7 Jerks Who Tricked You Into Doing Terrible Things

"Don't trust an adult that makes bad puns" Oh god, was Ellen the true villian of OX the whole time? I knew Jane was too overtly evil for it to ever be her thanks to Scooby Doo rules.

The worst part about Ikutsuki's betrayal is that there was NO indication that he was lying to you. He was quirky and awkward, yet fatherly and compassionate and with the trust of the main cast, two of whom had worked with him for years. Yet, when the veil dropped and he finally revealed himself, it was believable. The setup and everything that came with his game-long grift was well within his purview and skillset to accomplish. Doctoring footage, funding SEES, finding people with The Potential, all of it. He operated within the role of deuteragonist while being an antagonist in the most believable way possible.

Remember when Priscilla cruelly tricked Luke into murdering her by asking to be left in peace?

That time Mike tricked Andy into dropping a chandelier on people at a party in hitman lol

What about Atlas from Bioshock? Not only did he trick Jack into thinking believing he had a life on the surface AND to give him control of Rapture, he also convinced almost the entire city into believing that Fontaine was dead and that he and Atlas were two separate people. And also *spoilers he DID kill Elizabeth, which is a massive dealbreaker.

Shuji: "EE-KOOT-SKI. Hard to say isn't it?" Jane: Shuji "Ick-kuh-sooh-kee"

Oblivion is such a wealth of quests where you get tricked into doing terrible things. There are the vampires who convince you to hunt down vampire hunters by claiming to be hunters and claiming that the hunters are vampires, and then there is the fights guild quest where you get drugged and convinced to wipe out a village you helped earlier.

Jane's persona entry, 'dont't trust people who make puns like this' What's she trying to tell us about Ellen?

Red Dead had so many random creepy people who turned out to be arseholes. The dude who makes you steal a horse and it turns out he’s a weirdo with a horse fetish. The guy who asks you to capture/hogtie someone and bring them to him who turns out to be a cannibal. Pretty sure there’s more that I’m forgetting.

Loving to see the persona 3 rep on the list. It seems the arcana is the means by which all is revealed

What about Shadow of the Colossus? The demon literally tricks you into killing the colossi so it can possess you and take over.

I know some people haven't played Ace Attorney Apollo justice but the way that game makes the player (as phoenix wright) present false evidence that gets him disbarred is BRUTAL. All because he got tricked.

Getting fooled by the "good guy" into doing bad things is pretty much the entire plot of Tales of Symphonia - arguably, twice... and spans centuries of deception of entire worlds.

What about Dragon Age 2 where Anders tricks you into doing a terrorism by telling you that he needs help gathering ingredients for a potion that will cure his spiritual possession?

Persona 3 was definitely more suspect in its betrayal, greater than subtle hints the director of SEES had more knowledge about the death arcana, the shadows, nyx, the fall, than everyone in the party. The encouragement to hunt down the 12 greater arcana shadows didn't go completely unchecked.

Does Dusknoir from Mystery Dungeon Explorers count? He tricked you into beliveing stopping Grovyle would save the world but instead he was ensuring it's paralyzis.

Aery from Bravely Default fits this quite well. “Charge the crystals to restore balance to the world,” she says. In reality she’s using the power of the crystals to devour the worlds you’re looping through. It’s okay, it only comes at the cost of traumatizing one of your party members by repeatedly killing everyone she knows and loves!

Anders in Dragon Age 2, you help him do a lot of awesome stuff, and then he asks you to help him do something in the Chantry, a few moments later, you're an accessory to terrorism, massacre, instigation of war, and you figure out that all you helped him with, was with preparing this attack, if there is one betrayal that hurts the most, it's this one.

Persona 3, his true crime was the puns

All of that betrayal in Loom can be avoided by simply slicing the universe in half at the very start of the game.