Video game protagonists are meant to be heroes fighting against a great evil.
However, some of them, despite following a noble cause, might employ really questionable methods to accomplish their goals.
Yes, sometimes, the main character can be considered the hero, and their enemies can be genuinely evil people, but the way in which the protagonist goes about defeating the bad guys is definitely more messed up than any evil deed their rivals have mustered.
The “hero” might be killing innocent people in their pursuit of the guilty, betraying their family and friends for the greater good, or repeating all the crimes of the villain with twice as much intensity.
The actions of this type of intense hero can really make you question the official narrative of the game. They make the villains look like amateurs and make you wonder just how much worse they would be if they weren’t on the good guys’ side.
The following video game heroes are the nightmares for all the villains out there. They balance a very thin line between good and evil.
The Just Cause series is a chaotic adrenaline rush of non-stop action, explosions, and stunts that put even the Fast and Furious franchise to shame (and those guys put a Pontiac in space)!
The utter insanity is in no small part the doing of the franchise’s protagonist, Rico Rodriguez, who, despite acting as a guerrilla revolutionary against the world’s dictators, is easily more dangerous than all of them combined.
You might say that stunts like strapping civilians to rockets or driving planes into important government buildings are done by the player, but according to lore, all the unhinged and sadistic things you do in the game are exactly the type of stuff Rico would do in order to “liberate” people from tyrants.
He is completely unapologetic in his war against dictatorships, which is why he has hundreds of civilian casualties on his conscience wherever he travels. The only important thing to him is seeing his goal see the light of day, and no moral quandaries will ever get in his way.
The people he fights are obviously terrible despots, but seeing how many places Rico leaves in ruin, you have to wonder if their regimes can actually match Rico’s casualty rates in each game.
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