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* ''[[Rance]]'' has an... interesting relationship with this trope. On the one hand, the main character, Rance, is a serial rapist out to have sex with as many women as possible. On the other hand, he thinks he's God's gift to womankind, and doesn't seem to understand that what he's doing is wrong. Every good character is at least slightly distressed at his actions (not that they really do much to stop him), and anyone who agrees with him is treated as scum and killed off sooner or later.
* In ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]''. the [[Big Bad]] is {{spoiler|a psychiatrist who deals with a human traffickers selling ''children'' to a prostitution ring after hypnotizing them; possibly he is a pedophile himself. He is depicted as the more vile than even the darkest residents of Wonderland.}} The game also uses the Trope as a way to show [[Even Evil Has Standards]] at the start of chapter 2. Alice winds up in a bad part of town full of unsavory crooks, but while many of them make indecent and perverted advanced towards her, they back off when she tells them to.
* ''[[Elden Ring]]'' makes use of this trope every now and then. Whether or not [[George R. R. Martin]]'s presence in the writer's room has anything to do with it is up in the air.
** While first coming off as a punchable, annoying little douchebag, Preceptor Seluvis turns out to be one of the game's most evil characters. While he doesn't have a massive body count to rival the likes of [[The Caligula|Godrick]] or [[Omnicidal Maniac|Rykard]], he makes up for it by being a creepy serial rapist who feeds women [[Depraved Bisexual|(and the occasional man)]] potions that rob them of their free will, turning them into helpless "puppets" he can defile to his heart's content. He's such a creep that he genuinely disgusts [[The Sociopath|the otherwise ruthless and uncompromising Gideon Ofnir]], and {{spoiler|he's the one member of Ranni's inner circle whose death you'll be celebrating instead of mourning, since he's doomed to die even if you help him}}.
*** This trope is also invoked with Ranni's Albinauric servant Pidia, who {{spoiler|dies after Seluvis does, with you walking in on him being butchered by several "puppets" that he's had his way with while pitifully begging them for mercy. Interestingly, context clues strongly suggest that ''he'' might be guilty of Seluvis' crimes and that he's the man's puppet master, but there's no hard confirmation either way.}}
** The Loathsome Dung Eater's guilty of a lot more than just eating shit. He's a [[Serial Killer]] who tortures and rapes his victims, of which he has ''tons'', and defiles their bodies in such a way that it permanently corrupts their souls and keeps them from returning to the Erdtree and reincarnating. The game makes no bones about how fucked up he is, with the Dung Eater proudly reveling in being a disgusting piece of work, [[The Dreaded|while the few characters that are aware of his existence are terrified of the guy.]] {{spoiler|Funnily enough, you can dish out some well-deserved karma on him by turning him into one of Seluvis'/Pidia's "puppets", which is the one thing that scares the shit out of him.}}
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