Hate Sink / Visual Novels

• Ace Attorney
• Fate Series

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• Choices: Stories You Play:
  • In High School Story, Brian is as much of a dick to everyone as he can be, including his supposed "best friend" (who he betrays by stealing his girlfriend), continuously hits on numerous girls even when he's been told to stop (even resorting to violence against one of them after she turns him down) and is a Big Brother Bully to his little sister.
  • In Desire & Decorum, we have two of them:
    • First, there's Tristan Richards, an arrogant duke who constantly sexually harasses the main character even though she doesn't want anything to do with him, culminating in an Attempted Rape in the middle of Book 1, and at the end of the book, he tricks the main character's grandma into having him and her granddaughter engaged against the latter's will to further his agenda in Book 2 (deposing the monarchy). Had the grandma not realised her mistake and got the Queen of England (who she happens to be friends with) to stop the wedding, Richards would no doubt continue to sexually assault the main character for as long as they're married.
    • Then there's Earl Rupert of Edgewater, the main character's grandfather who annulled her parents' marriage and forced her father to marry Henrietta, who wants to seize Edgewater for herself, leading his wife Dominique to push their granddaughter towards his protege Duke Richards, who keeps sexually harassing her and even tries to rape her, making the dictator of an earl the source of all the main character's problems throughout the series.
  • In Mother of the Year, we also have two.
    • Guy, the main character's ex-husband is a smug jerk who abused her when they were together (and blamed her for it), pretended to come back into his daughter's life because he missed her and win her over through superficial means, then sued the main character for custody of their daughter once his intentions of using her for publicity were revealed.
    • Vanessa openly hates both the main character and her daughter (with Vanessa's hatred possibly carrying racist and/or homophobic undertones, depending on how the main character is customized), blaming the daughter for her own son's bullying, being willing to go as far as to help Guy in his custody case and even outing a teacher for daring to stand up to her, leading to the teacher in question almost getting fired (even though the firing was supposedly for her teaching methods, it was made clear that the staff want the teacher gone because of her sexuality, a viewpoint that Vanessa herself has instilled into the rest of the staff).
  • In The Royal Masquerade, Damon Fierro is a classist noble who looks down on commoners, despises the main character due to her commoner background, and does everything in his power to stop her from winning the crown of Cordonia, from killing an innocent animal that is the symbol of the main character's house to intimidate her into dropping out of the competition, to switching his support to his power hungry daughter Renza (the mastermind behind the previous queen's assassination) after his other child Hunter (who's one of the main character's love interests) voiced their support for the main character, and most of all, accusing the main character of murdering Renza and declaring war on the former after she won the throne fair and square.
• Danganronpa: Most murderers are of the sympathetic kind, being forced to kill by the Deadly Game, and most major villains like Monokuma and by extension, Junko Enoshima are too enjoyable to hate, but there are a select few who are solely meant to be despised:
  • The Hope's Peak Steering Committee, first established in Danganronpa Zero, are the reason why Hope's Peak Academy is the horribly corrupt School for Scheming it is. Through them, the Academy sees most of the students as little more than test subjects meant to be examined. To fund their experiment, they set up the Reserve Course, where thousands of students were conned into paying high tuition fees for subpar education and terrible treatment from teachers. They are also perfectly willing to go as far as murder in order to maintain the Academy's squeaky clean image. In Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School Side:Despair, when Nagito Komaeda sabotages a talent demonstration by causing a massive explosion that destroys the gym, they pressure the Headmaster into blaming and expelling the three students who were performing the demonstration while allowing the actual perpetrator to remain unpunished to preserve the reputation of the school. Their endgame in all this is the Hope Cultivation Program, where they personally exploit Hajime Hinata's low self-esteem so they could have him lobotomized into Izuru Kamukura, an emotionally dead genius who was then used by Junko Enoshima to kickstart The Tragedy. When they are finally killed by Mukuro Ikusaba, no one expresses sympathy for them.
  • Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls:
    • Monaca Towa is the true leader of the Warriors of Hope. Since they all met, Monaca acts incredibly manipulative and callous towards her fellow Warriors of Hope, who are abused children, intending to drive them all to suicide as a joke before choosing to have them join Junko in her world conquest instead. She browbeats then into doing what she wants, especially Nagisa, tries to convince Komaru that she killed her parents, then near the end reveals that she intends to kill all her brainwashed child minions to start a war between Towa City and the Future Foundation. According to an interview with Kodaka, Monaca was intentionally created as a despicable antagonist who lacks the charisma of Junko. However, she ended up gaining quite a fanbase of the Love to Hate variety, and there are fans who argue that she is just an abused child who needed some love, or that Junko is simply too vile and corrupting of a presence to begin with.
    • Haiji Towa, the aforementioned Monaca's half-brother and leader of the Adult Resistance, is a selfish asshole, hiding away and leaving the Adult Resistance (who he was meant to guide) to fend for themselves while thinking that the Big Bang Monokuma will solve all of his problems. It is then revealed that he is a Big Brother Bully who was culpable in making Monaca the way she is through his physical and emotional abuse, and willing to kill thousands of brainwashed kids even when it's proven there's a better option, attacking Komaru and Toko when they try and convince him to stop. He also heavily implies that he's a pedophile.
  • Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: Korekiyo Shinguji seems to be creepy but well-meaning until the third case reveals him to be a Serial Killer. Having killed Tenko Chabashira and Angie Yonaga to appease his supposedly deceased sister, Korekiyo reveals that he had almost 100 victims prior. When he also reveals that he is in lust with his sister, he becomes so reviled that even Monokuma and the Monokubs are disgusted by him, and his execution is the one in the game that not one person objects to. Even Kodaka himself said his death was well earned.
• Don't Toy With Me: The Owner, in contrast to both Dahlia and Huxley, who are both portrayed sympathetically (the latter moreso than the former), is portrayed as a sadistic Control Freak with no actual care for either one of them in general, and is the vilest character in the game.
• Dennis from Double Homework really wants to sleep with all the girls, even though none of them find him the least bit attractive. He resorts to catfishing, harassment, and manipulation when more conventional ways fail. He also makes deals with the protagonist only to break them, and blackmails him into going along with his Evil Plan.
• Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind: When Genjiro was still alive, he ran a bar to function as a front for his Loan Shark activities, leading to multiple people's lives being ruined with Teruhiko to commit suicide from losing his factory to Kaneda. He made so many enemies who were rightfully mad with him that by the time he dies from repeated stabbings, we have no reason to mourn scum like him.
• Heart of the Woods has Evelyn Fischer, the mayor of Eysenfeld and Morgan's mother. She's a cold and unpleasant woman who doesn't hesitate to belittle her daughter and has a low opinion of outsiders, but the longer the story goes on, the worse she gets. It turns out that she's not actually human, but, "The Moonsick One," a Body Surfing fairy who has stolen people's bodies for centuries, and plans on doing the same with her own daughter Morgan, using emotional abuse to break Morgan's spirit. She uses illusion magic to trick Madison into thinking her best friend Tara ran off into a blizzard, resulting in Madison running after her and freezing to death. Evelyn also uses telekinesis magic to assault Tara when Tara and Morgan investigate Evelyn's home. Evelyn later threatens to harm Tara to force Morgan to come with her, so that Evelyn can use Morgan's blood to destroy an ancestral tree of the forest. In the climax, Evelyn abducts Tara in order to steal her body, since she wants to leave Eysenfeld and would like to take the guise of an Internet celebrity like Tara. Evelyn has no sympathetic or redeeming qualities, and the other characters are intimidated by her at best, and terrified/disgusted of her at worst.
• Most of the cast of Highway Blossoms is sympathetic, and even the resident Jerkass Mariah Pastorius has redeeming qualities. The same cannot be said for Jumbo, a sleazy trucker whom protagonists Amber Golley and Marina Hale encounter at a rest stop in a scene that was later moved to the Legacy Content section.
• Hiveswap Friendsim: Zebruh was designed to be as unlikable as possible. He is shown to be a classist hypocrite who claims to be an advocate for those in lower classes despite degrading them and treating them as slaves himself. This isn't helped by his privileged and self-centered attitude, as well as his Jerkass tendencies and creepy advances on Idol Singer Chixie.
• The House in Fata Morgana: Most villains are shown to have once been good people before being Driven to Villainy, but these nobles were not:
  • Antonin Bollinger is the abusive father to Michel Bollinger. Raising his intersex child as a daughter, he declares him cursed when Michel comes out as a trans male, and has him locked up. Allowing Aimee Joubert to torture him, Antonin also repeatedly rapes Giselle, a servant of his, and carves the word HARLOT into her crotch. Eventually ordering Michel executed and sending Michel's own beloved brother Didier to do the job, Antonin shows no love or concern for anything but his own reputation.
  • The aforementioned Aimee Joubert is the one mainly responsible for Michel's trauma. The fiancee of Georges Bollinger who created on him with his brother Didider, Aimee shows disgust towards homosexuality when the female-presenting Michel kisses her. When Michel is locked up, Aimee gleefully tortures him, depriving him of food and water, ritually humiliating him, and taking great pleasure in all of his pain. Later, she slowly poisons Georges to death to gain all his property. When she reappears in the backstage interviews, she smugly gloats about how she went on to live a life of comfort and security and faced no justice for her crimes.
  • Amadee is the leader of a local village who initially befriends Giselle. When she is falsely accused of stealing from the village, Amadee refuses to listen to her, subjecting her to Cold-Blooded Torture instead, and it is later implied that he was the one who framed her. When Michel is set to be executed, Amadee takes his corpse and humiliates him in front of the whole village, calling him a demon. Like Aimee, Amadee is never shown having paid for his crimes.
  • Lord Jean-François Barnier is the one responsible for driving Morgana and Jacopo into villainy. A tyrant who torments everyone around him for fun, he buys Morgana and organizes the blood sabbaths where he and other nobles drink her blood. Even his care for Ceren, his spy, is subverted when he kills her and shows no remorse. Even after death, his actions continue to torment Jacopo and turn him into a tyrant as well, and lead to Morgana becoming a Wicked Witch, thus making him responsible for all the tragedy in the series.
• Jack Jeanne has no overarching antagonist, mainly a few minor ones. Kyoji Otori is a Jerkass at worst, but he's mainly the Butt-Monkey and gets better as the story goes on, and Chui Tanakamigi, who is Quartz's most formidable rival, borders on being an Anti-Villain at best, as he does give Kisa helpful advice despite his ulterior motives for wanting her to be his partner. Out of all the characters, Amber student Utsuri Kamiya is the only one who is openly, unapologetically adversarial towards everyone and, unlike Otori, doesn't change his ways after the fact. He spends most of his time insulting anyone he feels is beneath him, especially Kisa, even for slights as petty as calling Tanakamigi by name. Most people outside of Amber don't care for him because of his self-important attitude. Not only that, if the player wins the final Univeil performance, he behaves like a Sore Loser. This is especially pronounced in Suzu's route, where he has a mini tantrum over losing.
• Kindred Spirits on the Roof has No Antagonist, and all of the main characters are good people at heart despite their flaws, being jerks with hearts of gold at worst. Miki Aihara's "friends," however, fall into this trope. They not only ask her to take on requests that aren't part of her work on the beautification committee because they know she won't say no, but mock her about it behind her back, calling her a "masochist." It's thus cathartic as well as terrifying when Miki's kohai and eventual girlfriend Seina Maki overhears one such conversation, loses her temper and attacks one of the people responsible.
• The Letter: Lady Charlotte Ermengarde is revealed to have been a deplorable noble pretending to be a saintly woman. Freeing the girl Takako from slavery, she proceeds to ruin Takako's life for discovering her infidelity, eventually killing her cat, Eduard, and Takako herself. Her death due to being haunted by Takako's spirit is completely well-deserved, and even then, her reign of terror continues as she fuses with Takako's ghost, and becomes a supernatural Serial Killer who sadistically torments the protagonists.
• A Little Lily Princess:
  • Miss Minchin is the closest thing the story has to an antagonist, and is lacking in any redeeming qualities. While she appears strict but fair to her students, she is downright cruel to the servants, beating them and denying them food should they displease her. After Sara's father dies deep in debt, Miss Minchin sells Sara's belongings and forces her to work as a servant, with her wages going toward paying her debts. Most of the cast, including Sara, knows that Miss Minchin is nothing more than a greedy, cruel and two-faced woman and despises her accordingly.
  • Lavinia is a zig-zagged example. At times, she's just as bad as Miss Minchin, being guilty of acts such as abusing Becky and having her cat Tybalt eat some baby birds, and seemingly having no redeeming qualities. She comes off worst in Jessie's route, with her friendship with Jessie being shown as rather toxic. However, Lavinia does turn out to be more complex than she initially seems in her own route, which reveals her Freudian Excuse and her desire for Sara's approval, even if Sara calls her out on her behavior and question whether they're really friends.
• Both of the antagonists in Melody:
  • Bethany made the protagonist's life hell for ten years before kicking him out of the house, and then wants to use her lawyers to take everything the two of them acquired together. She then got another guy (whom she may have been sleeping with on the side even before breaking up with the protagonist), and then, when she decides she wants him back after all, she puts on a reasonable front before reverting to her contemptuous self. Then, if he won’t come back with her, she lies and steals in the hopes of strong-arming him into submission.
  • The first time we hear about Steve, we hear that he broke up with Melody while in possession of her prize guitar, and is refusing to return it to her. We go on to see him taunt Melody over the theft, threaten to sexually assault her, try to sabotage her concerts, and steals the guitar (there’s even an ending where he destroys it). Plus, according to Melody, he used to check out other girls on dates with her.
• Monster Prom: Leonard is a kappa who not only embodies the worst parts of fandom, but is sexist and transphobic to boot. No one In-Universe likes him much, either; Zoe (the usual victim of his transphobia and his polar opposite in terms of fandom representation) is perfectly willing to let loose on him with her eldritch powers when he acts like an entitled jackass towards her, and Vera and Damien attack him on two separate occasions (both times, he had it coming). While most of the characters in the visual novel get involved in morally-sketchy or downright illegal actions, it's usually handled with over-the-top Black Comedy removed from reality, and they have humor and depth to back them up. Leonard on the other hand is a more realistic asshole played straight and lacks any real redeeming features.
• Murder by Numbers (2020): Ryan, Honor's ex-husband, has no redeeming qualities at all and is a textbook abuser, complete with emotional manipulation and false apologies.
• Shinrai: Broken Beyond Despair: Hiro Shiratake may not be the killer, but he is much more of a scumbag than Momoko Mori (a tragic character with a Freudian Excuse) and even Kotoba (who, despite coming off as an Asshole Victim, was good friends with Taiko and may have had genuine feelings for Momoko). After Momoko became popular, Hiro set out to make her his trophy girlfriend, ditching Runa Hikari when he realized she wasn't rich. He later tried to charm Momoko's best friend, Kamen Eiga, while he was dating Momoko, and caused Momoko to think her best friend was sleeping with her boyfriend, setting off Momoko's murderous revenge plot. Hiro is ultimately killed by Momoko, with nobody mourning his death, and Raiko Shinpuku agrees that even his bad childhood does nothing to excuse his actions.
• Princess Evangile has Shinya Okonogi, the father of protagonist Masaya Okonogi. Despite Masaya taking care of him for years after him and his mother got divorced by doing part-time jobs and earning money for both of them, Shinya makes no hesitation in selling out his own son to the Yakuza during the prologue. In most routes, he's a Karma Houdini, never seen again by Masaya despite the latter winning the lottery ticket Shinya himself had asked Masaya to buy. In Chiho's route, however, he's part of the Big Bad Ensemble alongside the Headmistress. And here, he proves to be even scummier than the former (who at least has a code of loyalty, when it's revealed he stabbed his ex-wife for refusing to give him money, kidnapped Chiho, and even drugged his own son into handing over his lottery ticket winnings, threatening to kill him and Chiho if they refuse.
• Science Adventure Series:
  • Chaos;Head: Norose Genichi, head of the NOZOMI group and a member of the Committee of 300, is the one behind the gruesome New Generation murders. Psychologically traumatizing every single member of the main cast to use their DNA as a weapon, he plans to implement them into Noah, a Mass Hypnosis Device he will use to put the world under mind control. While supposedly doing this to create a utopia, he shows no care for any other human being, callously causing a devastating earthquake that kills many and has far-reaching consequences that impact the sequel's characters, then betraying his fellow conspirators so that only he can rule, and always showing a sadistic demeanor whenever he is committing an atrocity.
  • In the Steins;Gate series, the primary Big Bad FB is Affably Evil and a Tragic Villain, as is their top agent M4, so these characters serve to be hated instead:
    • SERN, the main antagonistic organization employing FB, is a research organization of Mad Scientists allied with the Committee of 300 who want to unlock the secrets of Time Travel to allow their masters to conquer the world. To that end, they conduct horrifying experiments where people are kidnapped and thrown into mini-black holes, turning their bodies into jelly and killing them. They also kidnap and threaten people to turn others into their agents, the Rounders- FB is among these as his wife was one of the victims of the black hole experiment, and they use his daughter to extort him into working for them. Creating a Bad Future that John Titor seeks to prevent, SERN eliminates free will, and in order to maintain the Committee's power, establish a Sex Slave operation to further extort peopel into becoming agents, as was done with Kayano and her sister Hazuki.
    • 4℃/Shido, leader of the Viral Attackers gang, is a recurring antagonist who believes himself to be "Gaia's chosen one" and the "Duke of Darkness". In the original story, he leads a team in the Rai-net tournament and seeks to win through cheating and terrorizing his opponents, mocking defending champion Faris and trying to kill her and Okabe for defeating him. In Okabe's chapters in Linear Bounded Phenogram, he tries to prevent Okabe from buying a game Nae wants so he can scalp it for money, and later holds Luka hostage; in another timeline, he steals Mayuri's precious pocket watch. In Kurisu's route in My Darling's Embrace, he tries to mug and kill Okabe and Kurisu, and in Faris' route, he has become a Corrupt Corporate Executive who aims to drive Faris' maid café and several others out of business though borderline-illegal aggressive practices, also forcing his maids to wear sexually revealing outfits to attract customers. In every timeline, Shido is an unlikeable thug who will stoop to any low to get fame and fortune.
    • Dr. Nakabachi, real name Shouichi Makise, is Kurisu's abusive father and murderer and the Greater-Scope Villain of the original series. Jealous of his daughter for being more popular than him, he works on time travel research with her only to kill her and take all the credit for himself, while also plagiarizing the time traveler John Titor in his paper, setting off the chain of events that would bring Okabe great pain and misery. Nakabachi shows that he's a detestable bastard who thinks he's better than everyone and abuses his daughter just because he's jealous of her intelligence, and is revealed to be the one who brainwashes her into becoming a proud SERN scientist. Uncaring of anythign but his fame, Nakabachi basically represents everything wrong with SERN as an organization.
  • Chaos;Child: Dr. Wataru Sakuma and Mr. Shuichi Wakui initially seem to be Takuru Miyashiro's kind adoptive father and teacher, respectively, but are actually members of the Committee of 300 and the culprits of the New New Generation murders alongside the more sympathetic Serika Onoe. Organizing the murders to be so gruesome that even Serika shows disgust with their methods, Sakuma and Wakui even target the children and students under their care, all as a twisted experiment for their amusement. In the Common and True endings, Sakuma frames Takuru for the murders, eventually getting him arrested, and Wakui agrees to free all of Shibuya from Chaos Child Syndrome only under the condition that Takuru let him go free, resulting in Takuru being punished in his place. Even then, in Love Chu Chu, he uses a dream to torment Takuru further, brainwashing Serika into becoming more aggresive to torture Takuru.
  • Steins;Gate 0: Alexis Leskinen and Judy Reyes are the Mad Scientists responsible for starting World War III. Working under Stratfor and DURPA, respectively, the two pretend to be kind to Maho, Okabe, and their group, but are actually manipulating them for their own ends. Aiming to get the Amadeus AI so as to extract the secrets of time travel from it, Reyes aims to unlock the secrets of the mind to create a line of super soldiers for America, while Leskinen wants the secrets of time travel and admits he does not care one bit if the fabric of the universe is destroyed as a result of his actions. They also brainwash Maho and Kagari to use them against Okabe and his friends.
• Tokyo Dark: Reina is ultimately a tragic figure with a Freudian Excuse; but these four men, two of whom warped her into a monster, are the embodiments of misogyny and arrogance:
  • Goto is a fat, ugly, and perverted businessman who's hobby is pressuring teen girls into sexually servicing him in the sewer. When Detective Ayami Ito first encounters him, he hits on her; later he is discovered to have antagonized Akane to the point of making her cry. When Ayami returns to make him stop, he is seen with yet another girl whom is pleading with Ayami to save her. Ayami can choose to blackmail, threaten, or even kill him; taking the last option leads to the ending where Ayami is arrested.
  • Detective Akira Taira is The Rival to Ayami and a haughty Jerkass. Constantly deriding Ayami at every opportunity and treating her as incompetent simply for being a woman, Taira is introduced mocking Ayami for failing her mission, an event which had traumatized her due to the death of her Love Interest. When she gets demoted as a result, he takes her spot, and repeatedly antagonizes her whenever he finds her, treating her like a criminal. In the Arrested ending, he gleefully arrests Ayami for killing Goto, gloating the whole time, while ignoring her protests that Goto deserved to die for victimizing innocent girls.
  • Eiichi Higashi was the Human Trafficker who abused Reina and directly turned her into an evil spirit. As the head of the talent agency Omega, he would recruit girls to be his idols while pimping and sexually abusing them behind doors, with Reina, his adopted daughter, as his latest victim. He would put her through horrible abuse until she finally snapped and killed herself, then came for him as a spirit. Everyone who mentions Higashi describes him as a monster, and even Ayami feels that he fully deserved his fate.
  • Tokimassa, real name Shinji Umezawa, was the deranged leader of the second Kamenkai cult. Despising humanity and modern society, he turned down-on-their-luck people into his followers, fleeing with them to Aokigahara. He world emotionally abuse a young Reina and eventually make her into the Mask Bearer by killing everyone in a mass Murder-Suicide, including her mom, traumatizing her.
• The Unforgiving Flowers Blossom in the Dead of Night: In a series full of bullies and malicious youkai, these Arc Villains are the worst:
  • Yoshihito Kanamori and Nafumi Shintani, the respective antagonists of "Mesomeso-san" and "Renoir of the Art Room", are a pair of Evil Teachers and child molesters hiding underneath a veneer of being kindhearted teachers. Kanamori targets Marie Moriya, raping and tormenting her throughout the story and eventually killing her, while Nafumi has targeted multiple children and tortured them to make art of their bodies, accidentally killing Yuki Noda and feeling zero remorse for it. When both of them are given horrible fates by Higanbana, no sympathy is accorded. Despite being human, these two proved to be worse than any of the youkai.
  • Hameln of the Music Room is the villain of "Hameln's Castanets" and the only youkai to lack any redeeming features. A new youkai in the school, Hameln seeks to boost his reputation by usurping Marie as the eight youkai. To that end, he manipulates the bullied boy Hikaru Nihei, turning his bullies into bunnies and having Hikaru kill them brutally. Plotting to do the same to an innocent teacher and eventually spread fear through all the city, Hameln simply laughs when Higanbana foils his plans by Mind Raping Hikaru and turns her into a bunny, trying to eat her so he can dispose of Hikaru.
• When They Cry:
  • Higurashi: When They Cry: The Big Bad, Miyo Takano, is shown to have sympathetic qualities despite being cruel, but these characters do not:
    • Teppei Hojo is Satoko's abusive uncle. In the past, he and his wife mistreated her and Satoshi; when he returns, he goes back to beating her, causing her to become a shell of her former self, and it is stated that he is waiting for her to become older so he may sexually abuse her as well. He is also a pimp who uses Rina Mamiya to swindle men out of their money, Rena's father being among their victims. Whether he is killed or arrested, no one expresses sympathy for him, and even the Big Bad dislikes him.
    • The aforementioned Rina/Ritsuko Mamiya is Teppei's helper. Though seemingly a nice woman, she gets into relationships with men in order to blackmail them out of their money. Her and Teppei's latest victim is Rena's loving father. Whenever her facade slips, she shows herself to be a foul-mouthed Child Hater who despises Rena. She also shows herself to be an idiot who is easily lured by Rena into a junkyard; when Rena kills her and Teppei, the only person who mourns her is Rena's gullible father.
    • The unnamed orphanage head from Miyo Takano's backstory is a cruel man who keeps the orphanage in awful condition and delights in dealing out horrifying punishments. When Miyo and her friends try to escape, he captures them and has Eriko pecked to death while making Miyo clean the outhouse with her tongue. Though only a flashback character, he is the one who warped Miyo into a villain.
    • Ms. Nomura is the Greater-Scope Villain of the series and lacks Miyo's sympathetic qualities. A representative of the Tokyo organization, she manipulates a lonely Miyo into committing all the crimes she does in the story, eventually culminating in carrying out a mass murder of everyone in Hinamizawa. In the final timeline where Miyo is captured, Nomura leaves her to take the blame while escaping. In Outbreak, she accidentally unleashes the Mind Virus, which she was developing as a bioweapon, across the globe, and is completely uncaring for the trillions of lives that will be lost.
  • Umineko: When They Cry: The witches as a whole are cruel, but two in particular are meant to be hated:
    • Erika Furudo is a self-proclaimed intellectual rapist who takes pleasure in completely destroying people's lives and lording her own intellect over everyone else. Created by her master to be irritatingly perfect, over the course of the story, she completely defiles the gameboard along with her master, screwing over Natsuhi by creating a world where she is a murderer and adulteress, bullying the Cheerful Child Maria, and trying to force Battler to marry her. Finally, she aids her master in trying to destroy Rokkenjima. And to top it all off, she gets away with everything she does.
    • Bernkastel is Erika's creator and, despite appearing to be an ally, is the cruelest witch of all. Manipulating Beatrice into becoming the Golden Witch, she plays everyone into causing an endless loop of games in which the Ushiromiya family brutally dies again and again for her own amusement. When Beatrice turns good, Bernkastel does everything in her power to ruin the witch, and personally torments Ange as well. After everything is done, Bernkastel is stopped but gets away unscathed.
• The Zero Escape trilogy has anyone bearing the name of Zero as the mastermind of the Nonary Game, but they usually have good intentions. You can, however, hate these characters:
  • Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors:
    • Lord Gordain, the owner of the Gigantic, initially just seems to be an eccentric billionaire, but is the Greater-Scope Villain behind the plot. He was the creator of the original Nonary Games, in which people who owed debts to him would be kidnapped, thrown in the Gigantic, and forced to navigate deadly courses for the entertainment of him and his colleagues. Among the participants of one of his games was Ace, who would go on to become the antagonist of the story.
    • Ace, real name Gentaro Hongou, is the seemingly altruistic but really sociopathic true antagonist. Nine years prior, he kidnapped 18 children, including Akane, and forced them into the first Nonary Game for his own selfish ends, even tormenting Akane by trapping her in an incinerator and threatening to burn her to death lest she solve his puzzle. Plotting against everyone in the second Nonary Game which Akane creates to save her past self, Ace again shows his self-serving nature in his attempts to double-cross everyone, killing his co-conspirators, and leaving his fate of either burning to death or going to jail with his crimes exposed being absolutely deserved.
  • Virtue's Last Reward: Dio is a foul-mouthed and smug Jerkass to everyone else. When the cast are forced to play a Deadly Game based on the Prisoner's Dilemma, he will always pick 'Betray' when the opportunity presents itself, only picking 'Ally' if he has no other choice, then tries to blame it on his ally if he has one (usually Quark). Despite this, he gets mad if the other person picks betray. He also turns out to be a terrorist leader who was sent to stop Zero from saving the world, and is willing to kill an elderly lady and blow up the entire facility in order to accomplish his goals.