Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-33941320-20171212054922/@comment-25008763-20171212165113

tragic and mercenary rarely go together without serious character development.. mercenary implies a character that is out for themselves and has little morals to begin with, also "killing innocents" is dishonorable by its very nature.. you need to rethink ethics and honor system.. if a character goes around killing innocent people they are not honorable.

Loki isn't honorable either, by the way, he's the god of mischief and evil - while he's not Pure Evil for many reasons he is not honorable.. you can have Loki on your side against larger threats but only a fool truly trusts Loki, as he will plot against you eventually.. that's the nature of Loki.

so, no.. terrorists and mercenaries are rarely tragic - let alone ones in Sonic games, where killing civilians is pretty much instant Moral Event Horizon.. it's not a setting with overly complex reasons.. bad guys do bad things and good guys do good things.. outside Shadow games Sonic is fairly simple in that terms.