10 Video Games Where You're Secretly The Villain

The protagonists of the Middle-earth series, Talion and Celebrimor, aren't exactly hiding that they are more anti than heroes. Their main tactics for fighting against their common foe are dominating orcs and callously sending them to die.

But they're just orcs, right? And seeing as they are just as likely to suffer the same fate under Sauron's rule, you could say that fighting fire with fire is morally justifiable, so long as it gets rid of the other fire.

This isn't what happens with Talion and Celebrimor, however. Though their objective is to take down Sauron, replicating the Dark Lord's power inevitably makes them just as bad as him.

Celebrimor's, and to an extent Talion's, desire for power only ends up corrupting them. Just like Sauron, they enslave and abuse their subjects, and when Celebrimor creates the ring that's supposed to help him destroy Sauron, its power warps his mind, making him more power-hungry and destructive.

The culmination of their descent into villainy is the moment when Celebrimor reveals he'd rather replace Sauron on his throne than just kill him, and then betrays Talion, turning him into a Nazgûl.

You live by the sword, you get turned into a sword. Or something like that.