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  • Akatsuki Blitzkampf had two of these:
    • The Gesellschaft/Perfecti Cult's leader, Mycale the Perfecti, was manipulating history in middle ages and wants to destroy old humanity, then create the new one under her rule. After Holy Club executed her original body for her villainy, she uses dark magic to link her wand: Mazen Dine Slave and able to possessed people (including WWII Female Doctor, Kati and later Anonym Merel) who touches it and continues her manipulations for centuries, and she's also responsible for not only manipulating Marilyn into betraying and kill her boss: Yin Hu (one of Murakumo clones) and becoming Black Hand's leader (as she was expecting), it cause Wei to come after her until he finds out who the boss really was. she also appears to manipulate Marilyn again to kill or defeat Akatsuki then take his Blitz Motor from him for her to finally become a big boss of the traid. And she calls herself to be "The Perfect One" and is merciless for anyone in battle.
    • The Triad Assassin Marilyn doesn't look like one at first, however she's one of them. She's a Femme Fatale implied to had a tragic past who puts up a bubbly and seductive facade that she remains no real loyalties save for herself. But in reality, she was actually manipulated to kill her boss and she was expecting to become the triad's leader by Mycale. And is ruthless, willing to go where other mobsters won't and completely determined to rise in power and influence by kidnapping Akatsuki or steal a Blitz Motor from him to The "Black Hand" organization.
  • Baldur's Gate:
    • Bodhi from Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. Even if your PC is a heavily armoured warrior with an Infinity +1 Sword or two, she can probably wipe the floor with him or her in single combat with her bare hands, while wearing less than required by decency.
    • Simply because playable characters are almost automatically good at combat, any evil female Player Character is bound to count too, unless particularly inept in combat, as is any evil female group member, which actually only includes Shar-Teel and Viconia.
  • Ayme from Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the lost Ocean is one of Giacomo's two right-hand people (the other being a man named Folon) and terrorizes the party alongside her two comrades on several occasions throughout the game. The party fights all three of them together in two big events, and she proves to be an extremely challenging opponent both times. She's also the one who directly killed Kalas' brother and grandfather.
  • BioShock:
  • Every female character from the BloodRayne series, including the main character. Especially the main character.
  • Crisis Beat: Whigen's legion of terrorists includes several women, including his tonfa-swinging lieutenant, Lou, who serves as one of the last bosses.
  • Dark Forces Saga:
  • Darkstalkers
    • Morrigan's Soul Jar Lilith is a mixed example as she's genuinely innocent and playful but is also The Dragon for Jedah.
    • Played straight with B.B.Hood (or Bulleta in Japan) and Q-Bee who lack any morality and are downright evil.
  • Dark Souls II: The game's true Big Bad turns out to be Queen Nashandra, an Child of Manus that takes the form of a graceful queen in white before undergoing a horrific transformation for her boss fight.
    • Dark Souls III: The Dancer of the Boreal Valley looks like a sinister, undead odalisque and fight just as gracefully using a pair of flaming swords. Also the only explicit female boss in the game before the DLC, since all others are agendered, ambiguous, or male. The Ashes of Ariandel includes Sister Friede, a scythe-wielding nun that uses fire and cold magic in her boss fight.
  • In Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders it turns out that four of them plays a big role in the plot. Before she became Empress, Wu personally handpicked four strong, beautiful, and intelligent young women to become the Silk Roses, her own squad of devoted and loyal assassins, who would use cunning, deception, and tenaciousness to get close to and eliminate her political enemies. It is also these women who are targeted by the Serial Killer Di hunts.
  • Devil May Cry:
    • Trish the demoness from the first game spends most of the game as this since she works for the Evil Overlord Mundus and tries to kill the protagonist Dante towards the end. She heel-turns however when Dante saves her life and performs a Heroic Sacrifice and comes back to save him at the end. It helps that she's identical to his dead mother Eva.
    • The Secretaries who work for Arius in Devil May Cry 2 are this. Deuteragonist Lucia discovers she is one of them.
    • Arguably Lady from Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening is a downplayed version of this. She spends most of the game being antagonistic to Dante, shooting at him at any given opportunity and even fights him for real in a boss battle when he refuses to let her face her father Arkham. Except Lady is really a Broken Bird and becomes a much nicer character by the end of the game.
  • In Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey, Zara. She's older than the heroine and an ex-princess who uses her magic for evil.
  • Morrigan from Dragon Age: Origins is a badass Lady of Black Magic with a snarky attitude and a morally ambiguous stance.
  • Dragon Ball FighterZ: Android 21 is an incredibly powerful fighter, whose power rivals even the likes of Cell and Majin Buu, and serves as the Big Bad of the story. However, this description only applies to her evil half. 21's good half is still a skilled fighter, and though she retains her dark aura, this time Dark Is Not Evil and she's genuinely a Nice Girl.
  • Christie from the Dead or Alive series is this. She is a professional assassin with a creepy The Only One Allowed to Defeat You Les Yay fixation on Helena.
  • Dusty Revenge and Dusty Raging Fist have the cat bandits, an all-female legion of enemies who can put up quite a fight before going down. And they favor Wolverine Claws as their weapons. Revenge also has Amelia Swift, a jaguar kunoichi as the boss of Ogdro Jungle, while Raing Fist has Kitsune the fox, a deadly assassin who's an ally.
  • In Enemies, the player character's girlfriend Joanna is a serial killer.
  • Fallout:
    • The player of course has the option of being one, if they choose a female Player Character and use morally questionable if not outright evil action to solve their problems. Or, just do evil things For the Evulz.
    • With very few exceptions, the raiders in any given game have no issues with recruiting female members.
    • Clover from Fallout 3 is very much Cute and Psycho who you can usually only get as a companion with high evil karma. Unless you use console commands, allowing you to be a moral exemplar with a sadistic female teammate.
    • Violet from Fallout: New Vegas is a dog tamer and one of the four leaders of The Fiends.
    • Downplayed with Cait, one of the players potential companions from Fallout 4 and a carrier cage fighter, who do in large part to her Psycho addiction, is one the most aggressive and violent members of the player's party. note  Though if the player chooses to help her kick the Psycho addiction, she will become significantly more stable.
    • Nisha, one the raider bosses in the Nuka-World DLC, runs her own personal Ax-Crazy Amazon Brigade note  and is almost undoubtedly the most ruthless and sadistic raider boss in the whole DLC.
  • Final Fantasy
  • The Fire Emblem series has always granted us with lots of heroic Action Girls. However, female villains are much rarer, there is typically only one female villain, as opposed to antagonist or Dark Magical Girl in each game. Due to Females Are More Innocent this trope is becoming rarer in the series.
  • Apollyon in For Honor is a very physically powerful and intimidating example of this trope, being essentially a female, Low Fantasy take on the Evil Overlord trope. She serves as the singleplayer's Big Bad and is responsible for the newly instigated war between the game's three factions thanks to her War Is Glorious philosophy. She can also do this.
  • Queen Myrrah heads into the fray with some new battle armor for Gears of War 3's multiplayer.
  • Menardi, from Golden Sun, fits this trope, although it's revealed in the sequel that she and Saturos were actually saving the world...after the heroes killed them. (Oops.)
    • Just ask any soldier of Tolbi, and they'll tell you she still fits the bill, no matter her intentions.
    • Menardi's sister, Karst, is also very much an example.
    • Golden Sun: Dark Dawn introduces Chalis. She prefers subterfuge, but she's still a very dangerous opponent and a wielder of Dark Psynergy.
  • Grand Theft Auto:
  • Guilty Gear gives us I-No, one of That Man's servants. Ramlethal Valentine in Xrd would also count, at least until her Heel–Face Turn.
  • Megaera along with the other two Furies from Hades certainly qualify, being a Wake-Up Call Boss for the players who reach her. Though worth noting Megaera isn't as evil as other examples being a Punch-Clock Villain at worst, and she only fights Zagreus becuase she'd honestly rather be on his bad side than his dad (and her boss) Hades. Megaera is even an optional Love Interest after you kill her for the first time.
  • Halo:
    • Kat in Halo: Reach is a case of a Dark Action Girl in the protagonist's team. This doesn't make her exactly "good", however; she seems to still bear some of the psychological scars of being a war-orphan-turned-child-Super-Soldier.
    • Halo 5: Guardians: Cortana, after her Face–Heel Turn, seeks to bring peace to the universe by attaining the Mantle of Responsibility and ruling as Empress of the Galaxy. By using the Guardians, she plans to use their power to annihilate anyone who doesn't adhere to her moral authority.
  • Heist: The Crime of the Century is the only one of his games with no primary villainess. As a thief, the player character is definitely an anti-heroine though. And there is a female bodyguard to a mob boss.
  • Heroines Mantle has three: a murderous magician, a pirate captain with a laser sword, and a seductive martial arts expert. And the heroine gets into an action-movie fight with all three of them.
  • Sasha from inFAMOUS would also fit this trope. She was formerly Cole's (or, more accurately, Kessler's) girlfriend, and she's also one of the boss encounters in the game.
  • In Inside Woman, the director of the company you're infiltrating has six physically identical female assassins in his employ. All with special abilities and codenames.
  • The King of Fighters has Vice, Mature, Orochi Shermie and Angel, amongst others.
  • Larxene of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories certainly fits the bill. She's well aware of it, too - her personal title is "The Savage Nymph", and she delights in taunting the heroes with "clues" that turn out to be completely fake. Plus, in RE:CoM, she manages to martial-arts kick Sora to the ground...TWICE. She's an absolute bitch to fight and, well, a bitch in general too! In the manga she's seen reading a biography of Marquis de Sade, the namesake for sadism.
  • In Knights of the Old Republic the main character can be this if you choose to be female and Dark Side. The many faceless female Dark Jedi you run across throughout the game also presumably count.
  • League of Legends has some Dark Action Girls.
    • Katarina the Sinister Blade is this to a T, being Daddy's Little Villain and a professional killer who use knives. Her default skin has her dressed all in black, she's very aggressive and violent, and loves carnage. Her selection quote is even "Violence solves everything!"
    • Evelynn the Widowmaker, a deadly, psychotic assassin who Loves the Sound of Screaming, is definitely one.
  • Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects:
    • The female Imperfects would definitely fit here in this trope. Solara incinerates people, Fault Zone loves to make the ground tremble with her seismic accelerators, and The Wink seductively slashes people. All three are fueled by hatred and vengeance, just like their male comrades, Brigade, Hazmat, and Johnny Ohm.
    • And then there's the killing machine, Paragon, though she's not really one of the Imperfects.
  • Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of the Superheroes: The Secret Character known as Shadow Lady is Chun-Li from an Alternate Universe who was forcibly turned into a brainwashed cyborg for Shadaloo. In retaliation for foiling their operations, Shadaloo kidnapped and robotzed Chun-Li for the sake of transforming her into M. Bison's top assassin. Unlike Shadow—a brainwashed Charlie Nash, who escaped shortly after being transformed—Shadaloo added a Restraining Bolt to Shadow Lady's programming so she would remain fully loyal to them. As Shadow Lady, her formerly cheerful personality was obliterated, transforming her into a emotionless minion. In her ending however, Shadow Lady overcomes Shadaloo's brainwashing, regain her original memories as Chun-Li, and join forces with Shadow in taking down Shadaloo.
  • Jack of Mass Effect 2, a shaven and tattooed biotics experiment, whose experiences have left her unstable, to say the least...though traveling with Paragon Shepard can make her a bit more balanced and less sociopathic.
    • This can be applied to a female Commander Shepard, as well, if you choose Renegade options in the game.
    • Tela Vasir, asari Spectre working for the Shadow Broker and willing to bomb innocent people to get at her target, and tough as nails, providing one of the most difficult fights of the game after going through a lot of abuse beforehand.
  • Metal Gear:
  • Metroid Prime Trilogy: Dark Samus is a reincarnation of the titular Metroid Prime and one of Samus's deadliest opponents, having all of her abilities empowered by Phazon and being difficult to kill.
  • Mortal Kombat has some of these:
  • It is heavily implied that Nathyrra of Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark used to be one. Almost every female drow that shows up in the campaign, as well as Aribeth in the original after her Face–Heel Turn and if you keep her on the dark side in Hordes of the Underdark, also qualify.
  • No More Heroes:
    • Speed Buster, the not-so-nice old lady with a BFG is probably what happens when the Dark Action Girl survives into her 70s. In fact, every female opponent in probably qualifies under this trope, especially Bad Girl.
    • Shinobu Jacobs is introduced by Travis asking to see her in the middle of one of her classes - and slicing every single one of her classmates to pieces in order to Leave No Witnesses. She's the nicest of the ten assassins Travis faces. Even after her Heel–Face Turn in the second game, she's still very brutal in combat.
  • Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: Peach becomes one while being possessed by the Shadow Queen, becoming Shadow Queen Peach. The Shadow Queen herself is an extremely powerful sorceress, having created the Crystal Stars, an immense number of demonic followers and three pet dragons to instill fear in the hearts and minds of many. She was responsible for the calamities that struck the city where Rogueport now stands, forcing the remaining survivors to serve her until she was sealed away by four heroes, but not before she condemned them to a Fate Worse than Death; even the Thousand-Year Door (and by extension, the Palace of Shadows) gave a bad vibe to anybody who ventured near it. The demon plans to plunge the world into darkness after being revived by Grodus.
  • Shahdee in Prince of Persia: Warrior Within is an accomplished swordsman, able to not only hold her own against the Prince in their rematch but also even defeat him on more than one occasion. In addition to being extremely proficient in swordplay, she is also skilled in unarmed combat.
  • Resident Evil:
    • Ada Wong. Sure she’s very friendly with Leon (when they aren’t pointing guns at each other) but besides that there’s no doubt she’s an amoral She-Fu happy Femme Fatale Spy who will happily work for any number of sinister organisations as well as commit any crime and betray anyone for a pay check. The only reason to root for her is that, her enemies tend be Eviler than Thou.
    • Alexia Ashford from Resident Evil – Code: Veronica. She's completely sociopathic and believes all around her exist only to be experimented on. When in human form, she does not seem so threatening. Then she transforms into a monster that uses her blood like napalm and fights Wesker to a stand-still.
    • Resident Evil: Revelations has Jessica a Double Agent for Tricell, although like Ada in her first appearance she’s on your side for most of the game and her true colors are only revealed later.
    • Jill is one for most of Resident Evil 5, thanks to being brainwashed. During the final missions she kicks both Chris and Sheva asses simultaneously thanks to Wesker’s experiments. The same game has Excella Wesker’s Number Two, though she only gets to show off her asskicking Dark Action Girl status in Mercenaries Mode.
    • Carla from Resident Evil 6 who spends most of the game as Ada’s Evil Knock Off makes her counterpart seem like Mother Teresa in comparison as she sadistically butchers all of Chris’s men and causes immense destruction throughout the game before turning into a goo monster.
    • Played with in regards to Mia from Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. It’s revealed towards the end of the game that she’s an operative of The Connections, a criminal syndicate which produces Bioweapons akin to Umbrella or Tricell (which explains her proficiency in firearms), and is partly responsible for events of game as she’s Big Bad Eveline’s caretaker. However Mia does manages to be much more sympathetic than Ada or Jessica since she genuinely loves her husband Ethan (who was unaware of her job) and urged him not to get involved with her life and even when infected with The Virus and trying to kill Ethan Mia still says “I love you” after Ethan shoots her in the head (she recovers). Curing Mia will give the player the good ending.
    • Resident Evil Village has the Large and in Charge Lady Dimitrescu and her no less powerful, attractive and Ax-Crazy daughters Daniela, Bela and Cassandra who serve as the pursuing vampire-like antagonists for a portion of the game. Following them, there's also Marionette Master Donna Beneviento and Big Bad Mother Miranda.
  • Tati from Rise of the Kasai, while not really a villain, qualifies for this trope. She's absolutely vicious and won't hesitate to kill any Kasai warrior she sees. Her family was slaughtered by the Kasai, she once hung out with her era's equivalent of a street gang, and she's cursed with a mark that is gradually corrupting her. She hates the world for this curse as well. Hatred runs through her veins.
  • The girls of Schwarzkreuz as well as Iris Zeppelin in RosenkreuzStilette count as these. All five (six if you count both of the Refraktia twins separately) are powerful magic-users and have quite a bone to pick with the members of RKS.
    • In general, the girls of Schwarzkreuz are part of an organization of witch-hunters that are attacking magi in an attempt to "put down the Walpurgisnacht".
    • Pamela Arwig, the captain of Schwarzkreuz, is an Anti-Villain with a magical sword who tends to come across as haughty and sanctimonious at times, and answers to the Pope in his oppression of RKS and the magi. She never doubts her views of justice and will stop at nothing to punish what she considers to be sinners and heretics alike. Pamela claims not to be a magus and instead claims that her power was nothing more than a gift from God himself.
    • Eifer Skute, while appearing to be cool-headed and mature, suffers violent mood swings sometimes, which results in her sometimes acting out of character and becoming a rage-obsessed monster at the worst of times. She carries seething hatred towards Freudia, and for good reason; it is later revealed that she is a homunculus created by Iris, using Freu as a template. By the time the entirety of Schwarzkreuz is defeated, Eifer reveals herself as The Mole and badly injures her own captain with a backstab attack, revealing that she's been working with Iris all along.
    • Schirach Fühler was formerly a member of RKS and had been absent without leave for years. Joining Schwarzkreuz, she's an Affably Evil Boisterous Bruiser of a Blood Knight who assists with the Church's witch hunts, and she's also heavily regarded as one of the toughest bosses in Rosenkreuzstilette Freudenstachel. That, and she also introduces herself in Freudia's story by using a crane to kidnap Tia.
    • Recht & Link Refraktia, a pair of nuns, are part of Schwarzkreuz; both assist the organization with its witch-hunts. Recht is introverted and dislikes interacting with others, while Link will subject those who threaten her in any way to the full extent of her fury.
    • Iris herself is the overall Big Bad of the entire Rosenkreuzstilette franchise. She may be a little girl, but she kickstarted RKS's coup against the Holy Empire solely for her twisted amusement, kills her own father after she deems him useless, pulls a Wounded Gazelle Gambit on Grolla in Rosenkreuzstilette Grollschwert, and manipulates Schwarzkreuz and the Church's witch hunts alongside her dragon Eifer. She also forces Freu to fight against a Brainwashed and Crazy Spiritia. She is also one of two reincarnations of Rosenkreuz, born with his wealth of power and intellect, and is not above claiming to have become a god because of it.
  • In Sands of Destruction, Morte dances along the line between this and straight-up Action Girl for a good part of the game, eventually deciding she prefers being heroic while still not quite losing her Blood Knight tendencies.
  • Septerra Core has Selina, who apparently goes back and forth between this and Action Girl a couple of times throughout the game.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog:
    • She may be of neutral alignment, but Rouge the Bat qualifies for this.
    • Blaze the Cat also was one for most of Sonic Rush.
  • The Soul Series has a few. Tira is the best example, completely insane and just loves to kill. She also killed Sophitia and corrupted her daughter Phyrra into the local Dark Magical Girl. Ivy is one but on the good side... just a good side that doesn't care about all the other good sides.
  • Sarah Kerrigan, post-infestation, in StarCraft and StarCraft II. Queen of Blades, ruler of the Zerg swarm, Manipulative Bastard, and Chessmaster extraordinaire. In the aftermath of the Overmind's death, she manages, through grit, will, and a burning need for vengeance, to exact bloody revenge on all her enemies and establish herself as the de facto ruler of not only the Zerg swarm, but also the entire Kroprulu sector (see quote at the top of the page). At the start of StarCraft II, the entire sector lives in fear of her inevitable return.
    • She partially evolves beyond this in her chapter of the game, mainly because the swarm is fleshed out more giving her more people to interact with. Very much keeps the "Action" part, though - it's a rare mission she doesn't personally involve herself in.
  • Street Fighter:
    • Juri Han from Super Street Fighter IV. Notable because the vast majority of playable female characters in the games are on the side of good.
    • Also, Cammy and the Dolls used to be Dark Action Girls, as Bison's brainwashed Bodyguard Babes. Cammy has a full Heel–Face Turn once her inner humanity is unlocked. In the case of the other Dolls, however, it's not that easy: they suffer heavy physical and mental consequences, and at least one of them (Julia a.k.a. Juli) has become an Empty Shell due to it. (Though another, Juni, is in her path to recovery after waking up from a coma, so not all hopes are lost.)
    • The cynical, sexy, and very pragmatic Crimson Viper fits in as well. Subverted, actually: she's a genuine Action Girl posing as a Dark Action Girl. While cold to the other warriors, she still has a kinder side that she shows to her daughter Lauren.
    • And in Ultra Street Fighter IV, we meet another: Decapre, the only Doll aside of Cammy who remains fully active. Even more so: she is a clone of Cammy.
  • The Tales Series has a few of these, along with several heroic Action Girls. Notable Dark Action Girls, however, include;
  • Izebel from Tears to Tiara 2. She's strong enough to beat up any member of your party. And there's no Designated Girl Fight. She's seen taking on Hamil in the opening movie, while it's Laelius who takes on Tarte.
  • From Tekken, we have Anna and Nina Williams, both assassins. Surprisingly Anna is more moral than Nina, and was willing to settle down and live a peaceful life. Until Tekken 7 when her sister Nina infiltrates her sister’s wedding and kills her husband at the altar while wearing Anna’s own wedding dress... cue a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
  • Jeala from Thousand Arms is a loyal servant of Schmidt, the Dark Master.
  • Time: All Things Come to an End has a time travelling villainess who shoots and strangles her way through history.
  • Vacant Sky has Sandarga, who Doesn't Like Guns presumably because she'd rather tear people to shreds close up, and will kill anyone who annoys her (which is most people).
  • Valkyria Chronicles:
    • Selvaria Bles is practically invincible, and she has zero interest in serving anyone else but the Big Bad, Maximillian. Her virtue, however, is due to loyalty, not due to for sheer lulz and evil.
    • Shocktrooper Jane Turner. Note that she's on the good guy's side.
  • In Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, if your character is female. No matter the clan or how nice she may be, she is still a blood-sucking monster who preys on mortals, which qualifies her as "dark" even if she's not evil. And she kicks ass, a whole lot of it. By the end of the game, she can have been directly responsible for wiping out the LA Sabbat and the LA Kuei-Jin, as well as one petulant rogue Prince pretty much single-handedly. Seduction is also a possible part of her arsenal (especially if Toreadore), and more than a few of her dialogue options fall under the Deadpan Snarker category.
  • Cetsa from The Way (RPG Maker) qualifies, being the leader of the Blue Scarves.
  • Rubi Malone from WET easily outshines, or outdarkens, Shego. Let's see, she's a Guns Akimbo, Hard-Drinking Party Girl Psycho for Hire, spends half the game on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, goes into an Unstoppable Rage when the blood of some mook she shoots gets on her face, and has a penchant for the Groin Attack, using a gun or a sword. Oh, she wears a Slasher Smile during these last two actions. And she's voiced by Faith. Put it this way, she is far too dark to ever be a Disney Villain.
  • Whiplash: Most of the female Genron employees, with the exception of the female scientists, are very athletic and skilled in martial arts. The company itself is evil because it runs by abusing animals.
  • The Wild ARMs series:
    • Lady Harken from Wild ARMs is the only female Quarter Knight, and uses a Sinister Scythe to cut down her foes, and threaten Alhazad when he starts hitting on her.
    • Antenora from Wild ARMs 2 mixes this trope with The Vamp as, not only is she a capable fighter, she has spent a good amount of time seducing her boss Vinsfield, so when she is finally killed by the heroes, he'll know exactly what it feels like to lose someone you love to violence.
  • World of Warcraft:
    • Sylvanas Windrunner is the dark Action Girl. Banshee Queen, Dark Queen of the Forsaken, Dark Ranger...she's basically a Dark Lord who just happens to work for the Horde, although Garrosh sees it in action in Silverpine when she raises new Forsaken from the Alliance dead. She fundamentally hates all of the living, except possibly her two sisters, and is only biding her time until she can kill everyone. She's starting with the Alliance of course, because they refused to believe her when she said she wanted to kill Arthas back during Warcraft III, but nobody is really under the illusion that she isn't going to kill everyone in the Horde that isn't Forsaken.
    • Jaina Proudmoore, after the gigantic amount of Break the Cutie Mists expansion dropped on her. She is a Nominal Hero as Sylvanas is, and just so happens to rule an entire city of mages. Before that Establishing Character Moment in Theramore, she was a naive peace-seeking girl... who could hold her own against Arthas. Now that her Berserk Button has been pressed so hard that it broke, the only thing stopping her from literally drowning Orgrimmar in a massive deluge and exterminating the orcish race is Love Interest Kalec and the orders of King Varian.
    • Legion created another pair of these in Tyrande Whisperwind and First Arcanist Thalyssra. Both are Well Intentioned Extremists, who while not exactly evil are very unwilling to listen to criticism of their point of view. Battle For Azeroth then has Sylvanas press Tyrande's Berserk Button, by destroying Teldrassil (despite Cataclysm revealing that Teldrassil was not really a very good idea in the first place). The results are... explosive.
    • This franchise also has Maiev Shadowsong, Sally Whitemane, and Lillian Voss. Maiev zigzags the line between Well-Intentioned Extremist and Knight Templar. Her intention is genuinely to protect Azeroth, but she pretty easily allows herself to be manipulated into hunting someone whose intention is also genuinely to protect Azeroth. Sally Whitemane truly wants to save Lordaeron from the Scourge, but ends up getting played by a Dreadlord. It's arguable whether her attempt to "redeem" herself is really going to work, given that she ends up working for an omnicidal god. Lillian Voss is perhaps the most well-adjusted of these three, which is saying something since she was abused by her father (think Thanos, but a priest) and suffered a breakdown upon discovering that she was undead. She is still a completely remorseless assassin who is perfectly happy to kill anybody that Sylvanas tells her to without knowing a single thing about them. She draws the line at brainwashing though, because that's how her father abused her.
  • Yandere Simulator has some.
    • Depending on your gameplay style, it's possible to play Ayano "Yandere-chan" Aishi as one. This is especially true if the player decides to build up her Strength stat, join the Martial Arts club, and/or use primarily violent elimination methods on the rivals. She can also join a group of delinquents, which has its benefits and drawbacks.
    • One of the rivals late into the game is the leader of the delinquent gang, Osoro Shidesu, who is openly stated to be "the strongest student", and was suspended from the school until her week. Since she is an official rival, the player will have to find a way to deal with her too.
    • It's heavily implied that Ayano's mother Ryoba was one back in the day. While she seems more like someone who favors the subtle approach, she is responsible for the death of the Phantom Girl through stabbing (and implicitly others). She and her husband are out of town because she's tracking down the Journalist who almost brought her to justice years ago. Word of God also says that a 1980s mode is planned, where the player can play as her using similar abilities as Ayano. Word of God also states that all Aishi women are Yandere in some way or another, making it likely there's a few more in the family tree.
    • "Mission Mode" introduces a character referred to only by "Nemesis," who will track Ayano down and stab her to death the second she gets close enough. Her motivations are currently unclear, but the fact that Info-chan, of all characters, freaks out when she realizes that she's in close vicinity makes it clear that you should stay away from her as long as possible. By the way, she's also a Master of Disguise.

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