Draco in Leather Pants/Video Games: Difference between revisions

** Cerberus are initially the only ones who believe Shepard about [[Eldritch Abomination|the Reapers]] and provide him with an enormous amount to tools to aid in the fight against them, including {{spoiler|literally bringing him back from the dead}}. Indeed, the galaxy would have been screwed without them. They're also a [[Fantastic Racism|human-supremacist]] [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|terrorist]] organisation that want to secure human dominance in the galaxy by any means necessary, including experimenting on children, attacking the Quarian flotilla, {{spoiler|and collecting Reaper technology.}} Inevitably, there are some who ignore the latter in favour of focusing on the former.

** Tela Vasir. Many players often regard her as a badass who just does what needs to be done and was pushed into villainy by Liara's meddling. Presumably, it doesn't matter that she commited attrocious acts of mass murder just to elimate a couple of targets, even having her goons gun down civilans who posed no obstacle to her command. Not to mention her blantant racsim against purebloods (suggesting she may have ulterior motives in taking down Liara), her sadistic grin when threatning to kill a hostage, and her outright cowardice in bombing a traffic lane and delibrately causing huge civilan casulties and collateral damage just to save herself. It gets even worse if you look at her off-screen antics, as Cereberus Network reports mention that she murdered volus bankers simply for publishing unflattering economic data about the council.

** Kai Leng, a xenophobic who tortured and killed various aliens (and a human) in horrific ways. It helps that he's such a [[Badass]], and ''ridiculously'' [[Evil Is Sexy|good-looking]].

* Loghain mac Tir of ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]'' is starting to get the Leather Pants, though it seems largely confined to Alistair's hatedom (yes, even [[Mr. Fanservice|he]] has one, though it's small). Loghain's literal [[Pet the Dog]] moments {{spoiler|if you recruit him to the Grey Wardens}} and backstory in the prequel novels seem to encourage it. But even aside from that, a lot of fans like to insist that he is actually the true hero of the story. This usually involves blaming other characters for his mistakes and misdeeds, such as when he abandoned the king and half the army to die at Ostagar, they say that Loghains victims were either secretly evil, and therefor Loghain was right to try and get rid of them, or that they were morons, and Loghain had no choice when he left everyone to die. A lot of the actions that can't really be justified (selling citizens as slaves, torturing dissenters, slaughtering entire families) get blamed on Arl Howe, who is somehow the only one responsible for these things despite the fact that he is working for Loghain. It doesn't help that ''[[Word of God]]'' comfirmed that Caillan's plan was to ditch Anora after Ostagar in favor of the Emperess of Orlais, which would have united the two rival nations. This makes Loghain paranoia less insane. Also, in the book The Calling it was shown that his distrust for Grey Wardens has an actual basis, because from his point of view they kidnapped Maric and almost got him killed.