History NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist / VideoGames

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', Ganondorf makes a climactic speech [[FreudianExcuse explaining his motive to conquer Hyrule]], saying he came from a harsh desert country where the wind brought only death whereas Hyrule's wind was so pleasant that he coveted it. However, nowhere in this speech does Ganondorf claim he was doing this to help his people, the Gerudo, nor does [[BrutalHonesty he pretend that his wish is anything but personal and selfish in nature]]. If he had any well-intentioned motives, [[MotiveDecay they had eroded away]] long ago and he's only now recalling them in hindsight.

* In ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' it's established that the [[GalacticConquerer Ethereals]] performed the AlienInvasion in order to [[INeedYouStronger develop humanity]] into a force strong enough to fight [[GreaterScopeVillain some unspecified foe]] on their behalf, and present their actions as a greater good. However, they turned every other species they encountered into a mutated SlaveRace and in ''VideoGame/XCOM2'' they're shown to [[AliensAreBastards actively hold disdain for the humans]] they rule over in the VichyEarth they created with their new EvilPlan being to [[spoiler:[[FinalSolution harvest as much human DNA as they can]] for BioAugmentation before saying ScrewThisImOuttaHere]].

* ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'': Bleach Japan is a political protest movement that claims to stand for a fairer society, less corruption and removal of the "grey zones" (i.e crime). It quickly becomes clear that the majority of its members either only joined to look trendy, impress women or to incite violence against the poor and disenfranchised (many carrying improvised weapons to ostensibly "peaceful protests"). They're also [[StrawHypocrite entirely willing to resort to legal "grey areas" in their crusade]], without a hint of irony. And ''then'' it turns out [[spoiler: they're directly in-league with the Omi Alliance Yakuza clan (and so are only removing "grey zones" [[EvilPowerVacuum to replace them with something worse]]), and the whole movement is secretly a front front for a former Yakuza-turned-politician, to control both the political world and criminal underworld of Japan]].

* ''VideoGame/HeroKingQuestPeacemakerPrologue'': Dark Lord Spidergland claims that she needs to subjugate non-dark elves because other races are untrustworthy and is willing to sell out non-dark elf citizens to avoid war with the Cerulean Land. However, she imprisons her daughter out of fear that the Azoth sword will deem the latter a more worthy ruling, showing that she's nothing more than a paranoiac trying to hold onto her own power, even at the cost of her citizens and family.

** [[VideoGame/MetalGearRising Senator Armstrong]] claims he wants to turn America into a utopia and allow people the freedom to fight for what they believe in, but he actually wants to create a SocialDarwinist, MightMakesRight society by triggering a ForeverWar that will let soldiers, the politically-powerful, and cybernetically-enhanced people like himself rule over mankind. Raiden sums it up neatly: "I was wrong about you; you're not greedy... you're ''batshit insane!''"

** In the Evil Runi route, Gemini [[spoiler:completely takes over Runi's body and engages in extra brutality, such as killing Kael and kicking his body off the train, and then killing Virgo/Rosie despite the latter's willingness to negotiate. While she claims this is for the sake of ending Zazz's fascist regime, it's clear that she's on a power-high from having full control of her sync with Runi and that she killed them out of sadism. After Zazz is killed, she then tries to kill the rest of the party, even though they're the only ones who can reform a post-Zazz world]].

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Contra}} Neo Contra]]'': [[BigBad Master Contra]] claims he wants to destroy Earth [[FreudianExcuse as a means to demolish all structured society and their morals]]. In reality, him destroying the planet is simply ForTheEvulz.

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': God Arjuna's whole plan is to create a world where no evil exists. Unfortunately, his definition of evil is simply anything flawed, to point a person with a twisted ankle is considered unneeded enough to be a target for deletion. He eventually started accelerating the Yuga cycles to the point where he destroyed and recreated the world every ten days, during which he would wipe out anyone who had even a trace of evil within them or could possibly become evil with no chance of reincarnation, leaving them forgotten by the survivors. His actions eventually began threatening the trichiliocosm due to his impatience and arrogance, and with his standards of people being evil being that warped, he would have eventually destroy his Lostbelt entirely.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsIntoReverie'': The Simulacrum Rufus gives lofty speeches about how unifying Zemuria into a single nation will bring world peace, which the IDF grunts eat up. In a great twist of irony, the [[IHatePastMe real Rufus]] is the one who explains to the grunts that the Simulacrum only seeks unification to surpass Osborne, and doesn't truly care about the people of Zemuria. Not helping matters is that the Simulacrum spends much of his dialogue ranting about how Rufus as a character should seek perfectionism instead of actually trying to justify his actions.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsIntoReverie'': The Simulacrum Rufus gives lofty speeches about how unifying Zemuria into a single nation will bring world peace, which the IDF grunts eat up. In a great twist of irony, the [[IHatePastMe real Rufus]] is the one who explains to the grunts that the Simulacrum only seeks unification to surpass Osborne and achieve perfectionism, and doesn't truly care about the people of Zemuria.

* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'': In the past, Kratos was a warmongering, bloodthirsty Spartan who led his soldiers on conquest after conquest. When his wife Lysandra called him out on it, Kratos declared that he was going it for the glory of Sparta; Lysandra was not convinced and knew that he [[ItsAllAboutMe only did it for]] [[GloryHound his own personal glory]].

* ''VideoGame/VarthOperationThunderstorm'': [[BigBad DUO]] through [=DELTA-7=] declared that all humans need to die for "crimes against the planet". However, since [=DUO=] did [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate]] mankind into war before ordering for the surviving 20% to be killed, this seemed more like an excuse to KillAllHumans for something that was its fault in the first place.

* ''VideoGame/VarthOperationThunderstorm'': [[BIGBAD DUO]] through [=DELTA-7=] declared that all humans need to die for "crimes against the planet". However, since [=DUO=] did [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate]] mankind into war before ordering for the surviving 20% to be killed, this seemed more like an excuse to KillAllHumans for something that was its fault in the first place.

*** Black Alberich wants to use the Great Twilight and the upcoming war to upstage the Septian Church and become the new leading political power. He claims that his technology-based order will be better than the church's order, but Class VII points out that his plans will reduce human civilization to nothing and that he'd likely have no one to rule over.