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With all of fiction to pick from, Rakenzarn Tales isn't lacking in the bad guy department either.

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The Dark Saints

A Legion of Doom comprised of some of the nastiest bad guys to grace fiction. They plan to create a new world and have spread plagues across Rakenzarn to do so.

Dark Saint Leaders

Ganondorf

• Bad Boss: Averted. For the moment, he has avoided the You Have Failed Me and You Have Outlived Your Usefulness tropes. Even Pete, after his fiasco in the Cyril Region, is given a second chance. However, his status as The Dreaded implies that he's not a Benevolent Boss either.
• Big Bad: The leader of the Saint Lords and, therefore, the main antagonist.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: Since the Saint Lords work a lot like a Big Bad Ensemble, so far not interfering with each other's business, he can be seen as this for each Arc Villain.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He's called the King of Evil...
• The Dreaded: Pete nearly wet his pants when he was summoned by him and had to explain him his failure.
• Evil Redhead

Bowser

• Arc Villain: Of the Da'Fur Arc.
• Climax Boss: At the end of the Da'Fur Arc.
• Dishing Out Dirt: Meowser's World Shaker.
• Evil Is Burning Hot: Often uses fire attacks.
• Evil Is Hammy: He even ends a letter with an Evil Laugh.
• Fluffy the Terrible: As Meowser.
• Laughably Evil: The last Arc Villain to display this trait, thanks to Evil Is Hammy.
• Noble Demon: When he offers Kyuu a chance to give up and leave Rakenzarn, after he kidnapped the elven elder. He also doesn't actually harm his hostage.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: In spite of his hamminess and funny scenes, he's still a threatening foe who has a Serial Killer as one of his flunkies.
• One-Winged Angel: When he's fought in the Plague Core.
• Playing with Fire: His main element is fire.

Albert Wesker

• Arc Villain: Of the Kandur Arc.
• Evil Genius: For the Saint Lords.
• Sinister Shades: Trope image.
• Sunglasses at Night: It's Albert Wesker after all...

Dr. Eggman

• Evil Genius

Fate Averruncus

Subordinates

Bad guys gotta have flunkies, after all.

Death

• Troll: In the end of Chapter 4, we learn that he watched Pete's efforts to carry on his plan since the beginning without bothering to help him. He even mocks his fellow ally!

Pete

• Arc Villain: Of the Cyril Arc.
• Climax Boss: At the end of the Cyril Arc.
• Disc-One Final Boss/Starter Villain: True to these tropes, the full extent of the antagonists' threat is revealed after his defeat.
• Fat Bastard
• Laughably Evil: Mostly in the Prologue.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: The heroes learn it the hard way in the end of Chapter 3.
• One-Winged Angel: When he's fought in the Plague Core.
• Xanatos Gambit: You read right. Of all people, PETE manages to pull out one of those in the end of Chapter 3, cementing his status of Not-So-Harmless Villain. To elaborate, he takes advantage of a bandit attack on BlueLake Town to cause havoc in the city with the help of Electro. During the chaos, he tries to steal the Water Orb, a magical artifact necessary to stop the effects of the plague. However, he doesn't even care if he succeeds or not. Because his real plan was to force the Knights to call reinforcements, leaving the other towns defenseless so that he can release monsters hidden in pockets dimensions in them. Ingenious. The only reason it fails was because Goku knew this tactic and acted accordingly to counter it.

Zazz

• Blood Knight: He's been itching for a fight all day.
• Lean and Mean
• No Indoor Voice: HE SHOUTS HALF OF HIS THREATS!

Bowyer

• Lean and Mean
• Strange-Syntax Speaker

Corroder

• Back from the Dead: He supposedly died before the events of the game, but was resurrected by the Saint Lords.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He uses acid to kill his victims.
• Knight of Cerebus: Especially compared to his more cartoonish allies in Da'Fur. What with being a sadistic Serial Killer fond of inflicting Cruel and Unusual Death...
• Sadist: You have to be this if you like to kill your victims with acid.
• Serial Killer

Grimmjow

Sephiroth

Independent Enemies

Mercenaries and assassins.

These baddies aren't members of the Dark Saints' organization, but they will be hired by them to stop our heroes.

The Assassin/Feen (OC)

• Ax-Crazy: Axel didn't nickname her "Little Miss Crazy" for nothing...
• Blood Knight: She longs for a good fight and will show a strange disturbing delight if she meets an opponent strong enough to fight back.
• Combat Sadomasochist: She loves being hurt just as much she loves killing.
• Knight of Cerebus: One of the biggest before the Kandur Arc.
• Professional Killer: Her job.
• Psycho for Hire: If you look at her other entries, you will see that she's not particularly sane.
• The Unfettered: The more hurt she is, the more violent she becomes. During their second fight, Kyuu has to wound and perhaps even break one of her arms in order to make her stop.

Deathstroke

• Breaking Speech: He loves delivering those.
• Combat Pragmatist: He attacks Noel by surprise and uses a grenade to make a hole in the floor so he can fight Kyuu in a one-on-one battle, where he has the advantage.
• The Comically Serious: He IS a big Knight of Cerebus and a terrifying foe. But, unfortunately for him, he's turned into this when Deadpool comes in.
• The Dreaded: The most feared mercenary in Rakenzarn.
• Knight of Cerebus: His arrival is treated very seriously and he comes closer to killing Kyuu than any previous bad guy.
• Only in It for the Money: Played with. He has no personal vendetta against Kyuu and only tries to kill him because he's hired and paid to do it. However, he also clearly states that he'll enjoy killing him and delivers him a nasty Breaking Speech.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers a nasty one to Kyuu during their fight at the end of Chapter 9.

Others

These fellows aren't officially affiliated with the Dark Saints, but will show up to give our heroes trouble.

Wario

• Con Man: His occupation, before being recruited by Pete.
• Fat and Skinny: The Fat to Waluigi's Skinny.
• Fat Bastard
• Goldfish Poop Gang: During the Cyril Arc.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Not very strong. He's only dangerous when fighting untrained people (like Kyuu in the Prologue). When he has to face a really strong opponent (like Terrence), he's utterly trounced.
• Honest John's Dealership: See Con Man above.
• Karma Houdini: He took part in a plan that endangered the lives of all the inhabitants of Cyril Region, but managed to flee after its failure and received no punishment outside of going bankrupt. Possibly justified since, by the time Kyuu meets him again, he and the Knights have far more important problems to solve.
• Laughably Evil: The source of a lot of comedy during the first arc.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: If you take the Suiseki path into Kandur and go back there, you'll learn he and Waluigi quit working for Pete after their defeat against Terrence and decided to go back into trying to start up a business.
• Stout Strength: He mostly uses his fists while fighting.

Waluigi

• Con Man: His occupation, before being recruited by Pete.
• Fat and Skinny: The Skinny to Wario's Fat.
• Gadgeteer Genius: The Waluigi's flasher (It even fires the laser !!!) and many (implied) other inventions.
• Goldfish Poop Gang: During the Cyril Arc.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Not very strong. He's only dangerous when fighting untrained people (like Kyuu in the Prologue). When he has to face a really strong opponent (like Terrence), he's utterly trounced.
• Honest John's Dealership: See Con Man above.
• Karma Houdini: He took part in a plan that endangered the lives of all the inhabitants of Cyril Region, but managed to flee after its failure and received no punishment outside of going bankrupt. Possibly justified since, by the time Kyuu meets him again, he and the Knights have far more important problems to solve.
• Laughably Evil: Even more than his partner Wario.
• Lean and Mean
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: If you take the Suiseki path into Kandur and go back there, you'll learn he and Wario quit working for Pete after their defeat against Terrence and decided to go back into trying to start up a business.
• Third-Person Person: Speaks like this.

Raku (OC)

• Everyone Has Standards/Even Evil Has Standards: He apparently despises religious extremists.
• Hidden Depths: He shows the same fourth wall awareness that Kyuu, Axel or Deadpool. He knows that he's in a game and the dangers of Yaoi fangirls. At one point, he may even quote Revenge of the Sith.
• Hollywood Atheist: Revealed to be this by his dialogue in EverGreen's church.
• The Rival: For Kyuu.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Dude really likes ice cream.
• Troll: A really entertaining one. His first big scene, in Chapter 10, is mostly him trolling Kyuu and Kanon.
• Villains Out Shopping: During the first chapters of the game, Kyuu can meet him in several towns minding his own business, like eating in the inn of Riveras Village or trying Goka City's ice creams.
• Promoted to Playable: Complete all her sidequests and she'll join up as a Support member.

The Stakes of Purgatory

• Cute and Psycho
• Girlish Pigtails: Asmodeus and Beelzebub, who also are the two youngest.
• Ms. Fanservice
• Seven Deadly Sins: Each of them represents one sin.

Rival Guilds

The Morning Glory Guild

A rival guild. Its members aren't afraid to use extreme and underhanded methods. And they are big jerks.

Tropes that apply to the guild in general:

• Big Bad Wannabe: They have power and connections. But, compared to the Saint Lords, they're hardly a threat.
• The Bully: As if they weren't despicable enough already, Version 3 reveals that its members are also this.
• Fantastic Racism: At least according to Hsien-Ko.
• Frame-Up: One of the guild's method to get rid of other guilds that threaten their spotlight. In Chapter 9, they do it to the Nutsy Guild. They also do it to the Black Scar Guild during the Save the Dryads sidequest and it's implied that they did it before.
• Glory Hound: They're in the Guild business for their own personal glory and gain, not to help others.
• Hate Sink: A group of bullies, liars, Smug Snakes, Knight Templars, Glory Hounds, Dirty Cowards, Jerkasses with good publicity and Fake Ultimate Heroes. They even frame up other guilds to steal their exploits. Contrary to the other antagonists, they have shown absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. They're not even cool to make up for their bad traits. And each additional info you learn about their guild just makes them more despicable.
• Jerkass: So far, all its members. Even the unnamed grunts. You could almost think that this is a requirement to join this guild...
• Knight Templar: The guild has this mentality. It's especially shown during the Save the Dryads sidequest, where they were ready to let a village be destroyed by the angered dryads in order to get rid of the Black Scar Guild.
• Light Is Not Good: They often use Light spells, but they aren't sympathetic because of that.
• Villains With Good Publicity: Downplayed. On the one hand, as an official guild, they have a lot of connections (especially with the press), and are appreciated by a lot of citizens. However, even in their hometown of EverGreen Town, there are people who can't stand them.

Samuel (OC)

• The Bully: He acts like one with people weaker than him.
• Dirty Coward: He will run away when confronted with a real danger.
• The Gunslinger: He fights with guns.
• Jerkass: A rude, insulting, arrogant and all-around obnoxious man.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: To be totally fair to him, during his first scene, he has the right to be angry that the kids sold him an untrained horse, given the fact that it's basically a fraud and that he could severly hurt himself while trying to ride it. What makes him despicable is his Disproportionate Retribution (hitting the two kids several times and threatening to enslave them).
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Even if Kyuu saves him in Chapter 8, he will still be aggressive towards him when they meet again in Chapter 9. However, Alternate Character Interpretation on whether the slight hesitation he shows before that indicates that he may be able to change or not.
• Lame Comeback: He just calls people "stupid".
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: During the first two encounters with him, he's nothing but a joke. However, when he shows up with his friends in front of the gates of the Lost Tower at the end of Chapter 8, he's far stronger.
• Smug Snake: He's very confident and proud of his strength, but he's nowhere near as strong as he claims to be.
• Unknown Rival: Or, more exactly, "Too Pathetic to be Taken Seriously" Rival. Ever since Kyuu ridiculed him in EverGreen Town, Samuel is obsessed by the idea of taking his revenge. Kyuu regards him as nothing more than a nuisance.
• Would Hurt a Child: He hit repeatedly two children because they sold him an untrained horse.

The Black Scar Guild

A well-known and feared criminal guild. They serve as something of a Starter Villain.

Verzog (OC)

• Lame Comeback: He is notably lacking in the whitty dialogue area.
• Psychotic Manchild: When backed into a corner, he snaps and throws a tantrum full of petty insults.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: He manages to escape when his gang is confronted by Kyros the first time.