History Monster / VisualNovels

*** [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Judy Reyes]] is an immoral agent who will do anything to unlock the secrets of the brain for her own use. As the main antagonist of two of the game's routes, Reyes was an agent of DURPA sent to infiltrate Stratfor to gather the data of their brain experiments and the memory data of Amadeus, even helping Stratfor's unethical experiments. In her mission, Reyes sent her men to raid and threaten numerous key figures, including burning down Kurisu's home and trying to kidnap Maho and Kagari at gunpoint. Whenever her men fail, they commit suicide out of fear of what Reyes and DURPA [[YouHaveFailedMe would do to them]]. In "Twin Automata", Reyes tried to kidnap Hiyajo Maho and Alexis Leskinen to unlock Amadeus's memory data, and when Leskinen did so Reyes immediately executes him before threatening Maho for the access keys. In "The Promised Rinascimento", Reyes managed to kidnap Kagari and demanded [[Characters/SteinsGateRintaroOkabe Okabe]] to meet her, otherwise she'll kill her. During the meeting, Reyes reveals that she killed all the scientists working on the Amadeus and reveal [[ForScience her motivation]] was to unlock the secrets of memory implanting to create a series of deadly soldiers under DURPA's will before demanding Okabe to join her.

* ''[[VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!]]'': [[GreaterScopeVillain Paula Miner]], a worker in Metaverse Enterprise Solutions, is the project manager of the [=VM1=] simulator, and the [[JerkassGods creator]] of [[Characters/DokiDokiLiteratureClubMonika Monika]] and the Literature Club World. Creating the simulator, Paula gave Monika elevated awareness and studied her mental spiral, showing an acute LackOfEmpathy as Monika and the other sapient characters are placed in horrific torture, with Monika losing her sanity as she begins creating and destroying worlds while driving the other girls to mania and suicide in order to gain the player's love. When questioned about the morality, Paula simply bristles, [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman not seeing Monika and the others as human despite their sapience]] and compares them to bacteria and animals as she encourages her team to find a way to convince the higher ups that it is beneficial to the company, and decides to move on with "Project Libitina" after dozens of resets to the universe.

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' franchise:
** [[Characters/DanganronpaJunkoEnoshima Junko Enoshima]] sates her obsession with despair by seeking to [[HopeCrusher crush hope]] in all of humanity. To this end, Junko uses her analytical abilities to sadistically and meticulously [[Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool manipulate the students of Hope's Peak Academy]], leading her classmates to murder each other in droves; brainwashing many others as they witness the atrocity; kidnapping a kind-hearted teacher to brainwash her into following Junko's cruel plans; cruelly crushing anyone in her way, eventually leading to mass killings and suicides amongst students and even a global societal collapse. In the horrific dystopian new world, Junko continues to amuse herself by tormenting a group of Hope's Peak students after wiping their memories, forcing them into a "game" where they must betray and murder each other, broadcasting it to demoralize the population at large, even [[SiblingMurder killing her own sister]] on a whim. When discovered, Junko happily asserts her devotion to causing suffering and, when she fails to break the wills of her victims, spitefully kills herself to [[RedemptionRejection refuse their attempts to offer her redemption]], aroused even at the feeling of her own despair. Creating an ArtificialIntelligence and corrupting the already-unstable Warriors of Hope as her successors to continue her murder game even after her own death, Junko cements herself as a [[AxCrazy monstrous psychopath]], so warped [[NightmareFetishist the only thing she adored was misery]], be that others' or even her own.
** ''[[VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony Killing Harmony]]'': [[BitchInSheepsClothing Tsumugi Shirogane]] is revealed to be the true mastermind of the Killing Game, who in actuality works for the corporation [[EvilInc Team Danganronpa]] and acts as their mole in the 53rd entry of Danganronpa. Acting as a CosplayOtakuGirl in the killing game who was usually [[ObfuscatingStupidity not the smartest]], it gets revealed that Tsumugi was the true culprit of the first trial, where she killed Rantaro Amami because Kaede Akamatsu's plan failed and wanted to ensure that the Killing Game continued, bending the rules of the game and [[AcquittedTooLate letting Kaede get executed because of it]]. Later in the last trial, Tsumugi tells the rest of the survivors about the true conditions of the world, in which the Killing Game is actually a [[SadisticGameShow game show]] called Danganronpa to entertain the uneventful and peaceful real world. Tsumugi would reveal that her company brainwashed every survivor with FalseMemories and rewrote their personalities so that they would truly act scared and helpless. Tsumugi is so obsessed with the Danganronpa franchise that when the audience watching the show were convinced by Shuichi Saihara to not want it anymore, Tsumugi would [[DrivenToSuicide let herself be killed]] alongside the studio so that she wouldn't exist in a world that doesn't want Danganronpa.

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' & ''Plus!'': [[GreaterScopeVillain Paula Miner]], a worker in Metaverse Enterprise Solutions, is the project manager of the [=VM1=] simulator, and the [[JerkassGods creator]] of [[Characters/DokiDokiLiteratureClubMonika Monika]] and the Literature Club World. Creating the simulator, Paula gave Monika elevated awareness and studied her mental spiral, showing an acute LackOfEmpathy as Monika and the other sapient characters are placed in horrific torture, with Monika losing her sanity as she begins creating and destroying worlds while driving the other girls to mania and suicide in order to gain the player's love. When questioned about the morality, Paula simply bristles, [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman not seeing Monika and the others as human despite their sapience]] and compares them to bacteria and animals as she encourages her team to find a way to convince the higher ups that it is beneficial to the company, and decides to move on with "Project Libitina" after dozens of resets to the universe.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Rosetta and the Well}}'' ([[https://madame-photon.itch.io/rosetta-and-the-well link]]): [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Pygmalion]] is a demonic being that took the form of a well and used it to manipulate people into letting it [[ToServeMan devour them alive]]. Mutating the body of its previous victim into a "mermaid" after it had slowly devoured everything inside them, Pygmalion tends to lure its next prey closer to itself by telling a false, tragic story and convincing them to "exchange places with the mermaid". Intending to continue tricking and devouring people forever, Pygmalion tried to take [[PlayerCharacter Rosetta Halloway]] by force, should she reject the offer of becoming a "mermaid".

* ''VisualNovel/{{Echo}}'': [[WouldHurtAChild James Hendricks]], from Carl's route, is a wealthy ram who lived in the eponymous town of Echo in the 1910s, also happened to be a pedophilic SerialKiller. When the townsfolk found out about the childrens' corpses, James scapegoated his own lover John--who, being a desert fox, [[FantasticRacism was analogous to a Native American]]--having him lynched. Flash forward one century later, and James's ghost possesses his descendant Carl, altering his personality and instigating a relationship with [[PlayerCharacter Chase]]--possibly against Carl's own will--for the purpose of manipulating him into helping defeat John and cover up his own crimes in the process. As the bad ending of Carl's route shows, he's even willing to murder his descendant's friends and burn the family mansion to the ground for these ends, leaving Carl a SoullessShell even after his soul is torn from the latter's body.

** The [[WouldHurtAChild unnamed "Staff Leader"]] of the [[OrphanageOfFear orphanage]] the young [[BigBad Miyo Takano]] was sent to is an ill-tempered authoritarian who [[DisproportionateRetribution punishes a boy for spilling his pen's ink by making him ingest it]]. When Takano and her friends make an escape attempt from his cruel establishment, he has her friend and the ringleader, Eriko, sent to the chicken coop to be pecked to death. Takano herself doesn't fare much better, as the head forces her to clean a filthy outhouse with her tongue. Though merely a flashback character, it was the orphanage head's horrific cruelties that [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil broke Takano]] into becoming the psychotic, villainous woman she is now.

* ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'': [[MadScientist Dr. Helmut von Giuseppe]], better known as [[BigBad Scythe Master]], is a sociopathic neuroscientist who brainwashes people he sees potential in to becoming the perfect assassins. Kidnapping one such individual, Reiji Azuma, Scythe erases his memories, renaming him Zwei and having another of his assassins, Ein, whose memory he also wiped, train him before sending the duo off on countless missions to kill enemies of his organization, Inferno. When Reiji and Ein escape from his clutches, Scythe turns to Reiji's young friend, Cal, [[TheCorrupter corrupting the young girl]] into hating Reiji and becoming his psychotic killer. Using Cal on many missions, Scythe even sends her after his own friend, who had sheltered him when he was framed for betraying Inferno. Deeming the three assassins prototypes, Scythe creates a new batch of emotionless killers and sends them after the trio, watching the combat with delight.

* ''VisualNovel/TheHouseInFataMorgana'': [[TheCaligula Lord Jean-François Barnier]] is the one responsible for Morgana's corruption. A wicked tyrant who took power by [[TheUsurper killing his own family]], he entertains himself by torturing and killing slaves, rebels and prostitutes. Meeting the eleven-year-old Morgana while attended by a harem of girls her age, Barnier goes on to cut Morgana to allow [[AristocratsAreEvil himself and other nobles]] to [[{{Bloodlust}} drink her holy saint's blood]], and [[ForceFeeding make her eat human meat]], before trying to kill her when her health worsens. Confronted by Jacopo, Barnier skewers Ceren for a shot at killing him and mocks Jacopo over her death.

* ''VisualNovel/TheLetter'': [[AristocratsAreEvil Lady Charlotte Ermengarde]] is the vicious daughter of the founders of Luxbourne City and its prior head, who [[BitchInSheepsClothing hides behind a benevolent façade]] while secretly masterminding the misfortunes of the work. When her maid Takako discovers Charlotte's infidelity, she has Takako thrown in jail and [[RapeByProxy raped by her men]]. Exposed to her fiancé Eduard, Charlotte orders both him and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Takako's cat]] killed as well to torment her, before framing Takako and sentencing her to be burned at the stake. Returning after death as "The Ghost" fused with Takako, Charlotte leaves the latter unable to move on to the next life while haunting Luxbourne as the [[SerialKiller Anslem Butcher]], Rose and Johannes being among her victims, and psychologically torments the protagonists, potentially killing them all and raping one.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}}'' gives us a nasty trio in a world inspired by the fiction of Creator/HPLovecraft:

* ''VisualNovel/ParanormasightTheSevenMysteriesOfHonjo'': [[WickedStepfather Kankichiro Iwai]] is the stepfather of Michiyo Shiraishi, and is the main cause behind both Yakko Sakazaki and Harue Shigima's stories. Originally a con artist, Iwai grew an admiration for [[SerialKiller Fumichika Nejima]], and when he was sent to prison, met the man himself and became enthralled at his tales of BlackMagic. Wanting to use this knowledge for fame and fortune, Iwai met Toshiko Shiraishi and became her common-law husband, only to show himself to be horribly abusive to both [[DomesticAbuse her]] and [[AbusiveParents her daughter Michiyo]]. Forcing Michiyo to kidnap the young Shuichi Shigima, Iwai taunts the police and Shuichi's mother by asking a ransom that he never intends to pay, then forces Toshiko to kill him as a sacrifice for his ritual, ruining both of their lives in the process, for no reason other than greed and a petty hatred of society.

* ''VisualNovel/TheHouseInFataMorgana'': [[TheCaligula Lord Jean-François Barnier]] is the one responsible for Morgana's corruption. A wicked tyrant who took power by [[TheUsurper killing his own family]], he entertains himself by torturing and killing slaves, rebels and prostitutes. Meeting the eleven-year-old Morgana while attended by a harem of girls her age, Barnier goes on to cut Morgana to allow [[AristocratsAreEvil himself and other nobles]] to [[{{Bloodlust}} drink her holy saint's blood]], and [[ForceFeeding make her eat human meat]], before trying to kill her when her health worsens. Confronted by Jacopo, Barnier skewers Ceren for a shot at killing him and mocks Jacopo over her death.

* ''VisualNovel/TheLetter'': [[AristocratsAreEvil Lady Charlotte Ermengarde]] is the vicious daughter of the founders of Luxbourne City and its prior head, who [[BitchInSheepsClothing hides behind a benevolent façade]] while secretly masterminding the misfortunes of the work. When her maid Takako discovers Charlotte's infidelity, she has Takako thrown in jail and [[RapeByProxy raped by her men]]. Exposed to her fiancé Eduard, Charlotte orders both him and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Takako's cat]] killed as well to torment her, before framing Takako and sentencing her to be burned at the stake. Returning after death as "The Ghost" fused with Takako, Charlotte leaves the latter unable to move on to the next life while haunting Luxbourne as the [[SerialKiller Anslem Butcher]], Rose and Johannes being among her victims, and psychologically torments the protagonists, potentially killing them all and raping one.

* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' franchise:
** ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'': [[AmoralAttorney Manfred von Karma]] is an amoral prosecutor who [[ThePerfectionist uses underhanded tactics to maintain his perfect win streak]]. When defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth gets him penalized in a trial by exposing his illegal tactics, Manfred [[DisproportionateRetribution becomes enraged despite still winning said trial]], taking the chance given by an earthquake striking the courtroom to catch up with Gregory and his son in an elevator and murdering Gregory. Taking Gregory's son, Miles, under his wing, Manfred raises him to become a cold, ruthless prosecutor who cares for nothing but always winning a guilty verdict. Setting up a second murder, Manfred plans to [[FrameUp frame Miles]] for both it and his own father's death, intending to see his adoptive son convicted for murder as the [[RevengeByProxy final act of his revenge]] against Gregory.
** ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations Trials and Tribulations]]'': [[Characters/AceAttorneyDahliaHawthorne Dahlia Hawthorne]] is a [[EvilIsPetty petty]] sociopath who [[TheFakeCutie hides]] her [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon devilish personality]] underneath an elegant façade. Having previously [[ManipulativeBitch manipulated]] her boyfriend Terry Fawles into assisting her in a robbery meant to spite her family, before killing her stepsister Valerie and framing him for the murder, Dahlia ensured Fawles's suicide to warrant her freedom. Poisoning defense attorney Diego Armando as revenge against Mia Fey for almost getting her convicted, Dahlia seduced Phoenix Wright to cover her tracks, killing his friend Doug Swallow for trying to warn him and framing Phoenix for it after her attempts to poison him failed. Despite being executed, Dahlia returns as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother Morgan Fey in her plan to kill Maya Fey solely to spite Mia's spirit.
** ''[[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]]'': [[AmoralAttorney Kristoph Gavin]] is a seemingly-helpful mentor who is really one half of the diabolical duo to usher in "The Dark Age of the Law" by disbarring Phoenix Wright. Kristoph did this out of a [[DisproportionateRetribution petty grudge]] for Phoenix being chosen as a lawyer for a client instead of him, and so murders said client and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] a shy artist and [[CainAndAbel his own brother]] to enact his vengeance. Poisoning both the artist and her father, Kristoph intended for both to die, gloating to Apollo that he knew the latter's line of questioning would make her nervously bite her nails, where he had put the poison. Having started poisoning the artist when she was only [[WouldHurtAChild twelve]], Kristoph is happy to then sit back and watch her face conviction for her own father's murder committed by himself.
** ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations Investigations]]'': [[AssInAmbassador Quercus Alba]], while initially seeming like a [[ObfuscatingDisability frail]], kind [[EvilOldFolks old man]], turns out to be the hardened, cold-hearted boss of [[TheSyndicate a large and powerful smuggling ring]]. Thanks to him putting many highly-convincing counterfeit bills into circulation, the country of Zheng Fa has been thrown into economic chaos due to [[TheChessmaster his machinations]]. He also ordered the deaths of Cece Yew, Deid Mann, and Byrne Faraday due to their efforts in trying to expose his role in the smuggling ring, and personally murdered Mask*[=DeMasque=] II and his subordinate Manny Coachen: [=DeMasque=] II for stealing the fake statue that contained the plates used for creating counterfeit bills, and Coachen due to him seeking to steal power of the smuggling ring from under Alba's nose. Ruthless and rotten to the core, Alba will kill anyone without so much as a second thought for the sake of keeping his criminal empire running.
** ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'': "[[MasterOfDisguise the phantom]]" is a [[TheSpook mysterious]] international super spy and the other figure responsible for "The Dark Age of the Law". Murdering multiple people to [[KillAndReplace assume their identities]], the phantom has no qualms over the suffering his actions cause, allowing the neighbors of one of his victims to believe she had been killed by her 11-year-old daughter. Sabotaging a rocket, the phantom nearly kills the astronaut aboard and years later [[MadBomber bombs]] an entire space station; he later murdered yet another astronaut, Apollo's best friend, and [[FrameUp framed]] the astronaut's coworker. Attempting to bomb a courtroom to destroy a piece of evidence, the phantom is willing to kill hundreds to get away and tries to frame Athena and her friend for his atrocities.
** ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice Spirit of Justice]]'': [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in]] is the sadistic megalomaniac responsible for the [[KangarooCourt draconic legal system]] of the [[Characters/AceAttorneyKingdomOfKhurain Kingdom of Khura'in]]. After being passed over for the throne in favor of her gentle sister Amara due to lacking spiritual power, jealously led to [[CainAndAbel Ga'ran orchestrating multiple attempts on Amara's life]] in order to strong-arm her into going into hiding while [[FrameUp framing]] Amara's husband Dhurke for her apparent murder. After seizing the throne, Ga'ran passed the [[DisproportionateRetribution Defense Culpability Act]], which would force a defense attorney to suffer the same fate as the accused upon losing a case; this led to hundreds, if not thousands, of unjust deaths of defendants and lawyers alike under Khura'in's one-sided court system. Completely uncaring towards her own family, Ga'ran forces Amara and her nephew Nahyuta to cater to her whims on threat of ruining her niece Rayfa's life, and doesn't hesitate to blackmail them into taking the fall for a murder she committed or secretly ordering for Amara to be shot in court. Heartless enough to leave the [[WouldHurtAChild baby Apollo Justice]] to die in a fire which she started--and [[YouKilledMyFather killing Apollo's father]] while leaving--and egomaniacal to the point of making standing up to her a crime worthy of execution, Ga'ran proved to be among Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice's most depraved foes yet.
** ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles'' {{Spinoff}}: [[ManipulativeBastard Mael Stronghart]] is the Lord Chief Justice of Britain, and the one responsible for all of the major events in the game. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Originally a regular prosecutor]] with [[AmbitionIsEvil grand ambition]], Stronghart blackmailed Klint van Zieks into assassinating other nobles, including the previous Lord Chief Justice, causing the infamous "Professor Killings". Stronghart orchestrated the trial against Genshin Asogi for Klint's crimes by manipulating many members of Scotland Yard's police into faking evidence, while also faking an execution sentence to supposedly let him free, only to convince his friend Seishiro Jigoku to shoot him when a bystander witnessed his escape. Later, Stronghart created an organization of assassins to kill anyone who escaped the guilty verdict, which would follow Barok van Zieks for years, and have him be known as "The Reaper of the Bailey". Eventually, Stronghart would want to ascend into the higher position of Attorney General, so he planned to blackmail Seishiro into both of them sending assassins to kill targets from their respective countries [[HeKnowsTooMuch who knew "too much"]] of his involvement with any of the other conspiracies. Although Stronghart claims to [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist have done it all in the name of making Britain into a better country]], the heroes call him out on his [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]], and Stronghart would in the end admit that all of his crimes and [[FauxAffablyEvil affable persona]] are just because [[ControlFreak he liked everything to run like a well-oiled machine]].

* ''VisualNovel/TheHouseInFataMorgana'': [[TheCaligula Lord Jean-François Barnier]] is the one responsible for Morgana's corruption. A wicked tyrant who took power by [[TheUsurper killing his own family]], he entertains himself by torturing and killing slaves, rebels and prostitutes. Meeting the eleven-year-old Morgana while attended by a harem of girls her age, Barnier goes on to cut Morgana to allow [[AristocratsAreEvil himself and other nobles]] to [[{{Bloodlust}} drink her holy saint's blood]], and [[ForceFeeding make her eat human meat]], before trying to kill her when her health worsens. Confronted by Jacopo, Barnier skewers Ceren for a shot at killing him and mocks Jacopo over her death.

* ''VisualNovel/TheLetter'': [[AristocratsAreEvil Lady Charlotte Ermengarde]] is the vicious daughter of the founders of Luxbourne City and its prior head, who [[BitchInSheepsClothing hides behind a benevolent façade]] while secretly masterminding the misfortunes of the work. When her maid Takako discovers Charlotte's infidelity, she has Takako thrown in jail and [[RapeByProxy raped by her men]]. Exposed to her fiancé Eduard, Charlotte orders both him and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Takako's cat]] killed as well to torment her, before framing Takako and sentencing her to be burned at the stake. Returning after death as "The Ghost" fused with Takako, Charlotte leaves the latter unable to move on to the next life while haunting Luxbourne as the [[SerialKiller Anslem Butcher]], Rose and Johannes being among her victims, and psychologically torments the protagonists, potentially killing them all and raping one.

** ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations Trials and Tribulations]]'': [[Characters/AceAttorneyDahliaHawthorne Dahlia Hawthorne]] is a [[EvilIsPetty petty]] sociopath who [[BitchInSheepsClothing hides her devilish personality]] underneath an [[WickedCultured elegant façade]]. Having previously [[ManipulativeBitch manipulated]] her boyfriend Terry Fawles into assisting her in a robbery meant to spite her family, before killing her stepsister Valerie and framing him for the murder, Dahlia ensured Fawles's suicide to warrant her freedom. Poisoning defense attorney Diego Armando as revenge against Mia Fey for almost getting her convicted, Dahlia seduced Phoenix Wright to cover her tracks, killing his friend Doug Swallow for trying to warn him and framing Phoenix for it after her attempts to poison him failed. Despite being executed, Dahlia returns as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother Morgan Fey in her plan to kill Maya Fey solely to spite Mia's spirit.

** ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'': "[[OnlyInItForTheMoney the phantom]]" is a [[TheSpook mysterious]] international super spy and the other figure responsible for "The Dark Age of the Law". Murdering multiple people to [[KillAndReplace assume their identities]], the phantom has no qualms over the suffering his actions cause, allowing the neighbors of one of his victims to believe she had been killed by her 11-year-old daughter. Sabotaging a rocket, the phantom nearly kills the astronaut aboard and years later [[MadBomber bombs]] an entire space station; he later murdered yet another astronaut, Apollo's best friend, and [[FrameUp framed]] the astronaut's coworker. Attempting to bomb a courtroom to destroy a piece of evidence, the phantom is willing to kill hundreds to get away and tries to frame Athena and her friend for his atrocities.

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** ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations Trials and Tribulations]]'': [[Characters/AceAttorneyDahliaHawthorne Dahlia Hawthorne]] is a [[EvilIsPetty petty]] sociopath who [[BitchInSheepsClothing hides her devilish personality]] underneath an [[WickedCultured elegant façade]]. Having previously [[ManipulativeBitch manipulated]] her boyfriend Terry Fawles into assisting her in a robbery meant to spite her family, before killing her stepsister Valerie and framing him for the murder, Dahlia ensured Fawles's suicide to warrant her freedom. Poisoning defense attorney Diego Armando as revenge against Mia Fey for almost getting her convicted, Dahlia seduced Phoenix Wright to cover her tracks, killing his friend Doug Swallow for trying to warn him and framing Phoenix for it after her attempts to poison him failed. Despite being executed, Dahlia returns as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother Morgan Fey in her plan to kill Maya Fey solely to spite Mia's spirit.

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' franchise: [[Characters/DanganronpaJunkoEnoshima Junko Enoshima]] sates her obsession with despair by seeking to [[HopeCrusher crush hope]] in all of humanity. To this end, Junko uses her analytical abilities to sadistically and meticulously [[Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool manipulate the students of Hope's Peak Academy]], leading her classmates to murder each other in droves; brainwashing many others as they witness the atrocity; kidnapping a kind-hearted teacher to brainwash her into following Junko's cruel plans; cruelly crushing anyone in her way, eventually leading to mass killings and suicides amongst students and even a global societal collapse. In the horrific dystopian new world, Junko continues to amuse herself by tormenting a group of Hope's Peak students after wiping their memories, forcing them into a "game" where they must betray and murder each other, broadcasting it to demoralize the population at large, even [[SiblingMurder killing her own sister]] on a whim. When discovered, Junko happily asserts her devotion to causing suffering and, when she fails to break the wills of her victims, spitefully kills herself to [[RedemptionRejection refuse their attempts to offer her redemption]], aroused even at the feeling of her own despair. Creating an ArtificialIntelligence and corrupting the already-unstable Warriors of Hope as her successors to continue her murder game even after her own death, Junko cements herself as a [[AxCrazy monstrous psychopath]], so warped [[NightmareFetishist the only thing she adored was misery]], be that others' or even her own.

* ''VisualNovel/TheHouseInFataMorgana'': [[TheCaligula Lord Jean-François Barnier]] is the one responsible for Morgana's corruption. A wicked tyrant who took power by [[TheUsurper killing his own family]], he entertains himself by torturing and killing slaves, rebels and prostitutes. Meeting the eleven-year-old Morgana while attended by a harem of girls her age, Barnier goes on to cut Morgana to allow [[AristocratsAreEvil himself and other nobles]] to [[{{Bloodlust}} drink her holy saint's blood]], and [[ForceFeeding make her eat human meat]], before trying to kill her when her health worsens. Confronted by Jacopo, Barnier skewers Ceren for a shot at killing him and mocks Jacopo over her death.

* ''VisualNovel/TheLetter'': [[AristocratsAreEvil Lady Charlotte Ermengarde]] is the vicious daughter of the founders of Luxbourne City and its prior head, who [[BitchInSheepsClothing hides behind a benevolent façade]] while secretly masterminding the misfortunes of the work. When her maid Takako discovers Charlotte's infidelity, she has Takako thrown in jail and [[RapeByProxy raped by her men]]. Exposed to her fiancé Eduard, Charlotte orders both him and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Takako's cat]] killed as well to torment her, before framing Takako and sentencing her to be burned at the stake. Returning after death as "The Ghost" fused with Takako, Charlotte leaves the latter unable to move on to the next life while haunting Luxbourne as the [[SerialKiller Anslem Butcher]], Rose and Johannes being among her victims, and psychologically torments the protagonists, potentially killing them all and raping one.

-->--'''Serika Onoe''' explaining to '''Takuru Miyashiro''' the true nature of the latter's adoptive father '''Wataru Sakuma''', ''VisualNovel/ChaosChild'' ([[VisualNovel/ScienceAdventureSeries SciADV Series]])

* ''VisualNovel/Adastra2018'': [[SavageWolves Cato]] was a general on the war against Khemia. Though saved by the [[BenevolentPrecursors Parents]] at his friend the Emperor's sobbing pleading, Cato was too consumed by hatred to take part in their plan for galactic unity against [[MechanicalAbomination the Other]], essentially dooming all life; Cato would later admit his own species was a price worth paying for his revenge. [[UngratefulBastard Killing the Emperor]], Cato raised the heirs to the throne abusively, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Amicus for being gay and Cassius for being disabled]]. Initially, Cato favored the former slightly due to being stronger, but when the main character is revealed to be sapient, Cato locks Amicus up and prompts Cassius to become his puppet emperor. When that doesn't work he poisons him and decides to take princess Virginia as his bride and become Emperor himself.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Echo}}'':
** The "[[BigBad Echo Entity]]" is a primordial creature dwelling in the town's mines, acting as its GeniusLoci. Fully sapient and sadistic, it drives most of the misery in the town, [[ThePowerOfHate driving people to their worst impulses]] that culminate in violent hysteria that come in tides. The Entity's most insidious ability is arguably that of creating "ghosts"--copies of dead peoples' souls--which it uses to [[DemonicPossession possess people thoroughly]] and use them as puppets, essentially using a slave to enslave another. Though its atrocities likely number in the thousands, the Entity's cruelty is best seen in the Flynn and TJ routes, where flashbacks show [[WouldHurtAChild it destroyed Syd's life]] by possessing his father to be [[AbusiveParents abusive]], then used him to bully his friends to the point Chase felt like he had to drown him to protect [=TJ=]'s life. In the former, it tricks Flynn into being burned alive and being forced to become the monstrous Socket Man, the Entity's enforcer and puppet who travels across all of time and space to witness atrocities and kill whoever the entity wants, while in the latter it makes a deal with Chase to keep the truth of Syd's murder under wraps in exchange for Flynn's life.
** Carl's route has [[WouldHurtAChild James Hendricks]], a wealthy ram who lived in the eponymous town of Echo in the 1910s, also happened to be a pedophilic SerialKiller. When the townsfolk found out about the childrens' corpses, James scapegoated his own lover John--who, being a desert fox, [[FantasticRacism was analogous to a Native American]]--having him lynched. Flash forward one century later, and James's ghost possesses his descendant Carl, altering his personality and instigating a relationship with [[PlayerCharacter Chase]]--possibly against Carl's own will--for the purpose of manipulating him into helping defeat John and cover up his own crimes in the process. As the bad ending of Carl's route shows, he's even willing to murder his descendant's friends and burn the family mansion to the ground for these ends, leaving Carl a SoullessShell even after his soul is torn from the latter's body.

* ''VisualNovel/MinotaurHotel'': [[AdaptationalVillainy Athena]] is the Olympian [[JerkassGods goddess]] of wisdom and the one behind Asterion's torment. Having him killed through her champion Theseus, this act ended the Minoan civilization and ensured Athens as the center of Western civilization. Athena was still dissatisfied with Asterion's peaceful rest in the Underworld, wishing for him to [[FateWorseThanDeath suffer for all eternity]]. Her forces thus kidnapped him from the Underworld and put him in a hellish realm where he'd be tortured, with a master elected to further enact all manner of horrors upon him as a form of worship to her. Athena's cruelty still haunts the present as Hermes went to great lengths to conceal the hotel's existence, knowing she'd enact her wrath unto the innocent guests.

*** [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Judy Reyes]] is an immoral agent who will do anything to unlock the secrets of the brain for her own use. As the main antagonist of two of the game's routes, Reyes was an agent of DURPA sent to infiltrate Stratfor to gather the data of their brain experiments and the memory data of Amadeus, even helping Stratfor's unethical experiments. In her mission, Reyes sent her men to raid and threaten numerous key figures, including burning down Kurisu's home and trying to kidnap Maho and Kagari at gunpoint. Whenever her men fail, they commit suicide out of fear of what Reyes and DURPA [[YouHaveFailedMe would do to them]]. In "Twin Automata", Reyes tried to kidnap Hiyajo Maho and Alexis Leskinen to unlock Amadeus's memory data, and when Leskinen did so Reyes immediately executes him before threatening Maho for the access keys. In "The Promised Rinascimento", Reyes managed to kidnap Kagari and demanded Okabe to meet her, otherwise she'll kill her. During the meeting, Reyes reveals that she killed all the scientists working on the Amadeus and reveal [[ForScience her motivation]] was to unlock the secrets of memory implanting to create a series of deadly soldiers under DURPA's will before demanding Okabe to join her.

** ''[[VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG NG]]'': [[MagicalFlutist Kakuya]] is the malevolent spirit behind the bloody events of the story. A dangerous [[{{Kitsune}} spirit]] who was [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]] by the Miroku family to prevent her from running rampant and unleashing her curse, Kakuya broke free and murdered the last remaining Miroku before haunting random people to play the [[DeadlyGame Kakuya Game]], an unbeatable game where her victims end up horribly murdered or insane by her or the spirits she sends them to hunt, [[ForTheEvulz for the sake of fun]]. One day, [[{{Yandere}} gaining an obsession]] with [[PlayerCharacter Akira]] unknowingly because he's a Miroku, she decides to force him to play her game by holding his beloved cousin hostage and intervening multiple times to hinder him, in one instance placing one of his allies into a coma. Wanting to have Akira for herself, Kakuya uses Ami as a vessel and cursed her mother so she, as Ami, would be Akira's only remaining family. When Akira found out her trick, Kakuya kidnap him, taking him to her own world where she tried to MindRape and brainwash him into loving her, raping him if he fails to break free. When Akira resist and rejects her, Kakuya tried to kill him and Ami in her fury. A spirit that only cares about her own fun, Kakuya treats human lives as toys, destroying and playing around like a child for her own amusement.

** ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'': [[AmoralAttorney Manfred von Karma]] is an amoral prosecutor who [[ThePerfectionist uses underhanded tactics to maintain his perfect win streak]]. When defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth beats him by exposing his illegal tactics, Manfred [[DisproportionateRetribution becomes enraged]], taking the chance given by an earthquake striking the courtroom to catch up with Gregory and his son in an elevator and murdering Gregory. Taking Gregory's son, Miles, under his wing, Manfred raises him to become a cold, ruthless prosecutor who cares for nothing but always winning a guilty verdict. Setting up a second murder, Manfred plans to [[FrameUp frame Miles]] for both it and his own father's death, intending to see his adoptive son executed as the [[RevengeByProxy final act of his revenge]] against Gregory.

** ''VisualNovel/DeathMark'':