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* ''[[Bug Fables]]'': While a vile piece of work himself, the Wasp King doesn't go out of his way to antagonize the good guys and is a pretty impersonal foe at the end of the day. The same does ''not'' go for [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|Mothiva]], Team Snakemouth's explorer rival. Despite acting the part of a friendly bubbly popstar, it's all an act for her fans. When she's out of the public eye, she's a rude and antagonistic pain in the ass who attacks Team Snakemouth twice in order to steal their glory. The second time is especially bad, since she's threatening to ruin important negotiations with another kingdom to help save the world and doesn't give a damn when [[The Big Guy|Kabbu]] tells her this. The one guy she's decent to is her partner Zasp, but that's because he's useful to have around. If he falls in battle first during Team Mothiva's boss fights, she's every bit as rude and bitchy to him as she is with everyone else.

* As befitting of one of the [[Darker and Edgier|darkest]] takes on the [[Batman]] universe, the ''Batman: Arkham'' series has quite a few nasty, despicable punks that will make you want to bash their skulls in with a Batarang.

** Unlike most incarnations who are classy, dignified, and possess ''something'' resembling a redeeming quality, the [[Adaptational Villainy|Arkhamverse's Penguin]] is a crude, classless thug of a man who milks every bit of screentime he has to make the player hate his guts. He's as cruel as the Joker but with none of his charm, and when he isn't horribly killing or torturing someone, he's usually screaming death threats at his men or smugly taunting a helpless victim he's about to do horrible, ''horrible'' things to. Thankfully he's also a [[Dirty Coward|huge coward]], which makes his freakouts when you turn the tables on him so deliciously satisfying. Ironically, he himself hates the Joker.

** Unlike most incarnations who are classy, dignified, and possess ''something'' resembling a redeeming quality, the [[Adaptational Villainy|Arkhamverse's Penguin]] is a crude, classless thug of a man who milks every bit of screentime he has to make the player hate his guts. He's as cruel as the Joker but with none of his charm, and when he isn't horribly killing or torturing someone, he's usually screaming death threats at his men or smugly taunting a helpless victim he's about to do horrible, ''horrible'' things to. Thankfully he's also a [[Dirty Coward|huge coward]], which makes his freakouts when you turn the tables on him so deliciously satisfying. Ironically, Copplepot himself hates the Joker.

** Fellow classic villain Riddler doesn't fare much better. Here, [[Smug Snake|he's an insufferable douchebag]] who won't ''shut the fuck up'' about how much smarter he is than everyone else, and constantly taunts and belittles Batman while he's collecting his trophies and solving his puzzles. And while it's satisfying as hell to make him freak out when you keep proving that he's not as smart as he thinks he is, his immature [[Sore Loser]] mentality makes him that much more obnoxious. Tellingly, most characters hate the guy as much as the player.

** Fellow classic villain Riddler doesn't fare much better. Here, [[Smug Snake|he's an insufferable douchebag]] who won't ''shut the fuck up'' about how much smarter he is than everyone else, and constantly taunts and belittles Batman while he's collecting his trophies and solving his puzzles. And while it's satisfying as hell to make him freak out when you keep proving that he's not as smart as he thinks he is, his immature [[Sore Loser]] mentality and tendency towards [[Rigged Riddle]]s makes him that much more obnoxious. Tellingly, most characters hate the guy as much as the player.

** [[Dirty Cop|Branden]] is the living embodiment of everything wrong with Gotham's police force before Commissioner Gordon cleans house. He and the cops loyal to him are corrupt bastards who are making underhanded deals with criminals and brutalize and arrest Gotham's homeless for no good reason. Meanwhile, Branden himself cheats on his wife and tries to have then-Captain Gordon killed in a prison riot he instigates. He's also an arrogant idiot who thinks he can go toe-to-toe with Batman, but luckily, the player gets quite a few moments to prove him wrong. [[Curb Stomp Battle|VERY wrong.]]

** [[Dirty Cop|Branden]] is the living embodiment of everything wrong with Gotham's police force before Commissioner Gordon cleans house. He and the cops loyal to him are corrupt bastards who are making underhanded deals with criminals and brutalize and arrest Gotham's homeless for no good reason. Meanwhile, Branden himself cheats on his wife and tries to have then-Captain Gordon killed in a prison riot he instigates. He's also an arrogant idiot who thinks he can go toe-to-toe with Batman - but luckily, the player gets quite a few moments to prove him wrong. [[Curb Stomp Battle|VERY wrong]].

** Like he did in [[Batman: The Animated Series]], [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Ferris Boyle]] picks up the always sympathetic [[Anti-Villain|Mr. Freeze's]] slack in being a villain you can root against in the ''Cold Cold Heart'' DLC of ''[[Batman: Arkham Origins]]''. Like in ''Heart of Ice'', he screws over the meek, kindly Victor Fries when he tries to save his wife and causes the accident that turns him into Mr. Freeze. ''Unlike'' in ''Heart of Ice'', he was ''helping'' Victor find a cure for Nora's condition provided that Victor help him make dangerous cryogenic weapons to sell on the black market, only to stab him in the back and kidnap Nora, calling her his property while leaving him to die. When he isn't putting up a [[Faux Affably Evil|friendly facade]], he's a classist blowhard who looks down on everyone around him, and cruelly tells Freeze that he'll force him to watch his wife die before killing him. [[Ungrateful Bastard|He even has the gall to try to kill Batman after he saves his life]], so try not to cheer too loud when the Caped Crusader punches his lights out.

** Like he did in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Ferris Boyle]] picks up the always sympathetic [[Anti-Villain|Mr. Freeze's]] slack in being a villain you can root against in the ''Cold Cold Heart'' DLC of ''[[Batman: Arkham Origins]]''. Like in ''Heart of Ice'', he screws over the meek, kindly Victor Fries when he tries to save his wife and causes the accident that turns him into Mr. Freeze. ''Unlike'' in ''Heart of Ice'', he was ''helping'' Victor find a cure for Nora's condition provided that Victor help him make dangerous cryogenic weapons to sell on the black market, only to stab him in the back and kidnap Nora, calling her his property while leaving him to die. When he isn't putting up a [[Faux Affably Evil|friendly facade]], he's a classist blowhard who looks down on everyone around him, and cruelly tells Freeze that he'll force him to watch his wife die before killing him. [[Ungrateful Bastard|He even has the gall to try to kill Batman after he saves his life]], so try not to cheer too loud when the Caped Crusader punches his lights out.

* ''[[Spider-Man (2018 video game)|Spider-Man ~~PS4's~~]]'' incarnation of the Sinister Six is mostly full of people with sympathetic, or at least understandable reasons for their horrible attack on Manhattan at the end of the game: Mr. Negative and {{spoiler|Doc Ock}} want revenge on Norman Osborn for screwing them over in the past, Rhino wants to be freed from his restrictive suit, and Vulture wants a cure for his cancer. And even though he selfishly wants to become a being of pure energy, you can't hate Electro since he's a funny guy willing to pal around with Vulture and ''quip back'' with Spidey. But [[Scary Scorpions|Scorpion?]] He's a [[Jerkass|sadistic, scummy little asshole]] who kills and tortures for the hell of it, and is incredibly rude and obnoxious towards Rhino during their boss fight. He's such a douche that Spider-Man is more than happy to trap him in a shipping container with Rhino, and let him be mercilessly beaten until the cops show up.

* The [[Playstation 4]] ''[[Spider-Man (2018 video game)|Spider-Man]]'' incarnation of the Sinister Six is mostly full of people with sympathetic, or at least understandable reasons for their horrible attack on Manhattan at the end of the game: Mr. Negative and {{spoiler|Doc Ock}} want revenge on Norman Osborn for screwing them over in the past, Rhino wants to be freed from his restrictive suit, and Vulture wants a cure for his cancer. And even though he selfishly wants to become a being of pure energy, you can't hate Electro since he's a funny guy willing to pal around with Vulture and ''quip back'' with Spidey. But [[Scary Scorpions|Scorpion?]] He's a [[Jerkass|sadistic, scummy little asshole]] who kills and tortures for the hell of it, and is incredibly rude and obnoxious towards Rhino during their boss fight. He's such a douche that Spider-Man is more than happy to trap him in a shipping container with Rhino, and let him be mercilessly beaten until the cops show up.

** In the DLC, the devs ''really'' wanted to make [[The Don|Hammerhead]] as much of a scumbag as possible. He has no redeeming qualities whatsoever and cares for nothing aside from power, and the lows he'll sink to get it include murdering a bunch of police officers just to terrorize and hurt one of them {{spoiler|until she snaps and gets kicked off the force after going on a murderous rampage}}, having the likable Silver Sable tortured, and even stealing aid to a foreign country, something that has ''nothing'' to do with his plans, just because he can. Unlike Mr. Negative and {{spoiler|Doctor Octopus}} who are pitiable in their defeats, the player's bound to feel great after taking down such a cruel, sadistic asshole.

** 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.

** 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.

* [[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.}}

* [[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.}}

* ''[[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.