History LightIsNotGood / Videogames

* ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' has the Maykrs, an angelic race that acts benevolent to all who worship them. In reality, they had made a deal with Hell and allowed demons to slaughter large portions of civilizations and harvest their souls for Argent Energy in order to stave off Transfiguration. When the Maykrs order it to be done to Earth, the Slayer responds in his [[SpannerInTheWorks usual manner]]. This eventually culminates in him [[KillTheGod killing the Khan Maykr]] [[ItsPersonal for betraying him and his fellow Night Sentinels, as well as sacrificing countless worlds to TheLegionsOfHell.]]

* ''Videogame/{{Aragami}}'' focuses on a very GreyAndGreyMorality conflict between Light and Shadow, which have been warring so long that both sides have committed many atrocities.

* In ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'',: Abstergo Industries, the PresentDay incarnation of the Templar Order, favour sterile white surroundings, with BigBad Dr. Vidic as a VillainInAWhiteSuit.

** Jin Kisaragi is [[{{Bishonen}} very handsome]], has blonde hair, wears brightly colored clothing, and is celebrated as the Hero of Ikaruga, a war which took place some years before the game. He's also an enormous {{Jerkass}} who possesses very few redeeming qualities, is easily angered, and who's {{Yandere}} for his brother, Ragna. [[spoiler:However, by the end of ''Continuum Shift'', it has appeared that he's pulled a HeelFaceTurn, and may be ''slightly'' closer to LightIsGood]].

** When we first see Mu-12, she descends from the Cauldron bathed in a bright light, lending her an almost angelic appearance. Also, most of her attacks are light-based to some extent. She's also known as Kusanagi, the sword that slays gods, and is [[spoiler:[[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] by the BigBad]].

* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' has the [[BigBad Big Bad]], Neo Cortex and his closest minions (particularly N. Brio and N. Gin), wearing their trademark [[MadScientist white lab coats]]. Clearly they are deranged, but also some of the series' most formidable and creative bosses. Even if they treat each other like [[ButtMonkey trash]] from time-to-time.

* Two of the bosses in ''Videogame/DarkSoulsII'' have bright appearances that belie their true dark nature. [[spoiler:Queen Nashandra initially looks like a tall beautiful woman clad in white]] while her real form is the stuff of nightmares. [[OptionalBoss Darklurker]] is an angelic being who resides in the darkest depths and is as hostile as any other enemy. Ironically, one of them (likely both) is [[spoiler:a fragment of Manus, the purest example of DarkIsEvil from the [[Videogame/DarkSouls previous game]]]].

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' has some enemies which are zombified priests, who use the same healing and support magic that the party's own priests can, too. From ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'' onwards, monsters can breathe light on enemies to damage them, like the Godsteed.

** Very little is known about [[spoiler: the Fierce Deity]] from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendofZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'', but when you get his mask, you get the message "Could its dark power be as bad as [[EldritchAbomination Majora?]]"

* In ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'', it becomes very clear by the end that [[spoiler: the wraith Celebrimbor]] wanting to be the "Bright Lord" of Mordor(as opposed to Sauron's status as Dark Lord) is NOT a good thing. For all of his bright colors and intention of overthrowing Sauron, he's willing to mind control hundreds of Uruk-Hai (who scream in terror and despair as he does so), chastises Talion for his attachment to his murdered family and attempts to convince him to abandon his allies and love interest. Flashbacks reveal that he actually succeeded in [[spoiler: stealing the One Ring from Sauron]] and raised an army to fight him. He would have won except that the ring flew off his finger to return to its true master as he was about to strike the final blow. The finale reveals that he's going to try to [[spoiler: forge a new One Ring to destroy Sauron for good.]] He says this as [[spoiler: Talion's]] eyes turn orange with the reflection of the fires of Orodruin (Mount Doom), the same way that Sauron's eyes glowed orange in his elven body in the flashbacks.

* ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest'': TheReveal of the story's GreyAndGreyMorality has an [[ObliviouslyEvil unintentional]] example. [[spoiler:Around 3/4th of the game, you find out that the reason Kuro went on a rampage is because the light the Spirit Tree was using to find Ori charred her children alive without her being able to save them, part of it is revenge, but the other motivation is [[MamaBear protecting her last surviving child.]] As mentioned in the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fridge/OriAndTheBlindForest Fridge page]] It took years for the Spirit Tree to find out the damage done by him setting the night sky ablaze. If Kuro hadn't forcibly halted him, there is no indication that he would not have continued to set the night sky ablaze until Ori came home. Which wouldn't work since he was being raised by Naru to whom the action was a threat. There is a reason for why the narration says Kuro was protecting her last remaining child, the Spirit Tree was an active threat, if again, a [[NonMaliciousMonster non malicious one]]]].

* In ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'', Fuminori sees almost everything and everyone around him as horrific {{Eldritch Abomination}}s due to brain damage from a car accident that also killed his parents. [[spoiler:The only exception is the titular Saya, who appears to him as a [[EtherealWhiteDress beautiful girl in white]] and becomes his main reason to keep on living. She's the ''true'' EldritchAbomination that his warped senses see as perfectly normal]].

** In fact, most of the high law forces consisted of Judeo-Christian Angels are insane and almost makes Chaos or Neutral forces look like saints. You might as well as say "Light is Evil" in this case.

*** [[EldritchAbomination Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos]] from Persona 2: Innocent Sin, has Light-based spells when he [[spoiler: poses as both Hitler and his Persona, as well as when he takes over Jun's/Joker's body]].

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* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'': The Dream Stone is light and colorful, and the "good counterpart" to the Dark Stone. This does not stop its Spirit from being a massive {{jerkass}} who refuses to tell Mario, Luigi, and Dreambert where the Stone is and tries killing them with a giant drill machine.

** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'':
*** Tabuu, the BigBad of ''The Subspace Emissary'' mode, resembles an angel.

** One of the major plot points in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''. The major villain, [[spoiler:Mithos, is a FallenHero, and his main form of attack carries over into his villainous style]]. Appearing as a {{bishonen}} angel with wings of multifaceted crystal, he uses mainly Light based attacks, and has a very specific vulnerability. What is it? Why, darkness! In fact, all the angels [[spoiler:except Kratos and Yuan]] have that weakness.
** Only two of the Summon Spirit boss fights result in a GameOver when you lose, one being the humanity-hating Volt, and the other is the Luna and Aska battle, and Luna and Aska are the Summon Spirits of Light. They're the last Summon Spirits to form a pact with, and since [[spoiler:Kratos]] is on the previous floor, there's no opportunity to leave and level up. So a Game Over is the only logical end to a lost battle.

* Tenshi of the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' series is the BigBad of ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody''. She's a Celestial, essentially the series' version of an angel. She also caused the various incidents in that game, from causing tons of weather disturbances to threatening to unleash a massive earthquake. Why? Because she found heaven boring and so she decided to endanger all of Gensokyo ForTheEvulz. Light is a {{Jerkass}}.

** ''Unidentified Fantastic Object'' had at least two holy characters (Shou Toramaru, avatar of the god Bishamonten, and Byakuren Hijiri, a Bhuddist nun turned magician youkai who was responsible for Shou becoming Bishamonten's avatar) who favor youkai over humans and oppose the heroines.

* Orochi from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters 97'', who is a white pants-wearing white haired {{Bishonen}} who can call lightning from the sky and blasts his opponents with light as one of his super moves.

* UsefulNotes/WiiWare title ''The Magic Obelisk'' has the main character as a tree spirit who must remain in the shade, or else he will turn into a tree, resulting in GameOver.

** Meridia, a [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] associated with LifeEnergy, Light, and [[ProudBeauty Beauty]], was once a Magna-Ge, (essentially an angel of the god of magic) and retains the [[DivinelyAppearingDemons angelic imagery]]. Her titles include the Lady of Infinite Energies and the Radiant One, and she is generally regarded as one of the less malevolent of the Daedric Princes due to her loathing of the undead and opposition to some of her more obviously malevolent peers, such as the [[GodOfEvil Daedric Prince Molag Bal]]. She is also a self-righteous, [[ItsAllAboutMe utterly selfish]] {{Narcissist}} who [[ControlFreak despises any mortal free will or defiance]], [[BadBoss casts aside her servants as soon as she decides they're of no more use to her]], and only acts in defense of mortals when they have [[EnemyMine a common enemy]]. She serves as the GreaterScopeVillain of '[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'''s ''Knights of the Nine'' expansion, where her [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]] servants, the Aurorans, act the muscle for [[BigBad Umaril the Unfeathered]], who seeks the downfall of [[SaintlyChurch The Nine Divines]].

*** In the ''Knights of the Nine'' expansion, Meridia, a [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] associated with LifeEnergy, [[LightIsNotGood Light]], and [[ProudBeauty Beauty]], serves as the GreaterScopeVillain. Her [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]] servants, the Aurorans, act the muscle for [[BigBad Umaril the Unfeathered]], who seeks the downfall of [[SaintlyChurch The Nine Divines]].

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', The [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Thalmor]] soldiers in wear the standard golden Elven Armor. There's also the part of the Twilight Sepulcher dungeon where you have to maneuver through an area illuminated only be several braziers without actually getting too close to them, as they will burn you to death if you do.
*** Many players who started out with Skyrim and never played Knights of the Nine believe Meridia to be strictly good. The Lady of Infinite Energies is a Magna-Ge, essentially an angel of the god of magic. She retains the [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/elderscrolls/images/7/74/Meridia%27s_Statue.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120109214853 angelic imagery]], appears to the hero as a spark of pure light, hates the undead in all their guises and grants the hero a glowing golden sword with the power to banish and destroy the undead. Sure, she might be a daedric (demonic) prince, but only for technical reasons; a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent daedric prince]] is a deity with its own plane separate from Mundus and the term does not require an evil alignment. What the game does not tell you is that she also [[spoiler:favored the Ayleid, the ancient elven race that once enslaved humanity; accepted their human child sacrifices; and granted her blessing to their champion who fought against the human uprising.]]

* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' has April May. A pink, cutesy lady who turns out to have a terrible temper and is an accomplice to murder. Also, both [[spoiler: Matt Engarde]] from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'' and [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]] from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'', who [[spoiler:dress in white and look adorable and delicate despite being both [[TheSociopath vicious masterminds without a shred of regret]]]].

* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' has April May. A pink, cutesy lady who turns out to have a terrible temper and is an accomplice to murder. Also, [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]] from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'', who [[spoiler:dresses in white and looks adorable and delicate despite being a SerialKiller]].

*** In addition, revelations expansion raise a lot of questions about Hydaelyn and the legitimacy of her status as the BigGood; [[spoiler: namely, that she is a Primal rather than a Goddess. Moreso, it was not Hydaelyn who came first, but [[GreaterScopeVillain Zodiark]], summoned by the Ascians to save their civilisation from an inevitable apocalypse. Hydaelyn was summoned in turn to stop Zodiark because the survivors were divided on whether they could trust such a powerful being. Once summoned, Hydaelyn destroyed Zodiark and shattered the Source and its inhabitants into the Thirteen shards, severely weakening their aetheric potential. The few Ascians who survived see Hydaelyn as both a tyrannical and unjust jailer of the very god who saved them, and the destroyer of their cherished homeworld. Of course, [[ArcVillain considering who's recounting the story]] and how they openly admit they're [[MoreThanMindControl tempered to Zodiark]], it's likely we're hearing a very biased version of the truth.]]

* Played straight by Mori Motonari in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' who refers to himself as "Child of the Sun," and is a Light-elemental character (which means he can break enemy defences). Except that he's TheChessmaster and a psycho-sadistic {{Jerkass}} who [[LackOfEmpathy couldn't care less about his soldiers' welfare]] so long as they just do as he commands, treating them like disposable pawns to further his own ambitions. Exemplified with the fact that in-game, he can actually attack his own allies, a trait shared only with [[PsychoForHire psychopath]] Akechi Mitsuhide. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Oichi, the series' poster girl of DarkIsNotEvil, in the spin-off ''Sengoku Basara X'' who goes on to say that his "light is a lie" if they ever face each other.

** ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot''[='=]s final boss, [[spoiler:[[AIIsACrapshoot Star Dream]]]], is bright white with TronLines, and has an angel/heart motif. Despite this, it's perhaps the most destructive force in the ''Kirby'' universe.