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* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': The nation of Monstadt, City of Wind and Freedom, is a proud anarchy. Part of this is because in the past, they were ruled by a succession of nobles who grew more and more corrupt every generation. By modern times, the last heirs of House Lawrence, the previous rulers, are widely hated throughout the city--not helped by the fact that almost every Lawrence that still remains is an entitled asshole openly demanding every "peasant" bow and worship them. Since the only power they still have is to complain, everyone ignores them, but one of them tries to sell the city to a foreign power for literally no reason than because he's annoyed that the common folk don't have to obey his every whim.
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* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': The nation of Monstadt, Mondstadt, City of Wind and Freedom, is a proud anarchy. Part of this is because in the past, they were ruled by a succession of nobles who grew more and more corrupt every generation. By modern times, the last heirs of House Lawrence, the previous rulers, are widely hated throughout the city--not helped by the fact that almost every Lawrence that still remains is an entitled asshole openly demanding every "peasant" bow and worship them. Since the only power they still have is to complain, everyone ignores them, but one of them tries to sell the city to a foreign power for literally no reason than because he's annoyed that the common folk don't have to obey his every whim.
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* ''VideoGame/PathfinderKingmaker'' zigzags it. The PlayerCharacter starts out as a commoner and earns the title of Baron(ess) after [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership kicking some bandit ass]]. Nothing's stopping the player from fully embracing this trope, but most tend to stick with a good or at least neutral alignment. The NPC nobles, with very few exceptions, are a bunch of backstabbing jerks.
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* ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'' introduces Duke Luca Abele of Serkonos. He Serkonos, who forces his people to work themselves to death in the silver mines while he lives in opulence and is the money behind the EvilSorceress who wants to take over the Empire.Empire. You visit his mansion during one mission, and you find a party so decadent that there have already been ''several casualties:'' servants tortured to death in party games, aristocrats slumped over in their chairs dead from alcohol poisoning, women lured into rooms and knifed in the back by their rivals... everyone is too busy partying to do something morbid like deal with the bodies, so they eat and drink and gamble just feet away from corpses.
** In both games, pointing The Heart at a noble will often have it tell you about some horrible thing they've done in the name of status, wealth, or simply their own amusement. Sometimes it's subverted though, as sometimes the secret the heart whispers to you is that they're actually a much kinder person than they appear, but those are still massively outnumbered by the lines about any given noble murdering their own family members or tormenting their servants.
** In both games, pointing The Heart at a noble will often have it tell you about some horrible thing they've done in the name of status, wealth, or simply their own amusement. Sometimes it's subverted though, as sometimes the secret the heart whispers to you is that they're actually a much kinder person than they appear, but those are still massively outnumbered by the lines about any given noble murdering their own family members or tormenting their servants.
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* ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'': Baron Praxis. Although not actually a baron, as he is the tyrant ruler of a City-State after he overthrew his predecessor and tried to kill said predecessor's son. He establishes himself by having kidnapped and tortured Jak by injecting him with dark eco for several years in a SuperSoldier experiment, all by the end of the game's prologue.
* ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'': Count Veger -- evil, HolierThanThou, and a prime example of how TheFundamentalist operates when everything goes to hell.
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* ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'': Count Veger -- evil, HolierThanThou, and a prime example of how TheFundamentalist operates when everything goes to hell.
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* ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'': ** ''VideoGame/Jak3'': Count Veger -- evil, HolierThanThou, and a prime example of how TheFundamentalist operates when everything goes to hell.
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** The game features a boss named Baron Rivendare, who appears in the dungeons Stratholme and Naxxramas. Before he was raised into a Death Knight, he was a wealthy landowner who fell under the sway of the lich Kel'Thuzad and helped him structure the Cult of the Damned.
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** The game features a boss named Baron Rivendare, who appears in the dungeons Stratholme and Naxxramas. Before he was raised into a Death Knight, he was a wealthy landowner who fell under the sway of the lich Kel'Thuzad and helped him structure the Cult of the Damned.Damned.
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** ''Lunar Knights'' has two evil viscounts (most likely twins to boot), an AxCrazy human-hunting Margrave, an [[MadScientist evil scientist]] baron, and an earl who became a NecessarilyEvil duke. Interestingly enough, in the earl's case, his ascension to dukehood was the capper of his career as an earl, bagging vampire hunters and Guild gunslingers alike and instilling fear in said opposition from all that rep.
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** The what-if sequel, ''LunarKnights'' Knights'', has two evil viscounts (most likely twins to boot), an AxCrazy human-hunting Margrave, an [[MadScientist evil scientist]] baron, and an earl who became a NecessarilyEvil duke. Interestingly enough, in the earl's case, his ascension to dukehood was the capper of his career as an earl, bagging vampire hunters and Guild gunslingers alike and instilling fear in said opposition from all that rep.
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* ''VideoGame/Vampyr2018'': The Ascalon Club is an aristocratic vampire council whose chairman Lord Redgrave also doubles as Earl of Bristol. Subverted with [[spoiler:William Marshal]] who also was an ancient vampire that held the title of Earl, but is more of an HeroWithBadPublicity. And then there is [[spoiler:the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Red Queen]], the game's true BigBad]].
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* ''VideoGame/Vampyr2018'': The Ascalon Club is an aristocratic vampire council whose chairman Lord Redgrave also doubles as Earl of Bristol. Subverted with [[spoiler:William Marshal]] who also was an ancient vampire that held the title of Earl, but is more of an a HeroWithBadPublicity. And then there is [[spoiler:the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Red Queen]], the game's true BigBad]].
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* ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice'': The Duchess serves as a boss fight. She [[ImAHumanitarian tries to eat Alice]], no less. She makes a HeelFaceTurn in [[VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns the sequel]] and becomes Alice's ally, but [[AllThereInTheManual as stated in one source]] she becomes so annoying that Alice [[WeWantOurJerkBack actually prefers the way she was before]].
* ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' has Baron Alexander, but the why of it might gain him sympathy points with the right people -- as revealed in a handful of Notes, he's [[spoiler: simply trying to get back home]].
* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'': The Templar Order and its precursors tend to be comprised of royals, plutocrats, titans of industry, and other members of the social elite aside from a few exceptions.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' features the RealLife evil Pazzi family, as well as Rodrigo Borgia. It also adds the rest of the Borgia family, as well as fictional Silvestro "The Noble" Sabbatini who engaged in human trafficking.
** Every member of the Order of the Ancients in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' is an influential citizen within their own societies be it government officials, generals, priests, wealthy merchants, and other well-respected individuals. [[spoiler:The Roman leader of the Order, Flavius Metellus / The Lion just so happens to be from the Metelli family and he's the proconsul of Kyrenaika who is responsible for the murder of Bayek and Aya's son Khemu [[AGodAmi as well as using a Piece of Eden to make himself god]]]]. The Order was also founded by Smenkhkare (a Pharoah of Egypt's 20th dynasty) for the purposes of studying [[LostTechnology lost Isu technology]] located inside a temple but they would quickly evolve to include rich, upper-class elites across the known ancient world.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'' has the Cult of Kosmos, [[spoiler:a secretive organization in AncientGreece whose membership is largely comprised of politicians, generals, business owners, and religious leaders with spies, mercenaries, and crime bosses as hired help. Even the founder of the Cult is none other than Agamemnon, the legendary king of Mycenae while the group's leader the Ghost of Kosmos is Perakles' wife Aspasia ''of all people'']]. Additionally, the Persian Order of the Ancients is also led by the historical Xerxes I.
** The Auditores, the Medicis, the Grandprés and the Dorians are major subversions of this trope since they are aristocrats aligned with the Assassin Brotherhood instead of the Templar Order. [[UsefulNotes/AlfredTheGreat King Aelfred the Great]] from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla'' is also another subversion as while he is the ruling monarch of Wessex [[spoiler:and the Grand Maegester of the English Order of the Ancients]] he's actually an [[DesignatedVillain Type IV]] AntiVillain that wants to protect Britain from Viking invaders. [[spoiler:He even cooperates with Eivor to drive out the last vestiges of the Order from England after he returns from his exile]].
* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'': Duke Farthington Roenall. To be fair, his trafficking in slaves, smuggling gems, and hiring pirates don't make him any worse than most nobles in Amn, but orchestrating an assault on the De'Arnise Keep to kill Lord De'Arnise, then attempting to force De'Arnise's only daughter into a marriage with Roenall's son so the Roenalls can claim the De'Arnise wealth and lands ''does'' push it a little.
* ''VideoGame/TheBaron'' : The eponymous character is [[spoiler:an incarnation of the protagonist's incestuous desire for his daughter]].
* ''VideoGame/BattalionWars'': Countess Ingrid, Kaiser Vlad's air commander, shows no mercy, [[BloodKnight delights in violence]], and [[spoiler: summons the Iron Legion]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Boktai}}'':
** ''Lunar Knights'' has two evil viscounts (most likely twins to boot), an AxCrazy human-hunting Margrave, an [[MadScientist evil scientist]] baron, and an earl who became a NecessarilyEvil duke. Interestingly enough, in the earl's case, his ascension to dukehood was the capper of his career as an earl, bagging vampire hunters and Guild gunslingers alike and instilling fear in said opposition from all that rep.
** The title given to the first boss is the Count of Blood-soaking Earth.
* ''VideoGame/{{Brawlhalla}}'': Count Lucien Degas, who lived in splendor during the french revolution, but by night would be a highwayman. He used to have a gang until he turned them all in for the reward. According to his bio "He robs from the rich, the poor and specially the recently deceased".
%%* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'': Countess Crey, a VillainWithGoodPublicity.
* ''VideoGame/{{Clonk}}'': In one of the standard melee scenarios, "the Castle", a team of players control a group of peasants in a village at the bottom of a mountain, while a [[QuantityVsQuality single player]] controls the evil Baron Horx in a castle at the top.
* ''VideoGame/DiabloII'': The Countess. With her [[BloodBath pools of blood]], she's loosely based on the RealLife Countess Elizabeth Bathory.
* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', the old kings of Revachol were decadent, inbred, and insane, and their antics eventually became too much for the country, which erupted into a Communist revolution. The legend on the horseback monument that can be found in the middle of Martinaise actually reads:
-->''"I am Filippe III, the Squanderer, the Greatest of the Filippian Kings of Revachol; Son of Filippe II, the Opulent; Father of Filippe IV, the Insane."''
* ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'' introduces Duke Luca Abele of Serkonos. He forces his people to work themselves to death in the silver mines and is the money behind the EvilSorceress who wants to take over the Empire.
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* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** Ferelden's history included the evil King Arland, whose reign was so despotic that even the politically neutral Grey Wardens took up arms against him. Subverted with King Behren (should you choose to support him for King in Orzammar). He's a corrupt, manipulative, and despotic ruler who was rejected by his own father, but he's also a [[GoodIsNotNice champion of social justice]] who intends to introduce much-needed reforms to their ancient caste system and their self-destructive isolationist policies. Compare to his opponent, Lord Harrowmont, a kind and honorable man who rules through compromise, but who is also a staunch traditionalist who is unlikely to make much progress against the major social and economic problems the dwarfs face.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' features the machinations of Arl (equivalent of an earl) Rendon Howe, who -- among his other sterling achievements -- arranges the brutal murder of his best friend/liege lord and his entire noble household, then lays claim to his lands.
** Though not yet Arl himself, another upstanding citizen is Bann Vaughan, the son and heir to the Arl of Denerim, who kidnaps an elven bridal party with the intent of raping the women.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'' has the Baroness, an Orlesian noblewoman who demanded tribute from her peasants in the form of ''their children''. When they got fed up and torched her house, she cast a spell that dragged them all into death with her.
* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem'': The titular character is nominally the good guy, though you still probably wouldn't want to meet him.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': Nobles aren't really evil, but they are nearly useless, expensive, demanding, obnoxious, oppressive to other dwarfs, and generally hated (and often [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident killed]]) by the players. In other words, they provide a good example of the origin of this trope.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'': Earl Jakben of Imbel initially seems like just a cowardly burglary victim, but poke around his manor a bit and you'll discover that he's really quite evil [[spoiler:and a centuries-old vampire]].
* ''VideoGame/EmbricOfWulfhammersCastle'' has several nobles, some good, some bad, some minor characters not worth talking about. The Duchess of Elstwhere is a perfectly nice and helpful aristocrat, despite her [[AbusiveParents childhood]], even willing to milk a cow as part of relieving the fears of the peasants. Her uncle, meanwhile, Bad King Greyghast the Terrible, well, managed to get himself called Bad King Greyghast the Terrible. And Duke Theremin is basically a bit of an entitled snot.
* ''VideoGame/EndlessLegend'': The Broken Lords storyline has Marquis Suluzzo who encourages his people to continue draining Dust from other living beings, and part of the storyline quest involves taking him out.
* ''VideoGame/EternalSonata'': Count Waltz, despite being only sixteen years old and looking [[TheNapoleon even younger]], is a ruthless tyrant with aspirations of [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]]. His domain of Forte is large enough that Waltz borders on RoyalBrat despite his title, nevertheless Waltz is truly evil.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'': Queen Brahne Raza Alexandros XVI has no remorse for stealing other people's powers and using them to commit multiple genocides.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'':
*** The three Dukes of Ivalice, of which Dukes Gerrith Barrington of Riovanes and Bestrald Larg of Gallionne are downright evil, and the remaining Duke Druksmald Goltanna is only a notch or two above them. The war of succession between Duke Larg and Duke Goltanna for the throne of Ivalice is known as the War of the Lions, serves as the backdrop for much of the game, and creates enough bloodshed to precipitate the BigBad's true plot.
*** Lord Dycedarg Beoulve is a real piece of work. He [[spoiler: slowly fed poison to his father to kill him without suspicion and take hold of the Beoulve estate, orchestrated the kidnapping of Marquis Elmdore with Corpse Brigade commander Gustav to use as a bargaining chip, orders Gaffgarion to kill Ramza in cold blood, sets up a plot with Duke Larg to kill the Princess, murdered Larg to gain his power as regent, [[DealWithTheDevil gave his soul to the Lucavi Adrammelech]], and killed Zalbaag]]. He's far from successful in the end, but he's arguably the most monstrous character in the game.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'' and its prequel ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'', this goes all over the place. On one end of the spectrum, Marquess Darin of Laus and his son and successor Erik are both backstabbing sellouts who betray the Lycian League, and the unnamed Marquess of Araphen is a racist {{Jerkass}} who refuses to help Lyn due to her half-Sacean heritage. In the middle, Marquess Helman of Santaruz was willing to participate in the rebellion, but grew cold feet and dies helping Eliwood. Marquess Hausen of Caelin was a racist {{Jerkass}} who disowned his daughter after she eloped with a Sacean nomad, but he changed his mind after he learned he was a grandfather and sought to meet his daughter's family on better terms. On the other end of the spectrum, Marquess Elbert of Pherae and his son and successor Eliwood, and Marquess Uther of Ostia and his brother and successor Hector are all heroes through and through.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThracia776'' feature the Baron class, an enemy exclusive [[TinTyrant Heavily Armored]] class that can use [[MultiMeleeMaster all physical weapons]] and [[MagicKnight most magic]]. Oddly, while most Baron-classed characters are corrupt nobles or royalty, few have the title of "Baron" in the story.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'', in one of the most cynical portrayals of nobility in the series, has the Senate of Begnion almost in its entirety. While the above-mentioned Vice-Minister Lekain is one of the more particularly monstrous ones, pretty much every one of them with [[TokenGoodTeammate very few exceptions]] (and one who is just stupid) are corrupt, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]], [[SleazyPolitician sleazy]], and haughty to the core, overly obsessed with hierarchy and in ''[=RD=]'' invading the war-torn country of Daein, displacing its residents and placing them under oppressive rule, and causing Micaiah, one of {{The Hero}}es of ''RD'', who now has a burning hatred of all of Begnion's allies (which of course includes their commander, AKA [[TheHero Ike]]), and her friend Sothe to form [[LaResistance The Dawn Brigade]], setting the entire story and yet another war in motion; so bad is their behavior that they're some of the few people [[AllLovingHero Ike]] truly despises, and made him grow somewhat wary of nobility (especially because they tend to treat him like dirt due to being a very low-class foreign mercenary), and for all their insistence on everyone giving [[AChildShallLeadThem Empress Sanaki]] the utmost respect in ''[=PoR=]'', they expel her from her duties when she refuses to listen to them anymore in the sequel.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' presents Vice-Minister Lekain, Duke of Gaddos who is a monster. Some of Lekain's crimes include [[spoiler: causing a massacre, regicide, false imprisonment, rebellion, slave dealing, and extortion of two foreign nations through threats of massacring their peoples via arcane magic]].
* ''VideoGame/GabrielKnight: The Beast Within'' has Barons Friedrich von Glower and Garr von Zell; the latter is a murderous madman, and the former made him a murderous madman and plans to do the same to Gabriel.
* ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'': Baron Praxis. Although not actually a baron, as he is the tyrant ruler of a City-State after he overthrew his predecessor and tried to kill said predecessor's son. He establishes himself by having kidnapped and tortured Jak by injecting him with dark eco for several years in a SuperSoldier experiment, all by the end of the game's prologue.
* ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'': Count Veger -- evil, HolierThanThou, and a prime example of how TheFundamentalist operates when everything goes to hell.
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* ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'': Count von Sabrewulf is no more evil than most... well, until he transforms into a [[WolfMan werewolf]]. Given his uncontrollable condition though, he would arguably be considered more desperate and crazy for a cure than downright malevolent, as his reluctance to use all his strength ends up demonstrating to himself once the second game rolls around.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'', Duke Albarea is introduced by levying excessive taxes on his subjects, and making life difficult for them until they agree to pay up. In the following chapter, he arrests the son of one of his political rivals on trumped-up charges (which ''his own son'' was an eyewitness to the fact that Machias couldn't have done it, which is why the Duke put Jusis under house arrest to prevent him from testifying) for purposes of blackmail. Duke Cayenne is introduced by launching a coup, backed by Albarea and two Marquises. The complete listing of adult nobles in the first two games of the series outside the royal family who are ''not'' jackasses is: Viscount Arseid, Baron and Baroness Schwarzer, and Lord Rufus Albarea (Duke Helmut's elder son), [[spoiler:the last of whom turns out to have become disillusioned with the nobility and sided with Chancellor Osborne thanks to his father's treatment of his half-commoner little brother]].
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Ganondorf is known as "King of Thieves" or "the Great King of Evil" in some installments, and serves as the franchise's main antagonist and villain.
* ''VideoGame/MagicalTetrisChallenge'': WesternAnimation/{{Pete}} is known to [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands change jobs and outfits depending on the story]]. In this game, he's referred to as ''Sir'' Pete. He wears a tuxedo and top hat, and he lives in a mansion. Still doesn't stop him from being the main villain, though.
* ''VideoGame/{{Manafinder}}'': The aristocrats of Manahill are corrupt and often use their influence to get people they don't like exiled. Priscila the barkeeper was exiled because the noblewomen spread false rumors about her while Qu was exiled for making a joke that the aristocrats didn't like, showing that one doesn't even have to commit an actual crime to be exiled under Manahill's class system.
* ''VideoGame/MediEvil2'': Subverted with Lord Palethorn. He's a working-class cockney who tried to buy his way into high society.
* ''VideoGame/{{Moonrise}}'': the vampire Lady Cassandra Mallory epitomizes the aristocracy of old, and serves as the first outright antagonistic character. [[spoiler: She can even kill the player character.]]
* ''VideoGame/NinetyNineSpirits'', being set towards the end of the [[JidaiGeki Heian Period]], is lousy with corrupt, inept, and selfish nobles. The only one who actually gets a TITLE to his name, though, is the Shogun -- who turns out to be a fairly OK dude who means well even if things don't always work out as planned.
* ''VideoGame/{{Primal}}'': Count Raum. Every other wraith aristocrat was evil, but he's the only one with a given title.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'': The Four Lords are the elite (quite literally) minions working for [[BigBad Mother Miranda]], and pretty much all of them are demented in their own way and have a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld long history]] of tormenting the villagers and/or experimenting on them.
* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': Count Victor Draynor Drakan is a [[PhantasySpelling vampyre]] preying on the nearby village of Draynor. He's actually the weakest vampyre in the game, due to being on the wrong side of a divine barrier designed to keep Vampyres and Weres away from human-dominated lands.
* ''VideoGame/SidMeiersPirates'' has the infamous Marquis de Montalban, who imprisons your entire family.
* ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'':
** The Contessa in ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves''. She got her title and privileges by marrying a German aristocrat and poisoning him a few weeks after the wedding. She proceeds to use them to create a prison in the Czech Republic, with the intent of hypnotizing criminals into obtaining their loot, and intends to do so with Sly and Murray to find the (then unknown to them) Cooper Vault. She's also in league with the Klaww Gang, who intends to create a HatePlague in France in order to fuel Clockwerk's immortality.
** The Black Barron in ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves''. He's an immoral crook who hosts illegal dogfight competitions in the Netherlands, a huge SoreLoser who's willing to cheat to secure the trophy, and is very abusive to his own men. [[spoiler:Subverted, as he's actually Penelope in a costume, and she has no titles of her own... and double-subverted, as Penelope happens to be a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] and [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] JerkAss]].
* ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'': Countess Isabella Valentine, better known as Ivy. She may not be evil by choice, but still a KnightTemplar and a DarkActionGirl.
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%% ** Bowser. The series had other such characters, some more important than others: King Goomba/Goomboss, King Kaliente, etc.%%How are they examples?
%% ** The franchise has had roughly fourteen evil kings, two evil queens, one evil baron, three evil counts, and an evil major -- among various others.
** ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'': Count Bleck seeks nothing less than the total destruction of TheMultiverse.
* Marquis de Singe in ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'' is a crazy French doctor who was kicked out of the court for his insane experiments. He wants to become immortal, even if it kills everyone else.
%%* ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'': Ragou and Cumore.
* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': Duke Fishorn is half fish, half pigron, all mean. So mean, many consider him to be the hardest boss in the game!
* ''VideoGame/TrailsOfColdSteel:'' Individual aristocrats have a strong tendency to be arrogant jerks, and the "Four Great Houses" started a civil war in an attempt to maintain their power and privileges. On the other hand, they aren't the ones trying to start "The Great Twilight."
* ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'': Downplayed with Duke Bardorba. Probably an evil {{cult}}ist, but [[PlotlineDeath he doesn't live for very long]]. It's implied that he [[spoiler: and his son, Sydney, orchestrated the destruction of Lea Monde to permanently drive the power of the Dark from the world, and thus keep it from the Cardinal's power-hungry hands -- even if it meant Sydney's death and the sacrifice of everyone in the [[{{Cult}} Cult of Müllenkamp]]]].
* In ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'', the aristocracy of Gallia is comprised of nothing but evil assholes, including its mostly noble officers and the prime minister. The only exception is [[GoodPrincessEvilQueen Princess Cordelia]]. The protagonists of ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesII'' do include a few heroic aristocrats, but the antagonists are Gallian rebels led by racist reactionary nobles.
* ''VideoGame/Vampyr2018'': The Ascalon Club is an aristocratic vampire council whose chairman Lord Redgrave also doubles as Earl of Bristol. Subverted with [[spoiler:William Marshal]] who also was an ancient vampire that held the title of Earl, but is more of an HeroWithBadPublicity. And then there is [[spoiler:the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Red Queen]], the game's true BigBad]].
* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': The Bloody Baron. While not necessarily an evil man, he is callous and indifferent to the plight of the peasantry and allows his cadre of thugs to bully, harass, and outright rape and torture peasants living in his demesne.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** Trade Prince Maldy in the goblin starting zone is shaping up to be quite the scumbag.%%How?
** The game features a boss named Baron Rivendare, who appears in the dungeons Stratholme and Naxxramas. Before he was raised into a Death Knight, he was a wealthy landowner who fell under the sway of the lich Kel'Thuzad and helped him structure the Cult of the Damned.
* ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' has Baron Alexander, but the why of it might gain him sympathy points with the right people -- as revealed in a handful of Notes, he's [[spoiler: simply trying to get back home]].
* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'': The Templar Order and its precursors tend to be comprised of royals, plutocrats, titans of industry, and other members of the social elite aside from a few exceptions.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' features the RealLife evil Pazzi family, as well as Rodrigo Borgia. It also adds the rest of the Borgia family, as well as fictional Silvestro "The Noble" Sabbatini who engaged in human trafficking.
** Every member of the Order of the Ancients in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' is an influential citizen within their own societies be it government officials, generals, priests, wealthy merchants, and other well-respected individuals. [[spoiler:The Roman leader of the Order, Flavius Metellus / The Lion just so happens to be from the Metelli family and he's the proconsul of Kyrenaika who is responsible for the murder of Bayek and Aya's son Khemu [[AGodAmi as well as using a Piece of Eden to make himself god]]]]. The Order was also founded by Smenkhkare (a Pharoah of Egypt's 20th dynasty) for the purposes of studying [[LostTechnology lost Isu technology]] located inside a temple but they would quickly evolve to include rich, upper-class elites across the known ancient world.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'' has the Cult of Kosmos, [[spoiler:a secretive organization in AncientGreece whose membership is largely comprised of politicians, generals, business owners, and religious leaders with spies, mercenaries, and crime bosses as hired help. Even the founder of the Cult is none other than Agamemnon, the legendary king of Mycenae while the group's leader the Ghost of Kosmos is Perakles' wife Aspasia ''of all people'']]. Additionally, the Persian Order of the Ancients is also led by the historical Xerxes I.
** The Auditores, the Medicis, the Grandprés and the Dorians are major subversions of this trope since they are aristocrats aligned with the Assassin Brotherhood instead of the Templar Order. [[UsefulNotes/AlfredTheGreat King Aelfred the Great]] from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla'' is also another subversion as while he is the ruling monarch of Wessex [[spoiler:and the Grand Maegester of the English Order of the Ancients]] he's actually an [[DesignatedVillain Type IV]] AntiVillain that wants to protect Britain from Viking invaders. [[spoiler:He even cooperates with Eivor to drive out the last vestiges of the Order from England after he returns from his exile]].
* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'': Duke Farthington Roenall. To be fair, his trafficking in slaves, smuggling gems, and hiring pirates don't make him any worse than most nobles in Amn, but orchestrating an assault on the De'Arnise Keep to kill Lord De'Arnise, then attempting to force De'Arnise's only daughter into a marriage with Roenall's son so the Roenalls can claim the De'Arnise wealth and lands ''does'' push it a little.
* ''VideoGame/TheBaron'' : The eponymous character is [[spoiler:an incarnation of the protagonist's incestuous desire for his daughter]].
* ''VideoGame/BattalionWars'': Countess Ingrid, Kaiser Vlad's air commander, shows no mercy, [[BloodKnight delights in violence]], and [[spoiler: summons the Iron Legion]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Boktai}}'':
** ''Lunar Knights'' has two evil viscounts (most likely twins to boot), an AxCrazy human-hunting Margrave, an [[MadScientist evil scientist]] baron, and an earl who became a NecessarilyEvil duke. Interestingly enough, in the earl's case, his ascension to dukehood was the capper of his career as an earl, bagging vampire hunters and Guild gunslingers alike and instilling fear in said opposition from all that rep.
** The title given to the first boss is the Count of Blood-soaking Earth.
* ''VideoGame/{{Brawlhalla}}'': Count Lucien Degas, who lived in splendor during the french revolution, but by night would be a highwayman. He used to have a gang until he turned them all in for the reward. According to his bio "He robs from the rich, the poor and specially the recently deceased".
%%* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'': Countess Crey, a VillainWithGoodPublicity.
* ''VideoGame/{{Clonk}}'': In one of the standard melee scenarios, "the Castle", a team of players control a group of peasants in a village at the bottom of a mountain, while a [[QuantityVsQuality single player]] controls the evil Baron Horx in a castle at the top.
* ''VideoGame/DiabloII'': The Countess. With her [[BloodBath pools of blood]], she's loosely based on the RealLife Countess Elizabeth Bathory.
* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', the old kings of Revachol were decadent, inbred, and insane, and their antics eventually became too much for the country, which erupted into a Communist revolution. The legend on the horseback monument that can be found in the middle of Martinaise actually reads:
-->''"I am Filippe III, the Squanderer, the Greatest of the Filippian Kings of Revachol; Son of Filippe II, the Opulent; Father of Filippe IV, the Insane."''
* ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'' introduces Duke Luca Abele of Serkonos. He forces his people to work themselves to death in the silver mines and is the money behind the EvilSorceress who wants to take over the Empire.
%% * ''Franchise/DonkeyKong'': King K. Rool.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** Ferelden's history included the evil King Arland, whose reign was so despotic that even the politically neutral Grey Wardens took up arms against him. Subverted with King Behren (should you choose to support him for King in Orzammar). He's a corrupt, manipulative, and despotic ruler who was rejected by his own father, but he's also a [[GoodIsNotNice champion of social justice]] who intends to introduce much-needed reforms to their ancient caste system and their self-destructive isolationist policies. Compare to his opponent, Lord Harrowmont, a kind and honorable man who rules through compromise, but who is also a staunch traditionalist who is unlikely to make much progress against the major social and economic problems the dwarfs face.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' features the machinations of Arl (equivalent of an earl) Rendon Howe, who -- among his other sterling achievements -- arranges the brutal murder of his best friend/liege lord and his entire noble household, then lays claim to his lands.
** Though not yet Arl himself, another upstanding citizen is Bann Vaughan, the son and heir to the Arl of Denerim, who kidnaps an elven bridal party with the intent of raping the women.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'' has the Baroness, an Orlesian noblewoman who demanded tribute from her peasants in the form of ''their children''. When they got fed up and torched her house, she cast a spell that dragged them all into death with her.
* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem'': The titular character is nominally the good guy, though you still probably wouldn't want to meet him.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': Nobles aren't really evil, but they are nearly useless, expensive, demanding, obnoxious, oppressive to other dwarfs, and generally hated (and often [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident killed]]) by the players. In other words, they provide a good example of the origin of this trope.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'': Earl Jakben of Imbel initially seems like just a cowardly burglary victim, but poke around his manor a bit and you'll discover that he's really quite evil [[spoiler:and a centuries-old vampire]].
* ''VideoGame/EmbricOfWulfhammersCastle'' has several nobles, some good, some bad, some minor characters not worth talking about. The Duchess of Elstwhere is a perfectly nice and helpful aristocrat, despite her [[AbusiveParents childhood]], even willing to milk a cow as part of relieving the fears of the peasants. Her uncle, meanwhile, Bad King Greyghast the Terrible, well, managed to get himself called Bad King Greyghast the Terrible. And Duke Theremin is basically a bit of an entitled snot.
* ''VideoGame/EndlessLegend'': The Broken Lords storyline has Marquis Suluzzo who encourages his people to continue draining Dust from other living beings, and part of the storyline quest involves taking him out.
* ''VideoGame/EternalSonata'': Count Waltz, despite being only sixteen years old and looking [[TheNapoleon even younger]], is a ruthless tyrant with aspirations of [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]]. His domain of Forte is large enough that Waltz borders on RoyalBrat despite his title, nevertheless Waltz is truly evil.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'': Queen Brahne Raza Alexandros XVI has no remorse for stealing other people's powers and using them to commit multiple genocides.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'':
*** The three Dukes of Ivalice, of which Dukes Gerrith Barrington of Riovanes and Bestrald Larg of Gallionne are downright evil, and the remaining Duke Druksmald Goltanna is only a notch or two above them. The war of succession between Duke Larg and Duke Goltanna for the throne of Ivalice is known as the War of the Lions, serves as the backdrop for much of the game, and creates enough bloodshed to precipitate the BigBad's true plot.
*** Lord Dycedarg Beoulve is a real piece of work. He [[spoiler: slowly fed poison to his father to kill him without suspicion and take hold of the Beoulve estate, orchestrated the kidnapping of Marquis Elmdore with Corpse Brigade commander Gustav to use as a bargaining chip, orders Gaffgarion to kill Ramza in cold blood, sets up a plot with Duke Larg to kill the Princess, murdered Larg to gain his power as regent, [[DealWithTheDevil gave his soul to the Lucavi Adrammelech]], and killed Zalbaag]]. He's far from successful in the end, but he's arguably the most monstrous character in the game.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'' and its prequel ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'', this goes all over the place. On one end of the spectrum, Marquess Darin of Laus and his son and successor Erik are both backstabbing sellouts who betray the Lycian League, and the unnamed Marquess of Araphen is a racist {{Jerkass}} who refuses to help Lyn due to her half-Sacean heritage. In the middle, Marquess Helman of Santaruz was willing to participate in the rebellion, but grew cold feet and dies helping Eliwood. Marquess Hausen of Caelin was a racist {{Jerkass}} who disowned his daughter after she eloped with a Sacean nomad, but he changed his mind after he learned he was a grandfather and sought to meet his daughter's family on better terms. On the other end of the spectrum, Marquess Elbert of Pherae and his son and successor Eliwood, and Marquess Uther of Ostia and his brother and successor Hector are all heroes through and through.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThracia776'' feature the Baron class, an enemy exclusive [[TinTyrant Heavily Armored]] class that can use [[MultiMeleeMaster all physical weapons]] and [[MagicKnight most magic]]. Oddly, while most Baron-classed characters are corrupt nobles or royalty, few have the title of "Baron" in the story.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'', in one of the most cynical portrayals of nobility in the series, has the Senate of Begnion almost in its entirety. While the above-mentioned Vice-Minister Lekain is one of the more particularly monstrous ones, pretty much every one of them with [[TokenGoodTeammate very few exceptions]] (and one who is just stupid) are corrupt, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]], [[SleazyPolitician sleazy]], and haughty to the core, overly obsessed with hierarchy and in ''[=RD=]'' invading the war-torn country of Daein, displacing its residents and placing them under oppressive rule, and causing Micaiah, one of {{The Hero}}es of ''RD'', who now has a burning hatred of all of Begnion's allies (which of course includes their commander, AKA [[TheHero Ike]]), and her friend Sothe to form [[LaResistance The Dawn Brigade]], setting the entire story and yet another war in motion; so bad is their behavior that they're some of the few people [[AllLovingHero Ike]] truly despises, and made him grow somewhat wary of nobility (especially because they tend to treat him like dirt due to being a very low-class foreign mercenary), and for all their insistence on everyone giving [[AChildShallLeadThem Empress Sanaki]] the utmost respect in ''[=PoR=]'', they expel her from her duties when she refuses to listen to them anymore in the sequel.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' presents Vice-Minister Lekain, Duke of Gaddos who is a monster. Some of Lekain's crimes include [[spoiler: causing a massacre, regicide, false imprisonment, rebellion, slave dealing, and extortion of two foreign nations through threats of massacring their peoples via arcane magic]].
* ''VideoGame/GabrielKnight: The Beast Within'' has Barons Friedrich von Glower and Garr von Zell; the latter is a murderous madman, and the former made him a murderous madman and plans to do the same to Gabriel.
* ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'': Baron Praxis. Although not actually a baron, as he is the tyrant ruler of a City-State after he overthrew his predecessor and tried to kill said predecessor's son. He establishes himself by having kidnapped and tortured Jak by injecting him with dark eco for several years in a SuperSoldier experiment, all by the end of the game's prologue.
* ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'': Count Veger -- evil, HolierThanThou, and a prime example of how TheFundamentalist operates when everything goes to hell.
%%* ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterTheLostFrontier'': [[spoiler:Skyheed]] . He turns out to be the BigBad.%%Is he a noble?
* ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'': Count von Sabrewulf is no more evil than most... well, until he transforms into a [[WolfMan werewolf]]. Given his uncontrollable condition though, he would arguably be considered more desperate and crazy for a cure than downright malevolent, as his reluctance to use all his strength ends up demonstrating to himself once the second game rolls around.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'', Duke Albarea is introduced by levying excessive taxes on his subjects, and making life difficult for them until they agree to pay up. In the following chapter, he arrests the son of one of his political rivals on trumped-up charges (which ''his own son'' was an eyewitness to the fact that Machias couldn't have done it, which is why the Duke put Jusis under house arrest to prevent him from testifying) for purposes of blackmail. Duke Cayenne is introduced by launching a coup, backed by Albarea and two Marquises. The complete listing of adult nobles in the first two games of the series outside the royal family who are ''not'' jackasses is: Viscount Arseid, Baron and Baroness Schwarzer, and Lord Rufus Albarea (Duke Helmut's elder son), [[spoiler:the last of whom turns out to have become disillusioned with the nobility and sided with Chancellor Osborne thanks to his father's treatment of his half-commoner little brother]].
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Ganondorf is known as "King of Thieves" or "the Great King of Evil" in some installments, and serves as the franchise's main antagonist and villain.
* ''VideoGame/MagicalTetrisChallenge'': WesternAnimation/{{Pete}} is known to [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands change jobs and outfits depending on the story]]. In this game, he's referred to as ''Sir'' Pete. He wears a tuxedo and top hat, and he lives in a mansion. Still doesn't stop him from being the main villain, though.
* ''VideoGame/{{Manafinder}}'': The aristocrats of Manahill are corrupt and often use their influence to get people they don't like exiled. Priscila the barkeeper was exiled because the noblewomen spread false rumors about her while Qu was exiled for making a joke that the aristocrats didn't like, showing that one doesn't even have to commit an actual crime to be exiled under Manahill's class system.
* ''VideoGame/MediEvil2'': Subverted with Lord Palethorn. He's a working-class cockney who tried to buy his way into high society.
* ''VideoGame/{{Moonrise}}'': the vampire Lady Cassandra Mallory epitomizes the aristocracy of old, and serves as the first outright antagonistic character. [[spoiler: She can even kill the player character.]]
* ''VideoGame/NinetyNineSpirits'', being set towards the end of the [[JidaiGeki Heian Period]], is lousy with corrupt, inept, and selfish nobles. The only one who actually gets a TITLE to his name, though, is the Shogun -- who turns out to be a fairly OK dude who means well even if things don't always work out as planned.
* ''VideoGame/{{Primal}}'': Count Raum. Every other wraith aristocrat was evil, but he's the only one with a given title.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'': The Four Lords are the elite (quite literally) minions working for [[BigBad Mother Miranda]], and pretty much all of them are demented in their own way and have a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld long history]] of tormenting the villagers and/or experimenting on them.
* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': Count Victor Draynor Drakan is a [[PhantasySpelling vampyre]] preying on the nearby village of Draynor. He's actually the weakest vampyre in the game, due to being on the wrong side of a divine barrier designed to keep Vampyres and Weres away from human-dominated lands.
* ''VideoGame/SidMeiersPirates'' has the infamous Marquis de Montalban, who imprisons your entire family.
* ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'':
** The Contessa in ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves''. She got her title and privileges by marrying a German aristocrat and poisoning him a few weeks after the wedding. She proceeds to use them to create a prison in the Czech Republic, with the intent of hypnotizing criminals into obtaining their loot, and intends to do so with Sly and Murray to find the (then unknown to them) Cooper Vault. She's also in league with the Klaww Gang, who intends to create a HatePlague in France in order to fuel Clockwerk's immortality.
** The Black Barron in ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves''. He's an immoral crook who hosts illegal dogfight competitions in the Netherlands, a huge SoreLoser who's willing to cheat to secure the trophy, and is very abusive to his own men. [[spoiler:Subverted, as he's actually Penelope in a costume, and she has no titles of her own... and double-subverted, as Penelope happens to be a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] and [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] JerkAss]].
* ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'': Countess Isabella Valentine, better known as Ivy. She may not be evil by choice, but still a KnightTemplar and a DarkActionGirl.
%%* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
%% ** Bowser. The series had other such characters, some more important than others: King Goomba/Goomboss, King Kaliente, etc.%%How are they examples?
%% ** The franchise has had roughly fourteen evil kings, two evil queens, one evil baron, three evil counts, and an evil major -- among various others.
** ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'': Count Bleck seeks nothing less than the total destruction of TheMultiverse.
* Marquis de Singe in ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'' is a crazy French doctor who was kicked out of the court for his insane experiments. He wants to become immortal, even if it kills everyone else.
%%* ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'': Ragou and Cumore.
* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': Duke Fishorn is half fish, half pigron, all mean. So mean, many consider him to be the hardest boss in the game!
* ''VideoGame/TrailsOfColdSteel:'' Individual aristocrats have a strong tendency to be arrogant jerks, and the "Four Great Houses" started a civil war in an attempt to maintain their power and privileges. On the other hand, they aren't the ones trying to start "The Great Twilight."
* ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'': Downplayed with Duke Bardorba. Probably an evil {{cult}}ist, but [[PlotlineDeath he doesn't live for very long]]. It's implied that he [[spoiler: and his son, Sydney, orchestrated the destruction of Lea Monde to permanently drive the power of the Dark from the world, and thus keep it from the Cardinal's power-hungry hands -- even if it meant Sydney's death and the sacrifice of everyone in the [[{{Cult}} Cult of Müllenkamp]]]].
* In ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'', the aristocracy of Gallia is comprised of nothing but evil assholes, including its mostly noble officers and the prime minister. The only exception is [[GoodPrincessEvilQueen Princess Cordelia]]. The protagonists of ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesII'' do include a few heroic aristocrats, but the antagonists are Gallian rebels led by racist reactionary nobles.
* ''VideoGame/Vampyr2018'': The Ascalon Club is an aristocratic vampire council whose chairman Lord Redgrave also doubles as Earl of Bristol. Subverted with [[spoiler:William Marshal]] who also was an ancient vampire that held the title of Earl, but is more of an HeroWithBadPublicity. And then there is [[spoiler:the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Red Queen]], the game's true BigBad]].
* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': The Bloody Baron. While not necessarily an evil man, he is callous and indifferent to the plight of the peasantry and allows his cadre of thugs to bully, harass, and outright rape and torture peasants living in his demesne.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** Trade Prince Maldy in the goblin starting zone is shaping up to be quite the scumbag.%%How?
** The game features a boss named Baron Rivendare, who appears in the dungeons Stratholme and Naxxramas. Before he was raised into a Death Knight, he was a wealthy landowner who fell under the sway of the lich Kel'Thuzad and helped him structure the Cult of the Damned.
