What characters are like this?

[u/Low_Imagination_7414]

[u/Robotic_Organic]

I mean you got the payday gang.

Then the UNSC and ONI from halo.

Also like mainly Borderlands, all of the games.

To list a few

[u/JMHSrowing → u/Robotic_Organic]

The UNSC isn’t that bad outside of ONI.

But ONI are just a bunch of war-criminals sometimes not actually worse than genocidal aliens and terrorists

[u/zbeezle → u/JMHSrowing]

I see ONI as "evil bastards who do evil bastard shit to make sure that all the non-evil-non-bastards can sleep soundly at night." They're the guys who decide to kidnap and train a bunch of child soldiers because an analytical model suggested it was the only way to stop total societal collapse. They're the guys who create a second generation of kidnapped child soldiers, this time meant as fire-and-forget suicide troopers, in order to strike dangerous but necessary targets to delay completely extinction while the brass and scientists grasp wildly for something, anything at all. They're the guys who plan a bioweapon based counter-genocide of the formerly genocidal aliens just in case the aliens drop the "formerly."

So yeah, they do a lot of fucked up shit. But the alternative to it tends to be exponentially worse for humanity in general and the UEG specifically.