Quislings seen in Video Games.
- Lothar Rendain the Big Bad of Battleborn is this. Coming to the conclusion that the Varelsi threat was inevitable, he saw that the only practical solution for survival would have to be to ally with these cosmic horrors instead. Although this meant betraying everyone else in the universe aiding the Varelsi in their destruction of the remaining universe, he saw this as the most pragmatic option as the objective was worth it. After all, per the Jennerit motto "Any Deed. Any Price."
- Fehn Digler (not to be confused with Heartwarming Orphan Fehn), the newscaster in Beyond Good & Evil, is a helpless suck-up to the Alpha Sections. He even has a personal contingent of Alpha guards! At the end of the game, when IRIS spurs Hillys into an open revolt against the Alpha Sections, and the Alphas are on their last legs, Fehn immediately starts sucking up to them, declaring the revolt a victory for the "proud journalistic profession."
- Lionwhyte in Brütal Legend justifies his mass-enslavement of humanity as a means of brokering a beneficial peace with the demon factions under Doviculus' rule, and chews out Ironheade for putting all of humanity in danger. Ironheade counters by calling out Lionwhyte's selfishness in restricting humanity's passion and potential.
- In Conquest: Frontier Wars Admiral Smirnoff allies with the Mantis loyalists in exchange for ruling Earth as their vassal. Naturally in the bad ending the Mantis decide to destroy Earth instead, him with it.
- Dawn of War: Dark Crusade: In the Imperial Guard stronghold, an outlying base rebels if you kill their commissar and sends Cannon Fodder at the main base, no matter which faction you're playing as. In the Space Marines' case, those Guardsmen are executed afer you win for betraying the Guard (both factions are fighting due to Just Following Orders in the first place).
- Nihlathak from Act V of Diablo II is this in spades. He's one of the only surviving Elders of the Barbarians of Harrogath, who are under siege from Baal, the Lord of Destruction, and cut a deal with that same Prime Evil by giving him the Relic of the Ancients in return for sparing Harrogath. Said Relic allows Baal to bypass the Ancients, the guardians of the Worldstone, so that he can corrupt it and bring about Hell on Earth. No mercy is had for Nihlathak when he's cut down, but he's one of the tougher bosses of the Act aside from Baal himself, and to top things off, he's the only villain in the entire game (if not the entire series) who gets the full Dragged Off to Hell treatment.
- Dragon Age II: Seamus, son of Viscount Dumar, is a big fan of the Qunari, who seem to be invading (or at least, that's what everyone thought, given that when Qunari show up someplace, it's typically to invade it; they've just been sitting around the docks, though, not doing much invading these past few years). Despite being in a position of relative power, being the son of the guy in charge of the whole city and all that, Seamus's conversations with his father amount more to a teenager arguing about rock-and-roll than any serious suggestions of joining the Qunari before things get bloody. However, he does end up being an unwitting pawn in the plan of a certain anti-Qunari faction, and ends up getting killed in the process. In a twist, the Qunari avenge him as one of their own, rather than spitting on his corpse as belonging to an honorless coward.
- Dyztopia: Post-Human RPG:
- Prime Minister Morgalia supports Zeta's occupation of her country. She's a more tragic example than most, since she did so because she thought becoming a pro-occupation politician would be the best way to give her enough power to provide for her family, though her inability to take responsibility for her actions ultimately makes her unsympathetic.
- Sho is aware of Zetacorp's plan to effectively enslave all non-humans, but supports their plans anyways because he wants to use his connections with the company in order to stay on top of the entertainment industry.
- Akari is aware that she will be a second or third class citizen once Zazz completes his human supremacist state, but she doesn't care because she wants everyone else to suffer and she plans on killing herself once that plan is complete.
- In EarthBound (1994), Pokey joins Giygas fairly early in the game, and acts as a thorn in Ness's side for the first half of the game. He spends most of the rest of the game on the run until he finally shows up in the endgame as Giygas's Dragon. After Giygas's defeat, he manages to escape and becomes the Big Bad of Mother 3. Though leftover data in Mother 3 shows that at some point, Itoi planned to have Porky try to resurrect Giygas using the Masked Man's body as a vessel. Though whether this was out of continued loyalty or simple nihilism is up for debate.
- The Elder Scrolls:
- From the perspective of the other Dunmeri Great Houses, Great House Hlaalu was this for The Empire in Morrowind. During Tiber Septim's wars of conquest, the Hlaalu advocated joining Septim's nascent Empire even before Tribunal deity Vivec called for an armistice. For their early cooperation, the Hlaalu received great support from their Imperial allies, being rewarded with positions of authority within the new Imperial provincial structure and a controlling stake in nearly every lucrative Ebony mining contract with the Empire. This unprecedented surge in political and economic power gave House Hlaalu a decisive advantage over their more orthodox rivals, House Redoran and House Indoril (the latter of whom were formerly the most powerful Great House due to their connections with the Tribunal Temple), allowing them to reign supreme all throughout the 3rd Era. This, however, came back to bite them at the beginning of the 4th Era, when a series of catastrophes all-but destroyed Morrowind and its people, and the Empire (itself severely weakened as a result of the Oblivion Crisis) opted to cut its losses and abandon Morrowind while other, less Imperial-minded Great Houses (especially House Redoran) stood up to defend and rebuild their homeland. As a result, Morrowind declared its independence from the Empire and House Hlaalu was unceremoniously stripped of all its power and made a scapegoat for all the Dunmer people's suffering. When the Dunmer culture next gets some focus in Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC, House Hlaalu has effectively been Unpersoned with the other Great Houses, led by the Redorans, forming an aristocratic republic reminiscent of the pre-Imperial Dunmeri government (though with the theocratic elements toned down due to the events of Morrowind which cost them their Physical Gods the old government had been built around).
- Similarly, the Archein tribe of Argonians was one of these. During the 3rd Era, they made fortunes by selling other Argonians into slavery. They also served as the advisors of the Imperial governors in Black Marsh, while being allowed to more directly rule over the more rural areas. When the Empire fell following the Oblivion Crisis, they quickly went bankrupt and were hunted by other Argonians as traitors.
- Fallout:
- Either Papa Khan or Regis could qualify in Fallout: New Vegas. Papa Khan is so keen for vengeance against the NCR that he's willing to enter into an alliance with The Legion, despite their practice of backstabbing every tribe who sides with them, press-ganging all the worthy men into their military and enslaving or killing the rest. Regis will take control of the Great Khans if Papa is assassinated, and will agree to a truce with the NCR in order to aid them against the Legion. Papa Khan however can be convinced to break off the alliance if you convince enough of his advisers to speak out against the alliance as well as show him evidence that siding with the Legion is a bad deal.
- Fallout 3 gives us Anna Holt, a minor character who joins the Enclave after being captured by them. Impressed by their technology, she tells them all she knows about Project Purity, which your father died trying to keep out of the Enclave's hands. Players looking to get a little payback will still receive negative karma for rewarding them as a traitor deserves though, as the game doesn't account for the betrayal in the character's karma attribute.
- Vaas in Far Cry 3. He used to be Rakyat, but then there was an "incident" and he joined up as Hoyt's second-in-command. Vaas is usually an unstable crackhead, but whenever he's within ten yards of his boss, he suddenly develops some kind of respect for authority and an indoor voice. Yeah, Hoyt is THAT terrifying.
- The Dirty Coward Count Borghen from Final Fantasy II. He allowed the Palamecians to overtake Fynn, is held in contempt by said Palamecians, ultimately an inept foe, but acts as the game's first major antagonist and manages to kill Josef.
- Final Fantasy XII:
- Marquis Ondore. His ruling fief isn't actually Archadian territory, as it remains neutral, but Ondore is infamously known for being pro-Archadian. On the other hand, however, he extensively funds resistance groups across Ivalice against the empire in a dangerous double-game, which turns into all-out war when another empire exploits the situation.
- Basch's brother Noah, better known by his title Judge Gabranth.
- Vossler counts being a little bit of a variation since he sells out the party to the Archadians on the premise of Princess Ashe becoming a puppet queen until Larsa took over and then having the two work together to free Dalmasca. And then once things go to hell on the Leviathan, he's killed in the explosion. The funny thing is that plan of his would've probably worked, eventually.
- Fire Emblem:
- Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade has King Zephiel of Bern secure the aid of at least one high-profile person in each country in his quest to conquer all of Elibe, with each one having a different reason for signing on. General Leygance, the head of the military of Ostia, just wanted to be on the winning side; Lord Arcard and Royal Advisor Roartz of Etruria felt their various shady business dealings would be more secure under a Bernese government; Chieftain Monke of the Sacaean Djute Clan hoped Bern's enormous military could help him break his war of attrition with his rival clans; and Flightleader Sigune of the Ilian Mercenaries was, true to her occupation, presumably being paid.
- Sacred Stones has Orson, a once-beloved and respected knight of Renais who joins the invading Empire of Grado and was granted all of Renais to rule in their name, because he crossed the Despair Event Horizon after the death of his wife and Grado had promised to bring her Back from the Dead.
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses:
- The Leicester Alliance has a huge problem with this in general, as they're already very fractured, but Lord Acheron is so known for this he's nicknamed "the weathervane". On most routes, he attempts to side with The Empire to curry favor and dies lamenting this, but if killed on the route where you side with The Empire, he'll instead lament not joining them sooner.
- Cornelia Arnim is a strange case. Although she is an influential figure among the inner circle of the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, when the Adrestian Empire takes over part of the kingdom on Dimitri's story route, she immediately throws her lot in with the Empire to harass Dimitri's army as he attempts to liberate his people. She still tries to betray Faerghus on Edelgard's route, but her damage is much more limited as Edelgard attempts to attack Cornelia directly during her army's incursion into Faerghus territory. On both routes, it's hinted that Cornelia isn't taking orders from the Empire at all, but from "those who slither in the dark", and wants both Dimitri and Edelgard dead.
- This dates back to the first game, whereas King Jiol of Gra, in the face of the Dolhr Empire marching to their lands, decided that the best course of action is to betray their ally Altea and then turn over to the Dolhr Empire (there was some historical grudge over this, but that's beside the point), which cost the life of King Cornelius, Marth's father. Henceforth, Fire Emblem titles tend to have a slimy political figure that started as an ally of the good kingdom but then betrayed them to the invading Empire for the sake of power.
- Ryuzo and his band of Rōnin in Ghost of Tsushima, who declare fealty to the invading Mongol Army out of a mixture of desperation and fear that Lord Shimura won't hold up his end of their bargain. It ultimately just gets them all killed by Jin, with Ryuzo himself rather pathetically trying to switch sides again once his back is against the wall. It doesn't work.
- Doctor Wallace Breen in Half-Life 2, though the Seven Hour War was an extremely bloody affair. Somehow, he managed to negotiate the surrender on the behalf of the United Nations and was appointed as the ruler of Earth. This is on top of undertaking the extremely dangerous experiment with a pure sample and ramping the equipment up beyond normal safe levels, causing the Black Mesa Incident. Then Gordon showed up again. Given Breen is partially responsible for causing the Combine to invade Earth (though it's up in the air if it was an intended outcome), it's not clear if his sucking up is just an attempt to curry favor with the invaders or if he genuinely believes his negotiations with the Combine are the only thing helping mankind and if we don't obey the Combine they'll simply choose to eradicate us.
- Homefront: The Greater Korean Republic (a united Korea ruled by the North) has annexed most of Southeast Asia and now turns its attention to a weakened United States as its next conquest. They take all the States west of the Mississippi River but are finally halted at the river by the U.S. military. It's implied that the GKR has set up some kind of puppet regime in the occupied western States based in California, but we never encounter them in-game. The most we see of them comes from the game's website, where a video shows a former California state legislator talking to the local resistance forces about his experience with the invaders. Of course this particular guy is loyal to the resistance so he might have been a The Mole. We never see any other American quislings on-screen, although one normal collaborator shows up at one point.
- Knights of the Old Republic:
- Chuundar on the Wookie homeworld of Kashyyyk. So long as he remains High Chieftain, he's all too glad to sell his own people to Czerka, arrange for his brother Zaalbar's exile and spread lies that his father has gone mad in order to get the party to do his dirty work. The player can either help overthrow him (Light Side points) or help keep him in power (Dark Side points).
- A side quest on the neutral world of Manaan reveals that the Sith have lured a number of young Selkath (the local species) to their embassy. The Sith have convinced them that their cause is just so that they can help overthrow the Manaan government and replace it with a Sith-controlled one with the Sith-trained Selkath as the puppet leaders. The player can find them in the embassy and show how the Sith are lying (Light Side points) or just kill them (Dark Side points). This comes in very handy later as the player can use the evidence against the Sith to be acquitted at their trial for raiding the embassy. The Selkath understandably aren't happy that the Sith tried to stage a coup.
- The sequel, Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, has Queen Talia of Onderon, but it's more complicated. She's a staunch Republic ally and the Big Good of the Onderon questline, but her cousin and rival for the throne paints her as this trope and many think that she's selling out the planet as a result. If you do side with her, Kreia says that Onderon will prosper but ultimately lose its unique culture as a result.
- Mass Effect:
- The purpose of Reaper Indoctrination is to turn its victims into this. It's revealed to have happened to most of Cerberus in the third game, as well as the leaders of the Batarian Hegemony; the former disrupting Allied war efforts against the Reapers and the latter laying down their arms and letting themselves be curb-stomped by the Reapers' first strike. There's even an indoctrinated Hanar at one point, who attempts to use a virus to disable the mostly automated defenses of his homeworld.
- In the first game, Saren Arterius is initially believed to be one since he is willingly helping Sovereign bring about the Reaper Invasion. Subverted, when it's revealed later in the game that Saren was the first known victim of Reaper Indoctrination. If you have enough Paragon or Renegade points, you can convince him at the end of the game that he's being controlled, and as his last act of free will, he shoots himself in the head.
- In Mass Effect 3, Councilor Donnel Udina attempts to stage a coup by killing the other Councilors with the help of Cerberus. However, his motivations for doing this are left ambiguous, and since he ends up being killed at the end there's no way to know for sure. Indoctrination by the Reapers, power hungry ambition, and frustration at his fellow councilors' refusal to help the people of Earth are all are discussed as possible reasons.
- Quisling is mentioned by name in comparison to Ashley's grandfather, who surrendered his garrison to the invading Turians rather than see his soldiers along with millions of civilians die in a pointless Last Stand.note It's rather clear that he was a scapegoat, but the incident prevents his granddaughter from rising higher in the ranks and resulted in her constantly being assigned terrible postings until Captain Anderson takes her onboard the Normandy. Assuming that she survives Virmire, Ashley eventually breaks the curse by the third game when she is not only promoted to Lieutenant-Commander, but also becomes the second Human Spectre.
- In MechQuest, Kingadent Slugwrath turns out to have been selling out the planet of Lore and Soluna City to the Shadowscythe, sabotaging the Soluna Defense Force and seeking to destroy their leader, Odessa Pureheart, and turning a blind eye to Sys-Zero's kidnapping and assimilation by the Shadowscythe. After you kick Slugwrath's ass in the final battle of the first chapter, he attempts to escape in the head of his mech, but runs out of fuel, crashes, and is overrun by Shadowscythe. He ends up as a still-living head in a jar on the desk of the head of EvilCorp, who looks very much like Zorbak, as he muses on how at least he got the immortality he'd always wanted.
- Mortal Kombat has Kano, leader of the Black Dragons, an Earthrealm criminal empire that sells technology, weapons, and services to the highest bidder. This includes selling weapons to Shao Kahn when the latter attempted to conquer Earthrealm. On top of this, he's been repeatedly shown to sell out his current benefactor if someone else offers him a better price. In brief, he's a prick, and a demonstrably disloyal, treacherous, self-serving one at that.
- The New Order Last Days Of Europe: As an Axis victory mod, collaborators of various stripes plays major roles, some historic and some not. The rework of Reichskommissariat Moskowien puts the different motives for collaboration in stark contrast with Bronislav Kaminiski and Mikhail Gorbachev: Kaminiski (an historic collaborator) leads the collaborator hardliners who (at least so far as can be told at the starting date) genuinely believe in unconditional collaboration and the supremacy of German National Socialism, while Gorbachev (who in the context of the mod took to collaboration after the last great attempt at rebellion failed while he was still in school) leads the moderates who collaborate because they don't see resistance as meaningfully possible and so work within the system to try to moderate its excesses and push for reform and greater rights for Russians, not because they have any real loyalty to their German overlords.
- Of Orcs and Men occasionally pits the player characters against Orcs who, either out of cowardice or pragmatism, work for The Empire. This includes Arkail's father, who sold out his tribe rather than having them fight the invaders to the death.
- Malva in Pokémon X and Y was a famous reporter, member of the Kalos Elite Four, and open supporter of the Apocalypse Cult Team Flare. Despite this she doesn't face any repercussions for supporting them and even continues to do so, expressing resentment towards the Player Character for stopping their Evil Plan.
- Rave Heart: Two royals, Prince Eryn Rave and Lady Marselva Zephyr, secretly sell out their countries to help Count Vorakia Estuuban take over the galaxy of Xerxes, all so he can give them political power too.
- Keith David becomes this in Saints Row 4, being offered to be made "mayor" of the simulation and promised to have Earth restored by Zinyak in exchange for the President's life. After the betrayal, they're even given a Lando Calrissian-esque outfit to cement it.
- Spyro: Year of the Dragon weirdly zig-zags this with Moneybags. In the previous game, while he was no doubt a greedy Jerkass, he was still ostensibly on the heroes' side. In Year of the Dragon, however, he's actively working for the Sorceress, yet he'll happily betray her if it results in you coughing up more gems. All in all, it would appear that he simply allies with whichever side pays him more.
- Star Shift Rebellion:
- Commodus is the current Alpha of the Canites on Canis Prime, but he colluded with the ESA to poison the previous Alpha Kronos. He also plans on forming an alliance with the ESA in order to get the ESA to free the Canites on other planets, but Lexington's party points out that the ESA cannot be trusted and that if they were really sincere about making peace with the Canites, they would have freed the other planets' Canites a long time ago.
- The Delta pack leader, Xena Delmonte, takes advantage of Lexington and Bernard's coup to side with Novus Federation instead and turns Canis Prime into a Puppet State for the federation while exiling all opposing factions.
- Star Wars: The Old Republic:
- In Chapter 3, with the help of the Bounty Hunter, the Sith Empire has managed to convince the entire Corellian Council, including the Prime Minister, to join them with the promise of making their elected offices lifetime appointments with absolute power. However, the Corellian people are not the kind that would willingly roll over for foreign invaders (it's Han Solo and Wedge Antilles' homeworld after all). They rise up against the traitorous council and the Sith occupiers, with Republic and Jedi eventually arriving to retake the world, leading to a very Decisive Battle that the Republic wins. Several quests on the Republic side (both class and faction based) involve chasing down and capturing the traitors so that they can face justice. The Imperial planetary storyline in particular has the player working alongside Darbin Sull, a particularly slimy politician looking to become the new Prime Minister.
- Averted in the Jedi Consular storyline on the planet Balmorra, a Republic ally that has been under Sith occupation since the end of the previous war. The Sith authorities publicly claim that Balmorra's President is still in charge and that all their orders and laws for the planet come from him. They also claim he is too ill to make public appearances. However, we soon find out that he has been frozen in carbonite and that the Sith drove him insane to the point of becoming a confused, rambling man. Luckily, when he is rescued, he is declared mentally incapacitated and this allows a member of his Cabinet (who escaped the invasion) to assume office and lead the newly liberated Balmorra.
- Suikoden:
- Suikoden III: Franz is a rare sympathetic example; Harmonia conquered his village before he was even born, and he throws himself into proving himself a loyal soldier in hopes of earning better treatment for his homeland. Harmonia actually has a specific system established promising to reward such behavior, and he endures even in the face of constant derision from all sides, including from the very people he's fighting for. Ultimately, he joins the heroes, helps Sasarai regain his position of second-in-command of Harmonia, and stops Luc's destructive plans.
- Suikoden IV has the Vingerhuts. Of the pair, Snowe is depicted more sympathetically; faced with an enemy capable of blowing up entire islands, he negotiates for Razril to be occupied instead. He's also an Unwitting Pawn whose own father helped install him in a position he lacked any talent for, and gets saddled with a false position that distracts him from just how horrible the occupation is. Lord Vingerhut, meanwhile, is an opportunistic bastard and Dirty Coward who stays holded up in his mansion. When liberation seems imminent, Snowe's father attempts to flee, abandoning his son to the wolves in an effort to save his own hide.
- Suikoden V has Lord De Beers of Leclar, who supported whoever happened to have the most power in the Senate at any given moment. During the Falenan Civil War, he ditches his post at Leclar to hide in the fortress town of Doraat, then leaves there once the Loyalist Army approaches to cower in Stormfist. Eventually, when the Loyalist Army approaches again, he flees the country altogether. Notably, both sides of the conflict regard him with scorn and dismiss him as unimportant.
- In Super Mario Bros., the Goombas appear to have been a whole race of quislings. Most sources say they were once subjects of the Mushroom Kingdom, but for unknown reasons, turned against them and sided with Bowser, becoming part of his army. (It's not true with all of them; Mario has allied himself with a few of them in his time.)
- Happens repeatedly throughout the various Super Robot Wars titles:
- Neo Zeon jumped at the chance to help the Balmarians in Shin Super Robot Wars, as the one and only means to ensure a future for mankind.
- Paptimus Scirroco and Shapiro Keats ally with the Balmarians in Super Robot Wars Alpha. In Alpha 3, Shapiro returns assisting the Muge Empire while ZAFT throws in their lot with the alien invaders and is directly responsible for the Earth's defensive lines breaching.
- System Shock: Edward Diego, the Corrupt Corporate Executive who gave the order to remove SHODAN's ethical limiters, thought he could control SHODAN. When cornered and at SHODAN's mercy, he winds up betraying what remains of the human resistance on Citadel Station to her and is basically worshipping SHODAN as he does so. SHODAN rewards him by turning him into a uniquely powerful cyborg and seems to have left him at least some measure of free will, though his loyalty to her appears to be absolute. He then becomes her dragon, acting as the top enforcer of SHODAN's will on Citadel Station.
- Turning Point: Fall of Liberty: In this Alternate History, where the Nazis and Imperial Japanese (who are off-screen) invade the United States, we have James Edward Stevenson. The Nazis managed to capture both the President and Vice President during the attack on Washington and announce that Stevenson, who was Speaker of the House, is now "President". His first act is to call on all American military forces to stand down, but the military simply ignores him and continues fighting alongside with the resistance movement anyway. Later in the game, the resistance storms The White House in an attempt to kill him, they succeed. This act causes the Nazis to realize that the American Resistance is growing out of control for them.
- Tyranny has multiple characters who have willingly embraced Kyros and collaborated with them:
- Lantry, one of your companions, is one of these for the Tiers. A former Sage, he argued that the Sages should have peacefully submitted to Kyros and opened their library for censorship rather than futilely resist like they did and get struck by the Edict of Fire. This also drove him to become a paid informant for the Voices of Nerat in the years leading up to the invasion. With the Sages scattered by said Edict, he tries to make himself useful to whoever will take him, including the Player Character and the Court of Fatebinders.
- Centuries ago, the man who would become Tunon the Adjudicator chose to re-write his nation's laws and customs to match the laws of Kyros' Empire because he believed a war was otherwise inevitable. With the nation unknowingly assimilated into Kyros' laws, the takeover was instead relatively bloodless, and Tunon was hailed as a hero for his foresight and rewarded with a position of Kyros' Chief Justice, leading him to become an Archon who embodied the law and order of the Empire.
- Nufai the Skinwalker from Universe at War. As he comments himself, it's the sort of attitude that left him alive when The Hierarchy butchered the rest of his species.
- Deconstructed in Valkyria Chronicles, where Prime Minister Borg sells out Princess Cordelia and Gallia to the Imperial Alliance in order to curry favour with Maximillian. Although he accepts, Maximillian is disgusted by this and orders Borg's execution since someone so willing to sell out their country would be a horrible subordinate to keep around.
- Warcraft:
- Gul'dan, Blackhand and the other members of the Shadow Council in Rise of the Horde and Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. Unlike the other orc leaders, who were tricked into making a pact with demons, they were aware of Kil'Jaeden's deceit and helped him transform the orcs into bloodthirsty monsters in exchange for (political and magical) power.
- King Perenolde of Alterac in Warcraft II, Tides of Darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal. During the orc invasion, he helped The Horde attack other human kingdoms so his own nation would stay relatively untouched.
- Dar'Khan Drathir in Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilogy. He's the one who betrayed his homeland Quel'Thalas by letting Arthas in and have his people slaughtered by the soon-to-be Lich King.
- A small-time version of this can be found in Jacoby Drexelhand, Korthos villager turned Devourer cultist and Sahuagin collaborator in the introductory Korthos Island missions from Dungeons & Dragons Online. While most Korthos villagers who joined the Devourer cult were kidnapped and forcibly indoctrinated into it, Jacoby gave himself willingly to the Devourer. When you confront him during the instance "The Collaborator," he tells you that the Sahuagin will kill anyone who doesn't convert and that he's just watching out for his own hide. You promptly prove him wrong by fighting off his allies, tracking him down, and sending him into Khyber's embrace.
- Following Jacoby's death, his body is taken to the Decrepit Catacombs by the cultists of the Devourer and raised as an undead wight, who you then have to fight in the finale of the instance "Necromancer's Doom."
- Weird and Unfortunate Things Are Happening has an unnamed cult of humans who summoned the Inner Evocations to the city of Daybreak and allowed them to turn it into an Eldritch Location. For one reason or another, they have allied themselves with the Inner Evocations who are wreaking havoc on Daybreak and victimizing humans.
- Mayor Bryan Trautman, Grandmaster of the cult, hoped to turn Daybreak into his "vision".
- Clayton Knight is an Evilutionary Biologist who wants to "ascend" humanity by having the Evocations turn them into monsters.
- Principal/Queen Inez Ulrich feels unloved by humans and wants the Evocations to force everyone to love her, turning Atkinson Middle School into her fairy kingdom. Her subordinate Garry does it because she's his boss.
- William, the "Blood Moon Butcher", is an Ax-Crazy killer and Psycho for Hire who signed on for the power and the killing.
- Polly, the Cultist Superior, was corrupted by the Evocations into joining the cult.
- XCOM2: VIP targets are typically humans who sold out to the Advent administration. Your objective is to kill or capture them. It should be noted that none of your enemy combatants are purely human, meaning they're all content to sit back and let the aliens and hybrids do all the work.
- XCOM: Chimera Squad: After the events of 2, the aliens stand down and submit to human rule. Of course, this is after XCOM reveals their 'divine' Ethereals' master plan to save the galaxy was to turn themselves into shiny supermen and leave the rest of their partially mind-controlled forces to rot.
