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** And, surprisingly, she finds herself outsmarted by {{spoiler|Dmitrii Blinov, who turned out to have feigned defeat earlier just so he could obtain the same ability as Soma Cruz. Upon realizing this, she takes back what she said to Soma and leaves for the Abyss with him... only to be sacrificed by him later. If it weren't for Dmitrii succumbing to the Power of Dominance and creating in his place the [[Final Boss]] Menace, Celia's efforts wouldn't have been for naught}}.

** Skantarios from the "I Am Skantarios" after action report. The player role plays a ruthless conqueror so well that you rather wonder about him.

* ''Chronicles of Tsufanubra'': [[Dark Messiah|Veryl]] manipulates everyone in the game like fiddles. As the "savior" of the Kjrn he seeks to end the [[Fantastic Racism]] doing anything to achieve it. He raises Celes to be the new goddess so he could have her as a part of his ambitions as a god. He also manipulates Vladimir to help him, sending him to Celes' group when he doesn't need him before annihilating the kingdom. Revealing his desire to become god and save his kind he gives Celes a chance to join her before dying in the battle with her group fighting for his race.

* Magus of ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' was once Janus, prince of the Kingdom of Zeal in Antiquity, until Lavos destroyed the kingdom and sent Janus forward in time to the Middle Ages. There, choosing the name Magus, he became the leader of the non-humans, deceiving them and declaring war on the Kingdom of Guardia. By doing so, he sought to gain enough power to summon and kill Lavos. When Crono and the party disrupt this plan, Magus is sent back in time to the Kingdom of Zeal before Lavos destroyed it. Disguising himself as a Prophet, Magus used his knowledge of history to gain the favour of Queen Zeal, positioning himself to kill Lavos when it surfaces. When this fails, Magus can be recruited as a Party Member, recognising he cannot kill Lavos himself. If recruited, he leaves the party to try to find his missing sister. Selfish and never truly turning good, Magus was nevertheless a brilliant, powerful and determined sorcerer that defied the [[Evil Overlord]] archetype with [[Hidden Depths]].

* Trilby from the ''[[Chzo Mythos]]'' series counts as this, as summed up in the final scene of the short story spin off by game creator Yahtzee, 'Trilby and the Ghost' when he tricks a ghost into stepping into a chalk circle that will exorcise him: "'You're a devious bastard, Trilby.' Claire said. 'I guess that's why they called me.'" Also seen in the games, especially when he tricks the other characters at the end of 5 Days a Stranger into thinking that he was burnt to death in a fire to avoid being captured by police.

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* The first ''[[Dawn of War]]'' campaign has Sindri Myr. Causing an entire planet to descend into slaughter and madness was merely a ''sideshow'' to his manipulations of Bale, Gabriel and Isador, constantly leading them exactly where he wanted them, none of them believing themselves to not be in complete control, all for the purpose of using an [[Artifact of Doom]] to [[One-Winged Angel|ascend himself to Daemon Prince status]] and unleash a [[Sealed Evil in a Can]], both of which were successes. He was defeated in the end, but as Daemon Princes are immortal he is probably still around somewhere, being magnificent.

* ''Demon Legacy'' has these three:

**[[The Grim Reaper|Shadar]] "The Malevolent Shadow" was once a prince of a destroyed kingdom who after merging with a sword manages to make himself [[The Dreaded|a figure of fear]] and he uses his position to murder all criminals, as well as anyone, who gets in his way. He keeps up with Deimos and Apollo, and manages to thwart some of their plans. He manages to thwart Faust and Abel's attempts to force to kill him and trying to kill [[The Hero|Slade]] respectively in his goal is [[Visionary Villain|to murder people to keep the balance]] all without going to his [[One-Winged Angel]] form.

** [[Light Is Not Good|Abel]] started as a nobody, but after getting a magical eye, he trained Slade and got himself seemingly killed after revealing his agenda trying to kill Khan in Slade's mind, being only stopped by Shadar. He later returns by murdering Apollo, a [[Manipulative Bastard]] himself and came dangerously close to wiping out the world. He also tried to go out with dignity, even if he ultimately didn't.

** [[God Is Evil|Proteus]] is the god the world. Once the humans become ungrateful, he sends Khan to kill a lot of them. He tries to convince Galahanzer to join him, who refuses and becomes the above-mentioned Shadar. He later preys on Rhea and trains her to become a powerful warrior. When finally awakened, he summons his creations to defend himself, only failing when Loki betrays him and allows Slade's team to defeat him and takes his defeat with grace.

* Main antagonist Aken Bosch of ''Descent: Freespace 2'' spends the entirety of the game attempting to ally with the Destroyers, AKA the Shivans (who happen to be [[Omnicidal Maniac]]s), whom he believes are unstoppable and will never be defeated regardless of the GTVA's efforts. When you are tasked with a squadron to intercept and disable his ship, he openly sends a communication channel to the player and taunts you and questions the competence of your commanders as he warps out of the system, well before you have any chance at hitting him, just before a Shivan fleet ambushes the player's squadron. He frequently outsmarts the entire GTVA command in his capital ship, and when it looks like he's finally been caught when his ship is disabled and boarded, it's found out that he had planned a ruse which included the capture of his ship and all of his crew all along, and he had actually used the confusion to escape alone on-board a Shivan transport. What happens next will always be a mystery, as the trilogy was never completed.

* {{spoiler|Arkham}} of ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'' plays all the sides against each other, in order to {{spoiler|open the gate to hell.}}