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• Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown: Colonel McKinsey is the cowardly and abusive Glory Hound base commander of the 444 Spare Squadron. He constantly bad mouths the squadron, throws any insubordination, no matter how minor, into solitary confinement, and hoards the squadron's accomplishments to himself in the hopes that he'll be transferred over to a desk job. He's so reprehensible that even AWACS Bandog dislikes him, and in the mission Transfer Orders, Trigger can shoot down his transport craft and will be rewarded a thousand points for it. Even though it will end the mission in failure, Bandog will remark that the cargo was not worth protecting. He's never encountered again after that mission, as he gets sent to the frontlines where he will get the glory he so desires.
  • DLC character Brigadier General Howard Clements, possibly even moreso than McKinsey. He's incredibly disdainful and arrogant towards the pilots under his command from the get go, and unlike McKinsey, he doesn't have the excuse that his pilots are dirty criminals, treating the LRSSG like crap and pulling rank. Then if that wasn't enough, turns out he hired Private Military Contractor mercenary pilots to assassinate Trigger because heroes are risk factors apparently. When he tries to contact the mercs during the second DLC mission, his treachery is revealed, and post-mission the MPs arrest him and for good measure, Huxian knocks his teeth out.
• Advanced Variable Geo series: Miranda Jahana is the founder of Section-9, her own secret bioweapons division where she subjected her own daughter, Reimi, to inhumane experiments and created the hybrids. The tournament is little more than a smokescreen by which she gets to field-test them by pitting them against the unsuspecting waitresses/competitors, and Yuka Takeuchi in particular is the focal point of Miranda's hatred as the strongest among them, so she will stop at nothing to break her. She also kills all her hybrids when they lose and tries to flee when finally defeated.
• Alpha Protocol has Conrad Marburg, an Evil Counterpart to Agent Thorton. He's a Soft-Spoken Sadist, Smug Snake, and Corrupt Corporate Executive rolled into one and serves as the Arc Villain for the Rome missions. Unless you make all the right choices he pulls a Villain: Exit, Stage Left at the end of the arc after a Kill the Cutie, but baiting him into a Duel to the Death instead with a "The Reason You Suck" Speech is one of the most cathartic moments of the entire game.
• Duke Crabtree from Zap Dramatic's Ambition series was clearly supposed to be one, having a constant smug look on his face combined with a obnoxious nasally voice, and the game giving the player plenty of opportunities to tell him off or even punch him, before finally revealing that he's secretly a terrorist. However, he instead became the Ensemble Dark Horse of the series due to being far more competent than any of the protagonists (not only being a good detective and having plenty of Jerkass Has a Point moments, but revealing himself to be surprisingly good at providing marital counseling as well as a particularly funny and surreal game over scene where he kills the player with a tire iron while disco lights and a guitar riff materialize behind him. By contrast, Ted Hartrup is the Creator's Pet whom the player is supposed to sympathize with the most, but is one of the most hated characters in the series due to the story bending over backwards to justify his horrendous actions.
• Assassin's Creed: While the later games portray their antagonists in a somewhat sympathetic light (especially the colonial eras) by showing that they genuinely believe in the Templar cause and want to make the world a better place, this is not the case for the early games. Those who stand out in later games of the series are usually even worse.
  • Nearly every single one of your targets qualifies as this in the first game. Every one of them is seen committing a Kick the Dog moment before you kill them. This is especially the case with Majd Addin, since the others at least try to justify their actions before dying (and in a few cases Villain Has a Point would be in effect if not for excessive cruelty, such as the mental patients being given care by no one but the resident Mad Doctor and the gay politician struggling with fear of being outed in a medieval society), but not this psycho; he states that he executed innocent people because he enjoyed it.
  • Assassin's Creed II:
    • Rodrigo Borgia. He orders the execution of Ezio's father as well as his two brothers. When Ezio confronts him later he gleefully admits that he didn't really need to kill the brothers as well, he just wanted to prove a point. He's also described as being a ruthless psychopath and an incestuous pedophile during the target briefing, with one particular visual provided of him standing in the middle of a field of corpses, smiling happily. Also, Ezio maintains a pretty professional attitude most of the time — except with Borgia, whom he calls a bastard and beats the living shit out of with his bare hands.
    • One of the major themes of the second game is that the Templars got so corrupt that they largely moved away from their initial Well-Intentioned Extremist motivations. Marco Barbarigo is one of the worst. He orders the assassination of his friend Dante Moro because he lusts after his wife. When Dante survives being stabbed in the head, Marco takes advantage of the resulting brain damage by having him annul his own marriage — and the next visual on the target briefing shows Dante standing guard at the bedroom door while his ex-wife is dragged away by Marco.
    • Silvio Barbarigo could be considered even worse from Marco, as he has the children of his enemies massacred at a party.
  • The modern day sections of the first five games have Dr. Warren Vidic, a cruel and arrogant man who shows no concern for the Animus subjects. His cruelty drove Daniel Cross insane and Clay Kaczmarek to suicide. He also manipulated Lucy Stillman into betraying the Assassins, making him partially responsible for her death at the end of Brotherhood. Needless to say, no tears are shed when he's killed in III.
  • As written above, the later games made the antagonists somewhat sympathetic, but that is not the case for Governor Pierre de Fayet, who is likely the most evil character in the series. He creates an oppressive system of slavery where slaves are cruelly mistreated and whipped. But the worst thing he does is when he orders a ship of slaves sunk with slaves chained to the mast, giving them a slow and painful death. He is also a huge Hypocrite as he enjoys visiting the slave brothel. Even his death serves to make him only more despicable; rather than admitting to his bad actions, he justifies that blacks are less than human and he can do with them as he likes. Admittedly, de Fayet is not a Templar.
  • Flavius Metellus, otherwise known as the Lion, is one of the most despicable members of the Order of the Ancients and the Templar Order even by their standards. He was the man responsible for the death of Khemu, the son of Bayek and Aya, which led them to go on a quest for vengeance and eventually form the Hidden Ones (the precursors to the Assasin Brotherhood). Additionally, unlike most Templars, he's not even a Well-Intentioned Extremist, and simply wants a Piece of Eden just for his own amusement, which makes his death at the hands of Bayek all the more satisfying.
  • Assassin's Creed: Odyssey is brimming with these;
    • Chrysis might be the most hateable villain in the whole franchise seeing how she kidnapped your baby sibling and tortured him (or her depending whom you picked to play as) into insanity. Combined that with her Dirty Coward behavior and deliberately leaving another baby to die in fire, and you have the most loathsome villain the franchise and killing her is so satisfying.
    • Podarkes is pretty close in cruelty to Chrysis. Especially his tendency to murder children of people who didn't pay him money. He did it only to make an example of. And trying to murder his own daughter Kyra makes him even nastier and one of most disgusting villains in the game.
    • Although, he isn't as despicable as aformnetioned Chrysis and Podarkes, Kleon is still a nasty piece of work. His love of War for Fun and Profit as well as being a complete jerk to everyone he sees beneath him as well as his huge Dirty Coward behavior, make him one of the least likable characters in the game.
    • Although, these guys are minor villains, it's hard to not kill Makar and Lelex when they order misthios to kill their own son and daughter after finding out about their romance and being thieves.
• Asura's Wrath has four members out of the Seven Deities: Wyzen, Kalrow, Sergei, and Olga. While Augus, Yasha, and Deus all have understandable motivations or likable qualities, these particular four are mass murderers who would gladly abuse their positions for personal gain or enjoyment, to the point of going against Deus's plans and treating the humans as below them. Both Wyzen and Kalrow treat human beings only as a resource to use and act condescendingly smug towards Asura, Sergei is an Ax-Crazy killer who enjoys destruction and killing while also being the murderer of Asura's wife Durga, and Olga cares only for serving Deus, yet is willing to waste all the mantra collected just to kill Asura and potentially ruin Deus's plan to destroy Gohma Vlitra, under the excuse they can just get more from murdering more people. Olga is also willing to kill Mithra to spite Asura and Yasha for killing Deus despite the fact that they saved the world, which leads to her well-deserved demise when she is foiled and killed by the Golden Spider
• Ayakashi: Romance Reborn first introduced some sympathetic villains... then Doman Ashiya came along. Not only did he hex Yura, but he seems delighted that Yura has to keep killing innocent animals so his brother Gaku won't die, which is only because of what Doman did to Yura in the first place. Then, he tells Yura that to save a dying Gaku he must kill the heroine. All of Yura and Gaku's suffering is Doman's fault, and he's all too happy to see them suffer more.
• The Baldur's Gate series has its share. Most of its Big Bads (Sarevok, Irenicus, and Amelyssan) are Magnificent Bastards, some of them have sympathetic traits and tragic backstories (especially Caelar), and they're generally too likeable to hate entirely. Even Bhaal, the Greater-Scope Villain of the series and one of the most evil deities on Faerun, makes a nebulous target for audience hate due to how little time he spends on-screen. Thankfully, we have the following characters on-hand to provide easy targets:
  • Angelo Dosan, a Corrupt Cop and one of Sarevok's lieutenants who assumes control of the Flaming Fist after Sarevok becomes duke of Baldur's Gate. If he captures you he puts you through a Kangaroo Court and sentences you to hang purely because you oppose his boss; in fact, he will kill one of your party members if you piss him off at this time. He is also the abusive father of party member Shar-Teel, which goes a long way towards explaining her hatred of men. Killing him in the final fight is thus very satisfying.
  • Also from the first game is a more indistinct example: Sarevok's stepfather Rieltar Anchev. He isn't just a Corrupt Corporate Executive leading the Iron Throne; he didn't just strangle his wife with a garrote over infidelity in front of their adopted son; he even helped dwarven party member Yeslick to reclaim his clan's mines, only to betray him, slap him in a dungeon, and take the mines over for the Iron Throne. His death either at your hands or those of imposters hired by Sarevok is used to frame you for conspiring with the Shadow Thieves in distant Amn to bring about a war between Amn and the Sword Coast; otherwise it's a textbook example of kicking someone worth kicking with shades of Pay Evil unto Evil (Sarevok orders the imposters to use a garrote, to begin with). All in all, he is the one character Sarevok kills or has killed that you can really, truly feel no sympathy for whatsoever.
  • In Siege of Dragonspear, Hephernaan takes this role. Whereas Caelar is a noble and kind woman whose intentions are merely at odds with your own, Hephernaan couldn't look, sound, or act more villainous if he tried. His entire role in the story is to manipulate his superior and you to fulfil his dark goal of opening a portal to the Nine Hells to unleash The Legions of Hell on Faerun, when he's not berating underlings for forgivable failures or running a cabal of necromancers behind Caelar's back. Both of his possible deaths are triumphant examples of Death by Irony. Either he dies in battle alongside his demon lord master when you and Caelar team up to stop him, or Caelar, enacting a Face–Heel Turn by making a Deal with the Devil (the devil in this case being Hephernaan's master), asks only that her new lord destroy Hephernaan for his treachery, which said demon lord gladly obliges, even as Hephernaan pleads pathetically for his life.
  • In Shadows of Amn there are the Cowled Wizards, who are a bunch of Knight Templar, Holier Than Thou jackasses who imprison mages on trumped-up charges, have a secret torture room, kidnap Imoen along with Irenicus at the start of the game, and try to murder potential party member Valygar just so they can get access to an interplanar spaceship using his corpse. Consequently, when Edwin assigns you the job to kill one such wizard tracking him, even good companions admit that going after a Cowled Wizard is okay in their book. All this seems to be designed to ensure that their downfall — Irenicus breaks free from their holdings and slaughters them all, mocking them for thinking they could hold him, and takes over their asylum to serve as his new base of operations — elicits No Sympathy from the audience and causes them to applaud the style with which Irenicus pulls it off. Just to drive the point home, just before Irenicus breaks free, two wizards discuss how Imoen "is a cute one" and that they'll "have to practice some Enchantment spells" on her.
  • One character who makes the audience hate him not by being scum of the earth but by being a source of infuriation is Noober (also from the first game), his successors Nuber & Neeber in Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear and the sequel respectively, and his great-grandson Naaber in III. In summary, Noober is a Nashkel villager who is despised by the other villagers and players alike; he comes up to you and forcibly initiates dialogue over and over and over, about 65% of what he says being "How about now?" regarding the question of whether you'll throw rocks at him. You can kill him for no Reputation penalty, and the Enhanced Edition gives you the chance to add his name to a divine hitlist, which will eventually make him the target of celestial retribution. The others are much the same, only their monologues slightly shorter.
    Dark Urge: I'd cut out your tongue, but I want to know you've inflicted this misery on the rest of the city.
  • Baldur's Gate III has Folk Hero warlock Wyll's demonic patron Mizora, a Manipulative Bitch and Smug Snake who goes out of her way to systematically ruin his life as well as torment Team Mom Karlach purely For the Evulz. As The Dragon to the archdevil Zariel she's an Invincible Villain beyond the party's ability to harm (except at one specific point, which also gets Wyll Killed Off for Real in the process), although they can inflict a satisfying Humiliation Conga on her in the third act.
  • III also has the gnomish La Résistance leader Wulbren Bongle. A rude, Ungrateful Bastard who has No Sympathy for his best friend risking life and limb to save him, and is a Straw Hypocrite who wants to murder enslaved Gondians for no real reason other than unjustified Fantastic Racism. Hated to the point of it being a meme in the community.
  • Aradin is a mercenary met at the start of the adventure, and an obnoxious and temperamental thug with racist leanings. He's not remotely sympathetic, and the Player Character has the option to punch him out in their first conversation with him.
  • Villain of Another Story Lich Queen Vlaakith of the githyanki is a thoroughly unpleasant megalomaniac who's almost singlehandedly responsible for everything wrong with gith culture. When she's met by the party the entire interaction is her being extremely condescending before screaming like a petulant child when her orders are questioned.
• Batman: Arkham Series:
  • The series version of the the Riddler is the most obnoxious, irritating incarnation yet. You name the annoying trait, chances are he has it. He's an Insufferable Genius who thinks he's smarter and better than everyone, a Hypocrite who chides Batman for cheating on his riddles when his "puzzles" would be impossible for even a high intellect to solve without access to Batman's technology and he constantly changes the rules to benefit himself, he never accepts defeat nor take responsibility for any of his actions, has a massive God Complex, he's a Hollywood Atheist, doesn't give a damn about anyone, and lacks any of the characteristics that make the other Rogues sympathetic or likable. While he does have a Freudian Excuse like the other rogues (he was physically and verbally abused by his father and bullied by his classmates), he arguably brought it on himself by lying and cheating his way through life. And to further hammer it home, he is universally despised in-universe (not even the other villains like him) and appears in every game, getting more and more dickish as time goes by, constantly distracting Batman from far more important matters with his puzzles/deathtraps.
  • The Penguin as well. He is one of the few villains in the game who lacks any kind of cool traits and is absolutely despicable, hateful and obnoxious. All we know about Penguin is an inelegant, tacky, narcissistic, unpleasant, homophobic, misogynistic, racist, and cowardly sociopath who thinks he is way more sophisticated than he actually is. It certainly doesn't help the fact that he is the Wicked Pretentious trope incarnate.
  • Arkham Origins' DLC Cold, Cold Heart has its incarnation of Ferris Boyle. While Boyle is an awful person in Batman: The Animated Series, he did have a point that Victor's experiment was unauthorized, and he was using stolen equipment. This Boyle has no such excuse and is given far greater crimes than his animated counterpart. He makes a deal with Victor that he will help him find a cure for Nora in exchange for him developing cryo-weapons, personally assaults Victor when the latter realizes that he has no intention of honoring his bargain and refuses to cooperate with him any further, kidnaps Nora (all the while claiming she's his property as cryonic test subject), sadistically taunts a helpless Victor about how he will kill Nora in front of him before killing him, just so he can see her slip away, all the while bashing him in the head, and attempts to kill Batman despite the latter saving his life just so he can erase all evidence of his crimes. Batman punching him unconscious is definitely satisfying as it is well-deserved.
• The BioShock series has no shortage of evil characters. However, even the most depraved antagonists tend to avoid this trope and fall squarely into Laughably Evil or Cry for the Devil territory. The same cannot be said for these specific characters:
  • Dr. Yi Suchong from the first game is a despicably immoral Mad Doctor who performs horrific experiments on human test subjects with no remorse for their suffering. Unlike fellow Mad Doctor J.S. Steinman, who is loudly enthusiastic about his work, Suchong shows nothing but cold indifference to the pain and anguish others suffer because of his actions, and he explicitly says that he neither knows nor cares what a conscience is. He worked with Big Bad Frank Fontaine to make the Player Character, Jack, a Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb from birth, testing his mental conditioning of the young man by forcing him to kill a puppy. He later slaps a Little Sister just for getting in his way — only to suffer an immensely satisfying Karmic Death immediately afterwards. During the events of Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea, the player learns that he'd steal ideas from Jeremiah Fink, as Fink stole from him, depriving them of much credit for their innovations. During part II, he forces Elizabeth into doing relatively meaningless chores for his own benefit, such as forcing her to fix the tear machine (though she had her own reasons for fixing it) and risk going deeper into Columbia to get a hair sample (that ultimately becomes meaningless and is, not to Suchong's knowledge, Elizabeth's own hair). Elizabeth gets a first-row seat to witnessing Suchong's Karmic Death with her own eyes.
  • Stanley Poole from the second game is a smug, sleazy Jerkass who has a nasty habit of betraying people at the slightest provocation. He got himself into Andrew Ryan's good books by having the enigmatic folk hero Johnny Topside — of whom Poole spoke highly beforehand — turned over to the authorities, whereupon Topside was forcibly converted into the Big Daddy who would be known as Subject Delta, the Player Character. After ingratiating himself with the city's top brass, Poole infiltrates Dionysus Park on Ryan's orders, only to join Sophia Lamb's cult just to further his own goals. Poole rats out Lamb to the police and has her imprisoned so he can have the run of the Park. He then proceeds to blow all of Lamb's money on lavish parties full of sex and drugs. When Lamb unexpectedly escapes from custody, Poole panics, because he doesn't want her to know what he did. To that end, he has Lamb's daughter, Eleanor, sent away to become a Little Sister (essentially damning her to a life of human experimentation and slavery) and floods Dionysus Park, killing everyone inside just to keep his misdeeds under wraps. Poole keeps this information secret from you as he tasks you with finding and eliminating the Little Sisters, the last people who would know about what he did. When you find out the truth about Poole's doings and go to confront him, he pathetically begs for his life.
  • Jeremiah Fink from Infinite is a Corrupt Corporate Executive who keeps the economic wheels of Columbia turning. He's insufferably condescending, shamelessly narcissistic, extremely racist, and not nearly as clever or cool as he'd like to believe. He abuses his workers, keeping them toiling in conditions of virtual slavery (giving them 16-hour workdays with no sick leave and lunch breaks, paying them in scrip than can only be spent at his company stores, forcing them to live in ghettoes near his factories, etc.), all the while justifying his heinous actions with rhetoric that makes sense only to him. His only remotely redeeming qualities seem to be his genuine love for his brother and son, but even then, it's not given much focus and any good features the man might have had have long been drowned out by his greed and pride.
• Everyone hates Yuuki Terumi from BlazBlue and several characters are after his head in particular, and for very good reason. Mori himself stated that he's supposed to lack any redeemable traits. His first known acts include kidnapping Saya, murdering Celica, and possessing Jin into cutting off Ragna's arm and have him fight Jin, all the while taunting him over it. He doesn't get any better as he is shown to be completely unpleasant to the rest of the cast. This includes his racism towards beastkin like Makoto and Valkenhayn, destroying Ada in front of Carl right before killing him, laughing at Arakune's horrifying condition, and mindbreaking Noel to transform her into Mu-12. While he does all these horrible things because his existence hinges on people hating him, that doesn't change the fact that he finds it fun.
• Boxxy Quest Duology:
  • BoxxyQuest: The Shifted Spires has these two major antagonists:
    • Caleb Robertson is a Heroic Wannabe who wants to defeat Catie and her team to prove he is better than her. Mistreating and looking down on everyone he encounters, Caleb insults Catie and her party whenever they meet, and after first being beaten, swears revenge. He then stalks Catie throughout her journey in order to fight her again and again, becoming more belligerent every time, and falsely accuses her of being the one destroying the Boxxysphere, intending to turn her in and become famous. He also stole Cecil's Drug Mushrooms at one point in the past, and in his final encounter he threatens to have Kelly and her pirate crew executed, even attempting to feign remorse when he loses.
    • Rcoastee, seemingly Catie's helpful mentor, was manipulating her all along to gain control of the Internet for himself. Having killed the real Invective to pose as him, he manipulated the 404 Calamity to create the Third Internet, and wants to revert it back to the Second Internet, killing many innocents. He is also revealed as a disgusting and controlling Yandere to Catie who demands she submit to him while admitting he truly cares nothting for her. A man every bit as destructive and wicked as Boxxyfan but completely lacking the latter's symapthetic backstory and qualities, Rcoastee even tries to take the Internet with him when he is beaten.
  • BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm is a satire of Internet culture, and as such, these characters represent the worst of it:
    • RayWilliamJohnson, PewDiePie, and the YouTube executives from Chapter 4 are depicted as a cabal of Corrupt Corporate Executives who lord their power over their denizens. First shown being uncooperative with the other site leaders at the Summit, even when the Internet itself is at stake, they make it blatant that they intend to Take Over the World. Within YouTube, they ban and demonetize popular YouTubers willy nilly and gleefully cackle about their deeds. In Chapter 4, they are the Arc Villains who have the heroes imprisoned for supposedly stealing the crystals that keep YouTube running, while the real culprit gets away. It is revealed that they are working with the real culprit and have been selling the crystals, uncaring if YouTube is destroyed because they can just leave.
    • Lady Anita and her Social Justice Warriors are a cult of women who hate men and cause trouble around the Internet. Encountered in Chapter 6, they attempt to force the Gatekeeper to commit suicide by jumping off his tower just because he made a sexist remark. All of them are shown as petty bullies who use their cause as an excuse to antagonize others, and when Til and Catie object to Lady Anita, she simply says they have internalized bigotry, ever so dismissive of the women she claims to be protecting.
• Bravely Default: The Jobmasters of the Duchy of Eternia are a diverse set of villains, most of which are Laughably Evil and or Anti Villains, but these characters are not:
  • Erutus Profiteur is a Corrupt Corporate Executive who leeches off of innocent people with his monopoly over Anchiem's water supply.
  • Fiore de Rosa is a playboy who sees woman as tools fit to be brainwashed and drugged to become slave labor.
  • Dr. Qada is a war criminal who perfects his toxic weapons of mass destruction by using the soldiers under his care as unwilling test subjects. He is plotting to unleash a deadly disease on the people of Eternia, and will only give out a cure in exchange for usurpation of the throne and its wealth. An optional cutscene has Kamiizumi get fed up with his treachery and kill him. While Bravely Second reforms Fiore de Rosa and Erutus Profiteur — de Rosa takes an appreciation of the sciences and is hellbent on making his new energy source worth the sacrifice of the desert folk, and Profiteur buys up the land around Eisenberg in order to restore its economy — there is no sign of Qada anywhere to be found; supplementary material reveals that even after Deneb revived him, he went right back to causing chaos before he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment, and his asterisk subsequently destroyed.
  • The Evil One, aka Airy the fairy, is the despicable servant of the source of corruption. While the main antagonist aside from Brav Lee is the source of corruption, he doesn't have much of a direct hand in the plot and only shows up at the end. By contrast, Ouroburos's "daughter" Airy is there from the beginning and manipulates the party into helping her destroy the world. She's a despicable liar who loves to boss you around, and acts like a Spoiled Brat Daddy's Girl in regards to her creator. She's basically Navi except pure evil and designed to be hated instead of just annoying. At least in the best ending, she ends up getting eaten alive by Ouroburos.
• Bravely Default II, just like the Jobmasters, has the Asterisk Bearers vary between Evil Is Cool or Anti-Villains, but there are definitely some that you can hate:
  • Folie, the Arc Villain of Chapter 2, is a Mad Artist and Serial Killer who is secretly responsible for Wiswald's plight, and for a disturbingly petty reason too. Instead of using normal paint to create a painting she deems her masterpiece, she instead decides to use different materials she gathered through unethical means, namely murdering people to use their blood as red paint and creating trees that destroyed people's homes and potentially endanger them as a giant fire hazard just to get yellow paint from their bark. She is also revealed to have murdered the daughter of Lily and Roddy McGranate so she can brainwash the latter into creating blue paint from industrial waste. Her own backstory does paint her as a Lonely Rich Kid, but it soon becomes clear that she's egotistical enough to look down on people as being "ugly and stupid", and the Heroes of Light do not sympathize with her after learning the extent of her crimes.
  • Helio, the true Arc Villain of Chapter 3, is a spy from Holograd who has been manipulating the Archbishop Domenic into helping him destabilize the country of Rimedhal and make it vulnerable to conquest by setting up "judgements", falsely accusing countless people of being fairies and executing them by forcing them to plunge into a frozen ravine. When the time for Holograd's invasion finally comes, Helio kills Domenic and cruelly gloats to Gladys, his once devoted follower, that he murdered her parents and pinned it on the fairies so he can turn her into his weapon.
• Bug Fables: Mothiva, the main rival of Team Snakemouth, initially appears to be a kind celebrity, but in truth she is an extremely selfish, arrogant, vain and condescending narcissist who is obsessed only with personal fame and glory, and her every appearance makes sure the player will hate her. She always insults Team Snakemouth at any given chance, refuses to thank them for saving her from the Ahoneynation, and is even willing to assault them twice to hijack their missions, the second time she does so happening during the peace negotiation with the Termite Kingdom, which might have resulted in potentially ruining the chance of earning their favor, a fact she willfully ignores, which makes even Kabbu snap at her in rage. In fact, her own teammate Zasp, whom she treats like a servant at best, is much more approachable than her, helping Team Snakemouth when she isn't around.
• While Bully is a World of Jerkass, the following characters stand out as magnets for the player's ire:
  • The game's Big Bad, Gary Smith, is among the nastiest students in Bullworth, chronically manipulating and betraying just about everyone around him to take over the school. Working with the Townies frames Jimmy for a series of pranks, and setting the gym on fire with students within. Gary gains respect of the staff when Jimmy's expelled, before throwing the school into chaos. Just about every scene with Gary builds up the satisfaction of beating the crap out of him in the final fight.
  • Mr. Hattrick is among the most blatantly corrupt and hateful teachers in Bullworth. Almost every scene of him has him bullying other teachers. His bullying caused Mr. Galloway to become an alcoholic, and he takes bribes from rich students to help them cheat. A deleted piece of dialogue also suggests that he callously drove his wife to suicide.
  • Mr. Burton initially appears to be just a stereotypical bullying gym teacher, but later missions show that he is a pervert and creep, asking Jimmy to go on a panty raid for him. When Jimmy meets Zoe, we find out that he has sexually harassed her and when she went to the school about it, they expelled her. From this, the player helps get payback at him not once, but twice; the first involves a prank and knocking down a porta-potty with him in it, and the second getting Burton fired when Jimmy reports him.
• Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and Lords of Shadow 2:
  • In contrast to his mainstream counterpart who remains a devoted servant to Dracula, Zobek is a sickeningly evil necromancer who manipulates Gabriel into a variety of evil deeds, gloating over his despair and pain. Centuries hence, Zobek showcases he remains as much a monster as ever by feeding an innocent family to Dracula and attempting to string him along for his own purposes.
  • Satan is a self-centered Fallen Angel who feels that he is entitled to rule above God, and upon being defeated by Gabriel, threatens him by implying that he will rape and torture his deceased wife's soul. After being summoned back to Earth, Satan kills his own son for incompetence and tries to destroy the Earth out of spite for Dracula and Alucard thwarting his plans. In a final act of cruelty, he possesses Alucard to force Dracula to fight his son, taunting him throughout their battle with references to child abuse, and ultimately proves himself to be nothing more than a coward by trying to flee from his impending death.
• Cave Story:
  • Dr. Fuyuhiko Date, aka The Doctor, is the Big Bad, whose plans involve kidnapping, torturing, and brainwashing the cute and cuddly Mimiga into an army he'll send against the surface. He's described as "like a demon" by the supporting characters, and given how his evil plan involves inflicting Nazi-style vivisection and genocide against little rabbit creatures, that's an incredible understatement. The True Final Boss, Ballos, despite being the Greater-Scope Villain as the one who created the Demon Crown in the first place, comes off a great deal more sympathetic.
  • The king who tortured Ballos to the point where the latter lost control of his mind and powers, all because he couldn't tolerate his people loving Ballos more than himself. While he's long gone and is only mentioned during Ballos' backstory, he was a petty, selfish ruler, serving as a source of scorn from players and to provide sympathy fuel for Ballos.
• Child of Light: Nox a.k.a. Norah is a strong candidate for the game's most despicable antagonist after her true personality is revealed mid-game, mainly because she's a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who pretends to be a sweet older stepsister to Aurora and is even a temporary ally in battle, but is later revealed to be one of the Big Bad's daughters and had been lying to her little stepsister from the start, guiding her to a Magic Mirror in the sky that she says will take her home to her dying father, but had been tampered with to take her to a prison tower instead where the Big Bad waits to kill her. When it begins to dawn on Aurora that she has been tricked, Nox breaks into a sadistic Slasher Smile and coldly mocks Aurora for trusting her, emotionally devastating the poor girl. It feels extremely cathartic to catch up to her in the Temple of the Sun and beat the life out of her for the Pre-Final Boss battle.
• Chrono Trigger: Yakra XIII starts the game off as an Evil Chancellor and adviser to King Guardia XXXIII. Due to time travel, near the start of the game, Crono and his friends kill the first Yakra, leading his family to swear revenge on them and the Guardia royal family. When Crono returns, Yakra XIII trumps up charges of kidnapping to have him arrested; even if he's found Not Guilty, Yakra XIII lies to the warden so that he'll be executed. When Crono tries to escape, Yakra XIII sends a tank after him. Later in the game, it's revealed that Yakra XIII has deliberately worsened the relationship between Marle (the princess) and her father, convincing her that her mother died pleading for the king to see her, but that the king refused. (In fact, King Guardia was at the queen's side the entire time she was dying.) When Crono and his friends acquire the Rainbow Shell and give it to the Guardia royal family for safekeeping, Yakra XIII fakes evidence of King Guardia XXXIII having sold it and puts him on trial, bribing the jury to ensure a conviction. Only Marle's arrival saves the king, at which point Yakra XIII loses it and tries to slaughter everyone in the courtroom. There is nothing amusing or redeemable about Yakra XIII; he's through and through a spiteful, disgusting monster.
• Clive Barker's Jericho: The lieutenants of the First Born are a loathsome trio:
  • Hanne Lichthammer is a psychic Nazi commander who guards the path of souls, littered by the countless bodies of her victims over the years in her service to the First Born. When confronted by the Jericho squad, Lichthammer continues to show her sadism in combat and even mocks the sexual abuse suffered by one member in her past.
  • Bishop Maltheus St. Claire is an insane bishop and implied pedophile who convinced the pope to grant him an army of children for a crusade, only for them to be slaughtered alongside him. As a spirit in service to the First Born, Maltheus traps the children's wrathful, tormented souls in his chambers and has the audacity to curse the Jericho squad for calling him out on the monster he is.
  • Governor Cassus Vicus is a bloated Roman aristocrat who sates his appetites on the endless suffering of his immortal subjects, regularly having them crucified, defiled, and cannibalized for his own delights. Aroused by his combat with the Jericho squad, Vicus's vile nature is symbolized in the waste he spews forth during their fight with him.
• Code Vein: Juzo Mido is directly responsible for the plights of many of the game's characters. He's an Evilutionary Biologist who happily performs all manner of horrifically cruel experiments, often just because he can. He once adopted a group of orphans — including major protagonist Yakumo — just so he could experiment on them and force them to fight for him, among many other atrocities. Even his own allies aren't safe, with flashbacks showing him gleefully turning his experiments on his own researchers, and in the present he betrays Jack and Eva and mutates the latter into a monster just for trying to check in on what he's doing. Though he ultimately tries to justify all his actions as being necessary to combat the horrors of the Great Collapse and further humanity's evolution, by that point nobody cares about his reasoning because of how excessively cruel he is.
• Cookie Run has quite a few villains, all of whom span the full spectrum of evil. However, two cookies in particular stand out as being especially vile.
  • Pomegranate Cookie is The Dragon to Dark Enchantress Cookie. Abandoning and cursing her own village out of a belief that joining the Darkness was her destiny, Pomegranate has zero problems tormenting and screwing over other cookies if it suits her, her own allies included. She has a Lack of Empathy for anyone who isn't herself or Dark Enchantress, and has no redeeming qualities to speak of. Even Dark Enchantress herself has a Freudian Excuse for how she became this way; Pomegranate has none.
  • Affogato Cookie is the right-hand man to Dark Cacao Cookie. A Manipulative Bastard through and through, Affogato cares only for his own desires and has No Sympathy towards the suffering of his fellow cookies. He sweet-talks Dark Cacao into banishing Caramel Arrow Cookie out of nothing but jealousy, and allies with the Cookies of Darkness (including the above-mentioned Pomegranate) solely to claim the throne for himself. And for the cherry on top, after he is defeated, he outright flees the kingdom altogether, abandoning his followers to face Dark Cacao's wrath alone.
• Corruption of Laetitia: Cardinal Alfredus Marian is the tyrannical leader of the Elysian Order. A racist who despises demons, he has his minions exterminate them, and kicks off the game by betraying heroine Celeste Avadona and stealing her powers. Throughout the game, we see how his industrial and military expansion brings mass pollution, famine, and suffering to the various monster tribes. He also treats his allies with contempt, brainwashes one of his minions into becoming a suicide bomber, and insists that he is protecting his people despite the damage his incompetence is doing.
• Cyberpunk 2077:
  • Final Boss Adam Smasher. He's introduced calling The Woobie "a cut of fuckable meat" and rapidly becomes less likable. Smasher also does himself no favors in the prequel Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. In the show, he ruins David's reunion with Lucy before he smashes Rebecca on the floor and kills David, all of which serve to reinforce his obsession for brutality. Put simply, Smasher is a callous, misogynistic, sadistic, brutal psychopath who prefers to take missions that will result in high body counts and massive collateral damage, and has no even vaguely redeeming features whatsoever.
  • One of the various Gigs will call on V to either kill or capture Jotaro Shobo, a truly vile and depraved sadist who has a habit of murdering sex workers and recording their last moments as illegal snuff braindances to sell on the black market. The Moxes will pay good money for V to either walk into his club and put a bullet in his smug face, or drag him out of the club and into the back of a Mox pickup vehicle, whereupon he will be driven to their bar and the girls will take turns beating to death in retribution for all the evil karma he's accrued. Not even his fellow Tyger Claws are sad to see him go, and just in case you think he has any redeeming qualities, you can dig around in his personal computer and find an email complaining about not having enough kids to practice on.
  • Judy's questline has two, Woodman and Doc Fingers. The former is a slimeball working for the Tyger Claws who raped the aforementioned woobie, and the latter is a slimeball and Creepy Crossdresser infamous for giving his poorer clients low-quality cyberware that forces them to come back for repairs. There's no consequences for killing the former, but harming the latter used to lock you out of some of the best cyberware in the game. After the changes to his inventory, most players have decided that the consequences were now Worth It, resulting in widespread player feedback indicating a lot of people went back to Fingers specifically to kick his ass.
• Dark Souls:
  • Petrus in the first game is a condescending asshole who eventually abandoned his charge, Rhea, to die in the Tomb of the Giants, and then tries to kill her later if the player rescues her. It's not uncommon for players to kill him right after clearing Tomb of the Giants, even though doing so counts as a sin within the game.
  • Also from the first game is Lautrec of Carim, a sadistic psychopath who makes little pretense of hiding how murderous he really is. After you go to the trouble of breaking him out of a prison cell, his way of thanking you, after a certain point in the game, is to murder Anastacia, disabling the Firelink Shrine bonfire. Again, it's very common for players to literally kick him off of a cliff once they have the chance; although this doesn't count as a sin, this does keep you from obtaining Lautrec and Anastacia's armor sets... though you do still get the Ring of Favor and Protection.
  • Maldron the Assassin from the second game manages to be one without even having a single piece of dialogue, being an obnoxious NPC invader with many a cheap and cowardly tactic. The Fume Knight, Alonne, Aava, and The Ivory King may be more difficult encounters, being proper boss fights, but the former two are cool and memorable badasses, while the latter two are sympathetic Anti-Villains.
  • The third game gives us Aldrich and Pontiff Sulyvahn, both of whom, for a first, are major bosses rather than NPCs. The former for his sadistic gluttony while the latter for his usurpation of various kingdoms and aiding the former in his devouring of gods. While many Dark Souls bosses are sympathetic figures with tragic backstories, Aldrich and Sulyvahn are aware of their crimes and take great pleasure in them.
• Several examples crop up in Dead Island. The zombies? No, they are merely victims. Ryder White? No, he's The Woobie, framed, and makes a Face–Monster Turn. Instead, we have Charon, who orchestrates the outbreak, Koritoia, who knowingly and willingly allowed the kuru outbreak to occur through cannibalism and tried to kill his daughter, and the Raskols gang; murderers, rapists, they set the infected against the survivors For the Evulz and are so bad the Banoi Islands Self Defense Force is formed to try and control them. One of the criticisms of the game, in fact, can be that Charon escapes unscathed and wins, despite being a Hate Sink, preventing catharsis.
• Dead Rising:
  • Brock Mason contrasts the more tragic Carlito Keyes, representing the cruelty the American government inflicted on his people, having oversaw the military occupation of Santa Cabeza. When the government's experiments resulted in a zombie outbreak, having civilians and survivors to cover up the incident. During the Willamette outbreak Keyes starts in retaliation, Mason intends to wipe out the city as part of the cover-up, expressing annoyance that humans are more stubborn "prey" than zombies.
  • Jo Slade stands in stark contrast to the other "Psychopath" bosses, lacking any sympathetic aspects or comedic quirks. An abrasive, obnoxious, misogynistic, and lustful cop on a power trip, Slade uses her position and the zombie outbreak as an excuse to be a Serial Rapist, keeping numerous women captive with the intent on raping them to death, and is preparing to molest a woman when Frank confronts her. Despite only appearing once, she establishes herself as one of the most deplorable and nasty bosses in the series.
  • Kent Swanson is hateable enough when you first meet him, since he's an obnoxious, showboating asshole who cares more about taking memorable photographs during the Willamette outbreak and smugly taunts and jeers at Frank with every chance he gets. But should Frank start to one-up him during his photo challenge, Kent attempts to (and if you're too late to start the mission, will) turn an innocent man as a zombie so he can capture the moment a person turns on camera with a childish, sociopathic sense of glee. At that point, it becomes clear that Kent isn't just a jackass, but a disgusting little creep that needs to go down. Luckily, Kent chooses that moment to become a Psychopath, giving you an invitation to kill him however you see fit.
• Dead Rising 2:
  • Leon Bell qualifies as this, being an obnoxious, egotistical and jealous person who sees everyone else below him, even going as far as to murder an innocent man in front of Chuck just to show him how little he values the lives of others. His sense of pride is also so pathologically big that he would rather kill himself via burning to death rather then let Chuck kill him, telling Chuck he is number one before burning to death in front of him, with Chuck only quipping "yeah, you're on fire."
  • Reed Wallbeck is hatable enough in that he is an arrogant and abusive bastard that treats his assistant Roger Withers like trash, insulting him and seeing him as second fiddle to himself who doesnt deserve to share the spotlight. Reed also shows a callous disregard for the lives of others, seeing other humans as only test subjects to be used in his lethal magic tricks, brushing off the death of a woman when Chuck calls out her death, only claiming "it isnt as easy as it looks". His hateability is solidified when Roger finally gets to cathartically murder Reed by stabbing him repeatedly in the chest, saying "he has always wanted to do that" before finally passing away.
• Def Jam Series: From Fight For NY, Sticky is a childish member of D-Mob's crew, and a self entitled freeloader. Quickly becoming jealous of the Player Character becoming D-Mob's best fighter, Sticky joins Crow's crew out of spite, seeing D-Mob and the rest of the crew nearly killed in a drive by. Sticky later helps kidnap the Player's girlfriend for Crow, and tries to burn her to death to get the Player to fight him.
• Demon General Majorita from Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance, despite only being one of Void Dark's two Dragons, does a number of things that makes the heroes very furious towards her. To start, she has her "kill and recycle" gimmick: killing her enemies and then raising them as corpses that do her bidding. Some of her most despicable acts include forcing Usalia's parents to undergo 100 days of tortuous servitude, putting a curse on Usalia so that she has to eat curry — her least favorite food — or else she turns into an insane beast and eventually dies, killing her parents anyway right when they were about to gain their freedom, and then later ordering their zombified corpses to kill Usalia. Small wonder that the cast, especially Usalia, has nothing but seething hatred for her. Even when she's defeated for real and trash-talked by the heroes for her atrocities in the penultimate episode and then gets discarded by Void Dark, she never shows a single shred of remorse for her actions.
• Dormitabis: For this Five Nights at Freddy's fan game, Garvey Write is a detestable murderer based on an outdated interpretation of William Afton, the real Big Bad of the original franchise, but unlike what William evolves into, Garvey is much worse than he could ever be. Garvey sets the standard for an unlikable antagonistic character for any media, including fan media, in every possible way. The remaster of the game tones down his hateable aspects and makes him more likable, but he still retains his original murderous self.
• Dragon Age:
  • In Dragon Age: Origins, neither side of the Big Bad Ensemble is easy to hold in contempt; the Archdemon is alien and unknowable and spends most of the game as an unseen threat, and Teyrn Loghain turns out to be a better man than is initially apparent. The game provides easier targets for the players' hatred in the form of:
    • Arl Rendon Howe, one of Loghain's Co-Dragons. A sociopathic aristocrat who only cares about his own ambition, Howe is a Smug Snake who spends most of the game kicking dogs and carrying out Loghain's will in the most brutal way possible. Loghain's daughter Anora even mentions that desperation for political support was the only motivation Loghain had to even associate with the man. He gets bonus points if the player is the Human Noble, as in that Origin he is responsible for murdering most of the player character's family and household (including his/her kid nephew) and forcing the player character to flee and join the Wardens, or a City Elf, since he spends most of the game leading a brutal purge against their alienage (over a "riot" that was resolved by the time he assumed office anyway) because "when animals snap at their human masters, it's prudent to 'cull the herd'." All this makes his eventual comeuppance all the more satisfying and poetic.
    • Bann Vaughan Kendalls. He's racist towards elves, an Entitled Bastard, and a Serial Rapist and murderer of elven women who abducts the female part of an elven wedding party, which includes the protagonist's cousin (and the protagonist herself if female) for decidedly ignoble intentions, but otherwise has no bearing on the plot beyond providing a single vote at the Landsmeet (and due to how the Landsmeet works you can pretty much ignore him if you've done a bunch of sidequests and make the right arguments). Indeed, any Warden gets the option to murder him on the spot when he's found in Arl Howe's dungeon. In fact, he has 15 minutes at most of screentime, and it's clear his whole purpose is to a) act as a Starter Villain whose actions force the City Elf to join the Grey Wardens and b) put a name and a face to the contempt and discrimination city elves face at the hands of humans.
  • Dragon Age II, being a game filled to the brim with Grey-and-Grey Morality, has a few nasty pieces of work of its own.
    • Ser Alrik is a clear-cut portrait of this trope. He's a sadist who tortures mages and makes them Tranquil For the Evulz, and is pushing a plan called "the Tranquil Solution" to apply this to every mage in the city. Just in case you think Anders is exaggerating, his one scene consists of him threatening an apprentice who just wanted to see her mum again. "Once you're Tranquil, you'll do anything I ask." Oh, and NPC banter confirms he's done this before.
    • Then there's slaver Varian, who kidnaps a boy called Feynriel with intent to sell him off. He only appears in a single scene, but he spends that scene holding a sword at the throat of a minor. Can't say you feel in the least sorry for him as Rogue Hawke puts the Murder Knife through the bastard's throat at range.
      Varian: One more step and I'll kill the boy!
      Hawke: This is as close as I need to get.
    • The one thing the fans can agree upon is that everyone hates Sister Petrice. Her entire role in the story is to act as a catalyst for the human vs. Qunari tensions in Kirkwall and drive the less pleasant aspects of the plot by framing them for crimes they didn't commit, inciting ordinary citizens to abduct and murder them and pinning the blame for everything on Hawke whenever possible.
    • But far worse than most of the above is Ser Karras, a Templar who first appears during the sidequest Act of Mercy. An obvious Knight Templar who clashes with Reasonable Authority Figure Ser Thrask near the end of the quest, he does absolutely nothing to earn your respect; he uses "Robes" as a slur against mages, is heavily implied to be raping one of the escaped mages he was tracking should he make it through the first act alive, and remains a supporter of Meredith all the way through the game, except perhaps once she drops off the deep end at the end of the game. Pretty much the only reason not to kill him and take his Cool Sword as a bonus is that Thrask wants you to resolve the situation without violence — and you'd have to really like Thrask to do that since it means Karras makes it through to the end of the game unscathed, which is pretty egregious when there are many characters who are far better and more likable than him who don't like Thrask, for a start.
  • In Dragon Age: Inquisition, Alexius, Calpernia and Samson all have certain sympathetic and redeeming qualities. Even Corypheus has a tragic aspect to his motivation. And then there's Livius Erimond, a straightforward Smug Snake who manipulates the Wardens into committing horrific atrocities with no Freudian Excuse or likable trait to speak of. As opposed to the other three, he shows no remorse nor care for anyone else when he is judged by the Inquisitor at the end. Cassandra at one point asks Cole if there is any hidden pain that he can sense in Erimond. Without hesitation, the literal spirit of compassion Cole responds, "No. Erimond is an arsehole."
• Dragon Quest VIII has Prince Charmles, the closest thing to a Trope Namer for Prince Charmless, and never gets an ounce of positive character development. He has an arranged marriage to the Hero's love interest, and by the end of the game, both the love interest's father and Charmles's own father wind up dropping support. And during his main plot focus, all he really does is make you do all of the work for his Rite of Passage, four times over, and then cheats his way into making the whole thing moot anyway.
• Eastern Exorcist, set in a wuxia-fantasy inspired world filled with demons where you're the titular exorcist, have it's monsters either having little-to-no characterizations, tragic backstories or lacking enough of an impact to be despised. The sole human villain, Zhang Huai-zhou your Evil Former Friend, is a different matter; willingly supporting the demons' cause, Zhang deliberately arranged for your Suicide Mission in the prologue while killing your sworn brothers, causing you to be expelled by the Cangshan Exorcist Sect, and then frames Xiaoyu, a benevolent, kind-hearted hulijing supposedly on your side as the traitor, before manipulating you to hunt her down after she saved your life as he tries to screw you over in every way. Repeatedly gaslighting you the entire game, Zhang even takes advantage of your friendship by pretending to reform, only to pull an I Surrender, Suckers trying to kill you in the final cutscene. Even the game's supposed Big Bad, the Mandrill King, have his sympathetic moments (such as genuinely loving his son, Chi-tian the Ape Demon), which Zhang entirely lacks.
• Elden Ring:
  • The Loathsome Dung Eater is Hated by All for routinely Desecrating the Dead in a manner so vile the souls of his victims can't reincarnate or move on. Which, for equally unclear reasons, is exactly his goal. The player's very first encounter with him is him threatening to do the same to them leaving very few inclined to actually do his questline and not just kill him on sight at the earliest opportunity. But if the player does bother to put the effort in, he tries to make good on his threat anyway. What, did you actually think the guy with the word "Loathsome" in his name would help you? To make matters worse, if the player doesn't murder him on sight the bastard kills Blackguard Big Boggart who you potentially befriended. Should that not be enough to make you give in and off the bastard, going all the way through with his questline gives you a Mending Rune that, if used to fix the Elden Ring, permanently damns everyone in the world. And mind you, the Dung Eater makes it absolutely clear from the start that this is what's going to happen.
  • Another in-universe example is Shabriri, whose worship of the Frenzied Flame and ambition to have chaos take the world, marks him as the single most hated person in the Lands Between. This is Not Hyperbole, it's what the lore documents in the game itself refers to him as. It's to the point that if you start following his instructions, then Melina, your own maiden, will abandon you for betraying both her and the entire world. And if you equip a talisman depicting Shabriri's smugly smiling face, enemies get more aggressive.
  • Mohg, the Lord of Blood, seems to have been designed with this trope in mind. Sure, he hits a lot of Evil Is Cool points, too, being a Satanic Archetype dressed in wizard robes with a Hammy personality and spectacular powers... but then there's him lusting over and kidnapping his half-brother, Miquella, in the backstory of the game. Miquella is cursed to eternally look like a child.
  • And then there's Godrick the Grafted. Mohg at least has a cool design and an epic boss fight, but Godrick is just plain pathetic, only making it up to Warm-Up Boss status. And he only even manages this meangre upgrade by killing thousands of people to to graft their limbs to himself, all while calling himself "the lord of all that is golden" and generally having a Small Name, Big Ego. Absolutely no one likes or respects Godrick, not even his own servants, and he has none of his siblings' talents at magic, combat, generalship, or statecraft- the one battle he fought, he got beaten so badly that he had to sneak away dressed as a woman. The other demigods, even Mohg, have something good to say about them (Mohg helped block the way to the Frenzied Flame and invented Blood Magic), but Godrick is just worthless in general.
  • Preceptor Seluvis is probably the ickiest character in the game... and that's saying something. His hobby is turning people into mindless puppets (something he plans to even do to his liege lady Ranni), he's horribly smug, and it's heavily implied that yes, he does take sexual advantage of his puppets. And he can't even scheme right; the only reason he gets anywhere in the game is by asking the player to do things for him.
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim:
  • Maven Black-Briar. She not only consorts with thieves and assassins, but she has the government of Riften in her hands, has her employees killed if they displease her, is very abusive to all of her children, and even supports the Thalmor. She's also insufferably arrogant, treating the Dragonborn like they're less than dirt, and generally does everything in her power to be a massive Jerkass. Most infuriatingly, she's also a complete Karma Houdini, as she is rewarded with becoming the Jarl of Riften if the Imperials win the Skyrim Civil War, stays the de-facto ruler from the shadows if the Stormcloaks win, and due to being both a potential Jarl and the source of numerous quests, cannot be killed. Literally the only things one can like about her are her Pragmatic Villainy and Hyper-Awareness, all of which she solely uses to expand her own power.
  • Speaking of the Thalmor, they're an entire faction made to be a Hate Sink, no matter which side of the Civil War you're on. Pro-Empire folks get to deal with them parading about the fact that the Empire Won the War, Lost the Peace against the Third Aldmeri Dominion (the nation the Thalmor rule), while pro-Stormcloak people rail on them for persecuting Talos worshippers. The game also parading inquisition squads ("justicars") about on the roads between cities is an open invitation to kill them in manners most creative. They're also Elvish racial supremacists with the ultimate goal of both conquering the entire continent and either wiping out or enslaving all "lesser races" or "race traitors", and literally undoing the very bonds of reality and collapsing the universe so they can Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence and become gods. Even the people in their conquered kingdoms and own homeland hate them (the Khajiit caravan leader Ri'saad disgustedly calls Khajiit that willingly work with the Thalmor "Thalmor filth" since the Khajiit of Elsweyr only joined the Thalmor because the latter set themselves up as Fake Ultimate Hero), but they're too terrified to fight back. Legate Fasendil, an Altmer Legate in the Imperial Legion, shows nothing but scorn for the Thalmor, even recalling to the Dragonborn some war stories of the Thalmor hunting down and massacring anti-Thalmor High Elf refugees during the Great War. As one fan put it, "We [the fandom] hate the Nazi elves more than the world-eating dragons." This may in fact even be the point of the Thalmor in the game, since the Civil War storyline is inherently so Gray and Grey. The Thalmor add the Black, being the "Evil" in The Good, the Bad, and the Evil trio.
    • A specific example among the Thalmor is Ancano. He is the Thalmor advisor to the College of Winterhold, and as such, you have to put up with this slimy douchebag's presence throughout the entire College questline, over the course of which he, like most Thalmor, is nothing but arrogant, condescending and rude, not just to the Dragonborn, but to basically everyone in the College. He is eventually revealed, to absolutely no one's surprise, to be the Big Bad of the questline, which most players will take as a relief because that means they get to justifiably kill him with extreme prejudice.
  • Skyrim also gives us Nazeem, an infuriatingly arrogant Redguard trader who constantly taunts and treats the rest of Whiterun like idiots and acts like he's the most important person in the entire city. His only other defining character traits are that he's a Dirty Coward and a Sycophantic Servant, with his Catchphrase being mocking the Dragonborn for not attending the "Cloud District", Whiterun's highest city level and home to Jarl Balgruuf and his court. Combining all that together and the fact that not even the other people of Whiterun like him (his own wife, Ahlam, often snarks that he can be found "stuffing himself up the Jarl's backside"), and one gets the idea that Nazeem is practically Tamriel's physical embodiment of the Very Punchable Man.
  • Grelod The Kind. Despite her name, Grelod is anything but kind. She is hated for being very cruel and abusive towards the children in Honorhall orphanage at Riften, making them work for many hours, constantly beating them, and refusing to give any of them up for adoption, and she is found to own a book called "The Pig Children", which shows that she is bigoted towards orcs. It is also strongly implied that she chains up and tortures the children, as some chains and shackles are found in one of the rooms in the orphanage. Even her assistant, Constance, is not immune to Grelod's abuse. The children of Honorhall orphanage hate her to the point where one of them, Aventus Arentino, decided to run away and contact the Dark Brotherhood to have her killed. She is shown to have no redeeming qualities whatsoever, unlike the Orc champion from Oblivion, who is also the trigger person to kill to start the Dark Brotherhood quest in that game, but has more sympathetic qualities than she does. Grelod basically exists just so players won't have any problems with killing their target to start the Dark Brotherhood storyline due to how despicable she is shown to be in Skyrim. The developers even motivate players to kill her even more in the "Hearthfire" DLC by requiring them to have her killed in order to be able to adopt any of the children in Honorhall Orphanage.
• End Roll: While Russell himself is a sympathetic character despite being a Serial Killer, the same cannot be said for his Abusive Parents, who, uncaring of anything beyond their own hedonistic pleasures, are the reason he grew up to be the twisted boy he is:
  • Russell's father was a horrible drunk who made Russell buy him beer and beat him often. He also cheated on his wife with Russell's older Only Friend Yumi, and eventually killed her, causing Russell to snap and kill his parents. His dream world counterpart, the Toxic One, is a vile monster that terrorizes Nameless Town and is still disturbingly attracted to the dream version of Yumi.
  • Russell's mother was neglectful, preferring to spend her time cheating on her husband with several men. When Yumi was murdered, she just watched, uncaring. In the dream world, she appears as the Indecent One, the source of the monsters within the dream world. In the final dungeon, she taunts Russell about him murdering his friends and constantly insults him, and various aspects of their encounter imply that she outright molested him.
• Even For Eternia:
  • Unlike most Wraiths who are characterized, Micah doesn't have any sympathetic or tragic qualities. He pretends to be a kindhearted rest stop manager, but actually uses hallucinogenic flowers to drug unsuspecting women and locks them in a basement, where he rapes and kills them in order to "teach them their place".
  • King Callister of Excella is nasty even by the standards of anti-Umbra characters, since he is so at peace with his sadism towards them that he doesn't feel any guilt or negative emotions despite wanting to start a war of genocide against the Umbra. When he discovers that King Richard is an Umbra, he declares his intent to wipe Adalia off the map, non-Umbra citizens included, and tries to have the party publically executed. His cruel nature is exploited by Rowan and Dawn to break Rubellum's ideals of coexistence and discourage her from opposing them.
• Fallout:
  • Myron in Fallout 2 is Black Isle's attempt to build the worst human being imaginable. A perverted, snotty teenager, he's uglier than most Ghouls and has a grating, whiny voice. He claims to have invented Jet, one of the worst drugs in the series, solely because a crime boss asked him to. You can recruit this little toad, but aside from some minor skills at making chems, he's worthless — he can't fight at all and whines like a toddler if he's hurt. It's the rare player who lets Myron breathe for more than a few seconds after meeting him. The ending goes out of its way, should Myron be alive, to note that he was murdered by a Jet addict and instantly forgotten by the world. And the kicker is that in Fallout 4, you can find a pre-war list of drugs hidden in a vault — including Jet, thus implying that he couldn't even come up with his own drugs.
  • First Citizen Lynette in 2 somehow manages to be even less likable than Myron. She's the governor of Vault City, and according to Word of God she was intended to embody the absolute worst traits of Vault City's residents, brought about by a comfortable, privileged upbringing that resulted in a massive superiority complex to others. As a result, she's a self-righteous, arrogant, hypocritical, temperamental Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who won't hesitate to banish you from the city if you challenge her opinions.
  • Fallout 3
    • Colin Moriarty, a saloon owner living in Megaton, while technically neutral, is considered to be one of the more hated NPCs, generally being both manipulative and a massive Jerkass. He's also hated in-universe among the other residents of Megaton. It's not uncommon for players, even for those aiming for very good karma, to secretly kill him, ignoring the karma penalty.
    • Roy Phillips is a ghoul and an anti-human bigot. Having been rejected from living in Tenpenny Tower, Roy plan on releasing a horde of feral ghouls (basically zombies) on the tower so he can live there instead. At first it seems like Roy is willing to live in peace with the tower residents if you convince them to let Roy and his friends live there. However, Roy later kills all the residents (even the non bigoted ones) anyway and threatens to kill the Player Character as well if they object. Worse yet, if Roy is in control of the tower when Mr. Burke returns, he goes along with Burke's plan to nuke Megaton just because a lot of humans live there (Allistair Tenpenny had want Megaton nuked too, but wanted the people evacuated first). As with Colin, most players ignore the karma penalty and just kill Roy and his friends.
  • Fallout: New Vegas:
    • Colonel Cassandra Moore is Exibit A of the faults of the NCR (or would be if not for General Lee Oliver). Abrasive and bloodthristy, Moore is the one The Courier reports to for a majority of the NCR's ending route. Every time she gives you a task, she pushes for the most violent option, wanting you to wipe out The Kings, The Great Khans, and The Brotherhood of Steel. She takes special ubrage with the peaceful route with The Kings, as she'll get Ambassador Crocker fired for it. She is likly a major factor in many players abandoning the NCR route in favor of Mr. House or Yes Man.
    • Dermot and Saint James of Westside are a pair of slavers who make their living kidnapping people (even children) and selling them to the drugged out Fiends. "Saint" James is the worse of the two, as he is also a Serial Rapist and a pedophile.
    • The Fiends are the largest and most unstable raider "tribe" in the Mojave wasteland. Being so strung out on chems, the Fiends kill on sight and Rape, Pillage, and Burn to their hearts (or lack there of) content.
    • The worst of the worst of the Fiends is their chef Cook-Cook. Cook-Cook takes the rape and burn part of the Fiends to the extreme, being that he rapes his captives senseless before burning them alive with a flamethrower. His raping is particularly infamous due to inflicting it on anything (even animals) he can get his hands on. The human flesh found at his camp implies he's also a cannibal.
    • Father Elijah was Veronica's mentor and the leader of the Mojave chapter of The Brotherhood of Steel until their defeat at HELIOS One, afterwards he abandoned the Brotherhood to take the treasures of Sierra Madre casino. By the time you meet him, if there was ever any good in Elijah, it has long been stamped out, as he has gone mad and become genocidal, planning to use the Sierra Madre's toxic cloud and holograms to wipe out almost all life in the Mojave, then enslave the survivors through the use of bomb collers. To that end, he puts one of the bomb collers on The Courier and forces you to find a way to open the death trap riddled casino, taunting you all the while.
    • The White Legs from the Honest Hearts DLC are a primative tribe with hopes of joining Caesar's Legion. However, they care nothing for the order the Legion's order and arn't misinformed like the Great Khans. Instead they only wish to join the Legion to contiune their endless pilaging. To prove their worthyness to the Legion, they attacked the peaceful Latter Day Saints community of New Canaan, killing many of the families living there. After the New Canaan's escape and contiune their missionary work, the White Legs proceed to attack and kill the tribes that they preach to.
    • The White Legs leader Salt-Upon-Wounds is notably lothsome as, in addtion to the above, he is stated to have ordered his men to literally Salt the Earth.
  • Fallout 4 gives us the Gunners. While the Institute are potentially the main antagonists, the game's Grey-and-Gray Morality makes it hard to truly hate them, with the Gunners instead taking that spot. Not only are they ruthless mercenaries with no scruples or morals, willing to take any job for a paycheck, but they're also utterly despicable, with even the player's own Settlers lampshading the fact that aside from their superior equipment and training, they're little better than Raiders in how they operate (and even Raiders get significantly humanized over the game's course). Not only do the Gunners massacre and sack any town in their path, but they are also part of the reason why the Commonwealth is still such a Crapsack World, as their war with the Commonwealth Minutemen (one of the only completely benevolent factions in the entire game) has kept the Commonwealth divided and chaotic. One of their Establishing Character Moments involves them massacring the innocent town of Quincy just because they can, and another is a Gunner trying to talk the Sole Survivor into selling a Ghoul family into slavery for them. Even MacCready, one of the Sole Survivor's potential companions and a former Gunner, shows no mercy when fighting against his used-to-be comrades, claiming that they're so tightly wound-up that they're like a cult and stating that his joining the Gunners was the worst mistake he ever made in his life.
• Far Cry:
  • Far Cry 3:
    • Buck is a slimy dirtbag and implied rapist who takes satisfaction in being the dominant one, Jason wastes no time hating his guts. And unlike Vaas, he doesn't have a tragic backstory or at least a Freudian Excuse like Hoyt. He's just an utter asshole.
    • Despite the fact that Hoyt Volker can be quite Hammy and entertaining to watch, he's ultimately the reason for everything bad that happens in the game. The man is an incredibly depraved mob boss who routinely has people murdered, tortured, slaved, or raped; and unlike Vaas, his "Freudian Excuse" is very weak. What makes Hoyt exceptionally detestable is that, unlike Vaas, he's not mentally ill and fully aware of his actions.
  • Far Cry 4:
    • Mohan Ghale turns out to be one. He is talked up by the other characters in the story as a great hero who fought for freedom, but the more you learn about him the more his true nature rears its ugly head. He turns out to be a huge misogynist whose marriage fell apart due to his poor treatment of his wife, even using her as a tool to spy on his enemies. He is also the real cause of the war as he murders Pagan Min's one year old daughter Lakshmana, driving Pagan to further madness all because his wife chose Pagan over him.
    • Sabal becomes a deranged zealot if he gets his way. He plans on killing everyone not following the Kyrat religion (meaning most of the country) and then closing the boarders to rule as head of a theocracy.
    • Amita truly only desires to supplant Pagan as head of his criminal empire. Not only will the production of drugs increase, but she will also conscript children to fight her wars for her if she wins Kyrat.
• Faraway Story: The unnamed Armonican priest is devoid of the sympathetic and entertaining qualities found in the game's other villains and is instead characterized by his hatred and paranoia of non-Armonicans. He claims to be a pious clergyman, yet he displays his hypocrisy by ignoring Gran's teachings of generosity, as shown when he both refuses to help a dying outsider and threatens to punish Stella for helping. He gets worse when he frames Ellevark for trespassing on Armonica Cathedral's roof and orders his soldiers to shoot both Ellevark and Stella with poison arrows, killing Stella and traumatizing Ellevark into fearing interactions with humans. Eventually, his deplorable actions cause one of his subordinates to poison him as a form of karma.
• Final Fantasy:
  • Final Fantasy IV:
    • Dr. Lugae from the first game is Golbez's so-called "master of war". He only has a small role in the game, but his mark on the story is much larger than it appears. He's the one who turned Edge's parents into monsters, leaving Edge Forced to Watch them die. He also orders his men to genocide the Dwarves with the Super Cannon just because you defeat him. He's so nasty that even Rubicante, his superior and a Noble Demon, despises him and apologizes to the party for all the damage he did.
    • The Mysterious Girl, The Heavy of the sequel. She spends the whole game travelling around the Blue Planet to steal its Crystals, insulting everyone around her by calling them an inferior species, killing anyone who gets in her way and muttering about how she finds acts of altruism, honour and defiance "incomprensible" and foolish. On a gameplay level, she also is responsible for several Hopeless Boss Fights and frustratingly difficult encounters with the Eidolons, the game's versions of Summons, all of whom she enslaved by encasing them in stone. She doesn't get anything approaching redeeming qualities until the very end of the game when it's revealed she — or rather, they — are a Henchmen Race called the Maenads who were created to act on behalf of the true Big Bad, and ultimately sacrifice themselves to allow the party to escape with a child version of them.
  • Final Fantasy VII:
    • Professor Hojo is not the ultimate Big Bad — that would be Sephiroth — but safe to say, every tragedy that befell the world and its characters can be traced back to Hojo's inhuman experiments and activities done for his own definition of "science". Even Sephiroth's Start of Darkness has its roots in his sick experiments, since Hojo was Sephiroth's father, injected him with Jenova cells while his mother was pregnant with him and went along (at a distance) willingly with Sephiroth's Evil Plan just to see what happened. Every spinoff of the game will direct all of the tragedies to be eventually caused by Hojo himself. You know he's a horrible person when even his fellow Shinra executives shows visible disgust at his proposal to forcibly impregnate Aerith.
    • President Shinra, who, unlike his Evil Is Cool son Rufus, is an amoral Corrupt Corporate Executive who couldn't give two figs that his Mako reactors are poisoning the Lifestream and slowly killing the planet, so long as he keeps making a profit. When given an opportunity to take down AVALANCHE, he attempts this by destroying an entire sector, killing thousands despite AVALANCHE's membership barely scraping double figures. It makes it very satisfying when early on in the game you find him slumped over his desk with Sephiroth's sword rammed through his back. The remake changes exactly one thing about him: the party, especially Barrett, get to watch him get skewered by Sephiroth.
  • Final Fantasy X:
    • Seymour keeps popping up in the plot to provide a speaking villain for the party to fight on land instead of Sin. While he does have his own motivations and does get somewhat tied into the plot with Sin, his personal impact on the story itself is quite minimal overall aside from providing ever more complex boss fights after you kill him and he just keeps creating ever more elaborate boss forms for himself.
    • The Luca Goers, a Blitzball team that harasses Wakka's team, are also quite obnoxious and unlikable, serving as the motivation for the player to attempt to master the Jecht Shot, win the tournament, and destroy their ego.
  • Final Fantasy Tactics has Argath Thadalfus, a perfect example of Aristocrats Are Evil. Since the first act of the game (the length and breadth of time he appears for) keeps the true bad guys in the dark, there can't be any other reason for him to appear. He spends his time as a guest character repeatedly demonstrating his contempt for everyone not of noble birth — quite pertinent, given that the antagonists of Act I are disgruntled peasant soldiers who want the nobles they serve to give them fair pay for their service in times of war — which culminates in killing Tietra, whom an enemy had been trying to use as a Human Shield. He actually has his own Freudian Excuse, but it serves not to make him sympathetic, instead making him a much more despicable person, as he also shows a great case of hypocrisy. He is hated so much that he is almost guaranteed to appear in any "Most hated video game characters" poll, especially since he is from a Final Fantasy title. Square Enix is fully aware of how hated he is, and gladly caters to the fans whenever they can: The PSP remake of Tactics has a late-game stage where one of the villains resurrects him as a death knight so you can kill him again, and then they brought him back again as a boss in the Tactics-themed raid in Final Fantasy XIV, despite that game being set different universe, somewhere around four centuries after his original death. In short, he could be THE hate sink of the franchise.
  • Final Fantasy XIV gives us Asahi sas Brutus. He initially plays himself off as a diplomat for Garlemald to the newly-independent Doma in order to request a transfer of prisoners of war, but it very quickly becomes clear that he wants anything but that. He brings his amnesiac adopted sister Yotsuyu to their Abusive Parents in an attempt to cure her amnesia (and return her to being the spiteful monster she originally was), resulting in them getting stabbed to death by her(they're the ones who made her into said spiteful monster, so fuck them), knowing full well that it was a possibility. Then he goads Yotsuyu into becoming a Primal for the purpose of framing Doma for summoning it, all while taunting the Warrior of Light and hiding behing diplomatic immunity to dissuade them from killing him on the spot. And once the Warrior of Light, known for being a slayer of primals, defeats the primal Yotsuyu, he berates her and physically assaults her as she lies dying on the ground. The reason he went through with everything? He was jealous that Zenos made Yotsuyu viceroy of Doma over him. Once The Dog Bites Back with Yotsuyu impaling Asahi on her swords, his corpse is left to rot and his second-in-command (who had no idea of Asahi's true intentions) goes through with the prisoner transfer... Only for Shadowbringers to reveal that the rogue Ascian Fandaniel had taken up occupancy in his dead body and is shaping up to be just as big of a hate sink as the original. Ultimately subverted in Endwalker as Fandaniel was given a much more sympathetic background and sendoff than his host.
  • Valens van Varro in The Sorrow of Werlyt side story is a completely depraved Garlean commander who abuses children and grooms them to become hardened soldiers. He also has no qualms with torture and he especially got his rocks off from pretending that he would let a mother and child go if their father agreed to be sacrificed for an experiment. Valens is also incredibly racist and threatens one of his Au Ra subordinates (read: slave) with killing his entire race if he doesn't get him the results he wants.
  • Final Fantasy XVI: The audience can't hate the arch-villain Ultima due to his charisma, but there are other characters who are able to serve as targets for the hatred of players.
    • Annabella Rosfield is the cold-hearted, narrow-minded, tyrannous and oblivious-to-reality mother of Clive Rosfield, the game's main protagonist. Her every scene seems purposely calculated to make the audience despise her. She resents her son, Clive, for not inheriting the powers of the Phoenix and her dissatisfaction with her station in life leads to her having her good-hearted husband, Archduke Elwin, murdered and ruining the lives of Clive, Joshua and Jill. Having an obnoxious disdain for Bearers and Ducal Royalists, she sends the Black Shields - themselves a mockery of the Shields of Rosaria - to slaughter any they find. She is also a bigoted elitist regarding bloodlines, smugly looking down on Dion for being a Bastard. When finally confronted by Clive and Jill, Anabella has no regrets, callously and petulantly complaining how Clive's inability to awaken caused the other nobles to mock her and calling Jill an ungrateful savage despite both being enslaved and tormented because of her petty grievances. Her only good quality is she loved Joshua and Olivier, despite said love being very much conditional. In spite of this, Anabella is without a doubt, the most universally despised character in the entire game. This makes her death — delivered by her own hand after being called out and having her world crumble around her — all the more cathartic.
    • Imreaan is a slimy, hypocritical and cowardly man that forced Jill to be his attack dog by threatening children; children he killed anyway. When confronted, Imreaan is nothing but smug and self satisfied, insulting Jill, but quickly loses composure when the Liquid Flame manifests. When Drake's Breath's Heart is shattered, Imreaan is reduced to an absolute mess and Jill subsequently running him through is nothing short of cathartic.
    • The sidequest All Bark gives us the pompous nobleman Benoit and his spoilt son. They play a "game" where they trick Bearers into fighting a wolf "attacking" the son and being torn apart for their trouble. When Clive finds out this is all a trick he is furious - depending on player choice Benoit may be reduced to a cowering mess. Regardless, Benoit promises to buy a new hound to kill Clive - which thenkills him and his son. The game considers this to be Karmic Justice and both are particularly despicable, especially compared to other characters that realise their prejudice against Bearers is wrong.
• The Five Nights at Freddy's series revolves around a bunch of killer robots built for a pizzeria chain. You can't hate them because they are haunted by the spirits of murdered children, and therefore, their moral agency, along with their intentions, are not all clear. However, there are some humans whom you can hate:
  • Fazbear Entertainment Incorporated as a whole, or at least some of the more morally bankrupt people working there. The company gives you an extremely dangerous job without even warning you of the dangers, refuse to pay restitution if you are injured, hide your corpse if you get killed, underpay you, and eventually fire you while insulting your odor.
  • The Brother in the fourth game, is a nasty teen who bullies his younger brother to the point of tears. This includes scaring him with a mask, locking him in a room, leaving him behind at the restaurant — a place he knows his brother is terrified of — and locking him in the parts and storage room. To top it all off, he and his friends get his brother's head bitten by Fredbear as a prank on his birthday, which put him in a coma and has killed him. The robots in that game are just nightmares, so as a result, he is basically the only thing to hate in the game. At the very least he has the decency to apologize to his brother. The implication that he's Michael Afton does shed a slightly better light at him, however.
  • The Purple Guy/William Afton, the Greater-Scope Villain, Big Bad, and The Heavy of the franchise all at once. This guy is responsible for all the horror and tragedy that happens in the story. A sadistic and disgusting child murderer, William began everything when he murdered his business partner Henry's daughter Charlotte and lured five children into the back of the pizzeria with a Spring Bonnie springlock suit and murdered them too, causing the Puppet, who is possessed by Charlotte's soul, to resurrect the children and have their souls possess the animatronics in order to get revenge on their killer. For one reason or another, he dismantles the animatronics, only for it to backfire and their spirits to chase him into his springlock suit, which he is killed by. However, he comes back as the horrific Springtrap and, in the sixth installment, goes to the new pizzeria with the other animatronics to fuel his own bloodlust despite realising it's a trap. After surviving that, he corrupts an innocent woman to serve him, and it's certain he'll do way more crimes along the way. While he apparently once cared for his daughter Elizabeth and warned her not to play with Circus Baby, an animatronic he made for her as a present, it's clear he only wanted to make her into his successor, and he sheds no tears for his son Michael, whom he instead manipulates and abuses. And it's implied he killed a dog. At the end of the day, William Afton is nothing but a depraved and remorseless psychopath who killed children for a living.
  • The spin-off Five Nights at Freddy's World has Chica's Magic Rainbow, who, despite her limited screen time, demonstrates how this trope can be used well to create a truly insufferable character. Nearly all of her dialogue is annoying and mean, with most of her insults directed at the player for dying at her game — a game which is a Platform Hell, and is thus very easy to die in. It doesn't help that she, several times, attacks Chica herself, regardless of how good the player has been doing at her game, and that she ignores the Voices Off button and ends her game outright if you push it. Things get worse when she decides to replace Purplegeist, the intended final boss, and makes her boss fight as blatantly unfair as possible by unleashing a Zerg Rush of clones and being a Time-Limit Boss with three minutes before she overkills the party with her "Rainbow Cannon". It is quite satisfying, therefore, when, as she dies, she undergoes a breakdown and begins threatening to go after the player in real life.
• Freedom Planet's Big Bad Lord Brevon leaves quite an impression of letting us know that he was clearly meant to be despised the moment he throws in his Establishing Character Moment of beheading the King of Shuigang right in front of Prince Dail and then brainwashing Dail into his puppet. Several of the traits that define him include his refusal to accept that his actions are wrong, even when Torque throws his so-called "intent to ensure his homeworld's safety" right in his face, as well as cruelty, bigotedness, selfishness, sheer sadism, being a jerk himself in his own right, and a flair for committing acts so awful that they make players feel horrible, not to mention being monstrously horrific despite appearing in an otherwise-lighthearted game. Unsurprisingly, the players even started calling for his head when he committed such despicable acts as subjecting poor Lilac to a brutal combination of physical torture, Electric Torture, and breaking speeches, using Milla as a hostage to keep the heroines from retrieving the Kingdom Stone and then turning Milla into a monster and forcing them to fight her (after which they confront him in a rage with refusal to forgive him, which he simply replies to saying that he doesn't need forgiveness from people "putting his homeworld at risk for an oversized battery", as he describes the Kingdom Stone), and, in Milla's story, attempting to strangle her to death in a fit of seething rage. And worst of all, he's by far one of the most difficult bosses in the game. Interestingly, he's also the reason why the main antagonist of Freedom Planet 2, Merga, broke free from her crystal prison, due to the fact that the Kingdom Stone was destroyed in the process of his defeat.
• Speaking of Freedom Planet 2, Brevon is still despised and feared across Avalice, but since he's long since flown the coop, the title of "most hateable character" has passed to Serpentine, who remains as fanatically loyal to the warlord as ever, on top of continuing his campaign by stealing weapons from Shuigang, ravaging a jungle just to take back Syntax, hijacking Bakunawa with the knowing intent of devouring Avalice's moon for space fuel, and leveraging Milla's origins like a Sword of Damocles over her head. This in comparison to the aforementioned Merga, who is a ruthless and cunning water dragon centurion who watched her own people's genocide at the hands of the earth dragons and was sealed in said crystal prison before the one being that saw her as a person; Corazon Tea, who ravages Shang Tu's Avian Museum in Merga's name out of a misguided desire to save herself and Carol from certain doom; Aaa, the tarsier who further ravages the museum and destroys Lilac and Carol's treehouse because his scientific curiosity alienated him from the people he grew up around; Captain Kalaw, who sells out Mayor Zao and the heroes to Merga out of a misguided desire to be a real hero after merely playing as one in the Battlesphere; and the treasonous Sergeant Askal, who sells out Shang Tu to Merga and nearly knocks the Magister's block off due to outrage over the aforementioned genocide and the ongoing mistreatment of draconic half-breeds like himself. In a cast of villains with legitimately sympathetic motives, Serpentine stands out by not having one.
• The Berman Army of Fuga: Melodies of Steel is a ruthless force occupying Gasco and exploiting its people for forced labor, and Colonel General Shvein Hax is certainly bad to the bone, but he's at least spared from being this trope due to his charismatic personality and sheer ambition. The same can't be said for a couple of his subordinates:
  • Von Stollen and Von Baum are two old generals managing a frontline camp for the Berman forces, and while their time onscreen is brief, all of it portrays them as unflattering sadists who love to treat war as a game and rack up casualties and broken houses as a pastime, and it's clear that they couldn't care less about the soldiers under their command. And despite how they openly mock said soldiers for their alleged cowardice in the face of danger, they aren't even a credit to the Berman Empire's ideals themselves— after the Taranis defeats them, they squirm and relent, divulge to the kids the information they were demanding, and immediately afterwards run away never to be seen again.
  • Character designer Yusuke Tokitsu has confirmed that Doktor Blutwurst was fully intended with this trope in mind, especially given his larger role in the story compared to Von Stollen and Von Baum. To elaborate, he's a raving sadist using his experimentation on innocent Felineko as an opportunity to take out his grudge towards his own species, culminating in him draining them of their life energy for the Berman Empire's usage. Appropriately, the soldiers under his command are also explicitly shown as feeling uncomfortable with the mere act of being around him, and the children of the Taranis— who are usually portrayed as Reluctant Warriors who hate having to fight and kill enemy soldiers— find him enough of a monster to express no guilt or grief upon his death. While there is an in-game report unlocked after his defeat describing his supposed Freudian Excuse, it's intended moreso to humanize him rather than make him a more sympathetic figure, given how the same report explores an incident where he implicitly had a soldier killed for laughing at his Felineko heritage behind his back.
• Councilor Rawal in Geneforge 5 is the rare character that actively defies the series' Grey-and-Gray Morality and seems to have been made with the explicit intent of making the player want to get out of his control as fast as possible. He enslaves not just serviles but also humans, and you in fact start the game as one of his servants forced to do his dirty work or else die at the hands of the control tool implanted within you. Said dirty work entails undermining all the other members of the Shaper Council, partially out of ideological disagreement, but mostly so that Rawal can rise through its ranks. He has zero respect for the plight of the rebels nor for the laws of the Shapers as he regularly reShapes the player character and turns out to have built a Geneforge. His motives are almost entirely based on selfishly increasing his own influence to the detriment of the war efforts, and true enough, should the player stay by his side, they get a bad ending where the rebels successfully overthrow the weakened Shapers and kill both Rawal and the player.
• Genshin Impact:
  • The main antagonist of the Inazuma arc, the Raiden Shogun, is a sympathetic character who perpetuates the Vision Hunt Decree for heavily flawed but understandable reasons, and her most prominent enforcer, Kujou Sara, is a My Master, Right or Wrong sort with plenty of integrity. The same cannot be said for Kujou Takayuki, Sara's abusive adoptive father, who sold out his nation to the Fatui for purely selfish reasons by tricking the Shogun into enacting the Decree by feeding her false information, and who side quests and flavor text across the world paint as a Pointy-Haired Boss willing to throw other people under the bus out of ego or personal gain.
  • Similarly, the main Fatui antagonists of the Sumeru arc are Scaramouche (who has a Dark and Troubled Past Freudian Excuse) and Dottore (who is pure evil and could also be considered a Hate Sink, but is pretty charismatic in his evil). Because of this, the game draws your ire with the sages of the Akademiya, the Fatui's collaborators inside Sumeru, who have a whole heap of crimes (like keeping the kind god Nahida imprisoned) and act like arrogant academics who look down on the arts and perpetuate racist policies towards the people who live in the desert half of Sumeru.
  • Regarding the Fontaine arc, while the Fatui ends up becoming the Traveller's allies for that chapter, and the All-Devouring Narwhal, the overarching villain of that arc, acts too much like an animal to really hate, Marcel/Vacher, the culprit of the the serial disappearances of young women in Fontaine, acts as a villain that players can truly hate. While not completely without redeeming qualities, it's ultimately difficult to sympathize with him, as his crimes rather significantly outweigh them, in addition to how he never accepts any real blame for them.
  • Crucabena, the previous Knave, is a vile, abusive, and utterly repulsive bitch with absolutely no sympathetic qualities whatsoever. She was both physically and emotionally abusive to the point of the children under her care developing mental disorders such as "Loneliness Syndrome", with her worst acts being forcing the children to fight each other to the death, and sending any children who were too injured to be of use to her to Il Dottore as test subjects. Heck, even after she died, her fellow Fatui colleagues do not mourn her and instead promote her killer to her rank.
• Charlie Johnson from The Getaway was already hated in-universe before the plot of the game even starts because he was the drug lord of London. The game manual explains that he wants to go back to the glory days when he was one. It ends just as you would expect, only worse, because in order to force him to smuggle drugs and fight against the rival drug lords he kidnaps the son of the protagonist and kills his wife.
• God of War: Due to Kratos being an amoral Anti-Hero who nearly borders on being a Villain Protagonist, the game series provides many scumbags who are deserving of being beaten to a bloody pulp by Kratos.
  • Ares, the Greek god of war, is mainly despised for triggering the events of the entire series. He is mostly hated for tricking Kratos into killing his own wife and daughter and then completely getting away with it because he is a god, while Kratos gets the full punishment for the murders. He then tries to decimate the city of Athens out of spite for his sister Athena, but luckily, Kratos is there to give him his just desserts. None of the other gods are fond of him either and fully support Kratos when it comes to killing him, and when he does, nobody mourns for him; not even Hades mentions his death during his speech to Kratos.
  • Hermes from God of War III may not do anything particularly evil, but he makes up for it by being insufferably annoying. In addition to lacking the more sympathetic qualities of the other gods (particularly Hades), his tendency to repeat words over and over again and smugly taunt Kratos while running away makes players look forward to Kratos shutting him up by chopping off his legs every single time.
  • Castor from Ascension. He owns slaves whom he horribly mistreats and forces to build multiple statues of him. He even murders a slave just because the slave spoke when not asked to and for requesting food and rest for him and the other slaves.
  • In the fourth main game, we have Modi, younger brother of Magni and second son of Thor. Even though The Stranger aka Baldur is The Heavy, he ends up being too pathetic to completely hate, while Thor and Odin are both The Ghost. So in the meantime, we get this cowardly bully of a god who ends up being the reason Kratos's son, Atreus, ends up ill. Even Magni comes off as far more likable, since he's a Blood Knight with standards, who also at least dies honorably, albeit horrifically.
  • Almost every line from Heimdall in God of War Ragnarök is a cruel jab at somebody else's expense. He's arrogant (since his ability to read people's intentions instantly means he can never be hit), he bullies and attacks Atreus and Thrud while calling the latter a "half-breed", he mocks Freya over the loss of her dead son, and he kicks his mount when he's done riding it.
• The Prophet Hierarchs in Halo are all shown to display Jerkass behavior to even the most loyal of Covenant soldiers, leading the Covenant on a genocidal holy war against Humanity, replacing the Elite Honor Guard with Brutes, and ultimately attempting to genocide the Elites, which in turn causes the downfall of the Covenant itself. Notably, each of the three Hierarch has an IronicName. The Prophet of Regret is too arrogant, bloodthirsty, and power-hungry to regret anything. The Prophet of Mercy is the harshest of the three, most notably at Thel 'Vadamee (the soon to be Arbiter)'s trial. And then there's Truth, who is a Compulsive Liar, including but not limited to hiding the fact that the Covenant's gods, the Forerunners, had designated Humanity to be their heirs, which served as the very basis for the Human-Covenant war, and secretly ordering the Brutes to massacre the Elites as early as the events of Halo 3: ODST, which take place roughly two weeks before the Great Schism truly kicks off in Halo 2.
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice: Senua's father, Zynbel, was an Abusive Parent who burned her mother alive and sold out his own village to the Northmen just so they were spared while the villagers all get massacred. It's clear that he's not meant to be liked from the start.
• Horizon Zero Dawn:
  • While several of the Nora display blatant bigotry towards Aloy for being a motherless outcast, most are given redeeming qualities. Bast proves to be a brave warrior right before he's killed, and Matriarch Lansra goes from calling Aloy "it" and believing her a curse to hailing her as the Anointed of All-Mother (much to Aloy's chagrin). Resh, on the other hand, is not only spiteful towards Aloy, but when the Nora finally come to accept Aloy, he decides to leave the tribe altogether.
  • Ted Faro. Before getting recruited into the Zero Dawn project, he was the CEO of Faro Automated Solutions, a company that produced automated combat drones, and he deliberately helped start conflicts just so he could make a profit. But one day, he made a massive blunder that led to the extinction of life itself. Said blunder was building the Chariot line, a series of self-replicating, biomass-consuming war machines and not installing a backdoor in case of emergency. Guess what happened when the combat drones went from consuming biomass only in desperate situations to using them as their primary source of energy thanks to a glitch? Of course, that's just a case of outstanding negligence, and from what we see of humanity's culture at the time, if he hadn't made those combat drones, someone else very well would have; what really clinches Ted's status as a high-quality Hate Sink is what he did after his mistake. Namely, using an exploit to gain Omega level clearance into Zero Dawn, killing the ALPHA personnel, and deleting the APOLLO AI, the sum of all human knowledge. Ted justifies it by stating that humanity would be better off without that knowledge, considering it a "curse" that laid the groundwork for mankind's self-destruction, but it was his mistakes and misuse of this knowledge that led them into this catastrophe in the first place, and it's heavily implied that he didn't do it out of any grand ideal, but out of the desire to not have his deep, deep shame broadcast to future generations. And that, dear reader, is why the humans of Horizon Zero Dawn are stuck in a world full of robot animals that can easily kill them and have only just started advancing past Stone Age level technology.
  • Dodger "Dod" Blevins from the DLC was the security chief at the Firebreak project, a position he gained and kept solely because he was one of Faro's circle of bootlickers. A narcisistic egomaniac with a messiah complex, Blevins never even does anything that hurts Aloy, but is nevertheless an intensely unpleasant and hateable person. Among his list of asshole behavior is changing the access codes of Firebreak because he wanted to see his co-workers struggle, installing unmanned armed drones at a nature preserve out of his own messiah complex, getting anyone who speaks up to him fired then blacklisting them from the company to make sure they can never work there again (and considering that they work for the world's largest MegaCorp, that severely limited people's employment opportunities), and going on a joyride with an extremely polluting snowmobile in a fragile nature preserve a few years after a massive enviromental disaster. Despite not even doing anything outright malicious, it's still intensely satisfying to learn that he died due to a prank gone wrong.
• Asha from Iji is a despicable, arrogant showboat of a villain, the worst act he pulls being killing Iji's brother Dan without some serious Guide Dang It! knowledge on the player's part. Nobody in-universe likes Asha, and the game goes out of its way to make sure the player doesn't either.
• The inFAMOUS series gives us Shane. Appearing in First Light he forces Abigail "Fetch" Walker to do whatever he wants, by holding her brother hostage, and later attempts to kill them both despite Fetch already doing Shane's bidding. If that wasn't bad enough, he injects her with drugs that cause her to accidentally kill her own brother. Oh, and Shane doesn't even have any superpowers to detract from his despicableness or make him a cool villain and/or formidable threat like the Big Bads before him. All of these factors have made Shane very easy to hate and all the more satisfying to give a slow and painful death.
• The Joker gets saddled with this role in the narrative of Injustice: Gods Among Us and its sequel — the version from the Injustice-verse itself, at least. He's responsible for Superman's downfall by tricking him into killing his wife Lois Lane and destroying Metropolis with a nuke wired to her heart. As such, it becomes the catalyst for the Injustice-verse becoming a Crapsack World. Nobody cares about his death as they're happy he is finally Killed Off for Real, and even Batman and Harley Quinn refuse to indulge with him. His actions sicken villains who have more abstract goals like conquest and power, and his attempts at Black Comedy are deconstructed to reveal the psychotic brute he truly is. In particular, while Superman does terrible things after his Face–Heel Turn, he is portrayed as a Sympathetic Murderer due to the losses he suffered before becoming a bad guy.
  • Wonder Woman also get this in the sequel. She is a bloodthirsty person who is willing to kill anyone step on her or the Regime's way. Her actions as a member of the Regime have caused her to be hated by everyone other than Superman's followers. This includes the Amazons, who disowned her before the events of the game; Supergirl, who is appalled by Diana coldly deciding to let innocents die and voicing her desire kill Batman even as he's fighting by their side; Blue Beetle, who disheartedly admits he no longer admires her; and Batman, who blames her for preying on Superman's insecurities and enabling him to become a dictator.
• The Inpatient: The Police and their smug Captain are shown to be a corrupt squad trying to cover up the presence of the Wendigo as well as their murder of a nurse during a breakout. They spend the game hunting survivors and trying to kill them to prevent the truth from spreading. In the ending where the survivors escape, the Captain blackmails them into keeping quiet of the incident, threatening to send them back to the Sanitarium when exposure is threatened.
• Jade Empire has a few.
  • Gao the Lesser is an arrogant and aggressive bully who's hated by his fellow classmates at the Two Rivers School of martial arts, as well as virtually every townsperson he's spoken with. Feeling slighted that Master Li gives the Spirit Monk more attention, Gao challenges the Spirit Monk to a martial arts match and, upon being defeated tries to kill the Spirit Monk with fire magic, resulting in him being expelled. After learning about Master Li's identity as Sun Li, the Glorious Strategist, Gao leaks the informaton to his father before abducting Dawn Star, the girl he lusts after. He murders fellow student Si Pat while escaping Two Rivers and tries to kill the Spirit Monk when the latter comes to rescue Dawn Star. Gao's actions then result in his father and his Lotus Assassin allies invading Two Rivers, abducting Master Li and killing everyone else.
  • Kai Lan the Serpent is master of the Imperial Arena, as well as a high-ranking member of the organized crime syndicate known as the Guild. In the past, he'd recruited the Black Whirlwind's brother Raging Ox, then a champion of the guild, as his hired muscle, resulting in the Black Whirlwind killing Raging Ox during an attempt on Kai Lan's lie and Kai Lan resurrecting Raging Ox as the Ravager. He arranges for the death of arena fighter Crimson Khana for being in his way, then tries to recruit the Spirit Monk to help him seize power. After the Black Whirlwind interrupts the meeting, Kai Lan tries to have the Spirit Monk killed. As an arrogant and unscrupulous individual, Kai Lan has the rare honor of being an evil sidequest NPC who can't be sided with.
  • If the player seeks to join the Inquisitors, they must see to it that Judge Fang does not receive a report that would pose problems for the Lotus Assassins, and are encouraged to do so by discrediting or killing Fang or the minister delivering the report. Discrediting Fang is the Open Palm(i.e. good) option, since Fang is a Depraved Bisexual who abuses prostitutes. The only thing resembling a redeeming feature he has is that he considers the Lotus Assassins despicable, but is almost as bad as them himself.
• The Judgment series:
  • From Judgment:
    • Kaoru Ichinose is the Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Health, and easily one of the most hated characters in the cast. He's a Corrupt Politician who abused taxpayer money to build the Medical Institute and the Advanced Drug Development Center, which is little more than a cushy vacation spot for retired executives in the Ministry of Health and produced very little useful output. When his seat of power was being threatened with shutting down, he then bankrolled the development of the lethal AD-9 drug in order to keep the ADDC relevant, rather than out of a genuine desire to cure Alzheimer's Disease. In fact, he even exploited Chief Prosecutor Morita's family tragedy to get him on his side, showing that he has zero empathy for people affected by Alzheimer's Disease. And if that weren't enough, Ichinose has no hesitation to kill his own subordinates to stop them from turning against him, as shown when he has his subordinate order the death of the Mole to keep him from being used against him court. It's all the more satisfying to see him lose his smug self-importance during his trial as all his subordinates turn on him and testify against him in court, putting an end to his crimes for good.
    • Yoji Shono, the creator of the AD-9 drug. While he initially seems like a weak-willed man who's being pushed around by his superiors, it turns out that he started the whole conspiracy, and is absolutely obsessed with finding a cure for Alzheimer's Disease, no matter what the cost. Shono's actions were what kickstarted the plot when he'd illegally experimented on an elderly dementia patient, then framed Shinpei Okubo for his death, then after Yagami got Okubo acquitted, Shono framed him again by murdering Emi Terasawa, Okubo's girlfriend, which ultimately ruined Yagami's career as a lawyer. Not only was he willing to cross every moral line for the sake of the drug, but he was convinced that every crime he committed was all for "the Greater Good", including murdering an innocent woman, framing her boyfriend and getting him put on the death row for three years, and engaging in human experimentation on yakuza. Even more, he refused to let anyone else work on his drug, even when it was proven to be lethal for humans due to the toxins that were impossible to remove, having already convinced himself that he could remove them, despite his failed experiments proving otherwise. Fittingly, he gets a Karmic Death when he injects himself with AD-9 in an attempt to prove that it works, only to die from the lethal side effects he'd willfully ignored.
  • From Lost Judgment:
    • Hiro Mikoshiba was an unrepentant bully to Toshiro Ehara when they were students. He regularly stole his lunch money, then beat him up and belittled him whenever he couldn't pay, and he even crossed the line by breaking into Toshiro's house to steal the dinner money left for him. His actions eventually drove Toshiro to suicide, but he never faced any consequences due to his reputation as a model student. As a student teacher, Mikoshiba forced the students in the basketball club to perform needlessly rigorous exercises, then he singled out and encouraged the bullying of any student who fell behind, which was how Mami Koda became a target for bullies in her class. It was his actions that basically kicked off the events of the game, and they eventually came back to get the best of him when he got abducted, tortured, and brutally murdered by Toshiro's father.
    • Yui Mamiya seems like an innocent young woman who was the victim of a groping by Akihiro Ehara, but she's soon revealed to be a selfish and manipulative woman who was an accomplice to multiple cases of murder and took part in faking a sexual harassment case. And if that weren't enough, Mamiya also took part in bullying Mitsuru Kusumoto thirteen years ago, and she feels zero remorse for driving him to attempt suicide. In fact, she's more upset about being blackmailed into becoming a forced accomplice to Kuwana in his rampage against bullies, than she is for causing Mitsuru's near-death. It's hard to feel too sorry for Mamiya's plight, considering that she'd basically brought it upon herself through her cruelty in high school.
    • Shinya Kawai was a brutal bully who shamelessly tormented Mitsuru Kusumoto thirteen years ago, which ultimately drove him to attempt suicide and end up in a coma afterwards. While he wound up bearing the brunt of the blame and seemingly felt bad over his actions, it was only an act to get Reiko, Mitsuru's mother, off his case; in reality, Kawai felt zero remorse and even bragged about pushing Mitsuru to his suicide attempt to the locals of Kamurocho. It's hard to blame Reiko Kusumoto for brutally murdering him, and hardly anyone truly sheds a tear over Kawai's death after it's made clear how much of a scumbag he was.
• Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg: For all the moral ambiguity of the Second American Civil War, these individuals and groups within the American Union State are the worst of the worst.
  • William Dudley Pelley and his Silver Legion are easily the most despicable faction within the American Union State. If he seizes power from Long with the help of the Prohibition Party, Pelley will turn America into a white supremacist Christian fundamentalist nation through enforcing Jim Crow all across America and bringing back slavery. He also permanently cripples the American population by banning all vaccines, leaving large amounts of the population crippled by polio.
  • The War Powers Committee are little better, being a committee of businessmen seeking to enforce corporate dominance over America at the expense of the poor. During the Civil War, they back the American Union State, the Federal Government, and the Pacific States as a means of destroying the Combined Syndicates of America despite officially backing the American Union State. If they overthrow Huey Long using their frontman, General Van Horn Moseley, they will greatly empower the rich and American corporations while purging Combined Syndicates remnants, labour unions, and left wing activists, while barring immigrants suspected of Syndicalist leanings from immigrating to America.
• Cindy from Kindergarten is a controlling little brat and easily one of the most despicable characters in the cast. She goes through boyfriends like tissues and expects them to act as servants to her, even remarking on how "well trained" the protagonist is after he becomes her boyfriend in her route. She also takes delight in bullying other girls, especially by having her boyfriends put gum in their hair. She's especially ruthless towards Shrinking Violet Lily, whose brother Billy broke up with Cindy before the start of the game. Since he mysteriously disappeared soon afterwards, she's using Lily as a proxy for her revenge, to the point of bullying her into suicide at the end of her route. Her one redeeming feature is her love for her pet dog Biscuit, but that still pales in comparison to the horrible behaviour mentioned above, especially since Biscuit is, unbeknownst to her, dead due to the Ax-Crazy janitor using him for his "Biscuit Balls". Fortunately, the protagonist can give her the comeuppance she deserves by dumping a bucket of blood meant for Lily over her instead, causing her to run into traffic in a panic and get run over.
• Knights of the Old Republic has Xor, the villain of Juhani's personal quest. He gleefully participated in the genocide of Juhani's Cathar people, then went on to enslave any surviving Cathar female he could find. After murdering Juhani's father, resulting in Juhani's mother losing the will to live, and then tries to enslave Juhani herself. As a murderous racist with no redeeming characteristics, Xor is perhaps the most despicable character in the game.
• Atris in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is a hypocritical, Holier Than Thou Knight Templar who thinks she's the last "true" Jedi in the galaxy, and has an incredibly narrow view of the force, even by Jedi standards — to the point that she's fallen to the Dark Side without even realizing it. She's very smug during your conversations with her, blaming you for everything bad that's happened to the order in the past ten years — and the game gives you plenty of opportunities in these conversations to turn her accusations around and deliver a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
• L.A. Noire:
  • Roy Earle, Cole's partner in the Vice Desk, embodies the worst traits of the LAPD; he is a Dirty Cop who abuses his position as Vice Detective to further benefit him, such as stealing money meant to be evidence and taking bribes from criminals. He's also a racist and a misogynist, as well as an unpleasant Jerkass towards people in general. Even his superiors in the LAPD can't stand him, and frequently chew him out whenever he acts like his usual douchey self. Players are definitely bound to hate him even more when he outs Cole's affair with Elsa to the public, which leads to Cole's disgrace and demotion, and even more so when he suffers no repercussions. And to drive the final nail into the coffin, he is the one to deliver the eulogy at Cole's funeral under the pretense of being Cole's trusted friend despite selling him out.
  • Grosvenor McCaffrey is a person of interest in Cole Phelp's investigation of the murder of Evelyn Summers. Dishonorably discharged from the army for beating a woman to near-death, MacCaffrey became a writer and social activist championing for "the little guy". However, his supposed altruism merely serves to inflate his own ego, with him openly expressing disdain for the people whom he supposedly fought for. When Evelyn's boyfriend Tiernan comes to him in a drunken stupor, MacCaffrey tricks him into thinking he murdered her. Promising to help Tiernan cover it up, MacCaffrey instead rats him out to the police to save his own skin. When goaded by Phelps into an angry tirade when questioned about his dishonorable discharge, MacCaffrey blames the woman he assaulted for ruining his chance at becoming a war hero, as well as ranting that Evelyn deserved to die for taking his book. Though it's later revealed that MacCaffrey was among the many people framed by the Werewolf Killer, his smugness and a general disdain for everyone around him hardly makes him sympathetic.
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky: Georg Weissmann is so hated for his brainwashing of Joshua, his role in starting the 100 Days War, his self-righteous misanthropy, and his sadistic attitude towards others that many of his fellow Ouroboros members are disgusted by him. He tries to come off as polite and scholarly, which only serves to make him more unlikable whenever he gloats about manipulating and outmaneuvering your party for two whole games.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Sakon from Majora's Mask: Every other villain has a sympathetic origin, or a Pet the Dog moment, or a bit of nuance; even Majora has a moment (and is too incomprehensible to hate). Not Sakon, he's just a cowardly thief who screws people over for his own gain, from innocent old ladies to young couples in love.
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: Mila's father repeatedly forces guilt tripping dialogue on Link in the first half of the game (which will get on your nerves fast), is openly classist and racist towards Ritos, shows no gratitude towards Link, and doesn’t even pay you properly when you sell him Skull Necklaces; he underpays you and throws the money on the floor. He’s clearly meant to be hated by the player.
  • Yuga from A Link Between Worlds: Even by the standards of the franchise's villains, this guy is a piece of work. He is an utterly depraved, smug, cowardly, self-entitled asshole who will take any opportunity to inflict pain on anyone he meets, whether or not it's necessary for his mission. He ends up backstabbing Hilda and abandons any pretense of trying to save Lorule, declaring that he will instead reshape it and Hyrule in his own image. He relies on one main spell, runs away when Link gets the better of him, and ends up stealing all of Ganon's power for himself.
  • The Yiga Clan from the Breath of the Wild: Although Calamity Ganon is the Big Bad of the game, it is more of a force of nature rather than a character and the monsters it controls don't have any greater agenda beyond hunting and pillaging. As such, the fanatic Yiga Clan are the only enemies that players could truly hate, and they don't disappoint in that area if you partake a Shrine Sidequest involving the Sheikah Dorian. As it turns out, the Yiga Clan murdered Dorian's wife and threatened to do the same to his daughters, Koko and Cottla, if he didn't give up information about Link and Kakariko Village. The loss of Dorian's wife left emotional scars on the two daughters, and they would have lost their father as well had Link not given the Yiga executioner a well-deserved ass-kicking.
• The Legend of Tian-ding, set in Japan-occupied Taiwan in the 1900s, have it's sink being the first boss, "Piggy" Wang, a ruthless, greedy collaborator whose appearance screams "Fat Bastard!" a mile away. He's introduced barely a minute into the game using his cane to flog a civilian unable to pay rent while ordering his minion to haul his fat ass around, smugly boasts that he'll have the hero captured alive and tortured for getting in his way (only to flee while nearly wetting himself when confronted directly by Tian-ding) and is perfectly alright destroying the livelihoods of his own countrymen to fill his own pockets. The game even highlights his greed by revealing his mansion to contain a giant, golden statue of himself, built by the gold he had extorted from the citizens. In contrast, the rest of the villains are either Good All Along or Well-Intentioned Extremist(s); even the ruthless main antagonist, General Shimada, is more likeable for being intimidating alone.
• The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince: Despite never appearing onscreen, with their actions only being described by the narrator, the king and queen's abuse and negligence of their son put the plot in motion. When the Prince is accidentally attacked and scarred by the Wolf, the Prince's parents lock away their son in a tower, disgusted by his facial injuries. This makes the Wolf feel even more guilty, and the act of cruelty disgusts her so much that she makes her plans to heal the prince without considering or caring how the two will be affected by the heir to their kingdom mysteriously disappearing for a few days.
• Live A Live:
  • Odie O'Bright, the Arc Villain of the Present Day chapter, is easily the most repugnant of Odio's incarnations. He's a sadistic and remorseless Serial Killer who lacks any of the potentially likable or sympathetic traits of the other chapter villains. Justified, considering Odio wants to prove to Masaru that anyone can be no better than him.
  • Streibough, Oersted's friend in the Middle Ages, is revealed to have been insanely jealous of his friend's success as a knight and as Princess Alethea's fiancé, which leads him to trick Oersted into killing the King of Lucrece with an illusion and framing him as the Lord of Dark, turning the entire kingdom against him. He also turns Princess Alethea against him by making her think he never searched for her and he's the only one who actually cares for her, leading her to commit suicide after Oersted kills Streibough. His actions are what lead Oersted to become Odio, dooming all of Lucrece and several time periods, and when his spirit is found in Akira's dungeon, it seems like he might regret his actions, but ultimately just asks if he's really at fault, implying that he's not sorry for all the damage he caused, and ultimately does nothing but stand there and see what his spite has done. This is possibly justified (and invoked if you buy into Streibough being influenced by Odio) as the Lord of Dark wanted to show Oersted the worst possible example of humanity to turn him into his vessel.
• Loopmancer have it's Disc-One Final Boss, the triad boss Wei Long, who ruins the hero Xiang Zixu's life in the past when Zixu tries investigating him, by arranging for an "accident" that leaves Zixu's wife crippled and his daughter dead. Wei Long, besides escaping the authorities thanks to his lawyers, also spends the game's first half repeatedly taunting Zixu, threatening to make Zixu's wife suffer even further besides telling Zixu his daughter's death is his own damn fault. Making matters worse is the revelation of how Wei Long rose to power in the backstory, by colluding with a local MegaCorp and having an entire village massacred for Human Resources, all without a shred of remorse, and finally spending whatever remaining miserable seconds of his life after losing his penultimate boss battle to taunt Zixu over his family's predicament, which makes his Undignified Death borderline cathartic to watch.
• Lunarosse: The Illusion Master, really Dr. Dario Naumov, is the one who tricked the Anti Villains Corlia and Yliandra into waging war on each other. He is the psychologist of the real life Corlia/Yliandra who grew to hate her because she didn't reciprocate his feelings towards her and because he hated the small role she gave him in her story. This causes him to start wreaking havoc on the titular world of Lunarosse, the dream world Corlia made, in a spiteful attempt to hurt Corlia and Yliandra. He creates three avatars — Zevahn, Bellehan, and Naamari — to manipulate both sides of the war. He uses Noel's unrequited love for Channing to create the evil Gerard, and then uses him to fake Naamari's death to reignite war, then has him pin the murder on and repeatedly attack his friends, and at one point psychologically tortures the heroes with images of their friends insulting them, including insulting Noel for being gay, before forcing the heroes to kill Noel near the end. He also demonstrates his pettiness by blasting a soldier just for making a stupid comment and having billionaire Escobar killed when he wants to end their partnership. When his plans are revealed, he decides to destroy the whole world and rebuild it the way he wants it to be. A petty manipulator who wants to destroy Lunarosse out of pure selfishness, Dario Naumov contrasts Corlia and Yliandra with his lack of sympathetic qualities.
• Mad Max (2015): Scabrous Scrotus is a brutal wasteland warlord and the son of Immortan Joe. Introduced kicking his own dog to get it to attack Max, Scrotus also runs a substantial portion of the wasteland. Out of spite, Scrotus not only attacks Max after Max legitimately wins a race, and finally, decides to murder Max's new family, Hope and Glory, leaving Max lonely, insane, and dedicated to vengeance.
• Spider-Man (PS4): Scorpion is more vicious than his comic counterpart, being a sadistic psychopath even before obtaining his exosuit. Whereas the other members of the Sinister Six either have sympathetic backstories or some degree of charm, Scorpion not only cares nothing for his partners in crime but makes clear that his only goal is to torture and kill Spider-Man no matter what. It says a lot about the guy when even hallucinations of him are deeply unpleasant.
  • Screwball is an annoying, egocentric streamer who forces Spider-Man to undergo challenges that endanger people across the city, only caring about racking up views. She takes this to a particularly low level when she willingly endangers her own minions as part of a stunt.
  • Hammerhead is a cruel, vicious mobster who wants to take New York to the "good old days". To this end, he murders numerous cops and tries to drown several mobsters in concrete. A particular low point of his is when he robs international aid bound for Silver Sable's homeland as it is being ravaged by a civil war, caring only about gaining power and nothing else.
• Mass Effect:
  • Ambassador Donnel Udina serves as one throughout the trilogy, particularly in the first game, where he's a smug, obstructive bureaucrat who constantly second-guesses Shepard and is willing to sell them out at the first sign of it being politically convenient. Even after Shepard saves all life in the galaxy and possibly gets him elected Councilor, Udina's one brief scene in the second game has him being an Ungrateful Bastard who seems angry that Shepard's Back from the Dead. The third game is the only point where he becomes at all sympathetic, working hard to protect Earth from the newly arrived Reapers. Oddly enough, this one redeeming quality is what leads to him becoming a full villain, performing a Face–Heel Turn and joining Cerberus so he can murder the rest of the Council, claim ultimate power on the Citadel, and better help fight the Reapers on Earth. The ploy ends with either Shepard or the Virmire Survivor gunning him down.
  • Mass Effect 3:
    • The Illusive Man's Dragon, Kai Leng, is a Smug Snake who spends most of the game taunting Shepard and potentially killing off fan favorite characters. He's a racist, runs from every fight he doesn't have the advantage in but acts like he's an unstoppable badass, and is a perfect example of Evil Is Petty, going so far as to steal and eat Captain Anderson's cereal and send Commander Shepard a taunting message about the fall of Thessia and the death of millions. This makes the prompt where Shepard impales Kai Leng with his/her Omni-Blade, one of the most popular prompts in the series.
    • Dalatrass Linron exists for the sole purpose of being vilified for refusing to help the Krogan overcome the Genophage. Her status as a hated character, however, depends on the actions of the player, given the fact that the game has player choices enact consequences that make up the backbone of the story. In her case, Linron perceives the Krogan as a bigger threat than the Reapers, when in reality it's the other way around. She is revealed to be a Jerkass because she fears that the Krogan would spark another Krogan Rebellion against the galaxy if the Genophage is cured. However, her arguments against curing the Genophage are racist, condescending, abrasive, and arrogant, as she comes off as viewing the krogan as inferior to the Salarians. In most playthroughs she shows off this kind of behavior towards Shepard and calls them a bully even when they try to be as nice as they can be to her in the Paragon route. Her case can be justified in some playthroughs, but only under special circumstances (which means killing Urdnot Wrex on Virmire), as in those playthroughs, sparking a rebellion is what Wreav does after the Genophage is cured, making Linron's fears turn out to be true. In the more Paragon playthroughs where Wrex is spared, her actions towards Shepard in convincing them to not cure the Genophage would require them to do evil things such as lying to Wrex and faking a cure, and/or murdering Mordin. It's also implied that she wanted the Krogan driven to extinction, as in the playthrough where she gets her way, extinction is exactly what happens to the Krogan. Whatever outcome the player decides for the Krogan, it ends with the Dalatrass getting away with her behavior completely without any karma getting to her.
  • The Archon from Mass Effect: Andromeda, on top of what the kett are already saddled with, is a smug, sadistic, short-tempered loudmouth and their leader. He's not above killing underlings who either question him too much or don't seem dedicated enough, to the point of extending the authority to do so to two of his lieutenants. He later even betrays his fellow kett to increase his personal power, and in his final moments just wants to hurt everyone around him and get as much as he can for himself.
• Master Detective Archives: Rain Code:
  • The Heavy of the story, Yomi Hellsmile, is by far and away the most despicable person in Kanai Ward. He insults everyone he deems beneath him, tries to kill the Master Detectives with the flimsiest excuses possible, subjects his own employees to cruel and unusual punishments as soon as they fail him, and is directly responsible for turning Kanai Ward into a city full of crime and corruption. He is also indirectly responsible for causing Chief Yakou's death by giving him a map of Amaterasu's lap and info about Dr. Huesca's involvement with his wife's death so he'd kill the doctor and lead the Master Detectives into a trap and then kill them himself. It gets satisfying when Makoto and Martina arrested him for his crimes, freeing the remaining Master Detectives and all of Kanai Ward from his tyranny. For extra measure, by the words of Yomi's creator, he's "the disgusting guy of disgusting guys", so he is intentionally designed to be hated.
  • Icardi, the killer of Chapter 3, at first appears to be a loyal member of Shachi's resistance against the corrupt Amaterasu Corp, but is revealed to actually be a Mad Bomber who murdered Shachi and framed Yuma for terrorism. While his Mystery Phantom claims he did it for the sake of the resistance, when Yuma exposes the lies, Icardi admits that he grew sick of Shachi's idealism and saw fighting the Peacekeepers as a lost cause, so he decided to use the chaos he created to rob the banks and get out of Kanai Ward and has no qualms with framing Yuma to get him killed by the Peacekeepers. Yuma is noticeably outraged by Icardi's betrayal of Shachi to the point he has no problems exposing the truth with the Mystery Labyrinth despite knowing that this will kill Icardi.
• Mega Man:
  • Though nowhere near as heinous as future Mega Man antagonists, Lex Loath from The Misadventures of Tron Bonne is still notably cruel in his actions. Loaning one million Zenny to Tiesel Bonne, he sends his servant, Glyde, to harass the Bonnes while Tiesel is going on an expedition to repay his debt. Glyde interrupts Tiesel's journey, and kidnaps both him and Bon Bonne. When Tron Bonne gets enough money to repay Loath's debt, Loath drops a two million debt onto the Bonnes as interest, having Glyde rudely drag Tron and the Servbots out of his office. After the interest is paid off, Loath once again dismisses Tron as being short on funds, and has her jailed with her brothers, revealing that he has enslaved numerous Diggers who owed him money to work towards finding the Colossus, a Reaverbot that he intends to use to Take Over the World. Once the Colossus is defeated by the Servbots, Loath is leaft pathetically begging for mercy ala Dr. Wily as the Bonnes escape with his refractor. A greedy slave owner willing to resort to dirty tactics, Loath lives up to his name as a truly loathesume individual.
  • Dr. Weil from the Mega Man Zero series is one of the most despicable villains thus far, even one-upping Sigma (who had nearly destroyed the entire world in a Colony Drop just to try and restore Zero to his original murderous self and awaken his true potential) in his list of atrocities, and acting on nothing but petty revenge for a punishment he justly deserved and a desire to see all of human and reploidkind alike suffer under his rule. Players consider the moment at the end of Zero 4 when they finally get to take him out to be one of the most satisfying in the franchise, even if it does cost Zero his life, and even if Weil's death doesn't completely stick. On the other hand, Weil has also gotten respect from the fanbase for being one of the few recurring Mega Man villains to not succumb to Villain Decay.
  • Mega Man X: Command Mission: Silver Horn is the sadistic and arrogant operator of the Tianna POW Camp. Defying the Rebellion Army's good intentions for the Reploid species, Silver Horn tortures and murders any Reploids who refuse to join the Rebellion, including the famed hero Steel Massimo. Silver Horn rules over his camp with an iron fist and forces the navigator Nana to act as a sysop under the threat that he will execute all of the POWs if she doesn't comply. When confronted by the heroes, Silver Horn begins to gleefully torture Nana while gloating to Steel Massimo's successor all about how he dealt with his predecessor and adds that he believes the weak should serve the strong. Witnessing Silver Horn's arrogance and complete disregard for anyone's life but his own gives the new Massimo the courage to fight and the heroes put an end to the sadistic Reploid. A true Maverick, Silver Horn proved to be more loathsome than his well-intentioned boss Epsilon.
  • Sonia Strumm's manager Chrys Golds from the first Mega Man Star Force game is vile in a way that the FMians aren't. He may not be a manipulative genocidal alien, but he makes up for it by being an abusive, money-hungry scumbag who makes it clear that he doesn't give a damn about Sonia aside from the money she makes him, and will work her like a slave to squeeze every bit of Zenny he can out of her musical career. When he corners her after Geo tries to hide her, he threatens to sue her if she doesn't hold a concert she really doesn't want to do, and punches Geo for standing up to him. When she wave changes into Harp Note out of desperation, it's not surprising that she almost immediately attacks him as revenge for all the grief he's given her.
  • The second Mega Man Star Force game has Gerry Romero, the star of the Netopian TV show World Mysteries. While at first appearing to try and find proof of the Legendary Stock Ness Monster, Messie, and even enlisting Zack's aid due to him being the first to see Messie, it's revealed that Romero had faked the Messie sightings just to boost ratings and has been stringing along Zack for the sake of good publicity. When Zack discovers the truth, Romero locks him in a submarine to prevent him from revealing his hoax to anyone. Once he's given the power to Wave Change into Plesio Surf, he is willing to flood an entire village for the sake of ratings, and even gloats to Zack over how he used him from the beginning. A smug, self-absorbed, and manipulative sleazeball, Gerry Romero proves himself to be a nasty piece of work among the Arc Villains appearing in the game, and elicits no sympathy when Mega Man stops him and exposes his hoax, leaving him to be surrounded by the angry villagers as he's begging for the cameras to be turned off.
  • Mr. King from Mega Man Star Force 3 is up there with Dr. Weil as one of the most vile characters in the Mega Man mythos. Apperaing to the public as a benevolant philanthropist who donates funds to orphanages and other institutions through his King Foundation, in actuality, King leads the organization called Dealer and kidnaps several orphans and raises them to commit several heinous actions in his name. Stumbling across Meteor G while researching means of world dominance, King has two of his minions, Queen Tia and Jack, test Noise Cards to have Wizards go rampant and cause destruction, as well as farm the Crimson that results from their attacks. When Tia and Jack begin to show signs of defection, King does not attempt to realign the two back to him, instead manipulating his adopted children into serving him further despite his treatment. Mr. King ends up being such a cruel person that everyone in his organization turns out to not be loyal to him in the slightest, and even the person he thought was his closest ally, Heartless, turns on King and banishes him into a Noise Wave (though King is revealed to have survived, having turned himself into an EM Being). King's final act of villainy is to fuse with the core of Meteor G and become the Crimson Dragon, consuming Geo's father to get Geo to not fight against the Dragon's power. Despite being human himself, King sees himself above mankind and works towards the goal of conquering the world, resorting to its destruction if he cannot rule over it.
• Metal Gear:
  • Secretary of Defense Jim Houseman in Metal Gear Solid decides to nuke Shadow Moses to cover up evidence of Metal Gear, having Campbell arrested and charged with high treason before smugly telling Snake about his impending doom and being completely unconcerned about any scientists or soldiers caught in the blast. To cap it all off, he calls Solid and Liquid Snake "an embarassment from the 1970s".
  • Volgin of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. His first action is blowing up his allies with a nuclear bomb, for the hell of it. Despite being (relatively speaking) the Big Bad of the game, he's not the main antagonist — the game is much more interested in the relationship between Naked Snake and The Boss. Volgin simply serves as 1) a homage to and Affectionate Parody of James Bond villains, 2) a foil to The Boss, and 3) a form of catharsis before The Reveal. Volgin also stands out because if it hadn't been for the stunt he pulled with the nuke, the entire series would probably have never happened.
  • Huey Emmerich falls into this in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain by committing horrible act after horrible act and throwing away any sympathy he had in Peace Walker. His crimes: trying to put his son Hal (aka Otacon) into a robot when said son was still a child, killing Dr. Strangelove via Murder by Inaction when she objects to this, causing the events of Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain by betraying Mother Base to Skull Face, being partly responsible for the parasite outbreak, and being a Dirty Coward with a severe case of Never My Fault. Cruel Mercy is the only reason they let him live afterwards, perhaps to quickly justify how he would become estranged with his son as established in canon as the Big Boss saga is coming to an end in that game, and his manner of death was already set as told in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: drowning in grief after finding out that his new wife slept with Hal (who at the time was underage, making it statutory rape), while also (possibly purposefully) trying to take his stepdaughter Emma with him, instilling her hydrophobia.
• While Might and Magic usually has either so over-the-top villains that they avoid this trope or some Grey-and-Gray Morality in play so the eviler side still has some redeeming aspects, in X there is a secondary villain who is utterly despicable, namely Markus Wolf. This guy staged, as a member of the Black Guard, a coup against government of Karthal, imprisoning them underground near the entrance to Ker-thal. He then proclaimed himself Duke of the city. His cowardly nature shows when he abducts Ann Morgan, Jon Morgan's daughter, under whom you are working. When your party and Crag Hack (Jon's dad) with his pirates come to her rescue, he just flees with Ann and lets the guards fight you, and even threatens to kill Ann when he is cornered (though she thankfully uses the moment and flees). During actual battle, this weakling goes down in one hit. And if you don't kill him there, you will meet him later at Fort Laegaire, and if you free him, during the escape from the dungeon he backstabs Rosalie, the woman who was actively helping everyone, including him, to escape from the place, though thankfully Rosalie lives while this jerk dies falling on the rocks. Utterly pathetic man.
• Although Monster Hunter is a series where you fight mostly fictional animals, two of them are as close as you can get while having them stay as such:
  • Yian Garuga are known to pick fights with other monsters. Unlike most monsters, it's not even out of necessary eating and survival, but just because it can. One such victim is the Yian Kut-Ku, a much weaker Bird Wyvern that are unable to fight back, and the Yian Kut-Kus are something of an Ensemble Dark Horse due to their endearingly clumsy traits.
  • The Seltas Queen is actually more despicable, as while Yian Garuga can at least invoke Evil Is Cool, the Seltas Queen has more common hatable villain traits, such as cowardice and abusiveness. They abuse the normal Seltas while trying to save their own skin, then fleeing whenever they're in danger or even devouring the Seltas.
• Mortal Kombat: While the other evil kombatants such as Shang Tsung, Shao Kahn, Shinnok, Quan Chi, etc. are unpleasant to begin with, they all have their fair share of their hammy moments to the point where they qualify for the Evil Is Cool trope. Even the Joker can at least make the player laugh. But not Frost. While she is supposed to be unlikable, the hate towards her increased with the release of Mortal Kombat 11, as it's shown that her entitlement and arrogance has really gone up. It says something when even Shao Kahn of all people has been shown positive qualities where, in his own twisted way, he's shown care for Mileena, Kollector, and Skarlet, while Frost only sees herself as important and has no redeeming features mainly because she feels entitled being the Lin Kuei grandmaster. The fact that she even forcibly converted her ex-Lin Kuei comrades into Cyber Ninjas out of spite makes her even more unlikable. After her cyborgization, her ego has bloated to the point of demanding other kombatants give her control of their respective organizations in many pre-fight intros, but they all ignore it. Not that they're pleasant, but even villains (even the more monstrous ones) such as Kano, Noob Saibot, and even Kronika see her as nothing but a Psychopathic Womanchild. Notably, when she claims she'll lead the Lin Kuei into a new era, Noob responds that they are better off with his younger brother Kuai Liang — this is literally the only time he says anything positive about Sub-Zero in the entire game.
• Mother:
  • King Porky Minch and Fassad from Mother 3, being abusive and manipulative Fat Bastards, are much easier to hate than the Brainwashed and Crazy Masked Man Claus.
  • While Giegue of Mother: Cognitive Dissonance does order his henchmen to do some heinous stuff like attacking a village of innocent civilians, his tragic origins and his ultimate fate garners some sympathy. His minion Greyface however has none of those saving graces. When he isn't mocking the heroes, he's stealing the Apple Pieces the player worked so hard to get. The hate gets hammered home when on Mars, Greyface reprograms Larice to fight his friends, which nearly kills him, while he escapes from Mars. It's later revealed that Greyface's true identity is Porky, unsurprisingly.

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