History Main / OmnicidalNeutral

* ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'': In the war between Heaven and Hell, you officially serve a council that mediates the two but are ''really'' looking for who set you up and taking down anyone in your way, regardless of side. [[spoiler:At the end you turn against the mediating council as well.]]

* In an example similar to the page quote, Russel Sharp of {{XSGCOM}} believes that his best chance of getting into heaven is if God doesn't want him on Satan's side. Another character ''agrees'' with him, saying that it would "require a rewrite of ''Revelations.''" In-series, he fights for Earth... and really, only Earth. He has shown that he doesn't really care about Earth's off-world allies, and considers ''all'' non-earth humans to be below him. At one point, he's tested to see if he was the one who ordered attacks on the [[TheResistance Free Jaffa]] and [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch Tok'Ra]], and he's more annoyed by the idea that they thought he would leave ''survivors'' "like an amateur" than the idea that he was behind the attacks.

* Remaining unaligned and killing everyone is one of the options in ''VideoGame/{{Geneforge}} 2''. It might actually be one of the happiest endings if you don't trigger the sanity meter..

* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', TrueNeutral was actually described with terms like this in 2nd edition, where a True Neutral character would actively work to ensure no power would gain too strong, engaging ChronicBackstabbingDisorder [[ForTheGreaterGood For The Greater Neutrality]]. Actual attempts to play that way have gotten ''this'' interpretation labled as "StupidNeutral".

** VideoGame/Fallout4 averts it for the main story by [[ButThouMust forcing the player]] to eventually pick one faction over the others. Fortunately, the story [=DLCs=] at least play it straight again. Don't like any of the factions warring over Far Harbor? Just wipe them all out and leave the Island to itself. Don't want those raider gangs occupy Nuka-World any longer? KillEmAll and give it back to the peaceful traders. There are dedicated quests available to facilitate the latter two options, and if done right, the player doesn't even miss out on a lot of unique loot this way.

* Most of [[VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed The Force Unleashed's]] missions involve Starkiller cutting down everyone and everything he comes across, including Imperial Stormtroopers who are, at the moment, at least, on his side. [[spoiler: This gets subverted in the second half, though. Once Galen joins the Rebellion, he never has to kill another rebel soldier again.]]

In a world with BlackAndGrayMorality where the [[DesignatedHero "good"]] side isn't much better than the "evil" side, this may be presented as the most idealistic path.

Can also result from an "Evil Path" that involves ICanRuleAlone. The militant form of StupidNeutral. If the whole point is to simply KillEmAll ForTheEvulz, you have OmnicidalManiac.

* Booker DeWitt in ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' fights both the militants of Columbia and the Vox Populi rebels with little hesitation, as both are powermad and filled with nothing but bloodlust.

* Booker DeWitt in ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' fights both the militants of Columbia and the Vox Populi rebels with little hesitation, as both are powermad and filled with nothing bloodlust.

** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' has several different neutral endings. In the first, if you fight against all three Reasons, but choose to help Yuko, you will ultimately restore the world to its pre-Conception state. In the second, if you if you fight against Yuko as well, or try to help more than one Reason, the power of Kagutsuchi is wasted by your lack of a vision and the Vortex World is doomed to remain as it is for one thousand years before fading entirely. If you complete the Labyrinth of Amala, then no matter what Reasons you were previously supporting, you officially oppose ''everyone'' now, and the game ends with you ending the cycle of creation and destruction forever and marching at the head of Lucifer's army to face YHVH.

VideoGames that have MultipleEndings sometimes make you [[FactionSpecificEndings pick a side]]. When they do, sometimes you can choose to [[TakeAThirdOption fight against both (or all) sides]], becoming OmnicidalNeutral.

* ''{{Darksiders}}'': In the war between Heaven and Hell, you officially serve a council that mediates the two but are ''really'' looking for who set you up and taking down anyone in your way, regardless of side. [[spoiler:At the end you turn against the mediating council as well.]]

* In ''TheNamelessMod'' Trestkon can side with the Goat cult, the Llama cult, KO/avoid all cult members he fights, or take the suggestion of Phasmatis (who considers the cult wars a hazard to civilians and compares the two to warring gangs) and just get rid of both.

* FarCry 2 has you killing both the APR and UFLL forces , and destroying both the factions.
** Mostly because [[spoiler: both sides are headed by [[BlackAndBlackMorality homicidal rapist maniacs and dirty looters]], and the people you're really helping as you progress in the plot are pretty much the only force of good in the game, which of whom includes the guy you were supposed to kill.]]

* VideoGame/ArmoredCore 4 Answer has this as one of the endings. Instead of fighting for a cause, you can choose to side with [[OmnicidalManiac Old King]] and just kill everyone who crosses your path. Turns out that the whole genocide thing doesn't really go over too well with... well, everyone. You're so despicable that the other factions pull an EnemyMine to try and get rid of you. [[ThatOneLevel If you can pull it off]], you end up as the last man standing, and go on to commit history's worst atrocities and kill hundreds of millions more than you already have.

* The suggested but presumably not realised Ultimate Nihilist Ending for ''[[VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery ADOM]]'', which involves neither saving the world nor becoming the new sUpReMe [=ChAoS=] gOd, but rather destroying all existence. Of course, it might as well be seen as StupidEvil or ChaoticStupid. Or just, you know, incomprehensible.

* ''TheWitcher'' has a side plot pitting the [[KnightTemplar Order of the Flaming Rose]] against the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Scoia'tael]]. [[GreyAndGrayMorality Neither faction is especially nice]], so Geralt can choose to fight both rather than siding with either of them. Just be aware that you'll amass quite a body count if you choose to do this. Hey, it's a dark fantasy game, [[AntiHero what]] [[BlackAndGrayMorality did]] [[CrapsackWorld you]] [[FantasticRacism expect]]?

* In ''PlanescapeTorment'', one subquest essentially runs like this... a neighborhood is caught in a war between two street-gangs: The 'evil' gang who take money wherever they can get it, and kill for kicks, and the 'good' gang of Robin Hood Wannabes who protect the locals and look out for one another. You can side with either, and push your KarmaMeter appropriately... or you can have a chat with the True Neutral guy who's standing around in an abandoned building, who asks you to take out BOTH gangs, since 'both extremes are equally dangerous'. Taking his quest-line, you basically wipe out both gangs - at once, or one after the other.

* Both ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' games present options like this, although in most cases both sides are "evil", for example, the conflict between Uthar and Yuthura in the first game or between the Exchange and Serroco in the second..

* Remaining unaligned and killing everyone is one of the options in ''{{Geneforge}} 2''. It might actually be one of the happiest endings if you don't trigger the sanity meter..

*** Just [[StupidNeutral not very well]]

* This is what happens in the German RPG-Maker Game VideoGame/VampiresDawn 2 in the Evil/Difficult ending: the hero willingly lets himself get possessed by an evil spirit sent by the BigBad, then slaughters his two teammates (who he holds a grudge against for turning him into a vampire without his consent and who he normally couldn't kill because vampires can't kill their sires), then drives out that spirit by sheer will, takes on the BigBad and his [[TheDragon Dragon]], then claims the ArtifactOfDoom and kills the last of the other three main characters when she attempts to stop him. Then he uses it to travel back in time and start a new life instead. It's generally considered one of the best endings in the game, in part due to being sort-of canon and also featuring TheReveal of NarratorAllAlong

** The [[TakeAThirdOption "Backpath"]] method to beating [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind's]] main quest allows the player to become this. Instead of [[BecauseDestinySaysSo becoming the hero you are supposed to be]], you can say ScrewDestiny and [[spoiler: kill [[PhysicalGod Vivec]], steal the Wraithguard, have [[TheLastOfHisKind Yagrum Bagarn]] "jury rig" it so you can wear it, acquire Keening and Sunder, and destroy the Heart of Lorkhan yourself.]] The only "side" still standing at that point is Azura.
** For Hircine's quest in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', you are required to either hunt Sinding, a werewolf, then skin him and turn his hide into a suit of armor, or protect Sinding from a group of werewolf hunters, which nets you Hircine's Ring (and lets you tranform into a werewolf without the usual one transformation per day limit). It is possible, due to a bug, to protect Sinding from the hunters, kill him and claim his hide, then receive the ring as though Sinding was still alive.

* In the ''Fall Of The Samurai'' expansion for ''VideoGame/TotalWarShogun2'', once your clan crosses a certain fame threshold, you can take the lead of either the shogunate or the imperialist faction...or you can say 'screw it' and proclaim yourself the sole rightful ruler of Japan.

* ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'' has a special kind of this. '''Capturing''' bad guys will get your karma-o-meter to hero, killing civilians will make your karma go red and you'll be attacked by both civilians and mooks, but '''killing''' the mooks alongside the civilians will provide you with more bad karma and get you loathed by everyone in the world, making you an omnicidal not-so-neutral.
* In the ''[[Videogame/{{X}} X-Universe]]'', once the player has essentially become a NGOSuperPower, it's possible to effectively wipe out an entire race, though doing so isn't particularly recommended because it brings the game's economy crashing down unless you fill in the eliminated race's lost production. You can wipe out ''everyone'' besides the [[HardCodedHostility Kha'ak]]. On the other hand, the game will slowly try to bring the race back by spawning in space stations and ships, though the Sector Takeover GameMod allows you to truly wipe out a species.

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* Creator/KeithLaumer's ''Dinosaur Beach'' demonstrates an extreme, but [[IDidWhatIHadToDo ultimately heroic]], version of this trope. The setting has been deeply screwed up by the invention of time travel, with each faction trying to prevent any time travel in its "future," but at the same time trying to prevent the prevention of time travel in its "past," since all of them are the futures of factions that were unable to prevent time travel, and none of them wish to be [[{{Retgone}} erased from the timestream]]. Meanwhile, each time trip is making the fabric of reality less and less stable. [[spoiler:The main character's solution is to travel back and prevent the invention of time travel, preventing the collapse of the universe at the cost of the lives and existences of every member of every faction in the book. He's one of only two characters, named or unnamed, who comes from a future timeline but still exists at the story's close.]]

* Equinox from WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold eventually graduates from merely StupidNeutral to this when he decides he has to destroy the world so that he can remake it according to his own definition of "balance."
* Near the end of Literature/TheLastBattle, the dwarves attack both sides of the battle, having rejected either ideology and sticking for themselves only. [[spoiler:It doesn't end well for them.]]

* This tends to be Masamune's story path in the ''SamuraiWarriors'' game - his modus operandi is to show up mid-battle, kick ass on both sides, and the declare himself the winner.

->I'm headed for Purgatory when I die. Heaven won't take me, and Hell is afraid I'll take over.
-->'''--Bumper sticker'''

* In ''KingdomOfLoathing'', there's a quest in which you fight in a war between Hippies and Frat Boys. After you defeat one side, you'll be awarded one of fourteen medals, depending on which side won and how many sidequests you completed for the winning side. Every medal boosts your attributes (from +5 to +11) and enemy item drops (from +5% to +11%), but the two stats are inversely related, and the more sidequests you completed, the higher the attribute boost but the lower the item drop boost. However, with [[NintendoHard a lot of careful planning and time-consuming effort]], it's possible to finish off both sides at once, resulting in a secret fifteenth medal that provides +11 to all attributes, +11% item drops, ''and'' +11% meat drops.

* At the end of ''VampireBloodlines'', the player has to choose whether to side with [=LaCroix=], Strauss, Nines, or Ming Xiao; which choices are available depends on their actions up to that point. They ''always'' have the option of siding with nobody and taking out both the Camarilla and Kuei-Jin.

* In the first ''NeverwinterNights'' game when you get to Luskan the city is torn between two people fighting for control of it, each of whom will pay you to kill the other. It's kind of fun to go between them multiple times telling each the other made a better offer, eventually killing one, getting paid for it, then breaking into their base and killing them too.

* ''[[{{Langrisser}} Der Langrisser]]'' has the Independent path. In something of a subversion, it's probably the least evil of all the paths.

* MightAndMagic VII featured a war between the elves and the humans over your territory, during which you could choose to side with neither and battle for your country's independence. This, of course, had no effect on your later option to choose between the path of good or evil.

* ''AlphaProtocol'' allows you to customise your play style and personality to fit your mood. You can either befriend everyone, befriend some and use them against others, or just piss of everyone and mow through them like a buzzsaw - the latter earning itself the nickname "Dick Mike".

* ''WayOfTheSamurai 3'' allows the player to do this. By refusing to cater to any of the four factions in the game, you can choose to fight for or against them all. Or KillEmAll. Literally. You can choose to kill every single person in Amana, and it's a legitimate if hidden ending for the game.

->I'm headed for Purgatory when I die. Heaven won't take me, and [[LikeABadassOutOfHell Hell is afraid I'll take over]].

* ''VideoGame/InFAMOUS'' and ''VideoGame/InFAMOUS2'' has a special kind of this. '''Capturing''' bad guys will get your karma-o-meter to hero, killing civilians will make your karma go red and you'll be attacked by both civilians and mooks, but '''killing''' the mooks alongside the civilians will provide you with more bad karma and get you loathed by everyone in the world, making you an omnicidal not-so-neutral.

* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' has two Neutral endings: one is a traditional "defeat both Law and Chaos" ending, while the other is a bit more literal a take on this trope: [[spoiler: you get to trigger ''[[DoctorWho the destruction of reality itself!]]'']]

* Similarly Lu Bu's musou mode in ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 6'', which basically consists of him showing up to famous battles in Chinese history and ''killing everybody''. In the end Lu actually ends up unifying China, [[spoiler: every other leader in the game, living and dead, allies against him in a ForeverWar. Naturally he couldn't be more pleased]].

* Similarly Lu Bu's musou mode in DynastyWarriors 6, which basically consists of him showing up to famous battles in Chinese history and ''killing everybody''. In the end Lu actually ends up unifying China, [[spoiler: every other leader in the game, living and dead, allies against him in a ForeverWar. Naturally he couldn't be more pleased]].

* Most of [[TheForceUnleashed The Force Unleashed's]] missions involve Starkiller cutting down everyone and everything he comes across, including Imperial Stormtroopers who are, at the moment, at least, on his side. [[spoiler: This gets subverted in the second half, though. Once Galen joins the Rebellion, he never has to kill another rebel soldier again.]]

* Any character in ''AxisPowersHetalia'' will tell you to steer clear of [[NationsAsPeople Switzerland]] unless you want him [[TheGunslinger waving a rifle in your face]] (or you're his sweetheart [[MoralityPet Liechtenstein]]).