10 Video Game Villains That Were Totally Right
4. Haytham Kenway - Assassin's Creed 3
The main overarching story of the Assassin's Creed series follows the conflict between the Templars and the Assassins. The former are usually depicted as cartoonishly evil autoritarian puppet masters, so your Assassin character doesn't have to feel guilty about killing them.
The rare exception is Haytham Kenway.
As the head of the New World Templars and both the father and the son of renowned Assassins, Haytham offers a unique perspective on the Templar-Assassin conflict that shows his order from a different, more objective perspective while simultaneously exposing the flaws in the Assassins' lofty goals of freedom and liberty.
Throughout the game, Haytham never hesitates to point out to his son, Connor, that the idealistic mission of his faction has no basis in the real world, and as the American Revolution progresses, it becomes increasingly difficult to disagree with him.
By the end of the game, Connor's fight for freedom forces his tribe to leave their ancestral lands, causes his childhood friend to die, and the democratic republic he aided in war ultimately refuses to give all of its people equal rights (to put it lightly).
Haytham is long gone by then, but his snarky comments regarding the Assassins are really hard to unhear.