10 Video Game Villains Who Lived Long Enough To Become The Hero

If Rogue was your first Assassin’s Creed game then it might have left you a smidge confused. After all, the Assassins are supposed to be the good guys, right? So why is the first senior Assassin you meet a monumental !*$%, why are they refusing to acknowledge the obvious contradictions in their creed, and why are they being extraordinarily reckless with artefacts capable of destroying a city? And why, when that negligence claims yet another city do all these supposedly ‘good’ Assassins seem to care more about Shay’s imminent rebellion than the thousands of lives lost?

So when Shay’s response is to tell them all to get bent only die-hard supporters of the Assassins would disagree with him. It doesn’t help that the ‘evil’ Templars Shay comes to work with are affable, honest, and honourable, or that the Mentor of the Assassin’s later admits that Shay was right about the artefacts.

The turn comes early and some fans felt that it was rushed, but in terms of simple ethics Shay is doing the only sane thing. He might have joined the series’ villains, but few would argue that in Rogue he is walking the hero’s path.