History KnightTemplar / VideoGames

* Played with in ''VideoGame/{{Ultrakill}}'': Gabriel at first seems like a self righteous man child who's let the praise he receives go to his head, and blindly follows [[CouncilofAngels The Council's]] will, [[spoiler:to the point where he murdered King Minos because he tried to make the lust ring a better place]]. After Act I, when he's [[spoiler:exiled from Heaven and sentenced to death]], [[SoreLoser he's blinded by rage]] and vows to destroy [[KillerRobot V1]]. [[spoiler:After his second defeat [[HeelRealization he realises how far he's fallen]] and decides to redeem himself by freeing Heaven from their dogmatic reign. [[AssholeVictim By killing them all]].]]

* Played with in "Ultrakill", Gabriel at first seems like a self righteous man child who's let the praise he recieves go to his head, and blindly follows [[CouncilofAngels The Council's]] will, [[spoiler:to the point where he murders King Minos because he tried to make the lust ring a better place.]] After the first chapter when he's [[spoiler:exiled from Heaven and sentenced to death]], he's blinded by rage and vows to destroy [[KillerRobot V1]]. [[spoiler:After his second defeat he realises how far he's fallen and decides to redeem himself by defeating the council and free heaven from their reign.]] [[spoiler:[[AssholeVictim by killing them all.]]
** The Council are a group of elite angels [[LightIsNotGood who rule over heaven with an iron fist]] after the departure of God. [[spoiler:They decide to sentence Gabriel to death after his loss towards V1 since they can't comprehend a machine besting an angel and assume he's lying, putting him through unimagineable pain as the light that powers him is slowly drained from his body, giving him a day to live.]] [[spoiler:[[HoistByHisOwnPetard This backfires on them when Gabriel realises how corrupt they are and he]] [[KarmicDeath slaughters them all for their crimes]]

* Played with in "Ultrakill", Gabriel at first seems like a self righteous man child who's let the praise he recieves go to his head, and blindly follows [[CouncilofAngels The Council's]] will, [[spoiler:to the point where he murders King Minos because he tried to make the lust ring a better place.]] After the first chapter when he's [[spoiler:exiled from Heaven and sentenced to death]], he's blinded by rage and vows to destroy [[KillerRobot V1]]. [[spoiler:After his second defeat he realises how far he's fallen and decides to redeem himself by defeating the council and free heaven from their reign.]] [[spoiler: [[AssholeVictim by killing them all.]]
** The Council are a group of elite angels [[LightIsNotGood who rule over heaven with an iron fist]] after the departure of God. [[spoiler:They decide to sentence Gabriel to death after his loss towards V1 since they can't comprehend a machine besting an angel and assume he's lying, putting him through unimagineable pain as the light that powers him is slowly drained from his body, giving him a day to live.]] [[spoiler: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard This backfires on them when Gabriel realises how corrupt they are and he]] [[KarmicDeath slaughters them all for their crimes]]

* Played with in "Ultrakill", Gabriel at first seems like a self righteous man child who's let the praise he recieves go to his head, and blindly follows [[CouncilofAngels The Council's]] will, [[spoiler:to the point where he murders King Minos because he tried to make the lust ring a better place.]] After the first chapter when he's [[spoiler:exiled from Heaven and sentenced to death]], he's blinded by rage and vows to destroy [[KillerRobot V1]]. [[spoiler:After his second defeat he realises how far he's fallen and decides to redeem himself by defeating the council and free heaven from their reign.]] [[spoiler:AssholeVictim by killing them all.]]
** The Council are a group of elite angels [[LightIsNotGood who rule over heaven with an iron fist]] after the departure of God. [[spoiler:They decide to sentence Gabriel to death after his loss towards V1 since they can't comprehend a machine besting an angel and assume he's lying, putting him through unimagineable pain as the light that powers him is slowly drained from his body, giving him a day to live.]] [[spoiler:HoistByHisOwnPetard This backfires on them when Gabriel realises how corrupt they are and he]] [[spoiler:KarmicDeath slaughters them all for their crimes]]

* Played with in "VideoGame/Ultrakill", Gabriel at first seems like a self righteous man child who's let the praise he recieves go to his head, and blindly follows [[CouncilofAngels The Council's]] will, [[spoiler:to the point where he murders King Minos because he tried to make the lust ring a better place.]] After the first chapter when he's [[spoiler:exiled from Heaven and sentenced to death]] he's blinded by rage and vows to destroy [[V1 KillerRobot]]. [[spoiler:After his second defeat he realises how far he's fallen and decides to redeem himself by defeating the council and free heaven from their reign.]] [[spoiler:AssholeVictim by killing them all.]]

* ''VideoGame/StarShiftSeries'': The ESA leaders know about [[spoiler:the Purge, a name for the collapse of time due to abuse to time manipulation. They insist that they will be the ones to prevent the Purge and that the ORC and other enemy factions will unwittingly cause it to happen. However, their method for preventing the Purge is to brainwash their citizens with implants and even wipe their memories. They also [[NeverMyFault ignore]] that these enemy factions are cropping up in the first place because of the harm caused by their imperialism, and that they have abused time-travel technology just as much, if not more so, than their enemies]].

** Robun is vaguely implied to be a fanatic, but if the player gets the route where Edgar escapes from Morgalia early, they'll learn that Robun [[spoiler:genuinely believes non-humans are evil and that the world would be a better place if humanity took over and enslaved them. This is in contrast to Akari, who is a CardCarryVillain with no illusions about how dystopian and self-destructive a human supremacist state will be]].

** In ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'', "Prophet" Zachary Hale Comstock is basically Handsome Jack, but with all the BlackComedy replaced with [[TheFundamentalist Christian Fundamentalism]] and targets non-whites instead of bandits.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has Gaius van Baelsar, the ArcVillain of ''A Realm Reborn''. As a Legatus for the [[TheEmpire Garlean Empire]], he is tasked with conquering Eorzea. To that end, he is willing to use an ancient Allagan weapon to bear against the primals that threaten the realm. He goes on to explain that the Eorzean people's faith in the Twelve are an intolerable weakness, one that leaves them at the mercy of primals, and that only the strong can bring about true peace and stability. [[spoiler:Later on, after realizing the Empire is being manipulated by the Ascians, he abandons his post to root them out under the alias of Shadowhunter. By this point, his Knight Templar ways have mostly mellowed out: while he is still loyal to the Empire, he is willing to ally with his former enemies against a common threat.]]

* In the 2-D ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' games (''VideoGame/{{Fallout|1}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'', and ''VideoGame/{{Fallout Tactics|BrotherhoodOfSteel}}''), the Brotherhood of Steel fits this trope quite well. The California branch (''Fallout''/''Fallout 2'') is dedicated to recovering LostTechnology from across the ScavengerWorld they live in, and they refuse to help anyone who is not part of their organization, even when it would not even hurt them to lend a hand. The Mid-Western branch (''Fallout Tactics'') set themselves up as post-apocalyptic feudal lords who will go to any ends to ensure justice -- though they're better than the other factions trying to control the Mid-West, all of whom are either insane or outright evil.
** In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', the UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC branch abandoned the Knight Templar dogma of their founders and have put their resources towards defending the Capital Wasteland from the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Super-Mutants]]. However, some of them disagreed with this shift in policy and formed their own group called the Brotherhood Outcasts -- their goals are more in line with the original Californian Brotherhood of Steel, which is to say, more selfish.
*** However, by the time of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', the East Coast Brotherhood (including the Outcasts who rejoined) has reverted to be more like the West Coast chapters, but while still wanting to protect wastelanders and with some concessions towards pragmatism. (such as continuing to permit the recruitment of wastelanders) After Elder Lyons and his daughter Sarah died (Owen of old age while Sarah died in combat), Arthur Maxson took control of the chapter after being appointed Elder by the West Coast Elders. They now regard all [[OurZombiesAreDifferent feral ghouls]], super mutants, and [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots synths]] as abominations that need to be wiped out because of their threat to humanity, regardless of the fact that some of them (mostly synths) are just regular people no different from normal humans. In the case of synths, [[TomatoInTheMirror some don't even know that they're synths]].

** In ''[[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas New Vegas]]'', there's Sheriff Meyers, one of the three possible sheriffs you can recruit for the town of Primm. His swearing in speech is simply "Be good...or I'll shoot you dead."
*** The game heavily implies that recruiting Meyers is the ''ideal'' solution to the city's quest, though the endings will differ greatly, depending on what a player considers a 'good' outcome. If the player ''does'' recruit Meyers, the ending slide will note that he keeps Primm peaceful and safe.... but also notes that every now and then, when there's no solid evidence against a known troublemaker, that person will [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch turn up tragically and accidentally dead the next day.]]
** Another ''New Vegas'' example comes from the ''Honest Hearts'' DLC: Joshua Graham, also known as The Burned Man. A Mormon missionary sworn to protect the Dead Horse tribals and the co-founder and [[TheAtoner former]] [[TheDragon Legate]] of [[TheEmpire Caesar's Legion]], even as TheAtoner, he's a vicious GeneralRipper absolutely one hundred percent okay with wiping out another tribe down to the last man for posing a threat to them -- not just fighting them off, but destroying them utterly, including cold-blooded executions, if need be. Apart from ''that'', he means well. And the tribe that he wants to wipe out did massacre his people, want to join Caesar's Legion, and celebrate rape and murder. So Joshua does come out looking better...in comparison, at least.
*** It's strongly implied that Graham actually enjoys killing, which doesn't make him much better then the Legion or the White Legs, adding that double dose of hypocrisy frequently seen in a Knight Templar. However, depending on how you deal with him he may come to acknowledge that he's been lying to himself the entire time to justify his desire for vengeance against Caesar.

* ''VideoGame/DyztopiaPostHumanRPG'': President Zazz is the human hero who made the last stand against the demons, and he's willing to do anything to revive the rest of humanity. Unfortunately, he also believes non-human species stole the world from humans and seeks to have humanity dominate them. He's clearly bought into his own hype and believes that even if he dies, he'll be remembered as a savior to his people rather than the fanatical and racist monster that he really is.

* This is Marie D'Artois' schtick in ''VideoGame/{{Anno1404}}'' -- she will destroy anyone who go against what she believes is right and holy, civilian or not. During the story mode, she even leads an army that could effectively be seen as an analogue to the real life organization.

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic II'' has Jedi Master Atris. She is more extreme than most of the Jedi council, wanting [[PlayerCharacter the Exile]] to be punished even more than s/he was, arrogantly dismisses everything she doesn't agree with as being of the Dark Side, and during the events of the game, claiming to be the only true Jedi left. She is even willing to [[spoiler:call a conclave on Katarr without attending, to lure out the enemy that was hunting them. As a result, Darth Nihilus devastated the entire planet]]. Unfortunately, in her efforts to fight the Sith, [[spoiler:she has unknowingly fallen to the Dark Side]].

* In ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'', the BigBadEnsemble Makoto and Yomi firmly believe their causes are just, even with them clearly only causing more chaos in their actions, and the detectives seeing their evil clearly. [[spoiler:While Makoto, the CEO of Amaterasu Corporation, is a genuine WellIntentionedExtremist, he sees '''nothing''' wrong in what he does, perceiving it as an absolute NecessaryEvil, right down to covering up the truth of Kanai Ward's residents as a whole. Meanwhile, Yomi, director of the Peacekeepers, perceives himself as a defender of peace within Kanai Ward, and his Peacekeepers follow that ideology, while failing to see that he's just a corrupt, power-hungry maniac, going as far as a TautologicalTemplar as he doesn't even say what he does is bad in ''any'' way. However, since neither of them ''do'' recognize their evil, they never see themselves as wrong, and so persist their evil deeds under their false pretenses, making them incredibly dangerous people. While Makoto reforms, Yomi does not.]]

* In ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'', the BigBadEnsemble Makoto and Yomi [[spoiler:firmly believe their causes are just, even with them clearly only causing more chaos in their actions, and the detectives seeing their evil clearly. While Makoto, the CEO of Amaterasu Corporation, is a genuine WellIntentionedExtremist, he sees '''nothing''' wrong in what he does, perceiving it as an absolute NecessaryEvil, right down to covering up the truth of Kanai Ward's residents as a whole. Meanwhile, Yomi, director of the Peacekeepers, perceives himself as a defender of peace within Kanai Ward, and his Peacekeepers follow that ideology, while failing to see that he's just a corrupt, power-hungry maniac, going as far as a TautologicalTemplar as he doesn't even say what he does is bad in ''any'' way. However, since neither of them ''do'' recognize their evil, they never see themselves as wrong, and so persist their evil deeds under their false pretenses, making them incredibly dangerous people. While Makoto reforms, Yomi does not.]]

** [[http://www.wowpedia.org/Interrogator_Khan Interrogator Khan]] is one ''[[ExaltedTorturer scary]]'' [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique draenei]]

* Count [[MaliciousMisnaming Vulgar]]-- er, Veger from ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'' certainly deserved a place. He didn't like Dark Eco. That was OK, nobody particularly liked Dark Eco. However, he exiled and repeatedly attempted to kill Jak, whose Dark Eco powers ''let him save the world at the end of the previous game''. He even described himself as "the glorious light that burns away the shadows" in between attempts to turn Haven City into a totalitarian theocracy under his rule, subverting UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans because it wasn't really going to be that much of a utopia with a psychotic zealot like Veger in charge.

** Prelate Hulrun Shappok is a zealous inquisitor who's go to methods in rooting out demon cultists are generally extremely brutal and merciless. BurnTheWitch and JackBauerInterrogationTechnique are his usual methods, and he's willing to kill the Kenabres' High Priest of Desna and his followers without trial or evidence. And if he can very easily attack you if you try to calm the situation down without showing him the Light of Heaven, or side with him and kill Ramien and the other Desnans for him. The one time he ever shows something resembling remorse for his actions when he finds out that said Desnans were innocent is that he should have tortured them for information sooner.

** The Aeon mythic path can turn the PlayerCharacter into one, and the true Aeon path can lead the player into making some very merciless judgements without room for nuance, eventually banishing almost all of the mortals from Drezen to make a city of perfect order.