Are there any games where you play the antagonist of an established game?
For example, is there version of Donkey Kong where you throw barrels at Mario?
@Edent In the sequel to Shovel Knight, the player gets to be Plague Knight, one of the villain of Shovel Knight, in more or less the same levels.
@Edent The Legacy of Kain series switches POV from game to game. It starts our where you're playing Kain, but then in Soul Reaver he's the antagonist, before it switches back for Blood Omen 2. Then in Defiance, it switches between both. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_Kain
@Edent the Wario series comes to my mind, but I cannot remember if Mario ever was part of them in any capacity.
Wario in Wario Land as the antagonist of Mario in Mario Land 2. 
@Edent Mario Odyssey you kinda turn into Bowser with Cappy, Browser's Fury one player can play as Bowser Jr.. Little things like that. But I agree, I've always thought there should be a full game where you play only as the antagonist. Give us that, game industry!!
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@Edent
- Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 - you play as Wario who was the main antagonist of Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins.
- Metal Gear Solid 3 and 5 you play as Big Boss who was the Antagonist of the previous games in the Metal Gear series.
- Lego DC Super villains - you play as various villains featured in the previous Lego Batman games.
@Edent One of the DLCs of Far Cry 6 is all about playing the baddies from Far Cry 3, 4, and 5, respectively.
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@Edent it's not official DLC, but in Downfall (Slay The Spire) you play as the antagonists. Here's a list close to what you're asking. Surprisingly few games to what you describe... https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VillainProtagonist/VideoGames
@Edent You play the villain of Ghost'n'goblins (several systems) in Gargoyles Quest (Gameboy) and Demons Crest (SNES).
@Edent Opposing Force, the expansion pack for Half-Life had you playing one of the soldiers sent in to clean up.
@Edent In Sniper Elite 5, you can enter another player’s campaign as an enemy sniper.
@Edent a large chunk of The Last of Us: Part II is playing as the antagonist, and realizing everyone is morally grey.
@Edent Shining Force III on the Saturn was released in three different versions (dubbed “scenarios”). In each one you control a different one of the three warring factions in the game’s story.
@Edent In Donkey Kong Country you play Donkey Kong, but it's not the same scenario as Donkey Kong. In Donkey Kong Jr you play Jr, aiming to rescue Donkey Kong from Mario, so an immediate sequel with Mario as the antagonist.
@Edent Slightly obscure, but in the fifth game in the Avernum series of indie RPGs, you play as agents of the Empire, which is an antagonistic force in the previous games. The NPCs are hilariously horrible to you.
@Edent there’s a version of Pac-Man where one player plays as Pac-man and the others play as the ghosts with a limited view of the map.
@Edent In the second Golden Sun game (The Lost Age), you play several antagonists from the first game. The games are sequential, so they don’t really offer Rashomon-style multiple perspectives of exactly the same events. The player characters in the second game do continue doing what they did as the antagonists in the first game, though.
@Edent Growing up I enjoyed Beach Head II. In two-player mode, one player controlled the Dictator's forces.
@Edent there's a (possibly apocryphal) tabletop RPG campaign where the players start as a band of orcs raiding a human land, then (after a couple of sessions) switch to playing a group of humans trying to track down the orcs and recover their kidnapped loved-ones.
@sobek Yes! ISTR there were missions in there from X-Wing.