We're all too old, and games suck too much ... but still
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I felt the same way about Gerard Butler’s character in law abiding citizen. Epic film about a man on a crusade against the scumbag who raped and murdered his family, along with the corrupt cops, DA and judge who let the fucker get off lightly.
Phenomenal film until it starts throwing “revenge bad” at you in the final act and expects you to somehow root for the corrupt legal system instead.
Exactly. It's kind of like this in a lot of media -- American History X is another. They really wanted you to root against him until he turned "colourblind", but anyone paying attention would recognise he was right about his beliefs and the facts!
They also tried portraying Scott Glenn's character as evil in Deadly Exeuction Cop/Extreme Justice, throwing in the swerve near the end to undermine how his team was actually getting results on the streets. It's funny because it made Lou Diamond Philips' character come across as a proto-woke warrior as the film went on, but it's basically Hollywood's way of undermining extra-judicial behaviour at the expense of a corrupt system.
They did the same thing with Soldier Boy in The Boys. They basically said, "Look, Soldier Boy is a Chud! He's a racist bigot! He's evil... right? ....Right?!?!?!" and he turned out to be the most popular character in the whole series because in trying to make him a "stubborn racist bigot!" they just made him based and right!
Rorschach in The Watchmen
Ozymandius is an idealistic terrorist, and the normie Watchmen just give up because it's easer in the penultimate chapter then in the final chapter live normie idyllic suburban lives.
For as far as I can recall, Rorschach seems to be the start of this trend in popular media -- I'm sure it may have happened in a previous novel or film (I suppose an argument could be made for Albert Camus' Meursault in The Stranger, but I don't ever hear anyone talk about that in broader circles).
...But Moore is the first author I know of who went on record basically admitting he tried to make Rorschach a parody of Conservatism, but he just ended up making him based... and right.
Also Starship Troopers makes jingoistic fascism look cool.