8 Video Game Heroes Who Turned Evil In The Sequel - Commenters' Edition

Throughout the whole of Resistance 2, you just know that Nathan Hale's infuriating stubbornness is going to come back and bite him before the end. As a member of an elite military group called The Sentinels, Hale is tasked with battling the Chimera right on the front line, and so is incredibly susceptible to being infected with the virus himself. To prevent this, the Sentinels require regular inhibitor treatments, otherwise they'll be powerless to stop themselves becoming the things they are trying to destroy.

But as the stakes are raised and time is of the essence, Hale repeatedly puts off these treatments, which leaves him looking and feeling less and less human as the game goes on.

After dealing with the Chimeran leader, Daedalus, the last of Hale's humanity slips away, and, as a pure Chimera, he is capable of some pretty amazing telekinetic powers. It's not all fun and games, however, and as his Chimeran form warns that "this is just the beginning", he is shot dead by his former brother-in-arms, Joseph Capelli.

Who knows what chaos he could've wrought if he'd been allowed to live? On the plus side, his death gives rise to a vaccine for the Chimera virus, which, by the end of Resistance 3, is what finally sees the end of the destructive alien scourge.