History AssholeVictim / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'': Everybody on Corvo's hit list is part of this trope. The tagline of "Revenge Solves Everything" should have been the first clue.

* ''Franchise/DragonAge'': Arl Rendorn Howe is a complete sociopath who killed his best friend and his family and started a purge against an alienage full of elves, among others things. To say that literally ''no one'' drop any tear when he was killed is a huge understandment.

** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'': Prince Harry is a complete brat who enjoys tormenting others simply because he can, until his antics get him and the hero captured by Ladja and forced to spend one decade working as slaves. This, combined with his guilt over the Hero's father's death, causes Harry to act much kinder to the main character.

* ''VideoGame/EdnaAndHarveyHarveysNewEyes'': Each of the students (minus Capu and Memphis) are harsh or downright cruel to Lilli. This is mostly due to them blaming her on accidents that were sometimes [[NeverMyFault their own fault to begin with]] or just don't like her. So it's kind of hard to feel sorry for most of the students (except for Capu and possibly Memphis) when each of them alongside Memphis and Capu die in the first chapter.

*** [[MultipleEndings Most of the time]] they get shafted. If the Courier kills Papa Khan and Regis, the broken Kahns flee to Idaho. If they side with the NCR, they will be obliterated and the rest flee to Idaho. If they join Caesar's Legion they will be stripped of their history and forced to assimilate like the other tribes before them. If the Courier convinces Papa the Khans have no history and win New Vegas for House or yourself, they break up and join gangs and other tribes. But, if you convince Papa to not join the Legion and carve out their own legacy, they head up to Wyoming and reconnect with the Followers of the Apocalypse and form an empire out of the wastes.

** 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 recently hired mercenary that is the main protagonist. 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 (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!!''

** On the Azure Moon route, Dimitri is framed for murdering his uncle(the regent of the Kingdom and the dead king's Crestless older brother) and sentenced to death. His uncle was a womanizer who was ineffectual to deal with the Kingdom's growing unrest, from bandit attacks to a minor lord staging a rebellion, and it's well known that he and Dimitri didn't get along, so it's hard to feel bad for him when he's murdered.
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriorsThreeHopes'', it is possible for Count Gregoire von Varley, Bernadetta's father, to be killed in the final mission of Scarlet Blaze(the Empire route) and he must be killed in Azure Gleam(the Kingdom route). Not only did ''Three Houses'' establish Gregoire as an AbusiveParent to Bernadetta, to the point of tying her to a chair to train her to be an obedient wife, but he is also an unpleasant DirtyCoward, so it is implied that Edelgard named him to the position of Bishop of the Southern Church [[UriahGambit with the expectation that he'd become a target for assassins]]. If he dies, Hubert will express annoyance that they will have to find a replacement, while Bernadetta will say, "My father's been killed? Oh."

* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'',
** 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 daughter's room and the victim runs out of ammo. To make the choice a difficult one, however, at the last minute he reveals he has two daughters and begs Ethan not to shoot. Of course, 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.

** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' has one in the Leon/Helena campaign. One of the Tall Oaks gun store survivors is a sociopathic survival-focused abusive boyfriend 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 of 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.

** 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, instead of being warned about the Slippery Slope his vigilantism could drop him into out of concern for his best friend. For a game that wanted to show off the hazards of succumbing to vigilantism, it's a hard sell to the player by having your character kill off people the ''players themselves'' wanted to kill.

* in VideoGame/TwoDark, most of the killers encountered by Smith very much deserve their fate.

** 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 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 "Requiescat in pace," Ezio's final words to him are, "Forgive me."
** In ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedRogue'', this varies since your character is a Templar agent who hunts down Assassins. Before his defection, Shay kills three Templars, of whom the first thanks him for putting him out of his misery as he was dying of an illness while the other two are standard fare professionals who aren't particularly contemptible. While most are {{Hero Antagonist}}s some are legitimately unpleasant people while still being far more heroic than Shay, most notably the Chevalier de la Vérendrye, who is a huge Jerkass to Shay from the moment they meet to the point of their encounter and is the only one of his former brothers and sisters Shay doesn't apologize over his IDidWhatIHadToDo defection.

* The VideoGame/{{CSI}} games:

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'', Myron is a greedy immoral teenager who works as a drug wizard for the Mordino crime family and boasts about how he has created the most addictive and deadly drug around. Killing him [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment gets you labeled a Child Killer]], but most players don't mind. Alternatively, he's the one companion you can sell into slavery without losing any Karma. [[spoiler:Canonically he dies at the end of the game even if he didn't die beforehand; he was stabbed to death by a Jet addict about a week after the events of the game and everybody soon forgot about him.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'': Killing both Mr. Burke and Allistair Tenpenny yields good karma, and there are other such friendly NPC's who have crossed the MoralEventHorizon enough to get this.

* 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]]

* ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade]]'': 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.
* ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Fire Emblem: Three Houses]]'':

* ''Videogame/HeavyRain'',

* In ''Videogame/{{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 ''Videogame/MassEffect2''

** ''Videogame/MassEffect3'':

** ''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, does the same for various party members (Yukiko for missing school to help her family inn, Yosuke for being from the city, and Kanji for his past as a {{Delinquent}}) and [[SpeakIllOfTheDead badmouths the recent murder victims]]. He's ultimately murdered by a former student in [[JackTheRipoff a copycat killing that imitated the first two murders]]. The nicest thing any of the party can say about him is that he didn't deserve to die. Complicating matters more is that it's implied he DID care and worry for his student, but was so tactless about how he went about things that few ever realized it.

*** Some of the minor targets in the game also stand out; among them, we have a college student who abused cats to relieve his stress, a couple who worked their adopted son to death and then used that as an excuse to extort money from others, a medical official who prioritized his own image and advancement over the lives of his patients and framed and exiled a brilliant doctor for upstaging him, a cult leader who used mass brainwashing to cheat people out of their life savings, and a TV director who extorted sexual favors to help girls advance in showbiz. Among other less extreme examples like bullies, burglars, [[StalkerWithACrush Stalkers with Crushes]], [[BadBoss Bad Bosses]], and [[ControlFreak Control Freaks]].

* ''[[VideoGame/PhantasyStarII Phantasy Star II]]'' has the bandit gang who kidnapped innocent women and murdered innocent men when they robbed Arima and demanding a ransom from Darum when they kidnapped his daughter Teim. By the time the heroes reach the gang's hideout, the scoundrels get their just desserts when they get killed by bio-monsters.

* In ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'':

* ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Fire Emblem: Three Houses]]'': Jeritza's father Baron Bartels intended to marry Mercedes (''[[ParentalIncest his own step-daughter by the way]]'') since the two's mother was past the age to bear children and Mercedes was the only woman with the Crest of Lamine. To say that many players were happy that Jeritza ultimately [[LaserGuidedKarma murdered his father and the entire house of Bartels]](including some of his half-siblings, who bullied Mercedes and Jeritza for having Crests) is putting it rather mildly.

* ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Fire Emblem: Three Houses]]'': Jeritza's father Baron Bartels intended to marry Mercedes (''[[ParentalIncest his own step-daughter by the way]]'') since the two's mother was past the age to bear children. To say that many players were happy that Jeritza ultimately [[LaserGuidedKarma murdered his father and the entire house of Bartels]] is putting it rather mildly.

* In ''VideoGame/CriminalCase'', nearly ''all'' murder victims qualify for this. As examples, here are a few of them who stand out: Dan Kelly, Ruth Wu, Henri Pelletier, and Ernesto Vega.

** Also, the doctor from the fourth case has been forcing his daughter into an ArrangedMarriage with a credit fraudster because said fraud's father is an old friend of his, and 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 instead of him, leaving his wife near blind. While the killer had no problem 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 kill her husband.

** ''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 of 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/DeadToRights'': Early in the game, CowboyCop Jack Slate is incarcerated and put on death row for a murder he didn't commit. He is then antagonized by the prison warden Sickle, a despicable piece of work said to have forced a prisoner to swallow a lit cigarette and shown [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals abusing Slate's dog Shadow]] (provoking a fistfight that Slate wins). He also salivates so openly over the prospect of executing Slate that on the day of Slate's execution, he directly admits to ''paying money'' for the privilege of doing so. No tears are shed when Slate, as part of his prison escape plan, switches places with Sickle on the electric chair, killing him in cold blood. The preacher (apparently an inmate himself) even thanks God after seeing this.

* ''VideoGame/DeadToRights'': Early in the game, CowboyCop Jack Slate is incarcerated and put on death row for a murder he didn't commit. He is then antagonized by the prison warden Sickle, a despicable piece of work said to have forced a prisoner to swallow a lit cigarette and shown [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals abusing Slate's dog Shadow]] (provoking a fistfight that Slate wins). He also salivates so openly over the prospect of executing Slate that on the day of Slate's execution, he directly admits to ''paying money'' for the privilege of doing so. No tears are shed when Slate, as part of his prison escape plan, switches places with Sickle on the electric chair, killing him in cold blood.

** 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.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': During their shenanigans, such as cheating in sports, [[FatBastard Wario]] and [[LeanAndMean Waluigi]] often run into some bad luck, and sometimes, [[BigBad Bowser]] decides to [[KickTheSonOfABitch give them a taste of his wrath]], but any sympathy for the duo is unwarranted due to their {{Jerkass}} personalities and malicious intent, with their misfortunes being framed as something the audience is supposed to laugh at.

* Throughout ''VideoGame/{{Infamous}}'', the Voice of Survival slanders and badmouths Cole at every single opportunity, blaming him for anything that goes wrong even if it's blatantly ''not'' his fault while denying him credit for any positive things he does. He does this even if you're as far on the Good side of the KarmaMeter as you can get. Most players celebrate when the First Sons break into his studio and gun him down. (When they attack, the Voice of Survival implies they were making him badmouth Cole on their orders, but that just means he sold out to a massive criminal organization, so it doesn't earn him any credit.)

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': During their shenanigans, such as cheating in sports, [[FatBastard Wario]] and [[LeanAndMean Waluigi]] often run into some bad luck, and sometimes, [[BigBad Bowser]] decides to [[KickTheSonOfABitch give them a taste of his wrath]], but any sympathy for the duo is unwarranted due to their {{Jerkass}} personalities and malicious intent, with the story framing their misfortunes as something the audience is supposed to laugh at.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': During their shenanigans, such as cheating in sports, [[FatBastard Wario]] and [[LeanAndMean Waluigi]] often run into some bad luck, and sometimes, [[BigBad Bowser]] decides to [[KickTheSonOfABitch give them a taste of his wrath]], but any sympathy for the duo is unwarranted due to their {{Jerkass}} personalities and malicious intent.

* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'': Kratos is a sociopathic VillainProtagonist who systematically murders the gods, but the one saving grace is that almost all of them are even worse than he is. [[FinalBoss Zeus most of all]], seeing as 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.]])

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'', Myron is a greedy immoral teenager who works as a drug wizard for the Mordino crime family and boasts about how he has created the most addictive and deadly drug around. [[spoiler:Canonically he dies at the end of the game even if he didn't die beforehand; he was stabbed to death by a Jet addict about a week after the events of the game and everybody soon forgot about him.]]

** 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 archenemies.

** 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 recently hired mercenary that is the main protagonist. 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!!''

** Colonel [=McKinsey=] is the [[DirtyCoward cowardly]], [[GloryHound glory hounding]], [[TheNeidermeyer neidermeyering]] base commander for the Spare Squadron. In each successful mission, he hoards their accomplishments to himself, in the hopes that he’ll be transferred over to a desk job. He also throws [[AllCrimesAreEqual any insubordination]], [[DisproportionateRetribution no matter how minor]], into solitary confinement. In the mission ''Transfer Orders'', whether the Eruseans, or even [[PlayerCharacter Trigger]], shoot down [=Mckinsey’s=] plane, it will result in the mission failing, but AWACS Bandog will remark that the cargo was not worth protecting. [[spoiler: And even if you do carry out your mission to protect him, he doesn't get his desk job, instead being transferred ''directly to the front lines'' because all of his "accomplishments" (hoarded from Spare Squadron) make Osean Command believe he is the ''perfect'' candidate for leading from the front.]]

*** The first target for the Dark Brotherhood assassin's guild (which you take before actually joining) 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''. In fact, murdering Grelod in plain sight ''doesn't even earn you a bounty''; she's such an asshole that even the ''guards'' think she had it coming.

*** One of the Brotherhood assassins, a vampire, relates a story about one of her previous victims: she lured him into an alley and then struck just as he began commenting upon his apparent attraction to her. Which would be a typical 'vampire seductress uses her charm to lure in a victim' scenario... except that this particular vampire has the body of a ''[[{{Squick}} ten-year-old girl]]''.