8 Video Game Villains Who Wanted YOU To Win

8. Dormin - Shadow of the Colossus

Shadow of the Colossus' Big Bad, Dormin, has an incredibly vested interest in protagonist Wander succeeding in his quest, given that Dormin manipulated him into carrying it out in the first place.

At the start of the game, Dormin tasks Wander with slaying the sixteen colossi residing throughout the Forbidden Land if he wants to resurrect Mono, a dead young woman he brings to Dormin's temple.

And even accepting the profound sense of melancholy that's felt every time we, the player, slay a colossus, little could fully prepare anyone for that climactic mic drop revelation, that Dormin is actually a god-like entity who has been sealed away in the temple by Lord Emon and his men.

Basically, fragments of Dormin were encased within each colossus, and by defeating the sixteenth and final one, Wander unknowingly completed a ritual of-sorts to free the imprisoned Dormin, who promptly takes control of Wander's body and transforms into a gigantic shadowy entity.

Even though Emon is ultimately able to seal Dormin back within the temple once again, Dormin basically took full advantage of Wander's desperate desire to bring Mono back to life, and very nearly liberated himself in the process.