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* Izanami, a Japanese goddess and the true final boss of [[Persona 4]], manages to cause shockwaves through a sleepy Japanese town when she creates an alternate reality that mirrors the desires of humanity and then gives three people (one [[The Hero|good]], one [[Tragic Hero|good but misguided]], and one [[Complete Monster|evil]]) the power to enter. In two of the three endings, it isn't even revealed that she's behind everything. Disguising herself as the [[King Incognito|friendly local gas station attendant]], she then watches events unfold [[Utopia Justifies the Means|to ascertain what kind of new world she will build for humanity.]] Without the intervention of her husband and a [[Combined Energy Attack|massive application]] of [[The Power of Friendship]], she would have gotten away with it, too. Instead, she [[Graceful Loser|fades away gracefully]] and leaves mankind to their own devices...[[My Death Is Just the Beginning|which may have been part of her plan in the first place.]]

* In ''[[Alpha Protocol]]'', {{spoiler|''Mike Thorton himself''}} can become one of these if you play your cards right, build up your contacts, and manipulate your opponents correctly, effectively allowing {{spoiler|Mike}} to [[Take Over the World]].

* ''[[Last Scenario]]'' has three:

** First is Augustus, who {{spoiler|effortlessly manipulated Felgorn to murder the Emperor so that [[Spoiled Brat]] Helga could take over, then let her run the Empire into the ground so that when he covertly assasinated ''her'', everyone would rejoice and appoint ''him'' Emperor. And when Felgorn finally wises up and turns on him, Augustus ''allows him to kill him'', stating in his dying breath that he was content and that, in a way, he had already won.}}

* Hades from ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising|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.}}

* Dark Lord Ninetails from ''Okami''. While he does have a [[Smug Snake|ridiculously inflated sense of self-importance]], he's still quite the crafty schemer as he was able to {{spoiler| successfully impersonate the dead priestess Rao (Who he had killed himself) and successfully tricked Amaterasu and Issun into giving him the Fox Rods, which were a set of artifacts that would boost his powers exponentially. And in order to cover his tracks, he murdered Queen Himiko, who was the only person who'd be able to successfully get Amaterasu and Issun to his lair of Oni Island before it changed it's location (It does this daily). If it wasn't for the fact that Queen Otohime was able to help out in the nick of time, his conquest of the Ryoshima Coast would have been completely successful.}}

* 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.

* Tyber Zann in the ''Forces of Corruption'' Expansion Pack to ''[[Star Wars]]: Empire at War''. What else do you expect from Grand Admiral Thrawn's most capable student at the academy, before Thrawn had him expelled for stealing weapons. The expansion describes how Zann carves out a criminal empire (the Zann Consorcium) that rivals that of Jabba the Hutt and manipulates Thrawn himself into executing Xizor, the leader of a rival syndicate, for him. While Thrawn is able to outwit Zann at least once by bribing a mercenary in Zann's employ, Zann comes out on top in that battle, forcing Thrawn to flee. At the end of the campaign, Zann plays the Empire and the Rebellion against one another while he moves in to capture the most powerful ship in the Empire's arsenal (as far as he knows at the time), turning its powerful weapons against both fleets. For the record, the part where Thrawn is able to outwit Zann by bribing Bossk into giving him Zann's holocron was also planned by Zann. Zann planted a homing beacon on the artifact to lead him to his true goal - the Imperial Archives. Thrawn firmly believed that the fleet he left to defeat Zann would easily win. Zann surprised him by bring out his newest Aggressor-class Star Destroyers and obliterating the fleet.