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* ''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]].

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic: [[BigBad Tenebrae/Vitiate/Valkorion]] thinks he's the only person who deserves [[ImmortalitySeeker to be immortal,]] and doesn't care if he has to [[ImmortalityImmorality murder the entire galaxy]] to obtain it.

* 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 [[LoveIsAWeakness he considers this a weakness]] on his part.

* This is taken UpToEleven with [[spoiler:Zanza]] from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'', 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.

* 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 impossibleexpectations, 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]].

** 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:

* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem'' is this trope personified at this point. 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 coincidence that it would prevent falling into obscurity as an old relic of a hero was only a bonus (though it [[FranchiseKiller didn't save him from the scathing reviewers]] that thought the writers crossed too many lines on top of [[{{Irony}} having severely outdated gameplay and humor by release]]).

* ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'': Reaver, the Hero of Skill, 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.

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' has Vivienne. She's a mage who opposes the mage rebellion because she'd achieved a cushy position in the Orlesian Royal Court thanks to getting a noble as a patron early in life. Due to this, she has never suffered any of the injustices or violence that mages in other mage circles experienced, 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.

* 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]].

''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors''. Despite what he might appear to be, [[spoiler: Ace, turns out to be a very selfish man. All his actions are for the purpose of benefiting himself. And his selfishness is so enormous, that he doesn't mind harming or killing other people]].

''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors''. Despite what he might appear to be, [[spoiler:Hongou, better known as Ace, turns out to be a very selfish man. All his actions are for the purpose of benefiting himself. And his selfishness is so enormous, that he doesn't mind harming or killing other people].

** 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.

* The Doctor ([[Series/DoctorWho no, not that one]]) from ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' is a power-obsessed psychopath who only cares about himself. He has his eyes set on [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]] using the [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers supernatural powers]] of [[ArtifactOfDoom the Demon Crown]], and would go so far as to subject an innocent child to a FateWorseThanDeath to progress his goals, as he demonstrates with poor, adorable little [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth Toroko]].

** The Right Hand of the Crow, [[spoiler:Albus]]. He betrayed Geoffrey Azelhart, his own friend and [[EvilFormerFriend sold him out to a criminal organization]] after having decided that EvilPaysBetter, then participated in murdering him. His other friend Revello Forsythe is horrified when he accompanies Geoffrey's daughter Primrose in infiltrating his hideout ten years later and finds out that a man he believed to be just and honorable [[BrokenPedestal is anything but]].

** The main antagonist of Cyrus' route, [[spoiler:Lucia]], is this in spades. [[spoiler:She]] assists [[spoiler:Headmaster Yvon]] in stealing an ancient tome with magic knowledge within, gives the MadScientist Gideon the means to perform horrific experiments on innocent lives--[[BloodMagic extracting their blood to create magic crystals]]--and when [[spoiler:Yvon]] discovers all the secrets within the tome, betrays [[spoiler:him]] and takes the knowledge [[spoiler:he]] discovered for [[spoiler:her]] own goals. Why did [[spoiler:she]] do all this? To use the power over life and death contained within the tome to [[ImmortalityImmorality become immortal]], have the time to gain all the knowledge in the world, and then keep that knowledge to [[spoiler:herself]] for the sake of [[spoiler:her]] own ego. Unsurprisingly, [[InformationWantsToBeFree Cyrus]] is not impressed with how [[EvilIsPetty petty]] and selfish [[spoiler:Lucia]] is, and delivers a well-deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to [[spoiler:her]] before their battle.
** The Right Hand of the Crow, [[spoiler:Albus]], also qualifies. He betrayed Geoffrey Azelhart, his own friend and [[EvilFormerFriend sold him out to a criminal organization]] after having decided that EvilPaysBetter, then participated in murdering him. His other friend Revello Forsythe is horrified when he accompanies Geoffrey's daughter Primrose in infiltrating his hideout ten years later and finds out that a man he believed to be just and honorable [[BrokenPedestal is anything but]].

** The main antagonist of Cyrus' route, [[spoiler:Lucia]], is this in spades. [[spoiler:She]] assists [[spoiler:Headmaster Yvon]] in stealing an ancient tome with magic knowledge within, gives the MadScientist Gideon the means to perform horrific experiments on innocent lives--[[BloodMagic extracting their blood to create magic crystals]]--and when [[spoiler:Yvon]] discovers all the secrets within the tome, betrays [[spoiler:him]] and takes the knowledge [[spoiler:he]] discovered for [[spoiler:her]] own goals. Why did she do all this? To use the power over life and death contained within the tome to [[ImmortalityImmorality become immortal]], have the time to gain all the knowledge in the world, and then keep that knowledge to herself for the sake of her own ego. Unsurprisingly, [[InformationWantsToBeFree Cyrus]] is not impressed with how [[EvilIsPetty petty]] and selfish [[spoiler:Lucia]] is, and delivers a well-deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to [[spoiler:her]] before their battle.

** The Right Hand of the Crow, [[spoiler:Albus]], also qualifies. He betrayed Geoffrey Azelhart, his own friend and [[EvilFormerFriend sold him out to a criminal organization]] after having decided that EvilPaysBetter, then participated in murdering him. His other friend Revello Forsythe is horrified when he accompanies Geoffrey's daughter Primrose in infiltrating his hideout and finds out that a man he believed to be just and honorable [[BrokenPedestal is anything but]].

* 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]].]]

'''[[spoiler:Dahlia]]''': Helping...? Don't make me laugh. From the day I was born to the day I died, I never helped anyone! I lived for myself and, in the end, [[spoiler: I died for myself.]] I thought that was obvious.

** [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]] is an exceptionally petty sociopath who [[spoiler:stages a fake kidnapping to defraud her father]], then ends up killing or trying to kill anyone who could pose a threat to her, [[spoiler:including both her accomplices -- stabbing one and manipulating the other into killing himself]]. [[spoiler:After being executed for her last murder, she's channeled as a spirit as part of her mother's plan to kill Maya, but Dahlia reveals she doesn't even care about that plan, and simply wants revenge on Maya's sister Mia, the one responsible for Dahlia being sentenced to death.]]

'''[[spoiler:Dahlia]]''': Helping...? Don't make me laugh. From the day I was born to the day I died, I never helped anyone!

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** Before the events of the game, 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.

* 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 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 genealogists 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.

* 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]].

* Huey Emmerich was introduced in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' as a GenerationXerox of his mild-mannered and compassionate son, Hal (aka Otacon), but players of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' 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.]]
* 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.

** Taran Zhu displays this on both a personal and cultural level, especially at the end of the Siege 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.

** [[spoiler:Police Chief Damon Gant]], the culprit of the bonus case of the original game, proudly says that there are three people he looks out for- "Me, Myself and I" when he's accused of [[spoiler:helping Lana cover up a murder that her sister supposedly committed.]] It turns out that he does have a reason to "help" the person in question- [[spoiler:blackmailing her so he can control the prosecutor's office]].
** [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]] is an exceptionally petty sociopath who [[spoiler:stages a fake kidnapping to defraud her father]], then ends up killing or trying to kill anyone who could pose a threat to her, [[spoiler:including both her accomplices- stabbing one and manipulating the other into killing himself]]. [[spoiler:After being executed for her last murder, she's channeled as a spirit as part of her mother's plan to kill Maya, but Dahlia reveals she doesn't even care about that plan, and simply wants revenge on Maya's sister Mia, the one responsible for Dahlia being sentenced to death.]]

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