History AssholeVictim / VideoGames

** Sarao's mother could count as well since it was heavily implied that she physically abused him which caused him [[TheDogBitesBack to snap and kill her]].

* ''VideoGame/TheKidnap'': Renya and Sakiko's mother is a [[AbusiveParents downright awful parent]], berating her kids for being born and abandons them for months to fend for themselves for seemingly no reason at all. So it's hard to argue that the bitch didn't deserve getting killed by Sarao.

* ''VideoGame/TheKidnap'': Renya and Sakiko's mother is an evil, abusive, and despicable woman who abandons them for months for seemingly no reason at all. So it's hard to argue that the bitch didn't deserve getting killed by Sarao.

** [[KarmaHoudini Depending on which ending you choose]], Devin Weston, one of the antagonists of the 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 few atrocities he ''know'' he committed.

** [[KarmaHoudini Depending on which ending you choose]], Devin Weston, one of the antagonists of the 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 committed.

* ''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. Even Mimir shows no sympathy for them, declaring that the Pantheon had it coming. (In-game, all were previously corrupted by Pandora's Box, but even compared to the original mythology, [[JerkassGods this depiction isn't far off.]])

** Champ is the most arrogant and egotistical member of the Spare Squadron. In his EstablishingCharacterMoment, he cuts off Tabloid so that he can take off first, and when the Air Traffic Controller calls him out, he tells them to ‘Go to hell’. When he gets [[CurbStompBattle stomped to the curb]] by Mihaly in the mission ''First Contact'', nobody sheds a tear over him for it.
** Full Band shows little to no empathy whatsoever. He’s perfectly willing to SpeakIllOfTheDead, like how he gleefully talks about how Trigger, ‘Shot a missile in between old Harling’s eyes’, and how Champ was shot down ‘crying like a baby’ (which he didn't, despite his own asshole behavior he never backed down from human challengers). [[spoiler: He gets his karma in 'Faceless Soldier' when he brags about how he’s acquired classified information that he’s going to share with everyone once the mission is over, and when the Spare Squadron is ambushed by AI-controlled aircraft using spoofed Osean [=IFFs=], Bandog recalibrates the Spare Squadron’s [=IFFs=] so that everyone not formed up on Trigger gets tagged as an enemy. However, Bandog had asked for Full Band’s location, and had him tagged as an enemy, tricking Count into shooting him down.]]
** Colonel [=McKinsey=] is the [[DirtyCoward cowardly]], {{glory hound}}ing, [[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 [[LaserGuidedKarma doesn't get his desk job]], instead being transferred ''directly to the front lines'' [[HoistByHisOwnPetard because all of his "accomplishments" (hoarded from Spare Squadron) make Osean Command believe]] he is the ''perfect'' candidate for leading from the front.]]

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'': Pretty much all of the antagonists in the franchise are this.
** Promotional material for ''Grand Theft Auto V'' 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]].
** Many pedestrians in ''Grand Theft Auto V'' have the potential to become one of these, as the things they say to other people or on their cellphones present them as awful people.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' features the QuirkyMinibossSquad Dead Cell, who's official backstory was that they got more and more extreme and violent until they had to be hunted down and wiped out, with the three survivors teaming up with Solidus to form the "Sons Of Liberty". Except none of that happened and they were set up from the very start so the Patriots could perform their S3 experiment. The three of them are utter murderous bastards (though [[TokenGoodTeammate Fortune has some redeeming qualities]]), but they were utter murderous bastards [[TokenEvilTeammate on our side]] until they were legitimately victimized.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'' features Ivan Raidenovich Raikov, a shiftless, gluttonous, nerdy DepravedHomosexual boy-toy who goes around beating up his underlings for fun, and resembles the previous game's ReplacementScrappy in case you needed a better (?) reason to want to punch him in the face and stuff him into a locker.

* ''VideoGame/{{Phantasmagoria 2}} - A Puzzle of Flesh'': The first victim of the supernatural serial killer is the bullying asshole of a coworker at the protagonist's workplace, 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/ResidentEvil'': The Umbrella employees of the Spencer Mansion all suffered greatly: [[TheVirus T-Virus]] slowly consumed them one by one, forcing them to kill their comrades, and a few even left heartbreaking farewell letters to loved ones that they knew probably wouldn't even be read before [[DrivenToSuicide committing suicide]]. It's just hard to feel bad for them since they were all {{Mad Scientist}}s and {{Punch Clock Villain}}s at best who knew of and gleefully took part in the horrific experiments being conducted, and in the case of the nameless author of the ''Keepers Diary'', literally [[KickTheDog kicked dogs]] for the hell of it:

*** 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.]]

* ''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 jerkish personalities and malicious intent, with their misfortunes being framed as something the audience is supposed to laugh at.

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':

* ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'': Almost every one of Agent 47's targets in the 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 ''[[VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney 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. Completely innocent targets are still in the minority by a great margin.

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'': 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.

*** 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]][[note]](including some of his half-siblings, who bullied Mercedes and Jeritza for having Crests)[[/note]] is putting it rather mildly.

* ''Sleuth'', a 1983 [[UsefulNotes/DosBox MS-DOS]] shareware game, is a TabletopGame/{{Cluedo}}-style whodunit where the objective is to find the scene of the crime, the murder weapon, and [[ConvictionByContradiction which suspect's story conflicts with others]]. Much of the pool of possible dialogue that suspects can give when questioned indicates that the motive would be the same regardless of who's actually guilty. The victim was simply HatedByAll, [[HandWave so motive is irrelevant to winning the game and you shouldn't worry about it]].

* ''Sleuth'', a 1983 [[UsefulNodes/DosBox MS-DOS]] game, is a TabletopGame/{{Cluedo}}-style whodunit where the objective is to find the scene of the crime, the murder weapon, and [[ConvictionByContradiction which suspect's story conflicts with others]]. Much of the pool of possible dialogue that suspects can give when questioned indicates that the motive would be the same regardless of who's actually guilty. The victim was simply HatedByAll, [[HandWave so motive is irrelevant to winning the game and you shouldn't worry about it]].

** To a certain degree, [[spoiler: Grout. One look at the state of his ghouls is enough reason to think he maybe kinda deserved his death.]]

** [[spoiler:Ming-Xiao leader of the Kuei-Jin in L.A. be seen as this as your fight against her is a satisfying case since you're not just killing her. [[AllThereInTheManual Background materials]] say that if a Kuei-jin dies without fulfilling their Dharma, they get sent back to Hell. Your fight against her is essentially sticking "Return to Sender" on her.]]

** After the brutal BonusBoss fight against the Demiurge, a soft female voice begs you to please switch off the scanner in your PoweredArmor. If you do so, the raging monster loses its foothold on Sector Grus and is sealed into an even worse can than the place he just escaped.

* ''VideoGame/TheHappyhillsHomicide'': {{Zig Zagging|Trope}} and {{Deconstruction}}. The trope appears to be the case with the Clown's victims at first. The first one who got viciously stabbed to death turns out to be a pedophile, the one the Clown burns alive in his shower was himself guilty of arson. [[spoiler: But the one who gets pushed into his own hay bale maker turns out to have ''no criminal record whatsoever'', making it clear that the Clown isn't just a typical vigilante killer dishing out justice where the system failed, but has a much more selfish motive for what he does.]] [[spoiler: The people the Clown kills all turn out to have been either students or employees at Westpine High, who bullied him in his previous identity as John Wade and indirectly caused his almost death. In John's mind, that makes them deserving of his vengeance. Funnily enough, the two jocks who accidentally "killed" John might have thought of ''him'' as this trope, since it's implied he was stalking Madison and being a creep to people in general.]] Overall, the game seems to take the stance that there really is no "good" or "justified" reason to murder someone and that vigilante justice ultimately isn't justice at all.

** Ming-Xiao leader of the Kuei-Jin as [[spoiler: Your fight against her is a satisfying case of this, since you're not just killing her! [[AllThereInTheManual Background materials]] say that if a Kuei-jin dies without fulfilling their Dharma, they get sent back to Hell. Your fight against her is essentially sticking "Return to Sender" on her.]]

--> '''May 12, 1998:''' I've been wearing this annoying space suit since yesterday, my skin grows musty and feels very itchy. By way of revenge, I didn't feed those dogs today. Now I feel better.

* ''VideoGame/ZombiU'': Boris and his gang, who've forced you(and possibly other survivors) to fight zombies in their arena, end up drawing a horde of them to their room where they get eaten by the beasties.

*** 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.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden'', Chancellor Desaix of the Kingdom of Zofia seizes power by killing King Lima IV. While Desaix is only out for power and is almost certainly the evilest character in the game, Lima was hardly better, being a hedonistic womanizer who harshly taxed the commoners and wasn't even popular among the nobles, either. While Forsyth is furious with the nobles who allied with Desaix despite having received their titles from the king, Python reminds him that ''[[HatedByAll no one]]'' [[HatedByAll liked Lima]], and for good reason.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'': 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'':
** 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.
** 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 in dealing 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 Grégoire 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 Grégoire 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."

** 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'' [[HoistByHisOwnPetard because all of his "accomplishments" (hoarded from Spare Squadron) make Osean Command believe]] he is the ''perfect'' candidate for leading from the front.]]

** ''VideoGame/Persona4'' 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.

* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'',: