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 * The Emperor - In both Final Fantasy II and Dissidia, his characterization and deeds align with the trope's criteria. He's sufficiently heinous by the standards of the work, treated seriously and despised by other characters, has no Freudian Excuse, and is devoid of redeeming qualities. When even his "good" half is a domination obsessed tyrant, you know the guy is pure evil at his very core.


 * Dr. Lugae - He's very much the predecessor for Hojo in terms of committing deplorable and heinous scientific atrocities with no remorse and no redeeming features. In The After Years the heroes give an Alas, Poor Villain response to his death and Porom has a line about sensing "the regret in his heart" but this "regret" felt after they've killed him and he's already dead, and we are never shown the man himself expressing one iota of regret for anything on-screen.


 * ExDeath - An argument could be made that he's Made of Evil, but he's depicted in game as being less that and more an entity born from evil as an extension of the evil tree. To quote Mewtwo, "the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are." ExDeath had life and he chose to bring death to others instead, reveling in his evil the whole way through. He has no redeeming features and his deeds go beyond the pail by the standards of the work and the series. (Note that Neo-ExDeath and ExDeath's Dissidia incarnation do not qualify.)


 * JENOVA - We seemingly don't know much about her, but we actually know what she's like and what she does through Sephiroth's character in the present day plot. While Sephiroth's mind and will were still his own, he inherited JENOVA's moral agency, knowledge, power, and desire to consume the planet and all it's energy, become a god, and seek out universal domination. In essence Sephiroth is JENOVA's rebirth, and while Sephiroth himself can't really qualify for this trope due to a solid Freudian Excuse and having humanity that got salvaged through his remnants, JENOVA is a valid contender.


 * President Shinra - While he might seem to be left behind in heinousness by Hojo and Sephiroth/JENOVA, we have to remember that he's responsible for Hojo working at Shinra, meaning he enabled most of Hojo's horrific actions to begin with, including everything to do with JENOVA and Sephiroth. He also dedicated his company to sucking the life out of the planet just to make profitable Mako energy based appliances, is responsible for turning Midgar into a Crapsack City, had a populated Sector 7 completely leveled just to pin the blame on his enemies and gain public support (then refusing to make any effort to rebuild the sector!), had Aerith abducted and handed over to Hojo for his experiments, planned to steal energy from the Promised Land in order to create his Neo Midgar Empire, and brought his son up horribly. He's played seriously, hated by other characters, and beneath his Affably Evil demeanor he has no redeeming qualities, believing that all that truly matters is money and power.


 * Barthandelus - He's characterized as a loathsome piece of work with no mitigating qualities, is a Knight Templar who plans on doing a terrible thing that he only believes is justified due to his own self-centered reasons, lacks an adequate Freudian Excuse, is reviled by others, expresses zero remorse for his crimes, and is beyond redemption in the end.