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Jack Thompson - as seen in our nightmares
This lawyer means to destroy videogames, blaming them for the ills of the world. In our book, there’s no greater villain than that.

JC Denton - as seen in Deus Ex: Invisible War
Invisible War’s treatment of the first game’s hero is fascinating. Depending on how you, personally, feel about capitalism, anarchy, liberty and all that jazz, the reborn JC is either a world-liberating hero or a wrong-headed insane guy who must be destroyed before he takes the planet down with him. His messianic persona in DX2 was somewhat off-key from how we remembered him in DX1, but he was a hard as nails fight if you did decide his way was the wrong one.

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Kane - as seen in Command & Conquer 1-3, C&C: Red Alert
C&C’s chrome-domed evil mastermind is in many ways the definitive PC baddie, even if no one’s told him about Dr. Evil yet. The Brotherhood of Nod’s leader/messiah is a textbook study in menace and high camp: you can’t quite take him seriously, and that’s what makes him such an enduring villain. He’s also cropped up, looking exactly the same age, in 1940s Russia in the Red Alert sub-series, and has survived certain death far too many times than seems reasonable for a normal human being. Widely held theories, supported by various quiet in-game references and Easter Eggs, hold that he’s the Cain (as in the world’s first murderer - you know, the Bible and stuff). Seeing as how Cain was made invulnerable by God and banished to the land of Nod, it’s a pretty safe bet.