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*** It goes even further in ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'' where the X Parasites also infect the Mawkin Tribe of the Chozo, since they wanted the Metroids as perfect bioweapon minions for their leader [[Characters/MetroidRavenBeak Raven Beak]] to rule over the galaxy with, due to one of their scouts [[spoiler:being infected by one after returning from SR388 during a search for any Metroids that didn't get sealed by the Thoha Tribe of the Chozo.]] Plus, Raven Beak himself is [[HoistByHisOwnPetard infected by an X Parasite at the end of the game]], which had the DNA of Kraid, Experiment No. Z-57, and several other creatures, [[ClippedWingAngel reducing him to an abomination that can only crawl towards Samus and eat her]]. The Mawkin Tribe themselves also fought against the Space Pirates, though any Pirates fought by them other than Kraid have yet to be seen.

** The [[CityGuards Palpagos Islands Defense Force]] runs "sanctuaries" which are little more than desolate islands covered in flowers that are used to make the more questionable medicines. The leader of the defense force is Marcus Dryden, a {{greed}}y DirtyCop who made money by selling drugs to the community he was supposed to protect, arresting the customers, fining them, confiscating the drugs and then selling them again.

* All of the human factions and their leaders in ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}} are scum.

* All of the human factions and their leaders in ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}} are scum.
** The Rayne Syndicate are a group of {{Evil Poacher}}s who also terrorize local towns and are led by Zoe Rayne, who's the daughter of the previous founder and who's only trying to survive.
** The Free Pal Alliance are an AnimalWrongsGroup filled with hypocrites who cage and eat Pals in spite of their leader's teachings and who are all too eager to attack Pal tamers. Their leader, Lily Everhart is a MisanthropeSupreme religious fanatic whose worships the [[{{Mons}} Pals]] and has nothing but utter contempt for her fellow humans.
** The Brothers of the Eternal Pyre are a group of [[BloodKnight bloodthirsty]] {{pyromaniac}}s run by Axel Traverse, an unabashed BloodKnight with a ''huge'' appetite for violence.
** The PAL Genetic Research Unit are a group of amoral {{Mad Scientist}}s seeking to exploit Pals as {{Bioweapon Beast}}s. Their leader, Victor Ashford, is an utterly reprehensible MadScientist who conducted experiments (where all the test subjects died ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath horribly]]'') to produce the perfect BioweaponBeast.
** The [[CityGuard Palpagos Islands Defense Force]] runs "sanctuaries" which are little more than desolate islands covered in flowers that are used to make the more questionable medicines. The leader of the defense force is Marcus Dryden, a {{greed}}y DirtyCop who made money by selling drugs to the community he was supposed to protect, arresting the customers, fining them, confiscating the drugs and then selling them again.

** Notably, one of the stages offers the mission of helping Eggman (to help destroy Black Doom's floating stone battleships) as the HERO mission. The Neutral mission is to ignore both sides, and the Dark mission is to destroy Eggman's fleet and keep the alien ships afloat. Yes, fighting against Eggman in this case is treated as the more evil option.

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'': Has this with the modern day storyline, which once again give the series a main character, instead of no-named abstergo employees like the last couple of entries before Origins. You play a female ex-abstergo employee who is mad that her genius work (creating a mobile version of the Animus, you can take with you) didn't give her the praise and respect that she wanted, but instead made her a threat to the higher ups for being too smart. She has no interest in being a hero and fighting the Templars and even purposely sought them out in the beginning wanting to join them. She just wants to keep her technology out of their hands not for the greater good, but because she wants all the rights and profits, and she knows they will kill her anyway.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'' you have two factions fighting over one [[ApocalypseMaiden little girl]] who could give them the power to rule the world. First you have the [[spoiler: Orange Clan]], an {{ancient|Conspiracy}} [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness organization]] who already control the world, but wish to expand their power. The second is the [[spoiler: Purple Clan]] a group of [[AIIsACrapshoot artificial intelligences]] who wish to use the girl's power to create a [[ApocalypseHow new ice age]], killing humanity, and becoming the new dominate race. In between these two you have the hero, Lucas Kane, the UnwittingPawn of both groups, who has power over TheForce, and [[spoiler: later gets killed, and brought back as TheUndead]].

** ''VideoGame/BountyHunter'' offers another take on this, with a bit of MeleeATrois thrown into the mix. The first faction is the [[ReligionOfEvil Bando Gora]], a cult lead by the fallen Jedi [[BigBad Komari Vosa]] who uses it to run a drug empire which turns its users into zombie-like slaves which she controls, ultimately hoping to extend her influence throughout the galaxy. The other main antagonist is [[BloodKnight Montross]], a bounty hunter who kills all his bounties for sport (even when it would pay more to take them alive) and eventually wishes to kill Vosa and take control of the Bando Gora himself to spread chaos and anarchy throughout the galaxy. Their opposition is protagonist Jango Fett, hired by [[TheDragon Count Dooku]] under orders from [[GreaterScopeVillain Darth Sidious]], who is driven purely by greed, and is only made ALighterShadeOfBlack due to the fact that he's not nearly as ruthless or twisted as the villains he faces. Nevertheless, he still ultimately works for a Sith Lord and couldn't care less about who wins as long as he gets paid.

** This also applies to the plot of ''6'', which sees the Mishima Zaibatsu (now headed by [[TheHero Jin Kazama]]) wage war against G Corporation (headed by Kazuya, himself the ArchnemesisDad of Jin) in what amounts to WorldWarIII following Jin's seeming FaceHeelTurn. [[spoiler:Ultimately, however, Jin is revealed to be a WellIntentionedExtremist who seeks to summon [[GreaterScopeVillain Azazel]] so he can destroy him, and is more than willing to perform a HeroicSacrifice in doing so.]]

** Long ago, before the first game, Vez'nan made a pact with Ancient Ghosts of Valar'dul. Now, during the events of ''Cursed Bargain'', after the conquest is over, they want half the souls of the kingdom as Vez'nan's end of the bargain, more than the deal stated. The Dark Lord sends you on a question to stop them and their army of undead, even providing you with Haunted Gems.

** ''Subaquatic Menace'' has Anurians, an ancient race of FrogPeople whose city was sunk long before the events of the game, but resurfaced thanks to an unknown force. Now, they want to take over the surface world, which Vez'nan is not happy about.

* Can easily happen in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' -- All the nasty creatures and evil factions are only alike in their hatred of the Dwarves, so if two of them happen to arrive at your fort at the same time, expect them to tear each other to pieces. The dwarves themselves are occasionally not any better -- [[Letsplay/{{Boatmurdered}} what with drowning the world in magma at the slightest provocations]] and the completely insane experiments occasionally committed by the player community ForScience

** One of the BEST campaign twists in known history. Added bonus? The fight against [[spoiler: Demon Uther]] is quite possibly the toughest boss in the game.
** Really, any fight between the Legions of the Damned and the Undead Hordes.

** The quest "How Little We Know" has the Courier try to take down the bosses of the Omertas, Nero and Big Sal. To do this, the Courier has to work with Cachino, an Omerta lieutenant. Cachino is himself a nasty piece of work, being among other things, a rapist, but he's still not as bad as Nero and Big Sal, who are planning a major act of terrorism against New Vegas on behalf of the Legion, keep their prostitutes effectively in sexual slavery, and have a sadistic SerialKiller on retainer.

** Hints present in the newer games paint a more horrific picture of how bad the United States got near the end. Reverence of capitalism and anti-communist sentiment meant that all workers rights were scrapped, trade unions were completely illegal, health and safety was such a joke that the in-universe equivalent to Disney World ''proudly boast'' in their advertising that they meet only minimal safety requirements, peaceful protests were often put down brutally by soldiers with PoweredArmor and laser gatlings, and lacklustre quality control meant everything and anything could kill you; the robot worker in your office might snap, or the pie you eat for dinner might be addictive ''and'' radioactive. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Paranoid, corrupt and insane corporate leaders]] had effectively unlimited power in society; General Atomics International collaborated with the US Government to transfer the brains of executed prison inmates into robots for military ''and civilian'' applications, H&H Tools forced their employees to undergo screening tests for the "traitor gene" and banned them from speaking any language other than English on pain of death, and Hallucigen was a biochemical research company who ''kidnapped people off the street'' to test mind-altering chemicals on them -- in one experiment where a field decontaminant proved fatal to all people exposed to it, they simply rebranded and sold it as a weapon to recoup money.

* ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2''. [[spoiler: General Shepherd's Shadow Company vs. Makarov's Ultranationalists.]] And you in the middle. How fun! Although it only lasts a mission but it's far easier just to make the fight as even as possible then sit back and watch the carnage.

* ''VideoGame/TerrordromeTheGameRiseOfTheBoogeymen'', with the sole exception of [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash Williams]], is nothing ''but'' this with the other combatants being [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], [[Film/{{Phantasm}} the Tall Man]], Franchise/{{Chucky}}, [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Pinhead]], Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}, the Film/{{Candyman}}, [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], ''both'' the living and undead versions of [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[Film/ManiacCop Matt Cordell]], [[Film/{{Scream}} Ghostface]], and [[Film/ReAnimator Dr. Hebert West]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:[[Literature/{{It}} Pennywise]] and [[Film/{{Wishmaster}} the Djinn]] are respectively manipulating Myers and [[CollectiveIdentity the Ghostfaces]], the latter also siccing [[Film/{{Species}} Sil]] and a [[Franchise/{{Predator}} Yautja]] on his pawns once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they served their purpose]], and Pinhead's ending features the Film/{{Warlock}}.]]

* In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', the Institute is a faction that replaces people with robots, turns people into violent, aggressive Super Mutants, and generally [[ForScience treats the Commonwealth as a petri dish for experimentation]], plus they create androids with free will only to treat them as slaves. The Brotherhood of Steel, meanwhile, are xenophobic, xenocidal technophiles who aren’t interested in protecting the Commonwealth so much as they are in robbing it of all of its advanced technology and then leaving the people to fend for themselves. The two factions hate each other and are bent on annihilating each other.

** The creators of the game have stated that the reason they didn't go with a more traditional Greek hero is because they felt that such a character wouldn't last five seconds in the world they were trying to create. There are actually several minor characters in both games who embody various versions of those iconic heroes, and they are usually killed horribly within seconds of their appearance. Perseus lasts the longest, but even he is not immune. Still, if the creators had read the original myths a little more closely, they would have realized that the only thing separating Kratos from those so-called "heroes" is that Kratos doesn't even try to justify his actions by calling them noble. He just kills things. A ''lot'' of things.

* ''Car Hazard'' is a video game where you have to pick up hitchhikers and avoid being killed by a deranged HarmfulHitchhiker. [[spoiler:Because the player character is a SerialKiller herself, this trope is in full effect.]]

[[caption-width-right:350: Place your bets people: [[YourSoulIsMine the soul-stealing]] [[Characters/MortalKombatShaoKahn overlord]], or [[YourSoulIsMine the soul-stealing]] [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet dream demon]]?]]