Rogues Gallery / Video Games

• The Batman: Arkham Series features Batman dealing with virtually every villain in his gallery, most notably Joker, but also Harley Quinn, Bane, Scarecrow, the Riddler, Poison Ivy, Killer Croc, Scarface, Two-Face, Catwoman, Penguin, Mr. Freeze, Solomon Grundy, Ra's Al Ghul, Hugo Strange, Clayface, Killer Moth, Man-Bat, Mad Hatter, and even more obscure enemies like Victor Zsasz and Professor Pyg. And even those that aren't shown onscreen are given an Easter Egg.
• Each and every Carmen Sandiego game features a whole Rogues Gallery of baddies, many of them with names that are Incredibly Lame Puns.
• The Castlevania series has the Belmont clan going up most regularly against Dracula, as part of Leon Belmont's original vow that he and his descendants would "slay the night" to oppose the master vampire; however, Dracula's not the only one, as he's got an army of monsters to battle the latest Belmont (and/or non-Belmont, depending on the game) who comes storming the titular castle. A frequent mainstay in Dracula's army is Death, who acts as The Dragon or the Dragon-in-Chief depending on the game, while two other constant thorns in the Belmonts' side are the evil cultist Shaft, whose efforts to resurrect Dracula kickstart the plot for at least three of the games, and Carmilla, a vampiric servant of Dracula who either works to resurrect him or else will be revived herself to aid him. Other recurring monsters across the franchise, many of whom are bosses and mini-bosses, include the likes of the Giant Bat, the Giant Skeleton, the Mummy Man, the Skull Knight, Medusa, Cerberus, Balore, the Behemoth, the Cyclops, the Doppelganger, the Succubus, the Minotaur, the Orphic Vipers, the Bone Dragon King, Frankenstein's Monster, the Golem, Dullahan, the Werewolf, the Wyvern, the Man Eater, Malphas, Zephyr, Gergoth, Aguni, Abaddon, and Legion.
• Surprisingly, despite being a Super Hero game, City of Heroes didn't really have a Rogues Gallery to speak of - mostly its enemies formed entire factions, the leaders of which only occasionally appeared. But Issue 18 introduced an actual Rogues Gallery faction consisting of a multitude of heroes, villains, rogues, and vigilantes with their own backstories and motivations for players to battle during Tip and Morality Missions.
  • This hasn't stopped players from creating their own rogues galleries beforehand, either through making other characters, the Mission Architect, or simple roleplaying. And many of the game's canonical heroes have particular enemies they fight. (Statesman and Lord Recluse, Back Alley Brawler and drugs in general, and so on.)
• Crash Bandicoot: The titular character has one himself in the form of Neo Cortex, N. Gin, Tiny Tiger, Ripper Roo, Dingodile, N. Tropy, Pinstripe Potoroo, Papu Papu, and Uka Uka, plus a few others. Crash Twinsanity actually showcases a bunch of them in a brief scene.
• Champions Online actually allows the player to create his or her OWN Rogues Gallery with the Nemesis game mechanic. Starting at level 25, the player creates a custom costumed supervillain with a basic powerset, chooses their minion types, and gives him one of three personality types. For quite a while longer, those minions will occasionally try to ambush the player, dropping "clues" which lead to anti-Nemesis minions. Eventually the Nemesis is defeated "for good", and the player can create a NEW Nemesis - or, if they prefer, can even reactivate a previous one. If a player sticks with a level-capped character long enough, (s)he can create a really significant gallery for himself / herself.
• While the first few games in the Criminal Case franchise tend to have Arc Villains who only serve as a threat during their respective Story Arc and never return as bad guys, later entries start featuring multi-arc antagonists who appear multiple times throughout to keep causing problems for the player and their team.
  • Criminal Case: Mysteries of the Past features Horatio Rochester, Archie Rochester, Larry Rochester, Eleanor Halsted, Vittorio Capecchi, Franca Capecchi, Sandra Hwang, Seamus O'Neill, Adrienna Brassiere, and Justin Lawson as its recurring antagonists.
  • Criminal Case: The Conspiracy has Rozetta Pierre, Christian Bateman, Joe Warren, Louis Leroux, Julia Brine, Rosamund Wilcox, Shweta Noorani, Polly O'Brien, Tony Marconi, and Denise Daniels.
• Donkey Kong used to be part of the enemy gallery for Mario (see below), but ever since branching out into his own franchise, he and his fellow Kongs have developed their own list of recurring enemies. This list includes King K. Rool and his Kremling Krew, KAOS, King Zing, Krow (and his undead form Kreep Krow), Barbos, Bleak, Kleever, and Arich.
• Earthworm Jim has a rogue's gallery in both the game and cartoon continuities, with some villains unique to each continuity. Villains present in both continuities are Queen Slug-for-a-Butt, Psy-Crow, Evil the Cat, Bob the Killer Goldfish, and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head. Game-exclusive villains are Chuck and Fifi, Big Bruty, Major Mucus, Doctor Duodenum, Pedro Pupa, the Flamin' Yawn, Fatty Roswell and Earthworm Kim, while the most prominent cartoon-exclusive villain was Evil Jim (although he did make an appearance in the Game Boy Color EWJ game, making him a Canon Immigrant).
• High School Story: While the main cast of characters are regular teens attending high school as opposed to being superheroes (except in Nishan's fan-fiction), they do have to face a small but still threatening number of enemies, most of them hailing from Hearst High, the school which opposes your school from the moment of its inception at the start of the game. Those hailing from Hearst include Max Warren, Kara Sinclair, Natalie, and Principal Warren on a more low-key note (as in, his actions only affect your school during your Rebel student's help-quest, and Mia during your Dream Date scenario with her); while other antagonists include Asher Rollins, Jack Carver, Razor, and Pandora. It bears mentioning that many of these individuals not only do stuff that goes against your school as a whole, but also stuff that opposes specific characters in your main cast as well; Max is a persistent thorn for his sister Mia and his rival Julian and has also bullied Nishan in the past, Kara behaves spectacularly bitchy to Mia, Asher is on both your main character's and Julian's hate-lists due to his treatment of Julian's sister Hope and her friend Chelsea, Jack has a longstanding rivalry with Ezra, Razor is Koh's evil ex, and Pandora has been known to manipulate and bully Katherine. Depending on how you view the character interactions during game-play, Professor Edwin and Zero may also count, given that the former can come down rather hard on the students at times (though she's usually a Reasonable Authority Figure on a good day) and the latter treats Sakura's concerns about sexism in competitive gaming very shoddily at one point in the main quest. Then there's Bartholomew de la Cruz, who's described by Wes as being rather cutthroat when it comes to district politics and has admitted to having selfish reasons for helping you get onto the district council and who actually turns the entire district against your main character and almost gets your school shut down, though you have the option to forgive him and unlock him as part of your student body later.
• Sora of Kingdom Hearts has what is likely one of the most epic instances of a Rogues Gallery ever, consisting of almost every Disney Villain^note excluding Clayton, due to his world being retconned, each of whom dominated entire movies: Maleficent, The Queen of Hearts, Captain Hook, Monstro, Ursula, Jafar, Scar, Hades, Shan-Yu, Captain Barbossa, Davy Jones, Lord Beckett, Sark, the MCP, Oogie Boogie, Chernabog, Claude Frollo, Clu, Mother Gothel, Randall Boggs, Prince Hans, and Pete. The distinction of Arch-nemesis goes to Xehanort (though he's been split up into multiple characters) and then Xigbar/Luxu. If we count all the villains that the protagonists opposed, then Lady Tremaine, Drizella, Anastasia and the Evil Queen are included to the above list. In fact, the only Disney villains not considered part of the gallery are Gantu, as he's just doing his job, and Rinzler, since he's an old ally of Sora who's been reprogrammed by Clu.
• Kirby has a variety of recurring antagonists: King Dedede, Meta Knight, Dark Matter, and 0 are the main ones, but if you include recurring bosses and minibosses then it expands to include: Whispy Woods, Kracko, Bonkers, Lololo and Lalala, Bugzzy, Paint Roller, Dyna Blade, Galacta Knight, and more.
• In The Legend of Zelda, Link has faced several foes on more than one occasion in more than one title of the series. His most recognizable enemy is Ganon (or Ganondorf), who shows up as the final boss more often than not across the franchise, but he's also battled the likes of Aquamentus, Dodongo, Manhandla, Arrghus, Gohma, the Wallmasters, Mothula, Digdogger, Gleeok, Twinrova, Vaati, Dark Link, Phantom Ganon, and the Stalfos.
• Mega Man:
  • The original Mega Man has a list of recurring enemies, the biggest constant being Dr. Wily, the Big Bad of the games and the one who creates most if not all of Mega's Robot Master enemies. The most recognizable enemies include Bass and his robot dog Treble, the Roader, the Yellow Devil, and across the wider franchise (including spinoff games in the original series' continuity and the 1994 animated series) there are repeat appearances made by Robot Masters such as Guts Man, Cut Man, Shadow Man, Quick Man, Ice Man, Heat Man, and Metal Man. In the aforementioned animated series, Proto Man (Mega's brother and an at-times Aloof Ally) undergoes Adaptational Villainy and serves as The Dragon to Wily.
  • In the Mega Man X series, the first immediate spinoff from the original, X, Zero and the Maverick Hunters have to face the likes of Sigma, Vile, and Dynamo on a consistent basis, plus Dr. Wily appears as The Man Behind the Man.
  • In Mega Man Zero, which is set after the X series, Zero faces several recurring enemies of his own, including Copy X, Fairy Leviathan, Sage Harpuia, Fighting Fefnir, Hidden Phantom, Anubis Necromancess, the Rainbow Devil, Hanumachine, Blizzack Stagroff, and Dr. Weil.
  • Geo Stelar's Mega Man has accumulated a Rogues Gallery, some reoccurring after their main arc. Taurus Fire, Cygnus Wing, Harp Note, Libra Scales, Queen Ophiuca, Gemini Thunder and King Cepheus in the first game. Dark Phantom, Yeti Blizzard, Solo-Rogue, Plesio Surf, Terra Condor, Hollow and Vega with Taurus Fire, Harp Note and Queen Ophiuca returning for their second round. Then in the third game are the dealers consisting of Mr. King, Joker, Tia and her little brother, their alien partners Virgo/Corvus and Heartless. Also returning for their second round are Dark Phantom and Solo-Rogue and returning for his third round is Taurus Fire.
• Solid Snake of the Metal Gear franchise has a rather expansive list of enemies over his long career of fighting the conspiracies surrounding the titular mechanical weapons; most of those foes are enhanced super-soldiers like Snake himself, and are often members of FOXHOUND, the Patriots, the Sons of Liberty, and even the CIA, among other groups. Specific enemies he and his allies have had to face across the various games include Big Boss and his body double Venom Snake, Liquid Snake, Revolver Ocelot, Liquid Ocelot, Psycho Mantis, Solidus Snake, Zero, the Sorrow, Vamp, and Skull Face.
• Samus Aran, protagonist of the Metroid series and a galactic bounty-hunter by profession, has faced several enemies across the games, many of them being Space Pirates, the titular Metroids, or other antagonistic alien species. Two of her most recurring foes are Mother Brain, the leader of said Space Pirates, and Ridley, Mother Brain's chief henchman and Samus's Arch-Enemy since he had a direct hand in her parents' deaths. Other significant enemies of Samus's include the Queen Metroid (of which there have been more than one), Metroid Prime, Kraid, Phantoon, Nightmare, and Dark Samus.
• Mortal Kombat: Right throughout the series, the fighters of Earth (along with their allies from other realms) have to deal with a number of enemies who want to use the titular tournament for their own ends, usually to overthrow Earth as a means of furthering their path of conquest and/or destruction. The forces of Outworld, the ones most frequently guilty of this, consist of Shao Kahn and his hordes of minions, particularly Shang Tsung, Sindel, Motaro, Baraka, Mileena, Reptile, Ermac, and members of the Shokan race (particularly Goro and Kintaro), but the good guys also have to deal with the likes of Quan Chi, Shinnok and the Brotherhood of Shadow, Kano and the Black Dragon syndicate, the Lin Kuei (bar Sub-Zero), the Red Dragon clan (of which the Black Dragons are an offshoot), and the Edenian traitor Tanya. Whether or not Scorpion is part of this list depends on which game you're referencing, as he's just as likely to oppose the heroes as he is to oppose any of the villains (though he definitely has a mad-on for Sub-Zero and later Quan Chi because of his quest for revenge).
• No More Heroes: Despite killing people as his SOP, Travis Touchdown has earned himself a decent amount of recurring enemies throughout the series. This includes the likes of Destroyman, Dr. Letz Shake, Henry Cooldown, Kimmy Howell, Mr. Blackhole and Damon Riccitello, with the latter two working with FU/Jess Baptiste VI, Travis' final arch-nemesis.
• Red Dead Online has the legendary bounties, wanted criminals who are more dangerous (and more valuable) than regular bounties, whose respective missions can be replayed. They include: Cecil C. Tucker, a serial murderer and arsonist; Barbarella Alcazar, the "Bandit Queen" and widow of a now-dead bandit leader; the "Wolf Man", a craven survivalist and murderer who travels with a pack of wolves; the Owlhoot Family, a clan of barbarous murderers and animal mutilators; Sergio Vincenza, a former military sharpshooter and current anarchist; Philip Carlier, a conman hiding out in the swamps after killing a man; Tobin Winfield, a corrupt politician and swindler; Etta Doyle, a notorious highway robber and gang leader; Red Ben Clempson, a showy train robber; and "Yukon" Nik, a Russian trapper and serial murderer.
• In the Shantae game series, the titular half-genie has a bunch of recurring enemies who she has to face off against in order to defend her home village of Scuttle Town, in Sequin Land. These foes include Shantae's arch-nemesis Risky Boots and her army of Tinkerbats, Squid Baron, Ammo Baron, Hypno Baron and his ally Techno Baron and minions Twitch and Vinegar, Rottytops, Holly Lingerbean, and Nega-Shantae.
• Sly Cooper and the gang have been on the job stealing from villains for so long, they've accumulated a large list of enemies. Among them, are Clockwerk, Sir Raleigh, Muggshot, Mz. Ruby, Rajan, the Contessa, Jean Bison, Arpeggio, Neyla, Don Octavio, the Mask of Dark Earth, General Tsao, Captain LeFwee, Dr. M, El Jefe, Toothpick, The Grizz, Penelope, Miss Decibel, and Le Paradox.
• Sonic the Hedgehog has slowly built up his own little gallery over the years: Dr. Eggman, Metal Sonic, Eggman Nega, Fang the Sniper, Babylon Rogues, Chaos, Mecha Sonic and the Deadly Six. Shadow is one of them depending on his mood.
• Street Fighter:
  • As an Interpol officer who spends much of her time busting criminals, Chun Li technically has a rogues' gallery that includes several of the antagonists within the main cast, spreading across the franchise. Her primary enemy is M. Bison^note Dictator, the leader of the Shadaloo organization who she holds responsible for the death of her father; other Shadaloo members in general also fall on the list by virtue of their being criminals, particularly Balrog^note Boxer and Vega^note Claw, with Chun Li having an ongoing rivalry with the latter. If one examines her dialogue with other specific characters across the different games, the rogues' gallery also includes the likes of the Mad Gear gangsters (Poison, Rolento, Hugo), Juri Han, Birdie, Seth, and the Illuminati (specifically Urien, who Chun Li went Mama Bear on after he abducted one of her adopted kids). On an even more technical note, Cody would also fall in the gallery since he's a convict who regularly breaks out of jail, but Chun Li sees him more as the Fallen Hero he truly is and address him accordingly in SSF4.
  • Interestingly, while Ryu is the franchise's de facto main character, he doesn't really have a list of recurring enemies the same way Chun Li does, though he has crossed paths with several of the above-named antagonists through pure happenstance or because they're actively seeking him out for one reason or another. Shadaloo has pursued him more than once, with Bison having been interested in either forcibly recruiting Ryu or using him as the next host body for the Psycho Power; the Illuminati has taken an interest in him as of V; Hugo managed to shrug off a Shin Shoryuken once, earning Ryu's respect and resulting in the two of them briefly becoming tag-team partners; and Juri, while admiring his passion for battle, isn't really gunning for him specifically (though she is put off by the Satsui no Hado). His two biggest direct nemeses in the story-line have been Sagat (due to the whole chest-scarring incident, though Sagat has since had a Heel–Face Turn and their rivalry is much more respectful now) and Akuma (who wants Ryu to embrace the Satsui no Hado in order to become an opponent worthy of a death-match), though Necalli has also been pursuing him in V.
• Streets of Rage: Across all four games to date, Axel, Blaze, Adam and their friends are constantly fighting against the machinations of The Syndicate, led by Mr. X in the first three games and by his children Mr. Y and Ms. Y in the fourth game. Among the boss characters alone, recurring foes across more than one game include Shiva, Barbon, Abadede, Bongo (a boss in the first game and a mook in the sequels), Jet, Onihime and Yasha, and Nora (a mook in the first game and a boss in the fourth), while there are recurring bosses within each individual game (including their respective palette-swaps) such as Antonio and Souther in the first game; Zamza and R. Bear in the second game; and Diva and the Commissioner (assuming the latter is in the Syndicate's pocket, given his ignoring the police's corrupt actions) in the fourth game. Additionally, the fourth game's latest DLC has a training simulator, explained in-universe as ally Zan creating a virtual-reality program out of the brain-waves of the long-dead Mr. X's brain in order to help the heroes train their skills, where you can fight against past and current versions of mooks and bosses alike, including one-game enemies like Bruce, Yamato, and Robo X from the third game. And all of this isn't counting the fan-made remake, which includes almost all characters from within the first three games.
• Mario has built up a gallery of his own over the years. It includes: Bowser, Donkey Kong, Wario, Bowser Jr., Kamek, King Boo, Fawful, King Bob-omb, Petey Piranha, the Koopalings and Waluigi. Although Donkey Kong has since buried the hatchet with Mario (as noted above), and Fawful hasn't made an appearance outside of remakes since his death in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story.
• Superhero City has a wide and varied Rogues Gallery for your character to battle, whether through missions or as bosses in raids that you can summon to combat and get Experience Points. The major villains, counting raid bosses, include: Crime boss Kingpin and his primary enforcer Suit, ninja lord Fuma Hanzo, werewolf pack leader Silvermane, voodoo master Lou, Amazon leader Shieka, galactic conquerors Astronickus and Kemma Azonix, vampire lord Lucius Bloodvayne, Eldritch Abomination Hollow King, Atlantean racist Dr. Argon, and Horsemen of the Apocalypse Conquest, War, Famine, and Death.
• Trails Series: Ouroboros' Anguises and Enforcers often appear across multiple games (and in some cases two or more game arcs). Chief among are Campanella, Bleublanc, Walter Kron, Arianrhod and her Stahlritter, Shirley Orlando and Dr. F. Novartis.
• The Walking Dead (Telltale): Despite being the faces of the franchise, Lee and Clementine never really developed a rogues gallery to speak of, however, Javier Garcia has. Due to the more action-oriented approach of his season, he's faced off against a beefy array of enemies, including Max, Lonnie, Badger, Joan and potentially Conrad, David and Ada, depending on your choices.
• While the 1979 movie of The Warriors just had Luther, the 2005 videogame adaptation provided Cleon, Swan, and company with a whole array of colorful gang leaders: Chatterbox, Cobb, Big Moe, and Ghost, to name a few - and Cleon's oldest enemy, Virgil.

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