"Seriously, I can't believe you just asked me that! OK, all right, fine! How about this reason? Seems as good as any. I do all the wonderful things I do because I want to see the miserable look on the faces of people like YOU when you're wallowing in despair, dismay, grief, frustration, misery...all sorts of other unpleasant nouns... I guess you could say I'm bored. At least misery is interesting."
You're really going to be glad when you defeat these characters in the limitless worlds and possibilities your Video Games hold... unless it's the rare occasion where you're playing as them.
Examples from Visual Novels can be found here and examples from Fan Games can be found here.
The following have their own pages
Examples
By Creator
- Artix Entertainment (DragonFable, AdventureQuest Worlds, AdventureQuest 3D)
- DC
- Disney
- Elephant Games
- Marvel
- Suda51
By Work
- 24
- Alien vs. Predator (includes the Alien and Predator franchises)
- Assassin's Creed
- Avatar: The Last Airbender (includes The Last Airbender)
- Battlefield
- BIONICLE
- Black Clover
- BloodRayne
- Breath of Fire
- Call of Cthulhu
- Call of Duty
- Castlevania
- Conan the Barbarian
- Cyberpunk
- Diablo
- Die Hard
- Digimon
- Doom
- Dragon Age
- Dragon Ball
- Dragon Quest
- Dungeons & Dragons
- The Elder Scrolls
- EXA_PICO
- Evil Dead
- Fallout
- Far Cry
- Final Fantasy
- Fire Emblem
- Fist of the North Star
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Ghostbusters
- G.I. Joe
- Goosebumps
- Game of Thrones
- Grand Theft Auto
- Gundam
- Harry Potter
- Herc-Xenaverse
- How to Train Your Dragon
- Indiana Jones
- Inuyasha
- James Bond
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Judge Dredd
- League of Legends
- The Legend of Zelda
- Like a Dragon (formerly known as Yakuza)
- Max Steel
- Mega Man
- Metal Gear
- Metroid
- Mortal Kombat
- The Mummy (includes The Scorpion King series)
- Naruto
- Nasuverse
- Ninja Gaiden
- Octopath Traveler
- Pathfinder
- Planet of the Apes
- Pokémon
- Power Rangers
- Ratchet & Clank
- Resident Evil
- RoboCop
- RuneScape
- RWBY
- Sherlock Holmes
- Shin Megami Tensei (includes Persona)
- Silent Hill
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- The Slender Man Mythos
- Spawn
- Spyro the Dragon (includes Skylanders)
- StarCraft
- Star Trek
- Star Wars
- Street Fighter
- Super Robot Wars
- Sword Art Online
- Tales Series
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Tolkien's Legendarium
- Tomb Raider
- Transformers
- Ultra Series
- The Walking Dead
- Warcraft
- Warhammer (includes Warhammer 40,000)
- The Witcher
- The Wolf Among Us
- The World of Darkness
- Xenoblade Chronicles
- XIII
- Ys
- Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Zorro