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** Surprisingly, [[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum Cipher]], the most evil organization in the franchis3, has one in [[VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness Eldes]], one of the two sons of the Cipher leaders. He hates Cipher's actions and is nothing but nice to innocent persons. When he realizes that Michael can single-handedly take out Cipher, Eldes helps him by trying to convince his father and brother to just give up. He succeeds with his father, but sadly fails with his brother, Ardos, who vows to resurrect Cipher and brands Michael, who Eldes has [[WorthyOpponent nothing but respect towards]], as "Cipher's greatest enemy".

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** Surprisingly, [[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum Cipher]], the most evil organization in the franchis3, franchise, has one in [[VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness Eldes]], one of the two sons of the Cipher leaders.leader. He hates Cipher's actions and is nothing but nice to innocent persons. When he realizes that Michael can single-handedly take out Cipher, Eldes helps him by trying to convince his father and brother to just give up. He succeeds with his father, father when Michael defeats the three, but sadly fails with his brother, Ardos, who vows to resurrect Cipher and brands Michael, who Eldes has [[WorthyOpponent nothing but respect towards]], as "Cipher's greatest enemy".Ardos.
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** Surprisingly, [[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum Cipher]], the most evil organization in the franchis3, has one in [[VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness Eldes]], one of the two sons of the Cipher leaders. He hates Cipher's actions and is nothing but nice to innocent persons. When he realizes that Michael can single-handedly take out Cipher, Eldes helps him by trying to convince his father and brother to just give up. He succeeds with his father, but sadly fails with his brother, Ardos, who vows to resurrect Cipher and brands Michael, who Eldes has [[WorthyOpponent nothing but respect towards]], as "Cipher's greatest enemy".
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* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': On paper, the Pyro is by far the friendliest member of Team Fortress, intending to spread joy wherever they go instead of following their job to kill people. Unfortunately, they operate under a completely different perception of the world, [[ObliviouslyEvil having no idea that shooting out rainbows at babies equates to burning people alive with a flamethrower]].

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** In ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', Vette is this to a Dark-sided Sith Warrior's party since she's the only one who isn't a murderous psychopath (Jaesa and Broonmark) or loyal to the Empire (Quinn and Pierce). The Sith Inquisitor's party has Talos Drellik, who is easily the nicest party member in a group consisting of brooding cynics (Ashara and Andronikos) and violent brutes (Khem Val and Xalek). Also, a Light Side Sith Inquisitor or a Light Side Sith Warrior would qualify as this for the Empire AND the Sith. Other Light Side Imperial player characters tend to be rather reasonable and pragmatic individuals when compared to their Dark Side counterparts.

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Vette is this to a Dark-sided Sith Warrior's party since she's the only one who isn't a murderous psychopath (Jaesa and Broonmark) or loyal to the Empire (Quinn and Pierce). The Sith Inquisitor's party has Talos Drellik, who is easily the nicest party member in a group consisting of brooding cynics (Ashara and Andronikos) and violent brutes (Khem Val and Xalek). Also, a
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Light Side Sith, Sith Inquisitor or who fully believe in the SocialDarwinist tenets of their ReligionOfEvil but are GenreSavvy enough to recognize that TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget and stay away from it. It's possible for a Light Side [[VillainProtagonist Sith Warrior would qualify as Warrior/Inquisitor]] PlayerCharacter to follow this for path, and subsequently become the Empire AND the Sith. OnlySaneMan in TheEmpire operating on [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned]] PragmaticVillainy in defiance of their comrades' StupidEvil. The concept is explored further in ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'' with Darth Gravid, a Sith Lord who recognized how self-destructive their religion was and went mad trying to reconcile it with Jedi teachings. [[BadassNormal Other Light Side Imperial player characters characters]] also tend to be rather reasonable and pragmatic individuals when compared to their Dark Side counterparts.
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* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'' has a group of {{Bonus Boss}}es known as the Evil Players, who are all [[MirrorBoss based on the party members]]. Most of them are antagonistic, with Matteus wanting to eat the party, Natalia trying to "cleanse" the party with holy and fire magic, Lancelot trying to "optimize" the party by reducing them to raw materials, and Annabelle wanting to turn the party into hunting trophies. The final and strongest Evil Player, God, is much nicer to the party and is only fighting them in order to mentally prepare them for the FinalBoss.

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* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'' has a group of {{Bonus Boss}}es {{Superboss}}es known as the Evil Players, who are all [[MirrorBoss based on the party members]]. Most of them are antagonistic, with Matteus wanting to eat the party, Natalia trying to "cleanse" the party with holy and fire magic, Lancelot trying to "optimize" the party by reducing them to raw materials, and Annabelle wanting to turn the party into hunting trophies. The final and strongest Evil Player, God, is much nicer to the party and is only fighting them in order to mentally prepare them for the FinalBoss.
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* Alex in ''VideoGame/TheSakabashiraGame'' is the only one of the seven participants who isn't an anti-social jackass (Bella and Harold), a violent murderer ([[spoiler:Cool, Marjorie and Evan]]), or [[spoiler:secretly an EldritchAbomination (Ceci)]].

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* Alex in ''VideoGame/TheSakabashiraGame'' is the only one of the seven participants who isn't an anti-social jackass (Bella (Bella, Harold and Harold), Evan), a violent murderer ([[spoiler:Cool, Marjorie and again Evan]]), or [[spoiler:secretly an EldritchAbomination (Ceci)]].
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* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, the defining characteristic of [[IncompetenceInc the Vault]]-[[GreaterScopeVillain Tec Corporation]] was their disturbing [[ForScience social experiments]] on the people in their [[UndergroundCity Vaults]], shelters to hold people if the Apocalypse ever happened (which it did), in order to gauge their reactions. These range from Vaults [[AllThereInTheManual of one men and all women]], to more elaborate nightmares like [[VideoGame/Fallout3 filling the Vault]] [[HellIsThatNoise with mind-altering white noise]], or [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas telling the dwellers they must]] [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice one person a year or all perish]]...

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* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' series, the defining characteristic of [[IncompetenceInc the Vault]]-[[GreaterScopeVillain Tec Corporation]] was their disturbing [[ForScience social experiments]] on the people in their [[UndergroundCity Vaults]], shelters to hold people if the Apocalypse ever happened (which it did), in order to gauge their reactions. These range from Vaults [[AllThereInTheManual of one men and all women]], to more elaborate nightmares like [[VideoGame/Fallout3 filling the Vault]] [[HellIsThatNoise with mind-altering white noise]], or [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas telling the dwellers they must]] [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice one person a year or all perish]]...
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* Mina Tang in ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol''. The only employee of the eponymous agency who seems to have any sort of conscience, and also the only one of Mike Thorton's {{Mission Control}}s who care if he kills American agents or civilians, makes deals with arms traffickers, or commits similar acts of DirtyBusiness.

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* Mina Tang in ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol''. The only employee of the eponymous agency NoSuchAgency who seems to have any sort of conscience, and also the only one of Mike Thorton's {{Mission Control}}s who care if he [[WouldNotShootACivilian kills American agents or civilians, civilians]], makes deals with arms traffickers, or commits similar acts of DirtyBusiness.DirtyBusiness. [[spoiler:In the WeCanRuleTogether / ICanRuleAlone ending, Mike discovers that she's actually TheMole for the UsefulNotes/{{NSA}} in order to keep Alpha Protocol from going too far.]]
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': Officer Hernandez is the junior partner to the [[CorruptCop LSPD C.R.A.S.H. division contingent]] with Officers Tenpenny and Pulaski. While the former is the BigBad ringleader of the racket that uses police authority to control the street gangs by PoliceBrutality and the latter is an unrepentant sexist and racist pig (including to Hernandez), background information reveals that Hernandez became a police officer for the noble goal of fighting crime but in a CrapsackWorld like ''GTA'' he's probably the only honest cop in the entire series, notably less reluctant to partake in the {{Jerkass}} behavior of Tenpenny and Pulaski when interacting with CJ and eventually informing InternalAffairs about what Tenpenny is up to. [[spoiler:Tenpenny finds out and has Pulaski kill Hernandez for it alongside CJ out in the desert to cover their tracks once the heat is on, though not before Hernandez performs a HeroicSacrifice by getting one last attack on Pulaski to give CJ a chance to escape and kill Pulaski.]]

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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': Officer Hernandez is the junior partner to the [[CorruptCop LSPD C.R.A.S.H. division contingent]] with Officers Tenpenny and Pulaski. While the former is the BigBad ringleader of the racket that uses police authority to control the street gangs by PoliceBrutality and the latter is an unrepentant sexist and racist pig (including to Hernandez), background information reveals that Hernandez became a police officer for the noble goal of fighting crime but crime; in a CrapsackWorld like ''GTA'' ''GTA'', though, he's probably the only honest cop in the entire series, notably less more reluctant to partake in the {{Jerkass}} behavior of Tenpenny and Pulaski when interacting with CJ and eventually CJ. Eventually he get so fed up with it he begins informing InternalAffairs about what Tenpenny is up to. [[spoiler:Tenpenny finds out and has Pulaski kill Hernandez for it alongside CJ out in the desert to cover their tracks once the heat is on, though not before Hernandez performs a HeroicSacrifice by getting one last attack on Pulaski to give CJ a chance to escape and kill Pulaski.]]
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': Officer Hernandez is the junior partner to the [[CorruptCop LSPD C.R.A.S.H. division contingent]] with Officers Tenpenny and Pulaski. While the former is the BigBad ringleader of the racket that uses police authority to control the street gangs by PoliceBrutality and the latter is an unrepentant sexist and racist pig (including to Hernandez), background information reveals that Hernandez became a police officer for the noble goal of fighting crime but in a CrapsackWorld like ''GTA'' he's probably the only honest cop in the entire series, notably less reluctant to partake in the {{Jerkass}} behavior of Tenpenny and Pulaski when interacting with CJ and eventually informing InternalAffairs about what Tenpenny is up to. [[spoiler:Tenpenny finds out and has Pulaski kill Hernandez for it alongside CJ out in the desert to cover their tracks once the heat is on, though not before Hernandez performs a HeroicSacrifice by getting one last attack on Pulaski to give CJ a chance to escape and kill Pulaski.]]
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** [[VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe Taranza]] of the Wave 3 Dream Friends. Both [[VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand Magolor]] and [[VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot Susie]] are ReformedButNotTamed in their own ways: Magolor still pulled a HeelFaceTurn by building Kirby an amusement park [[spoiler:after fighting through the depths of Another Dimension to destroy the [[ArtifactOfDoom Master Crown]]]], but he's TheGadfly who loves to trick others [[spoiler:and even reveals to have some resentment towards Kirby, as revealed in ''[[VideoGameRemake Return to Dream Land Deluxe's]]'' True Arena fight with Magolor Soul]], while Susie is FauxAffablyEvil and the only one of the three who ''doesn't'' turn good, instead intent on revivivng the Haltmann Works Company. Of the three, Taranza is the only one who's more or less good, and the only one who is a PunchClockVillain.

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** [[VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe Taranza]] of the Wave 3 Dream Friends. Both [[VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand Magolor]] and [[VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot Susie]] are ReformedButNotTamed in their own ways: Magolor still pulled a HeelFaceTurn by building Kirby an amusement park [[spoiler:after fighting through the depths of Another Dimension to destroy the [[ArtifactOfDoom Master Crown]]]], but he's TheGadfly who loves to trick others [[spoiler:and even reveals to have some resentment towards Kirby, as revealed in ''[[VideoGameRemake Return to Dream Land Deluxe's]]'' True Arena fight with Magolor Soul]], while Susie is FauxAffablyEvil and the only one of the three who ''doesn't'' turn good, instead intent on revivivng reviving the Haltmann Works Company. Of the three, Taranza is the only one who's more or less good, and the only one who is a PunchClockVillain.
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** [[VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe Taranza]] of the Wave 3 Dream Friends. Both [[VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand Magolor]] and [[VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot Susie]] are ReformedButNotTamed in their own ways: Magolor still pulled a HeelFaceTurn by building Kirby an amusement park [[spoiler:after fighting through the depths of Another Dimension to destroy the [[ArtifactOfDoom Master Crown]]]], but he's TheGadfly who loves to trick others [[spoiler:and even reveals to have some resentment towards Kirby, as revealed in ''[[VideoGameRemake Return to Dream Land Deluxe's]]'' True Arena fight with Magolor Soul]]]], while Susie is FauxAffablyEvil and the only one of the three who ''doesn't'' turn good, instead intent on revivivng the Haltmann Works Company. Of the three, Taranza is the only one who's more or less good, and the only one who is a PunchClockVillain.

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** [[VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe Taranza]] of the Wave 3 Dream Friends. Both [[VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand Magolor]] and [[VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot Susie]] are ReformedButNotTamed in their own ways: Magolor still pulled a HeelFaceTurn by building Kirby an amusement park [[spoiler:after fighting through the depths of Another Dimension to destroy the [[ArtifactOfDoom Master Crown]]]], but he's TheGadfly who loves to trick others [[spoiler:and even reveals to have some resentment towards Kirby, as revealed in ''[[VideoGameRemake Return to Dream Land Deluxe's]]'' True Arena fight with Magolor Soul]]]], Soul]], while Susie is FauxAffablyEvil and the only one of the three who ''doesn't'' turn good, instead intent on revivivng the Haltmann Works Company. Of the three, Taranza is the only one who's more or less good, and the only one who is a PunchClockVillain.

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* In his first appearance Cyrus from ''[[VideoGame/AdvanceWars Advance Wars: Days of Ruin]]'' is urging [[BigBad Dr. Caulder]] to leave Brenner and his men alone as there's no need to attack them (of course they do anyways), [[spoiler:and his "goodery" ultimately pisses off Caulder enough that he poisons Cyrus with a chemical [[KickTheDog that will kill him in the slowest most painful way possible]]]]. Brenner's Wolves becomes this for a brief bit for the army of Rubinelle when serving Greyfield as well; even though his evil and insanity is ''[[ObviouslyEvil painfully obvious]]'', Brenner sticks with him hoping to end the war between Rubinelle and Lazuria that's still going despite [[AfterTheEnd the world being destroyed]]. Davis is this within the New Rubinelle Army proper, as he's the only non Mook member who doesn't participate in any atrocities, despite also being a DirtyCoward like his peers.



** Pretty much the only staff member we ever see of Arkham Asylum who isn't DoctorJerk, a callous brute, or corrupt and on the take is [[CanonImmigrant Doctor Joan Leland]]. A major driving reason why Arkham is such a CardboardPrison that serves to only make villains and not actually help anyone is because this woman is the only one who is actually ''trying'' to help the patients.
** "John Doe" is this for The Pact. His only real motivation for being with them is because he has the hots for Harley Quinn, and he largely seems unhinged to the point he basically [[ObliviouslyEvil doesn't realize how bad the things he's doing are]]. He's otherwise consistently friendly, loyal, and protective of Bruce even if you don't bother to return the favor [[spoiler:to a point. He's insane and violent either way, but your how you treat him determines whether he becomes a WellIntentionedExtremist who just needs help or [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope dives head first into the role of The Joker]].]]
* By the end of ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'', [[spoiler:Litchi ends up joining NOL as the Token Good Teammate. Unlike the Imperator's other subordinates, Litchi only joins NOL in search of a cure for Arakune and her own deteriorating health, and otherwise has no loyalty to them. Interestingly, she doesn't undergo an EvilCostumeSwitch in ''Chronophantasma'' and more-or-less has the same personality she did before siding with NOL.]]
** In ''Chronophantasma'', the Duodecim families are all firmly under the control of the NOL (and the Imperator and Hazama by extension), except for ReasonableAuthorityFigure Kagura.

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** Pretty much the only staff member we ever see of Arkham Asylum who isn't DoctorJerk, DrJerk, a callous brute, or corrupt and on the take is [[CanonImmigrant Doctor Joan Leland]]. A major driving reason why Arkham is such a CardboardPrison that serves to only make villains and not actually help anyone is because this woman is the only one who is actually ''trying'' to help the patients.
** "John Doe" is this for The the Pact. His only real motivation for being with them is because he has the hots for Harley Quinn, and he largely seems unhinged to the point he basically [[ObliviouslyEvil doesn't realize how bad the things he's doing are]]. He's otherwise consistently friendly, loyal, and protective of Bruce even if you don't bother to return the favor [[spoiler:to a point. He's insane and violent either way, but your how you treat him determines whether he becomes a WellIntentionedExtremist who just needs help or [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope dives head first head-first into the role of The the Joker]].]]
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By the end of ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'', [[spoiler:Litchi ends up joining NOL as the Token Good Teammate. Unlike the Imperator's other subordinates, Litchi only joins NOL in search of a cure for Arakune and her own deteriorating health, and otherwise has no loyalty to them. Interestingly, she doesn't undergo an EvilCostumeSwitch in ''Chronophantasma'' and more-or-less has the same personality she did before siding with NOL.]]
** In ''Chronophantasma'', ''VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma'', the Duodecim families are all firmly under the control of the NOL (and the Imperator and Hazama by extension), except for ReasonableAuthorityFigure Kagura.


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* ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'': In his first appearance, Cyrus from ''Advance Wars: Days of Ruin'' is urging [[BigBad Dr. Caulder]] to leave Brenner and his men alone as there's no need to attack them (of course they do anyways), [[spoiler:and his "goodery" ultimately pisses off Caulder enough that he poisons Cyrus with a chemical [[KickTheDog that will kill him in the slowest most painful way possible]]]]. Brenner's Wolves becomes this for a brief bit for the army of Rubinelle when serving Greyfield, as well; even though his evil and insanity is ''[[ObviouslyEvil painfully obvious]]'', Brenner sticks with him, hoping to end the war between Rubinelle and Lazuria that's still going despite [[AfterTheEnd the world being destroyed]]. Davis is this within the New Rubinelle Army proper, as he's the only non-{{Mook|s}} member who doesn't participate in any atrocities, despite also being a DirtyCoward like his peers.

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** The post-2014 lore has examples of its own, though there's much more emphasis on conflict between factions within each region than between each region as a whole.
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** There's also the new mid-boss Vividria. [[AmbiguouslyRelated If she really is related to]] [[VideoGame/KirbyCanvasCurse Drawcia]] and Paintra, then she's the only one of the three who becomes a friend of Kirby's.
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* Alex in ''VideoGame/TheSakabashiraGame'' is the only one of the seven participants who isn't an anti-social jackass (Bella and Harold), a violent murderer ([[spoiler:Cool, Marjorie and Evan]]), or [[spoiler:secretly an EldritchAbomination (Ceci)]].
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* ''VideoGame/RaveHeart'': Downplayed with Milo, a member of the Star Raiders. Most of the Star Raiders are ill-tempered brutes who peddle addictive drugs, but Milo is more [[AffablyEvil affable]] to the party and is willing to earn money legitimately through his mercenary contacts. He's still not the nicest person around, since he's willing to abandon Chad in order to steal a shuttle for himself, though he at least has the decency to leave behind a key so that Chad can pilot a different shuttle.

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