History EvenEvilHasStandards / Videogames

* In ''VideoGame/NetHack'', any god (even the chaotic ones, who reward you for ''sacrificing members of your own race'') will get angry with you for [[EatTheDog eating the corpse of a dog or cat.]] And in ''VideoGame/SlashEmExtended'', a chaotic (dark) Jedi is punished for attacking a peaceful monster because it violates the way of the Jedi. Averted for chaotic knights though; knights only need to follow their code of conduct if they're lawful.

* ''VideoGame/CultOfTheLamb'': The Red Fox has a clear contempt for The One Who Waits, saying that at least he, the Fox, wouldn't resurrect someone just to force them into eternal servitude.

** [[TokenEvilTeammate Morrigan]] expresses disgust when she sees Sten locked up like an animal in a cage by the Chantry in Lotharing and left to die at the hands of the darkspawn horde. She remarks that if the Grey Warden can't find a use for this warrior, then they should help release him out of ''mercy''. Alistair is pretty shocked by Morrigan's display of compassion. She responds to this shock by stating that they should lock ''Alistair'' in the cage in Sten's place instead, which Alistair dryly notes is ''far'' more in-character for her.
** She will surprisingly also gain approval if [[spoiler:you decided to undo the curse of the werewolves when you are recruiting the Dalish]].
** In general, Morrigan is against control being taken away from others. Sten is left to his fate without his own input (at least he appears that way when she made the above comment) and the werewolves were forced into their transformation and associated bloodlust. This is pointed out during the Circle of Magi quest where she resents the mages for willingly allowing themselves to be under the control of the Chantry.
** [[WellIntentionedExtremist Loghain]] knows when he's been defeated, [[spoiler:and [[TheStoic willingly accepts execution]], dying secure in the knowledge that [[PlayerCharacter The Warden]] will do a better job than he in halting The Blight]]. This stands in stark opposition to [[spoiler:his daughter [[SmugSnake Anora]]]] or even [[spoiler:''Alistair'', who leaves the party in a rage if you choose to spare Loghain's life]].
** Also, [[spoiler:despite being a WellIntentionedExtremist, Loghain states that he would not kill his daughter Anora just for power, even though Shale tells him that it'd be the quickest way]].
** Zevran may be an amoral assassin, but he will deliver a WhatTheHellHero to the Warden if they [[spoiler:side with the werewolves to kill the Dalish clan]] or [[spoiler:decide to kill all the mages in the tower]]. He also tells the Warden to "look into their eyes" before deciding to let a Tevinter slaver leave with the elves he captured. The fact that he's an elf (he is a child of a union between a Dalish elf and a city elf) may have something to do with it. This also foreshadows that despite the Crows' brutal conditioning to snuff out his innate compassion and benevolence, they truly fail at doing so, which also [[spoiler: can lead the Warden to have his loyalty permanently if they take time to befriend him.]]

** Meredith herself shows this in Act 2, when she dismisses Ser Otto Alrik's "Tranquil Solution" as too extreme, since it would involve essentially lobotomising every mage in Kirkwall. Unfortunately for, well, everyone, [[SanitySlippage she kind of loses it after that]].
* ''VideoGame/DragonBallFighterZ'': After Android 21 [[spoiler:[[WoundedGazelleGambit pretends to collapse in pain]], only to suddenly destroy Android 16 when he tried to help her]], even Frieza was shocked she would do that.

** Though Wrex isn't precisely what you'd call "evil", he is a ruthlessly pragmatic BloodKnight and doesn't view killing as any particularly big deal. He is quite disturbed after seeing [[FateWorseThanDeath indoctrinated]] test subjects on Virmire.

** Zaeed of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' is an amoral, revenge-driven mercenary who's done some really bad things in his career, but even he thinks what the people who experimented on Jack did to her was messed up. Horrific experiments on kidnapped children will do that.

** A Renegade Shepard also shows a moment of this in the ending of ''Overlord'', when a scientist [[spoiler:subjected his vulnerable autistic brother to torturous experiments]] in an attempt to create something that could communicate with and control the geth, and then pleads with Shepard to allow the experiments to continue. In [[AntiHero keeping with]] [[IDidWhatIHadToDo characterization]], Renegade Shepard agrees, but breaks the scientist's jaw and tells him he's a sick bastard who's only walking away from the encounter alive because his cruel experiments could end a war. [[spoiler:[[SenselessSacrifice The later revelation that the geth are mostly peaceful renders the man's experiments utterly pointless]].]]

** Saren may have been a racist bastard without a trace of scruples or restraint even ''before'' he [[spoiler:became the pawn of an EldritchAbomination]], but even he finds a batarian who was planning to beat a prostitute to be a repulsive waste of oxygen. Bonus points because the prostitute was human, a species he loathed without restraint.

** Also, Makoto is ''pissed'' in the sort-of sequel ''Cross Days'' when he finds out [[spoiler:that a bunch of guys (including his BromanticFoil) gangraped his GayOption, Yuuki Ashikaga.]] He's actually so angry that he tries to ''physically attack'' the culprits. [[spoiler:It fails, though.]]

** In ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', when Chip states that Eggman might be starving Professor Pickle when he had him imprisoned, Tails remarks to Chip that Eggman's most likely going to be feeding him while imprisoned, as "even he isn't that cruel." Of course, that's not saying that the food is actually [[LethalChef edible]], but still. When they arrive and meet him in person, [[BrickJoke he has cucumber sandwiches]] which were implied to have been delivered ''on request'' and are apparently perfectly-edible, he won't eat them due to [[SkewedPriorities the cucumber slices being the wrong size]].

** The ''[[Blog/SonicTheHedgehogTwitter Twitter Takeovers]]'' used to promote major game releases-- while not meant to be taken seriously per Eggman's AdaptationalNiceGuy status-- have had him discourage the audience from eating [[VideoGame/DoctorRobotniksMeanBeanMachine Mean Beans]], refrain from reading a question meant for Shadow asking about [[TraumaButton Maria]], and find the claim of Yacker pulling an ''VideoGame/AmongUs''-styled kill on someone as gruesome even for his standards.

* ''VideoGame/StarFox'': Even Wolf O'Donnell couldn't stand Pigma Dengar and kicked him out of Star Wolf. And in one of the endings to ''Star Fox Command'', it's implied that ''all'' the members of Star Wolf were disappointed in Krystal defecting to them from Star Fox.

*** Even after [[spoiler:kidnapping several love interests for Embryo]], [[spoiler:Leonard]] shoots the man in his last few moments, saying he would never do anything to upset women he loved. Makes sense since in this continuity, [[spoiler: he never slaps Kaname]].

*** [[Anime/BuddyComplex Nestor]] may have gone along with Dr. Hahn brainwashing [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Ple]] into thinking that Nestor was her big brother, but he wasn't comfortable with the whole thing. After a brief moment of shock when X-Cross broke the brainwashing, he admits to himself that they should've never used those methods to start. Having his own little sister (according to the ''Buddy Complex'' mobile game) might have something to do with that.
*** [[Anime/TheBraveExpressMightGaine The BD Alliance]] continued to be an obstacle for the X-Cross, but then Purple decided that his next plot would be "Let's piss Maito and the X-Cross off by publicly executing Sally, [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz Relena]] and [[Anime/AuraBattlerDunbine Ciela]] in front of them when they can't do anything." That brought down the morale of usually prideful and greedy people from Shogun Mifune to Catherine Vuitton to Hoi Kow Low that they're fine with 'nefarious crimes for money', but that level of pettiness is just disgusting to them and the only reason they had to do it was because Purple cowed them with a mysterious overwhelming power, to the point that they jump on board with Prof. Wolfgang's plan to sabotage Purple's, which enables the X-Cross to save the day.

-->'''The Sniper:''' "Feelin's? Look mate, yah know who 'as a lotta feelin's? Blokes what bludgeon their wife to death with a golf trophy. Professionals have ''standards''. [[AffablyEvil Be polite]]. [[OneHitKill Be efficient.]] ''[[CrazyPrepared Have a plan to kill everyone you meet]]''."

** The ''Twitter Takeovers'' used to promote major game releases-- while not meant to be taken seriously per Eggman's AdaptationalNiceGuy status-- have had him discourage the audience from eating [[VideoGame/DoctorRobotniksMeanBeanMachine Mean Beans]], refrain from reading a question meant for Shadow asking about [[TraumaButton Maria]], and find the claim of Yacker pulling an ''VideoGame/AmongUs''-styled kill on someone as gruesome even for his standards.

* In ''Videogame/FallenLondon'', there's the spirifiers, people who, in a place where souls are commodities usually given away consensually, are more or less soul poachers who steal them from the helpless to sell to less-than-scrupulous buyers. However, when a certain quest has your, ahem, ''[[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave pet]]'', [[spoiler:[[AnimalisticAbomination the Starveling Cat]]]], asking one to ''stain'' yours...

** ''Devils from '''HELL''''' will break their own ruthless and sadistic codes of conduct to protect the universe from the all-consuming hunger that is Mister Eaten. As in, if you corrupt yourself with increasingly self-destructive rituals meant to bring rot and ruin to everything you can get your hands on, a horde of demons will attempt to hunt you down and '''return''' your soul to your body. That's right, you're so disgusting that devils are repulsed by your soul and will give it back from the depths of hell just to keep you from continuing down this path.

*** Micah himself tries to declare this of himself when he states that he disapproves of Strauss' loan sharking, though this is treated as him either being sarcastic or just outright being a hypocrite considering he's guilty of far worse.

** Zevran may be an amoral assassin, but he will deliver a WhatTheHellHero to the Warden if they [[spoiler:side with the werewolves to kill the Dalish clan]] or [[spoiler:decide to kill all the mages in the tower]]. He also tells the Warden to "look into their eyes" before deciding to let a Tevinter slaver leave with the elves he captured. The fact that he's an elf may have something to do with it.

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZero'', being caught human trafficking is a nightmare for TheMafia and other criminal organizations, because it will potentially make the Bracers Guild become NeutralNoLonger and spare no CorruptPolitician standing between them and the victims.

** Kreia in the sequel makes it pretty obvious early on that she is an EvilMentor by encouraging the Exile to manipulate everyone around them, and quickly revealing that she was a Sith. However, she believes in PragmaticVillainy and will pretty much outright call the Exile a moron if they take the frequent StupidEvil Dark Side conversation options. As such, she shows up as "neutral" on the KarmaMeter. She is the {{foil}} to Jolee Bindo in the original, who was likewise neutral but always leaned towards the Light Side. She helps the Exile fight Darth Sion and Darth Nihilus, as the latter is a threat to the galaxy and both [[spoiler: betrayed her]].

* ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'': Even members of series-wide villain group Ouroboros who fomented several revolutions over the games, often at the expense of hundreds if not thousands of lives, have enough decency to not start a fight in the ruined village of Hamel, from whence came one of their members. Enough blood was spilled there already. They even let the protagonist’s group pay their respects to the memorial at the back of the town.

*** It's expounded upon in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZero'' that being caught human trafficking is a nightmare for TheMafia and other criminal organizations, because it will potentially make the Bracers Guild become NeutralNoLonger and spare no CorruptPolitician standing between them and the victims.

*** It's expounded upon in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZero'' that being caught human trafficking is a nightmare for TheMafia and other criminal organizations, because it will make the Bracers Guild become NeutralNoLonger and spare no CorruptPolitician standing them and the victims.

* Even members of series-wide villain group Ouroboros from the ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'', who fomented at least one revolution in every game, often at the expense of hundreds if not thousands of lives, have enough decency to not start a fight in the ruined village of Hamel, from whence came one of their members. Enough blood was spilled there already. They even let the protagonist’s group pay their respects to the memorial at the back of the town.