Magnificent Bastard / Music

Every deck needs a knave to come and stack the cards
The world may be yours to save, but it's mine to tear apart

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the Tsar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain!

— The Devil, "Sympathy for the Devil", Beggars Banquet

Grab your headphones and jam to these tales of devilishly cunning villains.

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• 113's "Hold Up" (ft. Intouchable) from Les Princes de la Ville: 113's Rim'K and AP, alongside Intouchable's Demon One, plan to commit a bank robbery alongside the rest of their respective groups. Rim'K, heavily disguised, enters the bank, dispatches a guard when he notices he looks at him suspiciously, and forces at gunpoint a bank employee to give him all of the bank counter's money. AP and Demon One enter the bank and take everyone inside it hostage, with the former immediately preventing a client from rebelling by threatening to kill him, and the latter targeting the director. When the director refuses to open the bank's safe, Demon One quietly threatens his wife, forcing the director to give in and open the safe. Demon One then captures him to cover their escape, planning to release him later on alive and well. Successfully pulling off the robbery, Rim'K, AP and Demon One joins Intouchable's Dry and 113's Mokobé to escape. The song ends with 113 and Intouchable starting a gunfight with the police.
• AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" from Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap: The unnamed hitman is a hired gun skilled in TNT, electricity and various other murder methods, who offers all of his filthy acts at a reasonable price to his paying customers. Targeting perverted high school principals, cheating boyfriends and even nagging wives, the hitman uses his stealthy skills to pull off his hits, while using his charms to win over all of his clients, to the point of seducing some.
• TheAtlanticCraft's Minecraft songs "Supernatural Mobs", "The Herobrine" & "All Hail Skull King": The Skeleton King is the Evil Overlord of the skeletons. Skeleton King has created a castle that also functions as a fortress where he has carefully trained an army of the best mobs decked out with the best gear to protect against any invaders. The army fends off the Minecraft players attacking the castle the first time, and when they come back a second time, more prepared, Skeleton King effortlessly takes them all down. Later on, when the place of the Zombie King is attacked by Herobrine, he turns to the Skeleton King for help, which he accepts. Skeleton King leads his army along with the Zombie and Enderman King's armies to fight against Herobrine. Skeleton King uses a spell to make the Zombie King giant, wearing Herobrine down so Skeleton King can take down Herobrine. Skeleton King brings peace to the mobs and is shown a year later still celebrating his defeat over Herobrine.
• "Big Iron but The Ranger goes to Lazy Town to kill Robbie Rotten": Robbie Rotten is both smarter and deadlier than in canon. When the Arizona Ranger with the titular Big Iron comes into Lazy Town, Robbie announces his plan to catch him on the run, saying "Look at this net that I just found," knowing word would spread to the Ranger. When the inevitable duel comes, the Ranger is so prepared for Robbie's net that he fails to notice the banana peel Robbie had laid in the street, breaking his hip and killing him. Emerging victorious, Robbie proves why he's "Villain Number One."
• Big L:
  • "The Heist" and "The Heist Revisited" from The Big Picture: Big L, upon leaning from his friend Corleone that his wife was seen with his rivals Mike and Ben and a random woman entering an hotel, seeks revenge. Aware that Mike and Ben aren't only in the hotel to have sex with L's wife and the other woman, but are also there for the sake of a drug deal, L, Corleone and their friend Tommy Gibbs come up with a plan to kill two birds with one stone. Entering the hotel, L forces the receptionist at gunpoint to reveal their four targets' room. Entering said room, L, Corle' and Gibbs tie up their targets and force them to reveal their drugs and their money's location. After L successfully finds the drugs and the money in the stated location, he, Corleone and Gibbs kill their four targets, split the money between them and celebrate their successful heist, getting away with their crimes.
  • "Casualties of a Dice Game", video by Bizerk: In this fan-made animation based on the late Harlem rapper's 2000 eponymous song, the protagonist wins a cee-lo game and subsequently gets the other players' money. After dropping his friend Lroc at a McDonald's, the protagonist, coming back home by car, realizes that he's being pursued by the losers of the cee-lo game. When his friend Bones refuses to help him because he's busy having sex, the protagonist improvises by accelerating and then brutally stopping his car, sending his pursuers' car crashing into it. Keeping his calm despite being heavily wounded and bleeding, the protagonist then finishes off his pursuers. Going to Bones' home, he kills his former friend for refusing to help him. When the police attempts to stop him as he tries to reach the hospital, he triggers a gunfight, kills a policeman, forcing the other one to hide as the protagonist leaves to a nearby park. Giving his money to a couple of kids playing there, the protagonist succumbs to his wounds and enters heaven before the police catch up with him.
• Blue Öyster Cult's "The Alchemist" from The Symbol Remains: The Alchemist is a brilliant Evil Sorcerer with a grudge. When a King killed his father for a crime he was innocent of, the Alchemist swore vengeance upon the King's entire bloodline; from there on out, the Alchemist proceeded to gain the secret of eternal life to carry out his revenge. Killing every member of the bloodline once they reach a certain age, the Alchemist makes it seem like an accident every time, so successful he convinces the family that they are cursed. When the last member of the bloodline finally foils the Alchemist before he can destroy the entire line, the Alchemist proves defiant in the face of death, declaring his everlasting hatred with his last breath.
• Boney M.:
  • "Ma Baker" from Love for Sale: Ma Baker is a dangerous bank robber who carves a crime spree across America. Teaching her four sons to be her skilled accomplices, Ma Baker would rip off countless banks and kill anyone who tried to stand in her way or inform on her, rising to such infamy that she becomes the FBI's most wanted woman. When eventually cornered at her latest heist, Ma Baker refuses to go to prison, and goes down in a gunfighting blaze of glory.
  • "Rasputin" from Nightflight to Venus: Rasputin is "Russia's greatest love machine", a devilishly seductive charmer who woos women and gains political status with ease. A master orator who sets his sights on power, Rasputin has women fall for him endlessly and he becomes so renowned as to gain the Queen's favor and possibly even sleep with her. After becoming regarded as more important than even the Czar himself, Rasputin is targeted by enemies who try to secretly poison him, however the audacious Rasputin drinks every last drop and shrugs it off, forcing his foes to shoot him many times before he properly dies, leaving behind a legacy of terror, charm and lovelorn ladies.
• Dan Bull:
  • Among Us song "An Impostor Calls" (with The Stupendium): The Stupendium plays The Impostor, once again seeking to eliminate the Skeld crew. Disguising as one of the crewmates, they and a second Impostor pick off the crew one by one, with Stupendium managing to remain undetected while hiding the existence of their partner, countering the points of Dan Bull when accused. At the end, The Stupendium ejects Dan Bull and wins the game.
  • Dishonored song "DISHONORED RAP": Corvo Attano is the disgraced bodyguard and lover of Empress Jessamine Kaldwin of Dunwall turned master assassin. After spymaster Hiram Burrows orchestrates Jessamine's assassination to seize control of Dunwall as Lord Regent and frames Corvo for her murder, Corvo swears bloody vengeance on Burrows and his associates. Bestowed with the Outsider's Mark, Corvo uses his newfound supernatural powers to hunt down the allies of the Lord Regent and anyone who stands in his way, wishing sincere condolences to their bereaved loved ones. In one instance, he sneaks into a mansion, blows a door down with a gust of wind and effortlessly cuts through several guards before eliminating his target and fleeing through a window. More brutal and ruthless than his canon self, Corvo still remains as skilful and cunning, stopping at nothing to take down the corrupt Lord Regent.
  • Hitman songs "HITMAN EPIC RAP" and "HITMAN 2 - AGENT 47 RAPS": Agent 47 is the world's deadliest assassin. Hired to eliminate wealthy criminals, he executes his targets in a variety of ways, including disguising as a chef and poisoning them, sniping them and strangling them with his fiber wire. A Master of Disguise, he can impersonate anyone on the fly to escape detection, blending in seamlessly. Whether his kills be simple or theatrical, 47 manages to escape undetected after every contract and keep his identity a mystery.
  • Minecraft song "Bull Is The Spider": The titular Spider is a cunning, resilient predator. Stalking a miner as he traverses a cave, the Spider sets up elaborate traps to lure him further into the mine. After knocking him into a minecart and crashing it, the sSpider bites the injured miner and injects him with his venom, causing him to hallucinate and die. Having a Villainous Friendship with the Skeleton, the Spider shares the dead miner with him and they feast on the corpse before burying it, the miner reviving into a zombie afterwards.
• Capital Lights' "Frank Morris" from This Is an Outrage!: Frank Morris was an American criminal sentenced to Alcatraz for grand larceny, armed robbery, and the possession of narcotics. Harnessing an IQ of 133, Morris conspired with the Anglin brothers to enact a great escape. To this end, Morris crafted busts of his and the Anglin brothers' heads as a means of deceiving the prison guards into believing that they were still in their beds. Taking several rubber rain coats and crafting a raft out of them, Morris takes advantage of a blind spot, becoming the first in a long line of inmates to successfully escape Alcatraz.
• Cas de Conscience's "Les Tribulations De l'Homme De L'Est": L'Homme de l'Est is a drug dealer about to go to Caracas for a drug dealing operation. Upon noticing two people stalking him, l'Homme subdues one, interrogating him and discovering that a gangster called Montgomery Pops want him dead. Captured by Pops' men, l'Homme is brought before his traitorous friend Recha and Pops, but escapes by jumping off a window and swimming away to safety. Learning though a friend that his crew was attacked by Recha's men, l'Homme calls for reinforcements before targeting Recha's location. As a distraction, he first sends his cousin's girlfriend disguised as a call-girl to Recha's place while he infiltrates it, killing many of Recha's men before setting off a bomb there, killing everyone inside. Double-tapping their corpses by filling them with bullets, l'Homme successfully gets away with his crimes.
• Johnny Cash:
  • "A Boy Named Sue", from At San Quentin: The father is a Gunslinger who abandoned his family after his son's birth, but not before giving his son the embarrassing name "Sue". Wanting Sue to grow up strong and smart in a rough world by beating up people who made fun of his name, along with having no father figure to look up to throughout most of his life and when finally encountered by an enraged Sue decades later, the father puts up a good, brutal fight. When Sue draws his gun on him, the father smiles, knowing he's made his son tough, even reconciling with his boy afterwards.
  • "Mean as Hell": The Devil, though chained for a thousand years, refuses to complain or bemoan his circumstances, instead focusing on creating his own Hell on Earth where he can torment the souls of men. Tricking the Lord, with whom he has a friendly rapport, into giving up a parcel of seemingly worthless land and even providing some water to make it more hospitable, the Devil set out "to make a good Hell, and he succeeded", changing the environment and wildlife to make the desert's already uninviting climate even more dangerous and trying. Proving himself as fair as he is cruel, the Devil nevertheless makes his Hell a place where people can survive, provided they can be "mean as hell" and prove themselves capable of enduring his torments.
• CG5:
  • Henry Stickmin songs "Failure to Success" & "I'ma Walk Right In": The titular Henry Stickmin is portrayed as a far more competent planner when in comparison to canon. A down-on-his-luck criminal looking to make the big bucks, he attempts to break into a bank by hiding inside a money bag, only to end up being caught by the guards. Now in prison, Henry doesn't waste a moment making his escape, using his failures as a way of leading himself to success, Henry manages to break out of West Mesa Penitentiary by either sneaking out, busting his way through the guards in badass fashion, or getting a cop falsely accused of kidnapping him. Now a free man, Henry sets his sight on a Tunisian Diamond, wanting to make his "millions and zillions", he forms a scheme of either brute forcing it through the guards, taking the diamond through sneaky infiltration, or allowing the Center for Chaos Containment to cause a ruckus allowing the diamond to fall into his clutches. Either way, no matter how many failures he may have to endure, Henry ultimately manages to get exactly what he wants in the end and does it with style.
  • Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator song "Labyrinth": Henry Emily, similar to his original counterpart, was one of the founders of Fazbear Entertainment. Seeking to bring everything to an end once and for all, he designs an inescapable laybrinth disguised as a Freddy Fazbear's establishment. Hiring an unsuspecting volunteer to lure in William Afton, his daughter Elizabeth, and the other unrested souls to the establishment, Henry uses the sounds of crying children to keep them occupied before setting the entire building ablaze, putting an end to every remaining face of Fazbear's, bringing the story to an end once and for all. A Well-Intentioned Extremist fully willing to put others in harms way to get the job done, Henry, just like his canon counterpart, proves himself to be one step above every other character in the song.
• Jonathan Coulton's "Re: Your Brains" from Thing a Week Two: Bob is a chipper office worker who has become a Flesh-Eating Zombie. When his former coworker Tom holes up in a mall with a group of survivors, Bob is sent to convince them to let the undead hordes in. After expressing genuine understanding of Tom's plight, Bob points out that he's simply delaying the inevitable due to their limited resources, even offering to have the zombies only eat the survivors' brains as a concession. When Tom holds his resolve, Bob elects to fall back for the moment and work on other survivors, treating the whole thing like a normal business meeting.
• Creature Feature's "Grave Robber at Large" from It Was a Dark and Stormy Night...: The unnamed grave robber spends his nights stalking graveyards, digging up bodies to sell off. Being picky with what's worth the effort, the robber specifically notes that sufficiently old corpses are safe, while prioritizing expediency to maximize profit and expressing a willingness to "Think outside the box if all else fails." Despite being motivated by pure Greed, the robber makes it clear he's no sadist and it's Nothing Personal. However, he also seems to love his job, being wholly unrepentant about plundering the "garden of riches".
• DAGames's Among Us song "Ambush": The Impostor, hiding under the disguise of Purple, has taken his time in infiltrating the Skeld and blending between the cracks, now being set out to kill the Crewmates with his Bizarre Alien Biology. Having already claimed many lives beforehand, the Impostor is not afraid of being caught and quickly kills Red, Blue, Yellow, Pink, White and Cyan, being so stealthy that when a body is found, only three Crewmates are left. Despite having no alibi, when Green finds out about Purple's true identity, the Impostor still manages to eject Green, winning the "tragic race in an airborn crime" and claiming the Skeld as his.
• DMX's "The Professional" from ... And Then There Was X: DMX is a prolific hitman who assassinates his targets in various ways. Introduced assassinating a mark by sniping him, X hides within a crowd to tail his next target, killing him and getting rid of the clothes and the weapon he used in order to destroy all evidence. X describes the various ways he can assassinate his victims, which includes using various disguises, bombing his target's car, stalking his target back home before making a noise to attract their attention to gun them down or hide in their target's car's backseat before strangling them to death once they're inside. While he admittedly enjoys his work, X isn't devoid of remorse nor professionalism or standards, putting aside his feelings while working and stating he's above hurting women or children.
• Freeze Corleone's "Freeze Raël" music video from LMF: Freeze Corleone, Osirus Jack and Zuukou Mayzie's objective is to steal secret documents from a building before blowing it up, with Freeze being the one who infiltrates the building, Osirus helping him from afar by overseeing the mission and hacking into the building and Zuukou working as a guard of the building. Infiltrating the building, Freeze initially manages to sneak away from the guards thanks to Osirus shutting down the lights. When Freeze comes across another trio of guards, Zuukou reveals himself as one of them, knocking out one of his colleagues and fighting and distracting the other while tossing his access card to Freeze, allowing him to enter the office where the documents are stored. Successfully stealing the documents and putting a Gobbly bomb inside of the office, Freeze jumps off the window to escape the building when it explodes prematurely and implicitly kills Zuukou. While Osirus's situation is unclear as guards managed to track him down, Freeze is still at large with the documents, sending them to Osirus.
• Salvator Ganacci:
  • "Step-Grandma": Salvatore is portrayed here as a smooth, childish trickster who wants to become the "grandson" to a kind, forgetful woman in the woods. Taking advantage of the woman's absent mind, Salvatore replaces photos of her actual grandkids around her house with selfies of himself, tricking her into believing he is family. Basking in the affection and food she delivers him, Salvatore chases off her actual grandkids, and when exposed as a fraud, he quickly takes down the old woman despite her being armed, and flees into the woods to continue his dancing fun.
  • "Fight Dirty": Salvatore here is the powerful leader of the Ganacci crime gang, respected and feared throughout town. When the Girl responds to Salvatore rejecting her from his gang by teaming up with Hand to thrash his gang, Salvatore personally confronts the duo and casually thrashes them both with his immense skill. Nonetheless deeply respectful of the duo's power, Salvatore ends up offering an alliance with the Girl to fight their way out of an army of cops victoriously.
• GatoPaint's "The Puppet": The Puppet is a mysterious animatronic seeking vengeance on the nightguard. Seeing the results of the Purple Man's latest killing spree, the Puppet formulates his scheme by placing the souls of the deceased children into the animatronics and tasking them with killing the nightguard. Describing itself as "the guilty one" behind the haunting of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, the Puppet is willing to take matters into its own hands should the animatronics fail their mission.
• Woody Guthrie's "Pretty Boy Floyd" from Dust Bowl Ballads: The title character is out with his girlfriend when he gets in a fight with a policeman. After killing the cop, he flees into the countryside and takes up bank robbery. Travelling across the Midwest, Floyd uses his ill-gotten gains to pay people's mortgages and leave thousand-dollar tips. Around Christmastime, Floyd leaves a giant load of food at a shelter for families affected by the Dust Bowl, along with a note chastising the bankers he robs for taking their homes away.
• GZA's "Gold (feat. Method Man), from Liquid Swords: GZA is a graceful and ruthless criminal wanting to get rich through drug dealing. When rival drug dealers indirectly lessen his products' sales, he makes up for it by having a supplier in cross-sales in order to compensate for the loss of earnings, before deliberately placing himself beneath a subway's bridge so that the train's noise will mask the gunshots' when he kills the rival drug dealers. When GZA, in the middle of a deal, notices someone spying on them, he swiftly kills him. Sending his men everywhere and giving them the best weaponry, GZA expands his territory as a result and finally mentions the relationship between one of his friends—a fellow drug dealer—and the latter's mother, showing a humanity still present in these hardened criminals.
• Alex Henderson's "DKC: Curse of the Crystal Coconut" (music video for Alestorm's "Pirate's Scorn"): Kaptain Skurvy is a ruthless pirate captain who seeks to uphold his family's legacy by retrieving the Crystal Coconut from the Kongs. Skurvy leads his crew into a raid on Cranky's cabin, using Cranky's own traps against the Kongs, then switches gears to King K. Rool's base once he realizes he has the Coconut. Using his vast arsenal of cannons, Skurvy effectively wipes out all opposition—including K. Rool and Donkey Kong—and takes over all of Kongo Bongo with the Coconut in his hands.
• HalaCG's Among Us song "Trouble": Hala herself plays the role of the cunning and manipulative imposter. Using her utilities to her advantage, she individually picks off every crewmate on the Skeld, sabotaging various devices and locking various doors in order to get the kills done efficiently and without notice. Upon a blue crewmate attempting to expose her for her villainous ways, she turns it back on him, pointing out how he had seemingly waited for there to be only three crewmates left and how suspicious that was. In the end, the blue crewmate is ejected, leaving Hala to presumably kill off the last crewmate aboard, winning the game.
• Hip-Hop Comics, by release date:
  • "Contract Complete": Slade Wilson is a former US Army soldier who signed up for a Super-Soldier program. After being discharged when it caused Rapid Aging, Slade took the name "Deathstroke the Terminator" and became a Professional Killer. His standard strategy is to give his targets a head start, before switching between multiple scenarios to throw off any attempts to fight back, ultimately butchering his targets and anybody who gets between them. This tactic has made Slade the greatest assassin on Earth, with only outright superhumans besting him.
  • "I Broke The Bat": Bane was born in a Hellhole Prison serving his father's life sentence. When a head injury gave him a Prophetic Dream, he started training intensely, killing his first man with a knife hidden in a teddy bear and netting a zero-loss record in prison fights. After being used as a test subject for a superpowered drug, Bane escapes prison and heads to Gotham City to prove himself against Batman. He builds a crime organization from the ground up, and then causes a mass break-out at Arkham Asylum to exhaust his nemesis before their confrontation. Once the time is right, Bane confronts Batman one-on-one and successfully breaks his back.
  • "Master of Illusions": Quentin Beck is a failed actor who decides to become a superhero. To do this, he disguises himself as Spider-Man and goes on a robbery spree. After announcing his intent to capture Spidey in the guise of Mysterio, Beck waits for the Wall-Crawler to confront him before using special effects to defeat him with illusory monsters. However, Mysterio gets bugged and his machinations are exposed, so he decides to commit crimes openly. When he robs a bank, he sets up illusions one-by-one, overwhelming the opposition while he escapes with the loot.
  • "The Demon's Head": Ras Al Ghul, the Demon's Head, is the leader of the League of Assassins, whose number one objective is to change the world. Once a young man interested in the sciences, he moved to the city, became a physician, and found the Lazarus Pit. After trying to help a dying prince by using the pit and said prince insanely killing his wife, Ra's was blamed and imprisoned. Being freed by his former patients, Ra's led them in overthrowing the Sultan. Forming the League, Ra's spent the next 700 years trying to rid the world of evil and never really finding a challenge. Arriving in Gotham to give it a "reset", Ra's fights Batman and decides to make him his heir. Trying to mold him and guide him, Ra's holds a great respect for Batman, as the one who can challenge him, despite their rivalry.
• Iced Earth's The Crucible of Man: Something Wicked Part 2: Set Abominae, seeking vengeance of the exterminated Setian race, is taught of his people's suffering and how he is the vengeance of a million unjustly Setian souls, manipulating the death of Jesus Christ to divide mankind with Christianity and spending centuries after conniving the rise and fall of kingdoms even as he eliminates those who can pose a threat. After two thousand years, Set finally decides mankind may be flawed, but they have changed and improved enough for him to spare them albeit with a warning if they should succumb to darkness, he will return without mercy.
• Intouchable's "Kidnapping (ft. 113)" from Les Points sur les I: 113's Rim'K and AP and Intouchable's Demon One and Dry learned that a journalist recently slandered their respective groups in one of his articles and thus seek retribution. Sneaking into the journalist's home, Rim'K abducts him before bringing him to AP and Demon. The latter two interrogate him before anonymously contacting the newspaper the journalist works for and more accurately its editor-in-chief. Tasking him to bring several thousands of euros as ransom to a hotel, Demon and AP task Dry with collecting the ransom money in the hotel, the latter having a couple of men hidden in an inconspicuous car nearby to alert him of anything unusual. When the editor-in-chief doesn't show up and instead begs for them to spare the journalist if he retracts the article against them, the quartet agrees to release him as soon as their friend OGB confirms to them the article was retracted, warning him not to cross them again.
• Jesus Christ Superstar: Caiaphas is the intelligent High Priest of Jerusalem. When the popularity of Jesus of Nazareth puts his people at risk, Caiaphas decides to have Jesus killed to protect his people. Caiaphas proceeds to manipulate Judas Iscariot into giving him Jesus's location, exploiting his altruistic motives to make him take money for the deed. He then has Jesus brought to the Roman government, utilizing the crowd's bloodlust to force Roman governor Pontius Pilate into a corner. Caiaphas then exploits the lack of a death penalty among his community to force Pilate to execute Jesus, leaving him to take the blame for Jesus's death, succeeding in his goal and keeping his people safe.
• Billy Joel's "Ballad of Billy the Kid" from Live In The Studio - Sigma Studios 1972: Billy the Kid himself is a boy who moves to Colorado from West Virginia. He decides to take up bank robbery, taking the teller by surprise with his youth. This begins a series of increasingly daring robberies and gunfights that grant him legendary status amomgst cowboys, including the very townspeople he robbed. After sacking banks from Utah to Oklahoma, Billy is captured and accepts his hanging with dignity, his death witnessed by lawmen and outlaws from across the West.
• 'Jon And Al Kaplan's "I'm the Thing!": The Thing itself is reimagined as a singular, hammy, and clearly sapient entity planning to consume the whole planet. Outrunning a helicopter chasing it, the Thing plays along as a normal husky at an Antarctic base to infect the other dogs and Bennings, before spreading paranoia amongst the crew, which results in Clark being killed, and bitting Coppers hands of when he tries to defibrillate it. After it is discovered to be Palmer, the Thing, impressed, uses its powers to survive and kill the remaining crew, ending the song triumphantly as it runs off to accomplish its goal.
• JT Music:
  • Bioshock 2 song Daddy's Home: Subject Delta, real name Johnny Topside, goes on a rampage through Rapture upon his Little Sister Eleanor being stolen from him by Sophia Lamb. Retaining his human wit, he uses the various Plasmids and his own environment to outwit and kill the Splicers sent to stop him. Helping Dr. Tenenbaum save other Little Sisters in exchange for more ATOM, he openly distrusts her and is prepared to kill her should she backstab him, showing the same sentiment towards his Mission Control Sinclair. Upon finding Eleanor, now a powerful Big Sister, the two decide to end Sophia Lamb's reign over Rapture, with Subject Delta showing disgust with how she runs Rapture.
  • Cuphead songs (The Original & Best Served Cold): Cuphead himself is depicted as more of a dirty dish here. Tasked by the Devil to retrieve his contracts from runaway debtors, Cuphead cheerfully outwits and outmaneuvers anyone he faces, adapting to any situation he's thrown into while expressing fondness for doing the Devil's dirty work. In the second song, it's revealed that Cuphead used the experience and powers he gained to overthrow the Devil and send him crying, afterwards helping Chalice fight the Wondertart guardians to get her a new body, showing the same bloodthirsty bravado as before.
  • PAYDAY 2/ PAYDAY 3 songs I'm a Capitalist and Money (Money Money Money): The PAYDAY Gang, consisting of Dallas, Wolf, Chains and Hoxton, are a swaggering crew of career criminals specializing in robbing banks. Before each heist, they carefully scope out and plan their method of attack, taking out the guards and tying up all civilians there, than fighting off hordes of cops with their skills, managing to escape with the money time and time again. Working as a team, each member has a role to play, with Dallas making the plans and taking hostages, Wolf providing important equipment and sentry turrets, Hoxton sneaking in and stealing loot without anyone noticing, and Chains being the muscle and crowd control when things get loud. As bombastic as they are calculating, the gang brags about how much money they've stolen while intending to continue their crime spree for as long as possible.
  • Predator song "Gun Show": The Predator is portrayed here as a boastful hunter fighting against a group of armed mercenaries. Being outnumbered, The Predator relies on both his gadgets and the surroundings to stalk and ambush his enemies, managing to track them down even when masking their heat from his heat seekers. Being more snarkier than his peers, he seeks to add the mercs corpses to his trophy collection, all the while bragging about his superiority against his enemies and prey.
  • Cult of the Lamb song "Song Of The Lamb": The Lamb is chosen by The One Who Waits to amass a cult to overthrow The Bishops, a task they gleefully accept. Rescuing victims of The Bishops, he then recruits them to their cause while molding them into the perfect servant, managing an entire camp of them through sheer charisma. Using the resources they gather to grow his cult, The Lamb also weaponizes their worship to power himself in their crusade to kill the viler Bishops, using every skill they have to combat their minions. Ultimately planning on overthrowing their master, The Lamb is content with managing their cult for now, describing themselves as being "Damn good at running the show".
• Juno Songs's lyrical cover of "MEGALOVANIA": Chara is portrayed more sympathetically than in most fan works. Disgusted at the player for slaughtering dozens across the entire Underground and corrupting Frisk into a monster, Chara replaces Frisk and faces Sans in the Last Corridor alone. When they manage to kill the skeleton, something their predecessor couldn't do, Chara destroys the world as a way of showing the player their actions have consequences, emerging victorious.
• Kamelot's Epica Album Series: The manipulative devil Mephisto refuses to bow to humanity, believing only God is worthy of his love. Taking a bet he can corrupt the soul of scholar Ariel, Mephisto lets him fall to his lowest, appearing to him as a beautiful archangel to sway him to revels, convincing Ariel to sign away his soul in a dark pact and introduces him to his lost beloved Helena to corrupt him further, slowly manipulating Ariel to further darkness and leaving him damned. Able to sway countless souls away from the path of righteousness, Mephisto combines a ruthlessness with unmistakable charm and charisma, leading his victims to damnation even after he names the terms to them in his quest to return triumphantly to heaven.
• Karliene
  • "Anne Bonney" from Anne Bonney: Anne Bonny is an Irishwoman who takes up buccaneering after falling in love with a man named Calico Jack. Initially disguising herself as a man, she manages to convince her men to buck 1700's mores and follow a woman when her ruse is discovered. While terrorizing the high seas, Anne partners with a woman named Mary Read to gain better plunder. After Jack and his men get drunk, Bonny and Read are the only ones to try and fight off a British Marine attack. Despite being captured, Anne manages to get herself pardoned due to pregnancy, and leaves Jack to his fate noting that "If [he] had fought like a man, [he] wouldn't be about to die like a dog."
  • "The Legend of Anne Bonny": Anne Bonny goes from humble beginnings to infamous Pirate Queen of the Caribbean Sea. After joining Calico Jack’s crew, Anne would disguise herself as a man even secretly giving birth while disguised. Terrorizing the Caribbean Sea, Anne would become so infamous that when she revealed herself to be a woman all the male crewmen would accept her as a pirate. Ambushed by the British navy when the men got drunk, Anne and Mary Read are the only ones who try to fight back. Arrested and thrown in jail, Anne would escape after giving birth and retire from piracy but still reminisce about her career. Always having "a pistol-a-ready and a cutlass keen" Anne Bonny earns her status as a legendary pirate queen.
• Kool G Rap & DJ Polo's "On the Run" from Live and Let Die : Kool G Rap used to work for the Luciano criminal family before stealing ten kilograms of cocaine and a million dollars he was supposed to deliver, for himself and his family. Aware that the Lucianos will target his wife and his son if he immediately skips town, he decides to take them with him, at the risk of losing precious time he could've used to get away. When struck in traffic and noticing a car pulling up right beside him G Rap and his wife duck just in time to avoid a drive-by shooting. Fighting back but realizing that the Lucianos are too numerous, G Rap flees the scene with his family, driving off sidewalks, making sharp turns and hiding in a dark valley, successfully evading the Luciano for the night. Upon waking up, G Rap realizes that they still aren't safe, and when his wife is crying from trauma after another shootout with the Lucianos, decides to to kill every single one of them before finally killing Don Luciano himself and getting away with his crimes.
• Kyle Allen Music's "Seal your Fate": The Viewpoint Imposter is one of two Imposters infiltrating the ship with the mission to kill everyone on board, something he does with great bravado. Using the environment to his advantage, he sabotages the electronics to lure the Crewmates over to fix it, swiftly killing them while doing so, also killing the power and traveling in the vents. Feigning innocence alongside his fellow imposter, he exploits the crew's trigger-happy blaming to get the wrong guy ejected. Eventually, he successfully cuts the oxygen while everyone's debating, winning the game. Able to effortlessly trick an entire group of people, The Imposter represents the best players Among Us has to offer.

L - Z

• The Living Tombstone:
  • Hazbin Hotel song "Alastor's Game": Alastor, the Radio Demon is a smooth and polite but nevertheless ruthless demon who seeks to gain servants in Hell. A dealmaker, he approaches a pair of mortals, offering them the means to indulge their every desire in exchange for their souls. After persuading them to accept with the help of his showmanship skills, he spends some time encouraging them to live lives of sin before revealing the true ramifications of their arrangement and the fact that they're cursed. While he does acknowledge that they have a slight chance of getting out of the agreement, he's nevertheless confident that he'll claim their souls and knows he'll be entertained either way. Having grown fond of the two, he promises to both collect on his debts and help them out if they need assistance, ending the song by bidding them a jaunty "adieu".
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic song Guncakes: Pinkie Pie is depicted here as an upbeat Arms Dealer that uses her bakery to disguise her criminal activities. Her gun smuggling being hidden from the guards and even her friends, she hides her weapons in her baked goods to deliver them to her customers, and is affable enough to recommend which weapon is right for the job and informing them if it's in stock. She's also shown to be an expert assassin, being able to take on anyone that discovers her business, and claims that those that do know about it fear her.
• Madame Macabre's "God Syndrome" from Macabre Musique, Vol. 1: Dr. Locklear is a medical professional frustrated with good people dying while bad people live. Stalking the streets, Locklear abducts criminals and takes them to his lair where he kills them to harvest their organs to redistribute. After lecturing his victims on their crimes, he genuinely reassures them that their deaths will be redeeming due to the good done to others.
• Bill Mallonee's "The Ghosts That I Run With" from The Power and the Glory: The elusive D. B. Cooper commences the song by reminiscing on when he hijacked a Boeing 727 plane and escaped with $200,000 in ransom. Having shaken off the dogs that the authorities sent his way and eluding capture for years, Cooper questions his bad behavior ultimately concluding that no answer would suffice. He then concludes the song with the realization that once you commit the perfect crime, you disappear.
• Man on the Internet:
  • Undertale the Musical:
    • Mettaton here manages to be about as magnificent as he is in the original game. Being the egotistical yet charismatic robot celebrity he is, Mettaton helps Alphys befriend the human by pretending to be a murderous machine to make Alphys look like the hero. Eventually growing sick of the act, Mettaton tries to kill Frisk for real and take their SOUL for the whole Underground to see, intending to save the humans from King Asgore's potential genocide while also becoming a celebrity on the Surface in the process. In the Genocide Package, Mettaton has a bit of Adaptational Heroism as after he transforms into his NEO form, he puts up an actual fight with Chara instead of dying instantly. As they fight, Mettaton makes it clear that he will do whatever it takes to keep the monsters safe, even if it means making a Heroic Sacrifice.
    • W.D. Gaster is the former royal scientist of the Underground who watched the human's every move throughout the Underground from the Void. After they killed his two sons, Gaster would return to the physical world to confront Chara to stop their genocidal rampage, fighting them across time and space before eventually tricking them into stabbing themself. After trapping Chara in the Void, he would use their DETERMINATION to end the war between humans and monsters, resetting reality itself by changing the past for the better. In this new timeline, Gaster would have the SOUL create a vessel, only to discard it as he believed that choices didn't matter in this world, indirectly leading to the SOUL becoming part of Kris. At some point, he would speak to Spamton and drive him mad, telling him that he's "alone" which would lead him to become the mad businessman he is now. It is also implied that he may indeed be the mysterious Knight, creating several fountains that could have led to the destruction of the Balance between Light and Dark.
  • Chrono Trigger: The Musical: Magus the Fiendlord was once a boy named Janus from the Kingdom of Zeal, until one day he was dislocated in time from his sister to the Middle Ages by Lavos. Swearing revenge against the being responsible, he grows up with the fiends and ascends to the rank of Fiendlord, manipulating the entire race of fiends in order to gain the power to summon Lavos and kill him. Eliminating anyone in his path to achieve his goals, his ritual is foiled by Crono and his group and Magus is sent back to his original time period. Taking advantage of this, Magus disguises himself as a prophet and uses his knowledge of the future to climb up Queen Zeal's ranks so that he may attempt to kill Lavos again. After the destruction of the Ocean Palace, Magus meets with the heroes on a cliffside and tells them how to resurrect the fallen Crono and joins them so that they can kill Lavos together. Later leading the charge on the Black Omen to kill his mother, Magus joins the rest of the party in fighting and killing Lavos after that, succeeding in his life's mission.
• Mobb Deep's "Trife Life" from The Infamous…: Havoc is a successful drug dealer who also engages in armed robbery. Upon noticing an unarmed man visiting his girlfriend in Queensbridge as well as said man's golden chain, Havoc stalks him to his girlfriend's home, planning to rob him as soon as he gets out. Killing him when he protests, Havoc then proceeds to rob a dress store with his crew, making sure he's armed to take down anyone who tries to stop them. Successfully hiding evidence of his crimes from the police, Havoc gets away with his deeds. While a hardened criminal, Havoc looks down on senseless murder, fully willing to let his victims go should they cooperate.
• Nas:
  • "The Set Up (feat. Havoc)" from It Was Written : Sosa is one of Nas's friends and Venus and Vicious are two experienced, seductive and deadly female assassins. Their objective is to help Nas kill Rhamel, who was responsible for one of Nas's friends' death. Noticing Rhamel, Nas and Sosa sends Venus and Vicious, one of them seducing him while the other hides their weapons to avoid suspicion. When Rhamel drives Venus and Vicious to a Holiday Inn in order to have sex with them, Nas and Sosa covertly follow them. When they thinks Venus and Vicious are taking too long, Nas and Sosa enter the inn to make sure Rhamel is dead, only to find out that Venus and Vicious already killed him. Nas, Venus, Vicious and Sosa quickly evade the scene and the inn's security, suffering no comeuppance for their deeds whatsoever.
  • "Blaze a 50" from The Lost Tapes: Nas is a rapper who becomes a wealthy athlete's wife's lover. When she tells him she wants her husband dead to collect his fortune and life insurance, she and Nas come up with a plan to kill her husband: she tells Nas his husband usually drinks his wine on his private resort and gives him the keys to sneak in. Following the plan to the letter, Nas successfully assassinates the husband, before realizing that should she want to, his lover can have him take the fall for the entire operation, walking away with a minor sentence at worst while Nas risks major sentences such as the electric chair. Stealing the money, Nas discreetly assassinates his lover by poisoning the coke she sniffed while celebrating their plan's success, and gets away with everything.
• NateWantsToBattle's "The Phantom" from Paid in Exposure: The titular Phantom, heavily implied to be the Devil himself, is a smooth, charming demon who makes deals with people. He relentlessly stalks them into taking up a deal, and, either out of fair sportsmanship or reverse phycology, leave clues as to how risky the deal is, while still playing up the benefits, leaving the client with a choice. The music video shows him in action, effortlessly charming a struggling stage magician into signing his contract, then taking his soul when all is said and done.
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand" from Let Love In: The man is a mysterious figure who emerges from the storm to those who have lost hope and faith in their dreams, helping to rekindle them with his charisma and charm, doing favors and helping to enrich them with whatever they need, bringing fame to his name all across the land, renowned as a "god, ghost, man and guru". Far from being benevolent however, everything he does is designed to lay the stages for a "catastrophic plan" of which all his beneficiaries are just small cogs from, with the song warning us that everything has been "designed and directed by his Red Right Hand".
• Ninho's "Caramelo" from Comme prévu: Ninho portrays himself as a determined and successful if struggling rapper and drug dealer. Used to betrayals, Ninho keeps an eye on his friends, fully aware his enemies are more likely to attack from the front. Always armed to defend his crew and territory, Ninho led the former through gang wars, confronting traitors, people out to report them and the police, and earning nonetheless several victories. When the police manage to arrest them nonetheless, Ninho and his crew manage to get a light sentence thanks to his lawyer, quickly regaining freedom. Meticulously planning a burglary, Ninho and his crew manage to pull it off while the home's occupants were sleeping, ultimately earning enough money for Ninho to get a vacation to Benidorm. Despite his deeds, Ninho isn't devoid of humanity, genuinely caring for his friends and mother, and ends up a satisfied man who gets away with his deeds, fulfilling his promise of achieving success to his mother.
• NoneLikeJoshua's "Evil Morty Rap": Evil Morty was the original version of C-137 Rick Sanchez's grandson. Becoming a genius after Rick experimented on him, Evil Morty starts assassinating Ricks from across the multiverse and tortures their Mortys to hide his brainwaves. Failing to incriminate Rick, Evil Morty runs for president of The Citadel, snuffing out any dissenters, and unravels the shadow council of Ricks.
• The Notorious B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls portrayed various characters that sometimes stood out for their brilliance:
  • "Everyday Struggle" from Ready to Die: The Notorious B.I.G. dropped out of school and became a drug dealer to deal with his bills and feed his daughter. Kicked out by his mother as a result, B.I.G. goes to Maryland with his friend Two-TECs where he can gain a higher profit. Taking the Amtrak railroad service with his henchwoman, he gives her the drug supplies, fully aware that she won't be searched as severely as a man, before she sells the drugs, thus ensuring the operation is a success. Upon learning that Two-TECs was killed and that their team was infiltrated, Biggie improvises by having his henchwoman take the fall for conspiracy, promising to make her rich when she's released from prison, while also supporting her family in the meantime. Even though he's aware that law enforcement knows his name, B.I.G., whilst still raising his daughter, ends the song by stating that he has to continue his drug dealing operations, with no indications that he got any comeuppance for his doings.
  • Life After Death:
    • "Somebody's Gotta Die": The Notorious B.I.G. learned from his friend Sing that their mutual friend C-Rock was shot at the Beacon Theatre. Deciding to avenge him, B.I.G. also plans out an alibi. When Sing explains to him that C-Rock had set up a former collaborator named Jason and hurt Jason's wife and kids in the meanwhile, leading to Jason shooting C-Rock 50 times in retaliation, Biggie expresses sympathy for Jason, albeit still wishing to avenge his friend. Biggie, putting on a mask, decides to attack Jason and his crew in a place where he's aware they're unarmed, while emphasizing that Jason must be the only victim of his revenge. Shooting Jason six times, B.I.G. expresses shock when he thinks he accidentally shot Jason's baby daughter in the meanwhile.
    • "I Got A Story To Tell" : The Notorious B.I.G., attracted to the girlfriend of a professional basketball player, successfully seduces her and has sex with her at said basketball player's home, at his room. When the latter unexpectedly comes back home, her girlfriend, instructed by Biggie, detracts his attention by asking him to get her something to drink. This gives Biggie enough time to tie her up and wrap a scarf around his face, making the situation look like a robbery by the time the basketball player enters his room. Pointing a gun at the panicked baller, Biggie is given large amounts of money by the former, before escaping the scene, telling his ordeal to his friends and getting away with his deeds.
    • "Sky's the Limit": The Notorious B.I.G.'s objective is to make as much money as possible to escape his impoverished background. Ambitious since the age of 10, Biggie punches someone in the face and robs him in front of his crew, thus gaining said crew's loyalty. Engaging in several criminal activities such as drug dealing and weapon possession, having his higher-ups carry the weapons instead of himself in order to avoid arrest. For the sake of making more profit in his drug dealing activities, Biggie assigned his men to several blocks and sold the drugs and the ways to inject them (through smoking, through syringes, etc...) separately to better attract clients. Concluding through the Hustlers prayer that his criminal activities ended up making him a better man, Biggie concludes the song by encouraging the listener to fulfill his ambitions like he did.
  • From Tupac Shakur's "Runnin' (From Tha Police)" from One Million Strong: Biggie Smalls, starting out as a mere "screw-up", became a successful drug dealer. Upon gaining enough money, he and his friend Stretch decided that they no longer needed to deal, just to engage other dealers to do the job for them and have a share of the ensuing profits. When the police attempted to stop them, Biggie & Stretch killed two cops, hid their corpses and grew dreads to avoid matching the physical description police would be given. When another officer found Biggie anyway, Biggie kills him with Teflon-coated bullets, before escaping. Stealing the officer's gun, Biggie celebrated his escape by selling the gun and using the money to buy even more cocaine. Achieving his dream of becoming "the black Frank White", Biggie faced no consequences whatsoever for his deeds.
• OR3O, by alphabetical order:
  • Among Us song "So Suspicious": The Impostor is the self-proclaimed "bad guy tonight", who sabotages the Skeld in numerous ways to kill the Crewmates. Using their victim's trust issues to their gain, the Impostor makes their hunt a torturous experience for the Crewmates, laughing if they are ejected and killing Black, the only one who seemed to suspect them. Framing Blue for the murder of Orange, the Impostor manages to eject them just as they realise who they really are, winning the game.
  • Bendy and the Ink Machine song "All Eyes on Me": Alice Angel, truthfully Susie Campbell, is reimagined as far more charismatic and sympathetic than her game counterpart. Having been mistreated, cast aside and finally morphed into an ink creature, she makes it her goal to become a "perfect angel", desiring to make all sway to her. She successfully captures and kills numerous ink creatures and upon meeting Henry, manipulates him into working as her errand boy, doing tasks for her so she could have things done without having to worry about Bendy catching her.
  • Cuphead song "Greedy": The Devil is the owner of The Devil's Casino, who seeks to retrieve his contracts from previous gamblers. Encountering Cuphead and Mugman, he tricks them into gambling into debt and offers them freedom in exchange for rounding up his contracts, cheerfully threatening them with death. Pointing out that the brothers could've avoided this situation if they had controlled their greed, he defeats the brothers when they try to rebel and corrupts them into his minions, emerging victorious.
• Oxmo Puccino's "Pucc' Fiction (featuring Booba" from L 432: Oxmo Puccino reimagines himself as a drug trafficker affiliated with Black Mafia, planning to go to Bogota alongside Lunatic (Booba & Ali) and Pit Baccardi. Upon discovering an undercover cop following them thanks to his body language similar to previous enemies, Oxmo kills him and has Pit covering him as he flees the scene. When his friend Steve tells him that his nephew Bloopalooza secretly worked with the police against Black Mafia, Oxmo decides to kill him. When a Lexus follows his taxi with its occupants planning to pull a drive-by shooting against him, Oxmo throws a grenade in their car, killing them all. When Bloopalooza's associate Tony plans to shoot him the second he reaches the 7th floor where Bloopalooza lives, Oxmo sends the empty elevator to the 7th floor, tricking Tony into emptying his clips into the elevator, while Oxmo takes the stairs and kills the now defenseless Tony before killing Bloopalooza. Upon discovering the next day that the Bloopalooza he killed was a fake placed by the police, Oxmo finds the real deal with Booba's help and manages to kill him. Escaping the police coming after them, Oxmo and Booba get away with their deeds.
• Rare Americans: Brittle Bones Nicky Duology: “Brittle Bones” Nicky is portrayed is a troubled young man who we see as being cunning, crafty and resilient, unwilling to have his hard life get to him. A fearless kid who worked to get money to buy a pie just to toss it in a bully’s face, he grew up to be a tough leader of his own group, pulling petty thefts and dealing drugs, but is not afraid to put himself in danger to help others. When thrown in jail and becoming friends with Ben, Nicky puts his life on the line to save him from getting killed, saying it will be worth dying to save him, and he manages to ruthlessly beat down the three larger inmates with ease. After passing away peacefully in the second song, he goes against and rebukes God over being disbarred from Heaven, he fights against demons and finally confronts God and The Devil, convincing them to have him become a servant and a undead ghost, free to do their bidding and cause havoc on Earth to reunite with his mom. He manages to get what he wants and he proceeds to leave and go to Earth, while assuring the listeners that, despite the crimes he’s committing, they’ll know that he’s a good guy by the end.
• RecD's "Baking The Wondertart": Tired of being mistreated and overworked by the island's denizens, Chef Saltbaker forms a plan to obtain the legendary Wondertart and use its power to take over the Inkwell Isles. Saltbaker has Mugman and Ms. Chalice get the ingredients to bake it under the false pretense that he'll let them use it to bring the latter to life. Stealing Cuphead's soul while they were gone, he reveals that he intends to use it as the final ingredient to bake the Wondertart for himself before fighting the duo. Seemingly killing Mugman after a lengthy battle, Saltbaker sings him a brief eulogy before getting taken out by a surprise charged-shot. Accepting defeat, Saltbaker sincerely offers to give Mugman and Ms. Chalice the Wondertart after he's done baking it before they demand Cuphead's soul back.
• Rohff's "Fumer un mec" from Au-Delà De Mes Limites: The unnamed "devil" attempts to convince an unnamed guy to kill someone else who supposedly disrespected him. Pointing out that the guy's street credibility is going to be damaged if he doesn't retaliate against him, the devil counters the "angel"'s arguments against murder, pointing out that plenty of people managed to get away with murder, mentions that the target owed the guy money and advises him to find gloves, a bike, a pilot and an alibi to quickly commit the murder and get away with it. Ending up directly arguing with the angel when the guy has his target on gunpoint, the devil successfully convinces the guy to kill his target. Reassuring him that he did a good job, the devil tells him that they can always pull it off again if "they don't understand".
• The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet's "Sympathy for the Devil": The Devil himself, representing the personification of humanity's collective evil, is the suave, manipulative protagonist of the song. His existence being to tempt mankind into evil, the Devil lavishly orchestrates several events in human history towards this dark end from: arranging Jesus's crucifixion; dismantling the Romanov family dynasty in Soviet Russia; and pitting monarchs into warring each other. Despite him freely admitting his monstrousness, the Devil balances this by establishing himself as a sophisticated Man of Wealth and Taste who criticizes society's blurring of the line between good and evil, making it apparent that he and humanity were one and the same.
• Rush's "YYZ", from Moving Pictures: From the 40th anniversary music video, the unnamed bandits run a heist on Rush-related paintings. Scoping out the band from the moment they land, some of the bandits use an Oil Slick and tacks to crash the crew's cars, while another feigns kindness to pickpocket admission. When the man with the paintings reaches the gig, he is ambushed by the bandits, while the members of Rush remain unaware of what's happening until they've been Bound and Gagged. After loading the paintings into their getaway van, the bandits drive away, having shown a level-headed demeanor through their flawlessly executed heist.
• Blake Shelton's "Ol' Red from Blake Shelton: The unnamed narrator is sentenced to 99 years of hard labor for murdering his wife and her lover. As soon as he arrives at a prison farm, he spends the next two years being a model prisoner so that the warden assigns him to take care of his escapee-hunting dog Ol' Red. Soon after, he contacts his cousin and has him bring his dog down for Red to mate with during his evening runs. After a while of doing this, the narrator breaks out at the time he does his runs, fleeing in the opposite direction from Red's run so he's distracted by routine.
• Spence Hood's Father Finlee: The titular character was a priest sentence to life for an unknown crime. In prison Finlee leveraged his position to manipulate a religious guard into giving him C4. Finlee then blew a hole in the prison's walls and despite being physically weak and covered in heavy chains, he walked out without issue before drowning himself in the sea. After his death Finlee became a legend in the prison, with several prisoners trying and failing to replicate his miraculous escape.
• The Stupendium: The Stupendium made a name of injecting plenty of personality into their songs, something that these characters, whether played straight or given Adaptational Villainy, use to stand out as particularly clever bastards:
  • Among Us song "An Impostor Calls" (with Dan Bull): The Stupendium themselves plays The Impostor, once again seeking to eliminate the Skeld crew. Disguising as one of the crewmates, they and a second Impostor pick off the crew one by one, with Stupendium managing to remain undetected while hiding the existence of their partner, countering the points of Dan Bull when accused. At the end, The Stupendium is outed and remains gleeful during their ejection, confident that their partner will get them with the remaining crew none the wiser.
  • Animal Crossing songs:
    • "Nook, Line and Sinker": Tom Nook is the charming founder of the "New Horizons" getaway project. An expert con man, Nook would trick customers into moving into a unfinished village, which forces the villagers to pay for finishing it. When it would collapse on itself, Nook would trick the villagers to move to a new island, repeating the cycle, with the implication that this has happened before many times. Nook then pins the blame on the Mayor, though not before criticizing him for his treatment of Isabelle. Though somewhat smug, he manages to keep his ego in check, and he manages to get away with everything he's done.
    • "Rouge's Gallery": Crazy Redd is a charismatic Con Man who sells seemingly genuine works of art. Effortlessly charming the listener into buying his wares, it's eventually revealed that he actually steals the original art from museums, makes nearly perfect forgeries, and sells them to unsuspecting customers, with the fakes being so good that he sometimes accidentally sells the original, something he uses to frame the customer for theft. Being ruthless enough to murder anyone who threatens his business, he makes his leave upon being detected, but not before promising the listener that he'll mail the art to you.
  • Cyberpunk 2077 song "The Data Stream: The enigmatic narrator represents the Arasaka Corporation and its interests. Cunning and smooth, they detail Arasaka's rise to power through the destruction and consumption of rivals as well as advocating for their rule, noting how Arasaka took over and replaced governments, claiming cities and even making customers into cyborgs for their own benefit. As the song goes on, the narrator not only continues to advertise their rule, but begins to verbally deconstruct the masses for letting Arasaka take control thanks to their apathy, advocating control for Arasaka, noting how they profit in countless ways from the people who claim to hate them. At song's end, the narrator bolsters Arasaka's power, before closing off by noting that society's ignorance and consumerism allowed Arasaka to take the world.
  • Death and Taxes song "Rest Employed": Fate is the head of the afterlife's death department. Calculating and brilliant, Fate continues improving the efficiency of the department, constantly iterating upon it to ensure it keeps up with humanity. Throughout the song, Fate periodically issues creative threats to the newest undead employee under his command, maintaining the loyalty of his employees through fear and keeping them from interfering with his work, and argues that human lives are worthless due to their short lifespans, assuaging possible guilt about human suffering. All the while, Fate begins subtly hinting that he may want to destroy mankind and end his misery, deftly hiding his intentions and never letting his calm demeanor slip away from him. In the end, Fate keeps his goals under wraps as he welcomes yet more pawns to his service.
  • Evil Genius 2 song "A Fiend Like Me": The Stupendium plays a bombastic Evil Genius who aims for world domination. Disguising their lair as a popular resort to lower suspicions, they have any spies trying to sneak in foiled by creative and effective traps hidden around their lair. Having numerous silly but dangerous schemes to Take Over the World, it's shown that they've already shrunk and stolen a number of monuments for his personal use, ending the song by enacting a scheme to assassinate world leaders by using laser dolphins to kill them while they're barbecuing.
  • Fallout: New Vegas song "The House Always Wins": Robert House is as brilliant as ever. A survivor from the first Nuclear War, he made a civilization from a casino called The Strip from scratch, enabling refugees to happily live in paradise, if they're willing to pay some fees. House openly admits that he funds the place using the money of broke gamblers, using it to invest in security robots that ruthlessly kill anyone who challenges his authority. Despite this, he genuinely believes The Strip is humanity's best shot at utopia, pointing out how the other settlements aren't exactly trustworthy either, as well as criticizing the political nature of the pre-wasteland world.
  • Hitman songs "The Second" and "The Apex": Agent 47 is the world's greatest hitman as accurately portrayed by the songs. Being assigned targets to kill by the I.C.A, he executes them in style, often never being seen even by the target before killing them and making his escape. Often donning flawless disguises, he's also capable of pulling off creative-yet-practical kills, wether it's a toaster in a bathtub, dropping a chandelier on them, sniping them from afar, or poisoning food. Brutal yet effective, Agent 47 will always get the job done no matter what.
  • Untitled Goose Game song "What a Fowl Day": The Goose is a mischievous fowl who spends his time playing tricks on a small village, cleverly pranking the locals while avoiding their attempts to get rid of him. Reveling in his job, he exploits the fact that the R.S.P.C.A. prevents the villagers from killing him, using it to get away with his deeds. Despite his attitude, he sincerely believes that what he does is for the best of the villagers, as he sees his tricks as liberating everyone from their boring lives, describing his deeds as "Occasional chaos, but awfully tasteful".
• Taylor Swift's "no body, no crime" feat. Haim from evermore: The unnamed narrator helps her friend Este by revealing that Este's husband is cheating on her. Not long after, the narrator takes intense notice when Este's husband kills Este and then begins to move on with his mistress with no evidence pointing to him whatsoever. This results in the narrator killing Este's husband in the house, cleaning it perfectly to get rid of all evidence and disposing of his body out in the water by means of boat. The narrator avoids all other suspicion thanks to an alibi from Este's sister and her husband's mistress caught with "a big life insurance policy".
• Warren Zevon's "Mr. Bad Example" from Mr. Bad Example: The titular "Mr. Bad Example" is a gleefully crooked scoundrel who relates his life of swindling and scheming with charming hilarity. Getting his start as a youth who would swipe cash from his church and use his father's carpet store to bed housewives then steal their furniture, Mr. Bad Example would go on to have successful careers in both lawyering and hair transplanting, amassing a fortune. Even when he loses said fortune on cards, Mr. Bad Example just flees the country, starts his own mining operation, and cheats his countless workers out of profits to once again become rich. Mr. Bad Example is proud of his many double dealings, yet ends the song noting that he'll likely retire soon and will "see you in the next life, wake me up for meals!"

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