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* Isaac clarke of ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' is a middle aged engineer who ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time, and fights purely out of self-defense and a desperate desire to stay alive. Don't be fooled though, Isaac has killed more necromorphs than anyone else alive, with nothing but engineering tools and re-purposed mining equipment. He's survived two outbreaks, and ''literally'' [[MakesSenseInContext fought his own insanity]] in a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind to destroy an ArtifactOfDoom. When he is finally pushed past his RageBreakingPoint in the third game and goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, his living enemies end up being more terrified of him than the Necromorphs.

** And from the prequel we have not just an attack, but a character who plays this trope fairly straight: Sagi is an AdorablyPrecociouschild who is a major MommasBoy and does pretty much everything to get money for her to run the orphanage back in his hometown. He even takes most of the villains' actions in stride and stays pretty upbeat and friendly while they're off wreaking havoc. Push him too far, however, and ''nothing'' will stop him.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'''s Draenei are often stereotyped as [[LawfulGood goody-two-shoes]]. However, [[http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9711 this Bloodmyst Isle quest]] requires players to capture the zone boss's chief flunky. In a cut scene after the quest is complete, the flunky repeatedly taunts a Draenei [[KnightInShiningArmor paladin]] NPC [[spoiler:by [[KickTheDog bragging about how he tortured the paladin's mentor]]]]. The paladin snaps [[spoiler:and [[OneHitKill strikes the flunky dead on the spot]]]].

** And then there's Lord Zash, the nicest and most polite Sith you will ever meet. Khem Val notes that she "reeks of death". [[spoiler: It's all an act, but a pretty good act]]

** A manga adaptation of ''X2'' as X being so disgusted with the fallout of the first game's events that he put a seal on his arm cannon (he thought only his left arm could transform; that lack of knowledge had a hand in Zero's death). After his unit is killed by a traitorous subordinate, X finally undoes it and [[WaveMotionGun fires]] [[http://rock-manga.tripod.com/X21/P30.htm his]] [[http://rock-manga.tripod.com/X21/P31.htm X-buster.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' has UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi, who is subject to an AscendedMeme about the incongruity of history's great pacifist boasting that "our words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS!" back in the very first game. His AI in ''Civ V'' and ''VI'' is very peaceful and easy to get along with (unless you're a warmonger), but he ''does'' have a fondness for nukes - in ''V'' his "Use of Nukes" protocol is [[UpToEleven set to 12 out of 10]] to ensure it will remain maxed out regardless of slight deviations, while in ''VI'' he tends to roll the "Nuke-Loving" secret agenda. So while Gandhi is unlikely to ''start'' a fight, once the world enters the Atomic Age, he is more than capable of ending one.

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** Early on she also can dish out more damage then the resident Black Mage Lulu if taught offensive spells.

** And come ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory'', Plutia blows them all out of the water. Normally lazy, friendly and scatterbrained with just the vaguest hint of a slight sadist streak, major villains are known to rethink a confrontation if it means she might transform. Why? Because Iris Heart won't kill you. [[{{Dominatrix}} Madam]] [[BastardGirlfriend God]][[AnythingThatMoves dess]] will make you ''beg'' for permission to die.

* ''Franchise/Pokemon'':

** In ''Emerald'', Steven Stone becomes the game's equivalent of Red. Steven is generally friendly toward you throughout the story and even teams up with you to battle Team Magma in the Mossdeep Space Center. Once you beat the Champion, though, you can find Steven in the deepest chamber of Meteor Falls and [[Superboss battle him]]. His team consists of Skarmory, Claydol, Cradily, Armaldo, Aggron, and Metagross, the same team he uses as the Champion in ''Ruby and Sapphire'', except ''twenty levels higher''. The Prima Official Game Guide even says this:

* With the exception of Blue in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', every single Pokémon League Champion is perfectly friendly to the player in the field, then they clash for the title and pull out their team of Pokémon 15-20 levels higher than your own, all pumped up with the strongest moves they can know.
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Gym Leader Jasmine is first seen literally having abandoned her post to take care of a sick Pokémon at the Olivine Lighthouse. She is also incredibly shy. Some more gameplay later, you get to fight her...and one of her Pokémon is a Steelix.
** Also in Generation I, Red was a quiet boy who exemplified how important it is to care for Pokémon. After spending three years in [[TrainingFromHell Mt. Silver]]? Strongest trainer of the entire series.
*** In ''Emerald'', Steven Stone is the equivalent of Red. Steven is generally friendly toward you throughout the story and even teams up with you to battle Team Magma in the Mossdeep Space Center. Once you beat the Champion, though, you can find Steven in the deepest chamber of Meteor Falls and [[BonusBoss battle him]]. His team consists of Skarmory, Claydol, Cradily, Armaldo, Aggron, and Metagross, and they are ''even more powerful than in Ruby and Sapphire as the Champion''. The Prima Official Game Guide even says this:

*** Don't forget Dragonite. It's one of the most peaceful Pokémon in existence, until you realize its strongest move is called Outrage. You ''better not'' piss it off.
*** Same with Goodra. It is very cute and friendly and loves hugging it's trainer, but it's special defense allows it to take special attacks like they are nothing, and it's special attack and attack allow it to deal some serious damage back. It also learns Outrage too.

* Rick Taylor, protagonist of ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}'', was just a HollywoodNerd with a good relationship with his girlfriend, Jennifer. Unexpectedly, in each game something comes to take her from him, leaving Rick to don the sentient [[ArtifactOfDoom Terror Mask]] to save her and leave everywhere in his wake splattered with blood. In the remake, the Terror Mask invokes this trope by telling him that [[BloodKnight he loves killing the demons as much as it does]]. While Rick at first denies this and is disgusted with the Mask's brutality, later on he doesn't deny it in the slightest. And judging by his [[FinishingMove Finishing Moves]], he is not a GentleGiant you would ever want to mess with.

** It's almost a general rule that the nicer and more unassuming a character is, the more likely you can point them in the general direction of the enemy army, alone, and have them win. From ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'''s roster, you have Sumia, a shy Pegasus knight with a gift when it comes to animals, and who gets access to devastating magic and one of the most broken skills in the game, Olivia, a dancer who can reclass into Pegasus Knight and also has a gift with animals; Donnel, mild-mannered FarmBoy who always tries to make the rest of the company as happy as possible, possessing ''the'' best stat growth in the game, Stahl, average Cavalier who also tries to make people as happy as possible and with very decent stats; Cynthia, a CuteButCacophonic and naive pegasus knight (who gets access to devastating magic and the most broken skill in the game) obsessed with heroes ([[spoiler: And Sumia's KidFromTheFuture]]), and Nowi, a [[Really700YearsOld millenium-old]] dragon who most of the times acts like a CheerfulChild...

** It's almost a general rule that the nicer and more unassuming a character is, the more likely you can point them in the general direction of the enemy army, alone, and have them win. From ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'''s roster, you have Sumia, a shy Pegasus knight with a gift when it comes to animals, and who gets access to devastating magic and one of the most broken skills in the game, Olivia, a dancer who can reclass into Pegasus Knight and also has a gift with animals; Donnel, mild-mannered FarmBoy who always tries to make the rest of the company as happy as possible, possessing *the* best stat growth in the game, Stahl, average Cavalier who also tries to make people as happy as possible and with very decent stats; Cynthia, a CuteButCacophonic and naive pegasus knight (who gets access to devastating magic and the most broken skill in the game) obsessed with heroes ([[spoiler: And Sumia's KidFromTheFuture]]), and Nowi, a [[Really700YearsOld millenium-old]] dragon who most of the times acts like a CheerfulChild...

** Karima in [[VideoGame/Borderlands2 the second game]] is the mayor of Overlook, a sweet, hard-working woman who sends the [[PlayerCharacter Vault Hunter]] on quests to help the town out from under the thumb of [[BigBad Handsome Jack]] and [[MegaCorp Hyperion]]. The only other Overlook inhabitant you deal with is Dave, a terrible misogynist and all-around {{Jerkass}}. He spends the questline breaking into your radio conversations to insult you ''while you're doing missions that directly benefit him'', and is even nastier towards Karima. She does her best to ignore him; the worst thing she says to him is to tell him to "shut up" after a particularly ugly comment. In the final mission, she sends you to test the DeflectorShield you've helped her construct for the town by commandeering a Hyperion mortar and firing at it. You reach the mortar, input Karima's coordinates, and fire it, at which point Dave breaks in for some of his most vile comments yet-- only to be cut off when the mortar shell hits his house, blasting it and him off a cliff and into the sea. Karima's [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing cheery]] response leaves no doubt that it was [[UnfriendlyFire intentional]]:

-->'''Karima''': "Now, let's try that again with the shield ''up''".

--->'''Louis''': "Mister, if one of us gets killed out here, I will shoot my way in there and beat you to death with my gun!

** His predecessor Rock, though. A childish, rather naive RobotKid, Rock would be happy to while away his days as a lab assistant. When someone tries to use robots to attack people, though, he becomes ''VideoGame/MegaMan''. He will plow through their forces, [[PowerCopying take their weapons]] to become a [[MoreDakka walking arsenal]], and dismantle everything that stands between him and the threat. Lest you think HumongousMecha will faze him, fuggedaboutit. Especially in ''VideoGame/MegaMan7'', in which he nearly blows Wily away for good.

*** Velvet herself, though we only see her "nice" state a few times, such as at the beginning of the game. [[UsedToBeASweetKid She was a friendly girl]] living with her brother-in-law and working to provide for her sick little brother until she witnessed her brother-in-law murder her brother, and the rage turned her into a demon. In fact, she's [[NotSoDifferent nearly identical to Eleanor]], except she's been stuck in a berserk rage for ''years''.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'': Romana Briscoletti is a kind-hearted, polite woman, but both her husband Rodrigo and her little daughter Debora are both scared of her when she's angry.

* Zack Fair of ''VideoGame/CrisisCoreFinalFantasyVII''. He's loyal, friendly, utterly adorable, and just wants to be a hero, in the best and nicest sense of the word. But never forget that he's one of the top [=SOLDIER=]s around, second only to Sephiroth, [[SuperSoldier with all that implies]]. Push him too far, drive him into a corner, threaten someone he cares about, and [[OneManArmy prepare to be sorry]].

* In ''VideoGame/BugFables'', [[IdealHero Kabbu]], as TheHeart of the Team Snakemouth, is chivalrous and idealistic to a fault, and is always willing to help people he meets even if it's at his expense. That being said, even he has his own limits to what he can handle, best shown when he mercilessly chews out and later mercilessly defeats Mothiva and Zasp for [[spoiler: interrupting the Termite Kingdom's tournament in order to directly fight Team Snakemouth, which would've endangered the plan to stop the Wasp King]]. Even then, he is still just as, if not more capable than the rest of his teammates in dishing out the pain to bad guys, best shown when he [[spoiler: single-handedly survives an attack from [[HeroKiller The Beast]] that wiped out his entire team and [[TheDeterminator proceeds to slay the monster through his sheer determination to protect his friends.]]]]

* In ''VideoGame/BugFables'', [[IdealHero Kabbu]] is TheHeart of the group, being the most chivalrous and idealistic out of the main trio when it came to heroics and adventuring, and is always willing to help people for no expense or at the expense of his own. That being said, he is also the most seasoned fighter out of the three and just as capable as the rest of his teammates in dishing out the pain to bad guys, best shown when he [[spoiler: singelehandedly survives an attack that wiped out his entire team from [[HeroKiller The Beast]] and [[TheDeterminator killing said beast through his sheer determination to protect his friends.]]]]

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Luigi is a sweet, goofy, LovableCoward who aspires to be like his [[BigBrotherWorship big bro Mario]]. However he's just as competent in a fight as his bro and it's that same admiration of him that leads to him doiing [[CowardlyLion unspeakable acts of bravery]]. And If you threaten to harm Mario, he becomes [[TheDeterminator an unstoppable force]]. To whit, in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'', when Mario looks to be in extreme danger in the Dream World, Dreamy Luigi [[MakeMyMonsterGrow grows giant]] and in one case, slams backwards ''a sentient volcano only with his hammer!'' Even more impressive, Dreamy Luigi is [[StrongerThanTheyLook able to hold his own]] against [[spoiler:''Giant'' Giant Bowser. As in, Giant Bowser made even more giant to the point where Giant Luigi barely comes up to his ''knee''.]] The last Giant Battle is activated not by fear but by sheer willpower as well.