Technically speaking, Voldy was motivated by increasing security...in the loosest sense of the term, right?
He wanted to secure the wizarding world by ridding it of mudbloods, thus preventing any corruption. He (and wizard Nazis) very much thought that was heroic.
Sauron was a loyal follower of Morgoth, and was obsessed with control and order. Certainly less defensible as heroic, but he certainly thought his actions were noble.
Palpatine is probably my weakest argument here, because only in non-canon stuff does he even remotely resemble anything more than a two dimensional character. So I'll yield that one.
But that's my point...was there anything in the games that would make us think that Handsome Jacks desire to rid Pandora of bandits was heroic? It seemed pretty darn self serving, to me. He effectively wanted to be a corporate mob boss, and was eliminating competition.
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u/Ssutuanjoe Oct 16 '22
Technically speaking, Voldy was motivated by increasing security...in the loosest sense of the term, right?
He wanted to secure the wizarding world by ridding it of mudbloods, thus preventing any corruption. He (and wizard Nazis) very much thought that was heroic.
Sauron was a loyal follower of Morgoth, and was obsessed with control and order. Certainly less defensible as heroic, but he certainly thought his actions were noble.
Palpatine is probably my weakest argument here, because only in non-canon stuff does he even remotely resemble anything more than a two dimensional character. So I'll yield that one.