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* ''[[Mass Effect]]'':
** Cerberus is a [[Fantastic Racism|human-centric]] organization which employs [[Utopia Justifies the Means|"whatever it takes" methods]] for their vision of a [[Humanity Is Superior|human-dominant galaxy]]. Throughout the entire series, players encounter many Cerberus installations which conduct brutal, horrific experiments that have [[Gone Horribly Wrong]] (or [[Gone Horribly Right]]). However, some of these experiments, such as the "Lazarus Project", leads to the [[Back From the Dead|revival]] of series protagonist, Commander Shepard. Also, other cases of these experiments, such as Project Overlord, the Reaper IFF survey group, and many others, are all done with the intention of stopping a fleet of [[Cosmic Horror]]s from invading the galaxy and causing an [[Apocalypse How|X-3 Class extinction]]. While there are ''plenty'' of instances where Cerberus crosses the line (they ''are'' [[Straw Evil]] in many ways), no one can deny that many of their insane actions cross into [[Crazy Prepared]] and [[Properly Paranoid]] territory and that the galaxy would have been doomed if they hadn't been around.
*** Cerberus gives as one of its reasons for existing their belief that all of the politically dominant alien races in the galaxy will not hesitate to screw over humanity politically and economically for their own advantage, that the entire 'game' is rigged, and that the only way to even hope to compete on even terms is to cheat. And also that every other major alien race is cheating themselves. In Mass Effect 3 you find out that ''they were right about all of this''<ref>Except about the turians, who actually were playing harsh-but-fair and not holding back Prothean knowledge, running the STG, or anything similar.</ref>, and indeed, only their indoctrination by the Reapers actually keeps Cerberus being an antagonist faction during that game.
** Even a Paragon Shepard doesn't disagree with Cerberus's specific goal of stopping the Reapers, s/he simply disagrees with the ''brutal'' utilitarianism with which they try to achieve it. Paragon Shepard doesn't even try to deny that the {{spoiler|Collector Base will help in the fight against the Reapers,}} but that to use it would be unethical:
{{quote|'''Shepard''': [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|We'll fight and win without it.]] [[Shut UP, Hannibal|I won't let fear compromise who I am.]]}}
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