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* Odio in ''[[Live a Live]]'' is a reincarnating force of destruction. At any point in time there would be a hero to rise up, Odio will manifest during that time, causing terror, death, and annihilation, and directly oppose the hero. Odio will always bear a similar-sounding name that fits with that time period (such as Odi Iou for [[Jidai Geki|feudal Japan]] or Odie Oldbright for late 20th century America), making him easy to spot for the player, but the idea is that while the heroes may consistently defeat Odio, it will always rise up again in some other time. {{spoiler|...Except no, [[Subverted Trope|he isn't that at all]]-he's actually the mind of [[Fallen Hero]] Oersted, who has [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|very well-defined motives]]. The reason he opposes the protagonists, as it turns out, is because he takes umbrage at their [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids|idealism]] and wants to prove a point to himself.}}

* While the reapers of ''[[Mass Effect]]'' always have had shades of this, having next to no characterization besides Sovereign and Harbinger, the [[Big Bad]]s of ''[[Mass Effect]]'' and ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' respectively, it was heavily implied that whatever motivated the reapers was something organic lifeforms could not hope to comprehend. When their motivation was revealed at the Climax of ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', it pushed them into this trope. Apparently, the reason the reapers exterminate all spacefaring civilizations to a man ever 50,000 years is to {{spoiler|prevent the creation artificial intelligences- known as synthetics in the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' galaxy-which would ultimately kill all organic life in the galaxy.}} Beyond making next to no sense on multiple levels, this motivation contradicted practically everything the previous games had established about {{spoiler|synthetics}} in subtext. and felt extremely out of place in the setting, and more like a [[Hand Wave]] for the [[Sadistic Choice]] that was [[Mass Effect 3]]'s ending. The fact that this motivation was literally related to the player in the last five minutes also doesn't help.

* While Ganondorf himself is more into [[Take Over the World|conquest]], some other [[Big Bad]]s are evil for evil's sake (''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages|The Legend of Zelda Oracle Games]]''' Onox, ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass|The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass]]''' Bellum, ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks|The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks]]''' Malladus, etc...).

* In ''[[Guild Wars]]'' ''Nightfall'', Warmarshall Varesh wants to wake a dark god and its legion of demons, unleash Torment upon the world, and bring about eternal night and suffering because ... [[And Then What?|hmm]].

* ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]'' features two: The Aurum, a Hoarde of Alien... uh, bees that "are created from, and return to, nothing." and {{spoiler|The Chaos Kin, a pure manifestation of evil that takes control of a host and slowly devours its soul.}} Both are presented as serious threats; the former requiring ''all'' the warring factions to do an [[Enemy Mine]] and team up, and the latter being a major [[Knight of Cerebus]] that causes the game to take an unexpected plunge into [[Darker and Edgier]] territory.

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* ''[[Homestuck]]'': Jack Noir ends up becoming this. Starts out with a good bit of personality, but once he takes over as [[Big Bad]] he just starts wrecking things for no real reason... [[Hidden Agenda Villain|none that we know of]], anyways. [[Word of God]] describes his personality as basically being 'buried' beneath his power, and describes him as akin to a raging dragon, so it's safe to say this is a deliberate use of the trope. A later scene from Jack's perspective justifies it further: once he's gained enough power to become the Big Bad, he's just become horribly BORED. Most of his evil acts have just been him trying to come up with something to do with his new power.