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**[[KarmaHoudini Depending on which ending you choose]], Devin Weston, one of the [[BigBad]] of the entire game, becomes this. After manipulating and blackmailing all three main characters, and collecting all the rewards of their hard work for himself, seeing the three people finally get together, hand his ass back to him, and finally kill him by stuffing him in one of his luxury cars and throwing said car off a cliff is very satisfying. And frankly, his fate seems light compared to what atrocities he commited.
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** In the ''From Ashes'' DLC, you get to meet a surviving Prothean and discover (much to Liara's dismay) that although some of their last survivors [[ThrowALightIntoTheFuture went out like heroes]], by and large their civilization were dicks to everyone else. Even Javik's survival is due to a failed plan to secretly keep a million Protheans in stasis so that once the Reapers left, the Protheans could re-emerge, conquer the primitive survivors left by the Reapers, and restart their empire.
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** In the ''From Ashes'' DLC, you get to meet a surviving Prothean and discover (much to Liara's dismay) that although some of their last survivors [[ThrowALightIntoTheFuture [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture went out like heroes]], by and large their civilization were dicks to everyone else. Even Javik's survival is due to a failed plan to secretly keep a million Protheans in stasis so that once the Reapers left, the Protheans could re-emerge, conquer the primitive survivors left by the Reapers, and restart their empire.
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** In the ''From Ashes'' DLC, you get to meet a surviving Prothean and discover (much to Liara's dismay) that although some of their last survivors [[ThrowALightIntoTheFuture went out like heroes]], by and large their civilization were dicks to everyone else. Even Javik's survival is due to a failed plan to secretly keep a million Protheans in stasis so that once the Reapers left, the Protheans could re-emerge, conquer the primitive survivors left by the Reapers, and restart their empire.
** And in the ''Leviathan'' DLC, the Leviathans not only created the Catalyst in order better control their empire and its enslaved species (which resulted in the creation of the Reapers, with the Leviathans as their first victims), they're ''still'' raging assholes. If you pick the Control ending, AI-God-Shepard's first action to protect the galaxy would probably be blasting their refuge planet into dust. In the Destroy ending, the first thing the victorious allies would probably do as soon as they were able is blast the refuge planet into dust. In the Synthesis ending, everyone probably has a party expressing all the peace and love and universal oneness...and then blasts the Leviathan's planet to dust.
** And in the ''Leviathan'' DLC, the Leviathans not only created the Catalyst in order better control their empire and its enslaved species (which resulted in the creation of the Reapers, with the Leviathans as their first victims), they're ''still'' raging assholes. If you pick the Control ending, AI-God-Shepard's first action to protect the galaxy would probably be blasting their refuge planet into dust. In the Destroy ending, the first thing the victorious allies would probably do as soon as they were able is blast the refuge planet into dust. In the Synthesis ending, everyone probably has a party expressing all the peace and love and universal oneness...and then blasts the Leviathan's planet to dust.
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* In ''Fallout'', pre-war America in general was this. Bearing little resemblance to the real life United States, Fallout-verse America was a jingoistic, genocidal, dog-eat-dog state that thought nothing of violently annexing Canada, stomping out individual thought and rounding up dissidents to put into concentration camps and use in horrific social and medical experiments, all behind a thin veneer of 1950's suburban utopia. It has to be said that as bad as the irradiated, mutant-infested post-apocalyptic wasteland is, it's actually an ''improvement''.
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* In ''Fallout'', pre-war America in general was this. Bearing little resemblance to the real life United States, Fallout-verse America was a jingoistic, genocidal, racist, sexist, dog-eat-dog state that thought nothing of violently annexing Canada, stomping out individual thought and rounding up dissidents to put into concentration camps and use in horrific social and medical experiments, all behind a thin veneer of 1950's suburban utopia. It has to be said that as bad as the irradiated, mutant-infested post-apocalyptic wasteland is, it's actually an ''improvement''.
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* The whole town of Curst in PlanescapeTorment gets dragged down to Hell by its own wretchedness. You can choose between simply letting its denizens deal with their new problems, or try to redeem them.
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* The whole torn town of Curst in PlanescapeTorment gets dragged down to Hell by its own wretchedness. You can choose between simply letting its denizens deal with their new problems, or try to redeem them.
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* Kratos from ''Franchise/GodOfWar'' is a sociopathic VillainProtagonist who systematically murders the gods, but the one saving grace is, almost all of them are even worse than he is. [[FinalBoss Zeus most of all]], seeing as [[spoiler:Kratos is his own son, whom he betrayed.]] (In game, all were previously corrupted by Pandora's Box, but even compared to the original mythology, [[JerkassGods this depiction isn't far off.]])
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* [[NoNameGiven Purple Man]], the [[WouldHurtAChild child-murdering]] SerialKiller responsible for the entire ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' saga, is shown to have died horribly, violently, and in intense agony at the end of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3.'' He returns to the ruined Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria to destroy the animatronics for some reason, which [[NiceJobFixingItVillain frees the souls of the murdered children inside to pursue him]]. He freaks out and attempts to hide in an old prototype suit...a ''FlawedPrototype'' that immediately malfunctions and mangles him to death inside its shell, [[KarmicDeath just as he once]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard stuffed his victims into suits to hide them]]. No one is there to watch him convulse or hear him scream as he dies, not even his victims, who by then have every right to watch him suffer hideously; the ghostly children just fade away before he's even done bleeding out. Considering everything he'd done that ultimately drove the series, this is a well deserved fate.
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* [[NoNameGiven Purple Man]], the [[WouldHurtAChild child-murdering]] SerialKiller responsible for the entire ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' saga, is shown to have died horribly, violently, and in intense agony at the end of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3.'' He returns to the ruined Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria to destroy the animatronics for some reason, which [[NiceJobFixingItVillain frees the souls of the murdered children inside to pursue him]]. He freaks out and attempts to hide in an old prototype suit...a ''FlawedPrototype'' that immediately malfunctions and mangles him to death inside its shell, [[KarmicDeath just as he once]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard stuffed his victims into suits to hide them]]. No one is there to watch him convulse or hear him scream as he dies, not even his victims, who by then have every right to watch him suffer hideously; the ghostly children just fade away before he's even done bleeding out. Considering everything he'd done that ultimately drove the series, this is a well deserved fate.fate.
* The VideoGame/{{CSI}} licensed games have some people who you can see deserved to die, with one case being inverted - it's an [[{{Jerkass}} Asshole]] [[spoiler: Suspect. The fiancé from the third case in the third game was framed by the accomplice because of his abuse of his girlfriend.]] Sadly, [[KarmaHoudini he doesn't get arrested]] [[spoiler: because the 'victim' refuses to press charges for domestic violence]]... until the last case.
** The fourth game has a racist who was killed in an arson attack on his taxi, with the suspects being a pair of lesbians he was harassing and a drifter who had befriended the girls. [[spoiler: While the motive was robbery, the killer specifically chose him for being a dick.]]
***Also, the doctor from the fourth case has been forcing his daughter into an [[ArrangedMarriage]] with a credit fraud because said fraud's father is an old friend of his, and [[spoiler: committed criminal negligence by performing a cataracts surgery he had no experience with on his own wife more out of pride that someone else would be capable of saving his wife's vision than himself, leaving his wife near blind.]] While the killer had no problem [[spoiler: with the 'being blinded because her husband was an envious douche', it was the threat her husband made, her daughter would be disowned and separated from her mother, that drove her to killing her husband.]]
* The VideoGame/{{CSI}} licensed games have some people who you can see deserved to die, with one case being inverted - it's an [[{{Jerkass}} Asshole]] [[spoiler: Suspect. The fiancé from the third case in the third game was framed by the accomplice because of his abuse of his girlfriend.]] Sadly, [[KarmaHoudini he doesn't get arrested]] [[spoiler: because the 'victim' refuses to press charges for domestic violence]]... until the last case.
** The fourth game has a racist who was killed in an arson attack on his taxi, with the suspects being a pair of lesbians he was harassing and a drifter who had befriended the girls. [[spoiler: While the motive was robbery, the killer specifically chose him for being a dick.]]
***Also, the doctor from the fourth case has been forcing his daughter into an [[ArrangedMarriage]] with a credit fraud because said fraud's father is an old friend of his, and [[spoiler: committed criminal negligence by performing a cataracts surgery he had no experience with on his own wife more out of pride that someone else would be capable of saving his wife's vision than himself, leaving his wife near blind.]] While the killer had no problem [[spoiler: with the 'being blinded because her husband was an envious douche', it was the threat her husband made, her daughter would be disowned and separated from her mother, that drove her to killing her husband.]]
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* [[NoNameGiven Purple Man]], the [[WouldHurtAChild child-murdering]] SerialKiller responsible for the entire ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' saga, is shown to have died horribly, violently, and in intense agony at the end of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3.'' He returns to the ruined Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria to destroy the animatronics for some reason, which [[NiceJobFixingItVillain frees the souls of the murdered children inside to pursue him]]. He freaks out and attempts to hide in an old prototype suit...a ''FlawedPrototype'' that immediately malfunctions and mangles him to death inside its shell, just as [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he once stuffed his victims into suits to hide them]]. No one is there to watch him convulse or hear him scream as he dies, not even his victims, who by then have every right to watch him suffer hideously; the ghostly children just fade away before he's even done bleeding out. Considering everything he'd done that ultimately drove the series, this is a well deserved fate.
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* [[NoNameGiven Purple Man]], the [[WouldHurtAChild child-murdering]] SerialKiller responsible for the entire ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' saga, is shown to have died horribly, violently, and in intense agony at the end of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3.'' He returns to the ruined Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria to destroy the animatronics for some reason, which [[NiceJobFixingItVillain frees the souls of the murdered children inside to pursue him]]. He freaks out and attempts to hide in an old prototype suit...a ''FlawedPrototype'' that immediately malfunctions and mangles him to death inside its shell, [[KarmicDeath just as he once]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he once stuffed his victims into suits to hide them]]. No one is there to watch him convulse or hear him scream as he dies, not even his victims, who by then have every right to watch him suffer hideously; the ghostly children just fade away before he's even done bleeding out. Considering everything he'd done that ultimately drove the series, this is a well deserved fate.
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* In ''{{Freespace}}'', we learn through an ApocalypticLog that the Shivans killed off a species of {{Precursors}} (the Ancients) 8,000 years prior to the game. This log, written by the Ancients, paints them as victims of horrific destruction at the hands of the Shivans. It also, however, chronicles the rise of their empire, during which they met other advanced life, "And we subdued it, or we crushed it." In other words, the Ancients traveled around the galaxy enslaving and annihilating other species to expand their own powerbase. It's kinda hard to see the Shivans as the bad guys during that conflict.
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* In ''{{Freespace}}'', ''VideoGame/FreeSpace'', we learn through an ApocalypticLog that the Shivans killed off a species of {{Precursors}} (the Ancients) 8,000 years prior to the game. This log, written by the Ancients, paints them as victims of horrific destruction at the hands of the Shivans. It also, however, chronicles the rise of their empire, during which they met other advanced life, "And we subdued it, or we crushed it." In other words, the Ancients traveled around the galaxy enslaving and annihilating other species to expand their own powerbase. It's kinda hard to see the Shivans as the bad guys during that conflict.
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* [[NoNameGiven Purple Man]], the [[WouldHurtAChild child-murdering]] SerialKiller responsible for the entire ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' saga, is shown to have died horribly, violently, and intense agony at the end of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3.'' He returns to the ruined Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria to destroy the animatronics for some reason, which [[NiceJobFixingItVillain frees the souls of the murdered children inside to pursue him]]. He freaks out and attempts to hide in an old prototype suit...a ''FlawedPrototype'' that immediately malfunctions and mangles him to death inside its shell, just as [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he once stuffed his victims into suits to hide them]]. No one is there to watch him convulse or hear him scream as he dies, not even his victims, who by then have every right to watch him suffer hideously; the ghostly children just fade away before he's even done bleeding out. Considering everything he'd done that ultimately drove the series, this is a well deserved fate.
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* [[NoNameGiven Purple Man]], the [[WouldHurtAChild child-murdering]] SerialKiller responsible for the entire ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' saga, is shown to have died horribly, violently, and in intense agony at the end of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3.'' He returns to the ruined Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria to destroy the animatronics for some reason, which [[NiceJobFixingItVillain frees the souls of the murdered children inside to pursue him]]. He freaks out and attempts to hide in an old prototype suit...a ''FlawedPrototype'' that immediately malfunctions and mangles him to death inside its shell, just as [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he once stuffed his victims into suits to hide them]]. No one is there to watch him convulse or hear him scream as he dies, not even his victims, who by then have every right to watch him suffer hideously; the ghostly children just fade away before he's even done bleeding out. Considering everything he'd done that ultimately drove the series, this is a well deserved fate.
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* Jessica from ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2''. After subjecting [[spoiler:Carlos]] to a CruelAndUnusualDeath, few people shed tears when the Boss paid her back in the same coin.
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* Jessica from ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2''. After subjecting [[spoiler:Carlos]] to a CruelAndUnusualDeath, few people shed tears when the Boss paid her back in the same coin.coin.
* [[NoNameGiven Purple Man]], the [[WouldHurtAChild child-murdering]] SerialKiller responsible for the entire ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' saga, is shown to have died horribly, violently, and intense agony at the end of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3.'' He returns to the ruined Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria to destroy the animatronics for some reason, which [[NiceJobFixingItVillain frees the souls of the murdered children inside to pursue him]]. He freaks out and attempts to hide in an old prototype suit...a ''FlawedPrototype'' that immediately malfunctions and mangles him to death inside its shell, just as [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he once stuffed his victims into suits to hide them]]. No one is there to watch him convulse or hear him scream as he dies, not even his victims, who by then have every right to watch him suffer hideously; the ghostly children just fade away before he's even done bleeding out. Considering everything he'd done that ultimately drove the series, this is a well deserved fate.
* [[NoNameGiven Purple Man]], the [[WouldHurtAChild child-murdering]] SerialKiller responsible for the entire ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' saga, is shown to have died horribly, violently, and intense agony at the end of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3.'' He returns to the ruined Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria to destroy the animatronics for some reason, which [[NiceJobFixingItVillain frees the souls of the murdered children inside to pursue him]]. He freaks out and attempts to hide in an old prototype suit...a ''FlawedPrototype'' that immediately malfunctions and mangles him to death inside its shell, just as [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he once stuffed his victims into suits to hide them]]. No one is there to watch him convulse or hear him scream as he dies, not even his victims, who by then have every right to watch him suffer hideously; the ghostly children just fade away before he's even done bleeding out. Considering everything he'd done that ultimately drove the series, this is a well deserved fate.
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* Like in the western animation tab, Ferris Boyle is an AssholeVictim again in the DLC for ''BatmanArkhamOrigins'', "Cold, Cold Heart", and, if you can believe it, he's ''worse''. How much worse? Mr. Freeze doesn't even want to kill him. He just wants to get his wife's cryogenically frozen body out of Goth Corp, but Ferris decides to kill them both instead once he gets the chance. And the best part is, while in the cartoon, Ferris comes off as slimy and awful the moment we meet him, in this DLC, ''he even fools Batman'' with his supposed "humanitarianism". Nobody felt bad for him when Batman hit him right in the jaw, knocking him unconscious, and muttered, "Have a seat, ''humanitarian''."
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* Like in the western animation tab, Ferris Boyle is an AssholeVictim again in the DLC for ''BatmanArkhamOrigins'', "Cold, Cold Heart", and, if you can believe it, he's ''worse''. How much worse? Mr. Freeze doesn't even want to kill him. He just wants to get his wife's cryogenically frozen body out of Goth Corp, but Ferris decides to kill them both instead once he gets the chance. And the best part is, while in the cartoon, Ferris comes off as slimy and awful the moment we meet him, in this DLC, ''he even fools Batman'' with his supposed "humanitarianism". Nobody felt bad for him when Batman hit him right in the jaw, knocking him unconscious, and muttered, "Have a seat, ''humanitarian''.""
* Jessica from ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2''. After subjecting [[spoiler:Carlos]] to a CruelAndUnusualDeath, few people shed tears when the Boss paid her back in the same coin.
* Jessica from ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2''. After subjecting [[spoiler:Carlos]] to a CruelAndUnusualDeath, few people shed tears when the Boss paid her back in the same coin.
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* An unseen NPC known only as Dave in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' is a StrawMisogynist who is genuinely making the town worse, [[WhatAnIdiot prioritizing a working clock over obtaining vital medicine to keep everyone from dying.]] He also firmly believes that the intelligent, polite, pragmatic, and appreciative Karima can't be the leader of Overlook because she's a woman, and that she should just StayInTheKitchen. And he worships Handsome Jack, the asshole who put a murder lottery in their town (you get to see the meat grinder up front). He is shown with no redeeming values, going as far as [[UngratefulBastard insulting the Vault Hunters for bringing him medicine]]. Karima tricks the Vault Hunters into killing him during the Protective Shield Test, but AndThereWasMuchRejoicing is in effect since he's that insulting, and inhumanely supportive of their archenemies.
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** A Dahl BadBoss known only as Harcheck treats her staff like chattel and is incredibly demeaning towards the sympathetic chief security officer Booth, who refuses to harm the peaceful Crystalisks just so Harcheck can kill them and harvest them for their crystals. Harcheck proceeds to murder Booth when she tries to defend the Crystalisks and attempts to harvest them. No one mourns when a gigantic Crystalisk known as Blue, who had been a [[AllAnimalsAreDogs vaguely dog-like]] friend to the now deceased Booth, eventually kills Harcheck in what is [[SoundOnlyDeath implied to be a very gruesome manner]], while the rest of the previously docile Crystalisks end up becoming exceedingly hostile and dangerous to humans. You learn about this during Sir Hammerlock's '[[IronicName Perfectly Peaceful]]' quest.
** An unseen NPC known only as Dave is a StrawMisogynist who is genuinely making the town worse, [[WhatAnIdiot prioritizing a working clock over obtaining vital medicine to keep everyone from dying.]] He also firmly believes that the intelligent, polite, pragmatic, and appreciative Karima can't be the leader of Overlook because she's a woman, and that she should just StayInTheKitchen. And he worships Handsome Jack, the asshole who put a murder lottery in their town (you get to see the meat grinder up front). He is shown with no redeeming values, going as far as [[UngratefulBastard insulting the Vault Hunters for bringing him medicine]]. Karima tricks the Vault Hunters into killing him during the Protective Shield Test, but AndThereWasMuchRejoicing is in effect since he's that insulting, and inhumanely supportive of their
** A Dahl BadBoss known only as Harcheck treats her staff like chattel and is incredibly demeaning towards the sympathetic chief security officer Booth, who refuses to harm the peaceful Crystalisks just so Harcheck can kill them and harvest them for their crystals. Harcheck proceeds to murder Booth when she tries to defend the Crystalisks and attempts to harvest them. No one mourns when a gigantic Crystalisk known as Blue, who had been a [[AllAnimalsAreDogs vaguely dog-like]] friend to the now deceased Booth, eventually kills Harcheck in what is [[SoundOnlyDeath implied to be a very gruesome manner]], while the rest of the previously docile Crystalisks end up becoming exceedingly hostile and dangerous to humans. You learn about this during Sir Hammerlock's '[[IronicName Perfectly Peaceful]]' quest.
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* An unseen NPC known only as Dave in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' is a StrawMisogynist who is genuinely making the town worse, [[WhatAnIdiot prioritizing a working clock over obtaining vital medicine to keep everyone from dying.]] He also firmly believes that the intelligent, polite, pragmatic, and appreciative Karima can't be the leader of Overlook because she's a woman, and that she should just StayInTheKitchen. And he worships Handsome Jack, the asshole who put a murder lottery in their town (you get to see the meat grinder up front). He is shown with no redeeming values, going as far as [[UngratefulBastard insulting the Vault Hunters for bringing him medicine]]. Karima tricks the Vault Hunters into killing him during the Protective Shield Test, but AndThereWasMuchRejoicing is in effect since he's that insulting, and inhumanely supportive of their archenemies.
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* An unseen NPC known only as Dave in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' is a StrawMisogynist who is genuinely making the town worse, [[WhatAnIdiot prioritizing a working clock over obtaining vital medicine to keep everyone from dying.]] He also firmly believes that the intelligent, polite, pragmatic, and appreciative Karima can't be the leader of Overlook because she's a woman, and that she should just StayInTheKitchen. And he worships Handsome Jack, the asshole who put a murder lottery in their town (you get to see the meat grinder up front). He is shown with no redeeming values, going as far as [[UngratefulBastard insulting the Vault Hunters for bringing him medicine]]. Karima tricks the Vault Hunters into killing him during the Protective Shield Test, but AndThereWasMuchRejoicing is in effect since he's that insulting, and inhumanely supportive of their archenemies.archenemies.
* Like in the western animation tab, Ferris Boyle is an AssholeVictim again in the DLC for ''BatmanArkhamOrigins'', "Cold, Cold Heart", and, if you can believe it, he's ''worse''. How much worse? Mr. Freeze doesn't even want to kill him. He just wants to get his wife's cryogenically frozen body out of Goth Corp, but Ferris decides to kill them both instead once he gets the chance. And the best part is, while in the cartoon, Ferris comes off as slimy and awful the moment we meet him, in this DLC, ''he even fools Batman'' with his supposed "humanitarianism". Nobody felt bad for him when Batman hit him right in the jaw, knocking him unconscious, and muttered, "Have a seat, ''humanitarian''."
* Like in the western animation tab, Ferris Boyle is an AssholeVictim again in the DLC for ''BatmanArkhamOrigins'', "Cold, Cold Heart", and, if you can believe it, he's ''worse''. How much worse? Mr. Freeze doesn't even want to kill him. He just wants to get his wife's cryogenically frozen body out of Goth Corp, but Ferris decides to kill them both instead once he gets the chance. And the best part is, while in the cartoon, Ferris comes off as slimy and awful the moment we meet him, in this DLC, ''he even fools Batman'' with his supposed "humanitarianism". Nobody felt bad for him when Batman hit him right in the jaw, knocking him unconscious, and muttered, "Have a seat, ''humanitarian''."
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* An unseen NPC known only as Dave in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' is a StrawMisogynist who is genuinely making the town worse, [[WhatAnIdiot prioritizing a working clock over obtaining vital medicine to keep everyone from dying.]] He also firmly believes that the intelligent, polite, pragmatic, and appreciative Karima can't be the leader of Overlook because she's a woman, and that she should just StayInTheKitchen. He is shown with no redeeming values, going as far as [[UngratefulBastard insulting the Vault Hunters for bringing him medicine]]. He gets blown up during the protective shield test, but no one seems to care when his house falls off the edge of a cliff.
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* An unseen NPC known only as Dave in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' is a StrawMisogynist who is genuinely making the town worse, [[WhatAnIdiot prioritizing a working clock over obtaining vital medicine to keep everyone from dying.]] He also firmly believes that the intelligent, polite, pragmatic, and appreciative Karima can't be the leader of Overlook because she's a woman, and that she should just StayInTheKitchen. And he worships Handsome Jack, the asshole who put a murder lottery in their town (you get to see the meat grinder up front). He is shown with no redeeming values, going as far as [[UngratefulBastard insulting the Vault Hunters for bringing him medicine]]. He gets blown up Karima tricks the Vault Hunters into killing him during the protective shield test, Protective Shield Test, but no one seems to care when his house falls off the edge AndThereWasMuchRejoicing is in effect since he's that insulting, and inhumanely supportive of a cliff.their archenemies.
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* An unseen NPC known only as Dave in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' is a StrawMisogynnist who is genuinely making the town worse, [[WhatAnIdiot prioritizing a working clock over obtaining vital medicine to keep everyone from dying.]] He also firmly believes that the intelligent, polite, pragmatic, and appreciative Karima can't be the leader of Overlook because she's a woman, and that she should just StayInTheKitchen. He is shown with no redeeming values, going as far as [[UngratefulBastard insulting the Vault Hunters for bringing him medicine]]. He gets blown up during the protective shield test, but no one seems to care when his house falls off the edge of a cliff.
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* An unseen NPC known only as Dave in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' is a StrawMisogynnist StrawMisogynist who is genuinely making the town worse, [[WhatAnIdiot prioritizing a working clock over obtaining vital medicine to keep everyone from dying.]] He also firmly believes that the intelligent, polite, pragmatic, and appreciative Karima can't be the leader of Overlook because she's a woman, and that she should just StayInTheKitchen. He is shown with no redeeming values, going as far as [[UngratefulBastard insulting the Vault Hunters for bringing him medicine]]. He gets blown up during the protective shield test, but no one seems to care when his house falls off the edge of a cliff.
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* Subverted completely in Payday 2 with The Elephant, Big Oil and Election Day have you targeting innocent politicians and scientists for once.
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* An unseen NPC known only as Dave in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' is a StrawMisogynnist who is genuinely making the town worse, [[WhatAnIdiot prioritizing a working clock over obtaining vital medicine to keep everyone from dying.]] He also firmly believes that the intelligent, polite, pragmatic, and appreciative Karima can't be the leader of Overlook because she's a woman, and that she should just StayInTheKitchen. He is shown with no redeeming values, going as far as [[UngratefulBastard insulting the Vault Hunters for bringing him medicine]]. He gets blown up during the protective shield test, but no one seems to care when his house falls off the edge of a cliff.
* An unseen NPC known only as Dave in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' is a StrawMisogynnist who is genuinely making the town worse, [[WhatAnIdiot prioritizing a working clock over obtaining vital medicine to keep everyone from dying.]] He also firmly believes that the intelligent, polite, pragmatic, and appreciative Karima can't be the leader of Overlook because she's a woman, and that she should just StayInTheKitchen. He is shown with no redeeming values, going as far as [[UngratefulBastard insulting the Vault Hunters for bringing him medicine]]. He gets blown up during the protective shield test, but no one seems to care when his house falls off the edge of a cliff.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' had Kinshiro "King Moron" Morooka, a {{Jerkass}} SadistTeacher/[[{{Gonk}} Steve Buscemi-lookalike]] who puts the Main Character on his shit list only after just meeting him. That being said, it avoids the {{Unfortunate Implication|s}} that it's okay to kill {{Jerkass}}es. Even the main characters remark that while they hated him, [[AlasPoorScrappy he didn't deserve to end up dead]].
** Ironically, this winds getting such a massive case of AlasPoorScrappy it winds getting subverted, especially because his replacement is such a shameless, spiteful whore that even the teenage guys who hated the first person hate the successor MORE because she manages to outdo the Asshole Victim she replaced in being a JerkAss, and this is so bad it overpowers any of her MsFanservice tendencies. And, considering how ass ugly (in temperament and appearance) who she replaced was, that is quite a feat.
** Ironically, this winds getting such a massive case of AlasPoorScrappy it winds getting subverted, especially because his replacement is such a shameless, spiteful whore that even the teenage guys who hated the first person hate the successor MORE because she manages to outdo the Asshole Victim she replaced in being a JerkAss, and this is so bad it overpowers any of her MsFanservice tendencies. And, considering how ass ugly (in temperament and appearance) who she replaced was, that is quite a feat.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' had Kinshiro "King Moron" Morooka, a {{Jerkass}} SadistTeacher/[[{{Gonk}} Steve Buscemi-lookalike]] who puts the Main Character on his shit list only after just meeting him. That being said, it avoids the {{Unfortunate Implication|s}} that it's okay to kill {{Jerkass}}es. Even the main characters remark that while they hated him, [[AlasPoorScrappy he didn't deserve to end up dead]].
** Ironically, this winds getting such a massive case of AlasPoorScrappy it winds getting subverted, especially because his replacement is such a shameless, spiteful whore that even the teenage guys who hated the first person hate the successor MORE because she manages to outdo the Asshole Victim she replaced in being a JerkAss, and this is so bad it overpowers any of her MsFanservice tendencies. And, considering how ass ugly (in temperament and appearance) who she replaced was, that is quite a feat.
** Ironically, this winds getting such a massive case of AlasPoorScrappy it winds getting subverted, especially because his replacement is such a shameless, spiteful whore that even the teenage guys who hated the first person hate the successor MORE because she manages to outdo the Asshole Victim she replaced in being a JerkAss, and this is so bad it overpowers any of her MsFanservice tendencies. And, considering how ass ugly (in temperament and appearance) who she replaced was, that is quite a feat.
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*** Arguably every pedestrian in Grand Theft Auto V has the potential to become one of these, as the things they say to other people or on their cellphones present them as awful people.
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* In the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series, some pedestrians are criminals with the potential to become one of these.
** Promotional material for VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV turns the countless cops you'll no doubt gun down into this by implying that the police officers of Los Santos are cartoonishly corrupt, in one case arresting a man for "aggressive filming" and then [[KickTheDog shooting his dog]].
** Promotional material for VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV turns the countless cops you'll no doubt gun down into this by implying that the police officers of Los Santos are cartoonishly corrupt, in one case arresting a man for "aggressive filming" and then [[KickTheDog shooting his dog]].
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**Promotional material for VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV turns the countless cops you'll no doubt gun down into this by implying that the police officers of Los Santos are cartoonishly corrupt, in one case arresting a man for "aggressive filming" and then [[KickTheDog shooting his dog]].
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* In the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series, it's pretty easy to find several of these:
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'': Catalina.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'': Ricardo Diaz and Lance Vance.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': Any of the Ballas and Vagos, Ryder, T-Bone Mendez, Tenpenny and Pulaski.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories'': Ned Burner.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'': Armando Mendez.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': Eddie Low and Dimitri.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony'': Ray Bulgarin.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'': Catalina.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'': Ricardo Diaz and Lance Vance.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': Any of the Ballas and Vagos, Ryder, T-Bone Mendez, Tenpenny and Pulaski.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories'': Ned Burner.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'': Armando Mendez.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': Eddie Low and Dimitri.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony'': Ray Bulgarin.
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* In the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series, it's pretty easy to find several of these:
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'': Catalina.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'': Ricardo Diaz and Lance Vance.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': Any ofsome pedestrians are criminals with the Ballas and Vagos, Ryder, T-Bone Mendez, Tenpenny and Pulaski.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories'': Ned Burner.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'': Armando Mendez.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': Eddie Low and Dimitri.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony'': Ray Bulgarin.potential to become one of these.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'': Catalina.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'': Ricardo Diaz and Lance Vance.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': Any of
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories'': Ned Burner.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'': Armando Mendez.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': Eddie Low and Dimitri.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony'': Ray Bulgarin.
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** Speaking of ''Fallout'', pre-war America in general was this. Bearing little resemblance to the real life United States, Fallout-verse America was a jingoistic, genocidal, dog-eat-dog state that thought nothing of violently annexing Canada, stomping out individual thought and rounding up dissidents to put into concentration camps and use in horrific social and medical experiments, all behind a thin veneer of 1950's suburban utopia. It has to be said that as bad as the irradiated, mutant-infested post-apocalyptic wasteland is, it's actually an ''improvement''. It's hard to feel bad for America's passing, really.
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* ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'': Depending on the end, both Daniel as Alexander can be seen like this.
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* In ''Videogame/HeavyRain'', at one point the story hits this point. Ethan is forced to go kill a man in order to find a clue to his son. The victim is a drug dealer who chases Ethan around the apartment with a shotgun until they reach the daughters room and the victim runs out of ammo. To make the choice a slightly difficult one however, at the last minute he reveals he has two daughters and begs Ethan not to shoot, however he has already chased Ethan around like a jerk and revealed his occupation. To be fair, even if the guy catches Ethan, he lets him go without attacking him anymore, and considering Ethan pulls a gun first, that certainly bumps him up on the nice list.
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* In ''Videogame/HeavyRain'', at one point the story hits this point. Ethan is forced to go kill a man in order to find a clue to his son. The victim is a drug dealer who chases Ethan around the apartment with a shotgun until they reach the daughters room and the victim runs out of ammo. To make the choice a slightly difficult one however, at the last minute he reveals he has two daughters and begs Ethan not to shoot, however he has already chased Ethan around like a jerk and revealed his occupation. To be fair, even if the guy catches Ethan, he lets him go without attacking him anymore, and considering Ethan pulls a gun first, that certainly bumps him up on the nice list.
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* ''[[VideoGame/ShadowrunReturns Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall]]'' features an optional mission given to locate and assassinate a target who is being held prisoner by a rival corporation before the prisoner can be [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique compelled]] to reveal company secrets. This mission seems morally objectionable enough, and then the prisoner turns out to be a fellow Shadowrunner. The player has the option of rescuing him to let him live; if taken, [[AxCrazy the prisoner eventually reveals, quite gleefully, that he was the one responsible for the facility's equipment turning on and slaughtering the innocent workers there, even as they tried to flee in terror]].
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* ''[[VideoGame/ShadowrunReturns Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall]]'' features an optional mission given to locate and assassinate a target who is being held prisoner by a rival corporation before the prisoner can be [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique compelled]] to reveal company secrets. This mission seems morally objectionable enough, and then the prisoner turns out to be a fellow Shadowrunner. The player has the option of rescuing him to let him live; if taken, [[AxCrazy the prisoner eventually reveals, quite gleefully, that he was the one responsible for the facility's equipment turning on and slaughtering the innocent workers there, even as they tried to flee in terror]].terror]].
** However, given the nature of Shadowrun you don't know this unless you go through sparing him. Even if you decided to put a bullet between his eyes later, the employer is furious at you for knowing too much.
* Subverted completely in Payday2 with The Elephant, Big Oil and Election Day have you targeting innocent politicians and scientists for once.
** However, given the nature of Shadowrun you don't know this unless you go through sparing him. Even if you decided to put a bullet between his eyes later, the employer is furious at you for knowing too much.
* Subverted completely in Payday2 with The Elephant, Big Oil and Election Day have you targeting innocent politicians and scientists for once.
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* Almost everyone of Agent 47's targets in the ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' series is some kind of big-time criminal. Sex traffickers, mobsters, terrorists, and corrupt politicians are just some of 47's victims. However in cutscenes, 47 has murdered a presumably innocent postman to protect his identity, and Requiem in Blood Money has him kill a priest and reporter to protect his identity. In terms of targets, stand out "innocents" are the failed private investigator in that biker level and possibly others like Joseph Clarence (who is probably not a bad person, just an utter failure.) Completely innocent targets are still in the minority by a great margin.
** Joseph Clarence ran an amusement park with terrible safety regulations that killed 30 people. He isn't in the league of a sex trafficker or terrorist, but he has blood on his hands.
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* Almost everyone of Agent 47's targets in the ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' series is some kind of big-time criminal. Sex traffickers, mobsters, terrorists, and corrupt politicians are just some of 47's victims. However in cutscenes, 47 has murdered a presumably innocent postman to protect his identity, and Requiem in Blood Money has him kill a priest and reporter to protect his identity. In terms of targets, stand out "innocents" are the failed private investigator in that biker level and possibly others like Joseph Clarence (who is probably not a bad person, just an utter failure.) level. Completely innocent targets are still in the minority by a great margin.
** Joseph Clarence ran an amusement park with terrible safety regulations that killed 30 people. He isn't in the league of a sex trafficker or terrorist, but he has blood on his hands.margin.
** Joseph Clarence ran an amusement park with terrible safety regulations that killed 30 people. He isn't in the league of a sex trafficker or terrorist, but he has blood on his hands.
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* The whole torn of Curst in PlanescapeTorment gets dragged down to Hell by its own wretchedness. You can choose between simply letting its denizens deal with their new problems, or try to redeem them.
* ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'': Depending on the end, both Daniel as Alexander can be seen like this.
* In the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series, it's pretty easy to find several of these:
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'': Catalina.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'': Ricardo Diaz and Lance Vance.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': Any of the Ballas and Vagos, Ryder, T-Bone Mendez, Tenpenny and Pulaski.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories'': Ned Burner.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'': Armando Mendez.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': Eddie Low and Dimitri.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony'': Ray Bulgarin.
** Promotional material for VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV turns the countless cops you'll no doubt gun down into this by implying that the police officers of Los Santos are cartoonishly corrupt, in one case arresting a man for "aggressive filming" and then [[KickTheDog shooting his dog]].
* Every single target in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI''. They all get their [[KickTheDog very own moment]] before their assassinations that put them here.
** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'', at least one gets an AlasPoorVillain moment: Dante Moro, the [[HanlonsRazor brain-damaged]] bodyguard of Marco Barbarigo. He tries to give Ezio some help with his last words (telling him where the Templars are next). Additionally, after his death you receive a letter from his former wife that he was tricked into annulling his marriage too, stating that [[TearJerker she still loves him and hopes for the day that he'll recover and remember her]]. And, as your informant Shaun tells you, Dante's boss coveted his wife, and so tried to MurderTheHypotenuse. He survived but with severe brain damage, reverting him to a child-like state. This led his boss to manipulating Dante into divorcing his wife and becoming his [[TheDragon Dragon]]. The poor guy was probably the only named victim in any of the ''AC'' games you could feel any real sympathy for. Which just adds to potential justification for killing said boss.
*** In the first Assassin's Creed, there's one mission where you are sent to kill a guy who has been set up as a TortureTechnician, who has been kidnapping beggars from various cities, ostensibly to torture them to death for fun. But when you actually track him down, it becomes obvious (to the player, at least) that he's actually NOT evil at all, he's actually a brilliant doctor who is extremely ahead of his time, and he's having mentally ill street-people brought to him because he's trying to cure them with primitive techniques and equipment. Everyone else in the setting is so uneducated and ignorant, including Altair, that they can't understand it and assume he must be lying about wanting to help. On the other hand, it's ''also'' implied he's using them as convenient test subjects for the mind control techniques the Templars are having him work on, so he's not completely blameless.
** In the Bonfire of the Vanities it is also subverted, some of Savonarola's Lieutenants are pretty forced to do his bidding through the Apple and had no choice in the matter and regret what they have done to Florence in the name of attempting to seek enlightenment or just forced to serve him through the apple.
** Finally subverted in ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'', when after assassinating him on a count of treason, Tarik Barleti reveals that he was executing his own scheme against the Templars, having sold them defunct firearms in an attempt to lure the them out of hiding. Worse yet, Tarik doesn't even blame [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Ezio]] for his death, instead blaming his own hubris. Instead of his traditional "Requiscat in pace," Ezio's final words to him are, "[[TearJerker I am sorry.]]"
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII''. The BigBad has been killing people, and you've been following him in the hopes of putting a stop to it. The previous victims have all been high-profile, usually the most important people in their respective towns. Enter Dominico, who clearly is the most important man in Arcadia and seems certain to be the next target. Dominico is also a complete douchebag to everybody in general, but to his servant David in particular, heaping humiliation after humiliation on the doggedly loyal young man, even forcing him to taste for poison in his dog's food. You already know nobody's going to regret this guy's death. Except, it's the eminently likable David who turns out to be the target, rather than Dominico, who isn't quite as important as he thought he was.
* The first victim of the supernatural serial killer in ''{{Phantasmagoria}} 2 - A Puzzle of Flesh'' is the bullying asshole of a coworker at the protagonist's work place, causing Curtis a lot of concern as to whether or not he may have killed him during a psychotic black-out. Then the people he ''likes'' start dying, and the otherworldly antagonist gets a lot less subtle.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' had Kinshiro "King Moron" Morooka, a {{Jerkass}} SadistTeacher/[[{{Gonk}} Steve Buscemi-lookalike]] who puts the Main Character on his shit list only after just meeting him. That being said, it avoids the {{Unfortunate Implication|s}} that it's okay to kill {{Jerkass}}es. Even the main characters remark that while they hated him, [[AlasPoorScrappy he didn't deserve to end up dead]].
** Ironically, this winds getting such a massive case of AlasPoorScrappy it winds getting subverted, especially because his replacement is such a shameless, spiteful whore that even the teenage guys who hated the first person hate the successor MORE because she manages to outdo the Asshole Victim she replaced in being a JerkAss, and this is so bad it overpowers any of her MsFanservice tendencies. And, considering how ass ugly (in temperament and appearance) who she replaced was, that is quite a feat.
* In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', the player character gets the chance to solve a murder. Turns out the victim was having an affair with one suspect's wife, and had been in a fight over business with the other suspect.
** Later in the game, the PC gets to do play detective/lawyer again, but this time the trope is completely inverted: though the victim is a Dark Jedi -- and as such, no girl scout -- her murderer is even worse. And infuriatingly vital for the Republic's war effort.
*** The game does not force you into saving the murderer, however.
* Almost everyone of Agent 47's targets in the ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' series is some kind of big-time criminal. Sex traffickers, mobsters, terrorists, and corrupt politicians are just some of 47's victims. However in cutscenes, 47 has murdered a presumably innocent postman to protect his identity, and Requiem in Blood Money has him kill a priest and reporter to protect his identity. In terms of targets, stand out "innocents" are the failed private investigator in that biker level and possibly others like Joseph Clarence (who is probably not a bad person, just an utter failure.) Completely innocent targets are still in the minority by a great margin.
** Joseph Clarence ran an amusement park with terrible safety regulations that killed 30 people. He isn't in the league of a sex trafficker or terrorist, but he has blood on his hands.
* ''VideoGame/{{Condemned}}: Criminal Origins'', All the victims of Serial Killer X/Leland were all serial killers themselves. He would kill them the way they killed their victims. Needless to say all the murders were fairly brutal.
* Franchise/TheElderScrolls series has this pop up quite a bit. It goes along well with the general GrayAndGrayMorality of the game world.
** Playing with this trope: in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' on the [[MurderInc Dark Brotherhood]] quests, about halfway through the questline your anonymous orders stop being 'kill this person, no reason given', and start painting a detailed picture of the asshole you are about to murder. They are all lies, but the victims really did kind of have it coming - you have been unknowingly bumping off the leaders of the Dark Brotherhood itself.
*** First few are still assholes. You've got a pirate, a rapist, a guy who had the Brotherhood kill his own mother to save his skin (unfortunately he lives if you finish it "right"), a warlord, that mouthy dark elf from the tutorial, and a mooching drug addict. The only person on the list of slaughter victims who wasn't a jerkass of one stripe or the other was Baenlin.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'': the first target for the Dark Brotherhood assassin's guild is an orphanage matron by the name of Grelod the Kind, who is ''anything'' but what her name implies, and is quite the cruel ChildHater. When you first enter the orphanage, you find her [[OrphanageOfFear threatening]] to give the kids of the orphanage an ''extra'' beating if they don't step up their chores, telling them they're her slaves until they come of age and she can kick them out, and that if they think of escaping like Aretino (the orphan who called the hit on her) she'll make them suffer for it. She then ends off by making the children force themselves to say that they love her. If you forgo silence and just decide to kill her in view of the orphans, they ''cheer''.
*** And then the initiation ritual has you kill a barbarian with a hidden BloodKnight streak, a feisty and crass woman who has murdered people with her foul words and temper and a Khajit (Thief, murderer and rapist) who expects this to be his death. With a broader definition of "asshole", you can also [[TakeAThirdOption kill the Dark Brotherhood assassin who brought you there]].
*** Another Brotherhood target, Clan Shatter-shield, is also rather unsympathetic, though this is only seen in quests outside of the Dark Brotherhood questline. They turn out to be a family of Corrupt Corporate Executives who treat their foreign workers like garbage and sic pirates on their competitors.
*** Nearly all of the people the Thieves Guild sends you after are this. Examples including an oppressive, penny pinching beekeeper, a slave driving meadery owner, an Argonian con artist, and the man who betrayed and murdered the original guildmaster. Though in the case of the Con Artist, he just agrees to work with Guild and becomes a fence for you.
* In ''Videogame/MassEffect2'', Thane's loyalty quest goes to great lengths to show that the target of Kolyat's assassination attempt is corrupt. Even in the outcomes where he winds up dead (including [[ShootTheHostage by Renegade Shepard's own hand]]), everyone cares more about what's going to happen to Kolyat; you can even talk the C-Sec officer into not pressing charges for attempted murder. Thane's role as TheAtoner involves specifically targeting these. In fact, you meet him during what was to be his last job, a CorruptCorporateExecutive BadBoss.
** In ''Videogame/MassEffect3'', the Batarian Hegemony is a xenophobic, insular, isolationist society that practices slavery, regularly condones acts of terrorism against the Council races, and is gearing up for war with the Alliance. It also happens that the Reapers invade the galaxy through batarian space, and the Hegemony folds like a house of cards. Unfortunately, this all hurts the many decent batarians who had no control over their government.
** Also in ''Mass Effect 3'', Henry Lawson, Miranda Lawson's father, had already been described by Miranda as a narcissistic [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] who wanted to control every aspect of Miranda and her sister, Oriana's, lives (even making Miranda unable to conceive children). Then it turns out he's even worse, as he sets up a facility masquerading as a refugee camp for displaced families and those with family members fighting in the Reaper War to come and stay. Unfortunately, everyone who goes there is either indoctrinated into a Cerberus agent, converted into husks to study the Reapers, or murdered and experimented on, with him overseeing the deaths of thousands or millions of people. While normally a morally ambiguous act, when Miranda biotically throws him out of a window to his death after he lets go his hostage (and other daughter, Oriana), [[KickTheSonOfABitch it's safe to say no tears were shed.]]
* Ozette in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''. They [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer treat Presea terribly]], are [[FantasticRacism especially racist towards half-elves]] and report your party to the Papal Knights when you come back to help Presea. It's hard to feel sympathy when Cruxis destroys the town, considering that none of the victims were significant exceptions to the general behavior.
* Killing both Mr. Burke and Allistair Tenpenny from ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' yield good karma from killing them, and there are other such friendly NPC's who have crossed the MoralEventHorizon enough to get this.
* Ragou and Cumore in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' take this trope UpToEleven. In the first act of the game, [[AxCrazy Ragou]] is found to have been feeding some of the already-abused citizens of the town he governs to monsters for ''[[ForTheEvulz entertainment]]'', claiming that the party doesn't understand the high class of taste it takes to find it amusing. Watching him walk away the first time he is caught is one of the most difficult parts of the game to sit through. In the second act, Cumore has been forcing citizens of the desert town he has jurisdiction over to search for an ancient and [[PhysicalGod powerful]] phoenix-like creature. They are dropped in the middle of said desert to search for said monster. Assuming they found the monster (no one does), it is more than capable of [[YourHeadAsplode instantly]] killing anything, including similar god-like creatures. When both are finally brought to justice, the legal system of Terca Lumireis [[KarmaHoudini lets both of them go with either a minor reduction in rank or no punishment at all]]. Both assholes meet their end -- Ragou is slashed across his back and dumped into a river; Cumore is backed into what is essentially a pit of quicksand -- at the hands of disgruntled Imperial soldier turned vigilante Yuri Lowell... whose reward is to get [[WhatTheHellHero ragged on it]] by his borderline LawfulStupid friend and ex-comrade Flynn Scifo.
* While the player commits many atrocities in the Death Knight starting quests in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', often against civilians, the primary opponents are the [[KnightTemplar Scarlet Crusade]], which tortures and kills perceived enemies, and whose leadership leaves many of the civilians to die in order to flee and attack the Scourge in Northrend. The Lich King's forces may still be worse, but the Scarlet Crusade is also considered an enemy by the other groups fighting the Lich King because of their extremist positions.
** By "perceived enemies," they mean "anybody who might be corrupted by the Scourge." And by "anybody who might be corrupted by the Scourge," they mean "anybody who isn't part of the Scarlet Crusade."
** Also in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'', you probably still cheer when [[GeneralRipper Garithos]] is killed by Varimathras and devoured by ghouls.
** In Mount Hyjal, your character infiltrates the Twilight's Hammer to conduct sabotage. To prove your loyalty, you have are ordered to execute some of the failed applicants who are held in detention. Luckily for you, the Twilight's Hammer functions on KlingonPromotion and every single prisoner is more than happy to attack you and offer your blood as a sacrifice to the [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]].
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', [[BigBad Sephiroth]] murders [[CorruptCorporateExecutive President Shinra]]. This is the same president who [[MoralEventHorizon ordered the destruction of a neighborhood]] [[DisproportionateRetribution just to get rid of some]] [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters terrorists]]. The Midgar is a bustling metropolis. The terrorist group he was seeking to "deal with" amounted to five members, plus the mercenary. So to get rid of the organization, he blew up the plate over the slum they were based out of, to kill them, destroying about an eighth of the city in the process ([[WhatAnIdiot and only managed to kill three of the six people he was aiming for]]). Not many tears were shed upon his demise, save for finding out his successor was [[FromBadToWorse even worse]] and the fact that ''we didn't get to kill him ourselves!!''
* In ''{{Freespace}}'', we learn through an ApocalypticLog that the Shivans killed off a species of {{Precursors}} (the Ancients) 8,000 years prior to the game. This log, written by the Ancients, paints them as victims of horrific destruction at the hands of the Shivans. It also, however, chronicles the rise of their empire, during which they met other advanced life, "And we subdued it, or we crushed it." In other words, the Ancients traveled around the galaxy enslaving and annihilating other species to expand their own powerbase. It's kinda hard to see the Shivans as the bad guys during that conflict.
** The fan project Ancient-Shivan War, which covers this area of Freespace's history, portrays the Ancients as a very stuck-up warrior culture who consider all other forms of life automatically inferior and who glory in the genocide of a less advanced species early in the game. Fans are somewhat mollified by knowing [[ForegoneConclusion exactly what's going]] [[PrecursorKillers to happen]] to the Ancients in later installments.
* The town of [[WretchedHive Nipton]] in ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas'' qualifies. The town was destroyed by [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Caesar's Legion]], but [[TheSpymaster Vulpes Inculta]] describes it as a town of whores willing to sell each other out and didn't even bother to fight back. He's not lying. However, much like with Carla Boone, many characters feel that as bad as Nipton was, it did not deserve [[RapePillageAndBurn what Caesar's Legion did to it]]
** Then there's Benny the guy who shot the courier and buried him/her. He dies either in two ways. One you hunt him down for Mr. House. Or he is captured by Caesar and you get to choose how to kill him.
** The Great Khans tribe qualifies as well. On the one hand, a rather severe foul-up on the NCR's part led to a massacre that saw the Khans getting absolutely devastated; years later they still haven't recovered. On the other hand, the Khans were openly hostile to the NCR long before the event in question, and not terribly nice even amongst each other. Their leader outright brags about how they laid ruin to defenseless NCR settlements, and a former Khan that later defected to the NCR will angrily comment that the group got exactly what was coming to them.
* In ''Videogame/HeavyRain'', at one point the story hits this point. Ethan is forced to go kill a man in order to find a clue to his son. The victim is a drug dealer who chases Ethan around the apartment with a shotgun until they reach the daughters room and the victim runs out of ammo. To make the choice a slightly difficult one however, at the last minute he reveals he has two daughters and begs Ethan not to shoot, however he has already chased Ethan around like a jerk and revealed his occupation. To be fair, even if the guy catches Ethan, he lets him go without attacking him anymore, and considering Ethan pulls a gun first, that certainly bumps him up on the nice list.
** The same happens to the owner of the Blue Lagoon who turns out to be a pervert and a rapist, but is shot by the Origami Killer.
** Lt. Blake has become this in two ways: [[spoiler:the "Uploaded" ending where it is implied he'll suffer the effects of the ARI]]. Or [[spoiler:than being suspended for Ethan's death.]]
* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'' gives us [[EvilCounterpart Jack's Squad]]. [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Absurdly amoral assholes]] who happily jump into MadScientist territory, Jack's Squad is used to deconstruct the idea of BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood. Even as HolierThanThou zombies, they're ''still'' idiot jerks.
* The comment under TableTopGames for "dungeons" applies to numerous video games as well. For example, in ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, if you see a small cavern complex, you can rest assured that at least nine times in ten it will be full of Necromancers of Conjurers or the undead or other perfectly acceptable targets you may ruthlessly cut down without a single ding to the KarmaMeter. You can then with no guilt grab everything in the place and haul it back to the nearest marketplace. The remaining one time in ten you will speak with the inhabitants. Half the time, you will put them all to the sword because someone told you to, then take their stuff and sell it.
* In ''[[FireEmblemElibe Fire Emblem: the Binding Blade]]'', it's related that BigBad Zephiel's descent into villainy began when he strangled to death his father Desmond, who had had ''at least'' two hits put out on his son prior.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' everybody on Corvo's hit list is part of this troupe. The tagline of "Revenge Solves Everything" should have been the first clue.
* In ''VideoGame/LANoire'' the BodyOfTheWeek with whom [[PlayerCharacter Cole Phelps]] makes detective turns out to be an anti-Semitic jerkwad. [[spoiler:He [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections tried to use his connections]] to sabotage a non-competing store because it was owned by a Jew, who finally snapped and filled him with lead.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' game, had a town called Crawford where everyone in it were turned into Walkers. The town itself is run like the Khmer Rouge, where they kill people they deem a burden to them, children, the elderly, and sick. Some of the survivors considered that the people in it got what they deserved.
* All of [[VideoGame/AnakshaFemaleAssassin Anaksha's]] targets in her games qualify for this trope, the horrible things they do to people qualifying them for death by her sniper rifle.
* In the Goblin quest series in ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', the first thing [[JerkassGods Bandos]] does after he [[GrandTheftMe commandeers]] Zanik's body is make her execute [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Sigmund]]. We're ''supposed'' to take this as a sign that Zanik is Not Herself, but given that Sigmund had attempted genocide of the Goblin race, which Zanik is a member of and Bandos is the patron of, ''three times'' at that point, few players were sad to see him go.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'': Lampshaded by Vivi, who states (in narration) "I hated Brahne. I wanted this to happen to her." However, it's subverted second later, when he laments "But then I saw Garnet cry...".
* In ''{{Homeworld}}'' you capture one of the frigates responsible for the destruction of your civilization. The captain is interrogated for information on why this happened, which he reveals. It is clinically noted that "the subject did not survive interrogation".
* In ''{{Suikoden}}'', any time you have elves in the game, you will have on average two who aren't complete unrepentant assholes. In the first game, their general dickery bites them on the ass in a big way - the elven home tree is a gigantic target for the Burning Mirror at Kwanda Rosman's fortress, which has a straight shot at it. One of Rosman's lieutenants, Valeria, goes to the elves to try to warn them. She speaks to them for all of fifteen seconds before they begin hurling speciesist insults at her, then throw her in the dungeon. When you return from the (similarly dickish) dwarven lands with a weapon that can neutralize the Burning Mirror, you can see the elven tree on fire in the distance. The characters in the scene are shocked and horrified, but most players can't help but smile a little inside (doubly so because all of the not-asshole elves survive).
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' has one in the Leon/Helena campaign. One of the Tall Oaks gun store survivors is a sociopathic survival-focused BastardBoyfriend CListFodder who spends his whole screen-time verbally abusing his girlfriend and complaining that she's slowing him down and should be left to the zombies. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Helena]] ''[[BerserkButton especially]]'' calls him out on this, understandable given her personal past experiences. Eventually, Peter decides that he'd have a better chance of survival if he went his own way, so he ''forcibly takes his girlfriend's gun'' and runs out the gun store, [[TooDumbToLive where he is promptly eaten by a zombie]]. The only person who feels even ''remotely'' upset is his now ex-girlfriend.
* ''[[VideoGame/ShadowrunReturns Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall]]'' features an optional mission given to locate and assassinate a target who is being held prisoner by a rival corporation before the prisoner can be [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique compelled]] to reveal company secrets. This mission seems morally objectionable enough, and then the prisoner turns out to be a fellow Shadowrunner. The player has the option of rescuing him to let him live; if taken, [[AxCrazy the prisoner eventually reveals, quite gleefully, that he was the one responsible for the facility's equipment turning on and slaughtering the innocent workers there, even as they tried to flee in terror]].
* ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'': Depending on the end, both Daniel as Alexander can be seen like this.
* In the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series, it's pretty easy to find several of these:
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'': Catalina.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'': Ricardo Diaz and Lance Vance.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': Any of the Ballas and Vagos, Ryder, T-Bone Mendez, Tenpenny and Pulaski.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories'': Ned Burner.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'': Armando Mendez.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': Eddie Low and Dimitri.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony'': Ray Bulgarin.
** Promotional material for VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV turns the countless cops you'll no doubt gun down into this by implying that the police officers of Los Santos are cartoonishly corrupt, in one case arresting a man for "aggressive filming" and then [[KickTheDog shooting his dog]].
* Every single target in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI''. They all get their [[KickTheDog very own moment]] before their assassinations that put them here.
** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'', at least one gets an AlasPoorVillain moment: Dante Moro, the [[HanlonsRazor brain-damaged]] bodyguard of Marco Barbarigo. He tries to give Ezio some help with his last words (telling him where the Templars are next). Additionally, after his death you receive a letter from his former wife that he was tricked into annulling his marriage too, stating that [[TearJerker she still loves him and hopes for the day that he'll recover and remember her]]. And, as your informant Shaun tells you, Dante's boss coveted his wife, and so tried to MurderTheHypotenuse. He survived but with severe brain damage, reverting him to a child-like state. This led his boss to manipulating Dante into divorcing his wife and becoming his [[TheDragon Dragon]]. The poor guy was probably the only named victim in any of the ''AC'' games you could feel any real sympathy for. Which just adds to potential justification for killing said boss.
*** In the first Assassin's Creed, there's one mission where you are sent to kill a guy who has been set up as a TortureTechnician, who has been kidnapping beggars from various cities, ostensibly to torture them to death for fun. But when you actually track him down, it becomes obvious (to the player, at least) that he's actually NOT evil at all, he's actually a brilliant doctor who is extremely ahead of his time, and he's having mentally ill street-people brought to him because he's trying to cure them with primitive techniques and equipment. Everyone else in the setting is so uneducated and ignorant, including Altair, that they can't understand it and assume he must be lying about wanting to help. On the other hand, it's ''also'' implied he's using them as convenient test subjects for the mind control techniques the Templars are having him work on, so he's not completely blameless.
** In the Bonfire of the Vanities it is also subverted, some of Savonarola's Lieutenants are pretty forced to do his bidding through the Apple and had no choice in the matter and regret what they have done to Florence in the name of attempting to seek enlightenment or just forced to serve him through the apple.
** Finally subverted in ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'', when after assassinating him on a count of treason, Tarik Barleti reveals that he was executing his own scheme against the Templars, having sold them defunct firearms in an attempt to lure the them out of hiding. Worse yet, Tarik doesn't even blame [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Ezio]] for his death, instead blaming his own hubris. Instead of his traditional "Requiscat in pace," Ezio's final words to him are, "[[TearJerker I am sorry.]]"
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII''. The BigBad has been killing people, and you've been following him in the hopes of putting a stop to it. The previous victims have all been high-profile, usually the most important people in their respective towns. Enter Dominico, who clearly is the most important man in Arcadia and seems certain to be the next target. Dominico is also a complete douchebag to everybody in general, but to his servant David in particular, heaping humiliation after humiliation on the doggedly loyal young man, even forcing him to taste for poison in his dog's food. You already know nobody's going to regret this guy's death. Except, it's the eminently likable David who turns out to be the target, rather than Dominico, who isn't quite as important as he thought he was.
* The first victim of the supernatural serial killer in ''{{Phantasmagoria}} 2 - A Puzzle of Flesh'' is the bullying asshole of a coworker at the protagonist's work place, causing Curtis a lot of concern as to whether or not he may have killed him during a psychotic black-out. Then the people he ''likes'' start dying, and the otherworldly antagonist gets a lot less subtle.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' had Kinshiro "King Moron" Morooka, a {{Jerkass}} SadistTeacher/[[{{Gonk}} Steve Buscemi-lookalike]] who puts the Main Character on his shit list only after just meeting him. That being said, it avoids the {{Unfortunate Implication|s}} that it's okay to kill {{Jerkass}}es. Even the main characters remark that while they hated him, [[AlasPoorScrappy he didn't deserve to end up dead]].
** Ironically, this winds getting such a massive case of AlasPoorScrappy it winds getting subverted, especially because his replacement is such a shameless, spiteful whore that even the teenage guys who hated the first person hate the successor MORE because she manages to outdo the Asshole Victim she replaced in being a JerkAss, and this is so bad it overpowers any of her MsFanservice tendencies. And, considering how ass ugly (in temperament and appearance) who she replaced was, that is quite a feat.
* In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', the player character gets the chance to solve a murder. Turns out the victim was having an affair with one suspect's wife, and had been in a fight over business with the other suspect.
** Later in the game, the PC gets to do play detective/lawyer again, but this time the trope is completely inverted: though the victim is a Dark Jedi -- and as such, no girl scout -- her murderer is even worse. And infuriatingly vital for the Republic's war effort.
*** The game does not force you into saving the murderer, however.
* Almost everyone of Agent 47's targets in the ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' series is some kind of big-time criminal. Sex traffickers, mobsters, terrorists, and corrupt politicians are just some of 47's victims. However in cutscenes, 47 has murdered a presumably innocent postman to protect his identity, and Requiem in Blood Money has him kill a priest and reporter to protect his identity. In terms of targets, stand out "innocents" are the failed private investigator in that biker level and possibly others like Joseph Clarence (who is probably not a bad person, just an utter failure.) Completely innocent targets are still in the minority by a great margin.
** Joseph Clarence ran an amusement park with terrible safety regulations that killed 30 people. He isn't in the league of a sex trafficker or terrorist, but he has blood on his hands.
* ''VideoGame/{{Condemned}}: Criminal Origins'', All the victims of Serial Killer X/Leland were all serial killers themselves. He would kill them the way they killed their victims. Needless to say all the murders were fairly brutal.
* Franchise/TheElderScrolls series has this pop up quite a bit. It goes along well with the general GrayAndGrayMorality of the game world.
** Playing with this trope: in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' on the [[MurderInc Dark Brotherhood]] quests, about halfway through the questline your anonymous orders stop being 'kill this person, no reason given', and start painting a detailed picture of the asshole you are about to murder. They are all lies, but the victims really did kind of have it coming - you have been unknowingly bumping off the leaders of the Dark Brotherhood itself.
*** First few are still assholes. You've got a pirate, a rapist, a guy who had the Brotherhood kill his own mother to save his skin (unfortunately he lives if you finish it "right"), a warlord, that mouthy dark elf from the tutorial, and a mooching drug addict. The only person on the list of slaughter victims who wasn't a jerkass of one stripe or the other was Baenlin.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'': the first target for the Dark Brotherhood assassin's guild is an orphanage matron by the name of Grelod the Kind, who is ''anything'' but what her name implies, and is quite the cruel ChildHater. When you first enter the orphanage, you find her [[OrphanageOfFear threatening]] to give the kids of the orphanage an ''extra'' beating if they don't step up their chores, telling them they're her slaves until they come of age and she can kick them out, and that if they think of escaping like Aretino (the orphan who called the hit on her) she'll make them suffer for it. She then ends off by making the children force themselves to say that they love her. If you forgo silence and just decide to kill her in view of the orphans, they ''cheer''.
*** And then the initiation ritual has you kill a barbarian with a hidden BloodKnight streak, a feisty and crass woman who has murdered people with her foul words and temper and a Khajit (Thief, murderer and rapist) who expects this to be his death. With a broader definition of "asshole", you can also [[TakeAThirdOption kill the Dark Brotherhood assassin who brought you there]].
*** Another Brotherhood target, Clan Shatter-shield, is also rather unsympathetic, though this is only seen in quests outside of the Dark Brotherhood questline. They turn out to be a family of Corrupt Corporate Executives who treat their foreign workers like garbage and sic pirates on their competitors.
*** Nearly all of the people the Thieves Guild sends you after are this. Examples including an oppressive, penny pinching beekeeper, a slave driving meadery owner, an Argonian con artist, and the man who betrayed and murdered the original guildmaster. Though in the case of the Con Artist, he just agrees to work with Guild and becomes a fence for you.
* In ''Videogame/MassEffect2'', Thane's loyalty quest goes to great lengths to show that the target of Kolyat's assassination attempt is corrupt. Even in the outcomes where he winds up dead (including [[ShootTheHostage by Renegade Shepard's own hand]]), everyone cares more about what's going to happen to Kolyat; you can even talk the C-Sec officer into not pressing charges for attempted murder. Thane's role as TheAtoner involves specifically targeting these. In fact, you meet him during what was to be his last job, a CorruptCorporateExecutive BadBoss.
** In ''Videogame/MassEffect3'', the Batarian Hegemony is a xenophobic, insular, isolationist society that practices slavery, regularly condones acts of terrorism against the Council races, and is gearing up for war with the Alliance. It also happens that the Reapers invade the galaxy through batarian space, and the Hegemony folds like a house of cards. Unfortunately, this all hurts the many decent batarians who had no control over their government.
** Also in ''Mass Effect 3'', Henry Lawson, Miranda Lawson's father, had already been described by Miranda as a narcissistic [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] who wanted to control every aspect of Miranda and her sister, Oriana's, lives (even making Miranda unable to conceive children). Then it turns out he's even worse, as he sets up a facility masquerading as a refugee camp for displaced families and those with family members fighting in the Reaper War to come and stay. Unfortunately, everyone who goes there is either indoctrinated into a Cerberus agent, converted into husks to study the Reapers, or murdered and experimented on, with him overseeing the deaths of thousands or millions of people. While normally a morally ambiguous act, when Miranda biotically throws him out of a window to his death after he lets go his hostage (and other daughter, Oriana), [[KickTheSonOfABitch it's safe to say no tears were shed.]]
* Ozette in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''. They [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer treat Presea terribly]], are [[FantasticRacism especially racist towards half-elves]] and report your party to the Papal Knights when you come back to help Presea. It's hard to feel sympathy when Cruxis destroys the town, considering that none of the victims were significant exceptions to the general behavior.
* Killing both Mr. Burke and Allistair Tenpenny from ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' yield good karma from killing them, and there are other such friendly NPC's who have crossed the MoralEventHorizon enough to get this.
* Ragou and Cumore in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' take this trope UpToEleven. In the first act of the game, [[AxCrazy Ragou]] is found to have been feeding some of the already-abused citizens of the town he governs to monsters for ''[[ForTheEvulz entertainment]]'', claiming that the party doesn't understand the high class of taste it takes to find it amusing. Watching him walk away the first time he is caught is one of the most difficult parts of the game to sit through. In the second act, Cumore has been forcing citizens of the desert town he has jurisdiction over to search for an ancient and [[PhysicalGod powerful]] phoenix-like creature. They are dropped in the middle of said desert to search for said monster. Assuming they found the monster (no one does), it is more than capable of [[YourHeadAsplode instantly]] killing anything, including similar god-like creatures. When both are finally brought to justice, the legal system of Terca Lumireis [[KarmaHoudini lets both of them go with either a minor reduction in rank or no punishment at all]]. Both assholes meet their end -- Ragou is slashed across his back and dumped into a river; Cumore is backed into what is essentially a pit of quicksand -- at the hands of disgruntled Imperial soldier turned vigilante Yuri Lowell... whose reward is to get [[WhatTheHellHero ragged on it]] by his borderline LawfulStupid friend and ex-comrade Flynn Scifo.
* While the player commits many atrocities in the Death Knight starting quests in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', often against civilians, the primary opponents are the [[KnightTemplar Scarlet Crusade]], which tortures and kills perceived enemies, and whose leadership leaves many of the civilians to die in order to flee and attack the Scourge in Northrend. The Lich King's forces may still be worse, but the Scarlet Crusade is also considered an enemy by the other groups fighting the Lich King because of their extremist positions.
** By "perceived enemies," they mean "anybody who might be corrupted by the Scourge." And by "anybody who might be corrupted by the Scourge," they mean "anybody who isn't part of the Scarlet Crusade."
** Also in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'', you probably still cheer when [[GeneralRipper Garithos]] is killed by Varimathras and devoured by ghouls.
** In Mount Hyjal, your character infiltrates the Twilight's Hammer to conduct sabotage. To prove your loyalty, you have are ordered to execute some of the failed applicants who are held in detention. Luckily for you, the Twilight's Hammer functions on KlingonPromotion and every single prisoner is more than happy to attack you and offer your blood as a sacrifice to the [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]].
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', [[BigBad Sephiroth]] murders [[CorruptCorporateExecutive President Shinra]]. This is the same president who [[MoralEventHorizon ordered the destruction of a neighborhood]] [[DisproportionateRetribution just to get rid of some]] [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters terrorists]]. The Midgar is a bustling metropolis. The terrorist group he was seeking to "deal with" amounted to five members, plus the mercenary. So to get rid of the organization, he blew up the plate over the slum they were based out of, to kill them, destroying about an eighth of the city in the process ([[WhatAnIdiot and only managed to kill three of the six people he was aiming for]]). Not many tears were shed upon his demise, save for finding out his successor was [[FromBadToWorse even worse]] and the fact that ''we didn't get to kill him ourselves!!''
* In ''{{Freespace}}'', we learn through an ApocalypticLog that the Shivans killed off a species of {{Precursors}} (the Ancients) 8,000 years prior to the game. This log, written by the Ancients, paints them as victims of horrific destruction at the hands of the Shivans. It also, however, chronicles the rise of their empire, during which they met other advanced life, "And we subdued it, or we crushed it." In other words, the Ancients traveled around the galaxy enslaving and annihilating other species to expand their own powerbase. It's kinda hard to see the Shivans as the bad guys during that conflict.
** The fan project Ancient-Shivan War, which covers this area of Freespace's history, portrays the Ancients as a very stuck-up warrior culture who consider all other forms of life automatically inferior and who glory in the genocide of a less advanced species early in the game. Fans are somewhat mollified by knowing [[ForegoneConclusion exactly what's going]] [[PrecursorKillers to happen]] to the Ancients in later installments.
* The town of [[WretchedHive Nipton]] in ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas'' qualifies. The town was destroyed by [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Caesar's Legion]], but [[TheSpymaster Vulpes Inculta]] describes it as a town of whores willing to sell each other out and didn't even bother to fight back. He's not lying. However, much like with Carla Boone, many characters feel that as bad as Nipton was, it did not deserve [[RapePillageAndBurn what Caesar's Legion did to it]]
** Then there's Benny the guy who shot the courier and buried him/her. He dies either in two ways. One you hunt him down for Mr. House. Or he is captured by Caesar and you get to choose how to kill him.
** The Great Khans tribe qualifies as well. On the one hand, a rather severe foul-up on the NCR's part led to a massacre that saw the Khans getting absolutely devastated; years later they still haven't recovered. On the other hand, the Khans were openly hostile to the NCR long before the event in question, and not terribly nice even amongst each other. Their leader outright brags about how they laid ruin to defenseless NCR settlements, and a former Khan that later defected to the NCR will angrily comment that the group got exactly what was coming to them.
* In ''Videogame/HeavyRain'', at one point the story hits this point. Ethan is forced to go kill a man in order to find a clue to his son. The victim is a drug dealer who chases Ethan around the apartment with a shotgun until they reach the daughters room and the victim runs out of ammo. To make the choice a slightly difficult one however, at the last minute he reveals he has two daughters and begs Ethan not to shoot, however he has already chased Ethan around like a jerk and revealed his occupation. To be fair, even if the guy catches Ethan, he lets him go without attacking him anymore, and considering Ethan pulls a gun first, that certainly bumps him up on the nice list.
** The same happens to the owner of the Blue Lagoon who turns out to be a pervert and a rapist, but is shot by the Origami Killer.
** Lt. Blake has become this in two ways: [[spoiler:the "Uploaded" ending where it is implied he'll suffer the effects of the ARI]]. Or [[spoiler:than being suspended for Ethan's death.]]
* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'' gives us [[EvilCounterpart Jack's Squad]]. [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Absurdly amoral assholes]] who happily jump into MadScientist territory, Jack's Squad is used to deconstruct the idea of BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood. Even as HolierThanThou zombies, they're ''still'' idiot jerks.
* The comment under TableTopGames for "dungeons" applies to numerous video games as well. For example, in ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, if you see a small cavern complex, you can rest assured that at least nine times in ten it will be full of Necromancers of Conjurers or the undead or other perfectly acceptable targets you may ruthlessly cut down without a single ding to the KarmaMeter. You can then with no guilt grab everything in the place and haul it back to the nearest marketplace. The remaining one time in ten you will speak with the inhabitants. Half the time, you will put them all to the sword because someone told you to, then take their stuff and sell it.
* In ''[[FireEmblemElibe Fire Emblem: the Binding Blade]]'', it's related that BigBad Zephiel's descent into villainy began when he strangled to death his father Desmond, who had had ''at least'' two hits put out on his son prior.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' everybody on Corvo's hit list is part of this troupe. The tagline of "Revenge Solves Everything" should have been the first clue.
* In ''VideoGame/LANoire'' the BodyOfTheWeek with whom [[PlayerCharacter Cole Phelps]] makes detective turns out to be an anti-Semitic jerkwad. [[spoiler:He [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections tried to use his connections]] to sabotage a non-competing store because it was owned by a Jew, who finally snapped and filled him with lead.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' game, had a town called Crawford where everyone in it were turned into Walkers. The town itself is run like the Khmer Rouge, where they kill people they deem a burden to them, children, the elderly, and sick. Some of the survivors considered that the people in it got what they deserved.
* All of [[VideoGame/AnakshaFemaleAssassin Anaksha's]] targets in her games qualify for this trope, the horrible things they do to people qualifying them for death by her sniper rifle.
* In the Goblin quest series in ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', the first thing [[JerkassGods Bandos]] does after he [[GrandTheftMe commandeers]] Zanik's body is make her execute [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Sigmund]]. We're ''supposed'' to take this as a sign that Zanik is Not Herself, but given that Sigmund had attempted genocide of the Goblin race, which Zanik is a member of and Bandos is the patron of, ''three times'' at that point, few players were sad to see him go.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'': Lampshaded by Vivi, who states (in narration) "I hated Brahne. I wanted this to happen to her." However, it's subverted second later, when he laments "But then I saw Garnet cry...".
* In ''{{Homeworld}}'' you capture one of the frigates responsible for the destruction of your civilization. The captain is interrogated for information on why this happened, which he reveals. It is clinically noted that "the subject did not survive interrogation".
* In ''{{Suikoden}}'', any time you have elves in the game, you will have on average two who aren't complete unrepentant assholes. In the first game, their general dickery bites them on the ass in a big way - the elven home tree is a gigantic target for the Burning Mirror at Kwanda Rosman's fortress, which has a straight shot at it. One of Rosman's lieutenants, Valeria, goes to the elves to try to warn them. She speaks to them for all of fifteen seconds before they begin hurling speciesist insults at her, then throw her in the dungeon. When you return from the (similarly dickish) dwarven lands with a weapon that can neutralize the Burning Mirror, you can see the elven tree on fire in the distance. The characters in the scene are shocked and horrified, but most players can't help but smile a little inside (doubly so because all of the not-asshole elves survive).
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' has one in the Leon/Helena campaign. One of the Tall Oaks gun store survivors is a sociopathic survival-focused BastardBoyfriend CListFodder who spends his whole screen-time verbally abusing his girlfriend and complaining that she's slowing him down and should be left to the zombies. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Helena]] ''[[BerserkButton especially]]'' calls him out on this, understandable given her personal past experiences. Eventually, Peter decides that he'd have a better chance of survival if he went his own way, so he ''forcibly takes his girlfriend's gun'' and runs out the gun store, [[TooDumbToLive where he is promptly eaten by a zombie]]. The only person who feels even ''remotely'' upset is his now ex-girlfriend.
* ''[[VideoGame/ShadowrunReturns Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall]]'' features an optional mission given to locate and assassinate a target who is being held prisoner by a rival corporation before the prisoner can be [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique compelled]] to reveal company secrets. This mission seems morally objectionable enough, and then the prisoner turns out to be a fellow Shadowrunner. The player has the option of rescuing him to let him live; if taken, [[AxCrazy the prisoner eventually reveals, quite gleefully, that he was the one responsible for the facility's equipment turning on and slaughtering the innocent workers there, even as they tried to flee in terror]].
