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** Also, files of the first game feature Re -- a rebellious supermutant. If we have enough speech skills, we'll be able to talk him to helping us killing TheMaster. Sadly, he isn't present in the game, though there are mods fixing it.
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** Also, files of for the first game feature Re -- Re, a rebellious supermutant. If we have super mutant who, with enough speech skills, we'll be skill, would have been able to talk him to be talked into helping us killing fight TheMaster. Sadly, [[DummiedOut he isn't present in the game, finished game]], though there are mods fixing it.to add him back.
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* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'':
** Canderous Ordo is human, but also member of Mandalorian Clan. Mandalorians are treated as a different race, he is a defeated enemy. He falls under the Defector category, as many of the defeated Mandalorians have become brigands who prey on farmers and weaker opponents. As far as Canderous is concerned, they've forfeited the honor of wearing the armor.
** This might not seem to count at first, given that he's working as a mercenary who recruited him, but [[spoiler: the player character is actually Revan, the one who previously defeated the Mandalorians in war]].
** Canderous Ordo is human, but also member of Mandalorian Clan. Mandalorians are treated as a different race, he is a defeated enemy. He falls under the Defector category, as many of the defeated Mandalorians have become brigands who prey on farmers and weaker opponents. As far as Canderous is concerned, they've forfeited the honor of wearing the armor.
** This might not seem to count at first, given that he's working as a mercenary who recruited him, but [[spoiler: the player character is actually Revan, the one who previously defeated the Mandalorians in war]].
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**''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': Mandalorians are not strictly any one race (although the only ones you find in the games are human, or covered in armor that makes it impossible to tell otherwise), but they were the aggressors in the war immediately preceding the one the game takes place during. Canderous Ordo is human, but also member one of Mandalorian Clan. them, and an early recruitment to the player's party, joining up because he's seen many other Mandalorians are treated as a different race, he is a defeated enemy. He falls under the Defector category, as many of the defeated Mandalorians have become reduced to brigands who prey preying on farmers and weaker opponents. As far as Canderous is concerned, opponents, feeling they've forfeited the honor of wearing the armor.
** This might not seem to count at first, given that he's working as atheir armor, and has been convinced his current mercenary who recruited him, but [[spoiler: the player character work is actually Revan, the one who previously defeated the Mandalorians in war]].no better than that.
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* Gooey from the ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' games is implied to be a piece of usually AlwaysChaoticEvil Dark Matter that turned good and became one of Kirby's friends.
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* Gooey from the ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' games is implied to be a piece of usually AlwaysChaoticEvil Dark Matter [[DarkIsEvil Dark]] [[EldritchAbomination Matter]] that turned good and [[DarkIsNotEvil became one of Kirby's friends.friends]].
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* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' has E-102 Gamma and E-123 Omega, two Badniks created by Dr. Eggman as part of his E-100 series of elite robots. Gamma pulls a genuine HeelFaceTurn triggered by Eggman’s abuse of his brethren, the kindness of Amy Rose, and the realization that he and the other Egg Carrier E-100s contain living animals, and sets out to free both his brethren and their animals by destroying them [[spoiler:and himself]]; Omega initially starts out as a NominalHero who joins the rest of Team Dark because he believes Eggman squandered his potential as a walking arsenal and wants revenge, but he eventually becomes more of a traditional hero, though no less violent, through his companionship with Shadow and Rouge.
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** Also from ''Baldur's Gate III'', we have [[spoiler:The Emperor, a mind flayer -- a member of the same race of monsters responsible for your illithid infection. Unlike other mind flayers, however, the Emperor managed to free himself from the Elder Brain's control following a chance encounter with Orpheus, an ancient and powerful githyanki who could disrupt hive minds, within the Astral Prism. Realizing the threat the Cult of the Absolute -- in particular, its leaders, devotees of the [[GodOfEvil Dead Three]] who managed to take control of an Elder Brain -- posed to the realms, the Emperor remained in the Astral Prism to subdue and control Orpheus, using his powers to help you and your allies stay free from the Absolute's control.]]
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* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series carries a tradition of having a few friendly [[SpaceOrcs super mutants]] per game, with at least one being a recruitable companion:
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* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' series carries a tradition of having a few friendly [[SpaceOrcs super mutants]] per game, with at least one being a recruitable companion:
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* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateSiegeOfDragonspear'' has a goblin party member, for the first time in the ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' series that a goblin has been on your side. (Of course, whether "your side" counts as "heroic" is ultimately up to you.)
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** ''VideoGame/BaldursGateSiegeOfDragonspear'' has a goblin party member, for the first time in the ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' series that a goblin has been on your side. (Of course, whether "your side" counts as "heroic" is ultimately up to you.))
** ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' has Shadowheart, a Cleric for the ReligionOfEvil surrounding the GodOfDarkness Shar. She insists that they're not AlwaysChaoticEvil despite almost every single one of them being StrawNihilist psychopaths, and has stricter limits on how far she's willing to go in service to their GodOfEvil. She approves of selfish behavior, but hesitates to cross the line into malice. [[spoiler:Her questline revolves around you helping her decide whether to go JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope or not.]]
** ''VideoGame/BaldursGateSiegeOfDragonspear'' has a goblin party member, for the first time in the ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' series that a goblin has been on your side. (Of course, whether "your side" counts as "heroic" is ultimately up to you.
** ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' has Shadowheart, a Cleric for the ReligionOfEvil surrounding the GodOfDarkness Shar. She insists that they're not AlwaysChaoticEvil despite almost every single one of them being StrawNihilist psychopaths, and has stricter limits on how far she's willing to go in service to their GodOfEvil. She approves of selfish behavior, but hesitates to cross the line into malice. [[spoiler:Her questline revolves around you helping her decide whether to go JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope or not.]]
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* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': Consuls/Moebius are manipulative shapeshifters who leech off the Colonies' lifeforce via the Flameclocks. Consul T/Captain Triton, however, is not only an overall decent man (his SoreLoser tendencies notwithstanding), but is so enamored with the idea of freedom he happily lets the Ouroboros destroy his Flameclock and liberate his colony's inhabitants once he's beaten in a treasure hunt and "friendly" scrap, joining the party as well as a selectable Hero.
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* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': Consuls/Moebius are manipulative shapeshifters who leech off the Colonies' lifeforce via the Flameclocks. Consul T/Captain Triton, however, is not only an overall decent man (his SoreLoser tendencies notwithstanding), but is so enamored with the idea of freedom he happily lets the Ouroboros destroy his Flameclock and liberate his colony's inhabitants once he's beaten in a treasure hunt and "friendly" scrap, joining the party as well as a selectable Hero. Consul M also counts, as she sacrifices herself to help the Ouroboros and make Consul N realize how far he has fallen.
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* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'': [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with [[spoiler:Mauvier]]. Although he used to work for the bad guys and then started working for the good guys, he does so ''after'' the [[spoiler: Hounds]] have already been defeated. This means that, unlike other instances of this trope, he never turns against the villains he used to be apart of.
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*** While Scourge only joined the Knight to kill the Emperor, a more genuine example can be found in [[spoiler: Lord Praven, one of the apprentices of Darth Angral. He believes greatly in honor and integrity, expresses displeasure in killing the weak, and after defeating him on Tatooine, you can convince him to join the Jedi Order]]
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* Hermann Wolff in ''VideoGame/ZombieArmyTrilogy'' is a rare ''human'' example of this, being a Captain in the [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Wehrmacht]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII -- after Hitler desperately unleashes [[ZombieApocalypse "Plan Z"]], he immediately turns on his former commander in disgust and willingly allies himself with the rest of the Survivor's Brigade, who consist of Americans, Russians, and both a French and a German resistance fighter, in order to survive and stop the zombie outbreak.
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* Hermann Wolff in ''VideoGame/ZombieArmyTrilogy'' is a rare ''human'' example of this, being a Captain in the [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Wehrmacht]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII -- after Hitler desperately unleashes [[ZombieApocalypse "Plan Z"]], he immediately turns on his former commander in disgust and willingly allies himself with the rest of the Survivor's Brigade, who consist of Americans, Russians, and both a French and a German resistance fighter, in order to survive and stop the zombie outbreak.outbreak.
** His SpiritualSuccessor is the player character Werner Sauer in ''Zombie Army 4: Dead War'', a German soldier from the Afrika Corps who turned on Hitler when he discovered his [[{{Ghostapo}} plans to bolster the Nazi army]] with BlackMagic.
** His SpiritualSuccessor is the player character Werner Sauer in ''Zombie Army 4: Dead War'', a German soldier from the Afrika Corps who turned on Hitler when he discovered his [[{{Ghostapo}} plans to bolster the Nazi army]] with BlackMagic.
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** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': Kargaroks are mostly just hostile, animalistic monsters. The exception is a single friendly one who carries Wolf Link around during Plumm's flying minigame.
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* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'': [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with [[spoiler:Mauvier]]. Although he used to work for the bad guys and then started working for the good guys, he does so ''after'' the [[spoiler: Hounds]] have already been defeated. This means that, unlike other instances of this trope, he never turns against the villains he used to be apart of.
* Glamrock Freddy from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach'' is notable in that he's the first[[note]]unless you count Helpy[[/note]] animatronic seen in the franchise to actively help the player character, who in this game is a young boy named Gregory. He is only able to kill you under three specific circumstances: running out of power, failing the SimonSaysMinigame, and [[spoiler:while possessed in the True Ending]]. Otherwise, he not only serves as MissionControl, a gameplay mechanic, and a father figure to Gregory, but he is essentially the game's {{Deuteragonist}}.
* Glamrock Freddy from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach'' is notable in that he's the first[[note]]unless you count Helpy[[/note]] animatronic seen in the franchise to actively help the player character, who in this game is a young boy named Gregory. He is only able to kill you under three specific circumstances: running out of power, failing the SimonSaysMinigame, and [[spoiler:while possessed in the True Ending]]. Otherwise, he not only serves as MissionControl, a gameplay mechanic, and a father figure to Gregory, but he is essentially the game's {{Deuteragonist}}.
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* Glamrock Freddy from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach'' is notable in that he's the first[[note]]unless you count Helpy[[/note]] animatronic seen in the franchise to actively help the player character, who in this game is a young boy named Gregory. He is only able to kill you under three specific circumstances: running out of power, failing the SimonSaysMinigame, and [[spoiler:while possessed in the True Ending]]. Otherwise, he not only serves as MissionControl, a gameplay mechanic, and a father figure to Gregory, but he is essentially the game's {{Deuteragonist}}.
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* ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsSparksOfHope'' has the Spark Hunters, who are [[BigBad Cursa’s]] [[TheDragon Dragons]], and, as the name implies, their job is to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hunt for Sparks]] and bring them to Cursa. Of the four of them, [[DarkIsNotEvil Edge]] is the heroic one, and actually joins Mario and friends on in their adventure to save the Sparks, thus becoming a regular party member. [[spoiler: Edge, as well as the other Spark Hunters, were created by Cursa, and Edge was their leader. Once she worked for Cursa, she started to develop her own free will, and started to realize just how horrible Cursa was, and that she must be stopped. Edge tried to convince the other Spark Hunters what they were doing was wrong, but they wouldn’t listen. That’s why she joined Mario and friends, so that they can stop Cursa together.]]
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* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': A recurring tradition in the series is to have one or two members of a common {{Mook|s}} species in each game who are friendly to Link or, at least, passive and peaceful.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'': A handful of Moblins, common Overworld enemies, serve as merchants or passive [=NPCs=].
** ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'':
*** Aches are batlike monsters that either attack Link directly or transform themselves into seemingly regular humans to spy for Ganon's forces. In Nabooru Town, there is a single red Ache that roosts on the ceiling of a building. It won't attack Link, but can be spoken to if the player jumps up to it. It won't say anything at first, but with persistence it will eventually give a hint towards the location of a heart container in the ocean.
*** In Saria Town, there's a purple Bot -- a very common, weak blob enemy -- found sleeping in Bagu's house, which doesn't attack. He's unresponsive to begin with, but, if Link keeps trying to talk to him, the Bot tells him where Bagu can be found.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'':
*** Goriyas are normally enemies who attack Link with boomerangs. The only Goriya in the game is instead a peaceful merchant.
*** A friendly Zora lives in Animal Village, where Link can find it after obtaining the Magnifying Lens. Link can even get a picture taken with him in ''DX'', and a Secret Seashell in the Switch remake.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': While the Gerudo are for the most part hostile followers of Ganondorf, Nabooru is much more personable and, in her role as a Sage, an important in-game ally.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'':
*** Zoras are for the most part hostile monsters. The most notable exception is their ruler, Queen Oren, who is peaceful, personable, and one of the Seven Sages. To her regret, she's unable to exert much influence on her people outside of her court.
*** Default Hinoxes are hostile monsters that attack Link on sight. One encountered in northern Lorule just wants to be left alone in its hiding spot... as long as you don't try to extort it, at least.
* ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsSparksOfHope'' has the Spark Hunters, who are [[BigBadCursa’s]] Cursa's]] [[TheDragon Dragons]], and, as the name implies, their job is to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hunt for Sparks]] and bring them to Cursa. Of the four of them, [[DarkIsNotEvil Edge]] is the heroic one, and actually joins Mario and friends on in their adventure to save the Sparks, thus becoming a regular party member. [[spoiler: Edge, as well as the other Spark Hunters, were created by Cursa, and Edge was their leader. Once she worked for Cursa, she started to develop her own free will, and started to realize just how horrible Cursa was, and that she must be stopped. Edge tried to convince the other Spark Hunters what they were doing was wrong, but they wouldn’t listen. That’s why she joined Mario and friends, so that they can stop Cursa together.]]
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'': A handful of Moblins, common Overworld enemies, serve as merchants or passive [=NPCs=].
** ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'':
*** Aches are batlike monsters that either attack Link directly or transform themselves into seemingly regular humans to spy for Ganon's forces. In Nabooru Town, there is a single red Ache that roosts on the ceiling of a building. It won't attack Link, but can be spoken to if the player jumps up to it. It won't say anything at first, but with persistence it will eventually give a hint towards the location of a heart container in the ocean.
*** In Saria Town, there's a purple Bot -- a very common, weak blob enemy -- found sleeping in Bagu's house, which doesn't attack. He's unresponsive to begin with, but, if Link keeps trying to talk to him, the Bot tells him where Bagu can be found.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'':
*** Goriyas are normally enemies who attack Link with boomerangs. The only Goriya in the game is instead a peaceful merchant.
*** A friendly Zora lives in Animal Village, where Link can find it after obtaining the Magnifying Lens. Link can even get a picture taken with him in ''DX'', and a Secret Seashell in the Switch remake.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': While the Gerudo are for the most part hostile followers of Ganondorf, Nabooru is much more personable and, in her role as a Sage, an important in-game ally.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'':
*** Zoras are for the most part hostile monsters. The most notable exception is their ruler, Queen Oren, who is peaceful, personable, and one of the Seven Sages. To her regret, she's unable to exert much influence on her people outside of her court.
*** Default Hinoxes are hostile monsters that attack Link on sight. One encountered in northern Lorule just wants to be left alone in its hiding spot... as long as you don't try to extort it, at least.
* ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsSparksOfHope'' has the Spark Hunters, who are [[BigBad
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** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has Lily, a Nightkin. Unlike most Nightkin, she's fairly sane (and you can make her even more sane if you wish) and friendly, to the point she regards the Courier as a surrogate grandchild. There's also Mean Sonofabitch, a [[DeathbringerTheAdorable friendly]] supermutant who protects the community of Westside from raiders. Marcus also returns, and is now the leader of a small isolated community of super mutants who simply want to be left alone.
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** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has Lily, a Nightkin. Unlike most Nightkin, she's fairly sane (and you can make her even more sane if you wish) and friendly, to the point she regards the Courier as a surrogate grandchild.grandchild and unlike most West Coast supermutants openly despises [[MonsterProgenitor The Master]]. There's also Mean Sonofabitch, a [[DeathbringerTheAdorable friendly]] supermutant who protects the community of Westside from raiders. Marcus also returns, and is now the leader of a small isolated community of super mutants who simply want to be left alone.
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* ''VideoGame/MarioParty9'': While Magikoopa/Kamek and Shy Guy appear as antagonists in Solo mode, the playable Koopa, normally affiliated with Bowser, is firmly on the side of Mario and company.
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** ''VideoGame/MarioParty9'': While Magikoopa/Kamek and Shy Guy appear as antagonists in Solo mode, the playable Koopa, normally affiliated with Bowser, is firmly on the side of Mario andcompany.company.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty10'': While Spikes are usually part of Bowser's evil forces, the Spike that appears as a playable character is on Team Mario's side and helps them escape from Bowser's rampage in Bowser Party, being the only one of Bowser's minions to do so in this game.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty9'': While Magikoopa/Kamek and Shy Guy appear as antagonists in Solo mode, the playable Koopa, normally affiliated with Bowser, is firmly on the side of Mario and
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty10'': While Spikes are usually part of Bowser's evil forces, the Spike that appears as a playable character is on Team Mario's side and helps them escape from Bowser's rampage in Bowser Party, being the only one of Bowser's minions to do so in this game.
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* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'': Averted with Ratbag. Despite him allying with Talion, it's out of [[EnemyMine convenience]] and [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatism]] than any benevolence. He's not motivated by any noble cause (stopping the Black Captains, freeing the Outcasts, etc...), he wants to be Warchief because [[ItsAllAboutMe he wants to be the one calling the shots]]. He decides to aid [[TheDreaded Talion]] because the latter is [[OneManArmy incredibly skilled at killing his competition]], which he takes credit for ([[KlingonPromotion a popular way amongst Uruk kind to get promotions is to kill whoever is bossing you around]]).
* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'': Forthog Orc-Slayer is a mysterious orc ronin who will occasionally save Talion from a deathblow, then say some cryptic words and leave.
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* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'': Averted with Ratbag. Despite him allying with Talion, it's out of [[EnemyMine convenience]] and [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatism]] than any benevolence. He's not motivated by any noble cause (stopping the Black Captains, freeing the Outcasts, etc...), he wants to be Warchief because [[ItsAllAboutMe he wants to be the one calling the shots]]. He decides to aid [[TheDreaded Talion]] because the latter is [[OneManArmy incredibly skilled at killing his competition]], which he takes credit for ([[KlingonPromotion a popular way amongst Uruk kind to get promotions is to kill whoever is bossing you around]]). \n In the sequel however, not only has he formed a genuine friendship with an Olog-hai, it's implied that he actually sees Talion as a friend.
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** Forthog Orc-Slayer is a mysterious orc ronin who will occasionally save Talion from a deathblow, then say some cryptic words andleave.leave.
** The Blade of Galadriel DLC features several Orcs who are shockingly friendly that align with Eltariel (who refuses to [[HeelFaceBrainwashing dominate]] Orcs since she finds the concept horrifying) out of their own accord.
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** Forthog Orc-Slayer is a mysterious orc ronin who will occasionally save Talion from a deathblow, then say some cryptic words and
** The Blade of Galadriel DLC features several Orcs who are shockingly friendly that align with Eltariel (who refuses to [[HeelFaceBrainwashing dominate]] Orcs since she finds the concept horrifying) out of their own accord.
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* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateSiegeOfDragonspear'' has a goblin party member, for the first time in the ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' series that a goblin has been on your side. (Of course, whether "your side" counts as "heroic" is ultimately up to you.)
* Attikus from ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' is one of the hordes of Jennerit Thralls that commonly swarm against the eponymous Battleborn on the battlefield. Due to opposing the game's villain Rendain and being a Battleborn himself however, he's this.
* In ''VideoGame/BestFiends'', there is Bo and Splendid, two slugs that have joined the team of the Fiends against the other ones. However, Bo is a dragon slug and Splendid is a sea slug, in comparison to the common black slugs the other ones are.
* ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'': one of the playable characters is Krieg, who is a Psycho. In gameplay, you will kill hundreds of Psychos — every two-bit bandit gang seems to have a bunch of them to run around throwing axes at you. Krieg is the only one who's semi-consistently portrayed in a relatively positive fashion.
** This trope is also [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with the broken Hyperion loaders who promise to change its way if you help it finding a new body, only to betray you, apologize, ask for another body and [[PlayedForLaughs betray you again]].
* Truff from ''VideoGame/BravelyDefaultII'' in the most literal sense: he's a friendly yet cowardly orc capable of human speech who keeps running into the party while searching for the human who saved him.
* Zasp of ''VideoGame/BugFables'' is a wasp, a race that makes up the main villainous faction, but he left the Wasp Kingdom because he didn't like what was happening there. [[spoiler:This ends up being foreshadowing that the Wasp Kingdom is actually dramatically different under the [[TheUsurper Wasp King]] than it was previously.]]
* Robo from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' is one of a very small number of robots that aren't obsessed with killing all humans, and the only one to actively assist the party and be friendly to them. Aside from Johnny and his crew, who are at best neutral irreverent jerks who'd rather just race you for fun, every other machine has [[KillerRobot one thing in mind]]. [[spoiler:As it turns out it's a [[MurderousMalfunctioningMachine single rogue AI]] that turned on humanity and corrupted and reprogrammed all the rest to do the same, and Robo happened to be derelict and out of commission when this happened.]]
* ''VideoGame/CoffeeCrisis'' has the baby Smurgliens, the sole alien who oppose his race's plans to invade planet earth for their rock music, [=WiFi=], and ''coffee'', and will actually help the two player heroes stop the invasion.
* Literally in ''VideoGame/DivineDivinity'' with Kroxy, the orc warrior you need to recruit for the Council. He's the only orc in the game who isn't an enemy. Predictably, you find him locked up by his brethren and awaiting execution for disagreeing with their warlike ways.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'':
** The Architect is a Mook Rebel, being a self-aware Darkspawn who's attempting to try and sever their connection to the Old Gods, thus preventing the outbreak of further Blights. He suffers from a lot of BlueAndOrangeMorality though so is not really a straight hero. [[spoiler:There are hints that he's far more than a simple mook.]]
** The Messenger, a member of the Architect's faction, seems to be the only Disciple who is a totally straight example of this. During the Darkspawn assault on Amaranthine he warns the Warden that the Mother is ''also'' attacking Vigil's Keep. He can be persuaded to join in the defense of the city and if set free afterwards, becomes a mysterious cloaked hero protecting travellers from bandits, although responsible for [[TyphoidMary accidentally]] [[WalkingWasteland spreading]] the [[TheCorruption Blight]] to a few of them.
* Downplayed in the game ''VideoGame/DragonRage'' with the Orc [[Characters/DragonRage Galthran Etruk]]. He's on your side, but only because it's what is best for him right then.
* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'':
** Demi-Humans, the ape-like creatures that are the game's equivalent to orcs, are ''mostly'' hostile, with the exception of Boc...although, since Boc is also one of the smallest and his one attempt at actually doing anything dramatic gets him beaten within an inch of his life, his heroism mostly extends to doing your tailoring for free. At least he's enjoying himself. [[spoiler:He ''can'' be reborn as a human in the right circumstances, but it's a flawed rebirth and he loses his identity, then dies.]]
** You find a village of non-hostile Living Jars known as Jarburg, but Alexander is the only known one who's genuinely ''heroic'', fighting alongside you against Radahn and then later the Fire Giant. [[spoiler:He ''does'' try to kill you at the end of his questline... after challenging you to an honorable DuelToTheDeath which you are free to simply decline. Whether he achieves victory over the greatest warrior he knows or suffers a glorious death by their hand are both satisfactory outcomes for him.]]
** Most of the Spirit Ashes are based on hostile creatures, allowing you to summon a Token Heroic Mad Pumpkin Head or Token Heroic Bloodhound Knight. You can even summon a squad of the same demi-humans mentioned above. Of course, they're not so much "heroic" as they are "compelled to obey their summoner". The only exception in Latenna, who joins you as a spirit willingly and is still fully intelligent in that form. Though you likely won't find the enemies she's the token heroic example of until many, many hours after you acquire her.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** In the series' backstory, the [[OurElvesAreDifferent Ayleids (Wild Elves)]] once ruled all of Cyrodiil and took the Nedes, [[{{Precursors}} human ancestors of most of the modern races of Men]], as slaves. So [[KickTheDog vile was their torment of the slaves]] that, when the [[SlaveLiberation slaves revolted]], several rebel Ayleid lords sided with the slaves (although some sources imply it was less 'the other lords were just that bad' and more 'there was already a civil war between Aedra and Daedra-favouring Ayleid lords' -- everyone involved on the winning side, including the Ayleids on the rebellion's side, had an interest in playing up just how bad the Ayleid rule had been). As a result, they were allowed to keep their lands as vassals to the new empire the slaves would found. (At least for about a century or so until an extremist [[FantasticRacism anti-elven]] religious sect came to power within the empire and either killed or drove away the remaining Ayleids.)
** Scamps are the [[TheGoomba weakest]] and [[FunSize smallest]] known form of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]], and in almost every game where they've made an appearance, there is typically at least one non-hostile Scamp who can be conversed with. The [[LethalJokeCharacter Scamp merchant]] Creeper, who appears in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline Online]]'', is one prominent example.
** In the ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' backstory, Paarthurnax was this among the dragons, having been responsible for Alduin's initial defeat. He now serves as the BigGood during the events of the main storyline. There were other dragons that rebelled against Alduin's rule, but their names are never given and [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished they were all killed by the Blades in the intervening millennia]].
** Similar to Paarthurnax, the series' spin-off ActionAdventure game ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsAdventuresRedguard Redguard]]'' includes Nafaalilargus (a.k.a. Nahfahlaar), a dragon who managed to overcome his draconic nature and would ally with worthy mortals. For this reason, he was [[SparingTheAces spared]] by the Blades in the 1st Era and would eventually find his way into the employ of [[GodEmperor Tiber Septim]].
* ''[[VideoGame/ExtrapowerAttackOfDarkforce EXTRAPOWER Attack of Darkforce]]'': Gladius, a member of the [[TheAssimilator human-assimilating]] EldritchAbomination Bem species, who fight on the side of humanity against the Bem. His primary motivation is to secure medical treatment for Flamerge, who was only partially assimilated, but willingly helps the defense of the Earth even after the Bem threat is destroyed.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series carries a tradition of having a few friendly [[SpaceOrcs super mutants]] per game, with at least one being a recruitable companion:
** ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' Marcus the Super Mutant. A former solder from the Master Army, who with a Brotherhood Paladin creates a town where humans, mutants and ghouls can live together. He later joins your party, if you're good.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' has Fawkes, who is simply more intelligent, better-natured (and more cultured, thanks to him studying the records in a cell he was trapped in) than his "peers". He helps you retrieve a MacGuffin, helps you escape when you're captured with it and joins you as an ally if you have high enough karma. There's also Uncle Leo, who appears as a RandomEncounter and will give you random stuff simply by talking to him, lamenting that he cannot give you more.
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has Lily, a Nightkin. Unlike most Nightkin, she's fairly sane (and you can make her even more sane if you wish) and friendly, to the point she regards the Courier as a surrogate grandchild. There's also Mean Sonofabitch, a [[DeathbringerTheAdorable friendly]] supermutant who protects the community of Westside from raiders. Marcus also returns, and is now the leader of a small isolated community of super mutants who simply want to be left alone.
** Strong of ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' is something of a mixed bag. While he is comparatively heroic for a Super Mutant and approves of acts of benevolence and selflessness, he's also the most brutish and savage of the companions and loves acts of violence and killing.
** The Far Harbor DLC has Erickson, a friendly Super Mutant dog trainer who was altered by the radioactive fog to realize how pointless the lifestyle of a typical Super Mutant was and lives a quiet secluded life. He also sells you dogs to guard your settlements with, and gives you a bandana if you have Dogmeat in your party.
** Also, files of the first game feature Re -- a rebellious supermutant. If we have enough speech skills, we'll be able to talk him to helping us killing TheMaster. Sadly, he isn't present in the game, though there are mods fixing it.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'': The AlwaysChaoticEvil Urutan Yensas and Baknamies each have a single representative who is amiable to the heroes. The good Urutan Yensa is encountered as part of a sidequest that gives you Eksir Berries, an item you can use for the Garuda boss battle, while the good Baknamy is the vendor of a SecretShop in the Necrohol of Nabudis.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', the Ascians are a race of immortal {{energy being}}s known for [[DemonicPossession possessing]] mortals, manipulating entire nations, and sowing misery wherever they go in order to resurrect their sealed-away god, Zodiark. The ''Shadowbringers'' expansion reveals that one Ascian actually cares about mortals and has been fighting the machinations of their brethren -- [[spoiler:none other than ''the {{player character}} themself'', whose superhuman status as TheAce turns out to be because they've been a reincarnated Ascian the whole time]]. [[DramaticIrony The Ascian in question spends a long time unaware of this.]]
* ''VideoGame/FugaMelodiesOfSteel'''s main antagonist is The Berman Empire, ANaziByAnyOtherName that suddenly invades the peaceful lands of Gasco, taking in slaves and subjugating the magic-abled Felinekos to inhuman experiments. Britz Strudel is the only Berman who actively opposes his country's invasion by teaming up with the heroes, in part due to his family being mistreated by the Empire [[SinsOfOurFathers for something his father did prior to the events of the game]].
* Glamrock Freddy from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach'' is notable in that he's the first[[note]]unless you count Helpy[[/note]] animatronic seen in the franchise to actively help the player character, who in this game is a young boy named Gregory. He is only able to kill you under three specific circumstances: running out of power, failing the SimonSaysMinigame, and [[spoiler:while possessed in the True Ending]]. Otherwise, he not only serves as MissionControl, a gameplay mechanic, and a father figure to Gregory, but he is essentially the game's {{Deuteragonist}}.
* Gooey from the ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' games is implied to be a piece of usually AlwaysChaoticEvil Dark Matter that turned good and became one of Kirby's friends.
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'':
** Canderous Ordo is human, but also member of Mandalorian Clan. Mandalorians are treated as a different race, he is a defeated enemy. He falls under the Defector category, as many of the defeated Mandalorians have become brigands who prey on farmers and weaker opponents. As far as Canderous is concerned, they've forfeited the honor of wearing the armor.
** This might not seem to count at first, given that he's working as a mercenary who recruited him, but [[spoiler: the player character is actually Revan, the one who previously defeated the Mandalorians in war]].
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has Shyvana the Half-Dragon, [[DraconicHumanoid a unique offspring of a dragon and a human mage]] whose mortal allegiance is towards Demacia, [[AntiMagicalFaction a kingdom whose general policy is to reject mages and magic like her.]] This came about because Shyvana rescued the weakened WarriorPrince Jarvan IV and the two became a quasi-BattleCouple, and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections Jarvan entrusts her so much that he made her the leader of the Dragonguard]], a squad to protect Demacia's borders [[TheDragonslayer from other, more dangerous dragons]]. Her loyalty to the kingdom is sincere, but due to her draconic nature, she's pretty divisive among her subordinates.
* ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsSparksOfHope'' has the Spark Hunters, who are [[BigBad Cursa’s]] [[TheDragon Dragons]], and, as the name implies, their job is to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hunt for Sparks]] and bring them to Cursa. Of the four of them, [[DarkIsNotEvil Edge]] is the heroic one, and actually joins Mario and friends on in their adventure to save the Sparks, thus becoming a regular party member. [[spoiler: Edge, as well as the other Spark Hunters, were created by Cursa, and Edge was their leader. Once she worked for Cursa, she started to develop her own free will, and started to realize just how horrible Cursa was, and that she must be stopped. Edge tried to convince the other Spark Hunters what they were doing was wrong, but they wouldn’t listen. That’s why she joined Mario and friends, so that they can stop Cursa together.]]
* ''VideoGame/MarioParty9'': While Magikoopa/Kamek and Shy Guy appear as antagonists in Solo mode, the playable Koopa, normally affiliated with Bowser, is firmly on the side of Mario and company.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** After spending the first game fighting a machine race called the geth, you can recruit a geth teammate, Legion, in the second. Instead of a DefectorFromDecadence, [[InvertedTrope they turn out to represent the majority of their species]] -- [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the ones you've been fighting are fanatical "heretics."]]
** Sort of Urdnot Wrex. A definite believer that [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch His Species Doth Protest Too Much]] and one of the few friendly krogan in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' (where most of them were criminals, pirates or agents of Saren). If he survives the first game, he returns to the krogan homeworld of Tuchanka and retakes his position as leader of Clan Urdnot in order to drag his species back to something resembling the time when they were respected and glorified for saving the galaxy during the Rachni Wars, before the Krogan Rebellion lead to their defeat and disgrace.
** If you decide to save her in ''Mass Effect 1'' [[spoiler: and again in ''Mass Effect 3'']], the last surviving rachni queen becomes this, although she is an ally rather than a party member.
* ''VideoGame/MetroExodus'' has Sam, a US marine who was part of the US embassy security staff and was waiting for the train at a Moscow Metro station when the US dropped the Big One on Russia. He is also (somewhat oddly, given Melnik's paranoia about NATO) part of Melnik's inner circle, and, when pressed, states that he has been one of Melnik's Rangers for so long that it overrides any other loyalties he may or may not have had.
* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'': Averted with Ratbag. Despite him allying with Talion, it's out of [[EnemyMine convenience]] and [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatism]] than any benevolence. He's not motivated by any noble cause (stopping the Black Captains, freeing the Outcasts, etc...), he wants to be Warchief because [[ItsAllAboutMe he wants to be the one calling the shots]]. He decides to aid [[TheDreaded Talion]] because the latter is [[OneManArmy incredibly skilled at killing his competition]], which he takes credit for ([[KlingonPromotion a popular way amongst Uruk kind to get promotions is to kill whoever is bossing you around]]).
* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'': Forthog Orc-Slayer is a mysterious orc ronin who will occasionally save Talion from a deathblow, then say some cryptic words and leave.
* The ''Pathfinder'' Owlcat games:
** ''VideoGame/PathfinderKingmaker'' has Nok-Nok the Goblin join your party. Though he sticks to his race's AlwaysChaoticEvil tendencies, he mostly cares about sticking it back to the tribe that tried to execute him. The main character can encourage his silly antics and turn him into a clown, or push him towards becoming somewhat heroic.
** ''VideoGame/PathfinderWrathOfTheRighteous'' adds Arueshalae to your party, a succubus who was pushed to repent by the goddess Desna and seeks to help the crusaders destroy the Worldwound and atone for her sinful life as a demon. She can be supported, or tempted into a relapse to become a demonic minion for an evil-aligned character.
* Deekin the kobold bard from the ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' expansions. In ''Hordes of the Underdark'', your other potential companions include a non-evil tiefling (a less-than-half-fiend) and a drow who judging from her actual behavior is only called LawfulEvil because it's required for her to have the assassin class.
* In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', it turns out [[spoiler:Teddie is actually just another one of the [[TheHeartless Shadows]] that the Investigation Team has been fighting off for the majority of the game, but he represents mankind's desire to be loved and as such is not malicious at all. He kept telling himself he wasn't a Shadow so he could appeal to regular people, though this denial resulted in his ''own'' Shadow.]]
* In ''VideoGame/Prey2017'', [[spoiler:the rest of the cast is trying to [[InvokedTrope invoke this]] with your character. [[TomatoInTheMirror You're actually]] a Typhon organism that has been implanted with Morgan Yu's memories, then placed in a simulation of the ''Talos I'' outbreak. Alex Yu and his Operators are trying to make you empathize with humans, in order to make you a Token Heroic Typhon who can make peace between humans and aliens. You're given the choice to either accept this or to stay a monster.]]
* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'':
** Qyzen Fess, the Consular's first companion, is a Trandoshan. In the ''Star Wars'' universe, Trandoshans are depicted as mercenaries, bounty hunters, and mooks for various unsavory factions. Their long-standing war with the Wookiees (and their taking of Wookiee ''pelts'' as a trophy) doesn't help matters. A Trandoshan allied with a Jedi is practically unheard of. Qyzen is indifferent to his people's overall loyalties, and follows the consular as [[ReligiousBruiser he sees them as a prophet of his Goddess]].
** Lord Scourge of the Jedi Knight storyline is a Sith Pureblood, meaning that his race were the original masters of the Dark Side and as such sticks out like a sore thumb among the Knight's crew. He joins the protagonist because he believes them to be the one to finally bring down the Sith Emperor and makes it clear that he considers it purely EnemyMine. According to the novel ''Literature/{{Revan}}'', Scourge previously made an alliance with Revan and the Exile against the Sith Emperor, [[spoiler:only to betray them and stab the Exile InTheBack, after seeing a Force-vision of another Jedi standing over the Emperor's corpse]].
* Marina, the dark-skinned Octoling who makes up one half of the idol duo "Off the Hook" in ''VideoGame/Splatoon2''. She lives in Inkopolis as opposed to underground with the rest of her Octarian brethren, and gets along with the Inklings with no tension. Downplayed by the fact that, according to WordOfGod, no one except her partner/mentor Pearl is ''[[FailedASpotCheck even aware that she's an Octoling]]'' despite both characters doing very little to hide that information. The ''Octo Expansion'' DLC eventually subverts it by introducing Octolings as a playable race, with the in-universe explanation being that they broke free from [[BigBad DJ Octavio's]] anti-Inkling propaganda.
* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'':
** Goblins are pretty much universally depicted as barbarians who wage war for no reason, and the player will be fighting off more than one invasion by goblin armies. After the first invasion, however, they can find the Goblin Tinkerer tied up somewhere underground. The Tinkerer explains that he has no ill will towards humans and thinks the goblins are invading and fighting for stupid reasons, so his fellows tied him up and left him for dead. He'll move in to the player's town and is a valuable ally for the items he can provide. He even develops a crush on the Mechanic (which is apparently reciprocated).
** Thought it's hard to tell under his outfit, the Witch Doctor is actually a Lizarhd. The rest of the Lizarhd tribe are extremely hostile and remain in seclusion in their underground Temple. The Witch Doctor, by contrast, is a friendly and personable guy perfectly happy to live alongside humans.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': Consuls/Moebius are manipulative shapeshifters who leech off the Colonies' lifeforce via the Flameclocks. Consul T/Captain Triton, however, is not only an overall decent man (his SoreLoser tendencies notwithstanding), but is so enamored with the idea of freedom he happily lets the Ouroboros destroy his Flameclock and liberate his colony's inhabitants once he's beaten in a treasure hunt and "friendly" scrap, joining the party as well as a selectable Hero.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'': Sort of defied and played with in the Warcraft universe, as it was revealed in Warcraft III that the reason the Orcs were so evil in the first two games was that they formed a pact with the Burning Legion and drank the blood of Mannoroth, but by the time of ''Warcraft III'', Thrall helps them rediscover their original shamanic magic and become more peaceful, [[HeelRaceTurn allying with the humans and Night Elves to stop Archimonde.]] Then in ''World of Warcraft'', Garrosh Hellscream becomes Warchief and leads the Horde to [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor become a villainous force again...]] although they still [[EnemyMine team up with the Alliance]] sometimes against greater threats, like the Lich King and the Old Gods.
* ''VideoGame/WingCommander'': Hobbes who mostly was a defector from the evil Kilrathi Empire until it was revealed to be a MemoryGambit.
* Hermann Wolff in ''VideoGame/ZombieArmyTrilogy'' is a rare ''human'' example of this, being a Captain in the [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Wehrmacht]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII -- after Hitler desperately unleashes [[ZombieApocalypse "Plan Z"]], he immediately turns on his former commander in disgust and willingly allies himself with the rest of the Survivor's Brigade, who consist of Americans, Russians, and both a French and a German resistance fighter, in order to survive and stop the zombie outbreak.
* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateSiegeOfDragonspear'' has a goblin party member, for the first time in the ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' series that a goblin has been on your side. (Of course, whether "your side" counts as "heroic" is ultimately up to you.)
* Attikus from ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' is one of the hordes of Jennerit Thralls that commonly swarm against the eponymous Battleborn on the battlefield. Due to opposing the game's villain Rendain and being a Battleborn himself however, he's this.
* In ''VideoGame/BestFiends'', there is Bo and Splendid, two slugs that have joined the team of the Fiends against the other ones. However, Bo is a dragon slug and Splendid is a sea slug, in comparison to the common black slugs the other ones are.
* ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'': one of the playable characters is Krieg, who is a Psycho. In gameplay, you will kill hundreds of Psychos — every two-bit bandit gang seems to have a bunch of them to run around throwing axes at you. Krieg is the only one who's semi-consistently portrayed in a relatively positive fashion.
** This trope is also [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with the broken Hyperion loaders who promise to change its way if you help it finding a new body, only to betray you, apologize, ask for another body and [[PlayedForLaughs betray you again]].
* Truff from ''VideoGame/BravelyDefaultII'' in the most literal sense: he's a friendly yet cowardly orc capable of human speech who keeps running into the party while searching for the human who saved him.
* Zasp of ''VideoGame/BugFables'' is a wasp, a race that makes up the main villainous faction, but he left the Wasp Kingdom because he didn't like what was happening there. [[spoiler:This ends up being foreshadowing that the Wasp Kingdom is actually dramatically different under the [[TheUsurper Wasp King]] than it was previously.]]
* Robo from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' is one of a very small number of robots that aren't obsessed with killing all humans, and the only one to actively assist the party and be friendly to them. Aside from Johnny and his crew, who are at best neutral irreverent jerks who'd rather just race you for fun, every other machine has [[KillerRobot one thing in mind]]. [[spoiler:As it turns out it's a [[MurderousMalfunctioningMachine single rogue AI]] that turned on humanity and corrupted and reprogrammed all the rest to do the same, and Robo happened to be derelict and out of commission when this happened.]]
* ''VideoGame/CoffeeCrisis'' has the baby Smurgliens, the sole alien who oppose his race's plans to invade planet earth for their rock music, [=WiFi=], and ''coffee'', and will actually help the two player heroes stop the invasion.
* Literally in ''VideoGame/DivineDivinity'' with Kroxy, the orc warrior you need to recruit for the Council. He's the only orc in the game who isn't an enemy. Predictably, you find him locked up by his brethren and awaiting execution for disagreeing with their warlike ways.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'':
** The Architect is a Mook Rebel, being a self-aware Darkspawn who's attempting to try and sever their connection to the Old Gods, thus preventing the outbreak of further Blights. He suffers from a lot of BlueAndOrangeMorality though so is not really a straight hero. [[spoiler:There are hints that he's far more than a simple mook.]]
** The Messenger, a member of the Architect's faction, seems to be the only Disciple who is a totally straight example of this. During the Darkspawn assault on Amaranthine he warns the Warden that the Mother is ''also'' attacking Vigil's Keep. He can be persuaded to join in the defense of the city and if set free afterwards, becomes a mysterious cloaked hero protecting travellers from bandits, although responsible for [[TyphoidMary accidentally]] [[WalkingWasteland spreading]] the [[TheCorruption Blight]] to a few of them.
* Downplayed in the game ''VideoGame/DragonRage'' with the Orc [[Characters/DragonRage Galthran Etruk]]. He's on your side, but only because it's what is best for him right then.
* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'':
** Demi-Humans, the ape-like creatures that are the game's equivalent to orcs, are ''mostly'' hostile, with the exception of Boc...although, since Boc is also one of the smallest and his one attempt at actually doing anything dramatic gets him beaten within an inch of his life, his heroism mostly extends to doing your tailoring for free. At least he's enjoying himself. [[spoiler:He ''can'' be reborn as a human in the right circumstances, but it's a flawed rebirth and he loses his identity, then dies.]]
** You find a village of non-hostile Living Jars known as Jarburg, but Alexander is the only known one who's genuinely ''heroic'', fighting alongside you against Radahn and then later the Fire Giant. [[spoiler:He ''does'' try to kill you at the end of his questline... after challenging you to an honorable DuelToTheDeath which you are free to simply decline. Whether he achieves victory over the greatest warrior he knows or suffers a glorious death by their hand are both satisfactory outcomes for him.]]
** Most of the Spirit Ashes are based on hostile creatures, allowing you to summon a Token Heroic Mad Pumpkin Head or Token Heroic Bloodhound Knight. You can even summon a squad of the same demi-humans mentioned above. Of course, they're not so much "heroic" as they are "compelled to obey their summoner". The only exception in Latenna, who joins you as a spirit willingly and is still fully intelligent in that form. Though you likely won't find the enemies she's the token heroic example of until many, many hours after you acquire her.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** In the series' backstory, the [[OurElvesAreDifferent Ayleids (Wild Elves)]] once ruled all of Cyrodiil and took the Nedes, [[{{Precursors}} human ancestors of most of the modern races of Men]], as slaves. So [[KickTheDog vile was their torment of the slaves]] that, when the [[SlaveLiberation slaves revolted]], several rebel Ayleid lords sided with the slaves (although some sources imply it was less 'the other lords were just that bad' and more 'there was already a civil war between Aedra and Daedra-favouring Ayleid lords' -- everyone involved on the winning side, including the Ayleids on the rebellion's side, had an interest in playing up just how bad the Ayleid rule had been). As a result, they were allowed to keep their lands as vassals to the new empire the slaves would found. (At least for about a century or so until an extremist [[FantasticRacism anti-elven]] religious sect came to power within the empire and either killed or drove away the remaining Ayleids.)
** Scamps are the [[TheGoomba weakest]] and [[FunSize smallest]] known form of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]], and in almost every game where they've made an appearance, there is typically at least one non-hostile Scamp who can be conversed with. The [[LethalJokeCharacter Scamp merchant]] Creeper, who appears in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline Online]]'', is one prominent example.
** In the ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' backstory, Paarthurnax was this among the dragons, having been responsible for Alduin's initial defeat. He now serves as the BigGood during the events of the main storyline. There were other dragons that rebelled against Alduin's rule, but their names are never given and [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished they were all killed by the Blades in the intervening millennia]].
** Similar to Paarthurnax, the series' spin-off ActionAdventure game ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsAdventuresRedguard Redguard]]'' includes Nafaalilargus (a.k.a. Nahfahlaar), a dragon who managed to overcome his draconic nature and would ally with worthy mortals. For this reason, he was [[SparingTheAces spared]] by the Blades in the 1st Era and would eventually find his way into the employ of [[GodEmperor Tiber Septim]].
* ''[[VideoGame/ExtrapowerAttackOfDarkforce EXTRAPOWER Attack of Darkforce]]'': Gladius, a member of the [[TheAssimilator human-assimilating]] EldritchAbomination Bem species, who fight on the side of humanity against the Bem. His primary motivation is to secure medical treatment for Flamerge, who was only partially assimilated, but willingly helps the defense of the Earth even after the Bem threat is destroyed.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series carries a tradition of having a few friendly [[SpaceOrcs super mutants]] per game, with at least one being a recruitable companion:
** ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' Marcus the Super Mutant. A former solder from the Master Army, who with a Brotherhood Paladin creates a town where humans, mutants and ghouls can live together. He later joins your party, if you're good.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' has Fawkes, who is simply more intelligent, better-natured (and more cultured, thanks to him studying the records in a cell he was trapped in) than his "peers". He helps you retrieve a MacGuffin, helps you escape when you're captured with it and joins you as an ally if you have high enough karma. There's also Uncle Leo, who appears as a RandomEncounter and will give you random stuff simply by talking to him, lamenting that he cannot give you more.
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has Lily, a Nightkin. Unlike most Nightkin, she's fairly sane (and you can make her even more sane if you wish) and friendly, to the point she regards the Courier as a surrogate grandchild. There's also Mean Sonofabitch, a [[DeathbringerTheAdorable friendly]] supermutant who protects the community of Westside from raiders. Marcus also returns, and is now the leader of a small isolated community of super mutants who simply want to be left alone.
** Strong of ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' is something of a mixed bag. While he is comparatively heroic for a Super Mutant and approves of acts of benevolence and selflessness, he's also the most brutish and savage of the companions and loves acts of violence and killing.
** The Far Harbor DLC has Erickson, a friendly Super Mutant dog trainer who was altered by the radioactive fog to realize how pointless the lifestyle of a typical Super Mutant was and lives a quiet secluded life. He also sells you dogs to guard your settlements with, and gives you a bandana if you have Dogmeat in your party.
** Also, files of the first game feature Re -- a rebellious supermutant. If we have enough speech skills, we'll be able to talk him to helping us killing TheMaster. Sadly, he isn't present in the game, though there are mods fixing it.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'': The AlwaysChaoticEvil Urutan Yensas and Baknamies each have a single representative who is amiable to the heroes. The good Urutan Yensa is encountered as part of a sidequest that gives you Eksir Berries, an item you can use for the Garuda boss battle, while the good Baknamy is the vendor of a SecretShop in the Necrohol of Nabudis.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', the Ascians are a race of immortal {{energy being}}s known for [[DemonicPossession possessing]] mortals, manipulating entire nations, and sowing misery wherever they go in order to resurrect their sealed-away god, Zodiark. The ''Shadowbringers'' expansion reveals that one Ascian actually cares about mortals and has been fighting the machinations of their brethren -- [[spoiler:none other than ''the {{player character}} themself'', whose superhuman status as TheAce turns out to be because they've been a reincarnated Ascian the whole time]]. [[DramaticIrony The Ascian in question spends a long time unaware of this.]]
* ''VideoGame/FugaMelodiesOfSteel'''s main antagonist is The Berman Empire, ANaziByAnyOtherName that suddenly invades the peaceful lands of Gasco, taking in slaves and subjugating the magic-abled Felinekos to inhuman experiments. Britz Strudel is the only Berman who actively opposes his country's invasion by teaming up with the heroes, in part due to his family being mistreated by the Empire [[SinsOfOurFathers for something his father did prior to the events of the game]].
* Glamrock Freddy from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach'' is notable in that he's the first[[note]]unless you count Helpy[[/note]] animatronic seen in the franchise to actively help the player character, who in this game is a young boy named Gregory. He is only able to kill you under three specific circumstances: running out of power, failing the SimonSaysMinigame, and [[spoiler:while possessed in the True Ending]]. Otherwise, he not only serves as MissionControl, a gameplay mechanic, and a father figure to Gregory, but he is essentially the game's {{Deuteragonist}}.
* Gooey from the ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' games is implied to be a piece of usually AlwaysChaoticEvil Dark Matter that turned good and became one of Kirby's friends.
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'':
** Canderous Ordo is human, but also member of Mandalorian Clan. Mandalorians are treated as a different race, he is a defeated enemy. He falls under the Defector category, as many of the defeated Mandalorians have become brigands who prey on farmers and weaker opponents. As far as Canderous is concerned, they've forfeited the honor of wearing the armor.
** This might not seem to count at first, given that he's working as a mercenary who recruited him, but [[spoiler: the player character is actually Revan, the one who previously defeated the Mandalorians in war]].
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has Shyvana the Half-Dragon, [[DraconicHumanoid a unique offspring of a dragon and a human mage]] whose mortal allegiance is towards Demacia, [[AntiMagicalFaction a kingdom whose general policy is to reject mages and magic like her.]] This came about because Shyvana rescued the weakened WarriorPrince Jarvan IV and the two became a quasi-BattleCouple, and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections Jarvan entrusts her so much that he made her the leader of the Dragonguard]], a squad to protect Demacia's borders [[TheDragonslayer from other, more dangerous dragons]]. Her loyalty to the kingdom is sincere, but due to her draconic nature, she's pretty divisive among her subordinates.
* ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsSparksOfHope'' has the Spark Hunters, who are [[BigBad Cursa’s]] [[TheDragon Dragons]], and, as the name implies, their job is to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hunt for Sparks]] and bring them to Cursa. Of the four of them, [[DarkIsNotEvil Edge]] is the heroic one, and actually joins Mario and friends on in their adventure to save the Sparks, thus becoming a regular party member. [[spoiler: Edge, as well as the other Spark Hunters, were created by Cursa, and Edge was their leader. Once she worked for Cursa, she started to develop her own free will, and started to realize just how horrible Cursa was, and that she must be stopped. Edge tried to convince the other Spark Hunters what they were doing was wrong, but they wouldn’t listen. That’s why she joined Mario and friends, so that they can stop Cursa together.]]
* ''VideoGame/MarioParty9'': While Magikoopa/Kamek and Shy Guy appear as antagonists in Solo mode, the playable Koopa, normally affiliated with Bowser, is firmly on the side of Mario and company.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** After spending the first game fighting a machine race called the geth, you can recruit a geth teammate, Legion, in the second. Instead of a DefectorFromDecadence, [[InvertedTrope they turn out to represent the majority of their species]] -- [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the ones you've been fighting are fanatical "heretics."]]
** Sort of Urdnot Wrex. A definite believer that [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch His Species Doth Protest Too Much]] and one of the few friendly krogan in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' (where most of them were criminals, pirates or agents of Saren). If he survives the first game, he returns to the krogan homeworld of Tuchanka and retakes his position as leader of Clan Urdnot in order to drag his species back to something resembling the time when they were respected and glorified for saving the galaxy during the Rachni Wars, before the Krogan Rebellion lead to their defeat and disgrace.
** If you decide to save her in ''Mass Effect 1'' [[spoiler: and again in ''Mass Effect 3'']], the last surviving rachni queen becomes this, although she is an ally rather than a party member.
* ''VideoGame/MetroExodus'' has Sam, a US marine who was part of the US embassy security staff and was waiting for the train at a Moscow Metro station when the US dropped the Big One on Russia. He is also (somewhat oddly, given Melnik's paranoia about NATO) part of Melnik's inner circle, and, when pressed, states that he has been one of Melnik's Rangers for so long that it overrides any other loyalties he may or may not have had.
* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'': Averted with Ratbag. Despite him allying with Talion, it's out of [[EnemyMine convenience]] and [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatism]] than any benevolence. He's not motivated by any noble cause (stopping the Black Captains, freeing the Outcasts, etc...), he wants to be Warchief because [[ItsAllAboutMe he wants to be the one calling the shots]]. He decides to aid [[TheDreaded Talion]] because the latter is [[OneManArmy incredibly skilled at killing his competition]], which he takes credit for ([[KlingonPromotion a popular way amongst Uruk kind to get promotions is to kill whoever is bossing you around]]).
* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'': Forthog Orc-Slayer is a mysterious orc ronin who will occasionally save Talion from a deathblow, then say some cryptic words and leave.
* The ''Pathfinder'' Owlcat games:
** ''VideoGame/PathfinderKingmaker'' has Nok-Nok the Goblin join your party. Though he sticks to his race's AlwaysChaoticEvil tendencies, he mostly cares about sticking it back to the tribe that tried to execute him. The main character can encourage his silly antics and turn him into a clown, or push him towards becoming somewhat heroic.
** ''VideoGame/PathfinderWrathOfTheRighteous'' adds Arueshalae to your party, a succubus who was pushed to repent by the goddess Desna and seeks to help the crusaders destroy the Worldwound and atone for her sinful life as a demon. She can be supported, or tempted into a relapse to become a demonic minion for an evil-aligned character.
* Deekin the kobold bard from the ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' expansions. In ''Hordes of the Underdark'', your other potential companions include a non-evil tiefling (a less-than-half-fiend) and a drow who judging from her actual behavior is only called LawfulEvil because it's required for her to have the assassin class.
* In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', it turns out [[spoiler:Teddie is actually just another one of the [[TheHeartless Shadows]] that the Investigation Team has been fighting off for the majority of the game, but he represents mankind's desire to be loved and as such is not malicious at all. He kept telling himself he wasn't a Shadow so he could appeal to regular people, though this denial resulted in his ''own'' Shadow.]]
* In ''VideoGame/Prey2017'', [[spoiler:the rest of the cast is trying to [[InvokedTrope invoke this]] with your character. [[TomatoInTheMirror You're actually]] a Typhon organism that has been implanted with Morgan Yu's memories, then placed in a simulation of the ''Talos I'' outbreak. Alex Yu and his Operators are trying to make you empathize with humans, in order to make you a Token Heroic Typhon who can make peace between humans and aliens. You're given the choice to either accept this or to stay a monster.]]
* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'':
** Qyzen Fess, the Consular's first companion, is a Trandoshan. In the ''Star Wars'' universe, Trandoshans are depicted as mercenaries, bounty hunters, and mooks for various unsavory factions. Their long-standing war with the Wookiees (and their taking of Wookiee ''pelts'' as a trophy) doesn't help matters. A Trandoshan allied with a Jedi is practically unheard of. Qyzen is indifferent to his people's overall loyalties, and follows the consular as [[ReligiousBruiser he sees them as a prophet of his Goddess]].
** Lord Scourge of the Jedi Knight storyline is a Sith Pureblood, meaning that his race were the original masters of the Dark Side and as such sticks out like a sore thumb among the Knight's crew. He joins the protagonist because he believes them to be the one to finally bring down the Sith Emperor and makes it clear that he considers it purely EnemyMine. According to the novel ''Literature/{{Revan}}'', Scourge previously made an alliance with Revan and the Exile against the Sith Emperor, [[spoiler:only to betray them and stab the Exile InTheBack, after seeing a Force-vision of another Jedi standing over the Emperor's corpse]].
* Marina, the dark-skinned Octoling who makes up one half of the idol duo "Off the Hook" in ''VideoGame/Splatoon2''. She lives in Inkopolis as opposed to underground with the rest of her Octarian brethren, and gets along with the Inklings with no tension. Downplayed by the fact that, according to WordOfGod, no one except her partner/mentor Pearl is ''[[FailedASpotCheck even aware that she's an Octoling]]'' despite both characters doing very little to hide that information. The ''Octo Expansion'' DLC eventually subverts it by introducing Octolings as a playable race, with the in-universe explanation being that they broke free from [[BigBad DJ Octavio's]] anti-Inkling propaganda.
* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'':
** Goblins are pretty much universally depicted as barbarians who wage war for no reason, and the player will be fighting off more than one invasion by goblin armies. After the first invasion, however, they can find the Goblin Tinkerer tied up somewhere underground. The Tinkerer explains that he has no ill will towards humans and thinks the goblins are invading and fighting for stupid reasons, so his fellows tied him up and left him for dead. He'll move in to the player's town and is a valuable ally for the items he can provide. He even develops a crush on the Mechanic (which is apparently reciprocated).
** Thought it's hard to tell under his outfit, the Witch Doctor is actually a Lizarhd. The rest of the Lizarhd tribe are extremely hostile and remain in seclusion in their underground Temple. The Witch Doctor, by contrast, is a friendly and personable guy perfectly happy to live alongside humans.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': Consuls/Moebius are manipulative shapeshifters who leech off the Colonies' lifeforce via the Flameclocks. Consul T/Captain Triton, however, is not only an overall decent man (his SoreLoser tendencies notwithstanding), but is so enamored with the idea of freedom he happily lets the Ouroboros destroy his Flameclock and liberate his colony's inhabitants once he's beaten in a treasure hunt and "friendly" scrap, joining the party as well as a selectable Hero.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'': Sort of defied and played with in the Warcraft universe, as it was revealed in Warcraft III that the reason the Orcs were so evil in the first two games was that they formed a pact with the Burning Legion and drank the blood of Mannoroth, but by the time of ''Warcraft III'', Thrall helps them rediscover their original shamanic magic and become more peaceful, [[HeelRaceTurn allying with the humans and Night Elves to stop Archimonde.]] Then in ''World of Warcraft'', Garrosh Hellscream becomes Warchief and leads the Horde to [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor become a villainous force again...]] although they still [[EnemyMine team up with the Alliance]] sometimes against greater threats, like the Lich King and the Old Gods.
* ''VideoGame/WingCommander'': Hobbes who mostly was a defector from the evil Kilrathi Empire until it was revealed to be a MemoryGambit.
* Hermann Wolff in ''VideoGame/ZombieArmyTrilogy'' is a rare ''human'' example of this, being a Captain in the [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Wehrmacht]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII -- after Hitler desperately unleashes [[ZombieApocalypse "Plan Z"]], he immediately turns on his former commander in disgust and willingly allies himself with the rest of the Survivor's Brigade, who consist of Americans, Russians, and both a French and a German resistance fighter, in order to survive and stop the zombie outbreak.
