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• .hack:
  • The Main Antagonists of the first four games are Morganna Mode Gone, who seeks to kill Aura to preserve her own existence, and Cubia, who mysteriously appeared after Skeith's defeat.
  • .hack//G.U. has the mysterious Tri-Edge, the Player Killer Haseo has been hunting, who was later revealed to be Ovan. Cubia takes this role from Ovan after the latter's defeat.
    • The Last Recode Exclusive Vol. 4 has the Moralta, a monster originating from outside The World that's rapidly consuming it's data.
• 1213: The Man in Glasses turns out not to be. He's the only person who was actually on your side throughout the entire game, while everyone else — including your apparent "ally" that he kills — were trying to stop you from performing the mission you were created for, believing you were too irretrievably damaged to be successful.
• 1bit Heart: The Hacker Boss is the one who hired the hackers to cause chaos and is behind the plot to hack the Master Program. He's Mikado Aisaka, actually Nanashi from the future, who wanted to unify all humanity with a single mind for world peace and therefore prevent a Bad Future.
  • 1BeatHeart: Shinobu Kasuga, the Serial Killer responsible for all the murders of the game.
• 2Dark: Dr. Sergei Krach is the one who killed Mr. Smith's wife, kidnapped and brainwashed his children, and the mastermind about the disappearing of the other children in Gloomywood.
• 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds: The titular vampire wants to drain the cashier's blood, and Lucy must find a way to kill him before he does.
• 3 in Three: As the site notes, there are three antagonists that 3 faces in her quest to return to the spreadsheet by repairing the computer:
  • The Misfit Vowels are an army of corrupted vowels that are running amok and causing much of the damage to the computer, and 3 must capture them to stop them.
  • The Anti-Virus Robot wants to delete 3 as it sees her as a glitch or virus. Though, in practice, it does little to get in her way.
  • The pi symbol is the one using the misfit vowels to destroy the word processor so he can wipe out all letters and prove that numbers are superior. Of the three, he is the main threat.
• 8Bit Killer: The conflict is driven primarily by Master Brain, an alien who commands an army of humans to destroy what's left of humanity under the pretense of promising a new dawn.

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• Absented Age: Squarebound: There isn't a clear main antagonist at first, but after Karen completes the Park Driftworld, her most important Heart Fragment is stolen by a more intelligent than average Ganger. Said Ganger is the leader of a pack of weaker Gangers, and intends to steal Karen's identity and use her powers to merge reality and the Driftworlds, all to make it easier for Gangers to consume people's Heart Fragments. However, the Gangers aren't responsible for Karen becoming a ghost in the first place, which is a mystery left for the sequel.
• Abyss Crossing: The one behind the Astras going out of control is Creation Goddess Siro, who requested Destruction Goddess Kuro to cause chaos in the multiverse. This is so heroes from across the multiverse will band together to defeat the Astras and challenge Siro, granting the latter the epic battle she desires.
• Acrylic: Brittany/The Collage is the one who killed the girls and turned them into the spirits haunting Acrylic Academy and is keeping Nicole and Joelle Chapman trapped inside.
• Advanced Variable Geo series: Miranda Jahana is the founder of Section-9 who created the hybrids and is using the tournament to test them and create the perfect fighter/bio-weapon. She also desires to break Yuka Takeuchi for getting in her way.
• Advent Rising: The Koroem, a being responsible for summoning the Seekers, an alien race Gideon must prevent from wiping out all of humanity.
• AdventureQuest Worlds has Drakath, the Champion of Chaos, who is sending out thirteen Lords of Chaos to terrorize the land of Lore, and who killed Sepulchure, who was the Big Bad in most of Artix Entertainment's other games.
• AI: The Somnium Files: Saito Sejima, the identity of the Cyclops Killer who Kaname Date spends the game hunting down.
• Akuji the Heartless: Orad, Akuji's treacherous brother who murdered him on his wedding night, leading him on his journey to escape hell and exact his revenge. [[spoiler:However, it's revealed that Orad was being controlled by Baron Samedi, who has been using Akuji to gain enough power to escape to the realm of the living.
• Alan Wake: The Dark Presence, a sinister otherworldly being stuck at the bottom of a lake, manipulating Alan to write a story to set it free, all while terrorizing the town of Bright Falls.
  • Alan Wake's American Nightmare: Mr. Scratch, an avatar of the Dark Presence, still trying to torment Alan so he will set it free from the lake.
• Alice Mare: The Cheshire Cat is the one who trapped Allen and his friends in the Dream and stole the World Keyes.
• Alien:
  • Aliens: Colonial Marines: Michael Weyland, the face of Weyland-Yutani Corporation who oversaw the kidnapping of hundreds of colonists to be turned into Xenomorph hosts and experimented on.
  • Alien: Isolation: The Alien drives the conflict even after it is defeated halfway through. APOLLO also qualifies, since he is responsible for turning turning the Working Joes against the humans on the station and outlives the Alien.
• Alisia Dragoon has Baldour, the evil being of the Silver Star. His followers are trying to revive him through most of the game, and eventually do succeed... Alisia, of course, tears him a new one.
• The Alliance Alive: Kuwalsa, who seeks to recreate the universe in his own image because he cannot stand the idea of being "insignificant" in the current one.
• Alone in the Dark: Ezechiel Pregzt in the first game, One-Eyed Jack in 2, Jedediah Stone in 3, Alan Morton in The New Nightmare, and Lucifer in the 2008 game.
• Alpha Protocol: Henry Leland, who's behind every major crime in the game.
• Alundra: Melzas. Originally a demon from another world, he was impressed by the belief system the humans in this world have, and so manipulates them into worshiping him for him to gain more power.
• Amea: The one responsible for the title character’s memory loss is The Master Eye, leader of the Cult of the Eye who brainwashes everyone by getting them to gouge their eyes.
• American McGee's Alice: The Queen of Hearts, the manifestation of Alice's madness trying to corrupt her mind.
  • Alice: Madness Returns: The Dollmaker, A.K.A. Dr. Angus Bumby, who's trying to get Alice to forget about Wonderland and the house fire to cover his tracks and so he can use her as a prostitute.
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent: Baron Alexander, who Daniel sets out to kill as revenge for manipulating him into killing innocents in order to gather vitae that will allow him to return to his home dimension.
  • Amnesia: Justine: Justine, who traps the player character in her dungeon and has her navigate through traps and monsters.Except she turns out to be an amnestic Justine who was testing to see if she still had any humanity.
  • Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs: The Engineer aka the Machine, who sets out to use his army of manpigs to destroy humanity in order to prevent the atrocities that would occur in the 20th century.
• Among the Sleep: The Protagonist's Mother, whose abuse is the source of the game's nightmarish imagery.
• Anaksha: Female Assassin: Each game with the exception of Quick Stop has one.
  • The original game has Vincent St. Claire, a school principal who runs a criminal empire that is the cause of much of the rampant crime in Santa Lina. His drug dealing was foreshadowed as far back as mission 4, and it's his actions that start Anaksha on her quest.
  • A Sea of Fire has Frank, a local club owner who has plans to import and sell anti-tank weapons to local gangs, which could escalate gang war.
  • A New Threat has Trent, a drug dealer who is a minion in an organization that is spreading a new drug, “Pixie Dust”, throughout the Hell's Cats district.
  • Dark Angel has Tony Valentino, aka Big-V, the head of his aptly-named V-syndicate that is responsible for spreading and dealing Pixie Dust, as well as the kidnapping of Ivonne and the murder of DeMartini, which Anaksha was framed for.
• Andy's Apple Farm The Entity, a being that only Thomas can see, who only speaks as a voice in Thomas's head, and through the videogame Thomas is developing via Peter the Pumpkin, has dedicated himself to tormenting Andy and his family, in addition to trapping the Eastwood family inside the game and turning them into Andy and the other characters.
• Angels of Death: Doctor Daniel "Danny" Dickens is the one who recruited the other killers of the Tower and brought Rachel to the tower in the first place, and is hell-bent on making sure Ray and Zack never leave.
• Angry Birds series: King Pig is the leader of the pigs and the one who leads the operations to steal the titular birds' eggs.
• The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures series:
  • Original game and RemASSturd: LJN programmer Fred Fucks is revealed as the one who sucked the Nerd and his friends into Game Land to force them to experience his latest shitty game.
  • The Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation: Death Mwauthzyx (original)/The Fuckotron 9000 (remastered) is the being responsible for turning the world into a shitty video game.
  • Tower of Torment expansion: Bugs Bunny/The Fucking Rabbit kicks off the plot by flipping off the Nerd and insulting his games to lure the Nerd into his Crappy Castle and kill him.
• ANNIE: Last Hope: Dr. Edward, the Mad Scientist who unleashed the Glaaki virus with the intent of ruling the zombie-ridden world as a god.
• ANNO: Mutationem: C, one of the top members of The Consortium who masterminded the capture of Ann's brother, seeks to access the power of Hinterland, an Eldritch Location that holds an Artifact of Doom that'll give him the power he needs as part of a plan to reinstate an abandoned project.
• Anodyne: The Evil Darkness is the mysterious entity that Young must save the Legendary Briar from. The endgame heavily implies that the Darkness is Briar, actually Young's Evil Former Friend.
• Another Eden: The Phantom, a powerful inter-dimensional being that wants to destroy the universe. Arc 2 reveals that there's a whole race of them seeking the same thing, lead by a red Phantom.
• Ao Oni: The titular Ao Oni haunts the mansion and tries to kill Hitoshi and his friends.
• Ape Escape: Specter leads the titular apes in his plans to Take Over the World.
• Apocalypse: The Reverend, a False Prophet who summons the Horsemen of the Apocalypse to destroy humanity so he may rule what's left of it.
• Arc Angle: Fallen Angle, The Rival to the hero who joined the terrorist organization Defiance out of jealousy of the hero, but also because he discovered Xero-Fin, the supposed Big Good, actually plotted with the terrorist programs to attack cyberspace so that he could get fame and recognition by having Arc Angle stop it.
• Arc the Lad: The Dark One, an ancient evil who seeks control of the entire world.
  • Arc the Lad III: The Professor/Ludwig, the head of the Academy who's willing to go to great lengths to revert the world back to what it was before the Great Disaster and ends up releasing the Dark One in the process.
• Aria's Story: Clyde Harow the Librarian is the creator of the dark book world and the monsters inhabiting it, and is the one who trapped Aria inside, because he wants to test her and see if she can behave like the real Aria; on the other end is the Rabbit, the In-Universe Big Bad of Lewin's story that the book world is based on, who leads the monsters in trying to kill Aria in order to preserve themselves against Clyde's orders, as Clyde plans on disposing of them if Aria completes her journey.
• Arkanoid series: DoH, or Dominate Over Hour, is the Reality Warper that attacks the titular mothership and goes after the Vaus spacecraft. In Revenge of DoH, it takes over the Xorg spaceship to get revenge, and in DoH It Again, it lures the Arkanoid with a fake planet to destroy Vaus.
• The Armed With Wings series has Vandheer Lorde. He's the series' most recognizable antagonist and serves as the Final Boss of most of the games. The main exception is Armed With Wings 2, which has Vandheer Lorde as the Villain Protagonist and the Armed With Wings/Lone Warrior the Hero Antagonist. Network is sort of The Man Behind the Man to Vandheer Lorde in Armed With Wings 3. However, the latter still serves as the Final Boss while Network is the second-to-last boss.
• Assassin Blue: The boss, who forces Blue and Red to kill and intimidate rival territory's politicians to expand his own before Blue rebels against him.
• The overarching plot of the Assassin's Creed series has the Templar Order/Abstergo Industries, with Warren Vidic being their most prominently villainous member in the main games. Following Vidic's death, Juhani Otso Berg becomes the most prominently seen Templar. Juno was also revealed as a chessmaster villain at the end of III, and from then on acts as the Greater-Scope Villain to both factions. Each game also has its own Big Bad:
  • Assassin's Creed has a Big Bad Ensemble between Rashid ad-Din Sinan AKA Al Mualim and Robert de Sablé, rival Templar leaders who seek the Piece of Eden for their own plans.
  • Assassin's Creed II has "The Spaniard" revealed to be Rodrigo Borgia / Pope Alexander VI. All the other Templars that Ezio fights in his first twenty years as an assassin work for him and it was him that ultimately ordered the execution of the other male members of the Auditore family.
  • Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has Cesare Borgia, being the one who attacks Monteriggioni, steals the Apple, kills Mario, and is the one all the Roman Templars work for following Rodrigo's defeat.
  • Assassin's Creed: Revelations has Prince Ahmet, the true leader of the local templars.
  • Assassin's Creed III has Haytham Kenway with Charles Lee as The Heavy who pulls a Dragon Ascendant. The Greater Scope Villains of the game are Reginald Birch and Edward Braddock as revealed in the novel Forsaken.
  • Assassin's Creed III: Liberation has The Company Man running the New Orleans chapter of the Templars, who turns out to be Madeleine de L'Isle.
  • Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag has a Big Bad Ensemble between Laureano de Torres y Ayala and Bartholomew Roberts, with John in the modern segments. Some could say Aita is the true Big Bad, as Roberts and John are his reincarnations.
  • Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry has Pierre, Marquis de Fayet, the racist governor of Port-au-Prince and head of the French forces located there.
  • Assassin's Creed Rogue has an interesting example of this trope. Considering you are playing as Shay Patrick Cormac, a Templar, and do battle with the Assassins, the primary antagonist of the game is Achilles Davenport, though he's portrayed as an Unwitting Instigator of Doom who has caused countless innocent deaths through a mix of recklessness and incompetence.
  • Assassin's Creed: Unity has François Thomas Germain, the usurping Templar Grand-Master and killer (by proxy) of Francois de la Serre.
  • Assassin's Creed Syndicate has Crawford Starrick, Grand Master of the British Templars.
  • Assassin's Creed Origins has a Big Bad Duumvirate example in the form of Flavius Metellus / The Lion and Lucius Septimius / The Jackal, the leaders of the Order of the Ancients in Rome and Egypt. The Hidden Ones DLC on the other hand has Gaius Julius Rufio as the sole Big Bad.
  • Assassin's Creed: Odyssey has the Cult of Kosmos, which is a Big Bad Ensemble with Deimos as The Heavy and Dragon Ascendant and both Aspasia (the Ghost of Kosmos) and Agamemnon as Greater Scope Villains.
  • Assassin's Creed: Valhalla has a Big Bad Ensemble between King Alfred The Great, who is the Grand Maegester of the English Order of the Ancients and is responsible for reforming the Order into the Templars after his exile had ended, thus making him a Greater-Scope Villain, and Basim Ibn Ishaq/Loki, who turns out to be Evil All Along and serves as the Final Boss. Basim also takes on the role of the Big Bad for the modern day segments of the story alongside Aletheia, another Greater-Scope Villain, since the two manipulated Layla Hassan into giving them the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus so that the former could be resurrected. Arguably, Odin himself is also a Greater-Scope Villain since he is a previous incarnation of Eivor and is responsible for the death of Loki's son Fenrir, thus setting Basim's vendetta against Sigurd, and eventually Eivor, into motion.
• Astral Chain: Yoseph Calvert, who wants to transcend himself and humanity; and Jena Anderson, who wants to merge the Astral Plane and Earth.
• In the regular storyline of Asura's Wrath, Lord Deus and Gohma Vlitra are the primary forces that are plaguing the world that Asura finds himself in. In the Grand Finale DLC, however, it turns out that Chakravartin, the Creator, is the one responsible for the Gohma, and by extension, all the horrible things the earth gods did to try to fight them.
• The Atelier Series rarely gets a Big Bad. Most of the games have No Antagonist since they're mainly coming-of-age stories about an alchemist striving to prove themselves to the world, with the Final Boss often being a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere that only serves as the final test for the alchemist to overcome. There are a few exceptions, however.
  • Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana: Mull is an alchemist who abuses mana believing that it will benefit humanity and serves as the Foil to Iris and Klein. Towards the end of the game, he gets usurped and killed by his own creation, The Almagam, who takes his place as the final boss.
  • Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny: Chaos is one of the three Imperial Champions and seeks to revive his dead sister. However, it turns out that he's an Unwitting Pawn to the Crimson Azoth/Palaxius, an Evil Sorceror who wants Lilith's power of creation and destruction for himself.
  • Atelier Iris 3: Grand Phantasm: Crowley, once an unassuming raider, came into possession of the Shadow Gem, which granted him powers over darkness. However, it's revealed that he's been possessed by an unnamed evil alchemist inhabiting said gem, and by Chapter 7, he is defeated and killed by the heroes, leaving the Greater-Scope Villain Uroborus to be the last threat they face.
  • Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland: Meredith Alcock is the Minister of Arland who issued the order to close down Rorona's workshop so that he can build a factory in its place. Once it becomes apparent that Rorona is passing the king's assigned tests, he becomes frustrated and starts sabotaging her efforts directly and indirectly, though most of his attempts are foiled by Rorona's mentor Astrid.
• Azure Dreams: Beldo, the one responsible for the disappearance of Guy. He intends to use the monster born from the Ultimate Egg for his own selfish interests.

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• Balan Wonderworld: Lance serves as the primary antagonist, being the source of the Nega Tones plaguing the dream worlds and transforming people in despair into monsters.
• The Banjo-Kazooie series has Gruntilda, a classic Wicked Witch. In the first game, she kidnaps Tootie to steal her beauty for herself, and in subsequent games she plots vengeance against the titular bear and bird for thwarting her.
• Battlefield:
  • Battlefield 3: Solomon, who works to cause a war between the U.S. and Russia.
  • Battlefield 4: Admiral Chang, being the one leading the aggressive parts of the Chinese military you deal with.
  • Battlefield Hardline: Captain Julian Dawes, who pits the different cartels and gangs against each other in order to take over as the new kingpin of Miami.
  • Battlefield 1: Tilkici is one to war story "Nothing Is Written" and the only notable "bad guy" in the entire anthology.
  • Battlefield V: Schröder is this for "The Last Tiger," due to his fanatical beliefs conflicting with the rest of his tank crew-mates' and even places them in danger with his actions as the tank's gunner.
• Battle for Wesnoth: Most campaigns have one.
  • A Tale of Two Brothers has Talrach, the orcish warlord who forces necromancers Mordak and Rotharik to kidnap Baran.
  • An Orcish Incursion has Rualsha, the leader of the orcish army who are attacking the elves.
  • The South Guard: The Urza brothers at first, who has kidnapped Mebrin and forced him to raise undead for them to use in their raids in the southern Wesnoth. However when the heroes meet the last brother, he reveals that Mebrin has gone insane, attacked the bandits, controlled the undead himself and supplanted them as the Big Bad.
  • Heir to the Throne: Queen Asheivere. The journey begins when she starts sending orcs after Konrad and Delfador. At the same time, Delfador wants to depose her and make Konrad the king.
  • Legend of Wesmere: Great Chief Brubar, the leader of the orcish army attacking the elves, for the first four chapter. Landar, who murders the elvish council and leads the xenophobic elvish side against Kalenz's, for the last one.
  • Eastern Invasion: Mal Ravanal, the necromancer leading the titular invasion against Wesnoth.
  • The Hammer of Thursagan: Karrag, lord of Kal Kartha.
  • Son of the Black Eye: Earl Lanbech. In a reversal, he's a human earl amassing an army to destroy the orcs.
  • The Rise of Wesnoth: Lich Lord Jevyan, who allied himself with the orcs to take over the Green Isle.
  • Northern Rebirth: Rakshas, leader of the orcish army that the protagonists have to defeat.
  • Under the Burning Suns: Yechnagoth who disguises herself as the elven goddess Eloh and cause Kaleh and his people into journeying through the desert with an end goal of making them her slaves.
• BattleTanx: Global Assault: Cassandra, an insane psychic who created the plague that killed most of the world's women.
• Battletoads:
  • Classic series: The Dark Queen kidnaps Pimple and Princess Angelica and is bent on conquering the galaxy.
  • 2020 reboot: Uto and Pia are the leaders of the Topians and the tyrannical rulers of the galaxy who steal the powers of the Dark Queen.
• Bayonetta series:
  • Bayonetta: Father Balder, the CEO of the Ithavoll Group, is the mastermind behind the angelic invasion of Earth.
  • Bayonetta 2: Loptr, who is revealed to be responsible for Balder becoming the villain of the first game via possession.
  • Bayonetta 3: The Singularity is the leader of the Homunculi, who discovered the secrets of the multiverse and seeks to merge all the universes into one.
• Bear With Me series has both the Red Man, a mysterious serial killer in Paper City who pursues Amber and Ted in the first game; and Serial Killer Lifty Workofsky, the person responsible for the disappearances of all robots in Paper City, acting as a threat to Ted and Flint in the prequel The Lost Robots, but in both instances they are a Big Bad Ensemble to the following:
  • Bear With Me: The Red Man alongside the Mayor Daniel Mills who both target Ted and Amber across Paper City, but he is a Non-Action Big Bad and Locke is the one who is a threat to Ted and Amber and is the one furthering Mills' cause. The Red Man pursues both of them throughout the entire game, while Mills sends the PCPD to pursue both of them and to kidnap Amber for his own purposes. The Red Man has the most influence to the story and is the Arch-Enemy to the protagonists, particularly Amber.
  • The prequel Bear With Me: The Lost Robots: Lifty Workofsky alongside Smiley G. Skinner, who are both the enemies to Ted and Flint. Skinner is the corrupt CEO of Illuminarium who is responsible for plunging the economy into hyperinflation by hoarding several ratchet relays for his own purposes, as well as him being complicit in the relay shortage; Lifty is the seemingly blunt but well-meaning head of Paper City's Robot Union who is later revealed to be Evil All Along, being responsible for the mass-disappearances of the robots across the city.
• The Beginner's Guide: In-Universe, The Machine gradually becomes the main threat in Coda's games, as it is warping the game worlds in destructive ways. However, it is implied to merely be The Scapegoat for the protagonist. Out of universe, Davey Wreden himself turns out to have been responsible for Coda's disappearance, as his tampering with Coda's games drove him away.
• Being One: Dr. Rycroft and his shady employer, Weston Carnodyne, are behind countless unethical experiments to find the secret to immortality.
• Bendy and the Ink Machine has the Ink Demon, a monstrous ink creature based on the titular In-Universe cartoon character.
  • Boris and the Dark Survival has the Ink Demon again.
  • Bendy and the Dark Revival has a Big Bad Ensemble between the Ink Demon once more, only this time he's unambiguously malevolent and intelligent, and Wilson, a man who took control of the Ink Machine and seeks to usurp the Ink Demon as ruler of the Cycle.
• Bevel's Painting: The other Bevel is Bevel's main obstacle in escaping the painting who seeks to kill her and keep her trapped. Exactly why, and what she is, is unclear.
• Beyond Good & Evil: General Kehck is the Supreme Commander of the Alpha Section of the planet Hyllis who oppresses the people under the guise of protecting them from the DomZ invasion and is the primary enemy of Jade, who seeks to overthrow him. Except he is secretly working for the DomZ High Priest, who leads the DomZ aliens that have been invading Hylis, has drained countless planets to keep himself alive, and secretly controls the Alpha Sections.
• Beyond: Two Souls: Nathan Dawkins, who aims to merge the Infraworld with the human world so he may reunite with his departed family, which would result in The End of the World as We Know It.
• Binky Show: Binky is the Monster Clown trying to kill the Player Character.
• BioShock:
  • BioShock: Andrew Ryan and Frank Fontaine. Andrew Ryan being the creator of Rapture and the leader of the splicers, and Fontaine, who began the cataclysmic civil war and uses Jack to take over Rapture.
  • BioShock 2: Sophia Lamb, who aims to use her daughter Elanor to take control of Rapture and destroy the concept of individuality itself.
  • BioShock Infinite: Zachary Hale Comstock, who created Columbia and plans to make Elizabeth into his successor and destroy the world below.
• Bionic Commando (1988) has Generalissimo Killt until Master-D comes Back from the Dead and promptly kills Killt, before declaring his intention to Take Over the World himself.
• BIT.TRIP: Mingrawn Timbletot is the Arch-Enemy of CommanderVideo that repeatedly tries to kill him.
• Black Daliah: Richard "Dick" Winslow, a Nazi operative who desires the Black Daliah gem so he can use it to rule the United States as a new Reich.
• The Black Heart: Janos, the Prince of the Other World, who launched the war of two worlds in his quest to obtain the Black Heart and gain ultimate power.
• Blank Dream: Utsuro Hinohara is the creator of the Mirror World and aims to kill Mishiro Usui to gain back control of it.
• Blasphemous:
  • First game: His Holiness Escribar, the head of the theocracy ruling Cvstodia responsible for the massacre of the Brotherhood of the Silent Sorrow that kickstarts the Penitent One's quest.
  • Blasphemous II: Eviterno, the leader of the Archconfraternity seeking to resurrect the High Wills and unleash the Grievous Miracle back upon the world once more.
• Blazing Souls Accelate: Gustavinus, the leader of the Human Genomes who intends on replacing Men and Demons with Genomes using the power of Mugen.
  • Blight Dream: The Serial Killer who murdered two people at Mashiba Hospital and is now coming after Michiru. Except that Michiru herself is the amnesiac serial killer.
• A Blind Legend has the king who has Edward's daughter captured by some of his guards.
• BlazBlue has a Big Bad Duumvirate of Yuuki Terumi, Relius Clover and Hades Izanami, the Goddess of Death. It's not an exaggeration to say every tragedy in the series was orchestrated or caused by some combinations of their plans. Although in the end it's Terumi who claims the mantle of ultimate villain of the series once he takes back his original body, the Susanoo Unit, from Hakumen, and becomes his true self: Susanoo, the god of destruction, the brother of Amaterasu, and the Final Boss and undisputed Big Bad of the entire series.
• Bleeding Sun: Ichiro is the main antagonist who killed Akio Takenaka in order to claim the latter's territory and rule over it with an iron fist. He also enables the Wicked Witch, Chiyo, to turn people into zombified slaves to further cement his rule.
• BloodRayne: Jurgen Wulf is the supreme commander of the Gegengeist Gruppe who intends to assemble the pieces of Beliar to sustain the power of the Third Reich.
  • BloodRayne 2: Kagan is the Archnemesis Dad of the titular heroine who desires to Take Over the World and assert the supremacy of vampires over humanity.
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night: Dominique Baldwin, who seeks to summon Bael and have his demonic forces consume the world so she can obtain the power to kill God.
• Blue Dragon:
  • The first game has Nene, an Ancient bent on plunging the world into grief. At least, up until the end of the game; then it's revealed to actually be his sidekick Deathroy, who is actually the Ancient ultimate bioweapon Destroy.
  • The second game has Balaur, an evil three-headed dragon Shadow that lives within the Atomic Cube and is wielded by Nene's evil side, both of whom are the end result of energy stored in the Atomic Cube.
  • The third game has Jyum and Ganda, who are of the same race as Nene. At first it seems like their goal is stop Nene from taking over the world. However this turns out to be a lie and their actual goal is use the Egg of Light to create a new planet to rule over as gods. To this end, they use you by sending you off to grow stronger so that they could drain your shadow, believing that it would be strong enough to create a new planet. After their defeat, the Egg of Light becomes the final antagonist and goes on a rampage, requiring you to travel across planets and eventually defeat your dark self sealed in the Box of Ordeals in order to grant your shadow enough power to prevent the Egg of Light from devouring your planet.
• Bodycount (2011): The Nemesis, the leader of the Target, is responsible for destroying most of the Network and orchestrating various worldwide conflicts resulting in the deaths of millions. She also tries to murder the protagonist and his Mission Control ally to fully eradicate what's left of the Network.
• Bomberman's Arch-Enemy and series villain is Professor Bagura, who is always trying to conquer and/or destroy as much of the universe as he can through his various schemes.
  • Bomberman II: Black Bomberman frames White Bomberman for a robbery he committed, so Bomberman must pursue him to clear his name.
  • Bomberman 1990: Black Bomberman kidnaps Lisa Mitsumori, and White Bomberman has to save her.
  • Bomberman '93: Black Bomberman shuts down the pan-galactic bureau mother computer by stealing the seven chips and scattering them across the Magellan solar system.
  • Bomberman '94: Buglear debuts here, invading Planet Bomber with his robot army and splitting it into five pieces in order to destroy it.
  • Super Bomberman series:
    • Original game: Carat Diamond holds the Robot Tournament as part of his scheme to steal Bomberman's advanced battle capabilities.
    • Super Bomberman 2: Plasma Bomber is the leader of the Five Dastardly Bombers who kidnaps White Bomberman and intends to conquer the universe.
    • Super Bomberman 3: Bagular returns and revives the Five Dastardly Bombers and sends them out to destroy Bomberman.
    • Super Bomberman 4: Bagular summons the Four Bomber Kings and Great Bomber to get revenge on White and Black Bomberman.
    • Super Bomberman 5: Emperor Terrorin frees various criminal Bombers and causes havoc in Planet Bomber.
    • Super Bomberman R: Emperor Buggler resurrects the Five Dastardly Bombers and sets out to conquer the galaxy.
  • Bomberman GB 3: Evil Bomber, an abandoned creation of Bagura, escapes his imprisonment on Planet Owen and conquers it, stealing all the Bomber Capsules to deprive Bomberman of his strength.
  • Saturn Bomberman: Mujoe, leader of the Hige Hige Bandits, gains control of the monster Crator and intends to use it to Take Over the World.
  • Neo Bomberman: Bagura crashes the Bomberman Tournament and kidnaps the combatants save White and Black Bomberman, who set out to rescue them.
  • Bomberman 64: Altair is the planet conqueror who, using the Omni-Cube, seeks to make Planet Bomber his next conquest. Getting all 100 Gold Cards reveals that Altair actually stole the cube from Sirius, supposedly an ally but really a conqueror himself who decides to destroy Planet Bomber after killing Altair.
  • Bomberman 64: The Second Attack!: Rukifellth is the leader of the Black Hole Bomber Army who aims to collect all the Elemental Stones and consume the entire universe in his black hole, except the actual villains are the God of Darkness Stherthoth, who is possessing him, and the Goddess of Light Mihaele, who aims to destroy the universe so a perfect new one can be made- both are fragments of the Angel of Light and Shadow, who becomes the True Final Boss.
  • Bomberman World: Buggler releases the Dark Force Bombers and sends them to conquer four worlds.
  • Bomberman Hero: Evil Bomber is the acting ruler of the Garaden Empire who masterminds the kidnapping of Princess Millian and the plot to resurrect Emperor Bagular, all to get revenge on Bomberman for defeating him prior.
  • Bomberman Quest: Chaos Bomber is the leader of the Four Commanders who steal the engines of Bomberman's shuttle and let loose all the monsters.
  • Bomberman Max: Brain has turned five planets into dark, mechanical worlds and is endangering the Charabom who live there.
  • Bomberman Tournament: Brain Bomber leads the Five Dastardly Bombers who take over planet Phantarion and kidnap MAX.
  • Bomberman Max 2: Mujoe has shrunk Bomberman and MAX to mini-size with his Mini-Mini Device.
  • Bomberman Generation: Mujoe, in another plot of galactic conquest, destroys the freighter containing the six Bomb Elements, scattering them across Planet Tentacalls, and sends the Crush Bombers to collect them.
  • Bomberman Jetters: Mujoe, after his defeat in Generation, attempts to crash his artificial comet, the Dark Star, into Planet Bomber and kill everyone on it to get revenge on Bomberman for good.
  • Bomberman Story DS: Professor Xeal has stolen some scientific data that White Bomberman is charged with getting back.
• Bonnie's Bakery: Bonnie herself is actually a Serial Killer who kidnaps the talking animals to turn them into her ingredients, and plans to make the true protagonist her next victim.
• The Boogie Man: The titular Boogie Man is the one who hijacks the tour of Livingstone Castle to force Keith into a Deadly Game where he must explore the castle to save the other tourists from various Death Traps. However, this Boogie Man is actually Brendon Dumont, the castle owner and host of the tour, who is pretending to be the real Boogie Man.
• Borderlands:
  • Borderlands has Commandant Helga Steele, the leader of the Crimson Lance, dedicated to finding and plundering the Vault first.
  • Borderlands 2 has Handsome Jack, whose plans to "cleanse" Pandora by eliminating its undesirables act as the driving force of the plot.
  • Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! has Colonel Tungsteena Zarpedon as the main villain for most of the game, though she's defeated in the penultimate main mission.
  • Tales from the Borderlands has Vallory, being behind all of the forces aligned against Fiona and Rhys.
  • Borderlands 3 has Tyreen and Troy Calypso, the leaders of the Child of the Vault who seek the power of the Vaults, with Tyreen being the dominant partner.
  • Tiny Tina's Wonderlands has the Dragon Lord, who is Tina's go-to BBEG for her RPG campaigns who has somehow managed to achieve some level of sentience and fights the player (and by proxy Tina) for control over his own fate and not be subject to the whims of a 13 year old.
• Bot Gaiden: The villain of the game is the mysterious Giorquo, who is having his hench-bots power themselves up with golden skulls.
• Braid: The monster that kidnapped the Princess. The menacing-looking knight in the final level is in fact rescuing the Damsel in Distress from Tim himself.
• Bravely Default:
  • Original game: Braev Lee is the templar and Grand Marshall of the Duchy of Eternia who wants to Take Over the World and stop Agnès and her party from awakening the four crystals that will stop The Corruption from spreading; his goals in doing this are a mystery. A secondary threat also exists in the “Evil One”, an unknown presence who apparently wants to spread the corruption and may have a connection to Eternia, but they are mainly in the background, until it turns out Brav Lee was trying to stop the Evil One; everything Agnès did is actually part of a plan concocted by the Evil One, AKA Airy the Fairy, to awaken the Crystals and create links to alternate worlds for her father, Ouroboros the God of Destruction, to enter and conquer the Celestial Realm.
  • Bravely Second: Kaiser Oblivion, the ruler of the Glanz Empire, is the kidnapper of Agnès and wants to use her for his plan to rewrite the past for a better future and erase his bloodline from existence. Except he has been manipulated by Anne the Fairy into constructing the Holy Pillar so she can get rid of the moon, then re-open the link to the Celestial Realm to allow her own master and ruler of the Celestial Realm, Lord Providence, to invade, while revealing that she only assisted in the defeat of Airy and Ouroboros in the first game in order to remove a threat to Providence so that he/she may feast on the world’s despair.
  • Bravely Default II: Adam is the Lord Commander of Holograd who destroyed Gloria's kingdom to gather the crystals and Take Over the World to bring an end to all wars. In truth, he is being manipulated by his right-hand woman Edna, who seeks to awaken the Night's Nexus and destroy everything due to her hatred of humans, having given people the Asterisks not only to drain the power of the crystals, but to ensure that the Nexus could never be defeated.
• Breakdown: Nexus, the alien AI leading the T'lan in destroying humanity.
• BROK the InvestiGator: Prototype-26, or rather Wes, is the one trying to eradicate all of the Slumers by causing a Pipe-Pill shortage and manipulating the government into executing all prisoners since he believes criminals (and Slumers as a whole) are incapable of being reformed.
• Brütal Legend: Lord Doviculus for the main story. He's the leader of the Tainted Coil, is responsible for Lionwhyte's domination of humanity and the Drowning Doom's resurgence as a faction, and the main target of the rebellion.
• Bubbaruka!: The Creature is the entity behind the predators that stalk the titular Bubbaruka pets, and the one behind the mysterious disappearance of the game developers.
• Buddy (2020): The titular Buddy V2.1 is the one who abducted the player and wants to keep them trapped inside the room to kill them.
• Buddy Simulator 1984: The antagonist of the In-Universe game is the Snoodlewonker, a massive serpent-wyrm that has massacred at least half a town and is threatening Mayor Tortley and his village. The second half of the game revolves around rescuing Mayor Tortley from its clutches. Ultimately, however, the real villain is the titular Buddy, who not only programmed the Snoodlewonker (and the rest of the game), but tries to destroy every NPC that comes between them and you while turning into a controlling Toxic Friend Influence so they can play with you forever.
• Bug Fables: The Wasp King is the Evil Overlord of the militaristic Wasp Kingdom who seeks the Everlasting Sapling so he can become immortal and conquer Bugaria. The post-game reveals that he isn't even a wasp, but a wasp-mimic fly named Hoaxe who usurped the rightful Queen.
• Bulletstorm: General Victor Sarrano, the general of the Confederate Army tasked with wiping out Stygia with a DNA bomb.
• Bully: Gary Smith, who manipulates the main character Jimmy Hopkins and the cliques against each other in order to become the ruler of Bullworth Academy.

C

• C-12: Final Resistance: The Alien Leader, who's controlling the alien army and serves as the game's Final Boss.
• Cafe "Venus Flytrap": The chef frog, being directly responsible for killing and serving the sapient insects and animals as meals for Harvest Day, as well as the titular fly's primary pursuer.
• Call of Duty:
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: At first you think it's Vladimir Makarov, ascendant leader of the Ultranationalists, but it turns out to be General Shepherd, an insane rogue general.
  • Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare: Admiral Salen Kotch, leader of the Settlement Defense Front.
  • Call of Duty: WWII: Heinrich, an SS officer stationed in German-occupied France, seemed like this for the main campaign but he's actually a Disc-One Final Boss. Metz, an SS officer handling POWs, would be the closest to this as he's the Final Boss before the campaign officially ends.
  • Call of Duty: Vanguard has Hermann Freisinger, a Gestapo officer in charge of Project Phoenix.
  • Call of Duty: Zombies:
    • The "Aether" Story starts with Samantha Maxis in charge of the zombies, before the Ultimis version of Edward Richtofen takes control of the zombies, but he is then revealed to be in a Big Bad Ensemble with fellow scientist Dr. Ludvig Maxis, and the Apothicons, represented by the Shadow Man are eventually revealed to be the real threat behind the zombies, attempting to invade and destroy the multiverse. After they are defeated, however, Dr. Monty is shown to be Evil All Along and having been in a Big Bad Ensemble with the Apothicons, hoping to perpetuate the zombie-infested Stable Time Loop to keep himself in power.
    • The "Chaos" Story has the High Priest of Chaos, leader of the Order, and the Oracle of Delphi/Medusa.
  • Call of Duty: Ghosts: Gabriel Rorke, the brainwashed former leader of the Ghosts, now the top agent of the Federation. The current leader of the Federation appears to be a Greater-Scope Villain of sorts. He's never seen or referred to by name, but Rorke seems to hold him in great respect.
  • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: Joseph "Hades" Chkheidze, leader of the KVA terrorist group who is ultimately a Disc-One Final Boss used by Jonathan Irons, the CEO of Atlas Corporation and the real Big Bad.
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019): Omar "The Wolf" Sulaman, the leader of Al-Qatala, and General Roman Barkov, a rogue Russian general. "The Wolf" is ultimately a Disc-One Final Boss, and the rest of the campaign focuses on stopping separate threats from Barkov and "The Butcher", the lieutenant of "The Wolf" who is working with Hadir Karim.
• Call of Juarez: The titular Juan "Juarez" Mendoza, a Mexican bandit turned warlord who Billy and Ray are after.
  • Bound In Blood: Jeremy Barnsby, a Confederate commander who runs a gun-running operation in the hopes of putting together enough money to finance a second rebellion.
  • The Cartel: Cartel leader Juan Mendoza (Mind you not the same character in the first two games) and Corrupt Corporate Executive Michael Duke, as well as Assistant Deputy Director Shane Dickson acting as Mendoza's partner inside the Justice Department, and Psycho for Hire Antonio Alvarez playing all sides against each other for his own advantage.
• Candy Mountain Massacre: The Cake Queen, who is responsible for the virus that turned everyone evil.
• Cannon Dancer features Jack Layzon as the primary antagonist who used and betrayed the main character, Kirin, for his own needs. The mysterious goddess Slaver, however, uses Kirin's revenge as a way to enslave him to her will, and ends up becoming the Final Boss for her troubles.
• Capella's Promise: The previous king of Ilnacia, who built the Mother superweapon to convert his citizens into monstrous soldiers. However, he's eventually killed by his son, Prince Zanara Capella, who takes over as king and fuses with the Mother.
• Captain Commando has Scumocide (Genocide in Japanese), the leader of a genetically-enhanced breed of "Super Criminals" terrorizing Earth.
• Captive (RPG Maker): The captor who kidnapped the protagonist and several others and is holding them inside the basement complex. The endings reveal it to be the amnesiac protagonist herself, who did everything to find a cure for her father, who came down with an unknown illness.
• Cardinal Syn: The titular Syn is the woman running the bloody tournament between the clans of the Bloodlands.
• CarnEvil: Professor Ludwig von Tökkentäkker, the creator and head of the titular CarnEvil that the players must fight through.
• Case 02: Paranormal Evil: Gla'aki is leading a zombie apocalypse cult to ravage a hospital and later the rest of the world. She also plans to use Sally's body to gain a physical form.
• Castle Red: The Lord of Castle Red, aka Howard, wants to sacrifice the trapped visitors to the godlike worms in exchange for more power.
• Dracula in almost every Castlevania game. The Japanese title is Demon Castle Dracula for a reason. However, there are games where he either doesn't appear, or is out of the picture until the very last boss fight, making him more of a Greater-Scope Villain with others filling the Big Bad role:
  • In Castlevania: Bloodlines, the villain is Dracula's niece Elizabeth Bartley, who leads a campaign of evil across Europe to resurrect her uncle.
    • Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, a direct sequel to Bloodlines, sees the power of Dracula's castle commandeered by Brauner, who uses his magical paintings to cut off the throne room from the castle's magic so that Dracula cannot be resurrected, and plans to create a painting that would bring about The End of the World as We Know It. The heroes spend most of the story opposing his forces while also confronting Death, who is not happy about the situation and wants Dracula back.
  • In Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the apparent villain is Richter Belmont, but it's more complicated than that; Shaft is The Man Behind the Man controlling Richter, and the active force behind Dracula's resurrection.
  • In Castlevania 64, Dracula does indeed show up very early on, except that this is merely a fake, and is actually Dracula's servant Gilles de Rais in disguise. Instead, the true villain is Malus, the true reincarnation of Dracula who assumes his true form if the heroes manage to reach the final stage in time for the good ending route.
  • 64's Updated Re-release Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness introduces the story of Cornell, set eight years before Dracula's resurrection in the main game, whereupon he is antagonized by his personal nemesis Ortega, who has joined up with Dracula's current group of crony generals— Death, Gilles de Rais, and Actrise.
  • Dracula is once again initially absent in Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance despite the re-emergence of his castle. Death is present from the start, but is also confused at the absence of his master. It turns out that the active main villain for most of the game is an evil alternate personality of protagonist Juste's friend Maxim Kischine, created by his feelings of jealousy and hatred allowing Dracula's spirit to begin taking control of his psyche. In the best ending route, Dracula's spirit abandons Maxim upon defeat to inhabit his own bodily remains, taking on a Wraith form that enables him to initiate a True Final Boss encounter.
  • Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, serving as something of an Origins Episode for the series, does not yet feature Dracula, but instead has its main villain in his predecessor, the vampire lord Walter Bernhard. The entire game leads up to a confrontation with him, after which his servant Death betrays him, allowing Mathias Cronqvist to capture his vampiric soul in the Crimson Stone, which he would use to become Dracula, while Death is fought as the Final Boss.
  • Castlevania: Curse of Darkness has Devil Forgemaster Isaac, who leads a legion of monsters in order to force Hector to take up his demonic powers once more. He succeeds in pitting Hector and Trevor Belmont against each other in a bid to raise Dracula's castle, though ultimately the true villain of the story is Death, in disguise as the monk Zead, who meant for Hector to kill Isaac and succumb to the curse, becoming the perfect vessel for Dracula's resurrection. When Hector defies this, Death ends up using Isaac as a lesser vessel to resurrect Dracula.
  • In Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, the Big Bad is the Cult leader and self-proclaimed Antichrist, Graham Jones. At least until The Reveal, at which point it turns out that you are the actual Antichrist, prompting a crazy True Final Boss battle against Dracula's power trying to take you over from within. Dawn of Sorrow continues the story by splitting Graham's role between Celia Fortner, who leads a cult (possibly the same as Graham's), and the two Dark Lord Candidates Dario Bossi and Dmitrii Blinov. In the end, Dario is stripped of his powers and flees, and Dmitrii copies Soma's Power of Dominance and sacrifices Celia to strengthen it. This doesn't work out, and the souls of the demons he absorbed end up manifesting as Menace, who serves as the Final Boss… unless you're playing Julius Mode, in which Dmitrii never gets the chance because Soma Cruz beats him to the punch by killing Celia first and usurping her position.
  • Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia begins with Dracula's sealed remains in the possession of Ecclesia, who are about to use a magical force called Dominus to conduct a ritual seemingly capable of neutralizing them once and for all. Unfortunately this ritual is interrupted by Albus, who steals Dominus seemingly out of offense for not being chosen for the ritual, and must be pursued by protagonist Shanoa to get it back. Except that Albus was Good All Along and was trying to protect Shanoa from sacrificing her own life, which is what using Dominus, which was made from Dracula's own evil power, would entail... something that had been conveniently left unmentioned by Barlowe, the head of Ecclesia, who never intended to destroy Dracula, but rather to unseal and resurrect him once more. In the end, Barlowe is able to sacrifice his own life to resurrect Dracula, who serves as the villain of the final act.
  • Castlevania: Lords of Shadow:
    • The base game has the titular Lords of Shadow: Cornell of the werewolves, Carmilla of the vampires, and Death of the necromancers, whom Gabriel Belmont seeks to defeat in order to Save the World and claim the pieces of the God Mask, which he believes can resurrect his wife Marie. Naturally, it gets more complicated than that: The Lords of Shadow turn out to be the evil selves left behind when the three ancient sages that founded the Brotherhood of Light that Gabriel belongs to cast off their imperfect earthly forms in order to ascend as perfect spiritual beings, and Death's true identity is Zobek, who had been manipulating Gabriel in the guise of a wise advisor to bring him the other Lords' pieces of the God Mask, going so far as becoming the party responsible for Marie's death which he forced Gabriel to do by brainwashing him with the Devil Mask, providing his main motivation. Then it turns out that Zobek had himself been manipulated by Satan, who desired the mask for his own ends and becomes Gabriel's final enemy.
    • The Reverie DLC has The Forgotten One, a tremendously powerful demon who threatens to come to Earth and cause The End of the World as We Know It as a result of Gabriel's actions in the base game. It is in the process of entering the realm the demon is sealed in and destroying it that Gabriel gains the dark power that turns him into this timeline's version of Dracula.
    • Dracula fulfills the Big Bad role again in Mirror of Fate, but he becomes the protagonist in Lords of Shadow 2, where he reluctantly works together with Zobek to oppose Satan's acolytes and prevent his resurrection.
  • Some spinoffs include this as well:
    • Kid Dracula has Dracula's kid (who may or may not be Alucard) as the protagonist, fighting the Demon Lord Galamoth, who has brainwashed all of his minions in a bid to usurp him as Dark Lord.
    • Castlevania: Judgment features Dracula and other villains, but as they are also playable characters, other characters feature as antagonists in their own storylines. Then there's the True Story Mode, where all the characters are trying to take down the Time Reaper, who is trying to destroy Dracula and change history... so that his master Lord Galamoth, whose involvement is only revealed through a random voice line, can take his place as ruler of the Netherworld.
• Cave Story: Dr. Fuyuhiko Date, a Mad Scientist who orchestrates the takeover of the island and enslavement of the Mimingas through the Demon Crown.
• Celeste: For the first six chapters, Part of You/Badeline is the physical incarnation of Madeline's insecurities that she came to the titular mountain to purge, and tries everything in her power to stop Madeline from reaching the summit and becoming at peace with herself. However, at the end of Chapter 6, they learn to accept each other and become allies for the rest of the game. The last three chapters have No Antagonist.
• Chained Echoes: Frederik and Gwayn, the former wants to use the Grand Grimoire as a weapon of war to force Valandis to unite against him, while the latter wants to power up the Grimoire to kill the Vaen.
• Child of Light has Queen Umbra, master of the monsters that plague the land of Lemuria and Aurora's Wicked Stepmother.
• Chroma Squad: Lord Gaga is the leader of the Alien Invasion, the villain directly responsible for all the conflicts from Season 3 onwards, and Tammy's Arch-Enemy.
• Chrono Trigger: Magus the Fiendlord, from the medieval era, is the creator of the planet-consuming parasite Lavos, whose influence is felt in every time period and who is ultimately responsible for not one, but two extinction-level events (extinction of the Reptites and start of a long ice age in 65,000,000 B.C., and the destruction of the magical Kingdom of Zeal in 12,000 B.C.). The heroes are trying to prevent a third which will occur in 1999 A.D., and must kill Magus to prevent him from creating Lavos. Except he merely summoned and was trying to kill Lavos, who is actually an alien from another world and is the real threat causing the extinction-level events.
  • Chrono Cross: Lynx is the demi-human soldier who aims to gain control of the Frozen Flame and El-Nido, putting him in conflict with Serge and his party, whom he wants to kill. However, he is being mind-controlled by the supercomputer FATE, who was built as a bulwark against the Dragon Gods and their race of the Dragonians, evolved Reptites, and their alternate universe, which seeks to invade this one. But all of them were manipulated by Belthasar, FATE’s creator, to stop the true threat: the Time Devourer, an evolved form of Lavos who wants to destroy time and everything else.
• CIMA: The Enemy: Pike Nighttrap is one of the Crimson Nine (the most powerful CIMA) and the effective leader of their Alien Invasion. He and his fellow CIMA feed off the hope of humans and seek to destroy the Gate Guardian heroes.
• City of Heroes has a number of especially powerful and influential bad guys that compete to take over the world.
  • Lord Recluse, the Evil Overlord who rules an island nation with an iron fist, said nation being where City of Villains is set.
  • Nemesis, who may or may not be behind darn near everything in the game. It's all a Nemesis plot.
  • Tyrant, the Dimension Lord of the Mirror Universe, Evil Twin of the game's biggest hero Statesman. (the Big Good?)
  • Rularuu the Ravager, somewhere between Eldritch Abomination and sentient dimension that eats other dimensions with a bad case of Split Personality.
  • The Center, the mysterious leader of the fascist paramilitary group known as The Council.
• Clive Barker's Jericho: The Firstborn, the first being created by God that aims to destroy all of humankind as revenge against God for imprisoning it.
• Clock Tower:
  • Clock Tower (1995): Mary Barrows, the owner of the titular mansion, having lured Jennifer and the other orphans to be killed by her murderous sons.
  • Clock Tower 2: Edward (actually Dan Barrows from the first game), who takes up the mantle of the Scissorman and attempts to murder Jennifer as revenge for killing his mother.
  • Clock Tower 3: Lord Darcy Burrows, a wicked 17th century British lord who possesses his descendant Dick Hamilton and intends on sacrificing Dick's granddaughter Alyssa in order to obtain godhood.
• Clockwork Aquario: Dr. Hangyo, a Fish Man Mad Scientist who plans to use an army of wind-up aquatic creatures to Take Over the World.
• Cloé's Requiem: Cloé's curse is the thing keeping her trapped in the mansion, and Michel must destroy the curse to free her. It is later revealed that Alain Ardennes, Cloé's abusive father, became the curse after she killed him in self defense.
• Code Vein: Juzo Mido, the leading Revenant researcher who's responsible for the creation of the Successors, as well as turning Cruz Silva into a destructive monster.
• Codename Eagle: General Popov, a power-hungry Russian general who murders the royal family and takes control of the Russian Empire with the intent of going to war with the rest of the world.
• Command & Conquer:
  • Command & Conquer: Tiberian Series has the enigmatic Kane, leader of the Brotherhood of Nod. He's the driving force behind every game and, even when he's not the direct Big Bad, is usually in some way responsible for or connected to the current villain, though things get much more complicated and messy later on.
    • Firestorm, the expansion to Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, has CABAL, after it goes rogue from the Brotherhood and hijacks their cyborg army to take over the world for itself.
    • Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars has the Scrin, who invade Earth after the fighting between the Global Defense Initiative and the Brotherhood of Nod draws their attention to the amount of Tiberium on Earth, replacing the (seemingly dead) Kain as the Big Bad for once. However, it later turns out that Kane (having faked his death, as always) intentionally led the Scrin to invade Earth so he could get his hands on their technology.
    • Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight has a Big Bad Ensemble between Gideon, leader of the Nod Separatists, and Colonel Louise James. Kane has a major role in the game, but it's as, bizarrely enough, the Big Good working with the GDI to contain the spread of Tiberium before it warps the whole planet. Instead, the conflict is drummed up by the former two each leading Renegade Splinter Factions on either side trying to disrupt the alliance between Nod and the GDI and sabotage their attempts at stopping Tiberium.
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert Series
    • Joseph Stalin in Command & Conquer: Red Alert, though the end of the Soviet campaign reveals he was being used by Kane to further his own goals by causing disorder in Europe.
    • Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 has Premier Alexander Romanov, who reignites the war between the Allies and the Soviets in the Allied campaign. Though it later turns out he was being used by the psychic Yuri, who fills the Big Bad role more directly for the Soviet campaign and the expansion Yuri's Revenge.
    • Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 has a Big Bad Ensemble between the new Premier of the Soviet Union Anatoly Cherdenko, the Empire of the Rising Sun and FutureTech.
• Commander Keen has The Rival Mortimer McMire in Episode 3, who serves as the Greater-Scope Villain for the other episodes except in Keen Dreams, a Gaiden Game where Boobus Tubber is the villain instead.
• Conception 2: Children Of The Seven Stars has Enzea Marker, who manipulates all sides to forward his plan to open Pandora's Labyrinth and fill the Earth with Dusk Energy.
• Conker's Bad Fur Day: The Panther King rules the land and has his minions hunt down Conker to use him as a leg for his broken table. Until his assistant, Ze Professor Von Kriplespac, formerly the Weasel King, is revealed to have been manipulating him and hijacks his plans.
• Contra: Gava, the leader of Red Falcon, an evil organization of brainwashed humans and alien lifeforms seeking to dominate the world, is the most prominent big bad of the series. He acts as The Man Behind the Man to Java in the first game before taking center stage in Super Contra and Contra III: The Alien Wars.
  • First game: Java (not to be confused with Gava), the commander of the Red Falcon spearheading their invasion.
  • Operation C has Black Viper, Gava's sister who's leading the Red Falcon invasions this time around.
  • Contra: Hard Corps: Colonel Bahamut, a Rebel Leader looking to overthrow the Earth government.
  • Contra: Shattered Soldier: The Big Bad at first is assumed to be Lance Bean, but the real villains in the game are the Triumvirate. In fact, it turns out that the Triumvirate were truly responsible for the aliens attacking Earth in the previous games, as they had secretly stole the Relic of Moirai prior to the start of the original Contra.
  • Neo Contra: Master Contra, the leader of the Neo Contra terrorist organization who plans to end all wars by destroying Earth.
  • Contra 4: Black Viper returns to lead Red Falcon in another mass invasion.
  • Hard Corps: Uprising: Emperor Tiberius, the head of the tyrannical Commonwealth dictatorship in control of the world that the player characters seek to dismantle.
• Control: The Hiss, a malevolent mind virus wavelength that has infected The Oldest House and is attempting to corrupt the Federal Bureau of Control.
• Conviction (SRPG): The Dark Elf possessed Emperor Abyss and brainwashed him into thinking the only way to bring peace to the continent of Elwes is to conquer all other countries.
• Corpse Killer: Dr. Hellman, a necro biologist who plans to create a new world order with his army of the undead.
• Corpse Party: In Blood Covered and Book Of Shadows, Yoshikazu Yanagihori, once a beloved elementary school teacher, went insane and became known as the murderer of three children in an incident from Heavenly Host elementary’s past. After his death, he haunted the school looking for more victims, and the children’s killer is now the master of the Alternate Dimension school keeping everyone trapped inside. The real killer, that is: Yoshikazu was framed for the crime by Sachiko the Girl in Red, who is the incarnation of Sachiko Shinozaki’s hatred after being killed horribly.
  • In the original PC-98 game, Sachiko is also the antagonist, although her backstory differs somewhat.
  • Yoshikazu or rather, Sachiko takes a back seat in 2U, leaving Yuuya Kizami to take the position. He antagonizes the other students throughout in many ways, including attempting to sabotage the cooking competition and stealing the Book of Eibon to hijack Heavenly Host.
  • The spin-off manga Another Child has Saki Akagiri, the ghost girl messing with Heavenly Host and murdering Tamaki’s friends (who are mean bullies) as part of her supernatural crusade against bullies.
  • Blood Drive introduces Misuto Kiriya as this, as he aims to control Heavenly Host for himself and take revenge on humanity, as well as Sachi, Sachiko’s unborn and jealous sister who is the new master of HH; it’s later revealed that they’re both a secondary threat to Heavenly Host/Nirvana herself, and that “Red Sachiko” is basically an avatar for its will, the Witch Queen, who serves as the Final Boss.
• Corruption of Laetitia: Cardinal Alfredus Marian starts the game by betraying the heroine and stealing her powers as part of his plans to bring order to the two countries he has influence over. He's also responsible for starting an industrial revolution for the sake of bolstering his military power, but ignores the environmental damage he causes to both his own people and various monster races, making his downfall the main goal of the game.
• Cosmic Star Heroine's chief villain is Dominic, director of API who aims to use the Mind-Control Device the protagonists found in the lab on Rhomu to eradicate free will of everyone. Later he is superseded by Eternity, an Eldritch Starship that is less subtle in its methods, its first action being to head straight to Rhomu to rain destruction on the Scimerex hive.
• Crash Bandicoot: Uka Uka. While Dr. Neo Cortex seemingly was behind all the events in the first two Crash games, it was eventually revealed in the third game that he did everything under Uka Uka's orders. However, in Crash: Mind Over Mutant, Cortex double-crosses Uka Uka and becomes the villain himself. There are also a few standalone villains:
  • Crash Team Racing: Nitrus Oxide, who comes to Earth to challenge the world's fastest racers under the threat of turning the planet into a parking lot and enslaving the population.
  • Crash Nitro Kart: Emperor Velo XXVII, who kidnaps the best racers on Earth (namely Crash, Cortex, and the rest of the cast) to prove his own skill in racing.
  • Crash Twinsanity: The Evil Twins, who've come from the Tenth Dimension to destroy Crash's world as revenge for Cortex experimenting on them. The game's sub-plot has N. Tropy (who is under Uka Uka) leading the villains' hunt for treasure.
  • Crash Tag Team Racing: Willie Wumpa Cheeks, being the one who stole Von Clutch's Power Gems.
  • Crash of the Titans: Nina Cortex, who takes over construction of the Doominator to destroy Wumpa Island. (At least the console version).
  • Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time: Dr. N. Tropy hijacks Cortex's plans and teams-up with his alternate dimension female counterpart to destroy the multiverse and remake it In Their Own Image. Although Cortex ends up retaking the position after they're taken care of and serves as the Final Boss.
• Crayon Chronicles: Stratolustrious Von Denderbreak the 37th, who's kidnapped your friends.
• Creepy Castle: Darking, who want to establish peace by removing people's emotions. Then Possessor awakens and the characters have much bigger problems now.
• Crescent Prism: Count Chroma is an Evil Overlord who seeks to use his army of robots and the Prism Stones to conquer the world, and Merryday happens to contain the last of the stones he needs.
• Criminal Case:
  • Criminal Case: Grimsborough has Milton Grimmes, leader of the Ancient Conspiracy known as the Crimson Order that has been controlling Grimsborough from the shadows for centuries.
  • Criminal Case: Pacific Bay has Albert Tesla, a Mad Scientist and supposed creator of Pacific Bay who has been planning to destroy the city and eventually the world to enact his master plan of forcing everyone to live inside his virtual utopia with him as the supreme ruler.
  • Criminal Case: World Edition has El Rey AKA Hector Montoya, the leader of SOMBRA and successor of Arsenio Castillo, the original founder of the organization.
  • Criminal Case: Mysteries of the Past has a Big Bad Shuffle between the corrupt Concordian Police Department (led by Eleanor Halsted and later Thaddeus Mulroney), the Irish gang (led by Finley Flanagan and later Seamus O'Neill), the Italian gang (led by Vittorio Capecchi and later Franca Capecchi), and the morally rotten Rochester family (led by Horatio and Malcolm Rochester) as the main antagonists at some point in the season, with all of them causing equal amount of trouble for the player and their team. In the end, all of them are defeated either by the arrest or death of their leaders, making path for the Final Boss to step in: Mayor Justin Lawson, who undergoes a Big Bad Slippage and becomes a dictator after witnessing the wave of crime and corruption brought by so many criminals, turning him into the main antagonist of the game's last stretch.
  • Criminal Case: The Conspiracy has Rozetta Pierre, the Corrupt Corporate Executive of DreamLife and leader of Ad Astra whose actions are constantly causing trouble for the police department throughout the game. And then she's revealed to be just a pawn for her mother, Denise Daniels.
  • Criminal Case: Travel in Time has Nebet/Nefertiti, the princess of the Ptolemy Dynasty responsible for stranding the team in the past and altering the timeline into a Bad Future.
  • Criminal Case: Supernatural Investigations has the Demon Queen, whose servants are constantly causing trouble for the team and other supernatural creatures in an effort to release her from her prison to destroy the world.
  • Criminal Case: City of Romance has Eleonora Macaron, the daughter of mob boss Antoine Macaron who is trying to Take Over the City.
• Crowscare: Venna the witch turns out to be plotting to kill the villagers and is manipulating the protagonist Ryo into sabotaging the Harvest Festival so she and her “friends” can eat them.
• Cry of Fear: Book Simon, the character you play as for the majority of the game, as well as the protagonist of Simon’s book. He is the manifestation of Simon’s mental issues and in almost every ending, he leads to Simon committing a Murder-Suicide. Defeating Book Simon leads to the Good ending, though it's more bittersweet as Simon's fight with him leads to a psychotic break where he kills two cops in real life.
• Cult of the Lamb: The Bishops of the Old Faith, who rule over the land and are responsible for the genocide of the Lamb's species. Alongside them, is He Who Waits, an ancient deity trapped by the Bishops using the Lamb to free him.
• Cuphead: The Devil, who forces Cuphead and Mugman to collect the souls of his debtors. In return, they get to keep their souls (that Cuphead foolishly bet). In the end, the two decide to fight the Devil and free all of the bosses they fought from his contracts.
  • The Delicious Last Course: Chef Saltbaker is revealed to be a power-hungry madman who wants the Wondertart only for himself. He captures one of the three cups to use their soul as the final ingredient of the Wondertart, and the remaining two are forced to battle him in "A Dish to Die For" to save their friend.
• Cyberbots has the Earth Force Federation and its creation, G.O.D., a giant brain-like lifeform that has decided to wipe out humanity after considering it is its own greatest enemy.
• Cyberpunk 2077: Actually averted. While there are plenty of factions who are powerful and antagonistic to V, the ones that are actively malicious are generally small-fry with little to no bearing on the main plot, and the ones that have the kind of power we usually associate with this trope are generally willing to "live and let live" or completely oblivious to V's existence until desperation, greed or some other factor compels V to kick the hornet's nest. The closest thing to a true Big Bad is a combination of bad luck and poor lifestyle choices on V's part.

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• Daemon Summoner: The Vampire Twins. They aim to summon the titular daemon to destroy the world and it's their killing of James Farrington-Higgs' family that drives him to become a vampire hunter.
• Daikatana: Kage Mishima, who used the Daikatana to travel back in time and make himself the tyrannical dictator of the world, leaving Hiro to try and take the sword and use it to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
• Damnation: Lord Prescott, the head of Prescott Standard Industries, who after spending 20 years supplying weapons to both sides of the Civil War, decides to use his vast army to conquer the world.
• Dante's Inferno: Lucifer himself, who kills Beatrice and sends Dante on a quest to save her soul.
• Dark Cloud: The Dark Genie, who threatens to spread his evil across time and destroy the world.
  • Dark Chronicle: Emperor Griffon/the Dark Element, who aims to destroy all of humanity; past, present, and future.
• The Dark Pictures Anthology:
  • Man of Medan: The pirates and the ghosts onboard the ship constantly threaten and depending on your choices will come close to killing or outright kill the main characters. However, it's revealed that the ghosts are non-existent, leaving the pirate leader Olsen as the story's biggest threat.
  • Little Hope: Reverend Simon Carver, who uses Mary Milton to accuse people of witchcraft and have them killed.
  • House of Ashes: The Ancient One, the leader of the vampires that threaten the main characters.
  • The Devil in Me: Granthem Du’Met, a Serial Killer inspired by H.H. Holmes who lures the documentary crew into the "Murder Castle" replica and attempts to murder them all.
• Dark Souls series:
  • Demon's Souls: The Old One is the source of the Colorless Fog, the spread of the demons, the fall of Boletaria, and the slow death of the world. It's also the source of the setting's magic (called soul arts), and is heavily implied to be "God".
  • Dark Souls: Gwyn, Lord of Sunlight, is the leader of the Lords and the Final Boss. The coming end of the Age of Fire is caused by simple entropy, but the attempts of him and his subordinates to prolong it by keeping the First Flame alive are the cause of much of the bad happenings in the game. Originally a great hero, he caused the Undead Curse and Hollowing by placing the Darksign on the Pygmies and their descendants, and is holding back the Dark even though it is not evil but part of a natural cycle. Even things such as the birth of Demons, the fall of many kingdoms after Lordran, and even the end of the world itself all have some ties to Gwyn in some way.
    • Artorias of the Abyss DLC: Manus, Father of the Abyss who is implied to be the Furtive Pygmy, is the one who defeated and corrupted Artorias, kidnapped Princess Dusk of Oolacile, and is spreading the darkness of the Abyss over the land of Oolacile.
  • Dark Souls II: King Vendrick, the founder of Drangleic, is the one who brought his kingdom to ruin in the pursuit of power, and is the Final Boss. Except he is a Disc-One Final Boss. The true villain and final boss is his wife Queen Nashandra, who is a Soul Fragment of the aforementioned Manus, and seduced Vendrick into warring against the giants, while also being the one who spread the undead plague so she can get the First Flame for herself. Aldia the Scholar Of The First Sin, the brother of Vendrick and co-founder, is the True Final Boss after the game got updated.
  • Dark Souls III: Pontiff Sulyvahn and the four Lords of Cinder are the primary antagonists, while the Soul of Cinder is a fusion of them and every other Lord, serving as an embodiment of the First Flame, and Slave Knight Gael of The Ringed City DLC becomes an embodiment of the Dark Soul. The conflict is caused by a combination of simple entropy and the Lords who were supposed to keep it line abandoning their duties, all for different reasons and without communication with each other:
    • The Abyss Watchers, members of the premier unit of Farron's Undead legion are the collective first Lord, and seek to protect humanity by eradicating the spawn of the Abyss, but are overzealous in achieving this goal.
    • Aldritch, Saint of the Deep/Devourer of Gods, and Pontiff Sulyvahn are the two leaders of the Cathedral of the Deep and the antagonists of the first half of the game, much of which is spent dismantling forces they either directly command or created. Sulyvahn has alliances with numerous other evil sects including Rosaria's Fingers and the surviving nobility of the Profaned Capital, multiple lore-vital characters and settlements were victimized by him, and he was implied to be The Corrupter who caused Lothric to lose his faith in the Fire to begin with. While Sulyvahn is outranked by Aldrich, he's the one who fed Gwyndolin to Aldrich (thus allowing Aldrich to ascend to godhood), the one actually ruling Irithyll and the Cathedral while Aldrich feeds in a basement, and the one taking action. The only thing keeping them from being the wholesale villains is that they are killed 2/3 of the way through the game, though their legacy is felt until the end.
    • Yhorm, the Giant, is the descendant of an ancient conqueror, and by far the nicest of the Lords. He is either the second or third Lord fought, depending on the decisions of the player.
    • Princes Lorian and Lothric are the final Lord faced. They were supposed to rekindle the flame but chose not to, which causes the coming end of the world, and they interfere with the Ashen One's quest, serving as the penultimate boss. However, they do not do anything actively villainous, instead just holding up in their tower. They just want to be left alone.
    • The final boss isn't a real Big Bad, but it is still important in the overarching plot: The Soul of Cinder/Incarnation of Kings, embodiment of the First Flame and a composite of all who chose to link it, including Gwyn, manifested to defend the First Flame.
    • Ashes of Ariandel DLC: Sister Friede, although separate from the rest of the game's lore and plot, is the de-facto leader of the Sable Church and the cause of the painted world of Ariandel being overrun by the rot. She convinced Father Ariandel not to let the flame burn the Painted World away so a new one may be born, deployed her Corvian Knights to stop both the Ashen One and the forlorn Corvians from ruining her plot, and kidnapped the Painter to make sure she won't attempt to create another world.
    • The Ringed City DLC: It doesn't have a real Big Bad, but the final boss is important in terms of the overall story: Slave Knight Gael, the embodiment of the Dark Soul, created when Gael ate the Pygmy Lords to make the Dark Soul in himself so the Painter can use his blood, infused with the Dark Soul, to paint a new world.
• The Darkness: Paulie Franchetti, who Jackie Estacado targets as revenge for leaving him for dead.
• Darksiders:
  • Darksiders has the Destroyer, who is revealed to be Abaddon, the former leader of the Hellguard, where he rallies his forces of Demons from Hell on the ruined Earth.
  • Darksiders II has the Avatar of Chaos, aka Absalom, who is the physical incarnation of the Corruption, being responsible for plaguing the realms and is the real, final threat to Death.
  • Darksiders III has the Seven Deadly Sins being a collective Big Bad, but Envy seeks to become the sole one and proves herself to be the main threat.
• Darkstone: Draak, an evil dragon who intends on using the Darkstone to drain the lives of everyone in the kingdom and become a god.
• Darkwatch: Lazarus Malkoth, the founder of Darkwatch turned monstrous vampire who Jericho accidentally released and is now terrorizing The Wild West with his army of the damned. After he's dealt with, Tala takes over the position, with Jericho joining her depending on the player's choice.
• Dawn of the Monsters: Conrad Fosco, the former CEO of Syncor and current commander-in-chief of DAWN, is revealed to be the one behind the Nephilim attacks on humanity and has been using his old company to mass-produce ATOM units that he ultimately siccs on the Sunrise squad — seeking to make a profit by Running Both Sides. He also had Professor Goro Maki assassinated when he learned too much about what Syncor was up to.
• Days Gone has two villains of both the first and second half of the game's story:
  • Carlos/Jessie Williamson is the villain of the story's first half. He is the enigmatic but violent leader of the Rippers and an ex-member of Mongrels. He is revealed to be the nemesis of Deacon and Boozer, after his Mongrel tattoo was burnt off via a blowtorch. However, in terms of the villainy scale, he is only a Disc-One Final Boss.
  • Colonel Garret is the villain of the story's second half, and unlike Carlos, he is later revealed to be the story's true Big Bad, after he begins Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, following the death of Arturo Jiminez, the Militia's only doctor. Because of this, he begins his extermination campaign of targeting rival human camps with his militia army.
• Deadbolt: Ibzan, leader of the Dredged and possibly a former Reaper.
• The Dead Case: Greg Toberen, a Serial Killer who's directly responsible for the Player Character's murder and attempts to make his fiancé his next victim.
• Deadly Premonition:Forrest Kaysen, who caused most, if not all of, the problems in the story (the murders that take place in Greenvale, and driving the townspeople insane with purple gas). It's even to the point he's responsible for horribly mentally scarring the original personality of the one called York, the original personality being Zach.
  • Deadly Premonition 2: Lena Dauman/Professor R. Uniquely, who orchestrated the whole crime plot. While she dies a little over the halfway into the game, York still has her minions and Kaysen to deal with.
• Dead Rising:
  • Dead Rising has Carlito Keyes, who orchestrated the Willamette outbreak and plans to have it spread worldwide. However, Brock Mason takes over as the main villain of the Overtime mode, being behind the Fiery Cover-Up of the Willamette outbreak, as well as the Santa Cabeza massacre and cover-up that drove Carlito to villainy.
  • Dead Rising 2 has TK throughout the entire game, having framed Chuck for the outbreak and using it as an opportunity to loot the city. Although the true mastermind behind the outbreak is revealed to be Sullivan, or Stacey in the alternate timeline of Off the Record.
  • The Case West DLC seems to reveal the series' Greater-Scope Villain in the form of the Director of Phenotrans, Marian Mallon.
  • Dead Rising 3 has a Big Bad Duumvirate between Marian Mallon, who takes advantage of the outbreak to keep Phenotrans in business, and General John Hemlock, who has his own plans to create his own controlled outbreaks so he may continue to rule over the populous as a dictator. That said, towards the end of the game, Hemlock kills Marian, leaving him as the sole villain.
  • Dead Rising 4 has Calder. Obscuris's operations within the city are to capture and contain him and the data he carries, which is also the driving motive behind Frank tracking him. He is also the cause of the outbreak, as he's been wandering in the sewers of Willamette all this time carrying the old strain of the parasite.
• Dead Space:
  • Dead Space has two, Mercer and Kendra. The situation is unique as you fight neither of them, though you do fight what may or may not be considered as the third Big Bad, the Hive Mind. Considering it's puppeteering the other Necromorphs and is the Final Boss... Mercer even talks about "... the Hive Mind's gift", suggesting he considers himself to be its servant.
  • Dead Space 2 has Hans Tiedmann at first, with him spending the game trying to keep Clarke and Ellie from getting to the the maker, until Nicole/The Golden Marker (12B) reveals herself as the true Big Bad.
  • Dead Space 3 has Jacob Danik, the leader of The Circle. After bringing ruin to EarthGov and its colonies, he hunts down Isaac as he's the only one capable of stopping his plan of bringing Convergence to the galaxy.
• Dead to Rights: Mayor Pinnacle, Prince Fahook, and Police Chief Hennessey are the head figures in the conspiracy behind the death of Jack's father and the demise of pretty much every single one of Jack's allies over the course of the game. All three are in cahoots, but have their own separate agendas.
• Deathloop: The Visionaries, a group of eight individuals who founded the AEON Program by creating the time loop in Blackreef to live forever and who Colt must kill in order to end the loop.
• Death Stranding has the terrorist Higgs, who seems to be a menacing villain, and serves as the main threat to Sam throughout the game, but is ultimately just a pawn and the enforcer for the real villain, and is defeated before the game's end. The real villain is actually Amelie, the Extinction Entity who brought about the Sixth Death Stranding and is destined to bring about the Last Stranding, the extinction of all life on Earth. She wants to end suffering by forcefully hastening the Last Stranding. There is also the threat of Cliff, a Humanoid Abomination who attacks Sam during "supercell" storms that drag Sam to areas based on historical wars, but Cliff is more of an Arc Villain who has little true relevance to the main plot, figuring more into the backstory and the background of certain characters.
• Deep-Sea Prisoner verse:
  • Mogeko Castle: There are three antagonists Yonaka Kurai faces in her quest to escape the titular castle:
    • King mogeko created the titular castle and the Mogeko species and is trapping Yonaka inside so they can rape her.
    • Moge-ko is a sadistic Mogeko girl who is the king's enforcer but terrifies even him and wants Yonaka to herself.
    • Shinya Kurai, Yonaka's brother, killed their parents and wants to kill Yonaka herself, but is otherwise unrelated to the main plot.
  • The Gray Garden: Ivlis is the Devil of the Flame World and leader of the terroristic Flame Devils who starts the attack on the Gray Garden and sends his minions to cause chaos and destruction, with the ultimate goal of killing and usurping Etihw and Kclab, then using their powers to conquer the other worlds as well. Though the ending reveals his true motives were to take revenge on the other gods and devils and free his people from their tyranny, and an unknown traitor within the Garden was giving him directions.
  • Wadanohara: Princess Tosatsu is leading Tosatsu Kingdom in a war against the Sea Kindgom to take the throne from Princess Uomi, as she tried long before. Except she's not the mastermind; Sal/Syake-san, the traitor, is the one who manipulated her into attacking as part of his plan to unseal his master. In the third act, Princess Mikotsu, Uomi's real sister and Sal's boss, takes this position upon becoming unsealed.
• Default Dan, as part of its inversion of Mario tropes, has the Princess kidnap Dan’s turtle-dragon friend, sparking Dan’s quest to save him.
• Deltarune:
  • The Knight is the one responsible for creating the excess Fountains of Darkness, which in turn throw off the balance between Light and Dark, forcing the heroes to seal them off while fighting against the Arc Villains who stand against them. If too many Fountains are opened, the Titans will awaken and cause The End of the World as We Know It, turning any remaining Darkners into stone and forcing the Lightners to live in an endless night.
  • In Chapter 2's secret route, the SOUL (read: you) and Spamton pull a Big Bad Duumvirate-turned-Big Bad Ensemble. In this route, the SOUL forces Kris to manipulate and abuse Noelle into becoming a murderer, while Spamton directly assists them by telling them how many people they have to kill, before selling the ThornRing that Noelle will use to kill Berdly. Spamton would then use this opportunity to take over Queen's Mansion for himself, before fighting Kris as Spamton NEO to prevent them from sealing the Dark Fountain.
• Demon Gaze has Lu Lunark/Lulu/Luna, who is actually a demon seeking to revive the Greater-Scope Villain, Sol.
  • Demon Gaze II has Lord Magnastar, an Evil Overlord who kills people and converts them into Star Power with the Astral Furnace.
• Demonophobia: Lucifer/the Butcher is the keeper of Hell who chases after Sakuri Kunikai and is keeping her from escaping. Until the end reveals that Ritz, Sakuri's guide, was the demon who trapped her in the first place, and stole her memory so she could break him out.
• Dept. Heaven series:
  • Riviera: The Promised Land: Hector of the Seven Magi is the mastermind of the demonic invasion of Riviera as part of a plan to conquer Asgard and become a god. His influence also extends to the other games in the series, making him the main villain as well.
  • Yggdra Union: Emperor Gulcasa is the leader of the Bronquia Imperial Army who intends to Take Over the World to bring peace to it. However, his strategist, Nessiah Aries Artwaltz, has been manipulating him as part of his own revenge plot against the gods for casting him down to Asgard.
  • Knights in the Nightmare: Lord Zolgonark is the Demon Lord of the Underworld who allies himself with Cardinal Capehornus Mirza Lucius and General Yelma Ul Varomone to invade and conquer the kingdom of Aventheim.
• Depict1: The benefactor/shadow actively works against the protagonist, lying to them about how to escape, to keep them trapped. The true end reveals them to be the protagonist's Living Shadow who wants to 'protect' them by ensuring they never leave.
• Deus Ex Universe:
  • Deus Ex has Bob Page, the leader of Majestic-12 and the mastermind behind the events of the game.
  • Invisible War has Saman, the head of The Templars.
  • Human Revolution doesn't really have a main antagonist, but Hugh Darrow comes the closest. Bob Page from the original game serves as the Greater-Scope Villain though he is never encountered directly, and Pieter Burke is is the antagonist of The Missing Link DLC.
  • Mankind Divided has Lucius DeBeers, the leader of the Illuminati. However, his actual involvement is minimal, with Viktor Marchenko serving as The Heavy.
• The Devil May Cry series has one in each game:
  • Devil May Cry has Mundus, the Demon King, who lures Dante to Mallet Island with the help of his creation Trish so he finish off the last remaining blood of Sparda after he spilled the blood of the wife and kidnapped and enslaved the older twin, Vergil.
  • Devil May Cry 2 has Arius, the CEO of Uroboros, who wishes to use the power of the Arcanas to resurrect the Demon King Argosax so that he will be blessed with absolute immortality to rule over the entire world.
  • Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening has Arkham, who manipulates both Dante and Vergil along with his own daughter so that he can unlock the gate to the Demon World and obtain the ultimate power of Sparda.
  • Devil May Cry 4 has Sanctus, the leader of the Order of the Sword, who wishes to use Sparda's power as the Savior in order to cleans the world of its evils and rule over it.
  • Devil May Cry 5 has Urizen, the Demon King, who planted the seed of the Qlipoth tree in Red Grave City, draining the lives of the citizens there in order to bear a fruit that will grant him absolute power. However, he is later defeated and assimilated into his true identity: Vergil, who previously inadvertently created Urizen as part of his desire to gain power to defeat his brother.
  • DmC: Devil May Cry has Mundus, the demonic Evil Overlord secretly ruling the world.
• Devil's Third: Isaac Kumano, the head of the terrorist organization the School of Democracy, who intends to bring about peace by rebelling against the world and killing everyone who they consider an enemy to that peace.
• Devotion: The ghost lady is the main enemy stalking Du Feng Yu in his quest to find Mei Shin. Or so it seems, but the ghost is in his head. In truth, Mentor Heuh is the one responsible for the disappearance of Mei Shin, as she is the leader of the Cigu Guanyin cult who manipulated Feng Yu into worship and got Mei Shin killed through a ritual.
• Diablo, the Lord of Terror, is the Big Bad of the series that bears his name, though in Diablo II, he shares this status with his two brothers, Mephisto and Baal, as the "Prime Evils." In Diablo III, it's Diablo again using Leah as his vessel, and in the Reaper of Souls expansion, it's the fallen angel Malthael.
• Dice and the Tower of the Reanimator: Glorious Princess: The Reanimator is the main antagonist of the game, since she's in charge of all the Dark Ones in the tower and has the elixir that Bambooblade needs to cure Princess Gloria.
• Digimon:
  • Digimon World series:
    • Digimon World has Analogman, a human who wishes to enslave all Digimon and take over the Digital World; with his Machinedramon acting as the final boss.
    • Digimon World 2: OverLord GAIA, a rogue CPU responsible for trapping everyone in the Digital World, as well as creating Chaos Lord, who seeks to become the ultimate being.
    • Digimon World 3 initially had a Big Bad Ensemble between the Leader of the A.o.A terrorists, the MAGAMI president, and Lord Megadeath until Snatchmon, a combination of various Vemmon, performed a Dragon Ascendant and merged with the Gunslinger Satellite to digivolve into Galacticmon with intentions of merging with Earth itself to become Gaiamon.
    • Digimon World -next 0rder-: Analogman returns; possessing Tsuzuki and using him to spread the Machinedramon plague, create the BH Virus, and spread it to the Digimon in Floatia in order to tear down the walls of the parallel worlds and sow chaos.
  • Digimon Story series:
    • Digimon World DS: Alphamon, who wants to destroy all humans under the belief that they're a danger to Digimon; with his plans inadvertently awakening Chronomon.
    • Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth: The biggest threat are the Eaters. Their mere existence is responsible for bringing in the other primary threat, the Royal Knights led by Duftmon and Crusadermon, particularly the latter, as her schemes drive the game's first half in her guise as Kishibe/CEO of Kamishiro. Suedou is the third contender for Big Bad, as he too is driven by the existence of the Eaters for his distinct antagonistic agenda and ultimately wins The Big Bad Shuffle between the three forces by merging with Mother Eater to manipulate reality to his own ends.
  • Digimon World Data Squad: Lucemon, The Man Behind the Man to Tsukasa Kagura and Creepymon; as well as the creator of the Demon Lords. He uses them as a means of reviving himself so he may engulf the world in the Dark Arena.
  • Digimon Survive: The Master, an enigmatic being that the Kenzoku serve; whom he has sacrifice any human child that wanders into their world for the purpose of saving it.
• Disgaea:
  • Disgaea: Hour of Darkness has Vulcanus, who wants to destroy all demons, along with anyone and anything that tries to defend them.
    • Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness has Xenolith, with all of the major events of the game being traced back to him absorbing the Netherworld's magic and kidnapping the angels.
  • Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories has the fake Overlord Zenon. Adell and the rest of the group are pursuing him in order to end the curse on Veldime or get revenge, respectively.
  • Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice has Geoffrey/Super Hero Aurum, who's been grooming Mao to be a powerful overlord that he can take down.
  • Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten has Judge Nemo, the one behind the Netherworld's decline
  • Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance has Void Dark, the leader of the Lost who's hell-bent on taking over all the Netherworlds in his path.
  • Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny initially has the God of Destruction, who is actually Zed's younger sister Bieko forcefully transformed by Cerberus, who is secretly the Super Sage Misual.
• Dishonored:
  • Dishonored: Lord Regent Hiram Burrows, who hired Daud to assassinate the Empress, had Corvo framed for the murder, and usurped control of the Empire for himself. He's later revealed to be the cause of the Plague, as well. Admiral Farley Havelock takes over the role after his downfall.
  • Dishonored 2: Delilah Copperspoon, who took over the Empire from Emily and plans to use her magic to remake the world how she sees fit.
  • Dishonored: Death of the Outsider: The Outsider, who Billie Lurk sets out to track down and kill.
• Disintegration (2020): Black Shuck, the leader of the Rayonne forces in the game's region. He's the one gunning for Romer Shoal and his crew, and he's directly or indirectly responsible for all the carnage the Rayonne cause in the game.
• Divine Divinity: The Demon of Lies a.k.a. Duke Janus, who aims to bring the Lord of Chaos to Rivellon.
  • Beyond Divinity: Samual, the demon lord who soul-forges the Paladin with the Death Knight.
  • Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga: Damian, although Ygerna is the one who corrupted him, and Ygerna becomes the Dragon-in-Chief in Flames of Vengeance.
  • Divinity: Dragon Commander: Corvus the demon is responsible for every unpleasant event of the protagonist's life. Played with in that Corvus himself was defeated and bound prior to the events of the game, and the game itself is spent dealing with the mess his advanced technology and behind-the-scenes influence has made of the kingdom.
  • Divinity: Original Sin: Leandra, the sister of Icara the White Witch.
  • Divinity: Original Sin II: Bishop Alexander at first, but it later turns out to be Dallis the Hammer. In the end, however, it's a Big Bad Duumvirate between Bacchus Rex and the God King.
• Do It For Me: The Wuffles/Wooffles are black monsters that are terrorizing the protagonist's girlfriend and who he must kill to prove his love for her. However, they're actually innocent classmates- the real villain is the girlfriend, who tries to manipulate the protagonist into killing the students for her own amusement.
• Don't Be Afraid has Franklin Deagon, a masked Serial Killer who preys upon children and is the one who kidnapped David.
• Doom:
  • Doom: The Spiderdemon is behind the invasions of Phobos and Deimos, and fighting through Hell to defeat him is the final goal of the game.
  • Doom II: Hell on Earth: The Icon of Sin is the one who spawned all the enemies in the first place. Considering that it only appears once in the game, and its destruction damages untold miles of Hell's surface, we can assume that it is the big bad of the game.
  • Doom 64: The Mother Demon is the one who rebuilds the demon army to attack humanity once more.
  • Doom³: Dr. Malcolm Betruger, who is singlehandedly responsible for the demon invasion of Mars, is both a Mad Scientist and an Evil Sorcerer in league with Hell itself, and wants to bring about Hell on Earth. He becomes a demonic dragon thing by the name of the Maledict at the end of the game proper, and you finally put paid to the evil bastard in Resurrection of Evil.
  • Doom (2016) Olivia Pierce colludes with Hell in bringing about Hell on Mars, and eventually becomes the Spider Mastermind in a bid to become a God.
  • Doom Eternal:
    • The Khan Maykr is the ruler of the Makyrs of Urdak and overseer of the demonic invasion of Earth, having made a deal with Hell to give over worlds and their people to be consumed by the demons in exchange for the Argent Energy that her own people need to survive.
    • The Ancient Gods two-part expansion has the Dark Lord, Davoth, the ruler of Hell and leader of its armies.
• DonPachi series:
  • DoDonPachi: Colonel Longhena, who organized the Element Dolls' attack on mankind that lead to humanity's near extinction and manipulated the Pilot into destroying the lost fleet of the Don Pachi Corps..
  • DoDonPachi DaiOuJou: Hibachi, being the leader of the mechanized hordes looking to eradicate humanity and the cause of the Blissful Death Wars.
  • DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou: Hina, a.k.a. Hibachi/Inbachi, who wishes to eradicate humanity and make way for the "evolution" that is her and the Element Dolls.
• Double Pug Switch gives us Sker, a cat who pilots its own personal ship, and is always shooting missiles at Otis when they encounter one another.
• Dragalia Lost: For the first half of the main campaign, Morsayati fills this role, as they are the one who has kidnapped Zethia and are the tyrant who is leading Alberia into chaos. For most of the second half, Nedrick takes on the role, as he has kidnapped Zethia and his men, the Agito, are the ones antagonizing the heroes after Morsayati’s defeat. Eventually Xenos is revealed to be the true Big Bad of the entire game, as he acts as the Final Boss and was the one responsible for all the horrible things that have happened thus far.
• Dragon Age:
  • Dragon Age: Origins has Loghain, whose actions directly worsen Ferelden's chances of surviving the Blight, and the Archdemon, who leads the Darkspawn and is causing the Blight to happen.
  • Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening has the Mother.
  • Dragon Age II deconstructs this trope. While Meredith is the Final Boss, in the end, every party involved in the game's climax is partly to blame for how things turn out, whether by design or simply being a bit too close to the fire. Cassandra tries to find out who the Big Bad was, but there is only Grey-and-Gray Morality and Well-Intentioned Extremist characters.
  • Dragon Age: Inquisition has the Elder One a.k.a. Corypheus.
• Dragon Force (Sega): Madruk, a wicked god bent on destroying both Legendra and the Gods.
• The Dragon Quest games have their fair share of Big Bads:
  • Dragon Quest has the Dragonlord. He's the supreme being over all monsterkind who has stolen the Sphere of Light, planted himself in Castle Charlock and has subjugated the entire world to his will.
  • Dragon Quest II had Hargon, who attacks Moonbrooke and summons Malroth upon his defeat.
  • Dragon Quest III had Zoma, who was plunging the world of Alefgard into darkness while his minion Baramos ruined another world at his behest.
  • Dragon Quest IV had Psaro the Manslayer, aka Necrosaro until the DS version added a new chapter, revealing that Psaro's apparent Dragon Aamon had in fact been manipulating him all along.
  • Dragon Quest V had Nimzo (also known as Mildrath), the human who perfected the Secret of Evolution to transform himself into a a demon god and who is looking for a way to break out of the Underworld.
  • Dragon Quest VI had Murdaw, also known as Mudo until his defeat, upon which you find out evil still plagues the world. After D(h)uran is defeated, he tells them that he, Murdaw/Mudo, and the other demon lords were just pawns of the true Big Bad, Mortamor (also known as Dethtamoor).
  • Dragon Quest VII had Orgodemir, the Demon Lord who sealed most of the continents of the world to prevent God from defeating him. In the second disk, he tries to seal the continents again, while posing as God Himself.
  • Dragon Quest VIII had Dhoulmagus until it turns out the scepter he stole had been containing the real Big Bad, Lord Rhapthorne.
  • Dragon Quest IX had Corvus, a former Celestrian driven mad by centuries of hatred and solitude.
  • Dragon Quest XI had Mordegon, an Evil Sorceror who was a former hero who got corrupted by Calasmos.
• Drake of the 99 Dragons: Tang, CEO of Tang Industries, is the one behind the massacre of Drake's clan who aims to free the Spirit King Supreme and Take Over the World.
• Dropsy: The S-Corporation CEO, Dropsy's wicked older brother who's responsible for the circus fire that the town blames him for and attempts to kill Dropsy to ensure that he's the only heir to the throne of his species.
• In Dungeon Maker II: The Hidden War, the Big Bad is Revenger, a demon looking to restart a 70,000-year-old war that almost destroyed the world.
• DUSK: Nyarlathotep, the true mastermind behind the cult corrupting Dusk.
• Drawn to Life and it's sequel has Wilfre, a corrupted Raposa who destroyed the book of life and brought the shadows to the world in the first game, and started draining the world's color in the second game.
  • Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter for the Wii has Circi, a Raposa in love with Wilfre who seeks his resurrection.
• DRL has the spider mastermind. And behind her, the true evil behind the invasion, John Carmack.
• Dust: An Elysian Tail has General Gaius, who leads the campaign to wipe out the reptilian Moonblood race.
• Dying Light: Kadir "Rais" Suleiman, the leader of a brutal gang of survivors who hoard supplies and Antizen to exploit other survivors.

E

• Earthworm Jim: Queen Slug-For-A-Butt, who seeks to destroy Earthworm Jim and reclaim the Super Suit, while trying to take over the universe.
• Eco Fighters: Kernal Goyolk is the president of Goyolk K.K. who seeks to exploit Planet Elwood to line his pockets, having reduced other planets into dread spheres.
• Elden Ring: While the game doesn't really have one story-spanning antagonist, several villainous factions and leaders of said factions are vying for the fate of the Lands Between:
  • The two of the most malicious Demigods, Praetor Rykard and Mohh the Lord of Blood, definitely count. The former has turned himself into an Animalistic Abomination in an attempt to become powerful enough to devour the gods, driving him into hedonistic and hunger-driven immortal being who dreams of devouring the world itself, while Mohg is a mad Satanic Archetype who leads a cult of serial killers and brainwashed slaves, is attempting to ascend to god-hood by attempting to corrupt his half-brother Miquella and take him as his divine consort. Either of them would fit as the big bads of any other RPG, but here they're mere optional stepping stones for the Tarnished and Big Bad Wannabes (altough Rykard far less so than Mohg).
  • The Outer God of Frenzied Flame, alongside its Mouth of Sauron the Three Fingers and its apostle Shabriri, are attempting to create a lord that will scour the world of all life and fuse it back into one in an Assimilation Plot - however, unlike the other antagonists, they actually require the player character to help them.
  • The God of Scarlet Rot is an unseen Outer God who seeks to spread its malevolent disease throughout the Lands Between and consume everything and everyone - ironically, its chosen vessel, Malenia, is not this trope at all, as she has no ambitions or desire to become the Goddess of Rot or claim the Elden Ring for herself. However, she's still a dangerous ticking time bomb, as her sheer presence passively spreads the Rot (as can be seen in the Haligtree) and it's only a matter of time until she loses herself.
  • Marika is the cause of the shattering of the Elden Ring, and everything that followed, and though she remains unfought, her 'husband'/other half Radagon is also responsible for sealing the Erdtree and preventing anyone from becoming Elden Lord, which forces the Tarnished to unleash Destined Death to open a path to Marika.
• The Elder Scrolls has a different Big Bad in each game, though each often serves or is at least in league with one of the series' many deities, often a Daedric Prince. To note:
  • Arena has the traitorous Imperial Battlemage and Evil Sorcerer classic Jagar Tharn in this role. Later works reveal that Tharn was secretly in league with Mehrunes Dagon, the Daedric Prince of Destruction.
  • Battlespire, a Dungeon Crawling spin-off game taking place during Arena's time period, has Mehrunes Dagon himself leading the Daedric invasion of the Imperial Battlespire.
  • Daggerfall plays with it, having several plot relevant faction leaders without having a true Big Bad. Lord Woodborne turns out to have been the one to murder the King of Daggerfall, kicking off the game's main quest, but doesn't fit the role once the plot gets going. The Underking is the being most directly tied to the main quest and certainly looks the part of an evil villain, but as it turns out, is not all that far from being a good guy. Out of all of the faction leaders who can get what they want in the game's Multiple Endings, Mannimarco is the most malevolent and villainous in terms of his intentions, but still isn't a true Big Bad.
  • Redguard, a Action-Adventure spin-off game which tells a smaller-scale, more personal story, has the corrupt Imperial governor Admiral Richton as the main antagonist.
  • Morrowind has the Physical God supervillain Dagoth Ur in this role. Depending on your interpretation of events leading up to and following the events of the game, Azura, the Daedric Prince of Dawn and Dusk, may be either a Big Good for her role in defeating Dagoth Ur or a Greater-Scope Villain and Manipulative Bastard who manipulated these events to her own ends, ending up as a Villain with Good Publicity to the Dunmer people in the end.
    • The Tribunal expansion has Almalexia, one of the Tribunal Physical Gods who, as a result of losing her divinity due to the events of the main game, goes completely insane and Axe-Crazy.
    • The Bloodmoon expansion has Hircine, the Daedric Prince of the Hunt. The plot of the expansion is essentially him finding the most worthy competitors for his legendary hunt.
  • Oblivion has Mehrunes Dagon once again. Mythic Dawn cult leader Mankar Camoran serves as his Dragon and Heavy for the main quest, with Dagon himself only showing up at the very end.
    • The Knights of the Nine expansion has the resurrected Ayleid lord Umaril the Unfeathered, with the Daedric Prince Meridia as his divine backer.
    • The Shivering Isles expansion has Jyggalag, the Daedric Prince of Order and alter-ego of Sheogorath, Daedric Prince of Madness.
  • Skyrim has Alduin, the colossal black dragon Beast of the Apocalypse. The secondary main plot will have either Imperial General Tullius or Stormcloak leader Ulfric Stormcloak in this role depending on which side you choose to support. In either case, the Aldmeri Dominion is the Greater-Scope Villain to either side, with each having different opinions of the best way to deal with them in the inevitable second Great War.
    • The Dawnguard DLC has Lord Harkon, the leader of the Volkihar vampire clan.
    • The Dragonborn DLC has Miraak, the First Dragonborn. He is in service to the Daedric Prince Hermaeus Mora, who serves as a Greater-Scope Villain and gets exactly what he wants in the end.
  • Online has Molag Bal, the Daedric Prince of Corruption and Domination, in this role.
  • Blades has Celemaril Light-Bringer, and ancient Sorcerous Overlord who was inadvertently unsealed from his tomb.
• Elevator Ritual: Professor Kumozoru is the one who turned everyone in the Rainbow Hotel into monsters with his formula and is the Final Boss who Naysilla must defeat before she can return to her world.
• Elliot and the Musical Journey has the Skeleton King, who's kidnapped Princess Adeline, and stolen the world's music.
• else Heart.Break() has The Ministry, who want to regulate use of Modifiers.
• Embric of Wulfhammer's Castle : Azreala D'Fleur/Tierra del Fuego is revealed in the Final Ending as the one behind all the villains the Duchess has faced, as the events are the Duchess dreaming of the future, but Azraela is influencing the dreams to feed on her despair.
• Emerald City Confidential: The First and Foremost Phanfasm, who Petra must stop from plunging Oz into war once again, as well as save her brother from his clutches.
• Emerald Dragon: The Demon King Galshia fits this for most of the game, but he's later revealed to working for the true Big Bad, Tiridates.
• End Roll: The Indecent One is the source of the monsters in Russell’s dream, and his biggest tormentor. She represents Russell’s abusive mother.
• Every Epic Battle Fantasy game after the second^note The final boss of the first game is just another, bigger monster fought, while the final boss of the second is a Well-Intentioned Extremist trying to take over the world with no affiliation with any of the previous enemies has a major villain behind the events of the game:
  • Epic Battle Fantasy 3: Akron, a demonic being accidentally freed by the heroes poking him with their weapons. His awakening creates a black hole around him and disturbs the surrounding area.
  • Epic Battle Fantasy 4: Godcat is the one behind the events of the game, getting a group of Cats to steal the three jewels to revive her so she can wipe out humanity. She is also revealed to have created Akron.
  • Epic Battle Fantasy 5: The Devourer, the creator of the entire Epic Battle Fantasy universe, kicks off the plot by being fed up with the party's free will and sending Cosmic Monoliths to observe them. The dark energy from the Cosmic Monoliths corrupts the land around them and makes the wildlife hostile, indirectly causing most of the enemies to fight the party and most of the conflict in the game. It is at a higher order than Godcat or Akron and is in fact the creator of the former.
• Epic Seven has one per Episode.
  • Episode One, The Heir of the Covenant, focuses on Anghraf the Archdemon, the being responsible for destroying the world six times.
  • Episode Two, Godkiller, features Straze, the Black Knight and titular Godkiller, until it's revealed that he is having his strings pulled by Faustus, the Dark Star and the main villain for the entire story.
  • Episode Three, Hymn of a Wailing Tundra, primarily has Mortelix the Great One in the spotlight as the most powerful dragon of all, seeking to find a Worthy Opponent. The real mastermind behind all the wars, however, is Belian, Android Ruler of Politia, who wishes to assimilate the power of a dark being known as Tiwig.
• Eternal Radiance: Eldareth is the leader of the Shadowborn, an organization that steal Akleim artifacts and assassinates anyone who tries to investigate or obstruct them. He's not the first leader of the organization, but he is the one ordering the recent thefts and plans to use the artifacts to destroy the Shadowborn while most of them are gathered at their base. This has the risk of destroying all of Darencia, which is why the protagonists have to stop him.
• Eternal Sonata has Count Waltz, the ruler of The Empire who causes the problems for the heroes with his new drug, the Mineral Drug, which can cure illness, but are addictive and drive humans insane.
• Eternal Twilight has Black Magi Supreme Azael, who manipulated Empress Verona into starting a war against Magi, all as part of his scheme to eliminate his successor, claim the COSMOS relic, and Take Over the World.
• Even For Eternia: Arisu is the source of all Umbra and seeks to use the Calypso to wipe out humanity and Umbra, and then rebuild the world from scratch. To that end, he removes specific memories of the Umbra to ensure that the Calypso shards and a vessel suitable for the Calypso falls into his hands. Later, it turns out his real plan is for Rubellum to be the host of the Calypso and that his vision for the world is actually similar to Rubellum's, but his plans still end up with quite a lot of collateral damage.
• Everhood: Gold Pig, the leader of the Mages who rule Everhood, steals Red's arm and Blue Thief's legs, sparking their quest to get them back. Gold Pig is also responsible for a lot of the suffering of the citizens, and does everything in their power to stop Red from releasing them from being his immortal slaves once Red gets their arm back to keep everyone.
• The Evil Within: Ruvik, the enigmatic hooded man responsible for pulling you into his twisted world.
• The Evil Within 2: Father Theodore, MOBIUS's head of recruitment who desires Lily's power so he can have complete dominion over STEM. It was his manipulations and betrayal that caused Myra's corruption.
• E.V.O.: Search for Eden has a new Big Bad for each of the five Eras:
  • Era 1: King Kuralesache, the ruler of the sea who wants to prevent the dedizens from discovering the surface world.
  • Era 2: King Bee, the leader of the insects. He's later succeeded by Queen Bee, who's out to kill the amphibians as revenge for killing her husband.
  • Era 3: The entire Tyrasaur/Tyrannosaurus species, who rule the Age of the Dinosaurs.
  • Era 4: Bird-Man King and Sir Yeti, both of whom want to use the Crystal to take over the world.
  • Era 5: Bolbox, who sends the previous villains to prevent you from entering Eden so that he may enter instead. In addition, it turns out the ones accidentally responsible for all of them, except King Kuralesache, are Martians.
• Eyra the Crow Maiden: The Infernal King kickstarted the plot of the game by kidnapping the men of Eyra's tribe.

F

• Fable:
  • Fable: Jack of Blades, an ancient demon reawakened after thousands of years who massacred the Hero's village and seeks to conquer all of Albion through the Sword of Aeons.
  • Fable II: Lord Lucien, who's out to rebuild the Spire, which would grant him his wish to reset the world.
  • Fable III: The Crawler, an Eldritch Abomination that desires to spread darkness and death to all corners of the world, and its gaze is now fixed upon Albion.
  • Fable: The Journey: The Corrupter, an ancient darkness slowly polluting and infecting Albion with his evil.
• The Fairly OddParents!:
  • The Fairly OddParents: Breakin' da Rules: Vicky is the main villain in the console versions, as Timmy has to recover Da Rules book from her and solve the problems Vicky has caused by inadvertently making wishes.
    • The PC version has Juandissimo as the antagonist, using clouds outside of Timmy's bedroom window to trick Timmy into wishing Da Rules book away, therefore getting Cosmo and Wanda in trouble and risking banishment back to Fairy Academy, where Juandissimo will attempt to get Wanda back from Cosmo.
    • Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda are behind the conflict in the Game Boy Advance version by using their magic to make Vicky's dreams reality.
  • The Fairly Odd Parents Shadow Showdown: The Chamberlain's Shadow, who sapped the powers of the all the fairies in Fairy World and schemes to switch the places of humans and shadows.
  • Fairly OddParents: Clash with the Anti-World: Anti-Timmy turns out to be the mastermind behind the anti-fairies' plot to make it Friday the 13th forever.
• Fairy Fencer F has President Hanagata, the 52-year old leader of Dorfa who plans to resurrect the Vile God to conquer the world and bring peace. Depending on the route however, he’s usurped by a different character. In the Goddess Route, he is killed; Sherman Shallancer becomes the new leader once he offs Hanagata and goes off the deep end, deciding to fuse with the Vile God himself to bring peace. In the Vile God route Hanagata isn't even the real president, it’s Fang, who himself is just a figurehead for Marianna, one of the Four Heavenly Czars. In the Evil Goddess route, Dorfa isn’t even a threat anymore as it’s been disbanded, and there is a new organization, the Septerion Club, ruled by Jeane/Junown, who wants to revive the titular Evil Goddess.
• Faith The Unholy Trilogy: The first two chapters has the demon only known as the UNSPEAKABLE. In Chapter I, it is possessing Amy Martin, whom John Ward is trying to exorcise. In Chapter II, it traps John in a nightmare and disguises itself as Miriam Bell, and John must beat it to escape. Chapter III meanwhile, has Gary Miller, the leader of the Eternal Order of the Second Death, aims to provide his master, the UNSPEAKABLE, with a vessel so it can bring about The End of the World as We Know It.
• The Fallout series:
  • Fallout: The Master, the leader of the Unity who wants to turn everyone into super mutants and kill anyone who opposes him.
  • Fallout 2: Dick Richardson, the President of the Enclave, with his Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan as the Dragon-in-Chief.
  • Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel: The Calculator, an Artificial Intelligence in charge of Vault 0 in Cheyenne Mountain and the leader of the robot army.
  • Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel: Attis, a highly intelligent super mutant commander in the Master's Army who wants to continue his plans.
  • The cancelled Fallout: Van Buren: Dr. Victor Presper, an Evilutionary Biologist who plans to nuke the Earth using the orbital space station B.O.M.B.-001.
  • Fallout 3: President John Henry Eden of the Enclave, with Colonel Autumn as The Heavy.
  • Fallout: New Vegas: Caesar^note a little trickier since there's an ending path where you join him, but he's still obviously the central figure in the main conflict, and siding with him merely makes your character a Villain Protagonist, with Legate Lanius as The Dragon, who becomes the Dragon Ascendant should you kill Caesar and is the Final Boss of three out of four endings. Aside from Caesar, the DLCs all have their own Big Bads:
    • Dead Money: Father Elijah, the former Elder of the Mojave chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel who puts explosive collars on you on three others to rob the pre-War Sierra Madre Casino.
    • Honest Hearts: Salt-Upon-Wounds, war chief of the vicious White Legs tribe who wiped out New Canaan and are now attacking the Dead Horses and Sorrows.
    • Old World Blues: The insane Mad Scientist Dr. Mobius, later on revealed to be Dr. Klein, head of the Think Tank.
    • Lonesome Road: The former courier and Legion Frumentarius Ulysses, who is also the Greater-Scope Villain of the DLCs. He wants to nuke the New California Republic to take revenge for the Courier unknowingly doing the same to Ulysses's home, the Divide.
  • Fallout 4: "Father", a.k.a. your son Shaun, the mysterious leader of the Institute that kills people and replaces them with human-like robots called Synths. Though Elder Maxson can also be an antagonist if you don't ally with the Brotherhood of Steel.
• Fancy Island: The Pieyama God is the leader of the monsters who rules over the titular Amusement Park of Doom.
• Fantasian: While it initially seems like Vam the Malevolent in the main villain, given that he's the one who released the Mechtaria in an attempt to prevent the world from being consumed by order, it's soon revealed that Jas is the greater threat, who seeks to destroy the world and remake it with him as its god.
• Fantasy Maiden's Odd Hideout: Bernd's unnamed father is the one who is trying to kill Ange and is thus responsible for her being trapped in the gingerbread house, though he's doing it to protect the village- it just so happens that Ange is a Tragic Monster.
• Far Cry:
  • The original game has Dr. Krieger, who is also in a Big Bad Ensemble with Harland Doyle.
  • The second game The Jackal, an arms dealer selling weapons to both waring factions, APR and UFLL, who you were sent to kill. Subverted as he turns out to be one of the good guys (if you can call it that), and by the end of the game you work with him to combat the factions, led by Nick Greaves and Hector Voorhees respectively, which team up by the games climax and intend to commit genocide on the civilians.
  • The third game it looks to be Vaas Montenegro, but it's really Hoyt Volker.
    • Blood Dragon has Ike Sloan.
  • The fourth game has Pagan Min, but it's not like Golden Path leaders Amita and Sabal are any better, in fact the ending shows us they may be worse.
  • Far Cry: Primal has Ull, leader of the cannibalistic Udam tribe, and Batari, leader of the slave-taking, sun-worshipping Izila tribe.
  • Far Cry 5 has Joseph Seed, "The Father", head of the Project at Eden's Gate.
    • Far Cry: New Dawn has Mickey and Lou, leaders of the Highwaymen, and Ethan Seed, the leader of New Eden, the successor to the Project at Eden's Gate. Joseph is still around, but he’s not nearly as much of a threat as these three are.
• Fatal Fury has Geese Howard, the Arch-Enemy of series hero Terry Bogard and his brother Andy for murdering their father and the one behind the King of Fighters tournament.
• Fate/Grand Order:
  • Observer on Timeless Temple: The one who bombed the command room of Chaldea, your supposed ally, Professor Lev Lainur Flauros AKA Demon God Flauros, is set up as the Big Bad despite mentioning early on that he was sent by "our King" to incinerate the planet only to get sliced in half by Altera in Rome. The true mastermind is King Solomon, who commands all 72 Demon God Pillars… except he turns out to be the King of all Demon Gods, Beast I: Goetia, who has hijacked Solomon's body, and the real Solomon is actually the Big Good, Dr. Romani Archaman.
  • Arcade: In this timeline, Queen Draco (Beast VI), Mother of Harlots, has replaced Goetia in the role of summoning Demon Pillars to do her bidding.
  • Epic of Remnant: Four Demon God Pillars who escaped during the protagonist's final battle with Goetia. By order of Pseudo-Singularity, they are Bael in Shinjuku, working with James Moriarty, Zepar in SE.RA.PH. until he is usurped by Kiara, Phenex in Agartha, working with Scheherazade, and Räum in Salem until he summons an Outer God named Sut-Typhon (implied to be Yog-Sothoth) that uses Abigail Williams as a vessel. The only Arc Villain that isn't a Demon God Pillar is Sorceror Amakusa Shiro Tokisada in Shimousa, but he's being manipulated by the Caster of Limbo, Ashiya Douman.
  • Cosmos in the Lostbelt: The Foreign God, who serves as the Greater-Scope Villain for all the other stories before finally taking center stage in this saga. Kirschtaria Wodime is The Heavy for five out of seven Lostbelts, only to meet his end during the events of the fifth one as the Foreign God descends upon the world using its unwitting ultimate Disciple - a resurrected Olga Marie Animusphere - as its host body: U-Olga Marie. In the final Lostbelt, the Foreign God's secret identity is revealed to be that of the Foreign World itself, CHALDEAS, the global environmental sphere model that has been an integral part of Chaldea all this time.
• Fear Effect: Yim Lau Wong, the Chinese King of Hell who plans to use Wee to kickstart the apocalypse.
• Fighting Force: Zeng, who plunged the world into chaos just to fulfill a prediction of the world ending.
• Final Fight:
  • First game: Belger, the leader of the Mad Gear gang who arranged Jessica's kidnapping and is responsible for most of the ills that plague Metro City.
  • 2: Retu, the new leader of the Mad Gear gang who's responsible for kidnapping Rena and Genryusai.
  • 3: Black, the leader of the Skull Cross Gang who has taken over Metro City's criminal underworld.
  • Streetwise: Father Bella, who masterminded the GLOW outbreak in Metro City so he may take it over and become its savior.
• For the FEAR series, it's a toss-up between humongously powerful psychic Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl Alma, telepathic psychopath and son of Alma Paxton Fettel, and Corrupt Corporate Executive Genevieve Aristide. While Alma has undeniably been wronged, her revenge is... rather extreme. Fettel, as revealed by the end of the third game, plans to consume Alma's power in order to take over the world. As for Aristide, she just wants to keep her job, and to hell with anyone who has to die in order for her to do so. Events would never have gotten as hellish as they did if any one of them wasn't in the picture. For the first game and its expansions at least, Paxton Fettel is undeniably the main antagonist: he's the one controlling all the Replica soldiers and directing them in an effort to free Alma.
• The Fire Emblem series is home to quite a few per game.
  • Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light and Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem and their remakes have the Big Bad Duumvirate of the Earth Dragon Medeus, and the Dark Pontifex Gharnef.
  • Fire Emblem Gaiden and its remake Echoes: Shadows of Valentia:
    • For the majority of the games, the main villain is Rudolf, The Emperor of Rigel who wants to Take Over the World or so he claims; in actuality, he wants to create a Valentia free of the influence of the degenerating Mila and Duma, and engineered the war so that his heir, Albein Alm Rudolf II, and Princess Anthiese/Celica of Zofia will rise to kill him and gain the necessary strength to defeat Duma.
    • After Rudolf's defeat the main villain is the Fell God, Duma though he's actually a pretty okay guy; he just has some cosmic-scale sibling rivalry and a wee bit of draconic degeneration going on.
    • Once Duma is defeated in the main story, the Creation, a much younger Grima from Fire Emblem: Awakening, takes over as the final villain during the post-game Story Arc of Echoes.
  • Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War:
    • The first generation has Manfroy, High Priest of the Loptr Church who wants to revive the God of Evil Loptous.
    • During the second half of the game, the main antagonist spot is claimed the Dark Prince Julius, Loptous' human vessel. Manfroy is still around as his Dragon, though.
  • Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, a "midquel" to the two halves of the fourth, has the dark priest Veld, though he's actually Manfroy's second-in-command.
  • Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade has King Zephiel as the Main Villain who seeks to wipe out humanity and return the continent of Elibe to Dragon controlled rule. Largely as a result of being targeted and nearly killed multiple times by his Jerkass, and highly jealous father King Desmond of Bern. This caused Zephiel to believe that humanity is Irredemable and deserving of extermination.
  • Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (formerly titled just Fire Emblem in the English release) first focuses on Lundgren, as he's trying to kill Lyn so he can rightfully ascend to the throne of Caelin, but he's just the villain in Lyn's Tale. In the main story, there's the power-hungry Marquess Darin of Laus at first, but the true wirepuller is the Dark Druid Nergal; having lost his purpose of reuniting with his lost family^note with heavy implications that Ninian and Nils are his children, he now seeks to open the Dragon's Gate so that the dragons beyond may burn the world down.
  • Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones features the Demon King, Formortiis, as the main enemy. He had been defeated by five heroes centuries ago, but he has been revived due to Lyon's creation of the Dark Stone from Grado's Sacred Stone. He is directly responsible for the invasion of Magvel by Grado, and the appearance of monsters across Magvel. Using the naive Prince Lyon to resurrect and control the corpse his father Emperor Vigarde, to invade the other Magvel Nations, starting with Renais in an attempt to destroy their Sacred Stones which sealed away his body. In Ephraim's route, Lyon's behavior is much more independent as he willingly serves the Demon King, although it's still implied that he is being influenced and manipulated by the Fomortiis into doing his bidding. in Eirika's route however, Fomortiis is instead in full control of Lyon's body, making him in both routes the direct Big Bad of the game.
  • Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance stars Ashnard, king of Daein, as the primary antagonist. He desires a world in which the strong dominate the weak, and he seeks to use Lehran's Medallion to awaken a Dark God and gain power. He is the final boss, and most of the earlier bosses are working for him. This includes the Four Riders, most notably the Black Knight.
  • Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn mainly has Duke Lekian, who masterminds many of the events, but the game is divided into four parts, each part having its own big bad. In Part I, the primary antagonist is Jarod, a Begnion general who seeks to suppress the Dawn Brigade's uprising in Daein. In Part II, it is Lord Ludveck, who wants to displace Queen Elincia as ruler of Crimea. Part III is unique, in that you alternately play as opposing armies; it could be considered Micaiah, or Ike, but it would better be considered Lekain himself, who orchestrated Pelleas' signing of the blood pact and forced him into a war he had no dog in. In part IV, the true antagonists of the entire Tellius saga are revealed to be Sephiran/Lehran, the seemingly kind priest who was manipulating both Ashnard and Lekian who is the true Big Bad, and Goddess Ashera, the evil and order-obsessed counterpart to Yune (the supposed Dark God Ashnard wanted) who seeks to destroy the world, which she has deemed irredeemable, at the urging of Lehran.
  • The main villain of Fire Emblem: Awakening is Validar, the priest of the Religion of Evil for Grima, the fell dragon who manipulates the various other Arc Villains into ensuring Grima's return. Once Validar has been killed for good, Grima himself, in possession of the future Avatar's body and having traveled into the past along with Lucina and her friends, takes center stage as he resurrects his past self and prepares to destroy the world as he had done in the future.
  • Fire Emblem Fates changes who the Big Bad is depending on the route.
    • On the Birthright route, Tin Tyrant Garon is the singular main villain you must defeat, although his last words hint at a greater evil lurking in the shadows.
    • On the Conquest route, Garon is part of a Big Bad Ensemble with Hero Antagonist Ryoma, as you must conquer Hoshido and defeat Ryoma in order to bring the war to a close and then kill Garon to bring peace to the land. After they're dead, Takumi is resurrected by an unseen greater evil and becomes the Final Boss, having become hell-bent on killing Corrin and razing Nohr to the ground.
    • On the Revelation route and for the game overall, Anankos is responsible for every bad thing that happens in all three routes and is the main enemy who must be destroyed.
  • Fire Emblem: Three Houses initially sets up a Big Bad Duumvirate of the Flame Emperor (who is actually Edelgard von Hresvelg) and Thales, leader of "those who slither in the dark" (who spends much of the game impersonating Lord Volkhard von Arundel). Between the two of them, they're the cause of almost all the bad things the happen in the game, but the truth of the situation is more complicated. Thales is the one who made the Flame Emperor what they are and caused their Start of Darkness while they serve as his Dragon-in-Chief who does most of the work and is the more visible antagonist while he remains hidden in the background (due to being the Emperor of Adrestia while the very existence of "those who slither in the dark" is a secret to most people). However, the Flame Emperor actually hates Thales and plans to betray him and his faction as soon as they accomplish their mutual goals. Which one takes more prominence depends on the route you pick:
    • In Azure Moon, Edelgard is the single clear-cut Big Bad for the whole route. You actually do face and kill Thales in this route, but he dies before her and you never learn his true identity or importance. This is ironic since some of his past deeds that Edelgard had no involvement in are very important to the story of this route, but you don't learn the full truth about them.
    • In Verdant Wind and Silver Snow, Edelgard is The Heavy for most of the route, leaving Thales as the sole villain after their death. However, he's not actually the final boss of either route, as there's one more battle after you fight him. On Verdant Wind, "those who slither in the dark" succeed in resurrecting the Predecessor Villain Nemesis, who fights you in one last battle alongside The Remnant of "those who slither". On Silver Snow, Rhea goes insane from overusing her powers and forces you to Mercy Kill her (unless you got an A-support with her, in which case she survives).
    • In Crimson Flower, on the other hand, you side with Edelgard, so the Big Bad is instead Archbishop Rhea, while "those who slither in the dark" are reduced to being defeated offscreen in the epilogue.
    • In theory, Thales is the closest thing to the game has to a single Big Bad overall and is the only one to be an antagonist on all four routes, but you can make the case that the real "Big Bad" of the game is the ancient conflict between the Agarthans (the ancestors of those who slither in the dark) and Children of the Goddess (of whom Rhea and her followers are the last), and the Cycle of Revenge between them that has perpetuated to the present day. Almost every problem in the setting is a result of their conflicts, and every route's ending results in those who remain on both sides either dead or having lost their power.
  • Fire Emblem Engage: Sombron is the Fell Dragon, and quite possibly the biggest and baddest villain in the mainline series yet, considering he summons many of the past final bosses as the Dark Emblems in order to serve him as his puppets, and he's more powerful than all of them. He wants to destroy all opposition across the world and obtain all Emblem Rings so that he may find the Emblem of Foundations.
  • Fire Emblem Heroes has a different Big Bad for each book.
    • Book 1 focuses on Veronica, princess of the Emblian Empire, until her big brother Bruno takes over as the true main villain and reveals that he and Veronica where manipulated by a Greater-Scope Villain: Embla.
    • Book 2 starts off with a Big Bad Duumvirate between Veronica and Surtr, king of Múspell, but Surtr betrays her and becomes the sole main villain from that point forward. Veronica, for her part, has a Heel–Face Turn at the end of the book.
    • Book 3 focuses on Hel, ruler of the land of the dead.
    • Book 4 focuses on Freyja, ruler of Dökkálfheimr, the realm of nightmares.
    • Book 5 focuses on Fáfnir, the once-kind ruler of Niðavellir who has gone insane and now hungers for conquest. He's just a brainwashed pawn, though; the true villain is the sorceress Eitri, who will go to any lengths to expand Niðavellir's power.
    • Book 6 focuses on Embla, the Greater-Scope Villain of Book 1 and goddess of the Emblian Empire who wants to destroy the royal family of Askr and was manipulating Veronica and Bruno in Book 1 to fulfill this goal.
    • Book 7 focuses on Gullveig, an extratemporal being who seeks to destroy the present. It later turns out that King Njörðr of Vanaheimr was the one who orchestrated her creation in order to destroy humans to satisfy his own vanity, but Gullveig kills him shortly after this is revealed, holding on to the position of "main villain".
  • Fire Emblem Warriors ostensibly has King Oskar of Gristonne who seeks to revive Velezark, the evil Chaos Dragon of legend. However Oskar dies as The Unfought, leaving a Velezark possessed Darios to take the role of Big Bad.
  • In Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, the main antagonist slot is occupied by Rhea, Archbishop of the Church of Seiros and/or Thales, leader of "those who slither in the dark", with the specifics depending on route. Edelgard von Hresvelg, emperor of the Adrestian Empire is also a major antagonist on two routes, but she is always eclipsed by a greater threat somehow.
    • On the Scarlet Blaze route, Rhea and Thales form a Big Bad Ensemble and oppose you in equal measure. Edelgard, for her part, is The Hero of this route.
    • On the Azure Gleam route, you initially face Edelgard, but she is ambushed and brainwashed by Thales midway through the game, leaving him the clear-cut Big Bad. Rhea, for her part, is a Supporting Leader and ally throughout the route.
    • On the Golden Wildfire route, you initially face Edelgard, but Claude eventually decides he likes the Church less and turns Leicester against them, leaving Rhea the clear-cut Big Bad. Thales, for his part, falls off Claude's radar and never shows up in person.
• Five Nights at Freddy's:
  • The franchise-wide Big Bad is William Afton, a child-murdering Serial Killer whose victims go on to haunt the animatronics and try to kill you. Anything from the franchise can be connected to him.
  • In Five Nights at Freddy's, the titular Freddy Fazbear has this role, being the leader of the animatronics and your greatest threat.
  • In Five Nights at Freddy's 2, the Puppet has this role, as she is the one who gave life to the murdered children, allowing them to possess the animatronics. However, later games repaint her as the Big Good. A really misguided Good Is Not Nice Big Good, but one nevertheless.
  • In Five Nights at Freddy's 3, we have Springtrap, who is William himself after suffering a brutal death that he totally deserved.
  • Five Nights at Freddy's 4 has a Big Bad Ensemble. The villain of the minigames the Brother, who bullied the minigame protagonist and accidentally killed him by stuffing him into Fredbear's mouth, giving us The Bite of '83. In the nights, Nightmare Fredbear will be your biggest threat.
  • Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location has Circus Baby, who manipulates the protagonist, Michael Afton, up until night 5 where she, now a part of Ennard, reveals her true plan moments before killing Michael. He gets better.
  • Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator has Springtrap, now known as simply Afton, and Baby, now known as Scrap Baby, who came to this location to murder children, and have the most focus out of every other animatronic. However, Afton is clearly superior.
  • Five Nights At Freddys VR Help Wanted has the virus known best as Glitchtrap, William Back from the Dead for the second time. He is the main reason for the creation of the tapes scattered across the game, and tries to leave the game by possessing your body.
  • Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach has Vanny, who hacked the animatronics and is hunting Gregory on Glitchtrap's orders. The Ruin DLC has the Mimic, a dangerous robot that impersonates Gregory to lure Cassie into freeing it.
• The Flower Collectors: Haussmann is a Corrupt Politician who is not behind the murder of the Mole and the rampant political violence depicted, but he is also responsible for creating the eponymous Flower Collectors, a raid unit that went around suppressing any anti-nationist figures in Spain; the unit in question ended up killing no less than a dozen innocent people, and Haussmann has been spending his time as a politician to cover-up his past misdeeds.
• For Honor: Apollyon, the warlord of the Blackstone Legion who finds the concept of peace so distasteful that she deliberately provokes the three factions to continue warring against each other.
• Forest of Drizzling Rain: The Kotori Obake is a malicious Youkai who kidnaps children who step foot in her forest, and Shiori must rescue Sakuma from her and escape her to avoid becoming her next victim.
• Forever Home: The rogue Tren general and main antagonist of the game, Barclyss, is determined to wipe out all life on the planet because he believes life is meaningless. To that end, he slaughters countless people to turn them into undead soldiers and later uses an orbital fortress, Affliction, to blast the planet's surface into oblivion. While he's not the leader of his country, he's the biggest threat in the story and even the actual leader of his country teams up with the heroes to stop him.
• Forgotten Worlds has the Celestial Emperor Bios, a powerful being bent on taking over all life on the universe, one planet at a time.
• Forspoken: The four Tantas, the once-benevolent rulers of the realm turned wicked tyrants, are the biggest threat Frey must face on her journey, with Tanta Sila^note The Tanta of Strength in particular being described as the most formidable of the four, and is the one most directly hunting Frey. However, the true villain is Cuff, who turns out to be Susurrus, an ancient demon from Athia's past that wants to destroy the land, whom the four Tantas sealed inside themselves. eventually drove them insane. Once Frey kills the other three cuffed Tantas, Susurrus is able to reassemble himself and attempts to pull a You Have Outlived Your Usefulness on Frey.
• The DSiWare game entitled Foto Face: The Face Stealer Strikes has the professor as the antagonist, though the description of the game mentions the professor as the Face Stealer. The professor copies your face and then causes you pure hell by wrecking havoc, causing some to blame you, while some are working for the professor, and the remaining others don't know what the heck they are doing, attacking you for no reason. However, six of the characters are not evil. Anyway, you have to chase down the professor and fight him.
• Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon has Shin, a Mad Scientist who wants to bring about the end of the world using the Glass Cage after its effects drove him to madness.
• Fran Bow: Remor, a Kamala who murdered Fran's parents and spends the game hunting her down.
• Freedom Planet has Lord Brevon, an alien warlord who kickstarts the plot by turning the three kingdoms against each other so he can acquire the Kingdom Stone.
  • Freedom Planet 2 has Merga, a water dragon freed from her prison after the events of the first game. She plans to resurrect Bakunawa so she can use it to devour Avalice's moon and reign supreme against the earth dragons.
• Freedom Wars has Abel "Strafe" Balt, who wreaks havoc with his own Abductor for the goal of uniting all Panopticons by freeing the horrors that lurk in The Casket.
• Friendship: Kayako, friend of Risa and Mio, is the one responsible for Mio's disappearance, as she killed both her and her mom and is hiding Mio's body for herself; meanwhile, Mio's abusive mom haunts their house as a spirit, and is the most direct danger to Risa.
• Frogger's Journey: The Forgotten Relic: The main antagonist is Eric von Viesel, an aristocrat who wishes to take OPART's power for himself and use it to create an ultimate weapon. He's also responsible for the disappearances of Dr. Finnius, and later, Leona.
• Front Mission: Driscoll, the head of Nirvana Institute, which was to blame for most of the atrocities committed (namely the BD Project, which involved using the brains of kidnapped soldiers as materials for biocomputers). He's also the greatest threat in the final mission, being the pilot of the Mir Orlen unit.

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• In the first Galaxy Angel trilogy there's Gern, leader of the Valfasq. Exiled prince Eonia had no connection with them when he orchestrated his plot in the first game.
  • The Sequel Series Galaxy Angel II has the Will, who want to reset time altogether. Once again, the first game's plot mastermind (in this case Verel) has no connection with them.
• In the Gears of War series, Queen Myrrah is the leader of the Locust Horde and the overall main antagonist of the original trilogy as a whole, with RAAM being The Dragon and The Heavy in the first game, and Skorge being The Dragon and The Heavy in the second. Myrrah herself takes center stage as the main antagonist in the third game.
  • The second trilogy starts off with "The Speaker", a leading member of the Swarm, The Remnant and the evolved form of the Locusts, as the nominal main antagonist of the fourth game, and the Swarm Queen Reyna Diaz, daughter of Myrrah emerges as the leader of the Swarm in the fifth game.
• Gene Troopers: Ithaka Wassali, the true mind behind the Galactic Empire who brainwashed President Horacious Prowler into forming the Gene Troopers and spreading oppression across the galaxy.
• Get in the Car, Loser!: Jonivanjo the Machine Devil is an Ancient Evil being that is fated to appear every millennium to kill everyone that its bigoted cultists hate. It grants cyborg powers to its cultists so they can break its seal before the 1000 year deadline.
• Gex series has Rez, the cruel ruler of the Media Dimension who intends to ensure the world is subjected to nothing but bad TV shows and Z-grade movies.
• Genshin Impact has a Big Bad Ensemble between the Tsaritsa (the Cryo Archon and the mastermind behind the Fatui) and the Traveler's Sibling (the leader of the Abyss Order). Overshadowing both of them, however, is the Unknown God in the intro who serves as the catalyst for the Traveler's journey to begin with and may in fact also be responsible for corrupting the Sibling.
• Ghost of Tsushima: Khotun Khan, the leader of the Mongol Invaders that Jin must face. It's his desire to conquer the mainland of Japan that drives the conflict of the main story.
• Ghost Recon Wildlands: El Sueño, the head of the Santa Blanca Cartel.
• Ghostrunner: Mara/The Keymaster and Adam/The Architect are competing with each other for supreme control of the Tower, while also planning to exploit its citizens to their own ends
• Ghost Trick has a Big Bad Duumvirate between Commander Sith, leader of a foreign espionage organization and Yomiel, the Manipulator seeking vengeance by using his ghost powers to manipulate and kill those he blames for ruining his life, as well as being the real man in red instead of Sissel. They've made a deal of mutual benefit to wipe out all the people who knew of Temsik, but each of them has a separate agenda, and it ends with Sith double-crossing Yomiel.
• Ghostrunner: Mara/The Keymaster and Adam/The Architect are competing with each other for supreme control of the Tower, while also planning to exploit its citizens to their own ends.
• Ghoulboy has The Goblin King, who allows monsters to roam the land of Gunzabar freely, and kidnapped Thulgar's dad in hopes of stopping a prophecy that would end in the king's downfall.
• Gift: The Shadow of the Black Deep Dark Night. Despite being the BigBad, The Shadow shows to Gift once and never fights him directly.
• Gnarled Hag: The titular Gnarled Hag has imprisoned the girl inside her house, and the girl must escape while hiding from her.
• God Eater:
  • God Eater has Johannes von Schicksal, who's advancing his own "Ark Project" designed to to save up to 1,000 handpicked individuals while causing the Devouring Apocalypse.
  • God Eater 2 has Rachel Claudius, who's out to cause the Devouring Apocalypse herself.
  • God Eater 3 has Abraham Gadolin and his son Werner Gadolin, who aim use all the AG Es, including children (and/or Phym) as fuel for Odin in an attempt to save humanity.
  • Code Vein, a Spiritual Successor and Stealth Sequel, has Juzo Mido, the leading Revenant researcher who's responsible for the creation of the Successors.
• God Hand seemingly has Belze of the Four Devas, but it turns out be Angra, the true cause of the demon outbreak.
• The God of Crawling Eyes: The titular God of Crawling Eyes is attacking the school, having been summoned by a cult, and Max must escape it.
• God of War:
  • Ares in the first game is leading an invasion on the city of Athens and only Kratos can stop him by finding Pandora's Box.
  • Persephone in Chains of Olympus plots to submerge the world in complete darkness just before destroying all of existence.
  • Thanatos in Ghost of Sparta is holding Kratos' brother Deimos in his domain and Kratos needs to find a way to free him.
  • Alecto in Ascension is the leader of the Furies tormenting Kratos for breaking his oath to Ares and he must kill them to get rid of his bond.
  • Zeus in the second and third main installments, since he is the target of Kratos' revenge after he betrayed and tried to kill him.
  • The Stranger, later revealed to be Baldur in the soft reboot, hunting down Kratos and Atreus throughout the game. Played with as the story focuses completely on Kratos and his son's journey and the Stranger comes across as a Plot-Irrelevant Villain. He is taking orders from Odin instead, as Odin promised to lift the curse placed upon Baldur in exchange for his service.
  • Odin in Ragnarok, hunting down Kratos and Atreus as part of his obsessive quest for knowledge and to avert Ragnarok.
• Golden Axe: Death Adder, who takes the Golden Axe and ravages the land. However, in the console version, Death Bringer is the true Big Bad and The Man Behind the Man to Death Adder. In II, the one who steals the Golden Axe is Dark Guld, and in III, it's Damud Hellstrike.
• Each Golden Sun game has a Big Bad Duumvirate, who are fought as a Dual Boss, and the series antagonist Alex:
  • The first game, The Broken Seal, has the trio of Saturos, Menardi, and Alex. The former two are Mars Adepts that lead the original effort to break the seal on Alchemy and bring it back to the world of Weyard, though Saturos is the dominant of the two. The latter is a former Mercury Clan member who betrayed the group and joined up with the other two because he shares their goals.
  • The second game, The Lost Age, has Alex again, this time joined by the pair of Mars Adepts Agatio and Karst, who seek to continue the work of Saturos and Menardi by lighting the four Elemental Lighthouses and restoring Alchemy to the world, and avenge their deaths at the hands of Issac, though Agatio is the dominant one of the pair, and It's Personal for Karst, Menardi’s younger sister.
  • Golden Sun: Dark Dawn has Blados, Chalis, and Arcanus, who work for the military nation of Tuaparang and seek the Apollo Lens to bring about the Grave Eclipse. The former two are a pair of dark adepts, while the latter is a Mercury Adept whom any person who played the first games will instantly recognize as Alex. It’s eventually revealed that Blados and Chalis plan to betray Tuaparang with the Apollo Lens, while Alex betrays them in turn, seeking the Apollo Lens for himself.
• Good Boy!: The Toy Box Demon is the grandmother's master who has her pressure the protagonist into murdering his family.
• Gothic: The Sleeper, a powerful demon who's the reason the barrier around the Colony got out of control.
• The Gradius series:
  • Bacterion is usually the Big Bad of the majority of the games, being the master and creator of the entire Bacterian Empire that Gradius fights against.
  • Gradius II, IV, and Nemesis III (not to be confused with Gradius III) sees Gofer lead the Bacterian forces against Gradius.
  • Nemesis II, Nemesis III, Salamander for the MSX version, Gradius V, and Gradius Rebirth has Dr. Venom, who's constantly tries to destroy Gradius as revenge for using his people.
  • Salamander/Life Force has Zelos, a Planet Eater out to devour the Metalion solar system.
  • Salamander 2 has Doom, the leader of the Salamander force.
  • Gradius Gaiden has O.V.U.M (Original Visions of Ultimate Monster), the game's Final Boss.
• The Grand Theft Auto series:
  • Grand Theft Auto 2: The Zaibatsu Corporation, the Megacorp that controls most of the city.
  • Grand Theft Auto III: Catalina. She's behind the proliferation of SPANK, the new drug sweeping Liberty City, and betrayed Claude at the beginning of the game to join the Cartel, eventually becoming its de facto leader and having them shoot Claude on sight. She's also the most powerful mob boss of the entire game.
  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: Sonny Forelli. Over the course of the game, Sonny grows increasingly impatient and angry as Tommy builds his own empire instead of getting Sonny's money and drugs back. It gets to a point where he sics Mafia "taxmen" down to Vice City to take a cut of Tommy's business, and when that fails, shows up personally to kill Tommy. And then it turns out he was behind the Harwood ambush that cost Tommy 15 years of his life.
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Frank Tenpenny, who pulls the strings of nearly every major conflict in the game, and even when he isn't behind everything, he'll find some way to blackmail Carl into doing some dirty work for him; and Big Smoke, who betrays the Families to Tenpenny.
  • Grand Theft Auto Advance: King Courtney, the leader of the Yardies, and Vinnie, who tries to kill Mike after Faking the Dead.
  • Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories: Massimo Torini, having masterminded the Mob War between the three families and is directly or indirectly behind almost every conflict fought in the game.
  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories: Jerry Martinez, who Victor's out to kill as revenge for getting him discharged, and the Mendez Brothers, Vice City's biggest drug cartel.
  • Grand Theft Auto IV: Dimitri Rascalov, who is responsible for almost all the major conflicts in the game. If you choose the Revenge Ending, Jimmy Pegorino becomes the Big Bad and Final Boss.
  • Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned: Billy Grey, the president of the Lost MC's Alderney chapter who betrayed Johnny Klebitz.
  • Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony: Ray Bulgarin, who's out to kill Tony and Luis after they try to take his diamonds.
  • Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars: Wu "Kenny" Lee, who orchestrated the death of Huang's father and has been manipulating Huang in a bid to replace Hsin Jaoming as head of the Liberty City Triads.
  • Grand Theft Auto V: Devin Weston and Steve Haines, both of whom blackmail the protagonists into committing crimes for them, with Devin having more direct influence.
• Grandia
  • First game: Gaia, a being born from a corrupted Spirit Stone responsible for destroying the Angelou civilization, and upon his reawakening, intends to do the same to the rest of the world out of disgust for humanity.
  • Grandia II: Pope Zera, the head of the Church of Granas who plots to summon the Dark God Valmar and use his power to destroy humanity.
• The Great Gaias: Grindelwald Maultor, who is really the dark god Malviticus, establishes the empire of Validus to wage war against the elves and claim the Hourgem of Valnyr, which he plans to use in order to rewrite history in his favor. After he's sealed in the Tower of Illyrium, his servants manipulate many nations to unseal him, resuming his plans to take over all of Tenat and the Celestial Realm.
• Grim Fandango: Hector LeMans, the crime Lord of El Marrow who's behind the corruption in the Department of Death. He has been stealing tickets from the deserving and selling them to richer, less saintly souls. Or so he'd have them believe, but the tickets he sells are fake. He keeps the real ones for himself, determined to hoard enough to balance out his numerous and horrific misdeeds in life.
• The Guided Fate Paradox has Satanael Kyogoku, who has felled entire parts of Celestia before the start of the story. The focus of the game is for Renya Kagurazaka to become strong enough to fight him.
• All Guild Wars campaigns have Big Bads of some sort, except perhaps Prophecies (which has several evil groups). The Nightfall campaign also makes Abaddon the big bad of the first three campaigns.
• Lou the Devil in the Guitar Hero series tries to get aspiring rock-stars to sign his contract so he would get possession of their souls, and also kidnaps the God of Rock in order to get an artifact to drain audiences of their souls.
• Guilty Gear has That Man, who created the Gears, who in turn have wreaked havoc on the world. He's a pretty ambiguous guy (no one even knows his name) and not much is known about him or what he's planning. It's subverted however, when he is revealed in Xrd -Sign- to have been Good All Along, trying to stop the Kill All Humans plan of the real villain, Ariels.
• GUN: Colonel Thomas Magruder, a civil war vet turned criminal who leads the Texas Mountain Rifles and has taken large parts of the western territories both from the Apache tribes and Federal Government.
• Guns, Gore & Cannoli: Frankie the Fly is the one behind the zombie outbreak in Thugtown, having poisoned the local alcohol supply using a batch of special poison concocted by a German scientist he was in contact with. Following his plan getting foiled at the end of the first game, he returns as this in 2, under the alias of the Dark Don, working closely with Hitler and Those Wacky Nazis in attempting to Take Over the World.

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• Hades: While not a villain per say, Hades himself acts as the main opposition in Zagreus' quest to escape the Underworld, with everyone who opposes Zagreus working under Hades' orders.
• Hakaiou: King of Crusher: While your unnamed protagonist isn't intentionally hostile, the game does have a main villain, in the form of the alien bug who injects you with a monstrous venom. Because said bug is a highly-manipulative alien creature who wants to destroy entire worlds, and it's using you as it's pawn. The bug even screws you over in the final cutscene - by infecting your baby with another dose of it's venom, turning your child into another monster to start the cycle of destruction anew.
• In Half-Life, and its expansion packs Decay, Blue Shift, and Opposing Force, the Big Bad would have to be the Nihilanth, the creature that was maintaining the rift all along, while acting as the telepathic commander of the entire Xenian invasion force.
  • In Half-Life 2 and its Episodes, it's Wallace Breen, former administrator of Black Mesa and the human ruler of Earth under the Combine who commands Les Collaborateurs. However, with Breen's death at the end of the game, the two episodic expansions have his superiors, the Combine Advisors, take full control with a vengeance. You focus on breaking the remnants of the Combine forces on Earth and keeping them from opening a portal back to one of their home dimensions.
• Halo:
  • Halo: Combat Evolved lacks a specific Big Bad, though 343 Guilty Spark is featured as The Heavy during the final act, and is directly behind one of the two massive threats to the galaxy.
  • Halo 2 and Halo 3 has the Big Bad Ensemble of the Prophet of Truth, and the Gravemind. Truth due to being the leader of the Covenant and primary instigator of the Human-Covenant War and Gravemind for being the Hivemind of the Flood. Truth is also this for Halo 3: ODST, though he only physically appears in the Legendary ending.
  • Halo 4 introduces a new Big Bad in the form of the Didact, the former military leader of the Forerunners. Also, Jul 'Mdama, leader of the Covenant remnant, is this for the Spartan Ops co-op campaign.
  • Halo 5: Guardians has Cortana, who's had a Face–Heel Turn offscreen in between games.
  • Halo Infinite has the Harbinger, a mysterious entity allied with Escharum's Banished and helping them to repair the Zeta Halo. It's revealed towards the end that she's a representative of a much more dangerous force, the Endless.
  • The closest thing Halo: Reach has to a Big Bad is the unnamed Elite Field Marshal who seems to be leading most of the Covenant ground troops that the player personally fights (specifically, those of the Fleet of Valiant Prudence).
  • Halo Wars has Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee. While subordinate to the Prophet of Regret, Ripa is a much more authoritative and physical threat.
  • Halo Wars 2 has Atriox, leader of the Banished, a Covenant splinter-faction.
• Hand In Hand: ???, the shadowy figure chasing the two heroines around in Momoyama Academy, is one of the spirits of the three kokeshi dolls, who kill anyone who removes the dolls from the shrine the heroines happened to be there when the dolls were stolen. Or so it seems, but it turns out to actually be a bank robber who got himself trapped in the school, though there are hints that the spirits may have been involved after all.
• HarmoKnight: Gargan is the leader of the Noizoids who intends to become ruler of all of Melodia and fill it with endless noise.
• A Hat in Time is divided into chapters each with their own set of Arc Villains to deal with like the Mafia Boss in Mafia Town and The Snatcher in Subcon Forest, but the real Big Bad of the game is Mustache Girl, a Well-Intentioned Extremist who is so overzealous about ridding the world of bad guys that she's willing to steal all of Hat Kid's Time Pieces and alter the entire world under her rule. However, she is not very prominent until the final chapter of the game and is mostly out-of-focus for the remaining chapters, with only vague hints that she influenced some of the plot from behind the scenes.
• The Haunted Mansion: Atticus Thorn, an Evil Sorcerer who seeks to use the power of the six soul gems to destroy both the afterlife and the living world.
• Haunting Ground: Lorenzo is behind virtually everything bad that happens to Fiona throughout the entire game. Every stalker after her is his creation and has their sights on Fiona because of the Azoth in her body.
• Haven: Call of the King: Lord Vetch, the evil Galactic Conqueror out to kill Haven and prevent him from summoning Athelion.
• Heavenly Sword: The Raven Lord, the spirit of a warlord who corrupted Bohan into villainy to get ahold of the Sword.
• Heavy Rain has the Origami Killer a.k.a. Scott Shelby, who targets Ethan's son as his next victim and who Madison and Norman spend the game tracking down.
• The Heilwald Loophole: Joseph Randolf, the chief doctor of the titular hospital who uses the power of the Ominous Voice to turn it into a nightmarish hellscape where no one is allowed to die.
• Hello? Hell...o?: The ghost of Akari haunts the room where Kazuki is staying and tries to kill him so she can be with him again, while the ghost of Kazuki in the Alternate Universe does the same thing to the alternate Akari.
• Hello Puppets!: Mortimer, the star of Mortimer's Handemen and the mastermind of the puppets who plots to dominate the world and make all humans into hosts.
• Henry Stickmin Series:
  • Infiltrating the Airship has the Toppat Clan Leader, the leader of a gang of high-class criminals. To gain a pardon, Henry Stickmin has to take down the Clan.
  • Fleeing the Complex: Dimitri Johannes Petrov is the warden of the Wall, a maximum-security prison that Henry is trying to escape from.
  • Completing the Mission: The Toppat Clan returns as the main villain of the game as it centered around them building a rocket in a secret jungle base in order to launch the remaining Toppat members to the space station which renders them untouchable by the government and depending on the paths Henry took in the previous game, will either find a way to sabotage them or ensure they launch successfully. However, who the leader of the clan is dependent on the route taken in Airship. If Rapidly Promoted Executive or Pure Blooded Thief ending are chosen, then Reginald remains as the leader. In Ruthless Bounty Hunter where Reginald has been arrested, then the Right Hand Man becomes the leader while in Government Supported Private Investigator where both are arrested, Sven Svensson becomes the new leader of the surviving Toppat members.
• Hero King Quest: Peacemaker Prologue: The Hero King of the Cerulean Land plans on invading the Dark Realm and slaughtering all the Dark Ones. The party has only four days to organize the realm in order to defeat the Cerulean army.
• Heroes Must Die: Lord Murder, the evil overlord that the hero is forced to work it.
• Heroes of the Seasons: Goblin King Frinch hates Christmas and attacks Utania Village with his army of like-minded minions in order to stop their celebrations. Unfortunately, he's overshadowed by his henchman, Gobi, who uses his connections to call upon stronger Christmas-hating villains when Frinch proves too incompetent for the task. In the final stage, Gobi himself subverts his Non-Action Big Bad status and becomes the Final Boss.
• Hexyz Force: Emperor Axel of Rosenbaum, once a beloved leader until the assassination of his wife, now seeks to conquer the world. However, he’s a Brainwashed and Crazy pawn of Faust Schnizer; he, Azul/Galiza, Norvia, and Delgaia are all competing for control over the Hour of Judgement, and whoever comes out on top depends on the ending.
• Hitman:
  • Codename 47 has Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer, the Mad Scientist who created 47.
  • Silent Assassin has Sergei Zavorotko, leader of The Mafiya.
  • Contracts has Inspector Fournier, as the one who managed to put 47 in the jeopardy that constitutes the game's Framing Device.
  • Blood Money has Alexander Leland Cayne, the leader of the Franchise.
  • Absolution had a Big Bad Ensemble with Blake Dexter and Benjamin Travis as the central antagonists who both want 47 and the child he's protecting dead.
  • Hitman doesn't have a central villain, instead dealing with the ICA being caught in a proxy war between Providence and the Shadow Client, with the Shadow Client being the more prominent antagonist while Providence largely remains in the background.
  • Hitman 2 continues the story of the conflict between Providence, represented by the Constant, and the Shadow Client, who is now seen as a Well-Intentioned Extremist opposing Providence.
  • Hitman 3 concludes the fight against Providence, with the Shadow Client/Lucas Grey who is 47's childhood friend Subject 6 as an ally to 47, while the Constant, Arthur Edwards has betrayed his superiors, the Partners, who lead Providence. The Partners are relegated to Disc-One Final Boss status, and the Constant takes over as the leader of Providence and therefore is the unambiguous main villain.
• Hollow Knight: The Radiance, a god-like entity responsible for the plague that destroyed Hallownest.
• Homefront: Jim Jong Un, the leader of the Greater Korean Republic out to take over the United States.
• Homeworld:
  • The Taiidan emperor from Homeworld. Spends most of the game in the shadows, but according to the backstory for Homeworld: Cataclysm, he was a twisted, ruthless mess of a ruler who managed to stay on his throne by cloning himself, and who ordered the destruction of a planet — namely YOURS — mostly as a publicity stunt.
  • The Beast infection is the primary antagonist in Homeworld: Cataclysm, and towards the end of the game it is controlled by The Nagarrok, an ancient alien vessel that picked up the Beast infection in Hyperspace. It even has its own Dragon in the infected lower half of the Somtaaw Command Ship.
  • The nomadic Vaygr from Homeworld 2 are led by Makaan in their attempts to conquer the galaxy. Unusually for a Big Bad, he's killed before the end of the game, and you spend the last mission fighting off what's left of his fleet as they try to bomb your planet.
  • The K'Had Sajuuk, leader of the Kiith Gaalsien, in Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, who seeks to stop the Kharaki space program and destroy the Coalition to bring peace to and protect Kharak.
• Hopkins FBI: Bernie Berckson, a Serial Killer J. Hopkins spends the game pursuing after he kidnapped his girlfriend.
• Horace: The Ether Boss is the leader of the robots in the Old Man's estate and the greatest obstacle to Horace's mission to end the Robot War, until his defeat. Then it becomes a Big Bad Ensemble between the robot leaders/advisors and the Man in Black, the seemingly nice leader of "The Great and the Good" who created the robots and wants to kill them all.
• Horizon video game series:
  • Horizon Zero Dawn: HADES. Formerly a subroutine of GAIA, along with the rest of the subroutines unshackled by a "mysterious signal (turning out to be Nemesis)", HADES becomes a highly independent AI of a chaotic nature, whose job is to eradicate life on Earth, reflecting his native purpose to reverse GAIA's terraforming, should it fail. It serves as the true leader of the Eclipse.
  • Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds: The Daemon is responsible for augmenting many of the machines, known as the Daemonic Machines, around the Cut, who all pose as an existential threat to the Banuk tribals. Turns out that the identity of the Daemon is HEPHAESTUS, a rogue subroutine of GAIA, who is the mastermind of weaponising all of GAIA's machines, as well as imprisoning CYAN inside Cauldron EPSILON.
  • Horizon Forbidden West: While Gerard Bieri is seen to be the immediate threat to Aloy and her team, as well as the tribal inhabitants of Zero Dawn Earth, Tilda van der Meer is revealed to be the true Big Bad of the game. She is a member of Far Zenith and Elisabet Sobeck's former love interest, who became profoundly grieved with her death. After she finds Aloy, however, her companionship later grows obsession over her, which culminates into her defection to Far Zenith and joins with Aloy's team to put an end to Bieri's plans of stealing GAIA and terraforming another planet to his image while leaving Earth to Nemesis. But this is eventually revealed to be a blatant lie at the end, as she betrays Aloy and her team after finding out the truth behind Nemesis and her plans to kidnap Aloy and leave Earth to the insane AI, making her the Final Boss of the game.
• House of the Dead series: Caleb Goldman causes most of the zombie outbreaks either directly or from behind the scenes. However, there is an even bigger mastermind above him, and it's the Mysterious Man.

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