10 Video Game Heroes Who Could Easily Be Villains

5) Lee Everett

Telltale’s The Walking Dead proved to be an acclaimed masterpiece when its first season launched a few years ago, not least for its large cast of diverse and complex surviving characters.

At the front of this was Lee, who had far more to his person than just being your typical hero. If you haven’t played the game, I have to warn you that spoilers will follow. I also have to urge that you immediately stop reading this and go play it.

Anyway, as the game unravels, players learn that their seemingly responsible and sensible hero Lee started the game in the back of a cop car as he was being tried for murder. And he eventually makes no bones about the fact that he did it. While he remains a caring and stoic guardian for Clementine, he could just as easily have bowed to the increasing pressure and become more of a threat to the survivors than the hordes of undead swarming around them.

Switching the perspective later in the game while he lived up to his reputation would have made for a surprising twist, and a spurned and chastised Lee could have become a terrifying antagonist.