Sandbox / Monster: Video Games (T to Z)

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• Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (Episode VII):
  • Hierophant Leundar Balbatos/Cardinal Rayunder Barbatos, the king of Galgastan, started a war to try and take over the rest of the lands. He ordered the slaughter of the Walister forces and had their leader, Duke Ronwey, imprisoned. He has numerous concentration camps set up across the lands, and has his henchmen slaughter nearby villages. He also murdered Nybbas's son, Debordes, and allows Nybbas to continue his experiments in necromancy, permitting him to turn dead enemies and allies alike into zombie slaves.
  • Death Master Nybeth Obidlord/Nybbas Obderhode, Barbatos's chief necromancer, specializes in turning the dead of both the enemies and allies into zombie slaves. When his son Debordes was killed by Barbatos, Nybbas didn't care, and even had his son turned into a zombie. When the process left Debordes as a hulking brute with no intelligence, Nybbas felt no remorse. The PSP remake makes him even more monstrous, when in the Chaotic route, he organized a zombie attack in Balmamusa that killed Orias, his own daughter. It's also revealed that he had another family of necromancers killed and kept the youngest daughter alive just so that he could show her the zombified versions of her family before ordering them to kill her.
• T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger: The Dragon Master, the cruel tyrant of China, is the one behind all the game's woes and the one who exterminated the noble White Tiger Clan in the past when they posed a threat to his evil, of which T'ai Fu was the only survivor. Among his countless victims is T'ai Fu's father, whose spirit has lingered in unrest since the day of the massacre. The Dragon Master even attacks and slaughters innocent panda monks when he relocates T'ai Fu years later at a temple, attempting to complete his genocide then and there.
• Tails of Iron: Green Wart is a ruthless warchief seeking revenge against the Rat Kingdom. Amassing various frog tribes, Green Wart used all the soldiers at his disposal to launch a siege on the Crimson Keep, killing King Rattus and dozens of soldiers. Green Wart also has his soldiers raze the villages surrounding the Keep, laying waste across the land and slaughtering countless civilians. After Prince Redgi and his allies defeat several frog tribes and undo most of the frogs' destruction, Green Wart attacks the Crimson Keep again, killing more rats and kidnapping Redgi's brother, Denis, during the invasion. As Redgi storms the Frog Lands to save his brother, he discovers various rats had been kidnapped and turned into mindless assailants Redgi is forced to kill, with Denis himself forced into a mechanized suit that nearly kills Redgi.
• Tekken series:
  • Azazel the Rectifier, the "original Devil", is an ancient demon who was sealed away by ancient people from the East after controlling mankind for centuries. Empowering humans to serve him, Azazel is the source of the "Devil Gene", and thus the true source for all the evil the Mishimas have wrought. To escape confinement, Azazel tries to tempt Jin Kazama to spread war and conflict to fuel his escape. Confronted by Lars in his temple, Azazel claims mankind is bound to him and later proclaims that he is greater than any being on Earth before attempting to destroy the world. Revived by Kazuya Mishima, Azazel tries to "reward" him by attempting to consume Kazuya.
  • Tekken 3 (debut): Bryan Fury was once a Dirty Cop with ties to drugs. Killed in a shootout, his body was taken by Dr. Abel who revived him as a cyborg. After two years, Fury's body began to break down, but he was saved by Yoshimitsu and his friend Dr. Bosconovitch. As thanks for saving his life and making him stronger, Fury murdered Yoshimitsu's Manji Clan brothers and almost killed Bosconovitch, earning Yoshimitsu's undying hatred. Determined to unlock his full potential, Bryan entered the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5, but Yoshimitsu forced him to retreat. Frustrated, Bryan traveled to battlegrounds across the world, killing and destroying until he grew bored of how easy it all was. Giddy to crush anyone that would provide him with entertainment and a challenge, Bryan Fury is consistently portrayed as one of the cruelest fighters despite his lack of resources.
• Tenchu series:
  • Onikage, chief servant and Psycho Supporter of the demonic Lord Mei-Oh, is a sinister undead ninja who went by the name Suzaku when serving the ninja revolutionary group The Burning Dawn, where he subtly manipulates the group and assists in its brutal actions. When his own lover is mortally wounded by the hero Rikimaru, Onikage ruthlessly kills her, declaring he has no love for weakness. Later assisting the rise of Mei-Oh with massacres and assisting evil cults in murders and transforming innocents into monsters, Onikage continues to return and engineers another war, with Rikimaru forced to kill over and over again. Killing and replacing the adviser to Lord Gohda, Onikage ends up burning down one of Gohda's castles, revealing himself when he takes Gohda's daughter Princess Kiku hostage and forcing Rikimaru to stab through her fatally to kill Onikage himself. Obsessed with the darker side of human nature and creating a world of chaos and carnage, Onikage repeatedly proves himself to be Tenchu's darkest villain.
  • Birth of the Stealth Assassins: Gohda Motohide is the power-hungry uncle of the benevolent Lord Gohda Matsunoshin. Envious of his nephew upon inheriting the lands of his deceased brother, Motohide bribes many samurai into loyalty and allies himself with the Gohda family's longtime enemy Lord Toda Yoshida to begin a bloody civil war for control of the Gohda dynasty. Launching a brutal attack upon Gohda castle, Motohide's men massacre soldiers and servants indiscriminately. Upon losing a fight to his nephew, Matsunoshin spares his uncle only for Motohide to shoot him with a concealed pistol. Losing another fight to the ninja Rikimaru, Matsunoshin takes a critical injury from Rikimaru to spare his uncle from the young ninja's wrath. Motohide rewards his nephew's selflessness by fleeing, murdering Matsunoshin's defenseless wife and kidnapping his young daughter to appease Lord Toda.
  • Dark Secret: Kubira is a demon inhabiting the body of Lord Kagemasa of Hakkaku. Upon making a deal with the ambitious Kagemasa for military strength, Kubira devours his soul and murders his closest allies. Seeking the rebirth of his master the Lord of the Dead, Kubira subjects Kagemasa's beloved wife Princess Shizu to nightly occult rituals which impregnates her with the Lord of the Deads soul, whose gestation causes Shizu excruciating pain and would eventually kill her. After Shizu flees to the small village of Saiga, Kubira orders gangs of hired bandits and Kagemasa's loyal samurai to kidnap the villagers and steal their food supplies in an effort to get them to surrender the princess. Declaring war on Lord Gohda for his role in protecting Princess Shizu, Kubira eventually fights Gohdas loyal Azuma ninja and reveals his intention to use his master's power to open a gateway to the underworld, allowing the demons below to rise up and feast on the flesh and souls of the living.
• TERA: Dakuryon is the sadistic Archdevan Imperator in the continent of Northern Arun. He, along with other Archdevan mages, uses brutal Blood Magic experiments to create barely sapient grotesque abominations known as demokrons from creatures that were unfortunate enough to fall into the hands of the Archdevans. During the Fate of Arun arc, Dakuryon establishes himself to the player by abducting High Eldar Verikam in Highwatch. Later in the arc, Dakuryon ambushes Zolyn, taking special interest in her as she is able to partially resist his restraining magic. Dakuryon taunts her about how he experimented on and killed her sister Zyona, before abducting Zolyn. After the player enters Dakuryon's sanctum in Arx Umbra, Zolyn is revealed to be transformed into a demokron by Dakuryon's magic, warping her mind and body and forcing her to kill her crewmate Paesyn. The player is then forced to fight Zolyn, who begins begging the player to put her out of her misery.
• Terranigma:
  • Dark Gaia/The Devil is the ruler of the Darkside who plans to take complete control over the world. Creating the village of Crysta and Ark to be used as his pawns for world domination, Gaia, posing as the village's Elder, manipulates Ark into opening Pandora's Box and crystallizing everybody in Crysta. Tricking Ark into awakening Dr. Beruga from his slumber in order to use his resources to start another apocalypse and rule over a new world, Gaia brainwashes Elle's Darkside counterpart into killing a baby Ark, before later taunting Ark about how his entire life was a lie.
  • Dr. Beruga is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who has discovered the secret to immortality, which involves turning people into zombies. With this knowledge in mind, Beruga sought to eliminate the weak and create a world populated by those he deemed worthy of immortality, with him as their ruler. Creating the Asmodeus virus that he used to wipe out 90% of humanity, Beruga sealed himself inside a chamber to be reawakened by Dark Gaia once the world has been restored. While in slumber, he establishes a cult that kidnaps people to be turned into zombies. Awakened by Ark, Beruga thanks him by killing him and unleashes the Asmodeus virus on Neotokio, killing everyone there.
• Terror At Oakheart: The nameless entity is a Lovecraftian beast of unknown origin and the mastermind behind Teddy and his killing spree. It arrives from space near Teddy's house and corrupts him from a simple ice cream seller to a masked serial killer. Throughout the game, the entity mentally torments Teddy as it forces him to brutally murder people so that it can feed on their corpses. After Teddy is killed by a young woman named Ashley, the entity resurrects him a year later and has him slaughter everyone at the Oakheart Police Department and Camp Oakheart, turning nearly all of the victims into its zombie slaves. Having Teddy drag Ashley to it so it can possess her, the entity devours Teddy when he fails to kill Sheriff Russell—who came to rescue Ashley—before it tries to kill Russell itself.
• Teslagrad: The King of Electropia is a tyrant who in the past subjugated a Barbarian Tribe and made them into his army with the help of Teslamancers. The King later attempted to use Teslamancers' technology to conquer the neighboring countries, causing the order to cut ties with him. Nonetheless, he started a war of aggression that he lost. After losing the war, the King refused to acknowledge his guilt and blamed the Teslamancers, ordering the order exterminated. Framing a barbarian attack that killed Oleg's family on the Teslamancers, the King took Oleg to his side and had him commit genocide on the Teslamancers, torching their cities. In the present, he continued to glorify his genocide and painted the Teslamancers as evil. When it turns out that the Kid Hero's family are the last Teslamancers remaining, the King sends his soldiers to kill them all, later attempting to kill the child personally.
• Terraria: The Lunatic Cultist is a fanatical madman hellbent on summoning his master Cthulhu, the Moon Lord, and destroying all of Terraria. Leading a cult that worships Cthulhu, the cultist kidnaps the Mechanic to perform experiments on the remains of Cthulhu. After successfully creating mechanized creatures through this, he constructed the dungeon by destroying a once thriving city that drove the denizens mad, becoming undead skeletons fit to only serve in dungeons. The Cultist traps the Mechanic there to continue research, and then cursed a benevolent tailor to be the host of the murderous Skeletron to guard the dungeon and kill those who summoned it. The Lunatic Cultist now attempts to perform a successful ritual to summon the Celestial Towers and in turn, summoning the Moon Lord to bring forth the apocalypse in Terraria.
• Terror of Hemasaurus: Richie Hoarderson is the greedy and nihilistic CEO of PollutaCorp, who knowingly spreads disinformation about climate change; starts a cannibal Eco-Terrorist death cult; builds a time machine; bioengineers Hemasaurus, and sends it back in time to be frozen in a glacier. As the Shepherd of the Church of the Holy Lizard, Richie directs Hemasaurus to rampage across the United States—destroying multiple cities, sabotaging climate science research, and sadistically killing thousands—while treating everyone other than himself as completely disposable. Once he grows bored of the scam, Richie decides to abandon Earth to live on the Moon, using his private army as a meat shield to stall a repentant and vengeful Hemasaurus while expressing zero remorse for his actions.
• Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon: Lowell Percival is the secret leader of the Crusade of Genetic Purity. Seeking to "cleanse" the Earth of impure life, Percival has his top assassin, the Chameleon, eliminate a great deal of obstacles and loose ends to get his hands on the necessary component to create a powerful virus. Testing it on unwilling subjects, Percival intends to release it into the atmosphere of Earth, exterminating all life save the few he deems worthy to survive in his space station, the Moon Child.
• Their Eyes: The Stranger is part of the protagonist's soul, who willingly separated from him to become his own being. In the past, when he and the protagonist were still "one whole person", the Stranger arrived in Lockwood and created a cult there, worshipping the Outer Gods and sacrificing people to them. As the protagonist grew guilty and couldn't accept the covenant of blood, the Stranger separated from him and invoked "eternal night", unleashing countless undead monsters and demons upon the town, who then proceed to slaughter every human they saw. Trapping the protagonist in "the dream", the Stranger uses him to gather the alien coins, solely so he could finally summon the Blind One.
• Thief series: Here are the worst Garrett has faced:
  • Thief II: The Metal Age: Father Karras is behind the Mechanists, a faction that split from the Hammerites due to Karras's desires for the destruction of all organic life. Karras rebuilds his faction around his own twisted ego rather than their god, the Master Builder, even placing himself above said god. Responsible for kidnapping countless homeless people in the city and turning them into twisted mechanoid abominations, he is introduced using his special rust gas to painfully kill two innocent people as a simple demonstration for a corrupt sheriff. Karras plans to use the rust gas to wipe out all organic life in the city while attempting genocide on the woodland people.
  • Thief: Deadly Shadows: Gamall, The Hag, is an immortal Serial Killer who maintains her immortality by killing children, before ripping the skin off her victims and wearing it as her own, having done this for centuries. Wanting to re-infiltrate the Keepers organization she was excommunicated from to learn their secrets, she murders a little girl to take her appearance. Once inside, she murders her teacher Caduca so she can take to her position as Interpreter. When the Keepers learns the truth about Gamall, she slaughters most of them. She later kills and steals the skin of Garrett's long-time friend Artemus before strangling First Keeper Orland to death when he tries to redeem himself.
  • 2014 game: Thief-Taker General Thaddeus Harlan is The Dragon to Baron Northcrest, but lacks his master's good intentions for the City, in favor of needless greed. Creating the "Black Tax" to squeeze the already-depleting resources of the poor, he would hang those who don't pay his taxes, killing hundreds. He would then search their corpses for valuables, later killing one of his own men when he didn't thoroughly search his assigned corpse. Going to a brothel he brutally beats and nearly rapes a prostitute, with it later being implied that he's a pedophile. Thaddeus later switches sides to The Baron's half-brother Orion, helping The Graven cause more chaos in the City, so he could draw out Garrett and kill him.
• The Thing (2002): Colonel R.C. Whitley is revealed to be a power-hungry madman who sends two teams to investigate Outpost 31, resulting in the Alpha Team being infected and picked off by the creatures infected by the Thing. Whitley is revealed to be collaborating with, before taking control, of Gen Inc. to research the Thing, eventually isolating what is dubbed the Cloud Virus, which Whitley seeks to weaponize. Whitley infects himself after showing an immunity, and demonstrates that he is in control when he kills Dr. Faraday for trying to eradicate the virus. Whitley plans on distributing the virus and the infected creatures around the world through a fleet of planes. When foiled, Whitley reveals his new plan to use an evacuation team to spread the infection on a global scale, with him ruling supreme. A cold-blooded murderer with a god complex, and seeking to use the virus for world domination, Colonel Whitley is metaphorically and—eventually, literally—a representation of the Thing as a human.
• Thing-Thing series: The CEO—real name unknown—is the director of Systems Corp., a corporation that creates Super Soldiers and other bioweapons, subjecting its projects to inhumane experiments and tormenting them until they become mindless killers. Running Systems Corp. with an iron fist, and treating his employees abysmally, the CEO's callousness is further illustrated by a poster threatening to punish slacking with electrocution, not to mention his cavalier attitude towards sending his employees to their demises. When the behavioral modification treatment backfires on protagonist Project 154—turning him into a vengeance-thirsty, sociopathic mass murderer—the CEO sends many waves of his employees after 154. Upon 154's arrival at his office, the CEO casually comments via monitor that despite all of 154's efforts, he is just an expendable clone. Subsequently removing the latter's Healing Factor and sending more subordinates to kill 154, the CEO intends to rework 154's genetics and profit off the results.
• The Tiamat Sacrament:
  • Ry'jin is a Mad Scientist who seeks the power of dragons to conquer Neoterra as a god. During the coup against Ildria's king, he and his soldiers kill dragons for their DNA and slaughter most of the Ildrian castle's residents. Ry'jin steals hundreds of dragon eggs to power his Vulcan Cannon, which he uses to drive dragons to near-extinction and kill any who reject his rule. In an attempt to unseal the Great Seven Dragons, he uses synthetic DNA to convert many of his soldiers into Reavers, driving them into insanity. Posing as a resistance leader, Ry'jin guides the dragon Az'uar and Princess Xandra to the Great Sevens' Soul Gems, planning to kill Az'uar for his DNA afterwards. Upon capturing the heroes, Ry'jin tries to force Xandra to concede the throne to him, only to destroy the town of Draslin when the heroes fight back. When the heroes confront him again, he unleashes Az'uar's brainwashed brother on them, sadistically enjoying the dragon's pain in killing his kin.
  • Gyle serves as Ry'jin's leading soldier in order to receive draconic power and satisfy his bloodlust. During Ry'jin's coup, he murders King Khytiel in front of his daughter Xandra before attempting to kill her too. Afterwards, Gyle co-leads the genocide of dragons to secure more dragon DNA and eggs for Ry'jin's experiments, taking pride in personally killing Az'uar's mother. Upon discovering a rebel in Draslin, he incinerates the rebel and his wife while forcing their child to watch. In order to force Xandra to endorse Ry'jin's dictatorship, Gyle tortures her friend in front of her and later takes the town of Draslin hostage, threatening to kill the civilians one by one if she doesn't comply.
• Time Crisis series:
  • Wild Dog, mastermind behind the terrorist-for-hire group Wild Dog Organization, is the Arch-Enemy of the VSSE, who has allied himself with dictatorships and warmongering lunatics all for the sake of a payday. Fostering as much chaos as he can, on his own accord, Wild Dog murdered one of his bosses for the sake of taking his robot army to have them take over the world himself; apprenticed an equally-psychopathic disciple named Wild Fang; and, in the mobile spinoff 2nd Strike, tortures the director of DARPA to steal nerve gas and murdered another scientist to keep him quiet. Wild Dog tries to unleash the nerve gas on an entire city, to distract from his real goal: leading a six-pronged nuclear attack to annihilate cities all over the glove, simply for the thrill of it.
  • Time Crisis 3:
    • Giorgio Zott, bloodthirsty leader of the Zagorias Federation, plunges the Mediterranean country of Lukano into a brutal war by forcefully occupying one of its neighboring islands. Kidnapping the resistance forces sent to apprehend him and threatening to execute them all, Zott eventually reveals he simply intends to wipe out all of Lukano with a nuclear bomb, laughing he should have done so ages ago.
    • Rescue Mission: Jake Hernandez is a slimy, smug traitor to the Lukano Liberation Army, who turns over his allies to be executed by Zott's dictatorship simply to line his pockets. When his attempt to capture VSSE agent Alicia Winston fails, Jake sics his armed goons onto her in the middle of a populated street, endangering many civilians while Jake personally takes multiple citizens as hostages. Planning to steal one of Zott's nuclear warheads and sell it on the Black Market, Jake reacts to his defeat by trying to set off the nuke in the middle of Zott's base and kill everyone inside.
  • Time Crisis 4: Lieutenant Colonel Gregory Barrows, stymied by the US Army's failure to recognize his achievements in service, decides to destroy the entire country in revenge. Developing a weapon known as "Terror Bites" that devour their victims, Barrows uses the Terror Bites to destroy everything he can, having an entire military base massacred by them and wiping out waves of the National Guard sent to stop him. In the end, Barrows has his men fly out across the USA, intending to have every single major city bombed to rubble to destroy the US.
  • Time Crisis 5: Robert Baxter, a rogue VSSE agent and one of the protagonists of Time Crisis 2, is shockingly revealed to be the mastermind behind the events of 5, having murdered his own ally Christy and framed his longtime friend Keith Martin for it. Intent on erasing the VSSE entirely, Baxter reveals he has possession of a drug that reduces those affected by it to violent, mindless zombies, testing it on dozens and intending to deploy it all over the planet to reset the world and put himself on top.
  • Razing Storm spinoff: Paulo Guerra is a jingoist revolutionary in an unnamed country who pursued a path of terrorism out of disgust for his country and the American influence on it. Guerra has the guards at the penitentiary he's imprisoned at massacred by his forces, and puts himself in a seat of power by kidnapping the President then torturing him into catatonia, having his iris agonizingly scanned to gain access to his country's nuclear codes. Turning his own country into a war-torn hellhole and even trying to provoke the American soldiers into slaughtering his own citizens to frame them in a bad light, Guerra finally reveals his intention to nuke America into oblivion, tying one of the heroes to the missile and even spitefully revealing he wired the detonator inside the man to force his allies to kill him for any chance of stopping the nuke.
• TimeShift: Dr. Aiden Krone is one of the scientists responsible for the creation of high-tech suits, capable of manipulating time itself. Rigging the whole facility to explode, Krone used the Alpha Suit to travel back in time and Take Over the World. Establishing a brutal dictatorship, Krone has anyone who refused to obey his laws executed or thrown in jail, where they are tortured. As his rule leads to the formation of the Occupant Rebellion, Krone sends his troops and machines to massacre them, allowing his soldiers to torture them for fun as well, with the resulting war leaving his own capital in ruins.
• TimeSplitters Future Perfect: Jacob Crow is a founder of the Brotherhood of Ultra Science and the creator of the titular TimeSplitters. Desiring to become immortal, Jacob organized cruel experiments on hundreds of people, turning them in to either mindless mutants or zombies. Learning about Time Crystals and their power, Crow uses them to travel in time, acquire large amount of wealth and power to create his own company, which he uses to breed special race of mutants, TimeSplitters, and uses them as genetic material to turn himself into a grotesque, half-robotic creature who doesn't age. When Sergeant Cortez from the year 2401 travels to the past and tells Jacob that his TimeSplitters drove humanity nearly to extinction, Crow simply laughs it off, saying that TimeSplitters are genetic superiors to humanity and they should annihilate and replace humanity.
• Titanfall 2: General Marder leads the IMC's ARES Division to uncover alien weapons to combat the Frontier Militia. Forcibly taking over the planet Typhoon and experimenting on the native life, Marder also led the attack on Colony G21, massacring numerous colonists while using the survivors as disposable test subjects for the Ark. Marder would use the Ark to activate the Fold Weapon, which he plans to use to destroy any highly populated planets loyal to the Militia, starting with the planet Harmony. Though claiming to be fighting for the betterment of humanity, Marder admits that he places no value on such life, viewing all the millions he has or intends to kill as expendable to bring about his twisted notions of progress.
• Today Is My Birthday: Dr. M. Richards and the unnamed county sheriff are the leaders of an organ harvesting ring. After Dr. Richards, a veterinarian, was fired from his job for abusing and killing animals, he decided to start killing human beings instead. Seeing how much profit could be made by selling organs, the county sheriff teamed up with Dr. Richards, assisting him with kidnapping various civilians and diverting police activity away from their crimes. Together, they hired multiple killers to capture or kill innocents, some of whom were mutilated or raped before perishing. When Thomas finds out about the duo's operation, Thomas takes various photos incriminating them and is nearly killed several times. After Thomas escapes and is saved by the sheriff, the sheriff pretends to lure Thomas to safety, only to drive him back to Dr. Richards's compound to be killed if Thomas refuses to give up his camera.
• Toraware no Shoujo: Jugo is a disgusting abuser in both versions:
  • Caged Girl: Jugo is the perverted father of protagonist Ai who planned on using her for his own desires before she was born. Killing his wife Misaki after using her to give birth to Ai, Jugo imprisoned his daughter in a cage her entire life to keep her from escaping and, under the guise of being a kind father, he goes on to rape Ai multiple times after she innocently asks to marry him when she turned 8. After ripping out the notes in his diary to hide the plans he has for Ai, Jugo goes to the cage to rape his daughter again and goes to get her a gift to keep to make her stay. Killing or imprisoning Ai to rape her if he catches her trying to escape, Jugo proves to be a disgusting man who would use his own family to satisfy his tastes.
  • Bluebird of Happiness remake: Jugo, the same deviant he is in the original, is a seemingly kind man who gave Misae, Ai's mother, a place to stay, only to reveal his true nature by trying to rape Ai when she was 3 and going on to abuse Misae after she called him out. Murdering Misae when she tried to escape with Ai, Jugo poisoned Ai and took perverse pictures of her for years. When she finds out his secret, he tries to kill her, and in the Bad End, rapes her to have another child to start the cycle again.
• Tormented Souls: Father Noah Morissette is the leader of the Pollux Sect. Yearning for a greater purpose in life, Noah willingly joined the Sect after he was unable to sacrifice himself to help resurrect their god. Working alongside the founder, Bertran Wildberger, Noah assisted him with human experimentations and sacrificing various twin children in hopes of bringing about their god so he could reshape the world in his image. When Bertran is unable to sacrifice his own grandchildren, Emma and Anna, and tries to rescue them, Noah has Bertran killed and kidnaps Anna after she tries to escape. He later keeps her locked away in a cell underground until she mutates and loses her sanity, all while continuing his schemes. Upon finding out that Emma was still alive and living under a new name, Caroline Walker, Noah lured her to the Wildberger Hospital so he could use her to unlock the chamber to the Sect's dormant deity. When his plans of kidnapping and sacrificing Caroline fail, he uses his own blood to awaken the deity in an attempt to wreak havoc on the world.
• Torment: Tides of Numenera:
  • The Changing God is a powerful immortal who brought untold torment to the Ninth World by abusing the titular Tides to fuel his eternal life. He was once a normal man who sought a way to live forever to cure his ill daughter and found a way by crafting new bodies and transferring his mind into them using the Tides. This drew the wrath of the Sorrow, the Tide's immune system, and the Changing God would throw away everything that made him human, and even abandoned his daughter to the Sorrow, to preserve his immortality. The castoff bodies he created gained minds of their own and the Changing God used them as nothing more than tools, often leaving them in mortal harm to save his own life. This negligence caused the Endless Battle between him and the castoffs, which he fought with earnest by brainwashing thousands to join his armies and by using the numenera as Weapon of Mass Destruction. His ultimate solution to escape death was to create a device called the Resonance Chamber to infuse the thousands of castoffs he created into his body in a process that left them in constant agony in his mind until their very psyche was shredded into oblivion. In truth their greatest enemy, the Changing God proved to be a worse threat to the castoffs and the Ninth World than the Sorrow itself ever could.
  • The Bloom is an impossibly ancient predator that transcends dimensions to feast on the negative emotions and suffering that it itself propagates. Initially presented as a a mindless organism that devours others at random, the Bloom is ultimately revealed to be a devious monster that will manipulate everyone that lives inside of it to engorge itself on its favorite prey: other predators. The Bloom gifts a powerful individual called the Memovira with control over the maws and tendrils within it to create an environment of desperation and survival in its populace and feeding off the despair, guilt, and anguish that result. The Bloom will eventually tire of the Memovira and devour them before starting the cycle anew. Wishing to be worshiped as a god, the Bloom secretes its juices to mind control a cult into following its every command, and forces them to exterminate anyone who tries to discover its secrets. A truly terrible fate awaits those fully devoured by the Bloom as it drags them to its heart where their shades fight in constant turmoil for the Bloom's amusement while feeding off their hatred and despair until they lose all semblance of who they were and merge with the Bloom itself. The Bloom has been to a hundred thousand worlds and devoured billions to satisfy its never-ending hunger.
• T.R.A.G.: Tactical Rescue Assault Group - Mission of Mercy:
  • Miguel is the leader of a terrorist organization out to acquire a disc that would launch the Garland System Satellite upon the Earth. Hired by Professor Vault, he would later betray the latter by trapping him inside a computer, seeking to use the satellite to rule the world. Invading the Togusa building and allowing his men to murder everyone there, Miguel allows Gasshu to deploy a bomb set to destroy the entire building, murders Professor Howard in a hostage trade for the disc, and sets the satellite to blow up the entire town while he makes an escape.
  • Professor Maverick Vault himself is a prideful scientist who masterminded the terrorist attack in Togusa Building after his ego was bruised, when he was taken out of the Garland Satellite Project due to his bravado killing others. Out of spite, Vault hired Miguel to attack the building and hijack the satellite, but when Miguel betrayed him, Vault decided to instead take control of the satellite himself by trying to trick the special forces to free him before taking Michelle hostage, and if he succeeded, Vault would rain destruction upon the world in a display of power to sate his pride.
• Trails series: While many of the villains in the Trails Series are ultimately sympathetic, genuinely well-intentioned, or can display moments of humanity despite the severity of their actions, some defy the trend by being utterly depraved beyond all humanity or redemption:
  • Trails in the Sky: Georg Weissmann, the primary villain of both FC and SC, masquerades as a seemingly-helpful archaeologist named Professor Alba before revealing himself as a high-ranking member of the secret organization of Ouroboros and the architect of the game's plot. Taking advantage of the Curse of Ishmelga, Weissmann would manipulate nobles influenced by the curse to trigger the Hundred Days War by massacring the village of Hamel, before brainwashing Joshua into becoming a ruthless used to assassinate rivals standing in Weissmann's way. After failing to assassinate Estelle's father Cassius, Weissmann attempted to have Joshua himself killed for his failure. At the end of FC, Weissmann restores Joshua's lost memories just to gleefully observe Joshua going through an emotional trauma. Towards the end of SC, Weissmann seeks the ancient city of Liberl Ark, intending on gaining the godlike power of the Sept-Terrion of Space within to reshape humanity as he sees fit. Manipulating Joshua's mind once again, Weissmann attempts to have him execute Estelle so that he can enjoy seeing Joshua break emotionally.
  • Trails from Zero: Dr. Joachim Guenter, appearing as a kind doctor and professor of the Medical College, is actually one of the last survivors and high-priest of the D∴G, whose stated goal is to find a way to strengthen its abilities to become more than human. Joachim experimented upon and killed hundreds of children as a result, surviving the destruction of the cult, later using his psychic powers to brainwash all consumers of the Gnosis, controlling the entire army of Crossbell, the Mafia and many innocent citizens. He then announces his intent to capture KeA, the child adopted by the SSS whom he describes as a divine being with miraculous powers and actual leader of D∴G, to complete the project. Joachim intends on continuing his experiments to become supreme, even praising fellow monster, Georg Weissmann, as a kindred spirit, being unwilling to stop no matter how many innocent children die in his inhumane experiments.
  • Trails of Cold Steel:
    • Cold Steel III and IV: Black Alberich, the Chief of the Gnomes, is one of Ishmelga's most depraved followers. Granted immortality by Ishmelga centuries past, Alberich would work to ensure Ishmelga's awakening by creating the Originator Zeros as weapons. Emerging in the modern era by possessing the body of Franz Reinford, Alberich would supply technology to Weissmann and various factions across Zemuria, using data gathered from said technology to perfect the OZs. Defecting from Ouroboros following Giliath Osborne's usurpation of the Phantasmal Blaze Plan, Alberich spies on OZ Altina Orion to observe if she can be used to unleash the Great Twilight. When the Gral of Erebos emerges in Heimdallr following Emperor Eugent's assassination, Alberich orders Cedric to kill Altina to produce a weapon capable of slaying the Holy Beast of Earth and unleashing Ishmelga's curse. Following Rean Schwarzer's killing of the Holy Beast of Earth, Alberich would work to make the Great War as horrific as possible by constructing Zauber Soldat machines to spread the curse into unsuspecting pilots, as well as by calling down the Empyreal Fortress upon the start of the war itself to feed on the death and despair below to further amplify Ishmelga's curse.
    • Cold Steel I In-Game Novel Red Moon Rose: Garrard is the true mastermind behind the Vampire Murders. One of the few remaining Elder Vampires, Garrard keeps a low profile by disguising himself as a military officer while going on a mass murder spree every decade to satiate his bloodlust. Years before the events of the novel, Garrard kills a man and his wife who were cooperating with the Vampire Hunter Rose; while he intended to kill their young son Alphonse, circumstances led to Garrard adopting the orphan in order to throw off the trail. When he took in another orphan, Elroy, Garrard treated him slightly worse than Alphonse to make Elroy easily corruptible and obsessed with pleasing Garrard. Shortly after making Elroy a vampire, Garrard sets him on the capital of Heimdallr to drain the blood of dozens of young women and turn them into undead, cannibalistic slaves. When Alphonse and Rose team up and defeat Elroy, Garrard reveals his true colors and kills Elroy, draining his power while emphasizing his love of manipulation and drinking blood.
  • Trails through Daybreak:
    • Gerard Dantès is the leader of the Almata mafia syndicate. Having been born into the D∴G Cult, Gerard steals the Demonic Essence of a young Van Arkride, and proceeds to join and become the leader of Almata in order to enact his plan to become the personification of fear. Gerard proceeds to manipulate a young girl to brainwash a large film festival; turns the bodyguard of a prince into a demon; and nukes a small town despite someone pleading that he spare the town—or at least the children—before threatening to do the same to the far larger town of Oracion if the various parties in the story don't fight each other for his own amusement. Even after death, his evil doesn't end, becoming an immortal and having the capital frozen in time before turning himself into a demon in one final attempt to kill the party. Even when Gerard dies for real, he goes out gloating that his goal of the ultimate fear will be achieved by Van in his stead.
    • Melchior is one of the Wardens of The Garden, and is the second-in-command and The Heavy of Almata. In his status as a Warden and one of the founders of the Garden, Melchior has children kidnapped and trained as assassins. For the sake of Gerard's plan, Melchior murders and turns a Jaeger corps into mindless and bloodthirsty revenants; turns Aaron Wei into the demonic Tycoon; spreads drugs through the tobacco at a film festival; manipulates a professor into trying to create a nuclear bomb; and gives his boss Gerard Dantès the idea to nuke Creil Village and the combat game in Oracion. After Gerard's death, Melchior freezes the capital of Edith in time, and then summons demons to kill all of the people who were unfrozen while also bringing back all of the captured or deceased members of Almata. After turning himself into a demon and losing to Van and company, Melchior dies mocking the party, becoming the only person in this game that Van sees as completely irredeemable.
• Trauma Center (Atlus):
  • Under the Knife: Erich von Raitenau, aka Adam, is the hypocritical Straw Nihilist leader of a terrorist organization who believes medicine is a product of the devil and mankind deserves to be destroyed for rejecting the "gift" of death. In order to do so, he has created artificial parasites called GUILT, all of which are highly contagious and capable of killing their victims in horrible ways all while claiming biblical justification by equating GUILT with the Seven Plagues of Revelation and himself with the "devouring angel" Abbadon (yup, the one with the locusts) while boasting to Derek that he alone will watch as Derek and friends burn in Hell. When Derek and Angie join the raid on Delphi's floating headquarters, they discover Adam has kept seven children (dubbed "Sinners" to go with his deranged ideology) in a nightmarish near-death state as culture grounds for the GUILT.
  • Under the Knife 2: Heinrich von Raitenau is the grandson of Adam, and is just as bad as his grandfather. He shares all the atrocities of the game with fellow Big Bad Patrick Mercer. Having inherited his grandfather's legacy, at an old age himself, Heinrich experiments on and uses children, including his own (whom he doesn’t care if they die), as GUILT hosts, to see if they'll survive. Some die and the lucky ones that don't barely survive. He also manages to give GUILT to another villain, and while Heinrich is ultimately killed by the virus he so precariously used, he managed to give Derek Stiles's nurse Angie Thompson GUILT, giving Derek a Sadistic Choice between her life or Heinrich's children. In the end he was a petty, self-centered scientist who only cared about advancing his own research even at the cost of others.
• Triangle Strategy:
  • Idore Delmira is Hyzante's Minister of Religion who, despite posing as a loyal servant of the Hierophant, is actually Hyzante's true leader and the man responsible for Norzelia's woes. Having lost faith in both the Goddess and humanity during the Saltiron War, Idore decided to replace the dying Hierophant with a puppet powered by Aelfric, an energy made from the corpses of Rosellan slaves, and use it to advance his agenda of subjugating the entire world. Idore continues his predecessors' policy of brutally oppressing and gaslighting the Roselle in order to protect Hyzante's salt monopoly and create more Aelfric from their corpses and, when Sorsley Ende is killed, demands Serenoa hand over his Rosellan refugees in exchange for Ende's seat, with the threat of sending the Hyzantian army if he refuses. Depending on the path House Wolffort takes, Idore will either attempt to slaughter the escaping Roselle before suicide bombing Serenoa upon defeat; use his Vice-Minister Tenebris Mistel as a sacrifice to escape and later start a resistance movement against Serenoa with Roland; succeed in taking over Norzelia and start enslaving dissidents with the Roselle; or reject Serenoa's offer for atonement and blow his palace up with House Wolffort still in it.
  • Sorsley Ende is the corpulent, greedy Minister of Salt. The most corrupt member of the Saintly Seven, Sorsley barely has any loyalty to Hyzante and lines his pockets with an illegal salt trade founded upon the grueling slavery of countless Roselle, even kids. These slaves work under the duress of constant thirst, sometimes to the point of collapse or death; when one innocent slave begs for just one drink, Sorsley heartlessly has him murdered on the spot and implores no mercy toward the other Roselle. A conniving backstabber, Sorsley attempts to rope House Wolffort into delivering his illegal salt for him as a means of controlling them, gleefully planning to throw them under the bus for his own crimes should it come to it.
• Tribes: Vengeance:
  • Olivia, the Evil Aunt of heroine Julia, engineers a great deal of the misery in the game, resulting in the assassination of her own father and the death of her sister Victoria's lover Daniel. Olivia keeps a pointless war between the Tribes and Empire going with many casualties simply to grind the Tribes down further, employing Seti to cause as much damage as possible. At the end, Olivia tries to murder her own niece and stage a "freighter accident" to kill numerous civilians to prolong the bloody war.
  • Seti, leader of the Blood Eagles, is a savage killer who leads military attacks for money, fun and carnage. Killing many, many people and attacking the imperial palace to frame the Phoenix tribe for the bloodshed, Seti also takes several hostages when he faces the Phoenixes and they deduce he plans to murder them regardless of his demands being met. Seti attempts to put Olivia's plan into motion to stage a crash on the imperial world to kill countless citizens, relishing the prospect of the coming war.
• True Crime: Streets of LA: Rasputin "Rocky" Kuznetsov is a former KGB agent who went rogue for his own profits. Rocky floods the streets with drugs, while any who resist him are beaten and killed. Collaborating with a rogue North Korean general, Rocky has numerous people killed, including the father of hero Nick Kang. Rocky also bombs a group of shops to kill numerous people for not paying, later intending to torture and murder Nick to keep his profits.
• Turbo Overkill: Maw is a vicious Bounty Hunter who gradually becomes Johnny Turbo's biggest threat. Originally hired by Teratek to stop Syn and kill Johnny after they deemed him a liability, Maw secretly acquired multiple datasets needed to destroy Syn before betraying Teratek and his allies. After narrowly surviving an encounter with Johnny, Maw recovers and uses newfound powers from the datasets to immediately kill Johnny and destroy his brain. In his quest to gain ultimate power, Maw teamed up with Syn, aiding Syn's goals to destroy the whole universe and eradicate all of humanity. Even after gaining unlimited knowledge and power, Maw sought out to betray Syn too, choosing instead to plunge the whole universe into chaos as opposed to rebuilding the universe in Syn's vision.
• Turok games:
  • Evolution has the Big Bad and The Heavy:
    • Lord Tyrannus, tyrannical Tyrannosaurus and tyrant of the Lost Land, seeks to initiate a full purge to all who would resist his bloody rule. Tyrannus has the Slegs wreak wide swaths of slaughter throughout the Lost Land, appointing the bloodthirsty Tobias Bruckner to his cause to cause even further destruction. Tyrannus's ultimate goal is to topple the city of Galyanna, even unveiling a super weapon called The Juggernaut to utterly destroy it and its populace, seeking nothing less than to cull millions afterwards to assure his grip on the Lost Land.
    • The "Red Snake", Captain Tobias Bruckner, Arch-Enemy of Tal'set, is a murderous, racist Confederate who massacres Tal'set's entire tribe at the beginning of the game, plunged into the Lost Lands after with his arm cut off. Tyrannus refashions Bruckner into a cyborg to give Bruckner the chance to slake his thirst for revenge against Tal'set, leading to the village that takes Tal'set in kidnapped by his forces and set for execution. Bruckner continues to spearhead further bloodshed and tries in earnest to destroy Galyanna, trying to slay Tal'set one last time astride a Tyrannosaurus.
  • Turok (2008 Continuity Reboot): Roland Kane is the leader of Wolf Pack, as well as the Evil Mentor of Joseph Turok in the backstory. Kane's brutal training fashioned his recruits into hardened killers with no hesitations about murdering innocents, proven when Kane accidentally massacres numerous innocents in Columbia—to his complete apathy, vowing to find his target if he has to kill every peasant in the country and blowing out the brains of a young girl Turok accidentally injures. In the present, Kane has sold out his services to the Mendel-Gruman Corporation, turning the toxins produced by the terraformed planet's wildlife into a lethal airborne bioweapon he tests on a facility full of his own men. Greed manifest, Kane intends to sell the toxin as a weapon, all for a quick buck.
• Turtle Head: The titular Turtle Head—named Simon Dale in Unmasked—is the principal's son and a murderous, misogynistic man haunting Smithlane High School. Simon got his start abducting and butchering pets from over 24 families before moving on to human victims. Seeking to win the love of art teacher Marina Lily, Simon abducted a particularly disruptive student of hers, Blair Gardener, and her friend Kay Brown. Imprisoning them in an old, abandoned school building, he would starve and torture them for several months, eventually killing Blair when she tried to escape, then doing the same to Marina when she learned the truth and rejected him. He later murdered custodian Tian Henderson to stop him from investigating his crimes. In the present day, Simon desires to ruin Marina's beloved cousin Harriet as further revenge, and so lures her and her two friends, Emma Hawkins and Mason Camdenburg, to the school at night, tormenting and attempting to kill them repeatedly and potentially succeeding in some endings. In Emma's Story, Simon kidnaps and brutalizes Harriet, throwing her in the school's pool to drown her.
• Twisted Metal franchise:
  • Black: Needles Kane, better known as Sweet Tooth, is a sadistic Serial Killer who lacks his humorous nature from the classic games. Developing a lust for blood after making his first kill with precise skill and no remorse, Sweet Tooth goes on a massive killing spree, murdering his victims, which includes people who were unlucky to have crossed his path, in incredibly gruesome manners. One of these murders includes Axel's wife, in which Sweet Tooth mailed Axel his wife's body, piece by piece. He's also implied to have murdered his father, Charlie Kane, who was trying to keep the latter's son away from him due to his nature. After being cursed by a preacher to suffer pain that grew every day, and then locked up in Blackfield Asylum, he agrees to Calypso's offer of competing in Twisted Metal in exchange for lifting the curse, planning to kill Calypso afterward. After winning the contest, which he took great pleasure in due to all the killing, he is given a vial to lift the curse, but at the price of no longer being able to kill. Choosing to live with the curse rather than giving up killing, he smashes the vial and then proceeds to fatally slash Calypso's throat, before declaring his intentions of becoming the greatest killer of all time.
  • The 2012 reboot gives these two characters Adaptational Villainy:
    • This adaption of Calypso lacks the humor of the original, and is more serious and demonic. Calypso is the creator and host of Twisted Metal, a demolition derby that attracts some of the vilest people with the lure of a wish. This tournament has killed numerous innocent bystanders through its destruction around public places. Calypso completely intended this, loving the carnage and destruction it leaves. He even instigates some of his contestants to participate, manipulating them in situations that would make them desperate enough for a wish. What they don't know is that whatever this wish is, Calypso intends to use it to kill the victim in some way after they finished entertaining him, and then trap their souls in his painting where he enjoys the screams of pain and agony. A sadistic entity, this version of Calypso brutally kills thousands out of entertainment.
    • Dollface, real name Krista Sparks, is a vain and selfish model who, in order to get to the top, sabotages several models on a catwalk and outright murders one of them with a sledgehammer after said model is chosen for a prize photo shoot. After an accident which badly damages her face, and which her doctor was only able to mostly fix after several surgeries—leaving only a small scar on her face—Dollface decapitates him with a chainsaw. Before joining Twisted Metal in order to remove her mask and become beautiful again, she gained several mooks with the same thinking as her, and when one of her mooks asks Dollface if most of them will get their wishes, Dollface shoots her.
• Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 3: Night of the Quinkan: The Quinking is the leader of the Quinkan with an contempt for all life, which he desires to kill or enslave. Prior to the events of the game, he has his forces invade the Dreaming, seeking to conquer it and kill all of the Bunyips. After being summoned to Southern Rivers by Boss Cass, he forces Cass to become his slave before sending his forces to invade Southern Rivers, destroying Buramudgee and turning the rest of the land into a hellish war zone in the process, so he can have them prepare for his arrival so he can destroy all life and enslave any survivors. When Ty returns and helps Bush Rescue fight back against the Quinkan, he attempts to have Hexaquin kill Ty. When this fails, he has his forces kidnap Shazza to use her as bait for Ty so the Dragonquin can kill him. After Ty acquires the Shadowrang and prepares to assault the Quinkan homeworld, he sends his forces to stop him, nearly killing Ty's friends in the process.
• Tyranny: The Voices of Nerat, or simply "Nerat", is the Archon of Secrets who commands the Scarlet Chorus, one of the main armies of Kyros the Overlord. Under Nerat's direction, the Chorus engages in a campaign of murder, torture, and rape. The Chorus's favorite method of recruitment is the Culling, where captive villagers are forced to fight their families to the death for the right to live and join the Chorus. Nerat uses the power to steal the minds of those he tortures to Mind Rape his victims, leaving them in a state of an eternal agony. If the Fatebinder chooses to work with Nerat, Nerat will order them to bring certain people to him and when the Fatebinder does so, he has them impaled on a spike, subjecting them to his mind rape. If the Fatebinder continues working with Nerat in the endgame, Nerat will reward the Fatebinder's loyalty by attempting to steal the Fatebinder's mind.

U - Z

• Ubersoldier duology: Dr. Ernst Schaeffer, the head of the Annenerbe who leads the Ubersoldier project, Schaeffer spearheads the Ubersoldier legion—many created by experimenting with captured prisoners leading to painful deaths—and intends to usurp leadership from Nazi Germany with his private Ubersoldier army. Seemingly killed in the first game, Schaeffer returns in the sequel, converting the heroic resistance leader Dietrich into the Ubersoldier's new leader and discreetly commands them from his secret Tibetan lab. Schaeffer orders the Ubersoldiers to rampage across Europe, including executing a lab filled with German scientists affiliated with the first Ubersoldier project for being no longer useful to him, and discreetly develops anthrax warheads to further kill millions across Europe and establish his dominance over the world.
• Uncharted series:
  • Golden Abyss (first chronologically): Roberto Guerro is an overthrown dictator from Panama who refuses to move on from his former seat of power, seeking to gather enough resources to launch a hostile war against his dissenters and retake his position as ruler. An utter madman who subjects prisoners to torture and doesn't hesitate to murder his own men for the slightest errors, Guerro amasses more riches by kidnapping and ransoming men, women and children alike, murdering any of them whose ransoms are not paid. Guerro plans to find the treasure of the Golden Abyss and use it to fund his warmongering, completely aware and uncaring that the gold is radioactive and could kill countless people once he floods the marketplaces of the world with it.
  • Among Thieves: Zoran Lazarević is a Serbian war criminal responsible for mass murder and torture across the globe, and is working to find Shambhala throughout the game. Invading a Nepalese city currently engulfed in a civil war, Lazarević begins tearing the city apart and killing anyone in his way while looking for clues to Shambhala's location. Lazarević introduces himself to Nathan Drake by killing one of his wounded friends, then trying to do the same to him. Pursued by Drake into the mountains of Nepal, Lazarević leads an attack on a defenseless village in an effort to kill him, murdering numerous innocents in the process. Shooting one of his own soldiers after Nate tried to use the man as a hostage, Lazarević takes Drake's love interests as hostages to force him to find a way into Shambhala, where Zoran plans to use its power to make him and his army invincible, then Take Over the World. When beaten, Lazarević tries to force Drake to kill him and embrace his merciless outlook on the world. Viewing leaders like Hitler, Stalin, Genghis Khan, and Pol Pot as "great men," Zoran Lazarević made his mark as the most evil villain Nathan Drake ever encountered.
  • A Thief's End: Henry Avery was an apparently beloved, charming swashbuckler whose mysterious status as one of the richest pirates to ever exist plagued the sibling Drake treasure hunters for decades. However, as Nathan and his brother Sam discover the truth, Avery is revealed to have been a narcissistic, paranoid psychopath concerned with nothing more than his own greed and power. After spending years plaguing the seas with his pirating, Avery founded "Libertalia" as a supposed safe haven for pirates across the globe, able to be found only by braving lethal traps of Avery's own design. In actuality, Avery uses Libertalia to enslave the hundreds of colonists who accepted his invitation to live in peace there, subjecting the populace to brutal labor and imprisonment while robbing them. Avery would take to torturing, mutilating, and slaughtering hundreds of those under his heel, displaying their corpses as warnings to others or trophies for his own sick pleasure, before eventually betraying and poisoning his fellow "Founders". Avery then floods a vast swathe of Libertalia and intends to abandon the remaining populace and his own right-hand to die on the island while he escapes with his accumulated riches, believing that "as a man of fortune", it was his right to possess the greatest loot in pirate history.
  • The Lost Legacy: Asav is the leader of an Indian insurgency war group bent on destabilizing the current government of India and instituting his own rule. Waging a years-long war against the Indian government, dragging several cities into his conflict and turning one into a war-torn cesspool he lords over, Asav kidnaps the treasure hunter Sam Drake to assist him in searching for the legendary Tusk of Ganesh under threat of death. Once capturing Chloe Frazer and Nadine Ross, Asav forces the former to retrieve the Tusk for her lest he torture Nadine and Sam to death in front of her, after which he leaves the trio to drown anyway. Asav ultimately trades the Tusk of Ganesh for a warhead he intends to detonate in a populated marketplace, killing thousands of innocents, to instigate a civil war where he will finally "cleanse" his land of "half-bloods" and "peasants". Though claiming he has the ruthless blood of the old kings in him and is doing what his gods would think right, Asav completely ignores said gods and ancestors' true honor and peaceable nature, instead using his belief system as the catalyst for an ethnic cleansing of all those he deems unworthy of his rule.
• Undercurrent: Mr. Moray is the head of development at Undercurrent Incorporated, who led the development of an unknown virus in an undersea lab. Known for his bad temper, Moray made several of his own co-workers into subjects for his experiments for little more than irritating him. Eventually injecting himself with the unfinished virus, Moray turned himself into a superhumanly strong zombie and slaughtered all of the staff in the lab, afterwards experimenting on their corpses and turning them into blobs of meat.
• Unicorn Overlord: Baltro is responsible for most of the troubles in the game by being the one who killed the Unicorn in a rite thousands of years ago, causing its curse to wipe out the ancient Zenoirans and leave their souls unable to proceed to the afterlife. Not content with this, Baltro manipulates Galerius into opening the Gate to the Beyond, intending to use the ancient Zenoiran souls as fuel for his own magic, and he disposes of Galerius the moment the latter accomplishes this. Throughout the game, Baltro commits atrocity after atrocity, such as creating the plague that ravages Cornia and Drakenhold; raising the dead of Elheim to fight against their kin; performing inhumane experiments on the bestrals; and turning Pontifex Arant into a zombie, which forced Sanatio to maintain a conspiracy to keep the Orthodoxy from collapsing. Baltro also developed the spell that allowed the Zenoiran souls to possess people and used it on several noble characters throughout the story, including Hodrick, Renault, Gloucester, Magellan, Berengaria, Railanor, and even Queen Ilenia herself.
• Unreal Tournament III's story mode: Necris High Inquisitor Akasha commands both the Necris and the Krall in a campaign to impose her invulnerability upon the universe. Described as one who "slaughters civilians for a living", Akasha led the Twin Souls massacre that killed the friends and family of Reaper and his sister, Jester. Orchestrating more bloodshed that carved horrific swathes through Taryd, Reaper eventually corners Akasha in her chambers on Omicron 6. In the ensuing firefight for the fate of the universe, she mocks him about the ease with which she murdered his family. Ruthless and bloodthirsty, Akasha caused far more damage in the war than any other faction.
• Unseen Trace (link): Robert, the cemetery groundskeeper, is in reality a twisted Serial Killer. Having killed at least 8 people and raped their corpses before the events of the game, Robert lured Anne to his shed, where he locked her up, planning to murder her as well. Revealed to have recorded his victims before their deaths, Robert tries to capture Anne before she escaped.
• Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom: The Priestess is a woman from another dimension with magical powers fueled by human suffering. After being summoned by the King of Dureth, Halaskar, to his own dimension, the Priestess kickstarts her plan by corrupting the king and turning Dureth into a Hell on Earth, basking in the agony of the innocent civilians and ordering the king to build gigantic torture devices known as the Sites of Anguish. When she finds out about the rebellion caused by the king's former knights known as the Dragon's Shade, the Priestess manipulates one of their members into betraying the order and killing their comrades.
• Urban Chaos: Mack Bane is a politician who serves as the leader of the Wildcats. Running for mayor of Union City, he allows the Wildcats to cause havoc, execute hostages, and bomb parts of the city. Secretly an ancient warlock out to fulfill a prophecy, Bane attempts to launch nukes onto Union City and kill everyone there, and once that fails, he unleashes the Baalrog on the city and kidnaps several citizens to be used in his ritual, preparing to create a Hell on Earth and rule over what's left.
• Utawarerumono: Niwe is The Emperor of the powerful nation of Shikeripechim, composed of various groups united under the threat of political terrorism. Upon learning of Hakuowlo's true identity, Niwe declares war upon the land of Tuskur. After his invasion was thwarted by Hakuowlo, Niwe, along with Dii, tricked Orikakan, the Emperor of Kucca Kecca, into believing that Hakuowlo was his traitorous brother-in-law, leading to Kucca Kecca declaring war on Tuskur and causing the death of the villagers of Yamayura—the surrogate family of Hakuowlo, Eruruu, and Aruruu. Upon learning the truth, Niwe had Orikakan assassinated, leaving the nation of Kucca Kecca in ruins. When Niwe begins invading Tuskur once more, he has his army burn villages and slaughter countless innocents to further enrage Hakuowlo over the needless death of innocents. During the final clash against Hakuowlo, Niwe would go so far as to burn his capital city to the ground, killing many of his own citizens, all to fuel the hatred within Hakuowlo to the point where he transformed into his monstrous god form. Even in his last moments Niwe goads Hakuowlo into killing him, citing that one must be the predator and one must be the prey.
• Valis II (Mugen Senshi Valis II version): Cruel King Megas is the even eviler brother of the first game's villain, Lord Rogles. An uncontrollable nightmare who lives "solely to unleash mayhem, destruction, and death on everyone and everything", Megas started off his lifelong killing spree by massacring his entire family. Sparing neither the women nor the children, Megas tore his siblings apart, cannibalised his own mother, and was only stopped when his father sacrificed himself to seal Megas away. Unsealed later by a group of demons who wish to use his power to defeat Rogles' loyalists, Megas repays these demons with slavery and death; in a single night, the Cruel King conquers the realm of Vecanti and turns it into a living hell, gruesomely executing all of Rogles' loyalists. Even sycophancy isn't enough to keep Megas from killing his subjects. Megas seeks to conquer the other two realms to reduce all reality to a hellscape he will rule over, and to break the will of the heroine Yuuko Asou, Megas kidnaps her mother Valia and tortures her, promising to spare her life only if Yuuko strips and submits to him. When Yuuko surrenders, Megas murders Valia anyway.
• Valkyria Chronicles series:
  • First game: Captain Giorgios Geld is a vicious Imperial war criminal renowned for his unparalleled cruelty and fetish for human suffering. Having previously served time for atrocities in the First European War, which includes torture against civilians, Geld is drafted into Prince Maximillian's independent invasion of Gallia. Geld, wasting no time misusing his authority, is discovered by Captain Eleanor Varrot torturing Gallian civilians for fun in a remote settlement. After being detained and placed at the mercy of a wrathful Varrot, whose lover he once tortured to death, Geld begs for his life and is reluctantly spared in a prisoner exchange after she is convinced to not become a monster like him. Geld's cruelty is such that he disgusts all his fellow Imperials, with an enraged Maximillian ultimately sentencing him to death upon his return.
  • Valkyria Chronicles III: During the Second Europan War, these two dastardly schemers have ambitions to prolong the war in order to gain more power and complete control:
    • Major General Carl Eisler is a poisonous snake manipulating his nation to protect him and his ambitions no matter the sacrifice. When Eisler became paranoid that his subordinate Kurt Irving found out Eisler's collaboration with Borgia to control both nations, Eisler had Kurt sent to the Nameless, a squadron he formed consisting of those in Death Row even for the pettiest crimes, sent to do the most dangerous missions even if it means absolute death, in hopes Kurt would get killed. When Kurt manages to accomplish his task with no casualties, Eisler began using the Nameless to his advantage, with orders to commit war crimes to prolong the war, before trying to dispose them by framing them for treason after becoming fearful of their capabilities. When his deception is discovered by Ramsey, Eisler sends men to dispose of him and the Nameless once and for all, even putting the capital under Martial Law as a last resort to stop them from reaching the military tribunal to expose him.
    • Cardinal Gennaro Borgia is a renowned peace advocate and leader of the Yggdist Church, but behind his words is a zealot who only cares for complete conquest. Gaining influence in the Empire, Borgia plans to take leadership of his nation, allying with Eisler to prolong the war with the help of Dahau and Calamity Raven, a group he formed by exploiting their wish for independence to carry out missions to keep the war going, even if it kills many of his followers. When he found out the Nameless has a Valkyria whose presence can destroy his teachings, Borgia ordered his associates to annihilate them at once, all the while having Calamity Raven continue out his missions, including an invasion of Gallia's capital in a ploy to get Eisler more power. When Eisler ends up getting caught, Borgia, fearful he might talk, then has Calamity Raven launch a full scale invasion of the capital to silence him, even sending the war tank Echidna to completely eradicate the city. Borgia, upon learning Eisler met his demise and believing he was able to salvage his position, began his final plan to use Valkyria's Hammer as a weapon to achieve global domination, trying to once again manipulate Calamity Raven to work for him.
  • Valkyria Chronicles 4: Heinrich Belger is the commander of X-0 and a cruel man obsessed with the power of Ragnite and Valkyria. Formally Albert Miller's partner and friend, when Miller stopped his research after realizing how dangerous it was, Belger had him and his family killed and stole his research to continue it. Becoming a member of the Empire, Belger continued his research, experimenting on soldiers with stimulants and "reconditioning" for years and allowing the Empire to use it before forming X-0 to observe the Valkyria both from his and the federation sides. Awed at the destructive potential of the Valkyria and Ragnite, Belger intends to steal the Centurion to satisfy his curiosity and commits war crimes to do so, even turning Chiara and Nikola into broken suicide bombers. When the ceasefire was declared, Belger used this chance to steal the Centurion with the intent of having it explode near the capital for data and eliminating his enemies so he could continue after the war.
• Valkyrie Profile series:
  • Loki is responsible for a vast amount of misfortune by playing the Aesir and Vanir against one another. Murdering Lenneth's beloved to steal the Dragon Orb from the Aesir, Loki confronts the Vanir's leader Surt and promptly murders him with the Orb. Loki then attacks Odin himself, revealing how badly he's played him, before annihilating him and all of Valhalla. When confronted by Lenneth, Loki declares his true intention to reduce everything that exists to nothingness, and promptly annihilates Asgard, Midgard and every living soul within.
  • Lezard Valeth is the heroine's Stalker with a Crush with a twisted, self-absorbed idea of love. In order to lure Lenneth Valkyrie to him, Lezard seeks out his former magic teacher and turns her husband into a monster so he murders her, gloating that at least they have a "lifetime of love" behind them to have enjoyed. Pursuing Lezard, Lenneth discovers a factory he's created of Homunculus, kidnapping beings and experimenting on them to remove their souls and create his supply. After this, he promptly kills someone who was closing in on his secrets by freezing her body when she's astral projecting, trapping her spirit outside. In the second game, Lezard manipulates all of time, devours Odin himself and rips out Lenneth's soul to fuse it with his own and remake the world in his own image as the supreme creator.
• Vampyr (2018): The Red Queen, once worshipped as the Morrigan by the Celts, is a horrific entity hellbent on making humanity suffer and die. In various intervals, she awakens to bring down destruction and death by using a woman as a willing, despairing host to punish the world, forcing her son Myrddin to sire a noble soul into a vampire to stop her. In Victorian London, the Red Queen calls down a horrific plague, killing countless innocents and turning others into blood-drinking, flesh-eating monsters with intentions of forcing humans to suffer worse in indescribable agony once she awakens. Even upon defeat, she promises to return again and bring more suffering on Earth, being only amused at Myrddin's attempts to stop her.
• Vanquish: Victor Zaitsev, a key member of the Order of the Russian Star, begins the game by hijacking an American Kill Sat and destroying San Francisco, its population agonizingly boiling and exploding from the microwave radiation. He then threatens to do the same to New York in ten hours if the USA does not unconditionally surrender. Revealing to Sam Gideon that President Elizabeth Winters backed their coup, he tries to justify his actions by saying that she wanted war with Russia to stimulate the USA's flagging economy and that the Order was her pretext. The fact that the Order was already a military dictatorship and the fact that he targeted civilian cities rather than the military make this a weak excuse and show he's just trying to play the victim. After his apparent defeat, he triggers a nuke to destroy the satellite. Evading capture and crippling America, Zaitsev proudly proclaims his mission was accomplished. Calm, smug, condescending and with a constant satisfied smile even as he commits hideous mass murder, Victor Zaitsev stood out in the game's sci-fi world.
• Velvet Assassin: Colonel Alfred Kamm is the leader of the Dirlewanger Brigade during World War II, overseeing the executions and mass slaughter of civilian populations without any remorse. Introduced ordering the Brigade to burn down a French village before he's shot in the face by heroine Violette Summer, Kamm survives his assassination attempt and tracks down Violette's whereabouts, leading his soldiers in wiping out the resistance Violette is allied with before having civilians rounded up in a local church, which he then sets fire to and burns to the ground.
• Vexx: Dark Yabu and his Shadowraiths once invaded the planet of Astara, being repealed after a arduous battle with the resistance warriors. He returns 700 years later and this time enslaves the people of the Overwood village to work in the mines. Yabu kills the village guardian Vargas when he rises against him and keeps his soul trapped in an amulet, where he would feed on the old man's despair until he no longer existed. Later in the game, it is revealed that he is Darby, the seemingly-kind old man who helped Vexx on his quest; Yabu deceived Vexx so he would open the portal to the worlds to him. As Yabu overpowers Vexx and the last of the Astani, Reia, he reveals to them his ultimate plan: devouring the entire planet. Even after his defeat by Vexx, he vows that his hate would keep him active. Even though the game is not a lighthearted one, Yabu still stands out as an intimidating and unusually cruel creature.
• Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense: Lord Clyde is the new leader of the Coyotes and the CEO of the oil conglomerate known as OMAR. Formerly known as Vigilante Slick Clyde, Clyde defected from the Vigilantes and attempted to reunite the Coyotes after they disbanded. When this failed, he started working for OMAR, where he conducted dozens of illegal deals, bought up or destroyed rival oil companies, created cybernetic assassins from unwilling human test subjects, and even eliminated many of his competitors. Despite inevitably taking over most of the world and turning it into a polluted wasteland, Lord Clyde sought out to destroy America as well. Traveling back in time with his two loyal assistants, Lord Clyde killed Vigilante leader Convoy and hired multiple mercenaries to destroy various oil and nuclear installations across America.
• Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea's original version: Sal/Syakesan is an albino salmon shark masquerading as a friendly dolphin under Princess Uomihime's court. As the Ambassador of the Sea of Death, Sal conspires to release Princess Mikotsuhime, the result of which would plunge the sea into death and madness. In the past, Sal steals the sacred sword whilst sexually assaulting Wadanohara in an attempt to extract information from her. When Samekichi—Wadanohara's familiar as well as Sal's twin brother—defeats him, Sal gleefully removes Wadanohara's memories before incriminating Samekichi as the traitor. Sal also orchestrated the war between the Sea Kingdom and the Totsusa Kingdom by sending an inflammatory letter to Princess Totsusahime. While he claims to have genuinely loved Wadanohara, he doesn't hesitate to stab her with the sacred sword and leave her for dead when she rejects his advances. A psychopathic sadomasochist, Sal darkens the mood of an otherwise light-hearted game.
• Wandersong: Audrey Redheart, despite initially seeming heroic, is in fact only concerned with her self-image. In her Establishing Character Moment, she strikes The Bard with her lightning sword, while yelling at him about how she's the only deserving hero. She continues killing Overseers throughout the game; even after being told she'll end the world doing that, she cares more about the fact that she was never told more than that she's ending the world. Even when the Bard has to help her to continue, she only considers him one of her "flunkies", and when things go awry, she instantly attempts to chase him down. When she gets trapped in a cave-in with the Bard, she pretends to bond with him and "promises" not to kill Overseers; as soon as she gets the opportunity, she offs one in front of the Bard while he was in the process of comforting it, knowing now that there was a way to get through to them and stop their corruption. When she meets the final Overseer, she describes it as a "final boss fight", showing how little she really thinks of the situation. She's defeated and the Bard attempts to redeem her, but it's all for nothing, as she still rants about how she's the Hero and she's meant to be the one to "save" everyone.
• Warframe:
  • Nef Anyo is a Corpus plutocrat who rules over the Fortuna colony on Venus, where residents are held in debt bondage and forced into slave labor. Defined by his boundless greed, Nef regularly commits massive human rights violations for the sake of profit. These include ordering the abduction of Myconian children in order to exploit the anti-Infestation abilities one of them possesses; forcing his workers to activate an Orokin terraforming tower while ignoring their protests that this risked causing an environmental calamity; and using Fortuna colonists as guinea pigs in his experiments to access the Granum Void, unconcerned that they may be killed or stranded in a parallel universe. Those who fail Nef are punished via repossession of limbs and organs, possibly leading to brain-shelving: being reduced to a Brain in a Jar that's kept alive but deprived of sensory input. When the Orokin terraforming tower plan failed, Nef punished Eudico by forcing her to select 50 of her workers to be brain-shelved. During "The Deadlock Protocol", Nef formed a brief alliance with Solaris United and the Tenno, only to break it off when his fleet risks being captured by the Granum Specters and leave his temporary allies to die once he's fled to safety.
  • Ballas is an Orokin Executor who was responsible for the creation of the Warframes during the war against the Sentients. Growing jealous when his lover Margulis adopted the Tenno children, as he couldn't bear the thought of her caring for anyone else, Ballas voted for her execution out of spite before defecting to the Sentients' side. When a Dax soldier learned of his betrayal, Ballas silenced him by turning him into Excalibur Umbra and forcing him to kill his own son, sadistically taunting him by describing his impending fate during the process, and wiped all of his other memories so he would be forced to relive this trauma constantly for centuries. Choosing the Lotus as a Replacement Goldfish for Margulis, Ballas drains her power, then uses Narmer Veils to enslave nearly all of the Origin System's population. Ballas then tries to escape to the Tau System using the Sentient Mothership Praghasa, which would consume the Sun as fuel, dooming all life in the Origin System. After obtaining an Archon Shard which lets him control the Lotus, Ballas attempts to force the latter to kill the Tenno who she views as her children.
  • Nihil, also known as the Glassmaker, was once an Orokin Executor known for his love of the punishment known as "glassing", which he would sentence people to for even the slightest transgression; said punishment consists of forcibly turning a person into an immortal Cephalon who is then either brainwashed into servitude, or sealed inside a tiny glass "oubliette" for eternity. Nihil especially favored the latter of these two outcomes, having created enough oubliettes to fill a hall which he would often visit in order to listen to the screams of the condemned. During the fall of the Orokin Empire, Nihil inflicted this fate upon himself in order to escape death at the hands of the Tenno, until he was freed centuries later by a Corpus technician who was then glassed, alongside three other victims. When the Tenno and Nora Night work together to uncover the culprit behind these incidents, Nihil goes after Nora, threatening to Mind Rape her into serving him, then glass enough people to once again fill his halls with screaming prisoners.
  • The Philanthropist presents himself as a kind, charitable man, eschewing the Corpus values of greed and profit, but in truth is a Mad Scientist who wishes to create a weapon more powerful than the Warframes. The Philanthropist searches the Origin System for orphaned children, who he adopts and cares for. This care is but a ploy to earn their trust and indoctrinate them into his cult, and when his children come of age, they are taken to undergo the "Ascension Day" ritual. This involves being forcibly merged into the Infested monstrosity known as the Leviathan, leaving victims still aware but helpless to do anything. When Aria, who was to be the last part of the Leviathan, resisted and summoned the Warframe Styanax to help her, the Philanthropist took control of the Leviathan in order to destroy the Warframe, leading to a fight that ended with Styanax being forced to inflict a Mercy Kill on the Leviathan's components.
• The Warriors: Luther is expanded upon in the game, taking his manipulative sadism to new heights. The volatile leader of the Rogues who subjects his gang to abuse and threats, Luther goes so far as to throw away the lives of two of his goons because they annoyed him. After murdering a cop simply because Luther wanted his gun, Luther frames the killing on other gangs to bring Police Brutality down on the neighborhood and get many people savaged. Luther kicks off the main plot by pointlessly killing beloved gang leader Cyrus and framing the Warriors for it, resulting in the gang's members being slowly killed off one by one in a single night. When he gets tired of the chase, Luther challenges the Warriors to come out and play in a fair fist fight, only to pull a gun and try to shoot them all dead when he begins to lose. When confronted on his motives, Luther cruelly snarks "No reason, I just like doing things like that!"
• Warriors Orochi 4's original version: Odin is a ruthless god who is terrified of dying ever since he survived Ragnarok. Lured into Zeus's new world with an attempt to dominate it, Odin starts a war and tricks Ares into murdering his own father Zeus, slowly gaining more power with the intention of using the world tree Yggdrasil. Odin's intention is to conquer everything in the realms by exterminating all life to leave himself the one being left, gleefully trying to destroy the heroes and their armies so he can reign supreme as the one master of all existence.
• Warzone 2100: NEXUS, Dr. Allan Reed, is a rogue scientist who managed to transfer his consciousness into cyberspace, becoming a highly advanced, intelligent Computer Virus. After this successful Brain Uploading, NEXUS infiltrated the military system and triggered the Collapse—global nuclear conflict—by sabotaging NASDA anti-missile satellites and launching nuclear missiles at every major city on Earth. After a while, NEXUS created his own cybernetic faction with the ambition of cleansing any surviving pockets of civilization who would stand against his own "cybernetic future" and shaping the new world in his own image. NEXUS makes several attempts to use weapons of mass destruction against the Project, a faction dedicated to rebuilding civilization from its ashes, twice nuking their bases. During his second nuclear attack he orders his allies from the Collective to stop the player's forces from withdrawal, sending them to their deaths as a reward for their service.
• Watch_Dogs series:
  • First game: Dermot "Lucky" Quinn is the leader of the Chicago South Club, a syndicate involved in Human Trafficking, drug dealing, and cybercrime. Lucky orchestrates the affair between Rose Washington and Mayor Donovan Rushmore, and manipulates the Mayor into killing Rose so he can blackmail him for power. When Lucky notices hacker Aiden Pearce and believes him to be after his blackmail material, Lucky orders Maurice to kill him, which ends with the attempt failing and Maurice accidentally killing Aiden's niece, much to Lucky's apathy and responds to Maurice's failure by kidnapping his wife and selling her as a Sex Slave. Lucky would personally kill a fugitive Aiden delivers after an operation goes south, and later orders a hit on Clara Lille when he's made aware of her working against him. Upon dying, he declares that Chicago will build a statue of him while never knowing his criminal nature, and mocks Aiden that no one stopped for his grieving family because they don't matter.
  • Legion:
    • "Bloody" Mary Kelley is the head of Clan Kelley, a massive crime syndicate involved in Human Trafficking, organ harvesting, gunrunning, and drug trafficking. Inheriting the Clan after the death of her father, Mary has her rivals, family, and friends killed to ensure her control. Mary would go on to make her money through kidnapping illegal immigrants to either harvest their organs or sell them into slave labor, keeping some around as regularly abused servants. Supplying Albion and Zero Day with explosives in return for becoming The Queenpin of London's criminal empire, unmoved by the thousands of deaths the two cause with her bombs, Mary would have several gangs killed by Albion to retain her power, using prisoners in Nigel Cass's prison camps for their organs. Mary later kills several renegade servants once an uprising occurs, hoping to get a light sentencing from Inspector Kaitlin Lau for all the crimes she's committed.
    • Skye Larsen, the "Queen of AI" and billionaire CEO of Broch Tech, first discovers the ability to convert one's mind into an AI after experimenting on her epileptic brother Bradley and selling him to Blume, ruining his life and erasing most of his human memories, rendering him brain dead. Seemingly helping Wrench revive Aiden Pearce in Bloodlines, Skye reveals her plans to have Aiden be her first test subject for an experimental trial, having Aiden's nephew, Jackson, use the BrocaBridge to enter Aiden's mind, indifferent whether Aiden and Jackson should die in the process. Skye would also transplant her mother's subconscious into an AI, turning her into a fully aware yet submissive slave, while also transplanting her dog's mind into a Spiderbot. She performed similar experiments on several people, driving them into murderous insanity. Aware that she's dying, Skye plans to use her new operating system, Daybreak, to upload her mind and all of London's citizens into it to become immortal, uncaring that she'll be torturing thousands in the process.
• We Happy Few: Dr. Anton Verloc is the creator of the happiness-inducing "Joy" drug. Abusing his subordinates during Joy's creation process, Verloc uses his coworker as a guinea pig and synthesizes the Joy by testing a purposefully bad batch on civilians, mutating them with a horrible plague. Also disposing of the bad batches in the river, when the residents of Wellington Wells complain about the contamination, Verloc resorts to lobotomizing the residents, leaving them completely euphoric and docile to his crimes.
• Weird Park trilogy: Mr. Dudley, in reality the Trickster God Loki, traveled around the world to cause chaos, trapping one performer named David Wood in the theater for a minor insult, forcing him to try to figure out his true name, mentally torturing him for two weeks before killing him. After being trapped in a magic disk, which was bought by the clown Louis Gauche, Loki managed to get free, when Louis died during his performance. Taking Louis's soul and corrupting it, Loki creates his own dimension and leads Louis on a killing spree of several people at Fairy Gate Park, before they turned higher ups into dolls. Sealed away once again, Loki has Louis kidnap a dozen of children, whom they transform into dolls and use as their playthings. After being defeated once again, Loki decided to create an army of evil toys and attack the audience of Fairy Gate Park. When Louis gets free of his control and became friends with a child named Patrick, Loki imprisoned Louis and puts Patrick in a magic roundabout to slowly turn him into a doll.
• Welcome to the Game series:
  • First game & The Waiting Room DLC: The Executioner is the sole runner of the Red Room, who kidnaps and tortures innocent people for the entertainment of The Deep Web watchers, with his dungeon filled with medical and acid equipment as well as tapes of his crimes. Taunting his victims and laughing at their suffering while acting as an entertainer to the sick livestream watchers, the Executioner shows himself to be one of the most depraved people on the Deep Web.
  • First & second games: The Doll Maker is a surgeon hosting a website on the Deep Web to sell his products. Buying poor women from halfway houses, the Doll Maker takes them to his clinic and transforms them into "easily manageable toys", amputating their arms and legs in the process. After the transformation, the Doll Maker psychologically tortures them until they accept their new lives, keeping two "living dolls" for himself. The women who suffered this fate are completely aware of what is happening to them, but are unable to move or speak. In the sequel, the Doll Maker "improved" his methods so his victims would last longer and be more obedient. Tracking Clint Edwards after he visits his website, the Doll Maker leaves a living doll with signs of abuse in front of his door and shuts off his energy, then puts a knife against this throat and politely tells him that he hopes Clint enjoyed what he had seen, before threatening to kill him if he doesn't give him a woman from his own apartment complex to be his next victim.
• The Well Speaks To Me series:
  • They Watch From The Walls: Mr. Pumpkin is a creepy man with a pumpkin mask, who lures children to his Haunted House, forcing them to play through his nightmarish "games" and observing them, to "punish cheaters". Children are often badly wounded or killed during his games, and the survivors are captured, ready to be sold to anyone who pays. Having several people vivisected and mutilated in one of his rooms, Mr. Pumpkin imprisoned his latest victim, protagonist Carrie, revealing to her his scheme and showing her that he left one of the children to bleed to death as a "punishment for cheating".
  • Like Veins Beneath The Town: The Suturer is a demon-worshipping human who desires to transcend humanity and become a demon himself. To this end, the Suturer abducts the women of Ishinakku Village and bludgeons them to death, offering their fresh corpses as sacrifices to the Forest. The Suturer also removes parts of their bodies to attach to his own and uses more to create twisted dolls, believing himself to be creating art. Having already done this to 22 women, when protagonist Dr. Jesse Thornheart comes to apprehend him, the Suturer tries to kill Jesse and turn him into another sacrifice.
• WET: Rupert Pelham is the leader of Tiger Claw, a drug organization which sells the brutal drug Dragon Breath. Forming Tiger Claw to distribute his drugs internationally, Rupert uses his organization’s power and fortune to control half of Hong Kong, allowing corrupt cops and criminals to roam the streets. Wanting less competition, he plans to kill William and Trevor Ackers, leaders of the Ackers syndicate. Posing as William Ackers, he hires Rubi Malone to bring him Trevor. After Rubi brings Trevor to him, he orders Tarantula to decapitate him and has Ze Kollektor stab Rubi, leaving her for dead. Finding out that Rubi is after him, he has his goons kidnap Ming to fatally torture him for her location. Making Zhi knock Rubi out for him, Rupert has his men electrocute her for information. Breaking into William’s mansion, he has Tarantula kill his bodyguards before trying to kill him. Interrupted by Rubi’s arrival, Rupert orders Tarantula to kill her, not caring when she’s killed, immediately attempting to gun Rubi down himself.
• What Lies In The Fog: The nameless demon is the servant of the Fog, who leads it to feed on innocent people. Taking the form of a pastor and having the Fog surround the town he was in, leading to the brutal death of at least two people, the demon orders the protagonist to find and gather all remaining people of the town in his church, one of whom is a little girl, so he could trap them and offer them to the Fog as food. Succeeding in one of the endings, the demon gleefully feeds them to his master, before burning down the church.
• Whiskers:
  • Mr. Whiskers is a twisted lunatic and the source of all the troubles in the game. Committing a mass murder in a village, Mr. Whiskers forces the survivors and people he kidnapped all around the world into a game where he sadistically watches as they struggle to survive. When two of his victims, William Johnson and Wally MacGrath, attempt to escape with a boat, Mr. Whiskers kills them at the last second to take away their hope, sadistically stating how his game can never be won.
  • Winston DePorte was a maniac even before being kidnapped by Mr. Whiskers and thus decided to willingly join him. Winston proceeded to turn himself into a mutilated boar-like creature, "the Boarman", due to his hatred towards humanity and convinced that this would give him the courage to eat human meat. The Boarman became the most direct threat in Mr. Whiskers' game, sewing animal masks on people's faces and hunting the survivors down, forcing them to hide in the sewers.
• Who's Lila?: Lila herself is an Energy Being that feeds on despair and sorrow. Summoned to the world by Father Lawrence, Lila disposed of him, trapping him in another plane of existence, while she causes tragedies and pain to numerous humans, destroying their minds and lives, in big part because she enjoys it. Taking an interest in student William Clarke, she had him murder many animals, destroying his mind step by step, before she horribly killed Tanya Kennedy, the girl he fell in love with. Possessing William, Lila taunts and manipulates everyone she comes across, killing another girl, before, depending on the ending, framing Tanya's former boyfriend for her death or having William to "confess", dooming him to a life in prison. Talking with Detective Yu, Lila mocks and taunts him, tricking him into killing William, before she completely breaks Yu by revealing the "final piece of the puzzle".
• Wild ARMs series:
  • First game:
    • Alhazad had several inhabitants of a town abducted so he could test his parasite that horrifically mutates any living thing into a mindless monster, then sends the mutated citizens back to their town to slaughter everyone they could. Alhazad then threatened to unleash this parasite, which he calls the "Demon Seed", on a village almost entirely inhabited by orphaned children unless the party hands over a MacGuffin. He also manages to infect both a young Wanderer and a puppy with the Demon Seed, forcing the party to kill them both. Alhazad also turned Lady Harkan into a demon, because he had a fondness for her. Alhazad collaborates in resurrecting Mother and is an active supporter of her plan to destroy the human race.
    • Alter Code F: Mother is the nihilistic force who leads the Metal Demons to destroy worlds for her self-grandiose role of destroyer of worlds. Planning to destroy Filgalia, Mother had her servants kill many, destroy kingdoms, and experiment on innocents to kill the Guardians to destroy the planet before disposing her servants afterwards to move to the next world. When she's betrayed by her servants, Mother possessed Ziekfried in a final effort to finish her goal, working closely with Alhazad in more ruthless schemes, using the resurrected Elmina to start a superweapon in Malduke to destroy the world in a symphony of natural disasters as she gloats above in the chaos.
  • Second game: Judecca Ducet is the sadistic assassin and marksman of the terrorist group Odessa. A mercenary recruited by Vinsfeld Rhadamanthus as a member of Cocytus, Judecca is tasked with the dirtiest deeds of the group, using methods even his comrades found despicable. Taking the town of Halmetz, Judecca has the town's populace imprisoned to torture for fun; uses them to capture ARMS; crucifies Lilka and Brad; and brutally beats Ashley, before attempting to bomb their main base. After his first defeat, Judecca blows up Holst and frames ARMS for it, uncaring of any civilian deaths. When finally defeated in his Diablo Pillar, Judecca shows no remorse for monstrous actions, cackling that his only regret was he couldn't see the end of the world.
  • Third game:
    • Beatrice is a Dream Demon who was responsible for driving Filgaia to the brink of destruction. Manipulating and sabotaging the Yggdrasil project, Beatrice turned Filgaia into a deadly desert, using the dire condition and the desperation of people to survive to create the Ark of Society, a religion made to worship her as the "Dream Girl" and the bringer of utopia. Manipulating them to gather artifacts for her plans, Beatrice also manipulates Gallow's younger brother Shane to get the Drifters to eliminate the Prophets and Siegfried before launching her own ambitions to turn Filgaia into her twisted paradise. Brainwashing Shane and absorbing the life energy of the planet, bringing disaster all over the world, Beatrice ultimately attempts to absorb the existing Filgaia as the foundation of her new Neo Filgaia, and trap the Drifters into an eternal nightmare for defying her and in defeat attempts to delete the existing Filgaia with her in a last act of petty revenge.
    • Leehalt Alcaste, leader of the Prophets, is a self-grandiose madman who plans to turn the world into a demonic hellhole for the sake of his god complex. A former researcher of the Council of Seven who gained power when Yggdrasil exploded, Leehalt teamed up with fellow researchers Malik and Melody as the Prophets to reshape Filgaia to their image. Spending the next decade masterminding the Demon Summoning Ritual and hiring Janus to help his fellow Prophets in their crusade, Leehalt acted behind the shadows to bring back the demons and rule alongside them. Successful in resurrecting Siegfried after putting the world in turmoil, Leehalt pledge allegiance to him for a bid for more power before using it to help launch a plague of nanomachines to turn the whole world into a demon where he can thrive like the god he believes he is.
    • Melody Vilente is a member of the Prophets who plans to turn the world into living hell for the sake of vanity. A formerly plain woman, when Melody use her powers to turn into the perfect woman, she decided to work with the Prophets to keep her new form, even at the cost of the planet. Wanting to flaunt her new looks, Melody made a system in Little Twister where she seduce unsuspecting travelers to the Unclean Mark, where she would trick them into falling victim to the ruins' traps for indulgence. Turning Little Twister into a near-Ghost Town, she attempt to do the same thing to the Drifters, becoming furious when it failed because of Clive. Resentful, Melody tries to retaliate by creating the golem Asgard and the airship Deus ex Machina to brutalize them and poison the group, particularly Clive, before using her last moments to launch Deus ex Machina to spread nanomachines to turn Filgaia into a demon, all while taunting the party.
• Wild Blood: Morgana Le Fay, posing as King Arthur's loyal handmaiden, secretly covets the throne and kingdom for herself. When Arthur seeks her help after discovering Sir Lancelot's affair with Guinevere, Morgana used Excalibur's magic to open the Hellgates, unleashing The Legions of Hell into Albion to conquer the land. As Arthur attempts retaliation, Morgana has Arthur sealed in cursed armor to become her enforcer, aware of his actions but unable to do anything about it. After an unsuccessful attempt as a dragon to kill the returning Sir Lancelot, Morgana sends her monsters to ravage whole populations to draw out Lancelot, and later uses Guinevere as a hostage before revealing she had Guinevere locked in the same cursed armor as well, forcing Lancelot to fight his beloved Guinevere nearly to the death.
• WinBack: Cecile Carlyle is Kenneth Coleman's murderous right-hand man in the Crying Lions. Assisting in the violent takeover of the Westham Fortress housing the GULF Satellite's control center, Cecile cheerfully murders SCAT commando Matt Brown before ordering the destruction of Westham's office complex, disregarding any of his own men who would've been killed in the explosion. Encountering a mortally wounded Law Bruford, Cecile executes him despite Law no longer posing a threat. In the best ending path, Cecile captures SCAT commando Lisa Roberts before ordering Jean-Luc Cougar to present himself lest he kill her, and then proceeds to kill Jean-Luc's and Lisa's friend Jake Hudson. Turning on Kenneth, Cecile shoots him In the Back multiple times even as he lay dying, before threatening to fire the satellite again unless he's given 100 million dollars; a threat Cecile intends on carrying out even after he's given the ransom. A psychopath with no care for the Sarcozian rebellion, Cecile openly delights in how nothing makes him happier than knowing he ruined someone else's day.
• Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga: Prince Thrakhath nar Kiranka is the crown prince and the most vicious of all the Kilrathi commanders. Ruthless from his youth, Thrakhath demanded the execution of a minister who showed slight hesitation at the Terran invasion and distinguished himself with titanic bloodshed across the galaxy. As the Kilrathi commander-in-chief and the Emperor's heir, Thrakhath assumes more responsibility with his grandfather's infirmity, masterminding attacks across numerous systems with the intent to exterminate humanity if they will not be enslaved. After capturing a squad of Terran fighters, Thrakhath summarily has them executed on the spot save for the lover of the heroic Colonel Christopher "Maverick" Blair, Jeannette "Angel" Devereaux, whom Thrakhath personally murders with his own claws and saves the video to later taunt Blair with.
• The Witch and the Hundred Knight: Totopepe is a power-hungry beastman posing as an unassuming human squire. Seeking influence over the kingdom, he and his cohorts demonize and then persecute witches, Totopepe himself killing an innocent witch to spark the genocide. Capturing Metallia, Totopepe tortures her for days, smiling and giggling the entire time. When his initial plan fails, Totopepe unleashes his giant beastman form and violently conquers the castle with his son's aid, slaughtering all in their path. Wishing to have a "royal heir", Totopepe rapes one of the princesses to death, before killing her sister and carrying the latter's body in a sack on his back to remember how much he enjoyed her murder.
• The Witch's House: The Black Cat Demon is a Soul Eating monster who happened upon the abused Ellen after she killed her parents, devouring the deceased's souls and corrupting Ellen into becoming his latest witch. Convincing Ellen she would never be loved by anyone and promising to cure her illness for bringing him souls, the demon spends centuries molding her and consumes countless innocents while leaving the tortured spirits to wander within the titular house forever. Sadistically suggesting Ellen maim herself before swapping bodies with Viola, the demon eats the crippled Viola's soul later on after Ellen has her killed.
• Wizard101: Queen Morganthe Malory, a student of Ravenwood Academy, got banished into the void after she tried to study black magic in order to defeat her teacher. When a character discovers her plans, she then attempts to kill this person and then sell out her brother to her teacher to get into her teacher's good graces. After escaping the void, Morganthe seeks the power from the planet Celestia by ravaging the entire world in a war. It was also revealed that she tricked a king of a realm by wearing a cursed crown, and when said king turns against Morganthe, she attempts to poison him. In the realm of Azteca, she summons the spirits of the dead, which she uses to capture and torture the inhabitants so that they could make her a weapon. Morganthe then summons a meteor to destroy Azteca. Before the final battle, she mocks her opponent about the destruction of Azteca, and when defeated, attempts to erase the former's memory. A cruel, sadistic and selfish sorceress with a massive god complex, Morganthe eventually goes on to attempt to destroy the world to recreate it in her own image.
• Wolfenstein series:
  • Wolfenstein: Oberst-Gruppenführer Wilhelm Strasse, better known as "Deathshead"—"Totenkopf" in German—is the monstrous Nazi behind much of the suffering throughout the series. and the Arch-Enemy of Captain William Joseph "B.J." Blazkowicz. Attempting to launch a V-2 with an experimental biological warhead into London and experimenting on various creatures, Deathshead helps the SS paranormal unit resurrect Heinrich I. Returning years later, Strasse takes over the Nazi forces in Isenstadt after the death of General Zetta and seeks to use the Nazi superweapon powered by the Black Sun to wipe out Isenstadt and its entire population as a demonstration. Having miraculously survived the Zeppelin crash, Deathshead is resurrected in The New Order, where he demonstrates the full depth of his depravity and abominations. Carrying out painful and excruciating experiments, Deathshead captures Blazkowicz, and forces him to choose which of his two friends Deathshead will painfully dissect, forcing BJ to watch the process before Deathshead leaves the survivor to burn alive. Using the fruits of his terrible experiments to give the Nazis victory and establishing a cruel dictatorship, Deathshead continues his experiments by forcing a mental asylum to give him subjects and then ordering his soldiers to murder all the remaining patients when he decides he does not need them anymore. Finally confronted by B.J., Deathshead takes his dissected friend's brain and places it in a robot as a fully conscious slave—a fate he intends for all his dissected victims and B.J. himself—and forces him to attack B.J. Fully committed to his scientific legacy and believing compassion does not befit the "Master Race", while surpassing almost all Nazis in horrifying cruelty and ruthlessness, Deathshead represented the worst of the Third Reich.
  • The New Colossus:
    • Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus: Rip Blazkowicz, B.J.'s greedy, racist father, married B.J.'s wealthy mother for money, then abused her and B.J. out of anger at his own poor business decisions ruining his enterprise. Attacking B.J. for playing with a black girl, Rip knocks his wife out for trying to defend their son, then tries to make B.J. shoot his dog. When America is conquered by the Nazis, Rip betrays his Jewish neighbors and wife by selling them out, leading to their internment and death in concentration camps. Attempting to kill B.J. when they meet again, Rip also wiretaps their phone conversation in an attempt to have B.J. captured and executed by the Nazis.
    • The Freedom Chronicles: The Adventures of Gunslinger Joe: Übercommander Roderick Metze was a white supremacist who became a dentist for the thrill of torturing people legally. Happily joining the Nazis, Metze relished in a chance to lord over minorities, subjecting them to slavery and death. Taking an interest in sports, Metze abducted a number of athletes, torturing them in ghastly experiments to harvest their abilities for his own side. Metze also intends on activating a superweapon to annihilate the entire American Midwest, driven by his desire to rise ever higher in the ranks of the Reich.
• Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty:
  • Yu Ji, the Taoist in Black, is a wicked sorcerer dedicated to his hunt for immortality. Inspiring the Yellow Turban Rebellion that ravages the countryside and annihilates villages, Yu Ji uses it to harvest magic Elixir, Chi, and corrupt the guardian dragon Yinglong into Xielong. Using demons to exacerbate the wars in China and backing Dong Zhuo's bloody campaigns, Yu Ji kidnaps the wife of Sun Ce to lure in the Sun family heirs while turning Sun Jian into a demon that must be put down by those he loves. Yu Ji later has Sun Ce murdered to increase the bloodshed of the Three Kingdoms' civil war. With his evil soul surviving physical death to possess the Blindfolded Boy, Yu Ji decides to annihilate all that lives if he can live forever.
  • Dong Zhuo is a would-be tyrant who places the young Emperor under his power before launching a brutal campaign of slaughter and bloodshed. Using demons to make the horror of war even worse, Dong Zhuo commits one of the most awful crimes of the era in burning the Capital with countless lives lost and attracting more demons. When cornered, Dong Zhuo takes Diao Chao hostage with intent to turn her into a demon just for a quick Human Shield.
• XCOM 2: The Angelis Ethereal is the true head of ADVENT, and the leader of the Ethereals. Originally heading the invasion of numerous planets and the enslavement of their natives, The Angelis Ethereal would lead a successful takeover of Earth, and oversee the creation of ADVENT. Upon the Commander of XCOM being freed from the Elders' grasp, the Angelis Ethereal sends her strongest minions, the Chosen, to use whatever brutal tactics they deem necessary to find the Commander, including mass exterminations of humans living outside ADVENT's control. XCOM would soon discover what the Angelis Ethereal truly wanted: the harvesting and resulting genocide of Humanity to provide the Ethereals new bodies known as Avatars as part of the Avatar Project. Upon XCOM killing one, the Angelis Ethereal orders all of humanity to be immediately and rapidly processed, and subsequently exterminated when XCOM gets Humanity to rise up against ADVENT. A loathsome hypocrite, the Angelis Ethereal even fails to truly care for other Elders as she doesn't even acknowledge the death of one of her kin in words, and is ultimately just out to dominate and exterminate things out of her control.
• Xenogears:
  • Miang Hawwa is eventually revealed to be the true driving force of the game's conflict. Initially Ramsus's wallflower assistant, Miang turns out to be an ancient being with one goal: to prepare humanity for harvest by Deus. The "Eve" of the world, its first woman, Miang has helped to manipulate human history by running an Ancient Conspiracy, causing countless wars and conflicts with countless deaths. Miang demonstrates nothing less than cruel satisfaction at her manipulations, rubbing it in her lover Ramsus's face how he was a failed prototype of Ramsus's rival Fei to break his already fragile mind. Miang awakens Deus and causes the genocide of almost all humanity, in addition to having made it her personal mission to destroy the happiness of lover Fei and Elly's past incarnations every time they reincarnate.
  • Bishop Isaac Stone (originally Stein) is an agent of Solaris and one of the darkest and cruelest villains in a game full of soldiers fighting for honor and their beliefs. Having long ago murdered Raquel, the mother of Billy, all because she chose Jesiah over him, Stein continues the conspiracy of the Ethos by taking in orphans and lost people, only to send them to Solaris to be experimented for their secret weapon, and killing any survivors who became Wels or Reapers by sending out priests who he tricked into believing him. After the Ethos tries to break away from Solaris using weapons they found inside an ancient ruin, he begins to massacre them, leaving very few survivors. After being caught up by Billy, a young man who was devoted to Ethos, he gives him a Breaking Speech by telling him the monsters he killed were actually people that Solaris mutated.
• Xenosaga series:
  • Episodes I & II: Patriarch Sergius XVII presents himself as the beloved spiritual leader of the galaxy, but in truth is the mastermind behind the U-TIC terrorist organization who seeks to conquer humanity. Once the owner of the original Zohar supercomputer, Sergius boosted its power by wiring it up to two innocent little Realian girls, keeping them in agony for over a decade while having them and the Zohar experimented on. When the Zohar was lost in the destruction of Old Miltia, Sergius began a crusade to get it back using U-TIC, and once he succeeds, he activates the Omega System to force all of galactic civilization to submit to him under penalty of death.
  • Episodes II & III: Dr. Dmitri Yuriev is the appallingly selfish "father" to major protagonist Junior, major antagonist Albedo, and over 600 other cloned "children". The first human to make contact with the Sentient Cosmic Force U-DO, Yuriev lives for centuries afterward, driven by fear of the entity and a desire to destroy it. Creating his clone "family", Yuriev sends them off to die in scores in the war against U-TIC, and periodically steals their bodies to cheat death. Resurrecting himself through his final creation Gaignun Kukai, Yuriev massacres all of Gaignun's staff when they get in his way, and retrieves the Zohar and the Omega System after Sergius' death to attempt to make himself into a god powerful enough to slay U-DO.
• Yesterday: Henry White was a Serial Killer of homeless people as a teenager, who matured into a Corrupt Corporate Executive. He captures and tortures an immortal man named John Yesterday for twenty years before deciding to seek immortality for himself, killing dozens of people in Satanic rituals in his quest. After forcing John to synthesize the immortality elixir by shooting his lover, Henry happily executes his best friend since high school simply to keep immortality for himself. After gaining immortality along with Pauline, Henry stabs John in the back after the man saves Henry from falling off a cliff, and reveals he plans to use the now-immortal Pauline as his own personal torture toy for all eternity. A cheerful psychopath who enjoys his own homicidal tendencies, Henry White was willing to betray, torture, and murder dozens of innocents, even his best friend, for eternal life, and his own sick amusement.
• The Yoobiiverse may be filled with supernatural enemies, but these two horrors of human origin are the worst of all:
  • Annabelle (RPG Maker): Jason Sunray is the sexually abusive father of the titular Annabelle Sunray who also physically abuses her mother, Melissa "Candy" Sunray. Driving away Annabelle's best friend, Melody Moonlight, to keep Annabelle to himself, his abuse of her is so horrid that it causes her terrifying nightmares and drives her to a murder-suicide. Surviving the attempt on his life, Jason steals Tiffany Moonlight's job as head of The Church and turns it into an Orphanage of Fear, where he, as The Preacher, and his staff abuse the children both physically and emotionally. Intending to satisfy his greed by keeping the children scarred so the government will keep paying him for his job, Jason forces Father Martin to aid in his crimes, kills Franklin "Frankie" Bobby Thompson with Electric Torture, and eventually tries to kill Annabelle and Roxanne Star Rockwell to stop them from exposing his crimes.
  • Annventure: Tyrannia was once a mortal witch who terrorized the village of Heirloom with famines before turning herself into a demon. In the first game, Tyrannia possesses the titular Ann and goes on a killing spree throughout Blackwater Country, unleashing her demon followers on the populace and turning many of them into zombies and other monsters. Tyrannia also subjects Alvin and Emmet to psychological torment via illusions and tries to get the player to give up their soul so she can leave the game and wreak havoc in the real world. Though defeated, Tyrannia returns in the sequel possessing Emmet and corrupting Emily "Ego" Koibito, who summoned her, into becoming her servant. Using Ego, Tyrannia builds the floating city of Tokego and forces much of the populace into poverty, then has Ego build a robot army to go on a second rampage, eventually killing Ego when she is of no more use. Finally, Tyrannia hacks into the code of Annventure and begins destroying the entire Yoobiiverse with glitches in another attempt to escape into the real world.
• Zed_Technician games, by release date:
  • Midnight Maid Night: Jeremiah Vermander is the former head of the corrupt Vermander family. Known for being a very cruel and selfish man, Jeremiah tended to burn his servants alive if they prepared a bad meal for him. When the blizzard hit the city and his newspaper couldn't be delivered to him, Jeremiah sent his faithful servant, Cornelius, outside to go get it, not even allowing him to wear a winter coat, which resulted in Cornelius freezing to death. Discovering that his son, Joseph, entered a relationship with a servant, Jeremiah brutally murdered her and shoved her corpse beneath the floors of the mansion. When Joseph started to help the poor after his death, Jeremiah came back as a ghost and murdered him, resulting in the ghosts of his son, his son's lover, and Cornelius being unable to rest, and them haunting the mansion. When the Midnight Maids come to clean his mansion for the new owner, Jeremiah tries to hunt them down.
  • Artifacts and Antiquity: Sekhmet is a violent Egyptian deity who, alongside Thoth—who unlike Sekhmet is a Graceful Loser—has destroyed and recreated humanity numerous times for fun. When the other gods declare they will destroy humanity unless seven artifacts are returned to them, Sekhmet sends her minions to stop Gracie and the others from gathering the artifacts and saving humanity. When the artifacts are gathered, Sekhmet has her servants attempt to kill Gracie and her coworkers as revenge for besting her.
• Zombie Infection: General Blackhorn is the leader of the Freedom Fighters, a terrorist syndicate posing as Auricorp's private security detail. When Auricorp develops a powerful mutagen with side effects including rapid DNA decay and mutation, Blackhorn sees potential in the mutagen as a bio-weapon and takes over Auricorp, slaughtering most of its personnel before releasing it in the Brazilian outskirts, leading to a Zombie Apocalypse destroying entire civilian populations, and framing Auricorp's founder Rotwang for the crime. Realizing Rotwang is developing an antidote to the virus, Blackhorn manipulates protagonist Damien Sharpe into locating Rotwang for him before brutally beating the elderly Rotwang to death and ordering his men to kill every remaining witness to his activities. After Sharpe escapes, Blackhorn taunts Sharpe he had developed an even stronger virus he intends to release in more countries to bring entire nations to his knees, and later injects the mutagen into himself, turning into a gigantic monster in a last attempt to kill Sharpe.
• ZombiU: "King" Boris is the self-styled ruler of the zombies. To bide his time in the Zombie Apocalypse, Boris came up with an exceptionally sadistic means of entertainment: building a booby-trapped zombie Death Course, then kidnapping random survivors and forcing them to go through the course for his own amusement. Anyone who survives is rewarded with a "quick and painless death" before Boris takes their supplies and moves onto the next unlucky victim.
• Zone of the Enders:
  • Nohman Ridley is the leader of the extremist Martian faction BAHRAM. He causes countless destruction in the name of freeing Mars and has no qualm about sending his minions to death in order to achieve his goals. Then, it is later revealed that not only does Nohman not care about Mars's independence at all but also wants to wipe out the entire solar system with the Aumaan. Even if one takes madness induced by the Metatron into account, it's clear that Ridley is a power-hungry madman who will stop at nothing to achieve his ambition, as shown when he sent Dingo and his teammates on a suicide mission just so he can eliminate competition for the leadership in BAHRAM. This particular incident happened before Anubis and Jehuty were made.
  • On the Earth's side, we have Zephyr, the Mad Scientist. Willing to do anything to gain recognition for his research on Metatron, he uses children in lethal experiments to develop the mindflow system, which subdues the will of a pilot to enhance the performance of orbital frame. This system works better with children, making them ideal for soldiers. Only two of the children, Pharsti and Vale, he used for his experiment manage to survive and run away, setting the plot of Fist of Mars in motion.
  • Ned Noachim holds a vicious prejudice towards Martians and is introduced attacking a hospital to steal medicine and have his way with the nurses. He is implied to blow up the hospital to frame the Born In Space (BIS) group and later kidnaps three orphans from Pandora Frettum and places them into unmanned LEV suits set to explode when destroyed in order to sully BIS's name. Noachim forces his own soldiers to explode rather than surrender.

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