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• In Neverwinter Nights 2, the Big Bad is the King of Shadows, a being of pure dark energy who commands armies of The Undead and is driven to annihilate anyone who gets in his way. However, he doesn't put in an appearance until the very end of the game, and by then you've been told about his sad, sad origin story — that of an ordinary man who allowed himself to be turned into a creature of pure magic to protect his homeland and still believes he's protecting it even though it's been gone for thousands of years, and most players feel sorry for him. Instead, most of the vitriol is directed towards his Dragon, Black Garius. Although more relevant to the overarching storyline than his master, Garius mostly shows up in occasional cutscenes to vaguely foreshadow the next threat the player faces, treat his underlings like dirt, or describe his plot to usurp the King of Shadows and gain ever more power. His underling Torio Claven also draws a lot of hatred due to the part she plays in framing the player for the slaughter of the village of Ember as the prosecutor in the player's trial on top of her abrasive and infuriatingly smug demeanour during the whole affair. However, even she can get some respect; you can save her from execution later in the game to work for you as a talent-spotter for followers to recruit for your new fortress Crossroad Keep, after which she seemingly pulls off a genuine Heel–Face Turn in the epilogue. By contrast, Garius's repeated appearances simply show him getting more and more despicable with every passing moment, and he has no redeeming features whatsoever. It's implied that even Token Evil Teammate Bishop thinks he's a worthless cur.
• NieR: While the Shades', or Gestalts, characterization is revealed to be more complicated than it first seemed, revealing they were the original humans and many of them aren't really as evil as the protagonists thought, Hook seems to be the only exception. While most of the Shades have either regressed to a mindless state or are actually fighting for their survival and to protect their companions, Hook instead seems to attack others out of sadism. It's murder of Kaine's grandmother as well as imitating her voice to torment Kaine is what leads her to stop trusting Shades enough to try and translate the Shades' speech and mediating a preventable conflict that would've saved both Replicants and Gestalts, and by extension, the human race.
• Ni no Kuni:
  • Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch doesn't really have any true villains since its antagonists, Shadar and the White Witch, are revealed to be Tragic Villains and Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds that have been pushed beyond the Despair Event Horizon from the trauma they suffered. However, there are some notably big exceptions in the form of the the appropriately named Vileheart^note Who has no characterization beyond being just detestable and evil, the Kingdom of Belicosia^note A corrupt kingdom that sought to destroy anything they deemed a potential threat, including Sages, to the point where they're willing to massacre innocent civilians. They punished Lucien for refusing to engage with the enemy and letting the daughter of a Sage escape by burning down his home village and torturing him, making them the biggest reason he fell into despair and became Shadar. Belicosia was so corrupt and war-mongering that Gallus, who was secretly helping the heroes put a stop to Shadar and the White Witch, doesn't hold it against the former for destroying it, stating they deserved that fate. and most notably, the Council of Twelve, reborn in Cassiopeia's imagination as the Zodiarchy^note The original council secretly caused the Wizard King's death so they could rule Nazcaa as despots, driving the kingdom to ruin while having his daughter, Cassiopeia, take all the blame as their puppet ruler. This in turn ends up causing Cassiopeia to cast the Forbidden Spell of Manna in an attempt to help her civillians, destroying the entire kingdom and leaving her all alone. Even after their death, their evil was so great it left a scar on Cassiopeia's psyche, transforming her into the White Witch and allowing them to be reborn as the Zodiarchs..
  • Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom has Vermine, who sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the well-intentioned antagonists. Mausinger wanted to free his own mousekind race from oppression, real or perceived, Pugnacious wanted to lift Goldpaw out of poverty, Nerea's draconic laws were enacted to prevent the destruction of Hydropolis, Zip Vector's reactor would have benefited Broadleaf, and Doloran wanted to restore his kingdom and his beloved kingmaker at any cost. Vermine wanted to seize the kingdom of Ding Dong Dell for himself, making his goal the only entirely selfish motivation in the game. He's also the only character who never repents for his evil actions. Granted, Doloran didn't give him much of a chance to.
• The Nintendo Wars game Advance Wars: Days of Ruin has the mayor of Freehaven. Pretty much every interaction you have with the guy is him making ridiculous and immoral demands, a character explaining why those ridiculous demands are a terrible idea, and the mayor trying to disprove it with blatant bad-faith appeals and Insane Troll Logic, before just falling back on his authority and demanding you do it anyway. He's incredibly self-centered and transparently manipulative, while also treating himself as the instrument of the people's will and above the main characters because he's not a soldier. The end of the first act, where his people finally vote against his will, is very satisfying — as is his Karmic Death at the hands of the main villain, where he decides to take a mysterious substance given to him by a Mad Scientist who told him it was an antidote to the plague and that taking it would not leave enough for his town. Predictably, it doesn't go well for him.
• Octopath Traveler has several dastardly villains that stand out among the cast as deplorable:
  • Ophilia Clement's story: Mystery Man and Shady Figure are two followers of a dark cult operating within Orsterra that worships the local God of Evil, that appear as the villains of Chapter 3. They kidnap the young daughter of Goldshore's bishop, Donovan, and send a threatening letter to her father giving him an ultimatum: take the Ember from the Flamebearer (Ophilia) or they will murder his daughter. Later dialogue between the two reveals that they were planning to murder Donovan and his daughter, Lysa, whether he brought them the Ember or not. Along with the Arc Villain of Ophilia's story, Mattias, Mystery Man and Shady Figure are the only ones who succeed in making Ophilia genuinely angry. Unlike Mattias, they have no sympathetic backstory explaining how they came to become so depraved.
  • Tressa Colzione's story: While not among the most evil characters in the game, Morlock, the Arc Villain of Chapter 2, is a greedy, immoral landowner in Quarrycrest who uses his powerful position to claim ownership over any and all riches his miners dig up, then pays them only a small fraction of their value without his miners' knowledge. When Tressa's rival Ali tries standing up to him—having figured out his scheme—Morlock has his bodyguard Omar knock him unconscious and kidnaps him to his manor. Later, Morlock heartlessly mocks Ali's father in front of him and Tressa for being deceived by his own friend and falling into debt. This is when Tressa has had enough and delivers an incredibly satisfying "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Morlock before taking down his bodyguard Omar, forcing them both to flee Quarrycrest.
  • Primrose Azelhart's story:
    • Helgenish is easily the most repulsive of all the Starter Villains, and even manages to be one of the most repulsive antagonists in the entire game. He is an abusive tavern-owner who treats the dancers in his employment like slaves, who took Primrose in after her father's murder and the fall of her House while working with one of the men responsible. He's extremely cruel to all the dancers under his eye, Primrose included, regularly subjecting them to humiliation for the slightest disobedience, real or perceived, while simultaneously thinking of himself as an amazing man whom nobody else has any right to not appreciate. He tortures Yusufa, Primrose's Only Friend during her days in the tavern, for information on Primrose's whereabouts after she sneaks out in pursuit of Rufus, then coldly murders her in front of Primrose. Fortunately, Primrose (and the player) soon get the satisfaction of beating him into the ground, then delivering a Karmic Death to the bastard as he spins around in agony before expiring.
      Primrose: Quite the dancer yourself in the end.
    • Rufus, the Arc Villain of Chapter 2 and one of the Crow Men responsible for killing Primrose's father, is the head of a sex trafficking operation. He hands out kidnapped women to rich and powerful clients, and is seen giving a woman to an incestuous priest while keeping a captive harem for himself.
    • Albus, the Arc Villain of Chapter 3, was Captain of the city watch in Noblecourt and a friend of Geoffrey Azelhart and Revello Forsythe, who was his second-in-command. However, Albus was secretly frustrated that his honour wasn't earning him as much money as he would have liked, and eventually decided to switch sides to the game's criminal organization, the Obsidians, in secret. Albus participated in Geoffrey's murder, then faked his death, tricking Noblecourt's residents including Forsythe into believing he had died with honour resisting the Obsidians. In the present day, Primrose infiltrates his hideout in Noblecourt accompanied by Forsythe, who is left broken by The Reveal that the man he admired as just and honourable was a traitor all along. Albus' "Money over Honour" motivation falls flat, and then he decides it's a good idea to insult the deceased Geoffrey in front of both of them, claiming that he took no action in the name of his beliefs and that his death proves "what the faith of a fool is worth". By this point, Primrose, Forsythe and the player are all sick of him. No tears are shed when Primrose fights him to the death.
  • Alfyn Greengrass' story: Miguel "Twinspears" is the boss of Chapter 3 and is the Arc Villain of the second half of Alfyn's story. An unrepentant thief and murderer, Miguel fakes remorse for his deeds to Alfyn when the latter finds him wounded, tricking him into healing his wounds. He then wastes no time going back to his bandit ways, kidnapping a child from the nearby town to hold for ransom and wounding him because he was annoyed by his crying. This convinces Alfyn that Miguel is Beyond Redemption. It's a testament to what a horrible man Miguel is that he's the only chapter boss that the compassionate Alfyn kills, whereas every other antagonist in his story survives. The entire incident leaves Alfyn with a morality crisis of being an apothecary during much of his Chapter 4.
  • Therion's story: Darius is revealed to be the primary Arc Villain and a treacherous slimeball. A former friend and partner-in-crime of Therion's, their friendship eventually became strained when Darius became frustrated with Therion's independent thinking and better thieving skills, and he eventually betrays and tries to murder Therion to gain a higher position in the Ciannos, traumatizing Therion and causing his loss of faith in trust. Darius shows no remorse for what he's done to Therion, actively gloating about the number of people he's betrayed over the years in his conquest for wealth and power. Darius is abusive towards his own minions and couldn't care less about them, which comes back to bite him when his remaining minions betray him, take all his money and leave him for dead when he's weakened following his battle against Therion. The "Sorrow" track that plays from after said battle to his final moments is more about Therion's bitter acceptance that Darius is Beyond Redemption than eliciting sympathy for his Karmic Death.
• Octopath Traveler II:
  • Throné Anguis' story: Mother not only abuses the members of Blacksnakes, including children, sometimes for no apparent reason, she also tricks the members of Blacksnakes to frame and kill each other. Unlike Father who has a tragic background story and a Freudian Excuse, there isn't anything positive about Mother, and the only person who "likes" her is Mira who is brainwashed by her.
    • From the same story, Claude is one of the most vile antagonists in any Octopath Traveler game. His multiple atrocious actions include fathering multiple children such as Mother, Father, and even Throné herself, to watch them kill each other and be subjected to inhumane cruelty, stealing Marietta away from Father so he could have her for himself, and it's implied he raped of many women to further his goals. He shows no remorse and takes sadistic pleasure in the suffering of his children, not caring at all of the cruelty they endure, and treating them as nothing more than pawns for his own ego. He also serves as the Greater-Scope Villain of Castti's story, being the one who drove Trousseau mad to begin with.
  • Osvald V. Vanstein's story: Harvey is easily one of the darkest villains in the game and possibly in the entire series, since he combines the jealousy and treachery of Darius, the obsessive sadism of Simeon, and the callous pursuit of knowledge of Lucia, all in one nasty package.. He only works with Osvald in order to reach his family with the Lumina bloodline and use them to create the Book of Demons for the Moonshade Order, as well as learning the One True Magic. After that, he kidnaps his family, fakes their death, and frames Osvald with a life sentence just to torment him more. It says a lot when even one of the overarching villains whose goal is to destroy the world is disgusted by his actions and wishes to keep her distance from him as far as possible. He's so bad that Partitio of all people will actually support Osvald's goal of revenge in a travel banter.
    • Given that he helped Harvey ruin Osvald's life purely out of greed and that talking to the citizens reveals that nobody had anything nice to say about him, it's made clear that Captain Stenvar is not meant to be likable in the slightest.
  • The Greater-Scope Villain themselves is not to be understated: There is not a single scrap of good in Arcanette (the real identity of Mindt)'s body. Even if the stated purpose of the Moonshade Order is to "save" everyone by destroying the world so no one has to feel any negative emotions anymore, Arcanette merely gives lip service to these ideals in order to justify her sadism. She is either directly or indirectly involved with the deaths of most of Temenos' allies, played the long game with Kaldena to ensure the poor woman would fall off the deep end and do most of Arcanette's job for her in the name of 'justice', worked with an immortal eugenicist serial rapist and a depraved egotist without batting an eye, seduced Tanzy when she was most emotionally vunerable to compel her to do Arcanette's every whim before ultimately sacrificing Tanzy to Vide, and has the gall to taunt Temenos over all he's lost. Her death is only played as a tragedy because it happens as the Order's plan is in full swing and she's already done so much wrong in the world.
• As subjective as most of the game is, OFF does have one character meant to be hated by everyone: Dedan, the Jerkass guardian of Zone 1 who is only ever seen either pushing his workers around or threatening to kill someone. While he's in said zone, at least. Subverted later on when we learn he used to be much kinder.
• In Onimusha series, it is a little hard to find a specific Hate Sink when your opposition is the Genma, basically a race of Card Carrying Villains supreme who delight in soul-consuming and eating humans with the concept of kindness completely alien to them because it's in their nature, right down to their creator, and any historical figure receiving great villain upgrade to unprecedented brutality because they get near the race. However, Yagyu Munenori is basically the one character you can outright hate. The first source of hatred is that he is a traitorous son of the Yagyu clan that was built up by the second game's protagonist Yagyu Jubei (Sekishusai) that aligned with the Genma because he's just power hungry. Then there's his actions, being a smug, petty Jerkass that constantly harrasses not only his enemies, but also his allies that have decency, like Ohatsu. Topping it all off, eventually the playable Jubei, Akane, reminds him that he's alive because his mother sacrificed her own eye so he could live on. Munenori suddenly has a rather overdramatic Heel Realization... only to suddenly reveal while laughing that he was just faking it, he actually likes being evil and doesn't give a damn about his mother's sacrifice. It shows that to be designed for hatred, one doesn't always have to eat babies or possess some sort of God complex against humans. And finally, even going a little meta, he is basically one of the worst cases of Historical Villain Upgrade that the franchise uses, all he shares with the historical Yagyu Munenori being that he's good with the sword and comes from the Yagyu family; he doesn't even have any political inclinations like the historical Yagyu Munenori (and one of the big reasons why he's often vilified)^note The eyepatch thing was popularized by the most famous Jubei and his son, Mitsuyoshi, not Munenori himself, making him very much In Name Only unlike other historical figures and almost like a disgrace to the historical figure himself. Capcom probably wanted to capitalize on the practice of vilifying Munenori, only for them to get it a bit too right on the mark.
• Outlast:
  • The first game:
    • Jeremy Blaire from the Whistleblower DLC. On Blaire's orders, the patients, many who came seeking genuine mental help, are psychologically tortured to the point of insanity to be used as test subjects in the Morphogenic Engine. While most inevitably die, a marginal few were successful enough to serve as hosts of the Walrider, which Murkoff sought to use as a weapon. Despite the catastrophic effect the process has on women, Blaire also sought to use them as test subjects to increase profits. He is also shown to be willing to use potential leaks such as Waylon Park as test subjects to silence them. During the events of the game, Blaire does everything in his power to ensure that no one escapes the asylum alive except for himself to ensure that he and his fellow executives can escape justice. Never shown to be regretful like Dr. Rudolf Wernicke, Jeremy Blaire can be held responsible for every atrocity and act of horror committed, and all to satisfy his insatiable Greed.
    • Rick Trager. Before he was put into the Morphogenic Engine, Trager was an executive at Murkoff who raped a female underling named Michelle before trying to do the same thing to a mitigation officer named Pauline. Like Jeremy Blaire, Trager had people who weren't even sick involuntarily submitted to forced confinement and discovered that an orderly named David Annapurna threatened to contact the press and tell the world about Murkoff abusing their patients, having him processed as mentally unstable in a similar fashion to Waylon Park. During the outbreak at Mount Massive Asylum, Trager kidnaps and exacts Cold-Blooded Torture via amputation of fingers, testicles, and tongue upon anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path, chopping off two of Miles Upshur's fingers and trying to kill him once he escapes. Never shown to be a Well-Intentioned Extremist like Chris Walker or a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds with a Dark and Troubled Past like Eddie Gluskin, this Variant has no excuse for his actions. He's just an Ax-Crazy Hate Sink who tortures and rapes people for his own sadistic pleasure, even before the outbreak.
  • Outlast II: Father Loutermilch, appearing only in flashbacks, manages to be the most despicable character by virtue of not being a victim of Mind Rape like the other antagonists. Loutermilch was Blake's childhood teacher, and a predator who frequently preyed on his friend Jessica. Loutermilch would eventually murder Jessica just after one such rape, and covered it up as a suicide, leaving Blake traumatized with guilt after being unable to stop it. The incident continues to scar Blake well into his adult years, with the memory Loutermilch being represented by a perverted monster called The Stalker.
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: Grubba is the seemingly kind promoter of the Glitz Pit. Midway through Chapter 3, fighters Bandy Andy and King K disappear and are removed from the roster. Mario starts getting threats from an anonymous blackmailer along with benign tips from a helpful person. He later finds out Grubba has since been draining the energy out of fighters, nearly killing them. In Prince Mush's case, he did kill him to keep his 65-year-old body youthful and in shape using a machine powered by the crystal star. Jolene is revealed to be the anonymous tipster and Grubba the blackmailer. Mario fights Grubba, and despite Grubba admitting that was a good fight, it has more to do with his Blood Knight personality. In the end, he was truly a despicable adversary for Mario and company to face.
• Peret em Heru: For the Prisoners: Soji Mizumi may be a good party member, but is a horrendous human being. Initially coming off as just another member of the tour group, Mizumi quickly reveals that he doesn't care about the others (which include minors) dying if it means he gets a big story out of it. And then he attempts to blackmail Sae Otogi into sex after discovering her drug smuggling, bragging that he had raped countless women in the past. Eventually, he attempts to rape a monster just because it resembles a woman, which can easily end in his Karmic Death — Ayuto Asaki being the only one to mourn him. If Mizumi survives, he learns absolutely nothing from his experience, and once all is said and done begs Ayuto to go back to the ruins solely because he wants to photograph Pharaoh Khufu's body, despite the fact that two people at the very least died in there. Although Ayuto rejects his offer through slamming the door shut in his face, Mizumi is left free, it only being a matter of time until he rapes again. As a unrepentant rapist with no regards for his companions, Mizumi is the sole member who fully deserved Khufu's harsh view of justice.

• Ratchet & Clank has had it share of despicable enemies, but these top the list in terms of despicableness.
  • Ratchet & Clank (2002) Chairman Drek is an irredeemable scumbag designed to be the type of character you'll want to see dead. His plan entails the destruction of several planets and the presumed deaths of billions, and halfway through the game he starts plotting to destroy Veldin just because it's in the way. Turns out he poisoned his own homeworld in the first place to make money of the creation of a new one, And he plans on doing it again and again, because it will make him incredibly wealthy. He does not show an ounce of guilt, regret, or remorse for any of his crimes.
  • Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal Courtney Gears is a Soft-Spoken Sadist who abuses her good publicity for cruel intentions, has no redeeming factors, highly racist towards organic life forms and sponsors their genocide, exploits her fanbase to be used as test subjects to the Biobliterator, shows sadist glee towards those she fights or tortures, and dates unsuspecting gladiators for their money.
  • Ratchet: Deadlocked gives us Ace Hardlight, the head lackey to main villain Gleeman Vox, who has a personality that's even more repulsive than his bloodthirsty boss. He's an arrogant, cocky, cold-blooded, and sadistic scumbag who willingly sold out his heroism, all for the thrill of fame and fortune and the chance to kill or maim whomever he wanted for kicks. His somewhat sympathetic origins are never brought up in-game. He has nothing remotely likable or humorous about his personality — everyone in universe hates him, even his own boss, who can't even give away his merchandise. When Ratchet (seemingly) kills him, absolutely nobody mourns his loss except Dreadzone anchormen Dallas and Juanita (who are really only doing it because they're asskissers to Gleeman Vox).
  • Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction The last Cragmite Emperor Tachyon is not only a Galactic Conqueror who has subjugated the entire Polaris Galaxy and threatens genocide on any species that defies him. His worst crimes being responsible for getting rid of Ratchet’s species the Lombaxes despite them saving his life and rising him as one of their own, and floats on how he was the one to murder Ratchet’s father. Tachyon has shown himself to be the most personal enemy Ratchet has ever faced.
  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart: Halfway through the game, we are introduced to Emperor Nefarious, an alternate counterpart to Dr. Nefarious, who is far more unlikeable. He is a smug, arrogant, and sadistic tyrant who treats everyone, including his counterpart, like garbage.
• RefleX has ZODIAC Virgo. It's nowhere near the Big Bad — that position belongs to Tsukikagerou, the commander of the Raiwat forces who is only seen in an intermission detailing how his plans are falling apart, and that's if you don't have The Tale of ALLTYNEX Guidebook. ZODIAC Virgo, on the other hand, is shown in Area 7 destroying the human-made Virgo and then the Player Character and his ship, the Phoenix. When the Phoenix revives as ZODIAC Ophiuchus, few things are more satisfying than getting back at ZODIAC Virgo and tearing it a new one with its own attacks.
• Resident Evil:
  • Resident Evil 2 has Raccoon City Police Chief Brian Irons. Before his police career, Irons made a hobby out of capturing and dissecting animals at a very young age. In college, he was put under psychiatric examination after two incidents in which he was accused of violent aggression and sexual assault towards female students. Due to his excellent academic performance, however, these incidents were not criminally investigated. It turns out that Irons was also bribed by the Umbrella Corporation (mostly by William Birkin) into keeping the company's secrets and allowing them to conduct experiments on living subjects, making him partially responsible for the T-Virus infecting Raccoon City. When Umbrella's T-Virus finally does break free and spread throughout Raccoon City, Irons decides to use this opportunity to cause chaos and kill people, which includes Katherine Warren, the mayor's daughter. The remake adds even more depravity to his personality by revealing that he was also in charge of the Raccoon City Orphanage, which turned out to be a front for T-Virus test subjects. When one of the children managed to escape, Irons executed every last child within the orphanage to cover his and the company's tracks.
  • Resident Evil 6 has Derek C. Simmons, who fans are immediately itching to put a bullet into the head of from the minute he appears on-screen. For starters, Raccoon City being nuked off the face of the Earth was his decision, and he does everything in his power to ensure that the truth behind said nuking and the outbreak never comes out, up to and including recreating the incident by unleashing the C-Virus on the innocent community of Tall Oaks and nuking it as well just to prevent the President from exposing it; this costs the lives of at least 70,000 people. In doing so, he held Helena Harper's younger sister Deborah hostage to force her to help him carry out the Tall Oaks incident, promising to let her go if Helena did as he said... only to go back on his word and use Deborah as a lab rat for the C-Virus, turning her into a monster she has to be put down, and then arrange events so that both Leon and Helena take the fall. He was Sherry Birkin's main parental figure for most of her life, locking her up for eleven years so his private research team can study G-Virus in her blood and viewing her as nothing but a pawn. He also has a creepy obsession with Ada Wong, going so far as to experiment on 12,235 women just to turn them into an Ada he can have for himself; the success, Carla Radames, is the Big Bad of the game, with everything she does being payback at Simmons for using her in such a manner, making Simmons responsible for effectively every bad thing that happens in the game. He's so horrible that Carla arranges for him to be infected with the C-Virus specifically to make him a monster both inside and out.
• Rides With Strangers: Donald McArthur is the only stranger in the demo, so, to give players a real taste of what's in store for them in the final version, the creators went out of their way to make him as creepy, disgusting, and monstrous as possible. Donald is a Sinister Minister with an extremely creepy polite exterior, who turns out to have raped, tortured, and killed many people, with little boys being his "passion". He is also a Politically Incorrect Villain, wanting to purge the world of all those he considers heretics, which includes all members of the LGBT community. He thinks that all women who wear perfume are "whores" and need to be murdered, and he thinks that because he's a pedophile, raping, torturing, and murdering children is just in his nature and therefor perfectly normal, even believing that God won't judge him for it.
• In Runescape, Bandos, the War God and patron of goblins, ogres, trolls, and other brutish and unintelligent races. He's basically meant as a replacement God of Evil to Zamorak, the god of chaos and former devil-equivalent who later got a more sympathetic portrayal, and oh boy does he live up to it. In his backstory, he ascended by killing the god protecting his planet from meteors, causing the extinction of his race just so he could be the last thing alive on the planet. He then found Yu'Biusk, home plane of the goblins (along with other races who followed him) and immediately set about making it as much of a Crapsack World as possible with his warmongering and forcing its people to fight for his amusement. The reason it's barely-habitable in the present day is because he destroyed it in a temper tantrum after being banished from Gilenor. In the game proper, he mind-controls Zanik, a Dorgeshuun goblin (a tribe that had rebelled against Bandos's efforts to force them into war) and the player's close friend, into becoming his puppet commander with the eventual goal of using her to conquer Gilenor in his place. It's no wonder that when he went up against Armadyl (god of justice and a much more sympathetic character) in a contest where players decided who would win and the loser died, he lost overwhelmingly.
• Senran Kagura: Most of the evil shinobi are Anti Villains at worst, and the yoma are mindless beasts who are also fully capable of love and kindness, but these two shinobi are truly evil:
  • Dōgen is the cruel man who runs Hebijo Academy. Throughout the series, he manipulates the Hebijo girls, both old and new, into serving him. He cares nothing for them, however, and is willing to use their deaths to serve his plans. Whether it be sacrificing girls to Orochi (game)/the Yin and Yang scrolls (anime and manga), pitting several shinobi schools against each other, or summoning an army of yōma to destroy Japan, Dōgen completely lacks the sympathetic qualities of the other evil shinobi and antagonists, instead being defined by his malice and desire to Take Over the World.
  • Komichi was Homura's seemingly kind mentor and crush who is responsible for her turn to evil. After gaining Homura's trust over a long period of time, he gets her to confess to being a good shinobi heir, then reveals that he was an evil shinobi sent to kill her family. When Homura asks him why he befriended her instead of simply torturing her for the information, he explains that he loves to see the looks on people's faces after being betrayed, before trying to kill Homura herself and ultimately getting her rejected by the good shinobi after she fights back, driving her directly into the arms of the aforementioned Dōgen.
• Most of the Valuan admirals in Skies of Arcadia are either sympathetic Anti Villains like Gregorio or Belleza, or Love to Hate-style villains like Galcian and Vigoro (or some mixture of the two, like Ramirez). And then there's sociopathic Mad Scientist De Loco and condescending, cowardly aristocrat Alfonso, who both lack a single sympathetic bone in their bodies, and are nowhere near badass or respectable enough to be Love to Hate material.
• Sly Cooper has a few examples that stand out from the quirky, sympathetic or redeemable villains that usually take up the spotlight:
  • General Tsao of Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves is a Chinese warlord who takes an arrogant pride in coming from a family line of warriors. The Arc Villain of the levels set in China, Tsao has kidnapped Panda King's daughter Jing to forcibly marry her and merge their "great bloodlines". When Sly confronts him, Tsao states that he prefers servants and obedience to love and friendship and that as a woman, Jing doesn't know up from down. Despite his pride in being a warrior, he chickens out when Sly gets the upper hand in a fight, and summons vampires and a dragon onto his village to avoid further interference. When Tsao is arrested, everyone is glad to see him go. During their fight, Sly specifically tells him to his face that, out of all of the villains he's faced, Tsao is undoubtedly the worst.
• Sofia?: Dr. Claire Carter is the one who created the Big Bad Icarus, and lacks their sympathetic qualities. To achieve the secret of immortality, Claire set up Project Gen, where she and her team made hundreds of clones, called iterations, from the memories of the original. Claire would then kill any that came out imperfect, resulting in hundreds dead. She also showed a complete Lack of Empathy towards anyone, calling fellow scientist Sofia a failure upon her death, bullying Dale Jenkins into going along with whatever she wanted, and even using her own son, Fio Jenkins, as a guinea pig. Her murder by Icarus prior to the events of the story is thus well deserved.
• Soma Spirits: Form and Dissonance are a pair of mentors who seem to want to help Heart and Soul save the world of Soma, but quickly become condescending towards both the protagonists and each other, hinting that there is something darker about them. Sure enough, their real goal is to corrupt their respective protege into becoming a living weapon who hates "undesirable" emotions as much as they do. In the worst endings of the game, they succeed and use their last words to mock the other protagonist for failing to stop them, knowing that their corrupted protege will fulfill their genocidal ambitions. Their only seemingly sympathetic trait is their desire for peace on Soma, but this is undermined when they hypocritically attempt to destroy Soma in the true ending, all because the population's emotions don't match their visions of a utopia.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Sonic and the Secret Rings has the Erazor Djinn, a power-hungry, unempathetic, and purely self-serving genie who has nothing remotely sympathetic or likable going for him, acting extremely arrogant and haughty towards everyone around him. He treats Shahra like dirt and after her sacrifice, he has the gall to mock her as being weak. And that's not even getting into how he puts Sonic's life on the line to further his own ends and talks down to him and insults him, calling him a rat. This makes it so satisfying when Sonic forces him to grant three wishes, with the last one being to remain within his lamp forever just before Sonic tosses it into the fire.
  • Sonic Forces has Dr. Eggman's new lieutenant, Infinite. He is a deranged and immature sadist who seems cool, but proves himself to be nothing more than a bully who enjoys murdering people just to show off his strength after Shadow the Hedgehog bruised his ego by easily overpowering him and calling him weak. Once his biggest advantage is taken away, he isn't even competent enough to keep the fight up, revealing himself to be nothing more than a smug coward.
• Soul Calibur VI gives us Azwel, the Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist Big Bad. While he isn't a Dirty Coward once defeated, he makes up for it by being a Sore Loser and a major Hypocrite who claims to love humanity, but is shown to be little more than a Sadist and a sociopath who merely enjoys toying with people with glee, as is evident when he turns Groh into the very thing he's sworn to hunt down. There's also the fact that he's an infuriating boss fight in the campaign.
• The Spyro the Dragon series has Moneybags, a greedy bear who exists only to impede your progress in the game until you pay him gems. Although annoying in the second game, he does provide useful services and teach Spyro different abilities to help him get through the levels. The third game, however, makes him way worse. He begins the game outright helping the villain by keeping the other characters caged up, only releasing them if Spyro pays up, and by the end of the game, he's outright extorting Spyro for no reason other than to get his money. For example, he wants to be paid for a password to open a door, and after he reveals the password is "gullible", he admits that there was no door password, he was just standing in front of the switch to open it. Thankfully, he gets his comeuppance at the end, where Spyro attacks him after he reveals a plan to auction off a dragon egg, resulting in Spyro getting back every single gem he ever paid him.
• Starbound: The Miniknog, the ruling caste of the Apex. Nothing you hear about them will make you sympathize with them — it's like they practice puppy-kicking across the Moral Event Horizon as a sport. All their attempts at scientific progress appear to be directed towards strengthening the stranglehold on their own population and making them more miserable. There is absolutely zero sympathy for them. Ironically, you can feel some sympathy for Big Ape, their supposed leader... when, after fighting him, you find out that he's been rendered nothing but another weapon for them to use.
• Star Fox: Pigma Dengar of Team Star Wolf is a greedy, treasonous, bullying slimeball who gladly sold out his former teammates, James McCloud and Peppy Hare, by luring them into a deathtrap set up by Andross because he paid better, and wouldn't hesitate to taunt Peppy or James's son, Fox, about his past deed. His greed and unreliability was so great that he was kicked out of Star Wolf. Years later, Pigma intervenes in Star Fox's mission to prevent an Aparoid invasion by stealing a Core Memory, a vital component required in order to find the location of the Aparoid Homeworld, and teaming up with the Aparoids to cover his ass, all because he wants more money. This backfires on him as he himself gets assimilated into an aparoid and Star Fox has to kill him once and for all in order to get the Core Memory. While they were disturbed by the swine's fate, none of the team members mourn his death. Even compared to the other Star Wolf members, Pigma is a horrible person. Wolf O'Donnell is a ruthless mercenary, but he's a good leader who won't tolerate toxic behavior in his team and is capable of showing respect to his foes. Leon Powalski is a sadistic assassin with some signs of narcissism, but he carries an air of charming sophistication, and his more unhinged portrayals has him veering into Laughably Evil territory. Andrew Oikonny is an incompetent braggart who followed Pigma out the door due to his arrogance, and often hides behind uncle Andross's infamy, but he does what he does out of a desire to gain his favor and follow in his footsteps. Panther Caroso is evil enough to join Star Wolf, but he's also quite polite and can develop genuine feelings for someone. Wolf, Leon, and Panther even come close to a Heroic Sacrifice at the end. Pigma, on the other hand, is repulsive, inside and out.
• Star Wars: The Old Republic:
  • Emperor Vitiate is basically an even more depraved version of Palpatine. This is a man who tortured his true father to death, killed billions of people, was an utter dick to everyone, and was so evil that even other Sith held him in contempt, among many other things.
  • Tarro Blood from the Bounty Hunter storyline. He claims that you are unworthy to join the great hunt despite lying and cheating his way throughout the hunt. He also tries everything to avoid a direct confrontation with the hunter and instead uses his lackeys to do his dirty work. When you finally meet him imprisoned in Kellian Jarro's ship, you can leave him there to die instead of allowing him to fight you.
  • Skadge is a complete Jerkass that insults players even when he's assigned to do simple crew skill missions. Oh, and he hints that he might rape a female NPC from the Belsavis quest-line if he got the chance. Lovely. Fortunately, players have the opportunity to get rid of him in a side-quest from Knights of the Fallen Empire.
  • Chancellor Saresh was only mildly annoying in the vanilla game. She becomes more unlikeable after the Shadow of Revan and Ziost storylines, as she proves herself to be unreasonable, hot-headed, and blinded by her hatred of the Empire, to the point of being an Obstructive Bureaucrat. She gets even worse in Knights of the Eternal Throne. She attempts to have the Alliance Leader killed by hiring a band of elite mercenaries. She then tries to take the place as the new Alliance Commander. Luckily the real Alliance Leader arrives and stops her. The leader can punch her in the face, execute her, or have her stay in a prison for a very long time.
• Suikoden:
  • Suikoden II had a few despite its graying morality:
    • Luca Blight. He is positively relishing in being as much of a brutal, sadistic, murderous, repulsive dick as he can be, having absolutely nothing that could be construed as a likable quality as a good person. As a villain, though? He's doing a damn good job.
    • Gorudo. He's a self-serving lord of a knightdom that doesn't care when other people are suffering, watching them die horribly without lifting a finger. He later goes turncoat at the drop of a hat without any care of knight honor, and also plans to seize power from both the City-State and Highland all for himself, additionally causing a possible death of the hero's sister figure Nanami. Enough that former friend turned enemy Jowy decides to team up with the hero solely to kill him.
    • Mayor Darrel, who by the time of the game is already dead. In the past he was basically The Load of City-States, launching assault on Highland, but driven back because of his own lack of military knowledge, only to be saved by Genkaku who ended up brokering for peace, only for Darrel to ruin it by simply not wanting to hand over one city, Kyaro. Then both sides agreed on a Combat by Champion between Genkaku and his best friend Han, but Darrel went an extra mile to secure his victory by coating Genkaku's sword with poison, which would make him a murderer of his best friend if he won. Genkaku detected that and ended up in defeat. Extremely salty about it, Darrel went on to not only exile Genkaku but decided to further spite Highland for making him lose Kyaro by hiring ruffians to ambush the Highland royal entourage, causing the rape of Luca's mother and starting his descent to madness and evil. The effects of his sheer spite and despicability left a lot of hole for his daughter Annabelle to clean up after she succeeded him. But generally, nobody has anything good to say about Darrel even if he was technically a predecessor of the protagonist's side, and he caused a lot of troubles due to his incompetence that he won't ever admit.
• Tales of Symphonia:
  • The Five Grand Cardinals are this to varying degrees, but Rodyle is the worst of them. He callously reacts to his fellow Grand Cardinals, Magnius and Kvar's death, regarding them as disposable tools, gloating about having manipulated the former into trying to kill the Chosen One, and planning on using the latter's research data for his own ends- destroying the Tower of Salvation and overthrowing his superiors. Not only does he have a human ranch of his own, but he responds to the protagonists' attempts at freeing the human prisoners by flooding a passage and killing them all. Once he is defeated, he activates the self-destruct system in an attempt at Taking You with Me, forcing Botta, who has become an ally to the heroes, to perform a Heroic Sacrifice to save the party.
  • Kvar is nearly as bad as Rodyle. He runs a human ranch, and attacks Luin after learning that prisoners escaped there, killing many and taking the rest to his ranch, where they are converted to Exspheres. He is also personally responsible for removing Lloyd's mother Anna's Exsphere, turning her into a monster and forcing Lloyd's father to kill her. After being defeated and on the brink of death, he attacks Colette, nearly killing her. It's rather cathartic to watch Kratos who, as it turns out, is Lloyd's father, brutally cut down Kvar.
  • For a non-villainous example, there's the mayor of Iselia. He may have a point that Lloyd is responsible for the Desian attack on the village and should be banished(also banishing Genis when the latter claims equal responsibility), but he shows a chilling lack of sympathy for the people imprisoned at the ranch, apparently fine with them dying as long as the treaty is upheld. When Lloyd's group liberates the Iselia ranch, the Mayor is not only angry that Lloyd returned to the village, but that Genis and Raine are actually half-elves, Colette is a failed Chosen and prisoners from Iselia are returning. At that point, the rest of the village stands up to the mayor and calls him out on his behavior.
• Tell Me Why: Tom Vecchi, upon being revealed to be the twins' biological father, is shown to be an emotionally manipulative coward, doing what he can to cover up his past affair with Mary Ann to preserve his marriage, reputation, and political campaign. When the truth is discovered, it turns out he refused to help Mary Ann and the twins with their troubles despite knowing he's their father, and tries to take credit for how his wife helped them. It's also revealed that he witnessed Mary Ann's stabbing, and left her to drown to cover his tracks. When confronted with the truth, threatens to reveal Allyson was the one who stabbed her to keep his involvement from being exposed.
• Tony Hawk's Underground gives us Eric Sparrow, your supposed friend who has a habit of betraying the main character just to go big as pro, even going as far as to edit the big jump over the helicopter in Hawaii the protagonist attempted to make it look as if Eric was the one who did the big jump. On top of that, when he does make it as pro, he cares more about the money than the actual fun and skills as a skater and still acts as if he's a God of skating. It says a lot when the game's Alternative Ending has you punch his lights out instead of accepting his challenge.
• Trials of Mana has its fair share of engaging villains like other entries in the World of Mana franchise, and most of them are difficult to be a target of player hatred. Even the three Big Bads are more of a trio of generic villains than anything else. Goremand, on the other hand, manages to be truly disgusting in many ways. He convinces the Ferolian beastmen to start a war against humanity, uses a magical spell to turn the adorable wolf puppy Karl into a monster and force Kevin to fight and kill him, kidnaps Heath in front of Charlotte just when the two have gotten reunited, slaughters people to reap their souls, and intends to take his much more sympathetic boss, the Masked Mage, and use him to turn the world into one of war and death so he himself can be free to devour more souls forevermore. His cowardice knows no bounds, as shown when he immediately panics as Kevin attacks him and Gauser in his rage and corners him over what happened to Karl, for example, and he is clearly not happy when you finally kick his ass near the end of Kevin and Charlotte's story. Even Gauser himself ultimately finds him and his flair for atrocity truly disturbing.
• Undertale has two:
  • The game works as hard as it can to make you utterly despise Flowey the Flower, the two-faced, fourth wall-breaking flower who never ceases to guilt-trip the player for their actions during the beginning of the game before suddenly reappearing at the end of the game to steal the six human souls — twice, the second time after he's spared and given a second chance — tries to torture the player for eternity, and overall just deny the player their happy ending. All is this is just so in the Golden Ending and the Genocide Ending, the game can blindside you as hard as it can with the revelation that he's the single most tragic character in the entire game and charge you with sparing and redeeming him to achieve the Golden Ending.
  • The other one, Played for Laughs, is Jerry. Jerry is The Friend Nobody Likes, and is designed to be obnoxious as shit no matter what path you're taking. Pacifists find that Jerry can't be properly spared, only ditched, and he'll come back after a couple of turns if the battle isn't over by then. Murderers find that Jerry is a Stone Wall with massive HP and Defense, so even with their massive attack stat they have to hit him several times before he finally dies. Luckily, you can ditch him without aborting a genocide route.
• Valkyria Chronicles:
  • General Gregor of the Imperials and General Damon of the Gallians are the target of much well-deserved hatred.
    • Gregor gets this mostly because he's effective at doing his job: being an incredibly racist Darcsen-hating general who runs concentration camps with glee. Jaeger is pretty affable, Selvaria can come off tragic, and Prince Maximillian has quite a bit of charisma even if he's an asshole himself, and all three also come with their own Dark and Troubled Past, something that Gregor lacks, which makes him really hateable.
    • Despite the fact that Damon's ostensibly on your side, he's incredibly disrespectful of the militia, believing them to be worthless because they're "peasants", keeps sending them on suicide missions that translate into ridiculously difficult gameplay levels, and has a tendency to gleefully take credit for the militia/player's achievements. He basically exists as a way for the game to show that not everyone on your side are well-behaved nice people (and he damn well delivers!). The fact that, in Selvaria's DLC, he breaks weapon treaties and uses poison gas on the Imperials and tries to claim that it was the Imperials who broke the treaty only serves to solidify how much of a jerkass he is. His death at the hands of Selvaria's Taking You with Me explosion is supremely satisfying, despite the fact that it horribly sets back Gallia's war effort.
  • Among Squad 7's ranks there's Cezary Regard, a Dirty Coward who became a sniper to avoid the front lines and likes to showcase his selfishness at every moment possible. He's one of the few characters racist enough against Darcsens to have the Darcsen Hater potential (which debuffs him when he's near a Darcsen unit), and one of two who have no Freudian Excuse for his racism. He's even acrophobic, which means that he takes a hit to his attack power when he's in a sniper nest or on top of a building (aka exactly where you want your snipers to be). Even the most unlikable members of Squad 7 have at least one or two redeeming qualities, but Cezary seems to go out of his way to have none whatsoever, to the point where he's a frequent sacrifice for the Splintered Horn medal (which requires you to let a unit with all their potentials unlocked die in battle).
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines:
  • Sebastian LaCroix is a pompous and condescending Prince of the Caramilla, and demands the utmost respect from the Fledgling despite sending them on multiple suicide missions. Just about every vampiric character in the game hates him for his attitude, his corruption is revealed with his alliance with Ming Xiao, and his plan to gain more power from the Ankaran Sarcophagus. After multiple attempts to get rid of the Fledgling, he eventually frames them for an attempt to kill Nines. Needless to say, no matter how he's defeated in the endgame, it is nothing short of satisfying to watch him melt down.
  • Ming Xiao is the leader of the Kuei Jin, and a hateful murderer, who is behind the crime wave in the game. Not only does she desire to see the Kindred wiped out, but she has a nasty habit of betraying and disposing of all of her allies when their use wears off. If the player allies with her at the end of the game, not only does she come out on top, but she betrays the player by trapping them at the bottom of the ocean.
• Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea: Sal/Syake-san is the traitor to the Blue Sea Kingdom and the Dragon-in-Chief to Tostasu Kingdom. Feigning loyalty to Princess Uomi, the traitor secretly helps Princess Tosatsu in her invasion by sabotaging the defenses of the Sea Kingdom. It is later revealed that he caused the war between the two kingdoms by sending an inflammatory letter framing Uomi for the massacre of several Tostasu soldiers which he himself perpetrated. He also frames his own twin brother, Samekichi, as being the traitor, and even sexually assaulted Wadanohara in the past. At the end of the second act, he smashes the seal and unleashes the Red Sea, freeing his true master Princess Mikotsu. When Wadanohara confronts him, he taunts her about it before corrupting her in the first ending, and stabbing her and fleeing with Mikotsu in the true ending. As bad as the traitor's Princess boss is, her evil is mainly offscreen, and Mikotsu doesn't have a hand in most of the game due to her imprisonment within the Red Sea, which caused her to lose her sanity. The traitor serves as the target of hate instead, being wholly repugnant and narcissistic. But thankfully got punished by his brother Samekichi.
• Grand Marshall Garithos in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the bigoted commander of the survivors of Loarderon, who hates every non-human race of the Alliance. In truth his actions, although reprehensible, are fairly tame in comparison to the actual Big Bads of the setting — but then, none of the major characters in the expansion are entirely likable; Illidan Stormrage agrees to work for Kil'jaeden the Deceiver, his brother Malfurion is as Stupid Good as ever, and Illidan's former Warden Maiev Shadowsong throws one of her own comrades under a bus to avoid side-tracking while chasing him — and that's just the first campaign.^note Tyrande sort of breaks the mold by helping their attempt to recapture Illidan, helping protect the blood elves from the undead, and offering Kael'thas advice on dealing with his people's plight; ironic given how she's treated later in World of Warcraft But given that most of them are still well-liked — Ner'zhul the Lich King is a Magnificent Bastard, Arthas, Kel'Thuzad, and Anub'arak are pretty cool, Kael'thas gets Driven to Villainy and is trying to both get revenge on Arthas for destroying his homeland and save his people from their addiction to magic, Illidan genuinely wants to help him with that, Maiev is just doing her job trying to stop a dangerous escaped criminal, Sylvanas is a sympathetic Tragic Villain, and Varimathras is entertaining and dry-witted — having a plainly easy-to-hate character like Garithos was practically a necessity. While the remains of the Lordaeron Alliance would normally be a sympathetic Woobie given to how rough they had it throughout the game, Garithos is certainly not the ideal leader for them.
• The Witch and the Hundred Knight: Totopepe is an unintelligent assistant to genocide and avaricious bastard who goes so far as to slaughter his way through the kingdom to steal the crown and rapes one of the princesses to death. While Totopepe is initially built up as a silly side character, the reveal makes him out to be a fully detestable villain.
• The Witch's House: The Black Cat Demon is the true villain who is responsible for turning the Tragic Villain Ellen into a monster. Manipulating the unloved Ellen and her predecessor into becoming his witches, he emotionally abuses Ellen into becoming a murderer and uses her to kill hundreds of innocents for centuries so he can eat their souls, eventually screwing over the innocent and kind Viola while leaving Ellen to live a hollow, empty life and getting away with it. Whereas Ellen just wants to be loved, the Demon, while humorous, cares only for his insatiable appetite.
• For obvious reasons, the Wolfenstein franchise is filled to the brim with Nazis that serve as our hero B.J. Blazkowicz's target practice:
  • Deathshead in The New Order is shown to be more monstrous compared to his Affably Evilness in previous games, taking joys in kicking dogs at every moment he gets to. However, thanks to a chilling performance by Dwight Schultz, his Love to Hate behaviour and hamminess, and the fact that he ruthlessly crushes Allied forces in the beginning of the game and nearly succeeds in killing off B.J. in their final battle, Deathshead instead became a classic Love to Hate example. But that cannot be said for his adopted son Friedrich Keller, a French Jerk who sold out his biological parents and the French resistance to Nazis as a kid all because of his issues with his parents. He has his men (on Deathshead's orders) massacre an entire asylum, including Anja's parents when they try to stop it. It's also implied that he probably would've raped Anja if B.J. hadn't woke up from his coma just in time. And unlike Deathshead, he is also a Dirty Coward who attempts to run off when he sees B.J. kicking off Nazi asses. It's pretty satisfying to watch him shitting himself when B.J. interrogates him with the chainsaw, but Keller decides to insult B.J. one last time. You can probably guess how that ends for him.
  • In The New Colossus, we get introduced to B.J's father Rip, who manages to be the most despicable person in a series filled with Nazis. An awful and racist man, he would often take out his anger by physically abusing young B.J., even going so far as to force him to kill his own dog, all because B.J. had made friends with a black girl. He is nasty to everyone, including his wife Sofia due to her being Jewish (and the only reason he married her was for money and status). He is also hated in-universe for his smug behavior and conning people out of their money. However, some of B.J.'s monologues and flashbacks suggest that Rip does have his moments (if you can count one where he helps young B.J. overcome his fears of basement monsters), so maybe he wasn't always like that, right? To drop any possible ideas of Rip redeeming himself and/or undergoing a Heel–Face Turn, when B.J. finally reunites with his father, he finds out that Rip sold out B.J.'s mom to the Nazis for money (and probably to save his own skin) and that he is also helping Frau Engel capture/kill his son. This proves to be last straw for B.J., and he kills his assholish father in retribution, much to audience's satisfaction.
  • Out of all the Nazis in the franchise, Frau Engel herself is one of the most despised of them. She runs a concentration camp in The New Order and the only apparent redeeming quality she has is that she has a boyfriend and is distraught when B.J. kills him. The sequel makes her even more despicable so she can take over the role as the main antagonist. Her crimes in that game include bullying her own daughter Sigrun to the point of causing her to defect, decapitating Caroline Becker with a fire axe and making B.J and Sigrun kiss it, maiming Fergus or Wyatt, shooting Super Spesh several times and shoving the gun to B.J.'s mouth and asking him how the gun she used to kill Spesh tastes, and most notably, cutting off B.J.'s head on live television. Luckily, B.J gets brought back to life and as a result, players get the chance to finally kill her off through giving her a humiliating Karmic Death on television by lodging an axe in her head.
• In the The World Ends With You duology:
  • In The World Ends with You, most of the antagonistic Reapers have sympathetic traits and/or entertaining personalities, but Mitsuki Konishi, the Game Master for the final week, is the exception. She's responsible for many Kick the Dog moments, from turning the Noise form of Beat's sister Rhyme into a pin and using it as collateral to using her dying breaths to claim that Rhyme didn't love Beat as much as he loved her. She's purely out for herself, being willing to betray her boss to Sho Minamoto, knowing that Minamoto will make her his Conductor if he wins, and she can finish off Kitaniji if Minamoto loses. All this makes her easily the cruelest and most despicable character in the game.
  • In NEO: The World Ends with You, almost all of the antagonists are sympathetic in some manner; Fuya, Motoi, and Kanon are just trying to survive, most of the Shinjuku Reapers are actively working against Shiba including the Ruinbringers, and Shiba himself is Brainwashed and Crazy, and pulls a Heel–Face Turn once he's made aware of this. With this in mind, Tanzo Kubo is designed to be as obnoxious and unlikable as possible. Even early on, the Wicked Twisters get skeevy vibes from him. Then the last day reveals he's an Angel who was ordered to erase Shinjuku, did so, went rogue, and now seeks to do the same to Shibuya motivated by nothing but sheer psychotic bloodlust. He quickly proves to be the most evil being in the series.
• Xenoblade Chronicles series:
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 1:
    • Metal Face is the leader of the Faced Mechon, whose very first action is to attack Colony 9, killing several characters including Fiora, Shulk's girlfriend, in the process. When he returns after Shulk, Reyn, and Sharla defeat Xord, he quickly taunts Shulk about Fiora's death to get him mad, knowing the Monado doesn't work on the Faced Mechon. After that, he goes to Eryth Sea and kills Emperor Sorean, Melia's father, in the process. He is revealed to be the cowardly Mumkhar in Valak Mountain, where he attempts to stab Fiora in the neck unless they give him the Monado, revealing that he only did all of this because it's Dunban's home and he was jealous of him wielding the Monado. Among the Anti-Villain Egil and his forces, he stands out as lacking any sympathetic qualities.
    • Zanza is the seemingly kind god who turns out to be the true villain. He has no care whatsoever for the beings on Bionis or the Machina, comparing them to bacteria. His first action is sucking the souls from people so he can live, including Shulk and Arglas, before killing Meyneth and Egil and attempting to recreate the universe as he turns all the High Entia into Telethia, planning to exterminate all life on Bionis purely for himself. Afterwards, it's revealed that he tried to restart the entire universe back when he was a human to become a god in the first place.
    • Lorithia is a fellow disciple of Zanza. She taunts Melia by kissing Kallian on the cheek while he's a Telethia, and also took part in turning the pure-blooded High Entia into Telethia. Lorithia's main reason for doing this is all because she wants immortality, despite the fact that Zanza is attempting to destroy and recreate the entire universe.
    • Future Connected: While most villains in the first game are morally grey, Gael'gar isn't one of them, and his hypocrisy and delusion combined with his racism make the player want to kick his ass. His targeting of Teelan and burning down an entire house to destroy Teelan's research only makes him worse.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Dr. Castrofari has no redeeming qualities and is made to be as unlikable as possible. He also attempts to turn children into Artificial Blades and torture Perun.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3:
    • Like Metal Face/Mumkhar before him, Moebius D has no redeeming qualities whatsoever and is written to be as depraved and heinous as possible. His "crowning achievement" comes when he impales Queen Nia right after the party wakes her up, though fortunately it ultimately fails. He doesn't even get the small bits of sympathy that Dunban and Shulk gives Metal Face. Whereas Mumkhar is stated to have not always been so bad, and only turned evil out of jealousy towards Dunban for being able to wield the Monado, D was apparently an unrepentant Serial Killer in every past life. Where Metal Face killed out of vendettas, perceived past slights, and an inferiority complex, D kills out of a sadistic sense of pleasure. Where Mumkhar adored his new body for the power it gave him, D revels instead in the "transcendence" as a Moebius of being able to remember every killing and continue to add to his "collection" forever. Even among the ranks of the Consuls (most of whom are depraved hedonists), D is one of those who really stand out.
    • Shania's Freudian Excuse comes from the fact that she had an Abusive Mother who only saw her daughter as a means of getting power and recognition, and forcing her to become a soldier against her wishes. When Shania didn't perform as well as her mother would have liked, she harshly scolds her daughter to make her feel bad about herself, and that she'll never be as good as Ghondor. Even when her father and even Ghondor herself try to encourage Shania to just be herself, it doesn't work, and her lack of self-confidence is what eventually turns her into Moebius S. Although Shania's mother doesn't have too much screen time, the fact that she is the one solely responsible of turning her daughter into a villain is a prime case of Jerks Being Worse Than Villains.
• Yakuza:
  • Yakuza 0 has Lao Gui, a creepy-looking master hitman who only has three appearances in the entire game, and two of them involve capturing Tachibana, which leads to his death, and then shooting his sister Makoto, which leaves her comatose for the rest of the game. While the rest of the major villains that the main characters face off against are respected by fans to varying degrees, there are few who think that Lao Gui's No-Holds-Barred Beatdown at Majima's hands isn't absolutely deserved and extremely cathartic, as is his eventual fate, being locked up for the rest of his life in a yakuza dungeon as leverage against Dojima.
  • Yakuza has Kyohei Jingu, who is the true main antagonist of the first installment. Unlike Akira Nishikiyama, who is also a main villain, Jingu has no redeemable traits whatsoever. For instance, he cheated on Yumi, hired an assassin to kill Yumi and his daughter Haruka, and showed no sign of emotion when fighting Kiryu, showing how cold-blooded and sadistic Jingu is compared to Nishikiyama. However, he would be defeated by Kiryu and killed by Nishiki later on, showing that his calculating demeanor wasn't able to defeat the unrelenting man who is the Dragon of Dojima.
    • There's also Sohei Dojima, a selfish sociopath willing to step on anybody to get ahead. He misuses his power to the point his own second in command plots against him advancing to the position of Chairman of the Tojo Clan because of how disastrous it would be. He ordered the massacre of the Jingweon Mafia, had Tachibana tortured to death, put Makoto through a horrible ordeal in an attempt to get a piece of land she owned, routinely cheated on his wife, and was a Serial Rapist, with him finally being killed while trying to rape Yumi.
    • Shimano is an all around vile human being, him being the one who ordered Majima to be mercilessly tortured at a yakuza black site for a year following the Ueno Seiwa hit and then, when Majima failed to die, enslaved him to Shimano's sworn brother Sagawa. Shimano also gleefully participated in the aforementioned Jingweon Massacre, and his last act alive is throwing a grenade at a little girl. He's so bad a new scene in the Yakuza remake consists of him showing up for the sole purpose of mindfucking Nishiki, who was already in a fragile state.
  • Yakuza 2 has Koji Shindo, who became a patriarch of Nishikiyama family after Nishiki's death. Unlike Nishiki, he has no leadership whatsoever and in order to gain power to satiate his lust, he betrayed the Tojo Clan and began to execute every person that proved vital for the stability of Tojo Clan. And let's not forget he tried to take Dojima's wife Yayoi and make her his "love". It's not hard to feel satisfied when Daigo shoots him in his head, killing him.
  • Yakuza 6 has Tsuneo Iwami and Katsumi Sugai, who have proven themselves to be a despicable piece of shits due to their extreme cowardice and malice towards anyone they think they wronged them. However, Iwami is way worse than Sugai as he is even more of a Sadist who is unable to control his emotions and does everything he can to gain attention and to show Kiryu how "worthy" he really is. In addition, he has a problem with constantly backstabbing everyone he deems to be unfit for his plan. Unfortunately, his ego and pride backfired heavily when he challenged Kiryu at the end, which led Kiryu to his Curb-Stomp Battle, causing Iwami to beg for his life, further demonstrating his cowardice and unworthiness to be a true yakuza member.
  • Yakuza: Like a Dragon
    • Sota Kume, the smarmy leader of Bleach Japan's Yokohama branch. A classist, racist, misogynistic bully, Kume spends the majority of his screen time harassing Ichiban and the other heroes in his efforts to eliminate the "grey" areas of society, and openly mocks the death of Ichiban's employer solely because the man owned a brothel. To add to his undesirable qualities, he's the one that slams the door on Ryo Aoki's Heel–Face Turn, stabbing his former mentor to death while saying that the Bleach Japan movement will outlast even his crimes, and unlike Lao Gui he gets no onscreen punishment for his actions.
    • Yoko Arakawa, mother of Masumi Arakawa was shown to be an utterly vile woman who was abusive in every way towards her family. Not only did she openly berate her son despite being a talented actor as well as take any money he earned but was also the one responsible for the massive scar on his face that he'd carry for the rest of his life, even threatening to give him a worse one that can't be covered by makeup. She's just as awful to her husband Toshio as she openly cheats on him with another man and had no problem taking their money to go spend on herself.
• Yandere Simulator:
  • A rare non-malicious example would be Midori Gurin. While she is not mean or anything, she was created to represent the annoying fan stereotype. She is depicted as an annoying ditz who harasses people with stupid questions with obvious answers. In-game, everyone, especially the teachers, considers her an annoying idiot that wastes their time. In the game's development videos, she is often abused, being shut down, insulted, and even murdered. Using tropes like Annoying Video Game Helper and Unwanted Assistance, she is depicted as a strawman. The developer has stated that her stupidity is not meant to be charming, nor is she meant to be seen as cute. She is meant to be despised.
    "Don't be a Midori-chan."
    — YandereDev
  • A straighter example would be Musume Ronshaku. The Alpha Bitch leader of the bullies, she's a Spoiled Brat who feels no guilt about bullying people to the point of suicide, would backstab even her posse if she got something out of it, and in one concept video openly mocks Kokona for her family situation (her father's in massive debt to Musume's father, and Kokona's engaging in Compensated Dating to try to pay it off), says Kokona deserved it, and slut shames her. No wonder people weren't exactly sad when Kokona beats her to an unrecognizable pulp and kills her.
• Yoobiiverse:
  • Annabelle (RPG Maker):
    • Jason Sunray is the Big Bad of the series and the title heroine's sexually abusive father who gives her the nightmares that most games explore. In every game, he is shown to be an unpleasant individual to everyone around him and has no redeeming qualities. In the final game, he becomes the new head of a church tripling as an orphanage and mental institution for troubled kids, where he traumatizes them to keep them needing his 'help' so he can satisfy his greed with government grants.
    • Riley, the leader of Annabelle's school bullies, is not nearly as disgusting or heinous as Jason, but is still an unlikeable jerk. In Projection, she is the Big Bad who picks on Annabelle, insults her by calling her a special-ed student, and is majorly responsible for her body issues. And unlike Jason, Riley never gets any punishment for her actions.
  • The Brains And The Brawn: Jeanne Panini turns out to be a fairly sympathetic villain by the end, and Gale Ravena has a Freudian Excuse, but these two do not:
    • Grasshead, the leader of a gang terrorizing Downtown Ravena, is a violent criminal who enjoys crime and chaos, and is revealed to be Jeanne's main bully in high school who led the other students in harassing her out of envy for Jeanne's popularity with the teachers. Unlike Jeanne, Grasshead never displays any good qualities and is simply a hateful jerk.
    • Mayor James P. Ravena is the lazy and corrupt former head of Ravena City. Under his leadership, the city has become a Wretched Hive with rampant homelessness, crime, and a general low quality of life, yet he only cares about turning his son, Gale Ravena, into a source of literally backbreaking free labor and justifying it by saying that he is just teaching his son discipline and hard work. When Jeanne and Gale capture him, he pathetically tries to beg for his life and give an insincere apology to his son, only for Gale to shoot him anyway.

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