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** M. Bison's "true" form in ''[[Street Fighter EX]] 2'' wore a white uniform.

* The final bosses of the ''[[House of the Dead]] 2'' and ''3'' are magnificent shiny quicksilvery creatures bearing a striking contrast with the usual shambling rotten and untidy lot of the zombie army. They are still dicks though.

* Solaris, the final boss of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' for the [[Xbox 360]] and [[~~PlayStation~~ 3]], is a solar deity who is literally made of light energy. He fights by shooting white laser beams at the player. Ironically, according to Solaris' character backstory, he's actually a combination of two lesser beings of different elements; Iblis, a giant lava/fire creature, and Mephiles, a bizarre shadow being.

* Solaris, the final boss of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' for the [[Xbox 360]] and [[Play Station 3]], is a solar deity who is literally made of light energy. He fights by shooting white laser beams at the player. Ironically, according to Solaris' character backstory, he's actually a combination of two lesser beings of different elements; Iblis, a giant lava/fire creature, and Mephiles, a bizarre shadow being.

** In fact, Solaris was the original being. Iblis was the embodiment of his pure unrestrained power and Mephiles was his consciousness, which was probably shadowy and dark due to how ''supremely pissed off'' Solaris was at being experimented on.

* The Bastard of Kosigan series (fan-made ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' expansion) has the classic angels and demons of Christian mythology as the 'order' and 'freedom' factions of a race of precursor humans, but the 'order' faction (who are definitely rather nasty, going directly to deadly force whenever anyone says 'no' to them) eventually won their war for the hearts and minds of ordinary humans and killed all the 'chaos' faction (except for two 'demons', one of whom is revealed to have been St. John and the other is your character's deceased mother, who stole Archangel Gabriel's (the leader of the 'order' faction) sword)

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* One of the major plot points in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]''. The major villain, {{spoiler|Mithos, is a [[Fallen Hero]], and his main form of attack carries over into his villainous style}}. Appearing as a [[Bishonen]] angel with wings of multifaceted crystal, he uses mainly Light based attacks, and has a very specific vulnerability. What is it? Why, darkness! In fact, all the angels {{spoiler|except Kratos and Yuan}} have that weakness.

** Only two of the Summon Spirit boss fights result in a [[Game Over]] when you lose, one being the humanity-hating Volt, and the other is the Luna and Aska battle, and Luna and Aska are the Summon Spirits of Light. They're the last Summon Spirits to form a pact with, and since {{spoiler|Kratos}} is on the previous floor, there's no opportunity to leave and level up. So a Game Over is the only logical end to a lost battle.

** The final form of Duke, the last boss of [[Tales of Vesperia]], has a mystic arte that ends with a move that looks like Estelle's Sacred Penance, called Brave Vesperia, a compilation of your seven party members' Mystic Artes. Shame the [[~~PlayStation~~ 3]] version of the game doesn't add Flynn's and Patty's Mystic Artes. However, despite his [[Power Glows|shining appearance]], Duke is not actually light-elemental. And despite being the [[Final Boss]], {{spoiler|he really is good in the end}}.

** The final form of Duke, the last boss of [[Tales of Vesperia]], has a mystic arte that ends with a move that looks like Estelle's Sacred Penance, called Brave Vesperia, a compilation of your seven party members' Mystic Artes. Shame the [[Play Station 3]] version of the game doesn't add Flynn's and Patty's Mystic Artes. However, despite his [[Power Glows|shining appearance]], Duke is not actually light-elemental. And despite being the [[Final Boss]], {{spoiler|he really is good in the end}}.

* Regardless of their leader's alleged [[Omniscient Morality License]], Celestia in ''[[Disgaea]]'' qualifies as this. Though not evil, they are people capable of being very wrong while also being very sure they're right, and aren't above [[Fantastic Racism]] towards demons ''and'' humans. We do know that Lamington and Flonne aren't as apeshit about order as [[Knight Templar|Vulcanus]], but the rest...

** Actually in this sense it would seem that Lamington was usurped by the ambitious Vulcanus (despite him having no chance), and the rest of the angels merely followed orders. Lamington never actually does anything offensive besides dealing with Vulcanus and Flonne, however Flonne is dealt with by their laws {{spoiler|and in the good ending returns as a fallen angel rather than being turned into a flower}}. Flonne seems to be ruled more by ''[[The Power of Love]]'' and the ''[[Rule of Cool]]'' than anything else. She has no prejudices (and in fact states as much early in the game) and no real desires beyond living a happy life and bringing love to those around her.

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* [[Fall From Heaven]], a ''[[Civilization|Civilization IV]]'' [[MOD]], features the Mercurians: angels so [[The Unfettered|single-minded]] in their hunt for demons that they are often mistaken for the very demons they hunt.

* {{spoiler|Taki's}}, {{spoiler|Siegfried's}}, and {{spoiler|Cassandra's}} endings in ''[[Soul Series|Soul Calibur IV]]'' touch upon the fact that the titular spirit sword can easily be just as dangerous and manipulative as its darker counterpart and precursor, Soul Edge.

* Jin Kisaragi of ''[[~~Blaz Blue~~]]'' is [[Bishonen|very handsome]], has blonde hair, wears brightly colored clothing, and is celebrated as the Hero of Ikaruga, a war which took place some years before the game. He's also an enormous [[Jerkass]] who possesses very few redeeming qualities, is easily angered, and who's [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere]] for his brother, Ragna. {{spoiler|However, by the end of ''Continuum Shift'', it has appeared that he's pulled a [[Heel Face Turn]], and may be ''slightly'' closer to [[Light Is Good]].}}

* Jin Kisaragi of ''[[BlazBlue]]'' is [[Bishonen|very handsome]], has blonde hair, wears brightly colored clothing, and is celebrated as the Hero of Ikaruga, a war which took place some years before the game. He's also an enormous [[Jerkass]] who possesses very few redeeming qualities, is easily angered, and who's [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere]] for his brother, Ragna. {{spoiler|However, by the end of ''Continuum Shift'', it has appeared that he's pulled a [[Heel Face Turn]], and may be ''slightly'' closer to [[Light Is Good]].}}

** On the other hand, Jin's girlfriend, Tsubaki Yayoi, uses the Armagus Izayoi, a light-based weapon. Except that rather than simple light manipulation, this is some sort of [[Evil Weapon]] that steals light from other people, causing the user to go blind. Tsubaki thus far managed to avert this trope... until {{spoiler|she got [[Mind Rape]]d by Hazama, turning into a [[Green-Eyed Monster]] bent to kill Noel for a selfish desire, playing the trope straight.}}

*** The Izayoi's reputation as a very nasty Sealed Weapon has spread far and wide, and everyone in the know {{spoiler|who isn't Hazama or Relius}} voices their objections to her wielding it. In her Story mode, Jin is exasperated that she would wield it, and Hakumen's Story mode conversation with Jin is a request to save her {{spoiler|both from Terumi's machinations and}} from it. Ragna, after defeating her in Arcade mode, tells her to get rid of it immediately, and if her combat quotes are any indication, Makoto's not fond of it either.

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** Subverted with Reshiram from ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' (especially in ''White''), however.

*** Team Plasma is rather strongly based on Christianity, with their Templar-like uniforms, talk about "saving" Pokemon, and use of the Chi Rho, an ancient symbol used to represent Jesus, as a symbol. They're also a deranged hypocritical terrorist cult {{spoiler|being manipulated by a fraudulent leader in his attempt to gain power.}}

* The Khalai Protoss of ''[[~~Starcraft~~]]'' certainly qualify. In contrast to the more kind, individualistic [[Dark Is Not Evil|Dark Templar]], the light-aligned Khalai/High Templar are blind, arrogant [[The Fundamentalist|religious zealots]]. The Khalai are also the war-mongers among the Protoss, in contrast to the peaceful Dark Templars. During the course of the series so far, the Khalai Protoss have declared war on the Dark Templar three times, while the Dark Templar have yet to declare war on the Khalai, just wanting to be left alone.

* The Khalai Protoss of ''[[StarCraft]]'' certainly qualify. In contrast to the more kind, individualistic [[Dark Is Not Evil|Dark Templar]], the light-aligned Khalai/High Templar are blind, arrogant [[The Fundamentalist|religious zealots]]. The Khalai are also the war-mongers among the Protoss, in contrast to the peaceful Dark Templars. During the course of the series so far, the Khalai Protoss have declared war on the Dark Templar three times, while the Dark Templar have yet to declare war on the Khalai, just wanting to be left alone.

** The Khalai Protoss *do* get better though, most likely because nearly all of the Judicators and Conclave leaders were killed during the Zerg invasion of Aiur. Aldaris was the last of the "old order", {{spoiler|and he gets killed by Kerrigan after starting another war among the Protoss}}. All of the [[Lawful Stupid]] fundamentalists were killed off, and only the ones more willing to change their ways and work with the Dark Templar survived.

* ''[[Magical Vacation|Magical Starsign]]'' assigns a starsign to everyone, including antagonists. Most of the Space Police is of Light. And a sizeable chunk of them cooperates with the pirate otters.

* The guardian faction from [[Rift]], they're the chosen of the world's gods, live well and faithfully, yet they're [[Knight Templar|genocidally zealotic]] towards anything that shows a sign of heresy, they're also very, very quick to lose their minds, for example in the Defiant version of [[Bad Future]] instance fall of lantern hook, where the world is being assaulted by [[Playing with Fire|Maelforge]], they completely lose it and start throwing everyone, innocent, guilty, believer and heritic alike into the fires.

* In [[~~Runescape~~]], [[Our Angels Are Different|Commander]] [http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Zilyana Zilyana] is one of the bosses in [http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Gwd God Wars Dungeon].

* In [[RuneScape]], [[Our Angels Are Different|Commander]] [http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Zilyana Zilyana] is one of the bosses in [http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Gwd God Wars Dungeon].

* [[Team Fortress 2]]: see the [[The Medic|healer]] [[Man in White|decked out in white]], [[Sophisticated As Hell]] and surrounded by his [[Disturbed Doves|flock of pet doves]]? He happens to be (arguably) the most [[Heroic Sociopath|sociopathic]] character in the game, and is generally [[Deadly Doctor|more invested in cutting people up than putting them back together.]]

* ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'': Abstergo Industries, the current incarnation of the Templar, favour sterile white surroundings, with [[Big Bad]] Dr. Vidic as a [[Man in White]].