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Dark Messiah

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Dark Messiah	comment	It's a Crapsack World, and things are only getting worse. There are heroes, but the status quo won't let them cause more than a few ripples of good in a sea of Black-and-Gray Morality. Out of this ambiguity comes a savior, someone who brings hope to the downtrodden and preaches a utopian vision of peace and prosperity for all. However, they aren't afraid to fight fire with fire. In a world where moral absolutes are impossible to find, they will use underhanded tactics, preemptive strikes, and other acts of Radical Terrorism in their quest to bring about that perfect world. No, they're not The Antichrist (well... not necessarily anyway), but a character with delusions of (or actual feats to back up) being a Messianic Archetype. As a "messiah", the heroic version of this character doesn't hesitate to sacrifice themselves for the masses; in fact, they would die a thousand times and just as well accept a life of torture to reach their goal, but they will also not hesitate to grimly murder thousands in kind and torture many more to achieve that end. The thing is, they've graduated from the school of Utopia Justifies the Means. So while they'll hug orphans, they won't hesitate to make them with bizarre doctrinarian attacks on the Powers That Be. Naturally, they'll also likely be a Dark Shepherd, with at least part of their charisma coming from the fact that their followers are terrified of what will happen if they end up on their bad side. More tragically, they may be a Fallen Hero (or fallen messiah) who has suffered so much that they have revised their belief system from rainbows to car-bombings. They'll usually be a Knight Templar, with enough good acts and intentions to stay from outright villainy, but they stand on very slippery and muddy ground. If the hero upsets their plans enough, or they get another tragedy or Heroic BSoD, you can bet they'll go Jumping Off the Slippery Slope. After all, anyone who tries to improve the world through active effort is doomed to failure or Karmic Death, because Ambition Is Evil. Expect the sympathetic and/or successful ones to claim that there is No Place for Me There. The "villainous" version of this character is usually hiding behind a more traditionally good messiah image. They may secretly be a Straw Hypocrite False Prophet, but just as often, they are terrifyingly fervent in believing their messianic message and getting others to do the same. May or may not be secretly spreading the Religion of Evil, but usually assembles a Cult around themselves; may or may not have good as their ultimate goal. Almost always operates on Ãœbermensch or Totalitarian Utilitarian mentality. May or may not be a Magnificent Bastard Byronic Hero. Compare with A God Am I for those who want to take their messiah claims to one level higher. Contrast with All-Loving Hero, The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified. Has nothing to do with the video game Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. See also Apocalypse Maiden, The Antichrist. When put against the All-Loving Hero or the Messianic Archetype, that's a Dueling Messiahs dynamic. noreallife
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Dark Messiah / int_1099a6ac	comment	Fight Club: Tyler Durden collected followers from the titular boxing club, promised them Better Living Through Evil, and used them to reset society to a freer, more primitive state. Besides that, he died for his cause, in the hopes of creating a legend.
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Dark Messiah / int_11d0af1	comment	Lord Asriel in His Dark Materials. Though his plans include, in the short term, separating an innocent child from his soul to rip the universe apart (environment be damned) and he is portrayed to have a very haphazard respect for human life, ultimately, he's trying to allow everyone to live in freedom of thought and government, by destroying the angel who claims himself as God. Even the heroes don't like him that much.
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Dark Messiah / int_1331990c	comment	Puella Magi Madoka Magica has the witch Kriemhild Gretchen, who is the witch form of the eponymous character. This witch wants to absorb all life within her labyrinth to create an equivalent of 'heaven'. And she is so strong that she's been stated to achieve this within 10 days. Nobody has managed to defeat this witch yet. However, Madoka managed to flip all that when she wished to kill every Witch in existence before they're created, including her own, thus becoming the Messiah. As of the end of Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion, its Homura, the deuteragonist, that is playing this trope relatively straight.
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Dark Messiah / int_160c1407	comment	Metallica has "Bow to Leper Messiah!"
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Dark Messiah / int_1682583	comment	Paptimus Scirocco from Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam could certainly qualify. Though he is introduced as a textbook Manipulative Bastard and his motives are shrouded in mystery throughout the series, his Motive Rant in the last episode seems to hint at this.
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Dark Messiah / int_1a64c756	comment	Chairman Gilbert Durandal from Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny as well. He really is out to save the world, he just goes way, way too far in his attempts to do so (including sending assassins after Lacus and Kira just because he figured they would try to stop him), while convincing most of the planet that he is their saviour.
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Dark Messiah / int_1aec9ec4	comment	Septerra Core presents Doskias as this. He truly believes that he is the Saviour of Septerra. Too bad he seems to be more the Destroyer of Septerra.
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Dark Messiah / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Magneto will do anything to make the world a better place for mutants, even if it means terrorism or all-out war. He has often been nicknamed by his followers as the "Mutant Messiah" and stands in darker contrast to his friend and counterpart, Charles Xavier. Depending on the Writer, though, as some of his actions have been very heroic. In Ultimate X Men, Magneto is written as the leader of a cult or a terrorist organization. The usual anti-hero aspects of mainstream Magneto are removed to reinforce this trope. Apocalypse sees himself as the steward of mutant civilization. Given that he's been overseeing it for the last 5,000 years, it's hard to disagree with him, though Professor X and Magneto have emerged as his equals in the present day. Despite his name, his actual evil quotient varies Depending on the Writer, and as of 2020, he's actually joined with the X-Men (as has almost every mutant villain they've ever faced). Magneto himself once referred to Cyclops as this after the latter's descent into severe anti-heroism — though his many actions have restored the mutant race that once seemed doomed to dwindle into extinction.
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Dark Messiah / int_1bfa1b6c	comment	After his most recent heel turn in late 2019, Seth Rollins took to calling himself the "Monday Night Messiah", also drawing (kayfabe) followers in AOP and Murphy.
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Dark Messiah / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: The Emperor of the Wandenreich, Yhwach, is the prophesied Sealed King of the Quincies and their supposed salvation. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, he is a very, very dark and wicked figure. He was born with strange healing powers that could cure anything, even restore missing limbs. For these miracles, people referred to him as YHWH, one of the names of the Abrahamic God. The price of his healing is a drastically shortened lifespan, as he can recall the power he used from the target's soul at a later date, killing them in the process. When he enters the Royal Palace, he addresses the Soul King as his father. Several of the Sternritter, especially Lille Barro, outright consider him a god.
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Dark Messiah / int_1d6f193a	comment	Artorius from Tales of Berseria is built up as being a Messianic Archetype in-universe, but it's pretty clear from the start that he is more along the lines of a Dark Messiah, having long given up on humanity and being more than willing to sacrifice everybody's emotions in order to "save" them. Throughout the game, the player learns of his Dark and Troubled Past and even how he was manipulated by Melchior... who could be seen as The Antichrist by some.
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Dark Messiah / int_1e3b270	comment	Jedah Doma from Darkstalkers. His whole spiel was to save the demon world of Makai from falling into irreparable corruption, and despite being impossibly polite and caring to those he's trying to save, he's willing to sacrifice them all in order to force Makai into a demonic version of the Rapture.
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Dark Messiah / int_1e8dcfa	comment	Ras the Destroyer in Invisible Man is almost a deconstruction of this type — he thinks he's going to be the leader of a revolution against white power, but in truth, he's a ridiculous figure who's easily manipulated by the Powers That Be.
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Dark Messiah / int_1f140feb	comment	FÃ«anor in The Silmarillion. He does truly and deeply care about his people, the Noldor Elves. He honestly wants them to be free, and he can see the ways they've been hurt by their lifestyle in Valinor. He isn't completely wrong in considering Valinor to be something of a Gilded Cage. However, he doesn't really care about anyone that isn't a Noldo Elf: and is perfectly willing to murder other elves simply to get his hands on their ships. And then burn those ships, despite having been told that they are precious works of that culture's art. Even his care for Noldor who disagree with him only extends to being unwilling to kill them. He's perfectly fine with abandoning them in the sub-Arctic. Also, he vastly overestimates his own power in relation to the Big Bad, and gets unceremoniously Fridged as a Start of Darkness for his son Maedhros.
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Dark Messiah / int_21938c93	comment	In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ultron initially serves as this to Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, who view him as a force to ensure peace more than the Avengers, who they see as opportunists and killers.
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Dark Messiah / int_2212773a	comment	Jasmine from Angel attempts to bring peace to the world...by employing global-scale mind control to disguise her appearance and make demands regarding worshiping her, eating scores of people along the way. The existing world conditions and the effectiveness of the actual heroes fit the bill perfectly.
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Dark Messiah / int_2372359	comment	The Belgariad: Zandramas and Harakan both try to set themselves up as these in The Malloreon.
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Dark Messiah / int_2594ce60	comment	In Deus Ex: Invisible War, Saman, the supposed leader of the German branch of the Order, is revealed to be the leader of the Templars, a terrorist group that seeks to neutralize all biomodification technology, thus eliminating the power that maintains the rival Illuminati.
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Dark Messiah / int_2ade1ae9	comment	Nobilis: The Devils in the third edition fell out of All-Loving Hero becoming this perspective — angels in this setting have standards that are far, far too high for what is deserving of love. Lucifer and his ilk objected violently, and now show love to every single thing...to the point where they love things like corruption, disease, and filth more, because those things have no one else.
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Dark Messiah / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes: Adam Monroe. Thirty years before the events of the series, he gathered twelve unique individuals to follow him, termed them his 'disciples', and attempted to save the world. Does this story sound just a little bit familiar? One of those disciples, Daniel Linderman, also qualifies. A self-proclaimed "humanitarian", his stated goal in life is to "heal the world"...which he plans to start by blowing up most of New York. He also comes with a set of Healing Hands that can make the blind see and the lame walk, just in case you missed it otherwise. And Volume 5 introduced Samuel Sullivan, the leader of a very Cult-like carnival who is The Antichrist: he claims to be gathering together the "specials" of the world in order to lead them to a "promised land" where they can be free of Fantastic Racism, but in reality, he wants them because he becomes more and more powerful when he surrounds himself with more "specials", and he's hoping to boost his powers to god-like levels. (Which, incidentally, could easily lead to a Class 6 or possibly even Class X Apocalypse How.)
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Dark Messiah / int_2ceaba1c	comment	HammerFall's song, "Restless Soul", seems like a great description of this kind of person.
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Dark Messiah / int_2ebedb03	comment	Fear the Walking Dead gives us a straighter example with Teddy, the Big Bad of the back half of Season 6. A former Serial Killer who escaped prison at the start of the Zombie Apocalypse, he's since built a cult of followers who buy into his beliefs that since death is a natural part of life, then the destruction of civilization by the walkers should be accepted rather than resisted. As such, he and his followers intend to destroy all other survivor communities using warheads from a beached nuclear submarine for trying to preserve pre-apocalypse society, ride out the apocalypse in their makeshift bunker, and then emerge to create a new world according to Teddy's design.
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Dark Messiah / int_2f1032e5	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: McGillis Fareed has admirable goals in wanting to reform the corrupt and oppressive Gjallarhorn, but he's willing to employ some underhanded tactics in order to further his goals, including backstabbing close allies and funding human experimentation. He especially becomes this after he leads an open revolution against Gjallarhorn and claims Gundam Bael, declaring himself Agnika Kaieru's successor.
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Dark Messiah / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Pain (real name Nagato). Despite his A God Am I kick, he recognizes his own mortality, but before he dies, he wishes to first deliver the world from its current cycle of self-destruction by destroying the current system completely and replacing it with his, no matter how many people suffer or die in the process. Tobi aka Obito Uchiha also considered. He thinks he is living in a Crapsack World (with a fair amount of justification, it must be said) and resents how This Is Reality is in effect with regards to heroes, ie. that very often heroes actually fail. As such, he thinks the only place heroes and dreams can truly exist is in a dream world, and he intends to create just that, even if he has to enact an Assimilation Plot to do it. Sets up a deliberate contrast to Naruto. Madara Uchiha considers himself to be. He grew up in a warring states period that claimed most of his family, and learning that chakra was originally a gift that the Sage of Six Paths intended to connect humanity but instead ended up escalating wars, he determined that the only to peace was to become the Jinchuuriki the Ten-Tails and trap the entire planet in a Lotus-Eater Machine. Finally, Sasuke Uchiha wanted to become one. (Seeing a trend here?) After a long period of wildly changing goals, he, like his predecessors, concludes that there's only one thing to do to stop the endless wars: sever the past. By which he means kill all the Kage, kill the Tailed Beasts, and kill Naruto.
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Dark Messiah / int_329f9e9	comment	The Black King of Drifters leads a war of genocide against humanity to create a future for the demihumans. He claims to have tried to save mankind but was betrayed by them, and so will give his love to the demihumans instead, teaching them and caring for them. The Ends all follow him as the savior he portrays himself to be.
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Dark Messiah / int_33d31677	comment	In the sequel, he eventually embraces his destiny after fighting against it for most of the movie. He destroys the Harkonnen and Sardaukar forces, but after the other Great Houses refuse to acknowledge him as emperor, he unleashes the Fremen on them in a holy war.
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Dark Messiah / int_366a284d	comment	Fist of the North Star has Raoh, who after the nuclear apocalypse that engulfed the world, took the name Ken-Oh (meaning "King of Fist") and began a campaign of conquest to take over what was left, and instill order in a chaotic age. His name became feared, especially by enemies; and revered by his loyal followers. He is, however, like his brothers Kenshiro and Toki, considered to be a hero of Hokuto Shinken, and had the appellation: "The Conqueror of the Century's End", in contrast to Kenshiro: "The Savior of the Century's End". In one arc, it was believed that Toki, the kindest of Kenshiro's older brothers, applying the art of Hokuto Shinken to heal the sick and wounded, to the point he was revered as a savior, had turned evil and instead used his art to abduct and experiment on innocent people. This turned out to be a subversion, as Toki was being impersonated by a man called Amiba, who after an encounter with Toki that didn't go well, tried to ruin Toki's good name out of spite, while he was imprisoned. The real Toki is every bit the warm-hearted savior he was initially believed to be. Shin is a straight example, in fact the very villain that started off the series by giving Kenshiro his infamous seven scars on his chest and stealing his fiancee. His men were fanatically devoted to him, and he took the title of "King" as he went out on a brutal conquest of territories, and using the wealth his army looted to build the city "Southern Cross" with a golden pyramid as its stronghold. However, his motivation for doing all of this to earn the love of the object of his affection, Yuria — Kenshiro's fiancee. Raoh is basically Shin on a grander scale. Interestingly, Of the Nanto Roku Sei Ken ("Six Sacred Southern Star Fists"), six masters of the Nanto styles whose destiny and style is shaped by the stars of the South Dipper constellation, Shin's corresponds to "The Star of Martyrdom".
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Dark Messiah / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: Frieza is an example of a Dark Messiah who becomes one entirely by accident. He cares nothing for anyone in the universe but himself, and really is nothing more than a Spoiled Brat at his core, but his sheer power leads most of his followers to see him as a necessary evil, the iron-fisted tyrant that keeps their empire together. For his part, Frieza doesn't consider his soldiers an army so much as a rabble of convenient underlings to protect or dispose of as he sees fit (though he does get fond of certain underlings, such as Zarbon and Ginyu). Broly is the Legendary Super Saiyan, a unique (and legendary) Super Saiyan with monstrous power and an insatiable thirst for battle and destruction. This essentially makes him the Messiah of the Saiyans. The dub goes so far as to title his sequel Broly Second Coming. Despite this, the original Broly was never anything more to the heroes than another villain to defeat; the DBS remake of the character is treated more sympathetically. Zamasu, an apprentice Supreme Kai and prodigy who stands as the strongest Kai seen. He's strong enough to fight on par with Super Saiyan 2 Goku after he's received training from Whis, but he suffers from a very bad case of Fantastic Racism towards mortals since he sees them as fools who have abused the gifts and protection the gods have given them and despises the fact the gods are not allowed to take direct action to watch over the multiverse. Eventually, he goes full-on Knight Templar and begins a crusade to rid the multiverse of mortals to create a paradise, which includes killing his master, stealing Goku's body before killing him and his loved ones, corrupting an alternate version of himself and giving him immortality, and committing mass genocide on his fellow gods to keep them from stopping him. Goku Black, another incarnation of Zamasu, has streaks of this, as his appearance heralds the coming of an apocalypse, takes the bastardised form of a Messianic Archetype, and although he preaches good intentions behind his evil, heâ€™s ultimately doing this to satiate his own selfish ends and lust for destruction.
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Dark Messiah / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Lord Voldemort is certainly seen this way by his Death Eaters in the few glimpses we get of their interaction. Provides an interesting contrast with Harry's more traditional Messianic Archetype. Voldemort even dies and rises again like Jesus and his satanic resurrection ritual is a perversion of the Eucharist involving blood, bones, and flesh.
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Dark Messiah / int_3b7abee2	comment	Dr. Wallace Breen from the Half-Life games. He legitimately believes what he is doing is the only way humanity can survive, from surrendering humanity to the Combine all the way to helping the Combine oppress humanity. The worst part? He may be right.
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Dark Messiah / int_3d22c14b	comment	Ribbons Almark from Gundam 00. Which is only appropriate, since he's a stand-in of Scirocco.
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Dark Messiah / int_3d8baf12	comment	Cain in RoboCop 2 is the leader of a drug cult who treats him as a messiah-type figure who will bring the world peace and prosperity through his designer narcotic, "Nuke", despite his tendency to be rather nasty to his critics and betrayers.
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Dark Messiah / int_3e374b30	comment	Bane in The Dark Knight Rises is unambiguously this, and a Magnificent Bastard Ãœbermensch to boot. However, it turns out that while he is willing to die for the cause, he doesn't actually care about 'liberating' Gotham at all, and whether he even believes that destroying Gotham will help make the world a better place is ambiguous. He's just devoted to the Hidden Villain, whose plan this was.
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Dark Messiah / int_3f20192e	comment	In Moonraker, this is suggested with Hugo Drax, given the loyalty of his followers.
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Dark Messiah / int_408937d5	comment	The main villain in Waterworld leads a group of pirates onto "Dry Land" in a prophet-like manner, and it involved raiding a settlement and killing everyone in it. It is even lampshaded, given that he was referred to as "The Deacon", which means a minister of sort.
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Dark Messiah / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files gives us Cowl, who, while presented as fairly antagonistic, repeatedly claims to be working for the greater good. Having a secret society that seems to include members of every single organization in the supernatural world, including a few renegades from the Denarians and an Outsider, doesn't improve his image. On the other hand, the man got a car flipped over on him and he tossed it aside, and allowed the guy who flipped it over on him to live, so...
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Dark Messiah / int_455ede40	comment	To a certain extent, Count Bleck in Super Paper Mario seems to be one of these, as his plan involves destroying all the current worlds so he can create a better world to replace them afterwards. In reality, he's an Omnicidal Maniac and plans to destroy all worlds and then kill himself, leaving nothing behind.
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Dark Messiah / int_467773a6	comment	Rogue One and its tie-in material with other Star Wars properties build up Saw Gerrera to be this. Contrasted with the more morally upright Rebel Alliance, Gerrera and his partisans are willing to use more destructive tactics and are considered terrorists. But Gerrera firmly believes his efforts are helping to fight the Empire and this is further explored in Star Wars Rebels.
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Dark Messiah / int_46823c49	comment	William James Moriarty in Moriarty the Patriot is genuinely trying to end inequality in Britain and save people from abusive nobles...but he's become a mass serial murderer in the process. Points for at least recognizing what he's doing is wrong.
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Dark Messiah / int_47a34a01	comment	From the original 1971 series comes in the form of the Great Leader (of Shocker). Many of his subordinates see him as something of a divine figure, a perception which the Great Leader actively encourages.
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Dark Messiah / int_47caac60	comment	12 Monkeys: The Army of the 12 Monkeys view their leader, the Witness, as a prophet who will lead them to paradise, with just the measly cost of destroying reality in the process.
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Dark Messiah / int_49a88435	comment	Final Fantasy XII: Vayne. He serves as Archadia's PR representative in Dalmasca, which doesn't hide the fact that he is an accessory to the empire's brutal conquest of Ivalice (and after he assassinates his father, he ascends as emperor). Yet Vayne's motives are benevolent; he wants to liberate Ivalice from the control of the Occuria, the true villains of the setting, and give the reins of history back to the hands of Men. Once the Occuria's true motives are revealed, it becomes clear that the position of the Dynast-King is actually this, instead of a straight messiah. The Dynast-Kings are given the means to mine deifacted nethicites, which they may use to subjugate anyone opposed to their message by violence. Although it's unknown whether Raithwall actively used the stones, he did manage to singlehandedly unite Ivalice's warring factions. At the very least, the Occuria want Ashe to use them to destroy Archadia, thus avenging her family and putting herself at the top of a new world order.
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Dark Messiah / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft's Sylvanas Windrunner seems to generally want to help her people and, presumably, the other races too. She seems much more (positively) emotional (though still very cold) than most other undead and is portrayed about as sympathetically as possible for a character bent on the utter destruction of all her enemies so she can raise them into undeath with her. Oh, and while she seems to have a bit of a setback due to Varimathras, most of her really nasty plagues and poisons are still around whenever she feels like killing everyone. The new Silverpine Forest questline shows her to explicitly support the raising of new Forsaken using Val'kyr. This saves the future of the Forsaken race, since they have no other means of reproduction.
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Dark Messiah / int_4ed65cc4	comment	In Time Scout, Jack the Ripper.
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Dark Messiah / int_500bac67	comment	As of the end of Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion, its Homura, the deuteragonist, that is playing this trope relatively straight.
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Dark Messiah / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: After Gamzee goes sober, he starts believing that he is both of the Mirthful Messiahs worshiped by his Juggalo religion. Which is somewhat true, considering that he's a descendant of the Grand Highblood. As such, it is now his glorious duty to subjugate all the lowbloods and paint murals with their blood. As it turns out, he isn't the Mirthful Messiahs, and never believed he was. Said Messiahs do exist, however, and he eventually started serving them.
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Dark Messiah / int_58e3b9fc	comment	The Last Ship: Sean Ramsey, the Big Bad of Season 2, honestly believes that the Red Flu is God's doing and that the naturally immune (such as himself and his brother) are the chosen people selected to inherit the Earth after the plague has run its course. He's insane but is also highly charismatic, capable of influencing large numbers of people to his cause — by the time he's introduced, he's already effectively conquered Europe, and quickly secures a strong foothold in what's left of America.
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Dark Messiah / int_59151283	comment	Big Boss/Naked Snake in the Metal Gear franchise. After being betrayed by his country a lot and finding out that the only place he feels truly alive is where he fights, he manages to gather similar-minded soldiers, all of them with combination of force and charisma (and genuine care for them) that they all loyally follow his footsteps to make his dreams of a world where soldiers are always needed come true. Even he makes male followers attracted to him too.
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Dark Messiah / int_5921531a	comment	Persona 3: Takaya, the Nietzsche Wannabe who looks a lot like Jesus, becomes this near the end of the game, becoming an internet cult leader after learning of The End of the World as We Know It and attempting to encourage everyone else to embrace The Avatar of Death coming to destroy them all. According to a scene in FES, Shuji Ikuski saw himself as one of these.
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Dark Messiah / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5 Royal had Takuto Maruki, who becomes one after the completion of his Confidant and the fall of Yaldabaoth. This results in a Lotus-Eater Machine where everyone is given what he thinks they need to be happy, and any dissension is dealt with a brutal Mind Rape that is meant to convince the victim that they need to accept his perfect world to escape the pain.
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Dark Messiah / int_59bdd803	comment	Hades/Alone from Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas is especially poignant because his reasoning to kill everyone is that, since life is pain, by becoming an Omnicidal Maniac and god of the land of the dead he can ensure they spend eternity in a painless Heaven analogue. However then the real Hades retakes control and wants to proceed with plain old mass genocide, no utopia.
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Dark Messiah / int_5a3dae52	comment	"Evil Jesus" from Misfits.
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Dark Messiah / int_5cfb879b	comment	Glorious Godfrey of the New Gods, who preaches the word of his master, Darkseid, all in the name of taking over the universe. During the Final Crisis, Glorious Godfrey's role as the Mouth of Sauron to Darkseid is taken by Justice League of America villain Libra, who fashions himself as a Dark Messiah for supervillains.
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Dark Messiah / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: Everyone can be this. Canonically, the Scarlet Empress and Chejop Kejak are among the purest examples of this trope: both have killed millions and sacrificed small children because they believed that it was the only way to keep Creation from annihilation. It's an open question whether there was a better way. The Malefactor Caste of the Infernals are corrupted Zeniths who serve Cecelyne, the Endless Desert. Their entire gimmick is creating societies based around strict, repressive laws. Her Charm suites allow her servants to create holy lands (by inflicting desolation because deserts are her thing), reap Essence from worshippers more effectively, interact with and feign being an entity of the spirit world, and answer the wishes of their worshipers. The best/worst part? It's implied that her core philosophy — that all laws are ultimately made to assist the strong in dominating the weak — may, in fact, be right. That's not very reassuring.
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Dark Messiah / int_5e16d550	comment	Black Clover: Licht is the charismatic leader of the Eye of the Midnight Sun, a group of rogue mages loyal to him, making them believe that he will reincarnate them into their true forms and establish a new kingdom. He thinks of himself as the one chosen to resurrect his fallen race, and genuinely believes that he'll cleanse the corrupt Clover Kingdom of its sins by killing all humans. Lucius Zogratis sees himself as being the world's savior who'll bring true peace by "repairing" mankind through destroying humanity and then recreating their bodies through his siblings' magic to be equal so that there will no longer be any conflict and discrimination, with him ruling over humanity as the final Wizard King. While he considers himself the savior, he sees Asta as the flaw of the world for being born without any magic that has to be eliminated for a "just future".
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Dark Messiah / int_5e91c7e	comment	By Resident Evil 5, Albert Wesker essentially became this: Gathered several followers and organized what can only be compared to a cult? Check. Has superhuman powers? Check, although he technically had those since post-Resident Evil. Believes himself to be God at the very least? Check. Seems to think his actions in spreading Uroboros across the planet Earth in a jet bomber is "saving" the planet? Big fat check!
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Dark Messiah / int_60804f39	comment	The Claw from GUNÃ—SWORD, where people he has met practically worship him like a god and are willing to do anything he asks or to make him happy. This includes killing anyone that gets in the way of his dream.
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Dark Messiah / int_61a39969	comment	Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War is a relentless crusader determined/obsessed with saving the universe by killing half its population. His followers, specifically Ebony Maw exalt him like he is the leader of a death-worshiping cult.
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Dark Messiah / int_62126ef1	comment	The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: The Leader and Ultron claim to be "saving the world" by causing destruction and wanting to kill off the human race. The Skrulls use this with Skrull Captain America telling humanity to surrender to the Skrulls.
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Dark Messiah / int_62cafa4	comment	Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road, with an emphasis on the Messiah part. He's the head icon of a brainwashed cult of War Boys in the post-apocalypse who will gladly die for him. Auntie in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome can also be considered this, as the villainous leader of a wasteland community, although she's a more sympathetic character who engages in Pragmatic Villainy.
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Dark Messiah / int_62f94c6	comment	The Dark Knight Trilogy: Bruce Wayne has shades of this, being an Ãœbermensch Messianic Archetype who has made numerous morally questionable choices. Bane in The Dark Knight Rises is unambiguously this, and a Magnificent Bastard Ãœbermensch to boot. However, it turns out that while he is willing to die for the cause, he doesn't actually care about 'liberating' Gotham at all, and whether he even believes that destroying Gotham will help make the world a better place is ambiguous. He's just devoted to the Hidden Villain, whose plan this was.
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Dark Messiah / int_66f6fc1e	comment	Kevin Sullivan (leader of the Army Of Darkness, hater of political correctness), Raven (who even had The Sandman "crucified"), Jeff Hardy (during his time in Immortal), CM Punk (with his Straight Edge Society), and a score of others often have such evil cult-leader type gimmicks.
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Dark Messiah / int_67e6ea9b	comment	Lorgar, the Word Bearers Primarch, somewhat ironically fits this mold. He initially thought of himself as the traditional Apostle, with the Emperor as the Messiah, and spread a religion centered around the Emperor. The Emperor (having apparently decided he had turned a blind eye to this for too long) punished Lorgar rather abruptly and heavy-handedly... by ordering one of the magnificent cities Lorgar built to be evacuated and destroyed. Having decided to turn to... other deities, Lorgar wrote the book on Chaos worship, ultimately starting the Horus Heresy. Ironically, the holy book of the cult surrounding the Emperor, the Lectitio Divinatus, was penned by Lorgar and laid down the entire framework of what would become the Imperium's state church, down to the way of referring to the Emperor in the Divine tense, years before Lorgar's fall into the worship of Chaos.
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Dark Messiah / int_6819d300	comment	X-O Manowar: Aric of Dacia is an Anti-Hero example. He finds out that he is the messianic figure of an evil alien race known as the Vine after bonding with their worshiped deity, the symbiotic armor Shanhara. However, due to having previously endured enslavement and torture from the Vine, he vows revenge against and is determined to destroy them. While initially regarding him as a sacrilegious abomination, the Vine come to realize he is their chosen one after all and begin to revere him as such. He ultimately fulfills his purpose as Messianic Archetype when he saves the Vine from the Torment, the alien race that used to oppress them.
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Dark Messiah / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder: Asmodeus, the ruler of Hell and greatest of the Archdevils, plays this role in Golarion. To wit, his church and personal involvement staved off destruction through civil war in the powerful nation of Cheliax. As a result, his church is the official religion, his priests and inquisitors hunt down heresy and proscribed faiths, and his faith and the government are intertwined. The society runs on predation, with the government openly allowing, regulating, and even owning the trade in slaves, gladiatorial combat, the flesh trade, and so on. Devils secretly move through the society, pulling whatever string their lords demand. But Asmodeus' involvement did stop the country from falling apart, and Cheliax remains a Wicked Cultured powerhouse rather than an anarchic nation torn asunder. Even better, Cheliax views Hell as its servant, not the other way around. The Hell Knights view Hell's order as a thing to emulate as they try to undo the chaos of Golarion, and look to Asmodeus' vision of rulership for guidance. Surprisingly, they are Lawful Neutral, not Lawful Evil, despite their terrifying appearance and open admiration for Hell.
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Dark Messiah / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Loki in The Avengers (2012). In Thor he's more of Anti-Villain, trying to raise Asgard's prominence by destroying their enemies in Jotunheim, but by The Avengers, his plan has changed to this. In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ultron initially serves as this to Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, who view him as a force to ensure peace more than the Avengers, who they see as opportunists and killers. Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War is a relentless crusader determined/obsessed with saving the universe by killing half its population. His followers, specifically Ebony Maw exalt him like he is the leader of a death-worshiping cult.
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Dark Messiah / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Yamun Khahan, the Forgotten Realms resident Genghis Khan expy, unified the Tuigan tribes under his rule and led them in a campaign of conquest while believing to be the chosen champion of the god Teylas and destined to Take Over the World and become the Illustrious Emperor of all Peoples.
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Dark Messiah / int_6b302cc3	comment	Disturbed: "Deify" describes such a character. "The Vengeful One" has the singer describe himself as this (the music video has the band's mascot protesting the media's fixation on mass shootings by going into a TV studio and starting one of his own).
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Dark Messiah / int_6c1d09b1	comment	Similarly, The Master from the first Fallout seems to come off as this to many a Super Mutant.
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Dark Messiah / int_6e627c5c	comment	Cortana of all people becomes one at the end of Halo 5: Guardians. Having discovered a way to survive past rampancy, she offers the AIs of the galaxy a chance to serve her for immortality. They rally to her en masse, beginning her plans of galactic domination, which she believes will bring a new age of peace and prosperity to all.
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Dark Messiah / int_701f0ece	comment	Berserk: Griffith is a definite example. He cares for the weak and helpless everywhere, fights tyranny and cruelty, and everyone loves him. However, after getting imprisoned and tortured within an inch of his life, he sold his soul to the evil Godhand to become its fifth member Femto, hired demons as enforcers, and ruthlessly killed anyone who opposed his rise to power, including the Band of the Hawks that he once led, whom he sacrificed in order to become Femto in the first place. And in a later arc, Griffith is called an actual Messiah by the people. He has the Crystal Dragon Jesus equivalent of the Pope proclaiming him to be the best thing since sliced bread. We, the readers, can only cringe in expectation of the devastation that will ensue. And to make it even worse, since he still possesses at least a significant amount of a Godhand's power even though he was supposedly reborn as a human, and seems to still be backed by the other four demon lords, he actually IS a Crystal Dragon Anti-Christ, who is currently posing as a Dark Messiah. No matter how bleak things are already, they WILL get much, MUCH worse. Bishop Mozgus is a twisted destroyer of blasphemy who took in and nurtured deformed, sick, and dying orphans...to train as his indiscriminately torturing inquisitorial hitmen.
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Dark Messiah / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: The Ori and their Priors, who use belief from billions of worshipers on thousands of planets to fuel their powers. The best example, though, is Adria: The Ori's Obstructive Code of Conduct (or rather, the equally powerful Ancients' Obstructive Code of Conduct, which they also enforce on their Ori cousins) prevents them from directly attacking the masses (except in their own galaxy, where anything goes), so their knowledge and a considerable amount of power was placed in Vala's asexually-conceived daughter, who rapidly grew into a beautiful, charismatic, and very deadly adult to lead the attack. She eventually had to Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence to survive poisoning...and, as such, now falls under the Obstructive Code of Conduct that bound her bosses. Oops. Worked out well enough for Adria, though, since her bosses died in the interim, meaning that Ascension gave her all of their previously shared godlike powers. A more mundane example pops up early in the first season, where the leader of another SG team ends up being revered as a god by the locals and goes on a power trip. He was implied to already be a little mentally unstable before, and the adulation and plight of the local population, coupled with spending a little too much time in the high-UV radiation of the planet's star, pushed him over the edge into thinking he was a god and trying to lead his people to self-destructive salvation.
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Dark Messiah / int_7110fae1	comment	Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica has Infel, a Mad Scientist bent on hurling the world headlong into Sublimation. Considering the kind of Crapsack World she lives in, it makes her almost justified, especially since Croix and co.'s plans seem to be pipe dreams. She nearly succeeds too, twice. Originally, she was a grade-variety messiah. She led the project to create utopia but then things went extremely wrong, culminating in the death of her wife(?), her Roaring Rampage of Revenge Rage Against the Heavens, her hostage-taking/murder/whatever of the goddess of the world, and general worsening of the world's state, whose dying condition mandated the utopia project to begin with. Her wish for Sublimation is fueled by a desperate sense of responsibility.
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Dark Messiah / int_718f3ed1	comment	Raul Menendez in Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
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Dark Messiah / int_72587203	comment	Paul Muad'Dib, curious in that he recognizes the dangers in his Messiah-ship, and sought to avoid them, but had the Dark Messiah moniker forced on him by his followers and reluctantly adhered to the mold.
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Dark Messiah / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In Season 6, Gul Dukat returns from exile as an emissary of the Pah-Wraiths, becoming The Antichrist to Sisko's Messianic Archetype. Despite his being as much a schemer as ever, his belief in the power of the Pah-Wraiths seems entirely genuine.
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Dark Messiah / int_7559ae0b	comment	Dune: Paul Muad'Dib, curious in that he recognizes the dangers in his Messiah-ship, and sought to avoid them, but had the Dark Messiah moniker forced on him by his followers and reluctantly adhered to the mold. His son, God-Emperor Leto II, saw it as well, but realised that he couldn't avoid it. He knew (hooray for prescience!) how future generations would see him, and was prepared to pay the moral price. Justified, in that failure to follow through would have meant the extinction of humankind. Maybe, following a path generally blinds one to other alternative paths.
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Dark Messiah / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: The "noble" Prophets are the leaders of a religion whose goal is to activate the Halos in order to achieve godhood. Actually, the Halos just kill all sentient life in the galaxy. Meanwhile, the Gravemind seeks to bring together the galaxy in unity and peace... by having his Flood infect everyone. Jul 'Mdama leads a Covenant remnant that seeks the ascendancy of the Sangheili... and the annihilation of all humans. Cortana of all people becomes one at the end of Halo 5: Guardians. Having discovered a way to survive past rampancy, she offers the AIs of the galaxy a chance to serve her for immortality. They rally to her en masse, beginning her plans of galactic domination, which she believes will bring a new age of peace and prosperity to all.
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Dark Messiah / int_760f71ad	comment	John from The Fades. He sees himself as a messiah figure for the Fades trapped on Earth and plans to give them all physical forms and relatively normal lives again, but he himself is insane from being trapped on Earth unable to interact with anything, the process of giving the Fades physical forms involves eating human flesh and his actions are implied to be the cause of the apocalypse Paul dreams about.
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Dark Messiah / int_7668653a	comment	Mass Effect 2: A Renegade Shepard can fit this trope as well, due to the ruthless nature that he/she exhibits. Subverted with Saren, who at first seems to be one of these, but it turns out that he was being controlled by Sovereign.
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Dark Messiah / int_76ee633d	comment	Castlevania: Nocturne: The Big Bad, Countess Erzsebet BÃ¡thory, is a self-proclaimed "vampire messiah" who intends to use a magically-induced solar eclipse to bring about an eternal night so that vampires can Take Over the World. She quickly declares herself a god and is worshiped as one by her minions, though to be fair, she has the power to back it up.
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Dark Messiah / int_77582c7b	comment	In X-Men: Days of Future Past, Magneto's younger self prepares to kill Nixon while declaring mutant supremacy in front of a live broadcast.
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Dark Messiah / int_791fca45	comment	BioShock 2: Sofia Lamb certainly styles herself as and believes herself to be this (despite her private atheism). Like any good mother, she expects her daughter to uphold this standard. By fusing with all of Rapture's collective memories and becoming the first Utopian. Sans free will, no less. Both Daisy Fitzroy and Father Comstock from BioShock Infinite. Ironically, they both have a personality cult while being ideological opposites. Comstock also intends to raise Elizabeth as this, breaking her will through a combination of torturous experimentation and time so that she becomes his heir and reenacts his version of the Final Judgment upon the "Sodom below".
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Dark Messiah / int_79e85fc7	comment	The Following: Serial Killer Joe Carroll sets up a cult of like-minded people, who practice "Carrollism", and murder people to the style of the works of Edgar Allan Poe. His followers even compare him to Jesus Christ more than once. Ultimately, it's a Deconstruction of this idea, as the glaring problem with it becomes more and more apparent. He's a total sociopath who doesn't care about any of them, and they're all a bunch of total psychos. Things fall apart rather quickly.
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Dark Messiah / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Ra's al Ghul is partially immortal, and his intelligence and Magnificent Bastardry can only be matched by Batman. With an army of devout followers to boot. In one alternate history, he completely conquered the world and killed off all the super-powered heroes. Though to be fair, he is less villainous than usual examples. The Batman Annual story Messiah of the Crimson Sun features a genocidal villain who intends to Death Ray the world and remake it in his image. It's actually Ra's al-Ghul — se above.
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Dark Messiah / int_7cabe488	comment	In Bendy and the Ink Machine, Sammy Lawrence considers himself to be Bendy's "prophet," and many of the ink people look to Bendy as their savior. Main problem is that Bendy's a demon...
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Dark Messiah / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout: Caesar, leader of Caesar's Legion, from Fallout: New Vegas. At least, to his subordinates he is. The other factions don't seem to think of him as such. Similarly, The Master from the first Fallout seems to come off as this to many a Super Mutant. And of course, every game can be completed with perfect reputation with every mainly good faction and every religious group declaring you the Redeemer, but it's extremely hard to get there without gunning down armies of husbands and wives. The Chosen One is the likeliest fit since s/he's the only one who explicitly sets off on a spiritual quest rather than merely being sent to find something.
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Dark Messiah / int_7f9dbbcc	comment	The Jackal from Far Cry 2.
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Dark Messiah / int_7f9dbbcf	comment	Joseph Seed from Far Cry 5. He inspires fanatical loyalty in his followers and honestly believes that the Apocalypse is near and that they must save as many as possible. Even if that means forcing people to join his cult at gunpoint and killing anyone who resists.
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Dark Messiah / int_7fc78282	comment	Sauron from The Lord of the Rings, before he became the Evil Overlord he is more known as. He started out as an angel-like spirit, and turned to evil because he wanted to create harmony and control in Arda. Once he started listening to Morgoth, this turned into the desire to control all forms of life and rule the planet.
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Dark Messiah / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider From the original 1971 series comes in the form of the Great Leader (of Shocker). Many of his subordinates see him as something of a divine figure, a perception which the Great Leader actively encourages. Kamen Rider Outsiders: Zein is a supposedly Benevolent A.I. that seeks to learn human benevolence and purge human evil, and the villains come into the conclusion that humanity must be subjugated in order to establish a utopia of eternal benevolence and order. And Zein even swayed a few notable heroic Riders and their associates in the campaign against Ark and Foundation X.
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Dark Messiah / int_86c3beca	comment	Baron Wulfenbach, from Girl Genius. Formerly, the Anti-Hero Lancer to a pair of traditional messianic types; he was a minor noble who was exiled after an attack by The Other. When he returned, he found chaos reigning in Europe. So he conquered everything and became a ruthless dictator to maintain order and peace. And it worked. Showcased here.
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Dark Messiah / int_87e9a6c4	comment	On Channel Zero: Candle Cove, Frances Booth clearly views the Creator of Candle Cove (Eddie Painter) as some sort of savior/deity, since they cured her of her epilepsy with their psychic powers, even going so far as to offer up her own son as a Human Sacrifice in the backstory. In the present, she's working to bring about a second coming by prepping Eddie's brother, Mike, for a Grand Theft Me.
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Dark Messiah / int_87f79296	comment	Far Cry: The Jackal from Far Cry 2. Joseph Seed from Far Cry 5. He inspires fanatical loyalty in his followers and honestly believes that the Apocalypse is near and that they must save as many as possible. Even if that means forcing people to join his cult at gunpoint and killing anyone who resists. Ethan Seed, the Bastard Bastard son of the afore-mentioned Joseph, in Far Cry: New Dawn. He plans on replacing his father as the leader of New Eden, a cult village Joseph formed from the remnants of his old cultists and any new converts he could find after the nuking of Hope County. That said, Ethan is heavily skeptical about his father's own supposed Dark Messiah-dom, but that's mainly for selfish reasons, like resenting his father for denying him access to one of the mystical apples that Joseph used to keep his people safe. Ultimately, despite Joseph having a good reason not to trust Ethan with the fruit (namely, his unbalanced soul caused it to mutate him into a monster that the Captain had to kill) he ultimately agrees with his son that he is not God's shepherd — the Captain is, because all Joseph did was spread death and destruction in God's name. The broken Joseph asks the Captain for a Mercy Kill.
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Dark Messiah / int_89465e75	comment	Luke Castellan, the champion of Kronos and main antagonist of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, fits the role rather well. Motivated by anger at the Olympian gods for the way they treat their children, Luke accepted the lordship of the Titan Kronos to destroy Olympus and usher in a new age. He recruited half-bloods to his side in order to release Kronos from his prison and overthrow the gods. Luke promised disillusioned half-bloods that they would have a privileged place in the new Age of the Titans.
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Dark Messiah / int_8960fd02	comment	King Canute the Great in Vinland Saga intends to end the Viking Age, by creating strong, centralized leadership over Scandinavia and England so he can 'save' the vikings from their life of violence, getting them to settle down and stop plundering Europe and each other. This, of course, puts him into conflict with other would-be kings of Scandinavia and England, not to mention that he'll need the help of the vikings to get the power and wealth he'll need to create that state.
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Dark Messiah / int_89f4bc45	comment	The Undertaker was this for sure in his Ministry of Darkness.
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Dark Messiah / int_8a836c90	comment	The Walking Dead (2010): Negan probably sees himself as the new messiah and definitely acts like it. He claims to be doing everything for the greater good, in order to save what's left of humanity. He even acts personally offended whenever somebody fights or questions his motive. His methods, on the other hand, leave much to be desired.
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Dark Messiah / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: Paptimus Scirocco from Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam could certainly qualify. Though he is introduced as a textbook Manipulative Bastard and his motives are shrouded in mystery throughout the series, his Motive Rant in the last episode seems to hint at this. Char in Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack. Chairman Gilbert Durandal from Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny as well. He really is out to save the world, he just goes way, way too far in his attempts to do so (including sending assassins after Lacus and Kira just because he figured they would try to stop him), while convincing most of the planet that he is their saviour. Ribbons Almark from Gundam 00. Which is only appropriate, since he's a stand-in of Scirocco. Flit Asuno becomes this in the second generation of Gundam AGE after witnessing Yurin's death at the hands of Desil Galette, which leads him to becoming the savior for the corrupt and genocidal Earth Federal Forces. Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: McGillis Fareed has admirable goals in wanting to reform the corrupt and oppressive Gjallarhorn, but he's willing to employ some underhanded tactics in order to further his goals, including backstabbing close allies and funding human experimentation. He especially becomes this after he leads an open revolution against Gjallarhorn and claims Gundam Bael, declaring himself Agnika Kaieru's successor.
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Dark Messiah / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note has Light Yagami. He intends to annihilate all the evil and worthless people from the world for the good of humanity. This also includes almost anyone who opposes him and tries to stop him, even if they happen to be otherwise upstanding enforcers of the law. His tendency to deceive and often betray those around him doesn't help, and at one point he even changes the emphasis of his message from "and I shall be god of that perfect world!" to "And I shall be GOD! of that perfect world."
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Dark Messiah / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: Persona 3: Takaya, the Nietzsche Wannabe who looks a lot like Jesus, becomes this near the end of the game, becoming an internet cult leader after learning of The End of the World as We Know It and attempting to encourage everyone else to embrace The Avatar of Death coming to destroy them all. According to a scene in FES, Shuji Ikuski saw himself as one of these. Persona 5: The Big Bad Masayoshi Shido was an Evil Counterpart to the Player Character, as the Wild Card's role in their Journey is to lead mankind to the righteous path, whereas Shido was the False Shepherd who sought to use his influence and power over the masses to convince the people of Japan he is their only hope and will lead them to a brighter future. This makes the people practically worship him to the point that they refuse to believe that he is evil even after he has his heart stolen by the Phantom Thieves, meaning that they will rather be enslaved by Shido rather than have a hopeless future. His Palace takes the form of a cruise ship floating over a sunken Tokyo with only those chosen by Shido to be on board, making it a dark reference to Noah's Ark. Persona 5 Royal had Takuto Maruki, who becomes one after the completion of his Confidant and the fall of Yaldabaoth. This results in a Lotus-Eater Machine where everyone is given what he thinks they need to be happy, and any dissension is dealt with a brutal Mind Rape that is meant to convince the victim that they need to accept his perfect world to escape the pain.
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Dark Messiah / int_8f8df73b	comment	Scar in The Lion King (1994) is this to the hyenas, offering them an opportunity to be on top for once instead of the lions.
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Dark Messiah / int_9096e12c	comment	CarnivÃ le: Brother Justin (aka The Usher of Destruction) and Sofie, the Omega, as revealed in the series finale. Even the series' designated "good" messiahs (Ben Hawkins and Lucius "Management" Belyakov) can qualify as this. The series makes it clear that being designated as an Avatar of Light doesn't make a person heroic, and that the Avatars who are destined to do great things for humankind often wind up performing some truly horrific acts along the way. To whit, Ben wound up on a chain gang for murdering two innocent people before the events of the series, and Belyakov tried to assassinate Henry Scudder during World War I, and he manipulates several characters into killing each other over the course of the series.
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Dark Messiah / int_90c73dda	comment	In Animorphs (by the same author as Everworld, below), Visser One also invokes the Messianic Archetype in order to found The Sharing, which was originally more like a cult than anything. She acquired a special male host to better fit her role as Dark Messiah and eventually had him killed, knowing that humans would tear down a leader but lionize a martyr.
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Dark Messiah / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech: Nicolas Kerensky eventually came to believe that violence was an immutable trait in humanity that could not be eliminated, but could be harnessed. To this end, he created The Clans; a society based on Might Makes Right, Honor Before Reason, and eugenics in order to isolate the damage caused by warfare to those who actually fought it. To achieve this, he took absolute power, and when one of the Clans had issues with his ways of running things, he wiped them out and eliminated all records of their existence.
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Dark Messiah / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: "Yet one shall be born to face the Shadow, born once more as he was born before, and shall be born again, time without end. The Dragon shall be Reborn, and there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth at his rebirth. In sackcloth and ashes shall he clothe the people, and he shall break the world again by his coming, tearing apart all ties that bind. Like the unfettered dawn shall he bind us, and burn us, yet shall the Dragon Reborn confront the Shadow at the Last Battle, and his blood shall give us the Light. Let tears flow, O ye people of the world. Weep for your salvation." Initially, the Dark Messiah in question, Rand Al'Thor, struggles heavily with the unthinkable notion of women being harmed. But as the books progress, he becomes increasingly disturbed, and the prophecies' promise of a world-shattering salvation seems to become increasingly more likely. Regardless of what actually happens, the Prophecies have certainly promised a Dark Messiah rather than a Messiah. Many of the Dragons seem to be this. Lews Therin Telamon was seen as this because the Dark One made Lews Therin go crazy after saving the world by sealing the Dark One away, but the ensuing insanity amongst the male half of the magical population lead to the Breaking of the World. Masema would be a good example, except that he's the (self-proclaimed) "Prophet of the Lord Dragon", not the Dragon himself. He and his ragtag army of Ax Crazies go around randomly slaughtering whole villages for not serving Rand devoutly enough. Rand keeps telling him to stop, but... In the last book Demandred sets himself up as one of these as Bao the Wyld, a prophesied figure for the Sharans also called the Dragonslayer. It's unclear if he really is Bao the Wyld or simply hijacked the prophecy, but the former is indicated to be more likely.
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Dark Messiah / int_91afdcba	comment	It's highly hinted that this Abnormality has another source which is Carmen, the young woman with white skin and red eyes, who was a normal Backstreets preacher though with an extremely charismatic nature and ability to go into dangerous zones unarmed, and was so universally praised that literally the only ones who didn't expouse their love for her were those who hadn't interacted with her while she was alive. It becomes obvious in the sequel that Carmen's Common Mary Sue Traits make her an Uncanny Valley Girl more than anything else, and what with her goal to make everyone express their true selves without realizing that everyone in the City is more or less Ax-Crazy she firmly falls into this trope. Really, is it any wonder that she shares her name with one of the most famous Femme Fatale in all of media history?
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Dark Messiah / int_9247fa59	comment	Their boss Kai comes off as this to the cross-eyes group in Dorohedoro to the point they maintain a shrine for him in his absence. While his followers see him as a saviour to the oppressed weak magic users they're not aware of his true goals and identity.
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Dark Messiah / int_9525e74d	comment	Dr. Jebediah Christoph aka Jebus of Madness Combat is a defecting AAHW scientist who grew disgusted with the things he was made to create and gained quite a severe messianic complex in the process.
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Dark Messiah / int_95818d99	comment	killer7: Emir Parkreiner, aka Garcian Smith. The reasons why are... obscure. Andrei Ulmeyda is a straighter example. He's using a fragment of a powerful document, and turns out to not be that bad a guy — infecting himself with all the diseases in the world to become a living vaccine. However, he doesn't succeed against the Heaven's Smile virus, and that's when you're called in... The two gods, Kun-Lan and Harman, their agents on earth, Emir Parkreiner and Harman Smith, are all dark messiahs. The gods don't generally care what their agents do as long as they achieve their ends, resorting to murder and enslavement. The real problem is that they work for the East and the West, respectively, and are constantly at war with each other. So whoever wins, someone else loses. This is shown in the ending of the game, which lets you decide, ultimately, if the West will be destroyed, or the East.
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Dark Messiah / int_95d534e1	comment	The Dragon Prince: Lord Viren views himself as humanity's savior. In season 2 he saves people from a famine, and in season 3 he is seen in white robes, parts a river of lava-like Moses did with the Red Sea, and is raised from the dead after a few days. However he is incredibly ruthless, power-hungry and manipulative.
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Dark Messiah / int_9a1ae1	comment	In The Breaker New Waves, Chun Woo seems to have embraced this role after he spent the previous series avoiding it. His sheer charisma and prowess is such that the people who survive encounters with him are eager to follow him afterwards.
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Dark Messiah / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Melisandre from A Song of Ice and Fire is a female example, and is Stannis Baratheon's Sinister Minister. She genuinely believes that Stannis is Azor Ahai come again, and preaches a message of peace and tolerance, uniting in the name of Rh'llor, the Lord of Light. Unfortunately, Melisandre is a Knight Templar, Stannis Baratheon is completely unyielding, and worshipping Rh'llor involves blood magic and burning people alive. Since she's in Westeros, however, her faction is not much worse than most others.
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Dark Messiah / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Former Marine "Z" from One Piece used to be an upstanding believer in justice, but after losing one too many things to pirates...
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Dark Messiah / int_9f833a1e	comment	Lobotomy Corporation has an Abnormality named WhiteNight, an angelic-looking fetus with white wings that plays this trope entirely straight, including it even being hinted to been based off the Antichrist, which is also reflected in its design with red eyes and the Number of the Beast on its collar. In gameplay proper, it will convert 12 of your employees it has blessed in its previous form into monstrous Apostles which will defend it when it breaches properly. And just to hammer in the fact that this creature is bent on playing God - when it's breaching, you can't even open the main menu or pause the game. It's highly hinted that this Abnormality has another source which is Carmen, the young woman with white skin and red eyes, who was a normal Backstreets preacher though with an extremely charismatic nature and ability to go into dangerous zones unarmed, and was so universally praised that literally the only ones who didn't expouse their love for her were those who hadn't interacted with her while she was alive. It becomes obvious in the sequel that Carmen's Common Mary Sue Traits make her an Uncanny Valley Girl more than anything else, and what with her goal to make everyone express their true selves without realizing that everyone in the City is more or less Ax-Crazy she firmly falls into this trope. Really, is it any wonder that she shares her name with one of the most famous Femme Fatale in all of media history?
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Dark Messiah / int_a33d74a4	comment	Jagang of the later Sword of Truth books claims he's been chosen by the Creator to create a paradise where all the needy are taken care of, while everyone works for others' benefit. He can inflict mental torture on those who can use magic and whisper into the minds of those who can't. He's also a rapist and generally terrible human being and the leader of a horde of fellow ones. He even has his own false prophet guy who sets up the religion of evil and has a scheme so they can practically live forever, luckily they both get killed and all their followers send to another dimension. Most critics of the series would also view Richard Rahl, the "hero" as one of these too. He executes people without trial, coerces countries into submitting to his rule, massacres civilians, uses torture on prisoners, and in general won't accept anything except people completely signing up to his side. All in the name of liberty, don't you know.
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Dark Messiah / int_a346e791	comment	NUMB3RS: Nine Wives has Abner exploiting his followers' spiritual yearnings for his own gains, posing as a savior, when in reality, he is nothing but a sexual predator and abuser.
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Dark Messiah / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Lelouch Lamperouge, the main character of Code Geass, is a nicer version. He seeks to overthrow of The Empire that killed his mother and means well (most of the time), but even at his best, he's shot a dog or two — some of whom he even unleashed himself. And he's obviously aware of his status, as he ends up setting himself up as the ultimate tyrant and concentrating the hatred of the world on him, so that when he's killed, the world can finally unite in peace.
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Dark Messiah / int_a5549ed0	comment	Adam Monroe. Thirty years before the events of the series, he gathered twelve unique individuals to follow him, termed them his 'disciples', and attempted to save the world. Does this story sound just a little bit familiar?
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Dark Messiah / int_a599305d	comment	Omega, aka Zero's original body, from the Mega Man Zero series is Dr. Weil's right hand Reploid that was destined to bring people who worshipped Dr. Wily's ideals of making heroes out of robots to a new golden age better than what X and Zero's ideals of a peaceful coexistence between humanity and Reploids could do after the Mother Elf eradicated the Sigma Virus from all Reploids after the X series by simply using the Dark Elf to control all Reploids so they cannot harm humans ever again. However, X and Zero, the latter of which is in a new body, steal the Dark Elf in an effort to turn the tide of the Elf Wars, causing Dr. Weil and Omega to slaughter 90% of Reploids and 60% of humans, betraying their human allies in the process and The Messiah of Dr. Weil to be banished into space, while his creator is caught and tried, made immortal in a cybernetic body by the Elf War survivors, and cast out into the wastleland he made himself.
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Dark Messiah / int_a8150af4	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Sauron is a nominal Messianic Archetype who started as a force of good before becoming a Fallen Angel, and whose present goal is to establish himself as both the ruler and the savior of Middle-earth, and he invites Galadriel to share this role with him. He claims he just wants to redeem himself by healing Middle-earth and rebuild everything he destroyed under Morgoth, and by that he means conquering Middle-earth and control everything. Galadriel's wraith form that Sauron shows her in a vision is this. She knows that if she would accept his offer to rule Middle-earth with him, she would become tyrant like Sauron. He denies that he wants to turn her into a tyrant, he wants her to make her a fair Queen like the sea and the sun, and stronger than the foundation of the Earth. Knowing Sauron, her being a tyrant or queen wouldn't have made any difference.
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Dark Messiah / int_aa0908ec	comment	Subverted in Lord of Illusions. Nix presents himself as a dark savior to his cultists and they remain slavishly devoted to his revelations even after his death. When he returns he sacrifices them without a second thought for being unworthy of him and denies being their "shepherd".
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Dark Messiah / int_aa44ce3c	comment	In Ages of Shadow, Boaz was personally trained by his religion's goddess in order to lead his people to greatness. This would sound pretty good, except that it's a Religion of Evil, the goddess in question is an insane Fallen Hero-turned-Eldritch Abomination, and "leading to greatness" means conquering the world. Gets upgraded to The Antichrist when he's resurrected even more powerful than before, and intends to destroy modern civilization and take over what's left afterwards.
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Dark Messiah / int_abb11fc7	comment	Kain R. Heinlein of Fatal Fury strives to build the ruins of Southtown into an independent utopia. His preferred means of doing so is by culling the weak from the strong through combat and mercilessly killing the weaklings and parasites in his city.
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Dark Messiah / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has Dio Brando. One of his closest followers proclaims that he "loves him as he loves God" while the other one cuts off his own head when Dio merely asks him for a bit of his blood. The rest of his legions of followers that he doesn't outright brainwash are all insanely devoted to him and all too eager to announce that devotion. Hol Horse is the only exception, being an amoral cowardly mercenary who only serves Dio out of fear and constantly looks for ways to backstab him.
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Dark Messiah / int_b075a451	comment	Fate/EXTRA CCC: The Big Bad of the game, Kiara Sesshouin, hopes to help all of humanity reach enlightenment and save their souls... through a magically induced mass orgy, of all things. They're explicitly identified as having a messiah complex early in the story (long before the player ever gets a hint that they're the main threat). Gilgamesh lumps all would-be saviors into this category, calling messiahs the "worst type of human being imaginable".
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Dark Messiah / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Daenerys and Drogo's unborn son Rhaego is prophesied to be the "Stallion Who Mounts The World," (in which 'Mounts' doesn't mean 'ride' but 'fuck') the khal of khals who will unite the Dothraki and lead them to dominion over the entire world. Whilst the Dothraki naturally see him as The Messiah, as the Dothraki are seen by every other culture in Essos and Westeros as the most bloodthirsty, brutal, savage, and barbaric people in the world — and not without due reason! — he more than fits this. This is lampshaded by Mirri Maz Duur, who subtly implies that her real reason for "helping" Khal Drogo was not to punish him for massacring her village but to try and Screw Destiny, ensuring Rhaego is stillborn and can never fulfill his destiny. Daenerys herself may be either this or The Messiah, the series hasn't really come clean either way and it may even be a matter of perspective. She sees herself as the rightful queen returning to reclaim a throne that belongs to her... but, on the other hand, she intends to do so by burning her way across Westeros with three fire-breathing dragons and after having fulfilled her stillborn son's destiny by unleashing the Dothraki upon Westeros. She finally makes the transition into Dark Messiah by the end of the series, burning King's Landing to the ground and killing hundreds of thousands of innocents in the process. With the city in her control, she declares that she will continue her "liberation" campaign beyond Westeros itself and "freeing" everyone in her path.
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Dark Messiah / int_b36e3c22	comment	Noah gives us Noah and Tubal-Cain. For more details, see the trope Dueling Messiahs.
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Dark Messiah / int_b4816c2e	comment	Both Kain and Raziel of the Legacy of Kain series fit to some degree. At first, Raziel is called "pawn and messiah". Then Kain is accused of having "messianic delusions". Then both are represented as messiahs of two competing races. Then it turns out Raziel is both messiahs and Kain is actually a completely different, higher kind of messiah. I've gone cross-eyed.
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Dark Messiah / int_b5a2b326	comment	In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, deranged Physical God Dagoth Ur sees himself as this. In the same way as the Nerevarine, who is named the Hortator (a great uniter and war-leader to the Dunmer people) and who is prophesied to "destroy the false gods" of the Tribunal, Dagoth Ur believes this to be his destiny. He seeks to destroy the Tribunal, drive the Empire from Morrowind, and use Akulakhan powered by the Heart of Lorkhan to eventually imprint his own twisted mind on reality (the "Dreamer"). However, according to Vivec (one of the Tribunal deities) in his 36 Lessons book series, Dagoth Ur is the "Sharmat", a "false dreamer". Like the Hortator, they both seek to unite and destroy but the Sharmat is seen as false, the terrorist to the theorist. So Sharmat is often equalized to "The Devil" or "The Dark One", a long-lasting and specific enemy.
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Dark Messiah / int_b6baaf51	comment	Strike Legion: The Empress deliberately built herself up as one of these, after concluding that fear was not a solid foundation to rule a galactic empire upon. Though a bit of a transparent Expy of the God-Emperor of Man, she is still an active ruler, not ending up as a Dark Lord on Life Support like he did, and when the love of her worshippers is insufficient to keep the peace and her fleets can't control the unruly, she can always use her Reality Warper abilities to destroy star systems to keep them in line.
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Dark Messiah / int_b6c15d0	comment	Socrates the Wise from The Conversion Bureau: A Beacon of Hope created an entire nation on Deliberate Values Dissonance.
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Dark Messiah / int_b8e5dfd9	comment	In Disco Elysium, Posthumous Character Dolores Dei was a Jeanne d'ArchÃ©type "Innocence" who's venerated as the Patron Saint of exploration and neoliberalism. She was both a figure capable of influencing humanity into great deeds as well as a ruthless demagogue unafraid of enforcing her will over those who stand against her, as she was known for being The Fundamentalist who violently suppressed secularism and dissent while spearheading mandatory education and colonization programs to spread her message. She was eventually assassinated by her bodyguard, who thought that she wasn't truly human.
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Dark Messiah / int_b962c879	comment	Fairy Tail: The Black Wizard Zeref genuinely wants to see the world become a better place and even created an entire country where he rules as a relatively benevolent Emperor, though he himself admits he didn't create Albareth for the sake of being a ruler. His very motivation for becoming an Omnicidal Maniac is "to cleanse the world of its sins", and is perfectly prepared to die to atone for his own which was why he created E.N.D. out of his little brother Natsu's dead body. He even has twelve disciples in the form of the Spriggan Twelve, as if Mashima was intentionally invoking the trope. Hell, even his plan to "cleanse the world" is this. He plans to capture the limitless magic within his former lover Mavis and use it to time travel back to the past to stop himself from becoming immortal. To him, he views his existence as having brought untold calamity to the world in the various magic users looking for his artifacts, emulating him, and so on. And he's unfortunately quite right as most of the villains could be traced to him as their origin, with the main exception being ironically the most dangerous one, Achnologia. However, it would in fact destroy the world in the sense that Natsu and everyone would not exist by changing the past.
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Dark Messiah / int_b9b796cf	comment	Archer (and the rest of the Counter Guardians) from Fate/stay night. Making a long story short, they work as the Earth's Immune System: stored in a timeless pocket dimension, the Earth summons them to prevent incidents that would threaten humanity or itself (like, say, drilling for mana). They do this by hunting down and killing/destroying everyone related to the incident, innocence be damned, and then return to their pocket dimension. Archer is practically the patron saint of this because he recognizes it as the most efficient means of saving people, even if he hates it.
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Dark Messiah / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Subverted by the Emperor. His Dark Messiah status was only established after his death and without his consent. During his life, he spent a significant amount of time fighting the people trying to establish a church around him. Part of the reason for the crapsack state of the world at the moment is because of the Horus Heresy, which put The Emperor into a coma so he could no longer prevent the church being established. Ironically, it was caused by Chaos showing Horus a vision of the future where the Emperor was a Dark Messiah. The series has gone back and forth on whether the Emperor trying to suppress his own worshipers was a good thing... though it's agreed his current worshipers are only a "necessary evil" because they screwed everything up in the first place. The Tau Ethereals went from visionaries uniting their people with great oratory skills and charisma to a caste of Dark Messiahs, being seen as leaders of the Tau's belief system while supposedly secretly controlling the entire race through Mind Control pheromones. Essentially, they can be seen as equivalent to Covenant Prophets in Halo. How did they not piss off the folks that liked the Tau being the only source of pure goodness in the universe? By stating all this through fluff; namely, the somewhat self-serving logs of Imperial xenobiologists. Lorgar, the Word Bearers Primarch, somewhat ironically fits this mold. He initially thought of himself as the traditional Apostle, with the Emperor as the Messiah, and spread a religion centered around the Emperor. The Emperor (having apparently decided he had turned a blind eye to this for too long) punished Lorgar rather abruptly and heavy-handedly... by ordering one of the magnificent cities Lorgar built to be evacuated and destroyed. Having decided to turn to... other deities, Lorgar wrote the book on Chaos worship, ultimately starting the Horus Heresy. Ironically, the holy book of the cult surrounding the Emperor, the Lectitio Divinatus, was penned by Lorgar and laid down the entire framework of what would become the Imperium's state church, down to the way of referring to the Emperor in the Divine tense, years before Lorgar's fall into the worship of Chaos. Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka is one of the most dangerous Ork warbosses in the galaxy and lays a good claim to being the biggest, meanest greenskin in space, as well as leader of the largest warband. He's also the closest thing to a religious leader the Orks have, as the self-proclaimed Prophet of the Waaagh! He claims that the Ork gods Gork and Mork speak to him, and he believes that he is destined to unite the Ork race and lead them on an end-to-end rampage across the galaxy to stamp everything in their path flat. Bearing in mind that if you can get enough Orks to believe something it has a decent chance of becoming true, if he didn't have the favour of his gods before, he probably does now.
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Dark Messiah / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer: The Everchosen are the chosen champions of the four Chaos Gods who are determined to conquer the Old World for Chaos. The current Everchosen is Archaon, to everybody else the Everchosen is The Antichrist especially seeing how Archaon succeeded.. Vlad von Carstein tried to conquer the Empire to put an end to the infighting and save it from Chaos. Like many other characters in the setting, how benign his intent was is debatable. The Orcs & Goblins have the legendary "Once an' Future Git", who apparently led a united Greenskin race at the dawn of time and will eventually return one day to unite them all for the ultimate battle, falling at the end of the world. Essentially, an evil orcish King Arthur, to the point that his myth revolves around him taking up his sacred axe (which, weirdly, doesn't have a name) from the Gaffastone, a big stone crudely carved in the shape of a dwarf with the axe buried blade-first in its head. The Once an' Future Git is mostly known for their status as a lore figure in the backstory of Wurrzag da Great Green Prophet.
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Dark Messiah / int_c054aa77	comment	In Cult of the Lamb, the titular Player Character is the prophet of a mysterious God of Evil and the instrument of its will. The mere fact that they're a lamb specifically (an animal associated with Jesus), along with other parallels like their slow apotheosis, their backstory and their role as a spiritual leader who can send their followers to "Heaven" makes them a dark, twisted Lovecraftian-cultist Messianic Archetype. The Lamb is A Lighter Shade of Black compared to the other deities, potentially acting as a Benevolent Boss and providing food and shelter in exchange for work and worship.
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Dark Messiah / int_c385eae5	comment	Noir from La Pucelle: Tactics hands out minor miracles like they were M&M's on Halloween, will forcibly stop his own demonic servants when they get overtly destructive, and honestly is attempting to create a paradise for himself and others. But he's willing to do some absolutely horrible things in order to get enough dark energy to make it happen.
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Dark Messiah / int_c43df4d8	comment	Davros in the Doctor Who story "Genesis of the Daleks" has used his extensive charisma to gain unquestioned following from his own Kaled people and even many of the enemy Thals and wants to save them by transforming them into a form better evolved to deal with the coming apocalypse and become the dominant life form in the universe at large. Shame that this is achieved by turning them into tentacled blobs in pepperpot-shaped tanks that murder everything out of racial hatred.
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Dark Messiah / int_c4771251	comment	Mistborn: The Original Trilogy Kelsier is like this right down to dying for the cause in the well-substantiated hope that his death will enrage the masses enough to make them rise against their oppressors. The Lord Ruler is a Dark Messiah made good. Turns out, he actually did save the world from an Omnicidal Maniac about a thousand years ago, but turned it into a hellish totalitarian theocracy in the process.
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Dark Messiah / int_c5c11fd2	comment	Char in Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack.
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Dark Messiah / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm has a slightly unusual example in Doctor Strange, a Byronic Hero and the series' Magnificent Bastard in chief, who's steadily arranging things (and manipulating people) into the optimum arrangement to oppose Thanos. He also sometimes segues into Dark Shepherd if his usual manipulations don't cut it (a rare thing indeed). Unlike most, though, he's got no delusions about being a messiah (he's closer to Moses), instead seeking to arrange the coming of a Messianic Archetype in Harry (who, as the Dark Phoenix, veers dangerously close to this territory in his own right), is unhappily aware that he's become He Who Fights Monsters, and while he thinks his actions are a necessary evil, he is determined that no one should have to become like him. Magneto used to be this, being referred to in-text as 'mutantkind's Dark Messiah'. Now, he's closer to Reformed, but Not Tamed; genial, affable, and grandfatherly, he's broadly heroic and a good teacher... and also absolutely terrifying when the need takes him. Surtur is a textbook example of this trope, earnestly believing that his vision will make the universe a better place. Like another example from this story, he's also a Dark Phoenix. The original, in fact.
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Dark Messiah / int_c74f2d3c	comment	In the Diablo series, Lilith created Sanctuary and the ancestors of humanity alongside an angel to escape the ravages of the Eternal Conflict. In Diablo IV, Lilith has returned to Sanctuary after eons of exile to save the world and her children from both the High Heavens and the Burning Hells, no matter what force in creation she has to tear down to do it. She inflames Sin in the hearts of man so they will embrace her guidance towards this goal.
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Dark Messiah / int_c77bea6b	comment	Only Villains Do That: Seiji was recruited by the goddess Virya to be The Dark Lord; in short, a fantasy supervillain. And he is - it's just that he started recruiting half the underworld to build their own self-sufficient society, while he was purging the other half for crimes against sapience. That this manages to be an improvement, no matter how bloody it gets, shows how backwards and psychopathic the high nobility truly is.
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Dark Messiah / int_cb6abea3	comment	Dartz from Yu-Gi-Oh! was trying to destroy the world and rebuild it without the flaws.
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Dark Messiah / int_cb6abef3	comment	Loki in The Avengers (2012). In Thor he's more of Anti-Villain, trying to raise Asgard's prominence by destroying their enemies in Jotunheim, but by The Avengers, his plan has changed to this.
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Dark Messiah / int_cbe9419f	comment	Last Res0rt has Veled, the 'Messiah of the Endless', who has gone on to become Ziligo's head of the military, although she comes off as more Necessarily Evil because of her precarious political situation. And now, we know that she intends to destroy the Endless.
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Dark Messiah / int_cc3c0f37	comment	Mars in Saint Seiya Omega wants to save the world... specifically, by saving Mars (the planet). However, that requires draining the Earth of energy and using it to make his planet a paradise. He'd move the humans who swear allegiance to him to Mars.
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Dark Messiah / int_cc47f5a5	comment	Kamen Rider Outsiders: Zein is a supposedly Benevolent A.I. that seeks to learn human benevolence and purge human evil, and the villains come into the conclusion that humanity must be subjugated in order to establish a utopia of eternal benevolence and order. And Zein even swayed a few notable heroic Riders and their associates in the campaign against Ark and Foundation X.
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Dark Messiah / int_cd0b7e4	comment	Darker Than You Think: The Child of Night, who both sides believe will lead the shapeshifters in reclaiming their lost empire. Multiple characters refer to this individual as a "black Messiah".
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Dark Messiah / int_cfd860dd	comment	Nasuverse: Archer (and the rest of the Counter Guardians) from Fate/stay night. Making a long story short, they work as the Earth's Immune System: stored in a timeless pocket dimension, the Earth summons them to prevent incidents that would threaten humanity or itself (like, say, drilling for mana). They do this by hunting down and killing/destroying everyone related to the incident, innocence be damned, and then return to their pocket dimension. Archer is practically the patron saint of this because he recognizes it as the most efficient means of saving people, even if he hates it. Fate/EXTRA CCC: The Big Bad of the game, Kiara Sesshouin, hopes to help all of humanity reach enlightenment and save their souls... through a magically induced mass orgy, of all things. They're explicitly identified as having a messiah complex early in the story (long before the player ever gets a hint that they're the main threat). Gilgamesh lumps all would-be saviors into this category, calling messiahs the "worst type of human being imaginable".
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Dark Messiah / int_d0c8185a	comment	In The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), the Lord Marshall is worshipped by the Necromongers with almost religious reverence. He is the half-dead post-human who has pilgrimaged to the Underverse and returned a holy Galactic Conqueror. His rule is absolute and he is destined to lead his people beyond the 'Threshold' to the alternate realm, although he's not immortal; the post is permanent until the Lord Marshal either dies of old age or is killed by an aspiring commander, and a new Lord Marshal succeeds him.
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Dark Messiah / int_d1548747	comment	Kane of the Command & Conquer: Tiberian Series is the military and religious leader of the terrorist group-turned-superpower Brotherhood of Nod. A seemingly immortal genius tactician, brilliant inventor (who patented the first Tiberium-harvesting technologies) and charismatic speaker, who is also ruthless. His followers certainly regard him as a Messiah who will herald the next phase of mankind's evolution. Also fulfilling the Messianic Archetype, he is betrayed by countless Nod Generals who feel he went too far. By Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, he approaches GDI with a proposition for an alliance in order to save humanity from extinction via Tiberium. Everyone expected him to betray them rather quickly. In the end, he didn't. Turns out, he's actually an ancient, immortal alien imprisoned on Earth since times immemorial. The Tiberium Wars and the business with the Scrin was in aid of his ultimate goal: escaping via Ascension.
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Dark Messiah / int_d1d1b9f8	comment	Second Apocalypse: Anasurimbor Kellhus quickly establishes himself as a messianic figure in order to rally the kingdoms of humanity against the Big Bad. The problem is that he's a manipulative sociopath who is so completely devoid of empathy or compassion that he could as easily be a villain as a hero.
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Dark Messiah / int_d2cd3b5e	comment	In Nomine: The Habbalah are a type of demons who think that they are still doing the work of God. As the most individually powerful Habbalah in existence, Vapula's particular brand of delusions of righteousness are especially inflamed. He views himself as God's chosen one, tasked with rendering down the fallen world to look for clues to divinity and thereby direct the worthy towards the path of self-perfection, ascension, and unity with the Divine — and if this means that thousands of unworthy mortals and wayvard servants must be rendered down for spare parts, well, all progress requires sacrifice.
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Dark Messiah / int_d3cef8e9	comment	By the third book in KJ Taylor's The Fallen Moon trilogy when he embraces his destiny, Arenadd most definitely fits this trope. He doesn't care how the Southerners leave his country, but they will go; letting him kill them is just a bonus.
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Dark Messiah / int_d45a6b22	comment	Blade is somewhat viewed as this by some of the vampires in the Blade Trilogy. While many fear him as their Boogeyman, many see him or the very least his blood (particularly Frost, Eli Damaskninos and even Drake) as the key to the salvation/future of the vampire race. Frost and his cronies needed his blood along with the 12 pure bloods (only got 11) in order for Frost to ascend as La Magra the blood god. Damaskinos needed his blood to perfect the vampire virus so he and his brood may become daywalkers, and Drake himself, already a daywalker commented that Blade would ensure the future of the vampire race (from his final lines, Drake considers Blade to be the first of a new breed of vampire). Frost in one deleted scene even referred to Blade as "their salvation"...
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Dark Messiah / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica (2003): Gaius Fracking Baltar. Other people only really see him as this in later seasons. And they are all quickly dismissed as idiots by everyone else.
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Dark Messiah / int_d78af2ac	comment	Kingsman: The Secret Service: Valentine, the Big Bad attempting to enact a genocide, sees himself as a messiah. He encourages his guests by comparing his plan to Noah's Ark. Claiming that neither Noah, God, nor the animals are the villains, and that like them, they will all bring in a new age.
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Dark Messiah / int_da275e44	comment	Jordan Collier in The 4400. He insists that everyone takes Promicin to gain powers, knowing that it has a 50% death rate. When a method is discovered to see whether you'd live or die if injected, he sabotages the attempt because it would "polarize the world between haves and have nots". Despite being at times manipulative and bastardy, he really was chosen by the people in the future to be the messiah, with the alternative implied to be even worse than a 50% death rate.
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Dark Messiah / int_dae48d5a	comment	In Z Nation, Murphy constantly flirts with this, due to his status as The Immune, his evolving zombie-human hybrid nature and subsequent psychic powers, and his generally selfish personality. And then comes the end of Season 2, wherein he learns that the "CDC lab" he and the rest of the cast had spent all series trying to get to is just a cover for the rich elite in Zona to get ahold of the zombie cure for themselves. This causes Murphy to snap, and Season 3 sees him fully embrace this role — he begins recruiting an army of followers with the promise of safety from the zombie plague and freedom from fear and want, transforming all recruits into zombie-human blends that he can mentally dominate.
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Dark Messiah / int_db96ded4	comment	Amon from The Legend of Korra fits this trope. He leads the Equalists, an Anti-Magical Faction that wishes to rid the world of bending, claiming that benders oppress the non-benders of the world (and he's not entirely wrong). His status as a Dark Messiah stems from how he claims to have been chosen by the spirits to replace the Avatar as the world's savior, believing that the Avatar has failed to balance the world as promised. Of course, he's lying his ass off about being chosen by the spirits, and even the fact that he's a non-bender.
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Dark Messiah / int_ddbb1828	comment	In Hell Night this happens to be you. The game's original Japanese title also happens to be this very trope.
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Dark Messiah / int_de6659ec	comment	Fiona a.k.a. the Black Fairy in Once Upon a Time committed herself to averting her son Rumpelstiltskin's fate of dying as the savior by turning herself into a fairy and creating the Dark Curse hoping that it would stop the one who was destined to destroy him. When her dress turns black when she was set to kill Tiger Lily, a crescent-shaped mark appears on her wrist, revealing that she was the destined darkness who was meant to destroy the savior. After being banished by the Blue Fairy to the Dark realms after severing her son's fate with the shears of destiny, she spent the next many centuries kidnapping children and turning them into labor for harvesting dark fairy dust, harvesting their power and preparing for the Final Battle, an event where Light (represented by Emma) and Dark (herself) would battle for the fate of all worlds.
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Dark Messiah / int_dfbfb76e	comment	EXTRAPOWER: Attack of Darkforce: Michael may be a Mad Scientist with A God Am I tendencies. But after witnessing the Dark Strike Cannon obliterate a huge chunk of Tokyo centered on Shinjuku, he truly believes that he is called to become a god unto the world and deliver it to salvation. The only problem is, this benevolent savior's modus operandi is to develop biological mobile weapons platforms in the shape of giant angel statues that wreak devastating havoc with their laser blasts to cleanse the world's impure.
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Dark Messiah / int_e0852c7f	comment	Dune (2021): What Paul Atreides is destined to become, according to his visions. He doesn't take his destiny of being responsible for the death of billions well at all: In the sequel, he eventually embraces his destiny after fighting against it for most of the movie. He destroys the Harkonnen and Sardaukar forces, but after the other Great Houses refuse to acknowledge him as emperor, he unleashes the Fremen on them in a holy war.
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Dark Messiah / int_e144ba19	comment	Dragon Age II: Anders. He spends much of the game pointing out the injustices the mages suffer at the hands of the Templars, such as the beatings and rapes as well as the Rite of Tranquility. He's the leader of what he calls the Mage Underground and compares himself to Andraste, the world's Christ and Joan of Arc figure. And at the end of the game, he blows up a church full of people to start a war between the mages and the templars, fully expecting to be martyred for his actions. Whether Hawke sees him as a messianic figure or not is up to the player to decide, but Anders certainly fancies himself one. Averted in the Rivalry path — Anders will admit that there was nothing messianic at all about his act of mass murder. Rather than a messiah, Anders will see himself as just another monstrous Abomination that needs to be put down. Hawke. Even if you play as Messianic Archetype, Hawke's choices ultimately serve as the catalyst for the Mage-Templar War, as the Champion of Kirkwall becomes a rallying cry for those wanting to be free of Templar oppression. As Varric's framing story can attest, a lot of good people have died in Hawke's name, while far less know who Hawke actually was as a person.
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Dark Messiah / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Master intended to bring about his "utopia" by opening the Hellmouth and was certainly treated with reverence by his subordinates. Adam was specifically described as the Dark Messiah at one point, planning to bring about a new world order ruled by demon/human hybrids, and was good at inspiring demons to work for him (even Spike said so).
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Dark Messiah / int_e3a8b9ea	comment	Baron Wastes of Owl's Hell That Ends Well is hailed as one by the imps, as he claims to be leading an uprising on the Ars Goetias, desiring to free Hell from their greedy, selfish and cruel rule and bring it back over to the hellborn, having already gathered a strong, loyal following from his desires. Despite his words and claimed however, Baron is not a good man himself. Not only is he very mentally unwell and paranoid, killing his own men in violent matters, for supposedly betraying him, he comes off as a bit of a hypocrite as he dresses himself in rich garb, wanting to be seen above the other imps and one the same level as the very Ars Goetia he seeks to overthrow. And then there's the amount of abuse, humiliation and trauma he inflicted upon Octavia, when she was still a young child.
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Dark Messiah / int_e4ba0958	comment	Bray Wyatt when he was leader of the cult faction The Wyatt Family.
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Dark Messiah / int_e4bbf647	comment	Korvac during The Korvac Saga. Despite his claims of wanting to bring order and prosperity to the universe, his eagerness to kill and control others reveals him to be an evil savior-want-to-be.
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Dark Messiah / int_e59216c7	comment	In The Gamer's Alliance, Glaurung is a very charismatic leader of the Crimson Coalition with great oratory skills. However, her plans of creating a utopia are... quite unorthodox.
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Dark Messiah / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends has the Sith'ari, a Sith counterpart to the Jedi Chosen One. While the title was first used by the ancient Sith king Adas, it came to mean "perfect being", a prophesized being that would be free of limits, that would lead the sith and destroy them, that would raise the sith from death and make them stronger than before. The ancient Sith sorceress Sorzus Syn believed it to be her, as did Darth Sidious. Darth Plagueis didn't believe in it but thought the description applied nicely to him. Sidious, Syn, and Plagueis were all wrong, however, as the true Sith'ari was Darth Bane, who destroyed the Sith empire known as the Brotherhood of Darkness (which had been rendered nearly inefficient by the constant infighting of its countless members) and replaced it with the Rule of Two (the unbroken Master-Apprentice Chain which ultimately culminated in Palpatine's rise to power).
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Dark Messiah / int_e69b860	comment	In Chronopia, a game with clear influences from Warhammer Fantasy'', there's the One King of the Kingdom of the Firstborn. After being killed by Elves, he reincarnated as the savior who freed the Firstborn from slavery by inhuman races. Unfortunately, he combines an "I'm always right" arrogance with having a Well-Intentioned Extremist's tunnel vision. As such his neglect of them, led his prophets to join the Devout cult and his ambition to steal the Tablets of Fate would cause the Stygians to declare a genocidal global war.
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Dark Messiah / int_e7812d88	comment	President Judd Hammond in Gabriel Over the White House has some ideas about how to solve the problems of the 1930s, problems like The Great Depression and the organized crime epidemic. Ideas like taking dictatorial control of the United States, dissolving Congress, establishing a State Sec "Federal Police", conducting drumhead courts martial, and standing mobsters up against walls for summary execution.
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Dark Messiah / int_ede55421	comment	The Doom Slayer becomes this in Doom Eternal, albeit not intentionally. In an Earth that is invaded by demons, you will find propaganda broadcasts telling the world not to lose hope because you're out there, and a series of logs you find follows a scientist studying your history who winds up nearly worshipping you. And what do you do to earn this devotion? Rip and tear, until it is done.
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Dark Messiah / int_eef5470a	comment	Shishio Makoto from Rurouni Kenshin, whose goal is to eliminate the Meiji government, which he views as weak and inferior (and even his enemies don't deny that point), and start a new era in Japan in which everyone must live under his rule, and only the strongest can survive.
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Dark Messiah / int_f2a8adc1	comment	The Polish The Inquisitor Cycle series by Jacek Piekara turns Jesus Christ into this trope. In an Alternate History timeline, Jesus came down from his cross, became a warlord who slaughtered every Jew in Judea, and brutally conquered the Roman Empire, becoming known as "The Butcher of Nazareth".
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Dark Messiah / int_f349915b	comment	Mina, introduced during the Age of Mortals for Dragonlance is one of these. First, during the War of Souls trilogy, she's (unwittingly) the messiah-like figure for Takhisis, the God of Evil (well, Goddess of Evil) for the Dragonlance setting. In the Dark Disciple trilogy, she then becomes this for Chemosh. Culminates in her ascending to the position of a lesser goddess in her own right, the Goddess of Tears, embodiment of sorrow and pain.
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Dark Messiah / int_f8956ef3	comment	Shinobu Sensui from YuYu Hakusho, who was one Faceâ€“Heel Turn away from being considered an actual Messiah.
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Dark Messiah / int_f9ef928d	comment	In Dark Savior, the parallel realities storyline comes to a head when protagonist Garian must prevent his own Evil Counterpart from becoming this and bringing ruin to the world.
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Dark Messiah / int_fb20cf66	comment	The Walking Dead Television Universe: The Walking Dead (2010): Negan probably sees himself as the new messiah and definitely acts like it. He claims to be doing everything for the greater good, in order to save what's left of humanity. He even acts personally offended whenever somebody fights or questions his motive. His methods, on the other hand, leave much to be desired. Fear the Walking Dead gives us a straighter example with Teddy, the Big Bad of the back half of Season 6. A former Serial Killer who escaped prison at the start of the Zombie Apocalypse, he's since built a cult of followers who buy into his beliefs that since death is a natural part of life, then the destruction of civilization by the walkers should be accepted rather than resisted. As such, he and his followers intend to destroy all other survivor communities using warheads from a beached nuclear submarine for trying to preserve pre-apocalypse society, ride out the apocalypse in their makeshift bunker, and then emerge to create a new world according to Teddy's design.
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Dark Messiah / int_fba2747b	comment	In life, Nahalla in The Ghost Dance was a leader of a violent cult offshoot of Ghost Dance religion, which strove to hurt the white overtakers as much as possible.
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Dark Messiah / int_fc93e179	comment	Tyler Durden in Fight Club is a non-religious, non-magical example. Even though Tyler never says he wants to be in charge he still sets himself up as the center of a cult that preaches violence and destruction as a form of self-improvement and eventually attempts to destroy society in order to save it from what he believes is complacency. His members all follow him blindly no matter how dangerous his assignments and are unable to think for themselves and hold him in reverence.
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Dark Messiah / int_fca0567c	comment	Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian (1982) styles himself as a prophet that will cleanse the world and manages to rally a massive following to consider himself an Evil Overlord.
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Dark Messiah / int_fd7de151	comment	Makishima Shougo from Psycho-Pass committed a number of terrible murders and terrorism in order to liberate Japan from an Orwellian Big Brother Is Watching regime that quantifies and criminalizes emotions. Kamui Kirito in the second season follows this trope even more closely, to the point that he even assembles a Cult-like following that will do anything to see his plans come true.
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Dark Messiah / int_fdf7a632	comment	Vampire: The Requiem: Longinus, the Roman soldier who pierced Christ's side during the crucifixion with The Spear of Destiny. He is patron saint of Lancea Sanctum, one of the covenants.
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Dark Messiah / int_fe83990a	comment	Most of Saint Seiya's Big Bads have been some flavor of this. The Pope / Gemini Saga wanted to protect the world and thought Athena was too weak to do it. Poseidon thought humans were destroying the planet and wanted to flood the world to start it over right. Hades is the odd one out, he just wants to kill everyone so he can rule over the dead world. His minions however believed him to want to create a land without suffering. Hades/Alone from Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas is especially poignant because his reasoning to kill everyone is that, since life is pain, by becoming an Omnicidal Maniac and god of the land of the dead he can ensure they spend eternity in a painless Heaven analogue. However then the real Hades retakes control and wants to proceed with plain old mass genocide, no utopia. Mars in Saint Seiya Omega wants to save the world... specifically, by saving Mars (the planet). However, that requires draining the Earth of energy and using it to make his planet a paradise. He'd move the humans who swear allegiance to him to Mars.
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Dark Messiah / int_ffb43795	comment	In Cobra Kai, John Kreese fancies comes off as such, being a deeply disturbed individual who's cruel, brutal, stone-hearted, and thoroughly obsessed with forcing his philosophy of social Darwinism and mercilessness on his students, and is very good at manipulating everyone around him to ensure he is in a position to do so. By the end of Season 2, he has successfully managed to seize control of Cobra Kai and secure the Undying Loyalty of most of Johnny's students save for Miguel, Aisha, and (possibly) Bert, telling Johnny that he'll appreciate it someday.
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Crusader Kings (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Dark Savior (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Darkstalkers (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Dungeon Crawl (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Far Cry 5 (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Final Fantasy Tactics (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Grime (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Halo 5: Guardians (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Killer7 (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Legacy of Kain (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Magical Vacation (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Mica: Apoptosis (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Nehrim (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Pathologic (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Red Faction (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Samurai Shodown (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Secret of Mana (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Shin Megami Tensei I (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Shin Megami Tensei II (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Soul Nomad & the World Eaters (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Starlink: Battle for Atlas (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Tales of the World (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Twisted Metal (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Vandal Hearts (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
X-Men: Destiny (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Master of the Wind / Videogame / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Full Metal Daemon Muramasa (Visual Novel) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Koishi Komeiji's Heart-Throbbing Adventure (Web Video) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
A Returner's Magic Should Be Special (Webcomic) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Niels (Webcomic) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Obsidian Blaze (Webcomic) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Our Little Adventure (Webcomic) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Castlevania: Nocturne / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Felidae / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
ReBoot / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
The Breadwinner / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Transformers: Cyberverse / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Bray Wyatt (Wrestling) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
CM Punk (Wrestling) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Celtic Championship Wrestling (Wrestling) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Seth Rollins (Wrestling) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
The Undertaker (Wrestling) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
The Wyatt Family (Wrestling) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Thunderbolts (Comic Book) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
X-O Manowar (Comic Book) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Everworld / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
[PROTOTYPE 2] (Video Game) / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah

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