10 More Video Game Villains Hiding In Plain Sight

10. Atlas - BioShock

BioShock's Rapture is one of the most iconic failed utopias in gaming history, with players forced to battle all manner of genetically modified and deformed villains. It's a game that doesn't offer many friends, which makes the reveal that one of the chief allies players pick up is actually a villain stand out as especially gut-punching.

Throughout BioShock, Atlas is presented as Andrew Ryan's biggest opponent and aids players in getting to him. It is only when players get in front of Ryan that he reveals Atlas' true identity.

After hinting that Atlas' "would you kindly" catchphrase is a psychic command to make players do his bidding, Ryan is killed by players. Atlas then comes onto the radio to tell them that his real name is Frank Fontaine and that he has indeed been manipulating them this whole time. With his rival now disposed of, Fontaine is free to run Rapture.

Charismatic, deceitful, and with a master plan of domination and destruction? We should have seen it coming.