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* In ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'', the evil Team Rocket organization only turns up three times and hardly drive the plot, and end up hardly detestable as a result. However, the story features ''many'' encounters with your rude, thieving, Pokemon-abusing, borderline-sociopathic rival, who is ''much'' easier to hate. Until he finally undergoes [[Character Development]], that is.

** Your rival in ''Red/Blue'' might count. He's not evil in any sense, but he's a rude, annoying braggart, always one upping you and WILL make you want to beat his face in. He gets better at the end of the game, though.

** While the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Pokémon X and Y]]'' has a sympathetic backstory and does show regret over having to kill all the innocent Pokémon in the crossfire of his plan to wipeout mankind, most of his Grunts as a whole make up for his likability. While comedic, they're so smug, boorish, and delighted at the thought of wiping out all the people that they deem inferior that it's satisfying to watch them freak out after beating them in a Pokémon battle.

* ''[[Final Fantasy X]]''. As it's rather hard to develop much hatred for a giant, emotionless crustacean regardless of how many people it kills (and even harder to keep coming up with excuses to wind up in the ocean having boss fights with it), 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 {{spoiler|after you kill him and he just keeps creating ever more elaborate boss forms for himself.}}

* ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'' is unusual for the Resident Evil series (along with Resident Evil 3) for not featuring Albert Wesker, since at the time he was thought to be deceased after the Tyrant impaled him in the chest (and even if he were, one could argue he's [[Evil Is Cool|too cool]] to qualify for this trope). The main antagonist of the game, William Birkin, though responsible for Raccoon City being infected with the T-Virus (which inevitably leads to a nuke destroying the city when the zombies grow too numerous for even the military to handle), was shown to [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones|love his family]] and was simply trying to recover the G-Virus, his life's work, from Umbrella before leaving the company. So whose left to hate? None other than Brian Irons, the corrupt police chief who not only was responsible for keeping STARS from revealing the truth about Umbrella (even though both STARS and BRAVO were devastated by the creatures that they had created), but was also taking bribes from Umbrella, is [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|violently aggressive]] towards women, prevents survivors from escaping Raccoon City (including his own men who he shoots when he believes that he is infected with the T-Virus), and last but not least, kidnaps the mayor's daughter and kills her so that he can stuff her as a trophy.

** 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.

** 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.}}

* ''[[Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time]]'' has [[Evil Brit|the Twin Tropys]], who take caring about absolutely no one other than themselves to the point where their main evil plan is "destroy our entire universe and then rebuild it so that it will be exactly how we want it to be (in other words, make ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' itself no longer exist) while committing [[Screw Yourself|selfcest]] in the process". In fact, [[Even Evil Has Standards|Neo Cortex himself utterly despises them]], [[A Worldwide Punomenon|as does]] ''[[Crash Team Racing]]'''s Nitros Oxide after incredibly-abusively being forced to work with/for the two of them.

 

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