The Infamous series has its own MagnetoDoes Magneto count? He's been in video games, yes?
The Infamous series has its own Magneto
AlsoJohn White aka The Beastin Infamous 2's red ending, Cole absorbs him and becomes the leader of the Conduit species
Talking about Infamous, Kessler had a hard life
In before Windwaker Ganondorf.
Also this too, he barely does anything evil and is shot down by The King on really flimsy excuses.
The three goddesses are assholes.
Magus
12,000 BC might be my favorite story / zone / part of of a video game ever. The reveal of who Magus is, how he got there, why he is the way he is was just so incredible and really blew my mind when I was 10. The idea that he was summoning Lavos not to use him but to kill him was also an incredible reveal. Chrono Trigger will always be my favorite game, mostly because of Magus and his plot threads. Gonna go listen to soundtrack now...
Letho in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Took on a contract from Nilfgaard to sow regicidal discord in the Northern Kingdoms in exchange for help with rebuilding the Viper school. Dude played and got played. His final conversation with Geralt is amazing.
Magus
There was nothing sympathetic about what Saren was doing. [...]Can't even blame all that shit on indoctrination either, as he was allowed some agency to facilitate his movement about the galaxy, which included setting up a secret base to create an army of mindless Krogan to squash any resistance.
He was so wrong in fact that I was able to convince him to kill himself to let me stop the threat instead. Maybe only at that point I would consider a glimpse of sympathy for him, but just barely.
For me it is Krellian from Xenogears.
Guy had experienced a ton of loss, and did what he thought was right. (Even though what he did was horrible)
Only had had the Guts to follow through on his vision.![]()
Kidding.
There are people who seriously believe this though.
I sympathized with Solidus until recently when I realized the Patriots were right about the whole Internet thing. So Zero I guess.
Uh... Hate to break it to you but...
For all intents and matters, Putin, Russia, and whatever the fuck the gang of deplorables known as the KGB is called now are on the The Patriots side of the scrimmage line as far as recent events go. If you've not figured it out yet, they've been doing a fuckton of "Creating Context" in the past few years.
Saren from Mass Effect.
I have nothing against Lord Gwyn.
King Allant
That world wasn't worth saving.
Except the Patriots were looking out for humanity's best interests, so they said, not Russia's.
I wouldn't say I found Zeus sympathetic, but I definitely found Kratos unsympathetic.
Psaro from Dragon Quest IV
This is my answer.Ardyn did nothing wrong considering how he was screwed over for literally doing his job.
#Delitawasright
Zeus was completely in the right, Kratos was a murderous maniac that had to be stopped, he was worse than Ares.
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His ultimate intentions were noble, even if his actions were horribly unjustified.
That's precisely how indoctrination works, as described by the in-game encyclopedia, and why it's so powerful. It's not your garden variety, straight mind control where the victim is a puppet or vessel for the Reapers' will. Rather, like the name suggests, their own system of beliefs and ideals are slowly but permanently replaced to align with the Reapers', while leaving everything else intact. It's frankly horrifying if you think about it; you are still you, anyone you know and love won't be able to tell the difference: you simply now work for the people-liquefying, galaxy-eating monsters.
You just contradicted yourself. If "you can't blame all the shit he does on indoctrination", as you say, you are implying he was willfully going along with the Reapers out of his own will. How does that mesh with the fact that the second he manages to wrestle control back, he sacrifices himself immediately to prevent further damage?
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His ultimate intentions were noble, even if his actions were horribly unjustified.
*Looks at MGS4's war economy*
You're right. 110% acting in humanity's best interests.