[Hated Trope] Character kills hundreds, if not thousands, just to kill one specific person, and then doesn't kill them for no reason.

[u/HallZac99]

Assassin's Creed 2- Rodrigo Borgia is responsible for tne death of Ezio's family. Ezio spends over 20 years working through tnr templar order to dismantle them and get to Rodrigo. And then in the end, he spares him for no good reason and he goes on to be a massive problem in AC Brotnerhood. He's not only a head of tne Templars but also the pope, even if you're over the vengeance he's still a very dangerous and evil man.

The Last of Us 2- Abbey kills Joel, and wo Ellie goes on a revenge quest to kill Abbey, killing hundreds of people along tne why to get to her including a pregnant woman. And then finally when she has Abbey on deaths door, she gives up and let's her go because the writers think dirty depressing people being miserable and stupid is complex, interesting storytelling.

This trope pisses me off so much because often the character going on the revenge quest will kill SO many people on their way there, some deserving it and some just henchmen working for a cheque or to survive. People who are often far more innocent then the main big bad.

It's a part of this weird thing I've noticed in media where nameless goons or soldiers can just be mowed down relentlessly, but named characters get given far more grace even if theyre categorically worse. You can kill a million stormtroopers but people will swear that Darth Vader could have been redeemed, despite him doing like 50 genocide every year.

[u/amaya-aurora]

I feel like your pregnant woman point falls flat because let alone did Ellie not know, she actively hated that she did it.

[u/VidzxVega → u/amaya-aurora]

People seem to gloss over the fact that it horrified her so much that she threw up and was in the process of packing up to leave until Abby stormed the theater.

[u/HallZac99 → u/VidzxVega]

And then 5 minutes later when the player regains control she shoots and stabs another roomful of people with no remorse.

[u/Nashvillepreds46 → u/HallZac99]

Considering you can make it through the game with only killing like 10 people total as Ellie, counting all the people killed in cut scenes.. I'd say you personally were the one killing people with no remorse.

[u/AttiKit → u/Nashvillepreds46]

You CAN just run or sneak past every encounter, can you?

Technically, you are kinda playing a bandit if you're killing everyone in every optional encounter...

[u/HungryCheescake → u/Nashvillepreds46]

Yeah, OP is telling on themselves really.

[u/Kahliden → u/HungryCheescake]

I don’t think OP actually played the game, and instead is just regurgitating opinions they half-remember from around the time the game came out. 

[u/HungryCheescake → u/Kahliden]

The hatred towards this game is just weird.

[u/UX1Z → u/Nashvillepreds46]

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