Bowser had Inside Story, Doctor Robotnik had Mean Bean Machine - heck, even the Big Daddy ended up being the star of BioShock 2. Villains getting their own spin-off games isn't a new concept by any means, but we feel that it's something that should happen much, much more frequently.

Which is why we've assembled a dirty dozen (or, rather, dirty seven) of villainous misfits that we think should have their own shot in the spotlight.

Captain Qwark is a coward. He hides in the shadows, letting Ratchet & Clank save the universe before leaping into the spotlight at the last second to attempt to take the credit. His character archetype is a standard trope in science fiction – he’s no different from Zapp Brannigan, acting the hero while secretly being a babbling pile of insecurity, often working directly against the protagonists due to selfishness or cowardice.

But what if that’s all an act? What if Qwark isn't as cowardly as we think? What if he’s actually… a hero? That’s the Captain Qwark game we want – one where he plays the fool to Ratchet, only to secretly be pulling the strings in the background to save the day. He can have access to the typical assortment of tools found in R&C games, from crazy weapons to crazier gadgets, interspersed with the occasional stealth segment, where he needs to protect Ratchet without being exposed.

Everyone loves to hate Waluigi. The lanky, purple-clad antagonist first made his appearances in Mario Sports games out of necessity (Wario needed a doubles partner), and he's never really been properly introduced or explained. He’s just… another evil guy, who seems to subscribe to the Wario school of “being so obsessed with another guy that you wear the opposite colors of him and try to do everything the opposite of him.”

For years, Mario/Luigi/Wario/Waluigi voice actor Charles Martinet has been championing a Waluigi game in which players need to “cheat to win.” We think this is a fantastic idea, and would love to see Nintendo actually do it. Make it a fairly typical platformer filled with nostalgic cues from past Mario games, but let Waluigi literally cheat the game – make it a major mechanic. He gets hold of a magic scepter or computer or something that lets him stop time, move platforms, gain extra coins, or do other things that would typically be considered cheating. Embrace his quirky personality, and finally give the character his due.

Before LeChuck was an evil, voodoo-powered zombie-ghost pirate captain, he was a… regular… evil… pirate… captain. But he had a heart. He loved the governor’s daughter, Elaine (a plot line that comes up in Telltale's Tales of Monkey Island series), and attempted to impress her by sailing to Monkey Island to uncover its secret. Instead of uncovering the secret, however, he died, and became the immortal foe we all know and hate. We want to see this story from beginning to end, and learn the full tale of the pirate LeChuck.

LeChuck is simply an awesome villain, and we have a feeling his descent into true villain-dom could make for an awesome game. Gameplay-wise, it should be a fairly typical point-and-click adventure, showing his life and death to give the already interesting character more depth. Plus, even if we end up disliking the young LeChuck, we have a feeling that’ll just grow our appreciation of the undead, green, monstrous LeChuck we already know and love.

Mega Man faces different robotic antagonists at the end of each level. There's Airman, Bombman, Bubbleman, and a bunch of other robots ready to try to put Mega Man in his place. Besides all sharing the surname "man," they all have something else in common: being built by the mad scientist Dr. Wily.

We want to do that. We want to build robots. We want to design the perfect foes for the end of each level - heck, we want to design the levels, too. Games like Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord have made being the bad guy fun, and we think a similar gameplay style can make for a Mega Man-tastic good time.

Wolf O’Donnell, better known as Star Wolf, is Star Fox’s evil shadow in the Star Fox series. He made his first appearance in Star Fox 64/Lylat Wars, where he followed around Fox on Andross’s orders, making every attempt to not let him do that (no matter what “that” was). He sometimes goes from “enemy” status to “frenemy” (even making our list of the Top 7 bestest frenemies ), but most of the time he’s found attempting to blast Fox out of the sky – as long as the price is right.

We’d kill for a Star Wolf game with traditional Star Fox gameplay. Choosing between bounties, hunting down different anthropomorphic pilots, occasionally running into Fox – it would make for an absolutely awesome experience. Not only would it give us more of the Star Fox action we desperately crave, but it would show us the dark underside of Nintendo’s Star Fox universe. We have to imagine there’s some pretty seedy stuff down there.

Moneyball star and CEO of Activision Bobby Kotick has it rough. He's the top guy at one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world, but despite being in charge of a publisher that puts out many of the best games released every year, gamers absolutely hate him. We think that a game letting us walk a few years in his shoes would help fix that.

The game (which we assume would be developed by Activision) would be a fairly true-to-life representation of the day-to-day duties of running the world's biggest game publisher, albeit made more interesting by giving the boss a hands-on approach to the game development. Kotick would be able to decide whether or not to pump out yearly sequels, create a new IP, resurrect an old fan favorite, or cancel a highly-anticipated new title. But here's the fun part: a major responsibility of the job would be making sure the stock doesn't fall. If you don't get that yearly CoD game out, you better believe the stock is going to suffer, and taking a risk on a new IP will almost always lead to some crappy earnings. Bobby Kotick's Game Pub Story would let us see why Kotick makes the choices he makes - and to figure out whether or not we'd actually be able to do a better job.

Andrew Ryan’s boundless ambition led to the creation of Rapture, an underwater city unlike anything the world had ever seen. The underwater utopia was a marvel of modern technology, as chronicled in the BioShock prequel novel, Rapture, costing millions of dollars and taking years to complete. But once it was, it was a sight to behold… until things went bad. A few years in, the Ayn Randian objectivism (and the discovery of Adam) led to the city’s downfall. And we want to be there for all of it.

An Andrew Ryan game would put us in the dress shoes of the entrepreneur himself in a Sim City-style city-building game. We’d be responsible for placing the different districts, plotting the buildings, building the tunnels, and doing everything else a hands-on city-builder like Ryan would have done. But it extends far past that – we’d also make important decisions, like which babbling psychopaths should be put in charge of different areas and which controversial programs to enact. Maybe we’ll just kill all of the poor people! Maybe we’ll start a secret police force! Andrew Ryan’s Sim Rapture would be a blast, providing a drastically different take on the BioShock series and the city-building genre. How often do you get to raise taxes on using toilets in Sim City? That’s what we thought.

Yeah, we know, you disagree with us. We're wrong about one of the entries, or we forgot something, or we're stupid for not including your favorite game of all time. It's fine, we get it.

Don't just sit there shouting at the screen, though - comment below and let us know what you think of this Top 7.

And if you want to read more about our favorite villains, check out the Top 7 villains that never stay dead and the The Top 7 bestest frenemies.