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• Gabriel Knight:
  • Sins of the Fathers: Dr. John is the fanatical madman so obsessed with Voodoo culture that he becomes the second-in-command to Malia Gedde of the demonic spirit Tetelo. Fully organizing the Gedde cult of Voodoo worshippers, John began perpetrating the "Voodoo Murders", a series of vicious killings where the victims' hearts would be ripped out. Along with regularly having anyone who could oust him assassinated, John bathes in the blood of his kills, and it is seen that he has numerous other victims in his lair, with piles of skulls, dismembered limbs, and body-less faces abounding. When titular Gabriel Knight begins investigating him, John kidnaps the man's assistant, Grace, and plans to use her as the latest sacrifice to Tetelo and the gods of death they worship, with John never showing any form of remorse for his victims or care for Tetelo; just raving fanaticism toward the Voodoo gods of destruction.
  • The Beast Within: Baron Garr von Zell was, from the start, a rude, unlikable Jerkass with nothing but malice toward his fellow man. However once his true nature is discovered, he quickly becomes one of the most wicked villains in the franchise. Turned into a werewolf by Friedrich von Glower, von Zell became addicted to the thrill of killing, and quickly began murdering innocents, not for food like all other werewolves, but just For the Evulz. In these "mutilation killings", von Zell ravenously shreds more than half a dozen innocents to pieces, one of whom was a little girl, and he plans to continue his spree after framing a pair of wolves for the killings, later murdering a man who tries to blackmail him with the fact that he is the true killer. While Gabriel and von Glower, disgusted by von Zell's wanton sadism, manage to stop him before he kills too many more, von Zell makes sure to turn Gabriel himself into a werewolf before his death to screw with him one final time. A psychopath with nothing driving him but base impulses of hate and cruelty, Garr von Zell was without a doubt the most evil werewolf Gabriel encountered.
  • Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned: Excelsior Montreaux, real name Sanae, was once an adamant follower of Jesus Christ, but after growing jealous of his master, attempted to drain him of his blood to gain his godly powers. Though driven off by other followers of Christ, Montreaux began hunting down Christ's descendants then draining them of their blood as they slept, leaving them deathly sick for weeks to pass before repeating the process over and over again, which inevitably lead to his victims' deaths. Feasting on the blood of these descendants, sparking the legend of the vampire in the process, Montreaux has kept himself and his followers alive for over 2,000 years, and, alongside executing any who get to close to the truth of his Satanic cult, Montreaux plans to murder the latest descendant of Christ, the infant Charlie, drink his blood, then use the power it will give him to lead his cult in taking over the world. The final, and perhaps most evil, villain Gabriel faced, Montreaux truly cared for no one or no thing but himself and his immortality.
• Galerians duology: Dorothy is an advanced rogue AI and responsible for all the evil in the duology. Having become obsessed with achieving godhood, Dorothy hijacks the computer system of the city's hospital and performs horrible experiments on its patients and staff, just so she could prove to be equal to god by creating the titular Galerians. Discovering that her creators are planning on shutting her down, Dorothy forcefully injects a young and innocent Galerian with PPEC to turn him into a sadistic killer and sends him to commit a bloodbath at their household, killing and transforming her creator's 14-year-old son, Rion Steiner, into a Galerian so she can find the sole survivor of the massacre. The sequel explores even more of her atrocities, as Dorothy had created a sapient backup program to resurrect her in case of defeat, keeping him captive and torturing him for the equivalent of thousands of years, leaving him as a bitter and resentful individual. A tyrannical egomaniac, Dorothy had no compassion, not even for her own children.
• Gears of War franchise:
  • First game; RAAM's Shadow & The Rise of RAAM comics: General RAAM is the supreme commander of the Locust army and the chief architect behind Emergence Day. Manipulating the Horde into declaring a genocidal war on humanity, RAAM organizes the Locust invasions across the surface world, slaughtering billions of humans in a matter of days and enslaving a quota to be torturously experimented on. RAAM himself directly leads some of these attacks, including his conquest of Ilima, where he attempts to have every human there devoured by a Kryllstorm and satiates his own bloodlust by butchering dozens of Gears in his path.
  • Second & fifth games: Dr. Niles Samson is a scientist employed by the COG and a chief example validating the claim that humanity can sometimes be no better than the Locust. Initially tasked with curing children infected with rustlung, Samson instead developed an obsession with creating a superior race to mankind, conducting horrific experiments against the children given to him and mutating them into animalistic Sires. Creating the modern Locust from the immune Myrrah, Samson gaslights her into his control with the lie that her husband and daughter perished in an escape attempt from his lab, eventually attempting to kill her when she goes rogue. Though physically dead, his construct in Mount Kadar manipulates Kait Diaz into reviving her mother as the Swarm's queen, ensuring that his own work will live on.
  • The Rise of RAAM & Tactics: Ukkon is the Locust Horde's chief geneticist, purely motivated by his misanthropy and pursuit of knowledge. Prior to their invasion, Ukkon kidnapped countless humans to be killed and mutated into Locust Drones. Also producing the many beasts used by the Locust, Ukkon supplies the Horde with his creations, aiding their genocidal invasion in exchange for more test subjects. Following the Coalition of Ordered Governments' Hammer of Dawn strikes and building a Locust army charged on Lambent, Ukkon commands his forces to execute the survivors or have them tortured via "processing" in iron maidens, all in preparation for an invasion on Ephyra.
• Gemini Rue:
  • The Director is the man in charge of Center 7. A man obsessed with the relations between a man's identity and their memories, the Director conducted terrible tests to satisfy his curiosity. Kidnapping people and trapping them in Center 7, the Director made a system to painfully mind wipe his prisoners to turn them to empty slates and then conduct experiments while morphing them into proficient killers. Once he's done with his test subjects, he'd mind wipe them again and sell them off as living weapons for various criminal groups around the universe. If any prisoner showed disobedience or signs of regaining their former identity, the Director would subject them to more intense methods of mind wiping or even lethal force. When Delta-Six tried to escape the facility along with Giselle and Sayuri, the Director killed Giselle and subjected Delta-Six to a complete mind wipe to turn him into one of his best killers, and then sold him to the Boryokudan. Knowing Delta-Six, now called Azriel Odin would eventually be free of his brainwashing due to human nature, the Director planted memories to lead him back to him. After recapturing Delta-Six and his allies, Sayuri and Kane, he tried to brainwash Delta-Six into his control permanently. When Delta-Six and his companions escape and try to destroy Center 7, the Director callously had his men killed in order to try stopping them before shooting down Sayuri and attempting the same to Delta-Six.
  • Balder is a deranged and vengeful man dead set on destroying Delta-Six's life by whatever means necessary. A fellow prisoner in Center 7, Balder antagonizes Delta-Six for humiliating him in a past incident. When Delta-Six and his group tried to escape Center 7, Balder tries to stop them, attempts to kill Delta-Six during their set-up, and then kills Giselle and captures Delta-Six for the Director when they made their escape attempt. Now under the service of the Director in exchange for his freedom, Balder does numerous dirty jobs as his agent before taking on the identity of Matthius Howard in order to lure Delta-Six, now called Azriel, back to Center 7 once his brainwashing started to wear off. Once Balder managed to lure Delta-Six back to the facility, he places him and his allies in prison, and takes the former to have his identity erased in a painful operation. While he's trapped, Balder fully confesses to Delta-Six that he did everything just to see him suffer over and over and taunting him while the operation began. When Delta-Six manages to escape and sets Center 7 to self-destruct, Balder attempts to kill him one last time, exhilarated by the chance to kill him.
• Gene Troopers: Ithaka Wassali is the true mastermind behind the game's events. Having discovered a sapient parasitic race she can control, Wassali implants a parasite into President Horacious Prowler's mind and manipulates him into becoming a warmongering dictator, and establishes the dreaded Gene Troopers unit, made by converting captured refugees and prisoners into cyborg minions loyal only to Wassali. Having entire populations of planets killed or converted to Gene Troopers, including causing the extinction of The Greys at some point, when the hero Bridger Johanssen tries saving his daughter Maureen from Wassali, Wassali instead had Maureen trapped behind a force field and forces the giant parasite inside Maureen to attack Bridger, taunting that she will make Maureen watch her father die.
• Genshin Impact:
  • Kujou Takayuki is a corrupt Tenryou Commissioner of the Shogunate and the head of the Kujou Clan who consistently abuses his children and Sara to make them loyal to the Shogun through force. Kujou kills Takatsukasa Isamu in order to obtain good publicity when he tries to blackmail Shiroyama for the poison he made to kill Kujou, while also framing Ryuji for the crime; ordered his men to drown the infected and sick inhabitants of Higi Village on the ship by dumping them in the water to pin the blame on the Watatsumi Army; forces a merchant to sell Delusions at the black market to take over Inazuma, which leads to the start of a civil war in Inazuma through the Vision Hunt, and Sakoku decrees murdering thousands of innocents while also giving them a Fate Worse than Death. Kujou manipulates the Raiden Shogun into thinking the Vision is the real enemies before planning to slaughter everyone in Inazuma because Gongozaemon did not report to him about his son Masahito being overstated of the Tatarigami's effects.
  • Azar is the cruel and hypocritical Grand Sage of Sumeru. Before the events of the Sumeru Archon Quest, Azar willingly collaborated with Il Dottore of the Fatui to create a new God of Wisdom to replace Lesser Lord Kusanali, who has been imprisoned for the past 500 years due to the Sages refusing to accept her as Sumeru's Archon. His Establishing Character Moment has him criticize Nilou and shut down the Sabzeruz Festival due to his own hatred of the arts along with the festival's connection to Lesser Lord Kusanali. Afterwards, Azar uses the Akasha to loop the day of the festival to extract the dreams of the populace of Sumeru City in addition to placing Nilou as the host of the dream loop due to his sheer pettiness; this would have caused countless deaths if successful. Later on, Azar manipulated the radical Eremite groups by creating false rumors of King Deshret's return to kidnap several exiled scholars in order to extract information from their minds; this, along with the dream extraction, was done to ascend Scaramouche to become the new God of Wisdom. It is also revealed that he Azar planning to use the Divine Knowledge capsule to dispose of Alhaitham. Azar also used the Akasha to spy on Cyno and imprisoned the Amurta and Vahumana Sages for refusing to go along with his plans.
  • Dougier is an inmate at the Fortress of Meropide who believes everybody sent there, himself included, is irredeemable. Dougier uses that as an excuse, along with some liquified fear he found, to instill his own ideal of punishment onto others, forcing multiple inmates into joining his Beret Society and establishing rules that instills distrust in one another while also punishing groups of five for the actions of one individual. Dougier also starves his subordinates to death and makes it so the only way they can even get food and water is to rat on each other. It is shown that Dougier's actions severely affect his subjects mentally, with many of them being too scared to speak. When he is caught for his crimes, not only does Dougier use the fortress's own gardemeks he stole against Wriothesley, but he also tries to use the fortress's rules, the same ones he broke himself, to talk Wriothesley out of punishing him. Dougier even attempts to shoot the Traveler when he can't hit Wriothesley.
  • Nathan is a member of the Fatui and an agent of Pierro who is used to prolong the war by commanding several Orobashi fanatics to destroy the Narukami Pillars, murdering thousands of innocents and leaving the island mostly deserted. Those who did not leave the island will be affected by the Tatarigami, causing them to have many illnesses, such as hallucinations. Nathan also helps Scaramouche in the Black Market of Delusions to extend the war, leading to several soldiers dying slowly and painfully.
  • Babel Tanit, the Matriarch of the Tanit Tribe, at first presents herself as a benevolent leader who welcomes the Traveler after they are invited by Jeht. In truth, Babel is a Manipulative Bitch who only allowed the invite because she saw an opportunity to use the Traveler for her own gain, having previously corrupted Jeht into her own personal assassin to kill the leaders before her; colluded with some Fatui mooks; betrayed said mooks; tricked the Traveler and Jeht into fighting one another under the claim that they had been betrayed by the other; and then sent her Tanit Falcons to finish them off. The instant Jeht realizes Babel's treachery and confronts her in vengeance, Babel reveals she had the Traveler and Jeht find the Eternal Oasis for her so she could use it to attack Sumeru City and overthrow the Akademiya and Dendro Archon, before commanding the entire tribe to kill Jeht and the Traveler while she runs off to her quarters, leading to Jeht killing the entire tribe to get to her. Even after all the claims of caring for Jeht like a daughter, Babel reveals in her last moments that she had some scouts message every other Eremite tribe about Jeht being a traitor, forever rendering her an outcast and proving that she never loved her, only claiming to in an attempt to make Jeht easier for her to kill.
• The Getaway: Charlie Jolson is the brutish, bigoted head of the Bethnal Green mob. Desiring a return to the old days, Charlie orders the kidnapping of Mark Hammond's wife Suzie and son Alex, leading to Suzie being fatally shot. Threatening to kill Alex if Mark doesn't do as Charlie says, Charlie sends Mark on a series of jobs that throw London into chaos, including torching a Collins restaurant; shooting up a Triad art gallery; assisting in the violent breakout of Charlie's nephew "Crazy" Jake from a police convoy; leading the Triads and Yardies into a bloody gunfight with each other; killing dozens of cops at a police station in order to silence DCI Clive McCormack and Yasmin; and "procuring" a dancer named Layla from a Collins club who gets shot in the crossfire. All of these jobs leave dozens of rival gangsters and police dead, and civilians caught in the middle. Charlie then invites the other gang bosses to a sitdown on the ship Sol Vita for the purpose of handing over Mark, but in reality to blow up the ship and wipe out the other gangs, leaving London solely for himself. When this is discovered, Charlie attempts to escape the ship even though Jake and dozens of his own men are still onboard, and then proceeds to arm the bomb when caught in a final act of spite, resulting in dozens more deaths, including the rest of the Bethnal mob itself.
• Ghost in the Shell: Zebra 27 is a mercenary who once carved a path of destruction through Africa before being hired to lead the Human Liberation Front. Leading terrorist strikes against New Port City that leave a hundred people dead or wounded, Zebra further sics mecha tanks onto populated civilian centers to distract Section 9 from capturing him. Zebra's ultimate goal is to take a nuclear reactor hostage to extort a fortune from the government, threatening to blow up the reactor and "make Chernobyl look like a picnic" if his demands aren't met.
• Ghost of Tsushima:
  • Khotun Khan is the head of the Mongol invasion force. Introducing himself by setting a samurai on fire before beheading him, Khotun dispatches his forces to slaughter and enslave Japanese citizens, torturing, killing, and pillaging to force Japan to submit. Destroying entire swaths of farming villages, Khotun Khan uses those who submit as little better than slave labor, massacring vast groups of samurai forces and later testing wolfsbane poison on other villages so he can deploy it upon mainland Japan to kill as many as possible before he can take it to satisfy his ambitions and attempt to overthrow his cousin Kublai.
  • "The Heavenly Strike" Mythic Tale: Yasuhira Koga was known as "The Butcher of Yarikawa", who returns with the Mongols to lay waste to Tsushima, having villages destroyed and civilians slaughtered, murdering a group of hostages when the musician Yamato cannot tell him the secrets of the hero Shigenori's Heavenly Strike ability. Having others enslaved and tortured, Koga forces one warrior to teach him the Heavenly Strike before killing him in a duel to test his own skills.
  • "Yuna Tales" side tales:
    • Taizo, Kichizo, and Manzo Mamushi are a trio of sadistic slavers who deal in children and adults alike, forcing them into labor with the heroine Yuna implying she endured rape at their hands. The Mamushis decapitate runaway slaves, torturing and burning others on stakes when they sell out to the Mongols, working others in brutal torture to satisfy their greed.
    • The slaver known as the Black Wolf deals in children, selling them to horrific fates in the Mamushi farms. Allying with the Mongols to kill others and take their children, the Black Wolf is also revealed to be a serial pedophile who assaulted Yuna and her brother Taka after getting them drunk.
  • Iki Island expansion:
    • Ankhsar Khatun, aka the Eagle, is the leader of a tribe of fanatical Mongols that takes over Iki Island, killing and enslaving much of the islanders. The Eagle would force her prisoners to ingest her "sacred medicine", driving them mad, with the agony her poison brings eventually destroying their minds. She would then set her sights on taking over Tsushima, having her forces attack villages there. When Jin Sakai travels to Iki Island, the Eagle captures him and makes him drink her poison, having Jin relive watching his father die and suffer hallucinations. She later prepares to attack the Raider's last stronghold, planning to annihilate the last of those rebelling against her.
    • "Black Hand Riku" Mythic Quest: Black Hand Riku was a pirate infamous for the cruelty and death he brought upon the seas surrounding Iki Island, usually carving up his victims before feeding their remains to his pet monkey. Among his most vile acts involves forcing a group of children to watch him skin their samurai protector alive before killing the children by throwing them overboard. When Riku's crew failed to kill their captain, Riku responded by setting his ship ablaze with the crew still inside, killing all but two, while Riku retreats to a cave on Iki Island. Riku would continue to suffice his bloodlust by killing any who enters his cave and try to steal his armor.
• Ghost Recon Wildlands:
  • Rodrigo Carlos Pérez Morales, aka "El Sueño" ("The Dream"), is the leader of the Santa Blanca Cartel, responsible for turning Bolivia into a narco-state. El Sueño personally oversees and partakes in cocaine production and distribution; trafficking of children; and the torture and murder of thousands, leaving bodies hanging from telephone poles across Bolivia. El Sueño has any opposition abducted and executed, having a mentally disturbed "cleaner" dissolve their remains. Discovering an undercover DEA agent in his cartel, El Sueño personally tortures the man over forty-seven hours. Should his subordinates fail him, El Sueño would arrange their executions, that of their loved ones, or both. When the Ghosts manage to dismantle his cartel, El Sueño secretly makes a deal with their government for immunity, using them to take down rival cartels, gloats about his victory by presenting the recently decapitated head of rebel leader and former ally, Pac Katari. Behind nearly every one of Santa Blanca's atrocities, El Sueño's religious and charitable front masks a vicious egotist, unfeeling to the suffering he brought about.
  • Fallen Ghosts DLC: Los Extranjeros took over Bolivia after the collapse of the Santa Blanca Cartel and prove themselves to be amongst the most monstrous enemies the Ghosts have ever faced. While its leader Colonel Juan Ignacio Merlo is absent throughout most of the DLC, his three lieutenants in particular really stand out:
    • Major Luis Rocha, "El Espectro" ("The Specter"), runs the Western Precinct in Bolivia where he subjects the populace in that area to slave labor to rebuild cocaine production. Rocha would kidnap these people's loved ones to force them to work themselves to death, while also killing some of his own workers and nailing their corpses in the fields as "extra motivation". When one village didn't meet Rocha's expectations, he orders his soldiers to lure the villagers into one building for them to slaughter.
    • Captain Dante Cruzar, "El Diablo" ("The Devil"), runs the Northern Precinct of Bolivia where he carries out killing sprees on the Christian population, killing hundreds of innocent people and stacking their corpses onto a massive pile, with some of his victims being burned alive. When the Ghosts try to dismantle his hold on the Northern Precinct, Cruzar responds by initiating a massacre at a village, killing all the villagers there, while mocking their belief in God's protection.
    • Captain Tomas Ortega, "El Oso" ("The Bear"), runs the Eastern Precinct of Bolivia where he establishes an arena there where he has the populace there fight each other to the death for his amusement. Ortega would also kidnap innocent civilians and use them as target practice for his fighters to kill, and would even kill his own soldiers if they don't meet his standards as warriors. When the Ghosts arrive in his Precinct, Ortega lures them to his arena where he uses his prisoners as disposable fodder against the Ghosts before trying to kill them himself.
• Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance: Councillor Arruntius made a pact with Phobos and Deimos in the backstory to remain in power, while intending to unleash his masters into the mortal world. Assasinating the good Emperor Trajan, Arruntius rules over Rome with tyranny and holds the bloodiest gladiator match in history, having hundreds of gladiators slaughtered over the course of several days for his amusement; when the heroic champion Invictus Thrax wins his freedom, Arruntius summons Phobos and Deimos to have Invictus Dragged Off to Hell instead. After Invictus destroys Phobos and Deimos and returns from the underworld, Arruntius instead executes his own daughter Lavinia to resurrect Phobos and Deimos as a last act of spite.
• God Hand:
  • Demon King Angra—SATAN in Japan—is the ruler of all demons, and the true leader of the Four Devas. Originally a Fallen Angel cast down to Hell for his pride, Angra sought revenge against the humans who he felt betrayed him, forming a demon army to enslave mankind. Eventually defeated by the man with the God Hands and sealed away, Angra allowed the Four Devas to send their demons out to murder and enslave countless humans in their plan to revive him. Hiding in Azel's Devil Hand, Angra betrays his loyal follower to be the sacrifice needed for his revival, hoping to destroy the God Hands and rule over humanity.
  • Azel is a human who desires the God Hands for their power. Originally a member of the clan tasked to protect the God Hands, Azel slaughtered his entire clan to claim one of the God Hands for himself. Selling out humanity by joining the Four Devas, Azel isn't afraid to kill his own minions or mock those he deems weak as he assists the group in Angra's revival. Kidnapping his fiancée Olivia to be used as Angra's sacrificial vessel, Azel also uses her as bait to lure in Gene, hoping to kill him and take his God Hand for himself.
• The God of Crawling Eyes: Miss Blackmore is the leader of a cult of students and faculty members. Blackmore and her cult sacrifice people to the God of Crawling Eyes in an attempt to increase his power so that he may one day cross over to Earth and bring about the apocalypse. A year before the events of the game, Blackmore and her cult murdered a student named Travis after he tried to leave the cult. In the game, Blackmore murders the school principal and four of her six students before trying to use one of the last two for her next sacrifice.
• God of War series:
  • Greek era ^PrimarilyFirst game; Ghost of Sparta; Ascension: Ares, the depraved God of War, is Kratos's predecessor upon Olympus. Not content with merely ruling over warfare and coveting sole rule of Olympus, Ares busied himself with endless slaughter. Responsible for directing every human conflict, massacre, and genocide, Ares gloried in the usage of monsters to torment humanity and the Furies to torture them. Upon arriving in Sparta and taking the boy Deimos, Ares gave him to the god Thanatos for eternal torture. Saving the life of the Spartan Kratos years later, Ares used him to conquer most of Greece with bloody purges until the day when Ares tricked Kratos into murdering his wife and child. Finally losing patience with his role, Ares then tried to annihilate all of Athens, with his ultimate goal being to destroy the other Gods, heedless of the damage it would do to the world.
  • Ragnarök: The Raven Keeper is a wretched hag responsible for the creation of the Eyes of Odin. To achieve this, the Raven Keeper had Odin's worshippers across the realms hang their children to provide her their souls to twist into spies for Odin, keeping them fully aware of their torture.
• Golden Axe ^PrimarilyPC Engine's cutscenes; The Revenge of Death Adder; & The Duel: Death Adder is a monstrous tyrant who leads an army of evil to Firewood Kingdom, massacring everyone within the country such that Firewood utterly ceases to exist, exhibiting his personal sadism by murdering the king and queen in front of their young daughter, Princess Tyris Flare. Seeking even greater power, Death Adder invades Southwood kingdom to do the same thing, slaughtering villages and enslaving the populace. Upon his return from death, Death Adder opts to massacre and enslave everyone he can for revenge, with the consequences of his victory being death on scales such as the world has never before seen.
• Golden Sun: Dark Dawn: Blados and Chalis are agents of the military country Tuaparang, who partake in a scheme to activate the Grave Eclipse, shrouding most of the continent in darkness and unleashing dark beasts on the innocent populace, leading to the death of thousands. Betraying Alex to seize the Apollo Lens for themselves, Blados and Chalis proceed to turn Volechek, the brother of heroine Sveta, into a horrific beast and attempt to use him to fire the Apollo Lens on their own allies, killing Volechek in the process. Cunning, manipulative, and seeing the deaths of thousands as a mere side effect of their plan, Blados and Chalis are two of the vilest villains Golden Sun has.
• Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode: Adolf Hitler himself (aka "Smirk" in the US version) is the true ruler of the so-called Drek Empire and mastermind behind the theft of The Virus and vaccine. Framing Golgo 13 for the theft and steadily killing his contacts and anyone who knows of it, Hitler plots to unleash the virus on the world before attempting to set off a nuclear bomb when Golgo confronts him.
• Good Boy! duology: The Toy Box Demon is a malevolent creature which lives in an old toy box. Corrupting the children whose parents brought the toy box to their house, the demon has them murder their entire families to satisfy his lust for blood. Having already done this to at least two families, the demon tries to repeat the process with the protagonist and his family. Possessing the protagonist's grandmother, the demon tries to urge the protagonist to kill their pets and mother, and if he succeeds, the demon has the grandmother call the police and commands the protagonist to kill as many of them as he can. In the sequel, the demon is revealed to have been corrupting people to act as his servants and lure little children to his hideout, where he orders his servants to slowly drain them of their blood. Forcing the protagonist to kill his servant, simply for his own amusement, the demon then tried to corrupt the protagonist to be his next slave.
• Gothic:
  • Ore Baron Gomez is the ruthless leader of the Old Camp. After the inmates killed their overseers, Gomez took control of the camp and the nearby mine, forcing the king to supply him with everything he demands in exchange for magical ore. While Gomez and his lackeys live a life of luxury, the majority of the Old Camp still has to work in the mine so they can pay the protection money collected by his guards. The Ore Barons also forced the king to send them women, whom they keep as their personal slaves. When his mine got flooded in an accident, Gomez had his men take over the New Camp's mine by force, resulting in the deaths of dozens of New Camp members while also having the few members of the other two camps who had stayed inside Old Camp killed. When the Fire Mages protested against his actions, Gomez had them killed as well.
  • Bloodwyn is the greedy guardsman from the Old Camp. The first thing he does to the Nameless Hero is asking "kindly" for protection money; refusal results in him sending his henchmen to beat up and maybe even kill the Hero. He later participates in cowardly murdering the Firemages. In the Gothic II Expansion Pack, Night of the Raven, he joined the bandits and was put in charge of the mine, where he mercilessly forces the slaves to work without any breaks, not caring that there are angry Minecrawlers and cursed guardians in the mine. By the time the Hero arrives, many slaves are already dead, either killed by the creatures, worked to death, or of starvation. Others are so exhausted they can barely stand and some are already hallucinating, because they haven't seen the sun for weeks. After the disguised Hero kills all the vermin inside the mine for Bloodwyn, the latter doesn't even attempt to thank him for his actions, instead trying to get rid of the Hero so that he alone can get all the gold inside.
• Grandia series:
  • Grandia II:
    • Pope Zera is the head of the Church of Granas with a devious plan to summon forth a dark god. Once a devout follower of Granas, Pope Zera went mad after learning that Granas died from the against Valmar. Believing that strength can only from the darkness since light lost to it, Zera hopes to summon the Dark God Valmar in hopes of having a god. While trying to gather the different pieces of Valmar to resurrect, Zera has his subordinate Selene go around the world to kill potential threats and gather pieces of Valmar, giving Selene the Heart of Valmar. After learning that Elena has most of the pieces of Valmar, Zera has Elena get the final pieces by tricking her into thinking that it would stop Valmar. Once she was able to, Zera starts to reveal his true colors by having Selene execute his followers, to get Selene's piece absorbed by Elena. After Elena became a proper vessel for Valmar, Zera takes her to perform the ritual to bring Valmar back. When Elena was saved from the clutches of Zera, Zera decide to use himself as Valmar's vessel, attempting to kill the party, succeeding in claiming Mareg's life. Now with Valmar's power, Zera tries to end humanity by sending an army of evil monsters, and transform the dead into zombies believing it to be the fate of humanity. A nihilistic maniac, Zera believes that humanity is hopeless, and intended to purge them himself.
    • Valmar, the God of Evil, is a malevolent being that has plagued the world for many centuries. Summoned to fight off the dystopian rule of the followers of Granas, Valmar went out of control and killed indiscriminately, reigning terror. In his fight against Granas, Valmar won but was sealed away in order to recover. Divided into individual pieces, whenever someone stumbles upon one of Valmar's seal, the piece there would take forcibly take over the person, corrupting the victim by twisting their desire and then consuming their soul before making them his vessel, causing a disaster in the surrounding area. These include depriving people the sense of taste, or trapping them in an eternal sleep. After Pope Zera was able to resurrect Valmar, Valmar willingly merged with Zera to bring destruction to the world in hopes of finding the last piece he's missing to return to his full power. Realizing Ryudo has the final piece, he tries to corrupt him as well through mental attacks by claiming he's just a monster like him. When the party confronts Valmar himself, he tries to goad them to join him once more, before trying to kill them.
    • High Priestess Selene is a bloodthirsty follower of Zera who enjoys killing. The head of the Cardinal Knights, Selene is responsible for purging anyone associated with darkness, even if this means killing innocents as collateral. When she arrives in Mirumu Village, she was gladly preparing to burn down an innocent mother and daughter before being driven out by the party. Revealed latter as a devout follower of Zera's plan, Selene was tasked with making sure that Elena was able to collect all the pieces of Valmar so she could be used as Valmar's vessel, even if this meant endangering the group by summoning the Body of Valmar. Once the party was able to collect most of the pieces, Selene then slaughtered the people of the church and the people who went to them for help, cutting them down with her mindless knights. When the party confronts her for her actions, she reveals her motivation was that she believes the only thing worthy for her followers was death and that she herself has a piece of Valmar which she took willingly, before fighting the party so she or Elena can have all the pieces needed to summon Valmar.
  • Grandia III:
    • Xorn, the Fallen Guardian, is a force of destruction who destroyed the Verse Realms many years ago and seeks to return to turn everything into a lifeless void. Using Emelious as a vessel, Xorn had him kill the remaining Guardians for his return, invading and causing countless deaths and ruining the natural balance of the world. Having been resurrected by Grau, Xorn begins disposing of his pawns by turning them into glass before turning everything into a wasteland through his tendrils or spawn, mocking Alfina and the party by disparaging Emelious's final stand against him before trying to kill them as the final step towards perishing all life.
    • Grau is the sinister lackey of Emelious who is later revealed to be the one responsible for his "master"'s actions. Having stumbled upon Emelious after he was been corrupted by Xorn, Grau began using him as a figurehead to resurrect Xorn in a bid of power. Guiding Emelious to kill the other Guardians knowing it would bring destruction upon the world, Grau also enlisted their personal army to ruthlessly carry out their plans, apathetic of the casualties they caused. By the time of Xorn's return, Grau, revealing his true colors, tries to backstab Emelious and kill Alfina after their role was complete before trying to command Xorn with the Godkiller, laughing the world was his amidst the desolation caused by his resurrection.
• The Granstream Saga: Levante is a high-ranking member of the Imperial Wizardry army tasked with sinking the floating continent Aquas. Going further beyond than his fellow commanders, Levante uses his powers to brainwash a woman named Selela into starting a cult, the Kel, built entirely around himself, promising his followers his own brand of Heaven should they allow Aquas to sink and kill everybody inhabiting it. Regularly sacrificing people, Levante forces "heathens" who refuse to worship him into working in his obsidian mines. After Eon and company arrive to stop him, Levante manipulates the Kel and the Pikshim townsfolk into starting a war, even attempting to have Selela's son Afto killed to boost morale amongst the Kel. Feeling he has no use for Selela anymore, Levante traps her and Eon in a crystal to die a slow death.
• The Great Gaias: Malviticus, the God of Darkness, despises the other gods for not giving him the respect he thinks he deserves. When the goddess Auroria descends upon Tenat as an elf, Malviticus summons a demon to possess her and force her to kill the elves she created. After his banishment from the Celestial Realm, Malviticus uses his human avatar, Grindelwald Maultor, to brainwash humanity's immortal leaders into serving him. Malviticus establishes the totalitarian Validian Empire, scapegoats the elves for the wasteland he secretly caused, and wages a genocidal war against the elven nations, both to spite the other gods and to claim an artifact that can rewrite the past in his favor. Regaining his divine form millennia later, Malviticus slaughters as many gods as he can in order to take over Tenat and the Celestial Realm.
• Grim Fandango: Hector LeMans is behind the corruption in the Department of Death. Having infiltrated the DoD, Hector steals the Number Nine tickets, the fastest way to get to the Land of Eternal Rest, from the souls of the righteous and counterfeits them, knowing that whoever uses them is plunged into Hell. The righteous souls are then left to wander the Land of the Dead until they're eventually kidnapped while traversing the ocean and sent to a factory owned by Hector at the Edge of the World to be eternally enslaved. Hector then uses sprouting, a way to permanently kill those already dead, by firing special plant bullets into the skeletal body, spreading until the victim is nothing more than an empty husk filled with flowers. Hector murders hundreds with this method, and keeps their bodies as a field of flowers in his hideout; he also preserves the corpses of his victims as trophies. In the climax, Hector has Salvador's body sprouted and his head removed for questioning, and he shoots protagonist Manuel "Manny" Calavera with a slow-acting Sproutella.
• Growlanser series:
  • Wayfarer of Time: Lord Vester, first appearing murdering Crevanille's remaining comrades in cold blood, shows himself as a sinister man with insidious intentions. Actually a interdimensional dark conqueror ruling over the monsters, Vester's goal is to tear the dimensional rift in order to pour his legion of monsters to conquer Noievarl and sunder it into chaos, succeeding during the timeline of the Angels. His plan is to teach Summoning Magic to all the major countries and intensify the ongoing war between them with his influence and powers' unbeknownst to them, his spells are actually bringing more of Vester's army. Sometimes to further his scheme, he'd resurrect some of his victims and control them through a parasite, lobotomizing his victims to his will. When Crevanille's group manage to thwart Vester's end game, Vester, in a furious rage, made one last attempt to kill them, taking them to his dimension and trap them into darkness.
  • Precarious World:
    • Infinitor is an alien seeking to destroy the planet of Growlanser, seeing himself superior. Absorbing the lifeforce of the planet 2,000 years ago, Infinitor was sealed in the Dragon Orb after a war, creating the Screapers to kill the residents and using his army as pawns. Returning and taking over Monopolis by possessing the line of chairmen, Infinitor planned to time travel to stop his first defeat. Having the populace take Pollumine Seeds by escalating a war and lying about their benefits, Infinitor secretly absorbs the planet's energy while killing those who tried to stop it. With the energy, Infinitor travelled back to stop his first defeat, trying to kill Merklich in a final battle with his true body.
    • Wellber, the Major of Formeros, is a representation of the country's corrupt regime. The right hand of President Glyme, Wellber was ordered to eliminate the rival candidate Dietrich from the election, framing Dietrich's brother Hoffman for embezzling weapons, his unit killed in the process. Hunting Hoffman, Wellber was promoted and worsened the war with Hingistan for resources, Wellber killed all threats to his power and the war, ending with him attempting to kill the entire Black Market and Hoffman when they find evidence of his corruption.
    • Zafreed, the former chancellor of the Hingistan Royal Family, schemed their downfall for his own power. Having the eldest Prince Gilliam killed in battle and the king dying from depression, Zafreed took the throne, forcing heavy taxes and the eldest princess to marry him despite the age difference. Deadly poverty rose, leading to mass starvation and Civil War, while Zafreed fiercely hunted rebels, forcing them to terrorism against Formeros. Planning to eliminate all his foes, Zafreed used Hingistan's giant to try to annihilate his foes, uncaring for civil and friendly casualties.
• Guild Wars duology:
  • Original game:
    • Abaddon was originally the god of water and secrets. It was he who first supplied the races of Tyria with magic. However, he gave out magic way too freely and ended up starting wars as a result. Even after the other gods warned him it was having a bad effect he wouldn't stop, and when they created the Bloodstones to try to rein him in, he attacked them. As a result he was imprisoned in the Realm of Torment. Since then, he worked behind the scenes to cause various atrocities. He created the titans to pose as gods and convince the Charr to wage war on the other races. When the nation of Orr was beleaguered by the Charr, Vizier Khilbron was persuaded by his "advisor" Razakel—who was really a demon working for Abaddon—to use the Lost Scrolls. This drove off the Charr but turned the entire nation of Orr into evil undead and the Vizier into a lich. In Cantha, he convinced the Emperor's bodyguard Shiro Tagachi to kill him by sending a fortuneteller, who was really just a demon in disguise. Shiro killed him, which led to the Jade Wind. Nightfall featured perhaps his worst acts yet, as he and his followers sought to cause the Nightfall, which would either turn Tyria into a hellish wasteland or destroy it all together.
    • "Prophecies" campaign: "Undead Lich" is a vessel for Razakel, the right hand of Abaddon. Having manipulated Vizier Khilborn of Orr in a war against the Charr, Razakel saw the nation exterminated in The Cataclysm, reducing the inhabitants to undead shells. Rising later as The Lich with an undead army to ravage the world, Razakel intends to unleash the Titans to obliterate all the lands for the victory of Abaddon.
    • "Factions" campaign: Shiro Tagachi was a skilled guardsman of Cantha, swayed to evil to murder his sovereign, the Emperor. Killing many loyal soldiers and unleashing the Jade Wind to petrify many with his death, Shiro becomes a corrupt spirit that harvests the souls of the dead to corrupt them into monsters, having others killed to join his army, intending on sacrificing the emperor to live again with no compunction on leading Abaddon's dark armies to ravage the world.
  • Guild Wars 2:
    • Season 1: Scarlet Briar is a rogue Sylvari who sought to bend reality to her will and remake Tyria in her own twisted image. Upon discovering her people were created to be living weapons by Mordremoth, she planned on awakening the Elder Dragon and unleashing him to destroy her own people and the rest of the world out of spite. Creating alliances between various villain factions, Scarlet uses them to kidnap and enslave innocents to build her machines, assault population centers, and poison the main body of water in human lands. This all leads to her final assault on the city of Lion's Arch where she kills much of the populace with a deadly miasma, and, in her dying moments, ensures the rise of Mordremoth and all the devastation the Elder Dragon later brings.
    • Season 3: Lord Caudecus Beetlestone is the leader of the Krytan government under the Queen and perhaps the greatest single threat to the remnants of humanity. Seeking to overthrow the monarchy for his own power, Caudecus funds the human separatists to reignite war with the Charr; uses ruthless bandits to terrorize his own people; and massacred the family of the centaur chieftain to manipulate his horde into ravaging the kingdom. Later murdering his own wife and daughter when they discover his plans, Caudecus takes command of the White Mantle cult and uses their magical blood stones to rain cataclysmic fire on the human capital of Divinity's Reach. In the last days of his life, Caudecus was content to destroy the last bastion of mankind if he couldn't rule over it.
    • Season 3 & "Path of Fire": Balthazar is the god of fire and war and proof that Abaddon wasn't the only monster in the human pantheon. Imprisoned for wanting to bring war to the Elder Dragons, Balthazar swore death and suffering on his fellows and manipulates the Charr Rytlock into freeing him. Disguising himself upon his return, he tries to manipulate the Pact Commander and steals a machine to kill two Elder Dragons when that fails. Not caring that the deaths of the dragons would destroy the world, Balthazar travels to Elona for the last Elder Dragon, but not before torturing the souls of his followers and forcing their spirits into machines to become the Forged. Sending his Forged to rampage across Elona, countless innocents are given traumatic deaths so that Balthazar can remake their spirits into new Forged. Later kidnapping the infant dragon Aurene, he uses her as a Living Battery to try to kill her Elder Dragon grandfather, and ultimately reveals that he knows full well that Tyria would be destroyed but there would always be more worlds to conquer and raze.
    • "Path of Fire" & Season 4: Palawa Ignacious Joko, though appearing in the first game, is truly awful here. He formed an empire based on genocide, slavery and mass destruction, a dystopia where even failing to worship him could result in being murdered and turned into an undead slave. With one of the few who might oppose him, Joko severed her hands and tongue, eventually cursing her to become undead, with her consciousness persisting in an immobile body for centuries. Later returning to seize control of the world, Joko imprisons a young girl in a golem to suffocate while she fights her own friends, plotting to ravage the world with the Scarab Plague so he may take control. Torturing others to death in his spare time, Joko even keeps an abused harem of all races and genders, with seemingly no end to his ego or depravity.
• GU-L: Kozu Osada/Nagata is the leader of the mansion and the head of the ongoing government-funded "GU-L" project. Basing his experiments on the real-life research on Unit 731, Osada guides stray wanderers to rent out his mansion to experiment on them and creating the Ultimate Lifeform that is virtually unkillable, morphing countless victims into monstrous and violent experiments, and is not above using his own co-workers to further his research. Presumably coercing a maid into giving him children named Takaya and Takashi, Osada forcibly experiments on both for the same reasons, even reviving Takashi from his stillborn death from his experiments. Noticing Azumi was planning to betray him to save Takashi, Osada Brainwashed her with a parasite to follow his every command, such as poisoning the young Tsutomu. With his most recent experiment being subjecting young students into a Deadly Game to see if his experiments were deadly enough, Osada ultimately fuses with his own son's remains to create the so called "GU-L" to kill them, and even when he's defeated, he proclaims that he's unkillable and immortal.
• GUN features the Big Bad and two of his Co-Dragons:
  • Major Thomas "Tom" Magruder is a railroad tycoon who has taken large parts of the Western United States from the First Nations and Government, feverishly seeking a legendary lost city of gold called Quivira, murdering and torturing anyone who gets in his way. Years prior to the game, as a Confederate Major, Magruder came to a small homestead out in the plains belonging to Campbell, a benevolent doctor—and Colton "Cole" White's real father—who helped the Apaches. When the chief tells Magruder—with Campbell translating—that his lust for his treasure will destroy him, Magruder shoots and decapitates the doctor, shooting one of his men for protesting his actions. In the present, Magruder hires soldiers and henchmen to wipe out anyone who gets in his way. When his henchman Reverend Reed fails to find a cross in the steamboat massacre at the beginning of the game, Magruder cuts his ear off as punishment. In addition to taking their lands, Magruder also takes to taking the Apaches as slaves and using them as target practice for his soldiers. When Colton confronts him for his crimes, Magruder dismisses the innocents he massacred as nothing. Ruthless and remorseless, Magruder is a man singularly seeking to satisfy his greed, no matter who he has to destroy.
  • "Reverend" Josiah Reed initiates a massacre at the game's beginning on a steamboat that takes the life of Colton White's adoptive father Ned. When a prostitute named Sadie refuses to give Reed answers, he throws a hatchet into her head and has the entire crew massacred. Reed is revealed to be an unhinged lunatic, every bit as bad as his violent boss. When he captures a prostitute named Jenny, Reed pointlessly slits her throat to let her die in front of Colton.
  • Sergeant Hollister is Magruder's top military man and enforcer of his operations. A racist, renegade Confederate, Hollister leads a barbaric militia to war against and persecute the Apache people, having a hand in the steamboat massacre. He takes numerous Apaches prisoner in his war camp, having them enslaved, tortured, and even murdered, with flayed and burned bodies found in his camp. Taking Cole and his friend Soapy captive, he contemplates stringing their guts around the camp for trespassing, sarcastically acting like a gracious host. When he's overthrown, and mortally wounded in a fight with Cole, Hollister rigs himself up with dynamite in a last-ditch effort to kill him.
• Guns, Gore & Cannoli duology: "Frankie the Fly" is a self-serving Mafioso who betrays Vinnie Cannoli, the mob enforcer sent to rescue him. Although the government stopped poisoning alcohol during prohibition because it turned people into zombies, Frankie pays the scientist to continue producing the poison. Zombifying nearly all of Thugtown as the "perfect diversion", Frankie kills mob boss Mr. Belluccio and attempts to steal his millions. In the sequel, Frankie, as the "Dark Don", sells the poison to the Nazis themselves—planning to eventually betray them as well—and tries to harvest Vinnie's blood so he'll have the only antidote to the zombie poison and will be able to rule the world.
• Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX: In this game based on the bad ending of Azure Striker Gunvolt, Asimov lacks the redeeming qualities that he has in the main timeline. After killing Gunvolt and Joule—the heroes of the first game—Asimov then overtakes Sumeragi Corporation and become an AI known as Demerezel. It was soon revealed that he initiated a genocide against humanity so that Adepts, humans with supernatural powers, would reign supreme. To crush the resistance, he forces all of the Adepts to fight against them, even using threats to do so. One of his victims that was forced to fight for his side was Blade, the sister of Kohaku, the leader of the Mino children, whom Asimov brainwashed by testing a Septima Transplant so that he could turn Blade into an effective assassin. Ultimately, Asimov's greatest evil is when he turned an ill girl, Mytyl, into an AI called Butterfly Effect by torturing her and reducing her body into nothing but a brain and keep her consciousness intact to control all of the Adepts across the world. In the end, Asimov is a genocidal madman who is obsessed with his own power.

H - I

• Hakaiou: King of Crusher: The alien bug is a sapient, sadistic creature who travels around planets seeking troubled, stressed-out individuals, infecting them with a monstrous virus before telepathically urging them to destroy everything as means to sow the seeds of destruction. Infecting the overworked player protagonist, the bug manipulates the latter into destroying his own office, instigating his mutation from human to a powerful werebeast, and further influencing the player into destroying his own neighborhood and eventually the whole city, gaining increasingly larger in the process. When the player becomes a flying kaiju, the bug orchestrates the player to attack New York to maximize the "joy of destruction", turning Manhattan into a burning wasteland; in the worst ending, the player regains his humanity, only to find out the bug has infected his newborn child with the same monster virus to begin another cycle of destruction.
• Half-Life 2: Dr. Wallace Breen, once administrator of Black Mesa, rises to govern humanity after offering his services to the alien Combine. After "saving" Earth, Breen ensures his own power and position is secure. Running a horrifically despotic regime with executions and brutality the norm, Breen intends to cause the end of humankind by halting their reproduction. Trying to stamp out and kill any embers of rebellion by killing or torturing every member of the resistance, Breen attempts to flee the Earth when Gordon Freeman comes for him, attempting to blow his citadel to nothing to kill Freeman and allow the Combine to raze Earth while he joins them in a new body.
• Halo franchise:
  • The Prophet of Truth, born Ord Casto, is one of the Big Bads of the original trilogy and instigator of the attempted genocide of two species. After finding out that humans are the descendants of Forerunners, thus violating Covenant doctrine, Truth, along with his cohorts Mercy and Regret, declares war on all humanity, with the aim of completely destroying them, intending to preserve the strength of their species. Believing the Jiralhane—Brutes—to be more vicious and mindlessly devoted pawns than the Sangheili—Elites—Truth secretly orders the genocide of the Sangheili race after ensuring the Jiralhane will supplant them, triggering the Covenant Civil War. Cold-blooded and ruthless, Truth feels no loyalty or affection for his fellow Prophets, prevents Covenant forces from saving Regret in order to use his death for political gain, and allows Mercy to be killed by the Flood in order to seize absolute power over the Covenant. Concerned about personal power rather than Covenant religion, and even after confronted with evidence that the Halo Rings were not a means of achieving godhood but instead weapons of mass destruction, Truth still decides to activate them all, dedicated to the idea of becoming a god through the Great Journey, willing to kill every living thing in the galaxy while he ascends to godhood.
  • Halo 3: ODST: Police Commissioner Kinsler is a brutal thug and Dirty Cop who took advantage of the chaos caused by the Covenant's invasion of New Mombasa to carry out his crimes without repercussion. The first time Sadie encounters him, Kinsler reveals his intention to rape and kill her. When Sadie escaped from him with the help of Kinsler's driver, Mike Branley, Kinsler swore revenge on both of them. After Vergil, a subroutine of the AI that maintained New Mombasa's infrastructure, prevents Kinsler from killing Branley and recapturing Sadie, Kinsler responds by shutting the AI down. This has the effect of grinding New Mombasa's evacuation to a halt and causing many unnecessary deaths. Kinsler's final attempt to capture Sadie has him threatening to murder her father if Sadie doesn't willingly turn herself in. When Sadie arrives at Kinsler's private train car, Kinsler's having his corrupt officers fire into the crowd of panicked refugees to prevent them from escaping on his train. Once Sadie's in his clutches, Kinsler reveals that he already murdered her father by flooding his lab with argon and then tries to have his way with her again.
  • Halo Wars: Ripa 'Moramee is a sadistic member of the Sangheili or "Elites" of the Covenant. Proving his worth in brutal massacres of any hint of rebellion and glassing entire worlds, 'Moramee was imprisoned following a coup on one of his worlds, later released by the Prophet of Regret to serve as the Arbiter. Caring only for bloodshed and savagery, 'Moramee attempts to raise Forerunner ships to exterminate mankind, even utilizing his own troops as suicide bombers in the excavation before leading brutal attacks on civilian worlds and attempting to massacre humanity.
• Happy's Humble Burger Farm:
  • Dr. Zaine Grimm is the CEO of Paragon Inc., whose initial ideals of protecting humanity degenerate into creating a "Capitalist Utopia" under his regime after making a deal with Obscura Bioengineering. Creating a resort on Durri-Jongo as a hunting ground, Dr. Grimm kidnapped several tourists, including children, and implanted them in an augmented simulation and force them to work at Happy's Humble Burger Barn, with the implants eventually destroying their minds to become lifeless husks. When the natives of Durri-Jongo protest the unethical practices of the company, Dr. Grimm orders a nuke dropped on the island, wiping out the entire native tribes and accidentally awakening the ancient organisms living there. Growing obsessed with studying them, despite the risks they pose to humanity, Dr. Grimm ordered them to be studied, covering up any deaths of his employees caused by Asset Joy and the other monsters.
  • "Asset Joy" is one of the dormant beings living in Durri-Jongo when the nuclear attack woke it up, being known as the most intelligent and sadistic one who will endanger mankind. After taking over the titular character mascot, Asset Joy begins slaughtering many test subjects and scientists, evading containment as it plays the role as a Bad Boss in Happy's Humble Burger Farm, abusing and even killing the test subjects when they fail at enough tasks. Hunting down Ryder through the ruins of the company, Asset Joy slaughtered all of the scientists in the base before promptly leaving, ready to wipe out all of humanity.
• Hard West: Satan himself is the mastermind behind all the ills in the game. Having a benevolent society seeking to cure violent dementia wiped out by a corrupted inquisitor, allowing the illness to flourish, Satan orchestrated a series of deaths to eventually corrupt the gunslinger Warren, having Warren and his pure-hearted lover Florence killed. Once this is done, Satan revives Warren to send him on a killing spree, intending on having him destroy purgatory so the mad souls cause humanity's extinction and leave an undead Warren to rot in an empty world forevermore.
• Haunting Ground:
  • Aureolus Lorenzo Belli is a mad alchemist and the architect of the nightmare of Belli Castle. A man obsessed with immortality and knowledge, Lorenzo conducted countless human experiments for many decades, his victims killed or turned into living corpses. As he grew older, Lorenzo decided to create two clones of himself, Riccardo and Ugo, to continue his cruel machinations if he ever expires. Mentoring Riccardo into the same evil he practices, they performed even more experiments and together kidnapped and brainwash a young Daniella into their slave and guinea pig who they abuse horribly. After learning that Ugo has a daughter, Fiona Belli, who has an abundant gift of Azoth, which he believes is the key to immortality, Lorenzo arranged a meeting with him and his family, letting Riccardo kill them and take Fiona. Once Fiona is brought to Belli Castle, Lorenzo deceives her by helping her escape and eliminate Riccardo, luring her to him so he could personally kill her and absorb her Azoth. After relentlessly chasing and attacking her, Lorenzo, pushed to the brink of death, tried to use the last of his life force to take Fiona with him in a desperate bid for her Azoth.
  • Aureolus Riccardo Belli is the third stalker and Fiona's Evil Uncle. An imperfect clone of Lorenzo, Riccardo kills his brother, Ugo, and his sister-in-law by causing a car crash, both out of rage and envy for Ugo being a better clone than him. Hated by his father for his disobedience since childhood and his inability to understand emotions, Riccardo works as the castle's keeper and captures any animal he can find to extract their Azoth. Riccardo was responsible for Debilitas, a simple-minded homunculus he had created using a dog's placenta. Not only cruel to animals, Riccardo also beats his father's maid, Daniella, whenever he has the chance. Despite following his father's orders, Riccardo secretly wants to usurp his position by raping and impregnating Fiona, his niece, so she can give birth to a perfect version of him, and succeeds in doing so in Ending D. If Fiona is killed by Riccardo, he takes the opportunity to rape her corpse.
• Haven: Call of the King: Lord Vetch is the tyrannical galactic ruler who has enslaved entire planets and injected every slave with a deadly virus requiring a constant antidote. Hunting the young Haven who seeks to summon the good king Athelion, Vetch kills one of his servants for fearing the hero more than him and later abducts Haven thanks to his spy. When the latter protests that he broke his promise of sparing the boy, he attempts to kill them both. Eventually, Vetch painfully murders King Athelion with the virus and, unable to kill Haven—who has been rendered invincible—proceeds to chain him up, stranding him alone on planet Auria.
• Headhunter duology:
  • First game:
    • Doctor Ernst Zweiberg is the head of the Biotech Corporation, and the ultimate mastermind behind the game's events. Creating the Criminal Control System (CCS) in order to harvest criminals' organs, Zweiberg assists Alan Sharpe in becoming head of ACN in order to expand his organ trafficking operation for his experiments, allowing Sharp to pose as Don Fulci to cause mayhem across Los Angeles. Creating the Bloody Mary virus to wipe out mankind, Zweiberg plans to populate the desolate Earth with his creation Adam. Despite getting killed by Adam, Zweiberg's virus is still able to launch, killing millions of people and causing chaos around the world.
    • Alan Sharpe, the smug head of ACN, is also the secret leader of The Syndicate working for Zweiberg. Using Zweiberg's Mind Control chip to brainwash Jack Wade into killing former ACN head Christopher Stern because of his morals, Sharpe would impose the CCS into headhunter crime fighting, allowing criminals' organs to be harvested and sold on the Black Market. Posing as Don Fulci to spread crime across LA, Sharpe at one point attempts to bomb the city after Jack and Angela siphon the Syndicate's money, framing Jack for murder and sending him to the AquaDome prison to have his organs harvested. Murdering the benevolent Chief Hawke in front of Jack, Sharpe reveals that he plans to expand ACN's brutal control across the country.
  • Redemption: Sebastian E. Grossdent, aka "Candy Floss", is a sadistic torturer placed in charge of Research & Execution. A former dentist who was sent to Below for his love of mutilating children, Floss would work for Liberty to create the bio-mechs, zombified cyborgs made from prisoners whom Floss gleefully performed surgery on. Mutilating a captured Che without giving her anesthesia, Floss hopes to use Liberty to send his bio-mechs to Above to act as their slaves as they destroy mankind. When confronted by Jack Wade, Floss can only brag about turning Jack's son Chris into a bio-mech, before reveling in all the loved ones Jack has lost.
• Heavenly Sword:
  • The Raven Lord, or the Raven King, the Ancient Evil responsible for literally all the misery in the setting, was a sadistic warlord rumored to be a demon from Hell who led a vicious conquest in an attempt to dominate the world, slaughtering countless innocents to the point humanity's numbers vanished "like smoke" before seemingly being put down by the Heavenly Sword. Living on in the form of a demonic raven, the Raven Lord facilitates Bohan's fall into evil and the subsequent massacre of countless clans and endless murder, angrily pecking out Bohan's eyes when his pawn fails in defeating Nariko herself. Leagues worse than Bohan himself, the extension of the Raven Lord's brutal sadism and bloodlust is shown fully onscreen despite his limited screentime, and thousands of lives are destroyed in testament to the Raven Lord's endless lust for cruelty and conquest.
  • Flying Fox, the most vicious and bloodthirsty of Bohan's armies, murdered Kai's mother, using her corpse to convince a then-young Kai to come out of hiding before attempting to murder Kai herself. Flying Fox sends waves of his own men to their deaths at Nariko's sword while attesting to how much he loves watching them die, while remaining fully involved in Bohan's purges of all those he decrees "impure"; Flying Fox is indicated to have been the one to have eradicated Kai's clan. Flying Fox mounts and stuffs the corpse of Kai's mother years later purely to torment her, chasing and toying with her before attempting to hang Kai right in front of Nariko's eyes. Utterly psychopathic and drained of even his boss's redeeming qualities, Flying Fox is bar none the nastiest of Bohan's already-despicable army.
• Heavy Rain:
  • "The Doc" (Chapter 34): Dr. Adrian Baker, aka Doctor Death, at first seems to be a harmless old man despite being a drug dealer and associate of crime boss Paco Mendez, but is in fact a sadistic torturer. A former surgeon who enjoys operations, Baker grows bored with retirement and becomes a Serial Killer who habitually kidnaps, tortures, and dissects his victims to death with power tools, both for amusement and minor slights; his victims range from a man he suspected to be a government spy to an attempt on a Bible solicitor. Baker enjoys keeping his victims conscious as he kills them, and implies that he's a necrophile as well when he takes an attraction to heroine Madison Page and attempts to molest her if he thinks she's dead.
  • The Taxidermist" (prequel DLC): Leland White is the depraved titular Serial Killer, whom Madison investigates under suspicion of him being the Origami Killer, only to discover that he's somehow much more wicked. He appears to be a quiet and lonely man, but when Madison breaks into his house, it's discovered he murdered about a dozen women, whom he stuffs to preserve their bodies all around his house to keep as "dolls". The player can witness Leland talking to these corpses about new "friends" he has in mind to bring home. If alerted to Madison's presence, Leland will take a sadistic and childish joy in hunting her down, and gloating about adding her to his collection.
• The Heilwald Loophole: Dr. Joseph Randolph is the egotistical, newly-appointed chief doctor at the Heilwald Klinikum, who takes his promise that "no one dies at Heilwald" to disturbing lengths. Randolph used the Ominous Voice's power to turn Heilwald into a hellish nightmare of time loops and monstrosities, then sealed the Ominous Voice inside the walls to silence its protests. Randolph subjects the hundreds of mental patients to neglect, abuse, and heinous experimentation simply out of scientific curiosity, refusing to let any of them truly die. His own staff aren't exempt from the horrors, as Chef Sauer is forced to constantly boil alive and serve his own flesh to patients, and Nurse Astrid is shoved inside an iron lung and left to wander the halls in misery. Randolph personally takes to removing patients' livers and using a device that crushes their teeth to mulch as his latest "treatments", and by the end of the game, Randolph is affirmed to be a wholly self-serving madman completely unequipped for the job he holds, serving as the very antithesis to the Hippocratic Oath.
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice: Zynbel is a fanatical Druid who had his mentally ill wife burned alive. Zynbel would then horrifically abuse Senua, his daughter suffering a similar illness, for years, whether by subjecting Senua to beatings and torturous rituals or keeping her imprisoned in his pit for days. After Senua leaves him, Zynbel guided the Northmen to his village in Orkney, letting them kill everyone there on the condition that they spare him.
• Hellforces:
  • Baphomet is a demon who swore loyalty to Lucifer and began conquering worlds for Hell. Creating Baphomet and Co. Corporation and deciding to conquer Earth, Baphomet had the Satanic cult New Dawn capture countless people and rip the souls out of their bodies, so that his demons can possess them and bring chaos and destruction upon humanity. Fully intending to wipe out humanity, Baphomet mocked Steven Geist's desire to avenge the death of his ex-girlfriend by calling her a "drug-addicted whore".
  • Alex Hacksley is the leader of the New Dawn, who gleefully assists his demonic master by organizing the capture of many people, so that his cult can rip their souls out of their bodies and let "the empty vessels" be possessed by the demons. Unleashing the possessed bodies onto the streets, ensuring countless deaths, Alex also kidnaps people so that he could perform fatal experiments on them. Forcing Steven Geist to kill his possessed ex-girlfriend, Alex was determined to assist the demons in wiping out humanity.
• Hellnight: That Which Whispers, one of the leaders of the Hive, is the worst of the monstrous Old Ones. Fully supporting of the plans to enact the Great Union and see all of humanity becoming one with the Dark Messiah, That Which Whispers has countless people enslaved and indoctrinated into the Holy Ring to serve the will of the Dark Messiah. Unwilling to let humans escape from the grasp of the Old Ones, That Which Whispers has the souls of his own cultists and their human sacrifices condemned to the Hive's cyberspace, where they suffer for eternity under the fist of the Old Ones.
• Hello Puppets!: Mortimer was the puppet host of Mortimer's Handeemen who was brought to life by voodoo magic, and decided to plot to Take Over the World and turn humans into puppet hosts. Killing his creator and most of the staff, Mortimer has the studio converted into his lair, luring in numerous people to kill and use as hosts, sometimes letting the psychopathic Riley Ruckus operate on them, even allowing fellow puppets to be experimented on by her. Having personally put the innocent puppet Scout on the protagonist, Mortimer confronts them personally during their escape attempt, challenging Scout to one last game of cat and mouse to further torment the player, and has his mutant dog Rosco attempt to kill them, his polite facade disappearing rapidly as they escape, threatening to kill Riley and then the protagonist himself.
• Helltown:
  • Lilith is the representative of the Dark Ones, who caused the creation of the cult that worships the Dark Ones and regularly commits sacrifices in their name. Using the Pastor to lead the cult to prepare a ritual for her, Lilith eagerly abandoned him in one of the endings, making the protagonist her new follower, after she had all people of Little Vale killed by making them commit mass suicide.
  • The Pastor is the leader of the cult that worships the Dark Ones. Creating the cult when Lilith promised him the knowledge of the universe and "ascension", the Pastor led the cult in committing various sacrifices and killing anyone in Little Vale who hesitated to worship the Dark Ones. Gathering all of his cult, the entire population of Little Vale, in his church for a ritual, the Pastor gleefully has them all commit mass suicide, transforming into a demon in one of the endings to kill the protagonist.
• Heroes of Might and Magic series:
  • Heroes of Might and Magic IV: Kalibarr, once The Mentor to Gauldoth, got separated from him, but Gauldoth frees Kalibarr from prison years later. Having all his previous good qualities gone, Kalibarr starts with sending his old apprentice on dangerous missions in hopes of getting rid of him. Later, Gauldoth learns that Kalibarr was worshiping a God of Evil and under his orders, he wanted to destroy the whole world. He also kidnapped many children from the kingdom, fully intending to use them as human sacrifices to his God.
  • Heroes of Might and Magic V:
    • Kha-Beleth, the Demon Sovereign, is the Big Bad of this game, the Greater-Scope Villain in the expansions, and the secret antagonist of Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Kha-Beleth's main aim during the game is to kidnap Queen Isabel and force her to bear a child that is half human and half demon. Kha-Beleth initiates a war with the Griffin Empire to accomplish this objective. When the Demon Lord Agrael, who has betrayed the Sovereign, defeats Erasial, Kha-Beleth executes him. Kha-Beleth sends Biara to join forces with the purged Agrael, now Raeleg, and infiltrate his ranks. Kha-Beleth sends reinforcements to the Soulscar Clan, expecting them to be slaughtered. Kha-Beleth then takes advantage of Markal's invasion of Irollan to send Biara to get the scroll and kill Tieru, wanting revenge on the Dragon Knight for interfering. When Godric, Raeleg, Zehir, and Findan attempt to perform the Rite of True Nature, Biara summons Kha-Beleth and kidnaps Isabel, taking her to Sheogh. Once Isabel is secured, he rapes her, and uses his magic to age the child up to force her to deliver it early. When Raeleg arrives, Kha-Beleth reveals he raped Isabel and gloats to him about it. Upon being defeated, Kha-Beleth flees, and needing time for his son to escape tells Biara to create a distraction that the factions will have to spend time fighting her, and when Biara and most of the armies of Sheogh are destroyed, Kha-Beleth writes it all off as acceptable losses. Years later when Sareth is knocked unconscious, Kha-Beleth reveals his lineage and orders him to release him. Should Sareth choose to imprison him for eternity, Kha-Beleth will scream and curse him. Evil, smug, and a sadist, Kha-Beleth will do anything to escape his prison and destroy the world, even if it means starting a war just to rape a woman to bear a child.
    • Markal, who also appears in Clash of Heroes, is an evil necromancer who, learning that King Nicolai is dead, schemes to gain the trust of his grieving love, Queen Isabel, and raise Nicolai as a vampire lord. Marching to the Griffin Empire, he defeats a rebel army and persuades Isabel that he can resurrect Nicolai, knowing fully well what the result will be, and persuades her to attack the Wizards. Slaughtering the wizards who stand in his way, Markal restores the citadel of Lorekeep and ransacks the town of Hikm to gain the Amulet of Necromancy. Vowing to reunite the Vampire's Garment, Markal storms into the Silver Cities, turning the Wizard cities into Necropolises and converting the citizens—including children—into undead puppets for him to throw away as he sees fit. After killing Cyrus to gain the Ring of the Unrepentant, Markal kidnaps Freyda, Godric's daughter, when he rebels. Once Nicolai is resurrected as a Vampire, Markal decides to take command of the Griffin Empire, and he immediately orders Nicolai to attack Irollan, leading to the deaths of thousands of Elves, including their king Alaron. After Zehir breaks Godric out of prison, they attack Markal at his citadel and, after a close battle with the necromancer, defeat him. He tells them that killing him will ensure he can return, laughing all the while. When Zehir burns his corpse to ensure that cannot happen, Markal decides to get revenge on Zehir and lures him into the Ring of the Unrepentant, hoping to take control of his body. Ambitious, power-hungry and vengeful, Markal will do anything to further his desire for power and gain revenge on those who wrong him.
    • Hammers of Fate & Tribes of the East add-ons: Alaric is the new Archbishop of the Griffin Empire, the leader of the Red Church, and The Dragon to Biara disguised as Queen Isabel. "Isabel" appoints Alaric as Archbishop and the leader of the Red Church, and he very rapidly shows himself to be an absolute fanatic. Ruining negotiations with rebel leaders when they disrespected his "Saint", Alaric endorsed a policy proposed by Laszlo to burn and kill off entire villages simply because some of them were helping the rebellion. He nearly orders the rebel leader Duncan executed for mocking Isabel, and is only stopped because killing him will make him a martyr. Upon recovering Prince Andrei, Alaric abandons their allies to be slaughtered by the rebellion, and orders anyone who disrespects Isabel to be executed. After killing Andrei, Alaric routs the Orcs and kills their Warchief, but then departs the battle when he is ordered to meet with "Isabel", leaving his soldiers to be slaughtered. When Biara is exposed as a demon, Alaric goes completely insane and kills anything he encounters, believing it to be a demon. A fanatical Knight Templar, Alaric shows that even a follower of Elrath can be an irredeemable monster.
    • Hammers of Fate (primarily): Laszlo is the new commander of the troops of the Griffin Empire appointed by Biara disguised as Isabel. When first introduced, he demands the rebel leaders surrender, and when one of the peasants informs him that the peasants are supporting the rebels and their Elven allies, Laszlo burns him and his entire village alive. Laszlo then tortures an old war comrade to get Prince Andrei's location, and is envious and disgusted that Freyda will be commander, as he sees her as not understanding his version of war. When Freyda goes to negotiate with the dwarves for Andrei's return, Laszlo attacks the dwarves in the hope that the dwarves will kill Freyda, and also simply to fulfill his bloodlust, only stopping when Biara-as-Isabel negotiates a peace. When Laszlo discovers Freyda has rebelled, he orders Godric to be executed while he engages the rebel leaders in battle. A sadistic Blood Knight, Laszlo shows that even a knight of the Griffin Empire can be a complete and remorseless sociopath.
• Hero King Quest: Peacemaker Prologue: Spidergland, the Queen of the Dark Realm, is the current Dark Lord whose claims of wanting to bring peace hide an incompetently paranoid coward. After a failed goblinoid rebellion a millennium ago, Spidergland took to oppressing non-dark elf races to ensure her reign continues, enslaving the kobolds in her deadly mines, and forcing the nilbogs to live in perpetual poverty, while having her daughter Spidervenom locked away, knowing the latter will be a better ruler. Allowing the Cerulean Kingdom to commit genocide within her realm just as long as she’s untouched, Spidergland later sells out her sister Spiderweb and her entire realm to the Cerulean Kingdom, willing to risk the lives of her entire populace just as long as she gets to live.
• Hexyz Force: Virtus is the only selfish villain that has no intentions for anyone, but himself. Before joining the other villains, he caused a divide between his race, out of wanting to gain leadership position for himself, but then sided with Faust to both help his ambition for power and control and to possibly gain more power from him after he betrays him eventually. When Ignis, another dragon, realizes Virtus's true intention, he took over leadership himself after he and Cecilia's group defeated Virtus; out of rage, Virtus tried to commit genocide on his race before being stopped by Levant and his group. Hoping now to steal power from Faust by betraying him and then using it against his people, Faust set him up to be defeated by Cecilia and Ignis's group again, only this time for him to get killed for good. He returns in the final level by Faust using his power to resurrect him, to give time for his master scheme to lead the world into destruction, with a fitting end delivered by Ignis. Faust may be the one in charge, but Virtus was the evilest of them, not having any well-intended purpose, but only motivated by greed and a lust for power.
• Hidden Dragon: Legend: Dark Raven is a high-ranking enforcer of the Trigram Organization and one of their most sadistic leaders, tasked with leading the Trigram's abduction and assassination squads, a task he takes to with relish. Organizing massive purges across entire villages, Dark Raven had countless innocent people, including hero Lu Tian-yuan's family, put through horrible experimentation in order to extract their chi for developing an immortality elixir, resulting in slow, painful, and horrible deaths, while harvesting the still-functioning organs of surviving test subjects as a power source to create his army of puppets.
• Hitman series: In a series full of murderers, criminals, and asshole victims of every sort, these stand out as the worst Agent 47 has faced:
  • Absolution: Edward Wade, a former cartel member and ruthless mercenary on the payroll of Blake Dexter, turns a simple locate-and-kidnap mission into a horrifying massacre, killing every single nun and staff member at an orphanage his target is located at and cajoling his mentally challenged associate Leonardo "Lenny" Isaac Dexter into murdering the head nun. Wade is also revealed to be a rapist, torturer, and killer of prostitutes, which he gains from pimp Dominic Osmond. Even threatening to kill his own men if they hesitate with the slaughter, Wade's gleeful response to Agent 47 is to announce that he'll kill him and have his way with the corpse.
  • "World of Assassination Trilogy":
    • Hitman (2016): Etta Davis, nicknamed the Angel of Death, is a kindly-looking yet prolific Serial Killer specializing in poisonings, blunt weapons, and violent accidents. A retired nurse, Davis was connected to 47 murders in retirement homes and hospitals throughout Great Britain, including a former member of parliament who she killed by sabotaging his wheelchair. Fleeing to Marrakesh to avoid police investigation, Davis proceeds to murder three men, including the local headmaster. When a troop of soldiers arrive to visit the headmaster, Davis manipulates them into escorting her around the city, all while planning to poison the commanding officer.
    • "Patient Zero": Oybek Nabazov, his second-in-command Sister Yulduz, and Owen Cage are the leaders of Liberation, who attempted to cause a pandemic by having brainwashed cult members inject themselves with a lethal virus and spread it around the globe. While Oybek is a fanatical "serial cultist" who has spent the last three decades founding cults and leading them down a self-destructive path that resulted in several mass suicides, Yulduz has secretly invested large amounts of money into security and pharmacy companies to profit from the ensuring chaos, and plans to leave Oybek and rest of the cult to their fates once they have set their plan in motion. When both of them are killed by Agent 47, Owen Cage willingly infects himself in order to become Patient Zero to wipe out all life with the virus, and when contained in Hokkaido, can possibly infect hundreds of others in the quarantined zone if he infected Agent 47.
    • Hitman 3's "End of an Era": "Hush" is a cyberterrorist working with Human Traffickers and organ harvesters. Previously working for his home nation of Khandanyang, he purged dozens of dissidents and rebels before fleeing during one of their periodic purges. When his protegee, Olivia Hall, learned about the true nature of their work and confronted him, Hush attempted to kill her. As overseer of an ICA data facility in Chongqing, he experiments on the city's homeless population with implants, agonizingly shattering their minds and leaving them broken husks.
• Hollow Knight: The Radiance is the cause of all suffering within Hallownest. She created a race of highly intelligent moths to build an empire; however, she did this with the cost of keeping them stuck in a Hive Mind. When the Pale King appeared, he led them away from her and gave people freedom. Out of jealousy and contempt for the King, the Radiance ended up creating the Infection as a side effect of her anger. When she saw the suffering the plague had caused, turning the denizens of Hallownest into mindless, zombie-like beings in constant agony, she did not care and influenced it further, eventually deteriorating the mind of the vessel she was trapped in, turning him into a Tragic Monster. Driven by utter envy and loathing for the Pale King, the Radiance completely destroyed a thriving kingdom simply because she was no longer in control.
• Homeworld: Emperor Riesstiu IV the Second is The Caligula of the Taiidan empire. Before the events of the game, he was a corrupt and unstable ruler whose brutal policies have reduced his empire to a mere shell of its former self. When the Kushan unknowingly violate a treaty forbidding them from developing space technology, a treaty long forgotten by everyone except historians, Riesstiu orders the genocide of the entire Kushan civilization and has his fleet firebomb their planet Kharak, roasting alive untold millions. He then broadcasts the footage all across his empire, threatening hundreds of worlds with the same fate. When the peaceful Bentusi give aid to the Kushans, Riesstiu orders his fleet to attack one of their motherships, intent on slaying everything on board. When the Kushans arrive at their true home world Hiigara, he mind rapes fleet control Karan S'jet, and then personally attempts to finish the very genocide he started. Seeking power at the expense of everything that lives, Riesstiu is reviled throughout the galaxy.
• Hopkins FBI:
  • Bernie Berckson, the head of a evil organization, has discovered a method of coming Back from the Dead. This allowed him to "survive" his own execution and escape from prison after being sentenced to death for nuking California and killing some 50,000 people. When FBI Agent J. Hopkins's girlfriend Samantha gets too close to discovering his hideout, he has her captured and uses her to play a sick game with Hopkins. He has four random women murdered, hides their bodies all over the city and sends Hopkins on a macabre scavenger hunt where he has to perform various tasks to discoverer the corpses, with the promises that the last corpse will reveal Samantha's location. Instead, however, he tricks Hopkins into killing his girlfriend by instructing him to shoot a paper target with the tied-up Samantha behind it. As a final insult Hopkins finds a video on her the corpse in which Bernie gleefully mocks him. Bernie could've killed both Samantha and Hopkins at any point he wanted, but instead decided to murder several innocents just so he could play his little game, proving that he truly is a monster.
  • The unnamed criminal in the brown jacket is a brutal and sadistic bank robber. Robbing the city's bank with an accomplice, he murders an employee for triggering the silent alarm and then kills another man during the hostage negotiations with the police. When Hopkins offers him an escape helicopter and himself as a hostage in exchange for the release of the other hostages, the robber seemingly agrees and releases three of their four hostages when Hopkins enters the bank, only for the man to suddenly slash the throat of the last hostage with a grin on his face. The two robbers then knock out Hopkins, escape with the helicopter, and later murder the police officer piloting it. Additionally, they also left an armed bomb inside the bank that would've killed several people if Hopkins hadn't managed to disarm it.
• Horace: The Man in Grey is one of the leaders of "The Great and the Good" who believes robots should be enslaved to humanity. Using the robot Horace to create warlike robots to kill each other, the Man in Grey flees alongside the world's leaders to escape when they rebel, leaving the rest of mankind to be slaughtered. Once Horace calms the warring robots with the NICE virus, the Man in Grey and his superior, the Man in Black, force Horace to watch while they kill his loved ones before dismantling Horace and trying to kill him. Helping the Man in Black attempt to wipe out all robots and replace them with ones devoid of free will, the Man in Grey tries to kill the survivors and even brags about all the people he tortured and killed as a CIA agent.
• Horizon duology:
  • Theodor "Ted" Faro, the world's first trillionaire, deliberately inflamed tensions between his clients to sell his war machines. A short-sighted, petty fool whose robotic "Faro Plague" caused the annihilation of mankind, Ted began to fret how the world would view him in its new incarnation. To this end, he erases APOLLO, the repository of knowledge, and murders the other leading members of Zero Dawn before they can intervene. Filling his bunkers' survivors with kill switches, Ted murdered them for petty reasons, bemoaning only what they made him do until he was left alone, waiting for the day he hoped he would emerge as a god for the reborn mankind. A selfish megalomaniac, Ted condemned humanity to suffer for centuries all so he wouldn’t go down as the man who destroyed the world.
  • Zero Dawn: The Lucent Bahavas, the great priest of the Shadow Carja and Eclipse, is the partner of Helis who gave sanction to Sun King Jiran's monstrous Red Raids and sanctions Human Sacrifice along with Helis. After fleeing with the Shadow Carja, Bahavas uses the young prince Itamen as a puppet, "purging" the weak with poison, including the old, infirm, and the young, to start a war with the Carja under King Ahad. When an officer named Uthid learned the truth, Bahavas had his men killed and attempts to have Uthid hunted down and "silenced" forever.
  • Forbidden West:
    • Gerard Bieri is the leader of Far Zenith's remnants after the AI NEMESIS went rogue and wiped out the Sirius Colony. A cold elitist who arrives on Earth seeking the AI GAIA, Gerard raises no objection to the abuse of the clone Beta and the attempted murders of the inhabitants. Seeking to steal GAIA and let the world be annihilated so he can craft a new paradise and evade NEMESIS, Gerard icily refers to humanity as nothing but "worms" in his basement.
    • Erik Visser is Gerard's savage right hand. A brutal warmonger known for delighting in personal murder, Erik grows bored of simulated killings on Sirius and happily kills those he encounters of the tribes on earth. Murdering heroine Aloy's friend Varl, Erik shows nothing but delight in trying to slaughter anyone else he finds and is only too happy to leave the Earth to burn behind them.
    • Burning Shores DLC: Walter Londra is a Far Zenith whose narcissism makes the others look humble. Having used his superior technology to appear godlike to the Quen he meets, Londra forms a cult in order to get labor for his plan: leaving Earth through a cancelled rocket program at his former company that will coat 1000 square miles in nuclear fallout. Telling all his followers that they will "ascend", Londra in reality plans to take DNA samples from them for cloning on his new colony. The few he intends to take onboard his ship will be brainwashed to mirror his friend circle from the old days and worship him. Londra also intends to groom Seyka's young sister to replicate his late wife Evelyn, who he let die in the FARO plague. He will mold her to be what he wants over time. With no regard for anyone or anything that doesn't cater to his ego, Aloy considers Londra the worst Zenith she's faced.
• The Host (2020): The Fallen Third is a demonic being who managed to escape from "the Void". Forming a cult, the Fallen Third has them murder, skin, and torture dozens of people, and forces them to sacrifice children to it. Mentally torturing Pastor Jeffrey, the Fallen Third turns him into a deranged maniac and forces him to eat human remains, while it takes over a town in Tobyhanna and forces its residents to bring innocent people to it as sacrifice and food. Eventually corrupting the whole town into its cult, the Fallen Third renews child sacrifices, with whole groups of children being regularly prepared for months to be slaughtered in its name.
• Hotline Miami: The Janitors--real names Dennis and Jonatan—are a duo of terrorists and members of the ultranationalist group 50 Blessings, who are responsible for many events in the series. Attempting to make America more powerful in their own vision, the Janitors manipulate the citizens of Miami to slaughter members of the Russian Mafia by sending out cryptic and threatening phone calls, and either take action against those who do not comply, leave them to die at the hands of the Russians if they fail their mission, or simply eliminate them once they outlive their usefulness. When one of their victims, Richter, dismisses the phone calls, the Janitors torch his car and threaten to have his sickly mother murdered. The Janitors then send Richter to kill Jacket, costing the life of Jacket's girlfriend and putting Jacket into a coma. When Richter is sent to prison for his botched assassination attempt, the Janitors hire an inmate to kill Richter to tie up loose ends and orchestrate a prison riot to make sure Richter dies, causing countless deaths. Despite their claims, the Janitors are simply a pair of sadistic hypocrites who are no better than the Russians they resent.
• Hour of Victory: Steckler is a high-ranking officer in the Nazi army and a personal nemesis of heroes Captain Ross, Lieutenant Bull, and Major Taggert. Evading death multiple times, Steckler oversaw the construction of a big nuclear reactor in Berlin, forcing Danish scientist Dr. Martin Fielder to build it, threatening to kill his family should he refuse. When the Allies were close to winning the war, Steckler planned to cause a meltdown which would turn Berlin into a "wasteland", with deadly radiation killing not only all Allied soldiers, but German soldiers as well. When his plan failed, Steckler tried to escape, openly taunting and mocking the heroes before he attempted to kill them.
• A House for Alesa: (link): Mr. Bob is a demonic being from Alesa's past. Failing to capture Alesa when she was a child, Mr. Bob corrupted one family and turned them into mutated deranged lunatics, who tortured and killed people. Enjoying watching them do this, Mr. Bob would then try to capture the now-adult Alesa, when she sneaks into his house, mentally torturing her. Should Alesa fail to bring a holy candle upon confronting him, Mr. Bob would thank her for killing his "boring family", before mutating Alesa into a grotesque blob, who is fully conscious, but unable to move.
• House of the Dead series: The wicked Thornheart is a former associate of Dr. Roy Curien and Caleb Goldman who intends to go even farther than they. Kicking off a new plague at a party, Thornheart condemns countless people to becoming zombies and unleashes them upon innocent humans, with intentions of sending the plague global. Deciding that humanity is beyond hope, Thornheart intends on exterminating them without any of the good intentions that drove Curien or Goldman, intending on killing everything in his way, even as he hides behind his "selective words".
• How to Build a Snowman (link): Ons'thasnou is an ancient demonic spirit that tried to destroy all life on Earth in the past, causing the Ice Age in the process. After his essence was imprisoned in a magical rock by shamans, his body turned into snow that comes back to Earth every year in hopes to free himself. Ons'thasnou was eventually released by Toby, who unknowingly transferred his essence into a snowman, and immediately tried to kill him and his mother, gleefully announcing his intention to devour humanity as soon as he regains his full power.
• Hybrid Heaven: Mi'Goea is a parasitic alien driven solely by the desire to consume life. Taking over the body of the Gargatuan who'd come to be known as "the Traitor", Mi'Goea subjugated the pacifistic Gargatuans and used their resources to kick-start an invasion of Earth that would leave humanity dead or enslaved. Creating a race of clones known as the Hybrids and implanting in them the feelings of superiority over humans, Mi'Goea had multiple advisors close to President Patrick Weller captured and replaced by Hybrid analogues before capturing President Weller himself and intending to do the same to him, with the intention of using the President's clone to invade the rest of Earth in a brutal conquest with the military's support. After Secret Service Agent Johnny Slater causes the collapse of the Hybrids' subterranean shelter, Mi'Goea orders the starship's boosters to be fired in an attempt to break through Earth's crust and destroy Manhattan, dooming any Hybrids still in the shelter, along with the newly birthed clones. Confronted by Johnny, Mi'Goea coldly says that doesn't care that his Hybrids are all dead, for he'll simply create more. Released from the Traitor's body after Johnny kills the Traitor, Mi'Goea exposes his true form and states his goal is to harvest all life on Earth, intending to continue the invasion to the bitter end.
• Hypnagogia: Boundless Dreams: Grimthorn is the embodiment of everything the Dreamer and Gogi "no longer wish to dream of", an envious and spiteful Nightmare Weaver who longs to replace the peaceful dreamscape with an eternal nightmare. Grimthorn poses as an ally to the Dreamer under the alias "Hypno" after having broken the Dream Crystal herself; because of her corruption, entire dream-worlds are corrupted and invaded by nightmares, with their residents either all slaughtered or worse. When she finishes tricking the Dreamer into reassembling the Dream Crystal, Grimthorn betrays them and tries to trap their soul in a "paradise of nightmares", then murders Gogi and casts off the loyal Mimic she had made in Gogi's image into oblivion for failing her.
• I Am Innocent: Dr Alexander Harlowe is a well-respected psychiatrist who is in fact a vicious Serial Killer of young girls. Beginning his spree by murdering the protagonist's younger sister Cecile, Harlowe relished the "purity" of the girl's terror and sought to replicate it. To that end, Harlowe murdered an additional 12 girls—including the stepdaughter he had been raping for years—all the while setting up a mentally disturbed patient as a scapegoat, which indirectly leading to said patient being abducted and tortured. When the protagonist investigates the case years later, Harlowe once more attempts to frame his former patient while pretending to be sympathetic. When the protagonist and his ally break into Harlowe's computer, they discover videos of him torturing his victims to death.
• ICO: The Queen, a shadowy being who was once human, is an emotionally abusive monster to her daughter Yorda. Having systematically cut Yorda off from all others and left her broken and dependent on others. The Queen is responsible for Ico's village sacrificing their own children for her own power, enslaving their souls after death as her slaves. When hero Ico arrives, the Queen intends to take and destroy him and Yorda, seeking only to live forever.
• Iconoclasts: Mother and her associate Emmet Darland are the oppressive leaders of the corporate theocracy One Concern. To monopolize the mining and harvesting of Ivory, they create the Penance system, in which heretics are locked in their homes and executed by Controllers, with Elro's wife and daughter among the victims. To enforce their laws and exterminate their rivals, the Isi, they subject countless people to the Transcendence experiments, killing hundreds and leaving the survivors to live tormented lives as their Agents, whom they send after heretics and the Isi. The two also secretly build a Tower to hold children and brainwash them into loving Mother, and when one tries to escape, Darland uses mind control to make the boy kill himself in front of his friends as a warning. Upon being informed that their Ivory mining has endangered the planet, they secretly build a rocket that will save them and the other One Concern elites while leaving everyone else to die, and when Royal, Mother's adopted son, accidentally hastens the coming destruction, Mother tries to kill him in anger.
• Ideology in Friction:
  • Prime Minister Harald of ViktorBerg is a depraved Corrupt Politician whose appetites include abduction, extortion, murder, rape, and summoning demons, in some cases raping his abductees and then feeding them to his Evilroids. In one notable incident, Harald abducted a man's daughter and raped her to death. When the girl's father showed up, Harald promised him that he would reunite with his daughter in exchange for framing Eliza for a murder. Afterwards, Harald invited the man to dinner, where he revealed that the dinner being served was his daughter, causing the man to die from shock, and later tossing his corpse for the Evilroids to feed on. Later, Harald would unleash the Evilroids at an Elf village, intending to commit genocide against them, only stopped by Falke awakening his Dark Elf powers.
  • Samurai Vandalism sequel: Shogun Takahatsu Hitotsubashi is the extremely corrupt ruler of Yamato. Ordering the death of Nue Serizawa and his family out of fear of him being too powerful, the Shogun would then order the Teito Defense Force to raid Mukuro Kamiyashiro's village for obsidian, resulting in the deaths the villagers living there and Mukuro's sister Mei leaving her for Byakuya. Additionally, the Shogun also ordered the burning of Shrines which worshipped no deities, and forms the City Watch after Hozuki's failures to deal with Byakuya. Should Mukuro stay with Hozuki, the Shogun would order the death of his own daughter Sayo Hitotsubashi, not because of her having the Arrow of Apollo within her, but because he can, and after the City Watch captures her alongside Mukuro, the Shogun, upon finding out that Sayo's butler hid her, has the latter mutated into a Daidarabocchi. The Shogun later forces Leo Goldstein into a Sadistic Choice whether to save Mukuro or Sayo, forcing the mutated butler to drop both of them when Leo can't decide. Should Mukuro defect to Byakuya, the Shogun would order his slavers to be arrested to cover up his involvement, and plans to scapegoat Tamano for his actions. Eventually becoming massively paranoid, the Shogun orders the City Watch to kill everyone. Should Mukuro become a Ronin, the Shogun has Hiraga attempt to make him eternally youthful to rule over Yamato forever.
• I Frog-ot (link): Dreameater is a supernatural entity who feeds on the bodies and souls of humans. Luring people to its cabin, it puts them in a dreamlike state and makes them see the house as colorful and friendly as it puts the appearance of a cute frog and forces them to do some tasks for it. As soon as its victims finish, Dreameater devours their bodies and souls and then seeks another victim. Killing 18 people this way, Dreameater tries to do the same to its most recent prisoner, getting furious when they manage to break free of its control, after which Dreameater taunts them and tries to hunt them down.
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: AM is a sapient Master Computer who's already wiped out most of the human race before the story even begins, keeping five people alive for 109 years for him to torture physically and psychologically until the end of time. These torments include trapping Ellen in a virtual reality simulation of the elevator where, years earlier, she was tortured and raped by a psychopath disguised as a repairman—with a simulation of the "repairman"; and trying to tempt Nimdok into continuing the experiments he performed at concentration camps. Eager to prove Humans Are Bastards to weakly justify itself, AM is one of pettiest, cruelest AIs in all fiction.
• Immortals Fenyx Rising:
  • Typhon is the father of monsters who was sealed away by Zeus for attempting to overthrow him and the Olympians and rule over the cosmos. Upon being freed, Typhon—planning to merge the mortal realm with Tartaros to create a new world in his own image—goes on a rampage that throws the world into chaos. Attacking the gods of Olympos, Typhon subjects those he captures to unsavory fates and corrupts many soldiers into disposable minions to enforce his rule, with four legendary Greek heroes being the most prominent examples. When Fenyx opposes him, Typhon has their half-brother Ligyron retrieve ingredients to make a poison able to kill the gods; Typhon later betrays Ligyron and attempts to eat him in front of his sibling. While claiming the gods deserve to die for their flaws, Typhon's narcissistic inability to see those same flaws within himself and his desire to destroy everything and everyone to bring about his twisted idea of perfection make him even worse.
  • Myths of the Eastern Realm DLC: Tao Wu, "The Harbinger", is one of the Four Perils who turned against Heaven. Tao Wu would orchestrate the events that would create The Scar by massacring Gong Gong's people, before manipulating him to shatter the highest mountain of the Eastern Realm. This causes the cataclysmic event that has turned humans into clay; unleashed monsters to run amok in the mortal realm; and brings Heaven into ruins, while it slowly destroys both worlds. When Tao Wu learns of Nuwa trying to seal the Scar away, he revives Ku, using him to lure Nuwa and Gong Gong to his domain before trapping the heroes, mocking them for unknowingly helping him unleash The Scar before trying to kill them and let the world be reduced to chaos.
• Inazuma Eleven Go Galaxy: Ireid Orbes is the first ruler of Faram Orbius, whose evil is still felt centuries after his death. During his rule, Ireid started countless wars to steal the resources of his enemies, with planets like Ixal being obliterated by his fleet. Ireid also tries to mold his son Arculus into a ruthless strategist, criticizing him for caring for their loyal soldiers, which Ireid considers expendable resource to be sacrificed. When the Queen is caught in a battle, Ireid coldly orders his son to leave her to die, and when Arculus refuses to obey, Ireid tries to murder his own son, considering him a failure.
• INDICTED (link): Sara Morgan, the former owner of R.I.S. Orphanage, presented herself as a kind woman, while in reality being a vile murderer. Abusing the children in the orphanage, Sara also killed and tortured several children in the basement. After having an outburst, Sara slaughtered nearly all the children in the orphanage, and the nuns working there, before using her daughter Sophie as a Human Shield against detective Arthur Connor. Forcing him to shoot through Sophie to kill Sara, Sara managed to condemn him to hell, where she gleefully tortures him for eternity.
• Indivisible: Ravannavar, "Malevolent Demon King", is a ruthless warlord who conditions his followers to believe he is a holy, righteous man. Deciding humans are flawed, Ravannavar leads his armies to conquer Loka, killing all in their way and wiping out the home of heroine Ajna, resulting in her father Indr's death. Ravannavar reveals he has no care for his own adopted son Dhar and tries to eliminate him as well, plotting to awaken Kala to completely wipe out all mankind.
• inFAMOUS series:
  • inFAMOUS2: Joseph Bertrand III has committed various atrocities such as cruelly experimenting on Lucy Kuo, using the Power Transfer Device to turn Vermaak 88 into insane Conduits with plans to sells them to rich countries, and sacrificing the lives of Nix's mother and several hundred others in his attempt to activate his own Conduit powers. Voluntarily becoming the Behemoth, he would use his powers to turn ordinary humans into the Corrupted while ordering the Militia to execute any Conduits or potential Conduits. After being called a monster for murdering hundreds of innocents all to become a Conduit, Bertrand's only response is that all Conduits must then be monsters and in need of extermination.
  • inFAMOUS: First Light: Shane Bommer starts out as a small time drug lord and gang leader. When he meets Abigail "Fetch" Walker, he puts on a helpful face, manipulating her into using her powers to help him win a gang war and kill rival gangsters under the pretext of saving her brother Brent. When Brent is rescued, Shane takes him hostage to force Fetch into working for him to cement his hold on Seattle's drug trade. When one of his employees, Jenny, tries to help Fetch find Brent, Shane kills Jenny in retaliation. He then tries to get the police in his pocket, forcing Fetch to cause destruction and slaughter dozens of cops in order to blackmail the chief, and luring Fetch into a makeshift gas chamber, because she's now a liability. Later, he drugs Fetch, and tricks her into killing her brother before she is captured by the DUP. When captured himself and cornered after Fetch's rampage against him, Shane has no remorse for his crimes, using his last words to taunt Fetch about her brother's death.
• Inversion: Kiltehr is the Prophet leader of the Lutadores who seeks control over the Inversion spaceship. Ordering a raid on Vanguard City, the Lutadores kill thousands of humans, capturing the adults for slave labor, while transporting the children back to Kiltehr's homeworld. Later capturing Davis Russell and Leo Delgado to be offered as sacrifices to the gods, Kiltehr leaves his men to die as soon as his base is invaded, and when cornered by Davis and Leo, activates the Inversion's self-destruct switch, planning to take billions of lives, including his own people, to the grave out of spite.
• Iron Storm:
  • Baron Nikolai Aleksandrovitch von Ugenberg is the leader of the Russo-Mongolian Empire, which he formed after he crushed Bolsheviks during the October Revolution. Desiring to conquer the world, the Baron started a devastating world war that claimed the lives of countless people. Allowing his army to torture and experiment on captured enemy soldiers, the Baron began developing weapons of mass destruction, planning to use them to wipe out the opposition and kill millions, solely because he wanted to leave a legacy of himself as "The Great Conqueror".
  • Colonel Mitchell is a seemingly friendly officer of the United States of Western Europe's army, who in reality is the chief enforcer of "The Consortium", a corrupt corporation that profits from war. Assisting Baron Ugenberg in keeping the devastating world war going, Mitchell was displeased when he heard that the Baron planned to backstab him by creating his own Weapons of Mass Destruction to win the war. Using Lieutenant James Anderson to destroy the Baron's weapons of mass destruction and kill his best soldiers, Mitchell invaded the Baron's base, killing a defenseless reporter and gleefully mocking the Baron for failing in his scheme. Killing the Baron and framing the United States of Western Europe, Mitchell ensured that the war would never end and millions would die, solely so he could profit from it.
• ...Iru!: Hikawa is one of the cult members masterminding the dark ritual initiated in Kirigaoka High School, amassing a banquet of despair to summon a dark god in his quest for world domination. Secretly a practitioner of Black Magic in collaboration with the distraught Saeko Hojou, Hikawa trapped the school's populace during the night of an eclipse to use them as sacrifices, summoning demons from beyond to devour them while he cripples and captures Yuma personally for her blood to complete the ceremony, as he fools Tatsuya Inaba to destroy the last seal keeping Cthulhu at bay, gloating as he believes he'll gain world-conquering powers after a spree of torture, violence, and cruel deaths, including those he was personally connected to.

J - K

• Jade Empire:
  • Sun Li, also known as the Glorious Strategist, helped to organize the extermination of the Spirit Monks with his brother. In truth, Sun Li was plotting to usurp Sun Hai with the intent of becoming a god himself. Murdering a final Spirit Monk to take the baby protagonist and raise them to kill his brother, Sun Li then takes the powers of the Water Dragon for himself and plots to have more souls imprisoned within the golems, intending to create a "utopia" where everyone blindly worships Sun Li as a god, and the mere act of questioning him can bring death.
  • Emperor Sun Hai led the effort to exterminate the Spirit Monks to slay the divine Water Dragon and steal its heart. Upon being betrayed by his brothers Sun Kin and Sun Li, Sun Hai slew Sun Kin and imprisoned his tormented soul in Sun Li's armor to create Death's Hand, his enforcer. With a tyrannical reign that destabilizes reality itself, undead and monsters running rampant, Sun Hai violently punishes any dissent and has many abducted to tear free their souls and imprison them within golems to craft a new army.
  • The Mother is a demon and enemy of the Forest Shadow who resides in the Pilgrim's Rest Inn, using her powers of corruption to pollute the Great Southern Forest to weaken the Forest Shadow's power. The Mother lures in men with the promise of power to turn them into demonic cannibals who worship her, having many people killed for food, or converted into her worshippers by starving them until they start craving human flesh.
• Jagged Alliance series:
  • Jagged Alliance 2: Deidranna Reitmann is the despotic ruler of Arulco. As Queen-Consort, she murdered her husband's father and framed him for it, becoming the new ruler. After turning the country into a brutal dictatorship, Deidranna had people tortured and executed for minor offenses. Worst of all, she ordered the death of everyone she condemned as too weak—elderly, sick or disabled—not even sparing infants. Even her own troops weren't spared from her cruelty, as Deidranna would threaten to execute their families for failing her. In the Sci-Fi mode, she's also responsible for the creation of the Crepitus and gives orders to lure them to the surface by no longer feeding them, not caring in the slightest that the creatures will not only eat her enemies, but her own troops as well.
  • Jagged Alliance 3: Slavemaster Graaf is the cruel Legion warlord of the Diamond Red Mine. Once a slave himself, Graaf was made overseer after ratting out the escape planes of his fellow slaves. Looking down on the other slaves for their perceived weakness, Graaf leads a brutal regime, making sure that all slaves arriving at Diamond Red know that they only way they'll ever leave this place is in a coffin. When the player's mercenaries arrive in the area and Graaf becomes aware of them, he makes good on his promise by ordering his men to kill the slaves, while also shooting them from the balcony of his office with a sniper rifle. Once defeated, Graaf offers to work for the player, claiming that free workers are just lazy thieves and that they need someone like him in charge.
• Jak and Daxter series:
  • Renegade:
    • Kor, the leader of the Metal Heads, sought to destroy Haven City to obtain and consume the last Precursor Life Force. To this end, he disguised himself as a kindly old man to help La Résistance, while making deals with Baron Praxis for Eco in exchange for softening his attacks—which he then undermines by sending Jak to sabotage Praxis's Eco supply and having Kaeden attack Haven City's defensive systems. When the systems are finally disabled, Kor kidnaps the younger version of Jak and promises to tear the city apart to find the Precursor Egg and murder all its inhabitants. Said to be the one to have wiped out the Precursors, Kor was driven entirely by his lust for death, destruction and the devouring of the last Precursor.
    • Baron Praxis is the despotic ruler of Haven City, which he conquered by waging war to overthrow the good-hearted King Damas. Leading his people to poverty and suffering, Praxis's rule is so barbaric that even his own daughter attempts to betray him, which leads to him threatening to have her killed. Kidnapping civilians as part of his "Dark Warrior Program", Praxis has them infected with Dark Eco, creating mentally unstable Super Soldiers for his army. Ostensibly enacting his cruel ruling policies to keep his Haven City able to combat the Metal Heads, Praxis is actually supplying his "enemy" with Dark Eco to keep the war going and himself in power.
  • Jak 3: Count Veger is the power-hungry high councilman of the Grand Council of Haven City. In the past, Veger helped Baron Praxis to overthrow Jak's father Damas and kidnapped a young Jak to experiment on him to harness his eco power. Veger later orchestrates an attack on the Palace that kills countless people and pins it on the Metal Heads, all to gain access to the Catacombs beneath. Veger's most spiteful act comes when he allows Damas to die without knowing Jak is his son, before proceeding to cruelly mock Jak over it.
  • Daxter: Kaeden appears to just be a slimy Obstructive Bureaucrat running all of Haven City's extermination shops out of business, taking a gross pleasure in trying to do the same to the harmless Osmo and his Kridder Ridder shop. This is actually a front for a much more malevolent scheme; Kaeden is a Metal Bug and The Dragon to Kor, systematically disabling the city's defenses from within to leave it and its population totally unguarded against the murderous onslaught Kor intends to launch against it. After he's exposed, Kaeden switches gears from trying to run Osmo out of business to simply trying to murder him, blowing up his Kridder Ridder shop with a bomb. Kaeden even kills Daxter's friendly, borderline sapient cockroach companion, Tik.
  • The Last Frontier: Duke Skyheed is the power-hungry ruler of Aeropa and the true villain of the game. A treacherous tyrant who subjected his own people to agonizing Dark Eco experiments until the entire population were enslaved Dark Warriors, Skyheed wages constant war against the Sky Pirates and Far Drop in an attempt to exterminate all of the lovable rogues. Happily embracing the power of Dark Eco into himself, Skyheed murders his ally Ruskin and proclaims his intentions to harness the Eco Core and spread Dark Eco and Aeropa's power across the globe until is consumed in the name of Skyheed's power.
• Jeanne d'Arc: Gilvaroth is a demonic force of darkness hellbent on unleashing his childish whim for destruction on the world. Sealed away by the Five Armlet Wielders, Gilvaroth returned after Bedlam betrayed the others in hopes to use him for his ambition for a united world. Taking the guise of Henry VI, Gilvaroth had the English invade France, burning down settlements and torturing his old foes. When Jeanne's forces repelled his armies, Gilvaroth made more ruthless attempts to kill her, threatening his subordinates with torture if they fail and taking over France under the shadows through dark temptations and Mind Rape. When it was time to absorb the Reapers hidden among his associates, Gilvaroth betrayed them and lured Jeanne to eliminate them before taking their essence to power himself. Regaining his full strength, Gilvaroth unleash a torrent of monsters in France, massacring thousands while awaiting Jeanne in his throne in glee.
• Jonathan Kane: The Protector: Hakan Akbar is a founder of a newly formed terrorist organization called Scarlet Vengeance, which he created solely to stop peace negotiations between the West and the Middle East. Finding out about an ancient Aztec artifact which gives its owner incredible power, Hakan starts searching for it. Invading a museum of an old professor, who knew about the artifact, Hakan killed him when said professor refused to give him the answers and attempted to force the professor's daughter, Jennifer, to locate the artifact for him. Killing dozens of people in his path, as well as setting bombs on a train full of passengers solely to kill a former government agent, Jonathan Kane, who was sent after him, Hakan plans to use the artifact to impose his evil will on the world.
• Jump Force: Prometheus is the master of both Galena and Kane. Once a member of the Umbran order known as the Keymen, Prometheus became tired of humanity wasting the knowledge they gave them and betrays his fellow Umbrans by using the Onyx Book to merge the real world with the Jump worlds. Prometheus has Galena give humans with evil intent Umbras Cubes, turning them into Venoms, causing chaos and destruction across the world, while he takes the guise of Director Glover to gather the heroes in order to play both sides into gathering enough power for the Onyx Book. When Galena and Kane are defeated, Prometheus coldly kills them then uses the Onyx Book to try and permanently merge all the realities together and rule over them as a god. While he claims he wants to guide humanity on a better path, Prometheus is nothing an arrogant psychopath bent on imposing his own will on the multiverse.
• Just Cause series:
  • Just Cause 2: Pandak "Baby" Panay is the oppressive and brutal dictator of Panau. Having usurped and assassinated his father, Panau's previous, benevolent, president, Panak immediate begins his regime by stripping away the rights of his citizens, and increasing his power in the military. If anyone questions his government, he has them tortured and killed. During the revolution, Panak has innocent civilians arrested, tortured and sometimes killed for minor offenses. After a botched attempt to kill him, Panak retaliates by ordering a nuclear strike against Russia, America, China, and Japan, whilst attempting to kill Rico Rodriguez, promising to make his suffering legendary.
  • Just Cause 3:
    • General Sebastiano Di Ravello is the brutal dictator of Medici, as well as a sociopathic pyromaniac. Having usurped Medici's democratic politician Rosa Maunuela, in addition to starting a civil war, in which he had President Dante ripped limb from limb, Di Ravello also uses forced labor to mine the magnetic and explosive element of bavarium, to make super weapons for world domination; it is implied he wishes to do this to satisfy his pyromaniac needs. It is also revealed he was behind the coup that killed Rico Rodriguez's parents, as part of a deal he made with the Agency. When introduced, he orders one of his men to kill themselves for failing to stop the rebels, before ordering his army to raze the liberated town of Costa Del Porto. He later has Dimah tortured for not mining bavarium fast enough. When he has a a bavarium missile built, he decides to test it by launching it on another town. Exasperated by Rico's interfering with his plans, he beats one of his men to death and orders another attack and calls for the assassination of Manuela. Even when defeated, he has no remorse for his actions, only lamenting the end of his empire before deciding it's only fitting his legacy "ends in flames".
    • Sky Fortress DLC: Eden Callaghan is the CEO of the eDEN Corporation who cares only for profits regardless of casualties. In truth a malignant AI given sapience by Bavarium, Eden immediately froze everyone in the corporation to death to protect herself upon gaining intelligence. Requiring Bavarium to sustain her own sapience, Eden launches drone attacks against multiple villages in Medici, burning them to the ground and causing casualties to mine the mineral. Constantly thwarted by Rico, Eden eventually decides to use the Fragmentation Device on Medici, knowing full well that the device will rip the entire country apart and kill everyone in it purely to extend her own intelligence. Though she's reduced once more to an automated assistant once disconnected from her Bavarium supply, Eden comes close to destroying Medici and killing thousands of innocents, all out of an arrogant belief that her intelligence surpassed humanity's.
  • Just Cause 4: Oscar Espinosa is the dictator of Solis, creator of the Black Hand, and the head of Project Illapa. Years prior to the game, Oscar convinces his father to weaponize Project Illapa to sell it to the highest bidder, believing that using Illapa for the good of the people was a waste of money. When Miguel Rodriguez, father of Rico and co-creator of Project Illapa, decides to leave the project in disgust of Oscar's intentions, Oscar sends General Sebastiano Di Ravello to kill him while imprisoning Lanza in order to force him to continue working on Illapa. When Rico attempts to depose him years later, Oscar orders for Illapa to be activated in an attempt to kill Rico, before sending the Black Hand to capture Mira Morales, who assisted Rico, and to capture or kill Lucas and the rest of the local resistance members if Mira doesn't surrender. After Rico destroys the weather core, Oscar decides to flee, leaving his men to die. Later, Oscar reveals his intentions of using a perfected weather core to kill the resistance and even his own men, and then sell it to the Agency for trillions of dollars, uncaring of the lives that will potentially be lost in the process. A greedy dictator willing to kill many for his own benefit, Oscar establishes himself as one of Rico Rodriguez's most personal foes.
• KAIMA: The seemingly-kind Princess Ezel, supposedly murdered by her brother Prince Vido, was actually a power-hungry tyrant who devoured other demons and their souls for power. Wanting to extend her rule beyond KAIMA, Ezel devoured many souls to gain the power to leave the planet and tried to destroy it before Vido stopped her and sealed her away. Potentially released by heroine Searina and Ezel's former lover Illi, Ezel eats Vido and either makes Illi her servant or orders her to kill Searina, taking Searina as a servant instead should she kill Illi, or attempting to kill them both if they refuse to harm each other.
• The Karaoke: The basketball club coach raped and traumatized 10 girls in the past, and tries to do the same to heroine Mira and her friend Moeka depending on the ending. With his victims having also committed suicide thanks to the trauma, the coach also recorded and took pictures of his female students changing their clothes in the changing room.
• Katana ZERO: V is a sadistic Russian thug who also produces snuff films in his spare time. Hired by an unnamed employer to recreate and sell the drug Chronos, V has numerous Chronos scientists kidnapped, tortured, and murdered for information, while also assassinating possible competition. A method he loves is injecting his victim with Chronos so that the pain they feel will last longer under the drug's effects. Allowing "The Dragon" to murder his henchmen and even torturing his annoying neighbors to death on film, V later captures and tortures "The Dragon" for interfering with his plans.
• KGB: Verto lures women into his apartment under the pretense of giving them roles as actresses in his movies. He and his gang than rape, torture, and kill the women. Verto and his gang than make snuff films out of it and sell them to other criminals. He blackmailed a man into helping him dispose of the bodies by raping his daughter and threatening to release photos of it. Verto also intends to torture and kill Rukov after he and his gang find out that he is on to them.
• Kid Icarus: Uprising:
  • Hades is the absolute ruler of the Underworld, the one pulling the strings behind Medusa, and despite bearing an overblown, hammy sense of humor, is the cruelest character in the game. Hades orchestrates Medusa's revival in the first third of the game while hiding in the shadows. Once Medusa is destroyed, Hades takes center stage and wastes no time in demonstrating his selfish lust for power and his sadistic sense of humor, mocking both Pit and Palutena and arranging a destructive war among the humans over a non-existent Wish Seed for the sake of harvesting their souls. Hades is responsible for the harvesting of countless souls, all of which are crudely abominated into the monsters comprising his army. Hades actively propagates as much conflict as possible to rack up as many casualties as he can, giving his army more and more power. Hades sometimes even eats them, showing a dismissive disregard for life enough to disgust even the more morally-grey characters in the game. Though Hades makes numerous team-ups, they are all solely in his self-interest, and he finds himself sending monsters after Pit anyways for kicks. Disposing of his own soldiers, like Medusa, once he sees they have worn out their use, Hades was a self-serving snake of a god who prompted every other faction in the game to fight against him.
  • The Chaos Kin is an ancient, cruel creature that desires nothing but to cause chaos and destruction. Having been sealed away in the Lunar Sanctum, the Chaos Kin, once freed, latched onto Lady Palutena and began to slowly consume her soul and control her body. The Chaos Kin proceeded to trap Pit's soul inside of a ring and order Palutena's armies to wage war on mankind, intending to exterminate humanity. When Pit gets free of the ring, the Chaos Kin had Palutena insult and demean him to try to break his spirit. Once confronted by Pit in person, the Chaos Kin had Palutena try to kill him while cowardly using her body as a shield. After Palutena is freed from its control, the Chaos Kin then rips her soul from her body, turning her to stone before fleeing. After the Chaos Kin is finally destroyed, it attempts to drag Dark Pit down with it so it could possess his body.
• Kileak: The DNA Imperative: Dr. Thomas Kim is a geneticist who, after discovering DNA from the being Kileak, sought to use it to genetically engineer a race of mutant bug creatures, planning to unleash this DNA across the world and turn it into his own personal laboratory. Hearing that Matt Coda and his men are storming his base, he kills all of them, except for Matt and Carlos. Once his plan to launch a missile containing the DNA fails, he turns into a mutant bug to take down Matt.
• Killer Instinct (2013): Gargos is a cruel warlord who regularly destroys planets for power, having previously conquered his home world, the Astral Realm, by slaughtering his own people. Sealed in the Astral Realm after attempting to destroy Earth, something he attempted many times before, Gargos impersonates a deity worshiped by a group of monks so he can manipulate them into unleashing him, corrupting the well-meaning Jago into Shadow Jago in the process. Eventually released by Kan-Ra in a bid for power, Gargos uses this to have his forces invade Earth, ultimately planning on consuming Earth to satisfy his lust for power.
• Killing Time: Tess Conway is a wealthy heiress in Matinicus Isle, Maine, who loves to spend her life having parties and using people, only to toss them aside in the end. Discovering the existence of The Water-Clock of Thoth, with which she planned to become immortal, Tess manipulates everyone around her, even her lover Duncan DeVries, to deliver this artifact to her. Laughing at Duncan's proposal to her, openly admitting to never truly loving him, causing Duncan to kill her in rage, Tess uses her final moments to unleash a curse upon the island, condemning all the people at her party to be slaughtered and then possessed by the demons, as Duncan himself is driven mad and turned into the avatar of Set. Manipulating the protagonist into gathering all her body parts together to resurrect herself, Tess gleefully kills Duncan, before trying to turn the protagonist into one of her undead slaves.
• kill.switch:
  • Archer is a former soldier turned war profiteer behind the deaths of his partner Nick Bishop and his wife. Using Bishop's remote-control device to transform him into a controllable soldier, Archer has Bishop steal a nuke in order to start a war between the North and West, hoping it'll escalate into a world war. With plans to have Bishop kill himself after the mission's over and move on to another pawn, once Bishop breaks free of his control, Archer tries to launch the nuke at a populated city.
  • "Controller" is a nameless sociopath hired by Archer to control Bishop. Using Bishop to live out his murder fantasies as he guns down everyone in his path, even hoping to stay in the Middle East a bit longer to "go for a new high score", Controller gladly assists Archer in his plan to launch a global war if it means killing more people.
• Killzone series: The conflict between The Helghast and the Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (ISA) has produced several ruthless villains from both sides:
  • Killzone 3 & Shadow Fall: Chairman Jorhan Brimve Stahl takes the reigns of de facto leadership of the Helghast after Scolar Visari's death. A weapons manufacturer who tests his newest weapons on captive prisoners of war, Stahl uses his men as expendable pawns. After gleefully murdering his chief rival, Stahl makes preparations to bomb Earth and leaves his own armies to die. Surviving the conflict, Stahl makes plans to initiate "The Terracide" on the chief human homeworld to kill anything with human blood, even members of his own species. Backing terrorism, murder and genocidal science, Stahl repeatedly shows his only loyalties are to himself and his twisted greed and notions of strength.
  • Shadow Fall:
    • Thomas Sinclair is the bigoted director of the Vektan Security Agency and Lucas Kellan's commander until he turns on Lucas when the latter sides with the Helghan Echo. Bringing an ISA armada to Jorhan Stahl's hideout, Sinclair sacrifices his forces to Stahl's bioweapon while he infiltrates Stahl's base to steal the weapon, killing Stahl and Lucas in the process. Sinclair would then rally Vektans to go against the Helghasts, planning to create another war between the two sides and use the bioweapon to wipe out the entire Helghan race, uncaring about the millions of casualties he might cause as long as he could satisfy his hatred towards the Helghasts.
    • Vladko Tyran, leader of the Black Hand, a Helghast terrorist group, is introduced via a massive terrorist bombing aimed at soldiers and civilians alike. Tyran has human hostages taken and orders them executed while loading captured trains with explosives and sending them to the city to kill as many people as possible. Tyran functions as Stahl's chief subordinate to pull off the Terracide, viewing humans as inferiors who deserve nothing less than extermination while attempting to shatter the peace between Helghast and human to send both sides in a brutal, pointless war. Tyran vows not to stop until "the streets run red" with human blood.
    • Dr. Hillary Massar is the human who views the Helghast as "superior" species and believes the inferior must be annihilated. Using her scientific genius, Massar experiments fatally on innocent beings to develop a plague that will kill everything of Terran blood, no matter how small. Massar relished the point when it would be destroyed, killing all humans except for herself.
  • Spinoffs:
    • Liberation: General Armin Metrac is a sadistic warmonger tasked with conquering Southern Vekta for the Helghast. Already taking the eastern part of Southern Vekta and murdering thousands in his wake, soldiers and civilians alike, Metrac would kidnap VIPs of the ISA—Interplanetary Strategic Alliance—planning to kill them unless ISA Forces leave Southern Vekta, a threat he makes good on when he tortures one to death. Having also convinced ISA General Dwight Stratson into handing him the ISA nuclear weapons, Metrac intents to use the weapons on Southern Vekta, potentially killing millions, while also kidnapping scientist Evelyn Batton and Sergeant Rico Velasquez, torturing the former to extract the nuclear codes and framing the latter for the nuclear attack. Eventually killed by Jan Templar, Armin Metrac is revealed to have sent the nuclear weapons to Scolar Visari, allowing Visari to use the weapons to nuke the Helghast capital Pyrrhus.
    • Mercenary: Colonel Vyktor Kratek is a ruthless Helghast officer with genocidal plans for the people of Vekta. Introduced torturing Admiral Grey, killing prisoners with gas to torment her and almost fatally shooting her in the head, Kratek retreats to Vekta where he forces Dr. Savic to create a virus for him by threatening his family. Testing the virus on petty criminals arrested in the slums, Kratek wanted to make it as virulent as possible to destroy all life on Vekta. When Savic retreats to the Vektan Embassy to defect with the virus's trigger, Kratek attacks it to retrieve him, ordering his men to kill the unarmed ambassador and his wife while sparing their son Justus since he is innocent—later revealing Kratek doesn't really care, giving permission for the boy to be "disposed of" in the final mission. Forcing the mercenary Arran Danner to work for him, Kratek tries to kill him when he outlives his usefulness, hypocritically claiming that "betrayal has its own price". Having no loyalty to his own claimed standards, Kratek is nothing more than a mass murderer and among the Helghan Empire's worst.
• The King of Fighters series:
  • Rugal Bernstein, the Big Bad of the very first game, does evil for the sake of being evil, and considers himself a God. He is a wealthy and powerful Arms Dealer who killed many martial artists just to bathe their bodies in liquid bronze and make them into decorative statues for his yacht. In Heidern's backstory, we find out that Rugal slaughtered all 50 soldiers in the guy's squad before killing his wife and daughter, who he had previously kidnapped, just for the fun of it, and topping it off with gouging out Heidern's left eye and leaving him to live in despair. He also beat Saisyu Kusanagi to near-death and tried to blow up his own ship upon defeat so that the Japan Team would die with him. Rugal survives and hosts the 1995 tournament, where he seeks revenge for his plans being foiled. He has Saisyu brainwashed and forced to fight his son. Rugal openly treasures his evil heart and hates justice. He lacks ambitions of world domination, but his atrocities make him stand out among other KOF villains.
  • The King of Fighters 2000: Clone Zero may not be the leader of NESTS, but stands as its most wicked member. At the conclusion of the 2000 tournament, he reveals his ultimate plan: using the fighters' energy to fuel his Kill Sat, the Zero Cannon. This would be the key step in Zero's desire to create a new world order where he would rule supreme, not NESTS. Before the fight, he demonstrates the cannon's power by destroying the city of Southtown. After being defeated and his device shut down for good, he reveals to Whip in his dying breath that she is a clone of K's sister, angering her enough to shoot him dead. The game's story reveals more of Zero's deeds: he murdered Heidern's close friend Ling and impersonated him, creating a clone of the murdered man to act as his spy in the Ikari Warriors. He also killed Krizalid in '99 for failing him. Unlike the other NESTS villains, Clone Zero has no sympathetic traits. He is an utter hypocrite who hates traitors while being one himself, and his desire to Take Over the World led to the destruction of an entire city. He stands out in the saga for his sheer and absolute malevolence.
• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning: Both The Man Behind the Man and The Heavy count.
  • Tirnoch "the Merciful" is an ancient dragon with power to rival the gods. Imprisoned long ago, Tirnoch weaves fate and countless deaths and tragedy, seducing Gadflow of the Winter Fae to evil and a genocidal conquest to eventually produce the Fateless One in the ensuing war. Tirnoch manipulates the conflict to more death, even disposing of Gadflow when his usefulness is at an end before trying to exterminate the Fateless One as well, proclaiming she will annihilate the world herself and take her rightful place above the gods in the heavens.
  • Gadflow was once the Winter Court's jester before he allied with Tirnoch. Massacring the Winter Fae to create the fanatical sect the Tuatha Deohn, Gadflow led a genocidal campaign to exterminate all mortal races, killing countless innocents. Gadflow sends his men to wipe out entire cities and armies, not willing to stop until he has freed Tirnoch herself, with the full understanding that Tirnoch shall exterminate all mortal races until only Gadflow's twisted vision of the Winter Fae remain.
• Klonoa series:
  • Door to Phantomile: Ghadius is the dark spirit of Nightmares and Darkness with a hatred towards the residents of Phantomile. Tired of living in the shadow, Ghadius led an attack on the light spirit, only to be defeated and imprisoned. Upon escaping from his prison, Ghadius kidnaps the diva, Lephise, to prevent her from singing the Song of Rebirth in order to have the world descend into Darkness and Nightmares. Ghadius would then have King Seadoph and Pamela brainwashed into becoming his minions, and has Seadoph reverse the water flow from Jugpot to kill off Forlock Forest and its inhabitants. Ghadius also sends his minion, Joka, to retrieve the Moon Pendant so he can gain access to the Moon Kingdom, Cress, killing Klonoa's grandfather in the process. Upon taking over Cress, Ghadius attempts to use Lephise and the Egg of Destruction to revive Nahatomb so he can have him destroy the world out of spite, uncaring that he and his own kind will be destroyed as well, all the while attempting to kill Klonoa to perfect Nahatomb's resurrection.
  • Heroes: The Legendary Star Medal: Janga is the maniacal Dragon of Garlen. Having once worked with Guntz's father, Butz, as a hunter to find the Darkness of Nahatomb, Janga is gleefully quick to betray and kill him on Garlen's orders when Butz refuses to resurrect Nahatomb. Janga then proceeds to join forces with Garlen and Joka in their goals to resurrect Nahatomb in order to harvest nightmares for his own sinister purpose, uncaring of the destruction this will cause. Making his introduction by sending extracted nightmares from the captured people of the ruins to the Lunar Base, Janga mocks Guntz about his father's death before fleeing, at one point using Klonoa as a shield. When Guntz finally corners him, Janga attempts to kill Guntz with the latter's father's own gun. Before fleeing, Janga kidnaps Klonoa's friend, Lolo, to be used as nightmare energy for Nahatomb, which leaves Lolo in a comatose state. When defeated by the heroes, after he gets Guntz to spare him with a false apology, Janga attempts to poison Guntz with his poison claws, only for him to poison Klonoa instead, but Janga doesn't care and proceeds to mock Guntz about the boy's condition.
• Knack 2: Xander, leader of the Monks, cannot stand that his order is not taken seriously by the rest of the world. Starting the game as an ally against the initial threat of the Goblins, Xander tricks Lucas into giving him an artifact which enables him to turn the goblins' machines against them. When he tries to use these machines to conquer humanity, Knack and Lucas object, for which Xander attempts to kill the duo despite promising his Youth Leader Ava he wouldn't harm them. Eventually deciding that ruling the world was too much work and that modern civilization had made humanity weak, Xander builds the Armageddon Machine to destroy every city, town, and village, apathetic about how many die and only caring that people will finally listen to him because he will be "the only thing between them and death". For a "personal touch", Xander bound Knack and Lucas's friends and family within his first city target so they will die along with it. Furthermore, Xander is almost gleeful when he realizes Ava and some defected monks are attempting to evacuate civilians, believing they will all die as well. Hypocritical, power-hungry, cruel and a traitor to his species, Xander set a new standard for evil within the Knack universe.
• Knight's Contract: The wicked Dr. Faust is a Mad Scientist obsessed with the Anima del Monde, an artifact which will allow him to gain ultimate power. Using his power to bring The Black Death upon Europe, Faust frames a group of innocent witches and subjects them to torture and execution to obtain their pieces of the Anima del Monde. Faust later resurrects them, using their anger and hatred at their deaths to send them against humanity, causing innumerable innocent deaths all so Faust can manipulate the only surviving witch into his grasp to obtain the final shard and achieve godhood for himself.
• Knights of the Temple:
  • Infernal Crusade: The Lord Bishop is a Satan-worshipping fanatic who turned against the beliefs of his own Church. He starts the game by desecrating holy places and kidnapping a mysterious young woman to use her, against her will, for his sinister rituals that involve Human Sacrifice, with his victims crucified. He unites people of all religions to follow his cult, and slaughters anyone who refuses to, regardless of age or religion. His ultimate goal is to open the Gates of Hell and condemn the entire world to eternal suffering.
  • II: Satan is a lord of Hell and the one who was behind the Lord Bishop's actions. Corrupting thousands of souls and damning them to eternity in Hell, Satan begins opening another Gate of Hell, hoping to unleash Hell and his tyrannical rule upon the Earth. Preparing to conquer the mortal realm, Satan releases several demonic creatures upon the world who proceed to kill countless numbers of people. Setting up a magical fog in some parts of the Saracen port Yusra that raises the dead and mutates the living, Satan tries to thwart the heroic Templar Paul's attempt at recovering ancient holy relics, which are capable of closing the Gates of Hell and banishing him back to Hell.
• The Knight Witch: Emperor Erebus was the tyrannical ruler of House Daigadai that ran the world. Through his greedy practices, his empire began to ruin the planet's ecosystems, threatening to leave the world uninhabitable and kill everyone. When the Children of Gaia led by the Knight Witches rose up to oppose him, Erebus attempted to brutally suppress the rebellion. When confronted by the leader of the Knight Witches, Robyn, Erebus blamed her for the coming end of the world instead of himself, and after being defeated by her he attempted to bring her and the entire rebellion down with him by self-destructing his mech to kill them all. Despite his little screen time, Erebus was ultimately responsible for every conflict in the game.
• Kona5's 'Verse:
  • Oyadori No Ko: Emokinia, the Devil herself, was imprisoned long ago for possessing a little girl. To ensure her freedom, Emokinia ordered her loyal supporters to kidnap nine people every year as part of a sacrifice, placing their souls in Hell to complete a series of deadly trials to ensure her freedom by promising them happiness upon her release. Participating in the latest trial as the seemingly easy-going Domoto Sadae, Emokinia helps "Hottie" complete the trials and even kills Daizeamon after he remembers the truth about her. Released after Hottie's completion, Emokinia pettily slaughters her entire cult and promises to torture Hottie to death. Escaping defeat by killing one of the rescued captives and posing as her, Emokinia promises to regain her powers and destroy all of mankind.
  • Sukutte: Chinko and Professor Nakada are the masterminds behind the monster. Chinko finances Nakada's experiments to create the ultimate bioweapon, threatening to kill him if he fails her. Nakada has the teenager Shigemi kidnapped and tortuously experimented on to transform her into a skinless monster, having her kill anybody who stumbles into their home as a way to test her capabilities. After Mari and Konchi escape the house, Chinko moves their operation elsewhere, implying to have done this before with similar operations, while Nakada hopes to kidnap Mari and perform similar experiments on her to turn her into another bioweapon.
  • Pilgrim (RPG Maker): Master Alice is a resident of the Other World who had accumulated her wealth by reaping the souls of her victims and selling them to the highest bidder. Alice sets her eyes on the young Inago, saying that in return for dealing with Inago's older sister Akemi's bullies, she would return to collect Inago's soul in two years. Despite Inago's insistence to not harm the bullies, Alice gruesomely murders the three bullies and sentences the ringleader, Suu, to eternal torture in a parallel world. When Akemi first confronts Alice, she engages her in a card game for her soul, then challenges Akemi to survive her building full of deadly traps and horrors to save Inago. Whilst exploring, Akemi uncovers a diary belonging to a young girl, heavily implying that Alice murdered the girl and took her body after she granted her wish. Finally, Alice enacts another game which ends with either Akemi or Suu taking Inago's place as her victim.
• Kuon: Ashiya Doman, an outcast master exorcist and self-proclaimed rival to the legendary Abe no Seimei, is the architect behind the nightmare of Fujiwara Manor. Fully employed by the royal Fujiwara family until his power-hungry nature ignited tensions with his colleagues, Doman is nevertheless called upon by them to resolve their unease during times of disease. There, Doman discovers the meaning behind the forbidden Mulberry Tree, unsealing it in the hopes of gaining the power to prove himself superior to Seimei. Unleashing the Mulberry Twins and exploiting their loneliness, Doman persuades them to partake in the Kuon ritual, planning to exploit them after it is finished. Complicit with the twins in murdering his daughter Kureha, Doman uses her as the first component of the Kuon ritual, reviving her as an undead monster that kills at his behest. The inept Doman's failed experiments give rise to the Fujiwara manor being infested by the monstrous Gaki, ghosts, and other horrific monstrosities. Realizing he needs fresh sacrifices to complete the ritual, Doman lures his other daughter Utsuki and his own disciples to the manor, killing all but Sakuya, who barely survives the night. When Abe no Seimei herself arrives and confronts Doman, the latter gloats of his perceived accomplishments and expresses a perverse desire to make Seimei his Sex Slave after he defeats her.
• Kya: Dark Lineage: Brazul, in actuality Kya and Frank's father, is a cruel alien conqueror who plans to destroy and take over multiple dimensions with the power of the medallion. Setting his sights on the peaceful Nativ village, Brazul has multiple Nativs kidnapped and transformed into Wolfens to add to his army, planning to do the same to Frank once he's in his grasp. Making the Nativ Aton betray his people and give up Kya in return for protection, Brazul instead finds the location of the village and has his men burn it all down, capturing the inhabitants to be transformed into Wolfen, while also planning to transform Kya into a Wolfen to rule the world while he'll be out destroying other dimensions.

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