History BlueAndOrangeMorality / VideoGames

* All of [[TheFairFolk the Watchers]] from ''YearWalk''. Each one have stranger behavior than the other.
** The Huldra, who is outright stated in [[AllThereInTheManual the Encyclopedia]] to not play according to human rules, is likely to kill humans who encounter her [[OutWithABang with sex]] and she even tries to lure them in with her CompellingVoice. However, if blood is willingly offered to her she'll lend her assistance instead... How much blood she'll drink before that is, however, seemingly determined by factors only known to her, and it's quite possible that she'll drain a person dry.

** [[UndeadChild The Mylings]], in turn, kill those who ignore their cries but are actually only children who long for their mothers... That does not mean that their mothers are extempt from the ignore-me-you-die rule, though.

** And as for the Church Grim, well... First of all, it's basically a revenant of a dangerous criminal or a beast that has been created [[GuardianEntity in order to protect a church]] and, being either a resurrected person of severe moral shortcomings or an animal, it is willing to do _anything_ to keep the church safe. Furthermore, [[spoiler:the Church Grim's heart has to be smashed in order for a year walk to be able to take place, but the Church Grim doesn't seem to care about this fact]].
** Finally there's the fact that [[spoiler:all Watchers are watching mankind in order to make sure that no-one goes on a year walk; humans are not meant to be able to see into the future and a year walk breaks this rule. When a human has made a year walk, it's also the Watchers' role to make sure that the person is punished for its transgression... Despite all that, the Watchers always keep the possibility of making a year walk an open alternative and, to some extents, even help humans complete their year walks]].

** And Justice counts before his corruption into Vengeance. He/it is not a human but a spirit who personifies a single concept - justice - and therefore doesn't adhere to the same morality as mortals. He can only think and see within the constraints of what is just (in ''Awakening'', he believes Anders is enslaving his pet cat). The same can apply to all spirits/demons, who latch onto a single facet of human emotion to anchor themselves in the chaos of the Fade; it's theorised in the game that spirits who enter the human world are almost always hostile because they don't understand how to cope with a world that isn't constantly in flux, and therefore constantly lash out in fear or confusion or find a mortal host so they can forcibly gain the understanding.

* Every NPC in ''{{VideoGame/Gingiva}}'' has a very bizarre perspective on just about everything, which is very appropriate for the surreal MindScrew theme of the game.

*** Of course, the perception of Anders as "unreasonable and dogmatic" is also an example of this trope depending on the player, for Anders' behavior is actually understandable if you start from the premise that people have human rights, including the right to "exercising power over their lives", rather than being treated as though they should accept treatment whatever they get. Following from that premise, Anders is right to passionately fight for a group that has had its rights taken away and can get no sympathy from anyone. If you ''don't'' start from the premise that people have rights; if instead you start from the premise that the primary job of people is not to "bother" each other with their cries of pain, then Anders' behavior is incomprehensible and confusing. After all, compared to everyone else's suffering, a few mages being locked up doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.

** A common interpretation of the war between the Blue and Red dragonflights is that neither is good or evil, the former is simply trying to do its job (guarding magic) by killing all mortal magicians, and the latter is just trying to do ''its'' job (guarding life) by saving them.** To provide more insight into this in Warcraft lore magic is responsible for (or aided in allowing) numerous bad things to occur, like an Orc invasion, the Orc homeworld blowing up, a Demon invasion, a Zombie invasion and more notable the Sundering that tore apart and created the various land masses of Azeroth.

** It doesn't help that they often refuse to talk about their beliefs, thus perpetuating the ignorance. And then take violent actions that more often than not make no moral or ethical sense to anyone but themselves. As far as they're concerned, it's either all self-evident, or it is not their role to explain it to you, and therefore they cannot. Talking about it to ''them'' just proves to them that you don't get it. They don't care what your race is, though. Anyone who freely chooses to follow the Qun is considered one of their own and will be treated as such. Even if those who chose to follow the Qun are merely doing it to get their Qunari's protection.

** The Thraddash are some combination of Blue And Orange Morality and TooDumbToLive. When you meet them they are on their ''nineteenth'' attempt at having a civilization, having nuked themselves back to the stone age eighteen times before. They revel in combat (which would make them {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s), but are lousy at it. They attack you without provocation, but will listen to your advice and attack much more powerful races (and be annihilated) if you beat them enough times and suggest it. They worship a piece of Precursor garbage as a sacred artifact. And if you manage to impress them, you can convince them to start a ''new'' society based around imitating classic comedians like Film/TheThreeStooges.
** The Melnorme are an entire race of traders who believe that giving something for free is [[CondescendingCompassion patronizing and rude]], and treat everything as a business transaction. They also assign a value to useful information as well as physical goods, and as such, they're one of the galaxy's finest [[InformationBroker information brokers]] if you're willing to give ''them'' information in exchange. They're also an incredibly secretive race [[spoiler:as they're hiding from the Ur-Quan]], and get around this conundrum by artificially inflating the prices of information about ''themselves'' to a level that would bankrupt most civilizations. Interestingly, while from a human perspective there's [[HumanTrafficking many]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive valid]] [[PoweredByAForsakenChild sticking]] [[SnakeOilSalesman points]] to be made with the Druuge, the Melnorme also include pricing their goods ''too low'' as a sign of evil, and are surprised that the human captain doesn't see that as a problem.

* It is possible for the player to be this in any game that includes a morality system, if the player makes choices based on a line of reasoning besides good or evil. Of course, many games punish you for not being either all the way good or evil (for example, ''VideoGame/{{Infamous}}''), or puts you in [[TrueNeutral in the middle path]].

'''Abathur''' (''about Kerrigan's suggestion to put failed experiments out of their misery''): Wasted effort. Creatures will die soon. Pain irrelevant.

'''Abathur'''(''about Zerg evolution under Kerrigan''): Queen determines purpose. When purpose changes. Swarm changes. This our function.\\

* Almost every powerful entity in the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' series operates under this; to the point where there are basically only one that is actually good (Philemon) and two that are actually evil (Nyarlathotep and Erebus) by our understanding. All the others have mindsets so alien that trying to call them good or evil is a waste of time; as they don't think anything like humans. (Yes, even YHVH.) Bear note that the alignment system isn't good-evil, law-chaos, but law-chaos, light-dark, with the latter determining how far from the ideals of YHVH you are - the fallen angels are dark exactly because they were cast out for disagreeing with YHVH, and YHVH is perfectly light because He marks the starting point of the scale, morality notwithstanding. Even Erebus is debatable -- as explained in [[VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} The Answer]], [[spoiler:he's only destroying the world because so many people secretly long for death.]]

** This is even something of a mechanic when it comes to negotiating with demons, who sometimes can be won over with pretty common sense means by being kind, flattering, sucking up to, or outright bribing them, but other times respond positively to being threatened, obviously lied to, or praising materialism and destruction.

** Utsuho Reiuji. She's a hell raven, which means that her natural habitat is something that is hotter and more radioactive than if not close to the sun. When she's given the power of a dead sun-god, she decides that the whole world should be an ever-burning nuclear wasteland. Why not? It's what passes as ideal for her, and she cannot fathom why anyone would ever want to live in a world of clear water, greenery and cool breezes. Of course, however, this cannot really be helped as she isn't very bright and became developed more of this morality when she was given the power of the dead sun god in the first place. Too bad most people (InUniverse and [[{{Fandom}} out of it]]) only see her as a genocidal crow.
** Kazami Yuuka. Generally, she is peaceful and polite. If she is disturbed in any way, she is consistently recognized as one of the most dangerous beings in Gensokyo. The problem is figuring out what disturbs her. Abusing flowers: [[DisproportionateRetribution death]]. Running a flower shop, where they are cut up, arranged with other cut flowers and left to die: perfectly okay. If you are weak and don't disturb her, she'll ignore you as not worth her time; antagonize her, and [[SurprisinglySuddenDeath she kills you]]. If you are strong and disturb her, she happily challenges you to a [[GloveSlap formal but non-lethal duel]]. When accused of being behind an incident, she makes no claims to be innocent, even though she is, and in fact [[BloodKnight actively goads]] the accuser into a fight. If PC-98 depictions are still considered canon, she invades the underworld, tells the Satan equivalent she did it because she was bored, and says that genocide is just a game, whether it's humans or demons. Debate rages whether she [[OmnicidalManiac actually believes that]] or [[TheGadfly just said it to piss Shinki off]]. Her answer would probably be [[MathematiciansAnswer yes]].

** Utsuho Reiuji. She's a hell raven, which means that her natural habitat is something that is hotter and more radioactive than the sun. When she's given the power of a dead sun-god, she decides that the whole world should be an ever-burning nuclear wasteland. Why not? It's what passes as ideal for her, and she cannot fathom why anyone would ever want to live in a world of clear water, greenery and cool breezes. Too bad most people (InUniverse and [[{{Fandom}} out of it]]) only see her as a genocidal crow.

* The "Dragonfall" DLC for ''Videogame/ShadowrunReturns'' features an AI who claims to that concepts of "good" and "evil" are human judgments irrelevant to it.

** The ''Forerunner Trilogy'' manages to simultaneously play this straight and subvert it. [[spoiler:The Flood is the reincarnation of immeasurably old and unimaginably powerful beings known as The Precursors. On one hand they are every bit as inscrutable as beings that old would be. On the other hand the Flood has a very clear purpose, revenge for the Forerunners nearly wiping them out.]]

* Depending on the writers, the Daedra of ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' can be beyond human comprehension, ambivalently moral, or just plain evil. Some individual Daedra have both good and bad aspects, such as Sheogorath, the Daedric God of Madness, Creativity and Artistry. Others are like Molag Bal, who is called the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast King of Rape]] for a reason. In fact, ''most'' of the Daedric Princes have good and bad aspects, or at least aspects that are not inherently evil from a mortal perspective. It's just that some (Mehrunes Dagon) tend to favour their bad aspects when they show up, while others (Azura) more commonly show a good side.

* Similar to the Elves of dwarf fortress, the Bosmer, or "Wood Elves" from ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' find it unacceptable to harm any plant, to the point where they make alcohol out of meat and weapons from bone, but at the same time are perfectly okay with eating their own dead as a funerary rite or fasting before going into battle, expecting to devour their opponents.

* The Caldari in ''VideoGame/EveOnline'' come off as this to pretty much everyone else. The Caldari's society revolves around their somewhat odd form of Capitalism, where every citizen and corporation is trying to increase their market share above all else. The Caldari state essentially lacks a government, and is a series of kingdoms ruled by megacorps. They are Cyberpunk taken to an extreme. Yet they are one of the most content groups of people in all of New Eden, because the success of their economy makes them happy, and everything that hurts the economy is amoral to them. None of the other Empire's understand this, and the Gallante have been at war with them since the Caldari succession because they simply don't believe the Caldari people could actually be happy under their oppressive non-government.