History BigBad / VideoGamesNumberToH

* ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' has [[Characters/FatalFuryGeeseHoward Geese Howard]], the ArchEnemy of series hero Terry and his brother Andy for murdering their father and the one behind the King of fighters tournament.

** ''VideoGame/DotHackGU'' has the mysterious Tri-Edge, the Player Killer [[AntiHero Haseo]] has been hunting, who was later revealed to be [[spoiler:[[BigBadFriend Ovan]]]]. [[spoiler: [[HijackedByGanon Cubia]] takes this role from [[DiscOneFinalBoss Ovan]] after the latter's defeat]].

* ''VideoGame/AssasinBlue'': [[spoiler:The boss, who forces Blue and Red to kill and intimidate rival territory's politicians to expand his own before Blue rebels against him.]]

** ''VideoGame/Bayonetta3'': [[spoiler:The Singularity]] is the leader of the Homunculi, [[spoiler:who discovered the secrets of the multiverse and seeks to merge all the universes into one.]]

* ''VideoGame/BeyondTwoSouls'': [[spoiler:[[BigBadSlippage Nathan Dawkins]], who aims to merge the Infraworld with the human world so he may reunite with his departed family, which would result in TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]

* ''VideoGame/BlackDaliah'': [[spoiler:Richard "Dick" Winslow, a Nazi operative who desires the [[MacGuffin Black Daliah gem]] so he can use it to rule the United States as a new Reich.]]

** ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'': [[VampireMonarch Kagan]] is the ArchnemesisDad of the titular heroine who desires to TakeOverTheWorld and assert the supremacy of vampires over humanity.
* ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'': [[spoiler:[[BitchInSheepsClothing Dominique Baldwin]], who seeks to summon [[EldritchAbomination Bael]] and have his demonic forces consume the world so she can obtain the power to kill God.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Braid}}'': The monster that kidnapped the Princess. [[spoiler:The menacing-looking knight in the final level is in fact ''rescuing'' the DamselInDistress from [[VillainProtagonist Tim himself]]]].

** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness'' has Devil Forgemaster Isaac, who leads a legion of monsters in order to force Hector to take up his demonic powers once more. He succeeds in pitting Hector and Trevor Belmont against each other in a bid to raise Dracula's castle, though ultimately the true villain of the story is [[spoiler:Death, in disguise as the monk [[SdrawkcabName Zead]], who meant for Hector to kill Isaac and succumb to the curse, becoming the perfect vessel for Dracula's resurrection. When Hector defies this, Death ends up using Isaac as a lesser vessel to resurrect Dracula.]]

*** The base game has the titular Lords of Shadow: Cornell of the werewolves, Carmilla of the vampires, and Death of the necromancers, whom Gabriel Belmont seeks to defeat in order to SaveTheWorld and claim the pieces of the [[MacGuffin God Mask]], which he believes can resurrect his wife Marie. Naturally, it gets more complicated than that: [[spoiler:The Lords of Shadow turn out to be the [[TheHeartless evil selves left behind]] when the three ancient sages that founded the Brotherhood of Light that Gabriel belongs to cast off their imperfect earthly forms in order to ascend as perfect spiritual beings, and Death's true identity is [[BigBadFriend Zobek]], who had been manipulating Gabriel in the guise of a wise advisor to bring him the other Lords' pieces of the God Mask, going so far as becoming the party responsible for Marie's death which he forced Gabriel to do by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing him]] with the [[ArtifactOfDoom Devil Mask]], providing his main motivation. Then it turns out that Zobek had himself been manipulated by {{Satan}}, who desired the mask for his own ends and becomes Gabriel's [[FinalBoss final enemy]].]]

** ''VideoGame/ClockTower2'': [[spoiler:Edward (actually Dan Barrows from the first game), who takes up the mantle of the Scissorman and attempts to murder Jennifer [[AvengingTheVillain as revenge for killing his mother]].]]
** ''VideoGame/ClockTower3'': [[spoiler:[[GodhoodSeeker Lord Darcy Burrows]], a wicked 17th century British lord who possesses his descendant Dick Hamilton and intends on sacrificing Dick's granddaughter [[PlayerCharacter Alyssa]] in order to obtain godhood.]]

** ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'': Dr. N. Tropy hijacks Cortex's plans and teams-up with [[spoiler:his alternate dimension female counterpart]] to destroy the multiverse and remake it InTheirOwnImage. [[spoiler:Although Cortex ends up retaking the position after they're taken care of and serves as the FinalBoss]].

** ''VideoGame/LittleHope'': [[spoiler:[[SinisterMinister Reverend Simon Carver]], who uses Mary Milton to accuse people of witchcraft and have them killed.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheDeadCase'': [[spoiler:Greg Toberen, a SerialKiller who's directly responsible for the PlayerCharacter's murder and attempts to make his fiancé his next victim.]]

%%* ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' has The Voice [[spoiler:who seems to be Ryder White, but it's really Charon/Kevin.]]

** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' has Hans Tiedmann at first, with him spending the game trying to keep Clarke and Ellie from getting to the the maker, [[spoiler:until Nicole/The Golden Marker (12B) reveals herself as the true Big Bad.]]

** The Knight is the one responsible for creating the excess Fountains of Darkness, which in turn throw off the balance between Light and Dark, forcing the heroes to seal them off while fighting against the {{Arc Villain}}s who stand against them. [[spoiler:If too many Fountains are opened, [[GreaterScopeVillain the Titans]] will awaken and cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, turning any remaining Darkners [[TakenForGranite into stone]] and forcing the Lightners to live in an endless night]].

** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' has Urizen, the Demon King, who planted the seed of the Qlipoth tree in Red Grave City, draining the lives of the citizens there in order to bear a fruit that will grant him absolute power. [[spoiler:However, he is later defeated and assimilated into his true identity: [[WildCard Vergil]], who previously inadvertently created Urizen as part of his desire to gain power to defeat his brother]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'', the Lord of Terror, is the BigBad of the series that bears his name, though in ''VideoGame/DiabloII'', he shares this status with his two brothers, Mephisto and Baal, as the "Prime Evils." In ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', it's Diablo again [[spoiler:using Leah as his vessel]], and in the ''Reaper of Souls'' expansion, it's [[spoiler:the fallen angel Malthael.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Dropsy}}'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive The S-Corporation CEO]], Dropsy's wicked older brother who's responsible for the circus fire that the town blames him for and attempts to kill Dropsy [[spoiler:to ensure that he's the only heir to the throne of his species.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Dusk}}'': [[spoiler:Nyarlathotep, the true mastermind behind the cult corrupting Dusk.]]

** The two of the most malicious Demigods, Praetor Rykard and Mohh the Lord of Blood, definitely count. The former has turned himself into an AnimalisticAbomination in an attempt to become powerful enough to devour the gods, driving him into hedonistic and hunger-driven immortal being who dreams of [[OmnicidalManiac devouring the world itself]], while Mohg is a mad SatanicArchetype who leads a cult of serial killers and brainwashed slaves, is attempting to ascend to god-hood by [[spoiler:attempting to corrupt his half-brother Miquella and take him as his divine consort.]] Either of them would fit as the big bads of any other RPG, but here they're mere optional stepping stones for the Tarnished and [[BigBadWannabe Big Bad Wannabes]] (altough Rykard far less so than Mohg).

** [[spoiler:Marika]] is the cause of the shattering of the Elden Ring, and everything that followed, [[spoiler:and though she remains unfought, her 'husband'/other half Radagon is also responsible for sealing the Erdtree and preventing anyone from becoming Elden Lord, which forces the Tarnished to unleash Destined Death to open a path to Marika.]]

** ''VideoGame/FairlyOddParentsClashWithTheAntiWorld'': [[spoiler:Anti-Timmy turns out to be the mastermind behind the anti-fairies' plot to make it Friday the 13th forever.]]

** The [[VideoGame/FarCry3 third game]] it looks to be Vaas Montenegro, [[spoiler: but it's really [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Hoyt Volker]].]]

** ''Arcade'': [[spoiler:In this timeline, Queen Draco (Beast VI), Mother of Harlots, has replaced Goetia in the role of summoning Demon Pillars to do her bidding.]]
** ''Epic of Remnant'': [[spoiler:Four Demon God Pillars who escaped during the protagonist's final battle with Goetia. By order of Pseudo-Singularity, they are Bael in Shinjuku, [[BigBadDuumvirate working with James Moriarty,]] Zepar in SE.RA.PH. until he is usurped by Kiara, Phenex in Agartha, [[BigBadDuumvirate working with Scheherazade,]] and Räum in Salem until he summons an Outer God named Sut-Typhon (implied to be Yog-Sothoth) that uses Abigail Williams as a vessel.]] The only ArcVillain that isn't a Demon God Pillar is [[spoiler:Sorceror Amakusa Shiro Tokisada in Shimousa, but he's being manipulated by the Caster of Limbo, Ashiya Douman]].
** ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'': [[spoiler: The Foreign God, who serves as the GreaterScopeVillain for all the other stories before finally taking center stage in this saga. Kirschtaria Wodime is TheHeavy for five out of seven Lostbelts, only to meet his end during the events of the fifth one as the Foreign God descends upon the world using its unwitting ultimate Disciple - a resurrected Olga Marie Animusphere - as its host body: U-Olga Marie. In the final Lostbelt, the Foreign God's secret identity is revealed to be that of the Foreign World itself, CHALDEAS, the global environmental sphere model that has been an integral part of Chaldea all this time.]]

* For the ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR]]'' series, it's a toss-up between humongously powerful psychic StringyHairedGhostGirl Alma, telepathic psychopath and [[spoiler:son of Alma]] Paxton Fettel, and CorruptCorporateExecutive Genevieve Aristide. While Alma has undeniably been wronged, her revenge is... [[MindRape rather extreme]]. Fettel, as revealed by the end of the third game, [[spoiler: plans to consume Alma's power in order to take over the world.]] As for Aristide, she just wants to keep her job, and to hell with anyone who has to die in order for her to do so. Events would never have gotten as hellish as they did if any one of them wasn't in the picture. For the first game and its expansions at least, Paxton Fettel is undeniably the main antagonist: he's the one controlling all the Replica soldiers and directing them in an effort to free Alma.

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'': Sombron is the Fell Dragon, and quite possibly the biggest and baddest villain in the mainline series yet, [[spoiler:considering he summons many of the past final bosses as the Dark Emblems in order to serve him as his puppets, and he's more powerful than all of them. He wants to destroy all opposition across the world and obtain all Emblem Rings so that he may find the Emblem of Foundations.]]

*** Book 1 focuses on Veronica, princess of the Emblian Empire, [[spoiler: until her big brother Bruno takes over as the true main villain and reveals that he and Veronica where manipulated by a GreaterScopeVillain: Embla.]]
*** Book 2 starts off with a BigBadDuumvirate between Veronica and Surtr, king of Múspell, but [[spoiler:Surtr betrays her and becomes the sole main villain from that point forward. Veronica, for her part, has a HeelFaceTurn at the end of the book.]]

* ''VideoGame/FragileDreamsFarewellRuinsOfTheMoon'' has Shin, a MadScientist who wants to bring about the end of the world using the Glass Cage [[spoiler:after its effects drove him to madness.]]

* ''VideoGame/FreedomWars'' has Abel "Strafe" Balt, who wreaks havoc with his own Abductor [[spoiler:for the goal of uniting all Panopticons by freeing the horrors that lurk in The Casket.]]

* ''VideoGame/FroggersJourneyTheForgottenRelic'': The main antagonist is Eric von Viesel, an aristocrat who wishes to take OPART's power for himself and use it to create an ultimate weapon. [[spoiler: He's also responsible for the disappearances of Dr. Finnius, and later, Leona]].

* ''VideoGame/GeneTroopers'': [[spoiler:[[MadScientist Ithaka Wassali]], the true mind behind the Galactic Empire who brainwashed President Horacious Prowler into forming the Gene Troopers and spreading oppression across the galaxy.]]

** [[ImplacableMan The Stranger]], [[spoiler:later revealed to be Baldur]] in the [[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 soft reboot]], hunting down Kratos and Atreus throughout the game. PlayedWith as the story focuses completely on Kratos and his son's journey and the Stranger comes across as a PlotIrrelevantVillain. [[spoiler:He is taking orders from [[GreaterScopeVillain Odin]] instead, as Odin promised to lift the curse placed upon Baldur in exchange for his service.]]

** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoChinatownWars'': [[spoiler:[[EvilUncle Wu "Kenny" Lee]], who orchestrated the death of Huang's father and has been manipulating Huang in a bid to replace Hsin Jaoming as head of the Liberty City Triads.]]

* ''VideoGame/GunsGoreAndCannoli'': [[spoiler:Frankie the Fly is the one behind the zombie outbreak in Thugtown, having poisoned the local alcohol supply using a batch of special poison concocted by a German scientist he was in contact with. Following his plan getting foiled at the end of the first game, he returns as this in ''2'', under the alias of the Dark Don, [[PiggybackingOnHitler working closely with Hitler]] and ThoseWackyNazis in attempting to TakeOverTheWorld.]]

* ''VideoGame/HakaiouKingOfCrusher'': While your unnamed protagonist isn't intentionally hostile, the game does have a main villain, in the form of the alien bug who injects you with a monstrous venom. Because said bug is a highly-manipulative alien creature who ''wants'' to destroy entire worlds, and it's using ''you'' as it's pawn. [[spoiler:The bug even ''screws you over'' in the final cutscene - by infecting your baby with another dose of it's venom, turning your child into another monster to start the cycle of destruction anew]].

* ''VideoGame/HexyzForce'': [[TheEmperor Emperor Axel]] of [[TheEmpire Rosenbaum]], once a beloved leader until [[LoveMakesYouEvil the assasination of his wife]], [[EvilOverlord now seeks to conquer the world]]. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss However]], he's a BrainwashedAndCrazy pawn of [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan Faust]] [[TheArchmage Schnizer]]; he, [[EnfanteTerrible Azul]]/[[TwoBeingsOneBody Galiza]], [[GodIsEvil Norvia]], and [[SatanicArchetype Delgaia]] [[BigBadEnsemble are all competing for control]] over the Hour of Judgement, and whoever comes out on top depends on the ending.]]

* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'': [[spoiler:[[MothMenace The Radiance]], a god-like entity responsible for the plague that destroyed Hallownest.]]

* ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' has [[TheGeneralissimo Generalissimo Killt]] [[spoiler: until Master-D comes BackFromTheDead and promptly kills Killt, before declaring his intention to TakeOverTheWorld himself]].

* The UsefulNotes/DSiWare game entitled ''Foto Face: The Face Stealer Strikes'' has the professor as the antagonist, though the description of the game mentions the professor as the Face Stealer. The professor copies your face and then causes you pure hell by wrecking havoc, causing some to blame you, while some are working for the professor, and the remaining others don't know what the heck they are doing, attacking you for no reason. However, six of the characters are not evil. Anyway, you have to chase down the professor and fight him.

** ''VideoGame/BlasphemousII'': [[MagicKnight Eviterno]], the leader of the Archconfraternity seeking to resurrect [[GreaterScopeVillains the High Wills]] and unleash the Grievous Miracle back upon the world once more.

*** In theory, Thales is the closest thing to the game has to a single Big Bad overall and is the only one to be an antagonist on all four routes, but you can make the case that the real "Big Bad" of the game is [[spoiler:the ancient conflict between the Agarthans (the ancestors of "those who slither in the dark") and Nabateans (of whom Rhea and her followers are the last), and the CycleOfRevenge between them that has perpetuated to the present day. Almost every problem in the setting is a result of their conflicts, and every route's ending results in those who remain on both sides either dead or having lost their power]].

** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLegacyOfDarkness'' introduces the story of Cornell, set eight years before Dracula's resurrection in the main game, whereupon he is antagonized by the BigBadEnsemble of his personal nemesis [[TheResenter Ortega]], who has joined up with Dracula's current group of crony generals— Death, Gilles de Rais, and Actrise.