History ForTheEvulz / VideoGames

* Yomi Hellsmile from ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'' is the director of the Amaterasu Corporation Peacekeepers who wants to control Kanai Ward and [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans eliminate any competition to his position no matter the cost]], something he demonstrates immediately [[spoiler:during Yuma's journey to Kanai Ward, as his plot to eliminate Master Detectives entering into Kanai Ward serves as the first case in the game]]. He's also the game's GreaterScopeVillain, [[spoiler:as pretty much ''everything'' that happens can be blamed on his desire to seize control of the city by any means]]. However, ''why'' he wants to do it is never explained; he seemingly just wants to be a maniacal DirtyCop because [[EvilFeelsGood it makes him feel good]].

** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'': Majd Addin is the only one of Altair's targets not to try and justify his actions by claiming they were [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans for the greater good.]] When asked why he executed innocent people (to the point of performing the executions ''himself''), he replies that he simply enjoyed the feeling of holding someone else's life in his hands.

* WordOfGod states that this is Wario's reason why he's working with the Subspace Army in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl''. Wario does have motivation in greed, but the efforts he goes through to get it, right down to shaking money out of enemies way too gleefully just proves he enjoys the methods as much as the gains.

* ''VideoGame/{{Mother}}'': [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Pokey/Porky]] Minch seems to fit this trope perfectly in ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' [[spoiler:and ''VideoGame/Mother3'']]. Though the series most famous villain is undoubtedly the cosmic horror Giygas, he's actually edged out by a worse evil: a frustrated, self-absorbed child willing to set the world on fire because he never gets his way. He once states that being the hero doesn't sound like fun to him. In ''[=EarthBound=]'', he seems more like a harmless example who usually appears to taunt or hinder Ness. [[spoiler:''Mother 3'', however... his actions shift more towards pure evil territory, transforming a peaceful island's plants and animals into violent chimeras, then gathering all the inhabitants on the island to his flying "utopia" so that they can all watch as he awakens a dragon to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy all of existence]]. All this because he's bored and wants a quick laugh.]]

-->''"Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything. ... The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Organic civilisations rise, evolve, advance and at the apex of their glory, they are extinguished."''

** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' finally did reveal their motives (which are spoilerific and long-winded in explanation), and it turns out they were operating on BlueAndOrangeMorality / WellIntentionedExtremist rather than this trope. Their precursors, on the other hand, were gigantic, arrogant eldritch abominations who posed as gods over the entire galaxy to fuel their equally massive egos, constantly ignoring the problems and woes of their worshipers. [[note]]In fact, they accidentally started the entire cosmic horror story plot of the series because their automatic food dispensers were frequently inventing robots and getting themselves exterminated in robot wars, so they tried to solve the robot-war problem, and prove they were better at making robot slaves than their organic slaves, [[TooDumbToLive by making their own super-robot and ordering it to solve the robot-war problem with almost no organic oversight]]. Then they acted surprised when their super-robot, [[AIIsACrapshoot neglected]] and [[LogicBomb forced to solve a nearly-impossible problem]], turned on ''them''. Their biological descendants are also arrogant NEETs who only look wise because they've had thousands of years to practice, toy with the local scientists, and Shepard has to chastise a 50,000 ton cephalapod-demigod to shape up and get in the fight.[[/note]]

* Deconstructed in ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' and ''VideoGame/Injustice2''. ComicBook/TheJoker's rationale for causing ComicBook/{{Superman}}'s StartOfDarkness by tricking him into killing his own wife Lois Lane and nuking Metropolis, and the ugly reason why he chose Metropolis rather than Gotham? As he says when Batman is interrogating him after the fact, he wanted to play on "easy mode" for once [[KickTheDog as if he was "beating up a dog with a dead kitten"]]. However, this [[EvenEvilHasStandards prompts revulsion]] even in the other villains, who have more abstract goals such as world conquest. That his jokes are full of references to [[StrawNihilist nihilism]] and wanton chaos [[EvilCannotComprehendGood reveal]] how insane he truly is.

* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1'': It seems the only reason K. Rool had his troops steal DK's banana hoard, aside from possibly food, was simply to steal it. It was suggested by the developers later that he may have done it to try to starve the Kongs to death. It makes sense considering World 5, Kremkroc Industries. K. Rool wants the resources (oil, gas, and charcoal) of the island for his own.