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** [[WouldHurtAChild Cody Hjuger]], Kanata's father, is secretly a [[HumanTraffickers child trafficker]] who [[BitchInSheepsClothing hides his trades under the guise of a benevolent village leader]]. Selling the children in his orphanage as either slave labor, {{sex slave}}s, or for their [[OrganTheft organs]], Cody also has anybody who witnessed his trades sold to scientist Malcolm Sloat for painful experimentation. With his next sale being Kanata's childhood friend Misella, Cody tries to persuade his son into taking over the ring once he's dead, before attempting to kill him once he fights back.

->'''Saleh''': I wonder where our little culprit went? There's no use trying to escape, so come on out~!\\
'''Mao''' (a young teenager): [emotionless] Who...am I...\\
'''Saleh''': So our culprit has amnesia, does he. I almost feel sorry for the poor little runt. Perhaps it would be kinder of me to go ahead and send him to the other side.\\

'''Eugene Gallardo''': Wait, Saleh!\\
'''Saleh''' [grinning]: Huh? I'm afraid that it's too late for that, Commander...

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'': [[TheDreaded Vaclav Bolud]] is the [[BastardBastard illegitimate]] third [[TheEvilPrince prince]] of the militaristic Crusand Empire, defined by [[AmbitionIsEvil his ruthless ambitions]]. Properly ineligible for succeeding the throne due to his lineage, Vaclav leads an independent military unit in the hopes of eventually discovering a means to violently overthrow the Crusand monarchy. Vaclav, discovering the continental Legacy at sea, deciphers the secrets behind the ship's Nerifes Cannon and kick-starts a global search for the [[ApocalypseMaiden fabled Merines]] to activate its dormant powers. When Vaclav's child protege Senel Coolidge finds the Merines and abandons him out of love for the Ferines people, Vaclav years later discovers Senel's location and launches a genocidal campaign against the Ferines. Although Vaclav fails to capture Senel and the Merines, he succeeds in killing or capturing most of the Ferines. Seeking an alternative to the runaway Merines, Vaclav began horrific human experiments to produce an artificial Merines, indiscriminately murdering hundreds. Though Vaclav is ultimately defeated, his actions cast a shadow over the story, with the surviving Ferines being consumed by hatred and the god Schwartz taking their despair as a yearning for the end of the world.

** [[ALoadOfBull Tohma]], one of the aformentioned Zilva's Four Stars, stands out even in comparison to his boss as a vile being, especially for [[BreakTheCutie his treatment]] of two characters, Hilda and her friend Millitsa. Tohma was intrigued in the combat potential of Halves, and so lures out and abducts Hilda from her loving parents and kills her father in one punch when he tries to get her back, laughing at how weak he was. He proceeds to raise Hilda as a {{Tykebomb}}, making her and Millitsa--whom Tohma has brainwashed--grow up in an environment where they would be neglected and ignored for being Halves and lies to them about being able to gift them with "pure" bodies if they do as he says. He then trains them to torture and kill while they are still children, abducting people for them to "practice" on. When Hilda breaks off her horns in an attempt to pass as human, Tohma sends her on a suicide mission he fully expects her to fail and reveals he lied to her when she does, making her powers go out of control which could easily kill her.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'': [[TheDreaded Vaclav Bolud]], the EvilPrince of the Crusand Empire, ultimately wants to TakeOverTheWorld. Vaclav first sends out Senel Coolidge to capture the Merines that control Legacy, a small continent that acts as a ship, in order to seize Legacy for himself. When Senel befriends the Merines instead of capturing them, Vaclav launches an all-out assault on the Village of the Ferines. Though Vaclav doesn't capture his targets, he does kill many of the Ferines and kidnaps Stella Telmes, the Merines sister, because he views her as useful. Trapping her in suspended animation, Vaclav turned Stella into a proto-Merines and used her to control the Legacy, with the ultimate goal of using Legacy's Nerifes Cannon to destroy the Holy Rexalian Empire. Vaclav also committed genocide against the Orerines people and [[MadScientist performed vicious experiments on them]] in special camps.