10 Utterly Sadistic Video Game Villains

10. Colonel Volgin - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Colonel Volgin is one of the most infamous faces from the Metal Gear Solid series and has developed a reputation for being one of its most hard-hitting antagonists. Making his debut in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Volgin is shown as being a Stalinist GRU colonel attempting to overthrow Nikita Khruschev as leader of the USSR and impose his own totalitarian regime.

Right from the get-go, Volgin is entirely void of basic empathy, and more than willing to eliminate anyone he deems to be in his way without a second thought.

He's able to enjoy torturing and inflicting as much pain on people as possible, with everything from beating Solid Snake to a pulp, electrocuting a woman, and kicking a man inside a barrel to death being used to demonstrate exactly how far this Russian's sadism extends.

There were also hints around Volgin being a potential sexual predator that Kojima Productions only ever dared leave on the surface level and in the game's concept art.

Nevertheless, there are more than enough scenes from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater to leave Volgin looking like one of the most deplorable figures the gaming world has thrown up.