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** In what may be a subversion, it is commented both in-game and in the fandom that while Carla may have been an unpleasant person, neither she nor her unborn baby deserved getting sold to slavery.

** The town of [[Wretched Hive|Nipton]] also qualifies. The town was destroyed by [[Exclusively Evil|Caesar's Legion]], but [[The Spymaster|Vulpes Inculta]] describes it as a town of whores willing to sell each other out and didn't even bother to fight back. He's not lying. However, much like with Carla Boone, many characters feel that as bad as Nipton was, it did not deserve [[Rape, Pillage and Burn|what Caesar's Legion did to it]]

** Then there's Benny the guy who shot the courier and buried him/her. He dies either in two ways. One you hunt him down for Mr. House. Or he is captured by Caesar and you get to choose how to kill him.

** The Great Khans tribe qualifies as well. On the one hand, a rather severe foul-up on the NCR's part led to a massacre that saw the Khans getting absolutely devastated; years later they still haven't recovered. On the other hand, the Khans were openly hostile to the NCR long before the event in question, and not terribly nice even amongst each other. Their leader outright brags about how they laid ruin to defenseless NCR settlements, and a former Khan that later defected to the NCR will angrily comment that the group got exactly what was coming to them.

* ''[[Strange Journey]]'' gives us [[Evil Counterpart|Jack's Squad]]. [[Alliteration|Absurdly amoral assholes]] who happily jump into [[Mad Scientist]] [[Complete Monster]] territory, Jack's Squad is used to deconstruct the idea of [[Brainwashing for the Greater Good]]. Even as [[Holier Than Thou]] zombies, they're ''still'' idiot jerks.

* The comment under [[Tabletop Games]] for "dungeons" applies to numerous video games as well. For example, in [[The Elder Scrolls]] series, if you see a small cavern complex, you can rest assured that at least nine times in ten it will be full of Necromancers of Conjurers or the undead or other perfectly acceptable targets you may ruthlessly cut down without a single ding to the [[Karma Meter]]. You can then with no guilt grab everything in the place and haul it back to the nearest marketplace. The remaining one time in ten you will speak with the inhabitants. Half the time, you will put them all to the sword because someone told you to, then take their stuff and sell it.

 

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