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* 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.

* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm'': While Rachel Amber is treated sympathetically, this is one of her flaws. Whenever she and Chloe are hanging out, they always bend to her wishes and feelings in the moment. While perusing Amber's room, you can find that her enneagram and astrological sign both list "self-centeredness" as a potential weakness. Ironically, if Chloe interprets that Amber's suddenly distanced behavior at the junkyard is a reaction to some offense Chloe's given, Amber will rather spitefully retort that not everything is about ''Chloe''.

** The Ascians in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy14'' are this. Originally, the setting was one world, but due to their actions while the Ascians were {{Precursors}} has split into 14 shards. The Ascians intend to remake their own world to get their way of life back, utterly heedless of the countless billions of lives they would be ending should their "Rejoining" come to fruition. No Ascian even ''cares'' about that, seeing the lives of everyone else on the various shards as "imperfect" and "ephemeral" and thus worthless compared to the Ascians' own desires.

** This also applies to Lord El-Melloi of ''Literature/FateZero''. He fully expects the world to be handed to him on a platter and everything to always go his way. When Kiritsugu is battling him, he is ''naturally'' going to be the winner, because he's a prodigy! Things don't go well for him at all. But the whole time he's losing, he doesn't even realize it, because for him, the world works by giving him stuff and letting him always triumph. This also taints all his relationships, to the degree that [[EvilCannotComprehendGood he cannot understand his Servant's (entirely selfless) agenda]] and think he's hiding something because he thinks everyone else thinks like he does, and believes his fiancée loves him even though she despises him and their ArrangedMarriage. [[spoiler: In the end, Kayneth's one and only selfless act -- sacrificing his Servant and [[IHaveYourWife bowing out of the Grail War to save his fiancée's life]] -- leads directly to his death as Kiritsugu [[ILied has both of them shot immediately afterwards]].]]

* The ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series 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. It took him centuries of self-hating and self-pondering before Kratos finally overcomes this and becomes a selfless benevolent god well-loved by his people.

* Edelgard von Hrsevelg in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', as [[spoiler:she refuses to end the war peacefully in any 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.

--->'''Miranda''': [[CloningBlues I wasn't the only one he created]]; [[OffingTheOffspring I was just the only one he kept]].

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'':

* [[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 every time 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 up to eleven 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.

* The ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series 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.

** This expands to the level that not only the good, but the bad, is his. In ''LightNovel/FateZero'', Gilgamesh [[StaringDownCthulhu stares down and escapes]] [[spoiler:the inside of the Grail because all the world's sins and evils are ''his'' burdens to bear, and not the Grail's[=/=]Avenger's]] -- after all, if ''everything'' in the world is his, then ''everything'' is.

** This also applies to Lord El-Melloi of ''LightNovel/FateZero''. He fully expects the world to be handed to him on a platter and everything to always go his way. When Kiritsugu is battling him, he is ''naturally'' going to be the winner, because he's a prodigy! Things don't go well for him at all. But the whole time he's losing, he doesn't even realize it, because for him, the world works by giving him stuff and letting him always triumph. This also taints all his relationships, to the degree that [[EvilCannotComprehendGood he cannot understand his Servant's (entirely selfless) agenda]] and think he's hiding something because he thinks everyone else thinks like he does, and believes his fiancée loves him even though she despises him and their ArrangedMarriage. [[spoiler: In the end, Kayneth's one and only selfless act -- sacrificing his Servant and [[IHaveYourWife bowing out of the Grail War to save his fiancée's life]] -- leads directly to his death as Kiritsugu [[ILied has both of them shot immediately afterwards]].]]

* ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'' features Col. [=McKinsey=] during Trigger's time with Osean Air Defense Force's 444th Fighter Squadron, also known as Spare Squadron, a group of military convicts who are forced to carry out often-[[SuicideMission suicidal]] missions. However, when Spare Squadron starts to prove themselves to be competent, [=McKinsey=] reminds them that they're still prisoners who are only there to atone for their crimes, but as pointed out by a member of Spare Squadron, [=McKinsey=]'s only in it to get medals while Spare Squadron does all the hard work (and then he angrily has that prisoner tossed into solitary confinement). He even flat-out admits after one particular mission that the Osean higher-ups are giving Spare Squadron some attention, and that he deserves all the credit for Spare's hard work while the prisoners that actually make up the squadron and do all the hard, blood-shedding work deserve none. [[spoiler:This ends up biting him in the ass when he gets promoted to a frontline position as "recognition" of his "efforts", rather than to a more cozy desk job like he wanted.]]

* ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'' features Col. [=McKinsey=] during Trigger's time with Osean Air Defense Force's 444th Fighter Squadron, also known as Spare Squadron, a group of military convicts who are forced to carry out often-[[SuicideMission suicidal]] missions. However, when Spare Squadron starts to prove themselves to be competent, [=McKinsey=] reminds them that they're still prisoners who are only there to atone for their crimes, but as pointed out by a member of Spare Squadron, [=McKinsey=]'s only in it to get medals while Spare Squadron does all the hard work (and then he angrily has that prisoner tossed into solitary confinement). He even flat-out admits after one particular mission that the Osean higher-ups are giving Spare Squadron some attention, and that he deserves all the credit for Spare's hard work while the prisoners that actually make up the squadron deserve none. [[spoiler:This ends up biting him in the ass when he gets promoted to a frontline position as "recognition" of his "efforts", rather than to a more cozy desk job like he wanted.]]

* ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'' features Col. [=McKinsey=] during Trigger's time with Osean Air Defense Force's 444th Fighter Squadron, also known as Spare Squadron, a group of military convicts who are forced to carry out often-[[SuicideMission suicidal]] missions. However, when Spare Squadron starts to prove themselves to be competent, [=McKinsey=] reminds them that they're still prisoners who are only there to atone for their crimes, but as pointed out by a member of Spare Squadron, [=McKinsey=]'s only in it to get medals while Spare Squadron does all the hard work (and then he angrily has that prisoner tossed into solitary confinement). He even flat-out admits after one particular mission that the Osean higher-ups are giving Spare Squadron some attention, and he deserves all the credit for Spare's hard work while the prisoners that actually make up the squadron deserve none. [[spoiler:This ends up biting him in the ass when he gets promoted to a frontline position as "recognition" of his "efforts", rather than ranking up to a more cozy desk job like he wanted.]]

* ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'' features Col. [=McKinsey=] during Trigger's time with Osean Air Defense Force's 444th Fighter Squadron, also known as Spare Squadron. [=McKinsey=] is in charge of Spare Squadron, a group of military convicts who are forced to carry out often-[[SuicideMission suicidal]] missions. However, when Spare Squadron starts to prove themselves to be competent, he reminds them that they're still prisoners who are only there to atone for their crimes, but only so that he can look good as their commander and earn himself a bunch of medals. He even flat-out admits after one particular mission that the Osean higher-ups are giving Spare Squadron some attention, and he deserves all the credit for Spare's hard work while the prisoners that actually make up the squadron deserve none. [[spoiler:This ends up biting him in the ass when he gets promoted to a frontline position as "recognition" of his "efforts", rather than ranking up to a more cozy desk job like he wanted.]]

** 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 last words are an example of this trope.

* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm'': While Rachel Amber is treated sympathetically, this is one of her flaws. Whenever she and Chloe are hanging out, they always bend to her wishes and feelings in the moment. While perusing Amber's room, you can find that her enneagram and astrological sign both list "self-centeredness" as a potential weakness. Ironically, if Chloe interprets that Amber's suddenly distanced behavior at the junkyard is a reaction to some offense Chloe's given, Amber will rather spitefully retort that not everything is about ''Chloe''.