Black and Gray Morality: Difference between revisions
'His name's not on the list' isn't exactly a full exoneration, especially when you were picked up crossing a border accompanied by the realm's most notorious enemy of the state. So its just doubtful.
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* ''[[X (video game)|X3 Albion Prelude]]'' takes a dive towards this. One side is the technologically superior Terrans (Earth system) who are isolationist, paranoid, and deathly afraid of artificially intelligent ships, and the other side is the Argon Federation, the [[Lost Colony]] of Earth, who have no trouble with AI ships. Because the Terrans were moving their fleet around to investigate rumors of AI development, the Argon blow up the ''massive'' defense station / shipyard / factory / civilian station that is wrapped around Earth, killing tens of millions in an instant (and [[Colony Drop|then the wreckage falls to Earth]]), then launching millions of AI ships in a quest to wipe out the entire Terran military.
* ''[[Evil Islands]]'', Zak falls into the [[Anti-Hero]] trope, and while the Khadaganian empire is undoubtedly evil, the Canian empire is not much better.
* ''[[Skyrim]]'' is filled with [[Black and Grey Morality]], along with [[Gray and Grey Morality]] and sometimes outright [[Evil Versus Evil]]. The [[Big Bad]] of the game is a [[Your Soul Is Mine|soul-eating]] [[Omnicidal Maniac]], and the [[Player Character|Dragonborn]] can be a ''real'' bastard too; you can {{spoiler|steal other people's things, rebuild the [[Psycho for Hire|Dark Brotherhood]] to it's former glory, murder the Emperor, trap people's souls to power your weapons, and torture people}}, and your mentor Paarthurnax {{spoiler|[[Alternate Character Interpretation|may or may not]] be a patient [[The Starscream|Starscream]] with a [[Meaningful Name]]}}. There's also the Civil War sidequest. One side is an iron-fisted but [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|well-intentioned]] [[Vestigial Empire]] that goes around executing innocent people because there may be a ''slight possibility'' that they are members of a rebel group that fights them (read: your first encounter with this faction ends up with you almost getting a [[Off with His Head|discount haircut]], even though you're
* ''[[No More Heroes]]''. The name says it all. The game series is severely lacking in any truly moral characters, with the main character Travis being a [[A Loser Is You|loser]] and [[Anti-Hero]] who mostly kills simply under the the promise of getting sex with the beautiful young lady who arranges the fights and to get enough money to pay of his rent. And while he does have some morals keeping him at a rather light shade of grey, the other assassins he has to face range from [[Tragic Villain]]s forced into the line of work due to circumstances, to [[Axe Crazy|complete psychopaths]]. {{spoiler|Subverted at the end of the second game, though, when Travis vows to destroy the UAA after seeing how many lives it has destroyed}}.
* Despite the series having a huge amount of humor [[Kid Icarus: Uprising]] ends up falling in this category. You have the Underworld army that is clearly evil and then you have the forces of nature that want to destroy humanity for destroying nature, the auron army that take planets and make a civilization from them, and space pirates that are just looting treasure. They're all in the grey zone as they all have good reasons for causing harm. Angel Land and humans are also not immune as [[Troll|Palutena]] is shown to not be the [[Good Is Not Nice|nicest Goddess]] alive as Pit makes her out to be and [[Humans Are Bastards]] in this game. Pit is the only character in the entire game that is shown to be the morally good person (white) of the series with his [[Evil Twin]] {{spoiler|(and even that is subverted near the end when he becomes almost as good as Pit)}} Dark Pit being the second given Pit's status as the [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]] made him neutral at worse.
* The main plot of ''[[Book of Mages the Dark Times]]'' consists of a struggle between the White Robes and Black Robes. The [[Praetorian Guard|Black Robes]] are exactly what you would expect; the best of them are either [[Punch Clock Villain]]s or fitted with an [[Explosive Leash]], while the willing members are tyrannical villains. {{spoiler|The Great Mage is actually an [[Anti-Villain]] who wants to become a [[Retired Monster]], but he's also guaranteed to die before the end game.}} The [[La Résistance|White Robes]], however, are willing to commit some questionable deeds to accomplish their goals, including attempting to rig a mage tournament to prevent a Black Robe from taking the top spot, and while most of their members are fairly light grey, {{spoiler|Flamier}} is only in it for personal power, and the White Robe PC can {{spoiler|cause a [[Full-Circle Revolution]] and oppress the other mages every bit as thoroughly as the Black Robes' Great Mage did.}} Meanwhile, neutral mages generally don't care about morality one way or the other; they only care that the Great Mage is elected [[Asskicking Equals Authority|according to the rules]], and whether the Great Mage is good or evil is irrelevant to them.
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