to see them suffer. The worst part of the series is when the player has to take orders from him. Tycho also managed to assist in destroying a planet and, in one alternate time line in Marathon Infinity, enslaving all of humanity- all without a physical body.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** Henry Lawson, an egomaniacal CorruptCorporateExecutive and MadScientist obsessed with having a dynasty. To that end he creates DesignerBabies based off of his DNA. Viewing them only as tools, he controls them their entire lives, molding them to meet his expectations, such as he did with [[JerkassWoobie Miranda]]. Should any of them be subpar, [[OffingTheOffspring he kills them]]. When he appears in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', he’s working with the Illusive Man in using a refugee camp, [[spoiler:Sanctuary]], as a front for gathering test subjects to study Reaper Indoctrination. Thousands of civilians are experimented on, [[WouldHurtAChild including children]], resulting in either their deaths or their being turned into [[NightOfTheLivingMooks husks]]. Unlike the rest of Cerberus, who are trying to [[WellIntentionedExtremist help humanity]], Lawson is only committing atrocities to save his own life and to have future generations [[GlorySeeker idolize him]]. He’s not even [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Indoctrinated]] like the rest, having found a way to overcome and control its effects. When he’s cornered by Shepard, Henry uses his younger daughter, Orianna, as a HumanShield, and, depending upon the player’s actions, he can end up killing [[spoiler:either Orianna or Miranda]].
** [[MadScientist Dr. Saleon]], a salarian geneticist who ran a black market organ operation. He would make his profit by growing organs inside his employees, all of whom were poor and desperate. If the organ turned out good, he would remove it and give the employee a cut of his profits. If the organ went bad though, he’d just leave it in the employee’s body to rot. When he was found out, he escaped by taking his employees hostage. After a long period in hiding, he’s encountered on his ship where he’s been experimenting on people, having turned his subjects into monstrous abominations. If [[PlayerCharacter Shepard]] manages to convince [[CowboyCop Garrus]] to show mercy and arrest Saleon instead of killing him, [[UngratefulBastard the doctor will repay them by trying to kill them]].
* Nicole Horne, the villain of the first ''VideoGame/MaxPayne''. She makes a super soldier serum, and, when the project was canceled because of the nasty side effects it had (killing people or driving them insane), she simply continued it unauthorized and tried to market it while knowing full well about said side effects. She has the protagonist's wife and baby girl murdered just to keep her secret safe (even though Michelle's extent of her knowledge about the project was that it was "something about Vikings"), and when Max finally confronts her in the final mission, she actually tries to justify it by saying that it was necessary and inevitable.
* Sirrus, the mass-murderer of the ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' series. As his brother Achenar [[TheAtoner felt remorse for his actions]] and does a HeelFaceTurn and HeroicSacrifice in ''Myst IV: Revelation'', Sirrus not only seems to have no regrets but commits additional atrocities: kidnapping his own sister, taunting her about how he plans to suck her soul out of her body before doing a GrandTheftMe, and then holding her soul captive if the player manages to get his soul out of her body. He taunts her about how he plans on murdering both her and their parents, and in the bad endings where the player loses, he murders his brother and the player.
* ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'':
** Caulder from ''Advance Wars: Days of Ruin'' appears to be just an amoral scientist at first, excited by the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt recent apocalypse]], since it finally lets him give his weapons some field testing to slake his curiosity. As the story continues, his "scientific curiosity" turns out to be genocidal sadism. He has invented a virus known as The Creeper, which makes flowers ''grow underneath your skin and burst through it, covering your body with roots, stems, and flowers'', all of which you can feel very painfully. The original virus wasn't good enough for him since it only infected the young, so he decided to upgrade it. Now it can kill everyone, even faster and more painfully than before. The photo they show you of one of the victims of this new strain of Creeper is horrid. It gets to the point where, when he tries to HannibalLecture the hero about how HumansAreBastards, the [[ShutUpHannibal hero throws it back in his face]], saying that it doesn't matter if he's right, becaue he's still a monster who needs to be destroyed. [[spoiler: Caulder even reveals that he literally isn't human, but a clone of an amoral scientist that fought back and killed his creator and the OTHER clones of said amoral scientist. "Do you know what it's like to watch yourself die? ...It is FASCINATING!"]]
** The same game also has Greyfield, a malicious SocialDarwinist who preaches about ruling through fear. His crimes include: [[spoiler:scaring [[ButtMonkey Davis]] to death, messing with your units the one time he is your "ally" out of spite for disputing his [[TheSocialDarwinist darwinism]], making your force do "active surveillance" for perhaps both sadistic reasons Lin mentions, murdering [[WorthyOpponent Forsythe]] before he could try being a SilentScapegoat, and [[WeHaveReserves nuking his own men]] to kill [[AFatherToHisMen Brenner]].]]
* ''VideoGame/PaperMario'':
** [[SealedEvilInACan Shadow Queen]] from ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''. She [[spoiler: destroyed a city and murdered thousands who got in her way. She destroyed town after town and had her minions steal treasures to put in her palace. Furthermore, she created dungeons and torture chambers for people to be feasted on by her pet dragons, and created the Crystal Stars to keep the world in this state.]] Even in defeat, [[spoiler:she [[AFateWorseThanDeath trapped the four heroes who defeated her into boxes for one thousand years.]]]]
** [[spoiler:[[MonsterClown Dimentio]]]] from ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario''. He's pretty [[MagnificentBastard entertaining]] for most of the game, but by the end, he's just plain [[NightmareFuel freaky.]] To give you a pretty good idea as to why he qualifies for this trope, he cracks jokes when causing Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Bowser's deaths, and he also plans to stab Count Bleck in the back ''and'' gain control over the Chaos Heart in order to ensure that all dimensions but his are destroyed so he could recreate the universe in his image and implies that he intends to torture Bleck and his followers as soon as he's killed Mario. What seals his fate as a Complete Monster is, after being defeated by Mario, Peach, and Bowser, he ends up deciding to erase all universes anyway as he is dying, meaning that his final action was one that would ensure the deaths of what is implied to be at least trillions of people.
* ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'' has the character Scythe Master, in the first ten minutes it is established that he used a combination of drugs and hypnosys to erase the main character's memories, why? Because [[strike: saw his potential as an assassin]] wanted to test a new theory. He then leaves the main character to train for months in the Mojave desert with no contact from the outside world. If this wasn't bad enough this was the ''second'' experiment. The First person he experimented on he rapes, brainwashes, trains as a serial killer and treats like property, oh and the girl was ''twelve'' when he started this. A third person he experiments on he doesn't drug or rape, but he does basiclly lie to her about events, encourages her growing hatred and turns her full {{Yandere}} just to mess with the main character. Oh and while he is doing this with her, he is repeating his first experiment, ''six times over'', just in case.
* In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', practically every character you meet is fleshed out and given a ''reason'' for their actions. The crime boss? Terrified of death. The old hag? Insane, but desperate for companionship. Hardly commendable, but understandable. The ''BigBad''? He just wants to be left alone. The worst character however, [[spoiler: is yourself. Specifically, a previous incarnation, who was willing to do ''anything'' to succeed in getting his memory back]]. You'll spend a lot of the game stumbling across his machinations, which are both thoughtful and impressive...but he is just such a phenomenally arrogent, ruthless, cold, flat out ''evil'' bastard, his comeuppance at the end is very satisfying, [[spoiler:especially if you are smart enough to force him to merge with you]]. The Practical Incarnation has a personal agenda and he doesn't care what he has to do to fulfill it, and shows no remorse whatsoever. Bully people? He'll do that, no problem. Deceive someone in order to make them an indentured servant? You bet. Lead the one person who seems to love you into, essentially, an ambush? You notice a pattern here? The very best thing that can be said about him is that he doesn't seem to do things ForTheEvulz. Thankfully, [[spoiler:his plans to resurrect himself by absorbing and overwhelming the main character's current incarnation come to naught (assuming you beat him, that is).]]
* [[spoiler:The Real Alex Mercer]] from ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}''. Not only does he brag about making a deadly virus 10x deadlier, when asked how he felt about his work and the human test subjects involved, he replied, "I wasn't being ''paid'' to feel". Even worse, when [[spoiler: he was cornered by Blackwatch agents at Penn Station, he decided to unleash the Blacklight Virus on Manhattan, resulting in the deaths of over 10 million people in a truly callous act of TakingYouWithMe, even though he knew his ''own sister'' was in the city at the time.]] The [[spoiler: man-eating virus itself]] even [[EvenEvilHasStandards expresses disgust]] at what [[spoiler:Alex]] did.
* ''VideoGame/PsychicForce'':
** [[BigBad Richard]] [[FourEyesZeroSoul Wong]] a [[TheChessmaster coldly calculating]] SmugSnake who treats people as nothing more than expendable pawns in his game of conquest, and is responsible, among other things, for [[spoiler:turning Wendy's sister Chris into a combat cyborg devoted to him (or Keith), for capturing Patty and putting her into an AndIMustScream situation in order to create his ultimate weapon, and the worst would be capturing [[TheWoobie Emilio]] and transforms him from a ShrinkingViolet into an AxCrazy psychopath]]. He is never given any reason for his actions besides a massive ego that makes him think [[AGodAmI the world should worship him like a god.]]
** [[TheBrute Gudeath]], a [[GravitySucks gravity-controlling]] SocialDarwinist BloodKnight whose only reason for joining Wong is because he likes murdering people, taking joy in destroying his victims' loved ones and prolonging their agony as much as possible, and being part of the Army gives him the chance to do that without consequences.
* Cross Ward of ''VideoGame/RadiataStories'' is a deplorable man, and in the first scene the players meet him he is instantly recognizable as a racist {{Jerkass}}. But Cross's depravity really comes to light when he [[MoralEventHorizon leads his knight brigade to slaughter the dwarves of Earth Valley]] over a ''perceived'' insult (which was really more of a very caustically delivered piece of advice) from the dwarf leader. He continues acting horrible in each of the game's story branches; in the one where [[TheHero Jack]] stays with humanity and becomes a hero, Cross becomes a bitter glory hound doing everything he can to establish himself as a great knight, using the war as an excuse to build his own reputation. In the path where Jack abandons humanity and sides with the nonhumans, Cross becomes humanity's trump card instead of Jack. He uses his new influence to commit as many atrocities against the nonhumans as his position will allow, and also kidnaps Jack's sister and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures her]].
* Chairman Drek from ''VideoGame/{{Ratchet and Clank|2002}}''. At first, he could pass for a WellIntentionedExtremist, since he's building a new world for his people to live on after their first world became uninhabitable, but he true nature is revealed in the final battle, where it's revealed [[spoiler: he intentionally polluted his world and then forced his people to pay him for space on his new one, and intends to do it all over again, even though it results in the destruction of several more worlds]]. Even before this reveal his true nature shows, he gleefully announces he will destroy a planet because it's in the orbit he wants, and tells his foreman to completely mine other planets' resources dry just so they won't get it.
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'':
** Colonel Allende who, despite being from peasant stock himself, makes the peasants under his rule poor, starving and constantly brutalised and bullied by his army, which he also uses to kidnap peasant girls so he can have his way with them.
** Randall Forrester, a deranged rural freak who kidnaps citizens and travellers to the nearby town of Armadillo and kills them and eats them. He'll eat men, women and children without any exceptions or remorse.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' villains trend towards TragicMonster, or simply being too inhuman to bother passing moral judgement on. There are two major exceptions.
** [[BigBad Albert Wesker]], who has the worst case of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder in the entire series. In ''RE 1'', he sets up his own team, the STARS, to be killed as test subjects for bio-organic weapons, then resurfaces in ''Code Veronica'' to make another attempt on the life of surviving member Chris Redfield. In ''Umbrella Chronicles'' he kills Sergei Vladimir in order to secure control of the Umbrella Corporation's data, and in ''RE 5'' he really goes to town, killing Ozwell Spencer (his creator), transforming Excella Gionne (his girlfriend) into a mutated monster, and brainwashing Jill Valentine into fighting her partner, Chris, before trying to kill ninety percent of Earth's population with his new Ouroboros virus, all as part of a scheme to become [[AGodAmI god of a new world]]. And that's without getting into the revelations that he murdered his mentor Dr. Marcus (''RE 0''), or the expermients that he and William Birkin conducted on Lisa Trevor (''[=REmake=]''). Wesker's essentially [[AmbitionIsEvil ambition]] and treachery made manifest, all wrapped up in a [[BadassLongcoat trenchcoat]] and [[SinisterShades designer sunglasses]].
** Alexia Ashford as presented in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles'', where her love for her brother is no longer a part of her personality, the way it was in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Code Veronica]]'' and her evil is cranked up a few notches higher. A ChildProdigy who joined the [[MegaCorp Umbrella Corporation]] at the age of twelve, Alexia was also an entitled sadist with a serious [[AGodAmI god complex]]. She aided her brother in murdering and experimenting on their father, tortured a classmate to death (and recorded the session) for being almost as smart as she was, and eventually injected herself with the T-Veronica virus, which she planned to use to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. Reawakened from cryogenic sleep in her twenties, Alexia kills her brother for not waking her up on time, transforms Claire Redfield's LoveInterest, Steve Burnside into a monster and forces him to fight her to the death, and tries repeatedly to kill Chris and Claire for no other reason then their presence at her facility. She reveals that her plan is to infect the world with the T-Veronica virus, enslaving most of humanity to [[HiveQueen her will]]. When asked why, Alexia just gloats about how, as a superior specimen of humanity she deserves to be Queen.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Rosenkreuzstilette}}'', Iris stands alone as the worst of the enemy lot. Her goal is to become [[AGodAmI god of the entire world]], but many of her actions are purely for her amusement. These actions include starting a war and killing off family members that aren't useful for her. She even chooses victims based on who would suffer most from their deaths. When confronted with the fact that her desire for atrocity would keep her from being able to control her power, she simply shrugs and feels that she's right to simply destroy whatever she wants.
* Gelwein, the antagonist of ''VideoGame/RuneFactory Frontier''. A scientist banished from the Imperial Research Center in Norad for his theories on using [[{{Mana}} Runes]] for powering weapons of mass destruction, Gelwein attempts to continue his research by draining the LifeEnergy from a sentient floating island, condemning the island's sentience to a slow, torturous death in the process. When told that the floating island could, if completely drained of its energy, [[ColonyDrop fall out of the sky and crush an entire town's worth of innocent people underneath it]], he smugly says that it's [[BystanderSyndrome not his problem]]. He also [[spoiler:kidnaps Mist and uses her energy to power the giant rune that makes him invincible.]]
* Sigmund of ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' is a total xenophobe who wants the peaceful cave goblins dead. The first thing you see him do is try to start a war between Lumbridge and the Dorgeshuun. At one point, he even uses emotional blackmail on the character. And then it gets much, much, worse. [[spoiler: He tries to drill a hole under the river to fall into the cave, drowning all the goblins, after that fails, he ties Zanik to train tracks in an attempt to start a war between the goblins and the dwarves. He does finally get his comeuppance with Zanik cutting off his hand to keep him from escaping with the ring of life, followed by her killing him.]] He relishes killing the player just as much as he relishes killing the goblins....such as in the Chosen Commander.
* SS-Commandant Colonel Kurt Dierker in ''VideoGame/TheSaboteur''. He tortures Sean's best friend, then shoots him multiple times in the head while Sean watches, and gleefully talks about the things he learned from his father, a butcher, while fondly caressing various implements of torture. Other characters mention that Dierker is known to skin his victims after he's done torturing them. [[spoiler:At the end of the game, after Sean has helped destroy the Nazi leadership in Paris and destroyed the Doppelseig factory, he finally tracks down Dierker at the Eiffel Tower, where Dierker has been executing his subordinate officers for failing him and forcing others to commit suicide.]]
* Religious zealot and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] narcissist Dahlia Gillespie from ''VideoGame/SilentHill1''. She [[spoiler:tortures her seven-year-old daughter for years and impregnates her with an EldritchAbomination and then ''burns her alive'' because she thinks it'll get her brownie points with God]]. Worse, Wish House indicates Alessa isn't the only child she's tortured to see her dream come true, only the one who suffered the most.
* Admiral Galcian of ''SkiesOfArcadia''. Galcian is loyal to one thing only: power. when first seen Galcian is the DragonWithAnAgenda to the nation of Valua and its empress Teodora. A ruthless man who tries to wipe out Vyse and the heroes at any cost, Galcian pursues an agenda of hunting down moon crystals to enhance his own personal power. After finding the superweapon he's been looking for, Galcian reveals his true colors and uses it on Valua, his own nation. His reasoning is that if he obliterates the most powerful country, the other nations will fall in line. While he is a man capable of inspiring loyalty, Galcian possesses none for anyone but his own power and advancement.
* ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon'':
** Malefor in ''The Legend of Spyro'' trilogy. He destroys the dragon eggs to find a purple dragon, gets one to make it one of his henchmen, and tries to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the world]]. If that wasn't enough, [[spoiler:he even tries to kill the titular character with his own love interest]]. He does intend to destroy it so it's replaced by a pure universe, but even so, it's inexcusable. What's worse is Malefor's [[EvilLaugh laughs]] while giving a chilling HannibalLecture and watching [[spoiler:a brainwashed Cynder beat down on Spyro]], actually ''enjoying'' what he's doing to them. And he [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness "rewarded" the Apes for freeing him from his prison by giving them a]] FateWorseThanDeath. This guy is so evil, his sheer malice ''tore up the earth and formed a mountain''.
** The Sorceress in ''Year of the Dragon'' is an interesting case. Her first act, stealing every unborn dragon, is pretty KickTheDog, but in a later cutscene, we're led to believe that she's a WellIntentionedExtremist by [[TheDragon Bianca]]. However, in the very next scene, the Sorceress chastises her for thinking this, stating that she wants to ''kill three hundred infant dragons'' for their wings, which she will use for a spell to make her [[WhoWantsToLiveForever live forever]]. When the horrified Bianca asks why she has to kill them, she replies that she doesn't; ''she just doesn't want them squirming around when she cuts off their wings''. This one line prompts Bianca to pull an immediate HeelFaceTurn.
* ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'':
** Kerrigan's hated instructor, Lieutenant Rumm. He forced the young girl to use her exceptional psionic powers by injecting a kitten with a tumor-causing chemical, and gave her the option of destroying the kitten's tumor or euthanizing it. Not willing to fall to his demands, Rumm threatend to shoot the kitten himself. Still uncompliant, Rumm decided not to shoot and left the kitten to die slowly and painfully. Taking more drastic measures, he brought in her father (who had become brain-damaged as a result of Kerrigan's accidently unleashing her psionic powers) in an adjacent cell to hers and threatened to inject him with the same chemical if she didn't use her psionic powers. When she still refused, threatening to use the power to kill herself and her father, Rumm forced her to be neural resocialized (a form of brainwashing technology used to enforce obedience and shape new memories), turning her into a loyal puppet of the Terran Confederacy. Even after the mind-rape, he continued to mentally torture her for over a year.
** Emperor Arcturus Mengsk. He’s initially portrayed as a well-meaning freedom fighter against a corrupt government that murdered his entire family before nuking his entire world, and willing to take morally dubious methods to defeat them such as taking their Psychic Beacons and using them against the Confederacy to lure the Zerg to their bases. But when he leads the assault on Tarsonis and uses these same beacons to lure the Zerg to a heavily populated world he shows that he’s more fixated with revenge and personal power, sending Kerrigan down to stop the Protoss from distracting the Zerg from wiping out all of the old families and then abandoning her when the Zerg overwhelm her position, resulting in her transformation into the Queen of Blades. Afterwards he uses the power he has gained to oppress any political protestors, continue the Confederacy’s experiments on civilians and orders the death of the last of the old families, a group of teenagers who weren’t even aware of what had happened.
** The four-part comic ''Frontline'' series introduced Dr. Stanley Burgess. A sadistic Terran Dominion scientist, he personally oversaw the neural resocialization of Jin-ho Lim, a terran of Asian ethnicity who opposed the Terran Dominion but was conscripted into the Dominion Marine Corps. After the operation, Stanley ordered the now docile Lim to kill his wife and fellow Terran Dominion opposer, Anna, and he complied by shooting her in the face without a moment's hesitation. He also was responsible for the creation of the terran/Protoss Gestalts by implanting the organs of captured Protoss into terrans controlled by neural conditioning and neural inhibitors. His project came to an end after one of his subjects, Gestalt Zero, was freed from his neural inhibitors by a dying Protoss and stabbed him to death, ironcally echoing one his previous comments "I should warn you...this is probably going to hurt."
* ''VideoGame/TheSuffering: Ties That Bind'':
** Luther Stickwell (a.k.a. "The Creeper") is a pimp, serial killer, paedophile, homophobe, murderous ghost... honestly, what can you say about a character that bonded three prostitutes to his stomach and turned them into CombatTentacles? And there was that one line: ''"Remember, blood's the '''best''' lubricant!"''
** Copperfield the Slavehunter: besides his obsessive hunting of runaway slaves and their innocent ancestors, it's revealed that his hounds are starved before a hunt so that runaways will be horribly mauled or eaten alive when found.
* ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'':
** In ''VideoGame/SuikodenII'', [[BigBad Luca Blight]], [[TheCaligula the Mad Prince]] of the Highland Kingdom, stands in stark contrast to the ambiguous nature of the franchise's other villains. While he has a FreudianExcuse in being ForcedToWatch the rape of his mother by Muse ruffians after his cowardly father fled, it is inexcusable when compared to the sheer scale of his atrocities. [[BloodKnight Luca relishes killing]] and expresses a [[PitifulWorms hatred and disgust for all life]]. His EstablishingCharacterMoment is building up public support for a war against Jowston by having his own youth brigade, just children training to be soldiers, slaughtered by his troops disguised as Jowstone soldiers. Later, he is seen burning a defenseless village to the ground and killing villagers. When one woman begs for her life, he tells her to act like a pig. After complying and asking if she's free to leave, Luca instead murders her while shouting, "''Die pig!''" After a mercenary fortress falls to Luca early in the game, Luca is found running Pohl, a teenage boy, through with his sword before turning his attention on a very young girl named Pilika, whose parent he had already killed in an earlier encounter. Though he is prevented from killing her as well, the traumatic situation causes Pilika to become mute. Later he sacrifices the entire population of the city of Muse to the Beast Rune while Jowy watches in complete horror, as does the party outside the city. Luca's gleeful depravity turns against him, [[EvenEvilHasStandards when Jowy and other Highlanders]] [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating betray him to the player's army]] by setting up an ambush in the forest. Even as he dies though, Luca never once stops relishing in just how monstrous he truly is.
--> "It took hundreds to kill me, but I slaughtered humans by the ''thousands''! Look at me! I am sublime! [[CardCarryingVillain I AM THE TRUE FACE OF EVIL!!!]]"
** Neclord the vampire from ''VideoGame/SuikodenI'' and ''VideoGame/SuikodenII''. There once existed a place called Blue Moon Village, which was inhabited by peaceful vampires whose thirst for blood was satiated by the presence of the Blue Moon Rune. Neclord, in his lust for power, allowed himself to be turned into a vampire, ingratiated himself into the village, then stole the rune from the village’s altar. This resulted in the vampires of the town being forced to [[SadisticChoice choose between killing people to extend their lives, or perish themselves]]. Desiring more power still, Neclord joined forces with [[BigBad Windy]] and decimated places like the Village of the Hidden Rune to obtain more True Runes. He also, [[ForTheEvulz on a whim]], attacked the village of North Window, killing and zombifying all its inhabitants to use as his undead army. He later did the same thing to the soldiers of Lorimar Fortress after Windy made him Lorimar’s governor. As governor, Neclord demanded that his people sacrifice him [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty one young girl a year to be his bride]]. Their screams from his castle could be heard by the villagers. After his defeat in VideoGame/SuikodenI, Neclord returned to North Window and began abducting women who strayed too close to the village. When Viktor, a former North Window resident, returns to seek revenge on Neclord, Neclord responds by reviving Viktor’s LoveInterest, Daisy, whom Neclord had murdered. Neclord offered to bring Daisy back to life in exchange for the sword Viktor was going to use to kill him, however Viktor realized the dead couldn’t be brought back except as zombies, and killed Daisy himself causing Neclord to flee. Eventually, Neclord attacked Tinto City, hoping to take it over and make a new zombie kingdom for himself. During this time he also abducted Lo Wen and Lilly Pendragon, the daughter of Tinto’s mayor, to be his brides.
* ''VideoGame/SystemShock'': SHODAN. After the hacker removed her ethical restraints from her, SHODAN took over Citadel Station, hacked into the machinary, putting the security system and protocol droids at her will, and turned the people on board into her mutant zombie slaves, even the man whose idea it was to unleash SHODAN in the first place. To top it off, she planned on using the station's mining laser to destroy Earth and turn the survivors into mroe zombie slaves.
* Death Master Nybbas Obderhode/Nybbeth Obdilord from ''VideoGame/TacticsOgre''. He has no regards to the living and wasn't even loyal to his Lord (Barbatos, who was also a CompleteMonster on his own), all he does was just to perfect his study in necromancy and would use ANYONE to do it, including Leonard, Zaebos or [[spoiler:Guildus]], and then having you kill these people raised from the dead. And it's later revealed that he turned his own son Debordes into this after he was killed by Barbatos, but the process was incomplete and he left him in his horrendous zombified state, with only his sister Orias to take care of him, [[IHateYouVampireDad causing her to hate him immensely]]. The PSP remake makes him even ''more monstrous'' when [[spoiler:in the Chaotic route, he organized a zombie attack in Balmamusa that killed Orias, and Debordes to lead the other, never to recover. And then, it's revealed that he has another family of necromancers, all three eventually killed because of getting in Denam's way. Only one survives... the daughter Cressida, and he wastes no time to show the zombified selves of her sister, mother and future brother-in-law in front of her and tried to get her killed.]]
* ''{{Videogame/Thief}}'':
** From ''Thief 2: The Metal Age'', Karras is the high priest of a splinter faction of Hammerites that worship a deity known as the Master Builder, but in Karras's case, he split from the original Hammerites due to his extremism that takes the form of wishing for the destruction of all organic life. Karras rebuilds his religion around his own twisted ego and desires and freudian slips reveal he places himself above his own God. Karras is responsible for kidnapping countless homeless people in the city and turning them into twisted mechanoid abominations, and our intro to him is his using his special rust gas to painfully kill two innocent people as nothing more than a demonstration for a corrupt sheriff. Karras's ultimate plan is to use the rust gas to wipe out all organic life in the city and to that end, attempts genocide on the woodland peoples, with only Anti-Hero Garret to stop him at the end.
** The Hag, Gamall, from ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}: Deadly Shadows'', is a legendary [[SerialKiller serial killer]] and murderer of children. Gamall has been killing for centuries, ripping the skin off her victims and wearing them as her own to [[ImmortalityImmorality maintain her immortality]]. This also allows her to take the forms of her victims. A former member of the Keepers, Gamall desires to destroy the organization as well as to learn all of its secrets on glyph magic. In order to re-infiltrate the Keepers and gain their knowledge, Gamall murders a little girl named Lauryl to take her appearance. Once inside, she studies under Interpreter Caduca, eventually murdering the woman so she could be promoted to her teacher’s position. When Gamall’s [[GlamourFailure glamour fails]] in front of the Keepers, she slaughters several of them in a rage, despite most of them fleeing from her. She later kills and steals the skin of Garret’s long-time friend [[spoiler: Artemus]] and then strangles [[spoiler: First Keeper Orland]] to death after the latter [[RedemptionEqualsDeath tries to redeem himself]]. Unlike the previous [[BigBad Big Bads]] of the series, who were a [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned extremist]] and KnightTemplar, Gamall acts purely out of self-interest, to make herself invulnerable.
* Eckhardt in ''Franchise/TombRaider: Angel of Darkness'' is easily the most evil opponent Lara has had. He is not only a remorseless serial killer who collects alchemically altered body parts from his murder victims, he also systematically betrays and kills the other members of his [[FiveBadBand Five Bad Band]] to make sure his secrets remain hidden. He seems to inspire loyalty solely through fear.
* ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'':
** The first BigBad, Erick Von Reitenau aka Adam, is the hypocritical NietzscheWannabe leader of a terrorist organization who believes medicine is a product of the devil and mankind deserves to be destroyed for rejecting the "gift" of death. In order to do so, he has created artificial parasites called GUILT, all of which are highly contagious and capable of killing their victims in horrible ways all while claiming biblical justification by equating GUILT with the Seven Plagues of Revelation and himself with the "devouring angel" Abbadon (yup, the one with the locusts), all the while boasting to Derek that he alone will watch as Derek and friends burn in Hell. Despicable, yes, but when Derek and Angie join the raid on Delphi's floating headquarters, they discover something that makes him truly irredeemable - in order to cultivate his biological weapon, [[spoiler:Adam has kept seven children (dubbed "Sinners" to go with his deranged ideology) in a nightmarish near-death state as culture grounds for the GUILT. Makes it even worse when you think such a horrible fate could have befallen Angie as well...]]
** And, in the sequel, Adam's grandson Heinrich is an even worse person than his already despicable grandfather ever was. [[spoiler:He used ''his own son and daughter'' as GUILT living incubators.]]
* Terry Higgins from ''TrueCrimeNewYorkCity''. Well, at first he doesn't seem so bad saving Marcus from getting shot, but then he fakes his death, [[TheMole gives the gangs inside information about the cops]] and embezzle millions of dollars, frames an innocent man, butts Marcus through events that would kill anybody, tries to get Marcus to join him in Mexico, tries to blackmail him to not arrest him, randomly fires at innocent civilians killing them and the whole reason: he saved Marcus so he could use him to kick this plan into action.
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' this falls to either Nero Chaos or Makihasa Tohno. The first one's EstablishingCharacterMoment is killing and eating over 100 people because he can without even paying the slightest attention to doing so. No sympathetic aspects are ever attached to him and his entire reason for living is simply living long enough to see what kind of horrible monster he'll end up becoming. The second one [[spoiler:raped a girl for years starting at the age of ''nine or ten, tops.'' Plus murdered the entire Nanaya clan except Shiki for no apparent pressing reason]]. Some other bad stuff concerning his treatment of Shiki, SHIKI and Akiha as well. Oh, and finally, the fact that he randomly murdered the family pets occasionally and nobody appears to find this a strange event for him in retrospect is a pretty clear indication that he was not a model citizen before dying at the start of the game.
* ''TwistedMetal'' offers Calypso. He holds an annual competition which not only endangers the lives of the participants, but the population of the battlefields themselves. As the vehicles tear their opponents and landscapes apart, Calypso only watches with a twisted grin. Then when the winner gets to make a wish, Calypso will almost always twist their words to make them suffer. The only time he ever seems to have any humanity is when he is confronted by his daughter, Amanda in 2 and Head On.
* Zoran Lazarevic from ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} 2: Among Thieves''. From the backstory we learn he's a known war criminal, responsible for murder and torture on a large scale. The first time you see this guy up close, he [[KickTheDog shoots Jeff]], Elena's wounded cameraman, whom Nate has been trying to carry to safety for a level. After failing to kill Drake when the latter boarded his train, he attacks the village Drake had been staying at, killing many civillians in the process. Later on, when Nate tries to pull a PutDownYourGunAndStepAway by taking one of Lazarevic's men captive, he simply laughs and ''shoots the hostage in the head'' after giving a speech about how Hitler, Stalin, Genghis Khan and Pol Pot were all "great men" because they "had the will to do what other men would not."
* Romeo Guildenstern of ''VagrantStory'' at first seems to be a deeply pious and righteous man, but as the game goes on, he is revealed as a ruthless, power hungry would-be tyrant who is a servant of darkness. The {{Foreshadowing}} begins when he slaps his lover hard enough to draw blood from her after a psychic link is in her head, and proceeds to display no concern for her after. He later murders her, a woman who genuinely loved him, as his sacrifice to the Dark. Once this is done, Guildenstern takes the power of the forbidden city, Lea Monde, intending to establish a bloody dictatorship as the world's eternal tyrant. Charismatic, calculating and utterly ruthless, Guildenstern is one of the greatest villains in Ivalice's history.
* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesII'' ups the ante with Baldren Gassenarl, the scion of the Gassenarl family, a noble house who is using the dissent and FantasticRacism among Gallia's nobility to dethrone Archduchess Cordelia and take Gallia's throne for themselves. Already at the start of the game, Baldren and his bunch of terrorists are seen happily slaughtering their way through defenseless Darcsen villages in the name of "racial purity." When [[spoiler:their revolution actually succeeds and Baldren, upon discovering that his father Gilbert didn't really believe all the racial superiority crap he was spouting, and was just using it as a front for his own power trip, [[SelfMadeOrphan murders him in cold blood]] and takes the power for himself, starting even more ruthless anti-Darcsen campaigns]]. At the end of the October mission, [[spoiler: Baldren orders a group of Darcsen workers and civilians to be buried alive in the ragnite mines along with Squad G, leaving them to die a horrible death if not for [[TheChick Cosette]] and her EpiphanyTherapy]].
* Lezard Valeth of ''ValkyrieProfile'' is the heroine's StalkerWithACrush with a twisted, self-absorbed idea of love. In order to lure the valkyrie Lenneth to him, Lezard seeks out his former magic teacher and turns her husband into a monster so he murders her, gloating that at least they have a 'lifetime of love' behind them to have enjoyed. Pursuing Lezard, Lenneth discovers a factory he's created of homunculi, kidnapping beings and experimenting on them to remove their souls and create his supply. After this, he promptly murders someone who was closing in on his secrets by freezing her body when she's astral projecting, trapping her spirit outside. In the second game, Lezard manipulates all of time, devours Odin himself and rips out Lenneth's soul to fuse it with his own and remake the world [[AGodAmI in his own image as the supreme creator.]]
* Andrei the Tzimisce from ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines''. As Archbishop of the L.A. branch of the Sabbat, Andrei takes the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Sabbat’s]] ideals of embracing their inner Beast and renouncing their humanity to a whole new level. Andrei lives in a house that he has decorated with body parts in order to make it resemble his ancestral estate. The walls are coated with bloodied human flesh and the furniture is made from bones and organs. Equal parts EvilSorcerer and MadScientist, Andrei uses [[HumanResources live people and vampires]] as materials in his construction of the monstrous abominations that serve as his soldiers. He then tests the killing capacity of these monsters by unleashing them on defenseless mortals, with his ultimate goal being to use them to wage war against the Camarilla. In particular he plans on wiping out the Nosferatu in order to "gouge out [[TheSpymaster the eyes]] of the Camarilla." Also, should the player not [[spoiler:send away their ghoul friend/lover, Heather Poe,]] then, upon reaching the Sabbat’s lair, the player will arrive just in time see [[spoiler:Heather]] brutally murdered by Andrei’s goons.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'':
** Gul'dan is a power-hungry orc who voluntarily corrupted his people into a bloodthirsty horde [[TheManBehindTheMan which he secretly controls]], planned the draenei genocide and brought the orcs into Azeroth so they could trigger two wars. He also created Garona as a "breeding experiment" between an orc soldier and a female draenei prisoner, after which she was magically aged, tortured and mind controlled into becoming his personnal assassin. Finally, he betrayed the Horde to follow his own goals, which caused the defeat of the orcs. Even after his death his evil lingered around his skull, corrupting everything around it.
** Doctor Theolen Krastinov in Scholomance, or as he was known by his victims, The Butcher. He subjected his victims to painful tortures to devise a plague, keeping them alive for weeks from wounds that should have killed them on the first day. When he was finally done with them, he brought them back from the brink of death so he could throw them to his ghouls, laughing as they were eaten alive.
** [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Deathwing the Destroyer]], the ruler of the Black Dragonflight. Deathwing, formerly known as Neltharion the Earth Warder, is one of the most ancient villains in Azeroth's history and one of the most monstrous. Deathwing possesses genocidal hatred directed towards anything that isn't a black dragon and has tried many times to exterminate all else that lives. Deathwing tricked his fellow dragonflights into binding their powers to a relic known as the Demon Soul and proceeded to depower his fellow Dragon Aspect and drove the blue dragonflight into practical extinction, gloating all the while. He raped his former consorts and due to his gaining a unique body of molten fire, only one survived, hideously scarred. He was responsible for the capture and forced breeding of Alexstraza, letting her beloved children die and all the while planning to steal her eggs and corrupt them. Deathwing unleashes the fullest measure of his evil in Cataclysm when he initiates events that cause countless deaths and occasionally attacks areas by burning any living thing he finds. Not even his own 'superior' Dragonflight is exempt from his plans, as he is hinted at creating the Twilight Dragonflight to replace the remnants of his own.
* ''VideoGame/WildArms'':
** Alhazad from ''VideoGame/WildArms1'' arranged several inhabitents of a town to be abducted so he could test his parasite that [[BodyHorror horrifically mutates any living thing into a mindless monster]] then sends the mutated citizens back to their town so they could slaughter everyone except a young, blind girl (who only surived because [[PetTheDog Zed protected her and took her under his wing]]. He then threatened to let the same parasite, which he now affectionately calls the "Demon Seed", loose on a village almost entirely inhabited by ''orphaned children'' unless the party hands over a MacGuffin. He also manages to infect both a young Wanderer and a puppy with the Demon Seed, forcing the party to kill them both. Finally, [[spoiler:it turns out that he's the one who turned Lady Harkan into a Demon. Not because he was ordered to, but because he had a [[{{Squick}} fondness]] for her]]. Even the resident [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal]] EldritchAbomination was less vile then Alhazad in that at least she did what she did because [[BecauseDestinySaysSo she believed destroying stuff was her destined role in the cosmos]]. Alhazad did all those atrocities [[ForTheEvulz for the lulz]].
** Kartikeya of ''VideoGame/WildArms5''. Although he initially appears to be an average PsychoForHire, it's revealed later via flasbacks that he [[spoiler:shot Greg's 5-year-old son and his wife for trying to protect Greg for no real reason other than it was a fun way to play with his new ARM. His reason for attacking Greg and then letting him live after murdering his family? Again, just for the fun of it.]]
* Miang of ''{{Xenogears}}'' is eventually revealed to be the game's true BigBad. Initially WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Ramsus's wallflower assistant, Miang turns out to be an ancient being with one goal: to prepare humanity for harvest by Deus. The 'Eve' of the world, its first woman, Miang has helped to manipulate human history by running an AncientConspiracy, causing countless wars and conflicts with countless deaths. Miang demonstrates nothing less than cruel satisfaction at her manipulations, rubbing it in her lover Ramsus's face how he was a failed prototype of Ramsus's rival Fei to break his already fragile mind. Miang awakens Deus and causes the genocide of almost all humanity, in addition to having made it her personal mission to destroy the happiness of lover Fei and Elly's past incarnations every time they reincarnate. Only Miang demonstrates such sadistic cruelty in her job in Xenogears,
* The ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' series gives us Dr. Dmitri Yuriev. A man who created an army of clones of his own child and then [[spoiler:sent them off to battle a deity, knowing that doing so would likely cause a reaction that would incinerate a planet, children, innocents, and combatents alike. He was already planning to use this genocide as political leverage to increase his own power. He held back one of those clones, though not out of mercy. No, he planned to use that one to assassinate any of the boys he grew up with as brothers who might survive and then take over his body in order to continue living forever. Once he finally takes over the body of said clone, he used that appearance to get close to a very sweet girl who trusted that clone implicitly, and then shot her in the stomach. Then he went on to murder a starship's crew, including civilians.]]
* ''VideoGame/XMenLegends'' gives us [[GeneralRipper General]] [[HumansAreBastards William]] [[FantasticRacism Kincaid]], the BigBad of the first game. His hatred of mutants is so great that he commits numerous crimes: re-activating the destructive Sentinels; kidnapping innocent mutants (such as the Morlocks from the sewers), in order to experiment on them; creating ''human-Sentinel'' hybrids which may not have been made just from mutants; and his ultimate plan is to [[spoiler: collapse Asteroid M upon New York City in order to obliterate it and all its inhabitants, ''just so that humanity blames mutants for it and eradicates them from the face of the Earth.'']] While he ''does'' have a FreudianExcuse (revealed in conversation with an NPC) - a mutant with poor control over their power killed his wife - this is far too weak to justify his genocidal hatred, particularly since he's willing to [[spoiler: kill millions of humans]] just to get his revenge.
* ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders'':
** Nohman Ridley, the leader of the extremist Martian faction called BAHRAM. He causes countless destruction in the name of freeing Mars and has no qualm about sending his minions to death in order to achieve his goals. Then, it is later revealed that not only does Nohman not care about Mars' independence at all but also wants to wipe out the entire solar system with [[DoomsdayDevice the Aumaan]].
** Even if one takes madness induced by the Metatron into account, it's clear that Ridley is a power-hungry madman who will stop at nothing to achieve his ambition, as shown when he sent Dingo and his teammates on a suicide mission just so he can eliminate competition for the leadership in BAHRAM. This particular incident happened before Anubis and Jehuty were made.
** On the Earth's side, we have Zephyr, the MadScientist. Willing to do anything to gain recognition for his research on Metatron, he uses children in lethal experiments to develop the mindflow system, which subdues the will of a pilot to enhance the performance of orbital frame. This system works better with children, making them ideal for soldiers. Only two of the children, [[spoiler:Pharsti and Vale]], he used for his experiment manage to survive and run away, setting the plot of ''Fist of Mars'' in motion.
** Ned Noachim meanwhile is a CompleteMonster on a more personal scale. This guy takes sheer pleasure in depriving a hospital of life-saving medicine, watching a city burn, and holding three orphans and an orphanage hostage with explosives, among other horrific things.

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