Editing Edgy (section)

===Video Games===
* [[/v/|'''Shadow the Hedgehog''']] for the PS2/XBox/Gamecube. For the unfamiliar: An edgy game about a radical edgelordy cartoon hedgehog shooting enemies, yet ESRB rated for Everyone 10 and up. Contrary to popular belief, though, this game is really main continuity Shadow's only real brush with being an edgelord besides Sonic Adventure 2, where he was more of a straight-ahead villain.
** The villain Infinite from ''Sonic Forces'', as a parody of edgy Villain Sue characters.
* Several characters and groups from Blizzard creative properties.  [[Blizzard]] are big fans of this stereotype of character, it's practically an epidemic.  A few (eg; Kerrigan for Starcraft and Illidan for Warcraft) are among the most iconic characters in their respective franchises.  Make of that what you will.  Examples include;
** Warcraft (including [[World of Warcraft|World of Warcraft]])
*** '''Deathwing'''; A Titan-empowered dragon who hated his job, and was convinced by Lovecraftian Old Gods to destroy the Titans' works, help them kill his peers and take over the world.  His dragonflight was also prone to incest and he planned to make his sisters his breeding slaves - that idea wasn't the Old Gods, that was all him.  He got so warped by power, his body had to be literally bolted together with metal plates so he wouldn't fall apart, and he planned to destroy the world if he couldn't rule it.  Also, Deathwing was a name he chose, he was originally called Neltharion.
*** '''Sylvanas Windrunner''': Elven general turned into a banshee by a fallen undead prince and forced to fight against her people as his battle trophy (even her origin story is edgy; [[Derp|apart from how she died due to being an archer in belly-baring armor who tried to fight a knight in melee]]).  After being freed from his control and getting her body back, she dedicated herself to revenge against him and built an undead society on vengeance and invasive experimentation.  After he died, she took her own life, saw she was heading for a horrible afterlife (maybe shouldn't have gone full Mengele/Saw on prisoners and kidnapped farmers; committing war crimes even the Horde didn't during their demon-worshipping days) and made a dark bargain to escape that.   Later went full nihilist, destroyed a city full of elves (oh the irony) after they surrendered and seeks to tear down and rewrite the cosmos because she's afraid of dying due to thinking she doesn't deserve a bad afterlife despite all the horrible things she's done, in a setting where lesser villains get the banhammer from Thrall. [[Wat|She also murdered her lover Nathanos' cousin to give him a hot, new body and excuses it as making him a better champion.]]  
*** '''Sargeras''' (pre-retcon): A god-like Titan and their military leader.  He was the goodest of boys among the Titans, so traumatized by the evil of the demons he fought... [[Stupid Evil|that he became convinced that good was futile and conscripted those same demons into an army called the Burning Legion to destroy the cosmos]].  Post-retcon he tried to make Azeroth's soul his consort, and stabbed her when it became apparent that would fail. At the very least it is stated that he took control of the Burning Legion to stop the Void Lords, but he's still a huge dickhead when it serves no practical purpose.
*** '''Zovaal the Jailer''': Once the judge of the afterlife, he got dissatisfied with his job and tried to get even more power because he thought <s>The Man</s> the system would fail.  After being defeated and eons of imprisonment, he broke free, reverse-engineered mind control magic and used it to enslave damned souls into an army to overthrow the cosmos.  Is hyped as a master manipulator and a genius, but is actually a lucky bad planner with tons of plot armor retconned into the game's story.  Constantly throwing away his allies when he's done with them, his ultimate plan is either to rewrite reality so everyone serves him... only for the story to pull a "well-intentioned extremist" arc out of thin air at the literal last minute with his dying words.
*** '''Illidan Stormrage''' (pictured below): An impatient glory hound who [[Commander Kubrik Chenkov|threw away the lives of his troops for victory over the aforementioned Burning Legion]], he quit when called out on it and later joined his enemies because of his hunger for magical power, envy of his brother and his childhood crush rejected him (major incel move).  He was imprisoned for treason and murder, and after being let out, he consumed so much dark magic that he mutated into a half-demon hybrid.  Also founded Demon Hunters, the edgiest class in WoW, nearly half his dialogue in the Legion expansion is angsty 14-year-old one-liners, and he killed an angel-equivalent being that tried to replace his demonic powers with holy power by force.  Plus his last name - "Stormrage" - sounds edgy depending on who you ask.
*** There's also edgy groups including the Forsaken, Death Knights and Demon Hunters.
** Starcraft
*** '''Arcturus Mengsk''' from Starcraft: Originally started out as the survivor of a war where he was painted as the villain, he rallied people together then founded an empire to bring the opposing civilization crashing down.  Committing increasingly bad war crimes along the way, once he succeeded, Mengsk threw his former allies under the bus and crowned himself Emperor.  When there's a major person who resists his tyrannical rule, Mengsk had them vilified in the media eye, just like he was... and STILL there's undertones that Mengsk had a point.  Eventually gets killed by Kerrigan, one of the people he threw under the bus (yes, THAT Kerrigan, who toes the line herself as the Zerg Queen AKA Queen of Blades AKA "Queen Bitch of the Universe" - she invented that one).
** Overwatch
*** '''Gabriel Reyes aka Reaper''': He has advanced nercosis, but an experiment meant he constantly regenerates his tissues, so he's basically sort of sci-fi undead.  Of course, he blames his former friends from Overwatch and never considers it COULD be some side effect from super soldier genetic modifications he'd received before forming of the Overwatch caused his sorry condition - even when the shady scientist who modified him also joined Talon.  As a  result he became fixated on revenge and killing.  Also, he was super jealous for his best friend, who was getting all the praise, while he was getting his hands dirty and instead of talking about it figured the best solution was walking away and joining their enemies (he was jealous to the point of mimicking his trench coat-over-combat armor style when he became Reaper, as it was pointed out in one fan comic).
* '''Caesar's Legion''' and Caesar himself in [[Fallout|Fallout: New Vegas]] (along with some of their fans and the writer who created them). Caesar's core beliefs are that the Mojave have gone so far down the shitter that it needs to be properly cleansed of all of its barbaric or chaotic elements. This include getting rid of the hedonist paradise that is the Strip, kicking out the bureaucratic and in-many-ways corrupt NCR, and finally conquering the tribal clans around it. Caesar found his answers to this conundrum in the form of the Roman Republic, wishing to establish a new Pax Romana by force. To ensure that his will be done, he gathered a few loyal men and enforced his rule manu militari. Of course, you'd think that he'd have a point, since the romans did manage to make some of the most incredible feats of innovation and politics in their prime. But the Legion only exist to serve as the de-facto antagonists of New Vegas. Seriously, they serve as Ulysses' main scapegoat (and that guy could potentially qualify as a [[Mary Sue|Moral Sue]]), and they have officers and soldiers that are so cartoonishly evil it makes the real romans look humble in comparison. Cruxifictions, torture, corruption, backstabbing, unhinged bouts of conquests and massacres, you ''name it''. The writing in New Vegas is phenomenal, but clearly, the Legion was never meant to be a serious contender for "possible choice but morally very gray faction". Their only saving grace is that unlike the NCR and Mr.House, they actually secure shit once they conquer it, as Raul would point it out. And even them, this "benefit" barely justifies itself due to the fact that Caesar's "kill everyone who resists, enslave the women and children and conscript the men" ''modus operand'' shows little difference from how raiders and gangs he claims to be fighting against treat the average wastelander.
* '''Not Important''' aka The Antagonist aka The Crusader from Hatred. Imagine every trope related to nihilistic spree shooters, push them to their uncomfortable extremes, and then plop the result in a monochromatic mess of a game. What you get is the story about a very unlikeable man with dialogue written by less likeable people (including an edgy as fuck death metal band) going around and killing everyone because...fuck you, it's edgy. On the other hand, this edginess does warp back around the scale from edgy as fuck to hilarious as fuck in an ironic sort of way.
* '''Postal Dude''' from the original Postal/Postal Redux. He's basically OG Not Important from Hatred, being obsessed with getting the ones responsible for "Hate Disease" he blamed for everything that was happening to him before game events (mostly eviction from his house) and was allegedly turning town's people against him.  Everyone in the game who's not Things like the ending of the original game on hard (school shootout) and one-liners in Redux version like 'Only my gun understands me...' give us a perfect example of an edgelord.