8 Video Game Protagonists Who Would Be Better Villains

Max Caulfield is of course the heroine of the Life Is Strange franchise, who manifests the ability to rewind time and endeavours to use it to resurrect her murdered friend Chloe - a decision which is ultimately left up to the player.

Yet as likeable as Max is throughout the franchise, it goes without saying that few people who develop the power to manipulate time would use it in a truly responsible way.

And more to the point, the series' own rules frequently demonstrate that messing with time has unintended, almost always negative consequences, such that the very act of tampering with time is, well, less than ideal.

And so, Max could so easily slip into the role of a time-tinkering supervillain - a possibility which was teased in last year's divisive sequel Life Is Strange: Double Exposure, where Max crosses paths with her own dubious future self.

There comes a point where screwing with the space-time continuum isn't just reckless or misguided, and in the wake of another sufficiently traumatic event, it'd be so easy for Max to become a temporal terrorist, forever trying to bend the universe to her will, no matter the mass-casualty calamities it causes.