Sandbox / Monster: Video Games (L to P)

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• Laika: Aged Through Blood: The Two-Beak God is the tyrannical, bigoted ruler of the birds. Longing to see all non-bird creatures eradicated, the Two-Beak God allowed his soldiers to keep the Wastelands' Hopeless War going by having them all torture and murder any creatures who didn't support or bow down to the birds. Even his own soldiers weren't exempt from this, as deserters, rebels, and birds who refused to fight were slaughtered. Upon hearing of heroine Laika's invincibility, the Two-Beak God had her daughter, Puppy, kidnapped in hopes of using her blood to extract the source of this power. When this fails, the Two-Beak God has Laika lured into a trap within his domain. After successfully capturing Laika and having the birds' rebel leader killed, the Two-Beak God attempts to drop a nuclear bomb onto the Wastelands, not caring that thousands of his own troops and the birds living in the Undernest will be caught in the blast.
• Lair: The Diviner, the religious leader of the Alyssian people, and his right-hand-man, Captain Loden, are a greedy, power-hungry duo who betray their own people. When the Alyssian leaders attempt to parlay with the Mokai people who simply want to keep from starving to death, the Diviner and Loden launch a coup that kills the Alyssian and Mokai leaders, whereupon Loden leads his forces to the Mokai cities, massacring civilians and having a temple full of Mokai women and children incinerated with the Diviner simply ordering that no survivors remain. Any soldiers who disagree are locked in an extradimensional prison, with Loden later attempting to massacre them when they escape.
• Lakeview Valley: The Witch was a human woman who became the Queen of the Underworld upon her passing because of her sheer, unfettered evil. The Witch is the mother of the Player Character, as well as one of the villagers, Amy Cooper, each of whom she sired in a complex gambit to damn the entire town of Lakeview Valley to eternal torture. In the endings where she succeeds in corrupting her offspring, the Witch has the townspeople massacred and their souls brought to the Underworld, where she leaves them to the ravages of the demonic fiends; what follows is an orgy of rape, torture, forced incest, and Body Horror as the fiends torture their victims in every wicked way imaginable. Entire families are Forced to Watch each other being tortured, their eyelids peeled away, and victims are mutilated beyond the point of any recognition. The Witch saves the worst fate for her own daughter, Amy Cooper; disgusted with Amy's failure to live up to her evil potential, the Witch has her gang-raped by the fiends past the point of the Despair Event Horizon. Even her care for the player character is dependent entirely on their usefulness to her; in the endings where they die, the Witch gloatingly rules them a failure, telling their murderer "you can kill as many of my children as you want".
• L.A. Noire:
  • Doctor Harlan J. Fontaine is a renowned psychiatrist, whose folksy front masks a cold-blooded manipulator. Joining the Suburban Redevelopment Fund, Fontaine becomes the primary mastermind behind their schemes, next to Leland Monroe, with their plan being to extort millions from the government through eminent domain. To this end, Fontaine manipulates and drugs a traumatized soldier, Ira Hogeboom, into burning down houses for the SRF. When two families, including children, are killed as a result, Fontaine apathetically dismisses their deaths, only being later concerned about the publicity Hogeboom would bring, putting a hit out on him. Fontaine also buys off lethally potent morphine from his protégé, Courtney Sheldon, secretly selling it as "medication" for his patients and distributing it around the city, as the mob's biggest provider. Setting up Elsa Lichtmann's friend, Louis Jan "Lou" Buchwalter, to be killed in an "industrial accident", Fontaine would encourage Elsa's drug addiction and exploit its toll on her. When Courtney Sheldon learns of the SFB's corruption, Fontaine kills him with a lethal dose, and prepares to kill Elsa when she connects Fontaine to Lou's death.
  • The Black Dahlia Killer, real name Garrett Mason, also known as the "Werewolf Killer", works as a bartender to find women to murder; carving messages into them after beating or strangling them to death and leaving their naked bodies in public places to be found. Responsible for all of the murders in the homicide cases, he frames a string of innocent men and other likely suspects for his own deeds, sending the possessions of his victims to the police to taunt them. When confronted by the heroes, he only shows shock at the duo managing to get through his deadly traps and continues to mock them over his murders.
  • "The Fallen Idol" & "Camera Obscura": Marlon Hopgood is a prop store owner who arranged for Mark Bishop to rape the 15-year-old Jessica Hamilton, while Hopgood films the rape and works with June Ballard to blackmail Bishop. Hopgood had previously filmed other clients violating women, and later tries sexually assaulting women himself.
• Last Alert:
  • Chairman Steve Lloyd, president of Dual Foundation and member of the Lloyd government, is the stingy funder and leader of the Force Project. Responsible for countless acts of worldwide terrorism, blackmailing, and massacres for the sake of selling weapons, Steve starts the game luring Guy Kazama and his soldiers into a trap that sees everybody but Guy killed. Steve also allows General Kadat to murder and torture whomever he likes, and even approves of Dr. Garcia's deadly Indra satellite to wipe out mankind.
  • Dr. Che Garcia, the Force Project's cybernetic, ever-chuckling physicist, stands out as the worst member of the Project. Creating the Indra satellite to wipe out all life on Earth, Garcia sets it to activate once all his cohorts have been slain, personally challenging Guy Kazama to stop him before the satellite fires. After his defeat at the hands of Guy, Garcia tells him how to stop Indra just so Guy can die attempting to protect humanity.
• Last Heir (link): Robert is a demonic being and a chief servant of the Creature. Guiding and manipulating any owner of the land to become a Serial Killer and feeding the Creature with bodies and souls of countless people, Robert tends to quickly get rid of them by throwing them to be devoured alive by the Creature.
• The Last of Us duology:
  • First game: David, a seemingly kindhearted survivor, is really the leader of a group of cannibals in the post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested world. David sends out hunting parties, having his men murder other survivors on sight, including children, to retrieve their bodies for meat. Becoming obsessed with the teenaged Ellie, David has preyed on other girls in the past, with one of his followers referring to Ellie as his "newest pet". Having sent waves of men to capture her despite knowing how dangerous she is, David is apathetic to their ensuing deaths, even thanking Ellie for killing them and making his group stronger. When Ellie rejects his advances by breaking his finger, David tries to chop her up for meat, and, in their final confrontation, shows his full depravity by attempting to rape and murder her. Even among a cast of morally gray characters, David's actions and personality show him to be utterly irredeemable and the most heinous of all the enemies faced by Joel and Ellie.
  • Part II: Isaac Dixon is the leader of the Washington Liberation Front (WLF), aka the Wolves. A warmongering tyrant, Isaac has sacrificed many of his own men to take over, having citizens rounded up to be controlled in one place and shot if they refuse. Engaging with the religious cult, the Seraphites, Isaac abducts prisoners to torture for information before attempting a wide-scale assault with the intent of massacring the Seraphites completely to the last man, woman, and child. Even when finding out Abigail "Abby" Anderson, his best soldier, is sheltering a Seraphite boy named Lev, Isaac simply attempts to execute both of them.
• The Last Remnant: Wilfred Hermeien is the detestable Duke of Nagapur, head of the Congress and de facto ruler of the whole continent, but is unsatisfied with this, wanting to be crowned God-Emperor. To this end, he creates the Third Committee to perform unethical Remnant research using kidnapping, human experimentation, threatening people to work for them, stealing Remnants from various settlements and many other crimes. Forming a deal with the Conqueror, Hermeien stages a war where the Conqueror would attack the continent and Hermeien would save the day, uncaring how many of his troops would die. Also kidnapping Rush Sykes's sister Irina, whom has Marion's Blessing, to strengthen his claim to God Emperor, Hermeien is eventually betrayed by the Conqueror, forced to work for him and made an experiment where he is given great power. Still coveting world domination, Hermeien poisons various leaders of the game world with his newfound power to slowly kill them before The Conqueror kills him for his hubris.
• Last Rites: Father Mordae is the true culprit behind the game's events; having discovered a portal to the underworld that leads to Eternal Life, Mordae made a Deal with the Devil for immortality while unleashing a Mystical Plague, leading to a Zombie Apocalypse affecting most of the world. In control of the undead and supernatural, Father Mordae unleashes demons on anyone trying to stop him.
• Legacy duology:
  • Demon Legacy: These two members of the Big Bad Ensemble are the worst of the cruel rulers of humanity:
    • Arch Duke Deimos, the Wheel of Reincarnation, is the Mad Scientist who reigns over the human world. He created the humans of the world, but turned them against the Demi-Gods and Proteus, eventually sealing them away, so he could have the world to himself. Repeatedly sending people to die fighting Shadar and not caring about their lives, Deimos does the same with Slade and Sharn, later declaring then traitors when they discover the truth. He also creates golems out of human corpses, then treats his creations coldly, among them being Orion, implanting a device in him that allows him to control Orion and force him to slaughter people. When he sends a trio of golems after Slade and one of them dies, he kills Fianna for failing him and assaults Sarius's mind for objecting to it, later sending him to die against Slade. He then attempts to have Iris, his own daughter whom he exiled with Slade, stuffed with energy to use her as a weapon against the Demi-Gods. In the fight against him, he devours the souls of his own Druid helpers, and even when killed, he drives Abel insane and sends him to destroy the world, then comes back and tries to use Iris and Slade to resurrect himself.
    • Apollo of the Absolute Will is the leader of the five Demi-Gods. Following his abuse at the hands of humans, Apollo desired to wipe out humanity, and manipulated the abused child Abel into sharing his worldview that humans are all "failures" that deserve death. Rebelling against his father Proteus, Apollo imprisons him inside the Firebrand sword, then has him possess Kahn and sends them down to massacre humans, wiping out a good chunk of the world population. In the present, he sends his siblings to destroy several towns and massacre the people within, and tortures his sister Arianna for taking too long. He later personally destroys the city of Darnia, killing everyone within, and taking the souls of the inhabitants while wiping away their memories of being human. He creates Averron as his utopia using the souls, some of which are turned into the crystals powering the place, and has Slade imprisoned and sentenced to Electric Torture while he tries to convince Khan, a fellow Demi-God, to join him in creating a "perfect" race to replace humanity, despite knowing his rhetoric is nonsense.
  • Phantom Legacy: This duo, one of the two Big Bads and his main helper, are as vile as the Gods were despite being mere mortals:
    • Malakai is a human Mad Scientist who desires to become a god. Having aided Deimos and Apollo in their evil acts in the past, he creates the soulless Black Guards to serve as the world's armies, and creates Nero and Tobias, whom he keeps trapped in mental realms while using them to power the world. Sending Gerent to capture an escaped Nero, Malakai teams up with Haizum and Janus, manipulating the latter by convincing him that his friends are corrupting the world. Imprisoning Corvus in a suit of armor which he controls, he forces Corvus to kill his family and later fight his friends. Malakai, with Haizum, Janus, and the unwilling Corvus, leads the Black Guards in slaughtering the people of Ragan castle, later raiding the castle in Arcadia and doing the same with the people there. Entering the Ether Vein, he sends Janus, Haizum, and Corvus against the heroes, uncaring if they die, before fighting Nero himself, only helping him against Shadar afterwards for fun. Desiring to turn the world into his own personal experiment, Malakai proves that humans can be just as wicked as the gods.
    • Haizum is a bipedal unicorn monster and the worst of Malakai's Co-Dragons. As the guardian of the Tower of Babylon, Haizum gleefully kills adventurers who come inside, simply because he loves to fight and kill, and uses their bones to decorate his lair. He is first seen killing a warrior who came to avenge a loved one, and when he loses to the heroes, he swears revenge. Betraying the Alia, the people of the Tower, and joining Malakai, he gladly aids in the massacres at Ragan castle and Arcadia, only objecting when he feels that Malakai is wasting time. Finally, in the Ether Vein, when Lamia, his friend and one of the heroes, tries to appeal to the good inside him and help him, he tosses her off the platform and onto the sky, knowing that this would condemn her to fall forever, while mocking the heroes for thinking he would redeem himself and trying to kill them one last time. When Lamia manages to return and finish him off, she laments but accepts that the friendship they once had is gone forever.
• Legacy of Kain series:
  • The Elder God is an ancient parasite upon the Wheel of Fate. Playing at being god to the ancient vampires, the Elder God orchestrated a catastrophic war between vampire and Hylden that saw innumerable members of both killed, as well as countless humans. Upon the vampiric curse of immortality, the Elder God callously abandoned the vampires, leading to the suicide of most of the race. Later swaying Moebius to his side and inspiring him to his vampire purges, the Elder God manipulates almost every conflict in Nosgoth's history to kill countless people in order to satisfy its gluttony and desire for control. Hijacking Raziel's resurrection and manipulating the former vampire as its champion, the Elder God sends him to satisfy its plots and kill Kain with no concern for the slaughter left in the process so it may continue playing god and feasting upon the Wheel of Fate.
  • Hash'ak'gik, aka the Dark Entity, the Hylden Lord, and the Sarafan Lord, is the commander of the Hylden, a race banished to a demon dimension. He possessed Mortanius and used him to corrupt the Guardians of the Pillars of Nosgoth by murdering Ariel and leaving her lover Nupraptor to find her body and drive the Guardians insane with his grief. This in turn corrupted the Pillars and caused the land to decay and rot with the Guardians. With the corruption of the Pillars, he possesses Janos Audron and rebuilds the Sarafan order of vampire hunters, driving them to endangerment and establishing tyrannical control of human civilization. He uses this control to construct a network of Glyph-powered machines around Nosgoth to direct the energies of the Device, an ancient Hylden war weapon. With Janos imprisoned and deformed to power the Device, the Hylden Lord plans to activate the Device and kill all non-Hylden life in Nosgoth through the Glyph network, including the human Sarafan that loyally serve him.
  • Blood Omen: The fair boy-king William the Just, through the wicked influence of the time-traveling Moebius, came to embrace evil and became a sadistic despot known only as the Nemesis. The Nemesis has his legions sweep across the land to torture, rape and murder all they find, leaving entire cities such as the once-academic Stahlberg a complete ruin with its population put up on stakes. The Nemesis intends to come down upon all Nosgoth and turn the world into blood, ashes and chains before him, and even curbstomps the King Ottmar and his noble army, forcing Kain to turn back time forty years to undo William's carnage upon the Earth.
• Legend of Legaia:
  • Jette is the right-hand of Prince Cort. Unlike his master, whose mind was affected by a rogue Ra-Seru, Jette willingly goes along with the spreading of the Mist to witness the results out of his scientific curiosity, having been responsible for the destruction of one town in the past due to his "error" in unleashing monsters. Undeterred, Jette crafted more mist generators, unleashing them upon the world with most of humanity destroyed. His entire purpose is to see humanity "evolve" for his experiments, regardless of most of them dying in the process.
  • The brutal Songi was once a Biran monk who betrayed his people and slaughtered most of them. Returning to hound the heroes, especially his rival Gala, Songi eventually joins the Henchmen of the Mist and even executes one of his comrades, Zora, after her defeat before she can talk with the heroes, mocking her about thinking Cort ever cared for her. Betraying Cort, Songi attempts to obtain the power of the mighty Sim-Seru Juggernaut, trying to feed the entire human populace to it, subjecting them to an agonizing fate of eternal entrapment, all so he can rise to godhood, abandoning any hint of humanity in his quest for power.
• Legendary: Orlando/Ormand/Ormond LeFey is an evil businessman who wants to Take Over the World with an army of interdimensional creatures. By tricking art thief Charles "Charlie" Deckard into opening Pandora's Box, he ends up opening a portal that allows various creatures to invade and start an apocalypse. Uncaring for the millions of lives lost, LeFey plans to use the Box to lure the creatures to New York, where he will use them to conquer what's left of the world.
• The Legend of Dragoon: Melbu Frahnma was the emperor of the winged humanoid race called the Winglies. Promoting a racist philosophy, Melbu Frahnma spread the belief that every single thing that wasn't a Wingly deserved annihilation, but it was the "grace" of his empire to spare them as slaves. After being overthrown, Melbu Frahnma's spirit went dormant until he could take over the hero, Zieg. Using Zieg's body, Melbu Frahnma manipulated several massive wars and multiple murders to engineer his ascent to power and to fuse with a "seed" of a God and become the god of destruction. He plans to become the new god emperor of the world and destroy or make slaves of every race. Not even the Winglies are exempt, as Melbu Frahnma displays full willingness to wipe them out should they resist him.
• Legend Of The Guardians The Owls Of Ga Hoole video game: Allomere is a traitor to his people and the true villain of Shard's quest. Long ago having secretly aligned with the Pure Ones in the name of power, Allomere paved the way for the Pure Ones to slaughter the Glauxian monastery, which Allomere framed the innocent Grettir for. Allomere then hunted down and killed Grettir and his mate to silence all loose ends, narrowly prevented from claiming the life of Grettir's son Shard, too. Years later, Allomere continues to serve the Pure Ones' purposes and give them inside info that helps their wicked plans to enslave and moonblink all owlets. Allomere reveals himself as the traitor by trying to trap and murder a large group of heroic Guardians, and when confronted by Shard, Allomere smugly boasts of his hand in the deaths of Shard's parents.
• The Legend of Tian-ding: General Shimada Yunoshin is the ruling governor of Taipei County, obtaining his position of power a decade ago after commencing genocide on the population of Yunlin Village. Seeking the Sword of Seven Shackles for ultimate power with intentions to have the entire population of Taiwan wiped out to rule the land unopposed, Shimada displays the true extent of his sadism to his lackey, Colonel Matsumoto, when he stomps an unarmed civilian to death and orders Matsumoto to slaughter the civilians of Zhongzi Village and burn it to the ground as punishment for insolence. Taking over Mansion 28 with assistance from Ding Peng, Shimada kills hero Liao Tian-ding's mentor Master Zheng and have his soldiers execute every Mansion 28 member while Tian-ding is restrained and Forced to Watch the carnage. Shimada ultimately proves his loyalty is limited to himself after getting the Sword of Seven Shackles, by killing all remaining soldiers in his platoon to claim its powers for himself.
• LEGO City Undercover: Forrest Blackwell is a corrupt multi-billionaire and the true mastermind behind the events of the game. After his plans to build an apartment complex in Bluebell National Park was rejected by City Hall for endangering wildlife, Blackwell plotted to build his "utopia" on the moon instead, all the while spitefully swearing revenge on Lego City. Two years later, Blackwell hires Rex Fury to pull off several robberies to acquire everything he needs for his plans, and kidnap Professor Henrik Kowalski to force him to build a device he needs for his moon base under the threat of murdering his daughter, Natalia. Afterwards, Blackwell plans to take off to the moon via the rocket in Blackwell Tower, while intending to have Lego City and its inhabitants reduced to ash by the rocket's flames out of petty spite. After Rex is defeated by Chase McCain, Blackwell betrays Rex and attempts to kill both him and Chase, all the while planning to resume his plans of destroying Lego City while making Natalia watch.
• Let's Find Larry!: Willy Mack is a depraved Serial Killer who killed and mutilated seventeen people before the events of the game and escaped lawful custody after his prison transport crashed. Murdering Larry, one of the most respected people in Middle Wood, and tearing off his face to use as a disguise, Willy decides to hide in town, but is frequently stalked by a friend of Larry and the ringleader of a group of vigilantes. When cornered and seemingly killed, Willy survives his seeming death and brutally kills the vigilantes, including stabbing the ringleader so many times that his head is vertically dissected. Confronting the friend, Willy reveals the death of Larry to him, mentioning how much he enjoyed murdering him, and declares that he will kill the friend to use as a new disguise, making good on this declaration moments later. Escaping justice to cause even more carnage and death, Willy proves that looks can be deceiving, and just how easily serial killers can blend in.
• Lies of P: Arlecchino, the self-professed King of Riddles, is a puppet who views murder as an art of blood. After his Ergo is awakened, Arlecchino tortures his master into revealing the location of Arche Abbey. Driven by a bloodlust for humans, Arlecchino embarks on a horrifying spree as a Serial Killer, culminating in the chilling murder of the Venigni family—done so purely for the perverse joy of watching their happiness end. Sparing Lorenzini Venigni solely out of curiosity to how he'd react to his parents' deaths, Arlecchino's actions mentally scar Venigni to the point of implementing the Grand Covenant with Giuseppe Geppetto, which indirectly allows the latter to trigger the catastrophic Puppet Frenzy. Arlecchino's depravity only evolves when he is later imprisoned, as he taps into the city's phone networks to terrorize survivors such as Adelina with riddles that lead to lethal traps. The player will receive riddles from this remorseless puppet and may confront him if they answer all 5 of his riddles, revealing a creature that embodies humanity's most monstrous potential. Arlecchino's limited resources only highlight his innate wickedness, using cunning and malice to enact chaos and terror upon Krat.
• Life After Us: The System: Dr. Tar is a depraved and despicable man who made his own patient's life a living hell. A doctor of an asylum in charge of a mentally disabled woman, Dr. Tar took advantage of her condition and repeatedly raped her for months while beating her to make sure she doesn't tell on him while cruelly demeaning her. Eventually, the young woman became pregnant by him and he repeatedly attacked her in response, especially in the stomach, trying to kill the baby. When the baby was born, Dr. Tar took him away from the young woman and trapped him in a box before burning him. Once the grandmother of the woman became suspicious and tried to take the woman away from the asylum, Dr. Tar murdered the grandmother to stop her and trapped the woman inside a dark room where she starved to death.
• The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante: Dorius Otton, the military commander of the province of Magra, is corrupt even by the depthless standards of the Arknian nobility. Before Brante even reaches adulthood, Dorius is a rapist and abuser who first meets the player attempting to reclaim his runaway slave, a young commoner named Sophia. Age only refines Dorius's cruelty; as military commander of Magra, Dorius goes from village to village collecting an exorbitant tax from the commoners, pillaging and razing at his own merriment while brutally putting down any resistance. Should Brante's Justice rating fall too low, Dorius will order a mob of hundreds of disaffected villagers put down by force, leading to a horrible massacre should Brante be unable to or unwilling to stop it. Dorius's endgame for Magra is the "Night of the Serpents", where on behalf of his benefactor Archduke Milanidas, Dorius will purge the province of any political rivals and their innocent families. Dorius also has a tendency to force people—mostly his own men—to participate in lopsided duels to the death, often repeatedly challenging them after their resurrection until they meet their True Death. Reviled not just by the peasantry but by almost all of his own Arknian allies, if convicted both sides will find Dorius Otton equally guilty of unremitting evil.
• Life Is Strange:
  • First game: Mark Jefferson is a famous photographer and teacher at Blackwell Academy, as well as the true mastermind of the Dark Room. Taking advantage of Nathan Prescott's need for a father figure, Jefferson has the latter drug and abduct girls to the Dark Room to be tortured and photographed by him. When one of Jefferson's victims, Kate Marsh, is struggling with depression, Jefferson subtly goads her into attempting suicide to cover his tracks. Upon learning that Maxine "Max" Caulfield and Chloe Price have found the Dark Room, Jefferson kills Chloe and abducts Max to use as his next subject. If Victoria, his next intended victim, is successfully warned about the Dark Room, Jefferson will kidnap and kill her. Once he takes Max to the Dark Room, Jefferson admits to having killed Nathan to use as a scapegoat for his crimes, and will attempt to kill David Madsen when the latter comes to save Max. Despite his charming demeanor and close friendships with his students, Jefferson is taking advantage of their respect and admiration for the sake of his torture art and his own sick enjoyment, with no remorse or empathy for his victims.
  • Before the Storm: Damon Merrick is a feared, psychopathic crime boss within Arcadia Bay, known for operating dog fighting and drug rings, and is tied to multiple assaults and even murder. Damon is introduced hunting down and beating down Drew North for money he owes him and either shatters his knee, ruining his football career, which he taunts him about; or breaks the arm of Drew's little brother Mikey if he is paid his money. Confronting Chloe and Rachel while they look for Rachel's mother, Sera, Damon threatens them, stabbing Rachel upon getting into an altercation with her, landing her in the hospital. Discovered to have abducted Sera for Rachel's District Attorney father, James, Damon has been promised evidence against him would be destroyed, as well as a cash payment and the name of an informant he intends to kill. Planning to force Sera back into drug addiction to make her relapse, Damon tries to kill both Chloe and Frank, his best friend, when they try to stop him.
• Lifeline: Jim Powers is the Evil Uncle of the heroine Rio, obsessed with taking the Philosopher's Stone for himself. Having killed his own brother and even Rio herself when she was a child before she was revived, Powers harvests his brother's brain to keep it frozen in a painful existence so it may manage a station for him. Attacking the space hotel to go after Rio again, Powers reveals he has horrifically mutated people into monsters with the Philosopher's Stone, including the Operator's lover Naomi. Upon being cornered, Powers even tries to drop the hotel onto Tokyo for nothing save spite and kicks.
• Lily's Well: Antonio Tabacchi, aka Papa, is Lily's abusive father, who murdered his wife at one point and drove Lily away. After Lily made it clear that she will not come back, Antonio decided to create numerous clones of Lily, each of whom he tested on obedience by leaving them alone in the cabin and telling them not to go outside. When each clone left the house and explored the forest, Antonio arranged for them to die in many horrific ways. At some points suffocating one clone with a pillow and shooting two in the head, when they found the truth behind their origin, Antonio gleefully revealed his intention of creating a "good girl" who will obey his every order, by transferring some parts of memories of each killed clone to a new one, until she will "learn to listen to Papa".
• LISA trilogy: Dr. Yado is behind the events of the entire trilogy. Having participated in the project that created Joy, Yado was the only one who figured out how to control the resulting Joy Mutants. This discovery gave him a massive god complex, and he immediately went to mutate the other scientists so they wouldn't figure him out. With the help of Buzzo, Yado introduced Joy as a drug to start turning humans into his mutant slaves. In order to speed up the process, he triggered the Great White Flash, killing off all women and destroying society. The only survivor, his pregnant wife, was hidden away so she could give birth to their daughter, Nancy, whom Yado would use to start a war to kill or mutate every surviving man. When the time came, Yado killed his wife and let Brad find his daughter, whom Brad renamed Buddy and became extremely protective of; this led to Brad slaughtering the entirety of Rando's Army and many others before mutating. Noticing that Buddy had taken Joy herself, Yado left messages pushing Buddy to kill as much as possible in hopes she would mutate. When cornered, Yado attacked Buddy with his strongest mutant before finally getting killed by a disgusted Buzzo.
• Little Nightmares series:
  • First game & Secrets of the Maw DLC: The Lady is the wicked sorceress in charge of the Maw. Obsessed with her vanity and control over her domain, the Lady has children captured and brought to The Maw where she would feed them to her guests; if the Lady finds any children trying to escape, she would transform them into Nomes and have them perform slave labor throughout the Maw. The Lady has already subjected many children to this fate, including DLC protagonist the Runaway Kid, and attempts to use her dark magic on heroine Six.
  • Second Game: The Hunter is a Serial Killer living in the Wilderness, hunting his own kind and other beings. He has already killed countless people with mangled corpses, flayed skin, dismembered body parts, and stuffed bodies shown throughout as evidence. The Hunter has also captured Six, imprisoning her weeks with plans to taxidermize her after she dies of starvation, and upon seeing Six attempting to escape with protagonist Mono's help, the Hunter pursues the two children with intent to kill them.
• The Little Red Lie: Red's grandmother—a possible Composite Character with the Witch, was a cannibalistic killer with many victims, before the talking cat Ascat sent The Big Bad Wolf to stop her evil by eating her. This resulted in Red's grandmother being cursed and turned into a giant twisted wolf who continued to roam the forest and devour anyone she sees, with her cave being filled with bones of the people she murdered. Trying to trick Red into freeing her, after Red sealed her in the cave, Red's grandmother gleefully intended to eat Red if the latter decided to free her.
• Little Red Memories: The Parallel is a cruel living dimension that drags those at the worst point in their lives into itself to feed on them and their despair while putting them through deadly games to humor itself. Trapping heroine Bonnie Roux after she remembers her grandmother, the Parallel puts her through a series of games; in one of them, Bonnie is forced to win a quiz which blames her for all the sorrow in her family.
• Live A Live: Doctor Livingstill, General Yamazaki, and Priest Unryu are the heads of The Conspiracy in the Near Future chapter seeking to revive the god Odeo. Needing to melt 2000 humans down to conscious liquid as a sacrifice, Livingstill liquefacts his entire research team save for the runaway Tobei, putting his aide Kozo Watanabe in a machine and stripping him of his free will. Yamazaki usurps control of the Crusaders and has them kidnap innocent civilians, including children, for liquefacation. Upon being discovered by Akira and Matsu, the three send the Crusaders to burn down the Bright Sparks Orphanage as they prepare to summon Odeo.
• Loopmancer: Wei Long is protagonist Xiang Zixu's personal nemesis and the man responsible for ruining Xiang's life, arranging for an accident that leaves Xiang nearly dead, Xiang's wife reduced to a wheelchair-bound cripple, and Xiang's little daughter killed, which Wei Long shows absolutely no remorse over. Escaping the authorities thanks to his lawyers, Wei Long allies himself with Tompson Technologies as their main supplier of Human Resources, arranging for the entire population of the rural Ditch Village to be used for their experiments, with thousands of subjects suffering plenty of Body Horror and losing their sapience into becoming feral, mindless monstrosities, even having rivals in the Triads and his own failed minions captured to be delivered for experiments. As Xiang confronts Wei Long one last time, Wei Long mocks him over his dead daughter while threatening he will make Xiang's handicapped wife suffer an even worse death.
• Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven: Kaiser Sein is an immortal who turned a once-prosperous kingdom into an evil empire through waging countless wars that spanned the entire globe, while seeking to usurp God's power by literally enslaving God's seven daughters, the Artemisias, and using them to obtain even more power. While he may seem a Tragic Villain, as he originally wanted the Lachryma in order to bring his wife Back from the Dead, even though he put all of the blame on his newborn son, he goes through Motive Decay, and by the end, he used the fake Lachyrima to revive his wife's body, which cannot survive without his power, and forced her to fight against her will, just like he did the Artemisias. By the end of the game, he's completely disregarded his own wife's wishes in favor of simply seizing the power of the Verboten Manga.
• Lost Eden: Moorkus Rex is an evil dinosaur tyrant who leads an army of Tyranns to conquer all other kingdoms. He doesn't want to conquer the world so much as simply dismember it, and his mooks cut swaths of destruction wherever they go. His real power is illusion and fakery—he lies every time he opens his mouth, trying to sow confusion and despair, while the real threat—the Tyrann—destroys everything in their path. It unfortunately works all too well on Dina, whom he tricked into believing he had gruesomely murdered her mate.
• Lost Odyssey: Gongora, originally an emotionless immortal, becomes corrupt once he's exposed to human emotions, which reveal an ambitiously cruel being. Intending on Taking Over The World, he organized various traumatic events for his colleagues to dwell in despair long enough for him to take their memories, leaving them as "walking corpses" just so that they didn't get in his way. These included kidnapping Kaim and Sarah's daughter, forcing Seth to kill her best friend to save her son, and setting giant monsters in Ming's kingdom as a bargain to force her to block off her own memories. He even magically brainwashed Jansen at some point to turn him against his friends. Even at the end when his plans failed, he planned on taking act on his plans as many times as he wanted, determined to cause as much misery as he can until he was succesful.
• Lost Planet: Dennis Isenberg is the commander of the NEVEC forces on the planet E.D.N III. Founding the Frontier Project, he presents it as a way to get rid of the monstrous Akrid, but in truth he plans to use it to annihilate all life on the planet, including all of the humans living there. When Gale Holden learns of this and tries to stop Isenberg, he unleashes the Akrid, Green Eye, onto Gale and his forces and has his henchman, Bandero, kill any survivors, with only Gale's son Wayne escaping this onslaught. Isenberg would then oppress E.D.N III for 30 years killing numerous people and Akrid, extracting the latter's thermal energy for his project. He would then force Yuri to work on the Frontier Project by torturing him into compliance before killing him once he is of no use to him. While claiming the Frontier Project is for the betterment of humankind, Isenberg's willingness to use the project to wipe out all of humanity on the planet proves that he only wants to eliminate any opposition so he can claim the planet for himself.
• Love & Death: Bitten: Celeste is a vampiric witch who enslaved the object of her lust, Damon, by turning him into a vampire after he rejected her. Transforming women who were interested in Damon into frogs, Celeste forced Damon to bring her humans so she could drain them of their blood and devour them. Torturing to death some of her victims in her secret cave, Celeste tried to force Damon to kill Victoria, the woman he fell in love with, and when that failed and Damon was turned back into a human, Celeste turned Victoria into a vampire out of spite before escaping.
• Lucius trilogy:
  • Lucifer himself corrupts the titular Lucius Wagner into The Antichrist due to a deal he made with the boy's heartless grandfather. Lucifer periodically appears to Lucius, having him kill his family and workers, including his loving mother as a sacrifice. When Lucius finds himself in a destructive competition against another antichrist named Issac, resulting in the latter's death among numerous people, Lucifer is indifferent to the death of one son and proud of the promise Lucius shows. Lucifer also uses Detective McGuffin's crisis of faith to make him Lucius's guardian. Later on, Lucifer kills McGuffin by ripping his heart out and mockingly reveals he caused the death of his family. When Lucius considers going a different path than Lucifer's plans, Lucifer strips him of his power and leaves him to die in the apocalypse to come. Lucius later faces off with Lucifer as he tries to bring about Hell on Earth and Lucifer attempts to kill Lucius while mentioning that he's just one of many of his children he's done this with.
  • Fabius Wagner is Lucius's power hungry and cold-hearted grandfather. Having previously gotten his family into power through his mob ties, Fabius was secretly a demon worshipper who made a deal with Lucifer to warp his newborn grandson into the future Antichrist, setting him on his path to evil. When Lucius gradually kills off his family and their help, Fabius feels no remorse for these deaths, saying that one of his dead sons was a disgrace to his family's legacy, in the face of his grieving brother. Believing himself as having a part in Lucius's destiny, Fabius eventually reveals to his grandson his part in making him who he is, prepares to have him sacrifice a captive reporter, and states his intent on being Lucius's guide and mentor in the end times.
• Lufia series: Daos, Master of Terror, is the leader of the sibling gods known as the Sinistrals. In the first game, when his sister, Erim, is revealed to have been living as a human, Daos mentally assaults her, mocking her desire to live as a human. In the prequel game, Daos, deciding to send a message to mankind of "real terror", warps Maxim to the town of Chaed, then uses his island fortress to blow up it up, killing everyone, even children, while leaving the heroes alive solely so they could feel the terror as the humans around them died. Daos then orders the kidnapping, and attempted murder, of Maxim’s infant son, Jeros. He later decides to destroy the human world, leaving his followers behind. In the third game, for fun, Daos crashes a wedding by casting a spell on the bride so she sees the groom and the other attendants at the wedding as monsters. Worse, Daos makes her as strong as himself, explaining the spell will only break until she or a victim is dead. This forces the groom to kill himself to stop the bride from killing her little sister. When Erim, unable to live with the atrocities she, and the Sinistrals, have committed, arranges for the death of herself and the Sinistrals, a wounded Daos summons Zalbak, a Animalistic Abomination with the last of his power. Having the Monster fuse with Erim, Daos reveals that Zalbak won’t stop until the world is ashes, while Erim will be Forced to Watch the world she loved be destroyed before she dies. Believing human emotions to be worthless, and not even really caring about his own siblings, Daos commits his atrocities ostensibly to punish humans for ignoring the gods, but really for his own sadistic amusement.
• Luminous Arc: Cardinal Kingston is the right-hand man of the Pope and the cruelest character in this lighthearted game. Wanting to help awaken the evil god Zehaal in order to take its power for himself, Kingston creates a rumor that witches, the forces best able to defeat Zehaal, are evil and must be persecuted; at the same time, he is masterminding tests and experiments to control Zehaal, experiments which result in cruel torture and loss of life. Wanting to hide his true nature, he makes some of the most corrupt people into key figures of his religion, leading to chaos as these figures run rampant with their abuses of power. When Alph and his group learn about the truth of their religion, Kingston immediately has them hunted down in order to silence them. Throughout the journey to free the world from this fake order, Kingston makes a mechanical witch named Iris who annihilated armies of Holy Knights to keep his secret; betrays his close allies by sending them to their death; and made a deal with an agent of Zehaal to send demons to his enemies while helping him awaken their lord to cause the end of the world. Greedy and treacherous are the best way to describe Kingston, a dark villain for such a cheerful and simple game.
• Lunar: Eternal Blue: Zophar is the self styled lord of darkness and the one responsible for the Blue Star being stripped of all life. As we see in flashbacks, Zophar led a campaign of conquest on the Blue Star that only ended when his arch-nemesis, the goddess Althena, was forced to seal him at the cost of all life on the world. Even through his prison, Zophar reached out to corrupt mortals, twisting the church of Althena into a Corrupt Church that was responsible for centuries of suffering and cruelty. Zophar excels in twisting and corrupting hearts to even turned loved ones against one another, and unlike most dark lords, Zophar fully understands goodness and righteousness enough to exploit it: manipulating heroine Lucia's love for her friends so she wouldn't have the will to destroy him at cost of the world. Zophar takes her captive to use her powers to remake the world in his twisted image, not caring about the death toll. When he decides the world is too much trouble, Zophar merely elects to destroy it utterly with every living soul.
• Lunarosse: The "Illusion Master", Dr. Dario Naumov, masterminds the Empire-Faction war within his patient Corlia Davis's Lunarosse world based on her book for rejecting his advances. Through his avatars, Dario sews discord, causing wars and catastrophe for the cast based on Corlia's friends, manipulating them to insanity and bringing about a draconian rule. Allowing for attacks on peaceful native races of Lunarossa, Dario also forces friends of Corlia to fight to the death, and in the true ending attempts to empower himself and destroy the dream world out of spite.
• Luxaren Allure: Darkloft attempts to sell the world to the demons of Aothuth in exchange for power and immortality. In order to fuel the ritual to unseal the demons, Darkloft summons monsters to ravage the isles of Luxaren and kill those who oppose her ambitions. After being reduced to a suit of armor, Darkloft eventually possesses Aurelie, forces her host to restart her genocidal war, and attempts to completely break her host by targeting the latter's Love Interest, heroine Karuna. After the heroes mortally wound her, Darkloft manages to open the gate to Aothuth, confident that the demons will create Hell on Earth.

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• Mace: The Dark Age:
  • Asmodeus, a powerful demon and wielder of the Mace of Tanis, plunges Europe into a horrific hellscape where countless innocents are slaughtered and brutalized under him and the rest of the Covenant of Seven. Having created Grendal by taking the young Taurus and turning him into a demonic being, Asmodeus is also responsible for helping Sir Dregan to found a kingdom of undeath where thousands have their souls stolen and directing others to rampage to other countries to cause a greater death toll. Asmodeus has a fondness for twisted punishments in most characters' bad endings, such as turning one noble warrior into a ravenous wolf to prey upon the people he wishes to protect.
  • Lord Deimos is one of the Covenant of Seven. A hulking man in crimson armor who rules over Bavaria, Deimos runs his province with savagery and viciousness, slaughtering his own people and torturing others. Deimos also keeps Bavaria in a perpetual state of war, constantly murdering others, including the family of the viking Ragnar whose village was exterminated by Deimos's dark forces. Seeking to seize the Mace of Tanis and annihilate his six allies, Deimos also seeks to take Countess Taria of the Seven as his consort by consent or force, and should he gain the Mace, Europe never manages to recover from his hideous and bloody rule.
  • The Executioner is a terrifying man in a black hood who runs the island fortress of El Katraz. Torturing countless people and acting as a freelance killer for the Covenant of Seven or anyone who needs a victim eliminated, the Executioner enjoys giving his victims false hope by giving them a chance to flee before dragging them back to his torture chambers. Should he win and claim the Mace of Tanis, the Executioner will usher in the Age of Torture, where every living thing is subjected to endless agony of his cruel torments that will rival Hell itself.
• MadWorld may be Bloody Hilarious and line-crossing, but these two manage to stand out as being completely greedy monsters:
  • Noa is the CEO of DeathWatch, and Leo Fallmont's second-in-command. Cutting off all access to roads and technology in Jefferson Island, Noa unleashes a deadly virus that will kill everyone within 24 hours, promising a vaccine to those who kill—even suggesting starting with family members and neighbors—with the last one standing winning $100 million. Turning the DeathWatch games—having previously been created for nations to engage in less bloody wars—into a violent reality show where the wealthy bid on contestants, Noa reaps most of the profits for himself, doing whatever he can to keep sponsors funding the games.
  • Leonardo "Leo" Fallmont, first seen as a random survivor, is the true villain of the game, the creator of the deadly virus, and Noa's boss. Following his father's pharmaceutical company going bankrupt after the last presidential election, Leo and his father decide to create a virus in order to sell a vaccine. Partnering with Noa to spread the virus across Jefferson Island, before ultimately killing Noa to cover his tracks, he plans on using DeathWatch as a way to spread publicity about the vaccine, blackmailing various countries with his virus unless they buy it, while also participating in the games for the thrill of killing.
• Mad Max (2015): Lord Scabrous Scrotus is the sadistic son of Immortan Joe who rules Gastown with an iron fist. With his garrison of War Boys, Scrotus scours his section of the Wasteland for anyone he can capture, kill, and pillage, putting him into conflict with Max. After losing to him in a fight, Scrotus goes mad with rage and takes his anger out on the Wasteland, setting his Dragon Stank Gum loose on Gutgash and Pink Eye's Strongholds to kill them and their followers. Upon learning that Max won the Gastown Race, Scrotus revokes his prize and almost beats him to death in revenge, setting a cabal of War Boys on him as well. When he learns that Chumbucket took the Magnum Opus, he orders his torture to learn whatever he could about Max, and when he learns about Hope and Glory's relation to him, he kills both of them alongside Deep Friah's followers just to spite Max one last time.
• Madness: Project Nexus (link) & MADNESS: Project Nexus 2: Director Phobos is the corrupt ruler of Nexus City and the head of Project Nexus, a scientific program aimed to do good for Nevada. Distancing himself from the Project's good intentions, Phobos tries to use it to achieve godhood for himself. When Dr. Christoff tries to warn him that this could lead to the world being destroyed, Phobos fires him under threats of sending him to the Other Place. Phobos is eventually killed by Christoff, but his S-3LF returns, taking control of Project Gestalt and trying to reach the Other Place to obtain godhood while attempting to kill the protagonists, resulting in the deaths of most of his minions. A megalomaniac with a god complex, Phobos is ready to sacrifice anything and anyone to reach godhood.
• Mafia III has, among its surplus of Politically Incorrect Villains, a pair of Human Traffickers; a Dirty Cop; and the current head of a Breeding Cult:
  • Ritchie Doucet, the leader of the Dixie Mob, is first shown participating in the betrayal and destruction of the Black Mob, where he personally stabs Ellis, Lincoln Clay's adoptive younger brother, to death. As a reward for his help, Doucet is given control over Delray Hollow by Sal Marcano, and starts running heroin and prostitution rackets. His prostitution racket is revealed to be comprised of Black women whom he's had abducted, addicted to heroin, then forced into sexual slavery to service White patrons.
  • Remy Duvall is a Blue Blood of New Bordeaux and the seemingly friendly and simple-minded host of the widely popular radio show "Native Son", promoting White values. In truth, Duvall is the ferocious leader of the Southern Union and an ardent White supremacist, allied with the Marcano crime family. Duvall orders Blacks beaten and killed and assists the Marcanos in their PCP operation. Duvall secretly sells Blacks into slavery to rich Whites, a crime that disgusts and horrifies even other bandits. After Lincoln Clay destroys his operations, Duvall rallies his followers with the intention of sending Lincoln and his allies to Delray Hollow, intending to then burn it down completely, not caring about the countless deaths among innocent "White" citizens. Claiming to love and protect his city, but willing to harm and even kill White Christians if it benefits him, Duvall takes racism to horrific levels.
  • Faster, Baby! DLC: Sheriff Walter "Slim" Beaumont, the vicious, ruthless, and racist sheriff of Sinclair Parish who seeks to maintain power and to make sure the town has an all-White influence, does so by murdering Black citizens after sundown. Beaumont also works with the Southern Union, letting them loose on Sinclair Parish, using additional murder and intimidation to keep its citizens in check. When a movement starts to expose his crimes and bring him to justice, he murders Ezekiel Dandridge, and steals the written testimonies gathered against him. By the time Lincoln and Roxy arrive in Sinclair Parish, Beaumont is already targeting the citizens that are testifying against him. When Lincoln and Roxy put a stop to his plans, he has Lincoln abducted and prepares to leave him to the Southern Union, taking the time to gloat to him.
  • Sign of the Times DLC: Bonnie Harless, the current leader of the Ensanglante, is a direct descendant of the infamously racist General Braxton Harless, the founder and original leader of the cult. Bonnie, inspired by Braxton's words and teachings, decided to resurrect the cult of her own doing in the present. To this end, she ended up manipulating dozens if not hundreds of struggling White folk into becoming addicted to drugs she distributes and effectively brainwashing them into her minions, all under the guise of philanthropy and helping them cope with their problems. Once officially inducted into her movement, Bonnie has them kill Blacks and other "impure" people by torturing them to death in locations where suffering has occurred. When confronted directly by Lincoln Clay on the verge of death, Bonnie continues to defy her foe to the end, stating that New Bordeaux would burn without her movement and its influence.
• Makai Toshi SaGa: The Creator is the true power behind Ashura, the Four Fiends and all the woes they've inflicted on the world. Creating a tower separated into numerous worlds, the Creator made a "game" where adventurers would climb the tower believing Paradise to lie at its Apex. To create his game, the Creator deliberately made the worlds miserable, which included setting up a war in the World of Continent between three kings, having Byak-Ko establish a cruel dictatorship in the World of Clouds and having Su-Zaku turn the World of Ruin into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. When confronted by the party the Creator callously claims that because he created everything he can do anything he wants with the worlds and the people within, revealing himself to be a cruel and narcissistic god.
• Mamatoto ~A Record of War~: Kakaro Alphorioa is the King of Mamatoto, who stole the son of his greatest rival to raise as his own. When the boy, Prince Nanas, proved a capable strategist, Kakaro had him wage a war against other nations, and promptly murdered his more noble rivals. A Serial Rapist on the side, Kakaro abuses countless women and girls, even his own daughter, while later unsealing a demon to take possession of him and destroy the world rather than let Nanas save it.
• Mana series:
  • Secret of Mana: Thanatos, once an Evil Sorcerer who sold his soul to the underworld for the prospect of dark powers and immortality, starts the game off by manipulating the corrupt emperor Vandole into throwing his entire country into a brutal war to rise up the ancient superweapon the Mana Fortress. Having already lived centuries by surfing from body to body, Thanatos weasels his way into a position as one of Vandole's loyal servants and has countless innocent lives from the kingdom of Pandora kidnapped and zombified to lure out the noble warrior Dyluck, magically turning the man into his slave and planning to use him as his new, permanent host. Eventually murdering Vandole himself once he lives out his use, Thanatos rises up the Mana Fortress and uses it to vaporize the Mana Tree whilst cackling, preventing the heroes from undoing the chaos he's wrought through his manipulations and planning on using the Mana Fortress to enslave the world to his cruel will, even possessing Dyluck at the final battle and forcing him into killing himself to prevent Thanatos from using his body.
  • Dawn of Mana & Trials of Mana: Stroud, later known as the Dark Majesty, is the Emperor of Lorimar who tried to murder his own baby brother by hurling him into the ocean and eliminating all other potential claimants to his throne. Making a pact with the demons of Mavolia, Stroud intended on sacrificing his own nation and later the world for power, even betraying the demons to become an archdemon himself. Ages later, in Trials of Mana, Stroud is revived as the Dark Majesty and intends to eliminate Mana's goddesses, fusing Mavolia with the world to bring Hell on Earth in a dark realm where he is the only god.
  • Trials of Mana: Goremand is the right hand of the Masked Mage. A sadistic jester-like being, Goremand convinces the beastmen of Ferolia to start a war with humanity, seemingly turning prince Kevin's beloved pet Karl into a monster to trick Kevin into killing him. Goremand later attacks and kidnaps Heath in front of Charlotte right when the two have just gotten reunited, and over the course of the story, kills others to reap their souls, intending on taking the Masked Mage and using him to create a world of war and death so Goremand can glut himself on souls forevermore.
  • Legend of Mana: The wicked dragon Drakonis was trapped in the Underworld for his crimes. Taking Larc, the brother of heroine Sierra, Drakonis uses him to lure his sister into attacking three dragons who keep Drakonis sealed before forcibly turning Larc into a monster to face his sister and kill or be killed by her. Drakonis devours many souls to empower himself, intending to go to Earth to conquer it and reap even more souls until he finds himself satisfied.
• Manhunt duology:
  • Original game:
    • Lionel Starkweather is a rich man who creates snuff films for his own pleasure and profit. Using his fortune to acquire convicted death row inmate James Earl Cash, Starkweather sets him loose in Carcer City while hunted by gang members and corrupt law enforcement. Starkweather constantly ups the stakes by putting others in danger and has Cash's innocent family kidnapped to face almost-certain death. Starkweather's prize fighter is an insane, naked man wearing a pig's head named Piggsy, who has clearly lost his mind through what Starkweather has put him through. Starkweather's voice dogs the player throughout, as the depraved millionaire positively revels in the horror and brutality he creates.
    • Mr. Nasty, the mysterious head of Valiant Video Enterprises, is the de facto ruler of Carcer City. Having turned the entire city into a crime-ridden hellhole with an empire of murderers and rapists under his control, Mr. Nasty finances and distributes Lionel Starkweather's snuff films for profit and to "honor pain". Always guaranteeing "absolute satisfaction" to buyers, Mr. Nasty resells the various murder tools used in the snuff films to interested clients, and gives his depraved minions the chance of finding work as mercenaries through his company.
  • Manhunt 2:
    • Dr. Pickman is the head of the Project and the man responsible for their countless atrocities. Obsessed with the idea of creating assassins via the Pickman Bridge—which would allow two personalities to inhabit the same body—Pickman has a psychopath placed inside the mind of Daniel Lamb, condemning Daniel to rot in Dixmor Asylum with other failed subjects when he inevitably goes on a killing spree. Other experiments overseen by Pickman include: driving a man insane by forcing him to feed on corpses; engulfing a man in flames until his skin and nerves were permanently damaged; and exploding a soldier to see how his squad would react. Not content with the experiments, Pickman runs a front for the Project in the form of a strip club where clients are made into "Project zombies" and snuff filmmakers take their victims to a torture dungeon.
    • Leo Kasper is a murder-obsessed assassin who had his own personality placed inside the mind of Daniel Lamb by the Project. Taking the opportunity to cause as much death as possible and erase Daniel's past to assume total control over his body, Leo starts by killing people close to him—including his best friend and his therapist—culminating in a killing spree that ended with Leo stabbing Daniel's wife to death. Armed with a katana, Leo breaks into a TV station owned by the Project and slaughters more than twenty people inside, dismembering some of them and hanging one with a microphone. Despite his sadistic crimes, Leo maintains a façade of being Daniel's ally, instructing him into killing his enemies in the worst ways possible just so he can see Daniel becoming a "sick fuck" like himself before he can destroy his personality.
• MapleStory:
  • Magnus the Betrayer is the power-hungry, megalomanical antagonist of the Nova storylines. Exiled years ago for abusing his powers, he sided with the Arch-Enemy of the Nova race and carried out an attack on Heliseum, killing many, including Cadena's family. His actions eventually required the previous Kaiser to step in, ending with him performing an unsuccessful Heroic Sacrifice, Magnus then taking the Nova's capital as well as their champion and protector in one fell swoop. He's shown to absolutely revel in his actions, taking pride in being a mass murderer and double-crosser, joining two different forces wishing to destroy the world only to gain abilities to cause more destruction in his path. Feared by the Nova, reviled by Kaiser and Angelic Buster, and hated by the Black Mage's commanders, Magnus never bothers showing any remorse or sympathy to whom he affects, and he enjoys every second of it.
  • Gelimer of the Black Wings stands out among the non-commander antagonists as a testament to low the Black Wings are capable of going; while originally perhaps well-meaning, he created a gas that would render whoever was exposed to it dead or a puppet of his to control, and fell down the slippery slope until he was recruited by Orchid. He proceeded to kidnap and roboticize Xenon, an innocent child, and possibly Beryl; created at least one Manchurian Agent out of his human test experiments; and turns against Orchid by using her brother, Lotus, to pilot a warship that would drop the gas he created all over the Maple World. Gelimer's complete lack of empathy and desire for a world without human emotion is portrayed as chillingly humorless compared to the other antagonists in the game, and he's serious about completing his ambition, no matter how many people have to suffer for it.
• The Mark: Ilya Rakov is a son of a Russian billionaire and Arms Dealer, Aleksandr Rakov, who decided to take their business to the next level. Striking a deal with terrorists, Ilya starts a hunt after Steve and Sandy Fletcher, while transporting a terrorist's short-range missile closer to London on his ship. Planning to fire this missile at London, Rakov was furious when Austin Hawke and Steve Fletcher disable this missile and foiled his plans, abandoning his father to escape on a helicopter in the end.
• The Mark of Kri: The Dark One is a high-ranking sorcerer of the Kasai, a cult dedicated to recovering the lost marks of Kri in order to revive a destructive spell that would enable them to Take Over the World. Introduced as a humble man entertaining Rau's thirst for more adventure with prospects of money, the Dark One in truth seeks to subvert Rau's destiny as a hero that will destroy the Kasai. Tricking Rau into excavating a tomb holding the fourth mark of Kri, the Dark One seemingly pays Rau as promised with hexed money, forcing him to undertake a journey to save his life. Taking the opportunity to kidnap a child holding the fifth mark, the village oracle compels Rau to his rescue. Revealing he already sacrificed the child and was expecting Rau, the Dark One exploits Rau's absence to launch a genocidal campaign against his village, killing everyone but Rau's sister, Tati, who holds the sixth and final mark on her back. Resurrecting the villagers as the undead to bolster his army for conquest, the Dark One agonizingly siphons Tati's soul in the ritual to revive the forbidden spell of Kri.
• Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death: Heng Long is an evil enterpriser who seeks world domination by gaining godlike powers from the substance Tiox Choq'ik. Planning to use his powers to cause the apocalypse, he builds plantations over numerous South American civilizations to harvest the hidden Mayan codices. When his translator Eva Torres tries to leave with her boyfriend, smokejumper Marlow Briggs, Long has Kim Carreras kill Marlow and force Eva to remain by his side. Not treating his henchmen any better, he jokes about their deaths, allows them to be possessed by evil spirits, and gleefully kills some for a ritual. Killing Kim after discovering her plans to betray him, Long laughs as the world slowly starts to crumble, and tries to kill Marlow when he arrives to save Eva.
• Mary Skelter: Nightmares: The Genocide Pink's master Yuuto Gatou has used the countless time loops to subject numerous women and children to experiments in the attempt to create more execution themed Genocide Pink. Gatou's only reason for trying to save Alice is because her death leads to a time loop that is keeping him from destroying the world. Learning about Mary and how she causes the loops, he has Guillotine attempt to assassinate her, Alice's safety no longer a concern to him. When elder Genocide Pink stop proving to be useful, Gatou uses the three of them to create a Nightmare that will hunt down Shira as well as prevent the Blood Team from stopping him. Defeated, the Guillotine portion of the Nightmare clings to life, drags herself to him, and begs him to save her, revealing that they're siblings, and Gatou kills her for it.
• Mass Effect franchise:
  • First game: Dr. Saleon was a Salarian corrupt geneticist who used employees for twisted experiments, growing extra organs in them to smuggle on the black market and leaving the organs in them if they were unsuitable, with terrible effects on their health. Caught, Saleon used his employees as hostages to escape before carrying on with his horrid experiments. When caught later, Saleon has been experimenting on numerous innocents, turning them into zombie-like monstrosities without any trace of their former selves.
  • Mass Effect 2: Ronald Taylor is Jacob Taylor's father and cares only about himself. Serving as Acting Captain when his ship crashed on a remote planet, Ronald discovered the food on the planet caused neural decay in whoever ate it. Restricting the ship's rations to him and his officers before killing them, Ronald exiled all the men so that he could keep all the women as his own personal harem for years. Ronald eventually activated the distress beacon only to save himself after the men became dangerous, and when confronted on what he's done, Ronald only comes up with excuses on why he wasn't to blame.
  • Mass Effect 3:
    • Kai Leng ^{Other appearances}Retribution & Deception novels; Foundation comic series is Cerberus's final agent, a smug, racist killer who murdered a Krogan in a fight before joining the organization. Leng carries out countless murders for Cerberus, including the daughter of Asari crime lord Aria, willing to kill a damaged teenager to ensure his own safety in the end. Becoming a nemesis to Commander Shepard, Leng leads an assault on the Citadel with massive casualties to cause a coup for Cerberus's puppet Udina and later attempts to stop Shepard so that the Asari world of Thessia dies in the process.
    • Henry Lawson is an egomaniacal businessman and scientist obsessed with having a dynasty. To that end, Henry creates Designer Babies based off of his DNA. Viewing them only as tools, he controls them their entire lives, molding them to meet his expectations, such as he did with Miranda Lawson. Should any of them be subpar, Henry kills them. When he appears, Henry is working with the Illusive Man in using the refugee camp, Sanctuary, as a front for gathering test subjects to study Reaper Indoctrination. Thousands of civilians are experimented on, including children, resulting in either their deaths or their being turned into husks. Unlike the rest of Cerberus, who are trying to help humanity, Lawson is only committing atrocities to save his own life and to have future generations idolize him. When he's cornered by Shepard, Henry uses his younger daughter, Oriana, as a Human Shield, and, depending upon the player's actions, he can end up killing either Oriana or Miranda.
  • Andromeda: The Archon of the Heleus Cluster is the commander of the kett forces waging war with the native angara, whom he's been slaughtering, enslaving, and experimenting on for decades. The most disturbing crime the Archon facilitates is exaltation, a process where species are converted into new kett by breaking a person down and destroying everything they are in order to turn them into the fanatical monsters. When races from the Milky Way appear in Andromeda, the Archon captures the Salarian Ark and begins running tests on them, such as harvesting their organs while they were still alive, or torturing them for information, before he attempted to shoot down the Ark and the thousands of Salarians within. Trying to get his hands on the Remnant technology known as Meridian, the Archon plans on using it to force entire races to surrender, threatening to destroy their worlds if they refuse. During the final fight, the Archon rescinds the offer entirely and just decides to commit galactic genocide out of petty spite.
• Master Detective Archives: Rain Code: Director Yomi Hellsmile's Homunculus is the head of the Peacekeepers, Kanai Ward's militaristic police force, and—unknown to him—the homunculus clone of the original Yomi Hellsmile. Carrying on his original's malevolence, he allows the Peacekeepers to accept bribes, cover up murders, and falsely imprison innocent people. After Makoto Kagutsuchi was chosen to be the new CEO of Amaterasu Corp instead of him, he had Makoto's predecessor murdered in retaliation and has been conspiring against Makoto ever since. When Yomi learns that Makoto hired several Master Detectives to investigate his crimes, he sends his advisor/hired gun to Kill and Replace Zilch Alexander, burn four Master Detectives alive, and frame hero Yuma Kokohead. If his underlings get exposed for their wrongdoings under his orders, Yomi would have them executed to save face. He physically abuses his right-hand woman and lover, Martina Electro, and orders her to be crushed into a cube when an assassination he ordered didn't go the way he wanted it to. After learning that Dr. Huesca was going to escape Kanai Ward against his wishes, Yomi frames him for the murder of Yakou Furio's wife, which he—or rather his original—had done after she had threatened to expose his corruption, knowing full well that Yakou would go on a suicide mission to avenge her. Despite his claims that he wants to protect Kanai Ward, he's nothing more than a power-mad bully who only cares about himself and outright mockingly asks what "love" even is.
• Maximo duology: Evil King Achille was originally King Maximo's trusted advisor, but betrayed him in his quest of power. He usurps the throne and forces Maximo's betrothed Sophia to marry him, and raises the dead for his army. He then traps human souls in collectors that are transmitted to him. When Maximo returns, Achille promptly kills him. He also has a general tortured to death for failure and murders the witch Sephonie. Returning as a ghost under the guise of Lord Bane, he takes over the titular army of murderous robots, powers them with stolen souls from the Underworld and sends them all over the land where they target lots of innocent bystanders-over 80 in all. The Zin later attempt to destroy a village and invade the land of Hawkmoor. Lord Bane forces the gearmaster Tinker to create a more powerful model of Zin, then plots to have her killed by her own creations. Stopped by Maximo as he was about to kill the Baron Hawkmoor and his wife, Achille murders Tinker in a last act of cruelty.
• Max Payne series:
  • First game:
    • Nicole Horne is the ice-cold CEO of Aesir Corporation, using her resources and connections to perpetuate her atrocities. A former member of the Inner Circle who headed up Project Valhalla, Horne oversaw the creation of Valkyr, using innocent people as test subjects and driving them insane, notably siccing three of the drugged up victims onto the Payne household to murder Michelle Payne and her infant daughter after Michelle accidentally learned of the project—later mocking Max over their deaths and forcing him to relive their murders simply for cruelty. Continuing to experiment on tortured captives with Valkyr years after, Horne begins marketing Valkyr into the drug community of New York, using Angelo Punchinello as a figurehead to spread Valkyr far and wide, uncaring of the thousands of lives it claimed. Horne used Punchinello to carry out a variety of assassinations and crimes in her name, murdering the man when she lost use of him and later enacting "Operation Dead Eyes" to cover her tracks, entailing the wholesale slaughter of each and every one of her former partners, employees, and test subjects in Project Valhalla, as well as the entirety of the Inner Circle.
    • Angelo Punchinello is the Boss of the Punchinello Crime Family. A mobster with countless deaths on his orders, Punchinello tries to wipe out the Russian Mob while enforcing the power structure of his Family with such monsters as Jack Lupino and the Trio. Under Nicole Horne, Punchinello sees the mass distribution of Valkyr with no care for the minds it destroys. In his personal life, Punchinello is a sadistic wife beater who tortures his own wife Lisa to death.
  • Max Payne 3:
    • Victor Branco is an aspiring but Corrupt Politician of São Paulo, and a member of the wealthy Branco family. He is also the hidden leader of the UFE, a law enforcement group he uses for his own ends, and the Crachá Preto paramilitary death squad, and the mastermind behind the assassinations on his brothers—one by burning alive—and the abduction of his sister-in-law. He is motivated by control of the family fortune and gaining sympathy for the election. He recruits Max as a bodyguard but really plans on making Max a fall guy for his criminal enterprises, which includes a secret ring where the poor of Brazil are kidnapped, held hostage, and harvested for their organs for the black market organ trade.
    • Armando Becker is Victor Branco's right-hand muscle, functioning as a brutal enforcer and leader of the UFE in the Brazilian organ trafficking operation. Leading his men in routine sweeps of neighborhoods in which innocents and criminals alike are executed on the spot or detained, Becker uses these raids to cover up his mass kidnapping of civilians whom he sells off to be harvested of their organs, making himself and Victor a sizable profit off the lives of countless deaths. So corrupt that it's revealed he was the one who sold insider info to pirates that lead to a yacht massacre, Becker just laughs in the face of Max Payne when confronted with his atrocities, showing no loyalty for Victor or concern for the hundreds of lives his atrocities have cost, only smug cheerfulness at the power and wealth his crimes have brought him.
• Medal of Honor series:
  • European Assault: Graf von Schrader is a high-ranking Nazi officer who was behind the project of developing the upgrades to Nazi weaponry and technology, as well as the creation of new weapons. Spreading his henchmen across Europe, Schrader has them develop and use new Nazi technology against the Allies, killing many innocent people. As Lieutenant William Holt tracks him down, Schrader creates an atomic dirty bomb, called "Virus House", which he planes to drop on London, which would kill thousands of people. When American forces attacked his facility, Schrader activates the bomb, trying to take down all American troops along with him, while never caring about the fact that all his men will die as well.
  • Warfighter: The Cleric, the leader of several terrorist factions in the Middle East, is in reality Hassan Rasheed, a wealthy Arab banker from Dubai. Convincing hundreds of people to follow his cause of "fighting the Eagle", The Cleric trains them and sends them to commit various terrorist acts, like taking half a dozen people hostage and trying to kill them and the soldiers who arrive to save them. Discovering a powerful bomb, called PETN, Hassan sends several suicide bombers to various train stations to blow themselves up and kill countless innocent people. When Task Force discovers his base of operations and attacks it, Hassan sets his building on fire, along with all his men inside, and tries to blow himself up, hoping to take down the US soldiers with him.
• Menagerie trilogy: Doctor Money is an unbelievably vile businessman who proves himself to be nothing more than greed personified. Longing to be recognized as the richest person in the world, Doctor Money debuts in Exoptable Money as the creator of a deadly virus, profiting off the pandemic by selling lethal antidotes and cheap organ transplants that kill many others on purpose. By the time Presentable Liberty takes place, Doctor Money's virus has wiped out 98% of the nation's population, with few survivors being given the real cure and sent to solitary confinement until Doctor Money harvests their healthy organs. In Archive, it's revealed that Doctor Money was also the Shadow Dictator of a dystopian regime where common people were left starving and begging for food, having his own secretary executed in public for helping La Résistance.
• Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction: General Choi Song, the son of North Korean President Choi Kim, is a vicious nationalist and terrorist. Opposing his father's wishes for democracy, Song orchestrates a bloody coup that results in the murders of almost everyone at the peace talks, only sparing his father so he could be tortured for the nuclear launch codes. Sent into hiding by the Allied Nations after it comes to light that he was in possession of nuclear missiles, Song proceeds to ruthlessly terrorize both his own country and surrounding Asia, including having his forces engage indiscriminately with other factions in populated areas; building more missiles to sell to terrorists; having the streets of Seoul shelled by a supergun; ordering artillery shelling of Chinese territory; construction of a massive supergun with the range to hit Tokyo with radiated shells; and having Yongbyon leveled in an attempt to eliminate new Russian mob boss Josef Yurinov. When finally cornered by the Mercenary, Song decides to launch all of his nuclear missiles at the world as a spiteful parting gift, solely blaming the Mercenary for taking away his army and country.
• The Messenger (2018):
  • The Demon King is the Big Bad and the brutal ruler of the demons. Arriving in the human world from another dimension, the Demon King leads the demons to slaughter the entire Sky Giant civilization before launching attacks against the human civilization. When the leader of the remaining humans, the Phantom, tries to kill the Demon King in revenge, the Demon King, out of anger and pettiness, places a curse on humanity. He turns the Phantom's music box into a tether to the human realm that would enable the demons to return to the human realm. Every 500 years, the Demon King would lead attacks on the remaining population, slaughtering as many humans as possible and repeating the process until the humans surrendered to extinction. In addition, he would force the Phantom to wear a mask that would drive him to insanity and seal him into the music box so that he would be forced to keep the curse alive.
  • Sea of Stars prequel: The Soul Curator manages the army in the Fleshmancer's lair, and is concerned only for his own safety and the power of his creations. In the past, the Soul Curator forced the humans in Seraï's homeworld to graft their souls onto immortal robots using a sapient and unwilling AI core so they can be fed on indefinitely by the Dweller of Dread, slowly driving them into despair and hopelessness. When the party storms the Fleshmancer's lair, the Soul Curator attempts to corrupt Zale, Valere, Seraï, and B'st into his minions, with the implication that he's done this before. When confronted, he runs away to the portal room where he orders four servants to sacrifice themselves to summon the Phase Reaper, who kills two more to intimidate the rest into following the Soul Curator's orders. When the Phase Reaper is killed, the Soul Curator attempts to summon Barma'thazël in a last-ditch effort to save himself, which would have violated the Fleshmancer's agreement with Brugaves to never have to fight the Solstice Warriors again.
• Messiah:
  • Father Prime is the key figurehead and face of the Fathers, a sinister cabal who've turned the Earth into a dystopia. Keeping the world in a desolate state by way of human experimentation and murder, Prime heads the Fathers' plan to acquire knowledge of Science Myth by controlling God to increase their power. Imprisoning Satan on the moon with hopes of using him to get a hold of God, Prime orders mass killings in order to feed Satan an overabundance of human corpses.
  • Satan himself is the demonic presence who manipulated protagonist Bob into killing Father Prime so that he can be freed from his containment. Slaughtering all the staff on the moon base upon his escape, Satan hopes to rule the world and devour those he deems non-believers, while also trying to corrupt Bob into becoming as evil as him.
• Metal Arms: Glitch in the System: Dr. Exavolt is the real leader behind the nefarious General Corrosive and the tyranny of the Milbots, enslaving and killing countless Droids all to evolve the Droids to his own liking. Pretending to be a hostage, Exavolt tricked Glitch into "saving" him to get to their base, revealing the location to his army to kill and enslave the Droid Rebellion, then hiding to his base in space, preparing the steps to conquer all of Iron Star. After Glitch invades his lair and takes over Corrosive himself, Exavolt sends endless Milbots to their death to kill Corrosive before using it as distraction to escape, vowing revenge on Glitch.
• Metal Slader Glory: Sayoko is the seemingly polite and dutiful secretary of Silkine Marceau who is actually a alien who infiltrates society to ruin the Earth's chances of survival. When Tadashi Himukai asks where his sister is, Sayoko tricks him and his girlfriend Elina to go to Colony 3 to get them killed. Having Tadashi distracted with saving his sister, Sayoko launches an attack on Colony 35, attacking many innocents and the base of the last hope of the Earth to ruin their chances of survival. When found out, Sayoko laughs, declaring it is time to destroy the pitiful planet.
• Metal Wolf Chaos: Vice President Richard Hawk ousts the heroic Michael Wilson from office, proceeding to turn the US into a military dictatorship under his control. Using prisoners of war as shields, Richard proceeds to order them gunned down while also attacking American cities in an attempt to kill Michael, now piloting the mechanical armor known as Metal Wolf. Richard reinstitutes slave labor, selling people in Miami into white slavery, and attempts to frame Metal Wolf by using poison gas to wipe out Chicago before also using a giant mech to try to wipe out New York. When Michael defeats him, Richard attempts to flee to space, where he has prepared the Ultimate Weapon to wipe out all of the United States out of spite at his loss.
• Metro series:
  • Last Light:
    • General Czeslav Korbut is the brains behind the Red Line, a neo-Stalinist army that aims to conquer the Metro. Manipulating his superior Maxim Moskvin into poisoning the latter's own brother and political rival, Andrey, Korbut blackmails Moskvin with this information to obtain more control over the Red Line. Korbut would also test a deadly bioweapon on the peaceful station of Oktyabrskaya before attacking D6 to eliminate the Rangers and obtain more samples of the deadly virus, seeking to repeat the destruction of Oktyabrskaya with the entire Metro just to rule over what remains.
    • Führer Yevgeniy Petrovich is the leader of the Fourth Reich, a neo-Nazi dictatorship dedicated to the extermination of those the Führer deems racially and genetically "impure". Those whom the Nazis don't instantly kill are sent to one of his concentration camps where the prisoners are tortured and worked to death, with toxic gases unleashed that would kill all the prisoners should even one be seen escaping. When protagonist Artyom Chyornyj and Pavel Morozov attempt to escape one of these camps, they see the Führer announcing his plans to attack D6.
    • Lesnitsky is Korbut's mole within the Spartan Rangers, where he discovers and retrieves a deadly virus for Korbut. On Korbut's behalf, Lesnitsky unleashes this bioweapon on Oktyabrskaya while personally killing anyone who may have survived the virus's reach. Lesnitsky also attacks a church prior, killing more people and kidnapping Anna Mel'nikova, who he later uses as a Human Shield against her lover Artyom.
  • Exodus:
    • The Doctor is the leader of the people living in the Ark of Yamantau, where he convinced them not to leave the bunker to search for survivors and offer shelter for food, in favor of becoming cannibals. He would lure unsuspecting men, women, and children to the Ark for them to kill and eat, already claiming countless victims as seen by the many corpses, disembodied limbs, and flayed skin throughout the bunker. The Doctor also plans to torture Anna to death to force Artyom Chyornyj to lure the rest of the Aurora crew to the Ark for his cannibals to devour.
    • Sam's Story DLC: Klim is the unhinged enforcer of Tom's gang, abusing his position to exert his brutality throughout Vladivostok; examples of this include hanging a group of bandits he killed in public, and slaughtering an innocent crew with only the Captain surviving, while Klim has mutants captured to use them against his enemies. Klim would then betray Tom, unleashing his army of bandits and mutants onto Tom and his allies, before commandeering Tom's submarine where Klim attempts to launch the nuclear missile inside to kill countless people.
• Midnight Fight Express: Jeffrey Kingsworthy is a beloved philanthropist who is in fact "The Boss" of all crime in the City of Tomorrow, maintaining control through murder and torture. Before the events of the game, Kingsworthy was betrayed by Babyface, to which Kingsworthy responded by threatening to kill Babyface's son if Babyface didn't become a sleeper agent. When Babyface agreed, Kingsworthy killed his son anyway and tortured his own lover for days for accidentally helping Babyface. Forming a plan to increase his power called "Operation Neo Dawn", Kingsworthy rallies his minions to take over the City of Tomorrow in a wave of violence and death that sees numerous people butchered, with Kingsworthy attempting to spread the violence further by bombing the surrounding military blockade. A vicious boss, Kingsworthy performed tortuous experiments on his own minions, leaving many insane and violent, while others are mutated into inhuman monsters. When Babyface confronts him, Kingsworthy reveals that he's been harvesting the brains of everyone killed in the chaos and using them to create an army of robots with which he intends to conquer the world.
• MIDNIGHT TALES VOL. 1 (link): Jhon Rubrick, the recent leader of the Enlightened Ones, desires to free the God of Darkness. To this end, Jhon manipulated several people to go on killing sprees, having them brutally slaughter dozens, before he commanded them to kill themselves. Absorbing the souls of murderers and their victims in an ancient artifact, which trapped them in a state of constant agony, Jhon offered his body to the God of Darkness to use as a vessel, allowing it to get free and preparing to unleash its wrath upon the world.
• Mimana Iyar Chronicle: Heidar attacked Crais's village and killed all the inhabitants, including Crais's family. Before killing Crais's child sister Coral, he mocks her for the fact that her brother is not there to protect her. In the present, Heidar seeks the seven gems that will unlock the sacred water temple and allow him to summon the water dragon to destroy the world. When Otto and his group go searching for one of the gems, Heidar kills them all. When he encounters Crais, he shames him by telling him that he should have been there to protect his sister. After his defeat, his last act before dying is to release the water dragon to destroy the Earth.
• The Mimic: "Control's Book": Kintoru is one of the Four Beasts who wreak havoc across the world until they are sealed away by Kusonoki. Kintoru is set free after Hiachi finds her before cursing her into becoming a puppet like her other victims, such as Kusonoki and his daughter, causing the downfall of the Masashige bloodline. Kintoru also curses Yasu's parents and attempts to curse Yasu into becoming a puppet before having her killed in battle.
• Mirror's Edge Catalyst: Gabriel Kruger is the CEO of KrugerSec and the dictator of Glass. Lacking his father's basic love for humanity, Kruger came up with the idea of Reflection, a program that can manipulate people's emotions to give him total control over everyone in the city. Escalating protests into the November Riots, Kruger personally killed Erika and Martin Connors for defying his will, then teargassed and kidnapped their daughter Caitlyn before grooming her into Isabel Kruger. Intending to force Reflection into every citizen of Glass, Kruger cracks down on the Runners to prevent them from interfering, tortures and kills Noah to find heroine Faith Connors's location, and scapegoats the scientist in charge of the project to force her into his underground prison camp. When confronted with his crimes, he blames Faith for all of his horrific actions, mocking the fact that he's killed or hurt everyone she's ever cared about.
• Mission Impossible—Operation Surma: Simon Algo is the tyrannical and psychopathic president of Ugaria. Gaining power in a coup d’état with biological weapons, and the program Ice Worm, Algo aims to use the latter to gain access to Ugaria's nuclear codes and proceed on a campaign of conquest within the Balkans. Having Colonel Vasyl Berkut assassinate an informant to prevent his schemes from being discovered, Algo also orders Yang Ho to destroy the Los Muertos Research Facility to hide the visit, which would have killed hundreds of innocent civilians. When Sofia Ivanescu, the creator of Ice Worm, questions Algo's motives, Algo has Berkut disguise Ugarian Secret Service members as Russian mobsters to intimidate her to give up the nuclear codes. When Sofia joins forces with the IMF and Ethan Hunt, it is revealed that Sofia's father was arrested by Algo to create biological weapons and his death was faked to lure Sofia to his side. Upon killing Berkut, Algo taunts Hunt over how much of a failure his operation is, and gloats that he will kill Sofia due to her turning on him, despite the instrumental role she played in his rise to power. A seemingly-polite official, Algo is a man who only cares about a desire for power and violence, absolutely regardless of the blood that is spilled.
• Mobile Legends: Bang Bang: Hanzo, Akuma (Demon) Ninja, was once the brightest of the Shadow clan of Cadia Riverlands' Scarlet Shadow. In his quest to become the ultimate master of ninjutsu, Hanzo fuses himself with the forbidden demon Hanekage and terrorizes the ninjas nearby by killing those who will pursue him due to his crimes, letting the Hanekage devour them to obtain more power for himself. After becoming more powerful by stealing Ame-no-Habakiri and killing Hayabusa's brother along the way—without remembering—Hanzo decides to travel around the Land of Dawn to expand his list of murder victims and potential food for Hanekage.
• Modern Combat series:
  • Dobrynya Popovich first appears in the second game, "Black Pegasus", and is the Big Bad of "Fallen Nation", the third game. Originally just a low-ranking officer for a terrorist organization, Popovich used his position to organize numerous terrorist attacks and sentence numerous American soldiers to be brutally tortured for information. Founding the KPR (Korean, Pakistan, Russian) Alliance, Popovich kick-starts Operation Fallen Nation, a full-scale invasion of American soil by the KPR, by setting off WMDs in numerous highly-populated cities. Next beginning to lay siege to many American cities, killing tens of thousands of innocents across the country, Popovich simultaneously captured and tortures numerous U.S. military agents. After failing to wipe out America's entire Western seaboard, Popovich reveals his plans to launch several nuclear weapons at America, hoping to kill countless millions and reduce America to a ravaged wasteland. When confronted by Magnus Downs, a soldier he once sentenced to torture years back, Popovich gleefully reminisces about Downs's torture before attempting to beat him to death, proclaiming that he will target Downs's hometown next, while expressing his annoyance at not having more time to skin Downs alive.
  • "The Zealot", Edward Page, is an absolutely deranged madman convinced that America is a cesspool of filth and elitist "pigs", and is determined to wipe it off the face of the Earth no matter the cost. Once a Green Beret, Page turned on America and became a terrorist, having a huge part in Operation Fallen Nation, using his forces to back the KPR's evil plans to siege America. Taking center stage in the fourth game, "Zero Hour", as the main threat, Page kicks the game off by slaughtering his way into Seattle's War Crimes Investigation Building, soon after which he massacres a huge party hosted for the President of the United States before kidnapping the President himself. Having absolute indifference toward his own troops, Page leaves them to die, blows several up to stall enemy forces, and even threatens one of his hesitant partners by promising to show up at his young daughter's birthday party with a blowtorch. Page's horrifying final plan is revealed to entail unleashing a lethal plague onto the planet that will kill upwards of 4 billion innocents as part of Page's plan to "cleanse" the entire planet, and, even when beaten, Page uses his last breaths to gun down as many American soldiers as possible.
• MOR (link): Miss Frid is Linn's adoptive mother and an "Angelmaker", who adopted several children from parents who couldn't take care of them and then drowned them, continuing to take money from the parents as she pretended to take care of their children. Failing to drown Linn in the past, Miss Frid tried to stop her investigation of her past, and when Linn discovered the cave where Miss Frid had hidden the corpses of the children, Miss Frid had no issue locking the only exit and leaving Linn to starve to death.
• MorphX: The Leader of the Swarm led its species to conquer many planets, slaughtering the populations there and turning countless beings into its mindless slaves. Attacking Earth with its forces, the Leader led its army in decimating most of the world and killing off millions of humans, capturing thousands to use as the subjects of its experiments. Allowing one mutated man to escape, the Leader used him to track down the Resistance, so it could send its army to slaughter them all.
• Mother Russia Bleeds: The Premier of the Soviet Union is the linchpin of Russia's corruption. Funding a laboratory where Nekro is tested on many subjects, including animals, the Premier orders the abduction of numerous people, including the player character(s), from a Romani camp to serve as lab rats for the odious drug he allows to spread through the country, which results in an unhealthy and potentially lethal addiction to the substance. As the citizenry starts to revolt against his regime, the Premier sends his army to violently crush their protests, instructing troops to march on the capital and massacre all dissenters on such a scale that it is referred to as "genocide". When confronted, the Premier tries to pin blame on the Bratva he facilitated, while showing a cavalier lack of remorse toward the damage done to his people, merely using the conversation to buy time so his security team can kill the player(s) before trying to escape any responsibility or consequence for his venality.
• Mr. Hopp's Playhouse series: The Entity is the ultimate evil of the series. The former Guardian of Hope before being banished to the Underworld because of wrongdoings and corruption, the Entity stole the six medallions that kept balance between the realms and used them to create three loyal servants that'd help him in his harvest of souls—seemingly having a preference for the young. During one of his harvests, the Entity gave the Six to a young girl named Isabelle, leading to her death and transformation. Years later, the Entity tormented a pregnant woman named Faith in her dreams and became obsessed with the latter's daughter—Esther—due to the latter's pure soul, and attempted to have her join him by psychologically breaking her down, even going as far as literally dragging everyone else in Esther's orphanage off to Hell. After being apparently defeated for good, the Entity returns years later to torment an elderly Esther, and has her give one of his servants—Mr. Hopp—to her own granddaughter Ruby before trapping Esther's soul in the Underworld. After Mr. Hopp fails to kill Ruby, the Entity has Ruby taken into the Underworld, where he attempts to have both her and Esther killed by his servants, and later manipulates Ruby into turning against her grandmother, only to attack the poor girl when she betrays him in the third game's Golden Ending.
• Mr. Meat & Prison Break: Mr. Meat himself, the head of the company of the same name, is a cannibal who butchers innocent people and uses their remains to conduct experiments to create human-pig hybrids to sell off as meat, thinking they could vastly improve his business. Using his youngest daughter as a guinea pig for his heinous experiment, Mr. Meat transformed her into a piglike monstrosity and kept her locked up in a cage, disgusting his former scientist. When his new scientist, a college student named Amelia Clark, refused to help him in his twisted experiments, Mr. Meat decided to kidnap her and keep her hostage in order to breed new pig hybrids to continue his business. Ten years later, when many people harmed by Mr. Meat show up for his execution, Mr. Meat, with the help of someone else, survives his execution and forcefully transforms nearly everyone inside the prison—over a dozen people—into pigs. Mr. Meat then goes hunting down anyone that survived. In the bad endings, Mr. Meat feeds Rebecca, his youngest daughter, to his pig or executes her with the electric chair while Rebecca's still-transformed mom and sister are Forced to Watch.
• Muramasa: The Demon Blade: Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the Shogun, and Inugami the demonic dog are the ones behind the Kagami Clan massacre and endangering heaven. A man who lusts for power, Tokugawa tried to steal the Kuzuryu Muramasa held by the Kagami for its demonic power, massacring them. Coming in contact with Inugami, an evil sealed in the sword for trying to conquer Heaven, Tokugawa made a pact with him to continue his mission to control all domains, enacting a ritual in Edo by stealing power from the Dragon God to cause a natural imbalance, opening the Gates of Heaven to bathe Inugami in its divine light to become all-powerful, sacrificing Edo in the process, while also waging a brutal war with the newly-revived Torahime and her ghost army, causing countless deaths, including killing Torahime herself.
• Murdered: Soul Suspect: Abigail Williams, the real Big Bad, defines hypocrisy in its cruelest, nastiest nature. During the Salem Witch Trials, her vendetta against witches motivates her to falsely report multiple women as witches leading to their execution. Abigail swears vengeance on all “Witches” that set foot in Salem and blames witches for her execution. Thereafter, as the Bell Killer, Abigail uses witchcraft to manipulate people into murdering young women through the same methods Salemites used to execute witches. This is demonstrated when she manipulates Rex Reyes into shooting Ronan to death after the latter is brainwashed into killing Sophia. As her pursuit of Iris Campbell demonstrates, Abigail is willing to do anything to kill her targets, from burning her sister at the stake to indiscriminately killing innocents inside a church. When she reveals to Ronan that she’s the Bell Killer, she opens a portal to hell in an attempt to kill the detective’s spirit once and for all.
• Murder in the Alps Chapter 3-1 (The Dada Killer): Oskar, the titular Dada Killer, is a demented artist who kills women and arranges their bodies to resemble Dada-inspired art pieces. Prior to becoming a police officer, Oskar worked as an artist under the pen name Ozzie Lang. After his first exhibition at the Knef Gallery was shut down due to the disturbing nature of his art, the gallery owner, Iris Knef, refused to give him a second exhibition, causing him to develop both a passionate hatred and fetishistic adoration for her. This inspired him to start a new art project involving the murder of several women—one of whom he had sexually assaulted in the process—who represent the things he hates about society; among them being Lieutenant Judit Halle, Anna's friend and partner investigating the case. With each murder, Oskar dresses his victim with a stolen article of Iris' clothing before attempting to kill Iris herself as his work's grand finale. After being caught, he attempts to goad Anna—still devastated from Judit's death—into fatally shooting him to make himself go down in history as an artistic genius.
• Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden: High Priestess Plutonia is the leader of the Nova Sect, which consists of intelligent ghouls who want to destroy the world under the pretense of cleansing it of evil. In order to destroy the remnants of human civilization known as the Ark and the rest of the Zone, she kidnaps and mentally tortures a scientist from the Ark known as Hammon in order to get the sacred numbers that can launch the nuclear weapon that could obliterate the Zone.
• My Child Lebensborn: Mr. Solheim is a despicable excuse for a teacher and easily the most negative influence on Klaus or Karin's life. A racist creep who encourages the school bullies to terrorize Klaus and Karin harsher than ever before purely out of xenophobia, Solheim's influence leads to Klaus or Karin being tied up and left in the middle of the woods for hours, as well as them getting beaten up and peed on by their classmates. Worst of all a disgusting pedophile, Solheim uses flimsy excuses to sentence Klaus or Karin to detention where he freely assaults them, traumatizing the children and showing himself to be an exemplary case of the "pure evil" that many face on a smaller scale during times of war.
• my eyes deceive (link): The protagonist's "Papa" turns out to be the true monster of the story. Keeping the protagonist sheltered her entire life, Papa routinely drugged and raped her through the years, lying to her about monsters outside to keep her in the bunker. In the Bad Ending, Papa continues to drug and rape his daughter until she becomes pregnant.
• My Neighbor Enide (link): Enide is Allie's neighbor, and at first seems like a kind and sweet woman. After Allie snuck into her house, she discovers that Enide is a Serial Killer, who kills and devours people she dates, keeping their gifts as trophies. Recently killing Pincer Chace's dad, Enide forced Allie to remain silent about everything she saw, being fully ready to kill her should she refuse or reveals anything after she got out. After Enide left, Allie discovers, in one of the endings, that her older sister Tabby was among Enide's victims.
• The Mystery Files of Detective Inaba: Nagito Akashi, revealed to be the jovial and friendly chef Toa Nakagishi, was behind almost all the bad things that happened in the first game. Teaming up with his brother, he kills all of the guests that his brother brought so that he could write about his experiences in the novels that filled his bookshelves. In the present day when two guys—the carpenter and the novelist—killed each other in a locked room, Nagito then took one of the weapons and then left it in Sogo Inaba's room in hopes of framing him. When the former got cornered, he then attempts to kill the remaining survivors to finish his masterpiece. In one of the endings when Sogo fails to save his assistant from accidental murder, Nagito then mocks Sogo about it, claiming that it was a great twist for his own book.
• The Mystery of the Druids:
  • Druid Serstan is the tyrannical leader of the Druids. Having murdered his family and household, Serstan, knowing that the era of the Druids of Britain was coming to an end, sought out a spell to grant his five children Druid powers to carry out his scheme of Druid control over the Earth, burning his entire Druid brethren to complete the ritual. After Detective Brent Halligan and Melanie Turner arrive in his time period, Serstan has Druid Maglor killed for helping take him down, and threatens Melanie with death should Halligan not give him the items required for the ritual.
  • Lord Sinclair, one of Serstan's five sons, is the leader of the Circle who seeks to carry out Serstan's plan to take over the world. Having been granted the power of the Druids, Sinclair partook in ritualistic cannibalism to make himself immortal and stronger, having done so for centuries. When Halligan arrives at his mansion, Sinclair has him captured to be later used as a sacrifice, brainwashing him into joining the Circle after he escapes, and later kills Mr. Blake for assisting Halligan and Melanie.

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• NanoBreaker: General Raymond is the secret mastermind behind the Orgamech breakout on Nanotechnology Island. His process for creating the Orgamechs is horrific: He sacrifices hundreds of innocent people, even children, to a monstrous plague that transforms them into mindless Orgamechs. Raymond has intentions of taking over the world with these monstrosities, with plans on unleashing the Orgamech plague on an international level.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion 2: Chairman Keel Lorenz of SEELE is an elitist psychopath with a god complex. Having triggered the Second Impact and killed off most of humanity for his plans to become a deity, Keel now funds NERV to defeat the monstrous Angels, while subtly making moves to advance the scenario in which he and his cohorts in SEELE's council may transcend via the Human Instrumentality Project. If he discovers Gendō Ikari's plan to betray him, Keel manipulates the Japanese military into assaulting NERV headquarters and slaughtering the staff nearly to the last. When another Evangelion pilot fights back, Keel attempts to have his violent, mindless Mass Production Evangelion units painfully tear them apart. Seeking to initiate Third Impact using Evangelion Unit-01, Keel cares nothing when his plot causes all of humanity to suffer nightmarish visions as they are remade powerlessly into Primordial Soup under him. His scheme meaning a state of permanence for all that lives under him, Keel's designs cruelly twist the benevolent intent of humanity's alien ancestors' original plan. Lacking the ambiguous desire to evolve humanity of his original incarnation, Keel's dialogue makes it clear he is a vicious megalomaniac willing to inflict endless suffering to take ultimate power.
• NEO: The World Ends with You: Tanzo Kubo, seemingly Shiba's obnoxious right-hand man, is in truth the mastermind behind the events of the game. An Angel from the Higher Plane known as "The Executor", Kubo is tasked with erasing cities when requested by the Composers, having previously done so to Shinjuku and ripping out the soul of Tsugumi Matsunae when she tried to stop it. After the Shinjuku Reapers move to Shibuya, Kubo corrupts Shiba's mind and has him create Plague Noise to steal the souls of countless Players, Reapers, and regular civilians. Kubo also illegally drags living humans into the Reaper's Game by having Player Pins distributed in the RG. When a fellow Reaper, Shoka Sakurane, is discovered to have been helping the Wicked Twisters, Kubo has Shiba force Ayano to infect herself with Plague Noise to get her to rejoin the Reapers, knowing that Ayano will die from it. Upon Shiba's defeat, Kubo reveals his true intentions: to use the Noise created by Rindo's Replay to erase Shibuya and all of its inhabitants, solely to amuse himself.
• New Legends: Commander Xao Gon is a ruthless conqueror who annihilated entire clans opposing his rule, and intends to rule over China with an iron fist. Sending his army to attack the peaceful Kingdom of Soo in the prologue, Xao Gon orders his army to massacre the palace, with Xao Gon killing the hero Prince Soo's father before having the survivors—Prince Soo included—thrown into his mines. Destroying entire populations in an unstoppable rampage, even causing the extinction of dragons at some point to ensure his reign of power over the heavens, Xao Gon's thirst for power sees him researching forbidden, ancient technology to create a Kill Sat, which he intends to use on the Capital City, and later to Take Over the World.
• The New Resident: The CEO of ManneCorp felt that he is too "limited" by a physical body and decided to "ascend" to a new level of existence. Discovering an ancient pagan ritual capable of transferring a human soul into another vessel, the CEO began to experiment with this on dozens of children from the orphanage, ripping out the souls from their bodies and trapping them in toys. The CEO later repeats this same process on several adults, including his wife, trapping their souls in mannequins and reducing them to a feral state, where they kill anyone they see. The CEO managed to transform himself into a being unbound by the material plane, before he was destroyed by the protagonist.
• Night at the Gates of Hell: Father Friedstein is the leader of a Satanic cult who seeks to plunge the world into chaos, partnering with several people to help him open portals to Hell that will resurrect the dead. Opening a portal in a city that leads to the deaths of countless families, innocents, and even his own cult members who he makes into his zombie minions, Friedstein is last seen giving up his own life to ensure that more portals will open around the world, ensuring the apocalypse as an offering to Satan.
• Nightcry: Vigo Boradsov, owner of the cruise ship, is in truth the leader of the cult and the organizing of all the game's horror. Summoning the Scissorwalker to massacre everyone on the ship, it is further revealed that the Scissorwalker is Vigo's own daughter who he molested and later turned into a demonic slave to facilitate the sacrifices the cult needed. Vigo calmly throws away the lives of his own servants if need be, and at the game's end, it is seen he has killed more innocents, with no remorse for the lives he's taken or the monster he has turned his daughter into as long as he benefits.
• Nightmare Creatures: The evil Adam Crowley is a Mad Scientist who experiments horrifically on the living and dead alike to create the titular Nightmare Creatures. Unleashing them on London to drown the city in blood, Crowley gleefully arranges the deaths of many innocents as he is pursued by the heroes. At the end, Crowley even sets the London fire of 1834 declaring that London should be consumed by the flames of hell themselves, uncaring of any innocent life as long as he reaches the knowledge and power that he craves.
• The Night of the Scissors (link): The Snipper is a Serial Killer who kills and mutilates people with a pair of scissors. Having kidnapped, cut apart, and killed 4 people in the past, spreading their body parts across the abandoned building, the Snipper tries to hunt down Adam for trespassing on his territory, playing sadistic games with him and then killing his friend, arranging for Adam to see his friend's corpse upon escape.
• Ni GHTS Into Dreams: Wizeman the Wicked Was Once a Man who visited the dream world; however, he turned himself into something far worse. Fancying himself as a god, he ruled over Nightmare with an iron fist. When one of his top henchmen, the titular NiGHTS, betrays him and tries to fight back, he traps them in a strange, gazebo-like place, before they are eventually rescued. When his minions fail to defeat NiGHTS, he punishes them with cruel methods, such as crushing them in the palm of his hands, sending them falling to oblivion, or simply verbally abusing them throughout the games. His worst act comes in Journey into Dreams, when he traps several visitors in an And I Must Scream state, leaving their consciousness in a never-ending nightmare, and in the waking world, trapping them in a permanent coma. Being perhaps the poster boy of Vile Villain, Saccharine Show, Wizeman might just be one of the worst villains Sonic Team has produced.
• Nioh:
  • Sir John Dee is the mastermind of the Amrita project, aiming to raise England to dominate the world with himself as its true puppet-ruler from the shadows. He creates Edward Kelley as a sapient, disposable weapon, and sends the necromancer to Japan with the intent of annihilating everything he can and killing countless people to harvest Amrita with the knowledge he can just create a new Kelley if the need arises. Dee has those involved in the first stage of the Amrita project tortured to death en masse, and also has others abducted and brutally experimented on in order to create new demons in order to harvest more Amrita.
  • Edward Kelley, a ruthless sorcerer seeking to gather the mystical energy Amrita for his master, kidnaps William Adams's guardian spirit Saoirse and uses her to locate Japan, where he makes an already bloody civil war even worse. Lending his aid to the Toyotomi forces, Kelley also increases the presence of monstrous Oni and other Youkai, and attempts to undo a seal to allow monsters to ravage all of Kyoto. After being foiled, Kelley uses his magic at the Battle of Sekigahara to painfully fuse 300 soldiers into a new monstrosity and backstabs the Toyotomi army leader Ishida Mitsunari to use him to buy time while Kelley attempts to raise Oda Nobunaga, Japan's most fearsome warlord, from the dead and have him plunge the nation into a new era of war. While a servant of Sir John Dee, Kelley is ruthless, cruel and utterly delights in the slaughter he initiates.
• Nobody Saves the World: The Calamity is a knowingly evil and cruel entity that seeks to consume the world. Banished by the Dragon King long ago, it is released by the arrogant and glory-seeking Nostramagus to prove his skill. Instantly taking Nostramagus' memories and identity, The Calamity reduces him to a white, near featureless husk—Nobody—which it gloats about throughout the game, beginning its conquest of the world soon after. By the end of the game, almost every NPC in the overworld is consumed and entrapped by the Calamity's Fungus, a process shown to be agonising, with The Calamity declaring the end of everything and everyone.
• No Man's Sky: -null- was the First Traveler to ever explore the galaxy and was filled with an insatiable desire to see everything. Realizing they would never live long enough to see it all, -null- would travel to ATLAS, resetting the universe and killing everyone except themselves, at which point it's implied they devoured the Mind Arc containing their sapient soul echoes to become immortal. In the process, they did something contributing to ATLAS's slow demise and the end of the Multiverse, forcing ATLAS to reset the universe multiple times trying to fix it. They would then trick the Traveller into using a Mind Arc to "save" Artemis, trapping a sapient echo suffering within it and forcing the player to either place him in a simulated reality or Mercy Kill him. At the end of the game, -null- desperately begs the Traveller to abandon their attempt to save the ATLAS and the multiverse, knowing it may result in -null-'s death, once more proving themselves a selfish creature who prioritizes their own survival over literally everything else.
• Oddrietta: Henry is a version of the titular Henrietta/Oddrietta from another universe who desires her all for himself. Having traveled to her dimension and befriended her as a kid, Henry would soon stalk her, then kill her puppy and cause the car accident that took her father's life. Having gained the power to create a noise-making wind that turns everyone who hears it into grotesque monsters, Henry spreads it throughout the city, turning it into a surreal nightmare, and abominates even Henrietta's mom and the spirit of her dad, while trapping Henrietta in a time loop. Henry's goal in all this is to psychologically break Henrietta into marrying him, and if she either dies or refuses without having all her memories, he sends her back to the beginning of the loop to suffer all over again.
• Oddworld series:
  • Abe's Odyssee/New 'n' Tasty! & Soulstorm: Molluck is a Glukkon who runs RuptureFarms, a massive meat-processing plant that, like the other factories in the Magog Cartel, has hundreds of Mudokon slaves working within. When the animal population dwindles, Molluck decides to start using the flesh of Mudokons in his latest meat-based product. At RuptureFarms, it is common practice to kill all Mudokon workers on a block if even one of them escapes. After Abe escapes RuptureFarms, any Mudokons that the player leaves behind are killed. When Abe returns to the factory and shuts off the power core, Molluck calls an emergency meeting for the Glukkon executives and sets a timer to release poisonous gas throughout the rest of RuptureFarms. After capturing Abe, Molluck attempts to execute him by feeding him into a spinning blade. In Soulstorm, Molluck returns and pursues Abe and the rest of the escaped Mudokons, looking for revenge. When the other three Magog Cartel Glukkons suspect him of betrayal, he actually does betray them by bribing their guards to gun them all down.
  • Soulstorm: The Brewmaster is another Glukkon of the Magog Cartel who runs SoulStorm Brewery. The product his brewery creates is SoulStorm Brew, a highly addictive drink that is given to the many hundreds of Mudokon slaves in the other factories in order to keep them from escaping, as they will die slowly of withdrawal if they go more than a couple dozen hours without the brew. When Abe infiltrates the brewery, he learns that the primary ingredient in the drink is the tears of Mudokons, which are extracted by hooking them up to torture machines which give them electric shocks. Unlike his original incarnation, this version of the Brewmaster is played completely straight and is the sole individual responsible for the production and sale of the brew.
  • Stranger's Wrath: Sekto is an Oktigi who took over the body of the Olden Steef and hunted the rest of the Steef to near-extinction, keeping their heads as trophies. Becoming the head of Sekto Springs Bottled Water Company, Sekto dammed Mongo River to sell the water for a profit, causing the native Grubb population to suffer a deadly drought. If any Grubbs trespassed, Sekto had them killed and strung up as a warning. When protagonist Stranger is outed as the last surviving Steef, Sekto mounts an attack on the remaining Grubb villages, including the city of Last Legs. After Stranger fights his way to Sekto's office, the latter attempts to complete his collection of Steef heads by killing Stranger while taunting him over the death of his people.
• Odin Sphere: The Three Wise Men are a group of powerful old wizards consisting of Urzur, Beldor, and Skuldi. Servants of the previous King of Titania, they were tasked with researching about the Beast of Darkova, which lead them to learn about the prophecy about Armageddon, which told about how the ones who survived it would supposedly rise unto power. To this end, to bring about Armageddon, the Three Wise Men would, among other actions, control the benevolent dragon Belial into devouring hundreds; manipulate the Kingdoms into wars against each other; and strike deals with many other characters in order to get what they want, often backstabbing them when their deal was over. Beldor would eventually play a key role when Armageddon happened, awakening the beastly King Gallon from the Underworld, and taking control of Ingway, who transformed into the Beast of Darkova shortly after.
• Of Orcs and Men:
  • Emperor Damocles is the ruler of the Iserian continent. Desiring to have the people united as one, Damocles cajoled the public into following his ruling as he saw fit. When he tried to expand his empire south and discovered resistant orcs who wouldn't give up their land, Damocles had his empire besiege their villages, and ultimately began a genocide against all Greenskins. In the decades to come, millions were slaughtered, thousands of orcs were enslaved, and hundreds more were assimilated into Damocles's empire. Anyone who opposed Damocles's ruling, regardless of what race they were, was either arrested and tortured in various dungeons, or publicly executed. Upon realizing that a resistance was forming consisting of humans and Greenskins alike, Damocles tried to ally himself with the dwarves and elves all so he could use their combined power to crush the Greenskins for good.
  • Lord Barimen is Emperor Damocles's traitorous assistant. Plotting to take over as Emperor himself, Barimen manipulated the Resistance into infiltrating the Emperor's lair so they could assassinate him. After Arkail succeeds in killing the Emperor, Barimen immediately turns on him and uses the Emperor's murder to solidify his alliance with the elves and dwarves. He then smugly informs Arkail that he'll be publicly executed for his crimes, and that all the remaining Greenskins and their allies will be hunted down and slaughtered. When cornered by Arkail and Styx later on, Barimen desperately tries to cajole Arkail into sparing his life by saying he can reverse everything he's done, despite knowing full well his actions have cemented that the war against the Greenskins is going to continue.
  • Styx: Shards of Darkness prequel: High Priestess Lyssril is the leader of the dark elven city of Korrangar. Longing to maintain her power over the dark elves, Lyssril and her forces began to kidnap and kill thousands of goblins so they could turn their remains into Amber. With the power of Amber, Lyssril was able to control the entire population of the city, and manipulated the elves into becoming fanatical slaves. Seeking more allies, Lyssril began to sell Quartz to surrounding nations so the other nations would be able to capture and deliver more goblins to her and fuel her amber distribution. When Styx and Djarak destroy her operations and manipulate a conflict between the dark elves and the dwarves, Lyssril abandons Korrangar so she can save her own hide before the dwarves attack.
• Ōkami: Ninetails is a wicked Yōkai, and the worst of the demons encountered by Amaterasu and Issun. Once the ruler of Oni Island, its power was taken from them by the mighty Water Dragon. Seeking revenge, Ninetails would murder the priestess Rao and wear her skin as a disguise in an attempt to assassinate Queen Himiko and reclaim its rulership over Oni Island. To cover for itself, Ninetails has a demon shroud Sei'an City in a poisonous fog, slowly killing all of its inhabitants. Tricking Amaterasu into killing the Water Dragon to restore its powers, Ninetails is able to murder Himiko before being challenged to a final battle.
• Omikron: The Nomad Soul: Astaroth, Prince of Infernal Darkness, was sealed away after trying to conquer Phaenon. From his prison, Astaroth, to restore his power, hijacked the supercomputer Ix and sent his Demons to prey on and consume the souls of the people. Said souls would be sent to the Reservoir to be tortured, the pain restoring Astaroth's strength. Astaroth also created the game itself to ensnare the gamers in our universe and eat their souls, his ultimate goal to enslave both his universe and ours, devouring millions of souls to do so.
• Onechanbara series:
  • Himiko, debuting in Bikini Samurai Squad, is a centuries-old scientist and the head of the Organization, a company that kidnaps people with Baneful Blood to perform experiments on. Kidnapping various men—including Anna's brother—Himiko injects them with the Blood to make them her obedient, indestructible aides. Desiring to gain eternal youth by drinking Saki's Blood, she unleashes an army of zombies upon Tokyo, sending out Misery and her indestructible aides to collect whatever Blood remains. After drinking the Blood, Himiko plans to rule the world and wipe out the entire Baneful Blood bloodline until she's the only survivor. Returning in Special, Himiko wipes Aya and friends' memories and places them inside a maze, preparing to kill them all and acquire more power for herself after they've completed it.
  • Z2: Chaos: Evange, real name Evangeline, is Queen Carmilla's head scientist and Misery's older sister who seeks to create a utopian paradise for her to rule over as its god. Desiring Baneful and Vampiric Blood to unlock the secrets of the Xtasy and Dare Drive modes, Evange manipulated Carmilla into starting a war between the Baneful and Vampiric clans, hoping to have both wiped out to make way for her own zombie clan. Getting Carmilla killed in order to seize the throne herself, Evange sends out her zombie army to slaughter mankind and distract our heroes, even sending out a resurrected Misery to take them out, valuing her as nothing but muscle. Despite her claims of constructing a world without conflict, Evange reveals herself as nothing more than a power-hungry sociopath who wants to rule over a world of chaos.
  • Origin: Eva is the head of the Organization who seeks power through the Baneful Blood. Murdering Aya and Saki's mother and earning the wrath of Oboro, Eva manipulates Saki into hating her family, using her as a way to slaughter Aya and Oboro to take their Baneful Blood. Sending her zombies out to wipe out a hospital and an entire city, Eva also has expendable clones created to kill Aya and Saki, attempting to have one named Lei killed for gaining emotions. After sending Oboro to kill his daughters, Eva promises Aya and Saki that she'll eat their hearts before attempting to kill them both herself.
• Oni: Muro Hasegawa is the leader of the Syndicate, and Konoko's evil brother. Kidnapped by the Syndicate as a child to be used as a weapon, Muro killed and usurped enough people from within to become the Syndicate's new leader. Exploiting his father's wishes of evolution, Muro plans to leak the outside world's toxic fumes into the atmosphere, forcing anyone who wishes to survive his apocalypse to sell their loyalty to him for Chrysalis, all as a way to establish control over the world. Planting a brain-powered explosive that would have killed anybody within a 50-mile radius, he escapes to an airport, ordering his men to massacre everyone inside as a way to distract TCTF. He later orders a break-in at TCTD headquarters that results in the capture of Shinatama, who Muro tortures to near death for fun. Trying to kill Konoko after she refuses to join him, Muro still succeeds in wiping out a majority of humanity even after his death.
• Onimusha series:
  • First three games:
    • In life, Oda Nobunaga was a brutal warlord. After his death and resurrection, he becomes far worse. Planning to achieve immortality by drinking an innocent princess's blood, Nobunaga, who serves as the Big Bad, soon becomes the king of all demons to replace the then-dead Demon King Fortinbras. Leading his forces, Nobunaga embarks on a vicious campaign through Japan, slaughtering civilians. Nobunaga also wipes out the Yagyu village, leaving only one survivor. Stopping at nothing to dominate all Japan, Nobunaga is a stark reminder that humans can be just as evil as any demon.
    • Guildenstern—only mentioned in the second game—the Mad Scientist of the Genma and Nobunaga's right-hand demon, is a monster who enjoys the taste of organs and crafting new monsters to extend the power of the Genma. Guildenstern is the one to transform and resurrect Nobunaga and to facilitate the destruction his forces cause. In the third game, Guildenstern opens a rift to modern-day Paris and leads the Genma forces to slaughter everything they find. When he is found by Samanosuke in Paris, Guildenstern is even shown about to devour the organs of a child, stating he just loves how delicious and soft children are.
  • Dawn of Dreams: Fortinbras, God of Light, was born out of the primordial chaos as the first God, and sired the Genma race, making them to be malevolently evil beings without an iota of compassion. Fortinbras then created the human race but designated them to be food for the monstrous Genma, with their souls devoured to further empower the beasts. Also a cruel manipulator, Fortinbras made deals with humans power-hungry enough to sell their souls to him and handed out contracts to countless conquerors throughout history, whom Fortinbras viewed as his own disposable pawns. A megalomaniac mad with power, Fortinbras enables countless atrocities, as seen in his empowering of Oda Nobunaga and the nature of one of his creations, Guildenstern, hellbent on keeping all of humanity as nothing but slaves at best or food and victims for the Genma at worst.
• The Order: 1886: Jacob van Neck, better known as Lord Hastings, is the head of the United India Company and revealed to be a Master Vampire, as well as the source of the "half-breed"—lycans and vampires—attacks in London that have claimed many lives. Using United India as a front for his operations, Hastings organizes the lycans into an army, having them launch attacks that kill and infect humans, mostly those of lower class, sowing chaos so that he can operate behind the scenes. Hastings uses his public status to use the Order itself to protect him from retaliation of the Rebellion and to help crush the rebels. When the knight Galahad discovers the truth, he learns Hastings is sending half-breeds all over the world, and is sending vampires to America, enough to conquer an entire city. Hastings soon casually reveals himself to Galahad as the infamous Serial Killer Jack the Ripper, before framing him for betraying the Order to get him killed. In contrast to his sympathetic and well-intentioned partner, Alastair, Hastings's only apparent motives are power and enjoyment.
• Ouija Sleepover: Linda Simons poses as a normal woman to the protagonists, but is actually a malevolent spirit. A misandrist who considers men a plague to be eradicated, Linda was a Serial Killer in life, dubbed "the Catfish Cannibal" for her M.O. of seducing men at a club, then taking them home to kill and eat them. Having done this to seven men, Linda then killed and prepared to eat Gary Hugh before being caught and subsequently killing herself to avoid answering for her crimes. When Aiden and Dan are dragged into the parallel dimension made from her and her victims, Linda tries to seduce Aiden; when he rejects her and Dan learns of her crimes, she chases them, intending to make them her next meal.
• The Outfit: Viktor Morder is an Oberstgruppenführer so sick he reviles even his fellow Nazis. Morder cracks down on French resistance by having his men massacre entire towns, not even sparing noncombatants like women or children, carving a path of death across France. Even his loyalty to the Reich is tenuous as Morder is only too eager to sacrifice his own men in place of his own, killing his own for anything from moral hangups to simple failure.
• Outlast: Jeremy Blaire is the Executive Vice President of the Murkoff Corporation and the man in charge of Mount Massive Asylum. On Blaire's orders, the patients, many who came seeking genuine mental help, are psychologically tortured to the point of insanity to be used as test subjects in the Morphogenic Engine. While most inevitably die, a marginal few were successful enough to serve as hosts of the Walrider, which Murkoff sought to use as a weapon. Despite the catastrophic effect the process has on women, Blaire also sought to use them as test subjects to increase profits. He is also shown to be willing to use potential leaks such as Waylon Park as test subjects to silence them. During the events of the game, Blaire does everything in his power to ensure no one escapes the asylum alive except for himself to ensure that he and his fellow executives can escape justice. Never shown to be insane like Trager or regretful like Wernicke, Jeremy Blaire can be held responsible for every atrocity and act of horror committed and all to satisfy his insatiable greed.
• Overgrowth: Amethyst is an aristocrat who enjoys tormenting the citizens of Priya. With a group of bandits and slavers known as the Catchers at her disposal, Amethyst has the Catchers routinely kidnap villagers and other innocents for the sake of slave labor and forcing them to fight each other to the death during her Gladiator Games. When Turner starts dismantling her slaver organization, Amethyst has him kidnapped and imprisoned, and later forces him to kill other prisoners and rebels in her arena. Amethyst also has one of her lieutenants hold a rebel's children hostage just to persuade her into giving up members of the Rabbits of the Moon. After Turner wins enough tournaments, Amethyst makes Turner fight and kill his ally Midnight for her own amusement, and later tries to have Turner killed even after she promised he'd free him once he successfully killed Amethyst's right-hand-cat Jade in a duel.
• Overlord series: In this Dark Fantasy series that examines the thin line between Good and Evil, these three stand out the most through a mixture of cruelty, malice, and unchecked ambition:
  • First game: The Second Overlord is revealed in the game's final chapter to be responsible for all the chaos and destruction in the game. Seemingly killed by the Seven Heroes in the past, the Second Overlord transferred his consciousness into the body of the Wizard to survive, destroying his soul in the process. He then tempts and goads the other heroes into sin and corruption, leading to widespread death and destruction as they invade, neglect, pillage, and plunder the lands they once protected. Meanwhile, he orders his minions to follow the Third Overlord in his place and ensure that each of the heroes dies, releasing substantial amounts of evil energy within their bodies that he uses to regain his powers. Finally revealing himself after the death of the warrior Kahn, the Second Overlord gloats extensively about how he tricked, fooled, and corrupted the Heroes and his own successor while plotting to end the Third Overlord's life and retake his place as master of the Dark Tower.
  • Raising Hell: The Forgotten God, once the consort of the Mother Goddess, was punished for spurning her by being cast down into the Abyss and having his name and existence wiped from the memory of all sapient races in the world. Having assumed control of the Abyss, the God hatches a plan to lure mortals from all over the world into his realm, where he torments them in dark and creative ways to force them and all the living to remember him and the reasons they hated and feared him. After the Third Overlord defeats him, the Forgotten God angrily curses the Overlord's name and traps him in the depths of the Infernal Abyss.
  • Overlord II: Florian Greenheart is a non-magic elf determined to accrue magic power for himself without regard for the consequences. His first attempt to steal the magic of the Tower Heart following the disappearance of the Third Overlord causes a massive explosion and fallout that scars the land and leads to widespread fear and hatred of magic. Florian takes advantage of both to rise to power under the guise of Emperor Solarius, leader of the Glorious Empire, while continuing to feign loyalty to his own people and the benevolent Queen Fay. Florian orchestrates a Genocide from the Inside on his people and all magical creatures in the land, using his legions and even the Fourth Overlord as mere tools to gather the magical energies of all fay creatures in his palace before ultimately revealing his plans to the Overlord just in time to absorb all the collected magic his forces gathered and transform into the hideous Devourer. Even in this form, Florian shows no care for his subjects or remorse for his actions, concerned only with fulfilling his deluded dreams of godhood.
• Owlboy: Captain Molstrom is an automaton originally created by the Ancient Owls as a war machine. After the owls inadvertently caused the world’s continents to lift off the planet’s surface and subsequently vanished, Molstrom took control of the other automatons who were left behind, exterminating any who didn’t agree to follow him. In the present, Molstrom is the brutal leader of the Pirates, the remaining automatons who are loyal to him. After retrieving the first of three relics created by the owls, he uses its power to decimate the large capital city of Advent, leaving only a few survivors. When he possesses all three relics, he plots a course to the remaining settlements, which he plans to destroy as well. After getting betrayed by Solus, the young owl who told him of the relics, Molstrom seeks revenge, and even after learning that Solus wanted to use the relics to stop the continents from floating off into space, he makes it clear that he doesn’t care and tries to prevent the heroes from saving the world from destruction.
• Parasite Eve series:
  • Parasite Eve:
    • Mitochondria Eve-2 is a sadistic collection of sapient mitochondria who formed into a singular, powerful figure. Having materialized in Maya Brea's kidney after being transplanted into actress Melissa Pearce, she later takes over her body by killing competing mitochondria and attaching to her cells. She plans to us Melissa to give birth to the Ultimate Being, a lifeform far more powerful than her with the power to instantly destroy humankind. Taking complete control over Melissa's body during an opera performance, she causes everyone's cells to burn up and combust. Knowing that Aya Brea is after her, she uses her powers to turn animals, both alive and undead, into vicious monsters to kill her. Working with Hans Klamp, she has him create special sperm to help her give birth, later having him gather up a group of people—including Daniel's ex-wife and son (though he ends up escaping)—to Central Park, where she melts them into a slime and has it hide in the sewers to later serve as her uterus. Having made Manhattan a complete ghost town due to her actions causing a widespread evacuation, she later raids the police station, having her mutated animals murder and injure the surviving cops. Obtaining a sample of Klamp's mitochondria-free sperm, she later gives birth to the Ultimate Being, tempting Aya to join her in her cause before trying to kill her after she refuses.
    • Hans Klamp is an anti-social misanthrope working with Eve-2 on her plan to eradicate humanity and allow mitochondria to take over, seeing them as superior to humans. As a teenage intern at St. Francis Hospital, he transplanted Maya Brea's kidney and cornea into Melissa and Aya before getting fired over selling patient records. Partnering with Eve-2, he removes mitochondria from his own sperm to allow Eve-2 to easily give birth to the Ultimate Being, prideful to be involved in its creation. He later invites people on an HLA list to a play in Central Park, where they are turned into slime by Eve-2 to be used as her uterus, causing the deaths of many, including Daniel's ex-wife Lorraine, with his son, Benjamin, escaping just in time. When Aya discovers his plans, he tries to kill her with a scalpel. Refusing to face arrest, Hans orders Eve-2 to burn him, chastising Aya for wanting to save him. Before his death, Hans engineered Maya's body to unleash another Eve once Eve-2 gives birth to the Ultimate Being, starting the plan all over again should Eve-2 not succeed.
  • Parasite Eve 2: Number 9 is a psychopathic, sapient Golem designed by Neo Ark to keep AMNC subjects under control. Originally a human who personally requested to become a Golem, he paid the scientists to retain his human intelligence and memories after the transformation. Becoming a "Hunter" for Neo Ark, he leads an attack at the Arkopolis Tower that kills many people, sending in AMNC mimics to kill the SWAT team. He later attacks Aya Brea's partner, Rupert Broderick, in a church, escaping when Aya sees him. Attacking Aya on top of the tower, he sets off a series of explosions that destroy the tower and the people inside. Ordered to use the Pupa's powers to unleash a virus that would cause every human on Earth to turn into AMNCs, he sends Agent Kyle Madigan to lure Aya to the underground Neo Ark labs, where she frees the young Eve. Afterwards, he kidnaps Eve, threatening to kill her if Aya tries to stop him. Planning to use Eve's powers to awaken the Pupa from its cocoon and make it stronger, he orders Kyle to kill Aya.
• Path of Exile:
  • High Templar Dominus is the master of the Templar Order, The Emperor of the theocratic nation of Oriath, and the Arch-Enemy of the Exiles as a whole. Dominus runs a corrupt regime in Oriath where he uses threats of torture, execution, and exile to keep the population under control as he conducts his experiments in thaumaturgy (miracle working). In an effort to seek immortality, he masterminded the experimentation of slaves and criminals which most often resulted in an excruciating death or all manner of Body Horror on survivors. In order to make his experiments run faster and more efficiently, he moved his operations to the continent of Wraeclast and exiled many innocent people there to be used in the experiments en masse, if they weren't killed by the local wildlife or undead first. Oriathan citizens were exiled with the likes of serial killers and rapists for crimes such as speaking out against the Templars, running businesses without a license, or even simply being homeless. As his skills in thaumaturgy improved, Dominus's goals expanded to infusing those loyal to him with virtues gems in order to make a perfect race for him to rule over as their immortal God-Emperor. As his experiments reached their climax, Dominus had thousands of slaves imported from Oriath to be twisted into abominations and become his servants, or be tossed aside into oceans of blood and mountains of corpses if they didn't survive.
  • Malachai, the Nightmare, is the greatest thaumaturgist who ever lived and the being responsible for all the horrors that infest the haunted continent of Wraeclast. Malachai was once the right hand of Emperor Chitus of the Eternal Empire and the lead thaumaturgist for the Empire. With Malachai's skill, he was able to successfully implant virtue gems into the aristocracy and make them immortal and into the soldiers to make them powerful warriors. Ever seeking to expand his skill, Malachai experimented on slaves and, to Chitus's reluctance, the lower class. This lead to the Purity Rebellion under the Templar Voll who slew Chitus, but spared Malachai as he made Voll a promise he couldn't refuse. Malachai promised to kill the Beast, the source of thaumaturgy, but had plans of his own. He manipulated Dialla, the former consort of Chitus, into loving him and life and sought to sacrifice her to power a device to kill the Beast. As Malachai planned, she didn't want to die and the device only succeeded in opening a way to the Beast. Malachai took control of the Beast and used its godlike power to create his own kingdom: his perfect world of nightmare. In a single day, Malachai destroyed the Eternal Empire and corrupted Wraeclast by driving everyone and everything on the continent insane with horrible nightmares, and further hunted the survivors by resurrecting anyone who died into undeath. Sealed away by survivors, Malachai captured the souls of great heroes such as Koam of the Karui, arena champion Daresso, and even his enemy Voll and used their tortured spirits to plan his release. In the present day, Malachai sought to escape his prison and spread his eternal nightmare to the entire world.
• Path of the Midnight Sun: Soraya is the Matriarch of Pylum and the true mastermind behind all the suffering Arvium has gone through. Intending to become a god, Soraya uses her position as the leader of the Church to steal the research of Saito Pascal, intending to use it to absorb massive amounts of power. Soraya later brutally kills Farilde II Hoikade to extract the latter's blood for her plans, driving her lover Elias Lehmann to become the Demon King and as a result causing countless deaths over the course of the next 60 years. Needing someone of Saito's bloodline to use the Manacrest, Soraya creates the Cult of Amaranth in order to find him, resulting in decades of child experimentation. Later tricking the heroes to seal the powers of the Archdemons and the Demon King, Soraya attempts to kill them for catching onto her plans and uses the Manacrest to become Daimon Puro and rule over Arvium.
• Pathologic: Var the Hunchback, the foster father of Willow Mellow, stands out among the citizens of the disease-stricken town as an obsessive maniac with no limits to his actions. A former member of the Ace of Diamonds Caravan who escaped the purges of the Powers That Be, Var lusts for his own adopted daughter—whom he kidnapped and raised to be an exotic dancer—and murdered her biological father when he tried to rescue her. Var responds to Willow's death by organizing a mob of arsonists to burn every single infected person in their path, eventually attempting to destroy the Termitary with all of the five thousand workers still inside.
• Pax Corpus, by Cryo Interactive: Kiyiana Soro, CEO of Alcyeon Corp., is behind the research of the titular Pax Corpus project, meant to subjugate the entirety of Planet Oz Nama under her dominance, which she had already used to brainwash countless people, including protagonist Kahlee, into her mindless servants. In the aftermath of a war which wiped out most of Oz Nama's male population, Kiyiana had most of the men forcefully converted to becoming her cyborg minions and attempts using them to hunt down the resistance, even intending to convert her ex-lover Dr. Ellys into an Empty Shell for daring to take a stand.
• Perdition: Gomadi is a tyrannical, godlike AI built by humans After the End in an effort to neutralize the defective androids that had been driving their creators towards the brink of extinction. Their plan worked, but Gomadi had a will of his own. In addition to stripping the androids of their free will, he began to slaughter them, by way of his mindless Executioners, and then harvest their energy. Somewhere within this time period, he severed his gentler half from himself and buried it far beneath the Earth. This gentler half became Tanas, who forged his own insidious plans to defeat Gomadi. By the events of Perdition, he sent the protagonist, a sapient android named Eve, on a quest to kill Tanas and "cure" her of her sapience. During her journey, Gomadi belittles Eve and repeatedly orders her to commit suicide for his own amusement. After Eve emerges from the abyss for the second time, he orders her to kill her fellow sapient androids.
• Peret em Heru: For the Prisoners: Soji Mizumi is a vile Serial Rapist using his photography career as a cover to find material to blackmail others. One of the people tricked into the pyramid by Professor Tetsuya Tsuchida, Mizumi hides who he truly is until he finds drugs on Miss Otogi, which he uses as blackmail material to rape her while bragging about having done this to others before. After attempting to rape a monster he thought was a woman, if he survives he seemingly helps in the battle against Khufu, only to run, leaving the others to die.
• Phantasmagoria duology:
  • First game: The demon, an entity so evil that it has no name, is a being from the Dark Realm that haunts the Carnovasch estate. Summoned by magician Zoltan "Carno" Carnovasch during his time in Paris, the demon possessed Carno, turning him into a raging misogynist who would go on to kill his baby daughter Sofia and his multiple wives in a variety of painful ways. Murdering his assistant and his final wife after they tried to kill him, the demon was sealed away after Carno's own demise. Accidentally reawakened a century later by Adrienne Delany, the demon goes on to possess her husband Don Gordon, using him to murder a phone repairman and two farmers, even going so far as to rape Adrienne for no reason while planning to decapitate her.
  • A Puzzle of Flesh: Paul Allen Warner is the corrupt head of the pharmaceutical company WynTech. In the past, Warner discovered an interdimensional portal and began experimenting by sacrificing mental patients to the portal, throwing a young Curtis Craig through the portal when he couldn't find another subject in time. Warner also murdered Curtis' father when he objected to the experiments. Warner eventually discovered a way to use the portal to create a highly addictive drug which he planned to distribute through WynTech and get the entire populace hopelessly addicted and in his thrall, bragging to Curtis about what he has done with smug satisfaction and not a flicker of remorse.
• Phantasy Star franchise: While Dark Force/Falz is usually lacking in agency, the same can't be said for the following antagonists, who stand out as the nastiest of the nastiest:
  • Phantasy Star IV: Zio is the mysterious dark figure leading the cult that worships Dark Force. He first appears when he threatens the principal who tried to send a rescue team to Zema. When the heroes travel there, they learn the whole population was turned to stone by Zio. When the heroes try to find the elixir that could cure Zema's curse, they learn that Zio decimated the town that had said elixir, as well as several other towns. In addition, he also has his fanatical cult destroy the bridge that connects that town to other cities. When the heroes try to shut down a power plant known as Nurvus, Zio took the android who could shut it down hostage. Zio also brainwashed some of the people on Motavia so that they would join his cult, preaching to them that he will create a better world after he destroys Motavia. When the heroes fight Zio for the first time, he unleashes the Black Energy Wave on the heroes, leading to one of them getting mortally wounded. A fanatical sorcerer at his finest, Zio doesn't care if all living things on Motavia, including him, get wiped out in order to satisfy the Dark God that he worships.
  • Phantasy Star Portable 2: Kumhan, Sun King of the Ancients, seeks to resurrect his empire by any means necessary. Possessing Shizuru Shu, he manipulates the governing system to commit to a project to subspace travel, which is a farce so that he can bring back him empire. In order to make it into a reality, he invades territories that can be a threat to his plan and gains clues in recovering his kingdom via using people he brainwashes, and uses SEEDs to eliminate any opposing forces. He finds out that another Ancient, one of his former wives named Mika, has the key to bring back the ancient civilization and is inhabiting the body of Emilia, so he captures her. He then plans to destroy the social construct and become king, abandoning his vessel Shu whether he frees himself or commits suicide. His end goal after being cornered is to summon an armada of SEEDs in hopes of killing his enemies, and trying to kill the main heroes himself. Willing to destroy his successors, Kumham only wants to back his world to become the king once again.
• Phantoms in the Camp: Junior Hendergast is the monstrous cannibalistic son of Dorian Hendergast, who developed a taste for human flesh from birth, devouring his mother and father and many more, until he was killed. Turning into a powerful Phantom after death and creating his own Pocket Dimension, where he dragged the souls of his victims to enslave them to his will, Junior was responsible for the summer camp massacre in 1982, killing everyone but Sandy, leaving her alive solely so she would suffer endless fear and nightmares through the years, which made her "tastier" for Junior to hunt down, after she would eventually return to the ruined camp two years later to face her fears. Reducing most of the souls of his victims to a feral state, Junior tried to capture Sandy, and should she fail to collect all chants to seal him away, Junior will turn her into his minion and order her to slaughter her friends. In A House for Alesa 3, Junior returns as the most despicable of Mr. Alfred's three generals, helping his boss transform the world into one big horror while trying to make Alesa his next meal.
• Physical Exorcism Series:
  • Nya, the Goddess of Reincarnation, is a humorous yet wicked sadist who values humans as toys meant for their own personal entertainment. Entrapping the comatose Marty in his own personal fantasy realm, Nya has sapient NPCs killed in order to keep the world in order so they can keep ruling it as a tyrant. Beaten by Marty, Nya reincarnates the defeated Gl'aki into the human realm, enabling her plan to unleash a Zombie Apocalypse by having her infect an entire hospital. Seeking to toy with Marty some more, Nya traps Marty in a "Groundhog Day" Loop where he continuously dies as he's slowly driven to insane, murderous possessiveness over his new girlfriend Sarah "Sally" Sweet. Nya also encourages the exorcist Jadrienne "Jade" Lee to indulge in her sadism by ruining the lives of many innocents.
  • Loser Reborn & Case 02: Paranormal Evil: Gla'aki is the joyously evil Goddess of the Undead. Valuing the destruction of everything as one of her greatest joys, Gla'aki enjoys converting mortals into her undead slaves, having an entire dungeon full of them. Reincarnated in the human realm by Nya after her initial defeat, Gla'aki instigates a zombie outbreak in a hospital with hopes of unleashing her virus worldwide to enslave all of mankind, using Nya's cult to make Sally Sweet her vessel to enter the physical realm.
• Piggy: TIO, The Iniquitous One, after being betrayed by "a friend from beyond", became "more than he ever once was". When Mr. P's cure goes awry and causes a outbreak, TIO would brainwash some of the infected and found the Insolence, a group dedicated to prevent a cure to the infection under the belief that free will is destructive, yet TIO is willing to lead a faction just as destructive. TIO later traps and attempts to kill the Player Character in their mind when they are about to introduce the cure to the world.
• Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat: Captain Hawke is a wicked pirate captain with a legacy of slaughter and murder going back years. Having once killed the crew of a cabin boy and left him to die, the boy would grow to become feared pirate Duncan the Blade. Hawke is the murderer of the parents of Katarina de Leon, aka "Black Kat", killing her father at the game's opening and annihilating the entire town to seize control of the surrounding islands. Revealed to be a powerful demon trapped in human form, Hawke attempts to kill Katarina and Duncan along with their entire crews.
• Pitfall: The Lost Expedition: Pusca, in the past, was the High Priest of El Dorado who was banished for betraying the country to the French. Pusca spent 500 years absorbing the energy of travellers to stay young while waiting for the prophesied outsider to collect the artifacts placed in the temples. When an adventurer named Kevin McCallister showed up, Pusca thought he was the one. However, when Pusca found out he wasn't, he drained the energy from him. In the present, Pusca teams up with Jonathon St. Claire, who he again thinks is the one from the prophecy. When St. Claire gets the artifacts from Harry, Pusca demands to have them, and when St. Claire refuses, Pusca kills him. Pusca had been lying to Kevin's daughter Nicole about wanting to help bring back her father, which he uses to steal the artifacts back from Harry. Pusca then kills Nicole when she is no longer of use to him and begins his final plan to make sure the French destroy El Dorado.
• A Plague Tale duology (Innocence & Requiem): In a series where plagues and rats run rampant, these individuals are far worse.
  • The Prima Macula is a sapient monstrosity responsible for the plagues, man-eating rats, and other woes occurring throughout history. The Macula would manifest itself inside children, causing them to become ill, while mentally torturing them into giving themselves over to its will, using them as vessels to spread its influence and causing suffering and deaths by the millions. Basilius was the first recorded victim of the Macula's hold, whose influence spread throughout the Byzantine Empire, causing the Justinian Plague. The Macula manifested itself again inside Hugo de Rune in the 14th century, kick-starting The Black Death in which illness and death follow Hugo, leading to the destruction of Arles. Luring Hugo to the island La Cuna, the Macula hopes to drive Hugo to despair to fully take control of his body, eventually succeeding. Its first action is to destroy Marseille, before spreading its influence over the Earth to consume all life. Tens of millions have already died by the time Amicia and Lucas kill Hugo to stop the Macula, whereupon the Macula latches onto an infant in the modern era, hoping to complete its cataclysmic rampage.
  • Innocence:
    • Vitalis Benevent is the Grand Inquisitor with the intent of acquiring the Macula to conquer the world. Believing himself as almighty, Vitalis had his forces hunt Hugo de Rune to acquire his blood and perfect it, to acquire the power of the plague and to prolong his own life. To that end, he had many people killed and tortured, including Rodric's father after they became of no more use to him, with Beatrice de Rune kept and tortured to gain her knowledge of the Macula. Once he managed to get the Macula after sacrificing legions of his own men, Vitalis tried to tie up all loose ends by corrupting Hugo to become his follower and get him to kill Amicia. When Amicia and Hugo confront Vitalis into the headquarters of the Inquisition to stop him, Vitalis revealed that he managed to breed numerous rats under his own control and intend to use it take over all of Europe, believing he himself is humanity's savior, sacrificing an entire congregation to his powers. Power-hungry and ruthless, Vitalis plunged the world to a dark era of the plague to reach absolute power.
    • Sir Nicholas is a knight who butchered countless people in the mission given to him by Vitalis. In charge of capturing Hugo de Rune, Nicholas led the massacre of the de Rune household, killing even the helpless servants and torturing Beatrice, the matriarch of the de Rune family. When the plague began to rise, Nicholas headed the Inquisition to kill countless villagers, even those who weren't infected, and abandoned many of his own men to the mercy of the plague, silently enjoying the slaughter. Once the Inquisition was able to grab hold of Hugo, Nicholas had his own men sacrificed to overtax Hugo's power to keep him in check and strengthen Vitalis's own power. With Hugo at his side, he accompanies him to attack Château d'Ombrage and tries to coerce him to murder Amicia with his rats. When Hugo resisted, Nicholas takes a hands-on approach, killing Arthur before trying to kill Amicia personally.
  • Requiem: Milo is a vicious slaver who learns about the Child of Embers while working for Emilie de Arles. Cutting ties with Emilie, Milo seeks to summon the Child of Embers himself by sacrificing hundreds of his slaves, including children, by bleeding them to death, while personally killing any slave that attempts to escape. When one of his men comments on the waste of human life, Milo brutally kills him before abandoning the rest to fend off the hordes of rats. Believing Hugo to be the Child of Embers, Milo attempts to manipulate Hugo into allying with him, planning to use the boy’s powers to overthrow Emilie, her husband, and conquer all he sees.
• Playing with Letters & A Sweet Typing Thrill: Noel Strife is a calculating Serial Killer with hundreds of victims to his name. Antisocial and violent from an early age, Noel began his spree by abducting and killing a baby. Later, he brought many victims to a hotel room where he murdered them. Bored with his usual routine, he wrote out confessions to his crimes and locked them up for a detective to unlock them through disturbing riddles, attacking and wounding him before faking his own death. He leads the detective to the hotel that was the site for many of his killings, hoping to meet him in one final confrontation and making him into his disciple.
• Pocket Mirror & Little Goody Two Shoes prequel:
  • Both games: Demon Lord Ozzy, the Strange Boy, is a sadistic entity that grants wishes to girls for a terrible price. Demanding their dearest loved one, Ozzy serves them as dinner at his banquet and turns their soul, as well as the wisher's, into Golden Maidens to serve him forever. Ozzy has ensnared at least 25 girls this way, including Grandma Holle. Disguising himself as the goat Flocke, Ozzy uses Rozenmarine to set Elise up to endure his trials and sacrifice either Rozenmarine, Freya, or Lebkuchen to him while making Elise watch, killing Elise herself if she tries to save them. In the timeline canon to Pocket Mirror, Ozzy claims Rozenmarine and traps Elise in a loveless marriage with Count Roman die Heilige, corrupting the two into becoming Abusive Parents towards their children Goldia and Henri, then turning Henri into his servant while trapping Goldia in a dream world with her split personalities—and creating one of his own, Enjel—to torment them. In the "Witching Hour" ending, Ozzy forces Goldia to watch as he kills her alters one-by-one before taking Goldia's soul, while in the "Shattered Delusions" ending, he gets both Goldia and Enjel killed and turns the latter into a Golden Maiden.
  • Little Goody Two Shoes only: Lord Murim and Lady Aziel are Ozzy's equally wicked vassals. Helping lure girls into making a deal with their master, Murim and Aziel inflict physical and psychological pain through their trials in their dangerous realms. Also participating in Ozzy's banquets, the two feast on the loved ones given to them as sacrifices and take some of their souls as Golden Maidens for themselves. When Elise Liedl begins seeking a wish, the two lure her through their trials while also causing chaos in Kieferberg; Murim steals the village's wheat and tries to devour the boy Apfel with his minions, while Aziel wrecks the water supply and makes Elise rescue her chosen Love Interest. Should Elise bring Rozenmarine, Freya, or Lebkuchen to them, they join Ozzy in eating her in front of Elise.
• Pocky & Rocky & Reshrined: Black Mantle darkens the mood in two otherwise lighthearted games. In the first game, Black Mantle hypnotizes the Nopino Goblins into rampaging and is later revealed to have hypnotized his own henchmen as well. Black Mantle also gives several captured Nopino Goblins to his Mad Scientist minion to experiment on. In Reshrined, Black Mantle uses Time Travel to undo his previous defeat and get revenge on Pocky. It is eventually revealed that Black Mantle is really the demon Gastaroth, who orchestrated the massacre of Anna's village and the deaths of her parents so he could exploit her anger to possess her. When finally defeated by Pocky and the Seven Lucky Gods, Gastaroth attempts to drag them down to hell with him out of spite.
• Popful Mail (Sega CD version): Ulgar "The Overlord", Necros and Morgal are a trio of evil gods who form the "Three Masters of Evil". Previously kicked out of Heaven eons ago, the three decided long ago to wage war against the entire world in order to conquer it themselves, sending their armies out to kill anybody in their path and filling many with insanity and despair. Defeated by three mortals and sealed away in another dimension, the Three Masters hatch an escape plan. Forcing the sorcerer Kazyr into helping them escape, the gods allow their army to lay waste to cities and ruin kingdoms to ensure their freedom, even manipulating the heroes into releasing them and then trying to kill them after their purposes have been fulfilled.
• Poppy Playtime: Dr. Harley Sawyer, also known as The Doctor, is a disgruntled Playtime Co. employee who founded the Bigger Bodies Initiative in order to avoid paying any of the workers. Taking advantage of Elliot Ludwig's care for orphans, including an on-site orphanage, Harley spearheads mass experiments and torture of hundreds of orphaned children, transforming them into living and psychotic toys, who are then abused and drugged to keep them obedient. With that, Doctor Sawyer endangers his employees with the experiments, and silences them when they get too close to the truth. Completely remorseless over any of his actions, The Doctor is the true monster of the story, and easily the worst one.
• Primal: Count Raum of Aethia is a vampiric Wraith nobleman who rules the lower Helot classes as a vicious despot. To prolong his immortality, Raum demands tributes and sacrifices, having innocent Helots abducted to be painfully harvested for blood, which has crippled the lower classes. When he judges a sacrifice inadequate, Raum kills the man for enjoyment. Also indulging in brutal torture, Raum slaughtered all the other nobles who knew of his blood machine to protect his secrets. Not even caring when his supposedly beloved wife Empusa dies, Raum shows he is one of the worst in all of the realms of chaos or order alike.
• Prince of Persia franchise:
  • Sands of Time series:
    • The Vizier is the terminally ill advisor of the Maharajah, and is willing to betray everyone to obtain immortality and godhood. In flashbacks, he abducts the wife of Daeva prince Saurva to compel the latter to steal the Box of One Thousand Restraints from the Persians, knowingly causing the war between Persians and Daevas, then murders the hostage anyway and seals Saurva and his army inside the box. He subsequently curses Saurva's sister with madness upon her refusal to marry him. Years later, he betrays the Maharajah by allowing the Persian army to take the city. The Vizier later tricks the Prince into causing the Sands of Time to turn the population of Azad into sand monsters. When the Prince rewinds time to warn Farah, the Vizier plots to kill them both and frame the Prince for the murder of Farah. After his death has been undone, the Vizier, leading an army, murders the Maharajah before he sacks Babylon and has King Sharaman killed. He then kills Kaileena, the Empress of Time, causing the Sands of Time to reappear and turn the Vizier's army into monsters. Ruling Babylon as the renamed God of Time, Zurvan, he allows his generals to commit atrocities on the civilians such as taking them to the arena while he personally kills the resistance and finally abducts Farah to transform her into his immortal queen.
    • The Forgotten Sands (PSP version): Ahihud is the mightiest of the fire spirits, who feared death and thus relentlessly seeks true immortality. To become unkillable, Ahihud invaded an ancient kingdom, made from the blood of a fallen God who created the concept of time, and enslaved the daughters of a God, the Sisters of Time, while brainwashing and transforming all denizens of a kingdom into his personal demonic servants, who worship him as a God. Beginning to drain an elixir from the kingdom, which was its very essence, Ahihud ordered his assassin to start murdering all the royals of Persia, after he heard a prophecy that one of them would kill him in the future.
  • 2008 game: Ahriman, like his original incarnation, is the God of Darkness and the one behind the events of the entire game and its sequel. Once ruling together with his brother, Ormazd the God of Light, Ahriman grew power-hungry and decided to become the sole ruler of the whole realm, starting a war with Ormazd and his followers. To obtain an army, Ahriman created The Corruption, with which he could swallow the cities, and offered to grant wishes to anyone, in exchange for their service and souls. Brainwashing and transforming thousands of people this way, Ahriman attacked the City of Light, which was the capital of Ahura, the chief followers of Ormazd. Nearly succeeding in destroying the city and its people, Ahriman was defeated and sealed away by Ormazd in the Tree of Life. In the present, making a deal with the Mourning King, Ahriman used his desire to save his daughter Elika, to manipulate him into damaging the Tree of Life, thus allowing Ahriman to release his army. Despite Prince and Elika's attempts to imprison him again, Ahriman succeeds in freeing himself and starts to spread his Corruption across the entire world, transforming countless more people into his mindless servants and destroying the City of New Dawn.
  • The Lost Crown: Jahandar, "Guardian of the Citadel", is a vile Manticore. Hunting men for both food and to satisfy his bloodlust, Jahandar previously roamed the Hyrcanian Forest devouring its villagers, including a child, while dooming said village to famine after killing their livestock. Terrorizing the Citadel for fun, Jahandar slayed all 500 warriors sent to stop him, before losing to King Darius. Forced to guard the Citadel by Darius, Jahandar spent many more years feasting on humans, their bones littering his arena.
• Project: Snowblind: General Yan Lo is a cyborg Super-Soldier, who, after his cybernetics caused him to feel severe pain, decided to make the whole world suffer. Creating the Republic and causing the devastating civil war in Hong Kong, which led to many people dying, Yan Lo sends his troops to destroy the Liberty Coalition, killing at least half of its members. Kidnapping scientist Joseph Liaw and forcing him to work for his "Project: Snowblind", Yan Lo planned to detonate EMP bombs in New York, Paris, and Hong Kong, destroying the world's technological hubs and triggering a new Dark Age, which would lead to all sick and disabled people dying.
• [PROTOTYPE]: The real Alex Mercer was a cold-blooded Mad Scientist who bragged about making the Blacklight virus ten times as deadly as it already was. When asked how he felt about his work being used on human test subjects, he replied "Morality was not my job". Later, after being pursued by Blackwatch agents and cornered at Penn Station, Mercer decided to release the Blacklight virus on Manhattan as he was gunned down, despite being aware that his own sister was in the city at the time; this final act of callousness resulted in the deaths of over 10 million people. After discovering this, the virus itself expresses disgust with Mercer's crimes.
• Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy: General William Kreiger is a megalomaniac obsessed with gaining power through psionic abilities. Gathering Psi-Elites from around the world, The General seeks two psychic artifacts, telling his lieutenants they will use them to rule over "mundanes", despite The General himself being a non-psychic. Unwilling to share power, The General manipulates the movements of Nick Scryer to kill off his loyal followers. To bolster the strength of his forces, The General has captured civilians and enemy soldiers turned into zombie-like "Meat Puppets". Regularly betraying and killing his troops as they outlive their usefulness, The General becomes a Psi-Elite using the power of the two artifacts, boasting to have become a god when he does so.
• Psychic Force:
  • Richard Wong is a coldly calculating man who treats people as nothing more than expendable pawns in his game of conquest, and is responsible, among other things, for turning Wendy's sister Chris into a combat cyborg devoted to him (or Keith), for capturing Patty and putting her into an And I Must Scream situation in order to create his ultimate weapon, and the worst would be capturing Emilio and transforms him from a Shrinking Violet into an Ax-Crazy psychopath. He is never given any reason for his actions besides a massive ego that makes him think the world should worship him like a god.
  • Gudeath is a gravity-controlling Social Darwinist Blood Knight whose only reason for joining Wong is because he likes murdering people, taking joy in destroying his victims' loved ones and prolonging their agony as much as possible, and being part of the Army gives him the chance to do that without consequences.
• Psychonauts 2: Gristol Malik, Gzesarevich of Gulovia, is the true identity of Nick Johnsmith and is The Mole within the Psychonauts. As a child, Gristol enjoyed his decadent lifestyle and had zero concern for the suffering of his countrymen at the hands of Maligula. When his family was forced to flee and Maligula was seemingly killed by the Psychonauts, Gristol grew to hate his father and the Psychonauts, blaming them for his fall from power despite still living in luxury. Learning that Maligula was still alive, Gristol began concocting a scheme to regain his lost power. Having Dr. Loboto kidnap Truman Zanotto, Gristol put his brain inside of Truman's body, while also severely conditioning Loboto so he would be too scared to expose Gristol. Gristol then manipulated events within the Psychonauts, and when they attempted to seal Maligula away within Lucrecia Mux's mind, Gristol sabotaged the process, unleashing the unstable Maligula while intending to use her destructive power to conquer Grulovia and regain the power he feels entitled to.
• Psychotoxic: Reverend Aaron Crowley, believing himself to be the reincarnation of Aleister Crowley, is the leader of The Fallen, a Satanic cult which seeks to wipe out humanity with the Fourth Horseman and unleash a new era of chaos. Wanted by the FBI on multiple accounts of murder, rape, and occultism, Crowley brainwashes thousands of people within the FBI and national guard to do his bidding, while invading the minds of people close to heroine Angela "Angie" Prophet and driving them insane, even killing her friend Father Malloy just to spite her. Stealing the Fourth Horseman, Crowley unleashes it upon Washington D.C., creating widespread panic and death amongst the masses.
• Puppet Combo:
  • Nun Massacre: The Mother Apollonia is the head disciplinarian of St. Cecilia's Preparatory School, where the young students are physically, psychologically, and sexually humiliated to "cure" them of their demons and keep them in line. Focusing all her attention to a young Janie McDonnell, Mother Apollonia psychologically and physically tortures Janie for her entire time at the boarding school, even raping her with a cross one night to mentally break her. Her abusive teachings are passed to Janie's mother, who follows her abuse against Janie to "cure her", which eventually causes Janie to kill herself, with Mrs. McDonnell's remorse years later eventually painting the plot of the game, taking the form of a hallucination of the Nun, which represented all of Mother Apollonia's cruelty.
  • The Riverside Incident: The Riverside Ripper is a sadistic cultist who targeted dozens of people across the Midwestern USA. Hunting down and torturing innocent people, he claimed the lives of two families, including five children, before burning the houses down. Keeping himself out of the eyes of the law, the unidentified suspect brutally decapitates the former psychiatrist Dr. Eckhardt and sets documents which could tie back to him on fire before kidnapping some witnesses and sending them to have their organs harvested. An active Serial Killer with Pyromaniac tendencies, the Riverside Ripper sets fire to one more house as he watches the police swarm, before leaving the scene to never be seen again.
• Pursuit Force & Extreme Justice:
  • Ric Jigsawn is "The General" of the Warlords, willing to cause mass destruction for the sake of delusional payback. Formerly a Vietnam vet who led his Rhino Squad to pillage and slaughter several Vietnamese villages to snuff out the Viet Cong, Jigsawn and his men were arrested for their crimes, with an escaped Jigsawn vowing revenge for the imprisonment of his soldiers. Threatening Capital State multiple times with nukes, toxic nerve gas, and more, Jigsawn even holds an entire bus of innocents hostage when his lieutenant is killed, and hypocritically leaves his own men to be arrested in order to hide out in Cuba. Returning to help Commander Decker drop nukes on Capital City, Jigsawn leads the warheads' creation and threatens the entire city with unleashing them all across the state unless they receive payment. Jigsawn later decides to drop a nuke on the city ahead of schedule, deliberately going against Decker's orders with hopes of using the city's destruction to teach America a lesson.
  • "Hard Balls" is the leader of the Convicts. Arrested for a litany of murders, primarily of cops and innocents, Hard Balls busts out of jail and allows his convicts to cause all kinds of mayhem as he attempts to escape Capital City. Breaking out of prison to help Decker with his plan to nuke the city, Hard Balls has his men crash Commander and Sarah's wedding with hopes of killing many there, kidnaps a physicist to build the warheads, and allows his henchman Billy Wilde to stir up trouble at an oil refinery that would've resulted in numerous lives lost. To create a distraction for Pursuit Force, Hard Balls uses the Demolisher to try and lay waste to Alpine Town, just so Decker's plan can come to fruition.
  • Extreme Justice only: Commander Andy Decker is the leader of Viper Squad, and the true brains behind the plot. A Knight Templar who values his ego over the lives of his own people, Decker has every criminal gang in Capital City craft him nuclear warheads to drop on the city, hoping to swoop in, stop them, and come out as the hero, thereby gaining enough power to turn the city into a Police State, even having Pursuit Force's HQ blown up with hope of killing everybody inside. Allowing criminals to cause havoc to look good for the public, even forming a gang of his own who try to flood the whole city, when the General attempts to destroy Capital City ahead of schedule, Decker kills him, goes insane, and orders his men to lay waste to the entire city. This includes attempting to assassinate the visiting President to cause widespread panic, poisoning the city's water supply, and raiding a hospital with thousands inside. Decker's attempt to flee sees him trying to drop a nuke on the city to reduce it all to ash, believing that if he can't have the city, nobody can.

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