History AxCrazy / VideoGames

* ''Franchise/FarCry'':
** ''VideoGame/FarCry3'': A great many people, which the advertising for the game heavily emphasized:
*** Buck is a brutal sadist who enjoys torture, rape, and murder.
*** Hoyt Volker. TheDon meets AxCrazy extraordinaire: He's a deranged, homicidal {{sadist}} who commits mass murder on a regular basis.
%%*** Special mention goes to Vaas Montenegro, who's crazy even by everyone else's standards. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
%%** ''VideoGame/FarCry5'':
%%*** The Seeds in general. John and Jacob tend to be a bit more expressive in the "Ax" department, but all four of them are violent and crazy.
%%*** '''The Cook''', no one else compares. He's the villain of the sidequest "A Dish Served Cold" and by far the most deranged psycho in the entire game.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, owing to its post-apocalyptic setting, features quite a few nutcase out to make the Wasteland even worse of a place to live in:
** [[SuperSoldier Frank Horrigan]] from the [[VideoGame/Fallout2 second game]] is a pretty stand-out example. Serving as a killing machine to the main antagonist group of the game, the Enclave, there's always bound to be violence when he's featured in a scene. From his killing of a family to his outright genocide against the [[spoiler:Deathclaws at Vault 13]], Horrigan is so gleefully brutal that even his fellow Enclave soldiers can hardly stomach his rampages, and a whole squad's worth of them will even help the PlayerCharacter fight him. Frank is also unique amongst endgame villains of the series in that he ''cannot'' be convinced to stand down through words and will fight the player and any potential allies to the death.
** [[EvilOldFolks Stanislas Braun]] from [[VideoGame/Fallout3 the third mainline game]] has crafted entire virtual realities for him and his fellow vault dwellers to inhabit. Too bad for them that Braun uses said virtual realities to torment them in various ways, all the way to murder, which he can undo through his control over the simulation. Braun spent ''two centuries'' repeatedly toying with his test subjects, describing some of their most gruesome deaths with glee in his logs and only getting bored with the actual locations themselves.

** Yuuka Kazami is this in the UsefulNotes/PC98 games. Genocide is just a game to her. It gets dialed back quite a bit for ''[[VideoGame/TouhouKaeidzukaPhantasmagoriaOfFlowerView Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'', but she is still able to worry some characters, including '''Cirno''' of all of them. And there's very little that worries that ice fairy even slightly.

* ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'':

* As it eventually turns out, [[spoiler:The Engineer]] from ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs'' is a cackling megalomaniac who wants to exterminate all of humanity [[spoiler:because it's a fragment of the protagonist's consciousness given life and driven completely insane by the atrocities of the 20th Century]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Bioforge}}'': The victims of the [[UnwillingRoboticization cyborgization]] process kept becoming this until the MadScientist in charge found out how to stop it. (The player also has the option of acting AxCrazy themselves, as there are points where you can kill someone even though they pose no threat to you.)

** ComicBook/ThePenguin is a gleeful, brutal, homicidal {{sadist}} who takes joy in actively torturing others and is very open to the idea of senseless violence. The fact that Penelope Young has diagnosed him with [[TheSociopath anti-social personality disorder]] certainly doesn't help as it should.

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'':

** The main villains of the plot, some of the most deranged of Batman's RoguesGallery. [[SerialKiller Zsasz]], ComicBook/TheJoker, [[ImAHumanitarian Killer Croc]]... among others.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'':

* The ''[[VideoGame/MarySkelterNightmares Mary Skelter]]'' [[VideoGame/MarySkelterNightmares franchise]]: