History AdaptationalHeroism / VideoGames

* The ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'' gives Annette Birkin this treatment. In the original game, Annette was an unabashed and trigger happy MadScientist whose anger towards Umbrella and UndyingLoyalty for her husband's "[[TheVirus genius work]]" makes her come off as batshit insane. Worse still Annette dismissed her only daughter Sherry and cared more safeguarding the G-Virus. In the remake, Annette is sympathetic as she wants to keep the virus from falling into the wrong hands to prevent further incidents like Raccoon City from happening and actively works to destroy all remaining samples of the G-Virus. This also makes Annette's attempt to kill Ada (who wants to sell the virus to a third party) completely justified, in fact when Annette reveals Ada's true colors to Leon, she is able to make him turn against her. It's even more apparent in Claire's scenario as Annette saves Sherry from getting infected and [[TearJerker tells her daughter how much she loves her while dying]].
** HUNK gets a bit of this as well as in most Resident Evil media he's a cold and ruthless killing machine, in the remake HUNK is genuinely angry when his trigger happy squad shoot an unarmed William Birkin.

** [[spoiler: '''''ComicBook/TheJoker''''' of all people]] is this, as he seems to disapprove of his fellow inmates picking on newbies. It's implied he may have ulterior motives, but it is something.
*** If you've been good buddies with him throughout Season 2, [[spoiler:the Joker will actually become a vigilante like Batman, and even team up with him. However, he is ultimately too AxCrazy to hack it as a hero, and Batman ends up having to take him down anyway]].

* Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryuu is a [[InsufferableGenius smug]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] jerk in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' that drives the protagonist up the wall, [[spoiler:kills the protagonist ''twice'', and the entire plot of the game is kicked off by his desire to erase Shibuya]]. When he shows up ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', he's significantly nicer and much more helpful to Sora. It's almost bizarre, considering that the other ''[=TWEWY=]'' characters still have the same personality, more or less.
* In the original ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'', Goro Majima is depicted as an unbalanced psychopath who murders underlings with a baseball bat on a whim. In the UpdatedRerelease ''Yakuza Kiwami'', Majima's more sadistic traits are downplayed: the scene where he bludgeons his underling with a baseball bat instead shows him just knocking him out. In addition, he serves as a StealthMentor to protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, ambushing him and challenging him in order to help him knock off the rust accumulated over the course of ten years in prison.

* In the video game adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', Mr. Soil is Flik's confidant and guide. In the film, he's among those who look down on Flik.

* In the original ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'', Goro Majima is depicted as an unbalanced psychopath who murders underlings with a baseball bat on a whim. In the UpdatedRerelease ''Yakuza Kiwami'', Majima's more sadistic traits are downplayed: the scene where he bludgeons his underling with a baseball bat instead shows him just knocking him out. In addition, he serves as a StealthMentor to protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, ambushing him and challenging him in order to help him knock off the rust accumulated over the course of ten years in prison.
* While Eddie Brock himself doesn't appear in ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'', one of the backpacks you can find in a sidequest does see that he signed a farewell card to Peter, wishing him luck at his new job, which suggests he has a better relationship with Peter than other versions.
* In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', some of the skin themes push heroic characters into villainous roles, or shift villains onto the heroes' teams:
** Hecarim is a monstrous undead centaur creature, but in the Arcade theme, he was the hero of an arcade game in the late 1970s.
** The Arclight/Justicar theme is about LightIsGood, but the only character in it to ''not'' be either villainous or a fairly nasty AntiHero in standard Runeterra is Yorick. This is most notable in the case of Vel'koz (an EldritchAbomination reinterpreted as TheChooserOfTheOne) and Aatrox (an OmnicidalManiac in the standard canon, now a hero).
** Illaoi goes from a ChaoticNeutral champion of strength above all to a hero of LaResistance in the Battlecast universe.
** Leblanc is ''sort of'' bad in the Eclipse universe, by virtue of being one of TheFairFolk and stealing traits from the villainous Coven, but compared to her usual self, it's a huge improvement. Hecarim is there too, as a protector of the forest.
** The benevolent Cosmic forces of the Event Horizon line include Xayah and Rakan; in the normal Runeterra, Xayah is a terrorist [[FantasticRacism with issues with humans and Yordles]], while Rakan is kind of a jerk.
** Evelynn in the K/DA universe is TheDiva, but that's a big improvement on a soul-stealing succubus.
** Jinx in the Odyssey universe goes from a MadBomber to more of an over-the-top LovableRogue along the lines of a wackier version of [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy MCU Peter Quill]].
** The members of Pentakill include [[OmnicidalManiac Karrthus]] and [[EvilOverlord Mordekaiser]], only as heavy metal musicians instead of meaningful threats to a decent chunk of Valoran.
** While she's the least good member of the [[MagicalGirl Star Guardians]], Syndra ''is'' still a Star Guardian in that universe, instead of an EvilSorceress.
** Antagonistic characters to join up with the tabletop RPG in the Rift Quest universe include Varus and Sejuani.
** The Academy universe takes Darius, a brutal warlord, and Vladimir, who is for all intents and purposes a vampire, and makes them juvenile delinquents.

* While Eddie Brock himself doesn't appear in ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'', one of the backpacks you can find in a sidequest does see that he signed a farewell card to Peter, wishing him luck at his new job, which suggests he has a better relationship with Peter than other versions.

** [[spoiler:In the comics, Jason Todd started out as a crime lord who pimped, dealt, teamed up with Hush, cared nothing for the rest of the Batfamily, and only got worse from there, once trying to kill Tim Drake simply out of jealousy. He eventually got to the point where he'd even gun down cops and civilians if they happened to be in his way. He was also stated to be completely sane throughout. Here, most of his dirty work is under orders from Scarecrow and he even allowed civilians to evacuate Gotham before the plan went in motion. As for his mental state, he's clearly suffering from textbook psychosis, and whereas in the comics Jason was just pissed because Batman didn't kill the Joker himself, here he honestly believes Batman abandoned him to his fate. He also still cares for both Barbara and Alfred a great deal.]]

* In the original ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'', Goro Majima is depicted as an unbalanced psychopath who murders underlings with a baseball bat on a whim. In the UpdatedRerelease ''Yakuza Kiwami'', Majima's more sadistic traits are downplayed: the scene where he bludgeons his underling with a baseball bat instead shows him just knocking him out. In addition, he serves as a StealthMentor to protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, ambushing him and challenging him in order to help him knock off the rust accumulated over the course of ten years in prison.

* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': Avallac'h is portrayed as being nicer than he was in the books. In the books he tried to pimp Ciri out to his king and planned to help the Aen Elle conquer the human world. In Wild Hunt, he's mellowed out, and while still fairly manipulative and contemptuous of humanity, is implied to have come to care for Ciri. He is definitely nowhere near as monstrous as Eredin.

* ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs'' is an interesting example. Like the comic before it, its protagonist Bigby Wolf is TheBigBadWolf of fairytale lore who has now reformed as the sheriff of Fabletown. Telltale's Bigby is very grounded in his morality, has the potential to be very compassionate depending on player choice, and his past deeds are a source of great personal guilt and remorse for him, which isn't the case at all in the comic where it's made clear that he doesn't regret his past deeds at all being that he operates on a strange sort of BlueAndOrangeMorality since he's a wolf. Even if the player chooses to play Bigby as a complete jerk who only cares about his job at the end of the day, he's still MILES more empathetic than his comic self.
-->'''Faith:''' You're not as bad as everyone says you are.

** Haman Kahn/Karn, also of ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', is a coldly cynical EvilChancellor who is PlayingBothSides for her own interest and has molded the last surviving member of the Zabi family into a [[PuppetKing Puppet Princess]] who parrots whatever she is told. In the first game she joins forces with ''Zeta'' hero Kamille Bidan (who ''almost'' convinced her to pull a HeelFaceTurn in canon) and becomes something of a DefrostingIceQueen. In the second game she joins forces with the BigBad version of her estranged lover Char from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char's Counterattack]]'', but ultimately it is revealed that she was acting as a ReverseMole who intended to thwart Char all along, and the final missions sees her team up with no less than ''three'' main ''Gundam'' heroes (Amuro Ray, Judau Ashta and Kamille again) to stop Char. As with Scirocco, the third game is the most extreme version as she becomes an outright MamaBear whose only motivation is to protect and defend Mineva (who she never showed significant emotion for in the series and was coldly manipulating the entire time).

* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'':
** In ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam'', Fonse Kagatie manipulates Queen Maria and decides to build the Angel Halo to subjugate mankind. During a Space Route scenario of ''VideoGame/ShinSuperRobotWars'', Londo Bell rescues Fonse from imprisonment. He relates how the alien attack and Tassilo Vago's treachery brought about the end of the Zanscare Empire (just as [[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Lupe Cineau]] had said), ending in Tassilo bringing him here a prisoner. When the party tells him that Zanscare is still active, Fonse realizes that [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char Aznable]] must have taken control. Increasingly panicked, he tells the party they must stop Char before he achieves his misguided goal of robbing all mankind of its emotions, creating obedient soldiers as the aliens want.
** In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsDestiny'', much of Char's Neo Zeon and ''Gundam Wing''[='=]s antagonists play the part of heroes, fighting against Zanscare and various alien threats. The most notable example is probably Treize Khushrenda, who at the end of the game [[spoiler:sacrifices himself to seal away the EldritchAbomination BigBad]]. Many other games allow you to recruit antagonists of all shapes and sizes to your cause. ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsUX UX]]'' includes [[Toys/BBSenshiSangokuden Ryofu Tallgeese]] and [[VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}} Master Therion]], to name a pair of standouts.
** Axel Almar, one of the {{Schrodingers Player Character}}s from ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAdvance'', [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zags]] this one. In ''Advance'', he's a cheerful goofball if you choose him as your player character, or a cold enemy commander if you choose Lamia Loveless instead. In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration 2'', Lamia is the good guy in the story's plot, so Axel is the villain... only he's [[AdaptationalVillainy even worse]] than he was as an enemy in ''Advance''. Then the UpdatedRerelease ''Original Generations'' {{Ret Con}}ned Axel to make him more of a NobleDemon, swinging him back in this direction as well as setting him up to appear in ''VideoGame/EndlessFrontier'', ''Original Generations the 2nd'', and ''The Inspector'' (the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Original Generation 2''[='s=] plotline), where he pulls a full-on HeelFaceTurn.
** ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsGC'': Zeon deploys the Apsalus III during its second attempt to capture Jaburo. Aina is piloting it but Ginias soon assumes control over it after removing a half-hearted Aina from the cockpit. Ginias asked Norris to take Aina to safety while he pilots the Apsalas III himself in spite of his poor health, vowing victory for Zeon. In essence, Banpresto treated Ginias a lot better in GC than in the original series.
** Because of how the [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Muganns]] come down to Al-Warth are different in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsX'', Rossiu doesn't hold any trial against Simon.
* In the ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' spin-off ''Off the Record'', [[spoiler:Raymond Sullivan]] goes from the BigBad (one of two, at least) to a genuinely heroic person. Conversely, [[spoiler:Stacey]] takes his position as the BigBad instead.
* In the ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' series as a whole, most Navi counterparts of the ''[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Classic]]'' Robot Masters are mostly neutral at worst, but some actually do start out as villains (at first). Most prominent of these is Dex and his Navi [=GutsMan.EXE=], who starts out as a bully, but becomes part of the TrueCompanions.
* ''Videogame/TheBattleOfOlympus'', which is based on Myth/ClassicalMythology, turns Circe from a seductress who [[BalefulPolymorph turned visitors to her island into animals]] to an ally who will sell you a useful shield.
* In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'': [[spoiler:Count Dracula is revealed to be this]].
* Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryuu is a [[InsufferableGenius smug]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] jerk in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' that drives the protagonist up the wall, [[spoiler:kills the protagonist ''twice'', and the entire plot of the game is kicked off by his desire to erase Shibuya]]. When he shows up ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', he's significantly nicer and much more helpful to Sora. It's almost bizarre, considering that the other ''[=TWEWY=]'' characters still have the same personality, more or less.

* In the NES version of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon III'', Yagyu Ranzou (the Mission 3 boss) joins forces with the Lee brothers and Chin after being defeated in combat. In the arcade version of the game, he was simply a non-playable boss.
* In ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'', this is downplayed with Obed Marsh. In the original story (''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth'') Obed was implied to have been a CardCarryingVillain who summoned the Deep Ones to Innsmouth purely out of {{Greed}} and who was willing to give them whatever they wanted in exchange for their gold. His journals in the game make him out to be more of a WellIntentionedExtremist, who only summoned the Deep Ones in order to save his dying city and then had to keep working with them because breaking the deal meant they would slaughter his people. His descendants are still just as evil as they ever were, though.
* ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'': Of all people, [[FatBastard Cartman]] is the BigGood in this game. In the cartoon, he's always been a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist asshole]] who only looks out for himself and uses others to get [[ItsAllAboutMe what he wants]], but in the game, Cartman is [[PetTheDog one of the first characters to befriend you]] and provides tutorials for your character to defend yourself from enemies, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe something which the New Kid responds by giving Cartman]] his UndyingLoyalty and respect. Subverted in the sequel ''Videogame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', where Cartman as "The Coon" still plays a similar mentor role but [[spoiler:is eventually revealed to be the true villain of the game via his hand puppet persona Mitch Conner, though he's treated as a friend and ally again afterwards [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe due to how he treated the New Kid in the previous game]].]]
* Loader Bot from ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands''. The Bots are traditionally enemies you encounter in other ''Borderlands'' titles, but this one is [[TrueCompanions the closest friend]] your characters have in the game.
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'':
** In the comics, ComicBook/RasAlGhul's other daughter, Nyssa Raatko, had tortured her sister Talia to the point of insanity and was generally apathetic to people. In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', she's the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] to her family, vowing to leave Gotham alone and keep the League of Assassins from shedding more blood. [[spoiler: If you chose to destroy the machines keeping Ra's al Ghul alive, she keeps her word and if you chose to save Ra's, she'd rather die than be revived and become like her father.]]
** The ''Arkham Series'' also does this to Poison Ivy. In the comics, she's always been an OmnicidalManiac trying to take over the world with her army of plants. However, her [[TragicVillain tragic side]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds is heavily brought up]] frequently throughout the series. She's never once killed another living being, [[EvenEvilHasStandards shown disgust towards other villains]], and along with Mr. Freeze, one of the only [[AffablyEvil cooperative villains]] [[PetTheDog towards Batman]]. [[spoiler: This is brought up to a high point in ''Arkham Knight'', where Ivy pulls a HeelFaceTurn and joins the dark knight on his crusade against Scarecrow. Sadly, she dies pulling a HeroicSacrifice saving Gotham City from Scarecrow's toxin bomb.]]
** [[spoiler:In the comics, Jason Todd started out as a crime lord who pimped, dealt, teamed up with Hush, cared nothing for the rest of the Batfamily, and only got worse from there, once trying to kill Tim Drake simply out of jealousy. He eventually got to the point where he'd even gun down cops and civilians if they happened to be in his way. He was also stated to be completely sane throughout. Here, most of his dirty work is under orders from Scarecrow and he even allowed civilians to evacuate Gotham before the plan went in motion. As for his mental state, he's clearly suffering from textbook psychosis, and whereas in the comics Jason was just pissed because Batman didn't kill the Joker himself, here he honestly believes Batman abandoned him to his fate. He also still cares for both Barbara and Alfred a great deal.]]
* In the video game adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', Mr. Soil is Flik's confidant and guide. In the film, he's among those who look down on Flik.

* ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries''
** [[spoiler: '''''ComicBook/TheJoker''''' of all people]] is this, as he seems to disapprove of his fellow inmates picking on newbies. It's implied he may have ulterior motives, but it is something.
*** If you've been good buddies with him throughout Season 2, [[spoiler:the Joker will actually become a vigilante like Batman, and even team up with him. However, he is ultimately too AxCrazy to hack it as a hero, and Batman ends up having to take him down anyway]].
** Peter Grogan is a very minor character mostly known as the guy between [[DirtyCop Gillian Loeb]] and [[TheCommissionerGordon Jim Gordon]] who served as Gotham's police commissioner, with his initial mention in ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne'' saying he was more corrupt than Loeb. Here, he's an honest cop, [[spoiler: pulling a HeroicSacrifice to save Batman and Gordon noting he was a good man, which is especially ironic considering the mention of comic!Grogan being worse than Loeb came from Jim's comic counterpart.]]
* ''VideoGame/Macross30TheVoiceThatConnectsTheGalaxy'' has Grace O'Connor, [[spoiler: who was the BigBad of ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'']], but here, she's actually on the heroes' side.
* In the original ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'', Goro Majima is depicted as an unbalanced psychopath who murders underlings with a baseball bat on a whim. In the UpdatedRerelease ''Yakuza Kiwami'', Majima's more sadistic traits are downplayed: the scene where he bludgeons his underling with a baseball bat instead shows him just knocking him out. In addition, he serves as a StealthMentor to protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, ambushing him and challenging him in order to help him knock off the rust accumulated over the course of ten years in prison.
* A variation of this in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'': the initial Personas of this game's party are all based off of {{Picaresque}} heroes and thieves, either from fictional stories or legends, as opposed to the more traditional pantheons of gods from prior games. Each one is represented and described in the status screen positively and tie to how each of the characters [[RebelliousSpirit break free from the more repressive parts of Japanese society]]. Not all of the Personas chosen are as wholesome as the game describes, however:
** [[ButNotTooForeign Ann Takamaki's]] initial Persona is ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'', the titular gypsy from Bizet's opera/Prosper Merimee's novella. Carmen represents Ann's defying her peers' constant SlutShaming and fetishizing her Caucasian features, and in turn taking control over her own sexuality; in Carmen's status screen, she's described as a FemmeFatale in a positive manner. This glosses over how the literary/theatrical Carmen is not one for meaningful relationships, usually disposing of men without a thought (one of said spurned lovers becomes angry enough to murder her in the opera), and she is also very shallow, conniving, and fatalistic.
** [[TheOjou Haru Okumura's]] initial Persona is Milady de Winter of ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'', the spy who works for Cardinal Richelieu and Athos' wife. While it's shown that Haru has a hidden [[BeneathTheMask sadistic streak]] likely stemmed from growing up with her [[ArchnemesisDad oppressive father]], she's easily the kindest and most compassionate member of the party - a far cry from [[TheVamp the seductive]], [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] spy that Milady is in the novel.
** This even extends to some of the Ultimate Personas as well, though sometimes downplayed; for example, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Yusuke Kitagawa's]] ascended Persona is [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Kamu Susano'o]], who was cast out of the heavens for destroying Amaterasu's rice fields and ''murdering one of her assistants'' because he was a bit ''restless.'' Over time, Susano'o would redeem himself by slaying Orochi, so he ended up [[HeelFaceTurn cleaning up his act]], but this aspect is glossed over in this game.
* ''VideoGame/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyTheTelltaleSeries''[='=]s version of Yondu Udonta is a SpacePirate like his MCU counterpart, but unlike the films, where he kidnapped Peter Quill [[spoiler:to take to his father]], this Yondu was hired by Peter's mother to take care of him after her passing.
* In ''Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll'', Go Hayato is the WarmUpBoss you face in the first round of the first fighting tournament. In the ''Franchise/SuperSentai''-like spinoff ''Flying Warriors'', he's a party member.
* ''VideoGame/TransformersDevastation''[='=]s backstory paints [[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW Nova Prime]] and [[ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2 Jhiaxus]] as more heroic characters, the former being an inspiration to Optimus Prime and the latter looking forward to being an Autobot, who only became villains [[spoiler:because Unicron corrupted them, as opposed to the original versions being evil of their own volition.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs'' is an interesting example. Like the [[ComicBook/Fables comic]] it's based on, its protagonist Bigby Wolf is TheBigBadWolf of fairytale lore who has now reformed as the sheriff of Fabletown. Telltale's Bigby is very grounded in his morality, has the potential to be very compassionate depending on player choice, and his past deeds are a source of great personal guilt and remorse for him, which isn't the case at all in the comic where it's made clear that he doesn't regret his past deeds at all being that he operates on a strange sort of BlueAndOrangeMorality since he's a wolf. Even if the player chooses to play Bigby as a complete jerk who only cares about his job at the end of the day, he's still MILES more empathetic than his comic self.

* ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs'' is an interesting example. Like the ''ComicBook/Fables'' comic it's based on, its protagonist Bigby Wolf is TheBigBadWolf of fairytale lore who has now reformed as the sheriff of Fabletown. Telltale's Bigby is very grounded in his morality, has the potential to be very compassionate depending on player choice, and his past deeds are a source of great personal guilt and remorse for him, which isn't the case at all in the comic where it's made clear that he doesn't regret his past deeds at all being that he operates on a strange sort of BlueAndOrangeMorality since he's a wolf. Even if the player chooses to play Bigby as a complete jerk who only cares about his job at the end of the day, he's still MILES more empathetic than his comic self.

* ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs'' is an interesting example. Like the ''ComicBook/Fables'' comic it's based on, its protagonist Bigby Wolf is TheBigBadWolf of fairytale lore who has now reformed as the sheriff of Fabletown. Telltale's Bigby is very grounded in his morality, has the potential to be very compassionate depending on player choice, and his past deeds are a source of great personal guilt and remorse for him, which isn't the case at all in the comic where it's made clear that he doesn't regret his past deeds at all being that he operates on a strange sort of BlackAndOrangeMorality since he's a wolf. Even if the player chooses to play Bigby as a complete jerk who only cares about his job at the end of the day, he's still MILES more empathetic than his comic self.

* ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs'' is an interesting example. Like the comic it's based on, its protagonist Bigby Wolf is TheBigBadWolf of fairytale lore who has now reformed as the sheriff of Fabletown. Unlike the comic version, Telltale's Bigby is very grounded in his morality, has the potential to be very compassionate depending on player choice, and his past deeds are a source of great personal guilt and remorse for him, which isn't the case at all in the comic where it's made clear that he doesn't regret his past deeds at all being that he operates on a BlackAndOrange sort of morality since he's a wolf. Even if the player chooses to play Bigby as a complete jerk who only cares about his job at the end of the day, he's still MILES more empathetic than his comic self.

* ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs'' turns TheBigBadWolf into the hero the game focuses on. Bigby Wolf is the sheriff attempting to help the Fables out in order to [[TheAtoner atone for his sins of the past.]]

* ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'': Of all people, [[FatBastard Cartman]] is the BigGood in this game. In the cartoon, he's always been a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist asshole]] who only looks out for himself and uses others to get [[ItsAllAboutMe what he wants]], but in the game, Cartman is [[PetTheDog one of the first characters to befriend you]] and provides tutorials for your character to defend yourself from enemies, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe something which the New Kid responds by giving Cartman]] his UndyingLoyalty and respect. Subverted in the sequel ''Videogame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', where Cartman as "The Coon" still plays a similar mentor role but [[spoiler:is eventually revealed to be the true villain of the game via his hand puppet persona Mitch Conner, though he becomes a friend and ally again afterwards [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe due to how he treated the New Kid in the previous game]].]]

* ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'': Downplayed with Cartman. In the cartoon, he's always been a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist asshole]] who only looks out for himself and uses others to get [[ItsAllAboutMe what he wants]], but in the game, Cartman is the first one to befriend you and provides tutorials for your character to defend yourself from enemies. Subverted in the sequel ''Videogame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', where Cartman as "The Coon" still plays a similar mentor role but [[spoiler:is eventually revealed to be the true villain of the game via his hand puppet persona Mitch Conner]].

** This even extends to some of the Ultimate Personas as well, though sometimes downplayed; for example, [[TheEccentric Yusuke Kitagawa's]] ascended Persona is [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Kamu Susano'o]], who was cast out of the heavens for destroying Amaterasu's rice fields and ''murdering one of her assistants'' because he was a bit ''restless.'' Over time, Susano'o would redeem himself by slaying Orochi, so he ended up [[HeelFaceTurn cleaning up his act]], but this aspect is glossed over in this game.

* ''VideoGame/TransformersDevastation''[='=]s backstory paints [[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW Nova Prime]] and [[ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2 Jhiaxus]] as more heroic characters, the former being an inspiration to Optimus Prime and the latter looking forward to being an Autobot, who only became villains [[spoiler:because Unicron corrupted them]], as opposed to the original versions being evil of their own volition.

* ''VideoGame/TransformersDevstation''[='=]s backstory paints [[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW Nova Prime]] and [[ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2 Jhiaxus]] was more heroic characters, the former being an inspiration to Optimus Prime and the latter looking forward to being an Autobot, who only became villains [[spoiler:because Unicron corrupted them]], as opposed to the original versions being evil of their own volition.

* In ''Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll'', Go Hayato is the WarmUpBoss you face in the first round of the first fighting tournament. In the ''Franchise/SuperSentai''-like spinoff ''Flying Warriors'', he's a party member.

* ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'': Downplayed with Cartman. In the cartoon, he's always been a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist asshole]] who only looks out for himself and uses others to get [[ItsAllAboutMe what he wants]], but in the game, Cartman is the first one to befriend you and provides tutorials for your character to defend yourself from enemies.

** [[spoiler: '''''ComicBook/TheJoker''''' of all people]] undergo this, as he seems to disapprove of his fellow inmates picking of newbies. It's implied he may have ulterior motives, but it is something.

** Haman Kahn/Karn, also of ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', is a coldly cynical EvilChancellor who is PlayingBothSides for her own interest and has molded the last surviving member of the Zabi family into a [[PuppetKing Puppet Princess]] who parrots whatever she is told. In the first game she joins force with ''Zeta'' hero Kamille Bidan (who ''almost'' convinced her to pull a HeelFaceTurn in canon) and becomes something of a DefrostingIceQueen. In the second game she joins forces with the BigBad version of her estranged lover Char from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char's Counterattack]]'', but ultimately it is revealed that she was acting as a ReverseMole who intended to thwart Char all along, and the final missions sees her team up with no less than ''three'' main Gundam heroes (Amuro Ray, Judau Ashta and Kamille again) to stop Char. As with Scirocco, the third game is the most extreme version as she becomes an outright MamaBear whose only motivation is to protect and defend Mineva (who she never showed significant emotion for in the series and was coldly manipulating the entire time).

** This even extends to some of the Ultimate Personas as well, though sometimes downplayed; for example, [[TheEccentric Yusuke Kitagawa's]] ascended Persona is [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Kamu Susano'o]], who was cast out of the heavens for destroying Amaterasu's rice fields and ''murdering one of her assistants'' because he was a bit ''restless.'' Over time, Susano'o would redeem himself by slaying Orochi, so he ended up [[HeelFaceTurn cleaning his act]], but that part was usually glossed in this game.
* ''VideoGame/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyTheTelltaleSeries''[='=]s version of Yondu Udonta is a SpacePirate like his MCU counterpart, but unlike the films, where he kidnapped Peter Quill [[spoiler:to take to his father]], this Yondu was hired by Peter's mother to take care of him after her passing.

** Peter Grogan is a very minor character mostly known as the guy between [[DirtyCop Gillian Loeb]] and [[TheCommissionerGordon Jim Gordon]], with his initial mention in ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne'' saying he was worse than Loeb. Here, he's an honest cop, [[spoiler: pulling a HeroicSacrifice to save Batman and Gordon noting he was a good man, which is especially ironic considering the mention of comic!Grogan being worse than Loeb came from Jim's comic counterpart.]]

** This even extends to some of the Ultimate Personas as well; for example, [[TheEccentric Yusuke Kitagawa's]] ascended Persona is [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Kamu Susano'o]], who was cast out of the heavens for destroying Amaterasu's rice fields and ''murdering one of her assistants'' because he was a bit ''restless.''

** This even extends to some of the Ultimate Personas as well; for example, [[TheEccentric Yusuke Kitagawa's]] ascended Persona is [[JapaneseMythology Kamu Susano'o]], who was cast out of the heavens for destroying Amaterasu's rice fields and ''murdering one of her assistants'' because he was a bit ''restless.''