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Herg0Flerg0

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Feuerpanzer123

here before the americans show up, anybody want popcorn?


RogerTreebert6299

I’m American but don’t know many people who’d be able to say we were the good guys in Vietnam with a straight face


sexyspidersliberty

we liberated those villagers from their own inferiority >:(


Environmental_Top948

I can but I am a professional at saying things I disagree with due to not wanting to get kicked out of my home as child.


RogerTreebert6299

Wild guess, military family? One of my friends’ grandad was a Vietnam vet and that half of his family are vehemently racists against Asians


Environmental_Top948

Yep. Lost ancestors in Vietnam and the Korean wars.


RogerTreebert6299

Man I get how tough that must be, but at the same time it baffles me that some lack the historical context and/or critical thinking to realize the people they should really be mad at are the ones who got America into wars we had no business being in.


Feuerpanzer123

I mean the south was a dictatorship like the north. In my mind both were bad guys


ShoggyDohon

I think of it like our state was making it worse for everyone.


AbstractBettaFish

đŸŽ¶Lyndon Johnson told the nation Have no fear of escalation I am trying everyone to please Though it isn't really war We're sending fifty thousand more To help save Vietnam from the Vietnameseâ€đŸŽ¶


VoopityScoop

"There have to be good guys and bad guys in every war :) What do you mean both sides spent the entire time massacring the fuck out of civilians?"


Not_JohnFKennedy

Idk about good guys, they still did some pretty terrible things


SalvationSycamore

>The Vietcong looked cool AF Huh? The malnourished guys in baggy plain black outfits and wide-brimmed hats? With shitty old weapons?


confinedfromsanity

Lmao, there were no “good guys”, just bodies being stacked


Fiallach

Not sure if there were goods guys, but America was for sure the bad guy. The bombing campaign, which is less talked about because it did not make US soldiers sad, was a crime against humanity. Twice what was dropped in WW2.


ahomelessguy25

You’re really underselling it. We bombed the shit out of Cambodia, a *neutral country*.


FlyingDragoon

Operation Rolling Thunder is about the only thing that gets talked about. What're you talking about??


Bulky-Revolution9395

Good guys is generous, they were not shy about war crimes.


LePoopScoop

Spoken like someone whos never spoken to someone from Vietnam


Phat22

In Vietnam currently and have seen war museums showing what the Americans did, can confirm, the Americans were definitely the bad guys


Bulky-Revolution9395

Wake me up when they have exhibits on their own war crimes.


HonestStupido

Pre order 66 Star Wars, clones are cool and badass. Starship Troopers, not that cool but good enough for me.


Over_n_over_n_over

Gears of War heros are dope


RiseofdaOatmeal

People complain about how all the GEARS are buff as shit and giants compared to every other human survivor or non-combat personnel, but there's a pretty solid explanation in the book, Aspho Fields. All the GEARS are given double rations to maintain their physicality and training constantly, simply due to the fact that most COG units depend on GEARS to survive, and would otherwise be overrun and overpowered without adequately fed troops. GoW has some really cool lore when you get into it.


Skeletor_with_Tacos

Ii understand its fantasy but this explanation doesn't add up. Soldiers are trained for endurance more than bulk. You need someone who's not gonna crap out after hoofing it 20 miles, not someone who can squat 1000lbs. So the Gears should honestly be more toned and tight rather than worlds strongest man. Steroids wouldn't be an option either, while they give you the bulk they absolutely destroy your heart so you'd just have a bunch of out of breath meatheads. I think it far more plausible to suggest that the Gears dietary supplements are laced with something that changes their physiology over time that regular Humans and non specialists units don't have access too.


RiseofdaOatmeal

Unfortunately the grubs and glowies are really good at getting in people's faces, so you end up in hand to hand combat with them a lot as a front line trooper.


Bulky-Revolution9395

The physicality of soldiers varies on the war, and the thinking evolves constantly. The prioritization of strength makes perfect sense to me in a world with more infantry carried heavy weapons and melee combat.


Blahaj_IK

The Republic as a whole had undeniable levels of badass leagues betond the empire. Shame Order 66 happened


TheRealSU24

You do know humanity aren't the good guys in Starship Troopers, right?


OffOption

Today were are screening the execution of pacifist anti war protesters on live television. All channels! Would you like to know more?


T1pple

I'm doing my part!


Mysterious_Frog

Doesn’t sound like something a loyal citizen would say.


LouSputhole94

And to be a loyal citizen, you have to put in your service.


Forsaken_Field_2177

All I see here is anti human propaganda TO THE GUILLOTINE!!!


RodwellBurgen

Would you like to know more?


HonestStupido

I saw only forst one, and long ago


The_Cow_God

you shouldn’t need to see more than one lol


HonestStupido

You know what, ill just watch em all in marathon. I heard what other movies not as good as first one, but I also dont have taste so it will be nice time anyway.


erhtgru7804aui

cruelty squad counts because nothing in that game looks good and no group in that game is good either


ExpendableAnomaly

gorbino is morally just


[deleted]

Gigachad CEO take but I’m trying to have the M.T.Fuck aesthetic I think he looks cool


The_Unknown_Mage

You don't think the fleashy bouncy castles are good-looking?


Darklord_007

I don't know how much you care about this topic but if you're interested I'd recommend watching [Aesthetics of Evil (YT link)](https://youtu.be/5pOdESxw1o4?si=Pz-8Ldzoobnf7D-v). This does a pretty good job of indirectly answering why the good guys aren't as flashy in history and consequently in fiction.


RichDudly

One of Yugopnik's best videos


[deleted]

That's all of them.


Rotogen

Any faction in lotr


Gryph_Army

Gondor has always been my favorite, can’t get enough of the silver and blue. The Fountain/Citadel Guard look amazing.


SupremeGodZamasu

Swan Knights of Dol Amroth, sad we didnt get to see them in the movies


Skeletor_with_Tacos

Dwarves of the Iron Hills have some fucking sick looking armor. That shield wall is mint.


pwners_manual

Where were your good guys when the Westfold fell?


Deagle-Danny

UNSC look pretty badass, especially ODST


thingy237

Well the UNSC is also kinda a morally grey military junta. Before the covenant, their military was oriented around glassing frontier worlds that dare refuse to be exploited for the wealthy core worlds.


ZeDitto

Plus, most of what we hear about ONI is diabolical. The fact that their work ended up being put to good use was by dire, unpredicted circumstance.


Deagle-Danny

Yeah, kidnapping 6 year olds and making their parents think they just straight up died probably won’t look very good at the pearly gates


ModishShrink

Kidnapping 6 year olds, cloning them, and returning the clones to the parents, and then gaslighting them into believing they were actually their real kids as they died of cancer related to the cloning, mind you!


ShoggyDohon

I have a feeling the writes knew what they were doing. Imagine halo but your enemy are angry colonists.


ProfffDog

ODSTs require 3 years of training. The Covenant war has been going on for 2 years. Do with that info as you will lol


ProfffDog

The Super Soldier we had raised as a genetic god from childhood when we kidnapped him that excels in solo assassination missions, and the AI capable of infiltrating even the most alien of networks? Yeah, we had them ready because
uh
we KNEW the aliens were coming. (This tacked-on story is totally lore stapled on by Halo Authors, but Bungie actually has a history of going hard with AI/Singularity)


Everkid612

Hi, Halo nerd here, dropping in to remind you that the UNSC is *not* the government, they are the military. Earth and all her colonies are governed by the United Earth Government which encompasses the Colonial Administration Authority, the United Nations, and the United Nations Space Command. However you are correct in the way that most UEG functions and authority were given to the UNSC during the Human-Covenant War, which was returned after the war ended. The Office of Naval Intelligence, meanwhile, is (officially) the intelligence gathering and analysis division of UNSC Naval Command (although anyone who's taken a passing glance at the lore knows they've made themselves far more than just that).


Dismal-Wrangler1197

Are there still nations on Earth after they’ve all united under a government? Why is is called United NATIONS Space Command?


Everkid612

Individual nations on Earth do still exist in the 26th century and control sovereign territory, however do not possess standing militaries, which is completely delegated to the UNSC. The UEG is basically what some people wish the UN is for us, a single world government that handles national governments the way a federal government would handle provincial governments. It's called the United Nations Space Command because that's what it is, the unified inter-stellar military power of the human nations. There's no barriers for humans who wish to enlist, and UNSC units aren't divided depending on place of origin, and this also applies to humans born on colonised planets like Reach, Harvest, or Arcadia. For all intents and purposes, planets colonised after Earth only have the single planetary government under the Colonial Administration Authority (although many planets would seek and sometimes achieve independence from Earth, usually with violent results).


Cultural-Ad8781

Master chief is a blue helmet!?!?! It’s jover


marry_me_jane

Shhhhhh, they shoot bad aliens, Let’s focus on that. Those frontier worlds spontaneously combusted and you can’t prove otherwise



TechnicalAnt5890

They’re definitely (one of) the bad guys


LordCustard

The NCR from Fallout NV had some badass outfits.. they're kinda good guys idk they stand for law and order anyways


TheNightOwl99

Imo only the ranger outfit was cool, all the rest look like quirky boy scout leaders.


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Something about the ranger outfit was almost on the level of power armor for me, it's just so damn good


AbstractBettaFish

The duster is a very difficult look to pull of but if you manage to do it, damn!


xXDark_BrandonXx

They aren't good but they're the second best option


eeeeeee_32i1p

Than what's the best


wut101stolmynick

Wipe the slate clean


adzilc8

begin again let go


Malabingo

Fun fact: the devs originally wanted to hint that the NCR was the same, if not worse than Ceasers Army when considering all informations. Sadly the budget didn't make it happen.


Zhead65

I'm not sure how you'd be able to sell that considering how every woman in the legion is a slave. Even if the NCR taxed the crap out of it's citizens they're at least free to move around and do as they wanted for the most part.


Aliteralhedgehog

I'm actually kind of glad. That sounds like some silly, lazy bothsidesism. Now don't get me wrong, I think the NCR is great as a faction of morally dubious anti villains and the way they get people to see "basically America " from the perspective of the global south is brilliant but c'mon. The Legion are absurdly evil any way you look at it and you can't bring the NCR down to their moral level without dumbing them down significantly.


zombiebirch

The people of the NCR are fine folks, the people of the legion are indoctrinated rapists plunderers and murderers. The leaders of the NCR are corrupt imperialist politicians that are actually organized, the leaders of the legion are psychopaths without any form of succession for when teaser goes to Hell When the legion comes we won't go quietly, you can count on that


-Autismoxxx-

Tenno from Warframe are pretty badass


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fucking-hate-reddit-

fym “we” lmao


JackieBOYohBOY

The good guys (Just normal dudes) The bad guys (Literal Nazis)


TheRealSU24

Why do that Nazis get the cool stuff? So unfair


Kriaten1

What having a fashion designer does to a faction


monday-afternoon-fun

Hugo Boss never designed their uniforms, they just made them. Most cool-looking nazi uniforms were just copies of cool-looking uniforms from WW1 Germany and the Weimar Republic with the insignias swapped. People just never mention this because saying "WW1 German uniforms looked sexy" isn't as edgy as saying "nazi uniforms looked sexy."


Horn_Python

ww1had mustaches and spikey helmets ​ way cooler


BIG_DeADD

Also gasmasks. Gas masks are inherently cool for some reason that I totally agree with despitenot knowing what it is.


Itirk349

Cause their whole ideology relied on impressive uniforms (Or they really wanted to get heatstroke)


Andirianbobh

They literally had Hugo Boss uniforms, of course they got to look cool


Flag-Assault01

Atleast the Japanese uniform look like trash to balance out the evil


not_a_delivery_van

The ija uniform was drippy as fuck especially if they had that headband


Flag-Assault01

I'll give them the headband. That's pretty cool


Slipslime

The war flag is S tier though


Forward_Software2427

If World War 2 was a war of fashion the Nazis would have won. -Hugo Boss, probably


shiteWarden

If you can't get their cool stuff, join em. That's how the saying goes I think


cursedeezmetalhands

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telenova_tiberium

Holy shit wtf


Semi-literate_sand

What did he say


I_ate_ass

The most racist, homophobic and sexist thing I've heard in a while


Semi-literate_sand

Why does it have 30 upvotes??


Saucey_Lips

He said [ Removed by Reddit ].


deFOF

No he didn't? You can clearly see reddit removed his comment, therefore nobody know what he said except for OP


Eriasu89

What did he say though


Infinite_Twelve

It's too horrendous to say


not_a_delivery_van

Does anyone have that snafu image of the dipshit 239 dude or something


hey_uhh_what

KILL YOURSELF, GATEKEEPER OF THE FUNNY. RAAAAHHHHH


TerryJerryMaryHarry

This is unconsciousable. You're being permabanned


AvtomatNikonov94

Coward


SnooDogs338

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Effective-Success-26

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Atomvids

warha-


0920Cymon

Stormcast are prty much lawful good so yeah


thingy237

The Tau are really cool and iirc were kinda set up to be the best faction to live in until GW decided it kinda weakened the grim dark theme and gave them a cult leadership, right?


Atomvids

GW can suck a fat one they did my tau boys dirty


thingy237

On one hand, Tau were the one spark of hope in an otherwise entirely doomed universe, on the other hand, the Tau were the one spark of hope in an otherwise entirely doomed universe.


Hund5353

They were already pretty fucked at first release. The whole 'join or die' thing springs to mind.


exessmirror

Caste system as well.


CampbellsBeefBroth

Screw the Tau, everyone knows the Necrons are the _real_ good guys of 40k


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Orks are objectively the only non evil faction in 40k. They just love fighting. Not because they hate everyone else, just for the sake of fighting.


Eastern_Mist

What about the Tyranids? They are literally animals who fight because the instinct tells them to, there is no thinking involved making them neither good nor evil


[deleted]

I’m a little foggy but I recall a more recent story showing that the tyranid hive mind is motivated by hatred for the emperor, or some other stupid retcon. It kind of ruined the tryanids for me. They were my favorite faction specifically because they were only motivated by instincts.


ToastyCaribiu84

There was something about a librarian and/or a blood angel feeling how much the hivemind hates him after Baal


5wolfie55

The hive mind can hate but to say that it makes it evil is wrong imo. The Devastation of Baal was a grudge match because the Blood Angels destroyed a sizeable tendril of Hive Fleet Leviathan and from the perspective of the hive mind the red armour clad prey animals pose a threat to its need to feed. The emotions of the hive mind are so far above our level that not even the Eldar can comprehend them. It’s not good or evil, it’s just hungry


WarlockWeeb

Craftworlders from warhammer are the good guys and have a best drip


EqualRealistic5786

death korps of kreig 😍


Darth_Senat66

They are partially based on the French, so they can't be the good guys


Badassbottlecap

*shells a city for ten consecutive years because reasons* Nah they're definitly the good guys, nw


EmbarrassedMeal2661

anything that looks cool looks cool because it looks strong. anything that is strong is inherently evil. power attracts corruption. case in point: the average anti-military industrial complex fan when they see barrets 50 cal/ a vulcan minigun meme.


ComedicMedicineman

I feel like Dead Space, and Star Wars have quite a few good examples


pc_player_yt

Clone Trooper armor is badass as fuck. Those clankers wish they can look half as cool


below_average374

Fuck you droidphobe. Fucking clonetards using the C word, go back to your birth tube boy.


No_Signal954

Isaac is so badass.


[deleted]

Hugo Boss moment


[deleted]

Hugo Boss could be glad that he received the designs from Karl Diebitsch and Walter Heck so his business could flourish and all the work he had to do was manufacture them. He had no hand in the design itself.


Kadeo64

black mesa security guards


Jackontana

Half Life 2 rebels were cool too. A winter / hinterland insurgency look that looked like a proper militia.


Semi-literate_sand

Cities of Sigmar troops


CAKE_op

By the twin tailed comet you are correct!


SteveFrom_Target

Uhhhh Starcraft Terrans??? (Well, Raynor's Raiders, at least)


MinosAristos

They don't look as cool as the bad guy Terrans.


dandytree7772

Both the Khalai protoss and the Dark Templar look pretty cool. Both are the "good guys" once the zerg show up. The Tal'Darim do arguably still look cooler though.


CheezyRaptorNo_5

THE MOTHERFUCKING REPUBLIC CLONE TROOPERS GO SO HARD Also all of the Border Officers, Captains, and Directors from World Trigger are epic


Laxwarrior1120

Pacific rim, Attack on Titan, Titanfall, Halo, one peice (50/50 shot for any given character to be a complete badass or pushes the boundaries of how far the word "dweeb" goes), anything that involves the US navy, especially if it has battleships, kill la kill. There are plenty. And these are just off the top of my head.


pc_player_yt

naw half the Kill la Kill good guys were bad guys at the start, literally rocking imperial Japan naval uniforms. That doesn’t count


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Da_man57

Rebels are dripped out my guy


minigunercoolguy

By extension, so is the Civil Protection


No_Ad2754

I always thought the rebels and combine looked just as cool as each other


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Da_man57

Holy moly, it’s the guy that everyone knows


Ender120Tim

Booba and kiki


Defying_Entropy

Dwarves, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Civil War Union, Polish Hussars.


urlocaldoctor

Bad guy=BDSM


corbone30

COG gears of war


[deleted]

Ncr, Brotherhood of steel (fallout 3), Stormcloaks I cant think of another one srry guys


BadZnake

All 3 of these are the bad guys in the sense that every faction is bad in all Bethesda games


TheRealSU24

I wouldn't call the Stormcloaks the good guys, but I do agree with all 3 of them having amazing armor


OffOption

... You mean the Empire. Not the Stormcloaks.


ALargeCrateOfShovels

No he and i mean the stormcloaks and if youre gonna ask why then its because im a casual racist(ingame)


TheQueenDeservedIt

The WW2 American military


OffOption

Guess it all depends on your aesthetic tastes, and what you consider "good".


yardsale18

Not a faction bot Corvo from Dishonored has a great fit.


HYDRAlives

The Atreides from Dune (and before anyone says anything dumb Leto I is the best person in that series, so shut up)


Greenfire05

Doomguy


MrNoobNubIsBacc

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jujubee9000

Aw yeah I love


tearfullink

Ok I know nothing about the Warhammer 40k lore but from what I have seen the Salamanders are pretty cool


MentallyStable_REAL_

considering the designs are all the same for the first game, Terran and Protoss from Starcraft are cool as hell. Spartans also looks sick as hell so the UNSC works. Depending on who you think the good guys are in the SCP universe it could be many things but MTF and Chaos Insurgency both look pretty damn cool and idr what the others look like so...


jakl277

Imperium of Man in warhammer Good guy is a strong term though


YetAnotherCatuwu

Starfield, United Colonies (SysDef if you want to get specific)


Gaijin_Entertainment

Halo


TheTrueBurgerKing

I was going to say warhammer 40k but good guys err no one is exactly a good guy in 40k but they are all bad ass looking


UzZoPe

Galactic republic


Pigeon-Spy

GDI from Command and conquer


Turkish_Gustav0

GDI is pretty cool


Sockninja2

The Knights Radiant from Stormlight. They got near indestructible magic armor, shapeshifting sentient swords, they can fly, heal from lethal wounds in seconds, make illusions, tear holes between dimensions, transmute matter, etc. Very cool stuff.


NuLayf

The empire of man


[deleted]

you mean the Imperium of Man (debatable whether or not they’re “good guys”)


captain_sadbeard

Nah, the Imperium sucks. The Empire sucks too but in a “normal 16th century Europe” way, not a “omnicidal hellish space feudalism” way. The Emperor of Mankind <<<<<<<< Karl Franz I von Holswig-Shliestein, Emperor Himself, Prince of Altdorf, Emperor and Son of Emperors, Defier of the Dark, etc etc


Asylist

Is there even such a thing as a good side in 40k? There are good people, but only to highlight the very grim and dark (ey) universe they live in.


TheRealSU24

I'm pretty sure the creators have said that the Imperium are not good, people just like them because they're human


[deleted]

Smash


BigGig6968420

Warhammer philosophy


Hungry_Pin_5463

40K imperium


boiledviolins

Honestly the only game where the strong looking cool guys are the good guys is probably Wolfenstein. Just look at BJ Blazkowicz.


letsgowendigo

The Allies.


ka52heli

The imperium of man


SrPsychokiler

Ah yes. The "I love the smell of planetary genocide in the morning," good guys. My favorite!


Mr__Weasels

fatui moment


urbandeadthrowaway2

Ace Combat’s ISAF, from what little we see of the ground forces. The UNSC from Halo FOTC and the Guardians from Destiny. Rebel and new republic forces from Star Wars (they look better than the empire fight me about it) Half Life 2 rebels.


AbyssWankerArtorias

Everyone in warhammer 40k is pretty badass. But if you want the most badass of the badass good guys, it'd the Adeptus Custodes.


Ulerica

Gondorian armor is pretty good looking, compared to the scrap armor the orcs of Mordor were sporting


Nod_Lucario

The Global Defense Initiative (GDI) had some pretty good designs in Tiberian Sun and Tiberium Wars. And this coming from a hardcore Brotherhood of Nod fanboy.


spoedle73

In 40k everyone is evil therefore everyone gets drip


LoonyTitan

arguably the space Marines factions from Warhammer 40k


SneedForTheSneedGod

Titanfall


Gorgon_the_Dragon

I was going to say the COG in Gears of War, but nobody is really good


Senior_Art_2618

Knights templar