YMMV / Dark Romance

• Complete Monster:
  • Kingdom of Death:
    • Hades convinces Poseidon that they should kill their brother Zeus and take over the sky. After doing so, Hades plans to destroy the mortal world, knowing full well this will cause the Underworld to be destroyed too. Hades kidnaps his niece Persephone and proceeds to hold her hostage for Zeus so he can kill him when he attempts to rescue her. When her fiancé Elias attempts to rescue her, Hades attempts to kill him, eventually deciding to make Persephone watch as he kills her love right in front of her. It's also revealed that he caused Melentius to be condemned to suffer torture in the Underworld for giving a golden apple to a mortal by posing as a dying old man.
    • Poseidon willingly helps Hades in his scheme to murder their brother on the promise of being allowed to rule the sky along with Hades rather than the sea. Remaining completely apathetic to Hades's plan to destroy the mortal world and subsequently the Underworld, Poseidon does everything he can to stop Elias from rescuing Persephone, even attacking him and a woman named Merope when they attempt to reach the Underworld via ship, possibly killing the latter in this attack. After Hades has been defeated, Poseidon makes one final attempt to stop Persephone and Elias from escaping the Underworld, attacking them as they leave.
  • Curse of Bluebeard: This game's incarnation of Bluebeard, real name Alaister, is far worse than his already monstrous literary counterpart. Having murdered his aunt to get her estate, Bluebeard was cursed by her so that any children of his would become monsters. Bluebeard began forcing women into marriage with him, bribing the crooked prison officials to keep any fiancés they already had locked in the town prison to starve to death. When the women bore him monstrous children, Bluebeard killed them and started using his monstrous but still benevolent sons for experiments, draining them of blood to increase his magic. After their deaths, his aunt and wives were forced to room the castle as ghosts, unable to pass on. Forcing another woman named Rachel into marriage, Bluebeard has her fiancé Richard imprisoned and leaves him to starve to death, while announcing that anyone who does not attend his wedding will be executed. When Richard escapes and tries to help Rachel get away, Bluebeard attempts to kill them both, spitefully trying to cast a spell to make Rachel forget about Richard before killing her so that Richard will die knowing his beloved forgot about him.
  • Hunchback of Notre-Dame: Frollo was born a deformed hunchback and used dark magic to steal the lifeforce of a baby Quasimodo, causing the latter to grow up deformed and ridiculed by society. Frollo proceeded to try and drain the youth of various women he married, killing or imprisoning them when his attempts failed. He rescued Quasimodo from public shaming to trick the latter into becoming his servant, making him rob people and commit crimes for him. Eventually, Frollo sets his sites on the gypsy Esmeralda, planning to use her to gain eternal youth. It's revealed that Frollo ordered Quasimodo to be executed when he learned the truth, and he also tries to execute his new captain when said captain discovers his secrets. When his plan to gain eternal youth is foiled, Frollo simply tries to kill Esmeralda, Quasimodo and his captain out of spite.
  • The Ethereal Gardens: Augustina was the sister of the evil queen Henrietta, and waged war with her sister in an attempt to conquer the kingdoms for herself. Sealed in a mirror by her sister, Augustina was freed after Henrietta was killed by her son, Prince Liam. Instead of being grateful for being freed, Augustina vowed to make her nephew pay for what his mother did to her. Many years later, Augustina froze everyone in the kingdom apart from the daughters of Liam and Celeste, kidnapping the younger sister, Bethany, to brainwash her into helping Augustina freeze and conquer the neighboring kingdoms, eventually planning to freeze the whole world. When the elder sister attempts to rescue Bethany, Augustina has the brainwashed Bethany attempt to kill her sister. When the elder sister manages to free Bethany from Augustina's control, Augustina decides to simply kill her grandnieces and conquer the world herself.