10 Video Game Heroes Who Accidentally DOOMED Everyone

Everybody wants to be a hero. I mean, just look at the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

We all want to be part of the team handing the forces of evil the ultimate beatdown of their

lives. However, there's a bit of rose-tinted glasses thing going on here, because you know

what? Heroes don't always make things better. So let's take a look at them. As I'm Jules

this is WhatCulture.com, and these are 10 video game heroes that accidentally doomed everyone

10. The Saints – Saints Row 4 Few science fiction stories would have the guts to blow up the Earth, but then again

this is Saints Row 4, a game that opens with a man riding a nuclear missile halfway into orbit

only to literally crash land into the Oval Office and become President of the United States

Suffice to say, nothing is sacred here. When the evil Zin Empire, led by the suave connoisseur of

literature, Zinyak, invades Earth, he traps the Saints in a simulation with the stern warning that

if they attempt to escape, it will result in the Earth's destruction. As any self-respecting hero

and player would do, they call the obvious bluff and get to escaping anyway. Except

it turns out, the big bad over here wasn't bluffing, leaving the shocked Saint staring

at the horrifying spectre of Earth blown to smithereens, along with every single person

not yet abducted by the Zinn. Worse still, while a loophole does allow the Saints to go back in

time and see their Earth again, their Earth is absolutely permanently fried. On the plus side

with Zinyak defeated, they become rulers of the most advanced intergalactic empire in existence

So maybe it could be worse? Maybe... No, because the earth is still gone

9. Juliet Starling – Lollipop Chainsaw Juliet Starling may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but when you're a badass teenage

zombie-slaying superhero rocking a chainsaw and some magic to boot, smarts might not seem

all that important. So when a deranged goth takes revenge for the years of bullying and neglect by

initiating an extra-dimensional zombie invasion, thus dooming the entire world to a zombie apocalypse

Juliet does what she does best, slaughter zombies in style. Players, however, would have noticed something rather ominous

Juliet must kill five dark purveyors in order to prevent the apocalypse

Thing is, though, the summoning of said purveyors only happens when the pawn arrives

and Juliet just happens to be freshly arrived on the scene. Our hero, bless her heart, never apparently realises that she is indeed the pawn

It's only when all five purveyors are dead and the goth proceeds to blow his own head off to

complete the ritual that the penny finally drops. Cue a skyscraper-sized zombie of all zombies

rampaging through town. In all fairness, her quick thinking does save her boyfriend

which turns out to be rather crucial, but overall, less lollipops there, Juliet, and more hitting the books. 8. Guy Brush Threepwood

The Secret of Monkey Island Saving the damsel in distress is a well-established

literary trope one that the secret of Monkey Island hilariously subverts by having the damsel save herself only for the heroic manly man to completely mess things up When hero Guybrush Threepwood learns that his love interest Governor Elaine Marley

has been captured by the villainous undead pirate LeChuck, and that LeChuck, also smitten with Marley, intends to forcibly marry her

he naturally rushes to the rescue. Arriving in the nick of time to object, he's actually surprised to find that Elaine has already freed herself

and not only that, she has laid a trap for LeChuck in the form of a doppelganger

comprised of two monkeys in a wedding dress, ready to spray LeChuck in the face with deadly root beer

But Threepwood's arrival foils the plan, leading to a lecture from Marley and a furious LeChuck

beating him all across the island, a beatdown that only ends when the hopelessly incompetent

hero remembers that he has root beer of his own. While Threepwood does get the girl in the end

we probably should be wishing that any future heroics are best left in her far more capable

hands. 7. The Hero of Tristram – Diablo As far as villains go, they don't get much bigger than the devil himself

and big damn villains need big damn heroes to take them down. Ideally though, you need big damn

smart heroes, and when it comes to the hero of Diablo, smart they are not. When Diablo's plot to

gain dominion over the mortal realm was foiled, he was imprisoned within a soul stone and buried

by another bunch of dumb as doorknob heroes deep beneath the village of Tristram. Naturally

death, demonic possession, and bloody mayhem ensued. Equally naturally, heroes answered the

call to sort out this mess, duly carving their way through the evil throng, dungeon by dungeon

and monster by monster, eventually entering hell and throwing down with Diablo face to face

destroying his mortal form. So far, so good, right? But then, in one of the most monumentally

stupid decisions in gaming history, the hero, in a fit of righteous, self-sacrificial heroism

jams the prison of a prime evil into their own forehead, in the vain belief that they can contain

this evil. And the fact that we have Diablo 2 and 3 shows how well this bloody decision turned out

6. Chell. Portal 2. Portal's villain GLaDOS and protagonist Chell have quite the history

The murderous, cake-loving, hilariously snarky AI used Chell as a human lab rat before trying

to incinerate her alive, a trap that Chell barely escaped before returning the favour and dismantling

GLaDOS piece by piece. Come Portal 2, Chell finds herself once more imprisoned in the Aperture

Science facility, where she's awoken from stasis by lovable moron Wheatley. Accidentally awakening

a furious GLaDOS, Chell is summarily forced back into being a test subject. Wheatley responds with

a plan to defeat GLaDOS by replacing her with himself. The problem is, though, as GLaDOS puts

it herself, he's not just a regular moron, he's the product of the greatest minds of a generation

working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived

And when that moron promptly goes insane with power, his infinite incompetence threatens to destroy the facility and kill all three of them Ironically GLaDOS is the key to fixing things here with the two of them ending up as an unlikely heroic duo Not that GLaDOS deigns to keep Chell around though expelling her from the facility before our hero can break

anything else. 5. The Lone Wanderer Fallout 3 The Fallout series has always been known for

its murky morality, so it should come as no surprise that when a quest gives you the option

of doing something unambiguously good, there's a good reason to be suspicious. Arriving at the

luxurious 10-penny tower, the protagonist, the Lone Wanderer, finds ghoul Roy Phillips insisting

that he and his gang be allowed to move in. Money isn't the problem, as Roy has plenty of it. No

instead, the racist human residents are less than thrilled at the idea of ghoul neighbors

leaving the door firmly shut in Roy's face. Now, the player has a number of options

from simply killing the residents to dealing with the residents' pest problem by exterminating the

ghouls, but you can also take the long, arduous high road by negotiating a truce between the two

sides, allowing the ghouls to move in and live peacefully alongside the humans. But this is

Fallout, not Care Bear. The peace holds for a while, but the Wanderer can return later on in

the game to find the humans slaughtered, victims of a disagreement that led Roy to, as he puts it

take out the trash. No good deed, it seems, goes unpunished. 4. Captain Titus – Warhammer 40k Space Marine

In Warhammer 40k, Space Marines are the best of the best, the emperor of mankind's elite

So when a Forge world comes under Orc attack, only those able to do the impossible are up to the task

Fighting through the hordes of Orcs, the unconventional and unusually compassionate, for a space marine at least, Captain Titus encounters the shady Inquisitor Drogon

who tells him of a weapon that could destroy all of the invading Orcs, or actually blow up the planet should the less-than-intelligent Orcs begin to tamper with it

Ever the loyal soldier of the Emperor, Titus fights his way through the legions of Orcs

and escorts Drogon to his secret facility. But that is about all that goes right here

because it turns out that Drogon was actually a sorcerer's puppet, and instead of wiping out the

orcs, the weapon tears open a portal to the demonic warp, ushering in an invasion of Chaos

Demons and corrupted space marines led by a Chaos Sorcerer hellbent on ascending to become

a Demon Prince. Luckily for Titus, he's an absolute beast, and luckily for players

fighting the forces of Chaos is brilliant fun. So you know what, maybe we'll forgive him this time

3. Edge Maverick – Star Ocean – The Last Hope If there's one thing that is every hero's kryptonite, it's the soppy story. All the

villains need to do is turn on the tears, spin a pitiful yarn, and even the most cynical do-gooder

is honour-bound to believe them. And we all know what happens next

Such is precisely what befalls star-ocean hero Edge Maverick. Finding himself stranded on Earth

circa 1957 he and his party are captured by scientists guilty of imprisoning and experimenting on alien refugees Busting out of jail they are stopped by the head scientist Bakhtin who then proceeds to spin an absolute masterclass of a soppy story You see

Edge comes from a future where the Earth was devastated by nuclear war. Bakhtin correctly

deduces that his civilization overcame their dependence on nuclear energy by developing a

clean energy source, one that should Edge help her replicate, would prevent the need for nuclear

weapons and thus the apocalypse. Edge falls for it hook, line, and sinker, and promptly finds

himself stuck in a cell, watching as the deranged lunatic integrates the new source into a nuclear

reactor with predictably catastrophic results. Edge and the party escape, but not before the

Earth is destroyed. Suffice to say, Edge's conscience is having a long time recovering

2. Gordon Freeman – Half-Life Series Gordon Freeman, hero of the Black Mesa incident. The opener of the way. The one free man. With

titles like that, how could you not be a hero? But for all his heroic deeds, Gordon does seem

to have a habit of making things worse. In Half-Life, Gordon successfully defeats the Nihilanth

the creature directing the alien invasion of Black Mesa, but in slaying such a powerful foe

he attracts the attention of the Combine, an intergalactic empire that proceeds to conquer

Earth in only seven hours. In Half-Life 2, he successfully follows the escape of the pretentious

self-serving sellout of humanity Wallace Breen, but doing so leads to the destruction of the

Citadel, the Combine's seat of power on Earth. With it comes the creation of yet another Combine

super portal and the threat of a second, even more devastating invasion. Gordon eventually seals

the portal, but with humanity's forces still pitifully weak and a key resistance leader dead

it was a small victory at best. To be fair, Gordon is doing his best, but perhaps it would

be better if somebody else took up the hero's mantle. Barney, me old mucker, it's your time to shine

1. The Nereverine The Elder Scrolls III – Morrowind Over the course of The Elder Scrolls Morrowind, the protagonist, the Nereverine

completes a series of tasks to prove themselves as the prophesied hero who would work to bring

down the evil Dagoth Ur. And being a prophesied hero, they naturally succeed, destroying the

Heart of Lorcan, the source of Dagoth Ur's power, and ending his plot to take over the world

But there's just one teeny tiny sticking point here. The Heart of Lorcan was also what gave the

gods of Morrowind, their tribunal, their power. Power that was the only means of preventing a

rogue moon from slamming into the planet's surface, and the result? The destruction of

Morrowind's capital city and a massive volcanic eruption that covers the entire region in choking

ash, killing thousands and displacing thousands more. As if that weren't enough, the destruction

of the Heart of Lorcan may have also triggered the demonic invasion that formed the basis of

Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion, which in turn becomes the basis of the Skyrim Civil War and the Elder

Scrolls V Skyrim. So yes, if you played all three, you've been cleaning up your own mess

for two whole games. No wonder the hero of Morrowind hasn't been seen since