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** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' villain K. Rool often gets rock music for his boss battles (although it's closer to orchestral rock, with an emphasis on "orchestral" part, in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2'').

** ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' introduce Obstagoon, a badger themed on Glam Rock; and Toxtricity, an [[CartoonCreature indistinct creature]] themed on Punk Rock. Obstagoon is a Dark-type, and it and its pre-evolutions see heavy use by Team Yell. Toxtricity is known to go on rampages and pick fights. Like any Pokémon though, both have their good-natured specimens, such as Piers's Obstagoon and Ryme's Toxtricity.

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** ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' introduce Obstagoon, a badger themed on Glam Rock; and Toxtricity, an [[CartoonCreature indistinct creature]] themed on Punk Rock. Obstagoon is a Dark-type, and it and its pre-evolutions see heavy use by Team Yell. Toxtricity is known to go on rampages and pick fights.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF1n0GflZMg Team Plasma's theme]] is styled off of rock.

* Canadian studio Nelvana produced ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'', which both uses and averts this trope. It's about an egocentric "super-rocker" bent upon summoning a demon from another dimension during his concert. Although his EvilPlan succeeds, it is also undone [[ThePowerOfRock by another rock song]], this time a duet. For reference, the villain is voiced by Music/IggyPop, while the heroine is voiced by [[Music/{{Blondie}} Debbie Harry]].

* TheSeventies drama ''Series/RockFollies'' concerned the lives and tribulations of an all-girl rock band who were riding high and top of the charts who seemingly had it all going for them. Unfortunately the music written for them to perform, which the viewer was asked to believe was such stellar rock that the world could not get enough of it, was... mediocre. It was agreed that this was suspending disbelief too far and the show, otherwise competently written drama, foundered.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' features Bowser and his minions partying and rocking out to a Koopa rock band.

** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder'', after merging with Prince Florian's Castle, Bowser plans to capture the entire universe with his rock music. The final battle against him has you jump to the rhythm of the platforms to hit him all while a rock theme plays in the background.

** The Tainted Coil are literal, actual [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]] whose music symbolizes their themes of BodyHorror, [[IntercourseWithYou sexual perversion]], and ReligeousHorror. Every ObligatoryBondageSong, every RockMeAsmodeus, and every gore-soaked lyric in the game belongs to this faction.

* ''WesternAnimation/Nimona2023'': Nimona is chaotic, violence-prone AntiHero who sometimes assumes a demonic appearance and calls herself a "villainous sidekick". She appears to enjoy rock music, her fight scenes are always accompanied with rock soundtrack, and one of her {{catchphrase}}s is "Metal!".

* In ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'', The Drowning Doom are a Death Metal themed army composed of undead zombies and ghosts who act comically depressed and produce a gloomy EmpathicEnvironment that debuffs their enemies. When their army is maxed out with all the assorted debuffers, they give the appearance of a WalkingWasteland. Of course, ''everyone'' in the game is themed after some kind of Metal so the connotations here are sort of flimsy at best.

* ''WesternAnimation/Nimona2023'': Nimona is chaotic, violence-prone AntiHero who sometimes assumes a demonic appearance and calls herself a "villainous sidekick". She appears to enjoy rock music, her fight scenes are always accompanied with rock soundtrack, and one of her {{catchphrase}}s is "Metal!".

Ah, rock and roll. Loud, violent, rebellious and, most importantly, [[ThePowerofRock powerful]]. Since these traits also perfectly fit a villain, in media, rock music is often associated with evil characters. Whether a simple {{Leitmotif}} or a full-blown VillainSong, these villains rock!

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* In ''VideoGame/CryptOfTheNecrodancer'', the default soundtrack has two prominent examples:

* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': While not a straight-up villain, Susie starts off as antagonistic and violent - even before she ends up in the Dark World, she's enough of TheBully for her classmates to fear her - and her theme consists of a short guitar riff. The theme later gets a BossRemix during [[spoiler: her fight with Lancer in the basement/dungeon]], which happens right before [[spoiler: she makes a full HeelFaceTurn]].

* An issue of ''WesternAnimation/PrincessNatasha'' has the villain Lubek using hypnotism to get his favorite metal band Burnt Toast to play whatever he likes.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'', the Once-ler accompanies his FaceHeelTurn with a rock song, "How Bad Can I Be?"