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** Screwball also graduates from goofy one-shot side villain to this in the same DLC. Not only is she an obnoxious blabbermouth who's forcing Spidey to participate in dangerous, stressful challenges for livestream views, but she's more than happy to mock and insult him for doing a less-than-perfect job. And on top of that, she's annoyingly untouchable and keeps slipping through Spidey's fingers despite her general stupidity, and even capturing her at the end of ''Silver Lining'' feels like a hollow victory at best.

** Unlike the Tinkerer - who is at least ''supposed'' to be sympathetic ([[Unintentionally Unsympathetic|with mixed results]], but still) - Simon Krieger's designed to attract all the player's bile during the main campaign of ''[[Spider-Man: Miles Morales]]''. He's a smug, sociopathic blowhard and textbook corporate douchebag willing to allow his dangerous new energy resource to poison the citizens of Harlem with the justification that no one will care about the deaths of sick people in a bad part of town. [[Bad Boss|His own mercenaries are treated with the same kind of disdain]], and he's more than happy to screw over anyone who works with him if he can benefit from it in some way. His creepy willingness to torture and dissect the teenage Miles don't win him any likability points either.

* The fourth ''[[God of War]]'' game doesn't have a [[Big Bad]] per se, and since most of [[Jerkass Gods|the Norse Gods]] don't appear in this game and [[The Heavy]] {{spoiler|The Stranger/Baldur}} is [[Jerkass Woobie|surprisingly]] [[Tragic Villain|sympathetic]], there's Thor's son Modi to take up the mantle. Unlike his brother Magni (who at least has ''some'' standards and decency), Modi's a cowardly thug who constantly throws out misogynistic taunts about Kratos' late wife, as well as some seriously ''creepy'' comments about his young son Atreus that have heavy pedophilic undertones to them. Any fathers playing the game will absolutely want to bash the little creep's skull in out of sympathy for Kratos.

* The fourth ''[[God of War]]'' game doesn't have a [[Big Bad]] per se, and since most of [[Jerkass Gods|the Norse Gods]] don't appear in this game and [[The Heavy]] {{spoiler|The Stranger/Baldur}} is [[Jerkass Woobie|surprisingly]] [[Tragic Villain|sympathetic]], there's Thor's son Modi to take up the mantle. Unlike his brother Magni (who at least has ''some'' [[Even Evil Has Standards|standards]] and [[Noble Demon|decency]]), Modi's a [[Dirty Coward|cowardly thug]] who constantly throws out misogynistic taunts about Kratos' late wife, as well as some seriously ''creepy'' comments about his young son Atreus that have heavy pedophilic undertones to them. Any fathers playing the game will absolutely want to bash the little creep's skull in out of sympathy for Kratos.

** The very next game, ''[[God of War: Ragnarok]]'' has two examples of this trope. Heimdall takes a page out of Hermes' book by being a smarmy, condescending pain in the ass with superspeed, and he can't go a ''sentence'' without insulting and belittling the people around him. He's especially cruel to Atreus, who he gladly beats up and sneers at for being half-giant. [[Faux Affably Evil|Odin seems a lot nicer on the surface]], but when he shows his true colors he's every bit the cruel madman Mimir warned us about all the way back in the previous game. And he's not only a treacherous, genocidal [[Manipulative Bastard]], but he's a nasty [[Abusive Parent]] who ruined the lives of his children and treats Thor like a dumb animal he can push around for fun. {{spoiler|And when he kills Thor for standing up to him, he refuses to take responsibility and has the ''audacity'' to [[Never My Fault|pin the blame on him for "making" him do it.]]}}

* [[Villain Has A Point|He may have valid points in being so harsh towards the depraved outlaws that plague the old West]], but Pinkerton Detective Edgar Ross from ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' is clearly designed to be so utterly unlikable that it's impossible to even remotely agree with him despite this. He's already a big enough creep for holding former outlaw John Marston's family hostage and blackmailing him into killing the remnants of his old gang for him, acting like a smug little prick every step of the way. But when he releases Abigail and young Jack, he {{spoiler|betrays him and leads a platoon to John's home and shoots him dead, grinning smugly during his last moments.}} [[Glory Hound|He even goes on to claim that ''he'' was the one responsible for taking out the remnants of the Van der Linde gang]]... but unfortunately for him (and fortunately for us), he never stopped to consider that [[Dramatic Irony|the consequences of his own crimes would come back to haunt him they way they did with John Marston]], and {{spoiler|John's son Jack kills his smug ass in a duel three years later}}.

** Micah Bell from [[Red Dead Redemption 2|the sequel]] not only eclipses Ross in sheer loathsomeness, but has made his mark as one of the most hated villains in video game ''history'', to the point that there's an entire [https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckMIcah/ subreddit] dedicated to hating him (with even his voice actor joining in!). Every ounce of hate he gets is completely warranted: he's a sadistic mass-murdering asshole, kicks and later on ''kills'' Jack's dog Cain, is openly racist and heavily implied to be a rapist, {{spoiler|sells out the rest of the Van Der Linde gang to the Pinkertons}}, and depending on your playstyle, {{spoiler|kills the lovable Arthur Morgan.}} Thankfully, {{spoiler|his fate is similar to that of Ross's, as you end the game by playing as John Marston, who hunts him down and kills him for his betrayal.}}