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  • Iron Will in Adventure Ponies! In the show, Iron Will could be intimidating, but the most "villainous" thing he had done at the time was rudely demand that Fluttershy pay him for his services, and he eventually accepted that she wasn't 100% satisfied. Even in his second appearance (after the game's release) he only ever sunk to the level of a con artist. Here, he's a level boss.
  • In American McGee's Alice, several characters from the works of Lewis Carroll get this treatment, including Tweedledee, Tweedledum, the Queen of Hearts (to a much lesser extent as she was a villain originally), the Dormouse, the March Hare, and the Mad Hatter. However, the Mad Hatter does have a Heel–Face Turn in the sequel and becomes one of Alice's allies.
    • The original game does an admittedly poor job of showing at the end that none of the characters are actual villainsnote , and their behavior in the game is a reflection of Wonderland itself being out of whack. The sequel makes this a touch clearer, both because Alice's problems have changed enough we can see the shifting of roles and by explaining enough of the backstory to justify the existence and actions of the original's Big Bad.
  • In at least one Asterix video game Asterix and the Great Rescue, Cacofonix is fought as a boss. In the comics themselves, while he is a nuisance and a Giftedly Bad musician, he is an ally of the main characters and not at all a villain. Averted because he is not a villain here either: he isn't a boss out to get the characters but just trying to sing oblivious to how unpleasant this is to the surrounding individuals exactly like in the comics.
  • Batman: Arkham Series:
    • In the comics, most of Anarky's actions were targeted at specific individuals, and although some of his actions put his targets in critical condition, he wasn't a killer and he would avoid collateral damage. In Batman: Arkham Origins, Anarky plans to blow up buildings connected to what he believes are the root problems of society, and he's unconcerned with who might get hurt in the process. He's also portrayed as somewhat less rational than his comic book counterpart. You probably wouldn't hear the comic Anarky ranting against soft drinks, for example.
    • Batman: Arkham Knight does this to Jason Todd. As the titular Arkham Knight, he's party to a chemical attack on a major metropolitan city, something that, even at his worst, his comic counterpart hasn't done. That said, he's also a case of Adaptational Heroism as his issues with the Batfamily are limited to just Bruce, and he still turns good at the end.
    • In Batman: The Animated Series, Ferris Boyle, the guy who turned Victor Fries into Mr. Freeze, was already a greedy, murderous jerk who didn't care if he ended a life just to save money, and him turning Victor into Freeze was a reaction to Victor pulling a gun on him. In the "Cold, Cold, Heart" DLC, he asked Victor to build cold-based weapons in exchange for helping his wife, only to renege on the deal. Later, he was willing to kill Batman and Freeze so he could leave no witnesses, and was preparing to kill Nora in front of Freeze out of spite.
  • Batman: The Telltale Series:
    • Most incarnations of Thomas Wayne were good people in a corrupt city, but here, while Bruce remembered Thomas fondly, Thomas himself was more ruthless, being in league with Carmine Falcone and Hamilton Hill, and even driving Esther Cobblepot into insanity and locking her up in Arkham just so he could get a hold of land the Cobblepots own to build a tower. However, he still loved his family enough to try to defend them from Joe Chill and Alfred believes that Thomas would be proud of Bruce not following in his footsteps and actually trying to help Gotham as Batman.
    • The Children of Arkham leader is Vicki Vale.
    • The Riddler is much more Ax-Crazy and bloodthirsty than his comic book counterpart, who is usually portrayed as one of Batman's least violent enemies. He's also an Adaptational Badass, and can actually put up a good fight against Batman despite this version of him being 60 years old. This is later revealed to be due to taking part in a secret government project where he was exposed to an experimental virus that acted as a Psycho Serum, increasing his mental and physical attributes at the cost of sanity.
    • Harley Quinn, as shown in Batman: The Animated Series and the comics is just another victim of the Joker, having been warped into Cute and Psycho villain by his corrupting charisma before DC retooled her into a Anti-Hero due her immense popularity. Here Harley isn’t nearly as sympathetic as she’s already a Ax-Crazy supervillain before meeting Joker, whom in a case of Swapped Roles is given Adaptational Heroism being the who is used and manipulated by Harley. Telltale Harley is also much more sociopathic and cruel to others, displaying little of her compassionate traits from the comics.
  • Big Karnak, a game set in Ancient Egypt, somehow depicts benevolent or neutral Egyptian god like Horus, Nut, Isis and Osiris as villains. Osiris kickstarts the plot by abducting your bride, and as you try to rescue her you travel through a number of locations, including a Slave Galley on the Nile run by Nut.
  • Axonn in BIONICLE Heroes appears as a brute henchman for the Piraka and is the boss of his level. In the official story, he is actually the mightiest helper of the main characters on the island of Voya Nui, and periodically wipes the floor with the Piraka. Then again, the game threw out practically all of the canon elements in exchange for better gameplay.
  • In Japanese Mythology, Susano'o was a total dick to his sister Amaterasu, but after being forced to walk the earth for the worst of it, he Took a Level in Kindness and ultimately made up with her. The Susano'o unit in BlazBlue, however, was created as a custodian for Amaterasu... but ultimately plays this trope straight when it develops a consciousness of its own and desires to destroy everything Amaterasu created out of spite. The original inhabitant of the unit is an entity we better know as Yuuki Terumi. Furthermore, he also takes aspects of Lucifer/Satan, that he generates a desire to take over Amaterasu's place, destroy her creations, THEN replace it with his version of world where he is the most feared being, because he simply didn't like his former job as a custodian.
  • Harry the Handbag from Bonkers is a lonely handbag who only stole people and things and stored them inside him because he thought they could cure his loneliness. In the Licensed Game of the same name for the Sega Genesis, Harry becomes a wanted criminal who leads a gang of Raccoon Thieves to steal five toon treasures note  from the museum.
  • Done in-universe in Borderlands 2. In the main game, the Guardian Angel was a tragic but ultimately heroic character who sacrifices herself to help stop her father, Handsome Jack. However, the Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep DLC — where the heroes play a setting-appropriate Dungeons & Dragons-style game run by Tiny Tina — features a blatant expy of her that tricks the heroes into releasing it and then turns into a spider-demon and tries to kill them. Lampshaded by Lilith, who tries to explain that the Guardian Angel wasn't really evil, but Tiny Tina refuses to listen because she blames Angel for Roland's death.
  • Casper the Friendly Ghost: In the film adaptations, Kibosh was an Anti-Villain who, while threatening and unfriendly, was ultimately just trying to make sure all ghosts followed the rules of attending the scare academy and scaring humans. In the video game Casper Spirit Dimensions, he is an out and out villain who wants to take over both the spirit world and the land of the living, and outright attempts to destroy Casper.
  • The Cat in the Hat: Mr. Quinn is far more malicious in the game compared to the film. His villainous role in the film was purely from being a jerk. The game, however, has him collecting magic and trying to kill the Cat so he could take over the world. Lampshaded in the intro when the Cat complains that Mr. Quinn becoming a would-be world conquering supervillain was not in his script!
  • CP3D: In Club Penguin, the Extra Planetary Federation is tasked with rescuing aliens on the planet Upzar II. In one of CP3D's alternate dimensions, Upzar II instead ransacks the island for resources.
  • The Crown of Wu is a game loosely based on the Chinese literary classic, Journey to the West, where players assume the role of Sun Wukong investigating a post-apocalyptic universe. It turns out the game's Hidden Villain is none other than Zhu Bajie, Wukong's brother-in-arms from the original stories, who grew jealous of Sun Wukong's powers and decide to steal Wukong's Golden Fillet, seal him in suspended animation, and trigger an apocalypse that wipes out all life in the heavens - a massive leap into villainy for a character who's supposedly Wukong's Vitriolic Best Buds in the source material.
  • Dante's Inferno: In the original Inferno, Dante's sins he has to repent of include forgetting his dead muse in favor of living women, being arrogant about his poetry, and being afraid to walk through Hell. In the game, he's an adulterer who had sex with a slave girl while his wife fought off seducers back home, a mass murderer who kills hundreds of civilians, and a damned soul so self-righteous that he would let the Devil free of Hell before accepting that God's judgement. To the extent that the poem's Dante is also the author, it doubles as a pretty extreme example of Historical Villain Upgrade.
  • Despite being a hero and even a member of The Avengers, Echo is portrayed as an unambiguous villain in the Daredevil video game adaptation.
  • Darkstalkers: BB Hood is a darker incarnation of the famous Little Red Riding Hood. Instead of being the innocent girl who had a terrible run in with a big bad wolf, BB Hood is an Ax-Crazy, sadistic Psycho for Hire trying to hunt down and kill every darkstalker, even if they are good and haven't done anything wrong. In fact, most of her victory quotes are taunts to her now dead opponents. She's even considered evil enough that she appears in Project X Zone 2 as an enemy.
  • Deathtrap Dungeon, the video game adaption of the Fighting Fantasy gamebook Deathtrap Dungeon has this with Baron Sukumvit. The original wasn't exactly a saint, but was portrayed more as an opportunistic noble and a fair ruler, while the video game version has him as the Big Bad, and a tyrant, and has more in common with his villainous brother Lord Cairn from the sequel book Trial of Champions.
  • In Die Reise ins All we met Sherlock Holmes. First he seems to be exact to the character as he is known from the books. Later it's revealed that there was no Sherlock Holmes all along. It was Moriarty in disguise from the beginning.
  • Ninja Theory’s DmC: Devil May Cry:
    • Vergil gets a good dose of this, yes he is the Big Bad of third and fifth mainline games, but he’s still a Noble Demon who cares more about gaining power rather than subjugating humanity. In the reboot, however Vergil reveals by the end that he does want to rule over the inferior human race as Mundus 2.0, to the horror of Dante. He’s also more of a Smug Snake who secretly hates his twin brother out of an inferiority complex. Coincidentally in DMC5 it is similarly revealed that Vergil resented Dante, due to believing their mother Eva loved Dante more than him, but by the end the game it’s made clear that Vergil deep down still genuinely cares for his brother regardless, unlike the reboot.
    • Mundus himself was already a vile Demon Emperor as seen in the first game (and Satanic Archetype to boot), but the reboot somehow has him be even worse. In this version he personally rips Eva’s heart out and subjects Sparda to a Fate Worse than Death. This version of Mundus has also succeeded in ruling over mankind and feeding off them.
  • The Ringmaster in Disney's Villains' Revenge. Not only is he treated as the main villain of Dumbo, he wasn't even the meanest character in that particular film, just one more insensitive antagonist.
  • In Double Dragon, Jimmy Lee went from being an ally to his brother Billy in his battle against the Black Warriors, to being the true leader of the gang in the NES version due to the removal of the co-op mode. Whereas the arcade version only has the battle between the Lee brothers occur if two players clear the game together, the NES version simply has Jimmy show up to fight his brother after Willy (the arcade version's final boss) is defeated. Strangely, the NES versions of both sequels feature Jimmy as a player character once again, ignoring his role as a bad guy in the first NES game.
    • A lesser known example comes in the form of the Mission 4 boss in the NES version of Double Dragon III. He resembles one of the Urquidez brothers from the arcade version of the game (specifically Sonny), who were playable characters in that version of the game, but unlike Chin and Ranzou, he doesn't join the Lee brothers after being defeated.
  • In EquestriaBound, while a lot of the are jerks in the show, much like Giygas in the original game, Nightmare Moon is able to influence beings from the past to do her bidding, all of whom have a grudge against Equestria or the mane caste for some reason. Some examples being Trixie and Gilda, both of whom later pulled a Heel–Face Turn in the show.
  • Fate/Grand Order
    • Caster Mephistopheles is so gleefully vile and treacherous that he makes the original look like a Noble Demon in comparison.
    • The version of Aŋra Mainiiu in the "Fate/Accel Zero Order" event never underwent his Character Development from Fate/hollow ataraxia, so he's still as callow and villainous as he was when he was corrupting the Greater Grail.
    • Agravain has an odd case in his backstory. In the Nasuverse, he was sent to Arthur's court by Morgan le Fae to assassinate Arthur before having a change of heart. In early portrayals, Agravain was a brave and loyal knight until jealousy consumed him.
    • While Victor Frankenstein was never the nicest guy, as well as egotistical with self-pitying tendencies, he did care deeply for his family in the original story and refused to construct a mate for his creature on the grounds that they might make a race that would threaten humanity. That, and acknowledging that the creature and his mate aren't guaranteed to get along. The Victor Frankenstein here willingly constructs another creature to torment his creation. The possible motive of doing this because Fran killed his family out of sheer spite is not even mentioned.
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake:
    • Rude in the original game is one of the more likeable members of the Turks, as he actually shows misgivings in his role as a Shinra agent. In the remake Rude still has his affable traits and Aerith says he’s a "good man" but he’s the one who drops the Sector 7 plate killing thousands of people in this continuity.
    • Shockingly Big Bad Sephiroth gets this. In the original game he’s still the antagonist but has a few sympathetic traits being a scientific Guinea pig infused with JENOVA cells by his Mad Scientist dad Hojo. Upon learning about his birth Sephiroth has a Sanity Slippage and burns down Nibelheim, all in all he’s quite a Tragic Monster. In the remake Sephiroth loses a lot of sympathy points when he gloats to Cloud, that he personally killed his mother telling him sadistically about how she begged him to spare her son and how her flesh was “yielding to cold steel” none of which Sephiroth did in the original. He also repeatedly tells Cloud how worthless his heroics are and how he should join him in destroying the world. This treatment makes Sephiroth closer to a Card-Carrying Villain like Kefka Palazzo than his more affable original version.
  • Yuna, Rikku, and Paine, the protagonists from Final Fantasy X-2, are depicted as spies of Maleficent who are Only in It for the Money in Kingdom Hearts II. Thankfully, they are at most Punch Clock Villains and switch to the good guys after Maleficent abandons them (in the manga adaptation, they quit due to her being an Ungrateful Bitch at the end of their A Day in the Limelight chapter).
  • In the Steam game Finding Bigfoot, Bigfoot is portrayed much more violent than in traditional folklore, being a violent man eater who hunts humans.
  • You know those singing squeaky slugs from Flushed Away? They are, for some reason, out to harm the main characters in most of the video game adaptions despite not showing any hostility towards the main characters in the movie at all.
  • Frankenstein the monster returns on the Nintendo Entertainment System does this with the Frankenstein monster. While he was a Tragic Villain in the novel and in most movie adaptations, the game portrays him as an evil monster that has risen from the grave and unleashed a horde of other evil creatures while destroying a village and kidnapping a girl. He has also brainwashed a number of non evil creatures to do his bidding. The hero must destroy him to rescue the girl and save the land.
  • In the God of War series, most of the Greek Gods are more evil in the games while in the original myths, they are more neutral and Above Good and Evil. For example:
    • Ares. While he was hardly a nice guy in the original myths, he never tried to take down Olympus and conquer the world.
    • Zeus. While his mythological counterpart was a total asshole, this version of Zeus is considerably more malicious and cruel. But it turns out this is because he was possessed by the evils of Pandora's Box.
    • Athena, while she does have one helluva a mean streak in the myths is still easily one of the most noble of the Gods and the wisest. This version of Athena is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who looks down the mortals as nothing more than dirt.
    • Persephone in the original myths is a sweet and gentle Goddess who just so happens to be the queen of The Underworld through her marriage to Hades. Her relationship with Hades is also surprisingly loving according to most myths. In God of War: Chains of Olympus however Persephone hates being trapped in the Underworld and married to Hades so much she’s willingly to destroy the entire world to escape from her situation. Hades himself is also a vicious brute unlike the original myths but that’s par for the course at this point.
    • Hermes is usually quite a friendly and helpful God in the original myths who’s more than happy to aid mortal and his fellow Gods out when he can. In this version, he’s an arrogant and boastful bastard who has fun taunting Kratos over the fact he killed his family.
    • Even the Greek Demigod Heroes themselves! In the real life mythology, these heroes were held in high regards despite selfish actions but in the series they are egotistical or somewhat corrupted in one way or another. Hercules fights Kratos because he believes that Zeus favored him more and tries to kill Kratos to regain the status of Zeus' favorite and become the next God of War, Perseus went mad from the trials by The Sisters of Fate and finally Pollux and Castor became slave owners and stole the title as oracle.
    • In the PS4 game, the trope is added in again, this time to the Norse Mythology whereas the Aesirs are now power hungry assholes while their enemies, from the Giants to other monsters, were given a positive spin and only looked villainous because they lost and history is Written by the Winners. Enough that you can probably sense a recurring theme in the whole series: If you see a venerated deity or hero of mythology in God of War, then they're villainous assholes.
    • Odin and Thor in particular have none of the positive qualities from the original Norse myths, with Odin going from a fairly benevolent Grandpa God and Wizard Classic to a power hungry lunatic and Thor from a boisterous Martial Pacifist to a guy who murders his own worshipers and physically abuses his own sons. Inverted with trickster God and son of Laufey Loki since in this version he’s Atreus, Kratos’s son and all around good kid.
    • Keep in mind, the Gods may get Adaptational Villainy to offset the fact that protagonist Kratos is a vicious Spartan who for most of the early games is perfectly happy to kill loads of innocent men, women and children. He does get better in the fourth instalment though, but as stated, the Gods don't.
    • Surprisingly, after all's said in the Norse mythology, God of War Ragnarök reveals that most of them are downplayed. While Odin is the one who doesn't get better, Thor surprisingly gets a more humanizing characterization of being someone so deep in sorrow of the atrocities he has done that he believed that he couldn't be anything else than an abusive bastard and despite his extreme flaws genuinely loves his wife Sif and daughter Thrúd. He's still a dangerous antagonist, but slightly gives him an edge of sympathy, which is more than the Greek Gods or Odin could have. Also, Odin gives him a Heel–Face Door-Slam when he thinks of turning to a better life.
  • Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee: Spearheading the Vortaak's invasion of the Earth is the Mechagodzilla, which would make sense if it were the Showa Mechagodzilla who was indeed an alien weapon, but this is the Heisei Mechagodzilla, who was actually made by humans to defend themselves from Godzilla. Godzilla Unleashed corrects this by having him be part of the Global Defense Force where he fights for humanity, with the manual retconning Melee by stating that the Vortaak used the Showa Mechagodzilla in thier first invasion.
  • Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series takes after the Marvel Cinematic Universe version and sees Yondu of the original 1969 team as a Space Pirate, as opposed to a superhero himself. That said, his reasons for taking Peter fall under Adaptational Heroism, as he was tasked by Peter's mother Meredith to take care of him, as opposed to his MCU counterpart being hired by Ego to kidnap him (and only instead keeping him when he realized that Ego was killing other children delivered to him).
  • Hades:
    • Downplayed and subverted with the titular Hades. While he is portrayed as a satanically menacing mean old douchebag and Archnemesis Dad, in contrast to the chill Nice Guy God of the original Myths, it’s shown as the game goes on that Hades isn’t really evil, being a Punch-Clock Villain at worst. He also genuinely loves and cares for his wife Persephone, and his foul mood is implied to be partly due to her absence. His attitude towards his son Zagreus, improves when he brings his mother back to the Underworld.
    • Theseus the Greek Hero, is one of the bosses trying to prevent Zagreus from escaping the Underworld alongside his best friend Asterius. Theseus is also more a pompous Jerkass compared to the Myths and is less likeable than other characters in the game, especially when he insults Persephone. Although his Bash Brothers-bond with his former enemy Asterius does help redeem Theseus slightly.
    • Demeter is the benevolent Goddess of nature in the Myths. Her only dark moment came from her Mama Bear behaviour towards her daughter Persephone as when she was taken to the Underworld by Hades, the seasons halted and the crops of Greece died as Demeter searched for her daughter. In the game Demeter is explicitly The Dreaded, having separated herself from the Olympian Gods and after losing her daughter to the Underworld, she turns Greece into a frozen wasteland. Averted towards the end though as she becomes an ally to her grandson.
  • Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number features an in-universe example with the movie about Jacket's exploits from the previous game. While in the first game he rescued a hooker from the Mafiya and she came to live with him and serve as his Morality Pet and his only hold on sanity, in the movie Jacket's Expy the Pig Butcher rapes and abducts the hooker from several teenagers, who eventually flees and calls the police on him. Once he ends up in the police interrogation room he breaks out and slaughters his way to her, only for her to shoot him dead as soon as he steps through the door.
  • In Hyrule: Total War, the Kingdom of Hyrule and the Labyrnna Regime are a bunch of smug, imperialist Jerkasses who conquer and subjugate all the other races to impose their rule and rape the land to keep their technology developing respectively. Conversely, many of the "evil" races from the official games are stated to have nobler motives for their actions.
  • Benny in the video game version of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream was drastically different from the version seen in the original novel. In the book he was a charismatic scientist while the game seeks to make his ape transformation more fitting by making him a psychotic, brutish Colonel Kilgore (and possible cannibal) who murdered his own men for failing to meet his expectations.
  • Injustice: Gods Among Us and Injustice 2:
    • Supplementy materials show the alternate universe Wonder Woman was already veering into She Who Fights Monsters territory even before assisting the alternate Superman in taking over the world. In the game proper, she's a Blood Knight, something which horrifies the mainstream Wonder Woman.
      • The comics shed some light on Wonder Woman's jerkassery, pointing out she only became more vicious as a result of being mentally abused... by Steve Trevor of all people, who is a war hero and honorary citizen of Themyscira in most adaptations, but a manipulative Nazi bastard in the Injustice continuity.
    • The alternate Sinestro is also a good deal eviler than his mainstream counterpart, and with Wondy functions as a devilish voice in Superman's ear to push him further past the Moral Event Horizon. Most strikingly, his viewing of the Earth Lanterns as Worthy Opponents is completely omitted from this version — he gruesomely kills both Kyle and John personally, then manipulates Hal into murdering Guy.
    • Catwoman is grouped with the villains in the first game and is seen in the story mode fighting against the Justice League. In the comics, Selena has been an antihero since the early 90's and often works with members of the Justice League when their interests align and knows how to avoid them when they don't. This is touched upon in the story mode, but the game still considers her a villain.
    • While The Joker is known to be an Ax-Crazy Monster Clown, his Injustice version is responsible for Superman's Start of Darkness by nuking Metropolis and having him kill his wife Lois Lane. The rationale for this? All For the Evulz, as he was tired of constantly losing to Batman, so he decided to go after an easier target and see if they would break. Most villains agree that the psychotic jester went way too far this time.
    • In most continuities, while Poison Ivy is a misanthropic villain, she has a soft spot for Harley Quinn, and is sometimes even romantically linked to her. In Injustice 2, she acts openly hostile to Harley in some of their battle intros (for example, when Harley tearfully tells her that she's breaking her heart, she responds that she'll break more than that), and during the Story Mode, she uses her pheromones to send Harley into shock, which almost kills her.
  • The Jungle Book:
    • In all versions of the game, Kaa gets this treatment, compared to the book, as he did in the film.
    • In the Game Boy version, Baloo, an ally to Mowgli in both the film and the book, is also fought as a (admittedly less directly offensive) level boss.
    • The SNES and Sega Genesis versions have Friend Owl from Bambi as one of the game's enemies.
  • In the "Nightmare Cafeteria" segment of Treehouse of Horror V, Groundskeeper Willie tried to prevent the teachers and staff of Springfield Elementary from eating the students (and ended up with his third ax to the back of the special for his troubles). In the level based of the sketch in The Simpsons: Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror, he's part of the staff actively hunting Lisa down.
  • In Killer Instinct, Ben Ferris was originally conceived as a small-time arsonist who was transformed into a constantly burning man by the twisted experiments of UltraTech's chemical weapons research division. Entered into the tournament under the codename "Cinder" with the promise of his freedom as a reward for winning, Ben instead was so horrified by what he had become that he actually sought someone to kill him, and canonically, Glacius was the one who granted him his wish. In the 2013 reboot, Ben is a much less sympathetic figure: a Sociopathic Soldier turned thief-for-hire who infiltrated UltraTech's research division only to be caught by ARIA, and in turn offer his services to her. This version of Ben Ferris willingly accepted being transformed into Cinder because he loved the idea of having the fire powers, and his personality is basically if the Human Torch were also a completely psychotic Blood Knight.
  • League of Legends contains a selection of skin themes, which adapt the normal universe of Runeterra into different genres or explorations of alternate histories. Some of them include generally heroic characters going bad:
    • In the Arcade line, Blitzcrank and Ziggs are part of the villainous Battle Boss setup.
    • Everyone who wasn't already bad in the Blood Moon line is bearing a demonic mask that turns them into malevolent killing machines.
    • Braum is one of the nicest people in standard Runeterra, but a mafioso in the Cops & Robbers universe, albeit still a gentleman.
    • The Dark Star side of the Event Horizon universe has generally heroic Jarvan IV channelling the power of black holes to destroy all the light in the universe alongside people like Thresh and Aatrox.
    • The more serious yearly Harrowing skins include a Grim Reaper version of Soraka.
    • The Predator-inspired Headhunter line includes generally positive forces like Caitlyn and Akali.
    • The Infernal theme has evil versions of Aurelion Sol, Akali, Alistar, Rammus, Maokai and Diana.
    • The angel Kayle has been corrupted in the Omen of the Dark universe.
    • Anivia is a marauding pterosaur in the Prehistoric Hunters line.
    • The PROGRAM versions of Nami and Soraka, and iBlitzcrank, may have been suborned by a genuinely villainous AI.
    • Ashe and Alistar appear as Marauders in that universe.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: While most previous incarnations of Ganondorf in The Legend of Zelda were cruel tyrants, he nevertheless seemed pretty satisfied with trying to Take Over the World and have Hyrule be full of unwilling but living subjects for him to control, only becoming an Omnicidal Maniac when transforming into the bestial, Almighty Idiot Ganon. He also still had varying levels of affection for his fellow Gerudo; at the very least he tended to mostly leave them alone while he tormented the rest of Hyrule. Here, in contrast, he openly expresses his desire to wipe out all non-monstrous life in Hyrule despite being totally sapient this time, and he also violently turns on his Gerudo subjects too once he acquires the power to do so.
  • Harvey Dent is an unusual case in the DS version of LEGO Batman: The Video Game. While he became the villain Two-Face in all continuities, he was originally an honest district attorney. While playable as both, he is marked as a villain as Two-Face and pre-scarring Harvey.
    • Much like in Iron Man 3 Aldrich Killian in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes is a much nastier character than he was in the comics. He's not acting as an impostor Mandarin, however, because he is directly working with Mandarin in the story's campaign.
  • Baloo and Lambert the Sheepish Lion were both good guys in their respective works. In The Lucky Dime Caper, they're both bosses that Donald Duck has to fight, the former being the boss of the Northern Woods, and the latter being the boss of the Great American Forest.
  • Marvel: Avengers Alliance
  • Marvel Future Fight
    • Ronan the Accuser started out as a standard cosmic villain, but was always presented as loyal to his own people's justice system and possessing of honor, and when Marvel Cosmic was highlighted after Annihilation, he was presented as a hero, which became his default characterization in every book since. In-game, Ronan is a two-dimensional, genocidal maniac like in the movie.
    • Yondu Udonta, who was a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy in the comics and a superhero. Even in the movies, which the game heavily borrows from, Yondu is mostly faking his antagonism to look strong in front of his crew and is proud of Star-Lord, who he sees as something of an adopted son. In the game, however, he's genuine in his desire to kill Quill and is angry instead of amused that Peter swapped out the Infinity Stone he was trying to steal for a troll doll.
  • Variant example in Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems. While Nebula is typically a villain or Anti-Villain anyway, she spent most of The Infinity Gauntlet as a victim being tormented by Thanos, and actually played a key role in defeating him in the end (albeit due to her own vengeful nature). In War of the Gems, an adaptation of Infinity Gauntlet, Nebula instead acts as Thanos' enforcer, and is actually the last villain the heroes have to defeat before the final battle with Thanos himself.
  • Marvel Ultimate Alliance:
  • Sigma is depicted much more evil in Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X, particularly in The Day of ∑, where he nukes Abel City near the end of the OVA. On top of his actions being much worse than anything he's done in the original canon, it's also implied that it's all done out of his free will rather than being infected with the Maverick Virus.
  • In The Jungle Book (1967), Ziggy the Vulture was an ally of Mowgli who assisted him in the final battle against Shere Khan. In Mickey Mouse 3: Dream Balloon, Ziggy appears as the boss of the second stage although it can be averted and easily explained by the mere fact that he along with everyone and everything else is merely a figment of Minnie's subconsious.
  • Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor: In the original Tolkien's Legendarium, Celebrimbor is an unambiguously good Elf who was the greatest of the smiths who helped craft the Rings of Power under Sauron's guidance, unaware that Sauron had also made the One Ring to ensnare everyone who wore the Rings of Power so he could control them. When he found out what Sauron was really up to, Celebrimbor hid the rings, and was ultimately tortured to death by Sauron because he refused to divulge the whereabouts of the three Elven rings. In the game where the grip on Tolkien's legendarium is tenuous at the very least, Celebrimbor helped craft the One Ring with Sauron, albeit under threat of violence, and when it was finished he stole it and used its power to try and take over Mordor himself, becoming a threat almost as dangerous as Sauron himself. He then assumes a wraith form and bonds with Talion to further his own goals for their mutual benefit.
    • This is escalated in the sequel Middle-earth: Shadow of War. Celebrimbor asserts an antagonistic presence upon Talion and becoming a straight up Villain Protagonist, and confirms all the implications of the previous game. It's revealed that Celebrimbor crafted the Rings with Sauron, knowing that it had the power to dominate men. He was actually corrupted by the power of the One Ring and stole it out of pure envy, vying for total dominance over Sauron. Talion and Celebrimbor's quest to kill Sauron and bring order to Mordor crumbles when Celebrimbor reveals he wants to brainwash Sauron and take over all of Middle-Earth for himself. In this moment he devalues Talion as a disposable vessel while leaving him for dead.
      Celebrimbor: [mocking Talion] This isn't about your petty vengeance or mine...this is about restoring order to Mordor. To all of Middle-earth. "The end you fought for"? You are but a vessel. ... and there are others.
  • Minecraft Dungeons: Mooshrooms. In the original game, harmless grazers that provide easy access to mushroom stew. In this installment they become aggressive melee attackers that can tank multiple hits and their spores are responsible for creating a powerful post-game boss.
  • Mortal Kombat:
  • The Mummy, the tie-in video game to the 1999 film, have the rival team's workers and diggers who blatantly tries attacking Rick during gameplay. In the movie they're only workers and harmless civilians doing their jobs.
  • In the Castlevania series Leon Belmont is as heroic as the rest of the Belmont family, but in his cameo role for OBAKEIDORO he plays the role of a monster and uses his vampire hunting skills to throw innocent children into a cell.
  • Persona 5's Goro Akechi comes in for a bit of this during his Sixth Ranger Traitor Reveal, when he shoots the game protagonist in the head. (He gets better). In the original game cutscene, Akechi indulges in some (still very creepy) restrained gloating, but is left with visible regret. However, in the anime adaptation, he breaks out the Slasher Smile, pretends to rescue the protagonist for laughs, and screams insults at his dead body. Justified since the main anime run concludes on the Bad Ending and sorts the story out in OVAs - "even the killer hated it" would have been even more of a Downer Ending.
  • In the Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf Monon Color game Comet Battle, a balloon dragon from the fourth Pleasant Goat film, Mission Incredible: Adventures on the Dragon's Trail, is one of the enemies you fight. In the actual film, the balloon dragons are not harmful and help the goats at one point.
  • Darkrai is portrayed as a Dark Is Not Evil Pokémon in the mainline Pokémon games, hiding itself away voluntarily to try and prevent its power to trap other creatures in nightmares from afflicting others, even making sure that its counterpart Cresselia is close by to treat anyone affected. In the Mystery Dungeon series, it is a much more malicious character who plots to plunge the world into eternal darkness For the Evulz. However, this Darkrai eventually loses its memory and can be recruited postgame.
  • Resident Evil 2 (Remake):
    • Ada’s role in the story falls into this compared to the original version. In the canonical Leon B scenario she’s an ally and Love Interest to Leon and after getting badly wounded by Mr X has a Last Kiss with him and seemingly dies, Leon only finds out she’s a Femme Fatale Spy who’s Only in It for the Money in later games. The remake instead uses the alternative and less romantic Leon A scenario where he learns that Mad Scientist Annette was actually right about Ada who points a gun at Leon demanding that he hand over the T-Virus sample. Also due to Annette getting Adaptational Heroism, Ada manipulating Leon’s heroism against her comes off as more cruel and sinister. Granted Ada still does develop real feelings for him.
    • Chief Irons is definitely a nasty piece of work in the original with his backstory revealing he’s a serial killing rapist, but as far as the story goes he never hurts Claire or Sherry, only pointing a gun at Claire before a G-embryo bursts out of his torso. In the remake he’s a full blown villain, beating the shit out of Claire in front of Sherry before kidnapping Sherry himself and even tries to kill her when she fights to get free of him. This makes his ultimate fate all the more satisfying.
  • Similarly in Resident Evil 3 (Remake) Nikolai doesn’t do anything villainous or violent to Jill until the end of the game and even then he’s quite polite and affable to her while explaining his motives. In the remake Nikolai is an utter psychopath who repeatedly insults and hurts Jill, leaves her to die at Nemesis’s hands and in the Bad Ending succeeds in killing her and Carlos.
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game: In the original Scott Pilgrim, Lucas Lee was the nicest of the Evil Exes, not really being all that "evil" and it being said that he almost didn't make the cut for being in the League. He only fights Scott after the latter pushes a Berserk Button of his, while the other six Exes attack him unprovoked. In the beat-em-up video game, he's just as much willing to throw the player characters in to danger as the other bosses, and his affable side from the comics isn't really portrayed.
  • In Scribblenauts Unmasked, Anti-villains such as Catwoman are relegated to this role for the sake of simplicity. More or less, if they attack civilians in any way, no matter how noble they are, they're considered villains outright.
  • In the GBA version of Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, the culprit is a random character, not necessarily Bill McLemore as it was in the movie. This is presumably to keep people who saw the movie from getting it right based on that alone.
  • Shin Megami Tensei:
    • In Shin Megami Tensei I, Thor, one of the main heroes in Norse Mythology, is a major villain. He is somewhat inexplicably an ally of YHVH and desires the destruction of Japan.
    • Long time series director Kazuma Kanako claimed in a Nocturne artbook that he never intended for God to be the overarching antagonist of the franchise. There's likely some truth to this claim, as not only is God completely absent from Nocturne, Strange Journey, and IV, the law alignment in these games is a lot more morally ambiguous, or at the very least no more morally abhorrent than Chaos. There's also a sense that the angels may or may not have taken their own initiative in committing the countless atrocities done by the law alignment in Strange Journey and IV and that they may or may not have God's explicit approval. Then IV Apocalypse brought YHVH back as the mustache twirling egomaniac he was depicted as in II and at that point the characterization of law as the bad guys was firmly cemented in the franchise.
  • Spider-Man: Web of Shadows: Played with and addressed by Spider-Man, stating that Venom is acting nothing like himself and is disregarding the very innocents he swore to protect. However, Venom in this case was really Drunk with Power, and he undergoes a Heel Realization at the end. The PS2 version however, plays this as straight as a line, featuring most likely the most evil incarnation of Venom to date in any media.
  • Super Robot Wars Advance, which averts Schrödinger's Player Character, has Axel Almer be a friendly goofball if the player chooses him and a cold enemy commander if the player chooses Lamia Loveless instead. In Super Robot Wars: Original Generation 2, Lamia's story path is followed, so Axel is a bad guy...only his villainy is turned up in this game, with him expressing utter disgust for Shadow Mirror's Artificial Humans (such as Lamia) and treating them as expendable trash. Fans of "Silly Axel" were upset, and Banpresto responded by softening Axel in the Updated Re-release Original Generations, where he became more of a Noble Demon, which set up his eventual Heel–Face Turn and appearances in later games.
  • Super Smash Bros.:
    • While several anti-heroes in the series have been paired up with the villains on a few occasions, most of them have had villainous motives in at least one of their appearancesnote . However, there are some anti-heroes that hardly ever did anything villainous in their series that got paired up with the villains anyway.
    • While Dark Pit in Kid Icarus: Uprising initially started off as an opponent to Pit and was even created by Pandora's Mirror of Truth, he is otherwise unaffiliated with any of the important affiliates in game and even becomes a recurring ally of him later on. In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, he appears as an opponent in the Big-Bad Ensemble-based Co-Op Event Match Final Battle Team-Up, which has him teaming up with Big Bads of several other series. In addition, when Splatoon 2 did a cross-promotional Splatfest with Ultimate, the theme was "Heroes vs. Villains", which had Dark Pit on the "villains" side.
    • Then there's both of the playable solo Starter Pokémonnote , Greninja and Incineroar, who weren't even antagonists on their own accords in their seriesnote . Despite this, one of the Conquest polls for Smash 4 classified Greninja as a bad guy and one challenge board imagenote  in Ultimate groups Incineroar with some of the playable villains in the game.
    • Quite possibly the biggest example would have to be R.O.B., as, not only was he never an antagonist in his home series, he doesn't even have any explicitly villainous traits like the above mentioned characters. During the majority of the mode, R.O.B. was the main antagonist of The Subspace Emissary under the guise of "Ancient Minister", ordering his R.O.B. Squad minions to detonate various Subspace bombs across the many landscapes. Though later on, it was revealed he was only forced to do this under Tabuu's orders, and has a Heel–Face Turn when Ganondorf betrays R.O.B. and makes his minions attack him.
    • Played straighter in The Subspace Emissary with Rayquaza. In his home series Rayquaza a Dark Is Not Evil Legendary Mon who’s there to end the Earth breaking conflict between Kyogre and Groudon. In Subspace Emissary however Rayquaza tries to eat Diddy Kong and is a clear case of Snakes Are Sinister forcing Fox to pull a Big Damn Heroes.
    • Wario, while certainly a greedy jerkass and even villain in quite of few of the Mario games is still more funny than actually evil and becomes more of an Anti-Hero in his own series. In The Subspace Emissary Wario is made out to be far more sinister, traumatising poor Lucas and indulging in severe Kick the Dog. While Wario does have a Enemy Mine against Tabuu at the end he doesn’t reconcile with the good guys like King Dedede does.
  • In the PSP version of The Sims 2, Vidcund Curious kidnaps Pascal's child, Tycho, for money and research. And he's the one who's supposed to be abducted by aliens in the PC version...
  • On The Simpsons, Smithers is a timid, soft-spoken, vanilla sycophant who happens to have a weird fetish for his boss Mr. Burns. He never does anything in the same galaxy as rob a jewelry store and kidnap Maggie (with frequent bouts of maniacal cackling) like he did in the Konami arcade game.
  • While never exactly a saint, Shadow was generally depicted as a Noble Demon and a Pragmatic Hero in the mainstream Sonic the Hedgehog games. In Sonic Boom, he's an arrogant, abrasive Jerkass who openly mocks Sonic for relying on and trusting his friends.
  • South Park: The Stick of Truth:
    • The True Final Boss is actually Princess Kenny, who pulled a Face–Heel Turn out of selfish motivations. In the cartoon series, Kenny was a true companion to his friends, protected his sister as her guardian angel, and even gave himself up in order to save the world at one point. The game remakes him as downright evil once his hidden intentions are uncovered.
    • Clyde is usually a recurring friendly character who's fully onboard with the boys and their ideas. However, in the game he becomes an Arc Villain who's screwed over his classmates in order to harness the power of the Stick of Truth for himself.
    • South Park: The Fractured but Whole: Cartman reveals he has been pretending to be your friend so he can use you and your followers to gain money and fame by stealing the spotlight of Coon and Friends. Which is par for the course for him, but then he goes on to get his hand puppet elected through drug peddling, mass human experimentation, and racist human sacrifice. In an alternate timeline, his actions cause total anarchy and summon his worst fictional characters into South Park.
  • Darth Vader in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Yes, the game managed to take the poster boy for villainy and make him even more ruthless. Typically, Vader lives by Even Evil Has Loved Ones and was much gentler in his dealings with Luke and Ahsoka compared to everyone else even in his broken, hopeless state of mind. Force Unleashed Vader however, raised Starkiller from a small child and was an Abusive Parent towards him, treating him as expendable and never offering an ounce of empathy. In the PSP version he's also shown to be much harsher with Luke; in the Cloud City fight he acts as a much more brutal Sink or Swim Mentor, throwing Luke around like a ragdoll with the Force as opposed to the fighting chance he was given in The Empire Strikes Back.
  • Super Robot Wars UX takes two antagonists that weren't super threatening in their respective source materials and gives them at least one vile moment each to really earn them the hatred of the heroes:
    • Hazard Pasha goes past the point of no return when he turned the Kiba and Garan grunts into unwilling suicide bombers in an attempt to kill both the heroes and the Festum. This act did a good job of unnerving Magami.
    • To a lesser extent, Dr. Minami shows how evil he can be when he uses brainwashed Chimera (human-turned-Skrugg variants) as his pawns, all while they're clearly in pain. It's enough to cause Kaidou to call him a "piece of scum."
  • Super Robot Wars V
    • Hoi Kow Loon is in his home series nothing more than a malevolent crime boss. Amoral and evil enough to be a force to be reckoned with, sure, but that's about it. However, if you go up against him with Ange in Stage 18, it also turns out that he's a racist, claiming all Norma to be scum of the Earth despite presumably not being from any of the First Nations, but from China.
    • The Mana users, save special cases like Momoka are already infamous for their treatment of the Norma. However, they also dislike foreigners outside the Founding Nations and any attempt to enter their territory is met with their army of Mecha-Mooks.
  • In Taz: Wanted, the Big Bad is revealed to be none other than Tweety Bird of Looney Tunes, who, while merciless to anyone who tries to do him harm (as a certain long-suffering cat can attest), is almost never the instigator of a conflict or an outright villain. In the game, he's attempting to kill Taz, take his country Tasmania over, and construct an amusement park over for profit.
  • Metalhead from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise was an ally in the toyline and an evil robot created by the Shredder and Krang that was eventually reprogrammed into being good in the 80's cartoon. In the game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, he's a complete villain and the boss of the second level. In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, he's the boss battle of Episode 10, but it's justified here as he's explicitly shown being reprogrammed by Shredder into fighting the turtles.
    • The Fugitoid, a robot with the brain of human scientist, has always been portrayed as an ally of the Turtles, with the sole exception of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Manhattan Project where he is instead treated as a recurring minion in the sixth and eighth levels.
  • Tekken:
    • Anna Williams suffers from this. While she's certainly not heroic in the source material, she is shown multiple times to be nicer and somewhat more compassionate than her cold-blooded sister, Nina. In every animated feature and spinoff game, though, the dynamic is totally reversed, making Nina the more sympathetic Anti-Hero and turning Anna into the evil one. One exception is Tekken: Bloodline, which does have Nina be Truer to the Text, highlighting her cruelty in her fight with Xiaoyu, but Anna in comparison gets Demoted to Extra, so her nicer qualities aren't shown.
    • Kazuya Mishima, barring the first anime adaptation (in which he gets the opposite of this), is even more psychotic and evil in most adaptations than he is in the games, in which a Tragic Villain at heart who genuinely loved his mother and grandfather. The worst case is in Tekken (2010), in which Kazuya raped Jun Kazama, getting her pregnant with Jin, and kills her later and gloats to Jin about it. This is a complete 180 from the games, in which it's strongly hinted that Kazuya genuinely has a soft spot for Jun (outright confirmed in Tekken 8), even giving her a gentle Bridal Carry in one ending in Tekken Tag Tournament 1 despite being in his Superpowered Evil Side.
  • Teppen (2019):
    • The eighth expansion A Dark Agenda gives this treatment to Ada Wong from Resident Evil who is revealed to be the woman in the dark cloak who appeared in other characters’s stories. In the RE games Ada is a morally dubious character being a Femme Fatale Spy who has worked for Wesker and other sinister third parties, but on the other hand she has a Dating Catwoman relationship with Leon and has aided other good guys like Sherry and Jake in RE6 and even Claire during her non-canon B scenario in RE2. In Teppen any nicer traits Ada has are chucked out the window and she’s unambiguously evil, same as Wesker. She resurrects the Wyvern king Rathalos, makes Ryu succumb to Satsui no Hado and manipulates poor X by pretending to be Doctor Light.
    • Much like the Udon comics, Morrigan Aensland of Darkstalkers fame is again portrayed as nothing like she is in the canon of her home series, absorbing the souls of mortals for sustenance and not even slightly caring about humanity, viewing them as disposable food at best (she even tries snacking on Ryu and Dante). This is in contrast to her portrayal in Darkstalkers, where Morrigan is friendly, lives on adrenaline, and has never once taken a life (besides giving Big Bad Pyron the Kiss of Death in her first possibly non-canon ending).
  • The Testament of Sherlock Holmes gives a large role to Inspector Baynes, a minor ally who appears in only one canon story, but is memorable for being one of the few police officers whose intellect Holmes respects. His ascension to a leading role is justified when he turns out to be a mole for Moriarty, who is helping to frame Holmes, a role that the developers understandably chose not to give to a more popular character like Lestrade.
  • Total War: Warhammer: In the tabletop material, Karl Franz and Boris Todbringer were political rivals, but shared a certain respect that eventually grew into genuine friendship. In the game, Todbringer is in open rebellion against Karl Franz's rule, and openly supporting seccessionists within Karl Franz's home province.
  • Toy Story 2: For some reason, Rex and the little green men are enemies in the Game Boy Color version.
  • The Phoenix Wright fangame Turnabout of Courage is essentially a "What If? Phoenix Wright was a murderer?" In canon, he's an idealistic if beleaguered defense attorney who works very hard to expose murderers.
  • Twisted Metal: In Black, Dollface was a sympathetic character who was only in the competition to get her namesake White Mask of Doom removed after her former employer locked her in it; the most heinous thing she ever did was killing him for the key in her ending. The Dollface from the 2012 game was a supermodel who murdered her competition even before she got her mask, and would've continued her spree in a planned ending.
  • Ultima IX: While the Guardian has always been nothing but a villain, his Dragon in Ultima IX is Blackthorn, mysteriously returned. In his prior appearance, Blackthorn was the antagonist but it is shown that he had been corrupted by powerful evil forces to bring him to that state. In this game, he is back and full on evil with no explanation whatsoever.
  • In Unhappy Ever After, Hansel and Gretel, who help Player Character Sophia when she first arrives in their world, are revealed to be the adopted children of a witch, who brings people into their world so they can bring them to her to cook for their dinner. While Hansel gladly goes along with this, though Gretel decides she's had enough and frees Sophia.
  • Siegfried from Wild ARMs and Wild ARMs 3 was already treacherous Manipulative Bastard, but Wild ARMs: Million Memories ramps those traits up to make him terrifyingly competant.
    • In the first game, he damages the Guardians with his spear in the spur of the moment to prevent them from teleporting the heroes to the Photosphere. In Million Memories, he summons Nua Shakks simply so he can kill him.
    • When the Prophets revive him in the third game, he grants their wish of becoming demons more or less straight away. Here, he's already alive and has Alhazad with him, so he could transform them at any point, but chooses not to in order to keep them on a tight leash.
    • And then there's his interactions with Rudy. In the remake of the first game, he gives Rudy a nasty "Not So Different" Remark as they're about to be sucked into a black hole, revealing that he's more like the demons than he realises. In this game, he manipulates Rudy into betraying everyone and destroying the world. It's only due to the Memory Maze being able to revive Filgaia, and Siegfried wanting Rudy's help in taking down Mother (leading to him Taking the Bullet and committing a Heroic Sacrifice} that the game was able to have a relatively happy ending.
  • In The Wolf Among Us, the Huntsman who saved Little Red Riding Hood from The Big Bad Wolf has become an unpleasant jerkass. He actually reveals that he never intended to become the hero we all knew from the famous Fairy Tale. In fact, he broke into the Grandmother's house because he wanted to rob her, but by coincidence the Wolf just happened to be there simultaneously and he attacked him in self-defense. Unaware of his true intentions, the Fables praised him as a hero, which he fully embraced in order to hide his true character. Fortunately, he Took a Level in Kindness after the Wolf, of all characters, talks some sense into him.
    • The Crooked Man as well. In his original fairy tale, the Crooked Man is just some random guy living his everyday life despite literally being in a crooked shape. In the game, he's the Big Bad.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, Priest Seto rivals Death-T era Kaiba in terms of villainy and pettiness, as the manga arc where he first appeared wasn't even close to being completed when the game was released. Among other things, he served as Heishin's right-hand man and was responsible for seizing all of Egypt, kidnapped Teana as a hostage to lure you into a deadly Shadow Game, was fine with the murders of the Prince's parents and enacted Heishin's order to seal the tombs, preventing the Prince from seeing his parents' bodies, and was descended from evil sorcerers and plans to renew a pact with DarkNite in order to rule the world. His stated reason for doing all this? He's of noble blood and you're not, therefore he deserves to rule.


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