History WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds / VideoGames

** BigBad [[spoiler: [[SerialKiller Adachi]]]] in ''VideoGame/Persona4'' was a SourOutsideSadInside StrawNihilist who became the way he was after being screwed over by everyone in his life. [[FreudianExcuse His parents forced him to stay inside and study all the time while never letting him have any friends]], [[spoiler: he was reassigned FromNewYorkToNowhere by his last boss over minor infractions, and the resulting SmallTownBoredom]] alongside his FriendlessBackground, (initially mild) sociopathic tendencies, and superiority complex caused him to GoMadFromTheIsolation and decide that [[MisanthropeSupreme humanity is worthless]]. While it sounds like a classic case of EvilIsPetty on the surface, he's actually one of the more realistic depictions of a SerialKiller; his toxic line of thinking [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkcmxrkHXD0 is a real trap that real people fall into all the time]] with often tragic results. After his defeat and surrender, [[AlasPoorVillain even the Investigation Team starts to pity him]].

** Niko Bellic from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' fits very well. As a child, Niko aspired to become an cosmonaut. But an abusive father, combined with being drafted as a ChildSoldier during the Yugoslav Wars (and feeling regretful for the atrocities he either witnessed or committed), and witnessing a personal betrayal that saw several of his childhood friends (and fellow platoon mates) gunned down all drove him into becoming cynical. As Niko established, fighting in The Yugoslav Wars will erode a person's humanity.

** Victor Vance from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories''. At first, he is nothing more than an honest, upright, and decent man just doing his job in the Army, but Martinez's corruption, combined with his brother's prevailing greed, shape him into the most powerful drug lord in the city. However, the game implies that a part of his humanity is still there, with both Pete and Louise being his [[MoralityPet Morality Pets]].

* ''VideoGame/SeriousSam'': It's strongly implied [[BigBad Mental]] is this, as while he and his armies ''literally'' destroy entire worlds, he is the [[LastOfHisKind last of]] a race of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, and ended up [[GoMadFromTheIsolation going insane from lonelyness]] so that he just wants to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy everything.]]

* ''VideoGame/AlterEgo2018'': In the [[spoiler:Giving in to Impulse]] ending, [[spoiler:poor Es]] goes mad and decides to destroy the library-like world of the game and [[spoiler:go after the Façade]]. She concludes everyone in the Library World is a product of her imagination. A big part of her mental breakdown is the mental stress of reigning in her impulses and a deep feeling of loneliness.

* In ''VideoGame/AnnasQuest'', the BigBad is [[spoiler:[[{{Satan}} The Devil]], but the villain of the in-universe ''story'' is a young girl he tricked people into casting out for a murder she didn't commit, while she was still traumatised at losing her best friend]].
* Yasha from ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' is a combination of this and IronWoobie, who is legitimately the only one of the deities that turned on Asura that feels legitimate regret for the way they treat humanity after betraying Asura, forcing them into a MartyrdomCulture.

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'':
** Poison Ivy can be classified as a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds because she is an eco-terrorist essentially because society harms Nature, her "babies", and she wants humans to stop hurting the planet. In addition, in Arkham City she locks herself up and really just wants to be left alone when Catwoman comes in and she sees herself forced to kill her.

* Pyrrha, the daughter of FallenHero Sophitia in ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur V]]'' starts out as an innocent, drifting Woobie with no home or family of her own; being kidnapped by [[MagnificentBastard Tira]] at a young age followed by the demise of her mother resulted in her spending the next seventeen years of her life searching aimlessly for somewhere to belong, regularly attacked and forced to kill or be killed due to Tira's manipulations to make her a suitable heir to [[ArtifactOfDoom Soul Edge]]. When she finally reunites with her long-lost brother Patroklos, however, things finally seem about to get better for her. [[spoiler:Then Patroklos finds out Pyrrha is [[TheCorruption Malfested]] when she taps into her SuperpoweredEvilSide to save him from the BigBad, Nightmare. The still gentle and mostly-innocent but now ''utterly terrifying'' Pyrrha turns to Patroklos in concern to make sure he's OK only for Patroklos to point his sword at her in the midst of a HeroicBSOD, finally running away from her in horror. Pyrrha, heartbroken, decides she can never trust anyone but Tira and willingly takes up Soul Edge to escape being alone. The resulting entity Pyrrha Omega, is extremely violent and deadly compared to the frightened and naive Pyrrha, but she screams as much in ''pain'' as in rage while she fights, and doesn't seem so much to be possessed by Soul Edge as she is madly lashing out at ''everything'', thinking the entire world is her enemy and desperately needing to do something, ''anything'' to escape her pain.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Pyrrha''': [[SanitySlippage Stop hurting me... stop rejecting me... stop killing me!!!]]]]
** Siegfried Schtauffen in the original ''Soul Edge'' and ''Soul Calibur'', and partially in ''Soul Calibur II'' prior to his quest for redemption. A teenage bandit who accidentally beheaded his own father during a raid, Siegfried completely lost his mind and set off in search of his father's "true killer." On recovering the Soul Edge from the defeated Cervantes De Leon, the Evil Sword completely consumed the fragile mind of the boy, transforming him into Nightmare. Whilst most characters fall under the thrawl of the Soul Edge on possession of it, it is implied the sword influences them to do evil, corrupting them with its power. In Siegfried's case, his immature and unstable mind allowed the sword to transform him into an extension of the sword itself. Eventually as the sword is weakened by its defeat at the end of ''Soul Calibur, ''Siegfried's will begins to reassert itself until he is finally able to break free and begin his quest for redemption.

* Sarah Kerrigan from ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'' killed her mom (and a whole mess of other folks) by way of a psychic accident, watched a kitten die of cancer, was forced to choose between killing her mentally ill father or her sadistic headmaster ([[TakeAThirdOption she just broke his gun]]) and decapitate a rebel leader (and steal his head), was experimented on, and was betrayed by her father figure. Then she got [[BodyHorror infested]] by [[HordeOfAlienLocusts the Zerg]] after [[ManipulativeBastard Arcturus Mengsk]] betrayed and left her alone to defend against the oncoming Zerg horde. Is it any wonder that she's a little crazy?

* Jin Kazama shows some signs of this in ''VideoGame/Tekken6''.

** [[spoiler:Mithos Yggdrasill]] of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' definitely qualifies. [[spoiler:All he wanted was to make a better world and try to get rid of the FantasticRacism that plagued it while he was at it. After his sister dies, he spends the next four thousand years trying to revive her as he uses humans as lab rats for his plan to commit genocide by turning everyone into the same inorganic beings.]]

* In the "worst" ending of ''VideoGame/{{BioShock 2}}'', [[spoiler:Eleanor Lamb]] turns into one of these. She [[spoiler:was almost laser-guided by her mother to become some kind of Utopia, although some fans thought that she would become an Eldritch Abomination or an otherwise unpleasant form of Life that would destroy Rapture and the Topside World. In the Bad Ending, Eleanor is influenced by Delta's murders, kills her mother in revenge, and, depending on how many of the [=NPCs=] and Little Sisters the player killed, will be allowed by Delta to absorb his mind and, we assume, his powers, or will do the same, only against Delta's will. Whether the case, she swears to punish the world, while watching a storm fall over the corpse-filled ocean.]]

* If there were any worthier candidate for the epitome of this trope, it would have to be ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'''s [[VillainProtagonist protagonist]] Ragna the Bloodedge. [[spoiler:Not only did he lose his home at the hands of Terumi, but he was also betrayed by his brother, Jin, who cut off his arm simply because [[DisproportionateRetribution Ragna didn't pay attention to him enough]]. In addition, his younger sister had been kidnapped, and he was left to die. ''Then'', Rachel saves him from death by turning him into a half-vampire, causing him immense trauma and making his hair [[LockedIntoStrangeness turn white]]. Then, later, we find out that his sister is the template for a series of robotic clones, two of which are playable characters in the game. One of them, Noel, is a grown-up Saya for the most part, while the other, Nu, is a {{Yandere}} who wants to fuse with Ragna to complete herself and form the Black Beast, which turned the world into a [[CrapsackWorld crapsack one]] already.]] He's already flat-out stated that he hates everything because of these events.

* ComicBook/DoctorOctopus in ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' is a big one. He was partners with ComicBook/NormanOsborn on a project [[spoiler: to cure genetic diseases, which ended up creating a deadly bioweapon by accident as well as giving Mr. Negative his powers and killing his parents in the process]], causing him to leave and start his own lab where he began mentoring [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter]]. At the start of the game he was just a kind old man and helped Peter design the Advanced Suit after learning his secret, until Norman used his authority as Mayor to take away his grants and confiscate his research in an attempt to strongarm him into coming back to work for Oscorp. He continued his work on mechanical prosthetics regardless, [[spoiler: later revealing to Peter that he has a degenerative neurological disorder that would cause him to lose control of his motor functions within a year, adding to his desperation. He finally finishes his mechanical arms, which are controlled by a faulty [[BrainComputerInterface neural interface]] that drives him insane. Despite Peter's warnings he continues using it, causing him to snap and sabotage Osborn's reelection campaign by [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope releasing the bioweapon they created as well as all of New York's inmates, and forming the Sinister Six]] to destroy Oscorp. After Spider-Man defeats him, he tries to convince Peter to give him another chance and not to let the police take his arms. Despite everything, it's hard not to feel bad for him as he cries out for Peter while he turns his back on him.]]

* Sarah Kerrigan from ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' killed her mom (and a whole mess of other folks) by way of a psychic accident, watched a kitten die of cancer, was forced to choose between killing her mentally ill father or her sadistic headmaster ([[TakeAThirdOption she just broke his gun]]) and decapitate a rebel leader (and steal his head), was experimented on, and was betrayed by her father figure. Then she got [[BodyHorror infested]] by [[HordeOfAlienLocusts the Zerg]] after [[ManipulativeBastard Arcturus Mengsk]] betrayed and left her alone to defend against the oncoming Zerg horde. Is it any wonder that she's a little crazy?

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'': [[spoiler:Chaos]] in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' and Shadow in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', both of whom watched a girl they cared for be brutalized (and in Shadow’s case, killed) by cruel authorities seeking to use their powers for evil.

* Practically every villain of the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series from VII onward is either this or else PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery, and arguably the villains from many of the previous games and spin-off lines.

* The Hecatomb in ''VideoGame/{{Phantasmagoria 2}}'' is revealed to be [[spoiler:the original Curtis Craig, thrown into the alien world when he was young by PAW and forced to grow up in a hostile alien dimension. He wants to destroy alien Curtis and kill his friends out of revenge.]]

** ComicBook/PoisonIvy can be classified as a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds because she is an eco-terrorist essentially because society harms Nature, her "babies", and she wants humans to stop hurting the planet. In addition, in Arkham City she locks herself up and really just wants to be left alone when ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} comes in and she sees herself forced to kill her.
** Mr. Freeze, aka Victor Fries. [[TheLostLenore Enough said.]] Also in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' it is revealed that [[spoiler: Arkham Knight, aka Jason Todd]], is one, too.

** [[VideoGame/FatalFrame1 Original]] BigBad Kirie, a VirginSacrifice that lived for a decade in isolation prior to her ritual. In the final months of her life, she fell in love with a visitor to the manor......and learned just before the ritual that he had been murdered. Her heartbreak and guilt caused the ritual -- which involved tearing her apart with ropes -- to fail, flooding the manor with Malice and turning her into a vengeful spirit. And even after she is free from the malice, she used her own body as a seal to prevent the gate from opening again for eternity. While the canon ending had Mafuyu staying with her to help ease her pain and burden, unlike the other main antagonists who were allowed to move on or at least find true peace, she would had spend eternity guarding the gate to prevent the malice from flooding the region again.
** Reika Kuze, the BigBad of the [[VideoGame/FatalFrameIIITheTormented third installment]]. After losing her entire family, she was taken into the Kuze Shrine and underwent the Tattooing ritual. This involve having the sorrow and nightmares of pilgrims ''tattooed'' onto her skin, taking up their burdens as her own. After completing the ritual, she was crucified inside a hidden shrine to dream the tattoos' pain forever.....but her childhood sweetheart came to see her one last time. For this transgression, he was murdered right in front of her and the pain caused the tattoos to overflow, cursing the manor. Unable to close her eyes or look away, she was forced to continue staring at her lover's corpse until Rei came to end the curse.
** Ouse Kurosawa, the BigBad of the [[VideoGame/FatalFrameVMaidenOfBlackWater fifth installment]]. As a {{miko}} of a local religion, she used her psychic powers to "glance" the hearts of suicides, allowing them to die without their burdens. When she reached her limit, she was prepared to be sacrificed as a Great Pillar to purify the lake connected to the underworld. But her heart wasn't strong enough to contain the Black Water, after sensing the slaughter of her companions and realizing she wanted to go on living with the man she loved. Until Yuuri came to the mountain to end the curse, Ouse endlessly sought out someone to ease her loneliness and heartbreak.
* ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.'s]]'' Alma is a dead straight example of this trope. [[spoiler:Having been driven insane by her own psychic powers as a child, experimented on and locked up since she was eight years old, medicated into a coma and locked away in a shield vault for most of her life, forcibly impregnated and then having both of her children taken away, then killed once the project was terminated, all by her ''own father'', and ''then'' repeatedly shot at by ''one of her own children'' while trying to embrace him]], it's no surprise that the second she gets loose, people ''die''. ''F.E.A.R. 2'' continues her rampage as she tries to get revenge on everyone who ruined her life, and kills anyone who happens to get in her way.

* [[spoiler:Oersted]] from ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', Knight Chapter. [[spoiler:His story begins when he wins a tournament to gain a princess' hand in marriage and, in doing so, earns the accolades of the people, only for her to be kidnapped by the Demon King the following night. What seems to be a standard Save The Princess plot is soon turned on its head as the hero, Hasshe, who last slew the Demon King, is killed when fighting against it with the rest of Oersted's party. Then, the Demon King seems to assault Oersted in the night, only for it to turn out to be the king of Lucrece, who had been made to look like it -- a fact discovered only after Oersted kills him. Now treated as a demon by the townspeople, Oersted returns to the Demon King's castle to save the princess, the one person who might still believe in him, only to encounter his best friend, Streibough, who seemed to have died in battle with the Demon King along with Hasshe. Turns out, he had orchestrated everything to make Oersted an outcast out of jealousy of the latter's success. On top of that, after Oersted battles and kills his old friend, the princess appears, accuses Oersted for not trying to rescue her when he had been trying to do so all along, professes her love for Streibough, and kills herself. With no one in the world now who doesn't loathe him, Oersted snaps and declares that, if the people want to think of him as a demon, why, then that's exactly what he'll become... the Demon King Odio. He then proceeds to slaughter every last person in the kingdom and send several incarnations of himself across time to test the virtues of humanity, thus starting the game's events.]]

** The smaller Shadow Blot is revealed to be this. His motives are just like Oswald's: he wants to be famous and loved by the people in RealLife. If you use paint, after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYbFNLV329E Mickey's climactic battle with it]], he gives {{Mickey|Mouse}} a big hug, leading [[DeadpanSnarker Gus]] to marvel: "''Huh''? He's actually kind of... ''sweet''."