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* In ''[[Dark Souls]]'', the central conflict in the game is extremely lacking in details, but what details we do know ultimately make it an example of this.
* ''[[PlanetSide]]''. Three factions [[Forever War|endlessly fighting]] over a tiny ball of rock god-know-where chuck full of alien technology, using [[Back from the Dead|respawning technology]] to keep the war going. The Terran Republic established a thousand years of peace on Earth - while sacrificing freedom. The New Conglomerate rebelled for more personal freedom, but they are backed by by large [[Mega Corp|corporations]] and [[Private Military Contractor|mercenaries]]). The Vanu Sovereignty wants to uplift humanity to the status of the ancient [[Absent Aliens|Vanu]] - but possibly at the cost of your [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|identity and freedom.]]
* ''[[NieR]]'' follows this nicely, with all sides being ruthless but having legitimate reasons for why they do what they do. Nier himself wants to save his daughter {{spoiler|but dooms humanity in the process}}, {{spoiler|Devola and Popola want to complete the Gestalt Project and save humanity}}, and the Shadowlord {{spoiler|wants to save ''his'' daughter, and his existence was the thing that kept the last remnants of humanity (the Shades) sane.}}
** The sequel, ''NieR: Automata'', is also this. Both Androids and Machine Lifeforms are stuck in a war with no end in sight, {{spoiler|being manipulated into fighting each other to give them a reason to exist after humanity's extinction.}} The Machines have been shown to experience emotions and how they live with them, being either completely pacifistic (Pascal and his village) or hostile but with legitimate and borderline [[Tragic Villain|tragic]] motivations (Simone/Beauvoir and Eve). By contrast, the Androids are shown to be incredibly racist towards them and have the same capacity to be antagonistic as the Machines, {{spoiler|as evident by 9S's [[Sanity Slippage]].}} Finally, the final conflict is between {{spoiler|the two remaining protagonists, [[The Cynic|A2]] and [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|9S]], who each act out of love and respect for [[Decoy Protagonist|2B]] and a desire to end the vicious cycle they're trapped in, with A2 being [[A Lighter Shade of Grey]] due to her wanting to protect everyone (including 9S himself) to fulfill 2B's final request; and 9S wanting to destroy everything out of sheer despair over 2B's death and the [[Awful Truth]] about their mission.}}
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