History TheHeartless / VideoGames

** The Shadows of Tartarus in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' are essentially this, being born from the collective desires of any human who ever wished for death. [[spoiler:This eventually brings about the TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt when a mentally unstable man opens the door for them to call forth an EldritchAbomination-level Shadow like Nyarlathotep: [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Nyx]], the manifestation of death. In the end, the hero gives up his/her soul, not to heal the heart of humanity, but to seal Nyx away from the collected weight of their negative emotions until such a time that humanity can stop wishing for death.]]

** While not a true creature, the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bittercold]] from ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity'' is a corruptive force in the form of an immense snowflake. It's created from the hopelessness, despair, and bitterness of the [[CrapsaccharineWorld Pokémon world]] that's powerful enough to cause its end. It's so strong that [[spoiler:anything near it is so overwhelmed with its power that ''it suffocates from the negativity.'' Even the player character, who is supposed to be ''immune'' to it!]]

* The [[spoiler: Malice-class enemies]] from ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4|A Promise Unforgotten}}'' are [[spoiler: a rare occurrence where instead of being fueled by rage, sadness, anger or any other usual negative emotion that you’d normally see with this trope, the Malice-class enemies are only fueled by one emotion: Malice (or spite, if that's what you want to call it). Also, unlike most other examples, they are only fueled by one guy instead of humanity itself. Plus, they only appear at the end of the game, wich is again unusual because The Heartless usually appear as the main enemies of the story itself instead of simply appearing only at the end]].

* Dark Force from ''VideoGame/PhantasyStar'' is a variation of this. While the ultimate villain of the series, the Profound Darkness, is [[SealedEvilInACan locked in another dimension]], its hatred is strong enough to break through the seal and take physical form, manifesting as the series's reoccurring nemesis.

* The spawn of Dark Gaia in ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'' are, according the the in-game bestiary, negative emotions which have manifested physically using Dark Gaia's energy. In addition, they'll also possess people at night, completely turning their personalities arounds, usually for the worse.

* The Fiends from ''Videogame/FinalFantasyX'' are the souls of anyone who died without being purified, either in the lack of regret in their soul in death, or via ritual after.
** The Aeons on the other hand are the manifestation of the souls in a more positive way. By technicality they still are pretty darn close to the monsters in concept because they chose to become an unsent. However, unlike the monsters, they willingly gave up their bodies to aid the summoners so they retain their humanity.
** The fiends a particularly tragic example, as unlike most they are not forcibly converted. Rather, they're left in an AndIMustScream state until the combination of their latent emotions and the solitude drives them [[AxCrazy completely insane]].
* A good many monsters in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' were also created by powerful negative emotions.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', Cecil must battle [[spoiler: the very incarnation of his own sinful past]] at the top of Mount Ordeals in order to [[spoiler: become a Paladin.]]
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''
** This is a key element of the [[BlackKnight Dark Knight]] questline: [[spoiler:The person introduced to you as Fray Myste is, in truth, DeadAllAlong, their body taken over by a malevolent spirit born from your character's resentment over their ChronicHeroSyndrome leading them to minimal reward for all of the good they do for the realm, and their desire to become TheUnfettered and mete out justice without being constrained by morality. Your discovery of the deceased Fray's soul stone allows this dark side of your personality to manifest in Fray's body and try to coax you to act out your desire for unrestrained justice -- and when that doesn't go to plan, to attempt a GrandTheftMe.]]

* The monsters in the ''Franchise/SilentHill'' series.
** Amusingly deconstructed in ''[[VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour Downpour]]'', as the Bogeyman represents [[spoiler: the dehumanization of an object of revenge, hence why Anne sees Murphy as the Bogeyman at the end of the game.]]
%%* The Gnosis in the ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' trilogy.

* The Noise in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' follow this trope to a tee. Not only are they created from negative thoughts and feelings, they are drawn to them and can covertly possess people so that they appear to be "in a rut." Unsurprisingly, this game was directed by Tetsuya Nomura and much of the team who made ''Kingdom Hearts''.

* Darth Nihilus from ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' became a living entity of pure hunger when TheDarkSide consumed him. His most infamous power is a life drain that can instantly cause the extinction of a planet.
%%* Darkling from ''VideoGame/GhostMaster''

* Dark Brain of ''The Great Battle'' and later ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', who feeds on negative energy and gets more powerful. He CAN get punched out by the heroes, but they can't kill him, since there's no way they can destroy the negative energies of humanity.
** To that extension, ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsDestiny Destiny]]'''s evil group Ruina also feeds on negative energies to make them powerful, doubled that they reside in a CrapsackWorld where lots of such things exist.
* It's suggested several times that the power infusing [=DarkChips=] in ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork 4'' and ''5'' comes from people's hatred. (It also seems to come from a dark dimension called Murkland, but the two aren't necessarily contradictory.) As usual in these [[DarkWorld dark/light games]], the bad guys are always ranting at you about how everyone is evil deep down, which makes it ''very'' satisfying when Mega Man [[ShutUpHannibal smacks down Duo]] in the ending of 4:
-->'''Mega Man:''' Living creatures all have both good and evil in their heart. No duh!
* The original-series antecedent of the above storyline is ''VideoGame/MegaMan8'''s "Evil Energy". Rather than coming from dark thoughts, this stuff feeds on them -- and it finds [[BigBad Wily]] an excellent source.

* The Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Shuppet feeds on the negative emotions of people.
--> '''Pokedex''': "Shuppet grows by feeding on dark emotions, such as vengefulness and envy, in the hearts of people. It roams through cities in search of grudges that taint people."
** In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', this seems to be a good thing. When a Shuppet feeds off someone's dark emotions, they feel a lot better. The Shuppet also means no harm.
** While not a true creature, the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bittercold]] from ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity'' is a corruptive force in the form of an immense snowflake. It's created from the hopelessness, despair, and bitterness of the [[CrapsaccharineWorld Pokémon world]] that's powerful enough to cause its end. It's so strong that [[spoiler:anything near it is so overwhelmed with its power that ''it suffocates from the negativity.'' Even the player character, who is supposed to be ''immune'' to it!]]
** In a similar vein, ''VideoGame/PokemonSuperMysteryDungeon'' has [[spoiler:Dark Matter, a manifestation of the anger, hatred, jealousy, and other such negativity found in the hearts of all Pokémon that is capable of [[TakenForGranite turning Pokémon into stone]] -- even [[OlympusMons Legendary Pokémon]] -- and feeding on their energy to empower itself.]]
* ''VideoGame/DigimonSurvive'' has [[spoiler:[[OutsideContextProblem the Kenzoku]], shadowy "offspring" of the EldritchAbomination BigBad that are manifestations of people's fear and self-doubts]].
* The Final Boss Devil in ''VideoGame/BattleMoonWars'' is a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere that is the this trope, also apparently any land area that has magic will generate evil spirits that oddly looks like {{Shout Out}}s to various anime series.
* Bogmire in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''. More precisely, as the quote says, it's a manifestation of the fear and despair of the mansion itself: ''A product of the mansion's fear and despair. He's not sure who to fear or what to despair these days.''
* One of the bosses in ''VideoGame/HypeTheTimeQuest'' is the titular character's dark side, although it is never elaborated upon, and as such may not satisfy the trope fully.
* Since ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' takes place largely inside people's minds---in particular, the patients of a mental hospital---''most'' enemies in the Mental Worlds are this in some form. Perhaps most explicit are the Nightmares, demonic-looking beasts that appear in [[MilkmanConspiracy Boyd]]'s mind and locked up inside [[OrphanageOfLove Milla]]'s.
** The Censors are, in some ways, the ''opposite'' of this---they're essentially antibodies of the mind that destroy thoughts that don't belong, such as forms of insanity. Unfortunately, since ''you'' don't belong in other people's minds, they consider you fair game.
* Dracula in the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series is occasionally described as this; people describe him as the product/manifestation of [[HumansAreBastards the collective evil in humankind]] and our bastardry is what's bringing him back, and as of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow'' and ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow'' duology, he's described as God's EvilCounterpart who comes back because the balance of nature requires it (or something like that).
** The Lords of Shadow from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'' also count. When [[spoiler:the three founders of the Brotherhood of Light ascended to Heaven as beings of pure good]], the evil they abandoned possessed their mortal bodies and became the Lords of Shadow responsible for so much misery in the world.
%%* The "blot" versions of eaten residents of wasteland in the final level of ''VideoGame/EpicMickey''.

* The Negativitron of ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet 2'' was born of the negative personality aspects of the creators of Craftworld. This is technically a spoiler, but the name alone is kind of a giveaway, and it's foreshadowed along the way besides.
* In ''Videogame/UltimaIX'', the Guardian, dimension conquering threat from the previous several games, is revealed to be the Avatar's EnemyWithout: specifically, the embodiment of all the evil and darkness he cast off when he became the Avatar.

* The Gohma from ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' are a combination of this and GaiasVengeance, being the embodiment of the planet's suffering sent to KillAllHumans.
* [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demons]] in ''VideoGame/{{Albion}}'' are physical beings intentionally created out of emotions of fear for use as living weapons.
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has Angra Mainyu, which was apparently created from the soul of a man who was made to suffer the burden of all of the evils of humanity. This soul later came into contact with a wish-granting artifact (the Holy Grail) which resulted in the soul graduating to full blown EldritchAbomination, becoming an embodiment of all mankind's evil in ''fact'' rather than figuratively.
* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' gives us the Underworld Army who are an extreme case [[spoiler: Chapter 22 reveals that Hades uses the souls of fallen soldiers to create Underworld monsters, and thousands of souls are used to create one monster, thus wasting them entirely.]]
* The Inkies in ''VideoGame/{{de Blob}}'' are a cross between The Heartless and MechaMooks. The ink they're made out of is [[spoiler:harvested from Greydians who've been made utterly miserable, and the Inkies are then assembled out of said ink on a factory production line.]]
* The first antagonist you meet in ''VideoGame/TheLongestJourney'' is the Chaos Vortex, a black thick cloud that menaces Arcadia. [[spoiler: It's one half of Gordon Halloway's LiteralSplitPersonality - his chaotic, emotional part. The other, back in Stark, is TheSoulless, coldly logical and speaking in a creepy monotone. It's also quite deadly.]]
* ''VisualNovel/ShallWeDateDestinyNinja2'' has "Ayakashis," which are black monsters in various forms. They are made of a black mist coming from the symbols of the four seasons, and they began to manifest because of the negative emotions of nearby humans. When killed, they turn back into mist.

** In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, this seems to be a good thing. When a shuppet feeds off someone's dark emotions, they feel a lot better. The Shuppet also means no harm.
** While not a true creature, the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bittercold]] from ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity'' is a corruptive force in the form of an immense snowflake. It's created from the hopelessness, despair, and bitterness of the [[CrapsaccharineWorld Pokemon world]] that's powerful enough to cause its end. It's so strong that [[spoiler:anything near it is so overwhelmed with its power that ''it suffocates from the negativity.'' Even the player character, who is supposed to be ''immune'' to it!]]

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', Calamity Ganon is an amalgamation of a grotesque substance called "Malice," which it spreads across Hyrule to keep the kingdom under its influence. Compared to previous SorcerousOverlord incarnations of Ganon, this one is basically the evil emotions without the intellect.

* The Ixupi from ''VideoGame/{{Shivers}}'' are ancient {{Mayincatec}} demons that suck away the life essence of any nearby human beings.

* Dracula in the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series is occasionally described as this; people describe him as the product/manifestation of [[HumansAreBastards the collective evil in humankind]] and our bastardry is what's bringing him back, and as of the ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow'' duology, he's described as God's EvilCounterpart who comes back because the balance of nature requires it (or something like that).

* In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow'', the SatanicArchetype Chaos is an EldritchAbomination born from humanity's collective malice that acts as the source of Dracula's power. AsLongAsThereIsEvil, Dracula can always come BackFromTheDead through it.