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** {{spoiler|Lusamine}} from ''[[Pokémon Sun and Moon]]'' is interesting in the sense that she's an ''unintentional'' example of this trope. On paper, she's a tragic example of {{spoiler|a once-loving parent [[Mind Rape|Mind Raped]] into insanity by an interdimensional [[Eldritch Abomination]]}}. But thanks to the execution, she comes off as {{spoiler|an abusive sociopath whose cruelty towards her own children and any Pokémon that are unfortunate to cross her path make her beyond any sort of redemption, alien brainwashing or not}}. Not helping matters is her extreme narcissism and the vagueness surrounding {{spoiler|Nihilego's influence on its victims, since the game itself can't decide if she's a helpless pawn or a bad woman turned worse}}. This led to a lot of fans disgusted with her to the point of comparing her to {{spoiler|''Ghetsis''}}, and likely played a part in just about every incarnation of her in future media having their vile traits toned ''way'' down.
* ''[[Final Fantasy X]]''. As it's rather hard to develop much hatred for a giant, emotionless crustacean regardless of how many people it kills (and even harder to keep coming up with excuses to wind up in the ocean having boss fights with it), Seymour keeps popping up in the plot to provide a ''speaking'' villain for the party to fight on land instead of Sin. While he does have his own motivations and does get somewhat tied into the plot with Sin, his personal impact on the story itself is quite minimal overall aside from providing ever more complex boss fights {{spoiler|after you kill him and he just keeps creating ever more elaborate boss forms for himself.}}
* ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'' is unusual for the Resident Evil series (along with Resident Evil 3) for not featuring Albert Wesker, since at the time he was thought to be deceased after the Tyrant impaled him in the chest (and even if he were, one could argue he's [[Evil Is Cool|too cool]] to qualify for this trope, at least after he gained powers). The main antagonist of the game, William Birkin, though responsible for Raccoon City being infected with the T-Virus (which inevitably leads to a nuke destroying the city when the zombies grow too numerous for even the military to handle), was shown to [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones|love his family]] and was simply trying to recover the G-Virus, his life's work, from Umbrella before leaving the company. So whose left to hate? None other than Brian Irons, the corrupt police chief who not only was responsible for keeping STARS from revealing the truth about Umbrella (even though both STARS and BRAVO were devastated by the creatures that they had created), but was also taking bribes from Umbrella, is [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|violently aggressive]] towards women, prevents survivors from escaping Raccoon City (including his own men who he shoots when he believes that he is infected with the T-Virus), and last but not least, kidnaps the mayor's daughter and kills her so that he can stuff her as a trophy.
* Volgin of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]''. His [[Establishing Character Moment|first action]] is blowing up his allies with a nuclear bomb, [[For the Evulz|for the hell of it]]. However, despite being ([[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot|relatively speaking]]) the [[Big Bad]] of the game, he's not the main antagonist - the game is much more interested in the relationship between Naked Snake and [[The Messiah|The Boss]]. Volgin simply serves as 1) A [[Homage]] and [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[James Bond]]'' villains; 2) a [[Foil]] to The Boss; and 3) a form of catharsis before [[The Reveal]]. Not to mention the fact that if it hadn't been for the stunt he pulled with the nuke, ''the entire series'' would probably had never happened.
** Huey in ''[[Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain]]'' qualifies as well, even [[In-Universe]]. You can't really hate Skull Face too much when you consider his backstory, despite being a despicable villain otherwise. You can't really hate Zero {{spoiler|once the truth about how he was betrayed by Skull Face and did what he could to keep Big Boss safe from him}} comes out (though it doesn't entirely excuse his actions), and you can't hate Cipher because they are [[Doomed By Canon]] anyway. However, everyone can hate Huey, because {{spoiler|he committed biological warfare against his own allies, tried to use his son in his experiments, left the mother of his son to die when she opposed to this, and betrayed MSF to XOF long before that, only to switch side again because he heard Big Boss was back in town and wanted to get in his good graces to avoid having his treachery be exposed, the last one [[Even Evil Has Standards|disgusting]] '''Skull Face''' himself.}}
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