10 Video Game Characters Who Became Villains By Accident
7. Knight Artorias - Dark Souls
Knight Artorias is one of the most memorable bosses from the original Dark Souls and has been the bane of pretty much every player who had the displeasure of fighting him.
He is an incredibly dangerous opponent that attacks anyone on sight and spreads the dreaded corruption of the Abyss everywhere he goes.
At first glance, Artorias seems to be just another insane Dark Souls villain who likes to treat your character like floor wax in order to advance some evil scheme or be a general menace.
However, in reality, Artorias is just a puppet of a greater evil, which turned him into a bad guy by pure accident.
His tile of “Abysswalker” is a reference to the knight’s failed crusade against the mysterious Abyss that ended up corrupting him, breaking his mind, and turning him into a howling animal wandering the world and spewing chaos everywhere.
The lore hidden inside the many in-game descriptions reveals that Artorias used to be one the greatest heroes of Anor Londo, but his accident turned him into one of its greatest monsters instead.
It’s like a reverse Spider-Man situation where the bite from a radioactive abyssal power made him into a villain.