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- Marceline gets the brutal and menacingly metal "Who's in Charge Here" in Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage? after agreeing with Ice King to beat up Finn for five bucks.
- Mr. Scratch, the Big Bad Humanoid Abomination antagonist of Alan Wake's American Nightmare, gets his own Bragging Theme Tune, Poets of the Fall's "The Happy Song". In it, an Ax-Crazy singer exults in his own psychopathy, while in-universe, Mr. Scratch is shown happily dancing to it as Source Music after murdering the people who were partying and playing the song too loudly in the room next to his. It also plays during the big confrontation with his Elite Mooks at the end of the game.
- Anarchy Reigns has a few of these around. Baron's new track doesn't fit since he's fighting with the good guys here, but there are two better examples. First there's Max's theme Unlimited Resources, which is basically Max singing to you about how he is just going to wreck your shit. The other song is the final boss track against Nikolai called Find You. The song takes place from the villain's perspective completely and how his view of the world has become dark and hopeless, telling Jack and Leo that their only option is to find the truth before the truth finds them.
- Ape Escape 3 has "Banana Heartbreak"; it's not so much a Villain Song as a song by a villain for most of it, but in the last verse it turns twisted by Ape Escape standards.
- Agreed. Nothing says "theatre" like multiple-personality barbie-esque monkeys in pink dresses. Just sit back and listen to banana heartbreak/I WILL CRUSH YOU.
- The song actually has two different English versions with different lyrics, American English, and UK English.
- Baldur's Gate III: Raphael sings his own boss theme, Raphael's Final Act, in which he mocks the player's party for daring to attempt to steal from or outright challenge a devil in Hell.
- Batman: Arkham Series: The Joker gets one during the end credits for each game.
- Batman: Arkham City has him sing a creepy rendition of "Only You (And You Alone)" by The Platters.
- Batman: Arkham Origins gives him a creepy rendition of "Cold, Cold Heart" by Hank Williams.
- Batman: Arkham Knight gives him an original song, "Look Who's Laughing Now". It plays twice in the game; the first is a show-stopping big band number with Evil Gloating galore about his inevitable Grand Theft Me of Batman from beyond the grave. If you get 100% Completion, the version that plays over the credits is a sad Dark Reprise after Batman foils his plans by using Scarecrow's fear toxin to imprison what's left of the Joker in his subconscious forever.
- Billie Bust Up!, a platformer currently in development, is set to give its major antagonists their own song for their boss fights. A few of them have been released publicly:
- "I've Had Enough of You," sung by the Perverse Puppet Fantoccio as he fights Billie on his theatre stage.
- "A Million Gruesome Ways to Die", sung by the Ominous Owl Barnaby as he chases Billie on his stage.
- Disney villains are gonna have a problem with Hazama / Terumi, the Big Bad from BlazBlue. His LA Vocal theme song Gluttony Fang can be described as an evil and sexy version of MJ, and Endless Despair can seriously Mind Rape everyone.
- Relius Clover's infamous Torture music theme Plastic Night.
- Azreal gets "Go In Soul", which is actually sung by his voice actor and conveys his unstoppable nature.
- In Brütal Legend Betrayal counts as one for Drowned Ophelia. It's technically her leitmotif, but since she sings it herself during a cutscene it also counts as a Villain Song.
- Conker's Bad Fur Day has "Sloprano (The Great Mighty Poo's Song)", an opera sung by, well, the Great Mighty Poo, a giant singing pile of feces. The song also doubles as an "I Am" Song. It also proves the key to defeating him, as he sings higher and higher notes as you attack him, until finally he sings a note pitched high enough to shatter the glass blocking the toilet cord.
- In Crypt Of The Necrodancer: Amplified, Fortissimole gets a Boastful Rap, Notorious D.I.G., for his boss music, in which he mocks the player for thinking they can possibly defeat him. When Fortissimole is finally defeated, the background music continues, but his rap is cut short.My manner is bombastic, my statement's sarcastic,
My flow's pyroclastic, my legend's dynastic,
Yeah, when I rise like Lazarus, my odor is always hazardous,
Your skill is, at best, average, there's no way you can handle this! - Cuphead has Die House, which is sung by King Dice, The Dragon to the Devil, threatening Cuphead and Mugman and reminding them who's boss. It features many Creepy Jazz Music elements, such as a call-and-response segment, that bring to mind some of the haunting tunes by Cab Calloway, who was a big influence on the game's soundtrack. And all of this when he's just acting as an NPC Roadblock.I'm Mr. King Dice, I'm the gamest in the land!
I never play nice, I'm the Devil's right-hand man!
I can't let you pass, 'cause you ain't done everything,
Bring me those contracts, c'mon, bring them to the King! - Danganronpa:
- The image song for Junko Enoshima, "Hope Or Despair" certainly qualifies. It features the series villain musing over her obsessions with despair and the perverted satisfaction she gets from watching it clash with hope. Side note. It also doubles as a Dark Reprise of the Danganronpa theme.
- Gee, Celeste. How come the composer lets you have three image songs? That's right. The culprit of the first game's third case has a whopping trio of villain songs. The first being, "Queen of Liars", followed by "Gothic Masquerade", and finally "Essai de menteur", all sung by the original voice actress, much like the example above.
- In a similar vein to the other two, Nagito Komaeda from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, who is one of the closest things to a main antagonist in the game, even beyond the grave, has his own Image Song sung by his original voice actress. [poison - deadly drug] details his obsession with hope, as well as his desire to understand and get closer to Hajime Hinata.
- Lastly, the Monokuma Kids from Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls have a cheery little ditty about making mountains out of corpses called "Let's Play With Monokuma".
- An interesting example is "That's Amore" of Psychopath Bibi Love from Dead Rising 2. At first listen, it really doesn't sound much more than what you'd expect of a love song. But consider it has lyrics like "You better do what I say!/Say you love me today!" when she's threatened to blow up several innocents unless you help her performance.
- Two of the bosses in Demon Turf get one. Cap'n Damp has "Damp's Seadog Shanty," a boastful Pirate Song, while Gol & Lem have "Golem's Superiority", an electronic song unsurprisingly about their perceived superiority to Beebz (as well as of robots to organic life forms in general)
- Devil May Cry 5: Vergil gets the legendary "Bury The Light", which speaks for itself.I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING, PROVOKING DARK CLOUDS IN ISOLATION!
- In Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice, Mao's Image Song ("Go, Mao!") is about how evil he is in general, and how he experiments on humans in specific. It's also catchy as hell.
- In Disney Universe, the main villain, Hex, tortures us at the end with a rock remix of "It's a Small World", and while doing so, the enemies are seen torturing themselves through various antics.
- The retro-homage Double Dragon Neon has a hilarious Villain Song for the closing credits, sung by the Big Bad as he is falling to his doom... though, being undead, he'll likely survive that almost four minute fall. Titled "Dared To Dream", it is actually sung to the iconic Double Dragon main theme, which would certainly mark the first lyrical version of that tune.
- Far Cry 5 The Seed siblings all have songs dedicated to them.
- "Now He's Our Father" for Joseph, describing his past and how he became the leader of Eden's Gate.
- "Set Those Sinners Free" for Jacob, about him being the leader of the cult's milita and his Social Darwinist attitude.
- "Oh John" for John, describing his place as a recruiter and his "reaping" of the land, which of siezing and stealing everything, from food to people, for the cult.
- "Help Me Faith" for Faith, about her recruitment of the emotionally vulnerable into the cult, as well as a subtle promotion of the Bliss drug. A somber redinition of the choir version of the song is used during her boss battle.
- Each boss in Figment has one:
- The Plague has "The Plague's Song" about the disgusting ailments he wants to give the protagonist.
- The Spider Queen has "The Spider Queen's Song" about how she and her spider subjects like to crawl on people to scare them For the Evulz.
- The Fear of Loss has "Fear of Loss" Part 1 and Part 2 about how he sees everything as worthless and believes that Dusty and Piper should give up too.
- In the sequel The Black Hog has a song about the fear of the dark.
- The Jester sings one called "Dance Like an Idiot" about how he wants to "liberate" the mind, by throwing it all into chaos. He later sings a Dark Reprise during the finale called "Looks Like an Idiot to Me"
- Final Fantasy VII: Sephiroth himself isn't the one doing the singing, but his greatness and power are sung in a awesomely over-the-top manner by a Latin choir in his theme song "One Winged Angel". Yes, that One-Winged Angel.
- There's also the Final Fantasy IX song Grand Cross. While not being sung by Necron himself and not having lyrics at all, this is still a music that contains lot of people screaming in panic and agony, which kinda goes along with Necron, being the embodiment of humans' fear, helplessness, and suffering when faced with death.
- Mihi nomen Orphanus. OR-PHAN-US!
- Barthandelus' theme Fighting Fate counts too, but in both cases, you need to understand Latin.
- Several of the boss themes from XIV either extol the boss in question or are flat-out Villain Songs proper:
- Good King Moggle Mog XII, the theme of the eponymous tiny yet terrible tyrant and his "trusty crew". Highly reminiscent of This is Halloween from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
- Titan's Under the Weight is sung from his point of view, and tells of his desire for vengeance against the "sons of man" that have slaughtered his people.
- Shiva takes it even further with Oblivion. Instead of being sung from Shiva's perspective, though, it's sung by her Willing Channeler, Lady Iceheart; and explains not only how she went past the Despair Event Horizon to enter full-on Dark Messiah mode, but that she's still the one in control despite having become a Primal.
- Ravana's theme, Unbending Steel is similarly sung from his perspective, and has him extolling the joy and beauty of war.
- Sephirot the Fiend's second boss theme is an epic Industrial Metal Badass Boast from the demon himself.
- The battle music against Alexander, "Rise", is sung by the goblin Illuminati about how they will use the primal to rise up and Take Over the World.
- Lakshmi's theme, "Beauty's Wicked Wiles", is sung by her enthralled followers inviting everyone to submit to Laksmi's Lotus-Eater Machine.
- Tsukuyomi's theme, "Wayward Daughter", is sung in a mix of Japanese and English from the perspective of her channeler Yotsuyu who's gone over the Despair Event Horizon, a Heel–Face Door-Slam and this is just begging the Warrior of Light to kill her or she will bring The Night That Never Ends to the world.
- Titania's theme, "What Angel Wakes Me", is about how eager the king-turned-sin eater is to be free from their imprisonment and 'play' with others again.
- The final boss of 5.3's story, Elidibus, the Warrior of Light has "To the Edge" which is a battle of philosophies between him and the Warrior of Darkness over the Ascians' Forever War.
- Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn has the main battle theme Conditioned to Hate by Lotus Juice (of Persona fame), a Boastful Rap from Ardyn's point of view illustrating his Roaring Rampage of Revenge for the slights made against him by Noctis's ancestors and his determination to get even with the Lucian bloodline.
- In the Updated Re-release of Fire Emblem Gaiden, there's "Lord of a Dead Empire," the theme for the battle against Emperor Rudolf. The lyrics, once translated, reveal Rudolf's true motives for starting the war.
- Fire Emblem Heroes has the boss theme of Book 3, though it doesn't become obvious who it's about or what its lyrics mean until about halfway through. It's about Lif, an alternate version of Alphonse who sacrified his entire world's population to defeat Hel... only to find it was All for Nothing. He now serves Hel in Balancing Death's Books by destroying the world of the Alphonse we know to bring back his own.Throw away, everything, to bring a dead world back to life!
Sacrifice another self! - Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Of all things, the game's main theme, The Edge of Dawn turns out to be this. The song is sung from the perspective of Edelgard, who's revealed near the end of the game's first half to be the Flame Emperor. Notably, this song is played in the credits of the Azure Moon, Verdant Wind, and Silver Snow routes, where she acts as one of the central villains, but not the Crimson Flower route, where she is the deuteragonist, which uses a different song for the credits.
- God-Shattering Star which plays in the final battle of Verdant Wind is sung in a fantasy language, but a look at the lyrics booklet that came with certain editions of the game in Japan reveals that it's from the perspective of Nemesis singing about his battle to "free" the world from what he perceived as the tyranny of God. It plays as your team battles the reanimated Nemesis and your crest-bearer characters' ancestors.
- Friday Night Funkin': The game has a good many of these, considering that your opponents respond in their own "beep-bo"s, similar to the protagonist's, implying that whatever they're singing or rapping about has a meaning. But the most noteworthy of them all are the ones sung by the Monster, as they are sung with startlingly morbid real lyrics. "Monster" and "Winter Horrorland" are both bouncy tunes about the demon's cannibalistic tendencies and desire to peel off the Boyfriend's skin and eat him and his girlfriend.
- Full Metal Daemon Muramasa features an odd mix of this trope and Sad Battle Music with "Falling Leaves", a song that plays during the very final confrontation sung from Big Bad Hikaru's perspective about how everything she had done was just so that her father would openly admit that he loves her, not wanting to live surrounded by comforting lies. A song about wanting to know her fathers love, true and pure, even if the world has to burn to accomplish it.
- While he's more of a Villain Protagonist, Kratos gets "Rage of Sparta". It's played every time a God is killed in the third installment.
- Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure: Lance Banson's Aria. His boss fight features the sky pirate belting out faux-Italian lyrics throughout the battle, adding several layers of awesome to his already impressive battle theme.
- I Expect You To Die: The song from the opening credits, "I Expect You To Die", is a dramatic number sung from the perspective of Dr. Zor, taunting the player and promising their luck will run out eventually. You'd be forgiven for thinking this came from an actual James Bond movie.
- The sequel The Spy and the Liar has spy fiction superstar actor John Juniper singing about his plan to use his new blockbuster as a cover for Dr. Zor's world domination scheme. It's just as good as the previous one.
- The Third game Cog in the Machine has Dr. Roxanna Prism singing about building a robot agent better than agent Phoenix and improving the world. You can listen to it here,
- The educational computer game I. M. Meen opens with a catchy Villain Song from the titular villain about his plan to trap studious little bookworms in a magic labyrinth using a magic book. It almost makes up for the fact that it and all other cutscenes were animated by the same people who animated the dreaded The Legend Of Zelda C Di Games (though that has lead to Meen becoming popular in several YouTube Poop videos).
- The opening from the game can be seen here.
- There's also the sequel, Chill Manor with an opening Villain Song sung by I.M. Meen's girlfriend/wife Ophelia Chill. She invites the player into her humble abode with the facade of a kindly old woman before quickly revealing her true colors and gloating about her scheme to alter the path of history.
- Kirby: Planet Robobot has Susie occasionally sing praises to the Big Bad, President Haltmann. Your reward for earning 100% is a full version of her song.
- We never get to hear it sung in-game, but the pause menu descriptions for Void Termina's first and third forms are lyric sheets for the otherwise-instrumental Mage-Sisters' theme. The pause menu descriptions for the three Mage-Sisters in The Ultimate Choice provide more lyrics, as well as a title: "Song of Supplication".
- League of Legends: Champion Diana has one in "Daylight's End".
- Jinx has one with "Get Jinxed"
- Arguably, again from Jonathan Coulton and again in a VALVE game — one of the songs that plays on the jukeboxes scattered around Left 4 Dead 2 is "Re: Your Brains", a song about an office worker turned zombie telling his still-human surviving coworker what he and his flesh-eating companions will do when they get to him. Bonus: When the chorus starts up, an in-game Horde attacks. And they snarl in-tune to it.
- "Kuttetekaruna", from LocoRoco, has no "real" lyrics to speak of... but it's hard to call it anything other than a villain song, given the frightened voices of its singers and its use of maniac laughter.
- There's also "Merure Merure", the Nightmare Before Christmas-esque song that plays while you're exploring the innards of the final boss.
- The Mojas get their own theme in the sequel, which is able to suck the life out of living things.
- The spinoff game "Midnight Carnival" has a catchy jazz number sung by the BuiBuis, who collectively served as Dragons to the villains in the last game and now act as the main villains. They also sing their own arranged versions of songs from the previous games during the levels, including the aforementioned "Kuttetekaruna".
- The remake of Lunar: The Silver Star has the song of Dark Althena/Luna. No actual lyrics aside from her going "ahhhh ahhhhhh, ahhhh ahhhhhh ahhhhhh ahhhh ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh," but still pretty memorable nonetheless.
- "Look Pimpin'" from MadWorld is a hip-hop Villain Song by Sick YG, sung from the perspective of the Final Boss, the Black Baron, during the game's climactic battle. Once half the boss's health is gone, the music switches to "So Cold" by Ox, which is still a villain song; however, while "Look Pimpin'" mocks Jack for thinking he can defeat the Black Baron, "So Cold" is him enraged by how he's gotten beaten up.
- The other boss themes are also villain songs, though not as focused. "You Don't Know Me" by Bandy Leggz (the female boss music) in particular is girl power gone mad.
- Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle has "Phantom of the Bwahpera", sung by an opera singing ghost Rabbid that seems to have it in for Mario.Who do you think you are? You should kneel, I'm the star!
You are nothing but a parody, I'll find you a good role in a tragedy! - The boss themes from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance all start out as instrumentals, then gain lyrics and become Villain Songs once the final phase of their boss fight starts.
- "Rules of Nature" for Metal Gear RAY and other Unmanned Gear sub-bosses, about how the apex predators of old, such as the aforementioned UGs, are falling by the wayside as smaller yet deadlier predators, like Raiden and the other cyborgs, take over at the top of the food chain.
- "I'm My Own Master Now" for LQ-84i/Bladewolf, about his desire for freedom from those who would only use him as a weapon and for the ability to make his own choices.
- "A Stranger I Remain" for Mistral, about how, after searching for a long time, she has finally found a cause she believes in, allowing her to fight and kill without feeling any guilt.
- "Stains of Time" for Monsoon, about a symbolic rainstorm washing away all reasons for fighting, until only hate is left.
- "Red Sun" for Sundowner, about how War Is Glorious, how much he really loves war, how adding cyborgs and UGs into the mix makes the thing he loves even better, how Humans Are Bastards and should embrace that fact, and how nothing is more beautiful to him than a blood-soaked, war-torn battlefield. He is not a very complicated man.
- "The Only Thing I Know for Real" for Jetstream Sam, about how the only thing he knows is fighting and killing others, and how he doesn't even know his own reasons or motivations for doing so (and never gets to find out before Raiden kills him).
- "Collective Consciousness" for Senator Armstrong, about The Evils of Free Will, and how people should submit and blindly obey their country's whims. The lyrics convey a very bitter and sarcastic tone, as his true beliefs are very much the opposite (but Raiden and the player don't know that yet).
- "It Has to Be This Way" for Senator Armstrong again, about how he and Raiden aren't so different, and how he hopes to see his vision of utopia rise from the ashes after he's done burning everything to the ground.
- "Hot Wind Blowing" for Khamsin from the Bladewolf DLC, about his earnest desire to be a soldier for justice and freedom with the undertone that he's nothing more than an Unwitting Pawn for his superiors.
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has Sins of the Father, which is actually sung from Skull Face's point of view (through he doesn't actually sing it). It details both his plan and his motives, particularly the "words that kill" - the English-language parasites.
- A rather unique example from Mighty Milky Way, as it's the Title screen song itself once you find out Luna was actually a genocidal alien sociopath the entire time. Naturally, this gets a darker instrumental variation that combines the now somber leitmotif with the choir from the T-Rex fight music during the end Credits. The usage of French does a remarkable job to hide the singer's true intentions.I'll shatter the planets if that's what it takes.
- The album for Mortal Kombat (1992) and the movie, Mortal Kombat: The Album, has character themes for the seven playable characters (and Goro). Out of them all, Kano's song, "Use Your Might" fits this trope the most, though it also doubles as "The Villain Sucks" Song.
- Mystical Ninja: Starring Goemon! has "Gorgeous My Stage" sung by the villains Spring Breeze Dancin' and Kitty Lily. When the heroes make it through the final dungeon to the Peach Mountain Shogun, Dancin' and Lily decide to show off their secret powers, resulting in a musical number with that song. Once they're done, the heroes are left flabbergasted at what just happened.
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- In Nazi Zombies, "Not Ready to Die" definitely seems to be Dr. Richtofen's villain song, while "115" seems to be Samantha's.
- Nefarious plays with this: While Crow never sings in the game, he gets a song in a trailer promoting a graphic novel for the game, which is called The Bad Guy's Gonna Win. Crow also lampshades this trope by mentioning at the start that every bad guy needs a song.
- In a second video posted on the channel of the game’s creator, Crow’s secretary Becky also sings a villain song called "Good At Being Bad" where she sings to some other villains about how good she and Crow are at causing chaos.
- Aribeth's theme (from Neverwinter Nights) when she does a complete face-heel turn. Their "evil theme" is played when the Player character encounters them near the end of the game and can also be found in the game's toolset.
- Nightmare Ned has "The Rat Tango"; a delightful little number about mice electrocuting people in their bathtubs.
- No More Heroes: The Virgin Child Makes Her Wish Without Feeling Anything sung by Dr. Peace. Truly, he has the voice of a gunslinger angel.
- No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: Philistine, sung by Margaret. The Japanese version has its own remix. The song is largely Margaret mocking Travis for being a "fucking Philistine" with a petty and childish idea of being a "hero" and a badass while he's in reality a loser otaku.
- No More Heroes III: Kimmy Love, the 7th ranked assassin, has a Villain Rap Song, dueling against Travis prior to their boss battle.
- "Noodles Can't Be Beat" from Parappa The Rapper 2 is a Boastful Rap by Colonel Noodle about how noodles are superior to other foods, with Parappa countering by listing a bunch of other non-noodle foods. During the final portion, it turns into more of a Heel Realization song as Colonel Noodle realizes how close-minded he's become.
- Portal:
- Jonathan Coulton's "Still Alive", the famous ending theme; unusually enough, it's sung by GLaDOS after she's defeated by Chell, but it still keeps the basic Villain Song structure. It's also unusual in having a cheerful, upbeat tune and having lyrics which are very passive-aggressive for coming from a villain.
- The second game ends with Want You Gone, a similarly upbeat song that reflects the much, much more complicated feelings GLaDOS now has towards Chell (though she still attempts to mask them with lyrics insulting Chell).
- And then there's "You Wouldn't Know", from LEGO Dimensions. This one actually subverts the trope since it's not even that villainous — it's just GLaDOS taunting Chell about the things she'll miss since she left Aperture again. (And how GLaDOS is totally fine with that, honestly).
- Psychonauts 2: The mental world of the mole, Gristol Malik, has an entire "it's a small world"-esque song that explains his motivations for trying to destroy the Psychonauts and "resurrect" Maligula.Gristol Malik's aim was true
Our Fatherland did rise anew
He made a plan and fooled the man who took Maligula!
Together they rule, everything is super cool!
Grulovia, Grulovia, we're better than before
Grulovia, Grulovia is great once more! - Ratchet & Clank:
- Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal features "Death to Squishies", a perky bubblegum-pop song about exterminating all organic life.
- The end credits for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart has "Join Me At The Top, sung by Emperor Nefarious which is both this, an "I Am Great!" Song, with We Can Rule Together mixed in.
- Since the game itself is an actual musical, Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure fulfills the villainy quotient with Marjoly's "I Am" Song, aptly titled "Evil Queen".
- Marjoly and crew also have such songs in the game's two sequels, and in the 2nd game the villain Akujo has a similar tune.
- River City Girls has "Boss: Noize", Noize's Battle Theme Music which plays whilst she fights Misako and Kyoko with The Power of Rock, complete with lethal Guitar Hero references galore.
- River City Girls 2 ups the ante by giving us villain songs for a majority of the bosses you face:
- "I'm Better Than You" comes from the point of view of Ken, boasting about how he's taken over the city and how inferior you are compared to him. And how much he's actually overcompensating.
- There's "Get Off My Lawn", which is sung from the perspective of the boss of the area, the witch, Blaire.
- "Feel The Heat" is from the point of view of the Evil Chef Primo.
- "Your Like" is for the Bad Influencer Tsuiko with lyrics that touch upon the dangers of social media.
- River City Girls 2 ups the ante by giving us villain songs for a majority of the bosses you face:
- The song that plays over the ending credits for RWBY: Grimm Eclipse, "Lusus Naturae", is sung from the perspective of the game's Big Bad Dr. Merlot. The song sings that while the rest of the world is ignorant of and fears the Creatures of Grimm, he finds them fascinating and will improve them with science and give the creatures a greater purpose in life, thus proving wrong those who called him "a madman with no proof".
- Yes, even Saints Row has one in the expansion Gat out of Hell. Apparently Satan, Jezebel, Gat, and Kenzie each play a part in a five minute long villain song.
- Sam & Max Hit the Road features King of the Creatures, a catchy Villain Song by Liverpool country & western star Conroy Bumpus about his fondness for hunting rare and unusual creatures.
- Sam & Max Save the World:
- The War Song from Abe Lincoln Must Die! may just qualify, as while the character isn't particularly villainous, his desires certainly are, as revealed by his love of bombs and guns (And so much more!) and his unbridled joy that a war has begun.
- The C.O.P.S. get the hideously catchy Useful To Boot.
- Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space: T-H-E-M gets a big mariachi musical number in Chariots of the Dogs explaining why they steal souls in a time-traveling flying saucer.
- Sam & Max Save the World:
- Scooby-Doo video games:
- Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights features four Villain Songs for each of the four bosses: the Black Knight, the Green Ghost, the Ghost of Redbeard, and the Big Bad, Mastermind. For the first three, it's just a background choir during the fight, but Mastermind has a few lines in his song.
- In Episode 1 of Scooby-Doo! First Frights, the first phase of the boss fight against the Phantom has the Phantom sing to Mystery, Inc. about how they'll get in trouble for trying to thwart him.
- When a song from the Shin Megami Tensei series is used, it's usually in the Persona series and about how awesome the heroes are or cheering them on to their goal, maybe something a bit deeper. Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne seems to be an exception. The Fierce Battle theme seems to be the angels singing to you in hatred for how you've abused your power to go against them, while the main Boss Battle theme is the demons singing about why God despises them, with a bit of the desperate remains of humanity (and possibly a few demons) begging for salvation. Each of these sides can be villains to you in the end.
- Persona 5 Royal has "Throw Away Your Mask", which is sung from the new Final Boss' perspective, as he tries to convince the Phantom Thieves to accept his way. Played with, in that it is also Sad Battle Music, because said final boss is Friendly Enemy Takuto Maruki - rather than a boast and We Can Rule Together, it's a last-minute plea to avoid a fight he doesn't want.
- Skullgirls has "In A Moment's Time", the song that plays during the credits. While it sounds innocent enough, if you pick up on the Lyrical Dissonance you realize that it's song sung by the Skull Heart, the first half offering its powers to a prospect, the second is it gloating over how people keep falling into its trap.
- The Skylanders franchise has a couple of examples.
- Giants introduces Drill-X, a large drill-wielding robot with a notoriously bad singing voice. Notably, his dialogue consists entirely of song as he punctuates each phase of his boss fight with a verse. Much of the lyrics consist of badass boasts, though he also alludes to his goal to excavate the Lost City of Arkus and the encounter ends with him expressing disbelief over his defeat in one closing verse.
- SWAP Force: Prior to her boss fight, Mesmeralda introduces herself with a musical number titled "Pull Your Strings".
"I'm the one who pulls your strings!" - "Greasy Sweet" from Sly Cooper, which is the disco theme put on by "Greasy Sweet" Dmitri of the second game as his theme to show how much cooler he is than Sly.
- Sonic the Hedgehog:
- Dr. Eggman gets a great one in Sonic Adventure 2. "E.G.G.M.A.N.": Definitely a great little number.
- From the same game, Shadow and Rouge have "Throw It All Away" and "Fly in the Freedom".
- For Sonic Adventure 2, the theme for Biolizard boss battle, "Supporting Me":
"I believe in my future, farewell to the shadow. It was my place to live, but I need your hand. Lead me out with your light, I've breathed in the disgusting air of darkness, but I never lose out."- Though not exactly evil, Team Dark's (Shadow, Rouge, and E-123-Omega) theme, "This Machine", is arguably the best theme among the four teams' theme songs from Sonic Heroes, and it's about the three members of the team who were marked as villains in the previous game, or built by the villain in Omega's case.
- Sonic and the Black Knight has the excellent final boss song "With Me" — which interestingly, is sung from both the perspective of Merlina, the Dark Queen AND Sonic.
- They also brought back "Throw It All Away" and "All Hail Shadow". Also, Shadow's page on the Sonic wiki has a whole section of theme songs related to him, and it even makes of note of saying that the lyrics are hard to understand in most of them. Oh, and for a mind boggler, remember "Live and Learn"? Yeah, the main theme and final boss music of Sonic Adventure 2? They actually attribute that as his theme.
- Which actually makes sense, considering that the song is about letting go of the pain in one's past.
- Being one of Sonic's earliest and most prominent rivals, Metal Sonic gets a lot of theme songs:
- From the Genesis era, "Metal Sonic" from the Sega Virtual Tunes, about his purpose and personality.
- From Sonic Heroes, the theme song "What I'm Made Of" famously depicts his motives. Interestingly, depending on the interpretation, it can also be seen as Sonic boasting to Metal to try and copy his power and see what happens.
- In Sonic Forces, the new villain Infinite has his own, intimidating song, with the lyrics largely gloating about how powerful he is, and how he will destroy anyone who stands in his way.
- The Act 2 variation of "Metallic Madness" from Sonic Mania has Robotnik deliver a short rap to combat the verse from Act 1, which is performed from the point of view of Sonic. Much like everything else in the soundtrack, it slaps.
- Purge from Space Channel 5 Part 2 sings a jazzy show tune describing his evil plan during the finale. We only get to hear a little bit of it in-game, but the soundtrack includes a full version.
- "(You Can't) Handle My Style" from Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is a heavily subdued version of this, simply being about Strong Bad starting an average day while reminding the player that he's too cool for anyone to even try to understand (unless they're a lady).
- Stubbs the Zombie: Near the end of the penultimate level Mr. Skegness and his goons sing "Slow, Grim and Grisly", a song about how they're going to kill you, and how those adjectives apply to Stubbs himself.
- "Ignorance Is Bliss", by Jellyfish, is sung by Bowser to Peach. It came out on the album "White Knuckle Scorin'", which had a comic story insert based on Super Mario World. (Although the comic had the characters continually referencing the titles of the songs on the album, this song was the only Mario-themed song on the album). The song and comic is about Bowser wanting to turn Dinosaurland "into nothing than fossil fuel" and join OPEC but his arrogance doesn't let him admit that not knowing how to read is the problem.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge has the first half of "We Ain't Came to Lose", a Badass Boastful Rap from Shredder's perspective as he lines out, in no uncertain terms, how he's going to lay out the Heroes in a Half-Shell like a floor rug.
- Touhou Project: Touhou Spell Bubble takes dozens of character songs from fanon and puts them in a rhythm and puzzle game hybrid where you must pop bubbles to the beat. These songs show up whenever you fight their respective owners in a spell bubble match. That's right. ''Cirno's Perfect Math Class'' is now a villain song.
- "Nightfall" from World of Warcraft's own rock band Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain starts out as a villain song sung by a death knight of the Ebon Blade, before the end describes the Knights being betrayed and swearing vengeance upon the Lich King.
- The Tauren Chieftans have "I Am Murloc", a Villain Song for the eponymous sea monsters.
- Additionally, they have the Diablo-themed "Raise some Hell". "Rogues Do It From Behind" arguably applies as well.
- Nightfall. The Death Knight Anthem.
- Yandere Simulator: Every year at Christmas time, Michaela Laws, Yandere-chan's voice actress, sings a twisted, yandere-themed parody of a Christmas song as the character. As of 2022, there have been a whopping nine: "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder", "Yandere-chan is Coming to Town", "You're a Mean One, Yandere-Chan", "Senpai Love Me", "Jingle Bells", "It's the Most Murderous Time of the Year", "Senpai, It's Cold Outside", "A Yandere Christmas Song", and "You'll Be Mine For Christmas".
- Yo! Noid 2: Enter the Void's final boss theme is sung by the villain himself, Hatsune Mike, father of Hatsune Miku, with Vocaloid-sounding vocals to boot.