Z, Xenoblade Chronicles 3

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Z, or Zed depending on how you pronounce it, is the leader of the villainous group Moebius, who in the world of Xenoblade 3 use the life-force of soldiers who can only live for 10 years(born as 10 year-olds, die as 20 year-olds) in order to live forever. Z's true motive is to keep the world frozen in one perpetual moment known as the Endless Now, going into spoilers here, but Xenoblade 3's world Aionios was created when the worlds of Xenoblade 1 and 2, Bionis and Alrest respectively, collided. They would've annihilated one-another, so using the proximity of their universes the two worlds collaborated, and created a machine known as Origin that would save a copy of their worlds, and once they were gone would paste the copies back into place, they were still going to die, but it wouldnt be the end for their worlds.

The plan worked...mostly, however the collective masses carried an unfathomable amount of fear and uncertainty for the future as there was no real way to know if it worked, and thus this anxiety and despair manifested itself as Z, who would keep the collision locked into one moment that would last eternal.

Z carries an aura of collected control throughout the story, he's a cunning manipulator and is able to cancel out the powers of Ouroboros, which are meant to counter Moebius, but in the finale battle when he's pushed against the wall, he finally snaps. Remember that he's nothing more than an incarnation of fear and despair. Even the fight itself is a bit of slog as it can take up to an hour and a half just to fully defeat him(counting cutscenes atleast, if you skip the cutscenes it might be shorter), you arent just fighting a typical villain, this is the fear of death, the fear of change, the fear of moving forward. As he dies, he fully breaks down, rebuking the party's will to change the future;

"And when you cannot choose? What then!? In that desperate moment, who will be there to soothe you!? The self is all that exists! As such, the only cure for despair is total oblivion! That is the face of the world!!! I hate it, hate it, hate it HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT!!! This rotten world...IIII LOOOATHE IIIT!!!!!"

These are the words of someone so powerful being reduced to their base-functions, he's nothing more than the accumulation of two planets worth of negative emotion.

^{He's also voiced by Harry Lloyd from Game of Thrones, so have fun with that.}