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** [[NatureSpirit Viridi]] is another example, though she isn't necessarily evil. She just doesn't understand what [[WideEyedIdealist Pit]] and [[GodOfGood Palutena]] see in humanity and frequently questions why they would fight so hard to protect [[HumansAreBastards a species she considers inferior.]] At the end, when [[spoiler: Hades]] is defeated, she gets into one last debate about humanity, but when she realizes she isn't changing their minds, she leaves off in an annoyed huff.
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** [[NatureSpirit Viridi]] is another example, though she isn't necessarily evil. She just doesn't understand what [[WideEyedIdealist Pit]] and [[GodOfGood Palutena]] see in humanity and frequently questions why they would fight so hard to protect [[HumansAreBastards a species she considers inferior.]] At the end, when [[spoiler: Hades]] [[spoiler:Hades]] is defeated, she gets into one last debate about humanity, but when she realizes she isn't changing their minds, she leaves off in an annoyed huff.
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** In one of his pre-battle intros with the Flash, Scarecrow gives the Scarlet Speedster BaddieFlattery about making people fear him and getting to rule the world [[VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs in the last game]], to which Flash replies that he still has a long way to go and fully redeem himself. Scarecrow is baffled as to why he wouldn't want to be feared and gives a YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame retort.
-->'''Scarecrow:''' People fear the Flash now.\\
'''The Flash:''' Yeah, I'll have to fix that.\\
'''Scarecrow:''' Why on Earth would you want to?
-->'''Scarecrow:''' People fear the Flash now.\\
'''The Flash:''' Yeah, I'll have to fix that.\\
'''Scarecrow:''' Why on Earth would you want to?
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** Colin Moriarty from ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' who is ''at best'' a cynical JerkAss and a shady business man, who seems to have this issue. If you access his terminal and look into the notes he has on various individuals in town, you'll find out that he seems to be convinced that Billy Creel, the town's resident nice guy and adopted father to Maggie, actually murdered Maggie's parents and took her in as his personnel slave, instead of just finding her after a raider attack, like he claims. This is despite the fact that Maggie seems to be HappilyAdopted and he doesn't have any actual evidence that Billy did such a thing, suggesting Moriarty may just not be able believe, that Billy would really selflessly take in an orphaned little girl.
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** Colin Moriarty from ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' who is ''at best'' a cynical JerkAss and a shady business man, who seems to have this issue. If you access his terminal and look into the notes he has on various individuals in town, you'll find out that he seems to be convinced that Billy Creel, the town's resident nice guy and adopted father to Maggie, actually murdered Maggie's parents and took her in as his personnel slave, instead of just finding her after a raider attack, like he claims. This is despite the fact that Maggie seems to be HappilyAdopted and he doesn't have any actual evidence that Billy did such a thing, suggesting Moriarty may just not be able believe, that Billy would really selflessly take in an orphaned little girl.
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* Played for laughs in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 2'' with [[TokenEvilTeammate HK-47]]. The player has the option of installing something that turns out to be a pacifistic program, which they will uninstall after the ensuing hilarity of a the AxCrazy droid saying he couldn't harm another living thing. After expressing disgust at the thought that he nearly surrendered to peace and pacifism, HK-47 comments "It was close, but for a moment I thought I understood why some meatbags would prefer friendship over a high-powered blaster carbine." Apparently he can't grasp why anybody would not want to kill someone. In another conversation he explains "love" in terms of a difficult sniper shot.
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* Played for laughs in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 2'' ''Videogame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' with [[TokenEvilTeammate HK-47]]. The player has the option of installing something that turns out to be a pacifistic program, which they will uninstall after the ensuing hilarity of a the AxCrazy droid saying he couldn't harm another living thing. After expressing disgust at the thought that he nearly surrendered to peace and pacifism, HK-47 comments "It was close, but for a moment I thought I understood why some meatbags would prefer friendship over a high-powered blaster carbine." Apparently he can't grasp why anybody would not want to kill someone. In another conversation he explains "love" in terms of a difficult sniper shot.
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* In the point-and-click adventure game ''Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok'', the apocalyptic entity Fenris is so incapable of grasping mortal concepts of compassion that it not only assumes the Baron can't possibly care if it destroys the world (because he's dead and no longer lives there), but it expects ''you'' to accept this as grounds to presume Wittard's ghost has some selfish ulterior motive.
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* In the point-and-click adventure game ''Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok'', the apocalyptic entity Fenris is so incapable of grasping mortal concepts of compassion that it not only assumes the Baron can't possibly care if it destroys the world (because he's dead and no longer lives there), but it expects ''you'' to accept this as grounds to presume evidence that Wittard's ghost has ''must'' have some selfish ulterior motive.
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* In the point-and-click adventure game ''Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok'', the apocalyptic entity Fenris is so incapable of grasping mortal concepts of compassion that it not only assumes the Baron can't possibly care if it destroys the world (because he's dead and no longer lives there), but he expects ''you'' to accept this as grounds to presume Wittard's ghost has some selfish ulterior motive.
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* In the point-and-click adventure game ''Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok'', the apocalyptic entity Fenris is so incapable of grasping mortal concepts of compassion that it not only assumes the Baron can't possibly care if it destroys the world (because he's dead and no longer lives there), but he it expects ''you'' to accept this as grounds to presume Wittard's ghost has some selfish ulterior motive.
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* In the point-and-click adventure game ''Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok'', the apocalyptic entity Fenris is so incapable of grasping mortal concepts of compassion that it not only assumes the Baron can't possibly care if it destroys the world (because he's dead and no longer lives there), but he expects ''you'' to accept this as grounds to presume Wittard's ghost has some selfish ulterior motive.
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** This trope may be the reason why, in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', [[spoiler:Ghetsis believes that [[CardCarryingVillain Giovanni]], whom he calls "a man of pure evil" (much like himself), would be easier for him to use and manipulate than [[AllLovingHero N]].]]
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* ''VideoGame/Destiny2'': The BigBad, Dominus Ghaul wants to convince [[BigGood The Traveler]] that he is more deserving of The Light than humanity, and his way of proving it is to invade earth, destroy the Last City, and slaughter Guardians en masse. He's completely unable to understand ''why'' The Traveler doesn't give him what he wants after that, and even interrogates the Speaker for answers. Possibly a JustifiedTrope, as Ghaul was [[TykeBomb raised]] by the Consul to believe that MightMakesRight. In his mind, proving that he ''can'' take the Light ''does'' make him worthy. [[spoiler: The Traveler disagrees. Violently]].
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** During his story mode ending, Superman [[spoiler:questions how Green Lantern can be standing against him, given that Coast City is still trapped in Brainiac's collection, believes that the Flash and Green Lantern abandoned the Regime due to a lack of willpower, and ignores Supergirl's appeal to his kinder side. Clark's anger has clouded his mind, and his ruthlessness and dictatorial measures caused Barry and Hal to lose faith in him.]]
** When confronted by Blue Beetle and Firestorm, Nightwing assumes that these "noobs" simply joined Batman just to impress him.
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': [[RoboticPsychopath Triborg]], [[BigBad Shinnok]] and [[{{Necromancer}} Quan Chi]] don't understand why Jax, Scorpion (if the player chooses the Hanzo Hasashi skin) and Sub-Zero [[spoiler:chose to embrace their humanity after being [[BackFromTheDead restored to life]].]]
** Unlike many of his fellow revenants, it's shown that Kung Lao hates being one and wants to find a way to get out of the Netherrealm for good, but could not. [[spoiler:But Kung Jin did not give up hope, and he comes to his older cousin's aid and redeems him in both of their arcade endings, enabling Kung Lao's HeroicWillpower to overcome the taint that bound him to the Netherrealm as a revenant and [[BackFromTheDead escape to rejoin the]] [[HeelFaceTurn side of good]], something which neither Quan Chi nor Shinnok did not expect. While it may be very hard for a revenant to embrace positive emotions as they were corrupted and brainwashed to the point of extreme hatred in ''MKX'', it also shows that HeroicWillpower and familial bonds are things that neither [[{{Necromancer}} Shinnok nor Quan Chi]] won't understand, a la Voldemort's assumption about James and Lily Potter towards their son Harry.]]
** When confronted by Blue Beetle and Firestorm, Nightwing assumes that these "noobs" simply joined Batman just to impress him.
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': [[RoboticPsychopath Triborg]], [[BigBad Shinnok]] and [[{{Necromancer}} Quan Chi]] don't understand why Jax, Scorpion (if the player chooses the Hanzo Hasashi skin) and Sub-Zero [[spoiler:chose to embrace their humanity after being [[BackFromTheDead restored to life]].]]
** Unlike many of his fellow revenants, it's shown that Kung Lao hates being one and wants to find a way to get out of the Netherrealm for good, but could not. [[spoiler:But Kung Jin did not give up hope, and he comes to his older cousin's aid and redeems him in both of their arcade endings, enabling Kung Lao's HeroicWillpower to overcome the taint that bound him to the Netherrealm as a revenant and [[BackFromTheDead escape to rejoin the]] [[HeelFaceTurn side of good]], something which neither Quan Chi nor Shinnok did not expect. While it may be very hard for a revenant to embrace positive emotions as they were corrupted and brainwashed to the point of extreme hatred in ''MKX'', it also shows that HeroicWillpower and familial bonds are things that neither [[{{Necromancer}} Shinnok nor Quan Chi]] won't understand, a la Voldemort's assumption about James and Lily Potter towards their son Harry.]]
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** During his story mode ending, Superman [[spoiler:questions how Green Lantern can be standing against him, given that Coast City is still trapped in Brainiac's collection, believes that the Flash and Green Lantern abandoned the Regime due to a lack of willpower, and ignores Supergirl's appeal repeated appeals to his kinder side. Clark's anger has clouded his mind, and his ruthlessness and dictatorial measures caused Barry and Hal to lose faith in him.]]
** When confronted by Blue Beetle andFirestorm, Firestorm during the story mode, Nightwing assumes that thinks these "noobs" simply joined Batman just to impress him.
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** [[RoboticPsychopath Triborg]], [[BigBad Shinnok]] and [[{{Necromancer}} Quan Chi]] don't understand why Jax, Scorpion (if the player chooses the Hanzo Hasashi skin) and Sub-Zero [[spoiler:chose to embrace their humanity after being [[BackFromTheDead restored to life]].]]
** Unlike many of his fellow revenants, it's shown that Kung Lao hates being one and wants to find a way to get out of the Netherrealm for good, but could not. [[spoiler:But Kung Jindid not didn't give up hope, and he comes to his older cousin's aid and redeems him in both of their arcade endings, enabling Kung Lao's HeroicWillpower to overcome the taint that bound him to the Netherrealm as a revenant and [[BackFromTheDead escape to rejoin the]] [[HeelFaceTurn side of good]], something which neither Quan Chi nor Shinnok did not expect. While it may be very hard for a revenant to embrace positive emotions as they were corrupted and brainwashed to the point of extreme hatred in ''MKX'', it also shows that HeroicWillpower and familial bonds are things that neither [[{{Necromancer}} Shinnok nor Quan Chi]] won't understand, a la Voldemort's assumption about James [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 Lotso the Hugging Bear's assumptions regarding Ken and Lily Potter towards their son Harry.]]Barbie.]]]]
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** Unlike many of his fellow revenants, it's shown that Kung Lao hates being one and wants to find a way to get out of the Netherrealm for good, but could not. [[spoiler:But Kung Jin
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* ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries''' first major antagonist, the mysterious leader of the Children of Arkham, is revealed to be [[spoiler: reporter Vicki Vale. In her final confrontation with Batman, she suffers a VillainousBreakdown if he chooses to reveal his secret identity, as she's]] unable to reconcile the fact that Batman is the vilified Bruce Wayne. They eventually invoke InsaneTrollLogic to reconcile the gulf between Batman and Bruce Wayne.
-->'''[[spoiler: Vicki Vale]]''': [[ThisCannotBe This must be some kind of... trick]]. [[IdleRich Bruce Wayne]] he'd— he'd ''never'' be the man Batman is. [[ItsAllAboutMe He only looks out for himself]]. Ah, but of course... now I understand. As Batman, you can prey on the weak, the defenseless. [[spoiler: Just like your father did! A true Wayne!]] There's nothing heroic about you!
-->'''[[spoiler: Vicki Vale]]''': [[ThisCannotBe This must be some kind of... trick]]. [[IdleRich Bruce Wayne]] he'd— he'd ''never'' be the man Batman is. [[ItsAllAboutMe He only looks out for himself]]. Ah, but of course... now I understand. As Batman, you can prey on the weak, the defenseless. [[spoiler: Just like your father did! A true Wayne!]] There's nothing heroic about you!
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** During his story mode ending, Superman [[spoiler:questions how Green Lantern can be standing against him, given that Coast City is still trapped in Brainiac's collection, believes that the Flash and Green Lantern abandoned the Regime due to a lack of willpower, and fails to appreciate Supergirl's appeal to his kinder side. Not letting anger cloud your judgement no longer registers in Clark's head, and his ruthlessness and dictatorial measures caused Barry and Hal to lose faith in him.]]
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** During his story mode ending, Superman [[spoiler:questions how Green Lantern can be standing against him, given that Coast City is still trapped in Brainiac's collection, believes that the Flash and Green Lantern abandoned the Regime due to a lack of willpower, and fails to appreciate ignores Supergirl's appeal to his kinder side. Not letting anger cloud your judgement no longer registers in Clark's head, anger has clouded his mind, and his ruthlessness and dictatorial measures caused Barry and Hal to lose faith in him.]]
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': In the final mission, [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Devin]] [[BigBad Weston]] tries to goad Franklin into killing Michael for him in exchange for taking the heat from the Feds off his ass, and scoffs at the idea of him trying to save both Michael and Trevor. Simultaneously, [[DirtyCop Steve Haines]] browbeats Franklin into killing Trevor in exchange for getting Devin off his back. [[TakeAThirdOption If Franklin picks option C]], he can prove both Steve and Devin wrong by having Michael and Trevor reconcile with each other, before proceeding to destroy their enemies. The three even taunt Devin by giving him a ReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': In the final mission, [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive [[spoiler:Both [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Devin]] [[BigBad Weston]] tries to goad and [[DirtyCop Steve Haines]] browbeat Franklin into killing Michael for him in exchange for taking the heat from the Feds off his ass, and scoffs at the idea of him trying to save both Michael and Trevor. Simultaneously, [[DirtyCop Steve Haines]] browbeats Franklin into killing Trevor in exchange for getting Devin off his back.Trevor, respectively. [[TakeAThirdOption If Franklin picks option C]], he can prove both Steve and Devin wrong by having Michael and Trevor reconcile with each other, before proceeding to destroy their enemies. The three even taunt Devin by giving him a ReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]
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** During his story mode ending, Superman [[spoiler:questions how Green Lantern can be standing against him, given that Coast City is still trapped in Brainiac's collection, believes that the Flash and Green Lantern abandoned the Regime because of due to a lack of willpower, and fails to appreciate Supergirl's appeal to his humanity. Apparently, not kinder side. Not letting anger cloud your judgement no longer registers in Clark's head, and his ruthlessness and dictatorial measures caused Barry and Hal to lose faith in him.]]
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** The Vault-Tec Workshop DLC of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout4}}'' has Overseer Valery Barstow, a true MadScientist at heart and the "ideal" [[EvilInc Vault Tech employee]] who encourages the player to help her conduct vault techs planned experiments on the people they convince to move into the vault to make them suffer for no real reason. If you go for benign experimental machines, she's very disappointed and upset with the Sole Survivor. If you point out that this means the experiments succeeded, because [[GoldenEnding they made everyone happier and healthier]], she cries out "Are you even speaking English?!"
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** The Vault-Tec Workshop DLC of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout4}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' has Overseer Valery Barstow, a true MadScientist at heart and the "ideal" [[EvilInc Vault Tech employee]] who encourages the player to help her conduct vault techs planned experiments on the people they convince to move into the vault to make them suffer for no real reason. If you go for benign experimental machines, she's very disappointed and upset with the Sole Survivor. If you point out that this means the experiments succeeded, because [[GoldenEnding they made everyone happier and healthier]], she cries out "Are you even speaking English?!"
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** ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'' also has Cia, who doesn't understand why Lana is trying to stop her from trying to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Zelda so she could be with Link]]. As [[spoiler:Lana is Cia's good side made manifest]], she believes she is doing what they both want deep down as [[spoiler: they're the same person. Even as she lays dying, Cia musters the strength to ask Lana how can she live knowing that in every era, Link will always end up with Zelda and she'll always be left behind. Lana merely replies that you don't always get the person you want and she can live with that.]]
--->'''Cia:''' Lana... I thought this was what you wanted.
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** ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'' ''Hyrule Warriors'' also has Cia, who doesn't understand why Lana is trying to stop her from trying to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Zelda so she could be with Link]]. As [[spoiler:Lana is Cia's good side made manifest]], she believes she is doing what they both want deep down as [[spoiler: they're the same person. Even as she lays dying, Cia musters the strength to ask Lana how can she live knowing that in every era, Link will always end up with Zelda and she'll always be left behind. Lana merely replies that you don't always get the person you want and she can live with that.]]
--->'''Cia:''' Lana... I thought this was what you wanted.
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** Should the player character decide to take the good ending, [[spoiler:Fontaine rants about how he created Jack, made up his memories and stuffed them into his brain, showed him the world, brought him back to Rapture--"If that's not family, I don't what is!"--shortly]] before the Little Sisters appear and demonstrate what family ''really'' means. With needles.
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** Should the player character decide to take the good ending, [[spoiler:Fontaine [[spoiler:Frank Fontaine rants about how he created Jack, made up his memories and stuffed them into his brain, showed him the world, brought him back to Rapture--"If that's not family, I don't what is!"--shortly]] before the Little Sisters appear and demonstrate what family ''really'' means. With needles.
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** Dr. Yi Suchong. In Literature/BioShockRapture, he utterly fails to recognize Tenenbaum's HeelFaceTurn. In contrast, Ryan and Fontaine are at least able to understand Tenenbaum's change of conscience.
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** Dr. Yi Suchong. In Literature/BioShockRapture, ''Literature/BioShockRapture'', he utterly fails to recognize Brigid Tenenbaum's HeelFaceTurn. In contrast, Ryan and Fontaine are at least able to understand Tenenbaum's change of conscience.
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** During his story mode ending, [[spoiler:Superman questions how Green Lantern can be standing against him, given that Coast City is still trapped in Brainiac's collection, believes that the Flash and Green Lantern abandoned the Regime because of a lack of willpower, and fails to appreciate Supergirl's appeal to his humanity. Apparently, not letting anger cloud your judgement no longer registers in Clark's head, and his ruthlessness and dictatorial measures caused Barry and Hal to lose faith in him.]]
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** During his story mode ending, [[spoiler:Superman questions Superman [[spoiler:questions how Green Lantern can be standing against him, given that Coast City is still trapped in Brainiac's collection, believes that the Flash and Green Lantern abandoned the Regime because of a lack of willpower, and fails to appreciate Supergirl's appeal to his humanity. Apparently, not letting anger cloud your judgement no longer registers in Clark's head, and his ruthlessness and dictatorial measures caused Barry and Hal to lose faith in him.]]
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** Unlike many of his fellow revenants, it's shown that Kung Lao hates being one and wants to find a way to get out of the Netherrealm for good, but could not. [[spoiler:But Kung Jin did not give up hope, and he comes to help his older cousin's aid and redeems him in both of their arcade endings, enabling Kung Lao's HeroicWillpower to overcome the corruption that bound him to the Netherrealm as a revenant and [[BackFromTheDead escape to rejoin the]] [[HeelFaceTurn side of good]], something which neither Quan Chi nor Shinnok did not expect. While it may be very hard for a revenant to embrace positive emotions as Quan Chi brainwashed them to the point of extreme hatred in ''MKX'', it also shows that HeroicWillpower and familial bonds are much stronger than the Netherrealm's taint, things that neither [[{{Necromancer}} Shinnok nor Quan Chi]] wouldn't be able to comprehend, a la Voldemort's assumption about James and Lily Potter towards their son Harry.]]
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** Unlike many of his fellow revenants, it's shown that Kung Lao hates being one and wants to find a way to get out of the Netherrealm for good, but could not. [[spoiler:But Kung Jin did not give up hope, and he comes to help his older cousin's aid and redeems him in both of their arcade endings, enabling Kung Lao's HeroicWillpower to overcome the corruption taint that bound him to the Netherrealm as a revenant and [[BackFromTheDead escape to rejoin the]] [[HeelFaceTurn side of good]], something which neither Quan Chi nor Shinnok did not expect. While it may be very hard for a revenant to embrace positive emotions as Quan Chi they were corrupted and brainwashed them to the point of extreme hatred in ''MKX'', it also shows that HeroicWillpower and familial bonds are much stronger than the Netherrealm's taint, things that neither [[{{Necromancer}} Shinnok nor Quan Chi]] wouldn't be able to comprehend, won't understand, a la Voldemort's assumption about James and Lily Potter towards their son Harry.]]
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* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': [[RoboticPsychopath Triborg]], [[BigBad Shinnok]] and [[{{Necromancer}} Quan Chi]] don't understand why Jax, Scorpion (if the player chooses the Hanzo Hasashi skin) and Sub-Zero [[spoiler:chose to embrace their humanity after being [[BackFromTheDead restored to life]].]]
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* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': [[RoboticPsychopath Triborg]], [[BigBad Shinnok]] and [[{{Necromancer}} Quan Chi]] don't understand why Jax, Scorpion (if the player chooses the Hanzo Hasashi skin) and Sub-Zero [[spoiler:chose to embrace their humanity after being [[BackFromTheDead restored to life]].]]
** Unlike many of his fellow revenants, it's shown that Kung Lao hates being one and wants to find a way to get out of the Netherrealm for good, but could not. [[spoiler:But Kung Jin did not give up hope, and he comes to help his older cousin's aid and redeems him in both of their arcade endings, enabling Kung Lao's HeroicWillpower to overcome the corruption that bound him to the Netherrealm as a revenant and [[BackFromTheDead escape to rejoin the]] [[HeelFaceTurn side of good]], something which neither Quan Chi nor Shinnok did not expect. While it may be very hard for a revenant to embrace positive emotions as Quan Chi brainwashed them to the point of extreme hatred in ''MKX'', it also shows that HeroicWillpower and familial bonds are much stronger than the Netherrealm's taint, things that neither [[{{Necromancer}} Shinnok nor Quan Chi]] wouldn't be able to comprehend, a la Voldemort's assumption about James and Lily Potter towards their son Harry.]]
** Unlike many of his fellow revenants, it's shown that Kung Lao hates being one and wants to find a way to get out of the Netherrealm for good, but could not. [[spoiler:But Kung Jin did not give up hope, and he comes to help his older cousin's aid and redeems him in both of their arcade endings, enabling Kung Lao's HeroicWillpower to overcome the corruption that bound him to the Netherrealm as a revenant and [[BackFromTheDead escape to rejoin the]] [[HeelFaceTurn side of good]], something which neither Quan Chi nor Shinnok did not expect. While it may be very hard for a revenant to embrace positive emotions as Quan Chi brainwashed them to the point of extreme hatred in ''MKX'', it also shows that HeroicWillpower and familial bonds are much stronger than the Netherrealm's taint, things that neither [[{{Necromancer}} Shinnok nor Quan Chi]] wouldn't be able to comprehend, a la Voldemort's assumption about James and Lily Potter towards their son Harry.]]
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Not the first time I've had to say this but not agreeing with someone's actions is not the same as misunderstanding them. Get it through your heads!
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** Nightwing, Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Superman repeatedly scoff at Batman's adherence to ThouShaltNotKill, questioning him on how his refusal to kill allows villains like the Joker or Brainiac to just keep on killing. As is with the case [[spoiler:with Hal Jordan and Barry]], not letting revenge cloud your thought process no longer register in either Clark, Diana, Victor or Damian's minds.
** When confronted by Blue Beetle and Firestorm, Nightwing assumes that these "noobs" simply joined Batman just to impress him and claims that the Dark Knight is too weak-willed to fight back due to his ThouShaltNotKill rule.
** When confronted by Blue Beetle and Firestorm, Nightwing assumes that these "noobs" simply joined Batman just to impress him and claims that the Dark Knight is too weak-willed to fight back due to his ThouShaltNotKill rule.
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* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': [[RoboticPsychopath Triborg]], [[BigBad Shinnok]] and [[{{Necromancer}} Quan Chi]] seem to be baffled as to why Jax, Scorpion (if the player chooses the Hanzo Hasashi skin) and Sub-Zero [[spoiler:chose to embrace their humanity after being [[BackFromTheDead restored to life]].]]
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* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': [[RoboticPsychopath Triborg]], [[BigBad Shinnok]] and [[{{Necromancer}} Quan Chi]] seem to be baffled as to don't understand why Jax, Scorpion (if the player chooses the Hanzo Hasashi skin) and Sub-Zero [[spoiler:chose to embrace their humanity after being [[BackFromTheDead restored to life]].]]
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** When confronted by Blue Beetle and Firestorm, Nightwing simply assumes that these "noobs" simply joined Batman's side to impress him and claims that the Dark Knight is too weak because to fight back because of his ThouShaltNotKill rule. To which Blue Beetle and Firestorm retort that he's the one who callously abandoned his father in favor of Superman.
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** Robin, Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Superman repeatedly scoff at Batman's adherence to ThouShaltNotKill, questioning him on how his refusal to kill allows villains like the Joker or Brainiac to just keep on killing. As is with the case [[spoiler:with Hal Jordan and Barry]], not letting revenge cloud your thought process no longer register in either Clark, Diana, Victor or Damian's minds.
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** Robin, Nightwing, Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Superman repeatedly scoff at Batman's adherence to ThouShaltNotKill, questioning him on how his refusal to kill allows villains like the Joker or Brainiac to just keep on killing. As is with the case [[spoiler:with Hal Jordan and Barry]], not letting revenge cloud your thought process no longer register in either Clark, Diana, Victor or Damian's minds.minds.
** When confronted by Blue Beetle and Firestorm, Nightwing simply assumes that these "noobs" simply joined Batman's side to impress him and claims that the Dark Knight is too weak because to fight back because of his ThouShaltNotKill rule. To which Blue Beetle and Firestorm retort that he's the one who callously abandoned his father in favor of Superman.
** When confronted by Blue Beetle and Firestorm, Nightwing simply assumes that these "noobs" simply joined Batman's side to impress him and claims that the Dark Knight is too weak because to fight back because of his ThouShaltNotKill rule. To which Blue Beetle and Firestorm retort that he's the one who callously abandoned his father in favor of Superman.
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': In the final mission, [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Devin]] [[BigBad Weston]] tries to goad Franklin into killing Michael for him in exchange for taking the heat from the Feds off his ass, and scoffs at the idea of him trying to save both Michael and Trevor. Simultaneously, [[DirtyCop Steve Haines]] tries to force Franklin into killing Trevor in exchange for getting Devin off his back. [[TakeAThirdOption If Franklin picks option C]], he can prove both Steve and Devin wrong by having Michael and Trevor reconcile with each other, before proceeding to destroy their enemies. The three even taunt Devin by giving him a ReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': In the final mission, [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Devin]] [[BigBad Weston]] tries to goad Franklin into killing Michael for him in exchange for taking the heat from the Feds off his ass, and scoffs at the idea of him trying to save both Michael and Trevor. Simultaneously, [[DirtyCop Steve Haines]] tries to force browbeats Franklin into killing Trevor in exchange for getting Devin off his back. [[TakeAThirdOption If Franklin picks option C]], he can prove both Steve and Devin wrong by having Michael and Trevor reconcile with each other, before proceeding to destroy their enemies. The three even taunt Devin by giving him a ReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]
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** During his story mode ending, [[spoiler:Superman questions how Green Lantern can be standing against him, given that Coast City is still trapped in Brainiac's collection. Apparently, not letting anger cloud your judgement no longer registers in Clark's head. He also believes that the Flash abandoned the Regime because of a lack of willpower, but it was actually his own ruthlessness and extremism that caused his former friend to lose faith in him.]]
** Damian Wayne, Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Superman repeatedly scoff at Batman's adherence to [[ThouShaltNotKill his no-killing rule]], questioning him on how his refusal to kill allows villains like the Joker or Brainiac to just keep on killing. As is with the case [[spoiler:with Hal Jordan and Barry]], not letting revenge cloud your thought process no longer register in either Clark, Diana, Victor or Damian's minds.
** Damian Wayne, Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Superman repeatedly scoff at Batman's adherence to [[ThouShaltNotKill his no-killing rule]], questioning him on how his refusal to kill allows villains like the Joker or Brainiac to just keep on killing. As is with the case [[spoiler:with Hal Jordan and Barry]], not letting revenge cloud your thought process no longer register in either Clark, Diana, Victor or Damian's minds.
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** During his story mode ending, [[spoiler:Superman questions how Green Lantern can be standing against him, given that Coast City is still trapped in Brainiac's collection. collection, believes that the Flash and Green Lantern abandoned the Regime because of a lack of willpower, and fails to appreciate Supergirl's appeal to his humanity. Apparently, not letting anger cloud your judgement no longer registers in Clark's head. He also believes that the Flash abandoned the Regime because of a lack of willpower, but it was actually head, and his own ruthlessness and extremism that dictatorial measures caused his former friend Barry and Hal to lose faith in him.]]
**Damian Wayne, Robin, Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Superman repeatedly scoff at Batman's adherence to [[ThouShaltNotKill his no-killing rule]], ThouShaltNotKill, questioning him on how his refusal to kill allows villains like the Joker or Brainiac to just keep on killing. As is with the case [[spoiler:with Hal Jordan and Barry]], not letting revenge cloud your thought process no longer register in either Clark, Diana, Victor or Damian's minds.
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** The Vault-Tec Workshop DLC of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout4}}'' has Overseer Valery Barstow, a true MadScientist at heart and the "ideal" [[EvilInc Vault Tech employee]] who encourages the player to help her conduct vault techs planned experiments on the people they convince to move into the vault to make them suffer for no real reason. If you go for benign experimental machines, she's very disappointed and upset with the Sole Survivor. If you point out that this means the experiments succeeded, because [[GoldenEnding they made everyone happier and healthier]], she cries out "Are you even speaking English?!"
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': In the final mission, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Devin]] [[BigBad Weston]] tries to goad [[spoiler:Franklin into killing Michael for him in exchange for taking the heat from the Feds off his ass, and laughs at the idea of him trying to save both Michael and Trevor. Depending in your choice, you can pick C, where Franklin has Michael and Trevor reconcile and they destroy all of crew's enemies, including Weston]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'': Zanza expresses disappointment that Shulk and company reject his offer of friendship. Shulk responds that Zanza doesn't understand what friendship is, what he thinks it is is absolute loyalty so that he can use them as a food source.
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'': Zanza expresses disappointment that Shulk and company reject his offer of friendship. Shulk responds that Zanza doesn't understand what friendship is, what he thinks it is is absolute loyalty so that he can use them as a food source.
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': In the final mission, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Devin]] [[BigBad Weston]] tries to goad [[spoiler:Franklin Franklin into killing Michael for him in exchange for taking the heat from the Feds off his ass, and laughs scoffs at the idea of him trying to save both Michael and Trevor. Depending in your choice, you can pick C, where Simultaneously, [[DirtyCop Steve Haines]] tries to force Franklin has into killing Trevor in exchange for getting Devin off his back. [[TakeAThirdOption If Franklin picks option C]], he can prove both Steve and Devin wrong by having Michael and Trevor reconcile and they with each other, before proceeding to destroy all of crew's enemies, including Weston]].
their enemies. The three even taunt Devin by giving him a ReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]
--->'''Franklin:''' Hey, my bad, homie. [[TakeAThirdOption I picked C.]] Ain't that a bitch?
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'': Zanza expresses disappointment that Shulk and company reject his offer of friendship. Shulk responds that Zanza doesn't understand what friendship truly is, because what he thinksit is is actually absolute loyalty so that he can use them as a food source.
--->'''Franklin:''' Hey, my bad, homie. [[TakeAThirdOption I picked C.]] Ain't that a bitch?
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'': Zanza expresses disappointment that Shulk and company reject his offer of friendship. Shulk responds that Zanza doesn't understand what friendship truly is, because what he thinks
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** Damian Wayne, Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Superman repeatedly scoff at Batman's adherence to [[ThouShaltNotKill his no-killing rule]], questioning him on how his refusal to kill allows villains like the Joker or Brainiac to just keep on killing. As is with the case with Green Lantern and the Flash, not letting revenge cloud your thought process no longer register in either Clark, Diana, Victor or Damian's minds.
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': [[RoboticPsychopath Triborg]], [[BigBad Shinnok]] and [[{{Necromancer}} Quan Chi]] seem to be baffled as to why Jax, Scorpion (if the player chooses the Hanzo Hasashi skin) and Sub-Zero chose to embrace their humanity after being [[BackFromTheDead restored to life.]]
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': [[RoboticPsychopath Triborg]], [[BigBad Shinnok]] and [[{{Necromancer}} Quan Chi]] seem to be baffled as to why Jax, Scorpion (if the player chooses the Hanzo Hasashi skin) and Sub-Zero chose to embrace their humanity after being [[BackFromTheDead restored to life.]]
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** Damian Wayne, Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Superman repeatedly scoff at Batman's adherence to [[ThouShaltNotKill his no-killing rule]], questioning him on how his refusal to kill allows villains like the Joker or Brainiac to just keep on killing. As is with the case with Green Lantern [[spoiler:with Hal Jordan and the Flash, Barry]], not letting revenge cloud your thought process no longer register in either Clark, Diana, Victor or Damian's minds.
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': [[RoboticPsychopath Triborg]], [[BigBad Shinnok]] and [[{{Necromancer}} Quan Chi]] seem to be baffled as to why Jax, Scorpion (if the player chooses the Hanzo Hasashi skin) and Sub-Zerochose [[spoiler:chose to embrace their humanity after being [[BackFromTheDead restored to life.life]].]]
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': [[RoboticPsychopath Triborg]], [[BigBad Shinnok]] and [[{{Necromancer}} Quan Chi]] seem to be baffled as to why Jax, Scorpion (if the player chooses the Hanzo Hasashi skin) and Sub-Zero
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* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': [[RoboticPsychopath Triborg]], [[BigBad Shinnok]] and [[{Necromancer}} [[{{Necromancer}} Quan Chi]] seem to be baffled as to why Jax, Scorpion (if the player chooses the Hanzo Hasashi skin) and Sub-Zero chose to embrace their humanity after being [[BackFromTheDead restored to life.]]
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': In the final mission [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Devin Weston]] tries to goad [[spoiler: Franklin into killing Michael for him in exchange for taking the heat from the Feds off his ass, and laughs at the idea of him trying to save both Michael and Trevor. Depending in your choice, you can pick C, where Franklin has Michael and Trevor reconcile and they destroy all of crew's enemies, including Weston]].
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': In the final mission mission, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Devin Devin]] [[BigBad Weston]] tries to goad [[spoiler: Franklin [[spoiler:Franklin into killing Michael for him in exchange for taking the heat from the Feds off his ass, and laughs at the idea of him trying to save both Michael and Trevor. Depending in your choice, you can pick C, where Franklin has Michael and Trevor reconcile and they destroy all of crew's enemies, including Weston]].
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** During his story mode ending, [[spoiler:Superman questions how Green Lantern can be standing against him given that Coast City is still trapped in Brainiac's collection. Apparently not letting rage and vengeance cloud your judgement no longer registers in Clark's head. Superman also believes that the Flash abandoned the Regime because of a lack of willpower, but it was actually his own ruthlessness and extremism that caused his former friend to lose faith in him.]]
** Damian Wayne and Superman scoff at Batman's adherence to [[ThouShaltNotKill his no-killing rule]], questioning him on how his refusal to kill allows villains like the Joker or Brainiac to just keep on killing.
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** During his story mode ending, [[spoiler:Superman questions how Green Lantern can be standing against him him, given that Coast City is still trapped in Brainiac's collection. Apparently Apparently, not letting rage and vengeance anger cloud your judgement no longer registers in Clark's head. Superman He also believes that the Flash abandoned the Regime because of a lack of willpower, but it was actually his own ruthlessness and extremism that caused his former friend to lose faith in him.]]
** DamianWayne Wayne, Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Superman repeatedly scoff at Batman's adherence to [[ThouShaltNotKill his no-killing rule]], questioning him on how his refusal to kill allows villains like the Joker or Brainiac to just keep on killing.killing. As is with the case with Green Lantern and the Flash, not letting revenge cloud your thought process no longer register in either Clark, Diana, Victor or Damian's minds.
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': [[RoboticPsychopath Triborg]], [[BigBad Shinnok]] and [[{Necromancer}} Quan Chi]] seem to be baffled as to why Jax, Scorpion (if the player chooses the Hanzo Hasashi skin) and Sub-Zero chose to embrace their humanity after being [[BackFromTheDead restored to life.]]
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* A very common theme found in the antagonists of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsV'', aside LoveMakesYouEvil. Subverted with [[spoiler:Leonard Testarossa]]. After witnessing [[spoiler:[[Anime/CrossAnge Embryo]]]] and what he was planning to do, he realizes what he's been doing and hates everything he's done. Unfortunately for him, RedemptionEqualsDeath.
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* A very common theme found in the antagonists of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsV'', aside LoveMakesYouEvil. Subverted with [[spoiler:Leonard Testarossa]]. After witnessing [[spoiler:[[Anime/CrossAnge Embryo]]]] and what he was planning to do, he realizes what he's been doing and hates everything he's done. Unfortunately for him, RedemptionEqualsDeath.RedemptionEqualsDeath.
* ''VideoGame/Injustice2'':
** During his story mode ending, [[spoiler:Superman questions how Green Lantern can be standing against him given that Coast City is still trapped in Brainiac's collection. Apparently not letting rage and vengeance cloud your judgement no longer registers in Clark's head. Superman also believes that the Flash abandoned the Regime because of a lack of willpower, but it was actually his own ruthlessness and extremism that caused his former friend to lose faith in him.]]
** Damian Wayne and Superman scoff at Batman's adherence to [[ThouShaltNotKill his no-killing rule]], questioning him on how his refusal to kill allows villains like the Joker or Brainiac to just keep on killing.
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** During his story mode ending, [[spoiler:Superman questions how Green Lantern can be standing against him given that Coast City is still trapped in Brainiac's collection. Apparently not letting rage and vengeance cloud your judgement no longer registers in Clark's head. Superman also believes that the Flash abandoned the Regime because of a lack of willpower, but it was actually his own ruthlessness and extremism that caused his former friend to lose faith in him.]]
** Damian Wayne and Superman scoff at Batman's adherence to [[ThouShaltNotKill his no-killing rule]], questioning him on how his refusal to kill allows villains like the Joker or Brainiac to just keep on killing.
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* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'': While more of a [[TheHedonist hedonistic]] BloodKnight than actually evil, Augus, as shown in a flashback, can't seem to understand that Asura fights to protect his family; as far as he's concerned, the ''only'' reason to fight is for the sake of fighting.
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'':
** This constitutes the core of The Riddler's beliefs as evidenced in ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', with regards to Batman. To wit: he believes Batman is a VillainWithGoodPublicity bribing the Gotham Police Department and stealing money from the crooks he captures, because "no one's that selfless."
** Likewise, in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', the Joker is completely baffled over why Batman chose to [[SaveTheVillain save him]] from falling to his death. The [=GCPD=] are also confused, deciding that the only reason Batman would "jump off a building to save the Joker's sorry ass" is that they must be partners.
** The Joker does end up coming to this understanding at the end of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' when the bottle of serum needed to save Joker's life gets smashed on the floor. Batman gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
---> '''Joker:''' Quick, the cure! What are you waiting for? Come on! I killed your girlfriend, poisoned Gotham, and hell... it's not even breakfast. But so what? We all know you'll save me.\\
'''Batman:''' ''[pondering whether or not to give the cure to the Joker, after drinking some of it]'' Every decision you've ever made ends with death and misery. People die. I stop you. You'll just break out and do it again.\\
'''Joker:''' ''[laughs at the absurdity of cat and mouse]'' Think of it as a running gag!\\
''[the Joker leaps out and stabs Batman in the shoulder, causing him to drop the vial containing the cure, shattering it]''\\
'''Joker:''' No!\\
''[Batman pulls out the knife while the Joker drops to the floor and begins desperately trying to grab some of the cure]''\\
'''Joker:''' Are you happy now?\\
'''Batman:''' You want to know something funny? Even after everything you've done, I would have saved you.\\
'''Joker:''' ''[laughs, coughs]'' That actually is... pretty funny... ''[starts laughing and coughing, then gasping for air and finally dies, smiling]''
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''
** An [[InGamenovel in-game book]] found throughout the series contains an interview with a Dremora, a type of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]], which reveals their view of the mortal races. Daedra, being immortal, are unable to comprehend why mortals do not succumb to despair in spite of the knowledge that their own existence is finite.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', [[PhysicalGod Tribunal deity]] Vivec's BatmanGambit to defeat [[BigBad Dagoth Ur]] banks on this. Dagoth Ur believes that [[PlayerCharacter the Nerevarine]], who possesses each of the [[ArtifactOfDoom Tools of Kagrenac]], has brought them to draw power from the [[CosmicKeystone Heart of Lorkhan]], the source of Dagoth Ur (and the Tribunal's) divine power, to make his/herself immortal as well. Thus, he spends much of the fight [[AGodAmI toying with]] the Nevevarine and [[IShallTauntYou taunting him/her]] about his own power. He doesn't realize until it's too late the the Nerevarine actually intends to destroy the enchantments on the Heart, denying it's power to ''anyone''. ([[NoImmortalInertia Power that Dagoth Ur requires to exist]].)
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'':
** Shepard usually wins for two reasons: first, the [[EldritchAbomination Reapers]] underestimate just how though they and the rest of the team is, but second and more importantly because they can't comprehend the fact that Shepard is willing to throw themself into almost certain death for the sake of others.
** If playing Shepard as a paragon, the Illusive Man makes a similar mistake [[spoiler: by not having any backup plan to seize the Collector base when Shepard decides to blow it]] other than relying on Miranda (and possibly the rest of the Cerberus personnel on the ''Normandy'') to get it for him. Of course, he hadn't even known their base ''was'' a space station until Shepard landed on the damn thing.
** The Reapers also fail to predict that the Protheans might choose to sabotage their ''next'' attack rather than fighting to the last man to survive the ''current'' one, and their efforts to keep an alliance from happening in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' by pressing on the borders of all the major species run into trouble when the various races ultimately prove willing to support the overall plan rather than protect their own borders at the expense of everyone else. Then comes the Miracle at Palaven, when they don't predict commandoes willingly accepting their own deaths rather than risking indoctrination while placing nuclear weapons inside their carapaces. Really, the most common cause of Reaper defeat and inconvenience is that they assume everyone else is as devoted to self-preservation as they are and thus get dragged down by a HeroicSacrifice.
* In ''VideoGame/SoulCaliburV'', Final Boss [[LightisNotGood Elysium]], the soul of [[UnholyHolySword Soul Calibur]] cannot understand why anti-hero turned [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome true hero]] Patroklos refuses to kill his sister Pyrrha even though she's become a [[DemonicPossession Malfested]]. After she is slain in the final battle, her last words are "I don't understand."
* [[BlackMagicianGirl Morrigan]] in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is quite confused by her feelings of attachment to the Warden, though she eventually does grow to [[HeelFaceTurn accept]] [[DefrostingIceQueen them]]. She also tends to be confused by any action that doesn't involve being an utter asshole due to being raised with a StupidEvil mentality by a HumanoidAbomination.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'', when Galuf's BerserkButton gets pressed and he charges Exdeath in one-on-one battle, the villain comments that "not even all the hatred in the world can destroy me!" Sure enough, Exdeath gets his ass beaten because it wasn't hate, but [[ThePowerOfLove something else entirely]] that made Galuf fight on ''while at zero hit points''.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', Kefka, upon gaining godhood, believed that [[StrawNihilist living life and creating things is pointless due to the fact that they die anyways and that creation is inevitably destroyed anyways and meaning nothing in the end, as well as being baffled as to why they continue doing these]]. Terra, as well as the rest of the Returners, cite how, despite living in the crapsack state that their world is in, still celebrated the event of living, as well as love, even citing their experiences. Predictably, Kefka does not take it well, declares their references "sound like pages from a self help book" in disgust and then preparing to destroy all reality. At this point, Kefka [[spoiler:[[AGodAmI has become a veritable god]], and so it is likely that he actually knows these things to be true (at least in this setting) rather than it simply being his philosophy. The heroes' pleas fail to convince Kefka otherwise, primarily because little if any of what they say actually applies to him (he has no friends or family, so that takes care of about half of it right there). From his point of view his goal is ([[OmnicidalManiac ironically]]) fairly logical.]]
* ''VideoGame/EarthBound:'' Giygas [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm cannot grasp the true form]] of human emotion.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManZero:'' Dr. Weil's many {{Breaking Speech}}es failed because Zero is a PunchClockHero.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'':
** Completely inverted with Sargeras, the creator and leader of the Burning Legion. Originally belonging to a race of god-like beings called the Titans, he and his kind traveled throughout the cosmos to bring order to worlds; they were so powerful they defeated the Old Gods, the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s of Azeroth, and created the dragons to become the world's stewards. While defeating and imprisoning the demons of the Twisting Nether, their evil caused Sargeras to question the Titans' quest for order. He was driven into depression after witnessing the chaos wrought by the demons, especially after defeating the vampiric Nathrezim, whose manipulative bastardy on various worlds affected him deeply. Eventually, he went completely off the rails with the belief that the Titans' quest for order was essentially ''wrong'', given that he saw the Universe as intrinsically chaotic and evil. The last the Titans saw him, Sargeras had freed the demons he had personally previously imprisoned, made them a part of his army, and sent his Burning Legion to bring war upon the Universe, putting into action the corruption of the Draenei and Orcs, the birth of the Lich King, and the multiple near-destruction of Azeroth itself. An example of GoodCannotComprehendEvil taken to epic proportions.
** Then again, the Legion itself seems time and time again to be unable to comprehend mortal beings. They never seem to consider the possibility of mortals putting aside their hatreds for each other to fight the Legion, nor did they predict that the Lich King would turn against them instead of submitting to his new position as a tool of the Legion (essentially, a lesser being defying them).
*** Played with by the Nathrezim, who are cunning enough to wage warfare at a distance, stoking up conflict between factions to distract them from the real threat, and manipulate useful pawns to enact their will with plausible deniability. This does not stop them from making slip-ups of this variety on occasion. One happens when their leader, Mal'Ganis, assumes [[EvilPrince Evil Prince-in-training]] Arthas won't exact revenge on him for leading the destruction of Arthas' homeland of Lordaeron and forcing him into a SadisticChoice at the town of Stratholme, since Arthas' soul was just consumed by his new weapon, Frostmourne. But having no soul does not prevent Arthas from enacting his revenge upon his opponent. At all.
** A particularly famous example occurs when Grom Hellscream stands against Mannoroth, the demon whose blood he drank on two separate occasions, setting the stage for his clan--and separately, his race--to become thralls of Mannoroth's demon masters. After swatting aside Grom's brother-in-arms Thrall, Mannoroth boasts about the part he played in Grom's corruption and mockingly declares they are the same. (Mannoroth was a tyrannical ruler of his race who willing joined the Legion and served as a frontline commander during the War Of The Ancients.) In a dramatic moment equal parts BigNo and ShutUpHannibal, [[HeroicSacrifice Grom buries his axe deep into Mannoroth's chest at the cost of his own life]], a clear statement that they are not.
* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'':
** Should the player character decide to take the good ending, [[spoiler:Fontaine rants about how he created Jack, made up his memories and stuffed them into his brain, showed him the world, brought him back to Rapture--"If that's not family, I don't what is!"--shortly]] before the Little Sisters appear and demonstrate what family ''really'' means. With needles.
** A milder example occurs with Andrew Ryan, who seems to be incapable of understanding selflessness or even believing that it truly exists. "In the end, all that matters to you is you, and all that matters to me is me. It is the nature of things." He says this regardless of whether you've made selfish decisions up to this point or not. Tellingly, Ryan also admits that he cannot 'raise a hand' against his own flesh and blood, further playing into the hypocrisy of his own belief system.
** Dr. Yi Suchong. In Literature/BioShockRapture, he utterly fails to recognize Tenenbaum's HeelFaceTurn. In contrast, Ryan and Fontaine are at least able to understand Tenenbaum's change of conscience.
* While subtitled, ''Videogame/SpyroTheDragon'''s Malefor is clearly caught off guard when [[spoiler: Cynder is freed from his mind control by the PowerOfLove]]. In the entire battle, this is about the only thing that actually seems to truly surprise him.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'': The entire reason for the Peace Walker project is because [[BigBad Hot Coldman]] genuinely believed that humans were too weak-willed to actually retaliate against a nuclear strike even to save their own lives, going so far as to have Peace Walker transmit false data to NORAD in order to force the military to decide whether or not to retaliate. Posthumously, Coldman is proven wrong when the military actually ''does'' try to order a retaliatory strike, and are only prevented from doing so [[spoiler: when Peace Walker drowns itself in Lake Nicaragua to stop the data transmission]]. Venom Snake even lampshades this on a cassette tape in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain The Phantom Pain]]'':
-->'''Venom Snake:''' "Humans are incapable of destroying themselves?" Turns out he never knew ''what'' humans are capable of.
* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}:''
** ''Videogame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'': Laharl hates love and thinks it's worthless, [[spoiler: at first]].
** ''Videogame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'': Rozalin cannot understand why Adel would want to escort her home instead of using her as a pawn in his own plans. She is willing to fight to protect Hanako and Taro, but believes she's only doing that because they are her "vassals", and caring for your vassals is what nobles are required to do.
** Mao in ''Videogame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'' has this problem. Despite his obsessive research on super hero tropes, cliches, and plot devices, he just doesn't get stuff like love and courage. He knows they exist, but can't make heads or tails of them.
** ''Videogame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten'': Valvatorez, a nice guy for a demon, has the balls to accuse ''God'' of this. He claims that even God could not have foreseen the demons' use of ThePowerOfFriendship to defeat his creation Fear the Great.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'':
** This was ultimately [[spoiler:Ghetsis']] downfall. [[spoiler:His own dialog shows he personally believed everyone saw Pokemon as tools, just as he did. Because of this, he allows his son N to encounter Pokemon that had a truly caring relationship with their trainers, causing N to question Team Plasma's cause and befriend the player character, whom Ghetsis continuously underestimates because he doesn't believe they ''can'' behave selflessly and/or care about their Pokemon. As a result, the player acquires the other legendary dragon, defeats N, and for a nice bonus personally curbstomps Ghetsis with ThePowerOfFriendship. Cue [[VillainousBreakdown screaming breakdown]].]]
** Bites [[spoiler: Ghetsis]] again in the sequels, where he insists to himself aloud, on-screen, that Pokemon ([[spoiler:and "that inhuman freak" N]]) aren't sentient and so ''can't'' hate him, only [[ItsAllAboutMe serve him]]. Right in front of two trainers, at least half a dozen Pokemon, two legendary dragons, [[spoiler:and one "inhuman freak"]], [[{{Understatement}} none of whom agree with him]]. He also dismisses Colress's research verifying ThePowerOfFriendship, despite having personally hired Colress to study how best to make Pokemon powerful [[spoiler:and lead Team Plasma in his stead]].
* In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum]]'', Cyrus's conviction that [[StrawNihilist the nature of human spirit is what is wrong with the universe]] leaves him dumbfounded that you would stop him from [[OmnicidalManiac destroying reality]] [[EndOfTheWorldSpecial to start over]].
* Implied in ''Videogame/DungeonKeeper'', especially the first game. Before each mission, The Evil Mentor gives you a brief introduction to the land you're about to conquer. He seems both revolted and amazed by the happy, peaceful, non-violent lives the peasants are able to lead. One town, for example, is described as 'a truly bizarre realm' because the inhabitants prefer talking, laughing and singing over arguing, drawing daggers and murdering each other in a gurgling rush of blood.
* [[DefectorFromDecadence Sagacious Zu]] manages to trick [[TinTyrant Death's Hand]] into burying himself in ''Videogame/JadeEmpire'' because Death's Hand wasn't prepared for the possibility that his foe would sacrifice himself to complete his goal.
* This is the key to success in ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''. Each of the initial five scenarios are prepared with AM assuming his captives would fall victim to their baser desires, [[spoiler: but to complete them each character has to overcome their flaws and make sacrifices, [[LogicBomb which utterly baffles the mad AI]], who can not see humans as anything but utter bastards. In the endgame, you have to defeat three computers representing AM's Ego, Superego and Id. Using the Forgiveness totem on the Ego causes him to shut down, since he can't comprehend how anyone would forgive him for all he's done]].
* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'': Dimentio simply thought that, after the heroes used up the Pure Hearts to defeat Bleck, they would be gone for good, thus meaning the only threat to him after backstabbing a weakened Count Bleck and gaining the Chaos Heart would be forever gone. As such, he ends up legitimately surprised when the Pure Hearts return (thanks to the love between Bleck, Tippi/Timpani, and his followers) and remove his invulnerability.
* ''VideoGame/FearEffect'': Yim Lau Wong (The King of Hell) turns out to have no concept of human decency. If you make the choice to not have Hana and Glas shoot each other, The King of Hell will fly into a rage and say "Mei Yun, you have come too far to ''disappoint'' me!"
* Played for laughs in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 2'' with [[TokenEvilTeammate HK-47]]. The player has the option of installing something that turns out to be a pacifistic program, which they will uninstall after the ensuing hilarity of a the AxCrazy droid saying he couldn't harm another living thing. After expressing disgust at the thought that he nearly surrendered to peace and pacifism, HK-47 comments "It was close, but for a moment I thought I understood why some meatbags would prefer friendship over a high-powered blaster carbine." Apparently he can't grasp why anybody would not want to kill someone. In another conversation he explains "love" in terms of a difficult sniper shot.
* The BigBad of ''Videogame/{{Persona 4}}'', [[spoiler: Izanami]], expresses her disbelief that [[spoiler: "the will of so few could surpass the will of so many" in regards to the protagonist's [[ThePowerOfFriendship Social Links]]. She also can't understand why humans wouldn't want to live in ignorance.]]
* Evil in general doesn't seem to have any real problems with understanding good in ''Videogame/StarControl''. The [[spoiler: Neo-Dnyarri]] gets bitten in the ass by self-serving pointlessly cruel evil not being able to get honourable evil, though: [[spoiler: it]] sends you against the most powerful race in the region to get killed. That would be fine... except that race happens to have been enslaved by [[spoiler: the Dnyarri]] and with the sort of sense of honor that would let you just leave the area unmolested (once) for warning them about the [[spoiler: Dnyarri returning]].
* Despite his alchemical and tactical genius, Hazama/Terumi Yuuki from ''Videogame/BlazBlue'' either considers the spirit of goodness (and what motivates people into doing good) a means to [[ManipulativeBastard use people to serve his whims]] ([[spoiler:like Litchi and Tsubaki]]) or considers it shitty and boring, if he understands it at all. In the ''Slight Hope'' story from Extend, however, this bites him square in the ass. [[spoiler:He was merrily carrying out his plans in the ''Wheel of Fortune'' timeline when Makoto Nanaya fell in from the ''Continuum Shift'' timeline, and when she got beat up after parrying a hit on Jin, he dismissed her as merely a "damned squirrel" best left to Relius. Between that incident, honesty to Tager and Kokonoe regarding her intentions, trusting Bang with rescuing Jin, and counseling Tsubaki (and asking her about the unknown-to-Makoto nonexistent Noel Vermillion), she [[SpannerInTheWorks altered the timeline in a way that caused Hazama's plans to implode]]--even he was forced to admit asking Tsubaki about Noel caused it to self-destruct. Given his assassination attempt on her in ''Continuum Shift'' proper, which takes place days later, he has never forgiven her for this insult.]] And yet, despite all that, it has done ''nothing'' to his opinion on goodness, much less make him stop acting like scum. All he really learned is to let his buddy Relius take care of her... [[TemptingFate so what happens if he can't deter her]]?
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'':
** The BigBad, Caesar's FatalFlaw is that he is a massive egomaniac, which leads him to arrogantly assume that any resourceful and competent person ''must'' obviously agree with his worldview and invites [[PlayerCharacter the Courier]] to work for him. It doesn't matter if the Courier is a goody-two-shoes dedicated to protecting the downtrodden and needy, and so far have focused their efforts on supporting [[TheFederation the NCR]] and messing up the Legion's plans. He will assume you agree with his brutal regime purely because you are a capable badass, and task you with vital missions without making even a token effort to change or even acknowledge your past allegiances. The biggest moment of this comes when you can pretend to have destroyed House's bunker, and Caesar offers to repay you by killing Benny. If you try to release him Caesar will chastise you for not enjoying violence and blackmail you into killing Benny yourself by threatening to crucify him. And after all that effort to manipulate you into doing something you clearly didn't want to? He smugly boasts about how sure he is you loved it.
** In the epilogue of the Dead Money DLC, if Dean Domino, whose manipulations before the war were pretty much why the Sierra Madre is a hellhole, is still alive he'll learn of how his former accomplice Vera Keyes was addicted to Med-X and Super Stimpacks (which he used to blackmail her) due to a terminal illness and the story of how Sinclair tried to sacrifice himself to save her. It's stated that he felt strangely sad for a moment [[IgnoredEpiphany but has no idea why]]. It's at least enough to make Dean finally let go of the Sierra Madre...and set his sights on New Vegas. The backstory of the DLC also shows that Dean saw Sinclair's happiness as a form of self-righteousness and that he felt as if Sinclair was simply rubbing his success in his face.
** In the Old World Blues DLC it's possible to get EvilutionaryBiologist Dr. Borous to feel tremendous guilt about how he treated Gabe, his beloved dog who was loyal to the very end, as a test subject that he subjected to countless experiments (including turning him into a Cyberdog and pumping him full of combat drugs). When it finally hits him, he has no idea why he suddenly feels so horrible, deciding that he doesn't like this feeling and quickly suppresses it, though it's hinted that it still lingers. That's if you spell it out for him; If, however, you take his side without question, [[UndyingLoyalty just like Gabe would]], he can't shake the guilt and reaches this conclusion on his own, which causes him to begin treating his test subjects more humanely.
** Joshua Graham's unique .45 Auto Pistol "A Light Shining in Darkness" has the biblical passage used as the page quote engraved on it in Greek.
* In ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'', the BigBad [[spoiler:Heiss, Stocke's uncle,]] cannot comprehend in the true ending why Stocke is willing to be the Sacrifice unlike himself. Stocke explains that, ironically enough, it's because of the BigBad. [[spoiler:Heiss raised him with earnest love as his nephew and introduced him to people he would treasure as his friends. Unlike Heiss, Stocke had people he cared about enough to give up his own life to protect.]] In a twist, [[spoiler:Stocke's words reach Heiss and Heiss offers himself as the Sacrifice to save Stocke.]]
* Handsome Jack of ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' has an understanding of "good" that is at the very least incredibly skewed and deeply delusional. He honestly believes himself to be a hero attempting to bring civilization to Pandora while at the same time gleefully relishing torture and laughing about a time he [[EyeScream gouged out a man's eyeballs in front of his children]]. He seems to believe that being a hero is simply being rich and powerful enough to kill anyone you don't like.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', [[spoiler:if Corvo spares Daud, the assassin who murdered his beloved Empress,]] [[HumanoidAbomination the Outsider]] is utterly shocked. This is the ''only'' thing that will surprise the Outsider. It doesn't do anything to change his [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters low opinion of humanity as a whole]]; he merely considers Corvo to be an exception to the rule.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', Vanitas repeatedly mocks Ventus' firm belief in ThePowerOfFriendship. It does ''not'' end well for him.
** In the [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI first game]], "Ansem"/Xehanort believes that darkness is the heart's true essence and thus, Kingdom Hearts, as the most powerful heart, must have the power of supreme darkness. Thus, when he tries to harness the power of Kingdom Hearts, he instead gets blasted by its light.
** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'', both Marluxia and Larxene are utterly perplexed, and even slightly annoyed, that Sora consciously chooses to protect Naminé from them even after discovering that [[FakeMemories his memories of her and their supposed friendship were all lies]]. Larxene even flat-out calls Sora a delusional idiot.
** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'' Xigbar proves just how much he ''doesn't'' get it by trying to induce a HeroicBSOD in Sora by telling him that since his friends are his power, Sora has no real power of his own. This only manages to affirm Sora's belief in ThePowerOfFriendship, since that means he's part of something much bigger. Xigbar is utterly baffled by Sora's reaction and pulls a VillainExitStageLeft.
** Organization XIII has a bit of a problem with this: their entire plan with Xion in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]'' got hopelessly derailed because they didn't anticipate the effect having true friends would have on her. Both Roxas and Axel wind up betraying the Organization out of loyalty to their friends, and the higher-ups seem utterly baffled as to why they would do this. Xaldin also is shown to believe that [[GenreBlindness love is a weakness (in a Disney game)]], which causes his pet project with the Beast to fail horribly in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Infamous}}'':
** In ''VideoGame/{{Infamous 2}}'', [[PlayingWithFire Nix]] always advocates the Evil Karma decisions for Cole, and whenever someone else suggests a goal that involves helping people and getting them to fight by Cole's side willingly, Nix not only scoffs at it, but acts like they're crazy for even thinking of it. From what she tells us of her childhood, she probably hasn't met too many nice people in her life.
** [[BigBad Brooke Augustine]] of ''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon'' is [[spoiler: literally incapable of imagining a world where [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Conduits]] and humans coexist peacefully. Peace itself seems to be an alien concept to her; there's only fear, more fear, and fear on top of fear to keep people in line. The Conduits she keeps imprisoned are miserable and experimented-upon remorselessly. The humans are kept in line through coercion, and she herself is the source of most of the propaganda painting Conduits as nothing more than {{Living Weapon}}s. When the government is considering shutting down the D.U.P. because it's done too good a job of containing everyone, she goes out of her way to engineer an escape just to keep herself in power...so she can keep Conduits "safe."]]
* Quite a few villains in the ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series suffer from this trope.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'': As the only humans he faced prior to Link were cowardly and either hid or turned to Hylia for protection when faced with him, [[BigBad Ghirahim]] is driven to a VillainousBreakdown over the fact that Link keeps ignoring his threats and challenging him. It's more along the lines of Evil Cannot Comprehend Courage, but the basic idea is the same. [[spoiler:Demise]], on the other hand, is pleasantly surprised to discover such courageous behavior, [[BloodKnight though for seemingly different reasons]].
** Ganon(dorf) has a similar reaction in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', openly failing to understand why the heroes won't just give up and let darkness win when things seem hopeless, fighting and ultimately securing an "impossible" victory. Weirdly, this is actually an appearance where he's much more of a PragmaticVillain than usual, sometimes verging on AffablyEvil--he's willing to support his underlings and listen to them when they have good ideas, and shows grudging but genuine respect for the heroes at times for their courage, skill, and cleverness.
** ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'' also has Cia, who doesn't understand why Lana is trying to stop her from trying to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Zelda so she could be with Link]]. As [[spoiler:Lana is Cia's good side made manifest]], she believes she is doing what they both want deep down as [[spoiler: they're the same person. Even as she lays dying, Cia musters the strength to ask Lana how can she live knowing that in every era, Link will always end up with Zelda and she'll always be left behind. Lana merely replies that you don't always get the person you want and she can live with that.]]
--->'''Cia:''' Lana... I thought this was what you wanted.
** Zant in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' cannot understand why he was rejected by the Twili people in favor of [[spoiler:Midna]] and truly believed he was doing the right thing for all Twili by invading Hyrule and plunging it into darkness. Midna [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech all but spells out the trope for him]].
--->'''Midna:''' Traitors, ha! You want to know why none would call you king? It was your eyes, Zant. All saw it, a lust for power burning in your pupils. Did you think we'd forget how our ancestors lost their king to such greed?
* Happens during the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', where the BigBad kidnaps the party except for Lloyd and attempts to {{Mind Rape}} them by torturing them with their personal demons (all of which the BigBad can also relate to, as he's suffering from the same kind as them.) Lloyd manages to find them and help them confront and overcome each of them (involving forgiveness, courage and acceptance,) leaving the BigBad dumbfounded each time.
* ''Franchise/DevilMayCry'':
** ''DMC 4'', [[BigBad Sanctus]] repeatedly scoffs at the concept of love, even explicitly dismissing Credo's love for his sister Kyrie as foolish. Unfortunately for him, it's this view that, according to Dante and Nero, renders him unable to truly harness the power of Sparda's sword. Similarly, when Agnus is unable to understand how Dante defeated him, Dante spells it out for him.
--->'''Dante:''' You surrendered your humanity. It's ''that'' simple.
** Also in ''DMC 1'', where Trish has no idea why Dante rescues her from a falling debris, despite her betraying him.
--->'''Trish:''' Dante, why did you save my life?\\
'''Dante:''' Because you look like my mother.
* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'':
** During chapter 23, when Pit calls [[spoiler: Hades out on eating and thus [[CessationOfExistence destroying souls]], thus preventing them from moving on or being [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnated]], Hades flat-out tells Pit that he sees no difference between removing souls from existence and reincarnation. Though, considering [[{{Troll}} his personality]], he could just be saying that to mess with Pit's head.]]
** [[NatureSpirit Viridi]] is another example, though she isn't necessarily evil. She just doesn't understand what [[WideEyedIdealist Pit]] and [[GodOfGood Palutena]] see in humanity and frequently questions why they would fight so hard to protect [[HumansAreBastards a species she considers inferior.]] At the end, when [[spoiler: Hades]] is defeated, she gets into one last debate about humanity, but when she realizes she isn't changing their minds, she leaves off in an annoyed huff.
* Navarre from ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' isn't necessarily "evil" so much as "classist douchebag", but when he and some of his friends try to lure Flynn, a Casualry, into a trap, one of his subordinates sees Luxurors Jonathan and Isabeau come to Flynn's aid, and can't comprehent why a Luxuror would come to the aid of a Casualry. [[ShutUpHannibal Jonathan points out that the role of a Samurai is to help out others, regardless of their social standing.]]
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': In the final mission [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Devin Weston]] tries to goad [[spoiler: Franklin into killing Michael for him in exchange for taking the heat from the Feds off his ass, and laughs at the idea of him trying to save both Michael and Trevor. Depending in your choice, you can pick C, where Franklin has Michael and Trevor reconcile and they destroy all of crew's enemies, including Weston]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'': Zanza expresses disappointment that Shulk and company reject his offer of friendship. Shulk responds that Zanza doesn't understand what friendship is, what he thinks it is is absolute loyalty so that he can use them as a food source.
* [[spoiler:Flowey]] in the Neutral ending of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': [[spoiler:After defeating his OneWingedAngel form and freeing the [=SOULs=] he had enslaved, you are given the choice to execute him or spare him. If you choose to spare him, he makes you confirm your choice several times, all the while pointing out that he is the ultimate cause of everything bad that had happened to you, threatening to kill you and everyone you love, and finally screaming that he doesn't understand why you're doing this.]] Mercy, apparently, is a foreign concept to this character. [[spoiler:It's ultimately revealed that as TheSoulless he is outright physically incapable of compassion or any kind of feeling for others.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TransformersDevastation'', Megatron doesn't understand why Optimus and the Autobots would fight so hard for a planet that's not even theirs, especially one inhabited by lowly organics. [[spoiler: At the end, after being defeated in their final battle, Megatron reveals he's [[SadisticChoice rigged the Ferrotaxis so that the only way to stop the Insecticons from cyberforming Earth is to destroy it]], firmly believing Optimus wouldn't sacrifice years of Cybertronian culture just to save a lowly backwater planet. Predictably, Optimus proves him wrong and destroys the Ferrotaxis, much to Megatron's shock.]]
* [[Franchise/{{Lunar}} Lunar series]]:
** In ''[[VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar Lunar: Silver Star Story]]'', the villain's sinister plot begins when he witnesses an act of divine altruism and perceives it as abandonment. [[spoiler:Magic Emperor Ghaleon could not understand why the Goddess Althena chose to relinquish her powers when it meant the world would lose her oversight, and plotted to fill the void she left...with himself.]]
** In ''[[VIdeoGame/LunarEternalBlue Lunar 2]]'', the villain uses the heroes' feelings of friendship and love in a BatmanGambit against the heroine, [[spoiler:bringing her under his control.]] But he never imagined that those same emotions would empower her to overcome him.
* A very common theme found in the antagonists of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsV'', aside LoveMakesYouEvil. Subverted with [[spoiler:Leonard Testarossa]]. After witnessing [[spoiler:[[Anime/CrossAnge Embryo]]]] and what he was planning to do, he realizes what he's been doing and hates everything he's done. Unfortunately for him, RedemptionEqualsDeath.
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'':
** This constitutes the core of The Riddler's beliefs as evidenced in ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', with regards to Batman. To wit: he believes Batman is a VillainWithGoodPublicity bribing the Gotham Police Department and stealing money from the crooks he captures, because "no one's that selfless."
** Likewise, in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', the Joker is completely baffled over why Batman chose to [[SaveTheVillain save him]] from falling to his death. The [=GCPD=] are also confused, deciding that the only reason Batman would "jump off a building to save the Joker's sorry ass" is that they must be partners.
** The Joker does end up coming to this understanding at the end of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' when the bottle of serum needed to save Joker's life gets smashed on the floor. Batman gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
---> '''Joker:''' Quick, the cure! What are you waiting for? Come on! I killed your girlfriend, poisoned Gotham, and hell... it's not even breakfast. But so what? We all know you'll save me.\\
'''Batman:''' ''[pondering whether or not to give the cure to the Joker, after drinking some of it]'' Every decision you've ever made ends with death and misery. People die. I stop you. You'll just break out and do it again.\\
'''Joker:''' ''[laughs at the absurdity of cat and mouse]'' Think of it as a running gag!\\
''[the Joker leaps out and stabs Batman in the shoulder, causing him to drop the vial containing the cure, shattering it]''\\
'''Joker:''' No!\\
''[Batman pulls out the knife while the Joker drops to the floor and begins desperately trying to grab some of the cure]''\\
'''Joker:''' Are you happy now?\\
'''Batman:''' You want to know something funny? Even after everything you've done, I would have saved you.\\
'''Joker:''' ''[laughs, coughs]'' That actually is... pretty funny... ''[starts laughing and coughing, then gasping for air and finally dies, smiling]''
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''
** An [[InGamenovel in-game book]] found throughout the series contains an interview with a Dremora, a type of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]], which reveals their view of the mortal races. Daedra, being immortal, are unable to comprehend why mortals do not succumb to despair in spite of the knowledge that their own existence is finite.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', [[PhysicalGod Tribunal deity]] Vivec's BatmanGambit to defeat [[BigBad Dagoth Ur]] banks on this. Dagoth Ur believes that [[PlayerCharacter the Nerevarine]], who possesses each of the [[ArtifactOfDoom Tools of Kagrenac]], has brought them to draw power from the [[CosmicKeystone Heart of Lorkhan]], the source of Dagoth Ur (and the Tribunal's) divine power, to make his/herself immortal as well. Thus, he spends much of the fight [[AGodAmI toying with]] the Nevevarine and [[IShallTauntYou taunting him/her]] about his own power. He doesn't realize until it's too late the the Nerevarine actually intends to destroy the enchantments on the Heart, denying it's power to ''anyone''. ([[NoImmortalInertia Power that Dagoth Ur requires to exist]].)
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'':
** Shepard usually wins for two reasons: first, the [[EldritchAbomination Reapers]] underestimate just how though they and the rest of the team is, but second and more importantly because they can't comprehend the fact that Shepard is willing to throw themself into almost certain death for the sake of others.
** If playing Shepard as a paragon, the Illusive Man makes a similar mistake [[spoiler: by not having any backup plan to seize the Collector base when Shepard decides to blow it]] other than relying on Miranda (and possibly the rest of the Cerberus personnel on the ''Normandy'') to get it for him. Of course, he hadn't even known their base ''was'' a space station until Shepard landed on the damn thing.
** The Reapers also fail to predict that the Protheans might choose to sabotage their ''next'' attack rather than fighting to the last man to survive the ''current'' one, and their efforts to keep an alliance from happening in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' by pressing on the borders of all the major species run into trouble when the various races ultimately prove willing to support the overall plan rather than protect their own borders at the expense of everyone else. Then comes the Miracle at Palaven, when they don't predict commandoes willingly accepting their own deaths rather than risking indoctrination while placing nuclear weapons inside their carapaces. Really, the most common cause of Reaper defeat and inconvenience is that they assume everyone else is as devoted to self-preservation as they are and thus get dragged down by a HeroicSacrifice.
* In ''VideoGame/SoulCaliburV'', Final Boss [[LightisNotGood Elysium]], the soul of [[UnholyHolySword Soul Calibur]] cannot understand why anti-hero turned [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome true hero]] Patroklos refuses to kill his sister Pyrrha even though she's become a [[DemonicPossession Malfested]]. After she is slain in the final battle, her last words are "I don't understand."
* [[BlackMagicianGirl Morrigan]] in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is quite confused by her feelings of attachment to the Warden, though she eventually does grow to [[HeelFaceTurn accept]] [[DefrostingIceQueen them]]. She also tends to be confused by any action that doesn't involve being an utter asshole due to being raised with a StupidEvil mentality by a HumanoidAbomination.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'', when Galuf's BerserkButton gets pressed and he charges Exdeath in one-on-one battle, the villain comments that "not even all the hatred in the world can destroy me!" Sure enough, Exdeath gets his ass beaten because it wasn't hate, but [[ThePowerOfLove something else entirely]] that made Galuf fight on ''while at zero hit points''.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', Kefka, upon gaining godhood, believed that [[StrawNihilist living life and creating things is pointless due to the fact that they die anyways and that creation is inevitably destroyed anyways and meaning nothing in the end, as well as being baffled as to why they continue doing these]]. Terra, as well as the rest of the Returners, cite how, despite living in the crapsack state that their world is in, still celebrated the event of living, as well as love, even citing their experiences. Predictably, Kefka does not take it well, declares their references "sound like pages from a self help book" in disgust and then preparing to destroy all reality. At this point, Kefka [[spoiler:[[AGodAmI has become a veritable god]], and so it is likely that he actually knows these things to be true (at least in this setting) rather than it simply being his philosophy. The heroes' pleas fail to convince Kefka otherwise, primarily because little if any of what they say actually applies to him (he has no friends or family, so that takes care of about half of it right there). From his point of view his goal is ([[OmnicidalManiac ironically]]) fairly logical.]]
* ''VideoGame/EarthBound:'' Giygas [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm cannot grasp the true form]] of human emotion.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManZero:'' Dr. Weil's many {{Breaking Speech}}es failed because Zero is a PunchClockHero.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'':
** Completely inverted with Sargeras, the creator and leader of the Burning Legion. Originally belonging to a race of god-like beings called the Titans, he and his kind traveled throughout the cosmos to bring order to worlds; they were so powerful they defeated the Old Gods, the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s of Azeroth, and created the dragons to become the world's stewards. While defeating and imprisoning the demons of the Twisting Nether, their evil caused Sargeras to question the Titans' quest for order. He was driven into depression after witnessing the chaos wrought by the demons, especially after defeating the vampiric Nathrezim, whose manipulative bastardy on various worlds affected him deeply. Eventually, he went completely off the rails with the belief that the Titans' quest for order was essentially ''wrong'', given that he saw the Universe as intrinsically chaotic and evil. The last the Titans saw him, Sargeras had freed the demons he had personally previously imprisoned, made them a part of his army, and sent his Burning Legion to bring war upon the Universe, putting into action the corruption of the Draenei and Orcs, the birth of the Lich King, and the multiple near-destruction of Azeroth itself. An example of GoodCannotComprehendEvil taken to epic proportions.
** Then again, the Legion itself seems time and time again to be unable to comprehend mortal beings. They never seem to consider the possibility of mortals putting aside their hatreds for each other to fight the Legion, nor did they predict that the Lich King would turn against them instead of submitting to his new position as a tool of the Legion (essentially, a lesser being defying them).
*** Played with by the Nathrezim, who are cunning enough to wage warfare at a distance, stoking up conflict between factions to distract them from the real threat, and manipulate useful pawns to enact their will with plausible deniability. This does not stop them from making slip-ups of this variety on occasion. One happens when their leader, Mal'Ganis, assumes [[EvilPrince Evil Prince-in-training]] Arthas won't exact revenge on him for leading the destruction of Arthas' homeland of Lordaeron and forcing him into a SadisticChoice at the town of Stratholme, since Arthas' soul was just consumed by his new weapon, Frostmourne. But having no soul does not prevent Arthas from enacting his revenge upon his opponent. At all.
** A particularly famous example occurs when Grom Hellscream stands against Mannoroth, the demon whose blood he drank on two separate occasions, setting the stage for his clan--and separately, his race--to become thralls of Mannoroth's demon masters. After swatting aside Grom's brother-in-arms Thrall, Mannoroth boasts about the part he played in Grom's corruption and mockingly declares they are the same. (Mannoroth was a tyrannical ruler of his race who willing joined the Legion and served as a frontline commander during the War Of The Ancients.) In a dramatic moment equal parts BigNo and ShutUpHannibal, [[HeroicSacrifice Grom buries his axe deep into Mannoroth's chest at the cost of his own life]], a clear statement that they are not.
* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'':
** Should the player character decide to take the good ending, [[spoiler:Fontaine rants about how he created Jack, made up his memories and stuffed them into his brain, showed him the world, brought him back to Rapture--"If that's not family, I don't what is!"--shortly]] before the Little Sisters appear and demonstrate what family ''really'' means. With needles.
** A milder example occurs with Andrew Ryan, who seems to be incapable of understanding selflessness or even believing that it truly exists. "In the end, all that matters to you is you, and all that matters to me is me. It is the nature of things." He says this regardless of whether you've made selfish decisions up to this point or not. Tellingly, Ryan also admits that he cannot 'raise a hand' against his own flesh and blood, further playing into the hypocrisy of his own belief system.
** Dr. Yi Suchong. In Literature/BioShockRapture, he utterly fails to recognize Tenenbaum's HeelFaceTurn. In contrast, Ryan and Fontaine are at least able to understand Tenenbaum's change of conscience.
* While subtitled, ''Videogame/SpyroTheDragon'''s Malefor is clearly caught off guard when [[spoiler: Cynder is freed from his mind control by the PowerOfLove]]. In the entire battle, this is about the only thing that actually seems to truly surprise him.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'': The entire reason for the Peace Walker project is because [[BigBad Hot Coldman]] genuinely believed that humans were too weak-willed to actually retaliate against a nuclear strike even to save their own lives, going so far as to have Peace Walker transmit false data to NORAD in order to force the military to decide whether or not to retaliate. Posthumously, Coldman is proven wrong when the military actually ''does'' try to order a retaliatory strike, and are only prevented from doing so [[spoiler: when Peace Walker drowns itself in Lake Nicaragua to stop the data transmission]]. Venom Snake even lampshades this on a cassette tape in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain The Phantom Pain]]'':
-->'''Venom Snake:''' "Humans are incapable of destroying themselves?" Turns out he never knew ''what'' humans are capable of.
* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}:''
** ''Videogame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'': Laharl hates love and thinks it's worthless, [[spoiler: at first]].
** ''Videogame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'': Rozalin cannot understand why Adel would want to escort her home instead of using her as a pawn in his own plans. She is willing to fight to protect Hanako and Taro, but believes she's only doing that because they are her "vassals", and caring for your vassals is what nobles are required to do.
** Mao in ''Videogame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'' has this problem. Despite his obsessive research on super hero tropes, cliches, and plot devices, he just doesn't get stuff like love and courage. He knows they exist, but can't make heads or tails of them.
** ''Videogame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten'': Valvatorez, a nice guy for a demon, has the balls to accuse ''God'' of this. He claims that even God could not have foreseen the demons' use of ThePowerOfFriendship to defeat his creation Fear the Great.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'':
** This was ultimately [[spoiler:Ghetsis']] downfall. [[spoiler:His own dialog shows he personally believed everyone saw Pokemon as tools, just as he did. Because of this, he allows his son N to encounter Pokemon that had a truly caring relationship with their trainers, causing N to question Team Plasma's cause and befriend the player character, whom Ghetsis continuously underestimates because he doesn't believe they ''can'' behave selflessly and/or care about their Pokemon. As a result, the player acquires the other legendary dragon, defeats N, and for a nice bonus personally curbstomps Ghetsis with ThePowerOfFriendship. Cue [[VillainousBreakdown screaming breakdown]].]]
** Bites [[spoiler: Ghetsis]] again in the sequels, where he insists to himself aloud, on-screen, that Pokemon ([[spoiler:and "that inhuman freak" N]]) aren't sentient and so ''can't'' hate him, only [[ItsAllAboutMe serve him]]. Right in front of two trainers, at least half a dozen Pokemon, two legendary dragons, [[spoiler:and one "inhuman freak"]], [[{{Understatement}} none of whom agree with him]]. He also dismisses Colress's research verifying ThePowerOfFriendship, despite having personally hired Colress to study how best to make Pokemon powerful [[spoiler:and lead Team Plasma in his stead]].
* In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum]]'', Cyrus's conviction that [[StrawNihilist the nature of human spirit is what is wrong with the universe]] leaves him dumbfounded that you would stop him from [[OmnicidalManiac destroying reality]] [[EndOfTheWorldSpecial to start over]].
* Implied in ''Videogame/DungeonKeeper'', especially the first game. Before each mission, The Evil Mentor gives you a brief introduction to the land you're about to conquer. He seems both revolted and amazed by the happy, peaceful, non-violent lives the peasants are able to lead. One town, for example, is described as 'a truly bizarre realm' because the inhabitants prefer talking, laughing and singing over arguing, drawing daggers and murdering each other in a gurgling rush of blood.
* [[DefectorFromDecadence Sagacious Zu]] manages to trick [[TinTyrant Death's Hand]] into burying himself in ''Videogame/JadeEmpire'' because Death's Hand wasn't prepared for the possibility that his foe would sacrifice himself to complete his goal.
* This is the key to success in ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''. Each of the initial five scenarios are prepared with AM assuming his captives would fall victim to their baser desires, [[spoiler: but to complete them each character has to overcome their flaws and make sacrifices, [[LogicBomb which utterly baffles the mad AI]], who can not see humans as anything but utter bastards. In the endgame, you have to defeat three computers representing AM's Ego, Superego and Id. Using the Forgiveness totem on the Ego causes him to shut down, since he can't comprehend how anyone would forgive him for all he's done]].
* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'': Dimentio simply thought that, after the heroes used up the Pure Hearts to defeat Bleck, they would be gone for good, thus meaning the only threat to him after backstabbing a weakened Count Bleck and gaining the Chaos Heart would be forever gone. As such, he ends up legitimately surprised when the Pure Hearts return (thanks to the love between Bleck, Tippi/Timpani, and his followers) and remove his invulnerability.
* ''VideoGame/FearEffect'': Yim Lau Wong (The King of Hell) turns out to have no concept of human decency. If you make the choice to not have Hana and Glas shoot each other, The King of Hell will fly into a rage and say "Mei Yun, you have come too far to ''disappoint'' me!"
* Played for laughs in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 2'' with [[TokenEvilTeammate HK-47]]. The player has the option of installing something that turns out to be a pacifistic program, which they will uninstall after the ensuing hilarity of a the AxCrazy droid saying he couldn't harm another living thing. After expressing disgust at the thought that he nearly surrendered to peace and pacifism, HK-47 comments "It was close, but for a moment I thought I understood why some meatbags would prefer friendship over a high-powered blaster carbine." Apparently he can't grasp why anybody would not want to kill someone. In another conversation he explains "love" in terms of a difficult sniper shot.
* The BigBad of ''Videogame/{{Persona 4}}'', [[spoiler: Izanami]], expresses her disbelief that [[spoiler: "the will of so few could surpass the will of so many" in regards to the protagonist's [[ThePowerOfFriendship Social Links]]. She also can't understand why humans wouldn't want to live in ignorance.]]
* Evil in general doesn't seem to have any real problems with understanding good in ''Videogame/StarControl''. The [[spoiler: Neo-Dnyarri]] gets bitten in the ass by self-serving pointlessly cruel evil not being able to get honourable evil, though: [[spoiler: it]] sends you against the most powerful race in the region to get killed. That would be fine... except that race happens to have been enslaved by [[spoiler: the Dnyarri]] and with the sort of sense of honor that would let you just leave the area unmolested (once) for warning them about the [[spoiler: Dnyarri returning]].
* Despite his alchemical and tactical genius, Hazama/Terumi Yuuki from ''Videogame/BlazBlue'' either considers the spirit of goodness (and what motivates people into doing good) a means to [[ManipulativeBastard use people to serve his whims]] ([[spoiler:like Litchi and Tsubaki]]) or considers it shitty and boring, if he understands it at all. In the ''Slight Hope'' story from Extend, however, this bites him square in the ass. [[spoiler:He was merrily carrying out his plans in the ''Wheel of Fortune'' timeline when Makoto Nanaya fell in from the ''Continuum Shift'' timeline, and when she got beat up after parrying a hit on Jin, he dismissed her as merely a "damned squirrel" best left to Relius. Between that incident, honesty to Tager and Kokonoe regarding her intentions, trusting Bang with rescuing Jin, and counseling Tsubaki (and asking her about the unknown-to-Makoto nonexistent Noel Vermillion), she [[SpannerInTheWorks altered the timeline in a way that caused Hazama's plans to implode]]--even he was forced to admit asking Tsubaki about Noel caused it to self-destruct. Given his assassination attempt on her in ''Continuum Shift'' proper, which takes place days later, he has never forgiven her for this insult.]] And yet, despite all that, it has done ''nothing'' to his opinion on goodness, much less make him stop acting like scum. All he really learned is to let his buddy Relius take care of her... [[TemptingFate so what happens if he can't deter her]]?
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'':
** The BigBad, Caesar's FatalFlaw is that he is a massive egomaniac, which leads him to arrogantly assume that any resourceful and competent person ''must'' obviously agree with his worldview and invites [[PlayerCharacter the Courier]] to work for him. It doesn't matter if the Courier is a goody-two-shoes dedicated to protecting the downtrodden and needy, and so far have focused their efforts on supporting [[TheFederation the NCR]] and messing up the Legion's plans. He will assume you agree with his brutal regime purely because you are a capable badass, and task you with vital missions without making even a token effort to change or even acknowledge your past allegiances. The biggest moment of this comes when you can pretend to have destroyed House's bunker, and Caesar offers to repay you by killing Benny. If you try to release him Caesar will chastise you for not enjoying violence and blackmail you into killing Benny yourself by threatening to crucify him. And after all that effort to manipulate you into doing something you clearly didn't want to? He smugly boasts about how sure he is you loved it.
** In the epilogue of the Dead Money DLC, if Dean Domino, whose manipulations before the war were pretty much why the Sierra Madre is a hellhole, is still alive he'll learn of how his former accomplice Vera Keyes was addicted to Med-X and Super Stimpacks (which he used to blackmail her) due to a terminal illness and the story of how Sinclair tried to sacrifice himself to save her. It's stated that he felt strangely sad for a moment [[IgnoredEpiphany but has no idea why]]. It's at least enough to make Dean finally let go of the Sierra Madre...and set his sights on New Vegas. The backstory of the DLC also shows that Dean saw Sinclair's happiness as a form of self-righteousness and that he felt as if Sinclair was simply rubbing his success in his face.
** In the Old World Blues DLC it's possible to get EvilutionaryBiologist Dr. Borous to feel tremendous guilt about how he treated Gabe, his beloved dog who was loyal to the very end, as a test subject that he subjected to countless experiments (including turning him into a Cyberdog and pumping him full of combat drugs). When it finally hits him, he has no idea why he suddenly feels so horrible, deciding that he doesn't like this feeling and quickly suppresses it, though it's hinted that it still lingers. That's if you spell it out for him; If, however, you take his side without question, [[UndyingLoyalty just like Gabe would]], he can't shake the guilt and reaches this conclusion on his own, which causes him to begin treating his test subjects more humanely.
** Joshua Graham's unique .45 Auto Pistol "A Light Shining in Darkness" has the biblical passage used as the page quote engraved on it in Greek.
* In ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'', the BigBad [[spoiler:Heiss, Stocke's uncle,]] cannot comprehend in the true ending why Stocke is willing to be the Sacrifice unlike himself. Stocke explains that, ironically enough, it's because of the BigBad. [[spoiler:Heiss raised him with earnest love as his nephew and introduced him to people he would treasure as his friends. Unlike Heiss, Stocke had people he cared about enough to give up his own life to protect.]] In a twist, [[spoiler:Stocke's words reach Heiss and Heiss offers himself as the Sacrifice to save Stocke.]]
* Handsome Jack of ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' has an understanding of "good" that is at the very least incredibly skewed and deeply delusional. He honestly believes himself to be a hero attempting to bring civilization to Pandora while at the same time gleefully relishing torture and laughing about a time he [[EyeScream gouged out a man's eyeballs in front of his children]]. He seems to believe that being a hero is simply being rich and powerful enough to kill anyone you don't like.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', [[spoiler:if Corvo spares Daud, the assassin who murdered his beloved Empress,]] [[HumanoidAbomination the Outsider]] is utterly shocked. This is the ''only'' thing that will surprise the Outsider. It doesn't do anything to change his [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters low opinion of humanity as a whole]]; he merely considers Corvo to be an exception to the rule.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', Vanitas repeatedly mocks Ventus' firm belief in ThePowerOfFriendship. It does ''not'' end well for him.
** In the [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI first game]], "Ansem"/Xehanort believes that darkness is the heart's true essence and thus, Kingdom Hearts, as the most powerful heart, must have the power of supreme darkness. Thus, when he tries to harness the power of Kingdom Hearts, he instead gets blasted by its light.
** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'', both Marluxia and Larxene are utterly perplexed, and even slightly annoyed, that Sora consciously chooses to protect Naminé from them even after discovering that [[FakeMemories his memories of her and their supposed friendship were all lies]]. Larxene even flat-out calls Sora a delusional idiot.
** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'' Xigbar proves just how much he ''doesn't'' get it by trying to induce a HeroicBSOD in Sora by telling him that since his friends are his power, Sora has no real power of his own. This only manages to affirm Sora's belief in ThePowerOfFriendship, since that means he's part of something much bigger. Xigbar is utterly baffled by Sora's reaction and pulls a VillainExitStageLeft.
** Organization XIII has a bit of a problem with this: their entire plan with Xion in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]'' got hopelessly derailed because they didn't anticipate the effect having true friends would have on her. Both Roxas and Axel wind up betraying the Organization out of loyalty to their friends, and the higher-ups seem utterly baffled as to why they would do this. Xaldin also is shown to believe that [[GenreBlindness love is a weakness (in a Disney game)]], which causes his pet project with the Beast to fail horribly in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Infamous}}'':
** In ''VideoGame/{{Infamous 2}}'', [[PlayingWithFire Nix]] always advocates the Evil Karma decisions for Cole, and whenever someone else suggests a goal that involves helping people and getting them to fight by Cole's side willingly, Nix not only scoffs at it, but acts like they're crazy for even thinking of it. From what she tells us of her childhood, she probably hasn't met too many nice people in her life.
** [[BigBad Brooke Augustine]] of ''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon'' is [[spoiler: literally incapable of imagining a world where [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Conduits]] and humans coexist peacefully. Peace itself seems to be an alien concept to her; there's only fear, more fear, and fear on top of fear to keep people in line. The Conduits she keeps imprisoned are miserable and experimented-upon remorselessly. The humans are kept in line through coercion, and she herself is the source of most of the propaganda painting Conduits as nothing more than {{Living Weapon}}s. When the government is considering shutting down the D.U.P. because it's done too good a job of containing everyone, she goes out of her way to engineer an escape just to keep herself in power...so she can keep Conduits "safe."]]
* Quite a few villains in the ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series suffer from this trope.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'': As the only humans he faced prior to Link were cowardly and either hid or turned to Hylia for protection when faced with him, [[BigBad Ghirahim]] is driven to a VillainousBreakdown over the fact that Link keeps ignoring his threats and challenging him. It's more along the lines of Evil Cannot Comprehend Courage, but the basic idea is the same. [[spoiler:Demise]], on the other hand, is pleasantly surprised to discover such courageous behavior, [[BloodKnight though for seemingly different reasons]].
** Ganon(dorf) has a similar reaction in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', openly failing to understand why the heroes won't just give up and let darkness win when things seem hopeless, fighting and ultimately securing an "impossible" victory. Weirdly, this is actually an appearance where he's much more of a PragmaticVillain than usual, sometimes verging on AffablyEvil--he's willing to support his underlings and listen to them when they have good ideas, and shows grudging but genuine respect for the heroes at times for their courage, skill, and cleverness.
** ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'' also has Cia, who doesn't understand why Lana is trying to stop her from trying to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Zelda so she could be with Link]]. As [[spoiler:Lana is Cia's good side made manifest]], she believes she is doing what they both want deep down as [[spoiler: they're the same person. Even as she lays dying, Cia musters the strength to ask Lana how can she live knowing that in every era, Link will always end up with Zelda and she'll always be left behind. Lana merely replies that you don't always get the person you want and she can live with that.]]
--->'''Cia:''' Lana... I thought this was what you wanted.
** Zant in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' cannot understand why he was rejected by the Twili people in favor of [[spoiler:Midna]] and truly believed he was doing the right thing for all Twili by invading Hyrule and plunging it into darkness. Midna [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech all but spells out the trope for him]].
--->'''Midna:''' Traitors, ha! You want to know why none would call you king? It was your eyes, Zant. All saw it, a lust for power burning in your pupils. Did you think we'd forget how our ancestors lost their king to such greed?
* Happens during the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', where the BigBad kidnaps the party except for Lloyd and attempts to {{Mind Rape}} them by torturing them with their personal demons (all of which the BigBad can also relate to, as he's suffering from the same kind as them.) Lloyd manages to find them and help them confront and overcome each of them (involving forgiveness, courage and acceptance,) leaving the BigBad dumbfounded each time.
* ''Franchise/DevilMayCry'':
** ''DMC 4'', [[BigBad Sanctus]] repeatedly scoffs at the concept of love, even explicitly dismissing Credo's love for his sister Kyrie as foolish. Unfortunately for him, it's this view that, according to Dante and Nero, renders him unable to truly harness the power of Sparda's sword. Similarly, when Agnus is unable to understand how Dante defeated him, Dante spells it out for him.
--->'''Dante:''' You surrendered your humanity. It's ''that'' simple.
** Also in ''DMC 1'', where Trish has no idea why Dante rescues her from a falling debris, despite her betraying him.
--->'''Trish:''' Dante, why did you save my life?\\
'''Dante:''' Because you look like my mother.
* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'':
** During chapter 23, when Pit calls [[spoiler: Hades out on eating and thus [[CessationOfExistence destroying souls]], thus preventing them from moving on or being [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnated]], Hades flat-out tells Pit that he sees no difference between removing souls from existence and reincarnation. Though, considering [[{{Troll}} his personality]], he could just be saying that to mess with Pit's head.]]
** [[NatureSpirit Viridi]] is another example, though she isn't necessarily evil. She just doesn't understand what [[WideEyedIdealist Pit]] and [[GodOfGood Palutena]] see in humanity and frequently questions why they would fight so hard to protect [[HumansAreBastards a species she considers inferior.]] At the end, when [[spoiler: Hades]] is defeated, she gets into one last debate about humanity, but when she realizes she isn't changing their minds, she leaves off in an annoyed huff.
* Navarre from ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' isn't necessarily "evil" so much as "classist douchebag", but when he and some of his friends try to lure Flynn, a Casualry, into a trap, one of his subordinates sees Luxurors Jonathan and Isabeau come to Flynn's aid, and can't comprehent why a Luxuror would come to the aid of a Casualry. [[ShutUpHannibal Jonathan points out that the role of a Samurai is to help out others, regardless of their social standing.]]
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': In the final mission [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Devin Weston]] tries to goad [[spoiler: Franklin into killing Michael for him in exchange for taking the heat from the Feds off his ass, and laughs at the idea of him trying to save both Michael and Trevor. Depending in your choice, you can pick C, where Franklin has Michael and Trevor reconcile and they destroy all of crew's enemies, including Weston]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'': Zanza expresses disappointment that Shulk and company reject his offer of friendship. Shulk responds that Zanza doesn't understand what friendship is, what he thinks it is is absolute loyalty so that he can use them as a food source.
* [[spoiler:Flowey]] in the Neutral ending of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': [[spoiler:After defeating his OneWingedAngel form and freeing the [=SOULs=] he had enslaved, you are given the choice to execute him or spare him. If you choose to spare him, he makes you confirm your choice several times, all the while pointing out that he is the ultimate cause of everything bad that had happened to you, threatening to kill you and everyone you love, and finally screaming that he doesn't understand why you're doing this.]] Mercy, apparently, is a foreign concept to this character. [[spoiler:It's ultimately revealed that as TheSoulless he is outright physically incapable of compassion or any kind of feeling for others.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TransformersDevastation'', Megatron doesn't understand why Optimus and the Autobots would fight so hard for a planet that's not even theirs, especially one inhabited by lowly organics. [[spoiler: At the end, after being defeated in their final battle, Megatron reveals he's [[SadisticChoice rigged the Ferrotaxis so that the only way to stop the Insecticons from cyberforming Earth is to destroy it]], firmly believing Optimus wouldn't sacrifice years of Cybertronian culture just to save a lowly backwater planet. Predictably, Optimus proves him wrong and destroys the Ferrotaxis, much to Megatron's shock.]]
* [[Franchise/{{Lunar}} Lunar series]]:
** In ''[[VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar Lunar: Silver Star Story]]'', the villain's sinister plot begins when he witnesses an act of divine altruism and perceives it as abandonment. [[spoiler:Magic Emperor Ghaleon could not understand why the Goddess Althena chose to relinquish her powers when it meant the world would lose her oversight, and plotted to fill the void she left...with himself.]]
** In ''[[VIdeoGame/LunarEternalBlue Lunar 2]]'', the villain uses the heroes' feelings of friendship and love in a BatmanGambit against the heroine, [[spoiler:bringing her under his control.]] But he never imagined that those same emotions would empower her to overcome him.
* A very common theme found in the antagonists of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsV'', aside LoveMakesYouEvil. Subverted with [[spoiler:Leonard Testarossa]]. After witnessing [[spoiler:[[Anime/CrossAnge Embryo]]]] and what he was planning to do, he realizes what he's been doing and hates everything he's done. Unfortunately for him, RedemptionEqualsDeath.
