History BlueAndOrangeMorality / VideoGames

*** So, Daedric Princes have unknowable morals. You know who else has unknowable morals? Mad people. And then there's [[MadGod Sheogorath, Daedric Prince of Madness]] [[MadArtist Creativity, Music,]] [[TrademarkFavoriteFood and Cheese]]. So what we're dealing with here is a god whose ideas of what constitutes as "blessings" includes things like the ability to paint so beautifully that nature turns green with envy, sing like the birds upon a crisp spring morning, dance like the leaves in an autumnal wind, an abundance of cheese, a complete lack of cheese (which can be just as big of a blessing if you happen to not like cheese), claw-your-eyes-out-screaming-forever-at-things-only-you-can-see batshit insanity, and waking up one crisp spring morning to find that all of your blood has been replaced with beautifully singing molten cheese.

* ''VideoGame/TokyoAfterschoolSummoners'' has a number of examples, but the first one players are likely to be exposed to is [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Macan/Magan]] Gadungan, a tiger-man who [[ImAHumanitarian fights and devours the strong]]. ''Only'' the strong; those he views as "weak" he's perfectly civil, if not downright ''pleasant'' (if he's not in a berserker rage) to talk to, often encouraging them to become strong. As he's from a world where "survival of the fittest" is the law of the jungle, he views eating the weak to be something akin to dishonorable ''and'' disgusting and acknowledges while that things don't work the same way outside his world, ''he'' can't bring himself to eat anything that hasn't fought back and fought back well. He also doesn't believe himself to be the pinnacle of the metaphorical food chain, either, as he spends a ''lot'' of time working out because when someone stronger defeats and eats him - which he's hoping for and looking forward to - ''he doesn't want to be a flabby, unappetizing meal''. This mindset freaks out a ''lot'' of people in-universe.

---> ''"That's why the Dwemer are the weirdest race in Tamriel and, frankly, also the scariest. They look(ed) like us, they sometimes act(ed) like us, but when you really put them under the magnifying glass you see nothing but vessels that house an intelligence and value system that is by all accounts Beyond Human Comprehension. (...) There isn't even a word to describe the Dwarven view on divinity. They were atheists on a world where gods exist."''

-->"Do I take life, or give it? Who is victim, who is foe?"
-->"Resignation is my virtue, like water I ebb and flow. Defeat is merely the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved, but ''you'' imposed."

* From ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'', [[EvilGenius Colress]]. He doesn't consider the morality and consequences of his actions, just the results and knowledge that can be gathered from them. When his encounters with the player provide evidence that Pokemon are more powerful when they are happy and friendly with their trainer, he eagerly pursues studying that angle instead of following Team Plasma's "enslavement" policy.
* Atlas and P-Body from ''VideoGame/Portal2''. It isn't obvious for most of the game due to the lack of storyline, but it is shown at the end of the Co-Op campaign that their morality seems to revolve solely around the tests -- in the final cut-scene, the pair manage to "rescue" [[spoiler:thousands of test subjects who were stored underground, who will now be used in tests until they all die painfully, one by one]]. This could ''easily'' be used as a NiceJobBreakingItHero moment, but the bots' response is to start ''dancing'' to happy music. To hit the point harder, the music continues to play as [=GLaDOS=] [[spoiler:blows them up, as they've outlived their usefulness (though she can, and eventually does, bring them back fairly easily).]]