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* {{spoiler|Hades}} from [[Kid Icarus Uprising (Video Game)|Kid Icarus Uprising]] can be considered this. For one, {{spoiler|he tricked the humans into killing each other to increase his Underworld army troops, taking their souls to make more soldiers. He took so many souls that he was able to resurrect Medusa and made a copy of her ''just to use as a distraction for Pit and Palutena'' while his troops continued to attack the humans to gain more souls for his army. Hades was also so powerful that he managed to outright destroy BOTH sacred treasures when battling Pit. If not for Medusa interfering in their final confrontation, there's no doubt that Hades would've killed Pit for sure.}}
* Jericho Swain of ''[[League of Legends]]''. Sure he may look like a hobbling cripple with a cane, but this guy is ''in'' the League of Legends and therefore automatically [[Badass]], and has done such magnificent things as somehow convincing his superiors to TAKE A DEMOTION SO HE COULD COMMAND THEM. An entire plotline in lore which involved the creation of Dominion, at least one new champion, Damacia and Noxus working together, and several Journals of Justice turned out to be all part of Swain's plan to take over Noxus, which succeeded before anyone truly realized, and once they did, they simply said that's fair. He got a new skin out of it too, Tyrant Swain, which makes him look like he should be the [[Final Boss]], that is if League Of Legends were that kind of game.
* While not common, ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'' has a few of these among Lan and MegaMan.EXE's rouges gallery.
** [[I Have Many Names|Dark/Dusk]] and his Net Navi [[Casting a Shadow|ShadowMan.EXE]] are [[Psycho for Hire|professional assassins]], [[Ninja|deadly ninjas]], and some of the most competent villains in the series. Whether it's successfully buying time for their employer to resurrect a dangerous Virus, taking an entire country offline through Navi genocide, infiltrating a government supercomputer through carefully-planned diversion tactics, or leading Lan and MegaMan on a wild goose chase as part of a [[Trickster Mentor]] routine, these two always manage to be a serious thorn in the heroic duo's sides whenever they show up. And even better? Unlike most villains in the series, they ''aren't'' completely helpless when they lose Netbattles to a 10 year old and are serial [[Karma Houdinis]] as a result. And as ruthless and greedy as they are, they're still surprisingly civil, dependable, and even honorable in their own way so long as you pay their fee.
** [[Anti-Villain|While far from a bastard]], {{spoiler|Zero.EXE}} is still a dangerous virus responsible for turning Net Navis into brainwashed berserkers in ''Network Transmission''. [[Noble Demon|An honorable and polite warrior]], {{spoiler|Zero}} puts up an excellent fight against Lan and MegaMan when they corner him, and accepts his defeat with dignity upon losing. But if you find a certain [[MacGuffin]] before his boss fight, {{spoiler|he not only survives, but truly becomes an example of this trope by helping defeat [[Big Bad|The Professor]]. After destroying the Life Virus R, he tracks his location through remnants of the Zero Virus and leads the police directly to his doorstep, cutting his plans to create yet ''another'' Life Virus short and totally humiliating the [[Smug Snake|smug idiot]] in the process}}. Even better, {{spoiler|he manages to throw the Professor's sadistic taunting right back in his face}}!
{{quote|"What is it you say in a situation like this? Ah yes, [[Ironic Echo|'Is that despair I see?']]"}}
** While he's a lot more of a minor example, the nameless [[Cool Shades|shades-wearing thug]] who steals Lan's battle chips in the second game's Netopia scenario has an admittedly clever con going on: posing as a friendly taxi driver, he tricks foreigners into letting him drive them around town for free, only to violently coerce them into handing over their chips once he locks them in his car. It's noted by an NPC that this is a ''very'' successful grift, and you don't even get to bring him to justice. [[Karma Houdini|Lan's forced to go after the lady he sold his chips to while the man himself rides off into the sunset.]] Not bad, nameless NPC. Not bad...
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