Monster / Video Games: A to C

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• .hack//G.U.: Sakaki—real name Tooru Uike—is a brilliant, sociopathic ten-year-old who slips from wanting to use AIDA for the benefit of mankind, to a revenge-driven, would-be tyrant as his hatred of Hasao consumes him. Infecting his followers with AIDA to bend them to his will, Sakaki strings along one suicidal girl by playing to her insecurities and even uses AIDA to mentally assault her and bring out the power of her Epitaph. Enraged by his losses, Sakaki allows himself to be infected with AIDA and in his frenzy puts together a tournament in which players must kill each other for his own blood thirst.
• 1BeatHeart: "Shinobu Kasuga", real name unknown, is the mastermind behind the deaths plaguing the resort hotel. A man able to use his Compelling Voice to bend the thoughts of others to his whims, Shinobu uses his power to manipulate others into committing murder for his own amusement. In the bonus scenario of the prior game, he boards the ship heading for the hotel and manipulates the chef Yoh into poisoning magazine editor Mitsuru Kawano, and in this game, he manipulates Merue Ujou and Namoto into hanging her mother Shitsuna and poisoning his former friend Sataka Fushimi, respectively. Finally, he uses his voice to convince several hotel guests to kill themselves in order to create an unsolvable mystery, and when Detective Misane Mikoto comes to him in desperation, he tries to turn her on fellow detective Yoshi Nanase. After Nanase brings her to her senses, he escapes, never to be seen again.
• 2Dark: Dr. Sergei Krach is a former professor of criminal behavior and the one behind all the chaos in Gloomywood. After mutilating and killing three of his students, Krach follows the lead detective on the case, Mr. Smith, during a camping trip, decapitating his wife and kidnapping his two children, Sandra and Martin. Now wheelchair-bound, Krach heads an orphanage where he abuses the children he kidnapped for years until they develop sociopathic tendencies. Years later, Krach releases six of his disciples in Gloomywood to wreak havoc and kidnap even more children, keeping Sandra and Martin with him to serve as his Co-Dragons. With the return of Mr. Smith, Krach has his cat nailed to a wall and kidnaps the daughter of his only friend. In the orphanage, Krach forces his subordinates to see him as their god and keeps the children locked behind bars so he can make a new set of killers to cause even more death in the future. If Mr. Smith kills Sandra and Martin, Krach wastes no time in rubbing it in his face before being defeated. A self-proclaimed evil genius who sees others as "weak creatures in chains", Krach was the absolute worst criminal Mr. Smith had to face.
• 300: March to Glory:
  • Xerxes, lacking the redeeming qualities that he had in the movies and the comics, is the self-proclaimed "God-King" of all Persia, who seeks to conquer the entire world and bend it to his will. Conquering many lands in his bloody campaign and turning thousands of people into his slaves, who are forced to fight for him, Xerxes sets his eyes on Sparta and after the Spartans refused to bend their knee to him, he orders his army to attack them. As King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans defend their land, fighting off Persian army, Xerxes orders his men to burn down Greek villages and desecrate temples of Greek gods, brutally murdering hundreds of innocent Greeks. Mercilessly executing his commanders for failing to defeat the Spartans, Xerxes eventually managed to surround them and slaughter nearly all of them.
  • Hydarnes is one of Xerxes's top two generals and the leader of the Immortals, the deadliest of Persian assassins. Leading his forces in pillaging and burning a large Greek village, brutally killing countless innocent Greeks in the process, Hydarnes attaches their dead bodies to a large tree, leaving only one little girl live long enough to serve as a message to the Spartans. Assisting the rest of Persian armies in invading Greece and murdering innocent people, Hydarnes also places his tent in the Persian camp near a large chunk of dead mutilated bodies, all of whom were killed by his soldiers.
• 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand: Said Kamal is a terrorist crime lord who views himself as a god. Having a helping hand in turning a city into a crime-ridden wasteland with his heroin trades and thefts, Kamal regularly guns his men down for failing him and threatens to harshly punish them for running away. Kamal's worst act comes in his deals with the strip club owner Eddy, allowing him protection if he lends some of his strippers for him and his men, with Kamal having mutilated Eddy's favorite stripper Ruma while raping her.
• The 7th Guest: Henry Stauf, once a down-on-his-luck-drifter who resorted to murder, found he had a talent as a toymaker, and resorted to the dark arts to help along his career. Making a pact with the dark forces, Stauf used his toys to spread a deadly disease that killed multiple children whose souls Stauf would take possession of to torment and fulfill his pact with the dark forces. When luring in his final required victim, Stauf promised six guests in his mansion anything they asked for if they would assist him in capturing the child. One guest who tried to help the boy was turned into a living mannequin. When only one was left and delivered the boy Tad to Stauf, Stauf simply killed her with acidic bile and revealed to Tad he was doomed to relive his time in the mansion while getting his soul tormented by Stauf for all eternity.
• 9 Clues 2: The Ward: Zed Rascov is a pyromaniac and megalomaniac arsonist who loves watching things burn, and Loves the Sound of Screaming as people die in the fires he sets. Prior to the events of the game, he had just finished tricking a professional psychologist into believing that he was cured of his pyromania, only to discover that there was a little girl at that same hospital who was terrified of fire. He promptly got as close to her as he could, and then set the entire women's wing of the hospital on fire, reveling in the sights and sounds of her being burned to death while fully conscious. After being effectively imprisoned within the hospital for having done this, he started to communicate with the older sister of the girl he had burned alive, and convinced her that her sister's death was the work of the hospital staff. Through a combination of appealing to her misguided sense of justice, and later brainwashing, Zed was able to make her brutally murder at least four people—one of whom was a nurse who had saved many women during Zed's earlier fire, murdered out of sheer spite. As soon as she was no longer useful to Zed, he reversed the brainwashing effect so that she could understand exactly what was going on while he set the hospital on fire a second time. His only regret is that he was ultimately caught by the police due to the actions of the protagonist. A profoundly twisted man, Zed Rascov left the surviving characters in a state of shellshock.
• 9 Monkeys of Shaolin: Fuudo is the ruthless Wukou leader who led his army on a Rape, Pillage, and Burn campaign across territories around the Sea of Japan. Learning of the Heshibi Jade and its powers, Fuudo had his forces invade hero Wei Cheng's hometown to seek the jade, Fuudo later invades the Shaolin Temple which took Wei Cheng in, ordering a massacre of the peaceful monks before forcefully obtaining the Jade's second half, which he then covets in a ritual, unleashing an army of restless spirits which he intends to use to Take Over the World.
• Ace Combat series:
  • Skies of Deception: Diego Gaspar Navarro is the commanding officer of the Democratic Republic of Leasath. Eager to build a new attack aircraft and strengthen the country's military, Navarro stole the funds donated from Aurelia during a Leasathian civil war. He later persuaded Leasath into believing that Aurelia manipulated and took advantage of them during the civil war. When Leasath declared war on Aurelia, Navarro used all of the Leasathian military forces to annihilate most of the Aurelian forces, and even permitted them to attack civilian locations. After Aurelia gradually regains their independence and takes back their capital city, Navarro flees to a series of islands as Aurelian forces pursue him. He later launches the attack aircraft to destroy the Aurelian pursuers and broadcasts it to the public just to show off the aircraft's power.
  • Skies Unknown: Matias Torres is the Captain of the super-submarine Alicorn, going rogue along with his crew during the events of the three Downloadable Content missions in order to seemingly put an end to the Lighthouse War with the nuclear massacre of a million lives, thus terrifying the world into putting down their weapons. That seemingly extreme-but-noble motive is eventually proven false when Torres, at the command of an absurdly powerful boat and a fanatically loyal crew, reveals that for all of his posturing, he actually revels in the "elegance" of hitting a difficult target—in this case, the million lives he's about to butcher from 5,000 kilometers—over 3,100 miles—away—and has an almost fetishistic obsession with death. In fact, he'll even violate wartime conventions by feigning surrender just to gain time to fire his nukes, and if he's successful, he'll keep laughing maniacally and describe the act as "beautiful". On all accounts, Torres is a narcissistic madman who strives to inflate his ego through mass murder, and won't hesitate to sacrifice his crew for it; the devil incarnate, as one character would put it.
• Acrylic: Brittaney the Collage is revealed to be behind the murders haunting Acrylic Academy. Having drowned as a little girl because her father, Mr. Aaron, failed to notice her, she became a spirit and sought revenge on him and the living. Possessing Mr. Aaron, the Collage used his body to sexually assault three innocent girls, then gruesomely murdered two and drove one to suicide while forcing Aaron to watch, trapping their spirits in the school like her. When Nicole and Joelle Chapman enter the school at night, she has the latter murdered and can potentially subject the former to many gruesome deaths. Unlike the other spirits, the Collage actively refuses to move on from her grudge to the next life, instead reveling in her sadism.
• Advanced Variable Geo: Miranda Jahana is the founder of Section-9 who wants to create the perfect fighter by any means necessary. To that end, she forces her own daughter, Reimi, to undergo Training from Hell and experimentation, abandoning her without a second thought when she loses to Yuka Takeuchi and hiring Saki Shinjo to brutally kill her. She also creates hybrids through genetic manipulation, using the tournament to test them against unsuspecting contestants, only to cruelly kill them off when they also lose. Determined to break Yuka for overcoming her hybrids, Miranda temporarily drives her to despair by blaming her for the deaths of the hybrids. After being defeated, Miranda shoots Chiho Masuda and tries to flee.
• Advance Wars series:
  • First game & Black Hole Rising: Sturm, first commander of Black Hole, engineers a massive war to weaken the nations of Wars World so he can sweep in and crush them without any resistance. Driven back at first, Sturm returns shortly thereafter with another massive war. Uncaring what he crushes in the process, Sturm decides to unleash an apocalypse upon the world with a doomsday weapon before attempting to destroy his base to take everyone present with him in defeat.
  • Dual Strike: Von Bolt, inheritor of Black Hole, is a twisted old man whose fear of death is all to him. Taking command of the army and utilizing the Black Obelisks, Von Bolt begins to drain regions of energy, condemning them and all inside to death, to sustain himself. Betraying even his own to have them eliminated, Von Bolt plans to drain the whole world of energy and condemn it to death so that he might live even a little longer.
  • Days of Ruin:
    • Caulder, head of IDS, is the Mad Scientist responsible for almost all the misery in the game. Beginning his life as a clone who murdered his own creator and every other version of himself, Caulder has spent every waking moment of his life since the apocalypse making life even more wretched for the remaining survivors. Caulder endorses monsters like the Beast and Admiral Greyfield, and is responsible for the creation of a horrifying virus called the Creeper Derangea, which causes plant life to burst through the infected's skin. Unsatisfied with how the Creeper only effected the young, Caulder improved the virus to infect anyone and spread undetected, deeming the resulting mass panic and deaths as "fascinating". Caulder is also hideously abusive to his own cloned children: he attempted to bodyjack Cyrus in an attempt to gain immortality, then poisons Cyrus with something meant to kill him as slowly as possible once he betrays him; drove Penny insane with his experiments and tries to have her to die on the Great Owl; intends to dissect his "haywire" daughter, Isabella; and ultimately rules all of them "abject failures".
    • The Beast is the earliest introduction the 12th Battalion has to the depths of how far certain people have fallen After the End of the world. A former soldier who wholeheartedly embraced the conditions the apocalypse left the world in, the Beast rallies together a group of starving bandits and mercenaries to go on a crusade of Rape, Pillage, and Burn; by the time the 12th Battalion prevents him from raiding another village, he's slaughtered every other settlement in the region. The Beast continues to butt heads with the Battalion until, with Caulder's endorsement, he decides to slaughter every civilian the 12th Battalion has saved out of pure spite.
    • Admiral Greyfield of the New Rubinelle Army is a Social Darwinist whose threat comes half from idiocy and half from pure megalomania. Greyfield carries on a war against the Lazurian people that started long before the apocalypse with the intent to wipe them out, causing dozens of innocent casualties along the way, and remorselessly writes off or personally executes many of his own soldiers the whole way through. Greyfield has a Lazurian commander shot the moment he voluntarily surrenders, and even has an entire city nuked for the purpose of wiping out Captain Brenner.
• Advent Rising: The Koroem is a powerful being whose form was worshipped by various species across the galaxy. When aliens mistake it for a human and decided to worship humans, the Koroem grew furious and contacted an evil alien race called the Seekers, ordering them to track down and annihilate humanity, leading to the Seekers wiping out humanity, with only 3 survivors. Arriving at the Galactic Council to reveal itself and taking the form of Gideon Wyeth's deceased loved one to mock him, the Koroem attacked everyone when they tried to defy it.
• Æon Flux: Oren Goodchild, evil brother of Chairman Trevor Goodchild, yearns to keep his grip over the city of Bregna permanent. Acting out as his brother's muscle as the two rule over the city as its dictators, Oren, upon realizing that Trevor desires order by shutting down the city's replication factor, tries to sabotage all of Trevor's efforts in order to keep the status quo, even creating the Grand Dreadnought against his wishes as a way to wage war against the Monican resistance. Declaring himself emperor after having Trevor assassinated, Oren commences his genocide campaign against the Monicans by laying waste to all of Bregna so that nobody can stop his eternal reign of terror.
• Age of Empires series:
  • Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs Expansion Pack: Sheriff William "Billy" Holme is the Big Bad of the Shadow section. Initially a friend to Chayton Black, Holme becomes consumed by greed when gold is discovered in the Black Hills. Holme summons his old friend Chayton with the intent of manipulating him into kicking the Sioux off the land so he can claim the gold. When Chayton attempts to negotiate with the Sioux leader Crazy Horse, Holme follows Chayton and attempts to assassinate Crazy Horse, shattering any chance of a peace settlement. When Chayton builds a fort for Holme, Holme orders Chayton to destroy an entire village and leave no survivors—including women and children—even though they have done nothing. When Chayton protests the order, Holme initially tries to justify it as they will do something, and then dares Chayton to turn on him. When cornered by Chayton in a cave, Holme justifies all of his crimes by arguing he would have been rich. When Chayton asks Holme if he would kill the settlers, he admits the only thing that matters is the gold. When urged by Chayton to surrender peacefully, Holme attempts to shoot him with a pistol despite his life being spared. A man who uses his sheriff's position to manipulate his friend into murdering innocent people all for the sake of greed, Holme shows the dark side of colonization and settlement in a game that skirts around these issues.
  • Age of Mythology's Fall of the Trident (the campaign): Gargarensis is an evil Cyclops. Upon learning of his relationship with Poseidon, he intends to become immortal. Scheming to release the Titan Kronos, Gargarensis is well aware that releasing him will bring about the end of the world, but doesn't care. When the hero Arkantos disrupts his excavation in Greece, he threatens to kill his son, and upon arriving in Egypt, threatens to kill his dragon Kemsyt when the latter was defeated. Forced to flee Egypt, Gargarensis makes it clear to Kemsyt that he will only keep him alive as long as he is still useful. When he is trapped in the Norselands, Gargarensis forces Kemsyt into a perfect illusion of himself— guaranteeing Kemsyt's death— to buy himself more time. After taking over Atlantis, Gargarensis uses the powers of the gods to murder women and children to taunt his adversary, and upon his final defeat screams that he was promised a victory. Ambitious, arrogant, and selfish, Gargarensis shows that he will do anything to become immortal, even if it means the end of the world itself.
• AI: The Somnium Files duology:
  • Original game: Saito Sejima is the Cyclops Killer who Kaname Date hunts for the entire game. Born with a condition that makes him only feel pleasure when killing, Saito was infamous for causing mayhem in his childhood but always got away with it due to his father, So Sejima, being a Congressman. Saito started off by killing animals before graduating to humans, killing Manaka Iwai out of jealousy for drawing his father's attention away from him. This kick-started his addiction to murder, leading him to enlist the help of Rohan Kumakura to kill numerous women for their morbid obsession, working together as the Cyclops Killer. Detective Falco started to suspect the duo was behind the murders and tried swapping bodies with Rohan to try to gain evidence from Saito, but the latter caught on and turned the tables on Falco, stealing his body out of curiosity after learning about Psyncing from him. This backfired, leaving him trapped in Falco's body with amnesia, and after recovering his memories, he vowed to get revenge on Falco and take his body back, as only his original brain allowed him to fully enjoy murder. Resurfacing as the New Cyclops Killer, Saito kills numerous friends and associates of Falco after swapping bodies with them, taking their right eye in the process. Saito shows a willingness to kill anyone, even his father, to further his goals. In the Resolution route, Saito manages to get his body back and capture Falco's loved ones, with the intent of killing them in front of him.
  • nirvanA Initiative: Chikara Horadori is the director of the Horadori Institute of Genetics and a man obsessed with immortality. Long before the events of the game, Chikara had a son with Tokiko Shigure named Jin, who was born with a % shaped mark that Chikara saw as the key to conquering death. Jin eventually developed a condition that would destroy the right half of his body, to which Chikara, desperate to keep his dreams of eternal life alive, responded by kidnapping an orphan, Uru Somezuki—the future Tearer—locking him in his basement, and surgically transferring his right half to Jin. Chikara eventually decided Jin wasn't enough and started kidnapping more orphans, genetically modifying and brutally torturing them, with the failures abandoned with severe physical and psychological issues.
• Akuji the Heartless: Baron Samedi is the game's true villain responsible for Akuji's predicament. Having ambitions to conquer the underworld and the realm of mortals, Samedi possessed his worshipper, Akuji's brother Orad, and controls Orad into killing Akuji on his wedding night, before tricking Akuji's soul into becoming his Unwitting Pawn. Manipulating Akuji into killing the various guardians of hell and collecting the souls of ancestors for the Baron to consume, once Akuji had finished his task, the Baron "rewards" Akuji by striking him down, and proceeds to lay waste to the underworld. As Akuji attempts to prevent the Baron from escaping into the human world, Baron Samedi reveals he had abducted Akuji's bride, Kesho, and will make Kesho watch Akuji die before forcing Kesho to be his slave after he had wiped out all mortals.
• Alan Wake & AWE (Control Downloadable Content) Dr. Emil Hartman is an infamous psychiatrist who works with artists, and at first appears to be a passive annoyance. It's soon revealed he is aware of the Dark Presence and wishes to control its reality warping powers; his clinic is a front to lure in artists and expose them to the Dark Presence as part of his experiments, driving them insane in the process. It also turns out that Hartman was Thomas Zane's assistant, and manipulated Zane into writing his deceased wife back to life, turning her into the Dark Presence's avatar and resulting in countless people being Taken or consumed over the decades. After luring Alan and Alice Wake to Bright Falls, and Alice goes missing, Hartman stages Alice's kidnapping to lure Alan to him. In his clinic, Hartman tries to convince Alan that Alice is dead and everything he experienced is a delusion. In AWE, Hartman arrogantly doubled down on his research after his arrest and brush with death, eventually transforming into a murderous monster himself.
• The Alchemist's House: The nameless witch is an undead being who is responsible for all the horror in the game. Stealing dozens of souls of innocent people, the witch trapped them in dolls and then abused and experimented on them. Enslaving one man, the witch builds her prison upstairs in his house and ordered him to invite people to his home and then drug them with her potions, which either painfully killed them or horribly mutated them. Creating many abominations from the bodies of her victims, the witch tries to kill an orphan child, who managed to trick her servant and evade her monsters, to use him for her ritual to be "reborn again".
• Alice: Madness Returns: Dr. Angus Bumby is Alice Liddell's shrink who uses hypnosis to erase Alice's traumatic memories of her family's death. Bumby's motivation is that he is the one who started the fire that burned down her house and killed said family, in an attempt to cover his tracks after raping Alice's sister Lizzie. Nowadays, he makes a profit on the side via pimping the children in his orphanage, who he's brainwashed and broken into Empty Shells. Bumby justifies his actions by acting like Lizzie was simply playing hard to get; claiming that he was providing a service to the community; and thinking that Alice would be better off as a prostitute. In his "Wonderland" persona, the Dollmaker, Bumby feeds the Insane Children-now turned into dolls-to the Infernal Train, with even the greatest villains of Wonderland terrified of him and his actions.
• Alice Mare: The Cheshire Cat is a quirky yet sadistic demon who feeds on human souls because he finds them tastier than animal souls. Preferring the souls of children because they are easier to break, the Cat helps his fellow demons spread Nightmare Syndrome—a condition where a person is trapped in a nightmare and never wakes up—then removes a body part from his victims to add to his own body. After making a deal with Teacher/David to help him study the syndrome, the Cat works with the White Rabbit to torment Teacher's adopted children with traumatic memories and deceive Allen Llewellyn into making them vulnerable. The Cat warps the children into grotesque forms and leaves them unable to speak, then eventually forces Allen to either sacrifice one of their souls to him or allow himself to be possessed. If Allen does not sacrifice the children, the Cat eventually takes Teacher's soul instead. In the endings where Allen agrees to give himself up for the others' safety, the Cat expresses his intentions to go back on the deal and eat them, hoping to make Allen suffer even more.
• Alien Breed reboot trilogy: Walter E. Klein was the Chief Science Officer on his ship, who was obsessed with immortality. Killing his dog Max in the past to learn about death, Klein led the Phoenix Program, where he created the hostile aliens, and then took control over them and unleashed them upon his ship, which led to everyone else on his ship getting killed, including his own wife. Becoming an AI within this ship, thus achieving immortality, Klein remained in space until his ship collided with another ship, the Leopold, at which point Klein had no problems sending his creatures to slaughter everyone on the Leopold. Taking over and mutilating the body of an android Mia, Klein mocked and taunted Joseph Conrad at every opportunity, as he attempted to kill the latter.
• Alone in the Dark franchise:
  • Original game: Ezechiel Pregzt is a former pirate known for his barbaric murders and inhumane actions. Slaughtering entire crews of ships before he reached into the occult, Pregzt murdered other pirates who refused to assist him before setting up the manor, Derecto, in Louisiana. Sacrificing people regularly to the Old Ones, Pregzt was sealed away deep under Derecto and sought to drive the Hartwood father and son into insanity with repeated mental torture so he may possess them, all to open up Earth to the Old Ones and let them cause the apocalypse.
  • The New Nightmare: Alan Morton was a Creepy Child who developed an obsession with the monsters in the shadows. When he grew up, his obsessions increased to the point where he began experimenting on corpses to help the creatures escape from the World of Darkness into Earth. Alan eventually resorted to vivisecting human victims, among whom was his own father. He also enslaved his brother Obed to help with his schemes. By the time of the game's events, Alan intends to open the gate to the World of Darkness, unleashing its eldritch biosphere to cause The End of the World as We Know It.
  • 2008 game:
    • Lucifer, the Light Bringer, was cast down from Heaven after a failed coup, forced to live as a mortal human. Using his magic and parts of his throne, Lucifer crafted the Philosopher's Stone as a way to transplant his soul from person to person and extend his immortality. Corrupting the minds of many of history's greatest men, Lucifer hopes to one day use the Stone to reincarnate back to his proper form and summon his legion to Earth, where he will conquer the world and enslave all of mankind. Awakened from his favorite host Edward Carnby by the sinister Crowley, Lucifer rains destruction all across New York City as he hopes to do the same to the entire world.
    • Crowley is an occultist who seeks the power of the Philosopher's Stone to become Lucifer's vessel upon his reincarnation. Willing to sacrifice all of mankind in exchange for the power of Lucifer, Crowley tortures Theofile Paddington into awakening Lucifer from Edward Carnby, ordering one of his men to kill Edward afterwards. Uncaring about the destruction he's inflicted upon New York thanks to Lucifer's awakening, Crowley at the end holds Sarah Flores at gunpoint in exchange for Edward's half of the Stone.
• Alpha Protocol: Henry Leland, the ruthless CEO of Halbech Corporation, will make anyone suffer so he can profit, and in addition is shown to be willing to throw aside anyone whose usefulness expires. Masterminding every major crime in the story, Leland paid terrorists to shoot down a civilian airliner; framed Michael "Mike" Thorton for treason when he got close to the truth; causes turmoil and riots in Taiwan with an assassination attempt on the President; and has his men assault a popular museum, where Mike is forced to choose between the death of his friend and possibly lover, or letting a bomb kill many civilians in a wing of the museum. Leland's end goal was to start a big enough arms race to start a new world war and to line his pockets with the ensuing wartime profit. Should Mike join Leland, Leland will order Mike to kill anyone who knows of his plans; should Mike refuse to join him, Leland will try to have him killed too.
• Alter A.I.L.A.: Psycho for Hire Red joins The Empire simply because it's the strongest of the factions and allows him to direct his bloodlust at the Imperialists' targets. An Axe-Crazy lunatic who favors strength above all else, Red spends the game brutally murdering or attempting to murder everyone in his path and has designs on the throne himself. He aims to backstab the Imperials and take over himself before reigning as The Caligula.
• Alter Echo: Paavo is both a brilliant Shaper and the "father" of Echo, who he abused by using a sapient planet's flesh to make an army of drones and to make himself more powerful than before. When Paavo learns that Echo is working with Nevin to set itself free from his father's control, he orders his henchmen to use Neuralizers to destroy its memories and emotions for defying him. Paavo sadistically murders one of Nevin's friends right in front of him out of spite for interfering with his plans. Paavo's ultimate plan is to use the Seedlings as genocidal weapons, launching them onto other planets inhabited by humans and have them wipe out all life on them so he could remake these planets in his image with EchoPlast and rule over them as a god.
• Alundra:
  • Melzas is a malevolent deity from another world who literally thrives on the misery and suffering of mortals. Upon arriving in our world, Melzas learned that Earth's gods are empowered by mankind's prayers, which he decided he wanted for himself. To this end, Melzas established his own Religion of Evil with the aid of his loyal acolytes and began inserting his image into human culture by peering into the minds of vulnerable kings and making them his puppets. Eventually exposed as a fraud and imprisoned by the forces of good, the weakened Melzas then instructed his evil acolytes. Reestablishing themselves as "holy men" under the guise of a harmless, benevolent church, Melzas's priests then began gathering new flocks of worshippers, fooling people with false promises of harmony and wealth, while secretly manipulating multiple atrocities throughout history, thus allowing Melzas to regain his lost strength with the end goal of one day destroying his prison and finishing what he started.
  • Ronan is the evil priest Melzas stationed in Inoa Village. A loyal servant of Melzas, Ronan corrupts the villagers—without them even realizing it—through false promises of harmony and peace. When heroine Alundra arrives and begins to discover the truth about Melzas's church, Ronan attempts to rally the locals to drive him away, committing murders in secret and pinning the crimes on Alundra. As Alundra remains defiant, Ronan starts targeting those close to him,, including Sybill and Jess. When confronted about his actions later on, Ronan smugly speaks of his twisted piousness while laughing at all the misery he's wrought. Finally, Ronan transforms himself into a Humanoid Abomination with the intent of carrying out more evil in the name of his monstrous god.
• Amea: The Master Eye is the leader of the Cult of the Eye. Luring people in with the promise of presenting them a world without suffering, the Master Eye forces these people to gouge out their own eyeballs and become his slave. If one were to exit the cult, the Master Eye would either kill them, or force them to gouge out their new eyes. Once Amea and Mish leave the cult, the Master Eye causes Amea to suffer horrific nightmares, and unleashes a horde of skeletons and zombies to attack all in their path, pinning the attacks on Mish.
• Amnesia: Justine: Justine Florbelle—revealed to be the Player Character—growing into a narcissistic psychopath, takes innocents and places them in her "Cabinet of Perturbation" to test them, torture them—both physically and psychologically—and murder them. Taking her lovers, or her "Suitors", Justine tortures them and blinds them, driving them insane and turning them into murderous monsters that will target anyone in her chambers while leaving innocents there to even test herself on saving them. A gleeful and sadistic psychopath, Justine feels alive upon testing her humanity and will imprison any survivors to torture and kill later.
• Anaksha: Female Assassin: Vincent St. Claire manages to stand out in a Crapsack World filled with Asshole Victims. Prior to the events of the game, he raped and murdered his pregnant wife Zara. in the present, he poses as a school principal to hide his criminal empire. He uses this position to sell drugs to students, in addition to running an operation to sell women into sexual slavery. Finally, he tries to blow up his school and frame Anaksha for it to get revenge on her for interfering with his crimes.
• Anchorhead: Croesus Verlac is the patriarch of the Verlac family and a man who discovered a dark route to immortality. Long before the story of Anchorhead began, Croseus's physical flesh became dust...but his spirit survives by taking over the bodies of his male descendants and impregnating the female descendants to create new bodies for him to steal later. The power Croseus has over his descendants is represented in the chilling Arc Words: He always returns to his blood. Not content with this, Croseus runs a legacy of dark magic and murder, routinely sacrificing children for power to the point where the well behind the village slaughterhouse is full of the bones of missing children. In the present, Croseus takes control of and possesses the nameless heroine's husband, before setting his plan into motion: to open the gates to the Eldritch Abomination beings he worships and allow them to devour all that lives.
• Angels of Death: Catherine "Cathy" Ward, the B3 floor master, was once a manipulative girl who strung Lucy into killing her school rivals, before growing up to become a sadistic prison warden who punished the "sinners" under her charge, forcing Lucy into helping her, later killing Lucy herself. Helping Danny Dickens recruit killers for the Tower, when Ray Gardner and Zack Foster encounter her, Cathy tortures both of them, and also makes Zack relive traumatizing memories from his past, before drugging him to force him to kill Ray. Additionally, Cathy keeps several Tower prisoners withered and trapped to enjoy their unending pain.
• ANNIE: Last Hope:
  • Dr. Edward is the founder of Dow's Group and its chief scientist who's behind the zombies. Originally developing a cure for cancer, when Edward wound up creating the Mother of Glaaki, Edward sought to use the Glaaki virus to turn the world into a zombie wasteland and rule over as its new god. Using kidnapped humans as test subjects, while having his scientists spied on and murdered if they disapproved of his plans, Edward sent out 6,000 infected crabs to cause a zombie outbreak in a city, soon infecting the entire world. Having those trying to stop him killed, which results in the massacres of numerous survivor bunkers, when Jack kills the Mother of Glaaki, Edward tries to make Jack its new replacement, looking forward to making him his new slave to torture to his liking. Despite claiming to be helping humanity by granting them immortality, Edward sought only to be seen as "almighty".
  • Jim is a seemingly oafish survivor who proves to be Annie's biggest obstacle throughout her journey. Secretly a key figure in the PARTY Gang cult, Jim lures survivors to the cult's hideout to either cannibalize them, or force them to participate in zombie gladiator matches for the cult's entertainment. Working for Dr. Edward to kill those trying to stop him, Jim has a survivor bunker massacred to prevent Edward's plans from leaking to the public. Even after his death at the hands of Annie, Jim's revealed to have secretly sent out a hit squad to slaughter an entire vault bunker in an attempt to kill its leader, Darryl.
• ANNO: Mutationem: Amok is a being from the Hinterland who lives to sadistically slaughter all in her path. Convincing a young Ann Flores to act as her covenant for her eventual reawakening, Amok hopes to be freed from her domain so that she can destroy every human on Earth. Should Ann not side with Dr. G, Amok takes advantage of Ann's despair over her brother Ryan's death to allow her to possess her, laying waste to all of Skopp City before initiating Earth's destruction.
• Another Eden: Phantom is a mysterious, interdimensional entity seeking the complete annihilation of all space and time. When the initial Armageddon of the multiverse is thwarted by Professor Chronos, Phantom tricks young hero Aldo into reverting what Chronos has done, once more kick-starting the end of all time. Phantom collides with Aldo several times throughout the game, always trying to see that his omnicidal goals reach fruition, and, when the Elementals sacrifice themselves to stop Phantom's master plan, Phantom orchestrates the unleashing of Chronos Menas, spurring the monstrous entity into devouring time itself and trying one final time to kill Aldo and solidify the annihilation of life across the cosmos, with Phantom's only motive ever given as a desire to "sit back and enjoy the show".
• Apocalypse: The Reverend, appearing as an all-powerful figure of authority, is a False Prophet who summons the Horsemen of the Apocalypse in order to hasten the impending doomsday, after which he will be in control of the Horsemen and rule over what's left of humanity. When Trey Kincaid finds out the truth, the Reverend had Kincaid framed and thrown into prison and having the horsemen take over Kincaid's closest allies, ordering a city-wide manhunt once Kincaid escapes. During the prison escape, Kincaid would uncover cells filled with mutants, prisoners which are mutated by the Reverend's various sadistic experiments and torture. The Reverend continues spreading his influence throughout the free world until Kincaid fights and defeats him halfway through, but appearing to have drowned in a river of lava, the Reverend turns out to have survived and is now controlling the President of the United States, with the White House as point zero for his minions from the underworld to be unleashed upon Earth. Even after being defeated by Kincaid, the Reverend would instead possess him, forcing Kincaid as a vassal for ensuring the apocalypse will happen.
• Arc Rise Fantasia:
  • Ignacy was a rival of the heroes' Old Master and is first seen injuring said master fatally with petrifying wounds. Through the game, Ignacy is revealed to have murdered a hero's mother and manipulated loyal warriors to betray their benefactors and murdering them later. Ignacy forces a painful transformation on innocent victims, which makes the heroes kill the victims in self-defense. Later, Ignacy kidnaps one hero's sister for information and attempts to Mind Rape another. He later has the daughter of the woman he murdered years past perform a Heroic Sacrifice to save her sister.
  • Hosea, Patriarch of North Noireism, is a Divine Race whose ideal world involves the death of the Common Race as he leads the remains under him. Acting kind to L'Arc and Ryfia, Hosea tries to have them accomplish Imaginal's Law, making them believe it would save the world, not knowing it would mean the deaths of 90% of the world's population, while he craves. To accomplish his twisted goal, Hosea worked with Ignacy to conduct operations and experimentations to control the Child of Eesa, killing countless victims, including many of the hero's loved ones. Realizing L'Arc is catching on and won't enact Imaginal's Law, Hosea has Ignacy kidnapped Niko to get L'Arc to come to his domain, unleashing a trap to kill him and Alf to take the role of Child of Eesa to start Imaginal's Law. When this fails, Hosea decides to try killing them himself to force a new Child of Eesa to be born, and afterwards unleashes a laser cannon to L'Arc's hometown with his dying breath as spite towards him.
• Area 51 (FPS): Mr. Frederick White is the sadistic head of The Illuminati. Originally a scientist during World War II who grew jealous of Dr. Winston Cray, he fled to the Midwest, where he performed horrific experiments on people. When the alien Edgar and his colony crash-land on Earth, White makes a deal with the aliens, exchanging them humans to experiment on in return for both their technology as a way to spy on people, and a virus that turns humans into animalistic monsters, with White hoping to unleash it onto the world. Once Ethan Cole and his men investigate Area 51, White has his clones and Illuminati members kill Ethan's squad mates and Dr. Cray.
• Arena of Valor has two Mage Heroes and one Archer:
  • Mganga, the Unspeakable, is a Monster Clown who delights in torturing other living beings for the sake of learning more power to claim for himself, while laughing at the miseries of his victims. Mganga violated restrictions of magic research solely to learn about the forbidden Voodoo/Poison and Blood magic and was expelled from the Magister Council as a result. Hired by the demonic forces of Lokheim, Mganga continues his forbidden research and gleefully tortures any living beings assigned to him, some to the point of insanity. When he's not researching, Mganga executes tasks that result in the deaths of many either to further empower his research or just because he feels like it. Mganga stands out amongst the demonic forces of Lokheim as he's the only one who joined without any tragic circumstances or opposition with the forces of Light, but purely for the hunger of power for himself and the pleasure of inflicting pain on others.
  • Lorion, the Nightmare Incarnate, is a magician who forms the Dark Den, a group only for evil magicians, and gleefully tortures and corrupts people that he notices "potential" within them, under the guise of "training". Fascinated by the corruptive powers of Black Magic, Lorion attempts to capitalize on them for evil purposes, including ruling Athanor for himself. When he is killed by his ex-student D'Arcy, who rejected black magic after seeing its evil, Lorion is immediately reincarnated in a younger body by the Dark Andura Stone, which amplifies his evil thoughts. Lorion then manipulates certain people and events, including turning whole village inhabitants into demonic zombies, to create a miracle that will cause untold death and destruction within Athanor, all the while happily gloating about it in front of his victim and potential witnesses.
  • Stuart, the Collector, is a notorious Serial Killer working with many shady organizations. He kills many in brutal and sadistic ways, then immortalizes the patterns of their dying life forces in a crystal for him to collect, as he finds said pattern to be the most beautiful. Stuart murders the families of both Kaine and Sinestrea for no apparent reason, leaving the two traumatized. Stuart then decides to torment Kaine further by goading him to give in to his demonic lineage, as Stuart suspects that his demonic transformation will produce a more beautiful pattern. Even as a human amongst magically inclined creatures, Stuart stands out as one of the most depraved humans to walk in Athanor, matching the Hero he replaces.
• Asheron's Call: Aerbax was once just a common virindi puppet who gained sapience from a freak incident, after which he broke off from the Quiddity to pursue his own experiments, and sees himself as some kind of god who just views everyone else as worthless inferiors to be killed or experimented on. He started by making more powerful versions of existing monsters, before eventually experimenting on humans. His most famous "project" was Martine—an innocent human settler turned into an insane, terrifying Humanoid Abomination—but in one quest in portal space, Lilitha—a famous human archer who had mysteriously vanished decades earlier—is trapped there, and she appears to be a "prototype" of Martine who has been trapped there and subject to hideous experiments for so long she has gone hopelessly insane. Later, Aerbax would go on to experiment on other virindi, create his "Prodigal Sons", superpowered unique versions of other monsters, before finally turning himself into an Eldritch Abomination.
• Assassin Blue: "Boss" is the shadowy dictator and handler of Blue and Red who desires to increase his power. Manipulating Blue and Red into murdering countless politicians and innocent civilians—including children—under the promise of ending the war, Boss's real plan involves killing those who could pose a threat to him, even forcing his assassins to Leave No Witnesses. Turning on Blue after the latter refuses to kill an innocent man, Boss, despite his claims of using his increasing territory to spread peace, has ultimately wasted thousands of lives for nobody but himself.
• Astral Chain: The seemingly well-intentioned Yoseph Calvert is bent on forcing humanity to evolve in order to record his name as their savior. Torturing the Chimeras to become Legions, Calvert manipulates the Player Character and their twin Akira into doing his bidding, all while plotting to utilize their Legion to his own end. Springing his trap, Calvert tries to kill their allies and reveals he has cloned Akira, using the duplicates as disposable soldiers while mutating his own scientists into Aberrations. For the final battle, Calvert creates the mighty Noah, intending on absorbing all life on Earth and dragging humanity to the Astral Plane where they will be forced to advance, even if most life is destroyed.
• Asura's Wrath: Chakravartin, the Big Bad of the entire story, is the nigh-omnipotent creator-god of Gaea and a smug, cold, uncaring sociopath who attempts to destroy and recreate the world constantly because he considers it beneath him to keep the planet's denizens safe from harm. To this end, Chakravartin's attempts to find an heir resulted in his creation of the monstrous Gohma that have destroyed so many innocent lives so he can test the resolve of the Gods. This also resulted in the Gods using humans as slaves and harvesting their souls and Mantra for their own powers. All the death and destruction in the game, over the course of over 10,000 years are all the fault of Chakravartin, solely so he could find someone else to do his job for him, and would kill and restart everything until he got the result he wanted. Despite trying to claim himself as well-intentioned, Chakravartin's claims are shown to be the hollow words of a cruel egomaniac, and once defied, the true monster he really is comes out.
• Avatar franchise, by release date:
  • James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (PS3/360/PC version): Commander Karl Falco, one of the commanding officers of the RDA security force at the planet Pandora, possesses a deep hatred of its native population, the Na'vi. Having his soldiers to perform repeated airstrikes on Na'vi homes, Falco immediately orders Lance Corporal Able Ryder to find a mole within his organization. In both the Na'vi and the RDA path, Falco starts a full-on war with the Na'vi, wiping out their villages and burning down their forests. Seeking out the sacred Well of Souls, which is capable of controlling Pandora, Falco plans to use it to completely wipe out the Na'vi. Creating an Emulator of the First Voice, the only thing on Pandora which is capable of controlling the Well of Souls, Falco goes rogue on RDA, killing Professor Monroe and trying to use the Emulator on the Well of Souls himself, despite knowing that this could kill the entire planet, RDA people and himself included. When Able Ryder confronts him about this, Falco fully states that he doesn't care about the danger, and is fully willing to destroy all life on the planet, if it means he can kill all the Na'vi as well.
  • Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora: John Mercer, the Executive Vice President of Frontier Operations for the RDA, epitomizes the worst of humanity thanks to his greed and xenophobia. As the director of The Ambassador Program (TAP), Mercer orchestrates a genocidal attack on the Sarentu clan, eradicating the entire population apart from the five children his program abducts. Under the guise of integrating Na'vi children into human society, Mercer subjects them to brutal training, severe psychological manipulation, and dehumanizing conditions. Mercer also repeatedly verbally and physically abuses the children, from lying to them about being abandoned by their own clan and confiscating the player character's songcord to severely beating Teylan for wetting his bed. This culminates in the cold-blooded murder of a child, Aha'ri, when she attempts to lead an escape. Mercer's cruelty only worsens after the Time Skip, as he authorizes region-wide oil extraction projects at the expense of Pandora's natural habitat and the Na'vi tribes, culminating in an ambitious plot to run a large-scale fracking operation that would decimate Pandora's Western Frontier. Mercer's relentless pursuit of power and control, coupled with his callous disregard for environmental sanctity and his utter lack of empathy, firmly establish him as a monstrous embodiment of greed and inhumanity.
• Azure Dreams: Beldo initially traveled with Guy, the father of Koh, in order to find the Ultimate Egg to give him ultimate power and Take Over the World. Beldo betrayed and killed Guy and later killed the father of Koh's rival as well. Beldo mind-controlled Koh's partner Kewne, against Kewne's will, to lead Koh to him to unseal the Ultimate Egg, and after killing Guy, he forcibly transformed Guy's partner into a new right arm to replace the one guy chopped off against said partner's will. He proceeds to use Guy's sword on Koh to use Koh's blood to unseal the Egg, mocking him all the while. He even fuses monsters to him against their will in his quest for power.

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• Back 4 Blood: The Mother of Worms is the head of the Children of the Worm. Unleashing a horrific plague, she sets the worms into countless innocents, turning them into the zombie "Ridden", which she then directs against any and all survivors. Sending the Ridden out to destroy any safe zones and kill survivors, the Mother of Worms happily plots the entire apocalypse.
• BackStab: Admiral Edmund Kane is secretly in cahoots with the Spanish Conquistadors, arranging for an invasion that leads to an entire town under his rule wiped out and his army killed to one last man, Captain Henry Blake. After framing Henry as a traitor and having Henry tortured for days in his dungeon, Kane uses his connections with the Spanish to obtain a promotion, ruling over the seas with an iron fist with his army wiping out entire towns opposing his rule, including sending a platoon to attack a peaceful farming village Henry is taking refuge and having prisoners impaled on spikes to be publicly displayed outside his fortress. As Henry confronts Kane one last time and defeats him in a duel, Kane reveals his true cowardly nature by drawing a concealed pistol on Henry.
• Baten Kaitos:
  • Original game: Wiseman is a raging psychopath, with a purely sadistic edge and a Lack of Empathy for all living beings. Wiseman, a millennium before the series began, began to believe existence of the body was flawed. He fell to evil and began devouring the energy of his followers before embarking on a war of conquest that look the lives of men, women and children. To spite a group of heroes who stood against him, Wiseman killed near everyone in their hometown, and left only two survivors. He attempted to convert the world to energy and absorb it within himself. Despite failing, Wiseman was not destroyed and possessed the willing Verus, influencing all of the latter's atrocities, causing mass death and the torture of his former lover. When forced to reveal himself, Wiseman declares his intents to devour the heroes' hearts and rule over their world for eternity.
  • Origins: Quaestor Verus himself, while acting under the guise of a Reasonable Authority Figure, coldly masterminds the plot to become the Emperor by taking advantage of everyone else. Before the game's events, he uses a just born baby Sagi—whom he may have fathered through rape—in a lethal experiment that fuses pieces of dead evil gods with living beings. During the game, he orders Shanath—no angel himself—to take Sagi's mother Gena's wings off in the public election speech, just to smear the reputation of someone getting in his way. Later on, just as Baelheit is about to consider a Heel–Face Turn, Quaestor Verus shows up, murders him, and starts gloating about all his deeds.
• The Bathhouse: The unnamed monk appears as a friendly and helpful man, before being revealed to be behind the supernatural events within the small town. Manipulating a woman to fall in love with him, the monk murdered the woman when she became pregnant, and when finding out she gave birth to a boy, for years the monk imprisoned and tortured his son inside a cellar underneath the bathhouse. After getting cursed through Ubume, the monk blackmails the landlord into finding three young women to work at the bathhouse to sacrifice to Ubume to lift his curse, managing to succeed burning 2 young women to death in a furnace and attempting to do the same to Erena, succeeding in the bad ending.
• Battle Realms:
  • Zymeth is the leader of the Lotus clan and a power-hungry wizard. Relying on the dirtiest tricks in the book, Zymeth rose in power through lying, cheating, and murder. Eventually receiving recognition from the tyrannical Lord Oja, Zymeth tried to single-handedly eliminate him and his clan by tricking all of them into entering ships which would drain the life of everyone inhabiting them. The discovery of this deception led to a war between Oja's Serpent Clan and Zymeth's Lotus Clan, which in turn caused a chain of events which lead to the Wolf and Dragon Clan rising up and joining this raging conflict, resulting in countless deaths. When Kenji Oja was able to conquer the majority of the land and was about to crush Zymeth's Lotus Clan, Zymeth made a deal with the ancient evil Nightvol for the Serpent's Orb to gain tremendous power. In battle, Zymeth cares very little of his comrades as his powers can decimate anyone in his way, including any nearby allies. To him, anyone is expendable as long as he gets what he wants, which is to be the most powerful.
  • Provincial Lord Budo has garnered the reputation among the bandit-filled and bloodthirsty Serpent Clan as one of the most evil figures in the group. Always having the highest harvest among the provincial lord, Budo's methods were so inhumane that even the leaders of the Serpent Clan find him despicable. Using his henchmen and his whip to keep his slaves in check, he doesn't hesitate to execute anyone for the smallest mistake, such as not having enough rice for the quota, or even wiping sweat of their brow. Due to his fearful tactics, Budo was put in charge of the mining industry, where he treated all of his workers like animals. His actions were so bad that they drove Grayback to form a rebellion and create the Wolf Clan in order to free his people. Even when recruited back to the Serpent Clan by Kenji in the campaign, Budo only does it for women and the fame.
• BattleTanx: Global Assault: Cassandra is a malicious QueenLord who is responsible for releasing a plague that wiped out almost all of the women on the planet. After the world tore itself apart and humanity fell, Cassandra used her mind-controlling powers to build her own empire across America and Europe. Upon discovering that Griffin Spade, along with his wife, Madison, and son, Brandon, possess the same Psychic Powers as her, she orders her army to kidnap their son and eliminate anyone in their way. While chasing them across America, Cassandra succeeds in brainwashing and kidnapping Brandon so she can later use him for more nefarious deeds. When Brandon's parents finally rescue him, Cassandra orders her troops to go after the Spade family again, no longer caring if Brandon is killed in the crossfire. Shortly before Cassandra's defeated, she tries one last time to brainwash Brandon into destroying the entire world.
• Bayonetta series:
  • First & second games: Fortitudo, Bringer of Flame, the Cardinal Virtue of Fortitude, is one of the top four members of Auditito who, despite being a minion, stands out for his despicable crimes. Seeking to awaken Jubileus, the Creator, in order to allow Auditito to claim all of reality and rule over the universe, Fortitudo manipulated Father Balder into orchestrating the Witch Hunts, wiping out the Umbra Witches and Lumen Sages so that nobody can stand in their way of claiming the Eyes of the World needed for Jubileus's awakening, even participating in the Witch Hunts himself.
  • Third game & Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon: Singularity is the most monstrous foe ever faced by the Umbra Witches. An Artificial Human, Singularity destroyed his home universe with his army, the Homunculi, before growing aware of the multiverse. Seeking to impose his will upon all existence, Singularity launched a multiversal invasion to butcher thousands of universes and eradicate all life within. Becoming aware of Bayonetta as one of the few able to oppose him, Singularity would kill her countless times over the multiverse to take her soul and power. Coming to the "Prime" universe, Singularity began to rain death and destruction on numerous cities before trying to eradicate all existence as he had done thousands of times before. After his defeat, Singularity goes back in time to Cereza's childhood, trying to murder the young Arch-Eve Origin. When the young Jeanne interferes, Singularity shows her a vision of her death in the future and offers to spare her if she leaves him alone. When she doesn't, he attempts to murder her too and declares that her death is set in stone.
• Bear With Me: The Lost Robots: Lifty Workofsky is seemingly just the grouchy head of the Robot Union in Paper City. Playing to helping Ted and Flint investigate the robot disappearances, Lifty is in fact the true culprit murdering the robots to harvest their ratchet relays. While the blame is shifted to Illiminuim CEO Smiley G. Skinner, Lifty gets away with countless murders until her henchmen finally turn on her after she tries to dispose of them, Lifty trying to kill both in a rage.
• Being One series: Dr. Rycroft runs a multitude of twisted experiments in his search for immortality, having thousands of People Jars stored like objects until he requests their presence on the operating table. A callous Bad Boss, Rycroft "snatches" scientists from their families and forces them to work in horrible conditions that often result in death, best exemplified when an entire level of his laboratory was massacred by an escaped vampire or when he unleashed the Lycans just to get back at his assistant for betraying him. After fleeing to another space station, Rycroft fully embraces his inner sadism and infects his own staff with nanobots that slowly devour them from the inside out, converting some into pitiful Nanoslaves to serve as his guards. When the Golden Warriors attack Earth, many of Rycroft's old facilities are breached—releasing several of his monsters into the world—much to his indifference. Rycroft is also revealed to be collaborating with the Observer, being complicit in his fascination with helping serial killers indulge in their darkest desires.
• Best Month Ever!: Thomas is a cold-hearted Klansman who proudly participates in the lynching of several black men from the Texan town of Hope, even posing with their corpses in pictures. When not in Klan ceremonies, Thomas is also a depraved Serial Rapist who forcefully impregnated a trio of innocent women that he keeps as sex slaves, "punishing" them and his own daughters whenever they misbehave.
• Beyond Good & Evil:
  • The DomZ High Priest is a cruel, relentless alien overlord who keeps himself alive by going from world to world and harvesting them of sapient life, draining all the innocent beings of their life to prolong his own. Arriving on Hyllis, the Priest commences an invasion, with General Kehck as a willing collaborator. Murdering countless innocents by draining them of life, any prisoners of war captured by the DomZ forces are tortured so horribly only one man has ever survived, with the priest also subjecting certain members of Kehck's Alpha Sections to be horribly mutated into monstrous Cannon Fodder for his forces. Intending on recovering his lost Shauni, the source of his power and immortality, the High Priest will kill billions to prolong himself, never giving a second thought to all he destroys.
  • General Kehck is the leader of the Alpha Sections, a military organization that, under the guise of benevolent saviors, aides the DomZ aliens in their attempt to harvest everyone on the planet, just as they have done across hundreds of worlds. Those abducted are transported to the moon where they are sucked dry of all their fluids so that Kehck and the DomZ Priest may live longer. Throughout the game Kehck uses his Propaganda Machine to urge the people of Hillys to enlist in the Alpha Sections, knowing full well that they'll be slowly converted by the DomZ into monstrous grotesqueries to act as his army of mooks. When Jade manages to start exposing the truth about the Alpha Sections, Kehck responds by kidnapping the war orphans Jade's adopted for he and his boss to feed on. He also hooks up Jade's Parental Substitute, Pey'j, into a torture machine for three weeks, which eventually ends up killing him.
• Beyond Shadowgate (1993): Belezaar is a snakeman who feigned being an advisor to King Aronde. Unsated with everything a man could have, Belezaar murders the king and frames the king's son Prince Erik in an attempt to have him executed, while kidnapping Aronde's daughter Princess Elizabeth. In addition, Belezaar has monsters terrorize the countryside, in one case attempting to burn a village, placing the entire population at risk of being entirely slaughtered. Belezaar also randomly has people thrown into the dungeon, with no regards to them potentially dying. When Erik comes close to saving his sister, Belezaar incapacitates him, not only to keep him from interfering, but also to watch as he tries to have Elizabeth sacrificed to the Warlock Lord, with humanity to be slaughtered next.
• Beyond: Two Souls: CIA General McGrath oversees the Infraworld condenser experiments in the hopes of consolidating American power. After a pregnant psychic woman he had institutionalized gives birth, McGrath has her put into a permanent medically-induced coma to avoid her being a liability. Later, McGrath has the president of Somalia assassinated, tricking the psychic woman's daughter, Jodie Holmes, into believing the democratically-elected president was a dictator, uncaring as the country falls to war. Revealing his master plan to be the weaponizing of the demonic entities within the Infraworld, McGrath seeks total military supremacy. Going back on his word to free Jodie after she completes his tasks, McGrath gloats he will place her in a coma like her mother.
• BioShock series: Even in this Crapsack World filled with morally dubious characters, a select few manage to stand out as the absolute worst:
  • BioShock (Fontaine and Suchong are also in Burial at Sea):
    • Frank Fontaine, aka Atlas, is the Arch-Enemy of Andrew Ryan. Seemingly providing shelter for orphans and the poor, in reality he was subjecting them with ADAM, a deadly substance he forcibly extracted from little girls, turning them into dangerous and insane Splicers. He would use these Splicers to start a civil war that would engulf Rapture in flames; during that time he forced Elizabeth to help him, first by torturing her then by torturing a child right in front of her, and later kills her after she gave him the means to control protagonist Jack. He would program Jack to kill his own father Andrew Ryan while he usurps the latter's position, and tries to kill him once he has served his purpose.
    • Dr. Yi Suchong was commissioned by Frank Fontaine to assist him in his takeover of Rapture. In Rapture, Suchong performs a variety of cruel experiments on innocent people, and is the one who pushes so hard for children to be used in ADAM experiments. In BioShock itself, Suchong experiments on dozens of young girls, turning them into "Little Sisters," as well as adult men, torturously turning them into "Big Daddies". Suchong is the one in charge of raising and brainwashing Jack, who he conditions and torments to such a point that Suchong is able to force him to snap his beloved puppy's neck. Meeting his demise after physically abusing a Little Sister, Suchong commits his crimes only For Science!, having no remorse or hesitation, even remarking he has no concern or desire to know how a conscience works.
    • Dr. J. S. Steinman is a plastic surgeon obsessed with his own twisted idea of beauty and purity. On the surface a twisted sociopath who managed to restrain himself from dabbling in his cruel desires, upon traveling to Rapture, Steinman decides to embrace his vision of the world, and force it onto the citizens of Rapture. In Rapture, Steinman begins brutally mutilating and killing any stray Splicers he finds, before beginning to kidnap innocent civilians and perform his surgeries on them. Slicing off faces, carving up genitalia, and using ADAM all the while to keep his victims alive and in pain for longer amounts of time, Steinman even murders his assistant nurse when she tries to expose his crimes. Steinman soon enough succumbs to insanity thanks to overuse of ADAM, and goes on to murder countless more people in his delusional psychosis.
  • BioShock 2: Stanley Poole, who also has a small appearance in Rapture, is a weaselly journalist who once settled for covering up crimes in exchange for bribes; however, after joining up with the likes of Andrew Ryan, he becomes far worse. Poole gets into Ryan's good graces by ratting on Johnny Topside, getting the innocent man thrown into prison and turned into a Big Daddy, after which Poole is sent by Ryan to infiltrate rising revolutionary Sofia Lamb's inner circle. After gaining Lamb's trust and becoming the head of Dionysus Park, Poole anonymously betrays the woman and gets her locked away, after which he allows Dionysus to fall into anarchy while he wastes tons of money on himself. Poole sells off Lamb's daughter Eleanor to be experimented on by Dr. Yi Suchong when the girl tries to stop his crimes, and, when Lamb escapes prison, Poole floods the entirety of Dionysus Park, killing the hundreds of residents solely to cover up how badly he's driven it into the ground. In the final moments of his life, Poole forces Subject Delta to possibly kill 3 Little Sisters, and is reduced to a sniveling, pathetic mess, screaming that everything he did "wasn't personal".
  • Infinite: "Father" Zachary Hale Comstock is the alternate version of Booker DeWitt who accepted baptism and took pride in being "The Hero of Wounded Knee", where he massacred several innocent Native Americans, children included. Creating Columbia, Comstock made himself its "Prophet", where he had his citizens worship him, while oppressing all people of non-white races. Comstock also conspired with the Luteces to steal the daughter of Booker and imprison her in a tower which drains her powers, having the Songbird serve as her warden. When Comstock learns of Booker's arrival, he has his followers hunt him down, having one immolate herself and later raising the wife that Comstock himself murdered, from the dead, to kill him. Upon retrieving Elizabeth, Comstock has her repeatedly tortured, molding her into his successor and carrying out his final plan to destroy the world below.
• Black: William Lennox is the enigmatic leader of Seventh Wave whose specialty is arming other terrorist groups. Originally serving as an assassin for the CIA, he was eventually burned when he began leaving behind too many innocent casualties; in response, Lennox killed everyone they sent after him, caused an explosion that killed 90 people to fake his death, then led the government on a wild goose chase around the world, spreading death everywhere he went. Upon encountering Sgt. Jack Keller, Lennox manipulates him to turn his enemies against each other, and when Keller almost catches him, he kills a dozen of his friends as he retreats, leaving his own forces behind in the process.
• Black Dahlia: Richard "Dick" Winslow is a seemingly inept, lecherous FBI agent who bumbles his way into Jim Pearson's heroics, but he is actually a Nazi operative with a mad dream to subvert reality to his whims. Dick seeks to obtain the Black Dahlia gem and use its power to enslave the minds of others, so he dispatches his partner Von Hess to torture and kill his way to obtaining the gem while Dick personally oversees the Cleveland Torso murders, a series of brutal slayings of innocents, as "blood sacrifices" to the Dahlia. Murdering Von Hess for failing him, Dick tracks the Dahlia across the globe, killing anyone in his way up to and including Elizabeth Short, who Dick heinously mutilates and bisects. Upon obtaining the Dahlia, Dick slaughters his partner Al King, forces Jim's lover Alice to kill herself in front of him, and tries to bodyjack Jim as the first step in his scheme to turn America into a new Reich for himself to rule.
• The Black Heart: Prince Janos of the Other World is an aspiring Evil Overlord who desires nothing but total domination over others. He launches gruesome wars of conquest against the peaceful wishes of his father the king, then kills him to usurp his throne and absorb the powers of his heart. When the guardian spirit Final steals the heart to protect it from Janos, he frames Final for the murder and manipulates his daughter Ananzi to earn her place as his lieutenant by destroying Final for him. When Ananzi discovers the truth after weakening Final, Janos kills her without remorse before destroying Final and acquiring ultimate power.
• Black Mirror 2: Angelina Gordon is one of the last of the Gordon bloodline. Having been obsessed with the occult since childhood, Angelina intends to free her monstrous ancestor Mordred and legions of demons to overwhelm the Earth. Angelina ritualistically murders multiple people to be sacrifices to the demons, including her long-lost twin brother's adoptive mother. Seducing her twin to manipulate him, with Darren unaware of their blood relation, Angelina guides him to the Gordon ancestral home of Black Mirror where she sacrifices her only ally to test the mansion's traps and attempts to murder her and Darren's birth mother before intending on opening the gates to unleash Hell on Earth.
• The Blackwell Deception: Gavin is a vampiric Con Man who specializes in ruining others' lives, then draining them of their happy memories, resulting in their deaths. Having kept himself alive for over 200 hundred years by regularly draining innocents of their life force, Gavin's most current victims include an elderly woman whom he tricked into making her family hate her, and a young, naive college girl he corrupted into drugs and alcohol before killing her. After executing a reporter investigating his crimes, Gavin captures Rosangela "Rosa" Blackwell, kills his Dragon when she expresses horror at his crimes, and brainwashes Rosa into trapping her best friend, Joseph "Joey" Mallone, in ghost limbo, hoping to leave him there for eternity while he continues his spree. In a video game series where antagonists are often sympathetic, tragic, or unintentionally evil, Gavin stands out as the solely pure evil villain Rosa and Joey ever encountered.
• Black & White 2: Both antagonists commit horrific atrocities to destroy the player god and their people:
  • The Aztec leader is a brutal conqueror who has already brought most of the world under his rule. With the Greeks left as the only opposition against him, he orders their genocide, unleashing his armies to slaughter their citizens and having his creature summon two volcanoes to destroy their cities. Once the Greeks return from the brink, the Aztec leader draws up new plans to exterminate them again, summoning another volcano to decimate the Greek city when they reach the Aztec homeland.
  • Battle of the Gods expansion: The Aztec God, immediately upon being born from prayer, decides to wipe out all life so that the ensuing death can strengthen him. Ravaging the Japanese and Norse homeland, the Aztec God sends his undead army to decimate entire towns and sacrifice villagers to empower himself. When these towns defect to the Greeks, the Aztec God furiously tries to destroy them out of spite. After being initially warded off, the Aztec God taunts the player that his true target were the Greeks, invading their island to exterminate them all.
• Blasphemous duology:
  • First game:
    • The High Wills are the deity of Cvstodia's religion and the source of the country's suffering. Seeking to become eternal and all-powerful, the Wills exploit Cvstodia's Martyrdom Culture by creating the Grievous Miracle, a curse that results in immense and disproportionate suffering upon those it "blesses" and twists most of Cvstodia's people into wretched abominations. When one of their creations attempt to rebel and leak the truth of the miracle, the Wills have his eyes removed and then imprison him. Using His Holiness Escribar, as the leader of Cvstodia's brutal theocracy, the Wills have him slaughter the Brotherhood of the Silent Sorrow down to the last member for some unelaborated heresy, including protagonist the Penitent One. In Ending A, where the Penitent One sacrifices himself to save Cvstodia from the miracle, the Wills have a mind-controlled Crisanta nullify the sacrifice to start the cycle anew, uncaring about the suffering they have to cause to remain godlike and immortal.
    • His Holiness Escribar, the "Last Son of the Miracle", is the great enforcer for the High Wills who controls the nightmarish theocracy of Cvstodia. Causing the Age of the Turned Throne by callously abandoning his congregation to misery, Escribar later gave himself to the Miracle in horrific catastrophes, devouring countless beings in the ash of his throne and recreating them as the Punished. Keeping control via the culture of torture, martyrdom, and keeping the High Wills supplied with suffering, Escribar had the Brotherhood of Silent Sorrow eradicated, which set the Penitent One upon his quest to slay the Pontiff.
  • Blasphemous II:
    • Eviterno, First of the Penitents, is perhaps the first ever follower of the Grievous Miracle. With his Penance of eternal waiting, Eviterno seeks a chance to revive the High Wills and unleash the Grievous Miracle back upon Cvstodia. As the leader of the Archconfraternity, Eviterno slaughters anyone opposed to him, including defeating the Penitent Cristana and provoking her suicide to reawaken the Penitent One before Eviterno can revive the worst age of Cvstodia.
    • Orospina, Lady Embroiderer, is the most sadistic of the Archconfraternity leaders. A vicious Penitent who delights in torture, Orospina lures individuals to her lair and proceeds to torment and murder them with her needle-like blade, keeping them alive until all that remains is a corpse wrapped like in a cocoon, which positively litter her domain.
• BlazBlue:
  • Takehaya Susanoo-no-Mikoto, better known as Yūki Terumi, rebelled against his "sister" Master Unit: Amaterasu and dedicated his entire life to spiting her and destroying all of her creations. Having created the apocalyptic Black Beast, Terumi was brainwashed by Nine the Phantom to assist the fellow Six Heroes in the Dark War. When freed, he returned the favor by casting her and Trinity Glassfille to the Boundary to die. He would later murder the caretaker of Ragna, Jin, and Saya, burn down the church they called home, and compelled Jin to sever the young Ragna's arm. His myriad of other atrocities include, but aren't limited to, being responsible for Lotte Carmine's horrific condition as Arakune; mind raping Noel Vermillion into becoming Mu the Godslayer; breaking Tsubaki Yayoi's spirit; harvesting the souls of his own NOL personnel to power up Cauldrons; and assisting Relius Clover and Izanami in enacting "Doomsday". An arrogant, sadistic god who sustains his wretched existence through others' hatred and despair, Susanoo coveted the True Azure to destroy everything, create a single world to lord over, and fill it full of every living beings' suffering for eternity.
  • Izanami Hades: Izanami, despite the circumstances of her existence, ousts herself as the sinister "Goddess of Death" whose innermost desire is a world of death and total nothingness. As Imperator Librarius, Izanami used her authority to help conspire with Terumi and Relius to destroy Amatersu and bring about Doomsday. Izanami placed Tsubaki under Ruby: Mind Eater and forced her to use the Izayoi's Immortal Breaker on Jin against her will. She later compelled Ragna to enter a berserk, Black Beast-like state also against his will, resulting in him crippling Jin. Coldly betraying Terumi and Relius for her own devices, Izanami tasks herself trying to bring about untold annihilation within a massive radius following Nine's failure. When confronted by Ragna and Noel, Izanami tries to tempt Ragna into killing Noel to gain the True Azure for himself. When Noel as Mu-12 tries to assimilate Izanami's soul into her own, Izanami reverses the process in an attempt to erase Noel's entire existence. A nihilistic, self-serving goddess, Hades: Izanami used all in her arsenal and disposed of anyone at any time to achieve her "dream".
  • Relius Clover, "The (Mad) Puppeteer", once saw the "true form" of every person, their soul, and lost faith in the inherent value of human life, vying to construct a perfect world as "The Architect." An esteemed scientist and alchemist, Relius conspired with Terumi to create the Kusanagi and assisted with the Black Beast's birth. After being flung into the future and eventually regaining his memories, Relius manipulates Sector Seven and Kokonoe Mercury into recreating the Nox Nyctores Nirvana and producing an energy core using the lives of the organization's members. Relius would later murder his own wife and daughter and reform them into unfeeling Killer Robots, leaving the latter unfinished for his son Carl to witness. Cold and unfeeling, Relius inflicted or was complicit in all manner of atrocities or torture in the name of science.
• Blazing Souls Accelate: Brumeia is one of the Human Genomes tasked by Gustavinus to replace all of the humans. Instead of following Gustavinus's orders, she went into the Vergis Kingdom and then enthralled its king to murder all of his families so that she could become its queen who rules the Kingdom with an iron fist while she manipulates the king for decades for her own benefit. At one point, she skinned a maid over the course of one week just because the maid called her "pretty". She also sent a thief that the main heroes encountered before to steal an Elemental Core which the main heroes possessed. When the citizens of Vergis Kingdom started a rebellion led by Nguyen Le, a survivor of the Vergis Kingdom massacre, Brumeia brainwashed her soldiers to fight against them, and when encountered by Nguyen, Brumeia then uses the king and the royal retainer as personal attack dogs against Nguyen while both of them were aware of what they are doing in order to cause Nguyen to become emotionally shattered. Running away to a faraway desert after being defeated, Brumeia then attacks the innocent bystanders who passes through the desert by controlling the bandits so that she could establish her new base. In the end, she ruins other people's life and makes them suffer, solely for her own amusement.
• Bloodborne: Micolash, Host of the Nightmare, is a former member of the Byrgenwerth scholars who leads the School of Mensis. Bent on ascending past humanity and being granted "Eyes" by the Great Ones, Micolash and the school have countless people abducted into the Unseen village of Yahar'ghul, experimented upon to make hideous undead abominations without humanity. Sacrificing his school to draw himself into the Nightmare of Mensis, Micolash also keeps a Great One captive and tortured in their experiments, being the one who contacted the Great Ones to call down the Blood Moon upon Yharnam and start the horrific scourge.
• Blood Breed: The owner of the abattoir is a disgraced biologist who was enamored with the cows and decided to create human/cow hybrids. Slaughtering the whole staff of his facility with the help of his son, the owner started to perform various experiments, capturing young women and using them as incubators for his hybrids, which always resulted in women dying. Capturing the protagonist, the owner gleefully tried to make her one of incubators.
• Blood Camp (link): Oliver, Brad's father, killed his own wife when she wanted to leave him and take Brad with her. After Brad decided to go camp with his friends, Oliver, believing them to be "bad influence" on Brad, stalked them and started to brutally kill them in the woods. At one point carving apart a ranger, Oliver revealed himself to Brad and when Brad refused to do anything with him anymore, Oliver gleefully tried to kill Brad as well.
• Blood Knights:
  • The First Paladin is the strongest knight in Rome and the head of a Corrupt Church. Dissatisfied that the people have lost faith in the church, the Paladin goes to the top of the mountain and demands the priest Bartholomew give him the powerful Blood Seal, threatening him with burning for calling vampires his companions. Confronted by heroes Jeremy and Alysa at the Sanctuary, the Paladin reveals that he seeks to destroy the seal, intending to unleash a Great Flood that will devastate the entire world and destroy millions of lives, while the Paladin will provide them with shelter to restore faith to the people, before then trying to try to kill Jeremy and Alice, stating "There is no faith without victims."
  • Medea is a succubus who took over Castle Pikehold and made its occupants her undead thralls. After killing every one of the castle's defenders, Medea turns their leftover armor into her own animated army, joined together by strands of bloodied flesh, and uses her Glamour to lure unwary adventurers into Castle Pikehold before having them devoured.
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night:
  • Gremory, the seeming right-hand of Gebel, is actually the force corrupting him and The Dragon to Bael, an Eldritch Abomination of a demon to whom Gremory seeks to hand over the entire world. Gremory is behind all of Gebel's evil, using him to unleash scores of demons upon humanity and having the village closest to the Hellhold ravaged and almost totally slaughtered by demons. Gremory callously throws Gebel aside to his death and lets him be slowly killed by his corruption when he's freed from her control in favor with an alliance with Dominique, and personally kills heroine Miriam's mentor Alfred before her own defeat.
  • Dominique Baldwin is an exorcist who lost her faith in God after God did nothing to stop the demon invasion 10 years prior and thus desired demonic power to transcend any deity. To this end, Dominique sets Miriam against her childhood friend Gebel, hoping to corrupt Miriam enough to have Gremory possess her and use her a sacrifice to Bael. Dominique is willing to plunge the entire world into demonic carnage all for the power to kill God himself and coldly acknowledges all love for her family swept up in the demonic attacks has long been consumed by her selfish crusade for power.
• Blue Archive:
  • Beatrice is a member of the Gematria Student Council and President of the Arius Branch School. Ending the civil war that broke out in Arius 10 years ago, Beatrice rises to the position of student president, changing the phrase in the meantime. Beatrice is the one responsible for making the Arius Branch School a terrorist organization by brainwashing the students and teaching them to commit murder for many years, resulting in many students turning into cold-blooded murderers. Anyone who rebels against her will be punished with a severe beating. Angry when things don't go as planned, Beatrice plans to destroy Kivotos after sacrificing Akko in front of Sensei. Beatrice also brings Yurizono Seia to the ritual, who was spying on her, announcing she will Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence after taking a mysterious power from Akko and using it to end all humanity.
  • Decagrammaton is a vending machine that gains human-level intelligence and emotions as it begins to recognize itself as a god. It attempts to conquer Kivotos by creating an army of brainwashed artificial intelligence into The Ten Prophets to not just cause a massive war but also nearly destroy Kivotos, which would kill millions of innocents, before being defeated after being submerged in the ocean.
• Bodycount (2011): The Nemesis is the head of "the Target", an organization that orchestrated civil wars across the world. Killing almost all members of "the Network", an organization that opposed her, the Nemesis sparked a Civil War in Tesanga, a small African country, which led to the deaths of millions. Blowing up her own base, killing 50,000 people, the Nemesis taunted and mocked the protagonist as she tried to thwart his attempts to stop her.
• Bogeyman (link): The titular being is a Humanoid Abomination who spirits away children to its hellish alternate world for perceived disobedience. "Disobedience" to the Bogeyman is anything from not brushing your teeth to missing band recital, at which point his victims are forced to become its slaves so he can teach them the meaning of "obedience". A sadist and a Control Freak with an intolerance for anything but perfect submission, the Bogeyman beats the kids, starves them, and forces them into the harsh wilderness to hunt for their food, and when the time comes every week to find a new child, the Bogeyman slaughters the weakest of his charges and eats them, forcing the other kids to partake. The attic is full of broken toys and keepsakes from all the poor children the Bogeyman stolen over the years. Even if he lets the player character go, it is entirely contingent on them having been shattered into the Bogeyman's grotesque definition of "obedient".
• Bomberman franchise:
  • Bagura ^{also named} Buglear/Bagulaa/Bugler/Buglar/Buggler/Bugglar/Burglar/Bagula is the Big Bad of the entire Bomberman franchise, Bomberman's most recurring enemy, and by far his widest-reaching and most vile adversary.
    • Bomberman '94 through Bomberman Hero: Bagura makes his first appearance by splitting Planet Bomber into pieces and attempting to send a comet on a collision course with it after Bomberman puts the planet back together. In Super Bomberman 3, he resurrects the Five Dastardly Bombers and uses them to take over five planets; after Bomberman defeats the Five Dastardly Bombers, Bagura attempts to destroy the planets with his Battleship. Even after he's killed, his resilience allows him to live through a Brain in a Jar. In Bomberman Hero, he is the Man Behind the Man to the Devil Bomber, and possibly the reason for his evil, including brainwashing, as he had him locked away under a planet for being "too unruly".
    • Super Bomberman R: In this reboot of the franchise, Bagura's new incarnation, Buggler, is as bad as ever. Starting off the game by performing a grandiose speech about his plans of taking control of the galaxy while also threatening the lives of all that live there, he is revealed to have brainwashed the Five Dastardly Bombers into being his slaves; forcing them against their will to serve for him, and using them as part of his Giant Mecha in the final battle. He reveals his true plans at the end of the game: Convert the sun into a black hole so that it would inhale the entire solar system, and later the universe. Vicious, manipulative, and sadistic, this new incarnation of the classic villain manages to be even worse than his origin.
  • Bomberman 64: Sirius is the true Big Bad, usurping the position from Altair. Initially appearing as a friendly ally to Bomberman on the run from Altair, it's revealed that he was the original owner of the Omni Cube and had trapped even more galaxies in there than Altair, as he had a proper knowledge on how to use the cube. He lies to Bomberman that Altair had killed his family; however these are false and he uses them to get Bomberman on his side. After he reveals his true intentions to Bomberman, he callously throws him away and nearly destroys Planet Bomber. Manipulating Bomberman into helping him, even worse than Altair, he manages to be the most vile villain in the game.
• Bomb Rush Cyberfunk: Faux, despite his severed head being one of the main driving forces for the protagonists in the game, is revealed to be a shockingly vile person. In the past, when fellow Big 3 member Felix finds out about Faux getting his father to frame innocents for his vandalism, Faux murders Felix in cold blood, deliberately having him fall into a fan which leads to him being decapitated. After the New Amsterdam police inserts Faux's head into their Project Algo program, Faux is able to control the minds of the force, using them in his plan to kill every writer in the city so he can become "All City King", while killing Chief Inspector Berlage, who revived him in the first place, once the word gets out about Project Algo. After the Bomb Rush Crew fight him for the first time, Faux takes their leader Red, who is actually Felix, and brutally snaps his head off, immediately followed by kidnapping BRC member Solace so he can use his younger body as his own.
• The Boogie Man: The titular Boogie Man, really Brendon Dumont, is a cold and theatrical murderer. Seeking to make himself into a feared monster, Brendon holds a tour of Livingstone Castle, then hijacks the tour to force Detective Keith Baring into a Deadly Game. After brutally killing his nine servants and a dog and leaving their mutilated corpses for Keith to find, he kidnaps tour guide Stevie Small, injecting him with drugs and skinning him to mentally break him, then leaves him tied up to bleed to death. Putting the others inside various Death Traps, he challenges Keith to save them, kidnapping and torturing his wife Helena as well. Despite being fully human, Brendon proves himself worse than any supernatural being.
• Borderlands 3:
  • Tyreen Calypso is the de facto leader of the Children of the Vault, a murderous cult based on Pandora constructed to torture and kill everyone in their way. Alongside her brother Troy, Tyreen hosts video streams where she tortures and murders enemy and friend alike, getting delight out of forcing her own fanatics to mutilate themselves in her name. In her quest for godhood, Tyreen facilitates wars that overtake entire planets, betrays her allies, and assists Troy in trying to crash Pandora's moon into the planet, uncaring of the billions who will die. After her brother's death, Tyreen shows absolutely no remorse or concern for him, instead reducing his corpse to ashes to steal his powers so she can complete her ascension to godhood, even murdering her own father while proclaiming her plans to travel the galaxy and devour everything in her path. Having no care for anyone except herself and surpassing even Handsome Jack in villainy while lacking the latter's love for his family, Tyreen is the evilest villain any Vault Hunter has faced thus far.
  • Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck Downloadable Content: Dr. Benedict is the sadistic Hyperion scientist responsible for Kreig's condition. Already known to torture test subjects to death, Benedict created a "Berserker Gas" that turns subjects into mindless berserkers, with the original consciousness being stuck witnessing their carnage. Benedict plans to use it as corporate sabotage, with him considering using it to poison their water supply, and earlier was willing to use an entire elementary school as a testing ground. When done with the subjects, he puts them in the "Tea Party", where the bodies are crushed by a compactor into a shower of gore. Heavily implied to be responsible for the escalating insanity of the psychos of Pandora, Dr. Benedict makes the most of his limited screen time.
• The Bourne Conspiracy's "Disarm Renard": Khalid Azar is a powerful nationalist from Morocco who is behind various terrorist cells in his country. Azar sets a meetup with Charles Renard at a black-tie event to buy a Dirty Bomb off of him that Azar hopes to "contaminate twelve city blocks" with, only to betray and shoot Renard dead to simply steal the bomb. Using his assassins and henchmen to kill off Renard's security team, Azar has many of the guests of the gala gunned down in the process as he tries to flee with the bomb.
• Bramble: The Mountain King: The Skogsrä is a shapeshifting creature that stands out as the only entity young protagonist Olle faces that is wholly evil. It stalks the forests in the shape of an enchanting woman to lure men into its clutches, at which point it either devours their hearts or drives them completely insane. The Skogsrä takes a sadistic glee in its actions, committing them solely for power and fun, and it drives an entire village to extinction by picking off the population and turning them against one another. When it notices Olle in its grove, the Skogsrä uses the form of the boy's beloved sister Lillemor to torment and attack him, and even if the Skogsrä is shown mercy by Olle in the ensuing fight, it reacts by stabbing Olle In the Back and laughing over his corpse.
• Bravely Default series:
  • First game:
    • Ouroboros himself, the God of Destruction, plots to wreak havoc on the Celestial Realm, and is responsible for every catastrophic event in the game's plot. Unseen until the game's true ending, Ouroboros pulls the strings behind his servant Airy and oversees her link the tens of thousands of worlds that comprise reality in a bid to break the boundaries between them, utterly destroy all of them, and bring chaos to the Celestial Realm to recreate reality in his own twisted image. Ouroboros devours his pleading servant once he finally tires of her, dismissively compares her to cattle, and, in the final battle, obliterates world after world for the sheer purpose of breaking the heroes' spirits, nothing less than utterly gleeful once they beg him to stop. Ouroboros, motivated solely by boredom and a lust for chaos, strife, hatred, and suffering—things he considers exciting—goes down as the greatest evil in the story.
    • Airy, fittingly titled "the Evil One", is the Piercer of Boundaries and chief servant to the evil god Ouroboros. Posing as a helpful fairy ally to the Warriors of Light in their mission to reactivate Luxendarc's corrupted crystals, Airy is in truth behind the opening of the Great Chasm and the wide swath of destruction it caused throughout Luxendarc, traveling from world to world and manipulating the heroes into purifying the elemental crystals and thus linking those worlds to Ouroboros. Airy takes sadistic delight in manipulating the heroes like puppets and butchers them after she is done with them, having repeated the process with tens of thousands of worlds over a course of millions of years. Once she's ousted as Ouroboros's servant, Airy, in the false ending, quickly slaughters the party while taunting them about how she's manipulated them. Forced to rest in the Dark Aurora after being cheated of purifying the last crystal, Airy, once confronted by the revived heroes, decides to torture the warriors of light for five thousand years to bide her time, and pretends to have been possessed purely so she can shatter an already despondent Agnes's will further by revealing she is exactly the remorseless demon she appears to be. A deceitful monster under her seemingly innocent, childish exterior, Airy's singular wish was to allow her master access to the Celestial Realm in order to destroy all reality.
    • Dr. Qada, the Salve-Maker, is an obese psychopath who stands leagues over Eternia's normally-sympathetic ranks. Qada sacrifices thousands of innocents through the Toxic Mist, including those of Eternia's own swordbearers, while acting as a medic to both sides of Luxendarc's conflict to have a large supply of healthy bodies to experiment on. Qada's ambition extends to planning to wipe out the Council of Six with his equally-treacherous compatriots Fiore DeRosa and Erutus Profiteur to take over Eternia themselves, with Qada planning to unleash a fatal plague through Luxendarc. Reviled even by his own superior, Qada is completely unsure as to whether or not he should be remembered as a gloried hero for providing the cure to his own plague—or as the vile, disease-spreading sociopath who unleashed it in the first place.
  • Bravely Second: End Layer: Lord Providence is the ruler of the Celestial Realm and the source of all the game's misfortune, with all of Anne's evil tracing back to him. After his takeover of the Celestial Realm, Providence nourishes himself off the utter despair of a woman named Vega, feeding off her depression over being separated from her lover Altair in the Celestial Realm while perverting her good memories to twist them into the monstrous Ba'al. Providence's plan to keep Vega as a food source for him forever is to allow the Ba'al to ravage Luxendarc before he plunges the world into despair and annihilates it, all for the purpose of permanently breaking Vega's lingering hope. After the death of Anne, Providence personally confronts the heroes and tries to obliterate Luxendarc himself, merrily noting that Luxendarc's destruction would be "pointlessly absurd"—a sentiment he considers amusing. With the worst master plan in the series, Providence manages to beat out even Ouroboros in sheer, unmitigated sadism.
  • Bravely Default II:
    • Chapter 2: Folie, the wielder of the Pictomancer Asterisk, was a Lonely Rich Kid empowered by Edna who used the chance to start pursuing her artistic ambitions. Folie took part in the destruction of Musa, reminiscing fondly about how "fun" the slaughter was, and for the duration of the chapter operates as a Serial Killer in the city of Wiswald, murdering several noted scholars in the city all for the sake of using their blood in her artwork. In her cruelest touch, Folie murdered a young girl named Mona, then brainwashed Mona's parents into her slaves by using her cursed paintings to drive them insane with the belief Mona was still alive.
    • Chapter 3: Helio, the wielder of the Spiritmaster Asterisk, is the true power behind the corrupt, dragon-worshiping theocracy of Rimedhal. A spy from Holograd sent to destabilize the entire nation from within and eliminate anyone who could stand up to the conquest, Helio manipulated his fellow Asterisk wielders Dominec and Gladys into setting up the "judgments". As chief inquisitor of these judgments, Helio has any innocent people who stood up to the church made out to be fairies and forces them to plunge into a frozen ravine called the Jaws of Judgment to "prove" they're innocent, a regular process that had led to countless deaths over a decade. When the time finally comes for Holograd to invade, Helio murders Domenic himself and pauses in his escape to cruelly mock the dying Gladys that he was the one who killed her parents and set Gladys off on her path to begin with by pinning it on the fairies.
    • Vigintio, wielder of the Arcanist Asterisk, was a deranged sorcerer in life killed by his prestigious rival Lady Emma after he turned to experimenting on innocent people. Before he died, Vigintio perfected a formula that allowed him to become undead, a formula he uses to whip up a massive undead army in the pursuit of his revenge. To spite Lady Emma's name, Vigintio intends to have the entire city of Wiswald massacred by his army and converted to their ranks, all after he's tied up his old colleague Roddy from the highest point in Wiswald to ensure he sees every moment of the slaughter.
• The Breach: The Elder God is an alien entity whose angelic appearance masks an utterly reprehensible monster. Coming in contact with the Hermes through the SW-Jump, the Elder God infects the entire crew with the Yellow, driving them to self-mutilation, murder, and worship of the Elder God. Once members of his cult have proven their fanaticism, the Elder God mutates their body by having his progeny possess the cultists. Not satisfied with just the ship, the Elder God plans on spreading the Yellow to Earth and have his children assimilate all of humanity.
• Breakdown: Nexus is an alien AI, who is responsible for creating the T'lan and unleashing them upon the science facility. Having most of the military personal and scientists killed, Nexus leads its T'lan army through its "avatar", Solus, as it plans to spread the T'lan through the world to annihilate humanity. When Derrick Cole confronts it, Nexus tortures him with the visions of his friends dying repeatedly, before it tries to kill Cole.
• Broken Sword series:
  • Shadow of the Templars & The Sleeping Dragon: The Grand Master is the ruthless leader of the Neo-Templars who seeks to use Baphomet's power to manipulate the minds of humanity to serve his organization. To aid him in his quest for conquest, the Grand Master would use his members to manipulate governments, causing strife and discord to weaken them. Apathetic to the death of his own followers, the Grand Master would also have his followers executed if they were shown to be liabilities. Returning after his supposed demise, the Grand Master abandons any ideologies of the Templars, firstly trying to burn one of his old followers alive in a barn. Using his newfound powers, the Grand Master horrifically murders multiple of Susarro's soldiers before killing Susarro himself. The Grand Master's final plan was to use the dragon energy for himself, aware yet uncaring of the destruction it would bring upon the planet.
  • The Smoking Mirror:
    • Karzac is a Cuban drug lord who is contacted by the imprisoned and ancient god of death, Tezcatlipoca, and, making a deal with the evil god, Karzac begins making plans to release the god from his prison. Requiring the assistance of renowned scientist Professor Bertrand Oubier, Karzac murders the man's wife, forcibly addicts him to drugs, then later executes him when he outlives his usefulness, something his own troops are not exempt from either. Along with regularly attempting to murder George Stobbart and his girlfriend, photojournalist Nicole "Nico" Collard, at various times, Karzac leads an assault on a small village George is hiding in, burning it down and attempting to kill every villager residing there. Karzac then hopes to sacrifice George to open the door for Tezcatlipoca to come to Earth and cause untold amounts of chaos and destruction, something Karzac is fully aware yet uncaring of, hoping for unlimited power in return for dooming humanity.
    • Tezcatlipoca himself is the sadistic Mayan god that Karzac seeks to release. Many centuries ago, Tezcatlipoca deceived Quetzalcoatl and stole his powers to enact a new reign on Mayan civilization, with countless blood sacrifices in his name. Sealed away by Quetzalcoatl's priests, Tezcatlipoca spoke to Karzac in his dreams and conspired to release him from his prison, starting off by having Karzac get Professor Oubier hooked onto drugs and killing his wife. When released, Tezcatlipoca lets out a wave of energy that reduces anyone surrounding his pyramid to skeletons before impaling Karzac on his spear, dissolving his flesh. Tezcatlipoca's ultimate sadistic goal is to gleefully unleash a new reign of horror on civilization.
• Brütal Legend: Emperor Doviculus, the sadomasochistic creator and leader of the Tainted Coil, enslaved humanity long before the game started, and led the world into a hellish domain. Letting Lionwhyte take charge of the human race and leading them to a society ruled by a dictatorship of which he approves, Doviculus continues building up his own army of demons that he himself created in order to oppose anyone against him. When Lionwhyte fails to stop the revolution of Eddie Riggs, Doviculus kills Lionwhyte and then murders Lars, who showed himself after Doviculus sensed the presence of the band of heroes. With two cold-blooded murders in his hands, Doviculus unleashes destruction around the area to eliminate the surviving members of Lionwhyte's army and attempts to murder Eddie's. After showing his tremendous power and taking over as the primary villain, Doviculus sends a doppelganger version of Ophelia, a woman who was abandoned by Eddie and his team, to take vengeance on them. After that final duel against Ophelia, Doviculus kills the doppelganger and challenges Eddie to a battle to the Death in his throne room, where Doviculus exhibits his callousness towards his minions as he tortures and kills them to be used as attacks against Eddie, despite them being his children.
• Bug Fables:
  • Hoaxe, after finding a crown that gave him incredible strength, went from a friendless trash collector to the merciless Wasp King. After seizing control of the Wasp Kingdom from its rightful ruler Queen Vanessa II and running it into the ground, he brainwashed most of the wasps into becoming fanatically loyal to the point of being forced to die for him' kept the deposed queen as a prisoner to torture; and had bugs thrown into his dungeons to starve for the slightest offenses. In pursuit of the Everlasting Sapling, the Wasp King leads destructive assaults on the Ant Kingdom and after opening the way to the Sapling itself, cruelly abandons his loyal soldiers to die against the roaches protecting it while setting uncontrollable fires that threaten to annihilate the roaches and their village. Obsessed with becoming an immortal tyrant who'd crush bugkind under his heel, the Wasp King represents the worst kind of people that covet the Everlasting Sapling's power.
  • The scientists in charge of Upper Snakemouth are a duo of sociopathic cockroaches who sought to recreate the Everlasting Sapling's incredible powers, no matter the cost. In hopes of achieving immortality without the sapling, they kidnapped innocent bugs and would subject them to inhumane experiments that would destroy their minds and turn them into feral cordyceps zombies and throw away a reasonable bunch of cordyceps, considering it a failure. Though long dead thanks to falling prey to their own hubris, the victims they left behind infest Snakemouth Lair as a haunting reminder of the atrocities they committed in their arrogant bid to create something even stronger than a god.
• Bulletstorm: General Victor Sarrano is a high-ranking member of the Confederation and a childish psychopath with a love of creative brutality. The leader of Dead Echo who sends his men out to kill innocents under the guise of justice, Sarrano orders his men to kill reporter Bryce Novak for attempting to expose his operation, causing Grayson Hunt to betray him, and for Novak's daughter Trishka to seek vengeance on him. Tasked by the Elysium hotel resort's corporation to plant a DNA bomb that will wipe every living organism off the apocalyptic planet Stygia, Sarrano leads his men to die, refusing to grant them supplies unless they generate creative kills, and tricks Grayson and Ishi into arming the DNA bomb. Later mind-controlling Ishi into murdering Grayson against his will, Sarrano attempts to leave Grayson and Trishka on Stygia to die from the bomb's blast.
• Bully: Gary Smith is an openly manipulative snake with a complete Lack of Empathy and a diabolical plan to "take over" Bullworth Academy. Encouraging and tricking Jimmy Hopkins along with other students into random acts of vandalism, bullying, and even assault, Gary ratchets up his vile plots by turning the Townies into his pawns and using them to unleash feral rats into the library; get Johnny Vincent wrongfully committed to an abusive asylum; and set the occupied gym on fire, nearly killing multiple students. In the grandest phase of his plan, Gary orchestrates a destructive riot amidst the various cliques, using them to brutalize each other and sets parts of Bullworth ablaze while Gary ties up the head of the school. Gary delights in the chaos and suffering he causes, and ultimately tries to destroy Jimmy's reputation and psychological state as a final, cruel move.

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• Cafe "Venus Flytrap": Chef Frog is the most sadistic member of a group of Frogs, who capture and devour sapient insects and animals. Gleefully catching every sapient being whom the Frogs lured to their cafe, Chef loves to torture them, before he cuts them apart and make food out of their remains. Enjoying his job and gleefully admitting to eating even children of the Frogs, Chef mentally tortures the protagonist, forcing him to run across the cafe, solely to draw out his suffering.
• C-12: Final Resistance: Major Dan Carter is a high-ranking official within the alien army. A former soldier aiding the resistance, Dan defected and joined the aliens once he realized humanity was losing the fight, and willingly allowed himself to be turned into a cyborg. As a cyborg, Dan helped the aliens kill members of the resistance and kidnap humans so they could be converted into cyborg soldiers for the aliens' armies. After the resistance starts to heavily sabotage the aliens' plans, Dan kidnaps his own wife, Dr. Carter, in hopes of having her turned into a cyborg, and also in an attempt to incapacitate the resistance's morale. When Dan discovers that the aliens plan on poisoning Earth's atmosphere in order to wipe out all life on the planet, Dan is more than happy leaving humanity to die all so he can save himself.
• Call of Juarez: Juan "Juarez" Mendoza is a ruthless Mexican bandit turned warlord. When the outlaw brothers, Thomas and Ray McCall, arrive in Mexico, Juarez uses them to wipe out his rivals before betraying them to Confederate remnants they escaped from. When he bargains with an Apache tribe trying to fight the army, Juarez simply sells them defective rifles he has lying around, taking the money while letting the natives be slaughtered. Upon learning his mistress Marisa is in love with Thomas, Juarez tries to have the brothers' pacifist younger brother William killed and intends to throw Marisa into slavery in one of his brothels, sneering that she is a "lying, thieving, gold-loving whore." When Ray defeats him, Juarez resurfaces eighteen years later, hunting for a secret treasure he believes Marisa passed on to her son Billy. He kills Thomas and Marisa, lets his men rape his ex, and attempts to hunt down Billy by threatening the life of Billy's love interest Molly. When he fails to sway Billy—who turns out to be his own son—to his side, he attempts to burn him and Molly alive. At the end, when Juarez is beaten, he still manages to mortally wound Ray himself and attempts to murder Billy to the end before a dying Ray finds the strength to kill him once and for all. Brutal, greedy and treacherous, Juarez prides himself on his ability to come out on top no matter who he has to destroy.
• Capella's Promise: Second Prince Zanara Capella was once a child who toyed and experimented with animal life, only to carry his callous god complex into adulthood. After his father discovers the Mother machine, Zanara aids him in using the device to painfully fuse Ilnacia's most talented citizens into monstrous Hute soldiers, but eventually commits patricide, takes over the operation, and fuses with Mother. With his newfound power, Zanara sends a Hute army after his brother for opposing him and has any Hute who defies him either killed or forced to fuse with another Hute. Near the end of the game, Zanara has his Hutes attack all of Ilnacia in order to solidify his rule, with no regard for the innocents he kills or absorbs into Mother.
• Cardinal Syn: Syn is the mysterious woman who is behind the idea of the bloody tournament between each clan of the Bloodlands and the winner of said tournament will become the ruler of the Bloodlands. However, when one of the winners of the tournament tries to claim the prize, Syn betrays him by murdering him and won't let the other contestants win the tournament. In the other stories, it was revealed that Syn kept two people as a prisoner, brutally mutilating them and stitching their bodies together, which resulted in them becoming a fighter that worships her; she then massacres several knights in one of the fighter's backstories. In her story when she wins the fight, she then uses her powers, resulting in the Bloodlands getting destroyed and dragons flying away from the area.
• The Caregiver: The Karasu Tengu is a demonic entity who cursed the elderly Koga Souichi and his family in order to merge his body with Souichi. Driving the spirit of Souichi's wife Haori insane, the Tengu made her murder the entire family, including their young children, as The Tengu held a ritual on Souichi. When Tomita Sachie discovered the Tengu and Haori, the Tengu spirit drove her insane and caused her to commit suicide. Chasing down Kuramoto Naomi in order to stop her from meddling, it's revealed that the Tengu already succeeded in possessing Souichi and presumably kills Naomi by the end.
• CarnEvil: Professor Ludwig von Tökkentäkker is the leader of the titular CarnEvil, a carnival filled with monsters. When the unnamed Player Character summons his carnival, Tökkentäkker greets him and forces him and another girl named Betty to fight through the carnival's three main attractions. After the player survives the main attractions, Tökkentäkker greets him at the big top, and orders an army of surgeon clowns to cut out his brain and place it into the body of a gorilla. When the player successfully kills them, Tökkentäkker traps him in a cage and brings him to his airship. There, he and his army of skeletons try to kill the Player and Betty. The website reveals more of Tökkentäkker's crimes, such as his manipulation, lobotomization, and mutilation of two circus performers; and his desire to Take Over the World with an army of giant freaks.
• Catto Boi series: The Entity is a demonic entity that only wanted to torment anyone it pleases. It was a member of digital beings, entities that are normally benevolent beings, before choosing to use its powers to torment anyone it meets by killing them repeatedly, eventually destroying their entire world when it gets bored. It tries to destroy Catto Boi's world out of spite two times. Had its plan succeeded, it would turn Catto into a villain and then trap him in the deleted remains from the Bad Ending.
• Cave Story: Dr. Fuyuhiko Date, known almost exclusively as the Doctor, is a sociopathic researcher who came onto the floating island to take control of the powers of the Demon Crown. The Doctor is responsible for kidnapping several of the harmless native Mimigas and force-feeding them the corrupting red flowers, mutating them into savage beasts. The Doctor has reduced the Mimiga's village to a select few survivors in doing this, and plots to use the rabid Mimiga to attack the surface world. The Doctor has his servants force-feed the young Toroko these red flowers, ultimately leading to her death, and murders King when he tries to intervene, commenting on how "fragile" their bodies are. The Doctor is also responsible for mutating several of the island's infant dragons into undead zombies. At the end of the game, the Doctor mutates his own servant Misery for her dissent, intending to make her his puppet until the day she dies. The Doctor was an unfettered egomaniac who puts his pride above everything else, all the while behaving in a calm, perpetually condescending manner.
• Chained Echoes:
  • The three Vaen are an ancient and powerful race that once helped defeat and seal away the evil Harbinger, before their power went to their heads and began to see themselves as gods over humanity. To strengthen the Harbinger's prison, the Vaen would periodically release the destructive Grand Grimoire in the world so that it could cause mass devastation to reset human progress and use their souls to reinforce the prison. When the Grand Grimoire is stolen from them, the Vaen are only enraged that someone would dare steal from them, and send their giant champion to kill the thief. When the Crimson Wings kill it, the Vaen create a giant fireball to kill everyone in Valandis with as punishment, showing that despite their claims, they only truly care about maintaining their own power and superiority over mankind.
  • Daimbert is a scientist from Tormund interested in transferring souls from one being to another and was exiled over wanting to try human experimentation. Founding the White Rose Inn, Daimbert would pose as a normal innkeeper to abduct passing travelers and experiment on them, such as transferring their souls into another person, which would drive them insane before they killed themselves, or trap their souls inside flowers with them still fully conscious and aware. Abducting Lenne when the party is passing through, Daimbert used her to try to capture the entire party to experiment on them, only to run away when they got free. When confronted by the heroes, Daimbert has the only survivor of his experiments, the little girl Arlette, and orders her to kill them, threatening to beat her if she doesn't.
• Chaos Rings II: Amon, "the Creator", also known as Bachs, is the mastermind of the entire game, and easily the worst entity in the entire franchise. An ancient being kept powerful by the belief of others, Amon once survived by constantly dueling his counterpart Neron; however, after finally defeating Neron, Amon concocts a new scheme to keep himself immortal and all-powerful forever. Sealing Neron away in a prison for thousands of years, Amon uses Neron's power to create humanity on a planet he called Earth, and basked in the worship they gave him as their "Creator". Amon, realizing that every few centuries humanity starts to lose faith in him, creates a new system he calls the Rite of Resealment. Slaughtering one third of humanity, Amon chooses half a dozen humans and lies that Neron is responsible for the slaughter and will wipe out all of humanity, manipulating the group of humans into believing that whichever one he selects to be the Chosen One will have to kill the other five to save humanity. Once this is done, Amon brainwashes the Chosen One, uses his Horsemen of the Apocalypse to "cleanse" humanity of nearly the entire population, then uses the brainwashed Chosen One to blame Neron for the event and sing Amon's praises, restoring the faith in him and his power. Amon commits this same atrocity well over one thousand times, and plans to continue it for all eternity to satisfy his god complex. Perhaps the worst factor of all, Amon specifically chooses the Chosen One's loved ones as the sacrifices to be killed, taking sadistic pleasure in forcing the current Chosen One to kill their friends, lovers, and children.
• Chaser: Samuel Longwood is the President of MARSCORP, whose machinations drive the plot of the entire game. Using the resources of his corporation for his own corrupt schemes, Longwood mercilessly led the hunt for the rebels who opposed him. Having Scott Stone kill John Chaser and assume his identity and memories, Longwood orders Gomez and Shimako to implant the idea for revenge in Stone's head, solely to manipulate Stone to go to Mars. There, having Stone imprisoned with Chaser's former partner, Longwood allowed them to escape and kill many of his own men. Using Stone to track down the rebel base, Longwood immediately sends his army to slaughter everyone there, killing nearly all of the rebels and torturing their leader, Graham Castor. When Stone killed Castor to prevent him from being tortured, Longwood has Stone killed and announces his intention to hunt down the remaining rebels.
• Choice of Games (in alphabetical order):
  • Choice of Games:
    • Champion of the Gods: Sarpedon is one of the three Vestiges encountered in the story, and easily the worst. Residing on an island in the middle of the Forgotten Sea, Sarpedon regularly causes boats to crash onto his island, and then turns the surviving passengers of said boat crashes into statues that he arranges into his own twisted "art", a process he has repeated onto hundreds of innocents. When you crash onto his island, Sarpedon wastes no time in inflicting this same fate onto your entire crew, and, when you attempt to stop him, Sarpedon happily drains the life force of his own statues, killing dozens of them. Murdering many of the people who try to stop him, Sarpedon uses his last breath to summon a plague onto the nearby city of Kelinos, plunging the hundreds of residents into deathlike comas from which they nearly die if not for your intervention, all just to spite you.
    • Choice of Zombies: Anita is a minor villain encountered in the story, yet makes the most of her time to be a truly monstrous individual. Seemingly the kind leader of a group of survivors of the zombie apocalypse who have taken up residency at a church, Anita is actually a religious fanatic who believes zombies to be the next step in human evolution, and, as such, uses her friendly exterior to lower innocents' guards before feeding them to a group of zombies she keeps chained up, releasing any people who reanimate back into the world in the hopes to turn evermore people into the "Master Race". Depending on your choices, Anita can try to feed a child to her zombies, and even succeed, all while claiming it is the "will of God".
    • Diabolical: Ara-Kunos the Eighth, the emperor of the planet Yod, at some point came to Earth under the alias of Dr. Arachnus and made a name for himself as the world's most infamous villain. Prior to the game, he attempted to steal all of Earth's water supply. When stopped by renowned hero the Star, Arachnus mentally tortured the hero into becoming a borderline insane shell of his former self. Later, he murdered President Alex Johnson by drinking all of his blood, before acquiring the President's clairvoyant powers. Receiving visions that a threat to him was somewhere on Earth, Arachnus went into seclusion while having mechanical spiders kill anybody they come across. When he finds out that you're the said threat, Arachnus infects thousands of people in Merit City with a eventually-fatal nano-virus that turns them into zombie-like drones, all with the goal of killing you. Eventually, he reveals his true identity, and declares that he intends to terraform the entire planet, killing the majority of humans and enslaving any survivors. When you enter his ship, it's revealed that Arachnus shows no sympathy for his people, brainwashing them into mindless soldiers who will die for him without a second thought. When confronted, Arachnus offers you the opportunity to join him, only to mock you for thinking he was being genuine about his offer; if Hackmaster was chosen for your sidekick, she'll attempt to take up Arachnus's offer, only for him to kill her for no reason. In a game that acts primarily as a parody of heroes and villains, Dr. Arachnus is played deadly serious, and out of all the supervillains in the world, proves to be by far the most heinous one the player confronts.
    • Hero of Kendrickstone: Milius Black-Clad was once the Grand Wizard for the city of Kendrickstone, but after sacrificing animals and children in order to further his research, he was banished from the city. Enraged at Kendrickstone for rejecting his "genius", Milius began kidnapping and brainwashing hundreds of innocents into becoming his slaves, then using them to lead raids on caravans and travelers coming to and from Kendrickstone, making sure to slaughter as many people as possible during said raids. After promising to spare Kendrickstone should it surrender to him, Milius is revealed to have lied, planning to massacre the hundreds of inhabitants and raze the city to the ground even if it unconditionally surrenders.
  • Hosted Games:
    • Blood Moon: Lawrence Blackwell, a tyrannical vampire lord, is the primary threat to the pack's survival. With hopes of currying favor with the Night Court, Blackwell wipes out a group of werewolves and "adopts" the Sole Survivor, harvesting the girl's blood for his concoctions whilst keeping her in addiction and isolation for years on end. After his "daughter" escapes, Blackwell instead turns his eyes to the pack, killing its leader and abducting its children to serve as further reservoirs of blood. Once direct confrontation with the pack becomes inevitable, Blackwell enthralls countless innocents to his will and leads them to battle in hopes of eradicating the werewolves he so despises.
    • Mobile Armored Marine: Governor Plaxus is the smug, greedy leader of the colonist planet, Far Hope. When contacted by the Lacertians, a race of lizard-like aliens, Plaxus immediately began trading them anything they requested in exchange for their immense riches, and, when the Lacertians began asking for humans so that they could "research" them, Plaxus was more than happy to oblige. When you investigate Far Hope, discovering the houses ransacked, the crops burned, and the thousands of citizens missing, you discover the truth that Plaxus has betrayed his people to the Lacertians, who plan to devour them all, in exchange for granting Plaxus their regenerative abilities. When you confront him, Plaxus happily explains that only himself and the "chosen few" followers will survive the Lacertians' occupation, and eagerly tries to murder you when you express your disgust with him.
• Chroma Squad: Lord Gaga is an evil alien invader. At some point in the past, he attempted a takeover and permanently crippled Tammy's sister. Despite being defeated, he destroyed the benevolent alien Brain's body, reducing him to a Brain in a Jar. Returning in modern day, he would trick the crew into using their show to start his very real invasion, then try to murder the lot of them when they are no longer useful. Among other crimes, he would have a monster kidnap and attempt to murder civilians, mass brainwashing, and experimenting on innocent people to turn into monsters, one of which the crew are forced to kill. He would target Tammy in particular, purely out of spite, turning her into a monster and trying to force the crew to kill her. In the Sixth Ranger route, he attempts to sacrifice her to his master, Villain X, in a cowardly attempt to save himself, while in the Driver Route, he murders her father in cold blood. In the latter route, he also holds all but the Assault hostage trying to force them to fight each other to the death for their freedom. Despite being a minion of Villain X, Lord Gaga enjoys every moment of the horrible things he does.
• Chrome (2003):
  • Ron "Pointer" Hertz, the former best friend of Bolt Logan, grew so arrogant that he believed that Logan "holds him back". Betraying Logan and leaving him to die during their last mission, Pointer becomes the chief agent of CoreTech Industries, killing all members of their rival corporation, SPACON, and then leading the development and preparation of a nanovirus, which he planned to use to wipe out the entire colony on Terbon, not intending to spare even women and children.
  • The CoreTech Industries representative, "the face" of CoreTech Industries, stands out as exceptionally cruel. Discovering that miners on Terbon uncovered a rare mineral, called Chrome, the representative ordered Pointer to wipe out the whole colony on the planet, solely so her company can take over the mine. Leading Logan into a trap, the representative soon contacted him again after Logan killed Pointer, offering him money and threatening to blackmail him, all in an effort to force him to slaughter all miners in the colony, in which she can succeed in one of the endings.
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena: Captain Gale Revas is the commander of the pirate/mercenary ship the Dark Athena. When she joined the crew she seduced the original Captain, then had him overthrown and thrown in a cell so she could have the ship refitted to attack unsuspecting vessels and settler worlds. The planetary assaults are full of Rape, Pillage, and Burn, with unarmed civilians being indiscriminately killed and tossed in sewers, the settlements wiped out, and the survivors either sold as slaves or harvested into mindless remote-controlled cyborgs. The rest of the crew is kept in line with threats of forced cyborg conversion (the "Drone Mile") or trips to "The Dentist". When Revas discovers Lynn Silverman, the little girl who stowed away on her ship after Revas enslaved her mother and harvested her father, she tries to murder Lynn.
• Chrono Trigger & Chrono Cross: Lavos is the abominable progenitor of mankind, whose schemes serve as the catalyst for millions of years of suffering. Lavos has controlled the evolution of the planet since it arrived on Earth in 65 million B.C., rearing up humanity to become more intelligent and advanced so that Lavos may feast on their collective intelligence to advance itself. In 1999 A.D., Lavos awakens and slaughters all but small pockets of mankind, then creates spawn to send out and repeat this cycle of forced evolution and destruction on other worlds. Lavos drives Queen Zeal into becoming its fanatical worshipper before wiping out her entire kingdom in an early showing of its power, and when a variety of heroes try to stand up to it, Lavos banishes Magus to the past and murders Crono to secure its plans for humanity. Though beaten through use of Time Travel before it wiped out all life, Lavos returns in the sequel, having forcefully merged with the despairing Schala and used her as a conduit to become the Time Devourer and begin its new plan: to annihilate all of space-time out of a twisted belief in "survival of the fittest", Lavos proclaiming all existence besides itself to be weak and undeserving of life.
• City of Heroes:
  • Giovanna Scaldi was once a simple farmer's daughter in the 17th century until she discovered she possessed substantial psionic powers and evolved into something much worse. Growing bored with the life of a farm girl, Giovanna used her Psychic Powers to brainwash anyone she encountered into thinking that she was a wealthy duchess, purely so Giovanna could entertain herself with an extravagant lifestyle. Later deciding that this was not enough, Giovanna would supplement her psionic abilities with Dark Magic provided by a sorcerer named Uriel, magic which she soon put to use enslaving the entire population of Venice and forcing them to become her personal harem while committing other acts of debauchery purely for her own amusement. Later being stopped by a psychic church hero, Giovanna would have her soul put inside of a porcelain mask which would be lost to time, until her descendant Vanessa DeVore discovered it in the present. Using the Rikti War to coax Vanessa into donning the mask, Giovanna overwhelmed Vanessa's mind with her own, and used Vanessa's rewritten personality as a cypher to once again indulge in her hedonistic depravity.
  • Arakhn is the leader of the Nictus, and she shows herself to be one of the cruelest of them all. Seeking a new home base for her Nictus forces in the war with the other Kheldians opposed to her monstrous ways, Arakhn would come to Earth during the time of World War II, and make contact with the Axis powers. Arakhn would then craft a plan alongside the equally monstrous Requiem to subsume the entirety of planet Earth with Nictus forces. Helping to overthrow the 5th Column in order to gain the resources of the newly formed Council, Arakhn would begin conducting horrific experiments on unwitting members of other villain groups, and even her own soldiers, in order to create more warriors who bore the powers of a Nictus symbiote. Gathering up Shadow Seeds to summon her armies to Earth, Arakhn is thwarted by the heroes of Paragon City before later escaping, vowing to never stop her work until all life on Earth has been fully consumed by the Nictus.
  • Requiem is the leader of the 5th Column, a Nazi villain faction dedicated to world domination, and he proves himself to be a new low even amongst them. Originally starting as a mere lapdog of Benito Mussolini, the man who would become Requiem would soon be merged with a Nictus, and, alongside Arakhn, begin to plot the usurpation of the entirety of planet Earth with Nictus life forms, all the while waging war against the free world. Requiem would continue with his monstrous deeds even after the 5th Column was subsumed by the Council, up until Arakhn's plan was foiled by the heroes of Paragon City. Following this, Requiem abandoned Arakhn and set a plan of his own design into motion. Bringing loyal 5th Column soldiers with him back in time, Requiem made contact with Romulus Augustus of Cimerora, and began working alongside him to conquer the entirety of the timestream with Cimeroran Warriors enhanced by 5th Column science.
  • Lord Nemesis, real name Gerhardt Eisenstadt, is a major antagonist in the game who is responsible for numerous events throughout the plot. Originally a master tinkerer and a Prussian ally of the Confederate States of America, he would later attack Washington, D.C., killing many people as he took over the Capitol. Once he was foiled, Nemesis settled on trying to gas the entire population of America out of spite. Decades later, Nemesis masterminds the Rikti War by sending his automatons to attack the Rikti, prompting retaliation from them and thus being responsible for the deaths of millions across the globe, all so he could swoop in to become a hero. Nemesis saw another opportunity when the Rikti invaded again, as he attempted to send a copy of his intelligence onto the Rikti Psychic Network to mind-control the Rikti population for him to conquer both worlds and live forever with an immortal legion of bodies.
  • Lord of War: Hro'Dtohz was originally no more than an ambitious Rikti warrior before he rose to power as the leader of the Rikti Lineage of War during the Rikti War. All too eager to push for the genocide of humanity, years after the Rikti's first defeat, Hro'Dtohz would open a second portal to restart the invasion to finish the eradication of mankind. Upon cracks beginning to form within the Rikti ranks, Hro'Dtohz ordered any Rikti opposed to mankind's extinction to be killed on the spot as traitors. Upon learning that Nemesis was responsible for the Rikti War, Hro'Dtohz redoubled his efforts to eradicate humanity to take the truth with them to the grave. It is later revealed that Hro'Dtohz crucified the heroic leader of the Omega Team to use him as a living weapon to slaughter the very world he had sacrificed himself to protect, all to secure his power and avoid being labelled a war criminal.
  • Mot is an ancient god of death and decay, and one of the most dreadful deities of the Banished Pantheon. Centuries ago, in the time of the Cimerora, Mot psychologically broke Marcus Velarius and molded him into his sentinel after convincing the heroic Cimeroran that his sacrifice to get Mot's influence away from his homeland was meaningless. During the Rikti War, Mot sent his followers to the district of Paragon known as Astoria and slaughtered every man, woman, and child present as human sacrifices; the bloodbath and his influence caused it to be renamed "Dark Astoria". After fully awakening from his slumber, Mot drives numerous people to despair and suicide while feasting on their souls to become stronger. When confronted with his old foe, the noble goddess Tielekku and her allies, Mot successfully consumed them all, including the goddess herself, and set his sights on devouring the whole world next.
  • The Praetorian Tammy Arcanus, more commonly known as Diabolique, was a simple sorceress in the Praetorian Midnight Squad who had an unhealthy obsession with dark, eldritch magics and Death. Accidentally causing her own body to wither into nothing, Tammy murders her father for his failure to save her and enslaves his soul with the mystic medallion he used to anchor her soul. Tammy would then flee the Midnight Squad and eventually become the magical attack dog of Emperor Cole, taking great pleasure in murdering numerous other mystics, including the entire Ravenwing Cabal, even if she couldn't refuse to do so. When Tammy, now called Diabolique, managed to acquire the medallion that was binding her to Cole's will, she journeyed to Primal Earth and joined forces with Mot. Exploiting the hatred of her enemies, the Talons of Vengeance, Diabolique tricks them into gathering more people to kill and further empower her new ally, delighting in all the death she brings wherever she goes. Upon her initial defeat, Diabolique is empowered by Mot and exploits her master's defeat to take his powers, thereby becoming Death Incarnate, setting her sights on conquering not only Primal Earth with Death, but Praetoria and all other Earths.
• Clear Vision (Original Continuity): "The Black Heart", real name unknown, is first introduced raiding protagonist Jake's house with a wicked smile. He then kills Jake's parents and later abducts him into his camp, where he forcibly trains children to become emotionless soldiers without any free will, called Force X25, and has them participate in wars. During one of these wars, "The Black Heart" orders Jake to execute some prisoners without question. He later resurfaces in the present day to create more of these soldiers, only attempting to escape when Jake kills the patrol in front of his camp. When Jake approaches the dying general, the general's response is, "Your father screamed like a pig!"
• Clive Barker's Jericho: While The Firstborn itself is a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds, the same cannot be said about two of its followers:
  • Hanne Lichthammer, head of the Geheimnisvoll Abwehrmacht division of the Nazi party, is a psychic sadomasochist renowned and feared for her work for her brutal interrogation and torture, opting to sunder the mind instead of the body and leaving countless victims of all ages slaughtered in her wake. When resurrected as an agent of the Firstborn, Lichthammer has piled up thousands of bodies and has used her new powers to abominate her own men into horrific, tortured fusions of man and weapon to slaughter all they see. Eventually intent on helping the Firstborn invade and destroy all humanity, Lichthammer delves deep enough to mock Billie about her past of sexual abuse by her father when the Jericho squad finally confronts her in a Torture Cellar of her own making.
  • Governor Cassus Vicus was once a vilely hedonistic Roman aristocrat, banished by Caligula himself to the remote All-Khali for practicing cannibalism. His domain absorbed by the Firstborn in its attempts to break into reality, Vicus is thrilled at the chance to join the warped hellscape, spending millennia having his own immortal subjects crucified and torn apart by monsters to slake his sadistic appetites. Confronted by the Jericho squad as he tries to help his master bring the whole world into their eldritch space, Vicus wishes for nothing more than to take all the prisoners he can to add to his collection of souls he may torment forever as a testament to his worship of debauchery, and implies his wish to rape the entire squad while combating them.
• Clive Barker's Undying: Count Otto Keisinger is a powerful warlock and Patrick Galloway's Arch-Enemy. He frames Patrick for the murder of his girlfriend, banishing him from Ireland. Becoming an occultist, he's hired by Bethany Covenant to help cure her family of the Undying Curse. Only caring about studying the curse and watching the family suffer, Otto takes the time to study the Island of Standing Stones, where he discovers a portal to Oneiros, a place where one can obtain absolute power. Teaching Bethany magic, he later murders her, despite her love for him. Residing in Oneiros, he rules it with an iron fist, enslaving its inhabitants and making them his soldiers. Desiring Patrick's Gel'Ziabar stone to increase his power, he sends his soldiers out to Ireland, where they kill everyone in their path, later deciding to kill Patrick himself.
• Clock Tower 3: Lord Darcy Burroughs was a 17th century landowner who, upon losing his daughter, went into a berserk fury, killing his own wife and over a hundred of his own people. Burroughs also raised the psychotic "Scissor Twins" to torture and kill more people, even demanding village heads execute dozens of their own citizens to appease him. It is revealed Burroughs' daughter Anabel was an intended sacrifice for Burroughs to become a powerful supernatural being known as an Entity. After his physical death, Burroughs reaches out to turn people into murderous, serial-killing Subordinates, and later fuses with his son's sinister descendant Dick Hamilton, the two collaborating to orchestrate the events of the game and sacrifice Dick's granddaughter Alyssa on her fifteenth birthday to achieve the power Burroughs craves at long last.
• Cloé's Requiem: Alain Ardennes is Cloé's abusive father and the man who cursed her. A talented musician who drove people to insanity with his unique compositions, Alain took pleasure in hurting his wife and molesting his daughter, taking pictures of the latter in distress and keeping them in an album. After Alain was killed by Cloé in self-defense when he showed signs of wanting to murder her, his spirit cursed Cloé and the mansion, turning his own daughter into a monster. When Michel D'Alembert visits the mansion to save Cloé, the spirit of Alain decides to make Michel his next prey, tormenting him with illusions to deplete his sanity so he can possess Michel and kill Cloé.
• The ClueFinders: Mystery of the Missing Amulet: Malicia is a Wicked Witch who travels to a planet called Millennia and tries to force its inhabitants, the Doldreks and the Sorrens, to give her their amulet. When they refuse, she encases most of them in ice or stone and turns others into her minions. In the present day, she kidnaps Santiago and Leslie, disguises herself as a princess named Malveera, and tricks Joni and Owen into getting the amulet for her. When they bring it, Malicia reveals her true self and steals what she thinks is the amulet from them. Upon realizing she's been tricked, Malicia decides to keep Santiago and Leslie, in the belief that Joni and Owen will give her the amulet. When our heroes arrive, Malicia has one of her minions grab the amulet, declares her plan to wipe out all life on Millennia and Earth, and attempts to zap the quartet with a ray from the amulet.
• Code Vein: Juzo Mido leads Revenant research for Project QUEEN. Experimenting on and torturing Cruz Silva to insanity, Mido's cruelties turn her into a monster that nearly destroys the city. Before the Great Collapse, Mido is also revealed to have adopted orphans for the purpose of experimenting on them and turn them into Super Soldiers to sell to the military. Having created the "Successors", powerful beings who exist in a near-feral state, Mido intends to remove the barricade protecting the human race from the Aragami, mutating mankind into more Successors to put against the Aragami and fight them, warping into even more monstrous beings. When found at his hideout, Mido murders all of his henchmen and transforms the man protecting humanity from the Aragami into yet another Successor.
• Codename Eagle: General Popov is a former friend of Tsar Peter, who one day grew power-hungry and decided to assassinate the Tsar and the entire royal family. Unaware that Colonel Sergei of the Russian High Command managed to save Prince Alexander and Princess Anastasia from him and sneak them out of Popov's reach, Popov claimed to all Russian people that that royal family died from a terrible accident, while putting an impostor of Prince Alexander, whom he called the "sole surviving son of Tsar Nicholas: Prince Alexander", on a throne and used him to lead the Russian Empire to war against the entire world, taking over large territories and oppressing people there. Ordering his underlings to develop various Doomsday Devices, which he planned to use to annihilate entire cities, Popov, growing angry when "Agent Red", in reality a grown-up Prince Alexander, started destroying them, tried to use his last remaining Doomsday Device to obliterate London.
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert Series:
  • First game: Josef Stalin is portrayed as every bit the ruthless, paranoid dictator that he was in real life, but excludes any potential redeeming qualities he may have had and makes him even nastier in some regards. He builds up the Soviet military machine and invades the rest of Europe to establish his totalitarian rule over the entire continent. He orders his security officers to test Sarin gas on a town of innocent civilians and the player to kill the survivors and raze the village, personally kills his lieutenants for any failure and orders purges of his entire military staff on a whim, and largely destroys the countries he invades as he did with Greece. When the tide of war turns against him, he uses his troops as sacrifical lambs to delay the Allied advance long enough so he can destroy the major European cities with his newly-developed nuclear missiles and force a victory.
  • Red Alert 2: Yuri is a powerful psychic and aspiring overlord initially serving the USSR, but soon reveals his ulterior motives. In the Soviet campaign he supports the invasion of the United States and later the rest of the world, building devices to turn the conquered peoples into mind-controlled drones. He assassinates Premier Romanov and frames General Vladimir to usurp the Soviet leadership, before attempting to kill the player because his continued success has made him a potential threat to Yuri's position. Yuri's Revenge reveals that he was just using the Soviets to establish a network of Psychic Dominators to enslave the planet so there will be no will but his own. Yuri's subsequent plots include harvesting the entire population of Los Angeles for raw materials; holding a software company ransom and nuking Seattle until they give in; secretly assassinating world leaders and replacing them with clones; and planning to level all coastal cities in the world. Yuri's army also uses horrifying components such as using slaves to mine their ore; genetically altering soldiers and civilians alike into obedient, mutated freaks; grinding up civilians, captured enemies, and his own units for spare parts or draining them for bioelectricity; and is built around mind controlling his adversaries.
  • Red Alert 3: Anatoly Cherdenko is a hammy Soviet colonel who uses Dr. Zelinsky's Time Machine to murder Albert Einstein and rewrite history to one where the USSR reigns supreme, and Cherdenko himself is Premier. Overseeing World War III and refusing to restore time to its proper state even as countless innocents die, Cherdenko's actions differ in each campaign, but are monstrous in their own way. In the Soviet campaign, Cherdenko first uses his new commander to assassinate the Emperor of the Empire of the Rising Sun, then lures Allied forces into a truce meeting just to kill them all. Cherdenko then frames and kills his own ally Krukov before betraying and trying to exterminate his loyal new commander and all the man's allies. In the Allied campaign, Cherdenko agrees to a truce with the Allies, only to leave them to die while he intends to use a fleet of warships to bomb every major Allied city across the world and kill millions, reacting to defeat by attempting to abandon his allies and flee to the one place not yet tainted by capitalism: Space.
• Contra franchise:
  • Shattered Soldier: Earth's ruling Triumvirate is indirectly responsible for the alien invasions of the first games in the series. They sent an army to recover the Relic of Moirai from Jupiter; the invading aliens were actually a defensive army. The Triumvirate, uncaring, claims the aliens are invaders, thus prolonging the war and resulting in countless deaths. When Lance Bean found out the truth, they supposedly killed him, and also used a satellite to wipe out 80% of Earth's population, blaming all this on Bill Rizer, who is later released to take on a terrorist group. The Triumvirate ultimately plans to examine the Relic and become like gods.
  • Neo Contra: Master Contra is the leader of the terrorist group Neo Contra, which poses such a threat to the now-prison planet Earth in 4444 that Bill Rizer is revived from cryogenic storage. Master Contra—as well as the Player Character himself—are both clones of the original Bill Rizer, seen in the game as "Mystery G", and later killed by Master Contra. Master Contra plans to end all wars—by blowing up Earth, which he succeeds in doing in a Bad Ending. Despite all his talk and claims how he is "the ultimate form of Bill Rizer", in the end, he is, as the player character says, "just a heap of metal with an inflated ego".
• Cookies: In the building filled with depraved maniacs, drug lords and dangerous criminals, the following trio manages to stand out:
  • "Crown Fried": The Carrols are two brothers who own a small fast-food restaurant inside the building the protagonist lives in. Promoting their newest "Blood n' Bone Box Meal", the Carrols kidnapped several innocent people and carved them apart in their kitchen, making them the secret ingredient for their food, which they actively sell to other people.
  • "A Floridian Film": Randy Lether is the founder and head of Body Count Adult Entertainment who, after losing most of his money, decided to move in a "new direction". Discovering the snuff industry, Randy started to kidnap innocent people and film them getting killed and mutilated. Forcing the protagonist to "star" in his latest movie and cut off the limbs of a helpless man, Randy then tries to have him killed to tie up loose ends.
• Corpse Killer: Dr. Hellman is a necro biologist who plans to create a new world order with his army of the undead. Originally the head of Project Manpower, which provided the United States with undead soldiers to fight in wars, Hellman would also allow his zombies to be used to slaughter several third world countries, even rigging cameras onto them to record the carnage. After resigning to the Cay Noir island, Hellman uses the island's undead as personal slaves, with the intent to unleash his zombies all across the globe. Kidnapping four of five Marines sent by the U.S. government to take him out, Hellman tortures and converts them into mutant zombies to fight their lieutenant.
• Cosmic Star Heroine: Eternity is the malevolent machine behind the dark conspiracy. A powerful robot from ancient times, Eternity believed himself to be far superior to all life and attempted to take over the galaxy, killing many. Trapped inside an asteroid, Eternity waited for a chance to come back, using Arete as a vessel, and resurfaced when Director Steele stumbled upon lost technology, which was under Eternity's control. Eternity took over Steele's mind using those machines, and controlled API in order to bring him back. After Alyssa L'Salle and company learned about his plans, Eternity, using Steele, ordered their execution and committed numerous atrocities in his attempts, including leveling a city with a mech and attempting a massacre. He attacked Alyssa's mind through nightmarish visions and attempted to indoctrinate her to his side, succeeding by getting Arete to get close to Alyssa and then betraying her to steal the Lumina Key. Having returned, Eternity tried to take over again by brainwashing everyone in the galaxy. In the end he failed, and during his last moments attempted to kill the party by activating the self-destruction in his ship.
• The Council of Hanwell: The Doctor is the one behind the anomalies, subverting the rest of the council's benevolent intentions solely to make himself powerful and build an army. Having convicts sent to him, the Doctor conducts ghastly, agonizing experiments to turn them into monsters, torturing them if they are too willful. Growing impatient with waiting, he eventually began to simply abduct innocents from the street. Once this was done, the Doctor proceeded to unleash them on the town, killing whoever stood in his path to reign supreme.
• Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes:
  • "Rise Hard": The nameless leader of Belfast terrorists led his group in taking over a high building in a large city of Northern Ireland. Filled with hatred toward the British, the leader spread his men across the building to prevent the British SAS from stopping him, as he planted a nuke and set it to explode in two hours. When the protagonist fought through his men, the leader captured him and forced him to fight in a knife battle, fleeing upon starting to lose. As the protagonist deactivated the nuke, the leader gleefully tried to detonate it remotely.
  • "Fastline": The nameless Akunin leader led his gang in taking over a train full of people, killing many, taking a little girl hostage and causing the train to crash at full speed in the Shinkane Subway Station. Sending his men to kill anyone they see, which led to deaths of more innocent people, the leader placed the bombs all around the station, hoping to blow it up and kill everyone in it.
• Covert Ops: Nuclear Dawn (aka Chase the Express):
  • Boris Zugoski is a former KGB agent turned leader of the Knights of the Apocalypse. Wanted for supplying European and the Middle Eastern insurgents with firearms, Boris works with Phillip Mason to lead a raid on the Blue Harvest train to hold French Ambassador Pierre Simon and his family hostage for $20 billion, killing Pierre's guards and wiping out most of the NATO Special Forces Team sent to stop him. Threatening to launch a nuke over Europe if he doesn't get his money, it's revealed after his death that Boris had wired a nuke into the Blue Harvest, hoping to use it to destroy all of France and spread radiation throughout the EU.
  • Phillip Mason is Ambassador Pierre Simon's traitorous secretary. Lusting for power, Mason enables the Knights of the Apocalypse's attack on the Blue Harvest and all the deaths that it entailed to acquire a disk containing the blueprints to a hydrogen engine that Mason will use to become king of the world. Mason later goes forward with Boris's plan to use the Blue Harvest to destroy France and doom the rest of Europe.
• Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time: Dr. Nefarious Tropy and his alternate dimension female counterpart are the sadistic, self-proclaimed masters of time. After being trapped in the past by Crash, N. Tropy and Dr. Neo Cortex escape, with N. Tropy convincing Cortex to leave Uka Uka for dead. The alternate N. Tropy, in her own world, hunted down and killed sapient bandicoots, forcing Tawna to watch as she killed her world's versions of Crash and Coco. Soon afterwards, they begin to work on the Rift Generator, with N. Tropy replacing Cortex with his female counterpart before revealing that they plan to erase the multiverse and remake it as one where they rule as gods. When Tawna attempts to stop them, they attempt to kill her, while the alternate N. Tropy gloats about the deaths of her friends, before attempting to kill Crash, Coco, Cortex, and Dingodile as well when they arrive to aid her. Cruel and sadistic, the N. Tropys stand out as the darkest and vilest foes that Crash has ever fought.
• Criminal Case:
  • Grimsborough's Case #53 "Burying the Hatchet": Solomon Grimmes is the founder of the Crimson Order and the one that caused centuries of bloodshed in the city. After being saved by the Aloki Tribe, Solomon would attempt to fuel his order by gaining access to the tribe's gold mine. Solomon would marry Inaya, an Aloki woman, and after gaining the trust of the tribe, murders her and later the rest of the tribe before claiming the land with an iron fist. After achieving ultimate power in the colony, Solomon would essentially become the most powerful man in the colony, murdering anyone, including children from his own pilgrimage, all in order to fuel his power and desire for gold as the leader of the Crimson Order.
  • World Edition:
    • Hector Montoya, the Goodwill Ambassador for South American Olympics teams, is the successor of the ideals of SOMBRA founder Arsenio Castillo. Taking his ideals to a new scale of villainy when he succeeds Arsenio as the new El Rey, Hector establishes his threat by causing mass assassinations and deaths in the Europe region before attempting to decimate the entire region with a bomb. Hector later sends an agent to unify the Sahara region with mass treason and a Civil War underneath his control, and attempts to take control of the world's technology by Launching a satellite in Eurasia. After disappearing for a while after multiple failed attempts of his schemes, Hector establishes himself to be more sinister by masterminding numerous deaths in India by framing multiple people to be involved with the creation of a plague and various other murders in South Asia. This was revealed to be a steppingstone to have some of his higher-ranking agents manipulate orphans into killing each other and unknowingly joining the SOMBRA's "Next Level" protocol in order to create multiple brainwashed agents into gathering enough financial resources to grant him ultimate power. After when most of his agents have been captured and killed, Hector attempts to manipulate a political movement in America to spark a third World War before using the destruction of society to Take Over the World.
    • Case #21 "Plagued By Death": Ayush Patil is a sociology professor as well as the mastermind behind the outbreak of an epidemic spreading throughout Bangalore. Starting as the assistant of Dr. Shweta Noorani, Ayush steals a strand of the virus that she created, and injects it into his student Sunil Dhudwar. Once spread, victims of the malady develop pus-filled mouth lesions before dying a slow and painful death. By the time the Bureau becomes involved in the epidemic, hundreds of civilians had succumbed to the illness. Lars Douglas—the Lab Chief of the Bureau—also contracts the virus and is in danger of dying as well. When confronted, Ayush takes full credit for having unleashed the virus, stating that once it became worldwide, not only would it solve the problem of overpopulation by killing millions of people, but he would also usher in a new era, ruling over the survivors as a god. Despite being a one-time character, Ayush is without a doubt the most depraved suspect that the Bureau had encountered.
  • The Conspiracy: Denise Daniels is the head of the Space and Aeronautics Research Agency and The Chessmaster behind Ad Astra. Obsessed with human enhancement, Denise had attempted to create an invincible race of artificial humans for years. She had raised her first experiment and daughter, Rozetta Pierre, only to quickly abandon her after she turns out to be no different than other humans. This in turn causes Rozetta to become a social outcast, with her attempts to impress her mother falling on deaf ears. When the meteor dropped a year prior to the plot, Denise manipulates Rozetta into building a dome and extracting the meteorite's Berzelium, hoping to brainwash Grimsborough with the chemical. Behind her back, Denise uses the Berzelium to create an invincible race of humans under her command, she would both physically and sexually abuse one of them, Otto Kessel. When Ad Astra's plans are foiled, Denise plans to dispose of them and then sets her plans into motion by obtaining the meteorite, hoping to use its core to destroy Grimsborough with a nuclear earthquake. She promises to spare her lawyer, Martin Davenport if he helps, only to execute him after he fails. When confronted, Denise releases her neohumans, wreaking havoc across the city, before taunting and killing Rozetta.
  • Supernatural Investigations' Case #9 "Mad World": Dr. Lucrezia Stein, the victim, is the sadistic owner of Blackmoor Asylum. Lucrezia regularly experimented on the patients against their will, either as punishment for opposing her or for her amusement; said victims included Charity and Mercy, twins who she kidnapped and conjoined. She also abused her daughter, Savannah Austin, eventually throwing her into the asylum and drugging her, and killed various patients to use their body parts to build Adam Enstrom, her assistant who would end up killing her as revenge for her mistreatment of him. An utterly demented madwoman, Lucrezia dies completely unmourned, with Gwen expressing immense relief and satisfaction over her death.
• Crisis Beat: Lieutenant-Colonel Whigen is the leader of a terrorist organization intending to reshape the world In Their Own Image. Hijacking the Princess, a luxury cruiser carrying 4,000 passengers, Whigen has his men install a powerful nerve gas agent in the cruiser's bowels which will kill everyone on board, and has his men shoot down a fleet of Delta Force helicopters trying to suppress the takeover, gloating after learning news of the Delta Force's annihilation. When the heroes managed to foil his plans, Whigen instead reveals he had installed explosives everywhere underneath the Princess' hull, ready to detonate all of them and sink the ship as he makes his own escape, uncaring about his remaining lieutenants still aboard the Princess.
• Crowscare: Venna is a cruel witch with a taste for human flesh. Taking residence in a forest near the town, Venna hunted down and devoured anyone who got lost there, including children. Harshly abusing her son, Ingram, and turning him into a crow after he refused to obey her commands, Venna later on started to manipulate a "scarecrow" child, protagonist Ryo. Pretending to be gentle and kind, Venna tried to make him pour her potion upon the statue of a goddess in the town, which would allow her to take over it and slaughter and devour the entire population of the town. If Ryo refuses, Venna will try to sadistically kill him, and if Ingram tries to defend the boy, Venna tries to kill him as well, gleefully tearing his face apart as a sick joke.
• The Cursed Crusade: Boniface de Montferrat is a high-ranking noble and a former friend of Jean de Bayle. Introduced by having his men wipe out the population of a peaceful village, Boniface later on ordered his army to lay siege at Biron Castle and kill all soldiers there. Finding out that one of his mercenaries, Denz de Bayle, was the son of Jean de Bayle, Boniface stalked him and his friend, Esteban Noviembre, overseeing them being recruited in the Fourth Crusade, as he's put in charge of it. Leading the army to several wars, Boniface searched for holy artifacts for his own plans. Afterwards ordering his men to ravage and sack Constantinople, allowing his soldiers to freely kill civilians and steal all the gold, Boniface managed to get all holy artifacts and immediately used them to painfully transform the Grecian Captain of the Guard, Tatikios Lente, into a large demon, and then had him crush Princess Theodora to death, as he announced his plans to summon a demon army from Hell to devastate the lands and conquer the world.
• Cult of the Lamb: Midas is the greedy worshipper of unknown gods related to fortune and riches. Having turned various people into golden statues, leaving them alive and aware, Midas has the Lamb give him four of their followers to put them through the same fate, rewarding the cult leader only out of pragmatism and not hesitating to attack them when he decides to steal their money.
• Cyberia 2: Dr. John Corbin is the ambitious scientist responsible for the creation of the nano-toxin bioweapon. When the FWA leadership plans to use it to wipe out the Rebel Underground, Corbin personally selects a settlement with a strong rebel presence for a test run, expecting a casualty rate of 70%. Despite working for the FWA, Corbin has no loyalty towards them, caring only about his scientific legacy and how the nano-toxin will make him the master of every living thing.

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