History WellIntentionedExtremist / VideoGames

** Though the Healing Church were responsible for the scourge of beasts, the first of their Hunters, a humble man by the name Ludwig, would prove to be the hero they could never be: Having witnessed the gargantuan beasts that the clergy of the church transformed into, Ludwig took upon himself the task of arming the people of Yharnam with weapons of [[{{BFS}} appropriate size and power]] and teaching them how to best defend themselves against the beastly threat that the church could come to pose against them. Unfortunately, those same weapons were a bit ''too'' effective at shedding the blood of the beasts, exposing the Hunters to the Old Blood simply by fighting them. Furthermore, sending inexperienced denizens to fight the beasts resulted in many more injured, which in turn lead more people to seek out the Healing Church's Blood Ministration to save their lives. Finally, though Ludwig was a noble, honourable spartan, the same could not be said of his disciples and so the Hunters of the Healing Church became more akin to groups of armed thugs walking the streets. Ludwig himself also eventually succumbed to the scourge and was trapped in The Hunter's Nightmare as a grotesque, equine parody of the knight in shiny armor he once was.
** While Hunters are generally tasked with hunting down people who've become infected by the scourge of beasts-- and the earlier they can deal with the infected, the better-- bad things tend to happen when a Hunter [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope goes off the deep end]] and starts attacking people who are not yet infected, or start exhibiting symptoms of infection themselves. It's at that point that [[CoolOldLady Eileen the Crow]] enters the picture. She is [[HunterOfHisOwnKind the Hunter of Hunters]], a thankless, scorned role upon the Night of the Hunt, but a deeply important one -- enough so that Eileen is still carrying out her duty, despite the fact that she's long past her prime. Should you help her out, she'll berate you for dirtying your hands doing her job, but she will be thankful nevertheless, and should you complete her questline she'll [[PassingTheTorch pass on to you the Crowhunter Badge, marking you as her successor.]]
** And before them all, there was Gehrman, the First Hunter. Before the era of the Healing Church, Gehrman was the muscle of Byrgenwerth College and is responsible for atrocities such as the massacre of the Fishing Hamlet, all in the name of seeking a way for humanity to transcend to the next evolutionary stage. In the present day, however, he has become the OldMaster and TheAtoner, though that hardly makes him any less extreme in his methods, which typically involves executing every single Hunter who find their way to the Hunter's Dream, if only to [[SelfSacrificeScheme spare them from having to suffer his own torment.]]
* ''VideoGame/BoogieWings'', a game set in the Golden Age of Aviation (circa 1919) have you trying to stop the main villain, an unnamed MadScientist, from reshaping history. But in the final stage as you confront the scientist, you discover his true motivations - via TimeMachine, the scientist made it to the future, only to witness the horrors of war in the future (presumably World War II). Deciding there isn't hope for humanity in the dark ages to come, he then decides to change the present using technology from the future, leading to the crazy assortments of robots and mechas you encountered throughout the game, and him even offering you a WeCanRuleTogether option towards the end.
* ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'': After discovering the [[spoiler:Vault]] on Pandora's moon, Elpis, Colonel T. Zarpedon deems its power to be to dangerous to risk it falling into the wrong hands. Her solution? Destroy it... Along with all of Elpis, inevitably killing millions on both Elpis and Pandora, ''including'' herself and all her soldiers. She and her soldiers take over [[SpaceStation Helios Space Station]] and [[spoiler:repeatedly blast Elpis with the [[WeaponOfMassDestruction Eye of Helios.]]]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}: Shattered Soldier'', [[spoiler:Lance Bean is revealed to be this after he is defeated in order to expose the true [[BigBad Big Bads]] of the game, the [[GovernmentConspiracy Triumvirate]]. It turns out that they stole an important object the aliens have been looking for, known as the Relic of Morai, and that Bill Rizer and Lucia must destroy it.]]
* In ''VideoGame/CreepyCastle'', [[BigBad Darking]] intends to achieve peace by using the [[EmotionSuppression Heartbreaker]] to remove the emotions of people. Also, [[spoiler:despite knowing that it's wrong, he believes that using the Heartbreaker to prevent people suffering from the painful events of life is worth it.]]
* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', the BigBad Yorinobu Arasaka murdered his CorruptCorporateExecutive father and took control of his EvilInc with the intent of [[GenocideFromTheInside destroying it from within]] by [[ZeroApprovalGambit intentionally waging war on the entire world with Arasaka's forces]], slaughtering most of the Board of Directors, and generally causing as much of a mess as he can, all so Arasaka will self-destruct. Whether this is better or worse than allowing the corp's [[OneNationUnderCopyright despotic, murderous rulership of its (considerable) territory]] to persist ad infinitum is left up to the player. [[spoiler:And in all of the good endings, [[TheBadGuyWins he wins]] as not only is Arasaka crippled due to the loss of their BrainUploading program but both Hanako and Takemura, the greatest threats to his takeover, are killed by Alt Cunningham (Hanako) or during Hanako's rescue/by committing seppuku (Takemura).]]

* If Harlow in ''VideoGame/DeadIslandRiptide'' isn't a terrorist as [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Serpo]] claims she's this. She saves Wayne despite being infected and pushes him into the tunnels, which is filled with chemicals that are exacerbating the kuru outbreak into the zombie plague, and once he turns she goes into a ClusterFBomb rant justifying finding out what happens. [[spoiler: After leading the survivors to Henderson she tries to stop you from escaping, forcibly, because there is no known cure and the infection could possibly affect the whole planet. Given the survivors of Banoi and Palanai amount to less than twenty percent without taking into account those who might be infected a HeroicSacrifice might well have been the better alternative.]]
* Raymond Sullivan from ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' counts as this. At first, he seems like a greedy mass murderer who helps Phenotrans cause outbreaks all over America just for the sake of profit, but it's later revealed that his true intentions are to cause outbreaks in order to ensure a consistent supply of zombrex to [[VillainHasAPoint keep the important people in America such as doctors, CEO's, politicians, even some of the countries best from turning]] and tells Chuck that Tyrone King's looting of the city was entirely his own work, not the work of Phenotrans.
* Hans Tiedmann of ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' [[spoiler:used the player character's psychosis to build an ArtifactOfDoom, ordered looters on the Sprawl to be shot on sight, and attempted to hinder and kill Isaac multiple times throughout the game]]. Logs at the end, however, reveal that [[spoiler:he genuinely thought that building Markers was needed for mankind's survival (suggested to be a form of Mindscrew that the Markers do to propagate themselves), had a legitimate sense of duty to the Sprawl's inhabitants, and disobeyed his superiors and ordered an evacuation when the Necromorph outbreak started.]]

** The true villain of ''Deus Ex: Human Revolution'', [[spoiler:Hugh Darrow]], is very much well-intentioned in his wish for [[spoiler:the people to be free from augmentations and the corporations who misuse them]]... Only issue is that he tried to get the point across with mass murder. [[spoiler:As with the Illuminati above, you can go with Hugh Darrow's message in the end, in a toned down, less extreme take on his idealogy.]]

** The [[KnightTemplar Templars]] from the sequel abhor all front-edge technology, with nanoaugmentation being the worst of it all, and strive for a devout, theocratic society. If you help them establish one, they [[spoiler:lynch you for being a receptacle of said infernal nanotech and for generally being of [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no use to them]].]]
** Omars -- a faction of cyborgs with a HiveMind regard themselves as the next stage of human evolution, and you can help them inherit the planet by removing all the other factions' leaders. After the inevitable wars that result, they are the only faction that is able to survive in the wastelands that was once Earth.

* ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'' has Keisuke, who, in trying to stop the public from freaking out at the Tamers, [[spoiler:goes on a killing spree. He thought that those who were committing the crimes (especially against Demon Tamers who were trying to help) were irredeemably evil, and that the only way to keep them from doing further evil was to eliminate them.]] His motivations are somewhat understandable, once you know [[spoiler:what happened to him in High School. He stood up to a group of bullies who were picking on a certain kid, but as a result became the bullies' new target. Much to his dismay, the kid who he was standing up for joined in.]]

* ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' has Zoltun Kulle, a powerful sorcerer who created the Black Soulstone to imprison demons...and angels, whom he [[LightIsNotGood regarded as little better]]. His ultimate goal was to unlock the power of the nephalem, the powerful precursors to humans, so that all of humanity could share in it. While his methods were far too extreme and got him [[SealedEvilInASixPack sealed in multiple cans]], [[VillainHasAPoint he was right in many regards]]. The angels aren't ''quite'' as bad as he thinks, but he is right that many have called for humanity's destruction; and his warnings that the events are being guided by a greater power really should have been heeded.

** Bishop Alexandar and the [[TheOrder Divine Order]] sought to protect the world from the [[ApocalypseCult Black Ring]] and [[EldritchAbomination Voidwoken]], and as part of their war against the latter hunted down and imprisoned [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Sourcerers]] as their use of [[SoulPower Source magic]] attracted them. Over time their methods became more extreme, as in Act 2 it's shown they slaughtered half a village for harboring them.
** Alexandar's father, GodEmperor [[RogueProtagonist Lucian the Divine]] was far more extreme, as it's revealed relatively early on (provided you have Ifan in the party) that [[TheParagonAlwaysRebels he was responsible for the genocide of the elves]] [[spoiler: and much later on that he was responsible for the Godwoken genocide as part of his plan to RageAgainstTheHeavens and appease the Voidwoken.]]
** The Shadow Prince is the leader of the LizardFolk [[MurderInc assassin clan]], [[spoiler: and convinced [[RogueProtagonist Lucian]] to destroy the elven homeland in order to cripple them and prevent their potential subjugation of the other races, and potentially enlists the aid of the PlayerCharacter to deliver the final blow. Additionally, he was the one who ordered the assassination attempts on the Red Prince, but only because a prophecy stated he would bring about the return of dragons and potentially turn everyone else against the Lizards. When met in Act 3 he's rather AffablyEvil and agrees to ally with the Red Prince instead if he agrees that the return of dragons should be stopped.]]

** The Architect in ''The Calling'' novel wishes to end the constant struggle between the darkspawn and everyone else...by spreading the darkspawn taint to every living thing, turning everyone into half-darkspawn and killing the Old Gods. His methods are brutal. He will try to talk you into helping him, but if you then even consider changing your mind, he will kill you without a second thought.
** In ''Awakening'', the Architect's new plan is to use Grey Warden blood to create intelligent, self-aware Darkspawn, free from the call of the Old Gods... and it actually ''[[TheExtremistWasRight works]]!'' Unfortunately a Broodmother and some of the other newly Awakened Darkspawn decide to break away and begin an EnemyCivilWar.
** The Grey Wardens themselves. They dedicate their life to fight the Blight, and they make it clear from the moment you join them that they (and therefore, you) will do ''anything'' that can further their goal. Examples of things you may have to do: [[spoiler:interfere in dwarven politics and put a king in charge of Orzammar, in order for the dwarves to join you; overthrow and kill the current king of Fereldan, because he's against you (and a bastard, though); accept the [[NukeEm obliteration]] of the Circle of Mages by Templars, in exchange for the latter helping you; killing a ''child'' possessed by a demon, in order to save a noble, and possibly, to get him on your side...]] The list goes on. The order is explicitly said to [[TheUnfettered be willing and allowed to do anything to stop the darkspawn]], including conscripting people into the Wardens and using [[BloodMagic blood magic, which for everyone else carries an instant death sentence]], because the alternative is basically TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
** The epilogue of ''Awakening'' mentions that should the Warden [[spoiler: side with the Architect]], this decision proved very controversial even amongst the other Grey Wardens, who are unsure whether [[spoiler: they've just gained a powerful new ally, a powerful future new foe, or both]]?

** This is actually averted with Meredith at the very end. [[spoiler:She's less interested in protecting innocents than she is in finally getting a piece of the mages after so many years. Orsino, Cullen, Hawke, and Sebastian all provide alternate ways to resolve the situation with less bloodshed, including simply executing Anders, but she refuses all of them because she wants to kill the mages first and foremost.]]
* In ''Videogame/DragonAgeInquisition'', the Wardens' unfettered dedication to stopping Blights is used against them [[spoiler:ironically enough, by a Darkspawn. Specifically one of the ''original'' Darkspawn Corypheus]]. The villain made the Wardens in Orlais desperate and scared [[spoiler:with a False Calling created by his demon ally Nightmare]]. Then he had one of his agents provide a plan that would help them end Blights forever: [[spoiler:use BloodMagic to summon a demon army to invade the Deep Roads and kill the Old Gods.]] When the few relatively reasonable Wardens protested the plan, the other Wardens turned on them.
** In the Trespasser DLC [[spoiler: Solas]] shows himself to be one. He wants to make up for the damage he caused by [[spoiler: creating the Veil]] but he plans to do that by [[spoiler: tearing down the Veil]] which he implies will cause many deaths. He’s convinced this is the only way, though he’s clearly not pleased about it and he’d “cherish the chance to be wrong again.”
* Psaro the Manslayer in the video game ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV''. Later in the game, it's revealed that [[spoiler:his [[TheDragon right-hand man, Aamon]], is manipulating him to maximize the "extremist" part]].

** The Knights of the Seal in ''Drakengard 2'' look like this, but are ultimately either deeply messed-up people or, in Gismor's case, an outright nihilist. General Oror, on the other hand, was AFatherToHisMen and a genuinely good person. As for other antagonists, [[spoiler:Caim wants to free Angelus from her suffering and Legna wants to promote his species to supremacy and obliterate the Gods — and keep in mind that the previous game established that the Gods (a.k.a. the Watchers, a.k.a. the Grotesqueries) are a pack of bastards who have already tried to destroy the world ForTheEvulz... ''and are making a second attempt throughout the finale of this game!'']]
* Imnity and Muriel in ''VideoGame/DuelSaviorDestiny'' both believe they are doing the right thing. Muriel is actually an ally, so she's not exactly wrong, [[spoiler:but she ''is'' willing to kill you if she thinks you might become the Messiah]]. Imnity, on the other hand, is basically the same as [[spoiler:Rico/Oltara]], but holding to a slightly different set of values that are ingrained in her very nature. She doesn't really seem to have anything in the way of malice [[spoiler:and is every bit as concerned about her master Mia as her counterpart worries about Taiga.]]
* Doctor Proton is portrayed this way in ''The Doctor Who Cloned Me'', the singleplayer DLC campaign for VideoGame/DukeNukemForever. While his ultimate goal (defeat the aliens) is good, his means to reach it (kill Duke Nukem, replace him with an army of Terminator-like robots who look like him and put one of them as a [[PuppetKing puppet president]] while being the ManBehindTheMan, just to prove to himself that robots can be superior to humans) are certainly not.

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', [[BigBad Dagoth]] [[PhysicalGod Ur]] just wants to make Morrowind independent from the Empire, which is an idea that quite a few Dunmer groups would support, ranging from the honorable [[ProudWarriorRace House Redoran]] to the [[TheMafia mafia-esque]] [[TheSyndicate Camonna Tong]]. The fact that his method of achieving that independence involves spreading a disease that drives the victim to homicidal madness and/or [[BodyHorror horrifically mutates]] them throughout the entire world is acceptable in his mind. [[spoiler:(Although if he had succeeded with his ''ultimate'' goal, he would have turned the entirety of the universe/multiverse into nothing more than an extension of his own mind]]. The collective inhabitants of reality dodged a bullet there.)

*** [[RebelLeader Ulfric Stormcloak]], who kills (arguably murders) the High King in a duel in order to lead Skyrim into seceding from the Empire - not out of any particular animosity, but because he doesn't think the Empire is willing enough to fight [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the Thalmor]], who practically [[BlackAndGrayMorality everyone agrees are pure evil]]. (Complicating matters is that one can find evidence that the Thalmor [[spoiler:tortured and brainwashed Ulfric, then set him free to a start a civil war in order to further weaken the Empire]].
*** Speaking of the Thalmor, they are an extremist Altmeri religious sect that militarized into a StateSec. They play up the old Altmeri religious belief that the creation of the mortal world (Mundus) was a cruel trick played by a {{Jerkass God|s}} on their divine ancestors, which forced them to experience mortal suffering and death. They believe that if they can [[OmnicidalManiac unmake Mundus]], it will [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence return them to a state of pre-creation divinity]]. Unfortunately, [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence the very idea of Men]] inherently stabilizes the Mundus, and erasing this idea requires eliminating the DeityOfHumanOrigin, Talos. By [[IllegalReligion banning his worship]], they are hoping to [[GodNeedsPrayerBadly weaken]] and eventually [[KillTheGod eliminate]] him, allowing them to act on their plans to unmake the world. If (and that is a big "if") they were to actually succeed in this plan, there is some evidence that they may be correct and the souls of mortals would return to a state of pre-creation divinity, free from all the mortal suffering, loss, and limitation of Mundus. There is also supporting evidence that this is ''impossible'', as due to the actions of Lorkhan (the aforementioned Jerkass God), there can presumably never again be the true stasis of pre-creation again. There is also the belief that this state of divinity (unchanging stasis) is [[HellOfAheaven actually the "prison"]], and Mundus was the escape from that, which would make them more of a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist.

** ''VideoGame/EtrianOdysseyIVLegendsOfTheTitan'' has [[spoiler:Prince Baldur of the Yggdrasil Empire. By all accounts, he was a ReasonableAuthorityFigure when he first took the throne. Faced with the slow withering of his subjects' land, however, he's resolved to awaken the eponymous Titan in order to reverse it, even knowing that doing so would doom the [[NatureSpirit Vessels]] and [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Sentinels]] to a slow and excruciating death by [[BodyHorror the Titan's Curse]]. Thus, it's up to the player's guild to stop him.]]

** ''[[VideoGame/CielNosurge Ciel nosurge]]'' (and ''[[VideoGame/ArNosurgeOdeToAnUnbornStar Ar nosurge]]'') have Zillillium Rimonite, who is very similar to ''Ar Tonelico 2''[='=]s Infel. In ''Ciel nosurge'', she took drastic measures to save her dying planet, and at the end of that game [[spoiler:after the planet was destroyed and the link to a new planet was cut, she attempted to restore the link, but there wasn't enough energy, and so started an AssimilationPlot that was averted. In ''Ar nosurge'', she tried to pull off the assimilation plot again and was successful at first, but it was undone by the main characters]].
* ''VideoGame/EXTRAPOWERGiantFist'' Barrack and his Barracuda organization are absolutely an armed organization taking up arms against an unspecified state's government, each member of the organization a hardened killer of hundreds of battles. But the government they oppose is pushing practices that will only further harm the poorer classes, and so seek the power within the bracelet to nullify the government's weapons.
* Some of the villains in the ''{{VideoGame/Fable}}'' series have, or at least ''had,'' good intentions. Notably, [[spoiler:Lucien from ''Fable II'' wanted to resurrect his family (although he [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumps off the slippery slope]] as the plot continues), and Logan from ''Fable III'' was driving the kingdom into the ground because he needed to raise enough money for an army to battle an EldritchAbomination.]] As the series continues, it may well turn out that [[spoiler:Theresa]] is a well-intentioned extremist, too.
* The VideoGame/{{Fallout}} series has a number of these:
** In any situation where the player character has agency to choose their faction, it can be done for any number of possible personal reasons the player chooses. Occasionally you'll get dialogue from various NPC's who demand some explanation for your involvement in a particular conflict or your reason for taking such drastic action to solve a problem, and you usually get an option or two that invokes this ideal. New Vegas as an example: You can be the most evil monster in the Mojave, but still work with the NCR and murder the legion for whatever personal reason you decide (or vice versa), and this might lead to making a lot of enemies on any number of factions who refuse to help or outright attack you for it.

** A much more personal version happens with Genesis in ''VideoGame/CrisisCore: VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. Although he sends armies of copies to attack various institutions, and seems very eager to fight one-on-one with [=SOLDIERs=], this is all just [[spoiler:to stop the degradation of his cells, so that he won't die.]]
** [[spoiler:Ultimecia]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' would qualify. The reason for [[spoiler:almost all the events that happen throughout the game — Edea as a Sorceress — was because she wanted to escape being persecuted for crimes she hadn't committed yet, and facing her destiny of being defeated by a "Legendary [=SeeD=]" due to her failure to compress time.]]
*** ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' actually lampshades this a little. When Squall defeats Ultimecia, she says [[spoiler:"A world of compressed time; that's all I want!"]] or something like that. In Shade Impulse (ironically, when you don't beat her with Squall) [[spoiler: she talks about [[YouCantGoHomeAgain wanting to return to her childhood, before she got her sorceress powers.]]]]

*** The Fal'cie's [[spoiler:at least Orphan's]] motive is a pretty selfish one: [[DeathSeeker death.]] They are weary of their lives of eternal servitude to a race they don't particularly like.

** A much more personal version happens with Genesis in ''VideoGame/CrisisCore: VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. Although he sends armies of [[CloningBlues copies]] to attack various institutions, and seems very eager to fight one-on-one with [=SOLDIERs=], this is all just [[spoiler:to stop the degradation of his cells, so that he won't die.]]

WellIntentionedExtremist in Video Games.

* ''VideoGame/AceCombat''

* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', it is very easy to pin the NOL as some sort of TheEmpire, with their totalitarian, iron-fisted rule and their law of "anyone not obeying our rules are to be executed"...until you realize that if NOL didn't put up such an iron-fisted rule, the CrapsackWorld would plunge into further chaos, with many dangerous Ars Armagus free for people to claim, with a high possibility of the claimer being psychos out to destroy the world. It may be a cruel method, and the NOL look like jerks doing their job, but they do try to make the world a better place to live in. However, the reason why NOL is easy to pin as an unabashed evil [[TheEmpire empire]] is the fact that, possibly, the whole organization is being manipulated by not one, but two over-the-top villains with InvincibleVillain status.

* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': In a game with [[BigBadEnsemble two clearly evil factions]] in [[NebulousEvilOrganization the Fatui]] and [[AntiHumanAlliance the Abyss Order]] already established, the [[Characters/GenshinImpactRaidenShogun Raiden Shogun]], Inazuma's Archon, stands out as [[ArcVillain an independent villainess]]. As the [[GodOfThunder Electro Archon]], she rules over Inazuma with an iron fist, decreting the Vision Hunt Decree that strips everyone of their Vision if they have one, and the Sakoku Decree to create a storm outside Inazuma's borders so that no outsiders can enter and no one in the region can't get out. However, this is in order to preserve Inazuma safe and prevent the region from the effects of "[[ArcWords erosion]]". [[spoiler:Turns out, however, most of what is happening is due to a terrible misunderstanding, courtesy of Inazuma's Tri-Commission's corruption: the Tenryou and Kanryou Commisions, in collusion with the Fatui, lied to the LockedOutOfTheLoop Shogun into approving such decrees, making her think this would be the best outcome for Inazuma.]] [[spoiler:To make it even more confusing, the Shogun is in fact an emotionless BodyDouble for the ''real'' Raiden Shogun and Electro Archon: [[HurtingHero Ei]]. Having lost her dearest friends in the Tengu Sasayuri[[note]]Died during a civil war as an ally of Ei[[/note]], the oni Mikoshi Chiyo[[note]]became corrupted by darkness and was implied to be slain by Ei in self-defense after turning on Ei[[/note]], the Kitsune Saiguu, and worst of all, her twin sister and the previous Electro Archon, Makoto[[note]]Both died during the Cataclysm 500 years ago[[/note]], Ei swore to NeverBeHurtAgain, creating her body double in the RidiculouslyHumanRobot Shogun and programming her to do whatever it takes to protect Inazuma while Ei stays in the Plane of Euthimia, away from the world and meditating to slow down the effects of erosion and thus, her eventual death. This explains why the Shogun gullibly believes the Tri-Commission while Ei complacently believes the Shogun's word that nothing wrong would come of it.]] Eventually, [[spoiler:after the traveler fights and ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeats]]'' Ei (with a little help of Ei's best friend, Yae Miko)]], she comes to reason and admits these measures were too extreme, allowing everyone's Visions to return and the storm around Inazuma to clear up, and the Raiden Shogun becomes an ally.

* [[spoiler: Ra's al Ghul and his [[TheDragon Dragon]]]] Hugo Strange in [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity Batman: Arkham City]]. The main goal: [[spoiler: wipe out all the criminals in Gotham by gathering them all in Arkham City and blow it all to Kingdom Come.]]

** [[spoiler:Merlina/The Dark Queen]] from ''[[VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Black Knight]]'' is a completely straight example. Why unleash hordes of monsters on the kingdom, including [[spoiler:a demonic doppelganger of King Arthur]]? To keep the [[spoiler:terrible ending of Camelot as we know it]] from happening. This particular villain is so sympathetic that Sonic appears [[spoiler:to have no hard feelings]] after it's over.

* The VideoGame/TalesSeries ''lives and breathes'' this trope. One of the reason the series is so beloved is that the villains usually have sympathetic {{Freudian Excuse}}s:

* ''VideoGame/ElohimEternalTheBabelCode'': Joshwa becomes this in the ending, [[spoiler:since he chooses to defy the Kosmokraters despite knowing that they'll detonate the infernos and kill a good chunk of the population. He knows the consequences, but believes it's necessary in order to free the people from the Kosmokraters' control and discover the truth of the Kosmeos someday. To his credit, he does try to save as many people from the infernos as he can. This is in contrast to Anat, who has a similar goal, but is more focused on revenge than actually liberating her people]].

* ''Franchise/MetalGear''

* In ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'', we have [[spoiler:Hilda, the princess of Lorule. She was the one who sent Yuga out to kidnap Zelda and the Sages, so that she'd be able to obtain the Triforce and restore her land, since Lorule's Triforce had been destroyed. Unfortunately, this would end up dooming Hyrule in the same way that Lorule had been doomed after losing its Triforce; but Hilda thought doing ''whatever it took'' to save her kingdom was her duty as its ruler. When Link's Lorulean counterpart, Ravio, points out that her actions are exactly what led to the destruction of Lorule's Triforce in the first place, Hilda has a HeelRealization.]]

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Piratez}}'' mod for OpenXCom (opn version of ''VideoGame/UFOEnemyUnknown''), Star Gods are an ultimate example, as their grand plan is to create "the brightest possible future; (...) a perfect, eternal, beautiful galaxy". This end goal justifies any means to them, and they consider anyone who opposes it in self-defense to be barbaric and short-sighted.

** Though the Healing Church were responsible for the scourge of beasts, the first of their Hunters, a humble man by the name Ludwig, would prove to be the hero they could never be: Having witnessed the gargantuan beasts that the clergy of the church transformed into, Ludwig took upon himself the task of arming the people of Yharnam with weapons of [[{{BFS}} appropriate size]] [[and power]] and teaching them how to best defend themselves against the beastly threat that the church could come to pose against them. Unfortunately, those same weapons were a bit ''too'' effective at shedding the blood of the beasts, exposing the Hunters to the Old Blood simply by fighting them. Furthermore, sending inexperienced denizens to fight the beasts resulted in many more injured, which in turn lead more people to seek out the Healing Church's Blood Ministration to save their lives. Finally, though Ludwig was a noble, honourable spartan, the same could not be said of his diciples and so the Hunters of the Healing Church became more akin to groups of armed thugs walking the streets.
** While Hunters are generally tasked with hunting down people who've become infected by the scourge of beasts, and the earlier they can deal with the infected, the better, bad things tend to happen when a Hunter [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope goes off the deep end]] and starts attacking people who are not yet infected, or start exhibiting symptoms of infection themselves. It's at that point that [[CoolOldLady Eileen the Crow]] enters the picture. She is [[HunterOfHisOwnKind the Hunter of Hunters]], a thankless, scorned role upon the Night of the Hunt, but a deeply important one -- enough so that Eileen is still carrying out her duty, despite the fact that she's long past her prime. Should you help her out, she'll berate you for dirtying your hands doing her job, but she will be thankful nevertheless, and should you complete her questline she'll [[PassingTheTorch pass on to you the Crowhunter Badge, marking you as her successor.]]

* ''VideoGame/BoogieWings'', a game set in the Golden Age of Aviation (circa 1919) have you trying to stop the main villain, an unnamed MadScientist, from reshaping history. But in the final stage as you confront the scientist, you discover his true motivations - viaa TimeMachine, the scientist made it to the future, only to witness the horrors of the war to come (presumably World War II). Deciding there isn't hope for humanity in the dark ages to come, he then decides to change the present using technology from the future, leading to the crazy assortments of robots and mechas you encountered throughout the game, and him even offering you a WeCanRuleTogether option towards the end.

* Both [[spoiler:Douglas Shetland]] and [[spoiler:Admiral Otomo]] of ''VideoGame/SplinterCell: Chaos Theory'' want good things for their countries, but are entirely willing to cause massive death and destruction to achieve it. In the former's case, he wants to trigger a world war between China and the United States, while the latter is [[spoiler:willing to force North Korea to nuke a Japanese city to force reforms in his government]].
-->'''[[spoiler:Shetland]]''': We've been fighting their dirty little wars our entire lives and where do we end up, staring at each other down the barrels of our guns. Nothing has changed Fisher, and it won't change by degrees. We have to tear it down, and start over, it's the only way.
-->'''Fisher''': Your own little chaos theory, throw the world into war and hope that what comes out the other side is better?
-->'''[[spoiler:Shetland]]''': It will be better, because this war will change things, Sam. Every other war has been about keeping things the same, the status quo doesn't work anymore. America is sick, Sam, she's dying. Politicians, the bureaucrats, the whispered backroom deals, it's all life support for a sick old lady who was dead a long time ago.

** ''VideoGame/{{Tales of Symphonia}}'': [[spoiler:Yggdrasill wanted to end discrimination and war, and resurrect his beloved sister (who had died as a result of said discrimination and war). He intended to do this by transforming everyone into the same soulless lifeform, powered by crystals that are created from human suffering]].

** ''VideoGame/EtrianOdysseyIVLegendsOfTheTitan'' has [[spoiler: Prince Baldur of the Yggdrasil Empire. By all accounts, he was a ReasonableAuthorityFigure when he first took the throne. Faced with the slow withering of his subjects' land, however, he's resolved to awaken the eponymous Titan in order to reverse it, even knowing that doing so would doom the [[NatureSpirit Vessels]] and [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Sentinels]] to a slow and excruciating death by [[BodyHorror the Titan's Curse]]. Thus, it's up to the player's guild to stop him.]]

** In the third game, ''The Drowned City'', the player's guild winds up caught between two Well Intentioned Factions: one has [[spoiler:spent the last hundred years killing anyone who came too close to the EldritchAbomination they've been keeping at bay]], while the other wants to [[spoiler:try and destroy said abomination, even though it [[EmotionEater feeds on negative emotion]] and might end up strengthened by the fear of everyone aware of its existence to the point where it ''can't'' be killed]].
** The fourth game, ''Legends of the Titan'', has [[spoiler: Prince Baldur of the Yggdrasil Empire. By all accounts, he was a ReasonableAuthorityFigure when he first took the throne. Faced with the slow withering of his subjects' land, however, he's resolved to awaken the eponymous Titan in order to reverse it, even knowing that doing so would doom the [[NatureSpirit Vessels]] and [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Sentinels]] to a slow and excruciating death by [[BodyHorror the Titan's Curse]]. Thus, it's up to the player's guild to stop him.]]
** [[spoiler:Blót]] from ''Nexus'' staunchly believes that TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople, while peace and prosperity does the opposite. The solution they arrive at is to unseal an ancient LivingWeapon and use it to plunge the world into an age of strife, "for the good of humanity".

* Subverted with The Sorceress, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon''. In one cutscene, we are led to believe by her [[TheDragon Dragon]] (who actually does fit this trope) that she kidnapped all the dragon eggs to repopulate the dragons in the Forgotten Worlds, which would restore the world's magic. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope In the very next cutscene]], however, [[ImmortalitySeeker we discover her true motivations]].]]

* One enemy faction of ''VideoGame/TheDivision'' is the Cleaners, organized and rallied by sanitation worker Joe Ferro. As they roam the streets of Manhattan in hazmat gear and garbage trucks, using flamethrowers and homebrew napalm to incinerate civilians in cold blood (so to speak), it's obvious why the good guys need to put them down. At the same time, however, society has been completely demolished by an [[ThePlague outbreak]] of super-smallpox, and this is Ferro's "cure": If these idiots would [[QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice obey the quarantine]], stay off the streets, and stop trying to flee the city, they could have lived. It doesn't help that Ferro's [[CrusadingWidower wife died]] of this plague early on.