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** Arl Rendon Howe, 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 ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening Awakening]]'' 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.

* Endemic among villains in the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series, including (but by no means limited to) Redd White, Manfred Von Karma, Richard Wellington, Luke Atmey, Alita Tiala, Florent L'Belle, [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne, Kristoph Gavin, Matt Engarde, and Quercus Alba]].

** The Kul Tirans refuse to ally with the Alliance against the Horde, citing that they "begged the Alliance for help" against the Horde at Theramore only to be ignored. Not only did Kul Tiras start the conflict with the Horde, which was over too quickly for any Alliance forces to sail across the entire world to reach them, but the entirety of the Alliance was in shambles at the time. Stormwind was still rebuilding from the Second War, Lordaeron was completely destroyed with survivors still fighting off the Scourge, Quel'thalas was devastated by the same Scourge, Gnomeregan was dealing with a trogg invasion, Gilneas had left the Alliance years prior, and Ironforge and Dalaran were helping fight off the Scourge. Kul Tiras also sat out conflicts against the Lich King, Deathwing, the Old Gods, the "True" Horde, and the Burning Legion, any of which could have very well ended the world. But to Kul Tirans, none of that matters because the Alliance didn't help them in a war they started.

* 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.

* ''{{VideoGame/Cyberpunk 2077}}'': Johnny Silverhand, in a nutshell. When Arasaka kidnapped his on-and-off girlfriend Alt Cunningham he immediately assumed that the corporation was using her to get to him, and even when someone sat him down and told him straight out that Alt was a genius, once-in-a-lifetime level programmer and hacker who had already worked on at least one black-ops project for IES and that everything about her abduction had "standard corporate asset extraction" written all over it, he still assumed that he was the real target and she was just collateral.

* [=GLaDOS=] in ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''. Compare all the jabs she gives to [[PlayerCharacter Chell]] for [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} murdering her the last time around]] to her utter lack of acknowledgement of ''why'' Chell did that (because [=GLaDOS=] was actively trying to kill her, for the record). Then again, it could well be a symptom of being plugged into the mainframe. Once [[spoiler:Wheatley]] gets in, he's immediately berating you for imaginary slights and claiming he was the one who did all the work to get there.

** [[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]].

** ''[[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 [[HeroKiller 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 [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled 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.

* 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. This is because [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly if his creations leave him, he'll die]], but that doesn't excuse him for being such a massive dick about it.
* ''VideoGame/NoStraightRoads'': DJ Subatomic Supernova practically lives and breathes this trope. He sees himself as the avatar of music, destined to carry his melodies through the cosmos, immortalizing them in space, which is a task he sees everyone else as incapable of. We get to see the magnitude of this in his boss fight, where he becomes the center of his own miniature, orbiting solar system. And of course, his head is a black hole for good measure.

%%* Shun in ''VisualNovel/EienNoAselia.''

* Tera Isezaki from ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'' has one hell of an ego. She likens herself to the sun when asked for a self-introduction, made two commercials that exist purely to flaunt her vast wealth, and wants to protect the town of Gold Cord from aliens because [[PigInAPoke an alien once tricked her into buying a worthless rock]] and [[YouAreFat called her fat]].

* ''VideoGame/AnarchyReigns'' has [[BoastfulRap an entire ''song'']] devoted to this trope titled, you guessed it, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SyBn-VWoMY "It's All About Me"]]. It's heavily implied to be the theme of [[DarkActionGirl RinRin]], making it that much [[TheBaroness more fitting]].

%%If you have time, please take time to put examples in alphabetical order. This page Administrivia/HowToAlphabetizeThings should help you with that.

* [[CardCarryingVillain 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. Most of them stems from how he's [[spoiler:actually the spirit inhabiting the custodian unit of Master Unit Amaterasu, [[GodOfEvil Susano'o-no-Mikoto]], and then he was utterly displeased that he's designated to be the servant and wanted to have the world shaped in his image where he stands at the top and feared by all, the only truth he will accept.]] But... [[spoiler:turns out Amaterasu was no better. The soul of Amaterasu was inhabited by a frightened little girl who got shoved into the unit by some other humans and given the order to observe the world and create world peace. Except she never wanted the role at all and so she designated someone, which happens to be the protagonist Ragna the Bloodedge, to be her chosen hero that will come and save her from her position... but everytime something bad happened to the hero, usually by Terumi's works, the Master Unit proceeds to reset the timeline and hope that the hero doesn't swear off his role. Others may suffer their own tribulations throughout the different timelines, but that is of no concern of the Master Unit, she just wants to get out of her position that she didn't like and she'll abuse her power until that goal is reached, what the hell is [[ComesGreatResponsibility this thing called 'responsibility' of a deity?]] [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks Fun times.]]]]

** 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/DragonAgeInquisition'' has Vivianne. She's a mage who opposes the mage rebellion because she'd achieved a cushie position in the Orlesian Royal Court thanks to getting a noble as a patron early on. Due to this, she never suffered any of the injustices or violence that mages in other mage circles were subject to and simply doesn't care about the way that other mages were abused, [[EmptyShell made Tranquil]], or [[ThePurge subjected to the Right of Annulment]] for the slightest offences or sometimes just because a Templar felt like it. The fact that she's also the only black party member in the series to date just heightens the UnfortunateImplications.

* 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]].

** 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 FairyCompanion, Lilibelle, does a HeroicSacrifice for her]].

* ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'': ComicBook/{{Superman}}, or rather, an alternate version of the Man of Steel devolves into this after his FaceHeelTurn. After he was tricked by ComicBook/TheJoker into killing his own wife and nuking Metropolis, [[KnightTemplar he]] turned to [[WellIntentionedExtremist dictatorial tactics]] because he thought it was the only way to stop crime. His selfish side manifests after he [[spoiler:decides that since he is the Man of Steel, anything he does in service to "save" his world is justifiable because he says so, threatens to destroy Metropolis and Gotham for questioning his authority, and [[MurderTheHypotenuse plans to kill the mainstream Superman]] [[IfICantHaveYou and take his Lois Lane]], despite the fact that mainstream Lois would be just as appalled as others at what he's done to the world. He even outright tells his good counterpart that he ''doesn't care'' as long as she's alive, almost as if he's [[LackOfEmpathy seeing]] her as a mere possession]]. His mainstream counterpart [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse chides]] him for using this to justify his oppressive rule on Earth.

* While most of the people in the Noble Alliance in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' are this to some extent, the biggest would be Duke Cayenne. The man started a civil war because he couldn't get over the shame of his ancestor being considered a traitor because he lead one of the losing factions of the ''last'' civil war, ''two hundred fifty odd years previous''. He was not disadvantaged by his ancestry in any way - he was head of one of the four most important non-royal houses in the Empire, with a quarter of the nation as his personal fief. It's likely that nobody outside his family apart from geneologists knew or ''cared'' that his 8+ times great grandfather fought on the wrong side of the War of the Lions. But to clear his ancestor of treason, he committed treason himself.

* ''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.

* ''VideoGame/{{Rift}}'': Prince Hylas comes to mind as while this isn't necessarily the primary motivation for the rest of House Aelfwar departing to join up and work with Greenscale's life plane, it certainly is for him. When his lover left for war and returned as one of the Ascended, he spurned her for no other real reason than that he and the other High Elves were no longer the Vigil's favourite.

* Mori Motonari from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' 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 only for himself.

** ''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.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', both Kaito and Tenko note that Angie Yonaga tends to do whatever she wants without regard for how anybody else feels. She sets up a Student Council (cult), with her in charge, and begins enforcing rules to prevent another murder without bothering to consult the other students about it. This causes a rift in between the members and non-members of the Student Council. She genuinely believes she can't be doing anything wrong because she is under Atua's protection, but what ''Atua'' wants and what ''Angie'' wants suspiciously tend to be the same thing.

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* In ''VisualNovel/NewDanganRonpaV3'', both Kaito and Tenko note that Angie Yonaga tends to do whatever she wants without regard for how anybody else feels. She sets up a Student Council (cult), with her in charge, and begins enforcing rules to prevent another murder without bothering to consult the other students about it. This causes a rift in between the members and non-members of the Student Council. She genuinely believes she can't be doing anything wrong because she is under Atua's protection, but what ''Atua'' wants and what ''Angie'' wants suspiciously tend to be the same thing.

* 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]].

* Edelgard von Hrsevelg in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', as she refuses to end the war peacefully in route that isn't her own because she believes herself to be the only one capable of changing Fódlan, ignoring how the war has harmed countless bystanders in the process. Even in casual conversations with her peers she tends to redirect conversations to be talking about ''her'' goals and ''her'' experiences. Caspar even calls her out on this in their C-support.

* 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. Most of them stems from how he's [[spoiler:actually the spirit inhabiting the custodian unit of Master Unit Amaterasu, Takehaya no Mikoto Susano'o, and then he was utterly displeased that he's designated to be the servant and wanted to have the world shaped in his image where he stands at the top and feared by all, the only truth he will accept.]] But... [[spoiler:turns out Amaterasu was no better. The soul of Amaterasu was inhabited by a frightened little girl who got shoved into the unit by some other humans and given the order to observe the world and create world peace. Except she never wanted the role at all and so she designated someone, which happens to be the protagonist Ragna the Bloodedge, to be her chosen hero that will come and save her from her position... but everytime something bad happened to the hero, usually by Terumi's works, the Master Unit proceeds to reset the timeline and hope that the hero doesn't swear off his role. Others may suffer their own tribulations throughout the different timelines, but that is of no concern of the Master Unit, she just wants to get out of her position that she didn't like and she'll abuse her power until that goal is reached, what the hell is [[ComesGreatResponsibility this thing called 'responsibility' of a deity?]] [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks Fun times.]]]]

* 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 [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly if his creations leave him, he'll die]], but that doesn't excuse him for being such a massive dick about it.

* Tera Isezaki from ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'' has one hell of an ego. She likens herself to the sun when asked for a self-introduction, made two commercials that exist purely to flaunt her vast wealth, and wants to protect the town of Gold Cord from aliens because [[PigOnAPoke an alien once tricked her into buying a worthless rock]] and [[YouAreFat called her fat]].

* To some degree or another, a large percentage of the cast in ''VisualNovel/ThePiratesFate''. The [[PlotCoupon magic coins]] have a tendency to draw out the worst in people who all want to use their RealityWarper powers to further their own agendas, which range from petty personal ambition all the way up to DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans. Even the couple who claim to be helping others out of benevolence prove to be OnlyInItForTheMoney and {{glory hound}}s to boot.

* Exaggerated and deconstructed in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''. [[spoiler:Having cyborgized herself]], Frost demands everyone respect her and portrays herself in the highest possible regard, including but not limited to - demanding control of the Jinsei from Raiden, demanding Shao Khan be her ally against Sub-Zero, and claiming to the greatest Lin Kuei. She even [[NeverMyFault blames]] her ex-mentor Sub-Zero for her issues in '11'', but ''all the other characters'' [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse consider this hogwash]]. Especially in ''11'', her [[PsychopathicManchild bratty attitude]] doesn't help her much, considering she ''voluntarily'' betrayed her mentor for greater power, and her ''11'' arcade ending [[spoiler:confirms that even Kronika, the true BigBad of the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' franchise, looked down at her for this reason]]. As much as he despises his younger brother, even Noob Saibot [[VillainHasAPoint outright thinks]] Kuai Liang would be a far better Lin Kuei grandmaster than her.

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' has Vivianne. She's a mage who opposes the mage rebellion because she'd achieved a cushie position in the Orlesian Royal Court thanks to getting a noble as a patron early on. Due to this, she never suffered any of the injustices or violence that mages in other mage circles were subject to and simply doesn't care about the way that other mages were abused, [[EmptyShell made Tranquil]], or [[ThePurge subjected to the Rite of Annulment]] for the slightest offences or sometimes just because a Templar felt like it. The fact that she's also the only black party member in the series to date just heightens the UnfortunateImplications.

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' has Vivianne. She's a mage who opposes the mage rebellion because she'd achieved a cushie position in the Orlesian Royal Court thanks to getting a noble as a patron early on. Due to this, she never suffered any of the injustices or violence that mages in other mage circles were subject to and simply doesn't care about the way that other mages were abused, enslaved, or [[EmptyShell made Tranquil]] for the slightest offences or sometimes just because a Templar felt like it. The fact that she's also the only black party member in the series to date just heightens the UnfortunateImplications.