History WellIntentionedExtremist / VideoGames

* ''DevilSurvivor'' has Keisuke, who, in trying to stop the public from freaking out at the Tamers, [[spoiler:goes on a killing spree.]]

** Also from what we find out in Skyward Sword, since Ganondorf is [[spoiler: an incarnation of Demise's hatred towards the humans who defeated him (namely Link and Zelda) who will eternally peruse Link and Zelda's descendents,]] that might have had another influence in his life choices. It says a lot when after knowing that, you might start to feel sorry for Ganondorf (at least this version since he seems to regret most of his life choices).

* [[spoiler:Damon Gant]] of ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' puts the extrem(e) in WellIntentionedExtremist. Among his acts are the [[spoiler:murder a co-worker (Neil Marshal) in order to get a criminal (Joe Darke) convicted of murder, the manipulation of the crime scene to make it look like an innocent girl (Ema Skye) had done the deed by accident in order to make her older sister (Lana Skye) into his pawn (by helping her fix the crime scene AGAIN so that it would look like the criminal had done it), the murder of ANOTHER co-worker (Bruce Goodman) who wanted to investigate the previous murder two years later, the coercion of Lana to take the fall for THAT murder, the manipulation of more events than possibly any other ManipulativeBastard ever, and generally making case 5 of the first game hell for Mr. Wright]]. His reasons for doing all this was to gain total control over the police force, so that criminals who were obviously guilty (such as Darke had been) would be brought to justice, no matter what.
** While we're at it, Edgeworth in the first game appears at first to be an AmoralAttorney who prosecutes innocent people for the sake of his own record. However, it is eventually revealed that he honestly believed in the guilt of all the people he used illegitimate methods to try to sentence, making him an example of this trope.

** Of all things, the [[spoiler:''Reapers'' pull this to an extent. They think organic life is so weak and transient that by converting it into an immortal Reaper, they're doing it a favor. It grants an end to strife, disunity, and suffering, yes, but it requires ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel being melted into a metal while still alive]]''.]]

* In ''SupremeCommander'', the galaxy is thrown into a galactic war between the Cybran and UEF factions. The Aeon Illuminate believe that the only way to restore peace to the galaxy and stop the other two factions from fighting each other is to...eliminate them.

*** This motivation was expanded upon in the third game. The final canon motivation for the Reapers is that [[spoiler: every organic civilization will invariably create synthethic life, which will then invariably rise up against it's creators and wipe them out due to the inherent superiority of synthetics. In order to prevent the extinction of all organic life, the Reapers were created with the goal of preventing organic civilization from ever reaching that fateful war. They accomplish this by only destroying sufficiently advanced races, instead of ALL organic life. Conversion of these races into Reapers preserves their genetic code and acts as a sort of testament to their existence.]]

** To elaborate, [[spoiler:he thought that those who were committing the crimes (especially against Demon Tamers who were trying to help) were irredeemably evil, and that the only way to keep them from doing further evil was to eliminate them.]] His motivations are somewhat understandable, once you know [[spoiler:what happened to him in High School]]. [[spoiler:He stood up to a group of bullies who were picking on a certain kid, but as a result became the bully's new target. Much to his dismay, the kid who he was standing up for joined in.]]

** [[spoiler: Darkrai]] in ''[[VideoGame/PokeParkWii Pokepark 2: Wonders Beyond]]''. He just wants Pokemon to have fun forever... at the cost of the Pokepark.

** Revan and Malak from the first game wanted to prepare the Republic for a war against the True Sith. Their method of doing this, waging war against the Republic, is the part they really should have thought more about.

** [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Team Plasma]], and especially their leader, N, believes that all relationships between Pokémon and humans are abusive, and they want everyone in Unova to release their 'mons. [[spoiler:Except, it's all a front. Team Plasma is actually the UnwittingPawn of the [[CompleteMonster inhuman]] Ghetsis Harmonia, who wants humans separated from their Pokémon so he can conquer them easily. [[KnightTemplar N in particular]], since Ghetsis [[TykeBomb raised him with a bunch of 'mons that had been abused by their trainers, deluding him into thinking that's the only kind of relationship possible with them.]]

* Saturos and Menardi from ''GoldenSun''. Their reason for [[spoiler:lighting the four lighthouses]] is revealed in the second game to be [[spoiler:to save their hometown, Prox, from falling off the edge of the world.]] Although [[spoiler:the heroes end up finishing this task anyway,]] Saturos and Menardi do it in the wrong way. For example, they [[spoiler:killed/maimed most of the soldiers and scholars at Venus Lighthouse, kidnapped several characters important to the plot, and dropped a giant boulder on Vale, [[NotQuiteDead "killing"]] Jenna's family and Isaac's dad. And to top it all off, they yelled at Kraden.]]
** The boulder was part of a poorly designed trap in Sol Sanctum that has the unfortunate effect of endangering Vale's residents when triggered, so what happened in the prologue wasn't completely their fault.
** [[spoiler:The Wise One]] in ''Golden Sun: The Lost Age'' may also count, as he does revive [[spoiler:Jenna's parents and Kyle, Isaac's father]], in the form of a three-headed dragon (one-upping the two headed one in Golden Sun), to [[spoiler:stop them from lighting the last lighthouse, because even though not lighting it would lead to the decay of civilization itself, the amount of power that would be bestowed upon Alex on top of Mt. Aleph would be too dangerous in the hands of one man.]] The kicker is that [[spoiler:the heroes don't know they're fighting their parents until after they've destroyed the dragon, and Vale is destroyed when Mt. Aleph erupts.]] Fortunately, [[spoiler: everyone gets better, and the Vale villagers, Kyle, and Jenna's parents survive. Alex is defeated and given a minimal chance of survival when Mt. Aleph falls into the earth, and Isaac becomes somewhat of a demi-god.]]
** Heck, [[spoiler:the entire hero party]] could qualify for this in The Lost Age. They're more than aware, and ready to admit, that saving the world may have the unintended side-effect of [[spoiler:destroying it]]. The only reason they're not labeled as villains is because [[spoiler:they managed to complete their extreme plan [[TheExtremistWasRight and it worked]] with zero consequences]].
** [[spoiler:[[SarcasmMode Zero consequences.]] [[GoldenSunDarkDawn Right.]]]]

** Team Plasma is shaping up to be a group of would-be do-gooders who are willing to go to any extreme to end what they refer to as the wanton exploitation of innocent creatures (in other words, the world of Pokemon battling). No word yet on whether they invoke GodwinsLaw when referring to Ash.
*** [[spoiler:Except, it's all a front. Team Plasma is actually the UnwittingPawn of the [[CompleteMonster inhuman]] Ghetsis Harmonia, who wants humans separated from their Pokemon so he can conquer them easily. His son, [[HeroAntagonist on the other hand...]]]]
**** N Harmonia is pretty much this. [[spoiler:The little guy was a puppet, but a pretty dangerous one. Even Anthea and Concordia agree that, in his innocence, N is capable of doing incredibly stupid things that he considers correct]]. The dude [[spoiler:stalked teens, had his underlings rob a museum, revived an ancient dragon said to have once destroyed Unova, and destroyed the Elite Four building with a gigantic, castle-like construction that rose from underneath the ground]], just so he could seperate Pokemon and Humans, thinking that it was better for them this way, feeling that humanity can only abuse pokemon due to being exposed only to pokemon that were abused by trainers. As soon as he discovers [[spoiler:that he was manipulated by his father for a very selfish scheme,]] he ends up [[spoiler: giving up.]]

* Revan, Malak, possibly the Exile, and the entire Revanchist faction started out like this in the ''VideoGame/{{Knights of the Old Republic}}'' series. Of course, once Revan and Malak [[spoiler: found the Star Forge]], things really started to go downhill.
** Additionally, [[spoiler:Kreia]] from the sequel could be placed in this category as well, in that, ultimately, her goal is to stop the 'will' of the Force. Given how the will of the Force essentially results in the world of ''StarWars'' as we know it (and [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse about eighty years of near-constant turmoil and strife four thousand years down the line]]), you can almost see her point.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'''s Team Magma and Aqua both believe that they'll be doing good for the world by flooding it/drying it out. Real smart, guys.
** To their credit, they did show an admirable patriotism to their cause. The only mistake was that they believed that Groudon/Kyogre (for each team respectively) would help them achieve this goal. They did so too well. In stark contrast were the mindless {{mooks}} of ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'''s Team Galactic, who knew not that their boss was Lawful Batshit and carried out his sinister agenda with this lack of knowledge (seriously, if anyone knew that his plan involved resetting the entire world with a psycho like Cyrus as its god, would they have supported it thenceforce? I don't think so).
*** Once you defeat certain grunts, they start to question what the hell Cyrus is even doing. It can be assumed that, before, they just liked having authority enough to not question why.
*** Cyrus himself would qualify, as his justification for destroying/remaking the world is to eliminate war and strife.

* Shadow the Hedgehog in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''. Angry at a corrupted (most likely American) government from 50 years ago for killing his only friend, a 12 year old little girl named Maria, he tries to seek justice/revenge by sending the Ark, a giant space station, on a crash course with the earth, thus killing everybody. YAY!
** He was the one who actually stopped himself, not the heroes. Well, they tried...
*** Because of a flashback-induced HeelFaceTurn.
**** That was induced by Amy. Meaning that it was her, of all people, who stopped Shadow.

* Doctor Proton is portrayed this way in ''The Doctor Who Cloned Me'', the singleplayer DLC campaign for VideoGame/DukeNukemForever. While his ultimate goal (defeat the aliens) is good, his means to reach it (kill Duke Nukem, replace him with an army of Terminator-like robots who look like him and put one of them as a [[PuppetKing puppet president]] while being the ManBehindTheMan, just to prove to himself that robots can be superior to humans) are certainly not.

*** This motivation was retconned in the third game. The final canon motivation for the Reapers is that [[spoiler: every organic civilization will invariably create synthethic life, which will then invariably rise up against it's creators and wipe them out due to the inherent superiority of synthetics. In order to prevent the extinction of all organic life the Reapers were created by whatever the Catalyst is supposed to be, with the goal of preventing organic civilization from ever reaching that fateful war against synthetics. They accomplish this by only destroying advanced races, instead of ALL organic life and sometimes turning them into new Reapers.]]
**** [[spoiler: [[MemeticMutation "Yo dawg, I heard you don't want synthetics killing organics.]] [[InsaneTrollLogic So I made some synthetics to kill organics, so synthetics won't kill organics]].]]

* [[spoiler:Luc]] in ''SuikodenIII''. If he succeeded in [[spoiler:destroying the True Wind Rune]], the grasslands would be destroyed, killing a million people. But, hey, if it keeps [[spoiler:the True Runes from eventually letting humanity die off, and keeps the gray, stagnant world]] from happening, then it's good, right?

** Marauder Shields. Sure, he tries to kill Commander Shepard and doom the galaxy to the Reapers, but what else can you do to [[spoiler:stop the endings]]?

* ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'': Mr. Kitaniji's goal to turn Shibuya into a peaceful paradise [[spoiler: by brainwashing every last one of its inhabitants with a fashionable pin of doom]], in order to avoid [[spoiler:Joshua destroying it outright]].

* In ''{{Xenogears}}'', Krellian, who believed that God did not exist or died and thus abandoned humanity when they needed him, wanted to create God with his own hands and return the world back to waves for some utopian existence.

* Volsung of ''{{Wild ARMs 5}}'' is eventually revealed to be this. The game frequently [[NotSoDifferent drew parallels]] between him and Dean, in that they both want to tear down the metaphorical "wall" that separates humans and Veruni. Volsung's method is more violent. [[spoiler:And then it turns out that he wasn't extremist at all and was just BrainwashedAndCrazy.]]