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* ''VideoGame/MyWorldMyWay''. It's in the title. After all, when you're a {{princess}} who can ''[[RealityWarper change the fabric of reality by pouting]]'', why ''wouldn't'' it be about you? The reason she's doing anything is to learn how not to be a stuck-up princess.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': The first hint that Ghetsis's motives may not be wholesome is when he slips up in a speech at Castelia City. He is quick to correct himself, but for the observant, the damage has already been done. His VillainousBreakdown suggests [[EvilCannotComprehendGood he doesn't fathom]] people ''not'' thinking this way. He refuses to understand how [[spoiler: the player character [[DefusingTheTykeBomb defused his Tyke Bomb]]]], because to him ThePowerOfFriendship is just a lie.
** One could make the argument that, of all the moments of {{Jerkass}} behavior Blue gets in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' that justifies his ultimate defeat, the crowning moment is his choice to simply ambush you inside Silph Co., in the very heart of a city-wide hostage taking by Team Rocket. Since he mentions waiting for you for some time, next to the warp panel that leads to [[BigBad Giovanni]], [[SkewedPriorities it's clear that he had no intention of stopping the crisis himself when he could try to, given his levels, and was just there to try and beat you then brag about it]]. Even when you do beat him, [[SkewedPriorities his first concern is to challenge the Pokemon League]], not even acknowledging your current situation, and [[BystanderSyndrome then promptly leaves you to solve the matter yourself]].
** Although Lusamine is considerably sympathetic in both ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', she has this characteristic to a degree. [[spoiler:Lillie and Gladion]] summarize her as a selfish person because she does what she thinks is best for everyone without considering the feelings of others.

** Although Lusamine is considerably sympathetic in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', she has this characteristic to a degree. [[spoiler:Lillie and Gladion]] summarize her as a selfish person because she does what she thinks is best for everyone without considering the feelings of others.

** ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': The first hint that Ghetsis's motives may not be wholesome is when he slips up in a speech at Castelia City. He is quick to correct himself, but for the observant, the damage has already been done. His VillainousBreakdown suggests [[EvilCannotComprehendGood he can't fathom]] people ''not'' thinking this way. He can't understand how [[spoiler: the player character [[DefusingTheTykeBomb defused his Tyke Bomb]]]], because to him ThePowerOfFriendship is just a lie.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'': [[spoiler: Lusamine]] doesn't care about anyone that she doesn't deem beautiful enough for her love, and even those that she does consider worthy of her love are viewed as possessions rather than sentient beings with free will. Before the final battle with her, [[spoiler: Lillie]] calls her out for only ever thinking about herself and what she wants; [[spoiler: Lusamine]] doesn't even try to deny it, flat-out asking [[spoiler: Lillie]] why she ''shouldn't''.
*** While she's [[AdaptationalHeroism considerably more sympathetic]] in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', she still has this characteristic to a degree; [[spoiler:Lillie]] summarizes her as a selfish person because she does what she thinks is best for everyone without considering the feelings of others.
** One could make the argument that, of all the moments of {{Jerkass}} behavior Blue gets in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' that justifies his ultimate defeat, the crowning moment is his choice to simply ambush you inside Silph Co., in the very heart of a city-wide hostage taking by Team Rocket. Since he mentions waiting for you for some time, next to the warp panel that leads to [[BigBad Giovanni]], [[SkewedPriorities it's clear that he had no intention of stopping the crisis himself when he could try to, given his levels, and was just there to try and beat you then brag about it]]. Even when you do beat him, [[SkewedPriorities his first concern is to challenge the Pokemon League]], not even acknowledging your current situation, and [[BystanderSyndrome then promptly leaves you to solve the matter yourself]].

* Papyrus from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' is incredibly self centered, but lovably so, because he pairs his ShamelessSelfPromoter tendencies with a big heaping helping of NiceGuy and CloudCuckoolander behavior. He has a very high opinion of himself, but not by belittling others or talking down their accomplishments. He simply thinks he's great, and wants to inspire and help everyone else to be just as great. Still, he thinks that everything that happens [[spoiler: due to Frisk's actions in the True Pacifist Run and True Ending was just to help him get into the Royal Guard: he goes on record claiming the True Ending is "the worst possible ending" because he ''still'' isn't one, while simultaneously tearing up over how happy of an ending it actually is]]. Less amusingly, Flowey is enormously self-centered, but also extremely arrogant and bitter; one of his lines has him refer to himself as "the prince of this world's future."

* The ''VideoGame/GodOfWarSeries'' has Kratos, a man who killed a pantheon rather than admit that maybe, just maybe, something was ''his own damn fault''. Most evident in the second game, when he starts doing the exact same thing that Ares did, i.e. the thing that prompted the gods to help Kratos kill him. Then he claims that the Gods of Olympus betrayed ''him'' by stopping him. This gets called out in the third game, where Hermes [[BreakThemByTalking Breaks Him by Talking]] on how his path only leads to destruction and Kratos undergoes a slow HeelRealization. Also lampshaded in the first game, where it's shown in a flashback that his wife Lysandra refused to believe that his brutality was for "the glory of Sparta" as he claims, telling him that he does it all for his own personal glory.

** Walnut from ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave''. His entire strategy as a Chroma Oxide is to cheat other Chromas and steal their payments, and repeatedly supports his view with claims about "[[OnlyInItForTheMoney money rules the world]]" and "[[SocialDarwinist only the strongest survive]]", yet feels severely mistreated when the people he cheated, who are usually stronger than him since they tackle the things he won't, punish him for it. He develops a very one-sided rivalry against Marona because she defeats him, because she's making progress without having to stoop to his level, and because she befriends his ill sister Castile, making her genuinely happy (while he left to get money for her medical bills, thus making her lonely). Eventually his attempt to ambush Marona on the Island of Evil leads to the release of the BigBad, Sulphur. (Admittedly no one had any idea that would happen.)

* The ''VideoGame/GodOfWarSeries'' has Kratos, a man who killed a pantheon rather than admit that maybe, just maybe, something was ''his own damn fault''. Most evident in the second game, when he starts doing the exact same thing that Ares did, i.e. the thing that prompted the gods to help Kratos kill him. Then he claims that the Gods of Olympus betrayed ''him'' by stopping him. This gets called out in the third game, where Hermes gives him a BreakingSpeech on how his path only leads to destruction and Kratos undergoes a slow HeelRealization. Also lampshaded in the first game, where it's shown in a flashback that his wife Lysandra refused to believe that his brutality was for "the glory of Sparta" as he claims, telling him that he does it all for his own personal glory.

* Huey Emmerich was introduced in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' as a GenerationXerox of his mild-mannered and compassionate son, Hal (aka Otacon), but players of ''MetalGearSolid2'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' know that it's only a surface resemblance. In fact, he [[spoiler: murders Strangelove because she won't let him use Hal--who was at that point a ''toddler''--as a WetwareCPU/test pilot for Metal Gear Sahelanthropus]], and, years later, when his second wife is revealed to be sexually abusing Hal, [[spoiler: he's DrivenToSuicide because of how bad it makes ''him'' feel--and he tries to pull a TakingYouWithMe on his daughter.]]

* The [[VillainProtagonist Boss]] (player character) after he stops being a mute from ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' onwards is so much full of himself (or herself) that they cheerfully murder anyone who so much as suggests they might have become corrupt and have not even the slightest compunction about sacrificing others to save themselves. [[spoiler: They either finally start to grow out of it in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', or shed all their redeeming qualities and become thoroughly corrupt, [[MultipleEndings depending on the ending.]]]]

* Before the events of ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'', Joey Drew hired Bertrum Piedmont to build an amusement park based on Joey Drew Studios' cartoons - particularly based around the star, Bendy. Piedmont has quite the ego. He's annoyed enough at Joey calling him Bertie to rant about it in one of his audio logs, and he also considers Bendy Land to be ''his'' achievement alone. When Joey's mismanagement leads to the park not being built, he loses it.

* Hazama/Yuuki Terumi from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' is a great case of this. So what if he [[ThePowerOfHate has to be hated in order to exist]]? He enjoys the suffering he has to inflict on people in order to ensure that they hate him, and he often goes out of his way to BreakTheCutie [[ForTheEvulz for the simple sadistic enjoyment of doing it]]. His belief is that [[StrawNihilist the whole world is a lie, the only truth is despair]] and he's going to show it to the world. So what if nobody else thinks like that except him? He's powerful and cunning enough to show it to the world, anyway.

** Wily is ultimately this as well. While he does want to TakeOverTheWorld, it's heavily implied that his motivation is nothing but petty revenge against Dr. Light (and eventually Mega Man as well) for one-upping him. [[spoiler: This is even showcased in the creation of X and Zero. Light created X to be the first robot capable of unfettered free will. Wily created Zero simply to further his feud with Light.]]

** Wily is ultimately this as well. While he does want to TakeOverTheWorld, it's heavily implied that his motivation is nothing but petty revenge against Dr. Light (and eventually Mega Man as well) for one-upping him.

* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem'' is considered one of the most legendary cases of this trope in gaming history. While he started off as [[RealMenWearPink some guy in a pink sleeveless shirt that watches Oprah]], the very next game boosts his ego up to selling a book called ''[[LampshadeHanging Why I'm So Great]]'' and cockily confronting alien threats from then on. Hell, collecting the letters of his own name in sequential order gave the player loads of points. ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' only escalated this further to pure 90's action movie hero ParodySue levels, and subsequently Duke was practically singled out as a celebrity in the gaming industry. It got to the point that not only did he become a shining example of a {{Narcissist}}, only really out for babes and glory while promoting himself, but ''VideoGame/DukeNukemManhattanProject'' literally labels his health bar as [[AwesomeEgo Ego]]. All of this came to a head in the last major release in the series, ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'', where he became a full-on {{Jerkass}} that was more concerned about the aliens stealing ''his'' babes and screwing over his TV spotlight than the fact that the aliens were invading and trying to kill him in the first place. The fact that it would prevent falling into obscurity as an old relic of a hero was only a bonus.

* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem'' is practically one of the star examples of his trope in gaming history. While he started off as [[RealMenWearPink some guy in a pink sleeveless shirt that watches Oprah]], the very next game boosts his ego up to selling a book called ''[[LampshadeHanging Why I'm So Great]]'' and cockily confronting alien threats from then on. Hell, collecting the letters of his own name in sequential order gave the player loads of points. ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' only escalated this further to pure 90's action movie hero ParodySue levels, and subsequently Duke was practically singled out as a celebrity in the gaming industry. It got to the point that not only did he become a shining example of a Narcissist, only really out for babes and glory while promoting himself, but ''VideoGame/DukeNukemManhattanProject'' literally labels his health bar as [[AwesomeEgo Ego]]. All of this came to a head in the last major release in the series, ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'', where he became a full-on {{Jerkass}} that was more concerned about the aliens stealing ''his'' babes and screwing over his TV spotlight than the fact that the aliens were invading and trying to kill him in the first place. The fact that it would prevent falling into obscurity as an old relic of a hero was only a bonus.

** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'': [[spoiler: Lusamine]] doesn't care about anyone that she doesn't deem beautiful enough for her love, and even those that she does consider worthy of her love are viewed as possessions rather than sentient beings with free will. Before the final battle with her, [[spoiler: Lillie]] calls her out for only ever thinking about herself and what she wants; [[spoiler: Lusamine]] doesn't even try to deny it, flat-out asking [[spoiler: Lillie]] why she shouldn't.

* ''VideoGame/BioShock'': What Andrew Ryan says of himself through the creation of his underwater capitalist paradise Rapture in the [[VideoGame/BioShock1 first]] [[VideoGame/BioShock2 two]] games. [[EvilCannotComprehendGood He even believes]] that it is the nature of all humankind to think this way, telling the protagonist "In the end, all that matters to you is you, and all that matters to me is me.".

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}":

* This is taken UpToEleven with [[spoiler:Zanza]] from ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'', the local JerkassGod who is ''utterly incapable'' of acknowledging the value of '''anything''' that isn't himself, and is constantly using his power to destroy and rebuild the universe because '''[[ForTheEvulz fuck you]]'''. Also because of the fact that if his creations leave him, he'll die, but that doesn't excuse him for being such a massive dick about it.

* [[{{Troll}} Terumi]] [[AxCrazy Yuuki]] / [[FauxAffablyEvil Hazama]] from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' is a great case of this. So what if he has to be hated in order to exist? He enjoys the suffering he has to inflict on people in order to ensure that they hate him, and he often goes out of his way to BreakTheCutie [[ForTheEvulz for the simple sadistic enjoyment of doing it]]. His belief is that [[NietzscheWannabe the whole world is a lie, the only truth is despair]] and he's going to show it to the world. So what if nobody else thinks like that except him? He's powerful and cunning enough to show it to the world, anyway.
* In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', the two most popular topics for necromancers to write about seem to be themselves and literary criticism of the books they wrote about themselves.
** Demons who masquerade as gods to lead civilizations write very prolifically on their histories and philosophies, and how they're pulling the wool over the eyes of these stupid mortals. And they leave these strewn about their fortresses as if to mock everyone with any literacy.
* Handsome Jack, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', is so full of himself that despite his numerous atrocities and enjoyment of them, he thinks ''he's'' the good guy. The first time he claims this to the player(s) is followed by an anecdote about how a man once attacked him with a spoon, so he took the spoon and used it to scoop out the man's eyes while the man's family watched, horrified. This particular memory causes him to burst into laughter.
-->'''[[CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker Recorded Message from Jack in Opportunity]]:''' Remember, we should all love our parents, but ''love me more.''
* In ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', flame-wielding "hero" Flambeaux embodies this trope, to the point that when neither her team mates nor the public give her the love and attention she deserves, she undergoes a FaceHeelTurn. Her subsequent acts of (usually petty) villainy include trying to bomb a tabloid's offices for saying mean things about her.
* Several characters in the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series, including Redd White, Richard Wellington, and [[spoiler: Dahlia Hawthorne]]. Other examples include Luke Atmey, Florent L'Belle, Alita Tiala, [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin, Matt Engarde, Quercus Alba]], and Manfred Von Karma. And this isn't even half of the characters with ego problems.
* This is the defining feature of Draven in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''. He joined the League because he wasn't getting enough attention as an executioner, his dialogue all boils down to "look at me!", and his ability kit reflects this. He's a Carry, which means he will be the cornerstone of your team's strategy. His passive gives him bonus gold whenever he secures a kill (not an assist- Draven takes the glory for himself), his main weapons are throwing axes that bounce off of his enemies and he catches, and his ultimate is a global skillshot that returns back to him, enabling several improbable and flashy kills.
* While most ''Franchise/MassEffect'' villains ultimately have some kind of positive goal that they're going about in a terrible way, Henry Lawson - Miranda's father - doesn't seem to care about anything other than his "legacy" - i.e. his genetically perfected clones, who he treats kind of like shit, forcing them to meet impossible expectations, then disposing of them when they fail to live up to those expectations. AbusiveParents ain't got nothing on Henry. This isn't even going into his atrocities with [[spoiler:Sanctuary]]. Whereas the Illusive Man does show at the end how much he does care about securing humanity's future, Mr. Lawson's primary concern is with how he'll be remembered by future generations. [[spoiler:Watching him get thrown through a window]] is [[AssholeVictim actually kind of cheering]].
--->'''Miranda''': [[CloningBlues I wasn't the only one he created]]; [[OffingTheOffspring I was just the only one he kept]].
* In ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'', the Suul'ka enslaved their entire race to cheat death. After they accomplished this, they spent their immortal existences lording it over the other races. The oldest Suul'ka takes it even further by wanting to be the only living thing in the universe.
* In ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'', Zachary Comstock's whole religion is centered around himself.
* [[spoiler: Adachi]] from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''. He's the only one whose suffering really matters. Anyone who says otherwise is an idiot/bitch/immature brat who doesn't know shit.
* [[spoiler:Masayoshi Shido]] from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' sees people in exactly three ways: threats to be eliminated, people to exploit for power, and himself, and everyone in the first two groups is completely expendable. To show just how severe this trope is with him, [[spoiler:his Palace takes the form of a cruise ship sailing the waters of a sunken Tokyo, depicting how he's okay with letting Japan go to hell so long as he and his patsies profit from it all]]. Keep in mind getting there involves [[spoiler:this son of a bitch causing, either directly or through proxy agents, literally every bad thing that happens in the story]].
* Papyrus from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' is incredibly self centered, but lovably so, because he pairs his ShamelessSelfPromoter tendencies with a big heaping helping of NiceGuy and CloudCuckoolander behavior. He has a very high opinion of himself, but not by belittling others or talking down their accomplishments. He simply thinks he's great, and wants to inspire and help everyone else to be just as great. Still, he thinks that everything that happens [[spoiler: due to Frisk's actions in the True Pacifist Run and True Ending was just to help him get into the Royal Guard: he goes on record claiming the True Ending is "the worst possible ending" because he ''still'' isn't one, while simultaneously tearing up over how happy of an ending it actually is]]. Less amusingly, Flowey is enormously self-centered, but also extremely arrogant and bitter; one of his lines has him refer to himself as "the prince of this world's future."
* Calcia, the lobster that runs the counter in ''VideoGame/CarriesOrderUp'', has her credits bio list her likes as "Herself, Attention".
* Huey Emmerich was introduced in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' as a GenerationXerox of his mild-mannered and compassionate son, Hal (aka Otacon), but players of ''MetalGearSolid2'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' know that it's only a surface resemblance. In fact, he [[spoiler: murders Strangelove because she won't let him use Hal--who was at that point a ''toddler''--as a WetwareCPU/test pilot for Metal Gear Sahelanthropus]], and, years later, when his second wife is revealed to be sexually abusing Hal, [[spoiler: he's DrivenToSuicide because of how bad it makes ''him'' feel--and he tries to pull a TakingYouWithMe on his daughter.]]
* Ahg-za-Haru in ''[[NexusWar Nexus Clash]]'' is a god-sized violent vortex of absolute remorseless selfishness whose entire reason for being is to gratify the desires it feels at that very moment. Ahg hates and is hated by the entire rest of the pantheon and believes with unflinching sincerity that it is all ''their'' fault for not giving it control of the entire multiverse forever.
* In VideoGame/EmpireEarth's last Russia level, General Molotov travels back in time and learns to his dismay that his idol and hero, Grigor Stoyanovic, isn't the noble hero who save Russia and made it strong but is a selfish dictator, who doesn't care if his successor, Grigor II, would kill billions of innocents to conquer the world. If he can rule the world and make everyone his slave, so be it. [[spoiler:Thus Molotv kills him to prevent Grigor's rise to power]].
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''
** Throughout the series, this is a trait of Meridia, a [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] whose sphere is obscured to mortals, but is associated with LifeEnergy, [[LightIsNotgood Light]], and [[ProudBeauty Beauty]]. Meridia describes herself as compassionate and merciful, and her actions do (generally) benefit mortals, but she won't hesitate to use or sacrifice her own followers for what she perceives to be a greater end. If said followers lose faith or abandon her because of her actions, her compassion disappears entirely and she will allow or even ''cause'' them to [[DisproportionateRetribution meet a terrible end]].
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'''s ''Dragonborn'' DLC has Master Neloth, a Councilor of the Dunmeri [[TheClan Great House]] [[TheMagocracy Telvanni]] who previously appeared in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]''. The rather [[MightMakesRight lax]] [[KlingonPromotion rules]] in House Telvanni foster an environment in which EvilSorcerer and magical MadScientist types flourish, and Neloth is the epitome of that. An InsufferableGenius of the highest order, Neloth doesn't give an [[DudeWheresMyRespect iota of respect]] to even world-saving heroes like the [[PlayerCharacter Dragonborn]]. His reaction to the death of his steward is to complain about how annoying things keep happening to him and demand that the Dragonborn find him a new one. When he becomes convinced someone is out to kill him, he points out to ''the Dragons'' as one of the attempts to kill him. The Dragonborn needs to point out that the Dragons ''aren't just after him''.

* Shun in ''VisualNovel/EienNoAselia.''
* The world of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and everyone in it belongs to Gilgamesh. He'll kill anyone he [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans thinks needs killing]]. He'll allow a self-admittedly evil man to kidnap, betray, and murder, because the victims were worthless scum anyway. But if someone goes around the city killing its citizens without his permission, well, that's a disgusting crime. Oh, Gilgamesh also eats the souls of forsaken orphans for magic energy, thinks that a little genocide would improve what he sees as a global overpopulation problem, and brutalizes, humiliates, and would-have-raped LawfulGood LadyOfWar Saber in a grotesque parody of courtship. In short, the "Good" part of his WordOfGod ChaoticGood alignment is practically impossible to swallow.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}''. Reaver, the Hero of Skill. He commits numerous heinous acts both great and small and sadly he's also a complete KarmaHoudini. There's just no way to do anything to make him pay for any of what he does over the course of the games.
* Dr. Weil, the utterly despicable BigBad of the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series. It all started with how he, and ''he alone'', thinks humans deserve to rule the Reploids, and single-handedly triggered the Elf Wars. Later, he is given a FateWorseThanDeath that is technically [[WhatAnIdiot escapable]]. Then he starts taking over the world, and making people suffer just because they all made him suffer. As Weil puts it:
-->'''Dr. Weil:''' Justice!? Freedom!? Worthless ideals! You Reploids are just machines, but you started a war a long time ago in the name of freedom! And humans! Look what they did to me! Driving me away while spouting the word "justice!" Zero, would you insist on saving them!? Controlling the Reploids is nothing! The destruction of all mankind is only fleeting!
** In the ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' series, Bass is this trope because he thinks he is the strongest Robot Master.
* Similarly, the villains from the VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi series, the first and third games in particular. Cackletta starts out more or less like any normal villain, but turns into this roughly when she takes over Bowser's body to become Bowletta. Fawful is already in this in the first game (he has a literal camera crew with spot lights and speech before his boss battle), but by the time of Bowser's Inside Story, has gone straight off the deep end, with his face on every object in sight (statues, floors, trains) and the entirety of Bowser's minions treating him as a celebrity under mind control.
* ''VideoGame/MyWorldMyWay''. It's in the title. After all, when you're a {{princess}} who can ''[[RealityWarper change the fabric of reality by pouting]]'', why ''wouldn't'' it be about you? The reason she's doing anything is to learn how not to be a stuck-up princess.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''

** Aire in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyThe4HeroesOfLight'' is completely self-centered and only cares about her style and comfort to the point that Jusqua ditches her. She gets a huge wake-up call after her greed gets her cursed into being a cat [[spoiler:and her fairy companion, Lilibelle, does a HeroicSacrifice for her]].
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarSeries'', has Kratos, a man who killed a pantheon rather than admit that maybe, just maybe, something was ''his own damn fault''. Most evident in the second game, when he starts doing the exact same thing that Ares did, i.e. the thing that prompted the gods to help Kratos kill him. Then he claims that the Gods of Olympus betrayed ''him'' by stopping him. This gets called out in the third game, where Hermes gives him a BreakingSpeech on how his path only leads to destruction and Kratos undergoes a slow HeelRealization. Also lampshaded in the first game, where it's shown in a flashback that his wife Lysandra refused to believe that his brutality was for "the glory of Sparta" as he claims, telling him that he does it all for his own personal glory.
* Mori Motonari from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara''. What we have here is a guy who calls himself "Child Of The Sun", commands a battalion of devoted soldiers...that he considers disposable pawns, and will kill when it's beneficial to him, then takes all the glory for himself (to be fair, he does come up with 100% of the strategies). His goal is to [[TakeOverTheWorld Take Over Japan]]. And while others have pretty righteous reasons for doing this, Motonari does it for himself only.
* It is taken UpToEleven with [[spoiler:Zanza]] from ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'', the local JerkassGod who is ''utterly incapable'' of acknowledging the value of '''anything''' that isn't himself, and is constantly using his power to destroy and rebuild the universe because '''[[ForTheEvulz fuck you]]'''. Also because of the fact that if his creations leave him, he'll die, but that doesn't excuse him for being such a massive dick about it.
* Arl Howe from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', who was also TheResenter. He betrayed his best friend, Bryce Cousland, and slaughtered most of his family before throwing his lot in with [[FallenHero Teryn Loghain]]. When questioned about this later by a human noble PC, he has the audacity to claim that Bryce was a traitor because he made frequent trips to Orlais. Throughout the conversation, however, he reveals that he was simply resentful of the Couslands' success. As shown in the Awakenings expansion, Arl Howe's actions end up bringing shame to his family and his children end up as pariahs. Even his FamousLastWords are an example of this trope.
-->''Maker spit on you … I deserved more …''
** And Marjolaine too. Marjolaine betrayed her disciple and lover under the belief that Leliana would EVENTUALLY betray her, and then tried to sell out her own country to Harwen Raleigh.
*** When you meet her in the main game, she ''still'' thinks it's all about her. If you try to tell her that Leliana has moved past her betrayal to help fight the Blight she angrily dismisses you and insists otherwise. Marjolaine actually believes she is more important than the freaking Darkspawn.
** Dwarf nobles seem to have this problem. During the First Blight, the dwarven kingdoms were nearly wiped out because the nobles were too busy bickering over whose thaig should be saved, forcing Paragon Aeducan to launch a coup just so that ''something'' was preserved.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' main character Luke starts out this way. Anything that does not involve either himself or Master Van is boring and unworthy of his attention. A large part of the story focuses on his transition from a self-centered, spoiled brat into a self-sacrificing hero.
** A lot of it comes from Luke being [[spoiler:mentally seven years old.]]
* ''[[VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny Tales Of Destiny 2]]'' has Barbatos Goetia, who ended up being written out of history for his utter lack of sympathy towards both his comrades and enemies, using the former as tools to gain more glory for himself. When he's revived by the BigBad, he's perfectly willing to travel through time for the purpose of killing the heroes of the first game on the promise that he'd be made into a hero if he did. He maintains this mentality to the very end, where he opts to commit suicide rather then be defeated by the party, on the basis that he views ''himself'' as the only one worthy of taking his life.
* Prince Laharl from ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'' is, by his vassals' accounts, a self-centered brat with a massive entitlement complex. For example, he didn't expect to actually pay his vassals, since he'd have to share his allowance. He eventually shapes up (a little) when he realizes that they won't work for or respect him otherwise.
** His vassal Etna is not above it either. She's perfectly willing to send her minions on [[VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero suicide missions]] to satisfy her SweetTooth, and barely pays them anything. In the [[VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories second game,]] she joins the party after an incident where she [[spoiler: screws them over by giving them a fake ingredient ForTheEvulz. This backfires when their ritual inadvertently causes her power to vanish, then she proceeds to demand they fix her problems for her despite being the one at fault.]] However, she later opens up to [[MoralityPet Hanako]] after she shows interest in her, and eventually [[spoiler: takes in and trains her to become a FutureBadass Demon Lord after the two grow closer together.]]
** After the sheltered princess Rozalin is accidentally summoned, she initially does this when she demands Adell focus entirely on her needs. She [[CharacterDevelopment gets over it]] over the course of the story after befriending Adell's siblings, seeing the effects of her father's curse on the world, [[spoiler: and being touched by Adell's commitment to his promise.]]
** Walnut from ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave''. His entire strategy as a Chroma Oxide is to cheat other Chromas and steal their payments, and repeatedly supports his view with claims about "money rules the world" and "only the strongest survive", yet feels severely mistreated when the people he cheated, who are usually stronger than him since they tackle the things he won't, punish him for it. He develops a very one-sided rivalry against Marona because she defeats him, because she's making progress without having to stoop to his level, and because she befriends his ill sister Castile, making her genuinely happy (while he left to get money for her medical bills, thus making her lonely). Eventually his attempt to ambush Marona on the Island of Evil leads to the release of the BigBad, Sulphur. (Admittedly no one had any idea that would happen.)
* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': The first hint that Ghetsis's motives may not be wholesome is when he slips up in a speech at Castelia City. He is quick to correct himself, but for the observant, the damage has already been done.
** His VillainousBreakdown suggests [[EvilCannotComprehendGood he can't fathom]] people ''not'' thinking this way. He can't understand how [[spoiler: the player character [[DefusingTheTykeBomb defused his Tyke Bomb]]]], because to him ThePowerOfFriendship is just a lie.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'': [[spoiler: Lusamine]] doesn't care about anyone that she doesn't deem beautiful enough for her love, and even those that she does consider worthy of her love are viewed as possessions rather than sentient beings with free will. Before the final battle with her, [[spoiler: Lillie]] calls her out for only ever thinking about herself and what she wants; [[spoiler: Lusamine]] doesn't even try to deny it, flat-out asking [[spoiler: Lillie]] why she shouldn't.

* Jon Irenicus from ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' to a horrifying degree. He was like this even ''before'' his soul was stripped away. Irenicus endangered the lives of his ''entire race'' by trying to siphon the power of the Tree of Life in his bid for godhood; an act so heinous and sacrilegious that the Elven Queen Ellisime (who was his lover at the time) tore away his immortal elven soul and banished him with the Elven gods' blessings. Irenicus considers them monsters for taking away his soul and doesn't even acknowledge that ''maybe'' he had it coming what with nearly killing his own species. [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse]] when the lack of a soul caused him to develop a LackOfEmpathy as well. Irenicus doesn't see people as people anymore after that point. To him, they are just tools to be exploited, slaves to be worked to death, experimental subjects, or targets for revenge.
** He needed some prodding by his much more [[LackOfEmpathy empathy-lacking]] sister Bodhi before he started this kind of mindset.

* ''VideoGame/BioShock'': What Andrew Ryan says of himself through the creation of his underwater capitalist paradise Rapture in the [[VideoGame/BioShock1 first]] [[VideoGame/BioShock2 two]] games. [[EvilCannotComprehendGood He even believes]] that it is the nature of all humankind to think this way, telling the protagonist "In the end, all that matters to you is you, and all that matters to me is me.".
* Alex of ''VideoGame/GoldenSun''. When you encounter him in ''The Lost Age'' after adding Piers to your party, he's quite offended that you found a new Water Adept who actually cares about your mission enough to, you know, ''tag along and help you himself''... and then he reveals his hypocrisy by introducing you to ''his'' new allies. [[spoiler: And then he [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder double-crosses]] ''[[UpToEleven everybody]]'', [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness including Karst and Agatio]].]] Lampshaded mercilessly by Jenna and Sheba after just about every cutscene featuring Alex. This is downplayed when an optional mind reading reveals he cares about Mia, though he considers this a weakness on his part.
* James Tobin from ''InThe1stDegree. Yvonne Barnes states that Tobin is completely full of himself, and that he ended up blaming his business partner Zack for all his problems. Interestingly, it is stated that he slept around, and that he was likely cheating on his girlfriend Ruby. However, the minute he finds out that Zack and Ruby had a one-night stand, he flies into a terrible rage and decides that he has to murder Zack. Yes, he thinks it's okay for him to cheat, but it's not okay for his girlfriend to cheat. What you have here is a man who lives and breathes this trope.

** While true, this isn't one of the best examples for Garrosh. [[spoiler: Cairne Bloodhoof is the one that first suggested the duel, while Garrosh suggested it be to the death. Cairne knew damn well what he was getting into, and Garrosh is honestly shamed by the fact that he only won the fight ''because'' his weapon was poisoned without his knowledge or consent. His attitude here is less self-centered and more unable to understand that Baine holds any real resentment over a very public affair that was very much Cairne's own choice (albeit in large part because Garrosh became an UnwittingPawn to Magatha by creating the opportunity she needed to take over Thunder Bluff, to the point at which Baine was unsure whether Garrosh was ''knowingly'' working with Magatha). There was always the chance that Cairne wouldn't be the winner right from the start.]]

** Taran Zhu displays this on both a personal and cultural level, especially at the end of Seige of Orgrimmar. The Horde and Alliance have both suffered greatly at Garrosh's hands, and unite to defeat him, but once he is defeated they nearly come to blows over who gets custody and sentencing rights over Garrosh. Taran Zhu insists that Garrosh be taken to Pandaria for trial - not because the Pandaren are neutral, but because because in Taran Zhu's words they have suffered at Garrosh's hands more than any other people. While the question of "who has Garrosh hurt most" is open for debate, Taran Zhu has repeatedly refused to learn ANYTHING about the Horde/Alliance conflict prior to its arrival on Pandaria's shores, insisting that it is "nothing more than a race war." He thus does not know, and refuses to hear about, what Garrosh has done to, say, Jaina Proudmoore (destroyed the city she dedicated her life to, killing almost everyone she has ever known) while stating RIGHT TO HER FACE that his own suffering MUST be greater.
* The [[VillainProtagonist Boss]] (player character) after he stops being a mute from ''SaintsRow'' ''2'' onwards is so much full of himself (or herself) that they cheerfully murder anyone who so much as suggests they might have become corrupt and have not even the slightest compunction about sacrificing others to save themselves. [[spoiler: They either finally start to grow out of it in ''SaintsRow 3'', or shed all their redeeming qualities and become thoroughly corrupt, [[MultipleEndings depending on the ending.]]]]
* [[{{Troll}} Terumi]] [[AxCrazy Yuuki]] / [[FauxAffablyEvil Hazama]] from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' shows great case in this. So what if he has to be hated in order to exist? He enjoys the suffering he has to inflict on people in order to ensure that they hate him, and he often goes out of his way to BreakTheCutie [[ForTheEvulz for the simple sadistic enjoyment of doing it]]. His belief is that [[NietzscheWannabe the whole world is a lie, the only truth is despair]] and he's going to show it to the world. So what if nobody else thinks like that except him? He's powerful and cunning enough to show it to the world, anyway.