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6* ''[[VideoGame/Daemon9 Daemon_9]]'': The bloodthirsty demon-god [[SatanicArchetype Chiyou Zhou]] is China's equivalent to Satan. Once the tyrannical ruler of Earth before traveling to the deepest pits of Hell after the death of his bride, Zhou's influence spawned cases of HumanSacrifice and death cults in rural China dedicated to him, [[DemonicPossession possessing the most devout of them]]. In modern times, Zhou uses the GUI microchips and the Daemon_9 virus to invade the human world via computers, with the son of the company's CEO perpetrating one of the worst mass murders in the history of China by releasing [[DeadlyGas sarin gas]] inside one of the factories before committing suicide in Zhou's name, killing almost thirty people. Taking an interest in Morgan Shane for her Chinese ancestry, Zhou changes her personality and isolates her from others, culminating with him sending Morgan on a rampage, making her kill her best friend and five other people while she is unable to stop herself. Keeping Morgan away as his personal slave and seeking to establish a new demonic dictatorship in the human world, Zhou declares that he will "gladly destroy her" if [[IfICantHaveYou he isn't allowed to have her for himself]], corrupting her soul even further and torturing the girl.
7* ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Kage Mishima]] is the tyrant of a dystopian future. Discovering the Daikatana with his partner and its ability to time travel, Kage killed his partner and traveled back to 2030 AD, where he claimed the cure for a pandemic and sold it at a high price, leaving many people dead, while also making San Francisco a MartialLaw town where gangs roamed the streets causing havoc. Becoming the iron-fisted ruler of the world, he forces his guards to go through brutal training, creates [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies burgers out of human flesh]], and regularly has his prisoners tortured and beaten to death, and uses his time travel abilities to assassinate members of the Ebihara clan. When [[PlayerCharacter Hiro Miyamoto]] refuses to swear his subservience to him, Kage tries to clash both of their Daikatanas together, [[TakingYouWithMe knowing full well that doing so will destroy the entire universe]].
8* ''VideoGame/{{Damnation}}'': [[BigBad Lord Prescott]], the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive head of Prescott Standard Industries]], decided to use his inventions to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]]. Creating a [[PsychoSerum serum]] that enhanced the physical abilities of humans, but could also cause brain fever, Prescott has his entire army inject themselves with it and has them attack and destroy cities and slaughter countless people. Capturing and experimenting on many people, cutting away their body parts to replace them with his cybernetics to turn them into his ultimate soldiers, Prescott [[WaterSourceTampering poisoned the water supply]] of his own miners, which caused them to be reduced to a feral state and attack everyone they see, with some regressing into a barely sapient state, where they were used as attack dogs to attack and devour the opposing side.
9* ''[[Literature/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon DanMachi]]: VideoGame/MemoriaFreese'': In the ''Literature/DateALive'' crossover campaign ''Ais Catastrophe'', the [[BigBad false Kaguya Yamai]], obsessed with [[Characters/DateALiveDEM Isaac Westcott]], willfully merges with his personality. After entering the world of Orario alongside Shido and several of his spirit friends, "Kaguya" feigns being worried about the missing Yuzuru Yamai, while also impersonating Kurumi, to instill discord between Shido's spirit friends and the Loki Familia, leading to the Loki Familia's Bete becoming mistrustful of the spirits and Ais/Aiz Wallenstein attacking Tohka/Touka. This leads to Ais getting turned into an Inverse Spirit by a Sephira Crystal which the false Kaguya had implanted in her in the middle of the fight, [[ManipulativeBitch all to ensure]] Ais would carry out the false Kaguya's goal of destroying Orario. When her plan of having Ais destroy Orario fails, the false Kaguya takes back the Sephira Crystal and makes plans to destroy Orario with spacequakes herself.
10* ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'': [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] was once a great but vain angel of God's before he turned against him out of disgust for humanity and was [[FallenAngel cast into Hell]] with his followers as punishment. Seeking revenge by trying to [[TheCorrupter tempt and corrupt humanity]] into Hell and torment, Lucifer plotted on using the sins of others to make his escape. Lucifer makes a [[DealWithTheDevil deal]] with the pure Beatrice to test her beloved Dante's faithfulness in exchange for her soul. When Dante fails, Lucifer drags Beatrice to Hell to turn her into a spiteful succubus bride; when Dante comes to her rescue, Lucifer's attempts to break and hinder him include turning Dante's abusive father into a monster to kill his son. When Dante ultimately rescues Beatrice, Lucifer reveals that her capture was an elaborate ruse to bring Dante to him. It's revealed Lucifer seeks to destroy and recreate both Heaven and Earth [[InTheirOwnImage in his own image]] as to take what he believes his rightfully his, and makes his escape attempt in the ensuing fight with Dante.
11* ''VideoGame/DarkestOfDays'': "[[OneBadMother Mother]]" is the leader of [=KronoTek=] from the future, who gathers talented and unique people across different time periods to serve as her agents to prevent any "deviations" in history. Using [[PlayerCharacter Alexander Morris]] and [[CowboyCop Dexter]] to keep two important historic figures, Welsh and Petrovich, safe and alive, "Mother" sends the duo to different battlefields in different periods of time to fight and kill soldiers of both sides in several historical conflicts. As the heroes succeded in their missions, it is revealed that "Mother" was invested in Welsh and Petrovich's safety, because they are the ancestors of scientists who invented a DNA sequencer that can target the genomes defining racial identity, which would be stolen by MiddleEasternTerrorists, who used it to wipe out 2 billion people of European descent, and "Mother" wanted this future to came to pass.
12* ''VideoGame/TheDarkness'' duology:
13** First game:
14*** [[TheDon Paulie Franchetti]] adopted [[PlayerCharacter Jackie Estacado]] so he could mold him into a hitman loyal to the family. The game starts with him sending Jackie on a suicide mission to kill a business rival because Jackie started questioning the way he does business, but Paulie has already killed the business rival and strapped his corpse full of explosives as a birthday present, leaving a tape to mock Jackie before he died. When Jackie survives the blast, Paulie gets revenge by [[BurnTheOrphanage blowing up the orphanage]] that Jackie grew up in, [[WouldHurtAChild killing all the orphans]] and nuns inside and then telling Jackie over the phone [[NeverMyFault it was all his fault]]. When Jackie starts to ruin Paulie's business dealings, Paulie retaliates by kidnapping Jackie's girlfriend Jenny, bringing her to the orphanage, and then murdering her right in front of Jackie, blaming it all on Jackie for not blindly following orders. Even at the end he shows no remorse for his crimes, telling Jackie that Jenny was a weakness and Jackie shouldn't have cared about her death.
15*** [[DirtyCop Captain Eddie Shrote]], Paulie Franchetti's business partner, is an arrogant and vicious cop leading a precinct of other corrupt officers. Eddie is responsible for covering up and protecting Paulie's operation from investigation. Previously, Eddie rose through the ranks of the NYPD by having Paulie kill off rival officers, and has a known history of personally killing and torturing people who cross him. Eddie is personally involved in the planning and covering up of Paulie's bombing of the orphanage, and helps Paulie kidnap Jenny, [[SmugSnake smugly]] taunting Jackie as Jenny is executed. When Jackie begins retaliating against Eddie, and steals evidence that could expose his and Paulie's operation, Eddie leads Jackie to an ambush, [[ThisIsADrill torturing him with a power drill]], saying he'll die quicker if Jackie says who's helping him.
16** ''VideoGame/TheDarknessII'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Victor Valente]] is an EvilSorcerer and the leader of [[ReligionOfEvil The Brotherhood]], an organization that originally intended out to capture and control the Darkness. The Brotherhood uses organized crime as the front of their operations, and uses a brothel as a base. The game opens with Victor sending a hit squad to attack a restaurant, killing innocent people in the crossfire, as an effort to get Jackie to stop suppressing the Darkness. When Jackie first confronts Victor, he is captured in crucified as Victor tries to extract the Darkness from him. He also sends his men to Jackie's penthouse to kill Jackie's men and kills his Aunt Sarah. Ordering an attack on Sarah's funeral, Victor lures Jackie into a trap, having him sealed in an Iron Maiden. After extracting the Darkness from Jackie, Victor declares that now that he controls it, [[OmnicidalManiac the world will burn]] and kneel before its [[AGodAmI true God]].
17* ''VideoGame/TheDarkPicturesAnthology'' (''VideoGame/TheDevilInMe''):
18** [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Henry Howard "H.H." Holmes]] himself, real name [[TrapMaster Herman Mudgett]], was America's first serial killer, and its deadliest. Having ran the [[HellHotel World Fair Hotel]] as a front to kill his guests in painful ways, Holmes kept the [[CreepySouvenir skulls and rings]] of his many victims for his own amusement. Killing an innocent couple in the prologue before moving on to murder a mother and son, Holmes is found to have amassed a body count of over 200 victims, [[VillainousLegacy his influence inspiring]] the likes of fellow killers Manny Sherman and Granthem Du'Met.
19** [[MonsterMisogyny Manny Sherman]] was a small-time SerialKiller who left behind a sinister legacy. Known as the "Beast of Arkansas" who sought to leave his mark on the world after being inspired by H.H. Holmes, Sherman would lure female realtors to abandoned houses near airports so that he could murder them as planes flew over them, happily knowing that nobody would hear their screams no matter how hard they yelled. With thirteen murders under his belt, after being arrested and put on DeathRow by FBI Agent Hector Munday, Sherman [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated]] the mentally deteriorating Munday into [[TheCorrupter becoming a serial killer]] like himself, allowing him to become the dreaded Granthem Du'Met and kill hundreds of people, just as Sherman hoped would happen.
20* ''VideoGame/DarkRomance'' series (by release date):
21** ''VideoGame/{{Kingdom of Death}}'':
22*** [[EveryoneHatesHades Hades]] convinces Poseidon that they should [[SiblingMurder kill their brother Zeus]] and take over the sky. After doing so, Hades plans to [[KillAllHumans destroy the mortal world]], knowing full well this will cause the Underworld to be destroyed too. [[EvilUncle Hades]] kidnaps his niece Persephone and proceeds to hold her hostage for Zeus so he can kill him when he attempts to rescue her. When her fiancé Elias attempts to rescue her, Hades attempts to kill him, eventually deciding to [[ForcedToWatch make Persephone watch]] as he kills her love right in front of her. It's also revealed that he caused Melentius to be condemned to suffer torture in the Underworld for giving a golden apple to a mortal by posing as a dying old man.
23*** [[LordOfTheOcean Poseidon]] willingly helps Hades in his scheme to murder their brother on the promise of being allowed to rule the sky along with Hades rather than the sea. Remaining completely apathetic to Hades's plan to destroy the mortal world and subsequently the Underworld, Poseidon does everything he can to stop Elias from rescuing Persephone, even attacking him and a woman named Merope when they attempt to reach the Underworld via ship, possibly killing the latter in this attack. After Hades has been defeated, Poseidon makes one final attempt to stop Persephone and Elias from escaping the Underworld, attacking them as they leave.
24** ''VideoGame/{{Curse of Bluebeard}}'': This game's incarnation of [[TheBluebeard Bluebeard]], real name Alaister, is far worse than his already monstrous [[Literature/{{Bluebeard}} literary counterpart]]. Having murdered his aunt to get her estate, Bluebeard was cursed by her so that any children of his would become monsters. Bluebeard began forcing women into marriage with him, bribing the crooked prison officials to keep any fiancés they already had locked in the town prison to starve to death. When the women bore him monstrous children, Bluebeard [[NeverMyFault killed them]] and started using his monstrous but still benevolent sons for [[AbusiveParents experiments]], draining them of blood to increase his magic. After their deaths, his aunt and wives were forced to room the castle as ghosts, [[BarredFromTheAfterlife unable to pass on]]. Forcing another woman named Rachel into marriage, Bluebeard has her fiancé Richard imprisoned and leaves him to starve to death, while announcing that anyone who does not attend his wedding will be executed. When Richard escapes and tries to help Rachel get away, Bluebeard attempts to kill them both, spitefully trying to cast a spell to make Rachel forget about Richard before killing her so that Richard will die knowing his beloved forgot about him.
25** ''[[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Hunchback of Notre-Dame]]'': [[BigBad Frollo]] was born a deformed hunchback and used dark magic to [[LifeDrinker steal the lifeforce]] of a [[WouldHurtAChild baby]] Quasimodo, causing the latter to grow up deformed and ridiculed by society. Frollo proceeded to try and drain the youth of [[TheBluebeard various women he married]], killing or imprisoning them when his attempts failed. He rescued Quasimodo from public shaming to trick the latter into becoming his servant, making him rob people and commit crimes for him. Eventually, Frollo sets his sites on the gypsy Esmeralda, planning to use her to gain [[ImmortalityImmorality eternal youth]]. It's revealed that Frollo ordered Quasimodo to be executed when he learned the truth, and he also tries to execute his new captain when said captain discovers his secrets. When his plan to gain eternal youth is foiled, Frollo simply tries to kill Esmeralda, Quasimodo and his captain out of spite.
26** ''VideoGame/TheEtherealGardens'': [[AnIcePerson Augustina]] was the sister of the evil queen Henrietta, and [[CainAndAbel waged war with her sister]] in an attempt to conquer the kingdoms for herself. [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed in a mirror by her sister]], Augustina was freed after Henrietta was killed by her son, Prince Liam. [[UngratefulBitch Instead of being grateful for being freed]], Augustina vowed to [[RevengeByProxy make her nephew pay]] for what his mother did to her. Many years later, Augustina froze everyone in the kingdom apart from the daughters of Liam and Celeste, kidnapping the younger sister, Bethany, to brainwash her into helping Augustina freeze and conquer the neighboring kingdoms, eventually planning to freeze the whole world. When the elder sister attempts to rescue Bethany, Augustina has the brainwashed Bethany attempt to kill her sister. When the elder sister manages to free Bethany from Augustina's control, Augustina decides to simply kill her grandnieces and conquer the world herself.
27* ''VideoGame/DarkSeedII'': [[TheHeavy The Shapeshifter]], aka Jack, [[PlayerCharacter Mike Dawson]]'s Dark World counterpart, is a follower of the Ancients who participates in their plan to awaken the Behemoth to KillAllHumans. Murdering the members of the Other World cult--including Rita, Doc Larson, and Mayor Fleming--and [[OffWithHisHead decapitating them]] to power the Behemoth with their heads, the Shapeshifter frames Mike Dawson for the murders, before later killing Mike's therapist Dr. Sims and Mike himself.
28* ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'': [[LightIsNotGood Abaddon]], one of the leaders of the Hellguard angels, devised a scheme to lure Hell's forces into a defeat by faking the apocalypse. When the plan goes wrong, Abaddon opts to [[DealWithTheDevil join Hell]] rather than face the penalty for his actions. Becoming the monstrous [[BigBad Destroyer]], Abaddon leads the horrific genocide of humanity and destruction of Earth, butchering and slaughtering countless innocent human beings while allowing his top lieutenants to do the same in their territories. Seeking to enact Hell's will upon the rest of reality, Abaddon even tries to slaughter his old Hellguard comrades, even snuffing out his brief regret at facing his former right-hand Uriel by [[KickTheMoralityPet hurling her aside]] before he faces the [[PlayerCharacter Horseman War]], who rightfully denounces him as a coward unable to face up to his own sins.
29* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' is a dark series, but these villains manage to outdo any other for sheer horror:
30** ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' & ''[[ComicBook/DarkSoulsAgeOfFire Age of Fire]]'': [[DraconicAbomination Seath the Scaleless]] is an EvilSorcerer and MadScientist who betrayed the Everlasting Dragons and oversaw their extinction [[DrivenByEnvy due to his own envy]]. Joining Gwyn, Lord of Sunlight, as a Duke who was hated and feared by almost everyone, Seath plunged into research and cruelty in pursuit of [[ImmortalityImmorality immortality]]. Seath had countless innocents kidnapped to conduct torturous experiments on them with his crystals, mutating numerous people into lobotomized crystal zombies where many died, while others were turned into inhuman monsters.
31** ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'': [[BigBad Nashandra]] is the most [[AmbitionIsEvil wicked and ambitious]] of the Children of the Dark. [[LadyMacBeth Seducing King Vendrick of Drangleic]], [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Nashandra]] sought to claim the Throne of Want from him and [[ManipulativeBitch manipulated]] the fall of Drangleic by having Vendrick start a war with the giants that led to their extinction, with some being involved in horrific experiments to make them into golems. Thanks to Nashandra, an undead plague ran rampant in Drangleic, destroying the once mighty kingdom while Nashandra seeks to use the Bearer of the Curse to destroy and kill those who hold the keys to the Throne of Want, all so she may claim the First Flame for herself.
32** ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'':
33*** [[BlobMonster Aldrich]], Saint of the Deep and [[KillTheGod Devourer of Gods]], was a cleric who founded the Church of the Deep and took to [[ImAHumanitarian devouring the flesh of men]] for power. Turning to devouring the undead, Aldrich grew bloated and mutated into a hideous, slug-like being who continued to devour countless people alive, luxuriating in their screams. Eventually sacrificed to become a [[Characters/DarkSoulsIIILordsOfCinder Lord of Cinder]], Aldrich was revived and housed within the Cathedral of the Deep where he continued to have helpless people fed to him. In his most profane act, Aldrich devoured the god Gwyndolin slowly, [[AndIMustScream keeping him in a state of unending agony]]. Not even children were safe from Aldrich, and only two, Anri and Horace, ever escaped the Devourer's hunger.
34*** [[SinisterMinister Pontiff Sulyvahn]], the leader of the Church of the Deep and Aldrich's [[TheDragon right-hand man]] and PsychoSupporter, was [[DrivenByEnvy driven by jealousy and hatred]] towards the Gods and joined with Aldrich to exact his vengeance. [[AmbitionIsEvil Desiring power above all others]] after he discovered the Profaned Flame, Sulyvahn eliminated potential problems by forming the Outrider Knights and gifting them with rings that turned them into feral beasts with their minds twisted and destroyed, leaving nothing but rage. As the Pontiff of the Church of the Deep, Sulyvahn had Anor Londo devastated, with countless people rounded up to be fed to Aldrich, and even imprisoned Gwyndolin in the Cathedral to feed him to Aldrich. Unlike the majority of the series's villains, Sulyvahn is entirely sane and, driven by nothing more than hatred, cruelty, and an insatiable thirst for power, has no regard for who or what he must destroy.
35* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstone}}'': The evil dragon [[BigBad Draak]] once tried to TakeOverTheWorld before being driven away. Returning, Draak incinerates the order of monks of the goddess, brutally sweeping across the land to kill multitudes of people with his forces and monsters, utilizing the evil Darkstone to rise even further. With the Darkstone, Draak plots to [[YourSoulIsMine drain the lives]] of everyone in the kingdoms to empower himself and [[AGodAmI rise to godhood]].
36* ''VideoGame/{{Darkwatch}}'': [[VampireMonarch Lazarus Malkoth]] is a vampire lord formerly imprisoned by the Darkwatch before being freed by [[PlayerCharacter Jericho Cross]] in a train heist gone wrong. The founder of Darkwatch, Lazarus later succumbs to vampirism after a demon possess him, turning into a heartless monster planning to scourge the world into a land of undead under his rule. Sadistically amused by Jericho, Lazarus tried to have him embrace his new vampire nature after cursing him, ruthless trying to sate his blood hunger including presenting Cassidy's beheaded body as an offering, while he continues his rampage to turn TheWildWest into hell itself, culminating him into massacring the Darkwatch after Tala betrayed them to him, trying to kill Jericho in a brutal battle.
37* ''VideoGame/DawnOfTheMonsters'': [[BigBad Conrad Fosco]] is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive former CEO]] of Syncor and the Commander-in-Chief of DAWN. While maintaining an affable front, [[PlayingBothSides Fosco]] seeks to indefinitely prolong the war against the Nephilim so that Syncor can profit off the increased demand for weapons and ATOM mechs. Stealing Dr. Goro Maki's research into the Nephilim and having him disappeared, Fosco has Syncor build sonic emitters to lure Nephilim into attacking major cities like Toronto, Cairo, and Tokyo. When Syncor's treachery is discovered, Fosco has DAWN commander Captain Claire Lionne killed before she can expose his duplicity. Exploiting an ancient prophecy to open a portal to the Nephilim's home dimension, Fosco reveals he intends to [[RunningBothSides run both sides of the war]] to maximize Syncor's profits and doesn't care that the Nephilim could destroy what remains of human civilization in the process.
38* ''VideoGame/{{Deadbolt}}'': [[BadBoss Madam Stela]] is the narcissistic and sociopathic leader of the 1000 Year Royals, an ancient vampiric organisation, and is far worse than [[BenevolentBoss Roland]] or [[AntiVillain Ibzan]]. Madam Stela hates the undead, [[BoomerangBigot despite being one herself]], and is shown to treat her minions as nothing more than pawns in her own game, going so far in sacrificing several of them for her Ash harvests. While ostensibly doing so to help Ibzan's plans of completing the Corpse Portal and profit from it, Madam Stela plans to reach the Flames and betray Ibzan and the Dredged at the end, considering them as no longer useful. Madam Stela is also a BlackWidow who killed two of her previous husbands for unimaginably petty reasons, as well as proxying the death of Sir Stela with Ibzan and the Dredged's help.
39* ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'':
40** "[[MadDoctor The Doctor]]", [[TortureTechnician Herman Carter]], was formerly a neuroscientist who became obsessed with the brain and the power he could hold over people by cruelly experimenting on them. Recruited by the CIA, Carter became feared for the constant screams coming from his lab thanks to his torturous research, eventually killing his mentor and being recruited by the monstrous Entity, which was impressed with his cruelty. Become a sadistic hunter for the EldritchAbomination, Carter savagely [[MindRape sunders the minds]] of his targets before killing them.
41** "[[MonsterClown The Clown]]", born [[MasterPoisoner Kenneth Chase]], was disturbingly fascinated by murder since his youth. He first [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals murdered animals]] before moving on to humans. After his father found out about Kenneth's murder of a young man, Chase immediately ran away to avoid the authorities. While running, he encountered a traveling circus group who took him in as part of their community where he changed his name to Jeffrey Hawk. As Jeffrey Hawk, he acted charming and sociable, but it was all a facade for his boredom where he went through multiple vices before going back to murder. He became a SerialKiller who dressed up as a clown to lure out visitors, including [[WouldHurtAChild children]], into isolation before drugging them and then taking them back to his caravan to torture them mentally and physically before killing them and taking one of their fingers as a memento. One day, he got caught after one his victims managed to escape, but Hawk was able to run away again, and roamed the country for more victims. He was then invited by the Entity to his realm, which he gladly accepted to continue his murders.
42** "[[MadArtist The Trickster]]", [[{{Narcissist}} Ji-Woon Hak]], was a K-pop superstar by day and a sadistic serial killer by night. Ji-Woon was recruited for the K-pop band NO SPIN, only to [[MurderByInaction let his bandmates die in a fire]] to take their fame for himself. Unlocking a bloodlust from his bandmates' screams, he began kidnapping, torturing, and killing innocent people so that he could [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming record their screams for his own music]], experimenting on his victims so as to ensure he got the sounds he wanted from them. When his executives took away his ability to self-produce his music, Ji-Woon created his masterpiece, slowly butchering everyone from the guilty executives to innocent stagehands while [[ForcedToWatch forcing his manager to watch]]. When the Entity came for him, Ji-Woon entered the Fog willingly, excited by the opportunity to continue making his "art" while basking in his own glory.
43* ''VideoGame/TheDeadCase'': Greg Toberen is a SerialKiller terrorizing the city, believing himself to be creating a harem of women for when he enters the afterlife. He stalks his victims for long periods of time before killing them, and [[CreepySouvenir keeping Polaroids]] in a house. Toberen murdered the fiancé--the PlayerCharacter--of one of his intended victims when he got in the way of his target, and burned his own house down with his wife--who becomes the fiery church ghost--in it when she discovered his secret. At the end, he attempts to kill his previously intended victim.
44* ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' series:
45** ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'': [[PsychoForHire Charon]], aka Kevin, real name Kevin Barrister in the non-canonical ''VideoGame/EscapeDeadIsland'', is a [[TheCracker terrorist hacker]] for hire out to cause chaos. Imprisoned for working for countless criminal and terrorist organizations, Charon continues to work with an organization hoping to weaponize the outbreak. Operating behind the scenes, Charon has the immune protagonists find Yerema to take the virus and advance it to more aggressive stages. When Dr. West insists on making a cure, Charon kills him and the other scientists by loosing zombies onto them. Charon tricks Colonel Ryder White into helping him by using his infected wife as leverage, convincing White and the others the strain is actually a cure. Framing White as a madman, leading to the immune killing him and his soldiers, Charon implies his intention to use Yerema to spread outbreaks around the world.
46** ''[[VideoGame/DeadIslandRiptide Riptide]]'': [[FourEyesZeroSoul Frank Serpo]] is a pathologically treacherous [[CorruptCorporateExecutive frontman]] of an organization seeking to weaponize the zombie virus and control outbreaks for their own ends. During the outbreak on Palani, Serpo usurps government and military control from Colonel Sam Hardy, shutting down any humanitarian effort by the military, before having the immune experimented on with a mutagen before [[DirtyCoward abandoning them during a zombie attack]]. When the immune help the survivors find refuge and seek help from the military, Serpo only wishes to collect the immune, leading to Hardy’s death in a standoff. When his helicopter crashes, Serpo leaves his men to die, shooting one to distract the zombies. Sherpo sets up Harlow Jordan's death, having her experimented on with mutagen, [[DrivenToMadness driving her mad]] and framing her as a terrorist. Later, Serpo tries coercing the immune to come with him, admitting to have orchestrated the outbreak.
47* ''VideoGame/DeadlyNight'':
48** [[SerialKiller Mr. Miller]] is Dylan's [[AbusiveParents foster father]] and a reclusive farmer who is revealed to be a serial killing [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]]. [[AxCrazy Deranged and violent]], Mr. Miller forced Dylan to eat human meat, destroying all his belongings when he refused. Conditioning the disabled Dylan into enjoying human meat, he worked with Dylan with kidnapping, imprisoning, and feasting upon victims, having dozens of corpses underneath his house. Despite Mr. Miller's death, [[VillainousLegacy his actions turned Dylan]] into becoming a psychopathic serial killer and a cannibal like him.
49** [[AbusiveParents Carol and Dylan's mother]] is shown to be a particularly {{greed}}y and selfish woman from her limited appearance. While abusing Dylan by locking him in the closet, she frequently pimps Carol out to pedophiles as a preteen, with her constantly yelling at Carol to not cry, which leads to the latter lighting the house on fire and killing her, while leading Dylan to become scarred mentally and physically. Carol [[GreaterScopeVillain stays psychologically scarred]] due to her mother's selfish actions.
50* ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' & ''[[VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition2 A Blessing in Disguise]]'': [[BigBad Forrest Kaysen]], initially appearing to be a [[BitchInSheepsClothing friendly sapling salesman]], is in truth a [[PsychopathicManchild childishly sadistic]] agent of the Red Tree. A [[HumanoidAbomination being]] hailing from the Red World who spreads chaos wherever he goes, Kaysen travels from town to town planting red seeds to spread his master's influence. On his own time, Kaysen goes from house to house [[SerialRapist raping women]] to make them give birth to his tree saplings, forcing the husbands to [[SadisticChoice either shoot their wife or let her die a withered husk]]. This is the fate that bestowed upon Francis Zach Morgan's mother and father, with Kaysen scarring the young Zach and imprisoning him in the Red Room. During the 1950s, Kaysen helped the military spread a [[DeadlyGas purple gas]] across Greenvale, which results in a massacre that wipes out the entire town. Traveling to Le Carre in 2005, Kaysen was responsible for Lena Dauman's murder spree, assisting her in the creation of the deadly drug Saint Rouge, which kills plenty of people across the country. Returning to Greenvale in 2010, Kaysen instigates the new Raincoat Killer murders [[ForTheEvulz out of sheer boredom]], and impregnates Emily Wyatt with his sapling, getting joy from Zach's suffering. Even after his death, Kaysen's spirit continues to haunt a traumatized Zach, luring him back to Le Carre to become his new pet monster, and controlling Aaliyah in an attempt to kill Zach, Patricia, and York.
51* ''Franchise/DeadRising'' series: Even in the midst of a zombie outbreak, the following prove that HumansAreTheRealMonsters:
52** [[VideoGame/DeadRising Original game]]: [[SchlubbyScummySecurityGuard Jo Slade]] is a lecherous mall cop who began kidnapping and sexually torturing beautiful women when the outbreak hit. [[SerialRapist Going through a number of women]] before being encountered, it's implied that Jo also tried to kidnap Tonya Waters and shot her boyfriend Ross Folk when he protected her, causing him to later [[DrivenToSuicide attempt suicide]]. After catching [[PlayerCharacter Frank West]]'s attention by taking four hostages, [[KillerCop Jo]] begins killing them one by one if he takes to long to confront her; during this confrontation, she begins to rape Kay Nelson with a nightstick and threatens to do the same to him for interfering. During the resulting fight, Jo slowly tortures the hostages with electrocutions and beatings, potentially killing them if Frank can't defeat her in time.
53** ''Road to Fortune'' prequel comic, ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'', ''VideoGame/DeadRising3'': [[GreaterScopeVillain Marian Mallon]] is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Director of Phenotrans]] and the mastermind behind their conspiracy; in order to necessitate the creation of Zombrex, Mallon has zombie outbreaks start in cities all over the country in order to harvest "Queen" zombies, infecting and killing countless people. Her planned Los Vegas outbreak alone kills 10,000 people, and Mallon has a scientist who tried to leak the truth killed. Mallon also keeps Isabella Keyes as a constant captive, stealing Keyes's research and forcing her to work for Phenotrans. When Frank West and Chuck Greene uncover the conspiracy, they discover Mallon has been committing mass kidnappings for her experiments, and Mallon claims Phenotrans created a cure for the zombie virus which she hoards for her own infection, also stating releasing permanent cure wouldn't be good for business. By the time of the third game, Mallon agrees to seek the permanent cure when her condition starts to deteriorate, starting another outbreak, teaming up with Hemlock in his bid to take over the country. Narrowing the immunity carrier down to Nick Ramos and his friend Diego Martinez, Mallon kills Diego by causing his parasites to explode from inside him, resulting in his gruesome death.
54** ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'': Both versions of [[ItsAllAboutMe Tyrone "TK" King]] prove far viler than the mere [[SmarmyHost sleazy game show hosts]] they initially appear to be.
55*** Original game: [[TheHeavy TK]] is the host of the controversial [[BloodSport reality show]], "[[DeadlyGame Terror is Reality]]", wherein contestants slaughter zombies, much to TK's profit and entertainment. Accepting payment from Phenotrans, TK helps them set a zombie outbreak on the city, framing [[PlayerCharacter Chuck Greene]] for his crime. Taking advantage of the chaos, TK robs every casino vault he can find. Eventually bitten by a zombie, TK begs Chuck to save him with Zombrex, [[UngratefulBastard immediately swearing to kill Chuck's young daughter Katey if he's saved]]. Taking Katey and Chuck's friend Stacey hostage, TK forces Chuck to get him blackmail material on Phenotrans to gain leverage on them, spitefully trying to murder Chuck, along with Katey and Stacey afterwards.
56*** ''[[VideoGame/DeadRising2OffTheRecord Off the Record]]'': [[AdaptationalVillainy TK]] manages to be even worse than in the original game. Actively supplying the bomb to ensure the zombie outbreak, TK also [[TheCorrupter manipulates Brandon Whittaker]] into releasing the zombies, convincing him that it will make everyone equal. When [[PlayerCharacter Frank West]] stops his mercenaries from robbing the casinos, TK kidnaps Rebecca; after demanding a $1,000,000 ransom, TK [[ILied has the twins attack him]] even after he brings it. Should Frank save him from his zombie infection, TK repays him by kidnapping a mortally wounded Rebecca, intending to have her replace the twins as [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil his personal sexpot]] while blackmailing Frank into retrieving items for him. When Frank retrieves the items, TK backstabs him yet again, throwing him in a zombie pit with no weapons to fight for his life while he watches with a smile.
57** ''VideoGame/DeadRising3'':
58*** General John [[MeaningfulName Hemlock]], Secretary of Defense, oversees the MartialLaw over the zombie outbreak in Los Peridos, and is [[TheHeavy working alongside]] Marian Mallon, acting President in the absence of Sonya Paddock. In reality, Hemlock had Paddock kidnapped and forcibly infected with the zombie parasite, so that he could take over. Hemlock plans to firebomb the city it in a week if there are no signs of organic life, and he uses his psychotic henchwoman [[DarkActionGirl Sgt. Hilde Schmittendorf]] to kill civilians. His plan is to extract King Zombies from the city and use them to start and control outbreaks all over the Eastern Seaboard to continue imposing martial law and leave him as the de facto dictator. When Mallon disrespects Hemlock, [[TheStarscream he kills her]] by throwing her off a building.
59*** [[MadDoctor Albert Contiello]] is a sadistic surgeon who represents the sin of {{Greed}}. During the outbreak, Contiello takes to abducting survivors and begins performing surgery on them without anesthetic to [[OrganTheft harvest their organs for the black market]]. When he captures [[PlayerCharacter Nick Ramos]], Contiello injects him with a hallucinogen that makes him hallucinate everyone around as Contiello, putting other innocent survivors at risk.
60* ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' franchise:
61** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'': [[TreacherousAdvisor Daina Le Guin]], a [[ChurchOfHappyology Unitologist]] aboard the Sprawl, became obsessed with the comatose [[PlayerCharacter Isaac Clarke]]'s capacity to produce more Markers to spread the Necromorph infection. Opting to steal Isaac to take his knowledge, Daina [[VideoGame/DeadSpaceMobile tricked Karrie "Vandal" Norton]] into unleashing the Necromorphs onto the Sprawl, massacring the government sector and killing almost every living thing about the station. Manipulating Isaac to draw him near, [[OmnicidalManiac Daina]]'s ultimate plan was to kidnap Isaac and send the resulting Markers across the galaxy in a Necromorph plague to consume life.
62** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'': [[TheFundamentalist Jacob Arthur Danik]] is the Unitologist founder of [[KnightTemplar the Circle]], a [[ChurchMilitant particularly militant group]] that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even other Unitologists find insane]]. Launching a brutal coup on the Earth government, Danik has numerous planets devastated and cities destroyed to release the Markers and the Necromorph plague. Hunting for Isaac Clarke to kill him, Danik becomes obsessed with the awakening of the Brethren Moon and begins its Convergence, seeking an end to humanity to force his twisted view of "evolution" upon them.
63** ''[[VideoGame/DeadSpaceRemake Remake]]'': [[MadDoctor Dr. Challus Mercer]] lacks the Marker-induced insanity he had in the original, but [[AdaptationalVillainy commits far greater crimes]]. A devout Unitologist who seeks to escape death through gaining the [[ArtifactOfDoom Red Marker's]] favor, Mercer starts by having a mentally-vulnerable Brant Harris transferred to his care, where he takes advantage of his mental illness to manipulate him into agreeing to being turned into the Hunter, who he has help him kill survivors onboard the Ishimura. After things truly go to hell, Mercer's sabotage of the ship leads to several decks that may have held the line being overwhelmed and the crew onboard slaughtered. When a group of survivors from the Hydrophonics Deck enters the Medical Deck, Mercer captures them, gruesomely experiments on them, and leaves them to be turned into Necromorphs. When confronted by [[ActionSurvivor Jacob Temple]] on the Crew Deck, Mercer puts him into stasis and shoots him in the head, intentionally dragging out his death for far longer. A [[TheFundamentalist crazed religious fanatic]], Mercer claims he is acting on behalf of humanity's future, when in fact he [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist only cares about his own eternal reward]].
64* ''VideoGame/DeadToRights'':
65** First game: [[ADickInName Dick Hennessey]] is Grant City's [[DirtyCop corrupt police chief]] and head of the department's anti-crime unit G.A.C. Hennessey uses blackmail to hold all of Grant City under his thumb, allowing all kinds of criminal activity to happen as long as he gets to instill his own brutal brand of justice. Hoping to use [[MayorPain Mayor Pinnacle]]'s illegal gold smuggling ring to buy his way into power, Hennessey [[YouKilledMyFather kills Frank Slate]] for coming close to uncovering the operation, having his son [[PlayerCharacter Jack]] framed for killing gangster Augie Blatz and putting him on death row. With mayoral candidate Gloria Exner hoping to dismantle G.A.C., Hennessey attempts to have a conference building blown up to kill her, later having the hotel she's staying at set aflame with hopes of killing everybody inside.
66** ''[[VideoGame/DeadToRightsRetribution Retribution]]'' ContinuityReboot:
67*** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Julian Temple]], owner of the Temple Network, is a cowardly media mogul who [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist wants to be seen as Grant City's savior to satisfy his ego]]. Funding [[WellIntentionedExtremist Redwater]]'s G.A.C. troops in private, Temple hires the villainous Riggs to spread chaos across Grant City in order to justify G.A.C.'s legalization, uncaring that it'll mean turning the city into a PoliceState. Allowing Riggs to launch a raid on his own tower and kill plenty of hostages, as well as attempting to destroy Grant Central Station, Temple hopes to have Redwater killed when all's said and done.
68*** [[PsychoForHire Riggs]] is a [[PsychopathicManchild childish psychopath]] working with Temple to spread chaos throughout Grant City. [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulating]] and militarizing the Union gang into helping him raid Temple Tower, Riggs kills several hostages and [[CopKiller cops]] by sadistically dropping them to their deaths, while also partnering with the Triads to organize the destruction of Grant Central Station. Riggs also signs up to be a G.A.C. troop, killing some Union members upon G.A.C.'s legalization, while hoping to kill Redwater under Temple's orders.
69*** [[AxCrazy Tseng]] is a crazed [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad]] mobster who likes to snort cocaine and murder people. With a fondness for [[TongueTrauma cutting out tongues]], Jack instantly identifies a group of tongueless bodies as his work. [[BadBoss Gleefully killing his own men]] for nothing, Tseng opts to spread chaos and excitement by sending a train packed with explosives to Grand Central Station, which is also packed with explosives, to kill countless innocent people.
70* ''VideoGame/{{Debris}}'' series:
71** ''VideoGame/Debris2'': [[BigBad Birdbeak]] kidnapped four children, including Frank's son, to manipulate him into going alone to the Abandoned Teather. Forcing children into acting for her play, Birdbeak [[WouldHurtAChild kills one of them]] in front of the other when he tries to rebel and attempts to force a little girl into killing and dismembering her classmate as part of the act before making her do it anyway. After playing lethal games with the cops, Birdbeak reveals her real motivations: She was Eden, a cop obsessed with the case of the Rockbell Manor who wanted to imitate its horror. Disappointed at seeing that one of its perpetrators wanted to live a normal life and jealous at her getting the attention of her boss and her ex-boyfriend, she kills said ex-boyfriend before playing a last game with Frank and mocking him for having trusted on her in the past, before revealing that she killed his wife and put her corpse in a box.
72** ''[[VideoGame/Debris3TheDevilInI The Devil in I]]'': Nemesis appears initially as another freak at Emily's command, but he reveals himself as something even worse. Initially a doctor that developed an attraction towards her as a little girl, he [[WouldHurtAChild abused her]], hoping to break her will until he discovered that there was another way. Using leaked secret technology, Nemesis turned Emily into his personal toy, controlling her via machines implanted in her body, using the same process with other persons including Emily's father and a patient that was nice to her while also [[BodyHorror turning them into monsters]]. When he is confronted, he admits being fully willing to [[ReplacementGoldfish replace Emily with their own daughter]] and tries to kill [[PlayerCharacter Axl]] in a gas chamber before trying to slice him with a chainsaw and injuring Emily while saying that if [[IfICantHaveYou she isn't with him, then nobody else should be]].
73* ''VideoGame/DeepFreeze'': [[DragonInChief Phobos]] is one of [[WellIntentionedExtremist Marsha "MAM" M'Flusvska]]'s sons, and a soldier of [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Hephaistos]] alongside his brother Deimos. Tasked with gaining control of the Judgement Sphere satellite in order to [[KillAllHumans annihilate humanity]] and restore the environment, Phobos decides to go against MAM's wishes by using the satellite to make himself the Earth's new ruler. Leading a terrorist attack on the Vice President's son's wedding, Phobos later [[TheStarscream kills MAM and Deimos]] before gleefully admitting to manipulating Ney into killing her parents.
74* ''VideoGame/{{Deepwoken}}'': The Lord Regent, at first glance, seems to have the best interests in mind for the [[EmpireWithADarkSecret Kingdom of Etrea]] after their king was assassinated, but in truth he is a [[HumanoidAbomination horrific monster]] known as Zi'eer, the 4th Prophet of the [[ApocalypseCult Ministry]], and is the most prevalent of the Prophets. Closing down Etrea's history office to prevent anyone from knowing his true intentions, Zi'eer brutally murders anyone daring to trespass on his ground or for knowing too much about him. Reforming the Contractors, Zi'eer would task them to "extinguish the souls of those who have given their oaths to others" by slaying them in Scyphozia. Zi'eer's ultimate goal is to sink Etrea to the [[EldritchLocation Depths]] through a Great Drowning caused by the war against the Central Authority, for the Ministry's twisted goal of [[GodhoodSeeker achieving godhood]].
75* ''VideoGame/DefJamFightForNY'' & ''The Takeover'' prequel: The heartless [[ManipulativeBastard Crow]] is the chief rival of the more honorable D-Mob, and his former right hand who assisted in fostering [[MobWar gang wars]] and murders to help D-Mob's role in taking over New York. Murdering the hero's mentor O.G., Crow later broke from D-Mob to start his own [[TheSyndicate syndicate]] and returns to force D-Mob's protégé to betray his mentor and help Crow take over New York by [[IHaveYourWife holding Hero's girlfriend hostage]]--only to order her burned alive after. When Crow attempts to kill all the fighters and sends his own men to suicidal situations, he finally provokes abandonment from his remaining followers, only to try and murder Hero by honorlessly shooting him InTheBack.
76* ''VideoGame/DeptHeaven'' series: Despite its lighthearted tone and cheerful art style, the following stand out for their sheer vileness:
77** ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand'': [[TheChessmaster Hector]], debuting here, is responsible for much of the evil in the entire series, is the most active member of the Council of the Seven Magi, and by far the vilest. Secretly having caused the current demonic problems of Riviera to [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist have an excuse]] to deploy his Grim Angels to activate the Retribution--a force that would destroy the entire land in case of crisis--and awaken [[PersonOfMassDestruction Seth]] to fuse with her and [[AGodAmI become a god]]. To reach said goal, Hector sends his servant to gather the souls of the peaceful descendants of the demons in a genocide that leaves just a single survivor. When only two more souls are needed for Seth's resurrection, said servant willingly offers herself as a sacrifice alongside with the heroine that is closer to [[TheHero Ein]]. Sacrificing both, Hector mocks his deceased and totally loyal servant for her origins as an artificial Grim Angel before [[FusionDance fusing with Seth]] and becoming Seth-Rah, aiming to destroy Riviera and rebuild it from the ashes. Shown as the creator of the artificial Grim Angels in painful experiments in side materials, Hector creates them in the thousands while erasing all records of the persons that they were. Utterly selfish, Hector stands out a extremely [[VileVillainSaccharineShow vile villain in such a lighthearted game]].
78** ''VideoGame/KnightsInTheNightmare'': In one of the darkest entries of the series, two dark villains stand out:
79*** [[WickedWitch Yelma]] is a witch hired by Cardinal Capehorn to summon the demon lord Zolgonark. After Prince Nordich plans on killing Capehorn, she accidentally turns him into werewolf when trying to kill him and laughts at his misery, ruining the peace negotiations between humans and Tiamats. She creates a cursed armor and gives him to a Royal General, [[TheCorrupter corrupting him]] into a cruel and hateful soldier while also dooming him to perpetual pain; forces the King's wife into helping her; giving his corpse to get the powers of the Arbitrator for herself; and turns the chief of the Mehse into a lich. Breaking the last barrier protecting the Tiamat homeland, Yelma dooms the race to their extinction. After the barrier protecting the King's body is break, Yelma takes it and [[TheStarscream betrays]] Zolgonark, intending to [[TakeOverTheWorld rule the world]] in his place, before being killed for him. A sadistic witch, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Yelma was willing to betray and kill]] everyone trying to know the truth regarding of their affiliation, enjoying their misery.
80*** [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Zolgonark]] is the King of the Underworld intending to TakeOverTheWorld. Summoned by Yelma and Cardinal Capehorn, he also convinced the angel Marietta into doing a [[DealWithTheDevil contract with him]] before spitting her into two beings, one heroic and other evil. Zolgonark summons the TheLegionsOfHell to invade Aventheim, killing everything in their way in multiple massacres, going to the extreme of even causing the extinction of the Tiamat race. After Capehorn didn't deliver information about how the King's Soul was in his way to his castle, Zolgonark kidnaps his granddaughter and transforms her into a monster [[AndIMustScream in perpetual pain]] as punishment.
81* ''VideoGame/{{Descent}}'' trilogy: [[BigBad Samuel Dravis]] is an [[CorruptCorporateExecutive executive]] with [[MegaCorp Post-Terran Minerals Corporation]], or PTMC. In the second game, he refuses to pay [[PlayerCharacter Material Defender]] unless the latter does more work for him, and, at the end of the game, Dravis disables Material Defender's warp core. The third game reveals that Dravis was responsible for spreading the virus, and had the scientist who found it locked up in a private prison on trumped charges. The characters manage to rescue him and find a disk with damning evidence against Dravis, which they turn in to PTMC President Suzuki, only to find out that Dravis bombed the building and [[FalseFlagOperation pinned it on the Red Acropolis team]], which soon finds its headquarters under attack. While the building is partially evacuated, hundreds if not thousands of innocent people die in the process. The survivors spend most of the rest of the game on the lam, and even when they are able to clear their name and arrange a meeting with the Collective Earth Defense, Dravis sends a bunch of infected stormtrooper bots to destroy the ship, and when this doesn't work, he flees to hide in his lair on Venus.
82* ''VideoGame/Desperados2CoopersRevenge'': [[BigBad Lester Lloyd Goodman]], aka "Angel Face", is a ruthless RailroadBaron building a new track in an area inhabited by a tribe of Native Americans. To vilify them, Goodman has his men attack treks and kill settlers while [[FalseFlagOperation dressed up as tribe members]]. When [[BountyHunter John Cooper]]'s brother, US Marshal Ross Cooper, investigates these attacks, Goodman has him murdered to cover his tracks. Later Goodman takes over the Native camp by force and threatens to have their women and children killed, should they ever try to rise up. After Cooper's group and the tribe join together to defeat him and his men, Goodman proves once more what a truly despicable man he is, when he gleefully tells John that his brother [[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied squealed like a pig when he died]].
83* ''VideoGame/Destiny2'':
84** [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Dominus Ghaul]] is the commander of the Red Legion who usurped Emperor Calus as leader of the [[Characters/DestinyTheCabal The Cabal]]. [[DrivenByEnvy Envious]] of the Guardian’s capabilities to wield the Traveler’s Light, Ghaul invades the Last City on Earth and deploys a ship that severs the Guardians' connection to the Traveler, while his forces slaughter helpless civilians and Guardians. Ghaul would also interrogate the Speaker to learn more about the Light by [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] him until he dies and murders his closest ally, the Consul, when the latter berated him for his efforts. Ghaul would then plan to strip the Light from the Traveler before attempting to destroy the Solar System with the ''[[PlanetSpaceship Almighty]]'', a cataclysmic weapon Ghaul had already used to conquer and destroy dozens of worlds.
85** ''Forsaken'': [[ManipulativeBitch Riven of a Thousand Voices]] is a sadistic [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Ahamkara]] who was sealed inside the Dreaming City for her deceitful nature. Found by Oryx, The Taken King, Riven makes a deal to maintain her free will by letting Oryx forcibly turn everyone in the Dreaming City into Taken, allowing Riven to rule over the city. Riven would then disguise herself as Mara Sov, to [[TheManBehindTheMan corrupt and manipulate]] Uldren Sov into committing atrocities for her, having Uldren create [[Characters/DestinyTheFallenScorn the undead Scorn]] and free the Solar System's most notorious criminals, leading to massive bloodshed throughout the galaxy before Riven [[EatenAlive devours Uldren alive]] after he frees her. When a Guardian raid team was sent to kill Riven, she would make sure the Dreaming City would be kept in a time loop and remain under Taken influence to forever subject those in the city to constant suffering.
86** ''The Witch Queen'': [[StrawNihilist Rhulk]] was a bloodthirsty Lubrean whose brutally horrified his own parents so much that they tried to kill him. When Rhulk survived their attempt, Rhulk retaliates by slaughtering them along with everyone else in his clan, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]], before destroying his own planet. Found by The Witness, Rhulk becomes their [[TheDragon First Disciple]], where he would commit countless atrocities on their behalf, which include manipulating the Ahslid into fighting each other leading to their extinction, and making Xita, the Nurturing Worm, his BreedingSlave, while threatening her life to force her children to do his bidding; Rhulk would use the worms he had Xita mass produce to transform the Krill into the undead [[Characters/DestinyTheHive Hive]]. Sent by the Witness to supervise Savathûn and kill her if she goes against them, Rhulk would gain control of The Scorn and use them against Savathûn and her forces after she seals him inside his own Pyramid where Rhulk would attempt to kill a Guardian raid team when they enter it.
87** ''Season of Plunder'' & ''Lightfall'': [[AncientEvil Nezarec]], Herald of the First Collapse, and the Final [[{{Sadist}} God of Pain]], was the true mastermind of the Eliksni's StartOfDarkness on Sol and the collapse of humanity's Golden Age, kick-starting the game's post-apocalyptic setting. Using [[Characters/DestinyTheDarkness the Darkness]] to attain an AbstractApotheosis billions of years ago, Nezarec has abused his immortality and domain to inflict suffering on billions of lives across the universe ForTheEvulz, killing many and feeding off of the torment endured by those who remained. Not content with watching the remains of civilization eke out painful existences, Nezarec would also use a ReligionOfEvil to personally torture and corrupt several individuals he took an interest in, aware that any and all resistance or resentment of him only gives him more power and fealty. When he finally reawakens physically in the present during ''Lightfall'', Nezarec's only concerns are [[CardCarryingVillain missed opportunities]] to inflict more pain and make it personal with the Young Wolf, knowing that killing or isolating him again is useless when the Darkness will continue providing him more servants, eternal life beyond the material plane, and the ability to continue exercising his power through the psychic matrix that gives Strand its form.
88* ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'':
89** [[BitchInSheepsClothing Zlatko Andronikov]] is a sadist who enjoys killing androids. Posing as a good Samaritan trying to help deviants find sanctuary, Zlatko invites various androids into his house so he can later erase their memories. Once he does, he either dismantles the androids and sells their body parts, or he keeps the androids for himself so he can mutilate their bodies for his personal enjoyment. When Kara and Alice arrive at his home, he attempts to wipe Kara's memories too so he can keep her as his slave, and tries to murder Alice as well. Despite knowing that androids are developing sapience, Zlatko doesn't care, and he willingly treats them all like nothing but toys or spare parts to make money off of.
90** [[SmugSnake Richard Perkins]] is an FBI agent who [[FantasticRacism despises androids]]. After learning about the androids' deviancy and Jericho's uprising against humans, Perkins is appointed to hunt down Markus and to dismantle Jericho. Once Perkins discovers the location of Jericho, he sends several field agents to the location and allows his agents to slaughter dozens of androids, even the ones who surrender or pose no threat to the agents. If Markus and Jericho's primary coordinators survive the attack and Markus leads a peaceful demonstration into Detroit's concentration camps, Perkins will have his agents open fire into the crowd and kill more androids. Perkins later confronts Markus and offers for him to surrender, or else he and the rest of Jericho will perish. If Markus doesn't take his deal, then Perkins will order his agents to resume attacking Jericho; if Markus does take the deal, then Perkins will detain all the androids. Shortly afterwards, he murders [[LoveInterest North]] and smugly tells Markus that all of the androids will be destroyed, seconds before murdering Markus too.
91* ''Franchise/DeusExUniverse'' series:
92** ''VideoGame/DeusEx'':
93*** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Bob Page]] is a former member of the Council of Five--the ruling body of TheIlluminati-- and a protégé of the leader Morgan Everett. Consumed with a lust for power, Page abandoned the Illuminati to strike out on his own. He invented [[TheVirus a nanovirus via robots]] to kill as many people as possible and shows [[YouHaveFailedMe a willingness to have any failures eliminated]]. Page would even use nuclear weapons to get his way, in his plan to throw the world into chaos to pave the way for him as a messiah and a world leader. Page's ultimate goal is to merge with AI Helios and [[GodhoodSeeker become a God]], declaring "Let it spill over into the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to save them."
94*** [[TheDragon Walton Simons]], [[CorruptBureaucrat Director of FEMA]] and the brutal right hand of Bob Page, is a stoic and emotionless killer who initiates MartialLaw with a crackdown that sees many innocents dead or imprisoned. [[WaterSourceTampering Poisoning New York's water supply]] to initiate rationing, Simons uses his transports as cover to spread the [[SyntheticPlague Gray Death plague]] to civilians. Wiping out the NSF rebels and personally executing hostages, Simons spares little effort to hunt down JC Denton when he goes rogue, sending out one agent to die simply because he finds the man mourning his partner annoying.
95** ''[[VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar Invisible War]]'': The seemingly pious [[DarkMessiah Saman]] is the primary orchestrator of the game's war, as both the leader of an extremist sect of the Order, and secret Grandmaster of UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar. Believing Her Holiness has been too lenient in pursuing the Luddite beliefs of the Order, Saman converts an army of followers to his cause, seeking to depose her. Under his orders, the Templars commit a series of attacks to exterminate genetically altered beings; to get to an [=ApostleCorp=] lab alone, he has the city of Chicago blasted with a nanite detonator, reducing the city to ashes and killing millions of people. He then corrupts [[PlayerCharacter Alex]]'s friend Billie into being his loyal foot soldier, to try to kill JC Denton and eventually having Billie and Alex fight to the death. Despite all this, he still tries to manipulate Alex onto his side and will actively try to kill Alex when Alex resists. Saman's ultimate goal is to spread a nanite plague around the world, at which point he would start a [[SinisterMinister genocidal theocracy]] under his command.
96** ''[[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution Human Revolution]]--The Missing Link'' DownloadableContent: [[AmbitionIsEvil Pieter Burke]] is the head of the Spec Ops group of Belltower and in charge of developing the Hyron Project. Burke kidnaps [[PlayerCharacter Adam Jensen]] in the beginning and interrogates him through torture. After being freed, Jensen begins to see Burke's long list of crimes. He's been kidnapping random women in the street to be used as test subjects for the Hyron Project which resulted to many deaths, either through the experiments, the operation required to place them inside Hyron, or through Hyron after dying from a year of pain and agony. Once Jensen begins to destroy his plans, Burke forces him a SadisticChoice between saving his prisoners or the person with the evidence to expose Belltower. Even before this, he was responsible for civilian deaths with his command to kill any witnesses in his covert missions.
97* ''VideoGame/DevilCameThroughHere'' trilogy:
98** ''VideoGame/TheCatLady'': While all [[SerialKiller Parasites]] are undoubtedly evil, the first and final Parasites stand out even more:
99*** [[WickedCultured Dr. Xavier Zelmann]], aka Doctor X, is Susan's [[PsychoPsychologist psychiatrist]]. A seemingly good-hearted man who cares for his patients, Xavier is in fact a SoftSpokenSadist who uses his job as a way to finding women for him to take down to his basement and kill; one of his victims being his own co-worker Liz, whom he impaled on a wall with a metal rod through her neck. After killing his victims, he [[MadArtist uses their bodies to recreate Renaissance art pieces]] and puts them on display in his own twisted gallery. When Susan finds Xavier after he stabbed her multiple times, he is torturing a woman tied to a chair, and dancing blindfolded so he can [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming better hear her screams]], which he associates to a song and "poetry without words". Despite only being the first Parasite, he manages to be one of the worst.
100*** [[IndirectSerialKiller Adam]], also known by his online pseudonym The Eye of Adam, is the fifth Parasite and the one whose presence is felt throughout almost the entire game. A spiteful, [[EvilCripple wheelchair-bound]] young man with grandiose delusions, Adam surfs around internet forums so he can find depressed people and give them ways to commit suicide. Prior to the events of the game, Adam got in contact with Mitzi's boyfriend, Jack, who suffered from depression after discovering his girlfriend's brain cancer, and convinced him into locking himself inside his car and inhale hydrogen sulfide. Having implanted a device which would release poisonous gas in his apartment, he activates it in an attempt to stop Susan and Mitzi, killing his own father in the process, [[UngratefulBastard despite everything the latter had done for him]]. Inside his flammable, gas-filled room, Adam tries to coerce Mitzi into shooting him, knowing this would end with the room exploding. Adam was not only Susan's [[EvilCounterpart polar opposite]], but he also served as an example of the evils a simple {{troll}} can do if given the chance.
101** ''VideoGame/{{Lorelai}}'': [[AbusiveParents John]], aka the Stepfather, is Lorelai's WickedStepfather, and is implied to be the sixth [[VideoGame/TheCatLady Parasite]] himself. An [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror Afghanistan veteran]] who became involved with Lorelai's mother, Miranda, and eventually fathered Lorelai's half-sister, Bethany, John is in fact a sociopathic thug who regularly beats Miranda, wastes all of their money on alcohol, and introduces the kind of man that he is by offering to "help" Lorelai when he thinks that she was masturbating in her room. When John's abuse [[DrivenToSuicide drives Miranda to hang herself in the bathroom]], John is so satisfied that he considers taking a picture of her corpse for the family album to capture the "beautiful moment" and shatters a glass bottle on his friendly neighbor's head, Zack, for breaking his door, before impulsively stabbing Lorelai in the neck with the broken bottle. Deciding to [[OffingTheOffspring drown Bethany]], his own biological baby daughter, in the bathtub to complete the PaterFamilicide, John [[CopKiller murders two police officers]] after Lorelai comes back to life and saves her sister, executing Lorelai again with a bullet to the head. Taking the bodies to his old workplace for him to grind them to shreds, John impales Zack with a metal rod and throws Bethany from the top of a mountain down the ocean, killing them both.
102* ''VideoGame/DevilsThird'': While [[BigBad Isaac Kamudo]] and most of the Sons of Democracy (SOD) are trying to [[WellIntentionedExtremist bring about peace through any means necessary]], the same can't be said for these two members:
103** [[MadScientist Big Mouse]] is the SOD's head scientist and bio-weapon specialist. Having created the Chimera virus as a way to power up his soldiers, he tested it on his own men, leading them to become zombified freaks, even using his own wife Jane Doe as a guinea pig. Leading an attack on a city, he shoots a wounded citizen and gasses an entire hospital [[WouldHurtAChild containing children]], which causes [[PlayerCharacter Ivan]] to leave the team. Mouse shoots C4 when she tries to protect Ivan, later using her blood as a way to create transgenic medicine for his soldiers. On Kamudo's orders, Mouse leads the SOD into taking over the Panama Canal to destroy worldwide maritime traffic and block off a US Army/trade route. Even as he dies, Mouse is happy knowing that the Panama and Suez Canal will forever be in ruin.
104** [[DarkActionGirl Ludmilla Karenina]], the self-described "Angel of Death", is a high-ranking Russian member of the SOD, and Isaac Kamudo's [[TheDragon second-in-command]]. Assisting Big Mouse in his attack on a city and gassing of a hospital, she orders her soldiers to shoot Ivan when he defects from the SOD. Casually launching nukes onto Beijing, London, and New Delhi on Kamudo's orders, she later releases a poisonous gas that kills both Ivan's men and [[BadBoss her own soldiers]] in order to fight Ivan herself.
105* ''VideoGame/{{Devotion}}'': [[PhonyPsychic Mentor Heuh]] is the leader of the [[ScamReligion cult of Cigu Guanyin]] and the one responsible for the death of Du Mei Shin. A con artist who manipulates troubled people into worship, Heuh extorts money from her followers, and once convinced a cancer patient to forego chemotherapy in favor of her faith healing, leading to his death and the son confronting her in fury. When the mentally ill [[PlayerCharacter Du Feng Yu]] seeks her aid, she preys on and exacerbates his insanity, turning him against his wife, Gong Li Fang, by telling him that she is possessed by evil spirits, leading to him subjecting her to DomesticAbuse. Promising to cure his daughter Mei Shin of her sickness with a ritual, she has him painfully cut and bloodlet himself before having him trap Mei Shin in a bathtub filled with snake wine for seven days and dissuading him from saving her, [[WouldHurtAChild leaving Mei Shin to drown]] and shattering Feng Yu's mind.
106* ''VideoGame/DisasterDayOfCrisis'': [[TheSocialDarwinist Major Evans]] is [[WellIntentionedExtremist Colonel Haynes]]'s traitorous, thrill-seeking second-in-command. Joining Haynes's mission [[PsychoForHire just to have fun being in natural disasters]], Evans takes part in stealing nuclear warheads and unleashing earthquakes and tsunamis on the populated Blue Ridge City for fun. Killing his hostage Professor Davis when he tries to escape, Evans eventually [[TheStarscream betrays Haynes]] when he calls off the mission. With the final nuke in his disposal, Evans hopes to either use it to threaten the government again, or [[NukeEm activate it]] and kill loads of people to alleviate his boredom, while planning to continue spreading natural disasters across the country so his fun won't ever end.
107* ''[[VideoGame/ZettaiZetsumeiToshi Disaster Report]]'' series:
108** [[VideoGame/DisasterReport First game]]: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Albert Sims]] is the crooked director of the Land Development Department responsible for the destruction of Stiver Island. Tasked by a mysterious client to destroy the island for land profit, Sims gets the island's creator Terry Stiver on his side by arranging for his family to die in a mountain landslide, pinning the blame on the government. Allowing Terry to pollute and overfill the Capital City reservoir in order to create the quakes, which leads to over 2,000 people either dying or going missing, with more lives lost as the destruction continues, Sims will [[HeKnowsTooMuch kill anybody who knows of his conspiracy]], even attempting to murder Terry after he finds out the truth.
109** [[VideoGame/DisasterReport3 Third game]]: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Nobuteru Morita]] is the {{greed}}y CEO of the Morita Group. Approached by Daigo Hazuki to help fund the development of Central Island in order to avoid bankruptcy, Morita gave him everything he needed in return for Hazuki's wife, whom Morita forced to birth him a child of his own. Knowing that Central Island was built over a gas field that could cause potential natural disasters, Morita refuses to do anything about it, hoping to make more money by establishing control over the energy resource. Morita and Hazuki fire their expert geologist Ishizawa and have his daughter Keiko killed [[HeKnowsTooMuch in order to prevent word of the gas field from leaking]], and when natural disasters eventually strike the island, [[DirtyCoward Morita]] attempts to abandon everybody and save himself.
110** ''[[VideoGame/DisasterReport4SummerMemories Summer Memories]]'':
111*** [[EvilOldFolks Kiyoko Maeda]], a [[BitchInSheepsClothing supposedly kind]] old lady, is revealed to be the head of Snake Snake, a criminal organization that specializes in [[HumanTraffickers human trafficking]]. Using the disaster as a way to lure in survivors to be sold as slaves, Maeda uses her partner Keith to [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate people]] into helping them out, only to betray them afterwards. Having been in the crime game for quite some time, once the survivors escape her ship, Maeda tries to have them all killed by Keith.
112*** [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Notuboi and Kanadakai]] are two thugs wandering in the city during the disaster, rumored by many townsfolk to have assaulted many women. When they first meet the protagonist accompanied by Kanae, they tie both of them up and plan to rape Kanae later, only failing due to the latter having escaped with the protagonist. Upon finding Yayoi, they rape her before fleeing, leaving her traumatized. Months after the disaster, they are still around, continuing their wrongdoing, eventually finding Hiroko and [[AttemptedRape trying to rape her]].
113* ''VideoGame/Disintegration2020'': [[BigBad Black Shuck]] is the leader of the [[MechanicalLifeforms Rayonne]] forces throughout America. After having a falling out with the Rayonne commanders, Black Shuck attempted to win back their good graces by attacking all of the [[LaResistance resistance]] forces in America, where he killed, imprisoned, or enslaved any humans or integrated robots who stood in his way. When [[PlayerCharacter Romer Shoal]] escapes from his Iron Cloud alongside several other prisoners, Black Shuck uses his resources to repeatedly attack them and any of their allies, where he successfully kills Coqui and seriously damages the resistance. Shortly after getting captured, Black Shuck repeatedly tries to convince Romer and his crew to join the Rayonne, and inevitably has Rezek free him under false pretense that he'll help him find his daughters; [[ILied Black Shuck murders Rezek]] the second he's freed. Once freed, Black Shuck returns to the Iron Cloud and launches an attack on the Human Liberty Coalition's base to stop the resistance once and for all.
114* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSin'' duology: [[ManipulativeBastard Braccus Rex]] is a mighty, EvilSorcerer known as the Source King. A [[MadScientist mad genius]], Braccus perfected his curses on live human subjects, harvesting the souls of entire villages and cities to empower himself while subjecting countless innocents, including children, to hideous and agonizing torments for his magic. Those who crossed Braccus were locked in [[AndIMustScream horrific fates]], condemned to burn alive forever or feel as if they were dying of thirst but unable to die. Braccus turned his lover into a thrall when she protested his evil and turned his own sister into a lich to abuse her without fear of killing her. [[VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII Revived in modern times]], and taking the identity of Master Vredeman, Braccus continues his evil actions, even allying with the Voidwoken to condemn most of the world to annihilation as long as Braccus himself was able to Ascend and seize divinity, with no care for anyone or anything that was not him.
115* ''VideoGame/TheDivision'': [[TheSocialDarwinist Larae Barrett]] is the [[AxCrazy psychotic]] and despotic leader of the Rikers, the most vicious faction to have taken over New York. Previously imprisoned for [[CopKiller the murder of two cops]], Barrett became the leader of the prisoners after seducing an administrator into getting her a barge, after which she murders him when the time comes to escape. Barrett has the Rikers go on a rampage across New York, slaughtering any and all law enforcement they can find, with Barrett declaring they will rule New York as anarchistic kings, at one point converting a jail into their own personal torture dungeon. Barrett [[BadBoss has one of her lackies carved to death]] during a rally [[DisproportionateRetribution because he made too many complaints]], and sets a rival gang leader on fire. When confronted, Barrett and the Rikers are hosting a "party", where captive officers are being tortured and murdered.
116* ''VideoGame/{{Dofus}}'': [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Mongrelamus/Medoroziam]] is one of the original ten Shushu and the only among them who survived his brother Rushu's purge by hiding on the planet that would become the World of Twelve. Medoroziam sought to [[DemonicPossession possess the body]] of the powerful Iop warrior Goultard by feeding off his murderous anger. Working in conjuction with the sacrier Katar, Medoroziam butchered Goultard's [[WouldHurtAChild three young children]] and his wife in order to cultivate Goultard's wrath and thus enable Medoroziam to possess him--turning Goultard's wrath, first, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness toward Katar]]. Medoroziam's [[TheCorrupter corrupting influence]] birthed the noxious "Goultard the Barbarian" personality of Goultard, giving him the ultimate responsibility over all the thousands, innocent or not, Goultard would subsequently slaughter.
117* ''VideoGame/DoItForMe'': The protagonist's unnamed [[LoveInterestTraitor girlfriend]] desires to [[AxesAtSchool massacre her fellow students]] for her sadistic pleasure. [[TheVamp Gaining his love to manipulate him]], the girlfriend intends for him to help her kill everyone in their school. Depending on the ending, she can have him [[FrameUp framed for the murders]] or [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill him herself if he refuses]], going on to perpetrate the massacre herself.
118* ''VideoGame/DonPachi'' series: [[BigBad Colonel Schwarlitz Longhena/Longhener]], debuting in ''[=DoDonPachi=]'', organized the Elemental Dolls' attack on mankind and humanity's near extinction. [[KnightTemplar Thinking humans to be irreparably flawed]], Longhena founds the [=DonPachi=], to be conditioned via slaughtering their own comrades, to fight the "invaders". In truth, these invaders are a human fleet trying to stop Longhena's insanity. Gleefully revealing the truth, Longhena attempts to simply [[KillAllHumans wipe out humanity]].
119* ''VideoGame/DontBeAfraid'': [[TheDragon Theodore]] is [[BigBad Franklin Deagon]]'s partner-in-crime who assists him with kidnapping and killing various innocents. Frustrated with his job and longing to give in to his dark desires, Theodore accepted Franklin's proposal to create a vast network of mazes and puzzles in which to torment their victims. While Franklin conjured up all of the plans, Theodore would frequently sedate and capture the victims, many of whom were small [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. To finance the operation, Theodore also butchered children to [[OrganTheft sell their organs for money]], and occasionally would steal some of Franklin's victims for himself so he could rape and later kill them. When [[PlayerCharacter David]] is kidnapped by Franklin and later taken to Theodore's domain, Theodore exposes David to several of his mutilated victims, tricks him into being contaminated with a hallucinogenic drug, and tries to chase him down and beat him to death for his own amusement.
120* ''[[VideoGame/DontLetHimIn Don't Let Him In]]'' ([[https://jonniemadeit.itch.io/dont-let-him-in link]]): [[HostileHitchhiker The Hitchhiker]] is an old man who seemingly kills himself when James and his friends picked him up, only to be revealed to be the main source of the horrors within the small town. Actually a sadistic demon, the Hitchhiker is a [[SerialKiller serial murderer]] who murders parents and abducts their [[WouldHurtAChild children]], torturing them [[SnuffFilm on camera]] to sustain himself and for his own pleasure. Placing the small city in a time loop to damn them into helping, the Hitchhiker formed a cult dedicated to murdering children on camera to sustain himself, and after killing himself in front of James and his friends, picked his friends off one by one while trying to [[DrivenToMadness drive James insane]]. Trying to make an appeal to James, he immediately attempts to kill him while taunting him over the death of his friends.
121* ''VideoGame/DoUsPart'': [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord Vollo]] is Margerita's husband who is revealed to have [[TheBluebeard tortured and murdered his prior wives]]. Among his victims were Margerita's sisters Luisa and Carlotta, the latter of whom he manipulated their father into letting him marry with the father's debt. Claiming at least six wives, Vollo would chain them up and kill them in his TortureCellar, indicated to be as [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]] to demonic forces, and also [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals imprisoned a talking cat]] to prevent it from stopping his murders.
122* ''VideoGame/DraculaUnleashed'': {{Dracula}} is the same bloodthirsty vampire he has always been. He killed Arthur Holmwood and his wife and took Arthur's place. Dracula then goes on a killing spree, [[VampiricDraining draining the blood]] of his victims and [[ZombifyTheLiving transforming some of them into vampires]]. During the game, [[PlayerCharacter Alexander Morris]] arrives in London to investigate the death of his brother. Dracula first kills Doctor Briarcliffe and leaves his severed head, then he kills Juilet and turns her into a vampire, with her killing another person. Dracula also plans to turn Annisette Bowen into his [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe vampire queen]], so when Devlin kidnaps her, he goes after him. Dracula kills Devlin and reveals himself planning to kill Arthur and turn Annisette into a vampire. In some of the endings, Dracula ends up killing a majority of the characters, including forcing Annisette to kill Alexander.
123* ''VideoGame/DragaliaLost'':
124** Main Campaign: [[ItsAllAboutMe Xenos]], aka [[RealityWarper The Progenitor]], is a [[GodIsEvil vengeful God]] who views humans as mere tools for him to use. Xenos was once a kind God who saw good things in humanity, but when they proved to be evil, Xenos grew angry. Xenos [[OmnicidalManiac committed omnicide]] many times, and after being fed up with the way humanity was, he decided to take into his own hands and create a world where [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill humanity doesn't have free will]] and are mindless slaves for Xenos to use as he wishes. Xenos even discarded his own heart, viewing it as useless, leaving him incapable of feeling positive emotions. In the present day, Phares, who was desperate for a cure for his deadly Wyrmscale disease, [[DealWithTheDevil struck a deal with Xenos]], only for Xenos to backstab him and [[DemonicPossession take control of his body]]. Knowing that Xenos would re-awaken soon, the Northern Church of Grastaea tried summoning {{Satan}} to stop him, though Xenos helped them, knowing that it would backfire. Eventually, Xenos re-awakens, destroying the entire multiverse just to create an individual world in which [[ControlFreak he gets all the say]]. Prince Euden, who is part of Xenos' long-lost heart, tries to convince Xenos that there really is good in humanity and that he never gave them a proper chance, only for Xenos to deny he is in the wrong. Even after losing the final battle, Xenos still tries to mess with the heroes' attempts to fix some of the damage that Xenos caused, showing just how much of a SoreLoser Xenos really is. Cold and ruthless, Xenos will stop at nothing to fulfill his own twisted ambitions.
125** "[[Recap/DragaliaLostScarsOfTheSyndicate Scars of the Syndicate]]": [[ForScience The Doctor]] is the main figure of TheSyndicate, a group involved in shadowy fusion experiments. Raiding numerous villages to collect test subjects, [[MadScientist the Doctor]] conducts disgusting experiments, merging people with real monsters. While attempting to merge Aldred with the dragon Barbatos, the Doctor calls him trash and brushes him off after failing. When [[Characters/DragaliaLostThePrinceEuden Prince Euden]] refuses his offer of fusion and attempts to destroy it, the Doctor throws one of his manticores to slaughter, [[KickTheDog fully aware that the manticore in question is Alfred's sister]]. Having [[LuredIntoATrap lured Euden and his group into a trap]] in a nearby village and fused with the demon, the Doctor attempts to viciously kill them all, and even when defeated, the Doctor gloats that [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning his death will only further the Syndicate's goals]].
126** "[[Recap/DragaliaLostForgottenTruths Forgotten Truths]]": [[ColonelKilgore Augus]] is a cold, calculating [[InsaneAdmiral general]] in a war between humans and dragons. Wishing for humans to dominate the land, [[TheUnfettered he will stop at nothing]] to get what he wants, even if he must use threats. One gambit he pulls off to take out as many dragons as possible involves deliberately destroying their habitats, goading them to attack the capital city that he lined with Mana Bombs. The capital's residents were not informed of his gambit; as a result, [[AMillionIsAStatistic millions of lives were lost, both human and dragon]], once the Mana Bombs were set off. In the end, he had no respect for life, as seen with [[InLoveWithYourCarnage his gleeful reactions to the demon Morsayati's havoc]].
127** "[[Recap/DragaliaLostCelestialShowdown Celestial Showdown]]": [[ControlFreak Tsukuyomi]] is a harsh dragon who fought with her sister, Amaterasu, over her ideals of having total control over humanity. Even after being [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]], she cursed Yoshitsune with immortality and formed a group called the Mukuroshu to help power her up by performing atrocities around the world while also committing suicide so she could gain full control of the underworld, making her stronger. Tsukuyomi also gets Amaterasu's emissary on her side through his [[SplitPersonality evil half]], having him serve as TheMole for her. Once she is ready for release, Tsukuyomi has the Mukuroshu open up multiple Yomi rifts to release Yomi chi and zombies everywhere while she prepares to take action in her plan to [[KillAllHumans wipe out all of humanity]], including the Mukuroshu who were loyal to her, also intending to turn their corpses into her undead slaves.
128* ''VideoGame/DragonForceSega'': The wicked god [[BigBad Madruk]] came to Legendra to destroy it. [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed off]] after killing countless innocents and even sinking the entire continent of Izumo to wipe out its populace, Madruk is eventually released and resumes attempting to annihilate the world. Assembling his forces, Madruk ravages the countryside to destroy all he encounters. Upon being encountered by the Dragon Force heroes, Madruk reveals he intends to destroy the Gods themselves along with their world, dedicated only to his own domination and love of slaughter.
129* ''VideoGame/DragonMarkedForDeath'':
130** The [[DraconicAbomination Astral Dragon Atruum]] and his Asura, millennia ago, waged a war against the Heavenly Primatis for the right to rule the world and [[SoulEating devour the souls of mortals]]. Defeated and dying, Atruum made a blood contract with a threatened clan of humans, marking them with the Dragon Scar in exchange for worship, secretly planning to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice them all]] for his revival. When the Divine King Medius committed genocide against his worshipers, Atruum [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated the survivors]], playing on their hatred and desire for revenge, forcing them to devour the souls of their deceased enemies. Once the Divine King was defeated and Primatis left the mortal world, Atruum revealed his deception, using the body of his priestess Amica as a vessel and attempting to consume the survivor. In one ending, Atruum uses a survivor as a vessel to be reborn more powerful than ever, [[DetonationMoon destroying the Alabaster Moon]] to kill Primatis, and enslaving all of humanity, intending to absorb their souls to enhance his power.
131** [[SorcerousOverlord Duchis Medius]] is the elderly Divine King of the Medius Empire, and claims to be the man closest to the deity Celestial Primatis. [[ImmortalitySeeker Desiring immortality]], Duchis manipulates members of the Dragonblood Clan in the kingdom of Maralyus into causing a rebellion, using that as an excuse to send his Divine Knights--led by the [[AnimatedArmor Soul Vessel]] Vasith--to [[FinalSolution carry out a genocide on the Dragonblood Clan]] and kidnap their Oracle, Amica, leading to a survivor swearing revenge against him. Encasing Amica in Vasith and forcing her to kill to make her soul more powerful, Duchis attempts to sacrifice both Amica and the survivor to Primatis in an attempt to [[GodhoodSeeker become a god himself]].
132* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'': [[TheHeavy Great Leader Elysion]] is the [[AxCrazy fanatical]] leader of Salvation, a {{cult}} dedicated to the worship of the titular Dragon, Grigori. [[EyeScream Tearing out his own eye]] as a young man to prove his dedication, Elysion masterminds the attacks caused by the Salvation-branded monsters and gleefully sacrifices innocents and [[BadBoss his own followers]] to die in Grigori's name, resurrecting them as undead horrors at his own whim. Elysion is a [[DirtyCoward coward]] and a snake unwilling to combat the Arisen himself, and pledges himself purely to appeasing Grigori and causing "death and chaos" to all things.
133* ''VideoGame/{{Drakan}}: Order of the Flame'': [[EvilOverlord Navaros]] is a former member of the Order of the Flame who [[FallenHero defected to the Dark Union]]. Upon becoming the leader of the Union, Navaros and the Union started a long and bloody CivilWar, with a death toll in the thousands, having also murdered and fused with his dragon mount Kaeros to form a DraconicAbomination. Having been being trapped in the Rift World, Navaros has several children--including Delon, brother of heroine Rynn--abducted by monsters to serve as potential vessels. At one point, Rynn learns that numerous people have been kidnapped to become [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slaves]] in the grimstone mines, resulting in many slaves being poisoned. Possessing Delon and forcing Rynn to fight him, Navaros takes the form of a four-headed dragon in a final effort to defeat Rynn.
134* ''VideoGame/DrakeOfThe99Dragons'': [[BigBad Tang]], the ArchEnemy of the 99 Dragons Clan, is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of Tang Industries, one of Neo Macau's leading economic powerhouses. Although [[VillainWithGoodPublicity publicly portraying himself as a charismatic and charitable businessman]], Tang is a heartless megalomaniac with designs on [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]]. To this end, Tang harvests the souls of the recently deceased and implants them into cyborgs against their will, from which he desires to amass a powerful army and install himself as Supreme Dictator of Neo Macau. Realizing the difficulty in securing fresh corpses for souls, Tang struck a deal with the King of Hell to free him from the spirit realm in exchange for an infinite supply of souls, massacring Drake's entire clan for the Soul Portal artifact necessary to do so.
135* ''VideoGame/DreadXCollection'':
136** ''[[VideoGame/DreadXCollection2 2]]'''s ''The Toy Shop'': [[TortureTechnician The Shop Keeper]] is a member of a group of gigantic aliens who took over the Earth, brainwashing and killing large portions of humanity and reducing them to sapient "toys". Taking the most active role in torturing the remaining humans, the Shop Keeper kidnaps several people and turns them into its "Toy Soldiers", whom it uses to track down and kill the rebels. Torturing any sapient robot it sees, the Shop Keeper also tends to [[ToServeMan devour some people]] that remain in its sight for too long. The Shop Keeper uses a brain implant to turn the protagonist into its latest Toy Soldier, causing the latter to see [[LaResistance the rebels]] as infected feral beings and slaughter the entire resistance, to the delight of the Shop Keeper.
137** ''The Hunt'''s ''Black Relic'': [[VillainProtagonist Brother Silence]] is the last member of the cursed family line of Templars who have taken an oath of silence. Growing sick of the curse and deciding to get rid of it, Brother Silence kidnapped the grandson of Village Elder [=McGarth=] and [[WouldHurtAChild brutally killed him]], solely to [[DrivenToMadness drive the boy's father and grandfather mad]] and have them lead the pagan cult in attacking and slaughtering the entire Holy Order. Killing off the entire pagan cult as well, including Elder [=McGarth=] and his son, to [[BloodMagic use their blood in his ritual]], also [[TheOathbreaker breaking his oath]] by speaking for the first time, Brother Silence allows the vile Nephilim to possess him, planning to unleash his wrath upon the world.
138** ''[[VideoGame/DreadXCollection5 5]]'':
139*** ''The Book of Blood'': [[RedEyesTakeWarning The Blood Mage]] is a mysterious being with great magic power, who was [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned]] in a PocketDimension by a group of other mages. Desiring to get free, the [[ManipulativeBastard Blood Mage]] arranged for people to find the book, while [[DemonicPossession possessing other people]] to act as "demons" and having them to attack and drain the blood out of their victims. Tricking people who found the book that they must complete the ritual, described in the book, to get rid of "the demon", the Blood Mage caused many people to get killed by his "demons", before the latest person who found the book managed to complete the ritual and free him. After this, the Blood Mage sarcastically thanked him for it and stabbed him to death to use his blood to bring about "The Second Flood" upon the world.
140*** ''Gallerie'': [[MadArtist The Curator]], who calls itself A.C. Justin, is an otherworldly being who, upon finding its way to Earth, became obsessed with art and decided to create it in the most "natural" manner. Kidnapping many people, including [[WouldHurtAChild infants]], the Curator tortured them, tearing off their skin, dismembering them to use their blood, organs and bones to create paintings and statues. Trapping numerous souls of its victims in a state of [[AndIMustScream eternal suffering]], where they are trapped in its gallery unable to do anything about their situation, the Curator turned some of its victims into feral monsters, torturing and killing Julie, the latest worker in its gallery, and then trying to turn Alex Cardinal into its latest "masterpiece".
141*** ''Rotten Stigma'': [[ImmortalitySeeker Gallagher]] is a leader of a cult that worshipped the dark god Aoduk. [[ImmortalityImmorality Hoping to become completely immortal]] by asking Aoduk to put all the knowledge of the universe in him, Gallagher lured 12 [[WouldHurtAChild children]] to Gallagher Sports Center, while also kidnapping several more people, and started to experiment on them, [[ColdBloodedTorture mutilating them while they were still alive]], recording every moment to [[SnuffFilm sell]], and afterwards presenting their dead bodies to Aoduk, who turned them into feral mutated monsters. Trapping his wife in a "cocoon" in the bathroom for cheating on him, Gallagher offers a prize to anyone who enters the bathroom and kills her, as she helplessly cries.
142*** ''We Never Left'': [[MadArtist Michael Krieger]] is an emotionally unstable programmer with [[ItsAllAboutMe a gigantic ego]]. Dreaming of creating "the greatest horror game of all times", Michael hated his coworkers at the video game company for not sharing his "vision" and calling him "creepy". Growing more and more obsessed with his game, to the point of lashing out at his psychiatrist, Dr. Miller, stalking her afterwards and then killing her and her husband, Michael [[SpreeKiller started a killing spree]], brutally murdering at least 5 more people and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals his own cat]], solely to use their corpses as [[DeadGuyOnDisplay props]] for his "magnum opus". Arranging for his cousin to go to his house and investigate his "disappearance", Michael manipulated him into playing through his games, after which he killed him and mutilated his body.
143* ''VideoGame/{{Dropsy}}'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive The S-Corporation CEO]] is the [[CainAndAbel cruel brother]] of the kindhearted [[PlayerCharacter Dropsy]], who killed his other brother and stepfather in the past and [[HumanHeadOnTheWall mounted their heads on his wall]] in his secret room. Desiring to become the next ruler of his alien species, the CEO tracked down Dropsy in a large circus and set the whole place on fire during the performance, not caring that a whole crowd of people was inside the circus. As the fire killed Dropsy's adopted mother, with Dropsy himself surviving, the CEO created another plot to kill him by luring him to perform in the reconstructed circus, only to steal his pets and mutate them into monsters, provoking them into rage, which led them to attack the whole city, leaving a trail of destruction. In his last spiteful act, the CEO shot Dropsy [[UngratefulBastard as the latter was attempting to comfort him]].
144* ''VideoGame/DungeonSiege II'' & ''Broken World'': [[EvilSorcerer The Overmage of the Cinbri]] was Zaramoth he Unmaker's most ruthless ally. Binding shards of his former lord's soul to his own after the former's defeat, the Overmage crafted a long-term plan to return to his own native dimension, uncaring of all the suffering he would cause. His plan included enslaving a Dwarven expedition and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating Prince Valdis]] into believing himself to be Zaramoth reborn, leading him to a quest for power that once again plunged Aranna into war. In ''Dungeon Siege II'', the Overmage poses as an Azunite scholar to manipulate the protagonist as well, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness leaving them and Valdis to their fate once they have caused the Second Cataclysm he needed]]. In ''Broken World'', the Overmage torments the continent with the Familiar Surgeons, who tear their victims apart and painfully reassemble them into bloodthirsty minions; he also turns Mordens into ravagers with BloodMagic, all to gain time to complete his own fusion with Zaramoth.
145* ''VideoGame/{{Dusk}}'': [[EldritchAbomination Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos]], is secretly [[TheManBehindTheMan the benefactor and the mastermind behind the cult]] operating in Dusk. His insane influence pervading throughout the entire town, Nyarlathotep possesses and [[TheCorrupter corrupts]] its populace into his servants while turning Dusk into a hotbed of sacrifice, mad experiments and depraved rituals. Nyarlathotep gives his servants "spark" to take blood and bone from others to power a horrible machine known as the Thresher, having countless ground into an ocean of blood to empower a portal to the Nameless City. Even when "[[PlayerCharacter Dusk Dude]]" defeats him and kills [[TheHeavy Jakob]], his cult leader, Nyarlathotep merely opts to make the protagonist his eternal servant in turn as a twisted testament to his "worth".
146* ''Dusty'' duology:
147** ''[[VideoGame/DustyRagingFist Raging Fist]]'' prequel: [[FallenHero Sir William Ross]] and [[AncientEvil the Ancient Darkness]] are two vile beings who long to rule over the world and plunge it into chaos. After the Ancient Darkness, a malicious entity responsible for famine and widespread death, was [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]] by Sir William's ancestors, Sir William was tasked with guarding the Ancient Darkness so it wouldn't escape again. Tired of his duty and [[AmbitionIsEvil desiring to claim elemental powers he was forbidden to possess]], Sir William [[FaceHeelTurn released the Ancient Darkness]], promising to let it freely cause wanton destruction so long as it helps him TakeOverTheWorld. Sir William even went as far as [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapping and sacrificing dozens of children]] just to help the Ancient Darkness gain more power. Dubbing himself "Elijah" and posing as a young rabbit, the Ancient Darkness sent the hero Dusty and his allies on a quest to gain the elemental powers. After they acquire them and confront Sir William, Sir William tries to kill the heroes after they refuse his offer of [[WeCanRuleTogether joining him]] in world domination; the Ancient Darkness promptly murders Sir William so it can control the world on its own.
148** ''[[VideoGame/DustyRevenge Revenge]]'': [[TheWarlord Craven]] is a malicious warlord [[AmbitionIsEvil longing for ultimate power]]. [[FallenHero Formerly a member of the Circle of Eight]], a group of explorers who made a pact to protect the Illumna race, Craven [[FaceHeelTurn betrayed his companions]] and slaughtered the Illumna so he could steal all of their power-enhancing dust. Amassing an army of mercenaries, Craven hunted down the other members of the circle--one of whom was Dusty's [[YouKilledMyFather father]] who stole a component Craven needed for an unstoppable war machine. He later sent mercenaries to attack Dusty's house to get the component, one of whom ended up murdering Dusty's fiancée Daisy instead, and [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapped Rondel's son]] to use him as leverage. After countless mercenaries fail to kill Dusty and his allies, [[BadBoss Craven]] tries to murder Dusty personally, [[YouHaveFailedMe tearing off the head of one of his lackeys for failing him]] and [[DirtyCoward leaving several others to die so he can escape after he's wounded]]. When Craven is confronted by the heroes, [[IHaveYourWife he threatens to kill Rondel's son by crushing him to death]].
149* ''VideoGame/DyingLight'' duology:
150** Original game:
151*** "Where's My Mother?" side quest: [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Salim]] is a sexually depraved kidnapper who stalks women and [[WouldHurtAChild children]] throughout the city of Harran. Luring the young mother Aida and her daughter Yasmina to his house, Salim captures Aida and attempts the same on Yasmina, chaining up Aida in his basement. When [[PlayerCharacter Kyle Crane]] arrives searching for Aida, Salim sics an army of zombies onto Crane before trying to kill the man himself, noting his plans to track down Yasmina and her young brother and feed them to zombies. Crane defeats Salim and finds an abused Aida in a room that is horrifyingly stained with blood and filled with tally marks that a prisoner makes, revealing that Salim has had other women and children in his basement to use as his "puppets" for his own pleasure.
152*** "Fan Zone" side quest: "[[AxCrazy The Fan Zone killer]]", broadcasting from the Old Town Radio Station, claims that there are women and children at the station who need food and water, but when Kyle Crane hears this and goes to investigate, he finds the broadcaster, ever since the zombie outbreak first started, used the station to lure people in and [[SerialKiller kill them himself]]. The killer brags to Crane he has killed so many people he lost count of how many, even saying he killed women and [[WouldHurtAChild children]], and bodies strewn about the station represent only a small amount of his victims. When Crane faces off with him, the killer plans to torture Crane and [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming savor his screams]]. It is implied that this is how most of his victims died and that the only reasons for his monstrous crimes are for [[ForTheEvulz pure enjoyment]].
153** ''[[VideoGame/DyingLight2StayHuman Stay Human]]'':
154*** "Missing Persons" side quest: [[ManipulativeBastard Cliff]] is a supplier who [[PsychoForHire works]] under [[WellIntentionedExtremist Dr. Vincent Waltz]] to bring him children to be experimented on and for Pilgrims to be killed by his group. When [[PlayerCharacter Aiden Caldwell]] investigates the whereabouts of his location by the request of his brother Damien, it’s revealed that Cliff was never under any danger and was using his brother to send victims by putting himself under the guise of him being kidnapped to get his brother to obey, with their bodies being bloodied and beaten to death. Once Damien is shocked over this, Cliff shows no concern over his brother's response, and attempts to kidnap Aiden and bring him to Waltz only to get killed himself, the events of the quest causing Damien to become [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal]], which could lead to him jumping off the top of the bazaar settlement.
155*** "Bloody Ties" [[DownloadableContent DLC]]: [[ItsAllAboutMe Astrid]] is a disgraced journalist seeking to reclaim her fame after taking over Carnage Hall. Converting the safe competition into slaughterous GladiatorGames, Astrid lures people throughout Villador to [[BloodSport compete in Carnage Hall]], where hundreds are killed in matches, with non-combatants imprisoned and used as CannonFodder for her fighters and zombies. When the fighter Olga disobeys Astrid's orders, Astrid [[SadisticChoice forces]] Olga to give her one of his sons or she will kill his whole family. Astrid corrupts said son into becoming the bloodthirsty Skullface, while plotting to kill Skullface when Peacekeeper Jack Matt threatens to shut Carnage Hall down because of Skullface's brutality. When Aiden Caldwell tries making a deal with Astrid to ensure his friend Ciro's safety, Astrid arranges for Aiden to fight Ciro to the death. Should Aiden throw the match, Astrid will force Aiden to fight Skullface while imprisoning Ciro. She then goads Skullface to kill his father when he intervenes.
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159* ''VideoGame/EarnestEvans'', ''VideoGame/ElViento'', ''VideoGame/AnnetFutatabi'': [[BigBad Zigfried "Zig" Munchaunsen]], in actuality the [[EldritchAbomination Dark God Nyarlathotep]], is an enigmatic spreader of chaos. Zig would assist Earnest Evans and Annet Myer in stopping the demonic Hastur numerous times so that he won't get in the way of his plans of [[KillAllHumans annihilating mankind]]. In ''Annet Futatabi'', Zig partners with the Nexuses army to take over the Renvrandt kingdom, where he creates mutants from the army's prisoners to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]], later turning the country’s princess Aisha into a mutant and forcing Annet to fight her. Seemingly defeated, Zig is last seen selling weapon blueprints to the Nazis in order to carry out UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's dreams of worldwide destruction.
160* ''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin: Defender of the Future'': In the "[[BadFuture Dolphin's Nightmare]]" storyline, Mutaclone and his two CoDragons form the "Exalted Ones", the leaders of a [[FantasticRacism dolphin-supremacist]] regime known as the Clan. Committing numerous atrocities, the Exalted Ones force whales to suffer as [[LivingBattery living generators]], cut off the food supply to a disobedient village, and unleash sharks on it and allow their followers free reign to torment and torture as they please. Bigoted {{Social Darwinist}}s, one refers to compassion itself as a weakness and Mutaclone himself refuses to let anything risk toppling the tyranny he lords over.
161* ''[[Film/BallisticEcksVsSever Ecks vs. Sever]]'' (2002): [[AdaptationalVillainy Robert Gant]] is an [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]], {{manipulative|Bastard}} higher-up at the NSA who plays the CSI and the NSA against each other in a power play to control both, getting dozens of good cops killed. Gant's true evil comes to shine regarding his relationship with Sever; Gant had not only her entire family killed, but her entire village along with it, having it blown up with no regard to innocent collateral simply because it was convenient for him. Gant even throws his corrupt ally in the CSI to die at the heroes' hands when the tide begins to turn.
162* ''VideoGame/EcoFighters'': [[FatBastard Kernal Goyolk]] is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive narcissistic founder]] of Goyolk K.K. and earned his epithet "Shadow of the Milky Way" thanks to his reputation of [[PlanetLooters strip-mining planets]] until they become barren worlds called "[[PollutedWasteland Dread Spheres]]". Focusing his sights on Planet Elwood as his next target, Goyolk instigates varying sorts of environmental damage, not only ranging from deforestation to pollution, but also using acid rain to cause countless deaths in an entire city.
163* ''VideoGame/EiyuuSenkiTheWorldConquest'': [[GreaterScopeVillain Nyarlathotep]]'s acts include resetting the entire world on a whim countless times, pulling the Zipang army into a deranged game, randomly turning Chihaya's allies against him and threatening to kill them one by one if he doesn't play along. She also shows she's capable rewriting entire personalities on a whim, reviving fallen heroes and forcing them to fight while killing them herself if they show a sign of regaining free will, and [[PeoplePuppets even taking control of just their bodies while leaving their minds intact]]. Finally, she reveals all along that she had [[SoreLoser no intention of losing honorably]] and erases all of the heroes except Chihaya to prove her point. Her only motive is [[ForTheEvulz her own entertainment]].
164* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'':
165** [[StarterVillain Godrick the Grafted]], formerly "Godrick the Golden", is a [[TheResenter resentful]] descendant of [[Characters/EldenRingMainCharacters Marika]] and [[Characters/EldenRingDemigodsGodfreysLineage Godfrey]], and a vicious monster who helped the descent of the lands and in starting the vast wars that consume the world around them. Taking countless beings to "[[BodyHorror improve]]" himself, Godrick tortures and harvests the limbs to graft unto himself. Setting up Stormveil to lure in Tarnished that are worth harvesting, Godrick gleefully [[SerialKiller takes them and their parts]], proclaiming he alone is lord of all that is golden.
166** [[AxCrazy Mohg]], [[BloodMagic Lord of Blood]], is a [[Characters/EldenRingDemigodsGodfreysLineage child of Marika]] and an Omen of cursed blood. Desiring to become the Elden Lord, Mohg establishes a cult to the [[EldritchAbomination Formless Mother]] consisting of [[HumanSacrifice nightmarish blood sacrifice]] to empower himself with the deaths of countless others. Mohg also harbors a dark lust towards his half-sibling Miquella, a god with the body of a child. Kidnapping and attempting to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil violate Miquella]], Mohg murdered him with intent to revive him as the Elden Lord and reign through him with Miquella as a puppet.
167** [[ForTheEvulz The Loathsome Dung Eater]] is a Tarnished, [[HatedByAll hated]] and [[TheDreaded feared]] by all with good reason. A SerialKiller who spreads [[TheCorruption the Seedbed curse]] by torturing, mutilating, and defiling his victims, the Seedbed Curse keeps them from returning to the Erdtree and reincarnating. Having done this to thousands of others, the Dung Eater's goal is to spread the curse to the reforged Elden Ring and damn the entire world.
168** [[MadScientist Preceptor Seluvis]] (or possibly the mysterious [[TheManBehindTheMan Pidia, should Seluvis be his puppet]]), is the assistant of [[Characters/EldenRingDemigodsRadagonsLineage Ranni]], who desires to usurp his mistress in the worst way. Seluvis hungers for powerful people and creates a potion to break their minds so that they become his [[PeoplePuppets puppets]] and {{sex slave}}s with intent to eventually enslave Ranni. Seluvis even offers Ranni's body to [[PlayerCharacter the Tarnished]] in return for their service, in a [[FateWorseThanDeath fate considered far worse than death]].
169* ''VideoGame/ElevatorRitual'': [[MadScientist Professor Kumozoru]] is [[BigBad the one]] who turned everyone in the Rainbow Hotel [[ForcedTransformation into mindless monsters]] that wreak havoc in the hotel. Developing a formula that turns people into monsters, he [[ManipulativeBastard tricks]] the desperate hotel owner, Mrs. Rozelyn, by paying her to let him test his formula, then targets the hotel guests and staff by spreading it with the air conditioner. When Mrs. Rozelyn found out about what Kumozoru had done and begs him to turn them back into humans, Kumozoru flat out refuses to change them back, claiming that it was a step forward for [[EvilutionaryBiologist human evolution]].
170* ''VideoGame/EmeraldCityConfidential'': The [[BigBad First and Foremost Phanfasm]], the CardCarryingVillain in charge of Phanfasm Island, plunged the Emerald City into a brutal war which was only stopped when Ozma conceded William, a human prisoner--also the brother of the game's protagonist, Petra--for the First to condition as a spy. Twenty years later, in defiance of the peace treaty, the First tries to plunge Oz into another war [[ForTheEvulz for the pleasure]] of mass-murdering the innocent and [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans taking power for its own sake]]. When William challenges the First's attempted execution of Queen Ozma, the First tries to kill William as well.
171* ''VideoGame/{{Enclave}}'''s Dark Campaign:
172** The Great Demon [[EvilOverlord Vatar]] waged [[GreatOffscreenWar war against humans and elves]] in an effort to obtain their magic source and become invincible. Having his forces slaughter most of the opposition, Vatar was defeated by the powerful wizard Zale and [[SealedEvilInACan trapped beneath the Earth]]. Released from his prison by Mordessa and devouring Princess Jasindra, Vatar was bound to Mordessa's will. Displeased with that, Vatar used the [[PlayerCharacter nameless Dreg'Atar champion]] to kill Mordessa and take control of Dreg'Atar once again. Sending the champion to kill the queen of Celenheim and her guardians, Vatar then attacks Celenheim, having his forces massacre and devour most of the population and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaving]] the rest.
173** [[EvilSorceress Mordessa]] is [[TheDragon the chief servant]] of Vatar, who has ambitions of her own. Using the nameless Dreg'Atar champion to obtain magical artifacts and kill several people, Mordessa also casually [[YouHaveFailedMe murders her own minions for failures]]. Having the champion deliver to her the Tomb of Souls, Mordessa uses Princess Jasindra as a [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] to Vatar, letting him devour her, as she herself enslaves Vatar to her will. Sending the champion to weaken Celenheim's defenses and kill a large amount of Celenheim's forces, Mordessa also gleefully kills the champion should they decide to remain loyal to her, simply because she thinks that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they have outlived their usefulness]].
174* ''VideoGame/EnderLiliesQuietusOfTheKnights'': The [[ItsAllAboutMe last King of Land's End]] was a selfish man who considered everyone but himself disposable. [[ImmortalitySeeker Obsessed]] with gaining [[ImmortalityImmorality immortality]], the King ordered his mages to [[PlayingWithSyringes conduct mass human experimentation with the Blight]], turning many of them into horrific monstrosities in unending torment. When the White Priestess Fretia was becoming too corrupted by the Blight, the King also had little clone girls of her created to take her Blight and die in her place. Despite [[PosthumousCharacter being dead before the game begins]], the King was instrumental in causing the destruction of Land's End.
175* ''VideoGame/TheEnigmaOfSalazarHouse'': "[[GreaterScopeVillain The Devil]]" approached grieving mother Isabela Salazar after the death of her newborn Javier. [[DealWithTheDevil He makes a deal with the mother]] in order to get her newborn back, having her [[PaterFamilicide murder her entire family before killing herself]], causing the slain family to be stuck as ghosts, [[BarredFromTheAfterlife unable to move on to the afterlife]] and tied to the house. Stalking reporter Elisa Muñoz, the Devil manages to get her to investigate the house, infiltrating her mind to lead to her to completing the ritual for his own goals. In one ending, after Isabel completes the ritual and possesses Elisa, the Devil resurrects Javier, only to [[KickTheDog steal him away from her in an act of cruelty]], leaving Isabel alone with her suffering family. In another ending, the Devil manages to sell Elisa's soul to him, making her a servant in which she is forced to raise Javier, the Devil plans to use for nefarious purposes.
176* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'' series: [[GreaterScopeVillain The Devourer]] is a [[EldritchAbomination being from another dimension]], the creator of the universe, and the BigBad of [[VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5 the fifth game]]. [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill Hating the idea of free will]], it sent Cosmic Monoliths onto the Earth to act as its "defense system" that would allow it to kill the heroes and summon itself if they were destroyed. The Devourer was also responsible for the deaths of many in Redpine due to the Monoliths turning wildlife aggressive. In the final battle, the Devourer reveals that it created Akron—-who attempted to end all life--and Godcat--who tried to eradicate humanity--as earlier attempts to dispose of the party, before deleting the Earth because the Devourer viewed it as ruined.
177* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'': Across parallel realities, [[PsychoSupporter the villainous traitor to humanity]] and the [[EldritchAbomination eldritch beings]] he serves are sinister monsters:
178** [[OurLichesAreDifferent Pious Augustus]] was a Roman centurion who now serves one of three evil Ancients in undeath in exchange for power and immortality. Over the course of two millennia, Pious [[HistoricalRapSheet causes numerous tragedies for humanity]]: destabilizing the UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire by killing [[UsefulNotes/{{Charlemagne}} its emperor]]; building a monument to his Ancient out of the bodies of countless slaves he has captured; and engineering a conflict in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI within a hospital to feed many injured soldiers to the demonic Black Guardian. Using a time of planetary alignment, Pious tries to bring his Ancient master into reality, putting the whole world at risk of destruction to maintain his power.
179** [[AtrociousArthropods Chattur'gha, The Ancient of Body]], is the [[MightMakesRight most straightforward and brutal]] of his kin. If chosen, Chattur'gha empowers Pious with the superhuman strength and demands his servant go forth to conduct sacrifice in his name. Wishing for nothing more than to enter the human realm to destroy it, Chattur'gha has Pious murder thousands to appease his bloodlust and comes forth and [[ToServeMan feed humanity to his demonic minions]] in apocalypse to prove his supremacy.
180** [[DimensionLord Ulyaoth, The Ancient of Spirit]], is seemingly [[TheChessmaster the most intelligent]] yet arrogant of his kind. Should he be chosen as Pious's god, Ulyaoth gluttons the lich on knowledge and sends him forth to cause turmoil and conduct mass [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]]. Wishing to control all that exists, Ulyaoth means to enter reality and [[LivingBattery feed mortals]] to his [[EternalEngine infernal machines]], leaving them in endless nightmare while he empowers himself.
181** [[MadGod Xel'lotath, The Ancient of Mind]], has [[SplitPersonality two personalities that work in tandem with one another]]. Converting Pious to her side and continuing the mass human sacrifices and countless murders to lay the groundwork for her manifesting on earth, Xel'lotath gives Pious his orders and instructs him to be cruel as possible in the case of Charlemagne who is to be made dead, insane, "or perhaps one, then the other". Xel'lotath's powers function by literally [[MindRape torturing]] the entities she summons, including the zombies revived by her power who are [[DrivenToMadness driven into agonized states]] by a cacophony of voices in their skulls. Xel'lotath plans to manifest on earth and exterminate humankind, crafting a world where her servants and revived mankind kill one another for all time.
182** [[AxCrazy The Black Guardian]] is the mightiest servant of the Ancient in all routes. A beast who reflects its master, the Guardian's bloodlust is only held in check by being fed countless humans over the years, so that the Guardian will not go on a rampage. The Guardian savagely murders a monk on its own accord and is happy to help facilitate [[KillAllHumans the genocide of humankind]] while devouring thousands.
183* ''VideoGame/EternalSonata'': [[TheCaligula Count Waltz]], the [[TeensAreMonsters 16-year-old]] ruler of Forte City, oversaw the manufacturing of a drug called "mineral powder", and distributes it under the claim that it was a cure-all for illnesses. In actuality, extensive use of the drug [[DrivenToMadness drives the user to insanity]], culminating in [[BarredFromTheAfterlife sending them to an inescapable purgatory]] when they succumbed. Intending on invading Baroque with an army of [[SuperSoldier super soldiers]], Waltz searches for the "glowing agogos" to perfect his drug and turns his dragons onto Polka and her allies despite claiming that he would spare them. When beaten, he forces his advisor Legato to drink the unfinished concoction, transforming him into a wretched monster, and attempts to destroy the world upon rationalizing that it was better for the world to die if he was not allowed to rule it.
184* ''VideoGame/EternalTwilight'':
185** [[BigBad Supreme Azael]], no longer caring for his fellow Magi, seeks to [[TheSocialDarwinist purge all humans and "weak" Magi]] in order to create a world for evil Blood Magi. Having spent centuries killing any potential successor to his position as Black Magic Supreme, Azael has his Council of Blood commit crimes all over the world in order to provoke the empire into enacting genocide on all Magi, all to kill off his current successor and any Magi who could oppose him. After identifying Minerva as his successor, Azael has her friend Miranda brainwashed to steal the dangerous COSMOS relic and threatens to torture Miranda if the heroes don't deliver Minerva to him. When the heroes confront Azael, he sadistically kills Miranda in front of them, [[BreakTheCutie traumatizing Minerva]] and causing her to lose control of her powers. After being cornered, Azael tricks the party into entering his soul, intending for his soul to [[TakingYouWithMe collapse on the party]] the moment they kill him.
186** [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Empress Verona]], although an UnwittingPawn to Azael, exploits anti-Magi sentiment for her own cruel ambitions. She begins by stoking racism among her fanatically loyal army, convincing them that all Magi are dangerous Blood Magic users who need to be exterminated for humanity's safety. Ignoring the distinction between normal Magi and the Council of Blood, Verona has her army kill countless innocent Magi, occupy and oppress several human settlements, and raze any town caught coexisting with Magi. When a soldier shows mercy to a Magi, Verona [[MakeAnExampleOfThem makes an example of his disobedience]] by forcing his daughter to watch his execution. [[StrawHypocrite Despite claiming]] to protect humanity from evil magic, Verona secretly sacrifices the strongest Magi to implant their powers into her own forces, revealing that her [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist real goal]] is to monopolize magic for military power.
187* ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' & ''VideoGame/EverQuestII'':
188** Innoruuk is the [[GodOfEvil god of hate]] and one of four evil gods the players can follow. His first significant act is to kidnap the Elven king and queen from Takish'Hiz and subject them to 300 years of torture, until they eventually [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil turn into evil Dark Elves]], who Innoruuk uses to create the Dark Elf race, all because he was left out of the pact to create life on Norrath that the other gods made. As a god, he requires his followers to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice people]] to fill his "Cauldron of Souls". He is also implied to be behind the haunting of the Estate of Unrest--a dwarf murdered everyone in the Estate, causing both him and his victims to become tormented undead. While Innoruuk has a daughter. Lanys T'vyl, the goddess of malice and envy, at one point in the second game he has her [[OffingTheOffspring killed]] for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing him]]. At one point in ''The Planes of Power'' expansion, the Tribunal--gods of justice--even point out that so many of the trials they preside over happen due to Innoruuk inspiring people to commit atrocities out of hate.
189** ''Omens of War'' ExpansionPack: [[EvilOverlord Overlord Mata Muram]] is the leader of the legion of vicious dragon race known as Muramites. A notorious [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave trader]], he intends to subjugate the best warriors from other races into becoming his own personal army. To that end, he used a planar creation known as Riftseekers in order to conquer and ravage as many realms as possible, one of them being the realm of Kuua, which becomes the land of bloodshed due to Mata Muram's machinations with several of the best warriors who were either brainwashed or blackmailed by Mata Muram. Despite rewarding his fiercest captains with treasures of war, he has no hesitation to replace them when they fall in the battle and it was also revealed that he used the lowest rank of the Muramites as a slave labor for Harbringer's Spire tower.
190* ''VideoGame/EvilQuest'': [[VillainProtagonist Galvis]] is an evil knight who [[RapePillageAndBurn ravaged the land]], killing thousands, before building up an army to attack Camelia, where he was captured after his troops abandoned him for his cruelty towards them. Escaping 10 years later by baiting a young man whose parents he murdered--then letting him supposedly bleed out just for fun--shanks his cellmate of ten years [[UngratefulBastard after getting information out of him]], then resumes his wicked path of destruction. During his quest, Galvis kills hundreds in his quest to destroy the Seals binding the Chaos Axe; he doesn't shy away from [[EvilIsPetty general dickishness]] either, in one case refusing to kill a frostbitten man just to let him suffer. Galvis, upon obtaining the Axe, [[KillTheGod strikes down God himself]], then unleashes a demonic horde who assist him as he rips the world to shreds. After destroying humanity, he plans to do the same to all of existence.
191* ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin2'': [[MadArtist Stefano Valentini]] was a war photographer who became obsessed with capturing the moment of death in his art after photographing a person dying in an explosion. He became a SerialKiller who would mutilate fashion models and use their bodies as his canvas. After successfully tricking MOBIUS's psyche exams into passing him as sane, he was connected to the virtual STEM town of Union. There he continued his murders until [[BigBad Theodore Wallace]] contacted him with an offer to give him power in exchange for Stefano kidnapping Lily, who was the CORE of the town. After Lily was removed as the CORE, Union became a nightmare hellscape, and Stefano decided that he wanted to keep her for himself and use her power to help him create his art forever. When Sebastian is sent into Union, he finds that Stefano had been murdering MOBIUS operatives who were sent in before him and freezing them in time at the moment of death. Stefano repeatedly tries to kill [[PlayerCharacter Sebastian Castellanos]], leading to a confrontation at a theater where Stefano detonates [[ExplosiveLeash explosive collars]] on dozens of Union citizens, musing to himself that he doesn't know how he'll top this latest piece of art. A [[AxCrazy psychopath]] to the end, Stefano sees even his own death as just another masterpiece.
192* ''[[VideoGame/EVOSearchForEden E.V.O: The Theory of Evolution]]'': [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] in the Platform/PC98 game is far more evil than the villains of the Platform/{{SNES}} successor. Having [[OmnicidalManiac tricked numerous civilizations in the solar system into destroying themselves]], most recently on the moon, Lucifer now intends to do the same on Earth. She starts at the beginning of life by [[HatePlague driving numerous fish insane and destroying the peaceful nature of a small fish village]]. Later, her attempts to kill everyone become more direct, culminating in singlehandedly causing the extinction of the dinosaurs before gloating to Gaia, the embodiment of the Earth, that she killed everyone. In the last main chapter, after learning that there's still life around, she provokes a war between two colonies of Lunarian survivors by making one of them, Atlantis, obsessed with destroying everything, starting with the rival colony of Mu. This results in the destruction of both colonies. After her defeat and the establishment of human civilization, she gathers power for one last attempt to kill everyone in modern times, resulting in the destruction of the Moon and, consequently, the death of Gaia's sister, before Lucifer is finally killed for good.
193* ''VideoGame/{{Exmortis}}'' trilogy: [[SatanicArchetype Lord Vlaew]] is a cruel, power-hungry demon lord whose existence predates man and beast. Usurping [[CainAndAbel his brother Azrael]] and sealing him away in a hellish prison to be tortured for eternity, Vlaew ruled with an iron fist over the lesser entities before being overthrown himself, and ultimately claiming his title of [[BigBad leader]] of a legion of banished entities he called the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Exmortis]]. Billions of years later, Vlaew has Xavier Rehayem's daughter possessed when he translates the rite required to open the gates to the Crimson Realm, leading her father to kill her. When a hunter stumbles across Rehayem's house a century later, Vlaew torments him [[DrivenToMadness to madness]] until he submits and becomes the Hand of Exmortis, ordering the murder of five Soul Bearers to grant the Exmortis passage to Earth, brutally slaughtering most of the human race in the process. Once his legion [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness becomes disposable to him]], Vlaew manipulates [[PlayerCharacter Mr. Hannay]]--killing him when the job is done--into slaying the Hand of Exmortis to banish his demonic brethren, claiming dominion over the Earth Realm himself as a playground of suffering where humanity is struggling to survive and attempts at resistance are met with a gruesome death.
194* ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'' series:
195** ''VideoGame/FableI'': [[BigBad Jack of Blades]] arrived in Albion millennia ago to lay waste to humanity for refusing to [[AGodAmI bow to him]] and his cohorts. Surviving the destruction of his physical body by placing his soul in a [[MalevolentMaskedMan mask]] and possessing whomever wears it, Jack goes on to spread turmoil over the years. Attacking the village of Oakvale, Jack personally murders the young [[PlayerCharacter Hero of Oakvale]]'s [[YouKilledMyFather father]], gouges out the eyes of his sister and imprisons his mother to torture her for decades. Continuing to cause destruction throughout the Hero's life, Jack eventually attacks all of Albion with his forces so he can activate the powerful Sword of Aeons by sacrificing a member of the Hero's bloodline, Jack kills the Hero's mother to claim the blade before facing him. Planning to bathe the entire world in blood, Jack returns in ''The Lost Chapters'', attempting to corrupt the Hero into murdering his own allies before trying to possess him with his mask.
196** ''VideoGame/FableIII'': The monstrous [[EldritchAbomination Crawler]] is an agent of [[VideoGame/FableTheJourney the Corrupter]] that seeks to destroy both Aurora and Albion. First seen using its powers to mentally force [[PlayerCharacter the Hero of Brightwall]]'s mentor Walter into submission, the Crawler [[MindRape forces him to relive his most painful memories]], slowly [[DrivenToMadness driving him mad]] before attempting the same on the Hero. Revealed to have led an attack on Aurora, the Crawler is responsible for a massacre within the nation and intends to do the same to Albion. Launching its assault, the Crawler possesses Walter and forces him to fight the Hero while it's minions attack the country, potentially killing millions.
197* ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'' (aka ''Indigo Prohecy''): The AI is the malevolent representative of the Purple Clan that wants the Indigo Child to gain unlimited power, plunge the world into an endless winter and [[KillAllHumans exterminate humanity]]. Manipulating [[PlayerCharacter Lucas Kane]] by killing his ally Agatha and taking her form, the AI [[TreacherousAdvisor guides and protects Lucas]], even reviving him as a living corpse when he is killed by the Oracle. Once Lucas is [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer useful]], the AI attempts to destroy him even if the player gives the Indigo Child over. Arrogant and cruel, the AI has the most devastating and apocalyptic plan in the game.
198* Creator/FailbetterGames:
199** ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' (formerly known as Echo Bazaar): [[BloodKnight Mr Veils]], aka the monstrous Vake, presides over the trade in cloth and spends his free time [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting innocent people]] for sport. [[MindRape Haunting the nightmares of his victims]] before hunting them down in the waking world, Veils has some of his victims consume a version of a drink known as Black Wings Absinthe spiked with prisoner's honey, which transports them physically into the nightmare, where as the Vake he taunts, torments, and then tears them to pieces. In ancient times, Veils betrayed the fellow Master Mr Candles by having him stabbed repeatedly by the other Masters and fed to Priest-Kings, after which Veils delivered the final blow when he drowned Mr Candles in the tears of the Bazaar and dissolved him in purest sorrow, causing his vengeful disembodied spirit to become [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Mr Eaten]].
200** ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'': [[LightIsNotGood The Sapphir'd King]], also known as the Azure, is an ancient [[SentientStars star]] that rules as Judgement over the Blue Kingdom, where all souls go in death. Outwardly appearing as Heaven itself, the Blue Kingdom is in truth a vast and corrupt bureaucracy serving as a giant meat grinder to process souls to be fed to the Azure. All living mortals found trespassing are immediately killed, and souls found not to the Azure's taste are thrown into a frozen black hole to [[AndIMustScream suffer for eternity]] trapped with the worst monsters in existence. The worst fate awaits the chosen souls that pass through Death's Door into supposed paradise, where they are skewered on spears of light and slowly dissected before what remains is fed to the Azure's gaping maw and [[CessationOfExistence wiped from existence]]. Embodying the worst aspects of the Judgements, the Sapphir'd King proves why many mortals seek to bring about the [[TheNightThatNeverEnds Liberation of Night]].
201* ''VideoGame/FairyFencerF'':
202** [[ManipulativeBastard Bernard]], in the original version, is a cold and [[TheStarscream deceptive]] man with dark plans to summon the Vile God. One of Dorfa's Heavenly Czars, Bernard leads the group's many hostile takeovers, terrorizing to gather all the Furies and gain absolute power. However, Bernard has his own scheme, using the group to collect the Furies for himself to then summon the Vile God for its power since, as a descendant of the God, he can inherit it. To this end, Bernard deceives Dorfa and [[DrivenToMadness drives Sherman to madness]] as a pawn to usurp Dorfa in another timeline. With Sherman's help, Bernard manage to resurrect the Vile God before [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness trying to sacrifice him to attain full power]], only for it to backfire horribly when Sherman double-crosses him first.
203** [[BloodKnight Zenke]] of the [[StandardEvilOrganizationSquad Heavenly Czars]] is the psycho of the group, a [[AxCrazy bloodthirsty murderer]] who invaded Solaru Village and formed a death system for the people. Every day, Zenke would pair villagers in an InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath, pitting loved ones where if they refused, Zenke would execute both. Zenke has done this so often that he has mountains of corpses, including women and children. Kidnapping Tiara, Zenke forces Fang to fight in a gauntlet for his entertainment, without any real intent in keeping his end, trying to execute Fang at the end. In the second timeline, Zenke was no different; losing against Fang again, Zenke kills off his own fairy partner, and tries to kill Fang after pretending to seek redemption. Even in the Evil Goddess route, Zenke starts off sympathetic before reverting to his former self, turning even more psychotic. No matter what timeline Fang and Eryn enter, Zenke still remains the irredeemable killer that he truly is.
204* ''VideoGame/FaithTheUnholyTrinity'':
205** [[FauxAffablyEvil Gary Miller]] is the [[AmbiguouslyHuman inhuman]] leader of the Eternal Order of the Second Death who desires to summon forth The UNSPEAKABLE and bring about HellOnEarth. Under Gary's leadership, the Order takes over an abortion clinic, transforming unborn children into horrifying abominations and getting several people killed in the process. They also regularly summon dangerous demons who butcher numerous people, and murdered several children at a daycare. At the clinic, Gary met Amy Martin and tried to use her to summon The UNSPEAKABLE, mutilating her and [[WouldHurtAChild sacrificing infants]] as part of the ritual. When priest John Ward stops the ritual and tries to stop the cult, Gary attempts to repeat the ritual with Ward's best friend. Gary also mistreats his followers, twisting them into inhuman monsters, breaking the fingers of those who displease him, and causing many to be killed by demons. When Ward arrives at his lair, Gary slaughters several cops and attempts to summon The UNSPEAKABLE through Ward, a process which involved chemically MindRaping Ward and causing him to rip apart several cultists in the process.
206** The [[EldritchAbomination UNSPEAKABLE]] is the demon worshiped by the Eternal Order of the Second Death. Said to be TheAntichrist, the Order's ultimate goal is to summon the UNSPEAKABLE through a twisted ritual of mutilation and infanticide. In its name, the Order has committed HumanSacrifice, and summoned murderous demons for decades. When Amy Martin was chosen as a vessel for the UNSPEAKABLE, it [[DemonicPossession possessed her]] and gruesomely murdered her parents and Father Allred and tormented John Ward. Depending on John's actions, the UNSPEAKABLE either [[YouHaveFailedMe drags Gary to hell for failing it]], or is successfully summoned and drags John to a realm of eternal torment while the UNSPEAKABLE brings destruction and chaos to the world.
207** Chapters II & III: [[NunTooHoly Sister Miriam Bell]] is a member of the Eternal Order of the Second Death and the [[EvilMatriarch mother]] of Gary Miller. Years ago Miriam gave herself the Second Death, turning herself into a portal to hell and having dozens of infants sacrificed to the portal, resulting in the appearance of Gary. Miriam later volunteered at a church that was housing orphans, eventually "consuming" six of the children, murdering a nun, and driving a priest to madness and death. Miriam is also implied to be behind the deaths of several children in the church's past. Miriam eventually tried to summon the UNSPEAKABLE through herself, knowing that its appearance would being chaos and death to the world.
208* ''VideoGame/{{Fall of the New Age}}'': [[EvilLuddite Morgana]] is the [[BigBad mastermind]] behind the {{cult}}, which preaches ignorance and superstition and detests science. Marrying a king to produce an heir, named Bastark, Morgana then has the king murdered, before she starts to perform [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]] with her cult. Capturing several children, among whom was heroine Marla's little brother Ray, Morgana hires the bandits to set up the explosives around the town, planning to destroy it, while her cult bombs the library and the university. Intending to sacrifice captured [[WouldHurtAChild children]] in her ritual, Morgana was foiled by Marla, after which she recaptures her brother and schemes to blow up a royal castle and sacrifice Marla's brother to bring humanity back to the dark ages.
209* ''VideoGame/{{Fantasian}}'': [[AxCrazy Blue]] is a sadistic intelligence officer in the Falcion Empire. When his underling peacefully negotiates a surrender with a rival nation, Blue gleefully launches an attack to slaughter their citizens, mocking his subordinate's pacifism. Attacking an island to form a stronghold, Blue orders all people found be put to death, and when engaging the hero Tan, [[BadBoss carelessly kills his own men in combat]], ignoring their pleas as they scream in pain.
210* ''VideoGame/FatalSeduction'' (2011 Platform/XboxLive game): The demon {{Asmodeus}}--secretly Dr. Brian Winters--seeks to have his master TheDevil born so that he may walk the Earth once more. To achieve his plan, Asmodeus murders the mother of young [[KidHero Emily Ritter]] by running her over with a truck, so that one of his demons, disguised as beautiful women, can seduce her grieving father, who has "special blood", by bearing a son who will become the Devil. Wanting Emily out of the picture when she was revived, Asmodeus sends hordes of demons to [[WouldHurtAChild murder her]]. When Emily is committed to a psyche ward for her killings, he takes revenge for her fouling his plans by approaching her as Dr. Winters. He [[MindRape makes her relive all he trauma]] he put her through in the past, including her mother's murder, which he confesses to as "nothing personal", before attempting to use a poisoned syringe on her.
211* ''VideoGame/FearEffect'' franchise:
212** First game: [[BigBad Yim Lau Wong]] is the Chinese King of Hell. Not wanting to judge every person who comes into his domain, Yin made a deal with [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad]] leader Mr. Lam to give him a daughter, Wee Ming Lam, in exchange for infinite wealth, with Yin planning to use Wee to kickstart the apocalypse. He grants her the ability to turn people into demons should her blood get on anyone, which she ends up doing to an entire village and a brothel. Posing as Jin, Hana's informant, he tricks Hana and company into delivering Wee to him, turning Lam into a demon when [[YouHaveFailedMe he fails to kill Glas.]]
213** ''[[VideoGame/FearEffect2RetroHelix Retro Helix]]'':
214*** [[EvilTwin Mist]] is Rain's sister who was revealed to hire a mercenary known as Jacob "Deke" [=DeCourt=] in order to retrieve a canister filled with a virus known as EINDS. It's revealed that she intends to use said virus to decimate the good portion of the Earth's population in order to rule the world as [[AGodAmI a god]]. In addition, she also toys with the minds of three mercenaries by disguising herself as Rain, and has no issues backstabbing them when she reveals her true nature, such as pressing a button of a bridge which resulted in one of the mercenaries falling into the abyss. In addition, it's also revealed that she tries to prevent the reunion between her twin sister in order to merge herself with her mother to gain more power. In the bad ending where Hanna accidentally shoots the real Rain, Mist laughs at her suffering and, after merging herself with her mother, kills all of the heroes except Deke, who escaped from her clutches.
215*** [[ImplacableMan The Foreman]]-- better known as [[RedEyesTakeWarning the Planner]]-- is a hideous Aqueduct worker who slaughters some of his co-workers by using a machine known as the Fixers. When Hana and Rain try to infiltrate the Wing Chung Tower in order to steal a package, the Planner knocks the latter unconscious when he's found out and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil straps her to a device that rapes her]]. After Hana tries to rescue Rain from the Planner's clutches, it was revealed that he planted some bombs in the Aqueducts in order to decimate the downtown district of Hong Kong. Seemingly defeated, the Planner then tries to kill Rain and Hana by activating a bomb in his torture device before he dies.
216** ''[[VideoGame/FearEffectSedna Sedna]]'': [[BigBad Sedna]] herself is the Inuit [[GodIsEvil goddess of the sea]]. An incomplete being, Sedna plans to kidnap Glas in order to learn how to regenerate her fingers so that she can become whole again and join the ranks of the other gods, where she will recreate the world alongside them. Disguising herself as Iluak, she kidnaps numerous people to either convert them into monsters or [[FlayingAlive flay them]] to use their skinless corpses and skeletons to create a portal to her world. Viewing her own daughter Atiqtalik as her attack dog, she disowns her once she shows kindness to Glas. Once Rain is killed by Atiqtalik, Sedna haunts Hana with Rain's reanimated corpse for fun.
217* ''VideoGame/FinalFightStreetwise'': [[PsychoKnifeNut Blades]], real name Dino, is a sadistic assassin who gets pleasure from carving up his targets. Working with crime boss Vito Bracca as his pet hitman, Blades tries to help instigate a [[MobWar war]] between Vito and Japantown by decapitating a man and using his head as a bomb to try and kill both Guy and protagonist Kyle Travers. Secretly working with [[SinisterMinister Father Bella]] in his plan to distribute [[FantasticDrug Glow]] and cause havoc across half the country, Blades casually offs Vito once Bella finds no use in him anymore. Resurrected by Bella as his own [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Horseman]] Famine, the mutated Blades uses his new powers to slaughter Sgt. Sims's squad of cops, even dismembering Sims himself limb by limb.
218* ''VideoGame/TheFirstTemplar'': The Inquisitor Isaiah is one of the two leaders of the Inquisition, along with [[SinisterMinister Father Lorenzo]]. First he kidnaps Maria and accuses her of witchcraft. In his actual first appearance, he and Father Lorenzo decide to slaughter all the prisoners. When Celian frees Maria and the prisoners, his friend Roland stays behind to fight Isaiah. It is later revealed that Isaiah [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured Roland]] into [[DrivenToMadness insanity]]. Later, along with King Philip IV of France, Isaiah, as the leader of the Inquisition begins massively killing and imprisoning Knights Templar. In his final appearance, Isaiah and his inquisitors arrived at one village and accused them of heresy. They hang the mayor who tried to reason with them and plan to do the same thing to all the villagers. Celian was right when he responded to villager's words "Cruelty, executions, and accusations of heresy--sounds like him."
219* ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' series: [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysWilliamAfton William Afton]], the man responsible for all the horror in the series, murdered several children, including his best friend's daughter, by dressing up as an AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal to gain their trust. Desiring to study fear in children, Afton, as revealed in "[[Literature/TalesFromThePizzaplex Dittophobia]]", would begin an experiment where he would use fear gas on kidnapped kids and torment them with machines night after night for years. Afton would then create [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation the Funtime animatronics]] to capture and kill more children, keeping the sapient machines locked in his facility and regularly tortured. [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 After his death]], Afton would haunt the withered Springtrap animatronic, eager to keep killing. He travels to [[VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator Henry's pizzeria]] intending to slaughter more children, while also trying to murder his own son Michael.
220* ''VideoGame/TheFlowerCollectors'': [[BigBad Haussmann]] is a former member of the Policía Armada now seeking to become an elected official of Spain. [[BigotWithABadge As a police officer]], Haussmann was in charge of a unit called [[SecretPolice the Flower Collectors]], whose goal was to repress anyone who challenged or opposed the Nationalist Party. During his tenure, many officers wound up arresting or abusing hundreds of people over the span of three years; more than a dozen civilians were killed during the raids. After becoming a politician, [[CorruptPolitician Haussmann used his influence over the police to continue harassing and arresting activists and revolutionaries]], even going as far as bribing a club owner to sell out her patrons and threatening anyone who knew of his illegal crimes to keep their mouths shut. When a former officer tries to release a list of victims Haussmann was responsible for killing to the press, he [[HeKnowsTooMuch has the man murdered]] and attempts to [[LeaveNoWitnesses silence all of the people who witnessed the crime]].
221* ''VideoGame/ForHonor'': [[BigBad Apollyon]] is a brutal [[DarkActionGirl female warrior]] who commands the Blackstone Legion. [[BloodKnight Obsessed with war]] and firmly believing that MightMakesRight, [[TheSocialDarwinist Apollyon]] welcomes only the strongest and most ruthless into the Blackstone, with [[VillainRespect those who fight back against her]] spared—though she later proves to not care about her soldiers--while the rest are slaughtered as she sneers at them for being "sheep." Manipulating the various factions into conflict, Apollyon leads attacks on the Viking warriors before confiscating or destroying their supplies so they fall among themselves, allowing only the strongest to survive. When the Vikings attack the samurai Dawn Empire, Apollyon sacks the capital city, murdering the Emperor and releases the Daimyos to hunt each other down to see who will emerge. When defeated by the Emperor's champion, the Orochi, Apollyon gloats that her true plan has been to [[WarIsGlorious precipitate an endless war between the Vikings, knights and samurai]], watching as they fall among each other due to [[TheChessmaster her manipulations]]. Obsessed with proving everyone is as bloodthirsty as her, Apollyon only finds joy in endless slaughter, wanting nothing more than a land consumed by the flames of war forever.
222* ''VideoGame/ForestOfDrizzlingRain'': While the [[BigBad Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit]] is revealed to be a [[TragicVillain tragic figure]], the same cannot be said for the men responsible for her creation in both versions:
223** Original game and manga: The [[SmallTownTyrant first Ogami-san]], though [[VillainWithGoodPublicity seen as the hero of old who protected Azakawa Village]], is the one behind the Kotori Obake's horrific past. To satisfy his lust, he created a system where criminals' wives and [[WouldHurtAChild children]] would be sold into [[SexSlave sexual slavery]], imprisoning them in a dungeon to hide their suffering. Lusting after an unnamed village woman, he falsely accused her of manipulating men to commit crimes so he could slaughter her husband and son, then imprison her so he and his men could [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape and impregnate her]]. Mocking her all the while, he killed the fetus to make her suffer even more.
224** Remake: The [[JerkassGods Forest God]], a [[SnakesAreSinister wicked snake]] who was once the benevolent protector of the forest, now only wants to force Azakawa Village to worship him. In return for the villagers taking rice from his forest in the past, the Forest God threatened to drown them unless they regularly [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed]] young maidens to him. When Tsuyu Kanzaki mistook the Forest God for an ordinary snake and had his physical form killed, he {{curse}}d her brother, the forest Stone Guardian, to lust for and hate her, then ordered him to kill her family and make her a SexSlave. The Forest God's actions caused Tsuyu to become the Taking Spirit who would devour children and condemn their spirits to endless suffering over centuries, to his apathy, while his curse would bring about the deaths of many in the Kanzaki bloodline, including the parents of Shiori Kanzaki and Kotarou Suga. In Ending 6, the Forest God kidnaps Miyako Sakuma, gets Shiori to sacrifice herself to him to ensure her safety, and painfully devours Tsuyu and all the ghost children.
225* ''VideoGame/{{Forestia}}'': In this innocent EdutainmentGame filled with FunnyAnimals and other friendly creatures, [[SurprisinglyCreepyMoment the Fire Mountain]]'s [[TheBigBadWolf Morhurl]] stands out as the [[VileVillainSaccharineShow terrifying exception]]. A powerful and [[EvilSorcerer cruel sorcerer]], Morhurl is heavily implied to have decimated the peacekeepers of Forestia--the Crystal Masters--to steal their magic crystals. Placing a curse on Forestia, Morhurl kills some of its inhabitants and awakens a volcano, [[OmnicidalManiac planning to use it to wipe out all of Forestia]]--[[ItsAWonderfulFailure something that he succeeds in doing should the player fail to rearrange the magic crystals in the correct order]], but not before mocking them for their failure.
226* ''VideoGame/ForeverHome'':
227** [[BigBad Barclyss]] is the rogue Tren General who is revealed to be behind all the tragedies that [[TheHero Xero]] and his companions has to endure. Starting as a [[FromNobodyToNightmare normal street urchin]] with intellectual potential, Barclyss [[StrawNihilist lost any respect towards human life]] after studying biology books. After he joins the Judgment Faction, he first decimates the peaceful town of Ellea. When Corporal Slash of the Blaze Soldiers is captured by the Judgment Faction and refuses to be subjugated by Barclyss, he then [[CruelMercy spares the Corporal]] so that he can hear all the screams of his men being butchered in the arena. When Xero tries to challenge Barclyss in order to save the Tren Captain Farrell, Barclyss beheads the captain out of spite. It was also revealed that he turned the people that he slayed into his slaves for Judgment Faction. In addition, he was also responsible for the loss of his childhood friend's eye. When the heroes tries to form a pact with another country, Heyama, Barclyss takes a mobile "Aquadome" fortress to Heyama's shores and has it fire on a building complex. After Barclyss confronts the heroes, he then launches a spell towards the duo and throws warning shots out of petty amusement. After Barclyss's army is defeated, he uses a weapon that could [[OmnicidalManiac decimate most of the planet's surface]] by causing a [[EndlessWinter nuclear winter]]. Although claiming to be a victim of his nihilistic grief and saying that survival is merely an option, Barclyss really does all of his atrocities in order to [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery slake his sadistic and nihilistic pleasures]].
228** [[TheDragon General Kail]] is the chief subordinate of Barclyss, and is just as omnicidal as his master. As a high-ranking member of Tren's Judgment Faction, Kail joins Barclyss in shelling innocent villages, murders prospective faction recruits, and summons a sea monster to sink a civilian ship, all to slake his bloodlust and to give the faction more undead slaves. During the attack on Heyama, Kail personally oversees the destruction of the country's largest housing complex, only expressing regret that the Aquadome's cannon doesn't allow him to savor his victims' deaths up close. Using his [[MadScientist alchemy and scientific knowledge]], Kail acts as the chief engineer of the orbital fortress Affliction, which he and Barclyss commandeer to bombard the planet with the [[FantasticNuke explosive Cosmite mineral]]. Once his boss is defeated, Kail takes charge of Affliction by himself, launches the largest Cosmite shard, and tries to ram the fortress into the surface in order to finish off the planet's few remaining lifeforms. Cruel and [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]], Kail seeks to betray Barclyss and rule an utterly silent world as its SoleSurvivor.
229* ''VideoGame/ForumWarz'': [[VileVillainSaccharineShow PurifyingSelector88]], episode 3's BigBad, is a former Geronimo employee who desires to [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain kill anyone who he considers "undesirable"]] in order to "purify humanity". He [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first makes himself known]] by trying to kill the protagonists and his allies with a sound file containing a literal BrownNote, and it is subsequently revealed that he has done this with others. During the investigation, a tech support worker is killed by the file as a warning to back off. [=PS88=] then tricks the player into pwning the [=DinkDonkDoink=] board and deletes the files tracing back to him. He reveals that he has upgraded the brown note to a "Death Note" that makes the sound come from the computer itself, thus not being able to be shut off, and has many test subjects get that far. After testing it on Doctor O, he plans to upload it to an Allen Thicke webcast that would be watched by hundreds of millions. Despite Forumwarz being generally comedic, [=PS88=] manages to be a shockingly dark villain.
230* ''VideoGame/FranBow'': [[BigBad Remor]], [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Terrible Black]], is a sadomasochist and tormentor of all things good. He leads the Kamalas, feeding on pain and suffering of humans and waging wars on places that know no evil. After being hired by [[GreaterScopeVillain Dr. Oswald Harrison]] to capture and contain ten-year-old Fran Bow Dagenhart, Remor goes beyond the call of duty by [[DemonicPossession possessing her]] to [[SelfMadeOrphan murder her own parents]] and mentally and physically torment her. When she manages to escape him, he relentlessly pursues her with several attempts on her life, even trying to convince her to kill herself just to delight himself on her pain.
231* ''VideoGame/FreedomForce'': In a game that celebrates the goofy legacy of [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] comics, TimeMaster comes across as one of the most sinister villains in the franchise. In the first game, he tests the Freedom Force by having dinosaurs appear in the middle of Patriot City and gives technology to Mr. Mechanical to aid in his quest to destroy several parts of the city. Time Master in the end reveals himself, revealing that the point of these tests was to discover who was the most powerful member of Freedom Force. Deciding [[PersonofMassDestruction Man Bot]] is the most powerful, Time Master kidnaps him and plans to overload his powers near the Celestial Clock, which would [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the universe]] and make Time Master {{immortal|ity Immorality}}.
232* ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'': [[BigBad Lord Arktivus Brevon]] is a [[GalacticConqueror violent planet subjugator]]. On Avalice, Brevon seeks an artifact known as the Kingdom Stone, [[OffWithHisHead beheading the King of Shuigang]] in front of his son and brainwashing the child into becoming his puppet. Engineering a conflict between the planet's three kingdoms, Brevon hopes to take the stone in the midst of the conflict. Capturing Lilac for interfering with his plans, Brevon [[ColdBloodedTorture mercilessly tortures]] her; and when the heroes confront him, he sacrifices his men to stop their advance and [[TransformationTrauma painfully transforms]] his loyal general into a monstrous fighter, also using the innocent Milla as a hostage and then transforming her into a monster as well to fight for him.
233* ''VideoGame/FrontMission1'': [[TheDreaded Driscoll]], real name Mikhail Ilyich Rezanov, is a USN captain who in reality is working for the Republic of Zaftra, in the hopes of making it the most powerful government on Earth. Forcing Koichi Sakata, the President of Sakata Industries, to work for him under threats of death, Driscoll has the company develop and produce the most powerful [[AMechByAnyOtherName wanzers]] called "B-Type" and "S-Type Devices" by kidnapping the most experienced soldiers from both USN and OCU armies and [[HumanResources removing their brains to use as computers]]. When an OCU reconnaissance unit, led by [[PlayerCharacter Royd Clive]], was sent to investigate a USN munitions factory in the Larcus District, which in reality was a B-Device research facility, Driscoll destroyed it, to hide any trace of inhumane experiments, which started a bloody war between USN and OCU. Capturing Royd Clive's fiancée Karen during this incident, Driscoll removed her brain and used it for his own Mecha "Raven", taunting Royd about this when they fought several years later.
234* ''VideoGame/FZero GX'': [[BigBad Deathborn]] is the recent champion of the Underworld F-Zero Grand Prix who is also a wanted criminal due to being responsible for the Great Accident, and banishes the people who knew about said incident into the void of space. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] by strangling Black Shadow and threatening to eliminate him if he doesn't win the race, Deathborn then returns to executes Black Shadow with an AgonyBeam when the latter loses the race. It was revealed that he intends to retrieve the Grand Prix belt in order to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out all life in the galaxy]].
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