Hate Sink / Criminal Case

Grimsborough

• Alden Greene is a Smug Snake who uses his connections and money to get out of jail twice. He murders Rachel Priest when she learns he was funding General James Marsh’s Super-Soldier experiments and defends his actions as merely business because he just runs with people’s greed. When Jones hears he bails himself out of jail despite being given a life sentence, he is enraged. Even a second life sentence, this time in solitary confinement for being involved in the Crimson Order, doesn't stop him, because he reappears in Pacific Bay working for Albert Tesla to destroy Pacific Bay, where he murders Karen Knight and intends to do the same to the player and Amy. Thankfully Frank arrives just in time to put him out of his misery.

Pacific Bay

• Miriam Young may not be a killer or an accomplice to a murder, but she spends almost all of her screen time belittling her daughter Amy, saying that she’ll never be better than her brother Duncan. Even when Duncan is flagged as a suspect, she believes he is being abused by his former police force and offers to become a suspect just to imagine the headlines saying that Amy was mistreating her mother and brother. Duncan’s diary after his arrest reveals that she also saw him as a failure after he was shot and lost his job at the police.

World Edition

• Dr. Shweta Noorani is a scientist who manages to create devastating disasters each time she appears, in spite of only being in three cases of the game. Her first appearance has her creating the aforementioned virus thanks to a bribe from O.M. Medilab, which was later stolen by Ayush Patil and unleashed on the public in Bangalore. When she reappears in The Conspiracy two years later, she is revealed to be responsible for helping create Protozane and experimenting on several people with it, leading to all of them being killed except Zoe Kusama. She also tests it on Rosie Summers and successfully goads her into killing her boss, who was planning on fleeing the dome. Shweta sees no problem in how dangerous her actions are, and by her second appearance, she doesn't regret anything either, just as long as she's able to satisfy her desire for more research. Even getting sent to jail doesn't stop her, as she gruesomely blows up Louis Leroux under Denise Daniels's orders.
• Anbu Devanesan is a businessman who murdered his girlfriend simply because she learned that he worked for SOMBRA, regardless of whether she knew what that meant. He spends most of the case crying about it and hiding behind his lawyer and only drops the act after the Bureau's tech expert, Elliot, unlocks a device that proves he was doing the organization's dirty work. From that point on, Anbu doesn't even try to hide his cold-blooded and callous personality as he tries to escape arrest, taking Elliot hostage to spite the Bureau and seriously wounding Jack when he attempts to stop him. Jonah is able to rescue Elliot, but not before Anbu tortured the boy and threatened to kill him in front of Carmen. No one shed a tear when Judge Adaku puts him away for life.

Mysteries Of The Past

• Archie Rochester is first depicted as a sickly young man before it’s revealed that he masterminded several murders at parties he hosted under the name Mr. Alastor. His reason was to impress Giulietta Capecchi, who wanted nothing to do with him because one of his victims was her sister Lucrezia. The worst part of it is that he gets away scot-free. When he reappears in Case 40, he Took a Level in Jerkass by boasting about himself and insulting others for no apparent reason. Eventually, he ends up murdered, which at least serves as a Karmic Death and an immense Catharsis Factor.
• Albertina Thenard of Case 57 at first seems like a generous baker helping the people downtrodden by Mayor Lawson. Then you start to hear all the things she's done to the suspects. She charged outrageous prices for bread, looked down on Inspector Jaubert for coming from a poor background, drove her own son away because she benefitted from the authoritarian regime, and even let an eight-year-old girl think her mother was still alive just so she could keep her as free labor. But the worst of all is what she did to Adelia Baldwin. While initially hiring her for deliveries, she quickly discovered men would pay extra if Adelia prostituted herself to them. After a month of this, Albertina only gave her a moldy loaf of bread as payment and threatened that if she complained, she would take her infant son away from her. There were tears shed in this case, but only for how unjust Adelia's sentence was, not for this wretch's death.

The Conspiracy

• Christian Bateman first appears as a Captain Ersatz of Patrick Bateman, a sociopathic money-driven venture capitalist who cares more for profit than others, while also having a coveted interest in torture. He then burns Meera Kat, someone with as much regard as human life for him, alive after the latter refuses his advances. Despite this, he uses his membership in Ad Astra to free himself from jail, where he acts much more unhinged than before - particularly, he admits to having a PI investigate the team simply because It Amused Me, while threatening the team with charges every time they find him in the wrong. When the Ad Astrans use the Berzelium to strengthen themselves, Christian's health takes a turn for the worse, yet refuses to stop using them until the point where he's forced to be put out of his misery by his friend. To top it all off, he ruins the careers of two people, his best friend and a lawyer, simply for his failed plan to escape from Grimsborough. While the other Ad Astrans (particularly Joe and Rozetta) had some level of redeeming qualities to them, Christian is notable for having practically none.
• Dr. Catherine Kelly only appears in Case 32, but she deserves a mention due to the sheer lack of remorse she shows in general. She's the only one under the Dreamlife dome who realizes that Mortimer Pickering is actually GPD's Rupert Winchester spying on Dreamlife, due to having dated the real Pickering in college and knowing Rupert's tendency to pretend to be Mortimer. She walks in on Rupert talking to the player, and sprays him with poison gas to silence him, allowing him to exit the dome before succumbing to the poison. She also reveals that she doesn't see a problem with what she's done, stating that she'd kill Rupert over and over again if she could.
• Gunnar Burns, a Grimsborough University groundskeeper who is wholly unpleasant both times he encounters the police. He is very rude to the player and their partner in both cases; he is flagged as a suspect and thinks the students are the rude ones because they pay too much attention to their phones. Then comes Case 40, which has him convicted of the murder of Stephanie Griff, to which he says that he tortured her to "see what she knew" before shutting himself up. The team goes to uncover his secret and then finds out that he had killed his ex-wife several years ago, burying her in his backyard. The local council had planned on unearthing his property, prompting him to move the remains to campus grounds...where he was caught by Stephanie, whom he killed to leave no witnesses. Overall, he was just a vile person who had no redeeming qualities, which makes his life imprisonment all the more karmic and cathartic.
• Denise Daniels, Greater-Scope Villain behind the whole conspiracy, proves herself to be completely unforgivable in any way. Fixated on creating invincible human beings, she had created Rozetta Pierre in an attempt to do so. When Rozetta turns out to be a completely normal human with abnormally high intelligence, she disowns her, influencing Rozetta's illusory superiority beliefs. When the Berzelium meteorite crashed a year before the events of the season, Denise manipulates Rozetta and the rest of Ad Astra into creating DreamLife's dome, giving Rozetta a false sense of impressing her mother. When Rozetta's plans are foiled, Denise takes over the dome while beginning to plot the deaths of Ad Astra. Denise is eventually ousted as the mastermind after her third encounter and she manages to escape before attempting to destroy Grimsborough with a nuclear earthquake, releasing her neohumans in the process. During her final encounter, Denise proves her loathsomeness by proclaiming that Rozetta was the only mistake she had ever made before proceeding to gun her down. Despite her sense of invincibility, Denise ends up being beheaded by her own neohumans, who see her as part of the inferior humans she intended to destroy. Ruthless and apathetic, Denise is easily one of, if not the most despicable villain of the whole game, even topping the likes of SOMBRA and Albert Tesla.

Travel In Time

• Queen Shabaka, the ruler of the Ptolemy Dynasty alongside her husband, is revealed to be extremely cruel and ruthless when the team finally meets her face-to-face. During her husband's murder case, she is dismissive of his death and publicly threatens to execute the team and the Resistance if they don't solve the murder by sundown. The team succeeds...only for Shabaka to go through with the execution anyway just because she didn't like them. Thankfully, Kai manages to break everyone out of jail and buy them time to escape. Later on, her daughter Nefertiti reveals that her mother had become so cruel in the Altered Present that even she couldn't stand to see what she had become.

Supernatural Investigations

It's oddly fascinating that in a game with werewolves, vampires, ghosts, and demons, the biggest monsters in the game are plain old humans.

• Ruth Wu, a ruthless hunter who will kill any supernatural creature on sight regardless of how peaceful they actually are. She makes her introduction in Case 4 by calling Gwen and the rest of the team "spineless" for their pacifism, then actively tries to kill Priya shortly after just because of her werewolf status. She's so ruthless that even Santa Claus of all people (the real one) actually hates her. In the past, she committed the unspeakable atrocity of killing a harmless werewolf pup and laughing about it, which comes back to bite her in Case 11 where the pup's still-grieving father kills her in revenge.
• Case 9's victim, Dr. Lucrezia Stein, is the utterly demented and sadistic owner of a Bedlam House where she regularly experimented on the patients against their will, mostly For the Evulz. Several times, she gleefully leaps over the Moral Event Horizon by committing all sorts of incredibly heinous and horrific atrocities, which include what she did to Charity and Mercy (they had been normal twins until Dr. Stein kidnapped and conjoined them), Savannah Austin (her own completely sane daughter, who was abused by her as a child, thrown into the asylum just because of her choice of boyfriend and drugged to stop her from escaping), Adam Enstrom (her assistant who she frequently bullied into submission with the threat of turning him into an asylum patient, which would eventually turn out to be the reason why he kills her), and countless other patients (she killed them and used their body parts to create Adam). An irredeemably, abominably, and nightmarishly diabolical madwoman with a complete Lack of Empathy and absolutely no good qualities whatsoever, Lucrezia manages to be wholeheartedly the evilest character in the entire game, even topping Denise Daniels. It really says something about Dr. Stein when even Gwen says that she would kill her herself if she hasn't died already, with her even expressing immense satisfaction and relief over Lucrezia's death.
• Case 14's victim, Wyatt Ewing, manages to earn the wrath of almost everyone he comes into contact with. He fired his farmhand, Blake Woodbine, after discovering that he was gay, sexually harassed and stalked tourist Mimi McPhee, refused to pay Poppy Winters after ordering a large quantity of items from her, and even filed a restraining order against Zeke Davis after the latter discovers he is biologically related to him^note Okay, the guy was actually lying and was a demon, but Wyatt would still be a dick if he did that to his actual son. And the real kicker is that he intended to drain the lake for his own gain, driving Poppy to murder him.
• Case 16's victim, Dan Kelly, seems to be an upright citizen on the surface, but is incredibly corrupt at his claims adjustment job and only cares about appearances, not actually upholding the values he claims to. He harasses anyone who doesn't conform to his standards, such as waitress Heather Night for being a Wiccan, a female pastor who tried to lead a sermon, and tried to frame Moose Nylund for insurance fraud out of spite. And if those actions weren't despicable enough, he micromanages his wife's every move and even murdered her and replaced her with a golem (the Alice Kelly we meet in the case), threatening to kill her too if she wasn't perfectly obedient. That was what led to his murder at the golem's hands. No one felt sorry for his death, especially upon the second interrogations.
• Morgana Blackhawk is already a character who is pretty difficult to trust because of her stubborn nature. She shows her true colors when she masterminds the abduction of various children around the Midwest to eat them on Walpurgis Night, while taking advantage of Heather Night to kill Belinda, her own sister, for helping the Hunters find the kids. She later returns in Case 28, where she goes on to murder Dolores Harper, having made a deal with the demons for her powers back while doing so.
• Dolores Harper, Gwen's mother, not only shares the aforementioned Ruth's lack of empathy towards Supernatural Creatures but is also a manipulative Control Freak towards her children as well. In her first appearance, she berates Gwen for her refusal to believe all Supernatural Creatures are evil and tries to brainwash her younger daughter Tilly into sharing her ruthless views (which gets so bad that Tilly tries to run away later on). She later chases after Avery Mitchell [[Would Hurt a Child, intending to kill her just for being a witch]].

City Of Romance

• Mélodie Laurence, Luvver's sociologist, initially seems naïve to her company's wrongdoings. In reality, not only did Mélodie make the app's hearts feature addictive, but had also rigged the algorithms to match conventionally attractive with incompatible people, simply out of spite of being dumped and rejected by many people before. When photographer Lola du Maurier (who had become addicted to the app) discovers her plans, Mélodie kills her with an arrow. Mélodie shows no remorse for her actions, even insulting the judge during her trial.