Johnny Silverhand: deuteragonist of Cyberpunk 2077 and probably the main character of Cyberpunk franchise as a whole. He is the titular representation of the Rockerboy player class in the TTRPGs, which hold the unique skill of literally influencing people and creating "fans" to control as minions thorough sheer personality and looks. In Cyberpunk 2077 he tries to manipulate and steer V actions throughout the whole game, notably to screw over megacorporations or other corporats even at the cost of lives of innocent people, its up to the player to agree with him or to choose a different path.



Lloyd Frontera: main protagonist of The Greatest State Developer. He wishes to create a peaceful county to retire without working again and to do so he manipulates, tricks and scams a numerous amount of politicians and chief leaders throughout his country and neighboring lands outside his kingdom, even as far as scamming eldritch entities and ancient powers.

  
Kelsier: main character of Mistborn The Final Empire novel by Brandon Sanderson and prominent in the Cosmere subsequent works. He is the leader of a band of terrorist and revolutionaries that seek to overthrow The Lord Ruler from his tyranny. To do so he assassinates, scams, tricks and causes numerous terrorist acts throughout the story. Kelsier is a major psychopath, as told by author, with an extremely keen eye to achieve his goals. Characters from Mistborn are lucky his goals include them, because from any other point of view he might as well be the villain or antagonist.

  
Paul Atreides: main character from Dune series. He is the leader of the Fremen and current Emperor of the Known-Universe in the films timeline. Through the Bene Gesserit genetic manipulation he holds the power see the future and he has knowledge of the Golden Path that will save humanity from extinction in the future. He knows the path will cause a galactic-scale mass genocide that will cause the death of trillions of people across the known-universe among other unthinkable atrocities. But knowing the inevitable future he choose to play accordingly and manipulated the Fremen to achieve his goals.

  


[Loved Trope] Extremely charismatic and manipulative main characters.