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** You also get plenty of opportunities to call out your teammates on their actions - Isabela for [[spoiler: holding on to the qunari relic to save her own skin even though it means letting the qunari declare war on the city]], Merrill for [[spoiler: making a deal with a demon that leads to her mentor/adopted mother sacrificing her own life to protect her]], Fenris for [[spoiler: killing people who pose no threat when he promised he'd let them go]], and Anders for [[spoiler: blowing up the Chantry with innocent priestesses, including Grand Cleric Elthina, inside.]]
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** Yuri returned the favor when [[spoiler: ]]unintentionally helped [[spoiler: Alexei, who he's been worshiping and blindly following orders of all this time, by deterring Yuri's group and letting Estelle get kidnapped.]]

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** Yuri returned the favor when [[spoiler: ]]unintentionally Flynn unintentionally helped [[spoiler: Alexei, who he's been worshiping and blindly following orders of all this time, by deterring Yuri's group and letting Estelle get kidnapped.]]
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* Wonder if it counts but in Chapter 5 of VideoGame/{{Super Paper Mario}}, [[spoiler: Mario and the others were called out by King Croacus' henchmen for not only defeating him in battle but for also ruining their plans to make the water (They need it to survive) in the land cleaner since the Cragnons were messing it up by putting trash in it in the first place.]]

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* Wonder if it counts but in Chapter 5 of VideoGame/{{Super Paper Mario}}, [[spoiler: Mario and the others were called out by King Croacus' henchmen for not only defeating him in battle but for also ruining their plans to make the water (They (they need it to survive) in the land cleaner since the Cragnons were messing it up by putting trash in it in the first place.]]
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* While ''FableII'' tends to take a CardCarryingVillain viewpoint if you choose the evil path to completing quests, it ''will'' call you out if you kill Farmer Giles or [[DrivenToSuicide break Alex's heart]], as well as probably some others.

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* While ''FableII'' ''VideoGame/FableII'' tends to take a CardCarryingVillain viewpoint if you choose the evil path to completing quests, it ''will'' call you out if you kill Farmer Giles or [[DrivenToSuicide break Alex's heart]], as well as probably some others.
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** In the ending of The Frozen Throne, these exact sentences echo in the background.

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** In the ending of The Frozen Throne, these exact sentences echo in the background. [[IgnoredEpiphany Arthas continues with what he's doing regardless]].
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** You get this no matter what you do. If you kill Zeke, one of the police will be very hostile, while one will be sympathetic, with it being the other way around if he escaped but you save the hostage. Pritchard also always gives a sarcastic comment when returning, which only differs based on if you killed a lot of terrorists ("Well, if it isn't Atilla The Hun himself, back from the killing fields") or if you avoided killing many ("Well, if it isn't Mahatma Gandhi himself, come to save us all with his life-preserving presence").
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* ''DeusExHumanRevolution'': After the factory mission, if you play a lethal playthough, the cops will chew you out, and a janitor will you if have always been this blood thirsty. Kill Zeke, and the cops will chew you out for preventing an interrogation. Let Zeke go, the police will chew you out, along with your boss.

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* ''DeusExHumanRevolution'': ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'': After the factory mission, if you play a lethal playthough, the cops will chew you out, and a janitor will you if have always been this blood thirsty. Kill Zeke, and the cops will chew you out for preventing an interrogation. Let Zeke go, the police will chew you out, along with your boss.
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* In "Armored Core": For Answer, [[spoiler:Your operator, who has stood by you through countless missions]] can't help but register her disgust at the choices your pilot makes that [[MoralEventHorizon lead to]] [[KillEmAll Ending C]]. The enemies who appear to kill you and your accomplice after the fated mission also lash out at you with the following, starting with your Operator herself:

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* In "Armored Core": ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore: For Answer, Answer'', [[spoiler:Your operator, who has stood by you through countless missions]] can't help but register her disgust at the choices your pilot makes that [[MoralEventHorizon lead to]] [[KillEmAll Ending C]]. The enemies who appear to kill you and your accomplice after the fated mission also lash out at you with the following, starting with your Operator herself:
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* ''You'' have to do this to the party in ''{{Persona 4}}'' [[spoiler:when they try to push Namatame into the TV]] in order to avoid the worst ending. The hero's attempts to keep his friends from doing something stupid leads to the line "Calm the hell ''down!''" and the ''only'' time he's ever visibly angry in the entirety of the game.

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* ''You'' '''''You''''' have to do this to the party in ''{{Persona 4}}'' [[spoiler:when they try to push Namatame into the TV]] TV, which is basically a death sentence]] in order to avoid the worst ending. The hero's attempts to keep his friends from doing something stupid leads to the line "Calm the hell ''down!''" and the ''only'' time he's ever visibly angry in the entirety of the game.
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* While the heroes of ''LostOdyssey'' largely avoid this trope, the dream "The Village Closest To Heaven" reveals that the main character, Kaim, allowed generations of people to accidentally poison themselves to death with a tainted water source because he liked the philosophy they'd cooked up around people in their village dying young.
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* In "Armored Core": For Answer, [[spoiler:Your operator, who has stood by you through countless missions]] can't help but register her disgust at the choices your pilot makes that [[MoralEventHorizon lead to]] [[KillEmAll Ending C]]. The enemies who appear to kill you and your accomplice after the fated mission also lash out at you with the following, starting with your Operator herself:
** "Please accept my apologies. That briefing you saw was manufactured. This is the end of road for you. I think you understand why."
** "Your actions were clearly deliberate, there's no point in trying to reason with you."
** "Maybe it's just an animal. Can it even understand what we're saying?"
** "You think you're some kind of one man army? You think it's your right to choose who lives and dies?"
** "You kill too many."
*** The icing on the cake is on the mission's Hard mode, in which [[spoiler: Kasumi Sumika, your operator]] decides to try and back up those harsh words by also trying to kill you.
** "To end up facing you like this... Too bad. You walked right into my trap. Stand still so I can cut you down." - [[spoiler: Kasumi Sumika, your operator]]
**** That mission [[CaptainObvious has a]] [[HolyShitQuotient Hard Mode?!?!!?]]
**** It's beatable...if you cheat. [[spoiler:When you kill Kasumi Sumika's NEXT, these are her last words: "If this is my time...who better than you to deliver the final blow?"]]
**** And the worst part about it? Old King was the only true rebel leader against the corporations which speaks a [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized about the rebel groups]].
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* In ''{{Ultima}} VII'', your buddies will scold you to no end if you pick up anything that doesn't belong to you but they don't mind if you give it to them instead. Enough infractions will make them leave the party (sometimes resulting in {{Game Breaking Bug}}s). Even the BigBad will sometimes pop up (literally), and scold you "[[NightmareFuel you'd best not do that Avatar]]". HypocriticalHumor anyone?

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* In ''{{Ultima}} VII'', ''UltimaVII'', your buddies will scold you to no end if you pick up anything that doesn't belong to you but they don't mind if you give it to them instead. Enough infractions will make them leave the party (sometimes resulting in {{Game Breaking Bug}}s). Even the BigBad will sometimes pop up (literally), and scold you "[[NightmareFuel you'd best not do that Avatar]]". HypocriticalHumor anyone?
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* In BatmanArkhamCity, we have one of these that leads up to an effectively pointless boss fight. Mr. Freeze has just made a cure for a disease that both Batman and the Joker (and a couple hundred or so innocent people as well for that mater) have been infected with. Mr. Freeze seals up one container of the cure and then crushes the other to make it clear that he means business and tells Batman that he must rescue his wife Nora from the Joker who captured him to force Mr. Freeze to make the cure in the first place. Batman responds to this offer by trying to take the cure from Freeze by force. Now given that Batman has already agreed to do tasks for [[CompleteMonster the Joker]], and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Ra's al-Ghul]] that night for the purpose of getting a cure for the disease that Joker has come down with an spread through donations of his blood, why does he feel the need to turn down [[AntiVillain Freeze's]] task to retrieve his [[MoralityPet frozen wife]] who would otherwise doubtlessly be left [[FridgeHorror to the Joker's tender mercies?]]

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* In BatmanArkhamCity, we have one of these that leads up to an effectively pointless boss fight. Mr. Freeze has just made a cure for a disease that both Batman and the Joker (and a couple hundred or so innocent people as well for that mater) have been infected with. Mr. Freeze seals up one container of the cure and then crushes the other to make it clear that he means business and tells Batman that he must rescue his wife Nora from the Joker who captured him to force Mr. Freeze to make the cure in the first place. Batman responds to this offer by trying to take the cure from Freeze by force. Now given that Batman has already agreed to do tasks for [[CompleteMonster the Joker]], and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Ra's al-Ghul]] that night for the purpose of getting a cure for the disease that Joker has come down with an spread through donations of his blood, spread, why does he feel the need to turn down [[AntiVillain Freeze's]] task to retrieve his [[MoralityPet frozen wife]] who would otherwise doubtlessly be left [[FridgeHorror to the Joker's tender mercies?]]
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* In BatmanArkhamCity, we have one of these that leads up to an effectively pointless boss fight. Mr. Freeze has just made a cure for a disease that both Batman and the Joker (and a couple hundred or so innocent people as well for that mater) have been infected with. Mr. Freeze seals up one container of the cure and then crushes the other to make it clear that he means business and tells Batman that he must rescue his wife Nora from the Joker who captured him to force Mr. Freeze to make the cure in the first place. Batman responds to this offer by trying to take the cure from Freeze by force. Now given that Batman has already agreed to do tasks for [[CompleteMonster the Joker]], and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Ra's al-Ghul]] that night for the purpose of getting a cure for the disease that Joker has created, why does he feel the need to turn down [[AntiVillain Freeze's]] task to retrieve his [[MoralityPet frozen wife]] who would otherwise doubtlessly be left [[FridgeHorror to the Joker's tender mercies?]]

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* In BatmanArkhamCity, we have one of these that leads up to an effectively pointless boss fight. Mr. Freeze has just made a cure for a disease that both Batman and the Joker (and a couple hundred or so innocent people as well for that mater) have been infected with. Mr. Freeze seals up one container of the cure and then crushes the other to make it clear that he means business and tells Batman that he must rescue his wife Nora from the Joker who captured him to force Mr. Freeze to make the cure in the first place. Batman responds to this offer by trying to take the cure from Freeze by force. Now given that Batman has already agreed to do tasks for [[CompleteMonster the Joker]], and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Ra's al-Ghul]] that night for the purpose of getting a cure for the disease that Joker has created, come down with an spread through donations of his blood, why does he feel the need to turn down [[AntiVillain Freeze's]] task to retrieve his [[MoralityPet frozen wife]] who would otherwise doubtlessly be left [[FridgeHorror to the Joker's tender mercies?]]
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* In BatmanArkhamCity, we have one of these that leads up to an effectively pointless boss fight. Mr. Freeze has just made a cure for a disease that both Batman and the Joker have been infected with. Mr. Freeze seals up one container of the cure and then crushes the other to make it clear that he means business and tells Batman that he must rescue his wife Nora from the Joker who captured him to force Mr. Freeze to make the cure in the first place. Batman responds to this offer by trying to take the cure from Freeze by force. Now given that Batman has already agreed to do tasks for [[CompleteMonster the Joker]], and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Ra's al-Ghul]] that night for the purpose of getting a cure for the disease that Joker has created, why does he feel the need to turn down [[AntiVillain Freeze's]] task to retrieve his [[MoralityPet frozen wife]] who would otherwise doubtlessly be left [[FridgeHorror to the Joker's tender mercies?]]

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* In BatmanArkhamCity, we have one of these that leads up to an effectively pointless boss fight. Mr. Freeze has just made a cure for a disease that both Batman and the Joker (and a couple hundred or so innocent people as well for that mater) have been infected with. Mr. Freeze seals up one container of the cure and then crushes the other to make it clear that he means business and tells Batman that he must rescue his wife Nora from the Joker who captured him to force Mr. Freeze to make the cure in the first place. Batman responds to this offer by trying to take the cure from Freeze by force. Now given that Batman has already agreed to do tasks for [[CompleteMonster the Joker]], and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Ra's al-Ghul]] that night for the purpose of getting a cure for the disease that Joker has created, why does he feel the need to turn down [[AntiVillain Freeze's]] task to retrieve his [[MoralityPet frozen wife]] who would otherwise doubtlessly be left [[FridgeHorror to the Joker's tender mercies?]]
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*In BatmanArkhamCity, we have one of these that leads up to an effectively pointless boss fight. Mr. Freeze has just made a cure for a disease that both Batman and the Joker have been infected with. Mr. Freeze seals up one container of the cure and then crushes the other to make it clear that he means business and tells Batman that he must rescue his wife Nora from the Joker who captured him to force Mr. Freeze to make the cure in the first place. Batman responds to this offer by trying to take the cure from Freeze by force. Now given that Batman has already agreed to do tasks for [[CompleteMonster the Joker]], and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Ra's al-Ghul]] that night for the purpose of getting a cure for the disease that Joker has created, why does he feel the need to turn down [[AntiVillain Freeze's]] task to retrieve his [[MoralityPet frozen wife]] who would otherwise doubtlessly be left [[FridgeHorror to the Joker's tender mercies?]]

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--> '''Manderley''': "By the way, Denton, stay out of the ladies restroom. That kind of activity embarasses the agency more than it does you."

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--> '''Manderley''': [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "By the way, Denton, stay out of the ladies restroom. That kind of activity embarasses embarrasses the agency more than it does you.""]]
*** ''TheNamelessMod'' features this in spades if you do the [=WorldCorp=] ending. You'll receive a small example of it if you initate the [[spoiler: Ryan ending on a [=PDX=] playthrough, or kill ZeroPresence on a [=PDX=] playthrough. ]]
*** ''[[TwentyTwentySeven 2027]]'': You'll get this from Magnus if you are dishonest to him throughout the game (or brutually honest to him at one point.) Faction "leaders" at the end of the game will give you this if you perform actions against their goals.
* ''DeusExHumanRevolution'': After the factory mission, if you play a lethal playthough, the cops will chew you out, and a janitor will you if have always been this blood thirsty. Kill Zeke, and the cops will chew you out for preventing an interrogation. Let Zeke go, the police will chew you out, along with your boss.

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* While the heroes of ''LostOddysey'' largely avoid this trope, the dream "The Village Closest To Heaven" reveals that the main character, Kaim, allowed generations of people to accidentally poison themselves to death with a tainted water source because he liked the philosophy they'd cooked up around people in their village dying young.

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* While the heroes of ''LostOddysey'' ''LostOdyssey'' largely avoid this trope, the dream "The Village Closest To Heaven" reveals that the main character, Kaim, allowed generations of people to accidentally poison themselves to death with a tainted water source because he liked the philosophy they'd cooked up around people in their village dying young.


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* Attacking Priscilla the Crossbreed, a half-dragon who was hounded by the gods for her Lifehunt ability before hiding in the Painted World in ''DarkSouls'' will have her call you out on it, as she's completely peaceful and even shows you the way out of, and you have to actually go out of your way to even reach her, and mainly the only reason to kill her is to make some weapons from her death.
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-->'''Yuri:'''Just what the hell are you doing? What happened to [[spoiler: advancing as a Knight and fixing the empire from within?]] You've been nothing more than a damn puppet on [[Alexei's string]]. ''Don't you dare'' tell me that [[spoiler: the Don and Belius died]] for nothing more than that! He was there working alongside you this whole time, [[spoiler:Flynn!]] How could you possibly not know?!

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-->'''Yuri:'''Just what the hell are you doing? What happened to [[spoiler: advancing as a Knight and fixing the empire from within?]] You've been nothing more than a damn puppet on [[Alexei's [[spoiler: Alexei's string]]. ''Don't you dare'' tell me that [[spoiler: the Don and Belius died]] for nothing more than that! He was there working alongside you this whole time, [[spoiler:Flynn!]] How could you possibly not know?!



** If the player character chooses to [[spoiler: detonate the Ray Sphere to enhance his power]], his karmic rating will instantly go to the level of infamous, regardless of how high it was before, and it will stay there for the rest of the game. The WTH,H? moment comes during the cutscene, where [[spoiler: John grabs the Ray Sphere out of Cole's hands, giving him the essential "Are you crazy?!" reaction before the remaining energy implodes and tears him to pieces. But it's ok. [[Jerkass You got what you wanted.]]]]. Though one could argue that the game's locking of the KarmaMeter also applies. (Though that seems to be more of a WhatTheHellPlayer moment.)

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** If the player character chooses to [[spoiler: detonate the Ray Sphere to enhance his power]], his karmic rating will instantly go to the level of infamous, regardless of how high it was before, and it will stay there for the rest of the game. The WTH,H? moment comes during the cutscene, where [[spoiler: John grabs the Ray Sphere out of Cole's hands, giving him the essential "Are you crazy?!" reaction before the remaining energy implodes and tears him to pieces. But it's ok. [[Jerkass [[{{Jerkass}} You got what you wanted.]]]].wanted]]]]. Though one could argue that the game's locking of the KarmaMeter also applies. (Though that seems to be more of a WhatTheHellPlayer moment.)
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*** Survival of the Fittest has to do with reproduction, not with being the "strongest animal" and eating everything weaker.
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* One point in ''StrangeJourney'' has you requested to kill some relatively harmless people at the behest of demons (who were previously tortured by said people before they were rendered harmless). [[spoiler:Zelenin]] offers to use [[spoiler:her]] song on the demons as an alternative. If you take this option, the demons are blown into their component data in a slow, horribly painful process. At which point Jiminez arrives and curses you out.

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* Sagi does this to [[spoiler:Marno]] in ''BatenKaitos Origins'', in what is almost certainly that game's most poignant scene.

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* * In a bizarre overlap with this trope and WhatTheHellPlayer, Sagi does this to [[spoiler:Marno]] his guardian spirit during a HeroicBSOD in ''BatenKaitos Origins'', in what is Origins''. Then he gets one from Guillo almost certainly that game's most poignant scene.immediately afterwards.


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** In the first game, Xelha gives [[{{Jerkass}} Kalas]] a big one for looting the bodies of her friends ''while she's standing right there''. You as the guardian spirit can call him out on his more dickheaded moves, like mocking Xelha or [[spoiler:betraying the entire party]].
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* This is relatively common in the Lucasarts adventure games; for example, in the MonkeyIsland series, Guybrush steals things so freely that he's implied to be a kleptomaniac rather than an average pirate, and DayOfTheTentacle features the memorable line "If you want to save the world, you have to kick a few old ladies down the stairs."
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--> "Captain, you are a heinous SLAVE TRADER!!!"
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*** The best example is if you choose to use the Helios One power plant to reactivate the dormant ARCHIMEDES II satellite laser rather than use it for, you know, powering communities. Being someone who wants to use old world technology to restore civilization rather than nuke it a second time over, Arcade responds with "You activated ARCHIMEDES?! What the hell is wrong with you!!" and then proceeds to either storm out or attack you depending on how psychotic your response is.
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*** [[YMMV Still]] nothing she can say at that point can really spoil the fact that you just kicked her ass. Especially after the overconfidence she was giving you earlier.

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*** [[YMMV Still]] Still, nothing she can say at that point can really spoil the fact that you just kicked her ass. Especially after the overconfidence she was giving you earlier.
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*** [[YMMV Still,]] nothing she can say at that point can really spoil the fact that you just kicked her ass. Especially after the overconfidence she was giving you earlier.

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*** [[YMMV Still,]] nothing she can say at that point can really spoil the fact that you just kicked her ass. Especially after the overconfidence she was giving you earlier.
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* The characters of ''{{Infamous}}'' enter the game viewing Cole as an up and coming hero (not the townspeople, though-- They start off the game hating Cole no matter your Karmic preference). However, evil actions get a lot of characters wondering what the hell you're doing. Zeke will call and tell you that people have been describing you as a maniac destroying everything you see, and Moya will get upset at you (most notably during the mission in which you're supposed to be getting rid of tar generators in some buildings' water supplies).

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* The characters of ''{{Infamous}}'' ''VideoGame/{{inFamous}}'' enter the game viewing Cole as an up and coming hero (not the townspeople, though-- They start off the game hating Cole no matter your Karmic preference). However, evil actions get a lot of characters wondering what the hell you're doing. Zeke will call and tell you that people have been describing you as a maniac destroying everything you see, and Moya will get upset at you (most notably during the mission in which you're supposed to be getting rid of tar generators in some buildings' water supplies).

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