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* Ramon Salazar of ''[[Resident Evil|Resident Evil 4]]'' has the build and proportions of a nine-year old, the skin of a sixty-year old, and claims to be twenty. He's also fucking nuts and suffers a severe [[Villainous Breakdown]] over the course of the game.

** A less hilarious, more tragice example would be Lisa Trevor. After decades of Umbrella experiments, she's a powerful, seemingly unkillable monster with the faces of some of her victims sewed together and worn like a mask. Despite all this, her mind is that of a very young child, desperately searching for her mother.

* Arguably GLaDOS of ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]''. Her ~~demeanour~~ and ~~behaviour~~ certainly brings to mind a surly child, doing mocking impressions of Chell ("That's you! That's how dumb you sound!") and giving childish retorts ("If you love it so much why don't you marry it? ''Well, I won't let you!'').

* Arguably GLaDOS of ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]''. Her demeanor and behavior certainly brings to mind a surly child, doing mocking impressions of Chell ("That's you! That's how dumb you sound!") and giving childish retorts ("If you love it so much why don't you marry it? ''Well, I won't let you!'').

** Don't forget the turrets and their child-like voices. "Hello, friend. I see you. Are you still there? Good night. Put me down! Malfunction. I don't blame you..."

*** "No hard feelings..."

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** And GLaDOS' creepy red core. Her {{spoiler|yellow is curious ("Do you smell something burning?") her blue rattles off cake mix...plus other things ("Don't forget food garnishes such as: [...] fish-shaped dirt.") and the red is...er...well, it doesn't speak--instead it snarls and shrieks at you.}}

** {{spoiler|Wheatley, anyone? By the end, at least?}}

* Kratos from the [[God of War]] series. [[Freudian Excuse|While he's got plenty of justification for being angry]], he's a brutal borderline sociopath who constantly bellows his hatred for the gods at the top of his lungs and struggles with accepting responsibility for his evil actions. When he's fed up with the treachery of the gods he lashes out like an angry teenager, often slaughtering innocent people just for being in his way and causing near-apocalyptic disasters without a care in the world. He has moments of clarity where he's truly haunted by the gravity of his actions, not unlike a kid who's finished throwing a tantrum and feels shame over how they acted, and the entire Norse duology and beyond has an [[Older and Wiser]] Kratos [[Character Development|move past this mindset entirely while desperately trying to keep his son Atreus from going down the same destructive path he walked as a younger man.]]

* Kratos from the [[God of War]] series. He's a brutal sociopath, negligent father, sells his soul at the drop of a hat, and spends the entire series blaming others for his own actions. He rages constantly against Athena for not being able to magic away the guilt he feels over killing his family, wages constant and destructive wars upon being made the new god of war even when that's exactly why Zeus had Ares killed, and the series ends with Kratos coming to the conclusion that [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|the forgiveness of others is pointless and you need only forgive yourself to absolve yourself of guilt]].

** The Stranger, {{spoiler|AKA Baldur}}, is Kratos' [[Evil Counterpart]] in the first Norse game, complete with his Greek-era psychopathic immaturity. He's [[Ax Crazy]] to a fault and prone to destructive temper tantrums, especially where his hated mother is concerned. Tragically, he's also like Kratos in that his grievances are perfectly legitimate, seeing as how she {{spoiler|made him immortal while taking away his ability to feel anything, which drove him insane and warped him into the destructive manchild that he is today through sensory deprivation.}}

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* From ''[[Mother 3]]'', {{spoiler|Porky Minch, the Pig King. Justified in that he extensively ~~travelled~~ through time after the end of ''[[EarthBound]]'' and only aged outwardly - he even describes himself as possibly being 10,000 years old or even older, yet still being the same kid inside, though he said it with the implication that that's somehow a ''good'' thing.}}

** A less sympathetic example would be Modi, one of Thor's sons and a brutal thug who conducts himself like an elementary school-aged bully. He really has it out for Atreus in particular, who he riles up with constant [[Your Mom]] jokes while pushing him around and making fun of him. And like any classic bully, he folds the second he's forced to fight someone who ''isn't'' a little kid, [[Dirty Coward|and runs away crying when a Spartan Rage-powered Kratos]] [[Punched Across the Room|sends him flying with a single punch.]]

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* From ''[[Mother 3]]'', {{spoiler|Porky Minch, the Pig King. Justified in that he extensively traveled through time after the end of ''[[EarthBound]]'' and only aged outwardly - he even describes himself as possibly being 10,000 years old or even older, yet still being the same kid inside, though he said it with the implication that that's somehow a ''good'' thing.}}

* Debilitas, the hulking gardener from ''[[Haunting Ground]]'', is the only one of the stalkers pursuing Fiona who doesn't have overtly sinister motives - he mistakes her for a 'big doll' and just wants to play. Unfortunately, his idea of playing is [[And Call Him George|a little too rough for poor Fiona...]]

* Achenar, from the game ''[[Myst]]'', has a childish way of relating horrific thoughts and events to the player, even speaking in a mocking, higher-pitched voice and giggling like he's just thought of some ridiculous joke. The effect is unnerving, to say the least.

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* The Pyro from ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' is possibly a man-child. You never see his face, but his unlockable hat is a propeller beanie.

** His other hats include a rubber glove on his head, and his taunts make it appear that he has an affection for fighting games and air guitar. Considering he's the Pyro, the psychopathic part isn't open to much questioning.

* Shadow from the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series is an adorable little boy. He looks up to his friend Maria, whose terminal illness he was created to cure. They reflect on what life must be like on earth. Even after her death, he shapes his life like a fairy tale, would do anything Maria asked him, and often whines pitifully about who he is and what he's there for. He also thought that the peaceful Maria would want him to avenge her by ''destroying the planet,'' is obsessed with his status as the ultimate lifeform, values human life and happiness very little unless he associates it with Maria or himself, and loves guns.

* Shadow from the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series is an adorable little boy. He looks up to his friend Maria, whose terminal illness he was created to cure. They reflect on what life must be like on earth. Even after her death, he shapes his life like a fairy tale, would do anything Maria asked him, and often whines pitifully about who he is and what he's there for. He also thought that the peaceful Maria would want him to avenge her by ''destroying the planet,'' is obsessed with his status as the ultimate lifeform (when fighting Sonic, one of his quotes is the hilariously immature taunt of "I'm the coolest!"), values human life and happiness very little unless he associates it with Maria or himself, and loves guns.

** YMMV with Shadow. Still, [[Alternate Character Interpretation|it's possible]]; seeing the one person who supported him the most and who he saw as a moral figure murdered in front of his eyes probably disturbed him to the point of becoming this trope.

** Eggman is also this, since he's a clownish buffoon who's every bit as childish as he is intelligent. Case in point, most of his evil plans revolve around trying to create gigantic amusement parks or forcing cute little animals/aliens to cater to his childish whims, while a lot of his machines (mainly in the Classic era) look like giant, deadly children's toys. Official materials even state that he isn't "pure evil" so much as he is immature and reckless in his villainy.

* The Witch from ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' sits there sobbing until and unless you [[Rant-Inducing Slight|bother her]], at which point she has an unfortunately lethal (to you) temper tantrum. Then, once you're dead, she [[My God, What Have I Done?|cries and runs away]].

** Ellis is just WAAAAAAAY too happy during the zombie apocalypse. It's almost as if he views it as a big game {{spoiler|Unless someone dies}}

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* {{spoiler|Dr. Angus Bumby}} from [[Alice: Madness Returns]] is a rather subtle version of one whose childish behavior doesn't become clear until well into the story. While, normally, {{spoiler|he}} seems calm and well-educated, as the story unfolds it becomes clear that {{spoiler|he's}} just a possessive child unable to deal with being told no after {{spoiler|raping Alice's sister, Elizabeth, seeing her refusals as teasing and then covering it up by burning down their house with them inside.}} Even {{spoiler|the Dollmaker, his Wonderland counterpart}} uses childish suggestive motions with his hands throughout its boss fight. And, finally, in the end {{spoiler|he takes time to gloat at Alice over [[Mind Rape|using his hypnosis therapy to brainwash children into prostitution]], that he will get away with it, and continues arguing that he has done nothing wrong.}}

* [[Those Wacky Nazis|Edward]] [[Mad Doctor|Richtofen]] from [[Nazi Zombies]] is a type C.

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